The elongated 69th Assembly District includes from northeast to southwest, portion of Marathon County (purple box), Wood County (green box), Clark County (orange box), and Jackson County (red box.) Compactness? Communities of interests? Fuggedaboudit! sez GOP gerrymanderers.
The monstrously ultra-conservative lockstep conservative Donna Rozar (R-Marshfield) has represented the district since January 2021.
10/6/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote, the City of Eau Claire edition. (Part 2)
The 68th Assembly District includes portions of Chippewa (orange box), Eau Claire (green box), and Clark counties (red box), with Clark taking up the largest chunk of area.
It bears repeating. With a population of 104,000, Eau Claire County has enough residents to fill nearly two Assembly districts. It doesn't deserve to be sliced and diced as has happened with this latest round of GOP gerrymandering.
The aptly named Jesse James (R-Altoona) has represented the district since January 2019.
10/5/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote, the City of Eau Claire edition.
The 67th Assembly District includes portions of Dunn, Eau Claire, and Chippewa counties, with Chippewa taking up the largest chunk of area.
With a population of 104,000, Eau Claire County has enough residents to fill nearly two Assembly districts. If anything, the cities of Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls should be included in the same district as communities of interest.
The invisible Rob Summerfield (R-Bloomer) has represented the district since January 2017.
10/4/2022 update starts here
With 138,000 Racine County residents -- 70% of its total population -- living east of the I (Interstate 94), an Exact-O knife is not necessary to create legislative districts. (That island of land to the northwest is the Johnson Park Golf Course and Disc Golf Course, operated by the City of Racine.)
Greta Neubauer (D-Racine) was first elected to the Assembly in a January 2018 special election.
10/3/2022 update starts here
With a population of just under 100,000, the City of Kenosha has enough residents for 1 Assembly district all its own, as shown here, and two-thirds of another.
Tod Ohnstad (D-Kenosha) has represented the district since January 2013.
10/2/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote, part 4. Assembly districts 61 (9/28/2022) and 64 were drawn to isolate most of the City of Kenosha. What's worse here is that the GOP added a gerrymandered portion of Racine County (orange box) to the mix. The orange line shows the north-south route of Interstate 94.
Tip McGuire (D-Kenosha) has represented the district since winning a special election in April 2019.
10/1/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote, part 3. Most of the district is located west of the I, even though most of Racine County's residents lives east of the I. (See paragraph 2 in 9/29/2022 entry. The orange line show the north-south route of I-94.)
9/29/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote, part 2. More of what we saw in Kenosha County (see below).
Most Racine County residents live east of the I (Interstate 94). The combined population of the City of Racine and villages of Caledonia, Elmwood Park, Mount Pleasant, North Bay, Sturtevant, and Wind Point is 138,000, which is 70% of the Racine County total of 196,000. In other words, the area east of the I is large enough to accommodate more than 2 Assembly districts. Yet again, the GOP chose to configure a district that allows the more conservative west of the I portion of the county to wag the dog.
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9/28/2022 update starts here
Diluting the urban vote.
Most Kenosha County residents live east of the I (Interstate 94). The combined population of the City of Kenosha, Village of Somers, Town of Somers, and Village of Pleasant Prairie is 131,500, which is 78% of the Kenosha County total of 170,000 . In other words, the area east of the I is large enough to accommodate more than 2 Assembly districts. Yet the GOP chose to configure a district that allows the more conservative west of the I portion of the county to wag the dog.
District 61 is currently vacant. The previous representative, Samantha Kerkman, a Republican, now serves as Kenosha County executive, a position to which she was elected in April 2022.
9/27/2022 update starts here
Why not a consolidated Ozaukee County district, one that better respects communities of interest? The district is split between Washington County (red box and highlight) and Ozaukee County (orange box and highlight.
The cretinous Robert Brooks (R-Saukville) has represented the district since January 2015.
The clock must have run out for the GOP gerrymanderers.
Another Hocus Focus funny pages entry. (It's the gerrymandering games the GOP plays.)
