Your Voice, Your Vote: State Senate District 30 [Video]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The November election will be the first under the state’s new legislative boundaries and that has four races for the State Senate considered a toss-up.

For an open seat in the Green Bay area, voters will choose between Republican Jim Rafter and Democrat Jamie Wall.

Under new maps, this is a Senate district that gives Democrats a two-and-a-half-point advantage, according to a Marquette Law School analysis. However, that slight edge has neither candidate taking anything for granted.

Both Jamie Wall and Jim Rafter are familiar faces to most voters, who follow politics. Rafter serves as village president in Allouez, and Wall once ran for Congress.

Both say they’re running to help bridge the partisan divide in Madison.

“The thing I hear the most is it might not be an issue, but almost an attitude is why can’t you guys, and sometimes they don’t say guys …