the state and theyhad to to sto the project midway. he was blamed. he took responsibility for it and said he would leave the state legislature. t the same time, he broke his engagement with mary. not sure if he could support a wife. but he knew what it meant to hurt to be humiliated. the fact he heard these people, that he hurt his constituents was so painful that he went into a suicidal depression. he stayed in his room for weeks. his friends came and as you say, took away all knives and scissors from his room. his best friends at lincoln, you must rally or you will die. he said i know that. i would just do some dive right now that i've not yet accomplished anything to make any human being the member that i've lived. field by that were the ambition, always from the beginning he had this double ambition. not just for himself or doing something large and that. he will finish out the legislature and then he loses twice for the senate. and yet, instead of the undoing his ambition, he says we've made a mark on its enduring problem of the age. slavery. he has this debate with stephen douglas. and he still losing twice is willing to

when he advised the state legislature on a package of voter laws that was described as being maybe the worst voter suppression package ever passed by a modern state legislature, that was denounced by a federal appeals court as, quote, targeting african-americans with almost surgical precision. you look at the tilt of the playing field, right, you see it nationwide. you see the effects nationwide. and you look at it, you know, see how it plays out state by state. the state by state perversions of the democratic process, this tilting of the playing field, and you think, my god, you know, the structure is messed up, what can be done? but each of these maps, each of these states, they have an author. there are personalities and individuals state by state, law by law, court ruling by court ruling fights behind each one of these skews. and one week from today, the north carolina author of this bias, this skew, this perversion of the democratic process in that state, will be before the u.s. senate, with every senator in the united states senate have a chance to vote yes or no to make him a fe

the state and had to stop the projects halfway. the state went into bankruptcy and debt and he was blamed. he took responsibility for it and he said he was going to leave the state legislature. at the same time he broke his engagement with mary. not sure he could support a wife but also not sure she said that his heart was going with his hand. but he knew what it meant to her to be humiliated and the fact he had heard these people, his constituents was so painful to him that he went into the suicidal depression. and they stayed in his room weeks sometimes for the took all the knives and scissors. -- fueled by the worthy ambition. he always had a double ambition not just for himself but something larger. he returned to finish the final term in the legislature and eventually won a seat in congress. then he loses price for the senate. and yet, instead of it again undoing his ambition he says, we made a mark on these enduring problem of the age, slavery. then he is willing to try for the presidency and the rest as they say is history. >> so he was engaged to marry and the broke up the relationship and why did he decide to go back? if you might talk about his earlier girlfriend

spending cuts of $6 trillion in support a balanced budget amendment which you voted against in the state legislature>> moderator: we are going to talk about the younger generation. south dakota is one of six state governments that do not provide funding for preschool education. what do you see as the state role for preschool and would you support any policy the changes that? noem: we have some challenges in south dakota because we do have the highest rate of working moms in the nation. when both parents are working and outside the home they have challenges with childcare but they also want their child to have an opportunity to get education as well. the state can reflect double allowing opportunities to partner with businesses and allow parents opportunities not just for childcare but also folks to invest and prepare them for the future. i'm not in favor of mandates and i think we need to make sure we are giving opportunities to parents but not mandating anything to them but focusing on the challenges they have in many smaller towns across south dakota in getting those options available for them. >>

the state legislature decided last year that raising the gas tax 12 cents a gallon would help to cover the road repairs that immediate to be done. critics have argued it's an undue burden. yes on 6 would repeal the gas tax and no would leave it in place. over 200,000 vehicles drive daily over this bridge at interstate 280 at lawrence expressway. it's in poor condition. it was built in 1965. it was reconstructed 27 years ago. it's one example of the challenges of keeping up with an aging highway system. >> we need to fix our roads. we need to fix our bridges. we need to make sure our local transit is ready for the task. this is a great opportunity to show the country that california knows how to invest in its future. >> reporter: governor brown is urging a no vote on proposition 6, which would repeal the increase in the gasoline tax. he was joined at a rally today by construction workers and firefighters and democratic lawmakers. 6,500 highway and road projects are under wway in california. their status in jeopardy if it is repealed. >> there are not democrat or republican or independen

