Rigged: How Lawmakers Choose Their Constituents

Monday, September 18, 2006
5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
10th Floor, Atrium
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
2313 Red River St.
Austin, TX

On September 18, the LBJ School of Public Affairs will welcome Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin to discuss her book, Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives, in which she argues that incumbent-drawn congressional districts have increasingly intensified the partisan tone in the House of Representatives.

Cosponsored with the LBJ Library and Museum, the talk will take place from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the 10th floor Atrium of the LBJ Library and Museum. The event is free and open to the public. A live webcast of the talk will be available at http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts/.

Eilperin is a native of Washington, D.C. She received a bachelor’s in Politics with a certificate in Latin American Studies from Princeton University. In the fall of 1992 she went to Seoul, South Korea, on a Luce Scholarship, which allowed her to cover politics and economics for an English-language magazine. Returning to Washington, Eilperin wrote for Louisiana and Florida papers at States News Service and then joined Roll Call newspaper in 1994. In March 1998 she joined The Washington Post as its House of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, lobbying, legislation, and four national congressional campaigns. Since April of 2004 she has covered the environment for the national desk, reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. In the spring of 2005 she served as the McGraw Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, teaching political reporting to a group of undergraduate and graduate students.

For more information about this event, contact Brendan Lavy at 512-232-4004 or blavy@austin.utexas.edu.