 Look at these crazy pizzas, that looks sort of like, they're not nearly as bad as the districts here in Maryland, but they're certainly not the way, you know, most people would pick their pizza. Can you open it up to everybody? Can you see them, maybe? There you go. Wow! This one is like a fish. Your tie is so funny. Yeah, it looks really good, though. They look, the shapes are bad, but the pizza looks pretty good. Yeah, you'd want some more crust, though, wouldn't you? Probably, yeah. It's actually really hard to eat. You can't pick it up. You know? So, I'm not sure how you go about that, but thank you. Yes, you're welcome. Yeah, it's kind of like, how they come up with these districts. Ellie, you want to just go ahead and tell the press what you guys are up to and... Sure, we can use the backdrop here. Yeah, absolutely. So, I'm with Represent Us, we're an organization that's national in focus. We work with folks across the political spectrum and we're so grateful to Governor Hogan and also to Fair Maps Maryland board member Jim Branschens, for joining us today. We are taking the truck, Jerry's partisan pizza to states both red and blue to have a conversation about how gerrymandering is occurring. It's a once a decade problem, but it's a very important problem that we want to draw attention to. The pizza is free, but our elections aren't always. And so, we have a statement of, pizza at play shouldn't be able to pick their customers and politicians should not be able to pick their voters. And so, just very grateful to Governor Hogan for your work on this issue and for Fair Maps Maryland on this issue. If you are interested in checking out our partisan gerrymandering threat index, this is a project we're doing with Princeton University that is also available online. Maryland has one of the most extreme cases of partisan gerrymandering, according to that index and nine out of 10 Americans oppose partisan gerrymandering. This is not a red or blue issue. So thank you so much. Thank you. Well, thank you so much. Senator, would you like to say a few words on behalf of Fair Maps Maryland? Sure. Thank you, Governor. First of all, I want to thank the governor and thank Represent Us. This isn't something that I came about overnight. The governor asked me seven years ago when I went to the Senate, when I was in the Senate and he became governor to stand with him and to put in legislation to stop gerrymandering. To make it a little more concrete and on the legislative side, when I ran for office in 2002, I lived in Towson. My district went all the way to Bel Air and Harper County. I mean, that's how gerrymandering was. In 2014, after the Second Redistricting, my district started in Towson and ended in Pennsylvania. So this is congressional, this is legislative, and all these politicians that I served with all the years of the Senate, they all said the same thing when they left the Senate or the House. They said, God, I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway because I was told to do it by leadership or I knew I'd lose my leadership post or I knew I wouldn't get money to help me in my next election. So as Represent Us said, it doesn't work. It's wrong. It gives you polar opposites in the legislative bodies and congressional bodies. And I appreciate the governor representing us. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate Fair Maps and Represent Us, and I am going to look forward to trying that pizza, even though they're very funny shapes, but it's great to be here. I know it's a terrible day, but thank you all for coming out in the wind and the rain. This is such an important issue. It's something we've been fighting for. I've actually been passionate about this for several decades, but I've been trying to fight for it since I became governor seven years ago. We are one of the most gerrymandered states in the entire country. Interesting fact, I didn't even know until a couple of days ago that we've been doing a census in 1790 and never once has a Republican governor overseeing the redistricting process in Maryland. It's the first time. And so whenever it doesn't matter, both parties are guilty of this. Whoever has the power tends to use it to their advantage, but it's just wrong. The politicians should not be picking their voters. The voters should be deciding who represents them. We appointed a nonpartisan independent citizen commission to put together fair maps. I think they've done an incredible job. Same time, we have legislators hiding in a state house over here with some secret maps that we haven't seen. Nobody has seen. No one's been able to comment on it. It's just not the way to do things behind closed doors and smoke-filled rooms, and we're going to keep pushing to make sure that we can get fair maps for the people in Maryland, and that's what we're here for.