something like that, governorships and in the state legislatures, this is interesting. publicans dropped a net loss of five chambers, either state house or senate chambers. democrats picked up six total. republicans went from total control, in other words you have the governorship, house, and senate, republicans had 25 states where they had complete control versus eight for democrats. now it is closer to 21 to 14 where republicans lost four states in terms of complete control and republicans picked up six. we saw republicans picking up, and here i will cheat off of tim story, who is the elections expert at the national conference of state legislatures. the minnesota house, -- i'm sorry, the colorado and maine state senates, the minnesota house, both chambers in new hampshire, and then you have the connecticut senate went from tied to democratic control. this is where it gets complicated, where technically speaking, democrats had a majority in the state senate. rumphere was this rumple group of democrats that gave republicans control of the senate, and the reverse happene

legislature. the majority voted for a democrat to be their state legislature. and nevertheless, the majority of seats in the legislature will go to the republicans. same dynamic at work in north carolina. more people voted for a democrat to represent them in the legislature than voted for a republican. the democratic vote margin is 2.5 points over the republicans. but the republicans will come back with a majority, with 54% of the seats. even though the democrats beat them in the vote. it's because they've tilted the playing field. this is what republicans have engineered all over the country with their control of state legislatures to rig the electoral map so democrats can't ever really get power no matter how many votes they get, no matter how many more votes they get. you see it in all of these state legislatures. and that translates to a national tilt as well, where the democrats have to win by gigantic margins in order to pull in even a modest majority in the u.s. house. nate silver at 538.com today points out the democrats actually had huge turnout in cong

prop seven, this is the proposition that would allow the state legislature with a 2/3 majority and approval from the feds to change daylight saving time. the yes vote here is leading in a significant margin. proposition 8 would regulate kidney dialysis companies. we have seen a lot of ads about this one. this was the proposition that had the most money spent on it. dialysis companies pouring in about $110 million to defeat this proposition and it appears that all of that money and all of that effort is successful. we're not calling this, no one is calling this. but again that's a pretty significant no vote on calling this. but again that's a pretty significant no vote on prop 8 the dialysis proposition. proposition ten has failed. this has been called. it was an effort to repeal a state law that limits the rent control laws that cities and counties can impose. again that will not happen. prop 11 would require private balance companies to have their emt's be on duty and available for emergencies while they're on their meal breaks or their rest breaks. and it appears that this is in good shap

and the state legislature is also tied. so not only would the shift of a single vote determine who wins that seat, the shift of a single vote could also determine which party controls the entire legislature. i love this story out of alaska so much, right? when they realized the democrat and the republican were tied, in the initial count, they did a machine recount of the ballots. it turns out it's tied. after that, they did a recount by hand. after the hand recount, turns out, yeah, it's tied. and then today it was certified as a tie. but here is the incredible drama in this one. this is from the "anchorage daily news" today. so, after the initial results shows a tie and the machine recount shows a tie and the hand recount shows a tie, and it becomes clear that this tie means that the whole legislature is tied, after all of that, they found a vote. what? they found one vote. quote, a single ballot remains uncounted. quote, that ballot was found in a gray secrecy sleeve on election night and was deposited in a ballot box norm

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this is a little different than the state legislature. i served in the legislature for 14 years. it's different. greatly different. they have to do that. i don't know how long it's going to take. but i think leader pelosi by having this communication scheme that -- team that they have done a great job. i'm beginning to see more and more the intertwining between the older folk and younger folk. how long that takes i don't know. i know we're laser focused on making sure that these great people that we -- probably one of the best classes i have seen when i read about them, this is a phenomenal plan. they are ready for action and do i not for one moment get them to be discouraged. thank you all. i enjoyed being here. i hope i gave you enough. >> senate democrats held a closed our meeting to choose their leaders reelecting chuck schumer as minority leader, dick durbin minority whip, patty murray as the assistant leader they spoke to capitol hill reporters.

