Tag: legislative redistricting

Yes! The Senate’s new top leader took steps Wednesday to take possession of the legal file that would provide details on how Republicans drew new election maps last year – a file he said he would make public. “My feeling is this is work that was done for the public,”…

Here’s another consequence of the insane clown show our state government has become under the Satrap of Fitzwalkerstan and his minions.  Meet the “ghost wards” of Eau Claire. No one lives in these wards. No one, in fact, will ever live in these wards. But, because of the pre-emptive, highly…

Earlier this week Democratic State Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa of Milwaukee issued a statement blasting Dan Kelly, an attorney for the state of Wisconsin, after he said Zamarripa did not oppose Republican-drawn redistricting maps Here’s Rep. Zamarripa’s statement. “I am outraged that the GOP attorneys would resort to potentially slanderous statements…

Over at Playground Politics, The Recess Supervisor has a great entry outlining just how easy it would be to take partisanship out of Wisconsin’s redistricting process. The solution? Two words: district compactness. Go take a read over at Playground Politics.

From a follower on Twitter comes the 84 pages of emails pertaining to the hyper-partisan and ultra-secretive legislative redistricting process that Republicans in the state legislature didn’t want you or I to see: The fact that Republicans in our state’s legislature want to hide how they do business from the…

Watch this video from July 2011 when the redistricting maps were being reviewed.  This is important in light of the current lawsuit over the secret negotiations and the way the maps were drawn.  And for the record, Mike McCabe is my hero.

Some how I don’t think voter ID is going to fix this! LOL! Clerks scrambling to get voters in right districts before primary Madison – Clerks in the state are scrambling to assign voters to the right districts after last summer’s redrawing of legislative maps, with changes to the process…

Yesterday I posted about the scathing ruling issued a three-judge panel in Federal court. In their ruling (READ IT HERE), the three-judge panel ruled that a group associated with the Democratic Party has a right to information on how Republican lawmakers drew Wisconsin’s new legislative districts following the 2010 census….

The court “will not suffer the sort of disinformation, foot-dragging, and obfuscation now being engaged in by Wisconsin’s elected officials and/or their attorneys,” reads a scathing ruling issued by a three-judge panel that ruled that a group associated with the Democratic Party has a right to information on how Republican…

Just a few minutes ago, I had the chance to talk with Democratic State Senator Chris Larson (pictured, left) about today’s historic recall elections. Asked to share his thoughts on tonight’s results, Larson stated what most pundits believe to be true – that tonight’s elections will be very close. “I…