Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 61. Sunrise is 6:40 and sunset is 4:36 for 9 hours 56 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1951, with the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
Ferris Bueller observed that “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” One sees this truth in the latest developments against Wisconsin’s gerrymandered congressional districts:
Democratic Gov.-elect David Crowley is pledging to sign into law new congressional boundaries if Democratic state lawmakers send him a new map.
Crowley made the comment less than a week after a midterm election that swept Democrats into every statewide office and into the majorities of both houses of the state Legislature. Now, Wisconsin Democrats will have a trifecta of power for the first time in 16 years.
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“Right now I’m focusing on putting the transition team in place to make sure that we’re going to be ready on day one and to deliver results for Wisconsinites all across the state of Wisconsin,” Crowley said in an [sic] Nov. 9 interview with WISN-TV. “But just to put a nail in the coffin when it comes to this, if the bill was to reach my desk, I will sign it.”
Crowley’s pledge to sign into law new congressional maps reverses a position he took in September 2025 when he told Fox 6 he would not “go forward with redistricting mid-cycle.’
Democratic leaders Sen. Dianne Hesselbein and Rep. Greta Neubauer told the Journal Sentinel in interviews last week they will consider a mid-decade redistricting effort.
See Colby Lamb, Molly Beck, and Jessie Opoien, Gov.-elect David Crowley pledges to sign a new congressional map, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 9, 2026.
There are, as a post at FREE WHITEWATER noted, Two Ways to End Wisconsin’s Last Gerrymandered Districts: “through action by the Wisconsin Supreme Court or legislative action by the incoming Democratic majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature.” See Two Ways to End Wisconsin’s Last Gerrymandered Districts. See also Bothfeld v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 2026AP1168 (Wis. argued Sept. 16, 2026) and Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 2026AP1008 (Wis. argued Sept. 16, 2026), and FREE WHITEWATER, Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Congressional Gerrymandering Arguments, September 17, 2026.
Legislative action could come far more quickly than a ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court against the state’s current congressional maps. (That is, if there should even be a judicial ruling — legislative action would almost certainly preclude judicial determination.)
It’s becoming more likely that legislative action will make Wisconsin’s congressional maps more equitable. The bigger point for all of us to draw from this is that Bueller was right — life does move pretty fast.
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