{"id":247436,"date":"2026-04-26T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:06:10","slug":"rep-debbie-wasserman-schultz-slams-florida-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247436\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz slams Florida gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                In advance of the Florida Legislature meeting next week to redraw congressional districts, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is decrying the move as a partisan effort to eliminate Democratic seats.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Governor clearly designs this process to be secret, late, and throw as many obstacles as possible in the path of actually having fair districts,&#8221; she told CBS Miami&#8217;s Jim DeFede. &#8220;The most obvious reason for this special session to redistrict our map is that they&#8217;re responding to both Trump&#8217;s call for states that Republicans run to come in and politically gerrymander. The result is that legislators are choosing their voters, not the other way around.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nIn an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor&#8217;s efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional Amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010 that prohibits political gerrymandering.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In advance of the Florida Legislature meeting next week to redraw congressional districts, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-247436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247436","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=247436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}