slade dan evans, joe, they only if they couldn't do something to prevent greed from winning once again, authority league of women voters, the republican party would be reduced to a minority party over the next decade. the redistricting wars. all of this comes full circle because two of my best sources were dean foster who, at the time was a young college stude student, to bob, to professor mccurdy who was slade's aid and later we'll talk about what it was like to do redistricting in 1963 versus 2012. it seems like it's almost become like he is there with all these amazing things happen. a coup d'État in 1963 that toppled the speaker of the house, john o'brien. he met john goldmark, and became friends and his favorite debating partner with a very liberal democrat who stood accused of just amazing libelous things, in terms of communist politics. and that led to slade's friendship with built water, an absolute brilliant young attorney who defended goldmark and his wife against the charges that they were communists, dudes, tools of economies theory i think the phrase was. by the way, slade

in fact, dan evans the bloc bucker -- block buster new york times piece why i was heaving the -- leaving the united states senate. he didn't get into the bush cabinet. vanity fair has a new article on the topic how much more polarized things are. it was certainly a-- appear to be that. we do one other thing in the bipartisanship way in the state. you came together again recently to redistrict our congressional boundaries. and we do not have things making 200 miles through the state. we do not have, you know, republicans of gary ohio, the republicans of illinois, or north carolina but we have a two-two-one system. two people from each party yourself and mr. foster being from opposite parties, of course. and -- no we don't have a tie breaker. and but the legislature of the in 19 60s. with the best single system in the united states. and largely it is because there is no tie breaker. we one of only two or tree states ha has an even number of numbers, you know, drawing the lines. so where there's a tie breaker, the two parties don't talk to .. go legislative districts in vancouver up to that