Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:01 AM and sunset 7:57 PM, for 13h 55m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 37.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1933, loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later…
Gerrymandering
City, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, Law, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Counties Backing Fair Maps
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The fight against gerrymandering will be a key political issue statewide (and in Whitewater) over 2021-2022. See Probable Wisconsin Political Issues for 2021. Both of the counties of which Whitewater is a part have supported resolutions in favor of fair maps. For more information, visit the Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition to help end gerrymandering in…
Bad Ideas, Gerrymandering, Legislation, Legislature, WISGOP
WISGOP Legislation Would Gerrymander Wisconsin’s Electoral Votes
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A WISGOP legislator, Rep. Gary Tauchen, has drafted a bill to award Wisconsin’s electoral votes by congressional district, thereby maximizing the importance of gerrymandering. Melanie Conklin writes that GOP has bill to reallocate Wisconsin’s electoral votes by congressional district: And that is what a new bill authored by Rep. Gary Tauchen (R-Bonduel) would do. It…
Gerrymandering, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trumpism, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Probable Wisconsin Political Issues for 2021
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Although one can confidently doubt that ‘everything changes’ after the pandemic, there are in any year prominent political issues. Some are national, some statewide, some local. One can guess correctly that the new year will entertain at least three notable statewide issues, each summarized below. These are statewide issues that will reach deep into every…
Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering
Fair Maps
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
I am proud to stand with @GovEvers tonight as he calls for non-partisan redistricting in Wisconsin. In 2011 Republicans drew some of the worst gerrymanders in the country. It’s time to change that and make things fair. It’s time to give power back to the people-where it belongs. https://t.co/34jB9j04yZ — Eric Holder (@EricHolder) January 23,…
Candidate Fitzgerald, Congress, Gerrymandering, Law
Candidate Fitzgerald: On Guns
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
It’s often the case that bad goes to worse, and that’s true for the WISGOP. The Fifth Congressional District, now represented by Thurston Howell III F. James Sensenbrenner, a gerrymandered, septuagenarian multi-millionaire who votes with Trump almost all the time, may have a new and worse Republican congressman. State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, who in 2016…
CDA, City, Congress, Corporate Welfare, Free Markets, Gerrymandering, Government Spending, Local Government, Never Trump, Politics, Republicans, State Capitalism, That Which Paved the Way
F. James Sensenbrenner Heads for the Exit
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
One reads that F. James Sensenbrenner, the pro-Trump septuagenarian multimillionaire congressman from a gerrymandered district that stretches all the way down to Whitewater, is retiring when his current term ends. Consigned to the minority forever must look unappealing. How time flies! It was not long ago that then-chairman of the Whitewater Community Development Authority was scampering…
Elections, Gerrymandering, Scott Walker, Speaker Vos, State Government, Wisconsin
The Gerrymander Kings
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Many of former Gov. Walker’s legislative victories depended on gerrymandering, and Speaker Robin Vos would not be the speaker today without a wildly gerrymandered state. Say what one wants about those men, they’re staying true to their shared dance partner: Walker has joined a GOP group that favors gerrymandered redistricting, and Vos refuses to answer…