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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee is a new group that advocates redistricting reform and supports Democratic candidates for state and federal offices throughout the country. In its first six months of outside spending on Wisconsin legislative and statewide elections, three of the four candidates backed by the committee won their races.
The committee also took Republican Gov. Scott Walker to court to successfully force special elections in June. In one of those races, a Democrat captured northeastern Wisconsins 1st Senate District for the first time since the 1970s.
The Washington, D.C. groups game plan for redistricting reform is to help elect Democratic candidates around the country ahead of the 2020 U.S. Census. The 10-year Census results are used by state and local officials to redraw legislative and congressional boundaries based on population changes. The groups website says it is building a targeted, state-by-state strategy that ensures Democrats can fight back and produce fairer maps in the 2021 redistricting process.
Wisconsin is one of 12 states the group has targeted in the 2018 elections to defeat Walkers reelection effort and help flip the state Senate, which is currently held by an 18-15 Republican majority. This is a critical election year for redistricting because it is the first cycle where the officials elected will serve during the redistricting process in 2021, the group says on its website.
In Wisconsin, the committee operates as an unregistered independent expenditure committee, which means it has to file election spending reports, but it does not have to disclose its contributors. So far, the committee has spent $225,000 on electioneering in Wisconsin during the first six months of 2018. That includes $165,000 to support Rebecca Dallets election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April and another $60,000 in three legislative special elections. All of the groups election spending was for online advertising.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/07/03/campaign-cash-national-democratic-group-impacts-state/
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(295,912 posts)give UP. They Keep Fighting FOR US! Eric Holder!
".. That includes $165,000 to support Rebecca Dallets election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April and another $60,000 in three legislative special elections. All of the groups election spending was for online advertising."
Thank You, RSF
democrank
(11,052 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)Unfortunately I just unsubscribed from their emails. I was getting three to four emails a day from people I don't know and whose names meant nothing to me with subject lines that made me think they were phishing attempts. When I had time to check them out, they were from NDRC but my policy is if I don't know the senders and there is no organization mentioned in the subject line, I delete the email.
Between the amount and the annoyance of checking these emails out, I have run out of patience for receiving NDRC's emails. I did tell them this when I unsubscribed, so maybe they will improve their email policy.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)great service to the state and our country, kudos to the NDRC.
a kennedy
(29,464 posts)well, that and the Dems taking back the House AND Senate are also included in that dream. I might just think of moving back to my birth State.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Very important work they are doing.