Link here.

 Featured story at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government.com.

Commission Chairwoman Colleen Mathis, a political independent, sided with Democrats Linda McNulty and Jose Herrera in approving the plan. Herrera said it creates a map with four districts with a Republican voter edge, two that should be safe for Democrats and three districts in which the number of voters in each party are close enough to make them politically competitive.

But Republican Scott Freeman, visibly angry about the move, said the numbers tell a different story. He said the final version adds enough Democrats to those supposedly competitive districts to essentially give Democrats the edge. “The scales are being manipulated to get a desired political result,” he said.  The full story at the link.

The reaction of the Left is summed up with this headline and link at the Huffington Post:  ‘Stunning’ Redistricting Vote May Upset Arizona’s Republican Edge

 PJ Media has the story.

In a final report on its investigation dated Jan. 25 but not released until Wednesday, the FEC’s general counsel wrote that because of “significant concerns” about the credibility of Sam Kazran, Buchanan’s former business partner and chief accuser, it was recommending the FEC take no action against the congressman.  Full story at the link

Now, lets see if DOJ does the right thing and drop the criminal investigation into campaign finance violations.

I bet

 Fox.  Someone alert Tova Wang and the Brennan Center.

I am told that PJ Media is set to run with a bombshell in the next 36 hours that involves the strange combination of perjury at the Justice Department and redistricting.  Some more details (not many) at PJ Tatler.

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So much for fairness:  Exhibit #1 on why so-called independent redistricting commissions result in unfair lines.  Exhibit # 2 would be the workings of the Arizona Redistricting Commission.

California’s congressional Democrats ran a secret effort earlier this year to manipulate the work of the independent citizens panel that drew the state’s new political districts, foiling the intent of reformers who sought to remove the redistricting process from the control of party bosses.
Democrats met behind closed doors at the party’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, hired consultants, drew their ideal districts and presented maps to the panel through proxies who never disclosed their party ties or “public interest” groups created specifically for the purpose. In many cases, the panel responded by doing just what the Democrats wanted.

The New York-based nonprofit investigative foundation ProPublica released findings today from a months-long reconstruction of the Democrats’ stealth redistricting strategy, relying on internal memos, emails, interviews and map analysis.

The success of the strategy has Democrats projecting they may pick up as many as seven congressional seats in 2012 under new district boundaries adopted last summer, far more than had been expected originally.

“Every member of the Northern California Democratic Caucus has a ticket back to D.C.,” crowed one internal memo. “This is a huge accomplishment that should be celebrated by advocates throughout the region.”

Full story at the link.