
Update: On Saturday evening, New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin canceled Monday's planned vote on a redistricting bill after significant backlash that accused the Democrat-led legislature of partisan gerrymandering.
As 2018 winds down, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg has a lot on her plate.
The legislature is working on a minimum wage bill that Governor Phil Murphy originally wanted signed, sealed and delivered by year's end. She's co-chair of a legislative committee investigating the hiring of Al Alvarez. He worked for the Murphy campaign and was accused of rape, and then was hired as chief of staff at the schools development authority. And she's preparing for a vote this Monday on a redistricting bill that has inspired a wave of opposition from dozens of organizations, including the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and former Attorney General under President Obama, Eric Holder.
Senator Weinberg joins us on This Week in Politics for an end of the year update. Speaking about the redistricting bill with David Furst, Weinberg says it's not a foregone conclusion that it will move forward on Monday.
She sums up the situation this way:
"There's something in this bill to affront almost everybody. That's not always easy to do. But, apparently, that's what we managed to do."