Gerrymandering And Recruiting: A Candidate ME Conversation With Sen. Jackson

WFAE | By Tom Bullock

Published August 10, 2017 at 4:01 AM EDT

A select group of state lawmakers returns to Raleigh this morning, to hold another public meeting on redistricting.

They are working to correct 28 state Senate and House districts the U.S. Supreme Court found to be illegal racial gerrymanders.

Gerrymandering was the subject of a recent episode of our podcast "Candidate ME." Host Tom Bullock talked with state Senator Jeff Jackson about the practice, and how the Democrat from Mecklenburg County hopes to take advantage of the new maps in order to break the Republican supermajorities in the state legislature. This segment is an excerpt of that conversation.

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Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.

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