members that he has pledged to push even stricter voter id requirements in a leaked audio recording husted can be heard saying that we need to streamline the number currently eligible voter i.d.'s we do see in the number of i.d.'s that residents can legally show to prove their identity and voting eligibility it's bad enough the husted got away with changing early voting hours no iow the fact that he wants to continue his and the g.o.p. is warren voting lap it's very very.

secretary husted crusade to marginalize urban often often african-american voters is just one reminder of the systematic attempt to suppress the people whose voices need to be heard the most especially in the economic downturn that this country is facing and that is why secretary of state john husted is our villain of the day. my. now a major point of contention in the middle east has been the expansion of israeli settlements in violation of international law and palestine is gaza strip and the west bank now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is intending to enact a report issued earlier this month to legalize settlements in the occupied west bank under israeli law this recent settle the vellum and the palestine israel situation brings us to another recent tragedy. an israeli judge ruled last week that the state would accept no responsibility for the death of rachel corrie the twenty three year old american activist who was run over by a military bulldozer in two thousand and three protests at the demolition of palestinian homes in the gaza strip in effect cory's become an inter

i really think confuses voters is the answer to this perplexing question why why would secretary husted make it harder to vote when he should be making it easier well i'll tell you why because as long as the people who have the luxury of voting during the week can vote as long as those who can take an hour off at lunch or drive after a day at their nine to five salaried job can vote should get a balance representation of the people right but what about the masses of urban voters who work not one but two day jobs at minimum wage and who don't have the privilege of having a car what about them the intent to marginalize virt voters is real but it's not only happening in ohio if you live in texas florida south carolina or pennsylvania it's happening in your state to secretary husted crusade to marginalize urban often often african-american voters is just one reminder of the systematic attempt to suppress the people whose voices need to be heard the most especially in the economic downturn that this country is facing and that is why secretary of state john husted is our villain of the day. n

now, the obama campaign is taking husted to federal court.judge and told every county in the state to keep the polls closed. no early voting no matter what. but today, husted apologized, maybe he realized he can't ignore a federal court directive. the judge ordered him to personally come to the next hearing and this afternoon, husted assured the court he will comply with its findings. at this point, we still don't know if 93,000 people will get to vote the weekend before the election. the court will have to decide. he's also confusing voters in the city of toledo. he refuses to decide where they're going to put the voting sights in lucas county. the county is deadlocked and husted won't break the tie. democrats want the polling site downtown. republicans oppose that because they think it will make it just too easy for democrats to vote. we are 60 days away from this election, and the republicans can't even agree on a polling site in one of ohio's biggest cities. go figure. let's be joined by ohio state senator nina turner. great to have you w

today officials that husted fired are fighting back.ongly fired for refusing to file early voting hours. joining me are the two democratic election officials fired by the ohio secretary of state. thanks to both of you for being on this show. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thomas, let me start with you. why did you file this lawsuit today? >> well, we think the secretary of state is wrong in his actions. we think that we did not disobey the order and all we attempted to do was to ensure that early vote was allowed here in our county as we have done in the previous election. >> so, dennis, you're really just doing what you always did. were husted's moves that you continued the traditional way. what would be the impact of voters in ohio to what husted did or is trying to do? >> what he's trying to do, in my opinion, is to suppress the vote. meaning that we had 29,000 people that voted early in montgomery county alone and 100,000 across a state. and by limiting the number of hours that they can vote early or by taking away weekends, it limi

husted's attention. he rescinded his original order and he filed a new brief with the court in which he apologized to the court for any misimpressions. he also asked for a stay of the court's order that ohio restore the early voting rights. while john husted is very, very sorry and would like very much not to be held in contempt of court in ohio, he would also like to not restore the three days of early voting right before the elect where last time around, 93,000 people voted in ohio, including a large number of african-american voters who were voting for barack obama. in terms of voters knowing the basics of what to expect in ohio, knowing when they can stroet, it's a mess right now and ohio is going to be really important this year, and it's getting late in the game. then there's virginia. virginia has been weird all year. for quite different reasons. virginia essentially did not have a primary for the republican presidential nomination this year. getting on the ballot in ver virginia is hard. the stat

that residents can legally show to prove their identity and voting eligibility it's bad enough the husted got away with changing early voting hours no iow the fact that he wants to continue his and the g.o.p. is warren voting lap it's very very. sad exactly breaking news but americans ever largely lost faith in their government congress's approval rating is at an historic low of ten percent and the supreme court's approval rating according to a rasmussen poll the spawn is nearing its own historic low at just twenty nine percent but luckily for these institutions i have the perfect plan to boost the approval ratings of both impeach associate justice antonin scalia. just a few months after unethically blasting the president of the united states from the bench over the president's proposal to save young undocumented immigrants from deportation justice scalia is added again making a very good case for his own impeachment it happened during a writers interview on tuesday first here's what scalia said about politics on the high court some people. in recent months have criticized the court as be

