I will match donations up to $5,000 for Anti-Gerrymandering efforts in Kansas!

[ksactivism]

Hi all, I am new to DU (but have often read posts as a guest). My kids say I’m “technologically challenged” so I never took the time to set up an account (it was actually very easy)!

I’m not well connected in online communities, but am seeking support to fund anti-gerrymandering efforts in Kansas. As the title indicates, I will match up to $5000 (with weekly confirmation that I am actually donating), based on the progress bar in the ActBlue link.

I am an orthodontist in western KS, I am generally not much of an activist, but gerrymandering crosses an ideological line for me. In Kansas gerrymandering is becoming a real issue: the state legislature has grown more conservative and maintains a slim supermajority allowing an override of a veto. Maps will be drawn in the coming months by the redistricting committee (and I anticipate they will be manipulative), thus facing a veto from Gov. Laura Kelly (D). The GOP has already stated their plans to gerrymander the one remaining Kansas Democratic US Congresswoman out of her seat in suburban Kansas City

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Furthermore, the state legislature just passed a bill to effectively ban abortions in the state and have quite a brutal agenda lined up. The state isn’t as horribly conservative as many think, we just need equitable maps, and this mess can be cleaned up by 2022. If the maps fail to get out of the legislature, they will be handled by a non-partisan slate of federal judges, (which is considered a win) saving a US Congresswoman and the integrity of all 175 state legislative districts.

I will match donations to this non-profit up to $5,000. [link:https://www.fairmapsfund.org| I made them an ActBlue link and will donate weekly up to $5000:

link:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stopksgerrymandering]

[Lochloosa]

1. Welcome ksactivism and good on you.

[SheltieLover]

3. Welcome to DU!

And TY for your generous fund-matching offer!

You might want to email Omaha Steve. He does the Act Blue for this site!

Welcome home!

[niyad]

5. Welcome to our DU family, and thank you for this amazing pledge!

[demtenjeep]

6. fellow kansan

following this

[ksactivism]

7. Thank you!

You all are too friendly, I'm happy to officially be a member! And it's the least I could do, this is a process that truly needs to be non-partisan.

[LAS14]

8. I'm going to donat $50 in just a minute, but first I want to recommend...

...The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization started by Obama and Holder and currently run by Holder. The sole focus is to combat gerrymandering. THANK YOU ksactivism!!!!!

https://democraticredistricting.com/

[mountain grammy]

29. Yes. Been supporting this for a while.

[LAS14]

31. Thanks! nt

[MLAA]

9. Open up that wallet! I just made you pay 🙂

Good luck!

[ksactivism]

12. It is open!

Happy to help. Thank you

[Demsrule86]

10. Welcome and thank you.

[Omaha Steve]

11. HERE IS THE NEW DU LINK JUST FOR THIS!!!

Contribute here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforfairmaps

[Vivienne235729]

13. Welcome and thank you for your activism!

[Tommymac]

14. Donated a bit via DU link.

Will do a little more next week if reminded.

Thanks for starting this!

[ksactivism]

15. Thank You

Much appreciated, I will match! I'll try to redirect traffic to Omaha Steve's post:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforfairmaps

[uponit7771]

16. K&R,

[Shrek]

17. From a fellow Kansan, welcome

I have been here since 2002.

[Freedomofspeech]

18. That is so generous and wonderful!

Welcome to the DU family.❤✌

[ksactivism]

19. Happy to be here!

Thank you!

[Geechie]

20. Fair redistricting algorithm

[link:https://phys.org/news/2017-11-algorithm-combat-gerrymandering.html|]

We’ve had the means to do this for years,
but the political will is weak.

[greymattermom]

21. I lived in Kansas for 30 years.

When I moved there, Republican meant Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum. What ever happened to Kansas?

[ksactivism]

22. Brownback happened.

Those names slip through the cracks with new folks like Brownback and Kobach.

[erronis]

24. Bob Dole was a (r)epuglicon above all. He would be part of the current mob.

He showed a bit of humanity and empathy and was therefore pilloried. He was a player of the party just like McConnell.

I was in Kansas in the 60's/70's and the descent from a progressive, open-minded culture (D and R) into a divisive/hatred-fueled environment started then.

Puppeteers were already playing the left vs right back then. And they were mainly RW/conservative operatives who wanted to cause mayhem. They knew they couldn't win on reason or one-person, one-vote. Gotta deny voting, gotta suppress it.

[cp]

23. Bravo!

Welcome!

[octoberlib]

25. I was born and raised in Kansas . My grandpa was a Democratic state rep in the 60's

and my best friend growing up was Alf Landon's granddaughter, lol. Alf would be a Democrat today.

I currently live in NC , where we have our own problems with gerrymandering. Duke University published a paper stating that Democrats would have won back the General Assembly two years after Republicans took it over if it weren't for the extreme gerrymandering. It's the only way Republicans can stay in power.


Thanks for doing this and I will donate.

[scarletwoman]

26. Thank you for your activism!

You might want to cross-post this to the Kansas forum: https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1052

(Each state has its own forum on DU)

Anyway, welcome to DU!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Good luck with your anti-gerrymandering campaign and welcome to DU.

Good place to let off steam, review the latest news and chat with like-minded Democrats.

Sent a little your way to help the cause...... ........

[Hotler]

28. Roger that. nt

[mountain grammy]

30. I'm in.

[BlueWavePsych]

32. K&R

[ksactivism]

33. Switch to Omaha Steve's link!

Hi all, donors have been going back and forth using two links (the one from the original post and the link OS made). Attached is my match from Sunday on the $720 raised on the original post's link.

Let's try to use the Omaha Steve's DU specific link: [link:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforfairmaps |

My match: [link:https://imgur.com/a/PFLemNL|

Thank you for all the support!