Seizing The Florida Legislature Through Sleaze And Corruption
October 5, 2009
What do you get when you cross two organizations - one sleazy, the other corrupt? Answer: A new redistricting scheme for Florida called FairDistrictsFlorida.org!
According to Sunday’s Orlando Sentinel, some of Florida’s top trial lawyers (whose lobby arm admitted to sending out a racist mailer) in a Florida senate race) and ACORN (enough said) have teamed up to try to seize the Florida legislature from the Republicans. Since they can’t seem to win at the ballot box, they’re spending big $$ to influence the redistricting process, hiding behind the veil of nonpartisanship of course. That act has grown so old even the mainstream media smirks these days, with the Sentinel reporting that “Democrats and left-leaning groups have done the heavy financial lifting so far.”
The goal is to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to hamstring the legislature, which must draw up new state House and Senate districts once the 2010 Census is completed. ACORN was supposed to be a “partner” in collecting data for the 2010 Census, but that partnership was severed last month after ACORN employees were caught on tape advising investigators posing as a pimp and a prostitute how to dodge tax laws.
Census Director Robert Groves said ACORN’s participation “may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts.” Looks like ACORN hasn’t given up on trying to influence the census and redistricting - they’re just attempting to do it through the back door.
ACORN and the Florida trial lawyers should slither back into the swamps where they belong.