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Ben Wikler: “The governor vetoed Republicans attempts to gerrymander the…”

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

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Ben Wikler With Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

Published | Video Starts at 19:04

This fight by fight by fight. It turned out that to unrig the gerrymandered state legislative maps, the US Supreme Court threw out a federal lawsuit, refused to do anything about gerrymandering, The governor vetoed Republicans attempts to gerrymander the state and then our right wing state Supreme Court chose the right wing maps that the governor had vetoed. as the solution to the impasse between the governor and the state legislature. Every path was closed by this machine that the right had built to be able to grab back power even when voters tried to throw them out. (19:04–19:13)

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Asserts that the Wisconsin governor vetoed gerrymandered maps, but the state Supreme Court selected them.

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