we make $12,000 a year in the unicameral. so i had a huge pay increase. that's not why they're proud. i think the fact that we picked up -- we picked up the campaign from scratch with about nine months to go and were able to win. i don't think people say, well, he had been there 16 years, my opponent. people wanted to see -- wanted to change and all this sort of stuff. i don't really know if people think about things exactly that way. i think hopefully they thought we offered something. my opponent i have known my entire adult life. he's a good guy. maybe we were just more optimistic. maybe we were just telling the story that we can -- by working together, we can get things done. i think they're proud of that. and i think my children are proud of how i have been committed to tough issues like gay rights, which to me is extremely important. i grew up in the clothing business. and the gay community was to me was very -- well, an important part of the certainly the women's business. my mother was in the women's business. so i grew up seeing the discriminatio

legislaturen the reconvened in here, nebraska had converted from a two house bicameral to a one house unicameral system. the legislature then ceased to use this room as a formal chamber for one of the two houses of the legislature, and this room became a very beautiful, very ornate meeting space or hearing room for the capitol after that point for the legislature specifically. this chamber was originally ornamented in the thematic program through dr. alexander's program to represent the original nebraskan. the west chamber on the opposite side of the rotunda is dedicated to the history and culture of the latter-day mix of races that came here to form the time the -- came here to form the dominant culture of nebraska today, essentially european, asian cultures that form our dominant culture. i think it is particularly singular for dr. alexander in the 1920's, when the concern over the treatment of the native americans in the united states was not even on the public's radar. for him to put emphasis in one of the two public legislative chambers to give the theme of one of those chambers exclusively

the caller has an interesting question in nebraska and that is one state where legislators the unicameral legislature for several reasoink it only has one chamber but they don4 r have party affiliations but yet they still draw maps that seem to provean f- preserve republican and congressional level. so that tells us with that motis wetion but that caller om crawford county pennsylvania so what the republicans have done it used to be the thimet district of peninkve ds wenia and in the last round to put into two pieces with the democratic vote and it is safely republican now. >> host: comments from the conversation so far on twitter. >> it sounds lgh e redistricting should be legal. the founders were smart enough to keep government from becoming a pure democracy from reactiots rry emotions would rule the day. >> and to state politicians and as mucal as the favors own on that process i don't know if they could put anything into the founding documents. argument for the majority is the founders thought deal to the source of power was with the people to broaden the definition of the legislature