#fl22

Today on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we should be celebrating it, not dismantling it.

After Weatherford told the Florida-based SharkTank blog that the House would go ahead with a vote on the redistricting map – one that redrew West’s district to include more Democrats – conservative blogs pounced. Some blogs even went so far as to accuse Weatherford – who has been a surrogate for Mitt Romney – of doing Romney’s bidding by trying to get rid of West (the motive of why Romney would want to marginalize West was not fully explained).

West may be the one sent packing soon: His own fellow Republicans in Florida, possibly fed up with his fiery rhetoric, are close to redistricting him out of a job.

West’s Palm Beach-Broward district is nearly evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. But proposals released by state House and Senate redistricting committees would make his district roughly 41 percent Democratic and 33 percent Republican by registration. The close partisan balance of his current district, West said, means “I’ve got to go out and I’ve got to present myself to people.”

DeNapoli sharply criticizes state lawmakers’ proposals for how Rep. Allen West’s district should be redrawn, saying they doesn’t live up to the Fair Districts standards approved by Florida voters in November 2010.