BOCA RATON NEWS Vol
BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 15, No. 35. Sunday, Jan. 25, 1970 32 Pages 10 Cents Reed eyes court pressure 9 One -manv vote district 'almost inevitable •«*• By PETE DONAGHUE has three state' senators, and runs all of his district — covering four counties chance to elect one of their own. the Miami Herald could control the one-member districts in 1971 becaua the way from the/Edst coast to Fort and with more than 50 cities and towns. "Coral Gables or Homestead could entire 22 member Dade County 1970 census information will be State Rep. Don Reed sees one- Myers. Two of. them, Skip Bafalis and "I have to spend seven days a week elect a Republican," he said. "Cubans delegation. If each legislator were computerized by tracts, rather than member Florida legislative districts in Jerry Thomas, live on this coast, while trying to represent all the people of and Negroes do not have proportionate elected from a smaller district, and be geographically definable boundaries; the near future. Sen. Elmer Friday comes from Fort this big district," he said. "Some representation in the Dade delegation able to be closer to his constituents. the information will be on tapes, and The Boca Raton House minority Myers. months I log nearly 4,000 miles within because it is elected at large. A Reed said, this influence would not be the state can buy the tapes. leader says the Supreme Court is All, however, must campaign the district plus 1,000 to 2,000 more legislator should represent the neigh- possible. Reed sees no reason legislative pushing the legislature with its one- throughout the run at-large in the going to Tallahassee for committee borhood in which he lives,Minority After the 1970 census, the new state man, one-vote mandate to the point entire district, which covers Glades, meetings and other speaking groups should have representatives constitution will require the legislature districts can't cross county lines, where one-member districts are Henry, Lee and Palm Beach Counties.
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