controls while dealing with the pension crisis that had been hoisted upon the local districts by the state legislature. for the last 15 years i lead a program at a national law firm where it's been my privilege to supervise the donation of a quarter billion dollars to people and organizations that would otherwiswouldn't otherwiso afforder it. we helped hundreds of thousands of refugees that make our prcommunities better. congress isn't listening so that's why i decided to crawl over theag fence again. i need to call to get over it so that's why i've asked for your vote on november 6. thank you. [applause] just a point of clarification after i said what i said i had realized you all knew what i was talking about. the questions are one minute. what is the primary reason that you want to be a congresswoman and what's above all else do you want to do in washington and please be as specific as possible regarding policies you advocate or actions you would undertake. you can speak as quickly as you want. my frustration they couldn't work across the aisle. i was appointed by the governor wolf to serve on the

and the state legislature is also tied. so not only would the shift of a single vote determine who wins that seat, the shift of a single vote could also determine which party controls the entire legislature. i love this story out of alaska so much, right? when they realized the democrat and the republican were tied, in the initial count, they did a machine recount of the ballots. it turns out it's tied. after that, they did a recount by hand. after the hand recount, turns out, yeah, it's tied. and then today it was certified as a tie. but here is the incredible drama in this one. this is from the "anchorage daily news" today. so, after the initial results shows a tie and the machine recount shows a tie and the hand recount shows a tie, and it becomes clear that this tie means that the whole legislature is tied, after all of that, they found a vote. what? they found one vote. quote, a single ballot remains uncounted. quote, that ballot was found in a gray secrecy sleeve on election night and was deposited in a ballot box norm

this is a little different than the state legislature. i served in the legislature for 14 years. it's different. greatly different. they have to do that. i don't know how long it's going to take. but i think leader pelosi by having this communication scheme that -- team that they have done a great job. i'm beginning to see more and more the intertwining between the older folk and younger folk. how long that takes i don't know. i know we're laser focused on making sure that these great people that we -- probably one of the best classes i have seen when i read about them, this is a phenomenal plan. -- class. they are ready for action and do i not for one moment get them to be discouraged. thank you all. i enjoyed being here. i hope i gave you enough. history ofstudy the memphis, tennessee, there is pre-april 4, 19 60 eight and post april 4, 1968. ♪ ♪ ♪ place of ais was the lot of racial tension but it was also the place of lot of racial harmony. been no cotton economy, there might not have been the need for a transportation hub so without cotton, memphis might not have existed in t

sevenemocrats picking up governorships, and in the state legislatures, this is interesting. republicans dropped a net loss of five chambers. republicans went from total control, you have the governorship, the house, the senate. republicans had, before the election, 25 states where they had complete control versus only eight for democrats. 21 to 14.closer to publicans lost for states. up six.s picked we saw a republicans picking up -- i will cheat off of tim's story, the elections expert at the national conference. -- thenesota house colorado and maine state senate. the minnesota house, both chambers. senate, the connecticut it went from tied to democratic control. this is where it gets complicated, or technically speaking democrats had a majority in the state senate but there was a rub group of democrats that aligned with some republicans and that effectively gave republicans control of the senate. the reverse happened in alaska. those have flipped over. this was -- normally in midterm the average loss of chambers for president's party was 12. this looks like it's going to be

the state budget works. that bill i carried in the legislature was done to protect farmers. to make sure they weren't going to be taxed off their land. that bill moved assessments from sales to productivity, which every ag organization and the state-supported because they recognized they wouldn't be able to afford their property taxes. i worked with our ag organizations to protect farmers and the fact that he is comparing property taxes today versus what they were back then shows the economy grew and the economics house that happened -- of how that happened is not something you understand. i am concerned that that bill you are twisting to make it look like it is the opposite, if we had never done that, farmers and ranchers would pay higher taxes. mr. sutton: only in washington politician can say i will keep your taxes low while raising your taxes. i know the budget very well. i served on the appropriations committee and i worked with governor to guard to balance the state budget. unlike in washington dc, where we have the highest deficit we have ever seen. ms. noem: you voted

