TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Central Florida Congressman Daniel Webster was in Tallahassee Tuesday to argue against a state redistricting plan he said would cost him his job.
The Republican U.S. representative's district is one of many state lawmakers are redrawing.
Proposed changes would add parts of west Orange County, and more Democrats, to his district.
Webster is the only member of Congress to make the trip to Tallahassee for the state Legislature's special session.
He maintains the new map would make it difficult for a Republican to win the seat he currently holds, and that, he says, is unfair.
On Day 2 of the special session, a joint committee of House and Senate members began the process of redrawing the state's congressional district lines.
Last year, a district court ordered the state to redraw the map.
This year, the Florida Supreme Court ordered lawmakers back to work again, saying state leaders had violated the state Constitution by drawing congressional districts that favored Republicans.
While Webster's district wasn't singled out, it seems to be collateral damage.
In an effort to redraw Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown's district, which borders Webster's, many of the Democratic voters in her district will be shifted to his, a move he said will make his re-election difficult.
"I took my cause here today because no one was saying it, and I felt like it was something that at least needed to be said," Webster said.
The Legislature still has eight days left in the special session\and, as of yet, has not held any votes on any changes.
Webster isn't the only central Florida member of Congress feeling the heat.
The changes being floated out by the state would impact the districts currently held by Democrat Alan Grayson and Republican John Mica, although to much less of a degree.
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