Tonight's breakdown in redistricting commission negotiations was rather stunning, after a day of what had appeared to be strong progress, as the evenly split bipartisan commission focused on resolving regional disagreements in various parts of the state on how to draw new legislative district lines.…
The bitter round of name-calling and recriminations that closed today's Sunday session of the Idaho redistricting commission didn't include two of the six members - the two female commissioners, Democrat Julie Kane and Republican Lorna Finman, who both say they've made continuing progress on negotiating…
After a day of promising negotiations, work toward developing new legislative and congressional district lines has broken down badly this evening, with Republican and Democratic redistricting commissioners bitterly blaming each other. In Ada County, "We've put all of their incumbents in safe districts and that's…
Redistricting commissioners have briefly reconvened again, and this time recessed until 7:30 p.m., giving them another hour and a half to work on redistricting plans. "We are making tremendous progress," said Co-Chairman Evan Frasure. "I think I speak for the entire commission, we plan on…
Idaho's redistricting commission reconvened at 5 Boise time, but just for a few minutes, going right back into another hour's recess. "We probably just had the most productive hour that we've had since we started this process, in my humble opinion," GOP Co-Chairman Evan Frasure…
There are now just under 49 hours left before the deadline for Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission to agree on new legislative and congressional district plans; the commission just convened briefly in the Capitol Auditorium, and then recessed for an hour for more work on…
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