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"Repercussion Instruments" (Friday, May 1, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: H have too many dogs, Jeword said, steal me step
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  Speaker 1: mere every day at least for work.
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  Speaker 2: When the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 1: Drops a kid to scoom the way. Joey is everything
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  Speaker 1: a dream, do all the.
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  Speaker 3: Treasures and needs no one that Joe's.
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  Speaker 4: All smiled, he all the aims.
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  Speaker 2: We have a job listing the news. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: letting us be of service to you this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be.
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  Speaker 2: The the radio program that tells you first and foremost
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  Speaker 2: that were unabashedly a radio program, and then also says
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  Speaker 2: that after we tell you what has gone on in
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  Speaker 2: the past day or so, then you can call in
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  Speaker 2: and share how it's impacting you where you are. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for letting us join in and be part of
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  Speaker 2: your mornings. As we come to you alive from New
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  Speaker 2: York this morning, as we celebrate a very ignominious start
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  Speaker 2: to what was a very profound day May Day for
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  Speaker 2: many of you, especially the Marxists out there, as you
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  Speaker 2: got and hey, you know what, we appreciate you listening
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  Speaker 2: because we figure at some point some of what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to say has some impact to you. And then
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  Speaker 2: you say, oh, I didn't realize that's what they were
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  Speaker 2: talking about. All along, I thought they were just fascists
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  Speaker 2: trying to you know, kill everyone and run them into
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  Speaker 2: the ground. And now I realized that that was us
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  Speaker 2: all along. But on this May Day, thirty three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I was gathering up a vanful of posies and annuals
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  Speaker 2: and trying to get them into a giant pit of earth,
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  Speaker 2: hoping against hope that they were going to look like
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  Speaker 2: a flower garden. We had booked a place for our wedding,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the things we had said to the
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  Speaker 2: folks we were booking our wedding, and this is a
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  Speaker 2: cautionary tale. We booked the wedding, you know, and anyone
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  Speaker 2: who books a wedding knows this happens in September, and
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  Speaker 2: we were there at the wedding venue. And as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, probably some of you are looking at
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  Speaker 2: the radio saying September and you were getting married at
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  Speaker 2: you mean, like the September, a year and a half beforehand.
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  Speaker 2: Most weddings these days, I mean, you're lucky if you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing anything a month and a half beforehand. But no, no,
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  Speaker 2: this was thirty three years ago. This is still when
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  Speaker 2: you could talk to somebody in September and get a
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  Speaker 2: wedding booked for the May following. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like ancient history. What are you talking about
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  Speaker 2: when they used to transcribe the marriage certificate into stone
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  Speaker 2: tablets using Roman numerals because everything was written in Roman. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that long ago. It seems like it though sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: But when we arrived for the rehearsal dinner the night before,
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  Speaker 2: I said, hey, when do the flowers go in? Because
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  Speaker 2: there was a big flower garden in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: where we were supposed to be having our wedding. And
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  Speaker 2: they said, oh, flower garden, We don't plant flowers until
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  Speaker 2: at least Memorial Day. I said, well, we told you,
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  Speaker 2: and that, of course, because it was a municipal park,
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  Speaker 2: we were dealing with municipal employees. And the municipal employees said,
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  Speaker 2: not my job, man, and shrugged and walked away. So
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  Speaker 2: I was there. Luckily I knew a florist who said
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  Speaker 2: you can borrow and literally borrow flowers, and so that's
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  Speaker 2: what I was doing doing thirty three years ago today.
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  Speaker 2: But here are our first things this morning, as we
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  Speaker 2: get together on this post royal visit day, and so
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  Speaker 2: much going on in the world President Trump holding court
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  Speaker 2: yesterday first though, the Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana could
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  Speaker 2: put seven Democratic House seats in play, according to election handicappers.
