SaintPetersburgBlog reports that Rep. Corrine Brown rips into the redistricting trial where her seat has been the subject of scorn by a coalition of national voting groups suing Florida for what else – redistricting. Why? Well, the League of Women Voters and other voting groups are not exactly looking out for the interest of minority candidates in Florida; instead it is more focused on Democratic Party gains – at any cost.. This trial reveals there is still a difference and it is rubbing minority candidates and local NAACP chapters the wrong way.
As Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s Congressional district remains effectively on trial, she took the time Monday to rip into the legal challenge brought by a coalition of voting-rights groups against the state’s redistricting effort.…On the stand Monday were witnesses called by the local NAACP chapter, who said the district was vital to ensuring black Floridians are represented in Congress. They resisted the suggestion that lowering the percentage of black voters would not hurt African Americans’ ability to elect a preferred candidate.Former Florida NAACP executive director Beverly Neal alluded to the fact that white Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson represents the district drawn in 2012, where only two years earlier Latinos comprised nearly 41.4 percent of the vote.
“That was supposed to have been a Hispanic district,” Neal said, “and it’s not.”