To the editor:<\/p>\n
There is talk of adding two seats to Florida\u2019s Congressional delegation, in light of our additional (and\u00a0currently\u00a0unrepresented)\u00a0population. Remember: a lot of people have come to Florida\u00a0since the 2020 Census\u00a0and there have been suggestions of a serious\u00a0undercount back in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I suggest that these additional seats be \u201cat-large,\u201d rather than being carved out of existing districts.\u00a0If these seats are added, there is some advantage making them \u201cat-large.\u201d\u00a0Members of minority parties (e.g., mine, the Libertarian Party of Florida) can aggregate their votes and maybe have a shot at actually getting elected. Of course, the majority parties can do the same thing, too, so maybe we will wind up getting swamped anyway. In any case, the voters of Florida would\u00a0be offered a full palette of choices, not just the usual suspects (e.g., just Republicans and Democrats),<\/p>\n
Honestly, it would be much better than\u00a0us\u00a0LPF voters\u00a0simply\u00a0being \u201cburied alive\u201d in individual districts across the state, the way we are now.\u00a0We offer a choice, not an echo. If you don\u2019t agree with what we offer, don\u2019t vote for us, but please take a look first.<\/p>\n
Live free or die.\u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n
Larry Gillis<\/p>\n
Cape Coral<\/p>\n
Director-at-Large, Libertarian Party of Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: There is talk of adding two seats to Florida\u2019s Congressional delegation, in light of our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-145741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}