The website of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is here. Comments on preliminary maps can be submitted there.
From KJZZ -
Arizona Senate chief Karen Fann who led election audit retiring in 2023
The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state's most populous county announced Monday that she will not seek reelection in 2022.
Sen. Karen Fann said in a statement that after nearly 30 years serving in local government and at the Legislature, she will retire. The move comes as the Republican-controlled Legislature prepares for a 2022 session where the results of the election “audit" will be a key issue. The review found President Joe Biden did win Arizona, but it raised unsubstantiated questions about aspects of the election.
Other folks have already discussed the fact that the current iteration of redistricting favors Republicans and is bad for the people of Arizona. I'll leave that up to them; they can do that more eloquently than I can. I'll just discuss some of the "horse race" aspects of redistricting.
From the AZMirror -
Some lawmakers are poised to lose out in redistricting draft maps
A number of incumbent lawmakers find themselves facing suddenly unfavorable electoral prospects under the proposed legislative map drawn by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.
Some lawmakers who were previously in politically advantageous districts may now have to run in districts controlled by the other political party. Others remain in friendly territory from a partisan standpoint, but face potentially tough primary elections after getting lumped in with other incumbents who had previously been in different districts.
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The first pic, courtesy the AZMirror, is of the current, but preliminary, district lines. The lines may move after the upcoming comment period and before the district maps are finalized.
The second pic, also courtesy the AZMirror, is of the incumbents in each district in the preliminary map.
The current district 5, Fann's district, *does* include Prescott, Fann's hometown and is heavily tilted in favor of Republicans, so Rs will almost certainly win there, but Fann may have looked at the results of the fraudit that she fronted and the complete insanity (and anti-reality bias) of her own caucus in the AZSenate, a (potential) challenge from Burges, and thought to herself "I don't need this shit*".
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| Courtesy the AZMirror |
* = "shit" is my word; she may not have used that word, even to herself.
My guess (and it's only that, since I don't know the internal politics of the GOPers in that area) is that Judy "Birther" Burges will run for the Senate seat while other GOPers in the area will fight over her vacant House seat in the primary..
Of course, Burges may face a primary challenge. While she's nuts, someone in her district may think that she's not nutty enough.
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