{"id":8696,"date":"2024-01-30T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2024-01-30T20:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:56:45","slug":"governor-evers-vetoes-legislative-maps-that-were-99-of-his-own-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8696","title":{"rendered":"Governor Evers Vetoes Legislative Maps That Were 99% of His Own Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-vetoes-legislative-maps\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-vetoes-legislative-maps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/redistricting-maps.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Evers Vetoes Legislative Maps evers redistricting\" title=\"Evers Vetoes Legislative Maps\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 As expected, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the political maps that he mostly drew.<\/p>\n<p>Evers on Tuesday said he scuttled the so-called 99% maps because they were too favorable to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese maps are more the same. Republicans passed maps to help make sure Republican-gerrymandered incumbents get to keep their seats. Folks, that&#8217;s just more gerrymandering,\u201d Evers said. \u201cAllowing politicians to move district lines so that their party can retain political power doesn&#8217;t help root out gerrymandering from our democracy, it further entrenches it. And that&#8217;s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The maps the governor drew moved dozens of incumbent Republicans into new districts. Republicans moved some of those lawmakers back but largely left the governor\u2019s maps unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Evers has denied he gerrymandered Wisconsin with his maps that would give Democrats control over the state legislature. Instead, he calls them fair maps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never been more hopeful that when Wisconsinites head to the ballot box later this year, they&#8217;ll be voting under legislative maps that finally reflect the people of the state,\u201d Evers explained. \u201cWisconsin voters don&#8217;t want Republican or Democrat maps because Wisconsin isn&#8217;t a red state, or blue state, or purple state. And our map should reflect that basic fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans weren\u2019t surprised by Evers\u2019 veto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis just proves that the governor is counting on the $10 million purchase of our Wisconsin State Supreme Court to unconstitutionally draw completely slanted maps to give a desired outcome,\u201d Rep Barb Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, said on social media Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Evers just vetoed a \u2018Fair Map\u2019 he claimed he wanted,\u201d Wisconsin Republican Party boss Brian Schimming said in a statement. \u201cWhat he really wants is obvious: to have the legislative map decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that his party just bought and paid for. It\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-vetoes-legislative-maps\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 As expected, Wisconsin Gov. Tony&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":8513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}