00:00I'm curious, you know, last decade we did redistricting, hard to say.
00:08Do you think, given this situation where we've had these court battles, everything,
00:12that in this 2027 amendment that you may put forward that the Independent Redistricting Commission should be disbanded or changed in some way
00:19so that you don't have to go through that again in 32?
00:23Yes.
00:24I'm tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back, with all due respect to the good government groups.
00:35Politics is a political process.
00:38And to think that we're going to do this with a purity test and make sure it's completely fair to everybody involved,
00:45the reason we are able to draw the lines because we're Democrats,
00:49because the majority of people in this state selected us, elected us to be leaders.
00:53And when we say that we cannot use that power to its fullest, then we're abdicating the responsibility that we all have.
01:02Republicans take over the legislature.
01:04They can have at it.
01:06But until then, we're in charge and we're sick and tired of being pushed around when other states don't have the same aspirations that we always have had.
01:16And I hold those dear, but I cannot ignore that this, the playing field has changed dramatically.
01:24And shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past.
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