"Oops! Lawmakers destroyed redistricting records"

[applegrove]

Oops! Lawmakers destroyed redistricting records

By Aaron Deslatte at the Orlando Sentinel

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/os-oops-lawmakers-destroyed-redistricting-records-20131218,0,4630250.post?track=rss

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TALLAHASSEE -- In new court filings, House and Senate Republican leaders are conceding they deleted records related to the 2012 re-drawing of congressional and legislative maps.

The voting-rights groups -- including the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, and individual voters -- challenging Florida's re-drawn congressional maps notified a Leon County court Wednesday that they intended to place House and Senate officials under oath to find out what documents were destroyed and why.

"The admission that redistricting records were destroyed should have Florida voters up in arms," League President Deirdre Macnab said in a statement.

But House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, shot back that the "accusation that the Florida House ... thwarted the law and destroyed documents is completely false."

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[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. They were merely following "The Wisconsin Plan."

Gotta wonder if they were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements like the Wisconsin turkeys did.

[Scuba]

5. Beat me to it. Thanks.

[Gman]

2. No, Mr. Speaker... I don't think it's false at all. Not one bit

You know it and we know it.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Well then, Mr Weatherford....

If the accusation is indeed false, you should have no problem producing the records. Records that by law, you are supposed to keep.

[progressoid]

4. Rec!

Go get 'em LWV!