A battle between the Republican-led Florida legislature and Gov. DeSantis over the redrawing of political maps could put Gadsden County and seven other counties with large Black populations back in congressional districts represented by White Republicans
asking for the court to draw a new map. The lawsuit, filed in Leon County Court in Tallahassee, says “there is no reasonable prospect that Florida’s political branches will reach consensus.”DeSantis’s effort to purge the district was urged on by Trump’s former senior adviser Stephen K. Bannon, who called on supporters of his radio show to flood the governor’s office with demands that he oppose any map that doesn’t dramatically increase the number of Republican seats in the state’s U.S.
Lawson, 74, like his father and grandfather, worked in the Gadsden County tobacco fields when he was young, and like them, he faced the racism of the Jim Crow South. Once, he recalled, the “colored” public water fountain had a fly in it, so he drank from the “Whites only” one.A guy came out and pulled a gun and said, ‘Boy, you can’t drink out of that,’” Lawson recalled.
“I love my HBCU, and Al Lawson has done a lot in securing funding for my institution,” said Mondelus, 19, who is also a student government senator. “And that’s good, because we are underfunded in comparison to FSU [Florida State University], which is right across the tracks. Al Lawson gets that, he understands what we need.”he and other Black voters have compromised too much already, referring to the voting restrictions passed by the state legislature last year.
Most Black voters in Florida are registered Democrats. In Gadsden County, for example, there are more than 20,000 Democrats compared with 5,000 Republicans.
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