Redistricting committee may not make concrete recommendations to IRC

A joint committee created to craft the Legislature’s recommendations to the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission spent more than four hours on Monday listening to an airing of every grievance conservatives have with the redistricting process.

And in the end, it may not actually make any recommendations at all.

Babeu announces congressional exploratory committee

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced this morning that he is exploring a run for Congress.

GOP hopes may be pinned on DOJ

While the Dems boycotted and the GOP lawmakers rallied behind the Prop 106 provision and voter sentiment, Republican Senate attorney Greg Jernigan wondered aloud to our reporter whether the District of Justice – the only redistricting force that has yet to step up – would be willing to force a change of district lines.

Arizona lawmakers to meet again on redistricting

A special legislative committee appointed by majority Republicans to make recommendations to the state redistricting commission holds its second meeting Monday.

Dems’ prized piece

New 9th Congressional District offers unprecedented opportunity

Chippy meeting on IRC maps brings out critics on both sides

Republican lawmakers got a lot of blowback over their new redistricting committee from legislative Democrats and sympathetic members of the public, but they got what they wanted when a parade of speakers stepped forward to air grievances against the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.

Mutually assured destruction?

Senate GOP leadership has been quietly approaching members and testing the waters to see how much support there would be for removing Mathis from the IRC.

Cherny on the hot seat

Dems angry at Cherny’s potential candidacy for the new CD9 are actively recruiting a new chairman.

Threatened IRC lawsuit may have bleak prospects

Republicans who are upset with the work of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission are consoling themselves with the thought that they can undo the maps with a lawsuit, but that threat may ring hollow in the end.

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.