How interesting to read the op-ed by former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker congratulating Gov. Chris Sununu for vetoing a bipartisan bill that would work to end partisan gerrymandering in our state’s redistricting process (Monitor Forum, Aug. 22).

Walker lays praise on Sununu for defending our state’s constitution and talks about how he knows as a former governor how important it is to “uphold the Constitution and to be willing to make tough decisions.”

On the face of it, it’s laughable for the reader to expect that someone representing the National Republican Redistricting Trust is concerned with the redistricting process being fair to both parties. Indeed, the stated mission of the NRRT is to position Republicans favorably for the round of redistricting that will follow the 2020 census. They also have a stated goal of raising $250 million for this effort – the same amount that Walker castigates former attorney general Eric Holder with raising and spending with help from his “liberal allies.”

Of course, this money will largely be raised through so-called “dark money” sources that will never have to reveal themselves. But perhaps what’s most obnoxious is that Walker feels entitled to lay claim to being such a fervent defender of the Constitution when his own redistricting effort – completed in 2011 with the help of his Republican cronies in Wisconsin – was thrown out by a federal judge in 2016 after it was determined to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering.

Perhaps it was naked partisanship and hypocrisy like this that led Wisconsin voters to attempt to recall Walker as governor in his first term and to not re-elect him to another term in 2016.

The fact that Walker and his similarly defeated Republican majority took advantage of the lame duck legislative session to strip powers from the incoming Democratic governor, powers that had been in place since Wisconsin’s constitution was written, further shows exactly who Walker really was and remains.

In our deeply divided times, it’s so encouraging to see bipartisan legislation of any kind come out of our legislative body. And it’s truly heartbreaking that leaders like Walker and our own Gov. Sununu can’t respect bipartisan compromise and put their state’s best interests ahead of their party’s interests.

Wisconsin found a fix for that at the ballot box. I hope New Hampshire does the same.

(Scott Metzger lives in Hopkinton.)