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All I want for Christmas Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is Fair Maps for Wisconsin. I know a lot of people want this too because 58 of our 72 counties have passed resolutions supporting Fair Maps, and over 70% of Wisconsinites support them as well. Right here in Jefferson County we recently passed a resolution supporting Fair Maps, 58% to 41%. Our legislators wouldn’t even have to figure out how to do this fairly because our neighbors in Iowa have been doing it for 40 years. The Iowa Republicans have managed to win most elections by convincing voters that they have the best ideas!

2,000 Object to Redistricting Proposal 272 pages of comments compiled by Fair Maps Coalition oppose state Supreme Court drawing legislative districts. //end headline wrapper ?> Assembly Districts Almost 2,000 additional comments opposing a proposal to give the Wisconsin Supreme Court power to draw state redistricting maps were made public in the days following the Nov. 30 comment deadline. Negative comments came from representatives of Gov. Tony Evers; a group of nine law professors; three election scholars; two former state senators; and 1,932 various Wisconsin residents – the last in a...

Workers at Wisconsin Voices say they were fired to shut down unionization. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Wisconsin Voices workers at a Fair Maps fundraiser earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Voices Workers. When workers at Wisconsin Voices told the progressive organizing and fundraising group that they had formed a staff union, they hoped the group’s leaders would accept their choice. Wisconsin Voices has for years partnered with dozens of like-minded grass-roots activist groups involved in voter registration, racial justice...