[Vision2020] Denney, Semanko remove redistricting commissioners

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/16580110/denney-semanko-remove-redistricting-commissioners

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Denney, Semanko remove redistricting commissioners

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - State Republican Chairman Norm Semanko and Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney said they've removed two redistricting commissioners, despite an opinion last week from the Idaho attorney general's office that firing a commissioner is illegal.

On Monday, the Republican Party announced Semanko had removed Randy Ha

nsen, while Denney had removed Dolores Crow.

Denney said last week he was removing Crow because members of his GOP House caucus thought she'd supported legislative districts that were too favorable to minority Democrats.

The redistricting panel is due to meet again Thursday to decide Idaho's legislative boundaries, after the Idaho Supreme Court threw a previous plan out.

Crow has said she has no plans to quit, indicating a possible legal fight to be settled by the Supreme Court over whether redistricting commissioners can be fired.

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Seeya later, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Post Falls, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown


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