Mapping Out A New Wisconsin And Beyond
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative maps into law on Monday, and broke a Republican gerrymander that has shaped the state’s politics for years. That means Democrats are pretty much set to gain seats in the state Assembly and state Senate this November. John Bisognano, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, explains what Wisconsin’s win means for the state and the nation.
Alexei Navalny, the head of Russia’s political opposition, died last Friday while serving over 30 years in an Arctic Penal Colony. That means that with less than a month before the country’s next presidential election, the party opposing Vladimir Putin’s regime has lost its most visible leader. It’s not clear how Navalny died, but his widow Yulia accused Putin himself of killing her husband.
And in headlines: Donald Trump is selling $400 sneakers while facing a $450 million fine in his New York fraud trial, the U.N’s highest court started hearing arguments on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories, and the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are “children.”
Show Notes:
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 20th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is What A Day, |
| 0:08.0 | the pod that has a message for John Oliver, |
| 0:10.0 | who's offering Clarence Thomas 1 million dollars a year to resign from the Supreme Court. |
| 0:16.4 | I will resign from the Supreme Court right now for half of that. |
| 0:20.3 | That's a great deal. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm sure that would be the easiest resignation letter you have |
| 0:26.0 | ever written. Ever written. On today's show we explain the future of politics in Russia with the death of |
| 0:35.1 | opposition leader Alexi Navalny. Plus Trump was ordered to pay 450 |
| 0:40.9 | million dollars in last week's fraud ruling against him and so on Saturday |
| 0:46.0 | he tried to raise money by selling Trump sneakers. You heard that right but first an |
| 0:52.0 | update on the fight for fair election maps that's playing out state by state because there is some good news out of Wisconsin yesterday. |
| 0:58.0 | The state's Democratic governor Tony Evers signed new state legislative maps into law. That broke a Republican |
| 1:04.8 | gerrymander that has shaped Wisconsin's politics for more than a decade. |
| 1:07.6 | Take a listen to Governor Evers after the signing yesterday. |
| 1:10.9 | This is an important day and historic day for our state and for |
| 1:15.6 | every person who calls Wisconsin home. Today is a day that I believe will define |
| 1:21.6 | our state's future. |
| 1:23.0 | You know what? Another win, I will absolutely take it. |
| 1:28.0 | But I need to know, is this going to kick in for this election year? |
| 1:32.4 | Do we have to wait a couple years to see the results of it? |
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