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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | That's how governments are supposed to work. |
0:02.1 | We're not supposed to get in the way of the will of the people. |
0:04.6 | We're supposed to enable it and embolden it. |
0:07.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. |
0:19.8 | I'm your host, Lee McGowan. Let's get into it. |
0:22.4 | A couple of weeks ago, we did a podcast |
0:24.2 | on the continuing democratic success of the state of Michigan. |
0:27.3 | How a voter-led constitutional amendment led to fair redistricting. |
0:31.7 | How the election of a democratic governor, |
0:33.8 | AG and Secretary of State further shorted up Michigan's democracy. |
0:37.7 | And how, after years of Republican gerrymandering and dismissal, |
0:41.5 | the public's voice was finally being heard. |
0:44.1 | In the 2022 midterms, Democrats were able to win a trifecta, |
0:48.0 | which means they now control both houses of the state legislature, |
0:51.3 | as well as the governorship. |
0:52.8 | Something Democrats haven't had in Michigan for 40 years. |
0:56.1 | Michigan has become, in many ways, the shining example of what it looks like |
1:00.2 | when democracy actually works, when the people are respected |
1:03.8 | and their will is reflected in their laws. |
1:06.6 | So today, we're going to talk to Jocelyn Benson, |
1:08.7 | Michigan's superstar secretary of state, |
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