Both sides back down from deadlock; will set hearing schedule later

The citizen redistricting commission has reconvened, and both GOP Commissioner Lorna Finman and Democratic Commissioner George Moses withdrew their previous motions on the commission’s public hearing schedule. Co-Chairman Evan Frasure, who spent some time chatting with his Democratic counterparts during the commission’s break, said, “That’s an issue that we will have further deliberations on as far as the schedule, and hopefully we can come to an agreeable conclusion on that in a short time frame, where we can handle that issue.”