The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is pushing the county commissioners to join a lawsuit challenging new legislative redistricting. "They're the ones who have to initiate to sign on. We as a party can't do anything," said Tina Jacobson (pictured), central committee chair. The committee invited all county commissioners to a meeting this week to discuss concern over the redistricting Legislative Plan L 87. The plan was created by the state Commission for Reapportionment, charged with tweaking districts so voters have equal representation under the new census numbers. The big issue is with the new district 7, Jacobson said, which now includes a chunk of southeastern Kootenai County lumped in with Shoshone, Clearwater and Idaho counties/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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