TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — As Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown tells it, the reason for her district's winding path from Jacksonville to Orlando is a matter of history. And (since I asked) it does not involve her running for Senate.She has read the ten pages in the Florida Supreme Court decision regarding the district many times.As she told the assembled media at the Mary Singleton Center on Monday, she read it, went to bed, and then… “I got up at 3 a.m. and read it again because it was all about me.”Despite there being no shortage of opinions regarding her district being “visually not compact, bizarrely shaped” and paying no respect to what are traditionally called “traditional political boundaries,” Brown holds to her long-standing position that her district serves a higher purpose than a district with geographical integrity might.“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act still stands,” Brown said regarding the 1965 legislation that established the concept of “communities of interest.”With that in mind, she asserts that downtown Jacksonville has more in common with downtown Orlando, for example, than with rural areas in North Florida.Referring to previous discussions regarding district boundaries, Brown claimed that “people from North Florida [have told her that] they do not want to be with Jacksonville.”For Brown, maintaining her current district is framed as a matter of social justice.The Congresswoman discussed how, when baseball player Beyond the issue of sundown towns, Brown posed the rhetorical question of why we didn’t have a Baltimore or Ferguson type situation in North Florida after the Trayvon Martin verdict.She attributes that to “representative government,” begotten by the linkage of “communities of interest.”The Congresswoman went on to discuss children in Seminole County who are “living out of vans, waking up at WalMart, then going to school” as an example of who she fights for.“Don’t tell me nothing about what the district looks like,” she said, adding that it’s “about having someone at the table looking out for you.”Congresswoman Brown’s advocacy, she added, has taken her outside of her district boundaries. She described a conversation she had with then-Governor The Governor told her, she said, that St. Johns County is “one of the richest in the state,” implying that they should be able to handle that issue on the local level.“We live where you told us to live,” she said. About This Map. As Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown tells it, the reason for her district's winding path from Jacksonville to Orlando is a matter of history.
The new maps are here. Court rejects Corrine Brown’s bid to throw out ... Common Cause and others who last year forced a redrawing of Florida’s congressional district map. Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation. To protect this district against a pair of anti-gerrymandering amendments, Brown served as African-American chairwoman of Protect Your Vote; a group funded in part by Honeywell and CSX Transportation. He can be reached at AG@FloridaPolitics.comReceive our team's agenda-setting morning read of what's hot in Florida politics. Corrine Brown defends her district map against criticism Emails & Opinions Headlines Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 12.19.19 Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. “On the other side of the tracks.”During this part of the press conference, the Congresswoman also signaled her support for Planned Parenthood, which she said “helps a lot of women all over the country.”A.G. Gancarski has been a correspondent for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. Delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. This platform and all of its content are owned by Extensive Enterprises Media. In 2018, he was a finalist for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies "best political column." By Jeff Larson and Olga Pierce ProPublica, Sep. 23, 2010. Florida Politics is a statewide, new media platform covering campaigns, elections, government, policy, and lobbying in Florida. She’s going to have a “breaking news announcement” on Thursday. Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation. It is made up of heavily African-American neighborhoods in Jacksonville, Gainesville and Orlando which are connected by a large, sparsely populated corridor that includes most of Ocala National Forest. And from the looks of it, Corrine Brown has a shot of being elected, if the final district looks like the version released Wednesday. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Receive our team's agenda-setting morning read of what's hot in Florida politics. Florida's 3rd Congressional District.