Countdown to #FairMaps for Arizona: Day 61
This is the word cloud from yesterday's meeting. Notice the prominence of Oro Valley and Marana. Those two Pima County communities are such an important of community of interest that they MUST be together. According to Com. Mehl.
It's hard to know why he thinks this. It's not a HORRIBLE idea. It's not as horrible as denying the Navajo Nation an opportunity district; or the Latino communities an eighth VRA district. Or diluting every rural district with urban population.
But it does force the @ArizonaIRC to create this district:
This is the birdseye view. NOTE: Commissioner Mehl, I believe, would live in LD 18.
Arizonans voted for Prop 106 to take this task away from self-serving elected officials. Have we simply replaced self-serving elected officials, with self-styled oligarchs who mistake their personal, private business interests for the public interest?
Is anyone fooled by this?
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Countdown to #FairDistricts - Day 0
Here's the fallout from yesterday:
The result is CD 13.9. 4 Safe R (CDs 2,5,8,9), 3 Mostly Safe D (CDs 3, 4, 7); 2 Competitive (CDs 1,6)
Other than irrelevant changes to vote shares for very safe districts, the main effects on competitiveness was to make CD4 less competitive (I call it a mostly safe D) and CD6 more competitive by a little bit.
See you back here at 9:00 for the VOTE and then deliberations on the State Legislative Plan. Let's hope Commissioner Lerner was able to sleep well. And that the Republicans - all three of them - did not.
Sunday December 19 and the @ArizonaIRC is going to meet. Because they really do not conduct their business in public, the public has no idea if they will be talking about congressional or state legislative plans.
And we are also curious about the content and conclusions from the meeting(s) held yesterday regarding the American Indian tribes and nations in N Arizona. #Transparency IS NOT their strong suit.
Late starting - wonder if the sports events are in overtime.
A few highlights 1) Cs York and Mehl on the Latino Coalition and 2) C. Mehl on CD6 in Tucson.
1) C. York: "Well, I guess my last comment is that we continue to get letters from the public that are convenient when we need them, it seems. Be it a Mayor, or a city council, and in this case, the Latino coalition sent us yesterday afternoon their new desired outcome
for the West Valley. And I just find it odd that all of a sudden we're considering that now that we've been looking at this for so long."
C. Mehl: "In the big picture we've taken we've taken very, very seriously the input from the Latino coalition.