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Ben Wikler: “Republicans gerrymandered our state to high heaven.”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 14:33

So like Michigan, we became a right to work state where we had went from being a very proud, strong union state to a state where unions were decimated like Michigan. Republicans ripped away voting rights like Michigan. Republicans gerrymandered our state to high heaven. And we had a Republican state supreme court, Republican governor, Republican attorney general, and Republicans in total control of both chambers of our state legislature for a long time. (14:33–14:38)

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