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there is a uh... big day of action
please fifteen thousand people biographer can-spam
have gathered outside of the state house i think there
you're taking the photograph
in the uh... michigan house i'm not sure what happens if the um...
if you want to from the house to the senate back to the house
and the some type of conference bill not quite sure but uh... i can't quite
figure it out to be honestly
on does that we've got fifteen thousand people outside of uh... uh...
the the state uh... houses in
lansing
we'll talk to uh... richest elson
has written a piece in the uh... prosper uh... merrick in prospect this is not
wisconsin it's worse
you should know just a a depart this in context of why we seen this happen in
michigan now
during the lame ducks action
in december twenty twelve the makeup of the house the michigan house sixty four
republicans forty six democrats
in three weeks
the makeup of the house will be fifty nine republicans in fifty one democrats
in other words they wanted a super-majority the number of lame duck
house republicans who voted for right to work
thirteen
those thirteen republicans will be replaced by seven republicans in six
democrats the number of lame duck house democrats who voted against
right-to-work
thirteen
those who we replaced by one republican in twelve democrats the number of public
ans who voted against right-to-work
last week six
the number of those six of the republicans will be in the house uh...
in january twenty thirteen six
right to work road on twelve six twenty twelve
passed by fifty eight to fifty two
the likely right uh... the vote on right to work
with new legislature in twenty thirteen will fail fifty seven to fifty three
projected but of course by that point in may be too late
my understanding of the nature of this bill is that it cannot be overturned by
a referendum
so it would require
democrats taking over
the uh... michigan
house
uh... by uh...
might guess about about ten
ten seats swing you should know that uh... this is also function again of
what happened in twenty as twenty ten
in local races in particular but
not as a statewide races but
race is uh... for
stated for senate state senate state house seats
and this is all part in many respects of the redistricting the next wave then
we're going to talk about it
sometime the next week or two
there we're going to see is an attempt by republicans
in these statehouses
for instance michigan
for instance of the perhaps wisconsin in pennsylvania maybe in ohio
to use the advantage that they have uh... created for themselves by
gerrymandering
and creating very safe republican
congressional districts
for instance in pennsylvania president obama wins by half-a-dozen pointer so
little more seven
however the
pennsylvania
delegation to the house
to congress
is in the seventies thirteen two five republicans the democrats
this is because of redistricting what the next thing we will see
for republicans in their attempt
to win national elections will be to change the laws in the states
to have the electoral vote
not
represent
the popular vote in that state in other words pennsylvania president obama wins
by six a seven points
so he gets all the electoral votes
but to shifted
to be a function of the congressional districts
so in other words
pennsylvania could see a situation where
it significantly draw ready
of people vote
for
the democratic presidential nominee
however
because of their gerrymandering
they have created a situation where more congressional districts are republican
and therefore at this stage would go
to the republican
nominee
sort of the
r_j_ shas planned i guess you could say but uh... this is in the works this is
all part of that fall out
from
twenty ten