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"Redistricting Mania" (Friday October 24, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Very fine people on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: At steal met a day least for work when the
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  Speaker 3: Everything agenda, all the.
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  Speaker 5: He only as Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you for being on the receiving end of the program.
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  Speaker 1: There you are basking in either the amplitude or frequency
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  Speaker 1: modulation goodness of the station that is blessing us with
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  Speaker 1: our connection to you so much. Getting into this Friday morning,
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  Speaker 1: it's like they intend to do this stuff right when
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  Speaker 1: the weekend is coming. And it's okay, it's okay, we've
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  Speaker 1: got it. We are steeled for it. God gives you
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  Speaker 1: nothing that you cannot handle. I know sometimes it seems daunting.
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  Speaker 1: You listen, you go, oh my God, Joe, how are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do all this? Fear not? Fear not.
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  Speaker 1: God has given you your rights. God has given you
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  Speaker 1: your gifts. The government just is supposed to, by our requests,
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  Speaker 1: protect us from it from anyone trying to take them
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  Speaker 1: from us? Are they? I know that it's an almost
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  Speaker 1: cult like thing to look at our founding fathers with
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  Speaker 1: awe and reverence. But there's one thing that I have
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  Speaker 1: to say as we watch what I find to be
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting trend in the news media. Apparently redistricting
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  Speaker 1: is all the rage. Illinois is pushing back on it.
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffreys trying to get the Illinois General Assembly to
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  Speaker 1: redraw their districts. They don't want to do it. But
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia, with a much smaller Democrat majority, like one
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  Speaker 1: seat in each house of our General Assembly, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it because they have the added benefit in
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  Speaker 1: Virginia of pulling the lieutenant governor off of the campaign
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  Speaker 1: trail so she can't do any campaign related activities. Virginia
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  Speaker 1: law prohibits that. California, they've got their Prop fifty. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: wants to redraw their districts. Here in the middle. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the George Mason had a fix for this. It was
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  Speaker 1: the original draft of the Bill of Rights. The very
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  Speaker 1: thing that they said would be the singular most important
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  Speaker 1: thing to protect Americans from an out of control government
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  Speaker 1: was a general Assembly of Congress people of representatives that
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  Speaker 1: were closely related to those people. Capping the size of
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  Speaker 1: a US congressional district that fifty thousand persons citizens. This
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  Speaker 1: was the thing that George Mason thought was the singular
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. It was the first amendment to the
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  Speaker 1: Bill of Rights that they were using to rein in
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  Speaker 1: and to convince people that this Constitution wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: create and out of control authoritarian federal government, wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: free What is currently the first amendment to the US
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  Speaker 1: Constitution was actually the third proposed amendment, but the thirst,
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  Speaker 1: the first, most pre eminent in the founding father's mind,
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  Speaker 1: was that districts of congressional representation should be no larger
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  Speaker 1: than fifty thousand people. They are currently seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty odd thousand people on average, and we wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: going through this if that was the case. Today, just
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  Speaker 1: saying that should be the slogan of this program. First
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  Speaker 1: thing today by Joe Thomas, just saying we'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: All of that coming up for you, but our first
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  Speaker 1: things this morning, aside from the mania over redistricting, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like they found district maps in the West wing
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  Speaker 1: or the East wing when they were renovating it. Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Grassley released Thursday a Justice Department memo showing that general
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco
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  Speaker 1: and then FBI Director Christopher Ray personally approved an FBI
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  Speaker 1: investigation into allegations of efforts by the Trump campaign associates
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  Speaker 1: to obstruct Congress's certification of the twenty twenty election. Grassley
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  Speaker 1: posted the four page memorandum on x saying it proves
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  Speaker 1: top Biden officials personally approved the case, which referred to
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  Speaker 1: President Trump also said Thursday that his administration planned to
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  Speaker 1: brief Congress on operations against drug cartels. He said taking
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  Speaker 1: on cartels on land could be next, while adding he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily intend to seek a declaration of war. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Senate Foreign Relations Chair James rish of All hidoh of
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  Speaker 1: Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries getting pushedback from Illinois lawmakers over
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  Speaker 1: his request to have the Democrat majority there redraw their
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  Speaker 1: congressional maps. One lawmaker said, when asked, I think there
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  Speaker 1: is next to zero appetite to do it. Another said,
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  Speaker 1: there is no world where I see this happening. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia, with the slimmest of Democrat majorities, House Speaker
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  Speaker 1: Don Scott has called lawmakers on Monday back to Richmond
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  Speaker 1: with speculation they will present redistricting plans. The lieutenant governor
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  Speaker 1: running four governor says this is a desperate political stunt
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  Speaker 1: That's a cignation.
