Rolling Stone Article: Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds.

“Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature cannot be budged. Not by the governor. Not by the people. Not by vigilantes in the streets. Not by the Milwaukee Bucks. Wisconsin’s brutally gerrymandered state legislative maps — by almost every standard, the nation’s most biased — guarantee that they can’t even be budged at the ballot box. And so they remain an immovable and unaccountable force.

This is the very real damage to representative democracy done by gerrymandering. It’s hardly the first example here in Wisconsin, where citizens have so little control over their own representatives you can scarcely call it a democracy at all.”

Read Full Article in Rolling Stone.

We can end gerrymandering in WI and keep our representatives accountable to their constituents. For more information and to get involved, visit Western WI for Nonpartisan Voting Districts.

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