{"id":917,"date":"2011-11-04T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=917"},"modified":"2011-11-04T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:10:25","slug":"gov-jan-brewer-cant-explain-her-partisan-political-tampering-in-arizonas-redistricting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/11\/gov-jan-brewer-cant-explain-her-partisan-political-tampering-in-arizonas-redistricting-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Jan Brewer Can&#8217;t Explain Her Partisan Political Tampering In Arizona&#8217;s Redistricting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/11\/04\/361829\/gov-jan-brewer-cant-explain-her-partisan-political-tampering-in-arizonas-redistricting-process\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/janbrewer.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has been under fire recently for her dramatic political move to interfere with the state\u2019s bipartisan redistricting commission. Annoyed that the commission did not redraw congressional districts to benefit Republicans, Brewer convinced the GOP-controlled state Senate to impeach the commission\u2019s independent chairwoman, Colleen Mathis.<\/p>\n<p>State officials are only supposed to be impeached for \u201cneglect of duty and gross misconduct.\u201d But during an interview this week on Alan Colmes\u2019 radio show, Brewer became completely incoherent when trying to defend her actions. She could not explain what offenses Mathis had committed that could possibly justify her impeachment:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/11\/04\/361829\/gov-jan-brewer-cant-explain-her-partisan-political-tampering-in-arizonas-redistricting-process\/\">Gov. Jan Brewer Can&#8217;t Explain Her Partisan Political Tampering In Arizona&#8217;s Redistricting Process | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has been under fire recently for her dramatic political move to interfere with the state\u2019s bipartisan redistricting commission. Annoyed that the commission did not redraw congressional districts to benefit Republicans, Brewer convinced the GOP-controlled state Senate to impeach the commission\u2019s independent chairwoman, Colleen Mathis. State officials are only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[566,568,569,565,567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}