Let the games begin.
The politically fraught task of redrawing political district lines based on the just-completed 2020 Census will preoccupy politicians for the next six months.
At the state level, the voter-created, Independent Redistricting Commission has already spurred both conflict â and hopeful signs of consensus.
As it happens, Apache County business leader and member of the Navajo Nation Derrick Watchman will play a key role as vice-chairman of the state redistricting commission. Arizona will likely gain a 10th congressional seat and the state legislature is narrowly controlled by the Republican Party â making this yearâs redistricting a high-stakes exercise.
The process could have a big impact on Gila County, which is divided among three different state legislative districts. District 6, which includes all of northern Gila County, is one of the most competitive in the state â although itâs now represented by Republicans â Wendy Rogers in t
Former White House chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen blasts Democrats for U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s promotion to vice chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on Africa and global human rights issues, calling it ‘absolutely appalling.’
Thiessen, a Fox News contributor and a columnist at the Washington Post, made the comment on America’s Newsroom on Monday, calling the Congresswoman from Minnesota a virulent anti-Semite before pointing to several of her past statements.
Omar, 38, now in her second term in Congress after initially being elected in 2018 and then reelected last year, is a native of Somalia who emigrated to the U.S. with her family as a teenager.
Jewish Ledger
Nikki Haley broke with Trump. It could make her a Jewish GOP favorite in 2024.
By Ron Kampas
(JTA) Nikki Haley has finally and decisively broken with Donald Trump in a move that puts her at the front of the potential Republican presidential pack for moderate conservatives, including pro-Israel Jews who mainly stuck with the party over the past four years because of Trump’s foreign policy.
After serving as his U.N. ambassador and not taking a stand for months on what his lies about election fraud would mean for his legacy, Haley made the final cut on Friday in a Politico interview. Trump’s inflammatory post-election rhetoric, which Democrats argue culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, was the final straw.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, from wikipedia.
What happens when Israel just keeps turning into such a rightwing Jewish-supremacist country that American Israel-lovers lose their stomach for defending it? Or they get tired of telling us all about the Good Israel that’s waiting to be redeemed? I think that’s happening, and here is a news story that supports that view.
Two days ago Benjamin Netanyahu, eager to lose no rightwing votes in his bid for reelection in March, signed a vote-sharing agreement with a party that includes extremist racists. Vote-sharing deals mean that two parties can get another seat in parliament by combining their “leftover” votes. Otherwise those extra votes would simply be parcelled to other parties. Netanyahu needs to keep those seats on his side.