00:00This builds off of a question that was already asked, but do you think that the boundaries of Jared Moskowitz's congressional district should change?
00:07I'm not sure. I didn't draw the current map. I don't know whose district is whose.
00:13And quite frankly, even though I wasn't involved in drawing it, I said I was going to veto the one and that we had to do another.
00:19The guys that do draw the maps, they don't do it based on who the incumbent is.
00:24They basically do it based on what makes sense in terms of geographic.
00:28So, you know, we had some incumbents that were complaining last time and they were like, oh, you know, you're trying to go after this.
00:35No, no one was gone after. It had no impact on anything.
00:39Now, I will say clearly if the VRA is found to be the application of the VRA is found to be unconstitutional of the race based district, that district here will definitely change.
00:49So that will be mandated to do it. And my sense is that would probably have spillover effects for a lot of places in southern Florida.
00:56I think if you look at the map now, probably north of I-4, I think is a pretty sound map.
01:03I don't think that there's really any basis.
01:05I think as you get into central but particularly southeast Florida, there starts to become questions.
01:11Voting VRA questions, but also some lingering questions from the first round of maps that the Florida Supreme Court has now been able to opine on that you could potentially look to see.
01:21And then I think if there are any changes made, one of the things that these guys are going to have to look at is because you can draw a line in this part of the town or that part.
01:32You know, at some point you've got to make decisions.
01:34And I think those decisions should be informed by the population changes and how all that's happened so that people get as fair and as equal representation as possible.
01:44But if you have to change one, then, you know, there's going to be a lot of other districts that could potentially be implicated.
01:52But I don't know if there's a constitutional defect with Moskowitz.
01:55I don't know there.
01:56I know we have, I think, two VRA districts.
01:59If I'm-is it two, do you know, or is it just with a one?
02:02Okay, at least two.
02:05I think one of them is pretty compact, so I don't know that that would necessarily be a problem, per se, as long as there was a non-racial justification for it.
02:15I do think the one here in Palm Beach that has the arms that kind of go out and try to snag more voters that way, I think that's got some problems.
02:24And I think almost certainly if the VRA is interpreted to say that you can't use race that way, then that district will have to be redrawn 100%.
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