Historically been a progressive state, they passed the first assault weapons ban in the nation, these giant. 50caliber militarystyle rifles are legal for sale in new jersey. The legislature this year passed a bill to ban this specific gun in the state. That ban passed overwhelmingly in the legislature. It was supported by editorial pages throughout the state. But, again, tonights breaking news, in an august friday night news dump, traditionally a time when politicians do things that they hope wont get too much notice, new Jersey Republican governor and presumed president ial hopeful Chris Christie has vetoed legislation tonight that would have made militarygrade. 50caliber sniper rifles illegal in the garden state. Now, governor christie also partially vetoed a change to the states medical marijuana laws tonight, sending that back to the legislature. And he did the same thing, a partial veto, with a bill that would require background checks for all gun purchases in new jersey. And hey, who knows whats next . Its only like 9 00 p. M. In a few seconds. Anything could happen when you are trying to friday night news dump things you dont really want to answer for. Check back in over the course of the night as more happens. Meanwhile, though, coming out of chris hayes hour tonight on science and denying science and what that is costing us as a country and as a planet, consider this happy news. On the right is republican senator Lamar Alexander of tennessee. On the left, those little guys that sort of look like caterpillars, they are a species of bug called spring tails. What the republican senator on the right and the fuzzy bugs on the left have in common is plaid. Plaid is in tartan. Plaid is in the pattern on Lamar Alexanders plaid shirt. When Lamar Alexander ran for president in the 1990s, his dpimic, his Signature Campaign trail prop is that he always wore a plaid shirt. And when scientists first discovered these fuzzy bugs in the smokey mountains in 2006, their fuzzy, cross hatch pattern reminded the scientists of Lamar Alexanders plaid shirts. So the bugs were given the scientific name cosberella lamaralexand e lamaralexanderi. The honor was a recognition, kind of a thank you for Lamar Alexanders longstanding support of federally funded scientific research. Yes, he is a conservative guy. But he is an old school conservative guy, who believes that one of the things the government really should invest in is science. Which these days means, yeah, maybe you get a newly discovered species of bug named after you, but it also means in your own party, you are now an endangered species. The wall street journal reporting now that Lamar Alexander has just been served notice by a long list of conservative activist group in his home state, a letter to him and published openly, warning him that he should not even try to run for reelection, because tennessee conservatives are going to primary him and turf him out of office. Quote, our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous. America needs policy makers who will defend conservative values, not work with those who are actively undermining those values. We ask you to conclude your long and notable career by retiring with dig any, instead of fighting against a serious conservative challenger, who would expose to all tennessee voters the actual history of your voting record. And its signed by a whole list of tea party and activist groups in his state. They dont have a challenger to run against him. Theyre trying to scare him out of office by the idea of a rightwing challenger in the abstract. Lamar alexander has an 80 lifetime rating from the american conservative union. He is a rightwing republican politician, but he is not right wing enough and so he must be purged he has occasionally been known to work on legislation that f l actually becomes lu, and that, of course, is an unpardonable sin. For that hard work, including compromise and bipartisanship. That hard work that has contributed to real law and our discovery of things like new species, senator alexander is now being threatened by his own species with extinction, beca e because irony. That process of purging, that purification instinct, that culling of the insufficiently ideological rigid has been a central and fascinating feature of the postbush and cheney Republican Party. After bush and cheney, when it came time to pick a new president ial contender for the Republican Party, the party first tried to graft the candidacy of an establishment republican on to a pretty much unvetted, nationally unknown, but very confrontational and very rightwing running mate. A decision seen now as a disaster, not least by the people who made that decision. By the time the party was ready to try again, that sim instinct, that same drive within the party brought us a primary season that looked like this. When i was deployed to iraq, i had to lie about who i was, because im a gay soldier. Do you intend to circumvent the progress thats been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military . [ audience booing ] your state has executed 243 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times [ applause ] a healthy 30yearold young man decides, you know what, im not going to spend 200 or 300 a month for health insurance. Whos going to pay for, if he goes into a coma, for example, who pays for that . Thats what freedom is all about, taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare and take care of everybody [ applause ] but, congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die . Whoo, yeah let him die then vote for us the republicans picked a nominee in the let em die republican primary last year, and that nominee got clobbered in the general election. While the republicans also lost seats in the senate and also lost seats in the house. And afterwards, there were recriminations and some long, hard looks in the mirror. The National Republican party convened a highlevel study to take what they said would be an unvarnished look at what went wrong and to plan for how to fix it for the future. Quote, if our party is not welcoming and inclusive, voters will continue to tune us out. We should educate republicans on the importance of developing and tailoring a message that is noninflammatory and inclusive to all. Quote, the Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself. Weve become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to likeminded people, but devastatingly, we have lost the ability to be persuasive with or welcoming to those who do not agree with us on every issue. The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself. Weve got to stop just providing ideological reinforcement to likeminded people. That was the plan from the Republican Party in march. Now the plan is to have the republican president ial candidates debate in the next cycle moderated by Rush Limbaugh. Or maybe sean hannity. Or somebody else from talk radio. Today at the National Republican partys annual summer meeting, the Party Chairman got a sustained standing ovation when he declared, we are done putting up with this nonsense he got a standing ovation and then a unanimous vote by the rnc to ban cnn and nbc from carrying any republican president ial candidates debates in the next election cycle. Ostensible reason is because cnn is planning to do a documentary on Hillary Clintons career and nbc entertainment is planning on doing a mini series about Hillary Clintons life, which the New York Times says was to have been produced, actually sort of written and shot and everything, by fox television. So fox would produce it, fox would make the thing, but interestingly, that doesnt bother the Republican Party. The chairman says they only want to boycott cnn and nbc, because because it doesnt have anything to do with Hillary Clinton. Youve got to get rid of mainstream news organizations having anything to do with republican candidates, because, instead, its going to be rightwing talk radio now theyll do the vetting and that is how america will learn what the Republican Party has to offer. These guys. Seem like a plan . The reaction on the left, predictably, is ecstatic. Look at this from daily kos today. The headline, this is awesome. Quote, theres no reason for the republican crazy machine to have to tone it down, to have a debate hosted by anyone other than their fellow crackpots. Raise the big top, boys, now were really going to put on a show. A Republican PartyNational Election process moderated entirely by the most confrontational, abrasive, takenoprisoners, purification above all part of the republican base. The left, typified by the daily kos is really psyched about this prospect, for obvious reasons. But the Republican Party must see some benefit to this for themselves, or they wouldnt be doing it, with right . How do we understand what that is . Joining us now is abby huntsman. She cohosts the cycle and served as a media surrogate for her father, jon huntsman, in 2012 campaign for president. Good to have you here. My stomach cringes just watching those play back. I was going to put together a hits reel of Rush Limbaugh calling sandra fluke a slut. But you know what the point is here. Why is whats the advantage that im missing . Look, its almost somewhat of an art tishl threat, right . The rnc doesnt actually have the power to approve and to fund these debates. So they can say that all they want, i mean, they can convince the candidates to essentially boycott the debate, but thats not going to happen. So, you know, the party, its frustrating, the party used to have this be confident in their own skin. You know, we used to have, you look at individuals that have paved the way for the Republican Party, like jack kemp. You know, ronald reagan, abe lincoln, teddy roosevelt, imagine them in the meeting this morning when they voted not to have these debates. What would they have said . They probably would have said, what are we doing, guys . What are we doing . Why are we tasting time talking about Hillary Clinton when we have to rebuild our party, when we really need to focus on our own message. So this is one wing of the party that youre talking about that the media is focusing on, but then there is another part that i feel like im part of and many other republicans are part of. And were watching this play out and were saying, this is not where we need to be. But that is what i thought, until there was a unanimous vote at the rnc today to say nbc and cnn cant host republican debates. And there is, i mean, there is a power when it comes to the democratic election and its the democratic nominee versus the trm nominee. But at the republican primary level, if nbc is going to host a debate or cnn is going to host a debate, and the party says, we are going to strip you of your delegates if they participate in that debate, they very well can control that. And a unanimous vote for it, thats what makes this the most important politics story in the country, as far as im concerned. It seems like, i thought this was a fringe thing, but its taken over. Right. But i do think the rnc represents a certain