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<DIV>Oh you dreamer!!!. I’m having a hard time figuring out just where the
lines of demarcation are. Is the Congressional Division here and I just
don’t see it? But from what I can tell, I think it looks pretty good.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sue H</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 26, 2011 10:48 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Redistircting</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I wish someone would draw a
redistricting map that drew most of the current legislature out of the
state.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></DIV>
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<vision2020@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN
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PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Idaho
<SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Redistircting<VAR
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for the map, Tom. Here's an opinion from the <SPAN id=misspell-1
class=mark>Ridenbaugh</SPAN> Press:<BR><BR>
<H2 class=yiv100121000title><A
href="http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2011/09/24/id-redistrict-the-overtime-plan/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>ID redistrict: The overtime plan</A></H2>
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<DIV>by <A title="Posts by Randy Stapilus"
href="http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/author/stapilus/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Randy <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>Stapilus</SPAN></A> under <A
title="View all posts in Idaho"
href="http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/category/idaho/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Idaho</A>. </DIV></DIV>
<DIV>The falls, formally, into the category of a recommendation only – the same
as if any other group of six Idahoans proposed a statewide redistricting plan
(as some have). </DIV>
<DIV>But because these six are the former redistricting commissioners, this
particular proposal – Final Compromise 2 (does that sound like a bad movie
name?) – could carry some weight. When the new <SPAN id=misspell-3
class=mark>districters</SPAN> get together (the three Democrats are named, the
Republicans not quite yet) they could be tempted by the idea of just adopting
this one and cruising home, in a day or two, as opposed to some much longer
procedure.</DIV>
<DIV>It evidently has support from both parties; their chairs will hold a joint
press availability on Monday seemingly in support of it.</DIV>
<DIV>Partisan bottom line?</DIV>
<DIV>Democrats ought to be delirious about it. What they’re getting here is much
better than they have had any real right to expect. Central <SPAN id=misspell-4
class=mark>Coeur</SPAN> d’Alene is intact, providing competition there. Moscow
and <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Lewiston</SPAN> still anchor districts and
should remain competitive. Boise has a rough equivalent to the current
very-Democratic District 19 plus three other competitive district – roughly the
setup they have had. The Blaine County-based district will continue with about
the same setup as before. The <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Pocatello</SPAN>
area will have one Democratic-based district and one other that should be
competitive. That’s about what Democrats have now, and considering that most of
the last decade’s growth has been in Republican areas, doing this well would
have seemed improbable at the start of the process.</DIV>
<DIV>Who will be unhappy? On a partisan level, it’s not as if Republicans
somehow gave away the store; the map does not put their huge majorities at any
risk. But a number of incumbents will be put at risk – at least three pairs of
Republican senators (<B>Shawn <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Keough</SPAN></B>
and <B>Joyce Broadsword</B> in the Panhandle, <B>Patti Anne Lodge</B> and
<B>John McGee</B> in Canyon County, and <B><SPAN id=misspell-8
class=mark>Denton</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Darrington</SPAN></B>
and <B>Dean Cameron</B> in the Magic Valley) will be thrown into districts
together, presumably knocking out one in each case. And the people in the
southeast corner of the state, who’<SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>ve</SPAN> had
a bum district boundary linking <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Teton</SPAN>
County through forested mountains south to Bear Lake and Franklin Counties, will
see that get worse: That district looks about the same, with Oneida County
tacked on in the southwest. </DIV>
<DIV>There are issues. But there’ll also be a strong temptation to just go ahead
and adopt a plan evidently accepted, at this point, by both political parties.
How often do you get that?</DIV>
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