InfluenceWatch Podcast #351: Michigan’s Redistricting Commission Chaos

Big Philanthropy and the so-called “good government” groups that it funds have a “solution” (I’m making air-quotes) to partisan gerrymandering: The “independent redistricting commission.” With funding from left-of-center groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the National Redistricting Action Fund, the SEIU, the NEA, and the Quadrivium Foundation, a supposed political neophyte named Katie Fahey (whom media reports placed at Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Election Night event) campaigned to establish one in Michigan during the 2018 election. Fahey won, and then 13 citizens went about drawing Michigan’s congressional and state legislative districts after the 2020 Census. Joining my Michigan-based colleague Ken Braun and I to discuss her experiences inside Michigan’s redistricting commission is Rebecca Szetela, who served as the Commission Chair from September 2021 through March 2022.
Listen to “Episode 351: Michigan’s Redistricting Commission Chaos” on Spreaker.

• Capital Research Center: Michigan’s Racist Redistricting Reform
• Ohio Capital Journal: Michigan independent redistricting commission members on opposite sides of Ohio Issue 1
• InfluenceWatch: Voters not Politicians
• Capital Research Center: The Coming Commissions