Thursday, May 23, 2019

'Slay the Dragon' examines the campaign to eliminate gerrymandering in Michigan


Happy Throwback Thursday!  After I wrote "I'm almost done with this series.  Next week I plan on looking at the top posts on social media followed by a combination of the back catalog and holidays" at the end of Watch reports on the 2019 March for Science from Green Bay and Sacramento, an update to the March for Science for the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I found out that I had skipped a top 40 entry, Michigan Supreme Court allows anti-gerrymandering proposal to remain on ballot.  Oops.*  I'll have to delay those last two entries until tomorrow and next Thursday, respectively, while I give Voters Not Politicians their turn in the spotlight.

Speaking of which, Voters Not Politicians and their campaign to eliminate gerrymandering are the subjects of a documentary that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, "Slay the Dragon."  Both director Barak Goodman and star Katie Fahey promoted the film in The Fight Against Partisan Gerrymandering | All In | MSNBC with Ali Velshi guest-hosting.

Michigan has become the latest state to strike down unfairly drawn voting districts. The tide may finally be turning -- but the Supreme Court could get in the way.
Goodman showed up with his co-director Chris Durrance appeared on CBS News in "Slay the Dragon" explores gerrymandering and its impact on the American electoral process.

The Supreme Court is set to rule this term on whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, and a new film, "Slay the Dragon," takes a look at how districts are drawn. Directors Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance join "Red and Blue" to discuss their documentary, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
At this point, I would normally embed the trailer, but it's a private link on Vimeo so I can't.  Axios managed the trick, so my readers can watch it there.  In the meantime, here's to hoping it earns a nomination for Best Political Documentary at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards this fall. 

Follow over the jump for the story of how Michigan Supreme Court allows anti-gerrymandering proposal to remain on ballot earned its page views.


Michigan Supreme Court allows anti-gerrymandering proposal to remain on ballot from August 2, 2018 was the 35 most read entry posted during the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News and the 36th most read overall with 2200 raw page views.  It was also the sixth most read entry posted during August 2018 with 2076 default page views and tied for most likes on Twitter that month with 5.  It earned its page views by being shared at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page.

*Double oops, as I probably should have included it in CBC News updates proportional representation, topic of the second most read posts of the seventh and eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, plus voting machines as an election reform post.  Still, I thought at the time that gerrymandering reform deserved its own post with its own update, since the original was about minor parties as well.  Well, it got one.

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