Florida House Speaker forms redistricting committee

[In It to Win It]

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez (R) said on Thursday he will form a redistricting committee as Republican-led states across the country move to redraw their congressional lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

“Exploring these questions now, at the middecade point, would potentially allow us to seek legal guidance from our supreme court without the uncertainty associated with deferring those questions until after the next decennial census and reapportionment,” Perez wrote in a memo to state House members, referring to a recent Florida Supreme Court decision on the state’s congressional map.

“We will focus our inquiry on the congressional map, which was the subject of the recent Florida Supreme Court case, and any relevant legal questions. To that end, I am creating a Select Committee on Redistricting,” he continued.

Perez added that the committee’s members would be announced in September, but he did not provide a specific timeline for carrying out the redistricting process.

The Florida Democratic Party called Perez’s move “corruption, plain and simple” in a statement following the memo’s release.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5442295-florida-redistricting-committee-formed/

[Ninga]

1. Ugh ugh gh ugh....i hate this...Ohio can't be far behind...

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. All red states will gerrymander and the illegitimate Supreme Court

Will say they can do it, any blue state that does it the illegitimate Supreme Court will find a reason to say why they can’t. Pretty obvious I would think.

Republicans will have a permanent 300 seat house, maybe there aren’t that many to get but they will have a permanent control of the house doing this illegal thing.

[Ninga]

4. Sickening.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Those losers are so desperate to rig the elections

In the longrun, this will forcefully backfire on the GOP and they will be fucked.
Maybe they should try developing policies that actually help people and move the country forward.
Y'know, things all people could support and legitimately vote for. We'll wait.

[kimbutgar]

5. Those unreported internal poll numbers for repukes must be really bad for them to be doing this !