Florida Counties are Not Being Represented

[Keith Broaders]

Florida Counties are Not Being Represented

534,000 people live in the 13 rural counties in Florida's 3rd Senatorial District in Northern Fliruda have just one Senator, while Miami-Dade County has 6 senators and 16 Representative.

The 16 counties in Florida's Panhandle have 3 senators. The people living in the Miami-Dade Countyg are over represented in our state legislature and the people in the rural counties of Northern Florida are is not being heard.

In order to comply with a Supreme Court ruling the state legislature created 40 senatorial districts based on population.

tThis legislation turned the state's bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislature with 2 houses to represent the people and zero houses to represent

the counnties. This took from the small rural counties their equal representation. The state's senate became a second  version of the state's House of Representatives. 

If the U.S. Senate were apportioned like it is the states, Florida would have 42 U.S. Senators instead of only 2.

We Have is Tyranny of the Majority