في عام 2008، قمت بقيادة الجهود الرامية إلى تغيير عملية تقسيم الدوائر الانتخابية في كاليفورنيا بشكل جذري.
بفضل تحالفٍ غير اعتياديٍّ من حلفاء اليسار واليمين والوسط، أنشأنا أول لجنةٍ مستقلةٍ لإعادة ترسيم الدوائر الانتخابية للمواطنين في البلاد. سُلبت سلطة رسم خرائط التصويت من السياسيين، ومُنحت لأشخاصٍ مثلك ومثلي.
اليوم، عملية إعادة تقسيم الدوائر الانتخابية لدينا مستقلة وتقودها المجتمعات المحلية، بهدف الحفاظ على وحدة المجتمعات المحلية في الخرائط الجديدة. لم تعد عملية ترسيم الدوائر الانتخابية تُجرى خلف أبواب مغلقة، بل تُجرى بشفافية وانفتاح.

قال دينيس ويكر في مقابلة مع صحيفة "ذا نيوز آند أوبزرفر": "بوب فيليبس هو جوهر السياسة". شغل ويكر، وهو ديمقراطي، منصب نائب الحاكم من عام ١٩٩٣ إلى عام ٢٠٠٠، وكان يعتبر فيليبس مستشارًا موثوقًا به، آنذاك والآن.
قال ويكر: "إنه يُدرك أن الخدمة العامة تبدأ بانتخابات نزيهة وشفافة. إنه يؤمن إيمانًا راسخًا بأن الخدمة العامة العظيمة تنبع من ديمقراطية قوية وعادلة".

Boston's rally was bipartisan, with not only Democrats invited to speak but also former Massachusetts Republican Gov. William Weld, who is challenging Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, said Pam Wilmot, the executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, one of the organizers.
"We want to demonstrate that people care about this, that the rule of law is important and that our country will not stand for a fake trial and just sweeping this under the rug," Wilmot said. "This is a serious matter. It should not be about...

The political maps of the past decade have favored rural voters, said Common Cause North Carolina Executive Director Bob Phillips. Rural voters tend to support Republicans, and the maps were drawn to cement Republicans’ power. Plus, he said, many of North Carolina’s most powerful lawmakers are from rural areas themselves.
Phillips, who is an advocate for redistricting reform, said he is still trying to convince Republican leaders like them to pass reforms in the next few months, before the 2020 elections. In part, he said, he...

Two more House Republicans have announced their retirement, adding to over a dozen House Republicans that will not be seeking re-election in 2020. Suzanne Almeida from the Common Cause Redistricting Counsel explains what role redistricting may have played in their decision.

The anti-gerrymandering group Common Cause North Carolina was a plaintiff in the lawsuit over the legislative lines, not the congressional lines, but the group’s executive director, Bob Phillips, was in court Monday to watch nevertheless. He said he will continue to push for more permanent reforms at the Legislature, so that future districts can be drawn with “much more robust public input” and potentially avoid so many legal challenges.
“I think there’s a lot of room for improvement on transparency,” Phillips said....

Why is this better? Consider how a presidential primary works in the current system. We’re constantly gaming out our vote, trying to figure out who can win a general election, or who’s got the best shot in Iowa, as opposed to voting for whom we want because we like what they stand for. How many more times do we have to read thinkpieces about whether a woman or a person of color is electable? With ranked-choice voting, you can vote with your heart and your head — without worrying about sabotaging either.

“It’s extremely troubling,” said Beth Rotman of Common Cause, a group that filed complaints Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice complaints about the Parnas and Fruman donations. “The money should absolutely be returned. It shows a really problematic appearance of a conflict [of interest].”

Paul Seamus Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, is among those questioning even the narrow campaign finance analysis. Common Cause has filed a complaint with the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission accusing Trump of violating campaign law. It wouldn't have been difficult for the government to determine how much money Ukraine would have spent in an investigation of Joe Biden and his son, he said. "That would give them a dollar amount to show that Trump solicited 'something of value,'" Ryan said.