{"id":22077,"date":"2019-11-20T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:19:12","slug":"talking-about-gerrymandering-and-political-reform-on-wcai-cape-cod-and-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22077","title":{"rendered":"talking about gerrymandering and political reform on WCAI (Cape Cod and Islands)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was on Mindy Todd&#8217;s show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capeandislands.org\/people\/mindy-todd\">The Point<\/a> yesterday, for a program on &#8220;Strengthening our Representative Democracy.&#8221; The other two guests were David Daley,\u00a0author of <em>Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America&#8217;s Democracy<\/em>,&#8221; and Judy Zaunbrecher,\u00a0co-president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. The audio is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capeandislands.org\/post\/strengthening-our-representative-democracy\">here<\/a>. If you start at 42:00, you can hear Mindy ask Judy whether Massachusetts has been gerrymandered; Judy accurately summarizes the research by my <a href=\"https:\/\/mggg.org\/\">colleagues at Tisch College<\/a>. (Spoiler alert: not really, although it would still be better to use a nonpartisan districting commission.) I join shortly after that to discuss why our state government is so dominated by white men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on Mindy Todd&#8217;s show The Point yesterday, for a program on &#8220;Strengthening our Representative Democracy.&#8221; The other two guests were David Daley,\u00a0author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America&#8217;s Democracy,&#8221; and Judy Zaunbrecher,\u00a0co-president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. The audio is here. If you start at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22080,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}