U.S. census hands more House seats to Texas, Florida
New population data released by the U.S. census reapportioned congressional seats in a shift that could boost Republican chances of..
DATA FROM THE 2020 COUNT&.
ASWE WAIT FOR LOCAL POPULATIONDATA IN FLORIDA& NEWSCHANNEL5'S MICHELLE QUESADA IS GOINGIN DEPTH TO HELP YOU BETTERUNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OFREDISTRICTING AND WHAT ITMEANS FOR YOUR COUNTY&IF YOU FILLED OUT THE U-SCENSUS IN 2020&YOU'RE PART OF THE POPULATIONCOUNT IN FLORIDA THAT WILL NOWBRING MORE DOLLARS TO THESTATE.
BUT YOU'RE INVOLVEMENTIS NOT OVER&.
FIRST OF ALL, WEALWAYS SAY IF YOU'RE NOT ATTHE TABLE YOU'RE ON THE MENUAND SO WE WANT EVERYBODY TOPARTICIPATE PALM BEACH COUNTYCOMMISSIONER MACK BERNARDEXPLAINSIS GOING FROM 27 SEATS IN THEU-S HOUSE OF REPRESNETATIVESTO 28& NEW DISTRICT BOUNDARIESWILL NEED TO BE MAPPED TO MAKESURE THERE'S AN EQUAL NUMBEROF PEOPLE FOR EACH REPRESENTEDDISTRICT.
WE'RE GOING TO FINDOUT EXACTLY WHERE WAS THEGROWTH AND WE BELIEVE PALMBEACH COUNTY'S POPULATION WILLBE 1.5 MILLION RESIDENTS INTHE COUNTY AND HISPANICS WILLMAKE UP OVER 25 PERCENT OF THECOUNTY RIGHT NOW WE KNOW THEPOPULATION NUMBERS FOR EACHSTATE& BUT IN THE NEXT FEWMONTHS - RAW DATA WILL BERELEASED SHOWING WHEREPOPULATIONS GREW IN EACHSTATE& THAT WILL BE USED FORLEGISLATORS TO MAP OUT NEWDISTRICTS.
THIS IS GOING TODETERMINE WHO IS GOING TO BEREPRESENTING YOU IN YOURCOMMUNITY JACKIE COLON WITHTHE NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND &AN ORGANIZATION THAT PAVES AWAY FOR LATINOS TO PARTICIPATEIN THE POLITICAL PROCESS& SAYSREDISTRICTING WILL CHANGE MORETHAN WHO IS YOURREPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
ITAFFECTS YOU IN THE SCHOOLBOARD, IT AFFECTS YOU AS ACOUNTY COMMISSIONER IT AFFECTSYOU AS THE STATEREPRESENTATIVE, STATE REP, ITAFFECTS LOCALLY COLON SAYSUSUALLY PEOPLE CAN LET THEIRVOICES BE HEARD ATREDISTRICTING HEARINGSAS THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGED THE2020 CENSUS COUNT& SHE EXPECTSTHERE WILL BE CHANGES.
NOWWITH COVID EVERYTHING IS BEINGDONE ZOOM SO WE'RE HAVING TOFIGURE THAT OUT NOW HOW ARETHESE HEARINGS GOING TO HAPPENMICHELLE QUESADA WPTV NC
New population data released by the U.S. census reapportioned congressional seats in a shift that could boost Republican chances of..