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  Speaker 8: Or just opponent state.
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  Speaker 1: You then look out people.
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  Speaker 2: Hoorn gets too lay.
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  Speaker 1: You know the folks that I circle with often will
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  Speaker 1: tell me, and you've heard this, I'm sure before that
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  Speaker 1: the First Amendment to the US Constitution is what the
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  Speaker 1: founders thought was the singular most important thing in the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of America and defending our rights, which is free speech,
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  Speaker 1: the right to free association, to worship as we see fed.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't. I mean, it was the third most
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  Speaker 1: important thing in the minds of those who framed the
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  Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, a document written to protect and to
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  Speaker 1: ensure that this government lived up to its purpose, which
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  Speaker 1: was to defend the rights God has given its citizens.
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  Speaker 1: After and it goes, there's a lot of legal ease
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  Speaker 1: in this, but ostensibly what it says is, once the
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  Speaker 1: first census is done, there shall be one representative for
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  Speaker 1: every thirty thousand citizen until the number of congress people
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  Speaker 1: reached one hundred, after which the proportion shall be no
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  Speaker 1: more than one representative for every forty thousand persons until
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  Speaker 1: that number reached two hundred, and after that the proportion
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  Speaker 1: shall be no less than two hundred, no more than
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  Speaker 1: one representative for every fifty and persons. So when George Mason,
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Henry and these folks were crafting with James Monroe
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  Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights to get the Constitution passed, they
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  Speaker 1: thought the singular most important thing to do was restrict
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  Speaker 1: the size and power of each congressional representative. And I
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  Speaker 1: know what that means, I know that we would have
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  Speaker 1: a six thousand person Congress right now, but we are
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  Speaker 1: a populist state. And what is it? Democrats and Republicans
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  Speaker 1: alike agree on that government isn't listening to them. They're
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  Speaker 1: not heard. If you talk to a Democrat or a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: they will tell you that one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: bothers them is that the federal government seems autonomous, autonomous,
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  Speaker 1: pardon me, and disconnected from them. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about the no kings marches what I'm talking about. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the average person who's like, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they're even hearing what's going on with me. And
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  Speaker 1: I know there are people who and we all want
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  Speaker 1: to game the system. Everyone loves FCC chair Car because
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  Speaker 1: he's going after broadcasters. Well I'm a broadcaster and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want the next FCC chair coming after me. So
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Car is dead wrong, and I'll tell you why later.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to get into this whole mania over redistricting,
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  Speaker 1: which if the states had not failed to ratify that
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  Speaker 1: first Amendment, we wouldn't be having this problem with Hakeem
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  Speaker 1: Jeffries trying to get states to redistrict. God bless Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Democrats there are like, no, I'm not redistricting this state. Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, is, and they're going to sit
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  Speaker 1: down on Monday, with the added benefit of dragging the
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  Speaker 1: GOP gubernatorial candidate off of the camp Pain trail and
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  Speaker 1: locking her down so she can't do anything campaign related,
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  Speaker 1: including raised money while she's in General Assembly session. One
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  Speaker 1: of the members of that who also knows a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about engaging in congress hang on, let me let
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  Speaker 1: me rephrase that. Former member of the US House of
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  Speaker 1: Representatives now a member of the Virginia General Assembly, Tom Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: is on the phone with us. Good morning, Tom. How
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  Speaker 1: are you doing, sir? Oh for RUMs, all right, hang
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  Speaker 1: on a second, Tom, hang on, hang on, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's a Friday. I got to put you on the
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  Speaker 1: backup speaker here. How are you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 8: I'm still doing well, just as I was three seconds ago. However,
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  Speaker 8: had some trouble jotting down notes as quickly as you
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  Speaker 8: can talk so that I can understand the origins of
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  Speaker 8: this great nation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I that's why I repeat myself that.
