{"id":5654,"date":"2023-09-15T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:07:38","slug":"legislative-maps-in-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Maps in WI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/legislative-maps-in-wi\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/legislative-maps-in-wi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s current legislative maps have two lawsuits against them pending before our state supreme court. Adding to the map intrigue, this week several Republicans introduced a bill they claim is a completely nonpartisan way to redraw the maps. The bill is modeled after what Iowa has done for years. Under the bill, Republicans and Democrats have equal representation on a board that reviews every legislative district drawn by the non-partisan Legislative Reference Bureau. Maps will be drawn to keep communities together without regard to current representation or historical voting patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative maps really do matter, and our constitution requires the legislature approve new maps. If this is truly a nonpartisan approach, which it appears to be, this is a great opportunity for the legislature to settle the map matter and keep the supreme court out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/legislative-maps-in-wi\/ Wisconsin\u2019s current legislative maps have two lawsuits against them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}