Good Day and Hello Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and before we do anything

I forgot last week to do the pitch. You didn't do the pitch? Well no wonder we're broke.

I might have to do it twice.

Just want to thank all of you very much for those of you who have decided to support the Thomas Jefferson

Hour.

We do all sorts of programs on the Thomas Jefferson Hour. Some of them...

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Yes, we don't take a week off unless an emergency happens.

But we do programs about Jefferson,

we do programs about current events,

and we do programs like this week's where we

answered listener mail and this week a great deal of the program was devoted to

answering listener responses to our show 1277 on gerrymandering.

So the basis of our system is representation.

There are 330 million Americans scattered across this immense continent.

How do you represent them?

How do you distill their will into a Congress of the United States, into a legislative legislative branch and there's no perfect

system but there is a widespread sense that our system is dysfunctional may be

broken and one of the problems is gerrymandering David that there are safe

districts that have been deliberately designed to protect Republicans or to

protect Democrats and that this somehow violates the principle of representation it violates the

principle of one person one vote. So the question is if our system is not good

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