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Sep 7, 2011

Statement on Attorney General Horne's partisan attack on redistricting commissioners

Andrei Cherny, Arizona Democratic Party chairman, gave the following statement today:

"Today's action by Attorney General Tom Horne is yet another example of partisan interference with the independence of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. It is part and parcel of a concerted Republican campaign of intimidation and distraction that began on day one and ranges from disruptions at hearings to threats by Speaker Tobin to remove the chair to the violent rhetoric of Senator Antenori. Horne's entire investigation of these commissioners is based on little more than partisan e-mails and unsourced blog posts, and it amounts to harassment of these citizen volunteers. Partisan politicians such as Horne should back off and let the commissioners do the work Arizonans want them to do: produce fair, competitive districts free of partisan gerrymandering."

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