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Ben Wikler: “Republicans took over Wisconsin in 2010.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 00:44

There was a supermajority in Wisconsin. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin was diabolically making changes to withstand power. Scott Walker was the governor. How did you turn that situation around? So Republicans took over Wisconsin in 2010. Yes. And immediately smashed unions, suppressed voting rights, gerrymandered the living daylights out of legislative maps to make sure they'd never lose power, even if voters tried to throw them out. (00:44–00:47)

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