portion of the party. It is the party. But there are a number of republicans, and ill speak for myself, and many others, that are watching this plan and saying, this is frankly ridiculous. If this mini series is ultimately whats going to put Hillary Clinton over the edge in 2012, why are we even getting in the race . Why are we even getting ourselves involved . I understand what Reince Priebus is saying, we need to change the debates. It only made us look bad in 2012. It seems like there were too many. There were 20 debates, there were too many. But the biggest problem was the content. People didnt watch it for education, they watched it for entertainment. Which was rewarding. It was. But we need to get to the point where people arent watching it to watch a clown show, that they arent watching it to see who could be the most conservative, who could throw out the most red meat. Its the Republican National committee, the spokesman for the National Party who is suggesting talk radio hosts as the moderators. If you want it to not be a circus and not be ridiculous, you wouldnt have a rightwing shock jock be the host and say you cant have real reporters do it, real anchors do it. You know you would pay for that, though . Oh, my god, i would pay for it. But having Rush Limbaugh and sean hannity, i kind of want that to happen. Becausie i think that would be moment where the party actually hits rock bottom. I think that would be a time where they could say, we can only rebuild ourselves from here. Im not sure we have hit rock bottom yet. And i know ill get in trouble from folks on the right. But i know there are a number of republicans thinking, something has to change, something has to convince them that this is not the right direction. This is not the direction that is ever going to get us to win a National Election again. I think that would be exciting for a different reason, which is that maybe somebody looking at the sean hannity debate would confront them and say youre bad for the party and we need to be led by elected officials. Rush limbaugh says hes not even going to do it. Hes too famous. Hes not even doing it. Abby huntsman, cohost of the msnbc daytime show, the cycle. Great to have you here. I know this is not the ideal place best place to find my friday night. All right. Happy friday. And because it is friday, and because abby was good enough to stay, the news gods today bring word of a heist. Heist we have a great heist story. And thats next. The Postal Service is critical to our economy. Delivering mail, medicine and packages, yet theyre closing thousands of offices, slashing service and want to layoff over 100,000 workers. The Postal Service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. The problem . A burden no other agency or company bears. A 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post Office Revenue while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. Congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. With diabetes, its tough to keep life balanced. I dont always have time to eat like i should. And the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. Thats why i like glucerna shakes. They have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. 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A little before 3 00 that tuesday morning, three men broke into the museum. You can see them here on the security video. By the time the alarm rang, they were on their way out again, carrying burlap sacks loaded with seven of the most valuable works in the collection. By the time the cops got there, the men were gone. The whole heist took them only 96 seconds for seven paintings. Well, now we know who those men were, because they have been arrested and theyre now standing trial. Some of them have even admitted to being the thieves. Mystery solved, right . But even though the culprits have been found, the problem is that the paintings have not been found. A picasso, a matias, two monets, seven paintings, worth tens of millions of dollars, was obviously very difficult to sell. How do you fence someones stolen stuff that is this unique and this well known . And that is how these guys got caught. Despite the skill with which they made off with the art from the museum, they apparently didnt really think through the rest of the caper and they got nabbed a couple of months after the heist when they were trying to unload this stuff. Right now police have the thieves. They dont have the artwork. And that leads to the most worrying part of this whole story. Look at this headline. Mothers love said to lead to burning of master pieces. The mother of the admitted ring leader of this crime told police that after they arrested her boy, she tooked the paintings and burned them so they could not be used as evidence against her son. Everyone is hoping, of course, that olga, the mom, is lying about burning the paintings. And indeed, the day after she told police that the paintings had all been destroyed, she burned them all, the day after she took her story back and replaced it with a new one, actually, it was a mysterious russianspeaking man who took the paintings away in a black car. But by the time she got to that story, investigators were already on the way to her house to take a looksie inside her house in romania. And they say they found material that european artists typically use to prepare canvases for oil paintings, as well as the remains of some pigments that artists stopped using after the 1800s. Also, they found copper nails and tacks made before the industrial