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  Speaker 8: They were apparently the origins of the nation. Knowing the
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  Speaker 8: letter of law mean anything too about fifty one members.
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  Speaker 8: The Virginia housetalliates, Well, it is.
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  Speaker 1: This just pure party politics?
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  Speaker 8: Is this? Is this?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Texas redrew their districts, and we got California doing
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  Speaker 1: Prop fifty on November, which is up for election. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: that's perilous enough to drag President Obama into California to
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  Speaker 1: get a Democrat led or Democrat sponsored bill across the
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  Speaker 1: finish line. How unpopular that is there? Illinois Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: no interest in this. Whyre Virginia's slim majority of one
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  Speaker 1: seat majority for Democrats in both the House and Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Why are they doing this?
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  Speaker 8: I made it differ. I mean, Illinois Democrats have already
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  Speaker 8: done this. That's actually the left says, oh, well, it's
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  Speaker 8: started with Texas. No, it started with Illinois. Right, a
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  Speaker 8: state where you have one a ten plus ten Democrat
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  Speaker 8: and yet I don't have these numbers in front of you,
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  Speaker 8: but you get a plus ten democrat lean but something
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  Speaker 8: like seventeen nineteen seats are Democrat seats. Right, Virginia, it's
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  Speaker 8: got fifty one Democrats and forty nine Republicans, where some
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  Speaker 8: people think we're a purple state. I think we're a
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  Speaker 8: blue state. I think we're probably plus five points Democrat reflexively,
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  Speaker 8: but we've got six Democrat seats and five Republican seats,
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  Speaker 8: and that actually kind of reflects the breakup of the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 8: And that's somewhat because in twenty twenty, a bipartisan majority
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  Speaker 8: of both chambers of the General Assembly voted to allow
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  Speaker 8: a referendum a non partisanary districting commission, and I voted
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  Speaker 8: against it, and the inches a full disclosure because I said,
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  Speaker 8: the only thing to manage at that point is who
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  Speaker 8: picks the nonpartisans?
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  Speaker 1: Nudge, Yeah, And that's what happened, by the way.
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  Speaker 8: Right, because the nonpartisan districts are jerrymander too. It's just
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  Speaker 8: jerrymander to the level of plausible deniability. And I would
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  Speaker 8: point you to as we don't deep into the weeds.
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  Speaker 8: Juan Pablo Sigura with the Republican candidate in a district
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  Speaker 8: that's largely Loudon County and lost in the last cycle,
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  Speaker 8: and he lost while winning the entire district minus a
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  Speaker 8: panhandle that ran right down I sixty six towards Washington,
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  Speaker 8: d C. And that's because everybody who lived right up
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  Speaker 8: the interstate had to vote Democrat and that Panhandle is
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  Speaker 8: like a textbook definition of jerry mandering, but it was
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  Speaker 8: nonpartisan at this point. However, the Democrats have got a
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  Speaker 8: couple of things going on. I'll tell you the why
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  Speaker 8: of what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: If you like, Yeah, we love lies here because it's
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  Speaker 1: our stock enough, it is.
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  Speaker 8: Not the lie. There's plenty of those. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 8: my favorite lie off the internet. Yesterday was an hour
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  Speaker 8: after Glenn Youngkin announced that he was going to coordinated
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  Speaker 8: with President Trump declared his state of emergency and he
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  Speaker 8: was going to pull down unspent USDA funds to ensure
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  Speaker 8: that three quarters of a millions of Virginians taking a
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  Speaker 8: musication that benefits because the Democrats, who have admitted this
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  Speaker 8: out loud, wanted the leverage they could garner from a shutdown.
