First, I want to start by thanking the DailyKos community, as well as bloggers around the country that have joined us to fight back against Governor Walker's assault on middle-class families, our shared values and our democracy. Bloggers have been the tip of the spear in the battle to bring openness and transparency to this fight and with my first entry today, I look forward to working with you through 2012 and beyond.
I'm writing to you today because rather than working together to create jobs for middle-class families, Governor Walker's rubberstamps in the state legislature are holding a "hearing" on their plan to protect their own jobs through redistricting.
They've already spent $300,000 of taxpayer money to secretly draw up these maps with partisan lawyers and they've written themselves a blank check to spend millions more while at the same time denying concerned constituents access to legal funds and technology.
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