This story focuses on an internal Republican Party disagreement in Arizona on whether to put a ballot measure on the presidential primary ballot set for February 28 to repeal the Independent Redistricting Commission. The Governor must call a special session by November 30 to make that happen. Most neutral observers would probably say that it is unfair to put such a partisan measure on the presidential primary ballot, when it is expected that the only parties holding a presidential primary will be the Republican and Green Parties.
If Arizona didn’t have an Independent Redistricting Commission, the legislature and the Governor would be in charge of redistricting, and Republicans control both those branches of government. So repealing authorization for the Commission is something that, likely, Democrats would oppose strongly. But because there will be no Democratic presidential primary, turnout of Democrats would probably be very low.
Isn’t it quite ironic that Arizona senate Republicans are making such a fuss about a quid pro quo(LOGROLLING) they expected from Brewer and that the ONLY charge they made against the chair of the Independent Redistricting Commission OTHER than that they didn’t like the maps was claims that she (Colleen Mathis) had tried to line up votes before the meeting during which the question on which they were to vote.
Once more laying bare the naked partisanship behind the whole hissy fit they’ve been throwing.
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What gerrymander district incumbent is NOT (repeat NOT) an ENEMY of REAL Democracy ???
The CRISIS that has been building since 1776 is N-O-W.