Governor Tony Evers has fulfilled his promise and vetoed a set of legislative maps submitted by the Republican lawmakers.
After concerns were brought forth about how the political maps were drawn, Gov. Evers gave a proposal to the Supreme Court, but it is the legislator’s job to draw those maps and the governor’s job to approve them.
So, the lawmakers got to work and resubmitted maps, which Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu tells Seehafer News were “99% identical to the one (Evers) proposed.”
The Senator from Oostburg went on to explain that the changes that were made would have “disenfranchised fewer Wisconsinites than the Governor’s submission and would have undone a small handful of the Governor’s most egregious incumbent gerrymanders.”
He went on to call the Governor out on perceived hypocrisy, saying, “Governor Evers speaks of compromise but governs as an extreme partisan.”
LeMahieu closed his statement by saying, “The Governor could have taken yes for an answer and gotten more than 99% of what he wanted. Instead he vetoed his own maps because he is confident that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will trample the constitutional authority of the legislature.”
