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Unions bankrolling FL redistricting Effort

From the Jacksonville Observer

State campaign finance records show that SEIU has contributed $225,000 to FairDistrictsFlorida.org, which describes itself as a bipartisan effort to get a pair of constitutional amendments on next year’s ballot to guide the upcoming round of redistricting.The union’s contributions amount to more than $1 out of every $10 FairDistricts has collected as it works to gather the 676,811 signatures needed for each ballot measure.

SEIU, a powerful, Democratic-leaning union with 2.1 million members nationwide and 40,000 in Florida, was an early backer of Barack Obama and spent $85 million supporting his 2008 campaign, federal records show.

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