york. she had to call the second in line over there in the state senate to hold the session to impeach. she s not even there right now during the proceedings and it looks really bad. she s taking heat here at hardball before she takes it again tonight. thank you so much for joining us, shirrra toplitz from roll call. let me go to andre from the arizona democratic party. andre, thanks for joining us. give me a sense, how many seats did you figure you might have picked up under the commission? i love to know numbers. could your party have really gained and gotten four seats or even five out of this new deal? well, here s the deal. right now in arizona, out of the eight seats, you have four safe republican seats, two safe democratic seats, two competitive seats. under the draft map the commission put forward, there would be four safe republican seats, two safe democratic seats, and three competitive seats. so a tiny step forward in terms of competitiveness. my sense is have as man
competitive seats. under the draft map the commission put forward, there would be four safe republican seats, two safe democratic seats, and three competitive seats. so a tiny step forward in terms of competitiveness. my sense is have as many 50/50 competitive district s as you can. that gives the voters a real choice. you re with me. that s a great thing. absolutely. nothing drives me crazier than locked in seats by either party. because then all you have is a polarizing, where the only danger an incumbent faces, man or woman, is somebody further to the right or further to the left, and therefore they always have to lean further right or lean further left, never compromise on anything, for fear that some young person will come along and grab that seat from their outer reaches. let s take a look at the editorial in your paper in the arizona republic. republicans raise genuine concerns about whether the redistricting commission violated the open meeting law, particularly in choos
governor brewer, saying she wasn t really following the intent of the law when she moved to impeach the commission head. it s definitely governor brewer. and to make matters worse, she s not even in arizona right now. she s selling her book in new york. she had to call the second in line over there in the state senate to hold the session to impeach. she s not even there right now during the proceedings and it looks really bad. she s taking heat here at hardball before she takes it again tonight. thank you so much for joining us, shirrra toplitz from roll call. let me go to andre from the arizona democratic party. andre, thanks for joining us. give me a sense, how many seats did you figure you might have picked up under the commission? i love to know numbers. could your party have really gained and gotten four seats or even five out of this new deal? well, here s the deal. right now in arizona, out of the eight seats, you have four safe republican seats, two safe democratic seat