i've been trying to get more women into the state legislature and this summer on the campaign we had an internship program bringing kids in throughout the district of various ethnicities and gender to work on the political campaign along with a program called democracy summer so working on diversity issues as part of whais part of what iy whole career and i would continue to do so. one major way to do that is by registering for public funding for campaigns. it's been shown in the states that have adopted it funding helps increase diversity. >> next question how would you address the opioid crisis in the country? >> there's not a person here that hasn't been at it by the crisis in some ways. it is overwhelming and insidious and everywhere. i have a young nephew who became addicted to heroin and if it were not from ou for mark and he wouldn't be with us now. in conversations with him and medical professions, we need to look at the injection site and make sure it is readily available and make sure there is medical coverage and beds for people that are ready for treatment so they can get

in fact voters here in tennessee have elected one of the most conservative state legislatures in the country. mark is a republican state senator so you have businesses right now they have signs to say no gays allowed. i don't know and that's allowed in the state the businesses can say. they're not doing business for people who happen to be gay i'm not seeing any of those signs if somebody says that you know what they don't want to do business with me because i'm a christian that's for whatever reason you know that's going to be their option. business is there to make a profit there's a lot of people trying to change who we are and i want to stay with the roots of the principles that that we were founded on and i believe that when you say change who we are who is we and. who are wave what you mean by that change who we are ok i believe that we are a christian nation and i believe that our roots of come from is the christian values and religious freedom. and i think that there's people that are at this point and they would love to take the opportunity to take god completely out of the c

rick tyler, in looking at the state legislature, the governorships, we don't focus so much on it becauselook so nationally. if democrats are able, and they were, to take over state legislatures, how does that affect things going forward. what sort of influence and control will they have? >> it's very dramatic because as you say rgs , we focussed on elections and who gets elected. they come from the state legislature. these are the benches that the party ies have to draw. i think this is much more than the republicans had a bad election cycle. the republicans drew a great map by lottery. a third of the senate is elected every two years and the republicans drew a ter rrific m. they were on offense and the democrats were on defense which explained why the republicans picked up seats. we lost over 300 state legislatures. what is happening is i don't think this is just a one time bad election. this is a generational realignment. what's happening is white, affluent, educated voters have joined with mie nnorities and voting democratic. that will be difficult for the republican party to reverse.

in the senate offsets the devastating losses he faced in the house, the governorships, and the state legislatures, and to not even be able to win a majority of the senate the in states he won in 2016 is bad math. it's nice spin. no one should buy it. so, i know the president just spent an hour and a half yelling at some of you, but also trying to spin the results by talking about how great he is and how great his party did. but if i am him or the republican party looking at 2020 and beyond, i would be very, very nervous. about what lies ahead. you are first. >> what about the decision requesting him to resign? sen. schumer: i would say this. i just heard the news, but i would say this, protecting robert mueller and his investigation is paramount. it would create a constitutional crisis if this were a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the mueller investigation, and i hope president trump and those he listens to will refrain from that. let's see what we should do here. i know you will want to have other questions on this, but let's do first the subject i talked about and then on this, and then

. >>> there's a bill in the state legislature to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes pick state senator jerry hill will introduce the bill when the legislature reconvenes next week the goal is to stop the growing use of e-cigarettes by teenagers. the law would ban sales in retail stores and vending machines. violators would face fines of up to $600 for a first offense. >>> several bay area restaurants are celebrating. they were awarded a shell and stars more than 50 bay area restaurants earned at least one star in the latest michelin guide and eight earned three stars. as jana katsuyama tells us, one of the chef's honored is making history. >> reporter: the moment so many chefs work a lifetime to achieve finally came for dominique on thursday pick the first woman in the usa to get three michelin stars. success savored with friends and staff at her restaurant at the michelin party thursday night. san francisco's finest culinary talents gathered to celebrate and reflect on the moment, professional and personal. >> i spoke to maymont today and was very emotional. >> reporter: the chef said

