Judge Drawn Districts and Incumbents

Here's a map I threw together of what the judge proposed with the city and county incumbents marked. Note that the double dipping aldvervisors are brown circles with green star points.

Aside: I'm really enjoying this GIS stuff. It's a new direction in computing for me. Though, I would very much like to have a conversation with whoever designed the automatic label placement algorithm.

Here's the rundown:

* Theisen against Dorff
* Wery against Danzinger
* Ericson-- who was beat by Dorff last cycle-- is again handed an open district in this map

It's also worth noting that former Aldervisor and current Supervisor Vanderleest is put in the same district as Brunette and Danzinger. If Johnny wants back on the council it could be an doubly interesting race in the Judge proposed fighting 10th.

It may cleanly break the city up in to East vs West but it accomplishes the political goals favored by the naysayer too. In my view, it's a step back.

But the story is not yet over. The county board can still modify this. It'll be interesting to see if the county push for 29 districts resurfaces. If that doesn't happen, it'll be interesting to see if anyone on the council pushes for 12 districts after promising to do so for so long.