Life after Congress: Roemer’s focus turns to preserving democracy

There are many fronts in the battle to preserve democracy, and former Rep. Tim Roemer is in the middle of the action on all of them.

The Indiana Democrat, who served in the House from 1991 to 2003, has spent the past decade as a senior adviser and co-chair of Issue One’s ReFormers Caucus , a bipartisan group of about 200 former public officials “united to fix our broken political system.”

“We’re working on everything from big money in politics to restricting gerrymandering to the Electoral Count Reform Act to how do we make Congress work better across the board,” Roemer said.

“We’ll sign on occasionally to amicus briefs. We will get involved in letters that we want to circulate. We’re very, very supportive of restricting members of Congress from trading in individual stocks. So we’re