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  Speaker 8: An hour after that, Tim Kaine tweeted, now that you
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  Speaker 8: care about these people just like I do, Ben Youngkin,
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  Speaker 8: why don't you ask the USDA to give this benefits
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  Speaker 8: to the people. It's an hour after young Can already
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  Speaker 8: The bad news is that this is for all the marbles.
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  Speaker 8: This is literally for all the marbles if they succeed
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  Speaker 8: if they succeed in doing this, it is conceivable that
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  Speaker 8: we'll have ten Democrats in the one Republican because the
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  Speaker 8: pundits think that the only part of the state that
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  Speaker 8: you would have is large chunks of rural real estate
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  Speaker 8: radiating inward towards population centers to the north, center and east.
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  Speaker 8: And so the Supreme Court ironically just tossed I believe,
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  Speaker 8: some of the voting rights a reistrations and again essentially
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  Speaker 8: said that that which was made to remedy racism had
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  Speaker 8: And so that is even more unfettering as it relates
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  Speaker 8: to their ability to govern with absolute power. Right, So
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  Speaker 8: a state that's fifty five forty five or or fifty
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  Speaker 8: two forty seven is probably more accurate Democrat. Republican would
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  Speaker 8: have ninety plus percent of its congressional districts Democrat, and
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  Speaker 8: they could draw the House of Delegates and Senate to
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  Speaker 8: eight super majorities and both probably easily. Now that this
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  Speaker 8: o overright threshold. House and maybe fourteen to six. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 8: thirty four to seven and thirty three seven in the Senate.
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  Speaker 8: It's too early for me to do maths. So that's
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  Speaker 1: Good Now, yeah, before you get to the good good news,
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  Speaker 1: comments session. Kansas, it's a republican's working on it. The
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  Speaker 1: Indiana governor is looking to call a special session on that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, California is doing its Prop fifty. Missouri UH
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  Speaker 1: is trying to win one more congressional seat by redistricting.
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  Speaker 1: to add to the as you mentioned that incredible supermajority
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  Speaker 8: Right? This is the butt Trump, but we don't want
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  Speaker 8: to do this, but Trump. But the difference between every
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  Speaker 8: state you just named. In Virginia is we have a
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  Speaker 8: to have a nonpartistan the Redistricting Commission. We have a
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  Speaker 8: constitutional amendment, and to amend the constitution. The constitution says
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  Speaker 8: that you have to have a vote by the General Assembly,
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  Speaker 8: a subsequent election, another vote by the General Assembly, a referendum.
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  Speaker 8: That is the president. Yeah, that is the president for
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  Speaker 8: a low of these four hundred years or what sixteen nineteen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: four hundred plus years. And so so all those other
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  Speaker 8: states don't even matter, because I'm talking about the law
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  Speaker 8: they're breaking is Virginia law. The constitution that they're violating
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  Speaker 8: is the Virginia Constitution. And you made a good argument
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  Speaker 8: No, here's here's the good news. The only real reason
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• 36:23
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• 36:26
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• 36:38
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  Speaker 1: This is constructed to nay shits up visiting former congressman
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  Speaker 1: now member of the Virginia General Assembly talking about these
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  Speaker 1: illegal usurpations. You know, and it reminds me of the
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  Speaker 1: good old days, Tom, the good old days of COVID
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  Speaker 1: where states were just rewriting their election law because somebody
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  Speaker 1: told them there was a scary bug going around and
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  Speaker 1: that we could keep our state employees in the DMV
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  Speaker 1: and the alcoholic beverage stores, but we couldn't have them
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  Speaker 1: in the polling place. It sounds like those old days
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, what the hell with who votes?