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  Speaker 2: The book The Cook Political Report and Larry Sabado's Crystal Ball,
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  Speaker 2: based here in our own home town of Charlottesville, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: out of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, identified
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  Speaker 2: seven districts that could turn red, two in Louisiana, two
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  Speaker 2: in Alabama, one in Mississippi, one in Tennessee, and one
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. After the Supreme Court's ruling of two
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  Speaker 2: days ago regarding racial jerrymandering, Amy Walter and Matthew Klein
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  Speaker 2: wrote in The Cook Political Report, a new map the
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  Speaker 2: GOP legislature would almost certain to result in at least
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  Speaker 2: one Republican pickup in Louisiana. The Supreme Court struck down
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana's second majority black congressional district, and a decision that
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  Speaker 2: could open the door for other states to redraw their districts. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Hakim Jeffries says the Democratic Party is ready to counter
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  Speaker 2: any GOP drawn maps. He said that if Republicans continue
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  Speaker 2: to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed parts
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  Speaker 2: of the Voting Right Acts. Democrats will follow suit. In
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  Speaker 2: political all options are on the table. Meanwhile, Senator Marsha
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  Speaker 2: But for you and me at four three four eight
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  Speaker 2: A two four two one seven we will break down
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  Speaker 2: first the redistricting mania. So now that the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: has done what honestly the Supreme Court had to do,
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  Speaker 2: because in drawing congressional districts, considering anything other than raw
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  Speaker 2: population is unconstitutional. And I've talked to you know, left
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  Speaker 2: wing jurists, right wing jurists about this. The left wing ones,
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  Speaker 2: of course say this when the right wing is in power,
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  Speaker 2: and the left wing jurists say it when the left
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  Speaker 2: wing is in power, because they all want to draw
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  Speaker 2: the congressional districts their own way. So this Louisiana ruling
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  Speaker 2: that we spent some time on yesterday now has turned
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  Speaker 2: into this mailstroom of people saying, oh hold it, let's
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  Speaker 2: redraw our maps too, because we have based on the
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  Speaker 2: voting Rights Act and requirements within the preclearance regulations that
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  Speaker 2: used to oversee the Confederate States, a requirement at the
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  Speaker 2: time to make sure that there were some minority majority districts,
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  Speaker 2: which meant that by the Voting Rights Act, you had
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  Speaker 2: to racially gerrymannder certain congressional districts. It was just baked
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  Speaker 2: into the cake. But now the Supreme Court has overruled
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  Speaker 2: that and said you can't have racially gerrymandered districts. You
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  Speaker 2: have to have them compact and contiguous. So now everyone
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  Speaker 2: wants to redraw those districts that they had drawn to
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  Speaker 2: be in compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a rush to the bar. It's like somebody at a
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  Speaker 2: wedding said, hey, the open bar is open now, and
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  Speaker 2: everyone who you are having a conversation with has now
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  Speaker 2: run away to get that first free beer. And okay, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to do what you expect me to do,
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  Speaker 2: which is talk about the nineteen twenty nine Act for
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  Speaker 2: Permanent Reapportionment, because this begins this cycle. So the racists
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  Speaker 2: in Congress, most of them representing former Confederate states in
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  Speaker 2: the South, decided in nineteen I think it was nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen nineteen that there were too many newly prosperous
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  Speaker 2: black communities that were sending members to Congress to represent them,
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  Speaker 2: and they couldn't take it. So they wrote this Act
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  Speaker 2: for Permanent Reapportionment, which would freeze the size of the
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  Speaker 2: US House of Representatives at four hundred and thirty five members.
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  Speaker 2: And it took them ten years to get people to
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  Speaker 2: agree to it, but they agreed to it. And so
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  Speaker 2: now they freeze the size of the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: And they don't say it's for that. They say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we just spent all this money on a new building,
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  Speaker 2: and they did so. If you look at the Capitol
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  Speaker 2: Building from the nineteenth century, it looks small because there's
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  Speaker 2: these two big, massive wings on either side that are
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  Speaker 2: now where the Senate and House chambers are. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to the US Capitol Building, Statuary Hall on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the rotunda used to be the rooms where
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  Speaker 2: the House and Senate met, and by the eighteen seventies
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  Speaker 2: the house area had become woefully inadequate as new states
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  Speaker 2: joined and you know, then the Civil War happened. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, before the Civil War, new states were coming
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  Speaker 2: along and once the Civil War was settled and the
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  Speaker 2: emancipation was written, and appomatics happened. Now you had all
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  Speaker 2: these people trying to cram into this little statuary hall,
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  Speaker 2: and they needed a place to but Robert E. Lee's statue.
