Op-ed: State Forced Districting Seeks To Further Divide Iowans

Op-ed: State Forced Districting Seeks To Further Divide Iowans

Over the past two weeks, Senate File 75, a bill exclusively and explicitly targeting counties with regent universities (Black Hawk, Johnson and Story), requires county supervisors to serve districts instead of our community at-large, has been passed on a party-line vote by both chambers of the Iowa Legislature. This bill is not only misguided; it’s a blatant attempt at political gerrymandering & an assault on the good-governance that used to def…