husted is failing a court decision to make those days available in ohio.re available without incident in 2008 and without incident in 2010, they were available without incident in this year's republican primary, but he wants to get rid of them now that barack obama will be on the ballot. his appeal of that decision means that voters are 57 days out from the election with no clear idea of when exactly they will be allowed to vote. he's getting help from an outside lawyer from washington, d.c. a liberal ohio blog reported out last week that you can find this same lawyer they have flown in, you can find him arguing for a county in alabama and for the state of florida. both in cases where key provisions of the voting rights act, they say, should be declared unconstitutional. you want to curtail voting rights in a way that might raise eyebrows? we have just the lawyer for you. we'll fly him in. making voting harder has become kind of an industry if you know where to look. for republicans it's become a real political priority. in iowa republican secretary of sta

you look last year, husted was opposed to voter i.d. supporting at the tea party conference this week. just last june, he said, same guy, that we caught on these tapes, i would rather have no bill than one with a rigid photo identification provision that does little to protect against fraud and excludes legally registered voters' ballots from counting. so is this just politics? he has gone from opposing rigids through now he is championing them. is he lying in the far right to get a nomination for governor of ohi ohio? >> rev what a difference a year make. these laws they want to enact no proof these laws do anything to deal with in-person voter fraud. as a matter of fact, in 2010, there was one instance, rev, out of 3 -- out of roughly 3 million votes cast, of in-person voter fraud. that is 00000025.0000000025%. people see report more ufo sightings than they do in-person voter fraud. reverend, they are pulling out all the stops to suppress the vote to confuse. they do not care how they win this vote. they are rigging the election and i

the state's republican secretary of state, jon husted prohibited.rlier court decision on early voting. i want to bring in ohio state house reporter for "columbus dispatch." good morning. >> good morning. >> you reported this news late yesterday, so is this the end or is it just another twist? >> this is definitely not the end yet. regardless of whatever directives are issued or rescinded at this point by secretary husted what matters now is what the sixth circuit court of appeals does with this issue. this stemmed from a lawsuit that the obama campaign and ohio democrats filed trying to get those last three days of voting restored. a federal district judge ordered they should be restored because not doing so was an equal protection clause violation. but the state has now appealed that to the sixth circuit court of appeals and that's where it stands now. really, that is going to be the important decision. >> as most people know the reason democrats and the obama campaign have fought these laws because they say it keeps people generally poor, generall

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. >> joining us now is ohio's republican secretary of state, jon husted.the schedule stand now for early voting in ohio? >> well, early voting starts tuesday. for the first time ever, every single voter in the state receives an absentee ballot request. we expect on the first day of absentee voting on tuesday that a million ballots will go out to voters. they will have essentially five weeks and over 750 hours to vote from home. 230 hours over the course of five weeks to vote in person, plus all day on election day. it's really never been easier to vote in ohio. we expect everything will go quite smoothly. >> it was indeed easier in 2008 when people had that saturday, sunday and monday to vote. let's get to what you might have heard from the state senator and said this law is meant to suppress that vote. a lot of people voted in that weekend in 2008. what was wrong with the 2008 schedule that it had to be cut this year? >> do you know, frankly, the reason is because the boards of elections on a bipartisan basis actually asked for those three days to account

this comes after ohio's republican secretary of state john husted says he would defy the judge's rulingl officials from setting up more early voting. which the judge said they should do. it's amazing. but it's just the latest move he's taken to suppress the vote. last week he fired to board members. here's what they told me about why they were willing to lose their jobs for voting rights. >> it's as i explained to my children. i can get another job, but i can't get another conscience. and the right thing to do here is to have early voting. >> in 2008 we had 28,732 people participate in early vote here in montgomery county. all we were attempting to do was give the voters the right to vote. >> meantime in north carolina, the board of elections voted this week to expand early voting in seven different counties. the three democrats voted to expand hours and surprise, surprise. the two republicans voted to restrict them. in florida and georgia they've already cut down early voting hours. we have to work every day from here on out to make sure that every citizen that wants to vote gets the c

republican secretary of state john husted initially blocked local officials from complying with the court and even issued an apology. he still plans to appeal. but this is a big victory for ohio voters. but it makes you wonder. what happened to the republican party? the party of abraham lincoln? the party of frederick douglas? today i was struck by a powerful column about doug lasts in the new york times. written by david blight. blight described how douglass fled back in the 1830s. his name then was frederick bailey. he says quote, this fugitive slave was effectively an illegal immigrant in massachusetts. susceptible under federal fugitive slave law. to capture and return to slavery at any time. despite this, frederick bailey was determined to vote as a free man. he knew he couldn't use his own name. so instead he took a big risk. changing his last name in douglass so he could exercise his right to vote. frederick douglass could have stayed in the shadows. he could have kept a low profile. but instead douglass risked his own freedom and went to the polls. he would eventually become the g

