The previous GOP gerrymandering of the 53rd Assembly District served to pack the City of Oshkosh. The new map consolidates the Neenah/ Menasha communities of interest.
Neenah’s Wisconsin State Representative Dean Kaufert announced his retirement Monday, saying he won’t seek reelection after nearly four decades of public service, from the city council to state government.
Kaufert said he didn’t make the decision lightly but cited his family and health concerns as reasons for his decision. “After a great deal of thought and reflection, there comes a time when you simply know it is time,” he wrote. “Representing the Fox Valley has been an honor and a privilege.
Kaufert’s career in public service spans 38 years:
- Neenah alderman, 1985-1991
- State Assembly (55th District), 1991-2014
- Neenah mayor, 2014-2022
- State Assembly (53rd District), 2024-today
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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