She’s worked for different electeds at all levels — federal, state, county and city. So now, veteran GOP operative Alina Garcia — most recently the “senior political advisor” for Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo — wants to be elected herself. To the Florida Senate. Garcia is waiting for the redistricting to shake out and will run […]
We all know that Frank Artiles plans to run for the Senate against incumbent Dwight Bullard. The question is “Why?” He has another term in the House left so why would he risk a sure thing for a seat that that went to President Barack Obama by 7 points in 2012? Well, because redistricted seat […]
By BRANDON LARRABEETHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE — A Leon County judge on Friday ordered the Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional districts over the next two weeks, likely requiring a special session and potentially throwing this month’s primary elections into chaos.Circuit Judge Terry Lewis also ordered Secretary of State Ken Detzner and […]
By JIM TURNER / THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 15, 2014 — Republican legislative leaders said Tuesday they do not plan to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down Florida’s congressional map but want lawmakers to be able to redraw the disputed districts after this fall’s elections. House Speaker Will Weatherford […]
By BRANDON LARRABEE/THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 11, 2014 — Members of Congress, candidates and political observers are grappling with the fallout of a judge’s Thursday ruling that two of the state’s congressional districts were illegally drawn for partisan reasons.Lawyers on Friday were preparing to ask Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis to move quickly to prescribe a remedy for the flawed map. Meanwhile, Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown […]
While state house legislators and challenging candidates scramble to move into convenient or out of inconvenient newly-redrawn districts (more on that next), the clock ticks on a final Senate district map that has been accused, and rightfully so, of still protecting some incumbents, including Sen. Gwen Margolis (Dem., District 35) in these parts. It will […]