The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell
1812 when the governor of massachusetts, elbridge gary, succeeded in maintaining control of the massachusetts senate for his party by drawing a state seventh district, that according to the boston gazette in this drawing looked like, quote, a new species of monster. the boston gazette called the new species of monster the gary manner. a lighting the governor's last name with salamander because the guys that said the district linking salisbury with chelsea by and over with shaped like a salamander. the only thing that's changed about gerrymandering in the last 210 years is the pronunciation, th...
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