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Mark Simone

Ken Interviews Caroline Vakil, Author and Journalist at The Hill.

Mark Simone

Mark Simone

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4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Why are the Dems protesting like crazy in Texas right now? There are 5 seats that Dems are trying to not let republicans take. How much more can democrat's Gerrymander the map, it looks like not too much. How does Gerrymandering work? Caroline explains. 

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0:00.0

now more of the mark simone show on seven ten w o r filling in for mark here again is ken rosado edinburgh

0:08.7

good morning to it is a friday and it's good to be with you on a friday mark has a long weekend

0:14.3

you know those democrat members of the texas state house who fled to illinois and the protection

0:19.9

of his girthiness governor Governor Jay Pritzker.

0:22.7

Yes, he's got to be about 500 pounds, Jay. He's the dark sheep of the family. They don't really talk to him.

0:28.6

Who's his family? For those who don't realize, the Hyatt Hotel Company. That's the Pritzker family.

0:34.5

And it's just ironic, a joke, that this guy says that he's for the poor,

0:39.7

etc. Meanwhile, he's worth about $5 billion. He's just this obnoxious leftist who it's, the

0:47.0

rules are good for thee, but not for me. Anyway, so the Democrats in Texas, they refuse to show up

0:53.7

for work in order to prevent the majority

0:55.7

of Republicans there from passing a redistricting plan that could add more GOP seats to their

1:02.1

congressional representation.

1:03.7

Now, we don't know that that's the case because the people get the vote.

1:07.2

It's just that they would redesign the districts so that the districts might appear to be a little

1:12.8

more Republican majority, therefore it would be more difficult to elect a Democrat to Congress

1:17.7

from those districts.

1:19.3

Now, the representatives, instead of a state assembly, they have a state house, the same concept.

1:25.5

They have been ordered to return or face arrest and to talk

1:29.7

more about this is a reporter from one of my favorite political newspapers you can check it out

1:34.2

online it is the hill good morning to caroline the keel good to have you on w o r great to be with you

1:42.4

and caroline was nice enough to come on my tv morning show the

1:46.0

other day on o n j and she was just magnificent so we figured we'd beg for another favor and have

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