Democrats Planning Effort to Take Back State Legislatures

[Bojack Horseman]

The way it will happen is the same way we can expel the extremists from Congress: redistricting reform. I say we pound the pavement and use the direct democratic process, as we did in Florida in 2010 with Amendments 5 & 6, to pass independent redistricting panels all across the country. Here in Michigan, Republicans have gerrymandered their way to an impenetrable majority that cannot and would not stand if there was a level playing field in redistricting. Same for Pennsylvania, North Carolina, formerly Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, and possibly even Texas. This would put many state legislative chambers into play in states like Montana, Missouri, heck, even North Dakota. It's going to start on the ground, and I think we need to get a concerted effort, a nationwide anti-gerrymandering movement started, just like the term limits movement did back in the early 90's.