HELENA, Mont. (AP) â A commission tasked with drawing Montanaâs legislative districts got caught up Friday in heated hours-long debate over what criteria to use to divide the state into two U.S. House districts.
The commission is made up of two Republican appointees â Dan Stusek and Jeff Essmann â and two Democratic appointees â Kendra Miller and Joe Lamson â and a nonpartisan chairperson, Maylinn Smith. Party-appointed commissioners agreed the redistricting process should not favor either party, but disagreed on how to achieve that goal.
Miller and Lamson said the districts should be drawn to be competitive and capable of being won by either party, while Stusek and Essmann pushed back against the idea of creating a âfairâ map.
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