Mike Yost Attacks Corrine Brown ... and Mario Diaz-Balart?

Businessman Mike Yost was the Republican nominee to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown -- one of the most prominent Democrats in Florida --in 2010, and he hopes to do so again in 2012.By joining Republicans in continuing to oppose the constitutional amendments backed by FairDistricts Florida and approved by voters at the ballot last year, Yost is trying to make political hay in showing his support of those measures.

Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (his fellow plaintiff is Corrine Brown) announced he has raised over $27,000 to block Florida's constitutional amendments to give us fair and equitable districts for the 2012 election, noted Yost in an e-mail sent out to supporters on Thursday morning. They plan to fight to the bitter end to keep their gerrymandered districts and deny you the opportunity to elect representatives of your choice.

When nearly 63 percentof the voters approved this legislation, they told Tallahassee that they wanted an end to the gerrymandering of all congressional and state House districts, continued Yost. Sadly, we are fighting members of our own party to make sure that races become competitive, and that just having the right letter after your name means you get automatically elected. This 3rd Congressional District is no exception. These representatives still want to choose their voters, and not let the voters choose their representatives!

While Yost did not receive much in the way of support from the Republican establishment in 2010 -- though Dick Morris did praise him and said he had a chance of winning (yet another Morris prediction gone sour, like Sen. Rick Lazio and Condi versus Hillary in 2008) -- he certainly does not seem to be counting on it in 2012 as he attacks Diaz-Balart and Tallahassee Republicans.