The Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) draft maps under consideration will peel Quail Creek and Green Valley away from Sahuarita and put them in a Republican stronghold that stretches from here to the New Mexico border.
Please join the IRC’s virtual meeting tomorrow (Friday, 11/2) from 12 to 2pm and tell them you’d like to keep Green Valley together with our immediate neighbors – where we shop, socialize, and worship – rather than putting us with Bisbee and Tombstone! You can either ask to speak or submit short, written comments. If you comment, some things to keep in mind:
- Please thank the Commissioners for their time and be polite. They have a tough job and pretty much everyone is unhappy with them right now.
- Don’t state your party affiliation, you are speaking as a citizen of Arizona, not a partisan.
- In your own words, say why your community should stay together with Sahuarita in District 21, rather than shifting to District 19. Do you mostly shop, go to the doctor, go to the library, worship, volunteer or do other things in Sahuarita and other nearby towns? Do you vote for town council members in Sahuarita? Do the Santa Rita mountains to the east mark a natural boundary for you? What about the Santa Cruz River basin? Do you tend to spend more time shopping, hiking, socializing, and travelling up and down I-19 and in nearby towns or over in Tombstone? These and other ideas should guide your comments, but please put them in your own words!!
Please click on this link and scroll down to November 12 to register and watch the hearing. You must be registered by 11am in order to speak. The approved IRC draft map that separates Green Valley from Sahuarita is here. You can submit written comments on the map here, using some version of the talking points above. An alternate map we support, called LD0055, would keep Green Valley with Sahuarita, and is here.
There will be one more in-person meeting December 4 in Tucson, but this is the meeting where the Commission will focus on Green Valley!
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