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Matthew Isbell: New coalition maps, DLP’S amendment, Oliva’s plan, and where things currently stand in redistricting

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A good deal has happened with the ongoing redistricting saga during the past several days. The state Senate passed its proposed districts with a controversial amendment attached. The House redistricting committee passed their own amended version of the map, and the coalition plaintiffs now have put forward three proposals. We’ll now look over each development. Coalition maps Last week, the coalition plaintiffs, who are suing the state Legislature over its state Senate district lines, released its first proposal for the…

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Today on Context Florida: Numb & dumb, gun regulation and Hispanics & the economy

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Today on Context Florida: Diane Roberts says in case there is anyone left who thinks ¿Jeb? Bush is a fine man running a fine campaign for president, his remarks after the latest mass shooting, this one in Oregon, shows that he comes up numb and dumb again. Under limp leaves of a tasteless and nutritionally void word salad, lurks something rotten and nasty: “stuff happens.” Only an unbalanced citizen would not condemn the killings in the recent shooting in Oregon and…

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Washington Post: Marco Rubio tests politics, ethnicity

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What is his stance on the Arizona immigration law? Does he favor amnesty for undocumented immigrants? “I don’t support amnesty,” Rubio says. “I support a legal immigration system.” A Cuban-American lawyer and former state House speaker, the 39-year-old Rubio has captured the attention of national Republicans hoping to attract Hispanic voters, a majority of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008. But it’s among Hispanic voters that some of Rubio’s conservative positions could prove divisive. Continue reading here.

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Mel Martinez’s departure shows Hispanic rift

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From Breitbart: Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez’s resignation closes the latest chapter in the Republican Party’s tumultuous, decade-long effort to woo the nation’s Hispanic voters. The Cuban-American’s impending departure could leave no Hispanic Republicans in the Senate and three in the House—compared to 21 Democrats in Congress—and a sense that the national GOP is at a major crossroads with the nation’s fastest-growing demographic group… Although most Hispanics outside of Florida have long leaned Democratic, the Republican Party earned the trust…

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New feature: Florida 2010 A Senate Odyssey

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There is just so much being written about the 2010 Florida Senate race, I’m launching a three-times-a-week reader. Here is the first edition. Florida Senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek is no longer retaining the services of his top adviser, Steve Hildebrand, his campaign announced today. He’s a Democratic candidate often left in the shadows as pollsters and pundits examine what the upcoming Republican primary election between Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio could mean for the future…

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