FL State CFO Running To Replace Gaetz: I Don’t Live In That District Because Of “Republican Gerrymandering”

January 9, 2025 Infighting Is Funny, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said he doesn’t live in Florida’s 1st Congressional District because of partisan gerrymandering. But that insinuation upset Joel Rudman, a former state lawmaker who faces Patronis in a Special Election to represent the district in Congress.

Patronis made the remark at a debate for candidates running in the Special Election to succeed former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in Congress. The Panama City Republican has faced criticism from opponents because he does not live in the Pensacola-centered district.

“Let me give you a little civics lesson. Do you know why District 1 is where it is?” Patronis said at the Niceville debate. “It’s because a Republican Legislature is in charge right now, and this is what we’ve done since Daniel Webster was Speaker of the House as a Republican. We try to create as many Republican congressional seats as possible, okay? So what happens is you get gerrymandered lines.”

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Rudman, who is best known here for his successful bill allowing doctors to refuse LGBTQ patients, is attacking Patronis, saying that bringing up GOP gerrymandering carries “severely negative connotations.”

Yeah.

Patronis, you may recall, has demanded that Florida allocate $5 million to pay Trump’s “lawfare” bills, earning Glorious Leader’s endorsement in the special election.



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