GERRYMANDERING: Gerry and His "Mander" (from 2013, with an Update on Gerrymandering Supreme Court case)

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Elbridge Gerry lent his name to a tricky political maneuver. Not that he wanted to, or perhaps, deserved it. With gerrymandering of congressional districts and state legislative districts on the agenda of the Supreme Court, Bruce discusses the court case Gill v. Whitford and then revisits his cast from 2013 about Elbridge Gerry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	New series, Those About to Die, only on Prime Video.
0:08.0	Let the game spagge!
0:10.0	Win or lose. All must fight to survive.
0:13.4	My son, show them you can fight.
0:15.9	Enter the arena of the gladiators, starring Anthony Hopkins.
0:20.0	Nothing is more important than our beloved wrong.
0:23.0	From the Director of Independence Day.
0:25.0	The moment is upon us.
0:27.0	Kill or be killed.
0:30.0	Those about to die.
0:32.0	Watch now only on Prime Video. This is a song about gerrymandering, sung by a choir. elected legal thievary manipulating district boundaries
1:08.0	we never wanted your policies
1:12.0	but your voice in us to your policies.
1:13.0	Not your voice to your voice to you drink your disease.
1:17.0	Revolution Choir at revolution choir.
1:22.0	And I want to thank Kevin at revolution choir for
1:26.7	giving me this music that I could use in the podcast. This particular song is
1:32.1	about gerrymandering, but the Revolution Choir has a lot of songs.
1:37.0	Go to the website, find out what they're all about, and I'll play the full song at the end of the episode. That's right, we are talking about gerrymandering.
1:47.0	Because the issue is now at the Supreme Court in the case of Gil v Whitford
1:59.7	involving state legislative districts in Wisconsin that were carved out for
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