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Tuesday, Jul 6 2021
Catching up on some news from before the holiday weekend: a competitive Democratic primary is shaping up for an open Iowa Senate seat covering part of Cedar Rapids. Four-term State Representative Liz Bennett confirmed on June 30 that she will run for the district that State Senator Rob Hogg has represented since 2007. Hogg won’t seek re-election in 2022, he announced last month. Iowa has yet to adopt a new political map, but this district will cover some part of the city of Cedar Rapids.
Bennett is the ranking Democrat on the Iowa House Economic Growth Committee and a member of the Human Resources, Natural Resources, and Information Technology committees, as well as the Transportation, Infrastructure and Capitals Appropriations subcommittee. Having won four previous state legislative races, she will be the early favorite in the Iowa Senate primary.
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With the Census process wrapping up, attention is now focused on political redistricting. Soon state officials and commissions across the country will determine how districts for U.S. House seats and â perhaps more importantly â state Legislative seats will be drawn.
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Ten years ago, here in Wisconsin, the Republican-controlled state Legislature convened with lawyers behind closed doors to draw up the current legislative seats. The Wisconsin Assembly has been predominantly Republican for some time, but the state Senate from time to time switched hands between the parties, making the political process a true contest. That ended with the 2011 GOP-drawn map.
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