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  Speaker 2: So they decided to build two new meeting rooms, and
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  Speaker 2: those are currently what you see on c span the
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  Speaker 2: House and Senate chambers. And they decided, the racists did,
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  Speaker 2: that this would be a great excuse to keep any
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  Speaker 2: of these uppity black communities that were finding themselves prosperous
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  Speaker 2: and able to send people to Congress, because they had
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  Speaker 2: all moved into these like minded communities as a way
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  Speaker 2: to keep them from getting a voice in Congress, so
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  Speaker 2: they wrote this act saying, how about we don't have
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  Speaker 2: any more congressional districts. And our population was one third
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  Speaker 2: of the size that it is right now, it's about
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  Speaker 2: a million and a half people, million and a quarter
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  Speaker 2: and we've quadrupled, nearly quadrupled in size since then. The
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  Speaker 2: average population of a congressional district in nineteen thirty was
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  Speaker 2: just over two hundred thousand people. It's now eight hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 2: And this was intentional, was designed to keep the black
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  Speaker 2: communities from getting their own voices in their own cities
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  Speaker 2: by continuing to jerry mander, although the word didn't exist
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen twenty nine. Eldridge jerry was alive, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: but not redrawing his own districts yet, but allowed them
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  Speaker 2: to draw these districts up. So by the time the
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  Speaker 2: Voting Rights Act came about, black lawyers said, they're using
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  Speaker 2: this to keep our community from having a voice. Now,
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  Speaker 2: instead of repealing the nineteen twenty nine Act for a
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  Speaker 2: permanent reapportionment, they said, how about we draw a constitutional amendment. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that keep you people in air quotes happy. So having
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  Speaker 2: a constitutional amendment meant you meant you were somebody at
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  Speaker 2: that point. So the lawyers with the black community said okay.
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  Speaker 2: And the Voting Rights Act, being the second wrong in
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  Speaker 2: an attempt to make a right, said that you had
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  Speaker 2: to have a certain number of majority minority districts in
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  Speaker 2: your state, elevating into constitutional law the idea of racial profiling, redlining,
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  Speaker 2: and gerrymandering. Supreme Court strikes that down. Yesterday or three
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  Speaker 2: days ago. Supreme Court strikes that down, and now everyone's
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson warned us, thank you for joining us on
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  Speaker 2: this Friday morning. I'm sorry, I'm forgetting all my manners.
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  Speaker 2: You're in New York for five hours, and all of
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• 29:01
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  Speaker 2: like Mary Sandridge from the Alzheimer's Association at Sherry Owen
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  Speaker 2: six o nine on May first in the evening for
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  Speaker 2: So that's part and parcel of why we're on location
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  Speaker 2: this morning. But let's get back to this mania that
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  Speaker 2: has exploded in the past twenty four hours over redistricting.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Marsha Blackburn saying Tennessee needs to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You've got jurists on the left and the right saying
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  Speaker 2: that Alabama can do it now, and Mississippi already said
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  Speaker 2: they were going to redo it for Florida. I believe
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  Speaker 2: the maps are in the Senate right now to redistrict
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  Speaker 2: and to redraw these districts to benefit one party or another.
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  Speaker 2: And regardless of which political party you're in, understand that
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  Speaker 2: these maps are not being drawn to make you and
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  Speaker 2: your voice louder. This redistrict thing is about the power
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  Speaker 2: of the political parties. And I think faster than you
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  Speaker 2: can say Roe Kanna, there are or John Fetterman even
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  Speaker 2: there are plenty of people who feel like both the
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  Speaker 2: Republican and Democratic party has grown too powerful. Where rare
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  Speaker 2: are the individualists, the Rand Paul's or the John Fetterman's
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  Speaker 2: who are going to speak out and say I don't
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  Speaker 2: go along with that I party. It's becoming rare, and
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  Speaker 2: it's partially because of this kind of redistricting. And this
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: kind of redistricting, though it may protect President Trump from
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  Speaker 2: impeachment proceedings to come, is only going to serve one purpose.
