SC Legislators who voted for pay raise: Virginia passed a redistricting law

What this episode covers

00:02 All right, somebody asked me which one of these hardworking, successful Senate members in Columbia voted to give themselves an 80 % raise. Well, here they are. Brian Adams, Thomas Corbin, Michael Gambrel, Daryl Jackson, Margie Bright Matthews, Ed Sutton, Overture Walker, Carl Allen, Tamika Isaac Devine, Jeffrey Graham, Matthew Lieber, 00:32 Russell Ott, Dionne Tetter, Kent Williams, Alan Blackmon, Jason Elliott, Brad Hutto, Shane Martin, Ronnie Saab, Daniel Verdun, and Jeff Zell. Those were the people who thought they were doing such a great job in Columbia in the Senate that they deserved a big fat raise. Good for you guys. Must be nice. Must be nice. So anyway, there you go. 01:01 So also yesterday, the Commonwealth of Virginia had a referendum about redistricting. And this passed. 01:15 I am absolutely sickened by this. I really am sickened by it. 01:28 because now this is going to, um is it going to allow them, the Democrats, to pick up four House seats in the midterms, in the midterm. 01:45 Yes, it was heavily funded, heavily funded by George Soros, heavily funded. right. But this is, it's nuts, especially when you can consider we had the chance to do something like this here in South Carolina. We could have negated, uh we could have negated one of those seats in Virginia that are going to go to the Democrats. 02:16 We could have done that here in South Carolina. 02:21 But our governor did not see any sense in it. 02:26 He didn't see any sense in doing that. Our state legislature, they didn't see any sense in that. 02:34 Well, I asked Pegget, I said, Pegget, do you all think we ought to do away with Jim Clyburn's district? And she said, Henry, just shut up and eat your oatmeal. So that's what I did. 02:46 And Henry shut up and he ate his oatmeal. 02:50 didn't do anything about it. I don't understand. I don't understand. Well, I'll give you a perfect example. A perfect example. This is what the Democrats are planning. Here is Abigail Spamberger over on, I think it's CNN. Do you worry that states, districts all over the country now will just go tit for tat trying to do this? Not every 10 years, but whenever they feel the need. I certainly think that that is a fair concern, which is why 03:19 Absolutely, when Democrats take a majority in the House of Representatives, my hope and expectation will be that there will be serious conversations about redistricting reforms and the process by which uh all 50 states will take on redistricting efforts. But I think essential to the conversation, as I mentioned, in Virginia was our commitment to our bipartisan commission. And so I think it's important that every step along the way 03:46 We weren't saying, okay, this is the new normal of this. That's exactly what you were saying. That's exactly what she is calling for a full 50 state redistricting plan when the Democrats take the House. 04:03 And right now it's not looking like an if, it's looking like a win. So what could, now President Trump's still got a couple of things he can do here to kind of negate this. We'll get to that a little bit later on in the show. But what were the Republicans doing this whole time? 04:23 HB 29 passed the legislature signed by Governor Abigail Spamberger, flips Virginia's house delegation, six to five, from six to five to 10 to one. It was six Democrat districts, five Republican districts. Now it's 10 Democrat districts and one Republican district. This thing cost 62, 04:52 million dollars. That is $40.30 per vote. 05:00 Meanwhile, the Republicans spent about 20 million, about $13.60 a vote. 05:09 So what were they doing? What were they doing with all of that money? Well, they weren't fighting this. You know what they were doing? You know what the RNC was doing? Lord, can we get Laura Trump back on the RNC, please? Can we please do that? 05:27 They spent $95 million dollars 05:32 trying to defend John Cornyn in his fight against Ken Paxton in Texas. $95 mil ...

Distinct summary based on available episode metadata or transcript content.