From the Green Bay Press Gazette

Under Barrett’s plan, lawmakers would be forced to agree on a map that would feature districts with a more equal number of Democrat and Republican voters or risk the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board taking the process out of their hands.

However, such a plan would require the approval of the very lawmakers who would be most affected by the process, which Barrett knows will be difficult.

“What it’s going to take is pressure from the public and people saying, ‘Look, we want to have this process a more representative process,'” the Milwaukee mayor said Monday during a stop at the Brown County Courthouse in Green Bay. “And I think people, whether at the state level or at the federal level, they don’t want gridlock. They don’t want partisanship. They want people who are going to work together.”

Read the rest