So, okay.
Some years back Arizona passed a referendum appointing an independent commission to be in charge of drawing district lines, instead of letting the legislature do it.
Well, the legislature (and governor) don't like how the independent commission has drawn the district lines, so they've just voted to fire the head of the commission.
Now, given that I try hard not to fall into partisan traps, I have to ask myself if I'd be pissed if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic legislature fired an independent commissioner for redrawing district lines to decrease the Democrats' power. And I'm pretty sure I would.
Now, there ARE some weird-looking districts there. But Pacobird's made the point before that gerrymandering can serve a positive purpose: it can protect a minority population from tyranny of the majority.
And of course that's the entire reason we voted in an independent commission in the first damn place: so a two-thirds Republican legislature can't entrench itself. (Even if that's pretty close to the demographics in the state -- one-third Republican, one-third Democrat, and one-third Independents who tend to vote Republican.)
Anyhow, once again Brewer's in it to thwart the will of the public as expressed in ballot initiatives. Rather like how she's had the opening of medical marijuana dispensaries indefinitely postponed (though granted she had help from the Obama Administration on that one).