FL GOP Legislature suing to subvert redistricting amendment approved by 62.6% of voters

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The Orlando Sentinel reported last week that the legislative leadership has figured on spending $20 million, and plenty more if necessary, to preserve their sacred right to re-draw state Senate, state representative and congressional districts in whatever squished-out, crazy-map shapes best protect their political self-interest.

You’ll be paying the legal costs to subvert a pair of constitutional amendments approved by 62.6 percent of the voters last fall.

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House Speaker Dean Cannon has led the charge into internecine warfare. “The litigation this year is likely to be more broad and complex than it has been in past decades,” Cannon complained when the Orlando Sentinel inquired about the prodigious amounts both houses have set aside to fight this nuisance lawsuit.

Except Cannon and his fellow pols, desperate to create (with the help of sophisticated computer programs) districts that essentially inoculate incumbents from serious political opposition, are the very nuisances doing the suing.

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Most of the money, of course, will go toward attorney fees. The Sentinel reported that House Speaker Cannon has already burned through $800,000 in the redistricting fight. And $700,000 of that went to GrayRobinson, the Orlando-based firm that also happens to be Cannon’s former employer.

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