Thread by @benwikler

🧵 In 50-50 Wisconsin, the GOP has so gerrymandered the Assembly maps that it needs to flip just 5 of the 99 seats to win a supermajority.

But redistricting made one R seat a toss-up: WI’s 84th. The great LuAnn Bird @LuAnnBird84 is ready to win. Help her: secure.actblue.com/donate/luann-b…

@LuAnnBird84 There are Democratic seats in the Wisconsin Assembly that, due to redistricting, will now be extremely hard to win. But the 84th went in the other direction. In 2020, it was Biden 43.8% to Trump’s 54.6%. But in the newly-drawn district, Biden got 51.1%. It could go blue in '22!

The chance of GOP supermajorities in both chambers of our state legislature is frighteningly real. It’s the explicit goal of the GOP. And if the GOP achieves this goal, it can crush voting rights by overriding Gov. Evers’s veto.
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If we can help LuAnn Bird flip this district, the chances that we succeed in preventing a GOP supermajority absolutely skyrocket.

We can do it. First, meet LuAnn Bird:
luannbird.com

32 years ago, LuAnn Bird’s husband—a Vietnam vet—was paralyzed in a construction accident. LuAnn learned first-hand that a person in a wheelchair couldn’t get into several public schools. So she ran for school board, won, passed referenda—and made sure schools were accessible.

LuAnn’s like that: when she sees something wrong, she does something about it. When her neighborhood’s septic systems were failing, she got appointed to the sanitary district commission and got a sewer system installed.

And when she served as Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, she led the @LWV_WI to stand up against the NRA on gun safety legislation—and won.

LuAnn doesn’t back down from a fight.

Now, she’s running to help protect democracy in Wisconsin. We’re in a tight spot in our state. And she’s exactly who we want in our corner.

What about her opponent? Meet Bob Donovan, who unsuccessfully ran for Milwaukee Mayor this spring, admitted he didn’t even live in Milwaukee and was endorsed by ultra-MAGA friends like #RadicalRebecca Kleefisch.

Bob Donovan became a little internet famous because of an encounter with a clown this March.

After being confronted by the clown provocateur, Bob Donovan got into a physical altercation.
urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/03/22/bob…

In 2020, Donovan encouraged Milwaukee residents to “either consider moving or buying a gun.”

Not exactly a problem-solving approach.
facebook.com/aldermanbobdon…

Donovan has kept his campaign website pretty bare, but it wasn’t always that way.

It used to include the fact that he’s committed to enforcing the 1849 abortion ban. He might’ve scrubbed it from his website, but we know what his real stance would be if elected.

Winning the 84th Assembly District won’t be easy. But the choice couldn’t be clearer. And LuAnn Bird is running a campaign that is full of hope, optimism, and inspiration.

https://twitter.com/DanRShafer/status/1583299939542528005

Let’s do this.
Let’s send LuAnn Bird to the Assembly.
She’s a community leader with a track record of doing the right thing. Bob Donovan is anything but.

Chip in now: secure.actblue.com/donate/luann-b…