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Bob Buckhorn to join LWV in speaking out against open carry gun legislation

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has been outspoken in criticizing the Florida Legislature this year regarding two controversial bills involving guns, and he’ll join the Florida League of Women Voters on Monday to formally speak out against legislation that would allow for the open carrying of firearms in Florida. Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward, State Attorney Mark Ober, and Patricia Bingham, chair of the League of Women Voters Committee on Gun Safety, are scheduled to also speak at the news conference. Buckhorn has always…

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The next redistricting fight: Who pays the attorneys?

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The Florida Legislature is continuing to oppose an effort by the plaintiffs’ attorneys to get their fees paid by state government now that the congressional redistricting case has been closed. Lawyers for House and Senate filed more legal authority with the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to support their position that the opposing lawyers are “not entitled to an award of attorney’s fees.” Last month, the court gave its final OK to a redrawn version of the state’s 27 congressional districts, three years…

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Remembering Norene Chase, a “warrior” with a clipboard

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On the second day of 2016, a group of about 100 gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee to bid farewell Norene Olson Chase, who, at 91, lived a decade longer than the average woman in the United States. She died Dec. 14. Chase died, as nonagenarians are wont to do, after falling, breaking her hip, and contracting a fatal pneumonia. She was not someone I knew at all, but the mother of a friend of mine, and my…

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Gwen Graham staying course despite redistricting decision

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Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham of Tallahassee on Wednesday said she was “disappointed” by the state Supreme Court’s decision in a redistricting case that could spell the end of her nascent congressional career. But Graham, elected in 2014, said she hadn’t decided which direction her public service will next take. The court approved a map that redraws U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown‘s current Jacksonville-to-Sanford district “in an east-west manner,” stretching it into what is now Graham’s territory in the Big Bend and Panhandle. That eviscerates her Democratic base in…

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Corrine Brown lambastes state Supreme Court over congressional redistricting

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Despite questions on many parts of the map, the Florida Supreme Court Tuesday focused on South Florida during the final scheduled oral argument in an ongoing congressional redistricting challenge. That inflamed Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, whose north-south district had been ordered changed by the court to an east-west configuration. That district didn’t get a mention. Brown, wearing a University of Florida shawl, harangued reporters afterward on the courthouse steps. Her 5th Congressional District, called one of the most gerrymandered in the country, meanders…

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House lawyer: Congressional districts don’t need to be perfect

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The outside lawyer for the Florida House of Representatives argued in a legal brief against a set of suggested congressional district boundaries in part by saying there’s no legal requirement “to create the ‘best’ possible districts.” George Meros, a Tallahassee attorney who also represented then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential recount, says the court “should adopt the House Map.” Briefs were filed in advance for Tuesday afternoon’s oral arguments before the Florida Supreme Court in the congressional redistricting challenge. Meros’ brief criticizes…

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Supreme Court to consider changes to Florida’s congressional districts

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A long-running legal battle over the fate of Florida’s political landscape is going back before the state Supreme Court. The Florida Supreme Court will hold a Tuesday hearing on what boundaries should be adopted for the state’s 27 congressional districts. The high court in July threw out Florida’s current districts because they violated the Fair Districts measure adopted by voters. But the House and Senate deadlocked during an August special session over a replacement map. Circuit Judge Terry Lewis has…

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