Posted on 02/10/2018 7:54:51 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Following a Democrat’s special election win in a Wisconsin Senate district that voted for President Donald Trump, a group backed by former President Barack Obama said it plans to invest millions of dollars into state-wide elections in Wisconsin and 10 other states.
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, said this year’s election cycle is critical to affecting the congressional redistricting process. It is the first cycle whose winners will participate in drawing congressional maps for the decade starting in 2021.
The committee backed Democrat Patty Schachtner in last month’s election in the 10th Senate District, which the group noted in its goals of “flipping the governor’s seat and the state Senate.”
Schachtner defeated state Rep. Adam Jarchow, R-Balsam Lake, in the longtime conservative district. Republican Sheila Harsdorf held the seat for 16 years before resigning in November to become Gov. Scott Walker’s agriculture secretary.
The state-focused push comes amid bipartisan national concern that political gerrymandering, the process of drawing maps that benefit one party over another, has led to partisanship, gridlock and incivility in Washington.
“In 2011, Republicans created gerrymandered districts that locked themselves into power and shut out voters from the electoral process,” Holder said in announcing the group’s electoral targets on Wednesday. “By focusing on these state and local races, we can ensure Democrats who will fight for fairness have a seat at the table when new maps are drawn in 2021.”
The group is also targeting gubernatorial races in Wisconsin — where Republican Gov. Scott Walker is seeking a third term — and eight other states, along with 18 legislative chambers, two ballot initiatives and two down-ballot races. Eight more states are on the committee’s watch list.
In Ohio, a perennial political battleground and the group’s main focus, the committee plans to support Democrats for five offices — governor, auditor, secretary of state, Ohio Senate and Ohio House — as well as pushing a redistricting ballot measure.
Other target races include:
Colorado: governor, state Senate Florida: governor, state Senate Georgia: governor, state Senate Michigan: governor, state Senate, state House, ballot initiative Minnesota: governor, state Senate, state House Nevada: governor, state Senate, state House North Carolina: state Senate, state House Pennsylvania: governor, state Senate, state House Texas: state Senate, state House
The group also participated in the Virginia House last year, and has targeted both its House and Senate in 2019.
On its watch list are ballot initiatives in Arizona, Missouri, South Dakota and Utah; the governor’s and state Senate races in Maine; and the governor’s, state Senate and state House races in New Hampshire.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, also has been championing redistricting reforms, including working with fellow Republican, movie star and ex-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminate Gerrymandering Crowdpac.
Ohio lawmakers sent a bipartisan redistricting compromise to the statewide May ballot in a vote this week.
With Hussein’s track record for picking candidates it should be a cake walk for the “pubbie,s”, just sayin”.
All of the missing money during the Obama administration. Done by deep state design. People need to be in prison.
They are also using the money to move people into certain areas they believe they can turn into liberal areas. America under attack by the enemy within.
Wisconsin Republican voters (as those in other states) better get off their hands and get to the polls. The Dems are on the attack to socialize the USA and take away your freedoms. Can’t ignore these elections - they’re way too important.
It took four posts, for me to get to this MOST important question/solution.
Where the heck is the money bagged RNC? We keep hearing about all of the $$$ in the RNC coffers.....where is the defense plan, to counter these leftist 'target' groups??
Why is that guy still alive? I’m amazed that he is still crawling out from under one rock or another.
“...and by summer time working Americans are finally going to be taking family vacations...”
Come to Wisconsin! It’s a great place to vacation! :)
The DNC is in debt, the RNC (*SPIT*) has tons of cash. PDJT has, ‘We The People’ - his secret weapon! :)
What is END?
Sorry - the good/sad side of my nomination is that nobody seems to do more than talk the game instead of actually suiting up....
Happy FReeping!
Not really. But you think I’m a never trumper from my previous post. Both mine and yours are fiction.
The Republicans are going to sit on their hands and lose the seats in order to allow an impeachment hearing to proceed and say they couldn’t do anything about it...becuase they just don’t have the votes any more.
I think we can tell what they think of justice by their actions. Like "Fast and Furious" and when Eric Holder met with the State's Attorney Generals and told them that they only had to uphold the laws they felt like upholding.
Morality to them is the essence of subjectivity. They are bound by nothing but their own will.
And, that is why they wanted Hillary for president. She would have continued Obama's lawlessness.
Lawlessness is the point at which the law is ignored.
I’ve been a Poll Worker in the past and I also ran subversive Socialist-thwarting plots behind Enemy Lines in, ‘The People’s Republic of Madistan’ for the past 30 years - until I couldn’t TAKE it anymore and moved to another county where life is SO MUCH saner, LOL! :)
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