. >> just building off of commissioner ronen's questions regarding intervention from the state legislature. i'm sorry if i don't know this. by the cpuc has an authority that is not changeable by the state legislature. how does that work? is that correct? >> i'm hesitant to speak to the cpuc's authority and what the legislature can do their. but with respect to our issue, i think there is a broader -- it is a broader cpuc authority question but then there is also the legislature that can direct the cpuc to determine the fee in certain ways. to change its determination of the fee. i think that the way the law has been crafted there is some discretion there. there some specificity but it could certainly be more specific it could be more prescriptive. >> thank you, so much. >> any other questions? seeing none. thank you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] >> i don't think we need to take an action on this. ok. can you please call item number 4. >> item four is an update and presentation on the emerging mobility services labor city scope. >> thank you. i would like to egg invite our executive direct

the secretary of state. the democrat candidate stacey abrams, until recently was the democratic leader in the state legislature. the last few georgia governors races have been close. they've all been decided by roughly 200,000 votes. heading into this election, though, as georgia's secretary of state, brian kemp has taken a meat ax to the voter rolls in georgia, trying to disqualify as many voters as possible. the last races in the state were decided around 200,000 votes. last year alone brian kemp took 670,000 people off the voting roles. and as we headed into this election season with him as the election candidate for governor, and with him and his office still administering this election, even though he is running in it, we learned that his office had taken more than 50,000 new applications for voter registrations and essentially just stuck them in a desk drawer somewhere in his office, put them all on hold in pend status. more than 50,000 registrations. that led to calls not just from his opponent stacey abrams, but also from former georgia governor and former president jimmy cart they're brian kemp should

and bottle washer for the state that did more to prevent people particularly african americans from voting than any other state the congressional maps run by the republican legislature was so bad that even this conservative supreme court struck them down and with that restrictive id law passed only after the republican state legislature requested race specific data so they could tailor it because this is despicable after knocking out to african-american women nominees to this district which is 27 percent african-american that they may - - nominate someone with this track record. every senator, democrat or republican or conservative or liberal should be disturbed that mr. farr has been involved often directly in multiple attempts to disenfranchised communities of color. voting rights are sacred at the root of the mighty oak we call american democracy and if it eats its own roots the tall and mighty tree will eventually fall. generations of americans have given their lives to extend the right to vote and maintain the right to vote we should be a democracy and to lefevre race or creed or color is despicable and the nomination of mr. farr is despicable itself. as stacy

she's the first native american democratic woman ever elected to the north dakota state legislature. ms. buffalo says her mom, her sisters, her aunt, her uncle, her cousins, they all live on reservations in the state, all places very much affected by randy boening's bill. joining us now is ruth buffalo remember the newly elected state rep, she joins us from bismarck where she is attending legislative meetings. thank you for being with us tonight, ms. buffalo. >> thank you. [ speaking non-english ] thank you, rachel, for having me on. i appreciate it. >> i wanted to ask you about basically the introduction that

the democratic secretary of state partnered with the senior democratic minority state senator, in the legislature and the speaker of the house, mr. fox, who was also african-american, all three of them passed a voter i.d. bill in rhode island which is overwhelmingly democratic and it was signed by the governor who was not a republican. and that law is working well today. i wish we had that kind of cooperation, not just in rhode island but in other states, but this has become have live politicized. i don't think it should be there. are ways to compromise and maybe we can discuss the freedom card and other things coming up in which, rather than spend money on legal lawsuits we can get people i.d.s, clean up the voter rolls, improve the voting machines and give everybody confidence our elections are free and i fair. >> we're talk about access to voting and "the new york times" sunday review is focusing on is issue. pieces, blocking the ballot box and how to make a voter -- remind voters about their ability to cast ballots. does this prevent people from going to the polls? >> we don't want to discour

terms of how districts are reworked inside the united states the biggest difference being that after the two thousand and ten census and with many state legislatures going to the republicans from that point forward gerrymandering started moving in more of a republican direction. partisan gerrymandering has been going on we've since e.t.s. twenty's actually how much of this is suppression how much of this is just party politics is a good question but it is certainly something that the democrats have made a much greater emphasis in their discussions. probably in some ways to help try to motivate their base especially something that would be looking at this new crop of governors come in be trying to stop this process of gerrymandering to stay with us we will be coming back just wanting. to go into all social media produced. because look at this of course it must be a top trend that was an across the u.s. limited maybe the world we're seeing tens of millions of tweets with hashtags like i voted midterm twenty eighteen and just simply hash tag vote people literally all around the world are talking about this election especially young people now people

