The featured speaker at Monday s Democratic luncheon will be Sondra Cosgrove, PhD, professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada, former president of the League of Women Voters of Nevada, and founder and executive director of both Fair Maps Nevada and Vote Nevada.
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March 4, 2021
The first three words of the U.S. Constitution are We the People, while the words political party are absent in the document. Yet, by 1812, elected officials were actively shifting power from the people to the political parties through redistricting. And since 1812, every ten years, the parties continue to decide which voters will matter through the people s maps. Enough. It is long past time to tap into our constitutional roots and to recenter the people in our governing processes. This should not be a controversial idea in an election cycle filled with calls to make every vote matter and every voice heard; chants in favor of redistricting reform should not be conspicuously silent when gerrymandering suppresses the voices of voters, too.