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.

How can one senator  represent  multiple counties at the same time. The senator will serve the county best that has the most potential voters,

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

This 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  in the state's legislature . The state's senate became a second  version of the state's House of Representatives and stripped the rural counties of their vocie.. 

If the U.S. Senate were apportioned by poulation like the Florida state senate is  Florida would have 42 U.S. Senators instead of only 2. The U.S. Senate and the Senate of the States was supposed to be based on equal representation of the States and the Counties.