. >> she ran -- i'm sorry, shortly after she went to law school she ran for the state legislature. she lost. and while she was running for the state legislature, she took a case involving two voters whose registration was denied because of some mix-up about the addresses and so on. she took the case on the eve of the election. she won that case and got free publicity from her friends at the amsterdam news where they were pals of hers. and so they wrote a thing about how she's out there protecting your right to vote. didn't work, she lost anyway in spite of, in spite of that. what else do we have? over here. >> i'm curious -- well, first, i have a little side thing about your great uncle. you said he was a member of the communist party in the '30s, and i just wanted to note that the communist party was very active in fighting the case of the scottsboro boys. >> yes. >> i think it was -- knotts the most -- if not the most prominent, certainly one of the most prominent forces working on that. so when we think of the party, we might, you know, attach it to other ideas. but it's importan

and in the state legislatures, democrats gained at least 332 seats. perspective from our favorite pollster before the election, 58% of the population had a gop governor. after the election, 47% have a gop governor. >>> later today, democrats meet behind closed doors to decide whether nancy pelosi will be the next house speaker. by cnn's comment, 23 democrats have committed to voting against nancy pelosi or abstaining. even so she is widely expected to win the vote. a public vote on the house floor on january 3rd remains filled with uncertainty and intrigue. pelosi winning a letter to -- pelosi penning a letter to fellow democrats asking for their support writing, quote, history is in a hurry, and we need accelerate the pace of change in congress. the public has entrusted us to save our democracy. it begs the question, she says she'll be a transitional figure. transitioning to whom and when, we have no idea. >> right. >>> are russia and ukraine on the brink of war? marshal law kicks in this morning. we'll go live to kiev next. en m, she was pregnant, in

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the north carolina state conference of the naacp v. mccrory he had served as an advisor to the state legislature as it was considering that legislation. arguing before the fourth circuit, farr strongly denied that racial animus towards african americans was a motivation for the voter i.d. law. the court, however, strongly disagreed, and here's what they said. in striking down the law, the court strongly rejected farr's arguments, noting that the law's requirements, quote, target african americans with almost surgical precision, end quote. that's the fourth circuit denying that racial animus -- or confirming that racial animus was part of this. the congressional black caucus foundation expressed its strong opposition to farr's nomination, writing that -- and i quote -- farr has amassed a record that puts him at the forefront of an extended fight to disenfranchise african american voters, end quote. opposition to farr's nomination has been compounded by the history of this particular vacancy, which has been open for a long time -- actually, since 2006. president obama nominated two highly qualified african american women to fill the vaca

the united states congress. >> also -- >> many particular gerrymandering. >> also important when it comes to obamacare. whether or not you want to expand medicaid. >> exactly. >> that's important with the governorships you talked about. also important for the state legislature. >> that's exactly right. if you think about what we're going to see in congress in washington, we're likely going to see gridlock. the policy is going to be happening at the state level on any number of issues and really going to see two americas. red states only doing what they want to do in terms of abortion, in terms of obamacare, as well as in terms of voting rights and have democrats now who flipped some houses in the state legislatures. they're going to be doing very different things with those. >> let's go to anderson cooper with our panel of experts to talk some more. >> thanks. we want to, given that the we had a week now, i want to get more perspective on what happened on election night, what's still going on, how the democrats built on their gains. i want to go to cnn's political director david chalian with that. who voted for the democrats, david? >> yes, you're seeing now this is potentially 37, maybe 38 net gained seateds here. what was underneath that? what was driving

up sevencrats picking governorships, and in the state legislatures, this is interesting. ropped a net loss of five chambers, either state house or senate chambers. democrats picked up six total. republicans went from total , in other words you have the governorship, house, and senate, republicans had 25 states where they had complete control versus eight for democrats. 14 it is closer to 21 to where republicans lost four six.s and picked up we saw a republicans picking up, and here i will cheat off of tim story, who is the elections expert at the national conference of state legislatures. and maine state ,enates, the minnesota house both chambers in new hampshire. and then you have the connecticut center -- senate went from tied to democratic control. technically speaking, democrats had a majority in the state senate. thatou had a rump group gave republicans control of the senate, and the reverse happened in alaska. now those have flipped around. the opposite way. , normally in midterm , the average loss of chambers for a chip -- for a was 12.t's party this looks like it w

