Republican legislative leaders aren't happy with their choices for the Independent Redistricting Commission and are asking that a nominating commission reconvene and reconsider.Kirk Adams, the Republican Speaker of the Arizona House, and Russell Pearce the
Whatever the letter to Chief Justice Berch says, however, the Republicans seem to have two real main objections to the list of candidates that they have to choose from.
1. Nine of the ten R candidates are from Maricopa County. Under the law, only two of the four members can be from the same county. As both Kirk Adams and Chad Campbell (the House Democratic leader) are expected to pick Maricopa County residents, that would leave one eligible person for Russell Pearce to pick, Benny White of Tucson.
2. OK, they reallllllly don't want Bender in the pool of applicants. Apparently, his personal politics make most Democrats look like the second coming of Barry Goldwater.
The word from sources is that Pearce and Adams don't have much of a shot with this, but since we are in Arizona, the place where the principle of the rule of law has been replaced by the principle of IOKIYAR, anything could still happen.
Stay tuned...
2 comments:
I'm confident we'll see more of a hissy fit from Pearce come Monday. I doubt that Kirk Adams really was as irked as Pearce... after all, he gets the first pick.
And I think the only reason they complained about Sossaman and Schnepf was to try to mute outrage over their partisan chirping about Bender.
btw, I've started a blog also.
http://stevemuratore.blogspot.com/
I've got a feeling that you are right about the reason that Schnepf and Sossaman were mentioned. We'll see, though.
Oh, and your blog is already in the blogroll at the right.
Welcome to the joys of unpaid journalism... :)
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