Can Wisconsin end extreme gerrymandering? A conversation with Eric Holder



Session sponsored by UBS — The Burish Group

Moderator: Jessie Opoien, Cap Times
Panelist: Eric Holder

Eric Holder, former attorney general and chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, talks with Cap Times opinion editor Jessie Opoien about prospects for gerrymander reform in Wisconsin. Our state has some of the nation’s most partisan pro-Republican political borders in the nation. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is creating a nonpartisan redistricting commission, which Republicans adamantly oppose. Holder will also talk about election security and this time of racial reckoning.

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