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Let's have fair elections where voters choose their elected officials instead of the other way around.
Joined July 2015
RT @skchheda: Educate public on gerrymandering ✅.Organize Fair Maps Coalition ✅.Elect 3 fair, responsible, ethical constitutionally-minded….
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RT @GregTSargent: Read this thread. I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could….
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Justice Hagedorn, everyone:
In the redistricting case you had a 4 to 3 decision but one of the three justices wrote that the four were “probably correct” on the merits, which has got to be worth at least another three-quarters of a vote? Mark it down as 4-3/4 to 2-1/4.
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She also hilariously is only “Chief Justice” because they went to their right-wing partisan allies to push through a constitutional change.
The Chief Justice calls them “four rogue members” but they’re a majority. A rogue majority.
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RT @wifairelections: Despite the ranting and raving and lunacy of the dissents, what the Wisconsin Supreme Court did today was modest. It r….
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What is most unhinged about this is she & her right-wing colleagues, just last year, completely made up a fake standard called “least changes,” to give their right-wing Republican allies an everlasting supermajority, simply on vibes. She don’t care about America nor democracy.
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Sometimes Republicans will win, and sometimes Democrats will win, but the people’s will should always hold sway. It really is that simple.
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Despite the ranting and raving and lunacy of the dissents, what the Wisconsin Supreme Court did today was modest. It requires that Wisconsin have fair maps, as we did for decades and decades prior to 2011. Read the full decision here:
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After more than a decade of living under rigged maps, the state Supreme Court made clear today the Wisconsin Constitution requires fair, legal, constitutional maps for the people of Wisconsin.
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Who is asking the Republicans the question, why did they pick the 2015 bill? And not like… 2021, which is the most recent bill? . We know the answer is they don’t actually want independent, nonpartisan redistricting, but shouldn’t the media ask?!.
According to the drafting file, the bill was drafted TODAY. (After a 3:30am spike in google traffic on the “Iowa Model”.)
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Ron, please tell the truth. Your plan lets you ignore the commission and quickly substitute your own rigged maps. The plan advocates support insists on 3/4 of each house if you want to override the commission. You just…. left that out.
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT: . We heard your thoughts on the redistricting process in Wisconsin & it's time for a change. Wisconsin Republicans will introduce a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. This plan has been hailed as the "gold standard" redistricting model by
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Please share the entire thread and reject Vos’s fake compromise. 24/x.
Well, the questions are coming in about Speaker Vos’ partisan move today to supposedly endorse the Coalition’s fair maps bill. 🧵 1/x.
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Today’s events prove what we’ve always known: Vos is untrustworthy & not interested in democracy. The voters statewide have rejected his viewpoint. The legal case must move forward and is the best path to resolve the constitutional issue at stake. #fairmaps . 23/x.
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His bill, here, just says the commission gets two cracks at it, and on the third try, his rigged legislature can pass whatever map they want. Utter and complete nonsense. This entire proposal is a sham. 22/x.
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But Vos said nope! This is all political theater to him. It’s another way to seek advantage. He’s not compromising an inch. He’s just screwing around and trying to change the story from his (so far) failed impeachment mission. 21/x.
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Iowa has this problem, but they aren’t in a 50/50 state, and so they draw Republican maps that pretty clearly reflect their actual population, and they don’t get to that stage. Wisconsin is different. It’s 50/50. So we proposed this:
That’s unacceptable and we require a massive two-house super-majority of 75% to ignore the independent maps. 7/x.
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Here’s the concern: what happens when the independent commission deadlocks? 19/x.
This includes important differences from Iowa. First and foremost, there’s no “Out” in the real Wisconsin version of the bill. In Iowa, the legislature can reject independently-drawn maps, and then eventually just substitute their own. 6/x.
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Well, the bill is out and exactly what we said would happen, happened. Vos put forward a bill that pretends to reform the map-drawing process but actually keeps it in his own hands. 18/x. If you want the whole thread start here👇🏽
Well, the questions are coming in about Speaker Vos’ partisan move today to supposedly endorse the Coalition’s fair maps bill. 🧵 1/x.
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We need #fairmaps. We believe the current court will give the litigants a fair hearing, although the outcome is of course unsure. That seems a better process than trusting Robin Vos. 17/x.
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The devil is in the details. And not one word of media coverage should flow without massive skepticism until every detail is disclosed and every question answered. 16/x.
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