so we save those cities and towns from having to raise their property taxes or make drastic cuts such as cutting sports in schools. that just happened in one of our communities here in rhode island, all sports were cut. in one of our communities as a result of passing down the state problems to the cities and towns. so i'm not opposed to that. >> senator chaffee is, former republican turned independent, treasurer kay had i, former democrat turned independent. we'll be following your races very closely up there in new england. thank you for joining us. >> happy fourth of july. up next, from demon sheep to gather your armies, we've seen a slew of creative and some might say bizarre political ads. we'll count down the best of the bunch when we return. this is "hardball" only on msnbc.