Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Republicans would fare well in the state’s next congressional map under a series of changes members of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission proposed.
At the commission’s meeting on Thursday, its second since it resumed work drawing what will become the final maps that Arizona will use for the next decade, independent Chairwoman Erika Neuberg suggested that the AIRC consider substantial changes to the 3rd Congressional District, a heavily Latino enclave covering much of southern and western Phoenix, that were requested by Phoenix City Councilwoman Laura Pastor.
The changes would remove predominantly Democratic areas from the competitive 1st Congressional District, which would in turn gain Republican strongholds in northern Phoenix. Specifically, the proposal would see the 3rd District take in the area between Interstate 17 and State Route 51 and from Interstate 10 to the Sunnyslope neighborhood in north-central Phoenix. In the eastern part of the district, Neuberg suggested moving the boundary between the 3rd and 1st districts from Thomas Road north to Missouri Avenue. Neuberg said the district could also extend east along Indian School Road to the boundary between Phoenix and Scottsdale.
