Nov. 18, 2021
Wisconsin Conservation Voices thanks Gov. Tony Evers for vetoing gerrymandered maps
MADISON – Wisconsin Conservation Voices offers Gov. Tony Evers its profound gratitude for his veto today of the gerrymandered district maps the legislature passed last week.
Executive Director Kerry Schumann had this to say about the veto:
“For a decade Wisconsin has suffered under some of the most egregious gerrymandering in the U.S. We thank Gov. Evers for standing up for our freedom to vote and rejecting this attempt to manipulate our elections for another decade through unfair districts designed to consolidate power rather than honor the will of Wisconsinites.
Wisconsinites in both urban and rural areas face a myriad of threats to their drinking water. Gerrymandered elected legislators have stopped any meaningful attempts to protect our families and communities from poisonous water. The examples are seemingly endless: polluted water, dirty air, fair elections, rampant spending on behalf of polluting corporations, even protecting babies from lead poisoning. Despite broad support statewide for protecting one another from these harms because they don’t have to. They have zero accountability to voters under the gerrymander.
We can only address these fundamental issues with fair maps and competitive districts.
Gov. Evers understands this and has committed to fair maps that allow all of us, and I mean all of us, to choose those who represent our values as individuals and communities – not someone hand picked by power-hungry politicians who don’t give a hoot about our very real and very serious concerns.
We thank Gov. Evers for vetoing these rigged, gerrymandered, anti-democratic maps concocted by radical partisans and for prioritizing the needs and will of the people, not corporate polluters.”
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CONTACT: Ryan Billingham, Communications Director, Wisconsin Conservation Voters, 608-208-1129 (office), 608-213-6972 (mobile/text), or ryan@conservationvoters.org