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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Supreme Court to rule on entrenching political power By DAVID G. SAVAGE Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a closely watched challenge to partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and decide whether it is unconstitutional for party leaders to entrench themselves in power with carefully drawn electoral maps. The case of Gill vs. Whitford is to be heard in the fall,

and it could yield one of the most important rulings on political power in decades. Democrats maintain the GOP has used its control of state legislatures to give Republicans an unfair grip on power in the House of Representatives. For example, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan are closely contested, but 34 of their 48 representatives in the House are Republicans. Democrats do the same, but control fewer

states. Republican lawyers say their party’s advantage reflects the “reality of political geography.” They say Democratic voters are concentrated in the cities, giving the GOP a big edge elsewhere. But it is also true that statewide maps can be drawn in a way to give one party a clear advantage in most of the districts. After Republicans won big in the 2010 midterm elec-

tions, Wisconsin’s Republican leaders drew a statewide map that allowed the GOP to retain a super-majority in the state Assembly even in years when most of the voters cast ballots for Democrats. In 2012, Republicans won 48.6 percent of the two-party vote for Legislature, but still won 60 of the 99 seats in the Assembly. Several Democratic voters joined a lawsuit contending this partisan electoral map

violated their rights to an equal vote. Last year, a three-judge federal court broke new ground when it ruled the map was unconstitutional because its “motivating factor” was an “intent to entrench a political party in power.” By a 2-1 vote, the judges said the plan was an “unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.” In the past, the Supreme Court has struck down racial See POWER | Page A3

Cut fiber optic line disrupts phone service A cut fiber optic line disrupted telephone service across the state Monday, including several Allen County institutions. Affected were Allen County’s 911 dispatch center, Allen County Regional Hospital, Allen Community College and local AT&T customers. The outage occurred after a Southeast Kansas farmer cut into a cable Monday afternoon while digging up ground to make a pond, said Allen County

911 director Angela Murphy. The incident did not occur in Allen County, she said. The outage extended as far as Wichita and Salina. Service was restored about 2:25 a.m. today. While telephone service was unavailable to the hospital and community college, calls to Allen County’s 911 center were routed to dispatchers in Fort Scott. Pertinent information then was radioed to Allen County.

Allen Summer Youth Theatre musical begins Friday Be sure to get your boogie-woogie to the Allen Summer Youth Theatre’s production of “Jump ‘n’ Jive Juliet,” a big-band take on “Romeo and Juliet,” which pits the rivalrous families in a jitterbug faceoff in 1940s Venice Beach, Calif. A nosy cleaning woman, an oily lawyer, an escaped con — these are just a few of the ingredients that combine to make this hour-long musical bubble with ecstatic comedy. Sponsored by the Sleeper Family and Whitehead trusts and directed by Allen Community College theatre director Tony Piazza, the show runs Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Allen College Theatre. Admission is free. Pictured above, from left: Parker Smith, Gaby Lampe, Allie Fager, Jie Jie Burleson, River Hess, Austin Morris, Lexie Vega, Sarah Clark and Drew Tucker. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

Owner Tabatha Wilson is relocating Affordable Fashions Consignment, above to the former location of Classy Attic, 15 E. Madison Ave. The store’s new name will be Deja Nu. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY

Gazers to view a bit of Deja Nu By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register

Customers shopping for affordable fashions on Madison Avenue this August may sense a bit of Deja Nu. Affordable Fashions Consignment, at 106 S. Washington Ave., is relocating and morphing into a new store named Deja Nu. Owner Tabatha Wilson is hoping to move the consignment shop into the former “Classy Attic” building at 15 E. Madison Ave. by August. An overflow of inventory and some new items have prompted the relocation. “We need to expand,” said Wilson. The current store was a great place to

get started and see how the business would do, she said. The response to Affordable Fashions Consignment, since it opened in February 2017, has been favorable. The new store will provide 4,600 square feet of showroom and allow Wilson to stock racks and shelves with new items such as boutique clothes for children, LED shoes, never worn men’s and women’s clothing, small antique furniture pieces and gifts, in addition to generally worn consignment items. “We are always taking in new consignments” Wilson said. “Right now we are taking in all seasons.” See DEJA NU | Page A3

Quote of the day Vol. 119, No. 165

Power Company reschedules outage LAHARPE — A planned power outage in LaHarpe, originally set for Wednesday, has been pushed back a week. Crews plan to cut power to

LaHarpe from noon to 4 a.m. June 28 to accommodate repairs to an electric substation south of town. Weekend storms caused

damage elsewhere in the state. Westar crews were among the workers called to duty to help with those emergency repairs.

Day camp delight Thirty area youngsters participated Friday in the K-State for Kids Day Camp sponsored by the Southwind District and Allen County 4-H Council, at Riverside Park in Iola. Zoey Rinehart, Extension Summer Intern, prepared the activities and projects the completed during the camp. Allen County Public Works Department truck driver Kevin Covey provided the highlight of camp by giving an explanation and demonstration of the truck used for Allen County road projects. SOUTHWIND EXTENSION PHOTO

“To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.” — Ozzy Osbourne , musician 75 Cents

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