When Coral Gables attorney Roland Sanchez-Medina Jr. considers what it takes for a challenger to win election to Congress or the state Legislature in Florida, he can’t help but react in frustration at bizarre district boundaries whose purpose seems only to protect the incumbent or the state’s dominant political party.
“I’ve had friends of mine whose districts were insane,” Sanchez-Medina said of fellow Democrat Joe Garcia, who lost a bid last year to unseat U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican. “His district ran from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s crazy.”
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