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  Speaker 1: We want to be the ones who control the districts
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  Speaker 1: that you vote into. And it would all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you think about it, there would be no way
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  Speaker 1: to jerrymander a congressional map if you had that original
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  Speaker 1: first amendment of the Bill of Rights. And I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see it brought back personally, and because there's no
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  Speaker 1: way Virginia could jerrymander districts the way you were saying,
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  Speaker 1: or Illinois or Utah or regardless, Republican or Democrat otherwise
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  Speaker 1: Joel rights in from Florida. Jefferson first objected to the
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  Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, stated they were unnecessary. Well, it just
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: shows that even Thomas Jefferson can be wrong. Just my lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: the number of times that your civil rights have been
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  Speaker 1: defended because the Bill of Rights exists still is in
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the hundreds. Supreme Court rulings that even Democrats had been
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  Speaker 1: cowed into admitting. Yeah, you know, what that's in the
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  Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, we can't really go against it. So anyway, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about this glory days of this illegal
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  Speaker 1: usurpation of our citizens' rights. You talk about why is
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  Speaker 1: it patently illegal for what some of these states are
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  Speaker 1: trying to do.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's not some of these states. We're talking about Virginia,
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  Speaker 8: But Virginia matters to every other state because again, this
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  Speaker 8: is quite illegal in Virginia because the nonpartisan redistricting process
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  Speaker 8: in Virginia is toted in the Virginia Constitution. And to
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  Speaker 8: amend the Virginia Constitution, you have to have a vote
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  Speaker 8: of the majority of the members of the General Assembly
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  Speaker 8: of both chambers, and then you have to have a
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  Speaker 8: second vote with an intervening election. Now, this is intervening
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  Speaker 8: elections very key here. So their argument is that the
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  Speaker 8: November fourth election would be the intervening election. But when
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  Speaker 8: did the November fourth election start? Show September nineteenth, Democrats,
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  Speaker 8: forty five days. They're trying to count an election in
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  Speaker 8: which and the reason that the constitution says there should
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  Speaker 8: be an intervening election is so the voters have to
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  Speaker 8: say and what it is that they're trying to do
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  Speaker 8: with the constitution, right, But they're counting the ongoing election
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  Speaker 8: as an intervening election.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, I got in time
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  Speaker 1: out of time out. Let me make sure we're going
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  Speaker 1: to New York City public schools. So they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: amend the Virginia Constitution in a way that says the
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  Speaker 1: vote that I already cast in Virginia without knowing that
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be on the ballot, is somehow
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot. I argue with that, Holy crap.
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  Speaker 8: Correct, that's who Reason number one is illegal. That's reason
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  Speaker 8: number one. It's illegal. In fact, the majority of the
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  Speaker 8: Virginia election will be over with by the time we
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  Speaker 8: gavel in on Monday, the majority of it. It's not
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  Speaker 8: even less than halfway done. Number one, it's illegal. But
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  Speaker 8: so they're intervening election would be this one. But I
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  Speaker 8: would argue that it can't be this one because this
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  Speaker 8: election had started weeks and weeks before, literally weeks and
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  Speaker 8: weeks with four weeks before. It's more than that that
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  Speaker 8: before they even said, hey, this is what we're going
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  Speaker 8: to do. So that's the reason number one. Reason number two,
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  Speaker 8: we're still sitting in a special session of the General Assembly,
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  Speaker 8: which is how they can do this, they say, But
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  Speaker 8: if you look to Article four, section six of the
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  Speaker 8: Virginia Constitution, it says how you convene a special session
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  Speaker 8: in the General Assembly, And there are two ways of
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  Speaker 8: the special session in the General Assembly can be convened.
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  Speaker 8: Either are two third majority of members of both chambers,
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  Speaker 8: which we don't have, right, the Democrats don't have that,
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  Speaker 8: it's fifty one, forty nine and twenty one nineteen. Or
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  Speaker 8: the governor can convenience special sessions. So we're sitting in
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  Speaker 8: Special Session one of twenty twenty four. Still from the
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  Speaker 8: Democrats have the late twenty twenty four special Session one.
