by Holly Bland | Sep 1, 2020 | Newsroom
Partisan maps have yielded a legislature that fails to respond to Black voters. By Julia Kirschenbaum In yet another painful reminder of the racism entrenched in our nation’s law enforcement systems, on August 23, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot Jacob Blake,...
by Holly Bland | Aug 12, 2020 | Newsroom
Party strategists pay a lot of attention to redrawing district maps — and hope you won’t bother to think about it. By Thomas B. Edsall Some of the most important developments in politics do not happen every election cycle, but every ten years, when politicians scrap...
by Holly Bland | Aug 8, 2020 | Newsroom
By JOHN HART We applaud the leadership of Gov. Tony Evers in establishing the People’s Maps Commission. We applaud his appointment of three distinguished retired judges to pick the citizen members of this commission. And we applaud the commission’s decision to hold...
by Holly Bland | Jul 22, 2020 | Newsroom
Only 10% of the legislative districts and no congressional districts offer real choices to Wisconsin voters By Jay Heck Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald have long opposed any and all attempts to bring even an iota...
by Holly Bland | Jun 4, 2020 | Newsroom
By SCOTT BAUER Republicans want to keep any legal battle over redistricting Wisconsin in the state Supreme Court, starting the fight over the redrawing of political boundary lines on Wednesday a full year before any new maps are created. Since the Republicans drew the...
by Holly Bland | Jun 4, 2020 | Newsroom
By Sara Swann Wisconsin’s next election maps will almost certainly be drawn by judges, and deciding which ones could have a profound impact on the dynamics of redistricting and the state’s political balance of power for a decade. Conservatives launched a...