revolution. That looks pretty bad for the paintings. The good news is the accused thieves now say that olga, the mom, didnt really cook them. They say the paintings were not destroyed. The thieves trial begin this week and they say they know where the paintings are. They know where they are and they want to cut a deal. Do you believe the thieves . Has this been enough time to may have had fakes made . Could that be what theyre goshting for . Whats up with the paint and the nails in olgas oven if she didnt actually burn these price lest paintings . How does this story end . Good question, and it is the same question right now also for a billion dollars worth of art that is in detroit. Same story, minus the romanian ladys oven. And that is next. Hey america, even though she doesnt need them, cheryl burke is chachaing in depend silhouette briefs for charity, to prove that with soft fabric and waistband, the best protection looks, fits, and feels just like underwear. Get a free sample and try for yourself. Glass on floors. Daily chores. For the little mishaps you feel use neosporin to help you heal. It kills germs so you heal four days faster. Neosporin. Use with bandaid brand bandages. If you have high cholesterol, heres some information that may be worth looking into. In a Clinical Trial versus lipitor, crestor got more highrisk patients bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. 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In the early 1900s, he was a giant of newspaper publishers. At the height of his power, he was the publisher of 28 newspapers across the country, from new york to San Francisco and everywhere in between. Mr. Hearst also dabbled in politics. He was twice elected to congress from the state of new york. But what he really loved was art. William Randolph Hearst maintained one of the most impressive Art Collections in the whole country. He collected paintings, he collected rugs. Oddly, he owned one of the worlds most famous collections of armor, like knights in shining armor armor from the medieval age. He had so much armor, he set aside a whole hall in his house as an armor display area. And if you would like to see the armor collection of William Randolph hearst, youre in luck, you can see it. It is right here at the Detroit Institute of arts, in the main gallery of detroits legendary art museum, theyve got among other things, the vast William Randolph hearst armor collection. Because he gave it to the museum as a gift back in the mid20th century. The Detroit Institute of arts is one of the largest cityowned museums in the whole country. It is a prize, a civic crowned jewel. The Detroit Institute of arts houses about a billion dollars worth of art. Including original works from rembrandt, michelangelo, matias, andy warhol, its a giant list of very important art. The marble court of the museum features a whole collection of frescos by diego rivera. The Detroit Institutes of arts is amazing, it is a prize, and it is public. It is not just open to the public, its owned by the public. It belongs to detroit. It belongs to the people of detroit. It is part of the city. And over the next few months, all of the art owned by the museum, and therefore owned by the people of detroit, is about to be appraised by experts with an eye towards selling it off, auctioning it off to the highest bidder, piece by piece, scattering it to the winds. The riveras, the van goghs, the William Randolph hearst armor. Its all getting inspected and appraised by christies auction house of new york city, which was hired last week by detroits emergency manager. Theres no vote on a decision like this, the emergency manager gets to do whatever he wants on his own sayso with anything that bloelongs to detroit. The emergency manager says this doesnt mean hes definitely going to sell the contents of the museum. It just means that now he has had the city file for bankruptcy, he wants to get a sense of how much its all worth. You know, cash value. Liquidation value, just in case. Is that legal . You might think, hey, this could be just this one guys decision . The michelangelo drawings arent exactly his to sell, are they . That armor that Randolph William hearst donated to the museum, so that public institution, to the city, could it just be sold off now for cash . If the museum has anything to say about it, the answer is no. The director of the Detroit Institute of art said this week that the museum is prepared to take legal action if necessary to block any potential sale of its collection. This week, supporters of the museum from all across the country rallied to the museums side. They did what they call a day for detroit, more than a dozen artfocused blogs and websites essentially sounding the alarm about whats happening with detroits art museum. The risk to its collection. But because detroit is under the control of an emergency manager appointed by the governor, what happens to the citys massive and important Art Collection isnt really up for public debate. Its basically just up for that one guy to decide. And its not just in detroit that this is happening. Democracy is dead in a bunch of different places across michigan, thanks to the state stripping local officials of their power and installing, instead, individual Emergency Managers who rule unilaterally. In six cities across the state of michigan right now, including detroit, which is the states largest city, it doesnt matter who you vote for to represent you anymore. The democratic process, local control of your city, that has been abolished. