Robin Vos Throws Redistricting Hail Mary Pass

Following the timeline set forth by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when they ruled the current maps to be illegal, seven different redistricting maps were submitted to the court a couple of weeks ago and are currently being analyzed by their designated independent specialists.

In the meantime, Speaker Robin Vos and his Republicans have been losing their ever-loving minds. In a last ditch effort to bypass the state supreme court, they attempted to do a Hail Mary to keep their supermajorities in both houses. In other words, they took a map loosely based on a map submitted by Governor Evers a couple of years ago and tweaked it just enough to avoid any Republican incumbents from having to run against each other. They rammed these maps through both houses, without any input from the Democrats or from the public, and submitted them to Evers. Evers said that this blatant attempt to maintained their gerrymandered supermajorities were dead before they get to his desk:

Assembly Republicans voted Wednesday to send a set of legislative maps to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' desk that they argue make "minuscule" changes to his own proposal, with the intent of avoiding pitting GOP incumbents against each other.

Evers has pledged to reject them.

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