Wisconsin Republicans want to use the state of Iowa’s way of drawing districts for state representatives.
The State Assembly passed a redistricting reform plan that gives nonpartisan staff the task of drawing maps instead of lawmakers.
Manitowoc County’s State Assemblyman, Paul Tittl, says the state would form a commission with state leaders picking four people.
He explained that the process would start with the people would then picking a commissioner.
Then, “The Legislative Reference Bureau would draw the maps, present them to that commission, then they would be voted on by the legislature.”
Tittl says he believes this will work because Democrats have held the 2010 Republican maps in court because of gerrymandering.
He says it was time to take politics out of it.
Democrats have said the move by Republicans is a way to get around the new Wisconsin Supreme Court throwing out the old maps.
Republicans have also said they would move to impeach new Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she didn’t recuse herself from the maps case because she said they were rigged during her time running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
