Brian Fitzpatrick: “Only seven states, by the way, do this in America, is have…”

“It's billions of dollars that gets sent to the states to carry out their elections. We can tie that funding to certain reforms. And one of the things that has to happen, Only seven states, by the way, do this in America, is have independent citizen commissions with computer generated line drawing assisting them. to make sure that we have more balanced districts in this country. Well, I understand the effort and the intent, but Congressman Suozzi, your party's leaders also gerrymandering and your group, as we just heard from Congressman Fitzpatrick, you're supporting efforts to stop it.” (01:45–01:54)

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