How to pronounce “gerry” in English

Gerry O'Neill pursued this in great detail, and showed that you could do it.

Gerrymandering's not a good thing. We we don't like it. And then all of the sudden we're going out and volunteering

gerrymandering before Honestly, I'm team all of the above. Like I You can convince me You can convince me for a

Gerrymandering is when you create a political district that includes all the people of one party.

Gerrymandering is the distortion of districts, representational districts, toward some political end.

Gerrymandering leads to something else which is extremism.

and gerrymandering, which I look at as in some ways almost political corruption, where 80% of the seats in the House

Governor Elbridge Gerry signed into law this map that was drawn into political cartoon as this monstrous dragon, a salamander--

to talk to Gerry Adams, and he never would, even though he was actually conducting this correspondence.

actually think about gerrymandering.

because of the way gerrymandering has really changed Virginia 1, and um it's one of the obviously one of the few

One is called gerrymandering.

But this is gerrymandering from 1812 here in Massachusetts, where the term was invented.

thus coining the "gerrymander." It's gotten a lot worse lately, because computers have allowed people to draw lines very finely, looking

So my point about gerrymandering is that there is technology possible.

Although sometimes a gerrymandered district will have a town over here, a town over here, and a thin strip of road in between.

So another ramification of gerrymandering-- by creating safe seats, you end up getting more radical or extreme people elected

The way we gerrymander districts, the way we have winner-take-all seats.

And in 1997 he met Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and became instrumental in negotiating peace in Northern Ireland.

Our side does not like gerrymandering.

Everybody's really concerned about gerrymandering.

And if you want a solution for gerrymandering, absolutely, let's have independent commissions.

So that's what we call gerrymandering.

You can go from the hallmarks of gerrymandering, all of these fiddly bits reaching into and around everything, to soap bubbles.

This is a Democratic Party gerrymander based on the Maryland State legislature's Democratic majority.

The previous two were Republican gerrymanders.

and a red state keeps its gerrymander, then the Congress is distorted.

and sue them to get it un-gerrymandered.

We have the problem of gerrymandering, we create these very strange diagrams of what a county looks like and then that seeks to isolate.

You said something about the institutionalization of gerrymandering but what I think you mean is that we've reached a point in society where people can now pretty much live wherever they

of some of them, Gerry Adams.

Now John Major very bravely started a correspondence with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in 1991, a secret correspondence.

About the mid-1980s, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness began to realize that they could fight forever.

Look, the gerrymandering's a major problem, but it's not like Democrats drew first blood with this one. Donald Trump doesn't think he should be held

One of the things we talked about is uh gerrymandering may not be a more tangible concern for people, but you brought up some of the other ones, cost

And I think when you're having dialogues about gerrymandering and about, wouldn't it be great if we had a competitive race where we live, or, wouldn't it be great if we had more

And if you're running in one of these gerrymandered districts-- so if you're a Democrat and you're running in a gerrymandered Democrat district,

winds up being a 60-40 representation because of gerrymandering, really pushing it that extra gap.

I think coupled with probably the most pragmatic solution to these gerrymandering problems is the judicial solution,

Because they were running in a district that was gerrymandered against them.

spending are very much monopolistic approaches to power gerrymander districts uh if you're not familiar um

That makes Virginia particularly important when it comes to the question of gerrymandering. Now, remember, Donald Trump started this gerrymandering fight

or also here of course because Virginia's been at the center of this gerrymandering fight. I wanted to ask you about this. You're someone who lives

do you square that reality with the embrace of uh a hyper gerrymander map by

about the maps. I know things like gerrymandering can be boring and political gamesmanship can be confusing,

further in terms of drawing red districts. Gerrymandering isn't really about the maps. It's about power. Who

I want us to dig into redistricting, gerrymandering, all the stuff that makes people's eyes usually glaze over. But I

North Carolina has been in a constitutional crisis for years now over their gerrymandering.

But in general, with both gerrymandering and things like ranked choice voting, I notice that generally the people in charge