Friday, March 22, 2019

GET ME REWRITE: Scott Walker joins group that fought to preserve gerrymandered congressional districts in Pennsylvania


What the PA GOP drew in 2011
Source:  Penn Live

On February 3, 2018, the Springfield News-Leader reported that the NRRT helped fund amicus briefs opposing legal challenges to district maps in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.[5]

They fought against this map, redrawn the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and lost.



Scott Walker to raise money for Republican redistricting group. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3/21/2019)
As fundraising chairman for the National Republican Redistricting Trust, Walker will serve in some ways as a counterpoint to Eric Holder, the former attorney general under President Barack Obama who has been active in Wisconsin politics since last year. Holder oversees the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Both groups say they want to ensure redistricting is fair after the 2020 census, but they're likely to differ on what qualifies as fair.

In other words, Scott Walker must think these districts, overruled and redrawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, are fair.

Source:  CBS News


Related posts:
Broken record: The WIGOP gerrymander messaging of power-mad Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.  (12/2/2018)
In a close vote, male-dominated Columbia County Board of Supervisors endorses gerrymandering of state and congressional legislative districts.  (1/22/2018)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 1.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 2.  (1/28/2017)
Wisconsin redistricting: Judges saw evidence, reached obvious conclusion, part 3.  (1/28/2017)
Transparency is not a word in Robin Vos's vocabulary.  (1/1/2019)

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