The ridiculously shaped former 37th was drawn to "crack" off a chunk of Dane County. Redistricting in 2024 completely changed its boundaries, which required carpetbagger Born to abandon the 39th, which he had represented since 2013.
By the way, Born looks nothing like the photo that accompanies the Dodge Daily article.
Born’s public service career began on the Beaver Dam Common Council from 2005 to 2009. He was first elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2012, representing the 39th District, then later the 37th District following redistricting. He was previously employed by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department.
Born has become a key Republican leader, serving since 2021 as Assembly co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, one of the state’s most influential panels.
Mark Born has had an easy time of it no matter which district he ran in. He was unopposed in 2022.
Related reading:
Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018
Malia Jones explains:
Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.
Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering.
Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party.
Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive.
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