Gretchen Whitmer: “Now it is the purview of a commission that draws the…”

“And we had a citizens initiative that went through and changed how districts were drawn. In Michigan, they were taken away from the legislature. And Now it is the purview of a commission that draws the districts, and it is a bipartisan commission. And so in 2022, when I was up for reelection after four years of governor with a very lopsided legislature, we finally had fairly drawn districts. We had reproductive freedom on our ballot.” (09:01–09:08)

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