country. >> in 2015 claiming hundreds of noncitizens were on the voter roles, kobach convinced the state legislature to make him the only secretary of state in the country with the account power to prosecute election crimes. >> how prevalent is the issue of voter fraud here in the state of kansas? >> the form of voter fraud we see most frequently is double voting. people voting in kansas and in another state in the same election. >> in the three years kobach has had the authority, at least 14 people have been found guilty of voter fraud. most were older, many registered republicans. often owning property in two states. like lincoln wilson, one of kovach's first targets. >> i thought it was a crank call. he says is this lincoln wilson. yes, it is. and he said the secretary of state has filed three felony charges. >> wilson was charged with double voting in three recent elections. >> are you part of a vast conspiracy to sway the election? >> no, not by any means. >> wilson is a businessman who owns real estate in kansas and colorado. since 2004, he's made the drive back and forth across state lines. h

states and one territory that defaulted on their debt in the early 1800s because they have given up massive subsidies to railroads and the canal building companies and ended up going into default. the state legislatures passed constitutional gift clauses that say public funds cannot be used for private purposes. whatthe intervening years has happened is we just kind of drifted away from this in the legal interpretation of what a public use of money is. it has become more watered down to the point we are able to use anything as a public purpose for purpose. -- for the public purpose. company condemned agricultural land to say it was blighted so they can use eminent domain to move people out of their homes to build a new foxconn plant. that is an egregious example but it is the worst example of how public use has gotten water down -- watered down for private enterprise. host: what is the worst thing people can expect in virginia and new york because of amazon moving their hq2 headquarters? i your rents? -- higher rents? what are taxpayers looking at? guest: probably all of those things. higher rent, worst traffic. that comes in the city growing over time. higher taxes than otherwise would be possible c

she ran for the state legislature and lost. he registration was denied and took the case on the eve of the election from her friends at the amsterdam news said she wrote about protecting the right to vote. i have a little side thing is that the remember of the party and i wondered does the communist party is very active in fighting the cases? it's one of the prominent forces working on that so when we think of the party is important to remember that history also. but i was curious how your father talked about his brother. >> let me say this about the communist party. a lot of intellectuals were connected in the 20s and 30s, in fact they came out for equal rights back around the time i remember exactly when it was i think it was around 1920 or so. there were a lot of black intellectuals at the tim of thee soviet union established and they saw hope in future and traveled and studied for a while and tried to burn. most of these people after a few years decided that wasn't the way they would double down so we look for example entry

and the state legislature, voted to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. my first year in the legislature regurgitated three and was a leader in moving us towards full marriage equality, which i believe we should have at the national level as well. i think it is clear from what my opponent has stated that if the trump administration starts to roll back protections or rules currently in place for lgbt citizens that she will not stand up to the trump administration on that. i think that's very unfortunate, because people have bravely and courageously come forward to talk about who they are. their freedom to do that without harassment or fear of intimidation or discrimination is something that is very central to our basic constitution. i believe that we would not have those protections today had they not courageously stood up and told their stories, people like my own sister, and so i will fight for them in a congress. would need a member of congress who will stand up to them. moderator: you have another 30 seconds if you would like to add anything. >> i thin

the legislators ared 2020. in some states you may see some of those reforms in kansas. i know the republican legislaturepassed a medicaid expansion. the biggest change from a public policy point of view is that red states that have not expanded medicaid are now going to do it. it would add enormous numbers to the roleses and potentially be the future hold on the budget. >> it will be really expensive for them as well. they got hooked into it and then the roles dramatically expanded. future pension reform. they lost eight seats in the state senate. it had been republican-controlled for a long time. lord of all. he surveys. does he move sharply left. he wants to run for president in 2020. he has been perceived as moderate and so forth. especially about the state legislatures. a lot of those are in legislatures. in terms of these reforms. that is a secret to a lot of them. 900 seats for republicans over these years. democrats are claiming they got 350 back. in this election. it is a rebalancing of what it was before obama. but that's a big thing. they gained a bunch of seats in their state legislature. >>