The question of whether to have an independent commission, rather than lawmakers, redraw the state’s legislative maps has advanced out of its first committee.
By Robert Nott The Santa Fe New Mexican The Republican Party of New Mexico and six other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Friday in the 5th Judicial District Court alleging a new map of the state’s three congressional districts, approved last month by the heavily Democratic Legislature, is “a political gerrymander” that weakens the voting power of residents in southeastern communities. The suit says legislators “ran roughshod” over traditional redistricting methods …
SANTA FE With control of the U.S. House at stake in November, the New Mexico Republican Party filed a lawsuit in state court Friday over a new congression.
Mayor Jamie Clary appointed two new members to the Hendersonville Regional Planning Commission this month while not renewing the terms of long-time members David Jenkins and Darlene Stringfellow.