Article: GOP slips at Foley scandal's epicenter; Florida's red-tinted 16th District may swing blue after US Rep. Mark Foley resignation.(USA)

Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

HOBE SOUND, FLA. -- Florida's 16th Congressional District is a classic political gerrymander drawn to favor Republican candidates over Democrats. Shaped like a squashed plumber's wrench, it meanders across eight counties to link Republican strongholds on Florida's east and west coasts.

But even the fanciest handiwork of Republican line-drawers in Tallahassee may be of little comfort to Joe Negron this election season. He is the former state representative from Stuart tapped by the Republican Party to run for the seat left vacant by disgraced US Rep. Mark Foley amid the Congressional page ...

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