{"id":12932,"date":"2012-02-20T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:52:54","slug":"governor-scott-signs-florida%e2%80%99s-congressional-redistricting-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12932","title":{"rendered":"Governor Scott Signs Florida\u2019s Congressional Redistricting Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gov. Rick Scott<\/strong> signed the Legislature\u2019s plan to redraw the state\u2019s congressional districts Thursday, likely paving the way for more lawsuits surrounding the once-a-decade redistricting process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s<\/strong> office quietly announced the move in the afternoon without comment. A letter from <strong>Scott<\/strong> to Secretary of State <strong>Kurt Browning<\/strong> simply said the bill (SB 1174) had been signed.<\/p>\n<p>The signing was expected; <strong>Scott<\/strong> was largely hands-off during the redistricting process and hadn\u2019t given any signs he might veto the plan.<\/p>\n<p>But the measure has already been challenged by the Florida Democratic Party in court, and a coalition of voting-rights groups said after the Senate gave the maps final approval that they would follow suit pending <strong>Scott\u2019s<\/strong> signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott signed the Legislature\u2019s plan to redraw the state\u2019s congressional districts Thursday, likely paving the way for more lawsuits surrounding the once-a-decade redistricting process. Scott\u2019s office quietly announced the move in the afternoon without comment. A letter from Scott to Secretary of State Kurt Browning simply said the bill (SB 1174) had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}