IRC wants to finalize maps by Thanksgiving

Lawmakers, members of Congress and would-be candidates will only have to wait another five weeks or so to get a final answer on their districts, if the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission’s plan comes to fruition.

GOP lawmakers create panel to scrutinize redistricting maps

House and Senate Republican leaders announced this evening that they have each appointed three lawmakers to a committee charged with scrutinizing the maps created by the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission.

Tobin pledges to raise money for redistricting lawsuit

Critics of the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission who are eying a lawsuit have a strong supporter: House Speaker Andy Tobin.

Go west, young Weiers

JP Weiers said today that he is likely to move to the new LD13 to avoid running in the majority-minority LD29.

2012 Pearce-Lewis match-up unlikely

Senate President Russell Pearce’s allies have said that recall challenger Jerry Lewis would be soundly defeated if he faced Pearce in a Republican primary election.

Legislative map unveils tough primary matchups

Some districts packed with incumbents

There goes the neighborhood

Several Republicans now find themselves in unfriendly districts, chief among them seatmates Montenegro and JP Weiers.

Payson has next Arizona redistricting hearing

The state redistricting commission's road show of its draft congressional and legislative maps continues Wednesday evening with a public hearing in Payson.

Republicans cry conspiracy over redistricting

Republicans are really mad about redistricting. An approved draft (as in preliminary) congressional map strengthens the chances of Democratic incumbents Gabby Giffords and Raul Grijalva, both of whom narrowly won re-election last year. Republican freshman David Schweikert and Ben Quayle, on the other hand, appear to be on a collision course and could face each other in the primary in 2012. And Rep[...]

Republicans rip redistricting commission’s draft congressional map

Gov. Jan Brewer and other Republican officials are criticizing a draft congressional redistricting commission approved by a state commission for use in elections in the coming decade.

Horne says he could seek removal of redistricting commissioners

Attorney General Tom Horne said today that he could seek the removal of the state’s redistricting commissioners as a result of his investigation into whether they violated open meeting laws in June.

No dog days of summer for politics this year

In 2011 politics, there were no dog days of summer. In fact, there was hardly time for us political reporters to catch our breath, as the stories seemed to multiply every week.