Thursday, July 23, 2009

Money pouring in to finance redistricting reform ~ Florida


By Aaron Deslatte
July 22, 2009
Orlando Sentinel

Money is pouring into an effort to address one of the thorniest issues in modern politics: how to curb politicians' power to gerrymander their own political districts.

FairDistrictsFlorida.org wants to place two constitutional amendments on the 2010 ballot that would ban legislators from drawing sprawling, jagged congressional and legislative districts that resemble abstract art and divide communities in order to help or hurt incumbents or political parties...

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