Gerrymandering and its Real Victims

 By CE Marshall 

                                              The Abomination of Gerrymandering in living color 

     I've been itching to write a blog regarding gerrymandering for quite a while, but then I thought to myself- "I wonder if I've written a blog already on gerrymandering?"- so a quick search reveals that I have indeed.  All the way back in 2013 !  Reading it reminds me that here in Florida we voted to stop gerrymandering but the "status quo" of the state government resisted it.  So, I'm posting a link to the blog- which was actually from a letter that the Orlando Sentinel printed from myself.  Before I go there I do want to make a few comments.  How is this Democracy to gerrymander at all?  You're taking away the people's right to representation so that your political party gets the advantage.  What about the people?  I know that sounds cliche but it's true.  It is for the individual that I write and when the people's right to be heard through representative government is withheld then I get really, really mad.  Both parties are guilty of it, but the Democrats truly wrote the book.  All Democrat or "blue" states are gerrymandered to the highest degree possible to the point that if you're Republican and living in a Democrat controlled state then you are not being represented in Washington, DC.  There's no other way to look at it.  

Stealing Democracy?  Yes, you are Democrats, and you've been doing it for a long- long time.   

In my humble opinion. 

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The Orlando Sentinel continues to massage my ego by publishing another of my rambling letters.  Hopefully it will make some difference.  They actually changed the wording more than usual., but the essence of my outrage was conveyed.

A little background;  The Orlando Sentinel  published an article last Thursday regarding our wonderful leaders in Tallahassee and their determination to maintain gerrymandering and  "government by cronyism".  They all love gerrymandering  because Lord knows they couldn't be elected by a normal cross-section of Floridians.  They have to hand pick their districts to get as many like minded "mouth breathers" as possible.   Even though the public voted by a super majority (over 60%)  to end gerrymandering here in Florida the legislators have done everything they can to thwart the will of the people.  Now that the courts are looking closely at their records, there may be "hell to pay" because they "lost" their records (imagine that !).  

Anyway, here's the letter;

    Regarding the article “Leaders in Legislature

admit destroying redistricting records”

in Thursday’s Sentinel: The will of the people

in the Fair Districts amendments was that

gerrymandering must stop.

Our leaders in Tallahassee seemed to have

thought that since they didn’t agree with the

amendments, which were passed by more

than 60 percent of the voters, they were

entitled to do everything they could to prevent

it from being implemented.

Now they have come under the scrutiny of

the courts. They aren’t sorry for what they

did, but they’re terribly sorry they may have

been caught.When such an abundance of

effort from our political leaders goes toward

thwarting the will of the people, they should

be stripped of all power.

These political games the parties play must

stop. Let the courts showno mercy to their

excuses regarding “lost” records. This frame

of thought from any existing or potential

leaders must be squashed.

Charles E.Marshall Clermont

In my Humble Opinion !!