‘OPB Politics Now’: Redistricting gets messy

Oregon lawmakers must come up with new political lines for the state legislature and the U.S. House. But they’re struggling amid partisan squabbling and another state Capitol COVID-19 outbreak.

On this week’s episode of “OPB Politics Now,” political reporters Dirk VanderHart and Sam Stites break down a wild week, dig into House Speaker Tina Kotek’s decision to back out of a deal to give Republicans more input in redistricting and discuss why this is so important to the future of state political control.