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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:00 PM Original message |
FL: Victory for democracy!!! DoJ gave pre-clearance to REDISTRICTING |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Awesome news!!1 |
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Snoutport (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yay! Florida democracy needs every win it can get! |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. You can say that again, snoutport... |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. I can't believe we have a win! nt |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. ...and I can't believe someone just unrecc'ed this |
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Tiggeroshii (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Hmm... So does this only make criteria for redistricting, or does it actually |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It leaves the drawing of the districts to the legislators. |
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individual rights (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I thought that "amoeba-like" districts were created to help minority candidates. |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Um, no... |
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individual rights (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Hmm...this minority congresswoman from Florida would disagree... |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The people of this state have spoken. |
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individual rights (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Oh, I get it...even so, if the new districts result in the loss of minority seats, |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Actually that is the whole point |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 10:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. If it favors Ds then that is because we have a majority of Ds in FLA. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 06:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. agreed with one quibble |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:39 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I agree with you as to the number of terms. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. There is alot of land in conservation |
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toddwv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. A great step, unfortunately |
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sixmile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. The republics will fight to the death to prevent this - |
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AmBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 10:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I think they have met their equal. The voters are equally determined. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:47 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I'd love to see a computer make the districts |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. It's not so easy to make a sane algorithm to do that. |
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