WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With WUNC's Jason deBruyn

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii

Published June 16, 2017 at 3:24 PM EDT

This week on the WUNCPolitics Podcast, a conversation about redistricting and gerrymandering.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that threw out 28 House and Senate districts as unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered. By drawing districts carefully, Republicans in the General Assembly were able to win nearly two-thirds of seats, enough for veto-proof majorities in both chambers, while winning only slightly more than half the total popular votes.

Jeff Tiberii chats with WUNC reporter Jason deBruyn about the likelihood of a special session.Jeff Tiberii talks with WUNC's Jason deBruyn about redistricting and gerrymandering.

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Jeff Tiberii first started posing questions to strangers after dinner at La Cantina Italiana, in Massachusetts, when he was two-years-old. Jeff grew up in Wayland, Ma., an avid fan of the Boston Celtics, and took summer vacations to Acadia National Park (ME) with his family. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. His experience with NPR member stations WAER (Syracuse), WFDD (Winston-Salem) and now WUNC, dates back 15 years.

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