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  Speaker 8: This goes back to May of twenty twenty four. Holy
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  Speaker 8: Now understand that when the governor convenes special session of
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  Speaker 8: the General Assembly, the governor is mandated by law to
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  Speaker 8: give a reason for the proclamation of a special section procession. Okay,
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  Speaker 8: so I'm looking at Governor Glenn Youngkin's convening of the
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  Speaker 8: special session we're in and it says, anti quote, for
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  Speaker 8: the purpose of completion of the twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 8: six biennial Budget and amendments to the twenty two to
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  Speaker 8: twenty four biennial budget. That is the scope of the
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  Speaker 8: special session. So that's reason number two that they're breaking
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  Speaker 8: the law. The governor convenes the special session, not the
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  Speaker 8: House or the Senate and the but they could, but
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  Speaker 8: they they would do it too their majority, which they
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  Speaker 8: didn't have. So the governor convened a special session, he
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  Speaker 8: was required to go a reason. The reason was to
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  Speaker 8: work on the budget. And this has absolutely nothing to
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  Speaker 8: do with the budget. So that's the reason number two
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  Speaker 8: this is illegal. But wait, there's more reason Number three
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  Speaker 8: that this is illegal. Is the Virginia Constitution, like the
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  Speaker 8: US Constitution, outlines the concept of separation of powers, and
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  Speaker 8: so with the concept of separation of powers, they're a
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  Speaker 8: role for the exact given the legislative branch, the role
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  Speaker 8: of the executive branches to convene the special session for
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  Speaker 8: a specific purpose in this instance, because that's who convened it,
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  Speaker 8: and the legislative branches essentially usurped executive branch authority in
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  Speaker 8: order to use a special session executable in the manner
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  Speaker 8: that it was only by the executive branch to advance
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  Speaker 8: entirely unrelated agendas. So that's reason number three. I know
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  Speaker 8: we're running out of time.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, that's this is par for the course
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  Speaker 1: here they're breaking the law. This is why I brought
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  Speaker 1: up the COVID, you know, voting rights changes. Is that
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: many of these legislative bodies in Wisconsin, I think, just
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  Speaker 1: did it and said go ahead, do something about it
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  Speaker 1: to us.
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  Speaker 8: And so the Preservania, Pennsyvania didn't even change the law.
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  Speaker 8: The courts just refused to enforce it. It's even worse
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  Speaker 8: if you were think about violations separation the powers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so you know, is there a fix to these usurpations?
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  Speaker 1: You're real quick, We've got about a minute and a
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  Speaker 1: half here, so you know, is there a fix to this? Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I started to say this before the last break.
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  Speaker 8: I was bagging people to come down to new fundraisers
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  Speaker 8: for House the delegates candidates. If we get fifty seats
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  Speaker 8: in the House, we stop the worst pro murder bill
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  Speaker 8: in the history of the planet. And the Forum of
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  Speaker 8: HJ won the abortion until birth bill in Virginia. If
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  Speaker 8: we get fifty seats in the House, we stop this.
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  Speaker 8: If we get fifty seats in the House, this doesn't
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  Speaker 8: happen again for at least the next two years. And
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  Speaker 8: probably for the next four and then we get another
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  Speaker 8: redistrict according to the Constitution. So the way to fix
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  Speaker 8: this isn't Donald Trump coming in and doing a fundraiser.
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  Speaker 8: It isn't Mike Johnson coming in and doing a fundraiser
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  Speaker 8: who said he wouldn't then change his mind, and I
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  Speaker 8: hope he don't lose the seat because of that. It's you.
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  Speaker 8: It's you listening, getting to your friends and saying, go vote.
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  Speaker 8: And I hate saying this because I've never felt this
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  Speaker 8: way before. Go vote a straight Republican ticket, because the
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  Speaker 8: vote to murder living children via dismemberment. The way to
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  Speaker 8: verse six. I believe it is get out and vote
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  Speaker 8: and support these House candidates. One seat flipped in our favor,
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  Speaker 8: and we end all of this.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that translates everywhere Chicago and Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: and Sacramento and all the places they're hearing you, Tom
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  Speaker 1: is this is what we have to do. We have
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  Speaker 1: to stop the craziness because we're allowing twenty percent of
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  Speaker 1: dictate to the other eighty. You have a good morning, sir,
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