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  Speaker 2: It will make the political parties more powerful and your
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  Speaker 2: representatives less individual And this is why though many folks
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  Speaker 2: who I hold in great esteem and I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: that with tongue in cheek, argue with me about the
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  Speaker 2: size of Congress if we were to repeal the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine Act for Permanent Reapportionment, because even then, if
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  Speaker 2: you just take the low end nomine there, if you
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  Speaker 2: just triple the size of Congress, yes, that's thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: people in the US House of Representatives. But there are
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  Speaker 2: three times as many citizens, never mind the other people
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  Speaker 2: citizens of the United States. Why shouldn't there be three
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  Speaker 2: times as many representatives. We keep rearranging a finite number
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  Speaker 2: of deck chairs on this Titanic and we've hit the
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  Speaker 2: tim Iceberg and we're taking on water. There are states
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  Speaker 2: in the Union where I think it's New Hampshire. Gary
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  Speaker 2: up in Berlin can sort me on this one. Or
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Matt who covered the legislature up in Vermont, and I
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  Speaker 2: believe Vermont is close. But I think New Hampshire has
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  Speaker 2: four hundred persons in their state General Assembly, New Hampshire
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  Speaker 2: population four hundred and fifty or I think there are
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  Speaker 2: almost as many people in the mass of New Hampshire
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  Speaker 2: legislature as there are in New Hampshire. It's a one
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  Speaker 2: to two ratio. I'm teasing, But the point I'm making
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  Speaker 2: many people are there. So what has happened in two
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  Speaker 2: parts is we have this sclerotic government that's been permanently
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  Speaker 2: capped at four hundred and thirty four people. But we
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  Speaker 2: also then write parliamentary procedures in to allow for shenanigans
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  Speaker 2: within the process, as where the Speaker of the House
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  Speaker 2: has dictatorial control over what bills come to the floor
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. That should also be changed as well.
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  Speaker 2: lot of hands. So who gets to be the boss
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  Speaker 2: just as I said before, all this redistricting throws the
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  Speaker 2: the constitutions. What's it worth? You know they're going to grind.
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  Speaker 1: Us down until.
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  Speaker 19: It really.
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  Speaker 2: So to put a fine point on this, because it
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  Speaker 2: is the mania of the morning, this redistricting, and everyone
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  Speaker 2: is having at it. So the Cook Political Report and
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia or
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  Speaker 2: what we like to call the Larry Sabado Institute for
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: getting Larry Sabado mentioned on CNN It's CBS now is
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: really who have fallen in love with Larry and his
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  Speaker 2: crystal balls. But both have said that the ruling by
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court earlier this week opens the floodgates to
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  Speaker 2: massive redistricting. It is because they've taken away the requirement
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  Speaker 2: that at least one of your congressional districts be a
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  Speaker 2: majority minority precinct. But here's the thing. So if you
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: get rid of the Voting the Act for a permanent reapportionment,
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  Speaker 2: that's fixed because you will have districts that are going
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  Speaker 2: to be majority minority just based on the demographics and
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  Speaker 2: the geography of the thing. You're going to have cities
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  Speaker 2: like Baton Rouge and Shreveport, both of whom fall within
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: this Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that are going to have
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  Speaker 2: minority majority populations. Now, who is their congress person? I
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: wish I was alive at the time of the Voting
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  Speaker 2: Rights Act debate because I would have said, so, we're
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: going to tell a population that fifty percent of their
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  Speaker 2: population has no voice because they have to have a
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  Speaker 2: minority majority representation. Is that what you're saying? Because if
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: you read it, and this is kind of a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of what brought the Supreme Court down against it
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: is that the Supreme Court sees it and as it
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: should be a limitation on who is even allowed to
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: be your congress person. But it all gets better, and
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it gets perfect. My friend Bob in
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Virginia always argues, well, is that kind of a no,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: nothing is going to fix everything. The whole point of
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: the US Constitution was to limit the amount of damage
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: our inbred vices and weaknesses were going to allow. Knowing
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  Speaker 2: full well that we are broken people, all prone to
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  Speaker 2: vice and self interest and all of the net, whether
