The previous GOP gerrymandering of the 69th cracked the City of Marshfield into two Assembly District. The new map -- the fair map -- does not include Marshfield, which is now wholly within the 86th.
The redistricted 69th includes all of Clark County and parts of western Marathon, southeast Taylor, and southeast Chippewa counties.
Lindsay Strom reports:
According to her press release, she has served this past term at the capitol as a member of the Joint Finance Committee as well as on the Speaker’s Task Force on Rulemaking.
“The people of the 69th District are practical, common-sense, and hard-working citizens of our state. I have been honored to represent them and look forward to representing them for another term. The 69th Assembly District is a rural area and I will continue to be a strong voice for the priorities of rural North Central Wisconsin," said Hurd.
The 69th Assembly District is located in one of the Trumpiest areas of Wisconsin, where Karen Hurd's politics fit like a glove.
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. [emphasis added]
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