Do our politicians have the courage to put democracy over the self-interest of their party or their own career? I would hope so. In March 2023, as a staffer for a legislator, I got introduced H4222, an anti-gerrymandering bill. It would have created a multipartisan redistricting commission of five Democrats, five Republicans and two members of third parties to create a list of maps to submit to the legislature. It got two co-sponsors, but it die…