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| Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) lost some gay
neighborhoods in his district following redistricting
completed after the 2000 census. Foley said through his deputy chief of staff
this week that he opposes a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban
gay marriage.
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silent during the Holocaust.” He
thinks the recent flurry of Republicans coming out against the amendment convinced
Foley that it was safe to oppose it.
“I think he goes with the wind,” Albetta said.
Foley’s district, which once included gay neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale
and West Palm Beach, was changed in a Florida redistricting plan approved by
a Republican-controlled state legislature. A district map on Foley’s
office Web site shows he no longer represents any part of Broward County, where
Fort Lauderdale is located, and his district’s portion of the city of
West Palm Beach was reduced to a tiny section.
The newly carved district snakes along the state’s east coast from Royal
Palm Beach, traveling north to Fort Pierce, and around Lake Okeechobee through
the Everglades to Port Charlotte, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico.
Ditto said he wasn’t sure if the makeup of the new district included
a more conservative-leaning constituency that would be more supportive of an
anti-gay constitutional amendment than Foley’s old district.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) now represents the Fort Lauderdale and West Palm
Beach areas that were once part of Foley’s district. Hastings has said
he opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment and will vote against it if it reaches
the House floor.
Phil LaPadula contributed to this report.
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