Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, said in an email the commission “prioritized partisan gerrymandering over core constitutional protections.” Republicans have decried the commission maps for splitting more counties and municipalities than the GOP maps, though they split slightly fewer than the current maps the GOP drew in 2011.Įlsewhere in America’s Dairyland, a local sheriff has been watching too much Tucker Carlson-or maybe Gunsmoke reruns. In response, the legislature’s Republicans have produced the customary mendacity. They just ensure that those majorities are less absurdly out of balance with the popular vote totals. It should be noted that even the maps Evers is promoting preserve the current Republican majorities in the state legislature. From the Wisconsin State Journal: The GOP proposal focused on a “least change” methodology to maintain the core of existing district boundaries, which have been regarded as some of the most gerrymandered maps in the nation and have afforded Republicans strong majorities in both chambers for the last decade.

In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Tony Evers is touring the state promoting a “People’s Map Commission” proposal that was put together by a nonpartisan body, in contrast to the map that emerged from the Republican-majority state legislature that seems to maintain Wisconsin’s current status as one of the most ridiculously gerrymandered states in the Union. So what’s happening on the redistricting front? Is the amphibian still the primary invasive species all over the country? Oh, hell yes. (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post)īeing our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ goes on and where winter here is an unknown thing.

No more room in hell maps