BCC Candidates for District 1

The United States Justice Department which has the final say ultimately in redistricting cases has this. Someone should have looked it up. I know all those lawyers and lobbyists that work on redistricting in Tallahassee know this. Redistricting is in some ways more important than elections. The professionals know this and plan and scheme way in advance for election scenarios. Remember all the Texas hoopla over redistricting. Hopefully, SoWal will get some good appointments to the redistricting board next time and SoWal will be vocal and engaged. Most don't realize how the system works. Most voters didn't understand much about voting laws and regulations until the 2000 election, either.

The United States Justice Department which has the final say ultimately in redistricting cases has this. Someone should have looked it up. I know all those lawyers and lobbyists that work on redistricting in Tallahassee know this. Redistricting is in some ways more important than elections. The professionals know this and plan and scheme way in advance for election scenarios. Remember all the Texas hoopla over redistricting. Hopefully, SoWal will get some good appointments to the redistricting board next time and SoWal will be vocal and engaged. Most don't realize how the system works. Most voters didn't understand much about voting laws and regulations until the 2000 election, either.

Everyone tried to look it up. No one could find it. No one in Tallahassee could show us. No case law or other guidance could be found. A couple of people just kept saying that they knew it was so, but without a source. Maybe people will start doing their homework now so when we do redistrict in 2011 everyone can be prepared. I know this information was researched for several months to no avail, maybe with years to find it, we can uncover it.

Maybe who was asked in Tallahassee did not want you to know. Redistricting is full of shenanigans. Take SoWal's crazy Congressional House District 2. Geez, it snakes through SoWal up and picks up Blue Water Bay. Rep. Bev Kilmer, once SoWal and District 7 representative was on the legislature's redistricting committee. She helped draw SoWal numbers and Blue Water Bay numbers into that Congressional House District. And, guess what? She ran for that seat the next election. Fancy that coincidence.

Maybe who was asked in Tallahassee did not want you to know. Redistricting is full of shenanigans. Take SoWal's crazy Congressional House District 2. Geez, it snakes through SoWal up and picks up Blue Water Bay. Rep. Bev Kilmer, once SoWal and District 7 representative was on the legislature's redistricting committee. She helped draw SoWal numbers and Blue Water Bay numbers into that Congressional House District. And, guess what? She ran for that seat the next election. Fancy that coincidence.

Maybe. But I do not personally subscribe to conspiracy theories of such magnitude. We were doing a county commission redistricting, not a state house. When they did the District 7 one didn't a sitting county commissioner or two go to Panama City and testify in a public forum that those rural counties east of here had more in common with south Walton than north Walton?

Pretty common for those state and national districts to be gerrymandered. I think the ones in Walton were to some degree this last time, based on whose house was placed in which district. But with some solid numbers from a credible source, I do not see that happening again. There was way too much interest and a desire by the people to try to do something this last time. None of us were able to find what we thought was a way to make a change with legal standing. I thought the last redistricting occurred in 2001 after the census. I know it has to be done in odd years that is why we looked at it in 2007.

Maybe. But I do not personally subscribe to conspiracy theories of such magnitude. We were doing a county commission redistricting, not a state house. When they did the District 7 one didn't a sitting county commissioner or two go to Panama City and testify in a public forum that those rural counties east of here had more in common with south Walton than north Walton?

Pretty common for those state and national districts to be gerrymandered. I think the ones in Walton were to some degree this last time, based on whose house was placed in which district. But with some solid numbers from a credible source, I do not see that happening again. There was way too much interest and a desire by the people to try to do something this last time. None of us were able to find what we thought was a way to make a change with legal standing. I thought the last redistricting occurred in 2001 after the census. I know it has to be done in odd years that is why we looked at it in 2007.

Talk about gerrymandering. How about Congressional House District 2 where Boyd is? IMO, that was an interesting change to try and move it from the blue column to the red column by picking up Sowal and Destin and extending from Tallahassee all the way over here.