The previous GOP gerrymandering of the 81st packed the City of Wisconsin Dells and cracked three townships in northwest Dane County.
The redistricted 81st encompases northwest Dane County, including the City of Middleton and the Village of Waunakee.
Roberta Baumann reports:
As state Rep. Alex Joers announces a run for a third term representing the 81st Assembly District, he’s proud of what he’s been able to accomplish. But the Democrat from Waunakee also regrets how difficult working with the Republican majority in the Legislature has been, he said. Alex Joers Joers
The Tribune Enterprise interviewed Joers about his last three and half years in office and what he hopes for in the next term as he prepares for the November election.
As a member of the minority party, he said working with majority members to pass legislation is essential.
“And it can be difficult to find Republican legislators that are willing to even talk to me. A lot of them have been in the majority for so long that they feel like they don't need to talk to any kind of Democratic legislator,”
Joers ran unopposed in this heavily Democratic district in 2024 and, prior to redistricting, represented the 79th during the 2003-2005 legislative term.
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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