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New Senate map doesn’t impact leadership contest, slightly erodes GOP advantage

Orlando Sentinal Political Pulse

TALLAHASSEE — Interest groups anxious to make decisions about where to play in legislative elections have been expecting multiple head-to-head match-ups when the Senate unveiled new districts Saturday. They’re bound to be disappointed. The first Senate... »

Fair Districts groups ask for map-drawing in the sunshine

Orlando Sentinal Political Pulse

TALLAHASSEE — Three of the groups that backed the Fair Districts reforms and are challenging congressional redistricting plans in court now want the Senate’s point-man to re-think his crash-course for re-drawing Senate districts. Lawmakers are facing a... »

Happy St. Paddy’s Day: Here’s a new Senate map

Orlando Sentinal Political Pulse

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate has set a noon Saturday deadline for filing a proposed re-drawing of the districts invalidated by the Florida Supreme Court last week. Noon Saturday happens to be smack in the middle of St. Patrick’s Day, with a parade ... »

Senate Republicans Support Legislation Aimed at Protections and Prosperity

Capital Soup

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As lawmakers entered the 114th Florida Legislative Session, Florida Senate Republicans shared a common goal to help Florida continue toward a stable and prosperous future. Facing another challenging budget year with limited resource... »

Florida Senate passes its own new map, over complaints of racial ‘packing’

Orlando Sentinal Political Pulse

TALLAHASSEE – Over complaints that its work continued decades-old gerrymandering, Senate Republicans rammed through a proposed map for their own 40 seats that more evenly divides population gains over the last decade and maintains an electoral advantag... »

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New Senate map doesn’t impact leadership contest, slightly erodes GOP advantage

Orlando Sentinal Political Pulse

TALLAHASSEE — Interest groups anxious to make decisions about where to play in legislative elections have been expecting multiple head-to-head match-ups when the Senate unveiled new districts Saturday. They’re bound to be disappointed. The first Senate... »

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