Derrick Van Orden: “Eau Claire's got 69,737 people in it. That's the largest…”

“I'm just not okay with that. In your, your testimony also, you mentioned that our rural communities, the definition is, is 200,000 for a rural. Well, Eau Claire's got 69,737 people in it. That's the largest city in our district. La crosse has got 51,000 380,000 people in it. And if you tell someone from Potosi in Grant county, it's a population of 647 and the second oldest brewery in …” (01:53–02:00)

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