. >> rose: you quote conrad husted "i must live until i die." >> yes, one of the characters in his books said this and it became a motto for me to keep going and i think-- a thing that i'm proud of in those years is that i managed to continue with my work as a wter and i wrote quite a lot of books and i wrote a novel for my son, a young adult novel, i wrote a collection of short stories "east/west." i wrote three novels. all of that work was done during this very difficult time. and i also think-- i mean, i set myself the task of trying to continue to be the writer i've always been. not to succumb to fear and write scared little books. not to succumb to anger and write vengeful tracts. go on down your road, i told myself. >> rose: the book is dedicated to your children. this is in part a book to-- so they know the full story? >> yes, yes. it is. both of them have read it. i think they both like it. i think both of them are a little weirded out by it, having so much of their family story out there in public. >> rose: (laughs) yes, they're probably weirded out by that. >> but for instance

about september or so truman goes along the -- and i'm not sure stephenson won them on the hustings and he goes on the charge that he is a snarly costs are. starley guster is apparently a fighting warrior in the midwest and no one else would have any idea what it is but eisenhower and truman would have an i.d. and apparently this is a fighting word. and snarly guster means something like kind of a turncoat. is the idea that ike would work with democrats and now he's running as a republican and so forth. this, truman knew how to get under eisenhower skin and so he did in 1952 and i think that contributed to the very frosty relations. >> david is quite right to point out that truman is from missouri and very similar but truman began his career working at a bank, working in kansas city. his roommate for the first year was arthur eisenhower, eisenhower's oldest brother. they live together in the same room. the same rooming house. been back there is a document that is in the war papers and i don't know how many historians have seen this one but it was a message in effect being relayed to eis

voter has done everything they possibly can, they have taken their personal responsible as secretary husted often says, they have registered to vote, showed up at the correct polling place and then directed to the wrong precinct through no fault of their own. you can no longer throw out those ballots. >> that had previously been the way that ohio was operating, that even if it was no fault of your own, they told you to vote in the wrong place, that would result in your ballot being thrown out, but that will now be counted as a provisional ballot, as a properly ballot? >> it was a provisional ballot. cast in the wrong precinct will not be thrown out if in fact it was poll worker error. ohio law is very clear. the poll workers have the responsibility to direct voters to the correct polling place. they also have the responsibility to make sure their provisional ballot application is completed correctly. that's another provision of the lawsuit that was just passed. that provisional ballots that do nod have the signature in the right place or maybe left their name off but you can still determine

and so he goes out on the hustings, and even though sick and ill, this, it seems to me, is something that was the meaning of his life. and so he literally, almost, dies as a political candidate who's interested in having some kind of a public office. i've often thought maybe that was because he didn't serve in the civil war. c-span: 'so you've made it, you indomitable little tiger.' see if you remember this. 'i could bite your ear'... >> guest: oh, gosh. c-span: ... 'with savage jaw. i know what it means to win when people smiled and had no faith, just damnable courtesy. why this napoleonic, "i'll found an empire?" must caesar forever gather laurels to be happy? is this father jealousy love healthy? profit my heart, profit from the lessons of your inher.'--who is this? >> guest: this is another one of those love letters that we've been reading. this is a letter that adlai stevenson, who--i'm not sure whether he'd been elected governor, but--or he was about to be elected governor in 1948--wrote to one of his intimates and that's, of course, alicia patterson guggenheim, with whom he ha

a refused ask more than three and 65,000 of hustings to pay more for college or take children out ofead start programs or eliminate health insurance for millions of americans who are poor or elderly or disabled just to pay for a tax cut for wealthy folks who do not need its. -- who do not need it. and i will never turn medicare into a voucher. you know, folks have worked hard their whole lives. they should not be spending their golden years at the mercy of an insurance company. they should retire with dignity and respect, and yes, we have to reform and strengthen medicare, but we have to do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by dumping the costs on to seniors. we will keep the promise of social security by taking responsible steps to strengthen it, but we will not turn it over to wall street. now, rebuilding our economy is essentials, but our prosperity at home is linked to our policies abroad, and current events remind us of that. four years ago i promised to end the war in iraq, and we did. i said it is time for us to wind down the war in afghanistan, and we are. we have g

ritchie, were dismissed last month for moving to extend early voting after ohio secretary of state jon husted, a republican, announced all counties would follow uniform hours for early voting on weekdays. but since this order only applied during the week, ritchie and lieberman moved to expand voting times on the weekend. critics have said the state's uneven hours benefit white republicans, while disenfranchising people of color. president obama won montgomery county in 2008. a federal judge struck down ohio's effort to prevent early voting the weekend before the election late last month, but ohio has filed an appeal. >> campaigning in ohio on monday, republican nominee mitt romney continue to push his vow to revive the u.s. economy if elected. >> the place in this economy will come back, we're going to start creating jobs again. you will see as have a balanced budget. that is actually within the realm of reality. we will get americans to work with higher wages again. you will be confident in your child's future is brighter, even then in the past. america does not have to have a long face we h