He said politicians should pick the voters. He did say it. They clapped. Damn them all to hell.
I think he screwed it up. He didn’t say the text. More like this
Karen Malina White â€@karen_malina 19m19 minutes ago
“We have to end changing congressional districts so the politicians pick their voters instead of voters picking their politicians”
and I heard it to mean they should be allowed to pick their voters and maybe he meant they shouldnt be allowed.
He was calling for an end to gerrymandering:
“We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around. We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can’t bankroll our elections — and if our existing approach to campaign finance can’t pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution. We’ve got to make voting easier, not harder, and modernize it for the way we live now. And over the course of this year, I intend to travel the country to push for reforms that do.”