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Democrats and democracy advocates in Wisconsin are divided over what Gov. Tony Evers should do now that Republicans in the Legislature have approved the exact voting maps Evers advocated. Evers has until Tuesday to sign or veto the maps.
If he signs them, as he said he would if the Legislature really gave him his own, unaltered plan, the redistricting case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be over.
That’s great news, according to Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, among other fair maps advocates who issued ecstatic press releases celebrating the end of Wisconsin’s worst-in-the-nation partisan gerrymander and urging Evers to sign the new maps.
But in the Legislature, Democrats overwhelmingly refused to join the party. As Baylor Spears reported, only a single Democrat in each chamber voted for the Republicans’ hasty effort to ratify Evers’ redistricting plan.
The Dems are certain that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, like Voldemort, is only pretending to be defeated and that accepting fair maps is just part of his devious plot to rise again.