Florida’s congressional redistricting maps should be rejected because they are the product of a shadowy process infiltrated by Republican political operatives in violation of the law against partisan gerrymandering, lawyers argued before the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday. The plaintiffs in the case, a coalition of voters and the League of Women Voters, want the […]
Final words: Pay attention, keep powerful accountable – Orlando Sentinel
It wasn’t a banner year for transparency in Florida government. Gov. Rick Scott went to California courts to fight releasing emails from private accounts while his re-election was underway. We learned how Republican political consultants conspired to thwart the 2010 Fair Districts anti-gerrymandering reforms. They got caught thanks to a legal challenge from voting-rights groups, but the […]
Florida keeping records under wraps – Miami Herald
It was a dark year for sunshine in Florida in 2014. Legal fights by Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Party of Florida kept crucial documents under wraps long enough to dilute their impact once they were released. The governor took the state’s public records tradition a new direction as he used taxpayer money to […]
