Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he will quickly sign Florida’s new Congressional district map his office put before state legislators this week.<\/p>\n
Appearing at a groundbreaking for an interstate interchange in Ormond Beach, DeSantis replied that he will sign the controversial legislation (HB 1D) \u201cas soon as I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something that we’ve been fighting for a number of years \u2026 the fact that we’ve had so much population growth and the districts are really not representative of where Florida is today versus four years ago,\u201d DeSantis said while at\u00a0Destination Daytona in Ormond Beach. \u201cSo we had justification. \u201c<\/p>\n
The Florida House and Senate approved the major mid-decade redrawing of the state\u2019s 28 congressional districts Wednesday, a move that could help Republicans retain control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Democrats and voting rights groups have also announced plans to contest the maps in court once signed.<\/p>\n
The House voted 83-28 on the changes expected to increase Republican representation in the Florida congressional delegation that currently stands at 20-8.<\/p>\n
The Senate voted 21-17, with four Republicans — Sens. Alexis Calatayud of Miami, Ileana Garcia of Miami, Erin Grall of Vero Beach and Jennifer Bradley of Fleming Island — joining 12 Democrats and one no party affiliation senator voting against the proposal.<\/p>\n
The bill, though, hasn’t been formally transmitted to his desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he will quickly sign Florida’s new Congressional district map his office put before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,412],"class_list":["post-253614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253614","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=253614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}