Base maps for the upcoming special session on Senate districts are here. One lawmaker is arguing for a more member-led process.
Even before House and Senate staffers released the six base maps for next week’s special session, Sen. Oscar Braynon (D-Miami Gardens) had submitted a map of his own. He worries the staff submissions could confuse the process—but his problem isn’t with the number of options.
“There could be six maps, there could be seven maps, there could be forty maps,” Braynon says.
“But at least a member can defend and say that’s why I drew this map this way, this map is drawn this way because of,” he goes on. “And that I think is the real issue.”
Braynon’s map proposes changes throughout the state with special attention to southeast Florida and the I-4 corridor.
