Gretchen Whitmer: “In Michigan, we've been very lopsided control politically…”

“And you also talk in the book about how you got that done, and it was by combating gerrymandering. Talk about that. So there were a number of pieces to our success. You know, In Michigan, we've been very lopsided control politically for a long time, for the legislature drew their own districts. and so the majority continued to stay in the majority because they picked their constituents as opposed to constituents picking their legislators. And we had a citizens initiative that went through and changed how districts were drawn.” (08:37–08:46)

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