OK - I know there have been a lot of tweets today. So think of this as an amuse-bouche between heavy mapping days.
In the 1970's AZ congressional districts looked like this 1/7
In the 1980's AZ congressional districts looked like this:
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In the 1990's AZ congressional districts looked like this:
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In the 'aughts AZ congressional districts looked like this:
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Since 2010's AZ congressional districts looked like this:
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What do you notice about all these plans?
I notice - in not one instance in the last 50 years has Arizona had a congressional district that spanned the northern border E to W. Not one single time.
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Kudos to @ArizonaIRC for being sensible and not taking a radical departure from historical recognition of the fundamental differences between eastern north AZ and western north AZ. Communities of interest matter. #FairDistrictsforArizona
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Tonight there are 119 "citizen submissions" on the AIRC Hub. Seven more than the 112 that were posted this morning. One of those submissions is from the Southern Arizona Leadership Council @SALCLeaders -a group founded by
Commissioner Mehl in 1997. What makes this map stand out is the submitters messaged Commissioner Mehl to tell him they had submitted a map. Want to know what it is now called? Draft version 6.3. in the official draft map lineage.
Maps from two other groups have been brought
forward for serious consideration by the @ArizonaIRC. One, a single legislative district, was submitted by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission @NNHRC1 on behalf of the Navajo Nation (a sovereign Native American Nation).
They are back - and immediately headed into E-Session for guidance on VRA -for the 2nd time in 6 hours. Maybe they really need better legal counsel @BallardSpahrLLP and @SWLawNews. And draft maps do not yet exist -
BACK - Live -- does it look like @ArizonaIRC is pleased?
Dr @ndc_doug ready to talk through CD maps - This is 5.2
You know the saying::: tell them what you are going to tell them. Tell Them. and them tell them what you told them...
That is good advice. Adding one bit more: Tell them again. Remind them. And then remind them again. And again. Don't stop unitl there are #FairDistrictsforAZ
Stats for new LD Plans
LD5.0:
Partisan Bias, 0.7%R; Efficiency Gap, 0.5%D; w/districts 5C, 13D, 12R
The Navajo Nation submitted a proposed legislative district map today that would have protected the existing voting power of the Navajo Nation and other northern Arizona Am. Indian tribes.
It asked for a population deviation of 7%. @ndc_doug said: we can still keep within the overall 10% planned deviations as this is considered presumptive constitutional. We just have to be very careful on the districts that are over,
..to make sure none of them is over by more than 2.95%
Commissioner Mehl said: "With all due respect to their request. I think it just goes counter to everything we've talked about these things actually in detail and voted on them and at one point
While we are waiting for today's mapping exercises to begin...
"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs,
but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God." ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Just an odd thought while they go through admin motions - maybe they should take lessons from peace negotiations and sit at a round table - and make the consultants sit at a long table facing them.. as they are sitting now - there is almost no way to make eye contact