How come individual commissioners are only voted in by citizens that live within their individual commissioners' districts? How come the entire county can't vote for every district commissioner, like it is done in Santa Rosa County (and all the other counties in America)?
As was discussed in the meeting, this is because of a 1970's era lawsuit that was successful and that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
This screenshot of an article from the 1984 Pensacola Journal lays out the chronology of how this practice came to be locally...Interesting......
I think after the next census the BOCC could revisit this. I think D5 is too large but there are a lot of dummies there..for sure. Affirmative action needs to be dead. The pendulum has swung way too far that way. If D2 this election had been at large another good Republican, not a special interest GOB would be in place, not the one now. At least the committee appointments seem to understand that danger and the DIB appointment is actually hilarious given past bold facebook stick your own foot in your big fat mouth statements (you know who you are). There are advantages and disadvantages of the current districts being drawn. Five commissioners. Hope they remain decent public servants and balance the power, do their homework, not be lazy nor selfish. Perhaps EVERYBODY is not commenting publicly but let it known many ARE still paying attention.
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