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Nelson said that unless changes are made, he’ll be running for re-election in the new District 13, a sprawling area that extends west from Dysart Road in Goodyear, eventually swings north to the Yavapai County line and then heads west all the way to the Colorado River with lots of open desert in between. “This is a huge area that, in my opinion, really doesn’t bring communities of interest together,” he said. “I really think the commission did a disservice by splitting up the state this way.” Nelson also argued the new District 13 isn’t quite as bad as the new District 4, which takes in a portion of south Goodyear and then extends west to the Colorado River, south to Mexico and swings southwest almost all of the way to Tucson.
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lawsuits are needed to get some semblance of order in all of this, to get better representation.”
Voters took the job
away from the Legislature Arizona voters approved Proposition 106, which created the Independent Redistricting Commission in 2000 and took the redistricting process out of the hands of the governor and the Legislature. Political experts say that redistricting creates high stakes for political parties, because lines are drawn in such a way that can boost or hurt a candidate’s prospects to win an elective office.
new congressional districts in January after a nearly yearlong mapping process. Controversy erupted during the process when Gov. Jan
The commission approved the 30 new legislative and nine
Brewer, a Republican, made a failed effort to remove Colleen Coyle Mathis, the commission chair, from her government post. Lawsuits challenging the new Arizona districts were
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filed just one day after the federal government approved both the legislative and congressional maps drafted by the commission. One lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix and asks that a three-judge panel draw up an interim legislative map for this year’s elections. The other was filed in Maricopa County Superior Court
and argues that the Legislature, not a commission, is required under the U.S. Constitution to draw up congressional district maps. To win approval, the commission had to demonstrate
the new legislative and congressional districts have no discriminatory purpose or effect under the Voting Rights Act, a federal law that protects the voting rights of minorities.
Democrats hope for
a more level playing field Two West Valley lawmakers, Rep. Anna Tovar and Rep. Martin Quezada, both Democrats, represent the current legislative District 13 and say they support the new legislative district maps. Tovar, the House minority whip, said that in the fall, she plans to run in the new District 19 that was largely created by splitting her current district. The new District 19 covers
Avondale, Tolleson and southwest Phoenix.
a voter-approved Independent Redistricting Commission,” Tovar said.
“The maps were created by
“They are not perfect, regardless of whether you’re Democratic, Republican or Independent, but voters made it very clear that they wanted the politicians out of the redistricting process,” she said. Quezada, an attorney who was appointed to the District 13 House seat earlier this year, said he will run for election this fall in the new District 29. He said that despite the new legislative maps, Republicans
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“If Democrats play their cards right and run smart campaigns, they might win some seats,” Quezada said. “I think the maps give us the opportunity to do that.”
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www.azredistricting.org. The new legislative district map, shown here, places the Southwest Valley in Districts 4, 13 and 19.
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