Ron DeSantis flexes on Florida Legislature over its redistricting retreat
With days until the 2024 Legislative Session starts, Ron DeSantis is letting the Senate and House know who’s the boss.
It’s the man with the veto pen.
DeSantis told a crowd in Laconia, New Hampshire about what happened when the Legislative branch passed a Congressional redistricting map he didn’t want, explaining how he got legislators to bend to his will in 2022.
“I saw them working on it. I said, ‘wait a minute,’ you know, and part of it involves like things that were unconstitutional, racial gerrymandering stuff,” DeSantis said, referring to a map that protected districts such as North Florida’s Congressional District 5 (historically represented by a Black member of Congress) and others t...