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: it's retribution or jealousy or all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: we can be corrupted with, knowing full well that there
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: is nothing you're going to do about that that has
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: already been baked into the cake. It's like trying to
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: take the egg out of the cake mix after the
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: cake has been made. So what do you do with
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: a population that is coming into a position You limit
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: how much power and authority they have. And there are
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: a multitude of perversions of Americans constitutional government that have
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: gone on. It's not just this one, but think about
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: a world with thirteen hundred congress people. You may live
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: in Portland or Eloy, Arizona, or Norfolk, Virginia, and think
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  Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty thousand people or two hundred
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: thousand people, and think about what that population is and
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: how big of an area is covered by that, and
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: you'll realize that there are major American cities that are
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: going to have a bunch of Congress people. There are
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: going to be rural areas that have way more Congress
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: people than they had before, because there are just going
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: to be more Congress people than there were before. And
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: that's okay. We act as if this is a bad
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: thing for the very reason Jefferson laid out two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty years ago. Pardon me, King Charles, I'm going
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: to borrow from your visit and talk about what we
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: did two hundred and fifty years ago. On July fourth,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: technically July second, we sent a letter, a legal filing,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: if you will, a lawsuit to Parliament saying we don't
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  Speaker 2: recognize the king's authority, and here is the list of
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: things he's broken within Magna carta giving us this position,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: and you are now an occupying force in our sovereign nation.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: We had representation that was allowing us to have voices
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: that were beyond just the political parties. And that's where
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: I think one of the things we're missing right now
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: is that we have grown used to a four hundred
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: and thirty four person Congress. Just as Jefferson wrote, it
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: is far more understandable that people will grow accustomed to
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: the abuses as long as the abuses are are are understandable,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: and they slowly incrementalize themselves onto our society. Good morning,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: you're on the air with Joe. Who's this?
• 50:21
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: This is Matt, Hey, Matt, how are you doing this morning? Sir?
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  Speaker 20: I heard you invoke my name.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you are one of those folks who you know,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: watches this stuff with great interest, and you have worked
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: in New England. Am I was I right that New
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Hampshire is the one with four hundred people in their
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: general Assembly.
• 50:44
  Speaker 20: New Hampshire has a.
• 50:48
  Speaker 25: One what is it a unicameral legislature that has more
• 50:54
  Speaker 25: people in the Denver phone book. But the magic that
• 51:01
  Speaker 25: I would defend of Vermont is that and this is
• 51:07
  Speaker 25: this is one of the things that I think we
• 51:09
  Speaker 25: need at all levels of government. The legislature has not
• 51:15
  Speaker 25: become permanent in that the people who are elected to
• 51:22
  Speaker 25: the legislature have jobs and lives to go back to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, and here's here's one of my points
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: to why I say that this larger, constitutionally constructed Congress
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: would be more likely to see that is because you
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: can get the work done of protecting our rights and
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I and believe me, there are other things that need
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: to be fixed. They need to be put back in
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: their box when it comes to the Commerce Clause and
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: the regulations. But that's going to be us because we
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: are the ones who have asked for those regulations. But
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: if we if we ask them to do just what
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: the Constitution lays out, Yeah, they can go home after
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: about a week.
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  Speaker 26: Well with most of them, it's not that they don't
• 52:15
  Speaker 26: go home because they've still got work to do. They
• 52:20
  Speaker 26: get into places like Washington or Richmond or Albany and
• 52:27
  Speaker 26: they look around and they think, you know, there's an
• 52:31
  Speaker 26: awful lot of money here to steal.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I didn't go to law school for
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: six years to be called mister. Hang on to that
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: thought for a second match. We're coming up on the
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: news here, Can I hang on to you for a moment?
• 52:44
  Speaker 25: Sure?
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: All right, because this is the mania of the morning. Meanwhile,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: my name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: leg to a roadside bomb. My victory was going from
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: a wheelchair to becoming a weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 4: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to all.
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