GOP Commissioner Lou Esposito, responding to complaints from Democratic Commissioner George Moses that GOP commissioners never gave their response to five proposed legislative plans the Democratic commissioners submitted several days ago, said, "You did submit five plans the other day, and we were busily working toward some compromises. ... We did take a close look at your plans and then made the decision in the hopes of reaching an agreement not to publicly review the plans because of the fact that they were unacceptable, and we could go through point by point and point out all the flaws in each one of the plans, but we truly had hoped to find a starting point and that's what we did." Moses responded, "Pick the one you find least objectionable and let's talk about what the flaws are." Esposito said, "I think that's what we've been doing."

He noted that "to their credit," commissioners Lorna Finman and Julie Kane have continued working on North Idaho lines and have made progress, and moved to recess the committee to 2 this afternoon for more work.

But before that, Commissioner Evan Frasure said he's been informed that after publicly releasing partial maps for eastern Idaho yesterday that he and Commissioner Allen Andersen had been negotiating, he has to formally submit those as partial legislative district plans, so he's doing that now. Going through the details, Frasure noted that one of his proposals put GOP Rep. Jim Guthrie into a district with three other Republicans. "I just threw Jim under the bus ... by me offering to compromise to follow the Democratic plan," he said. He offered that and other details as proof that he wasn't taking a "my way or the highway" position.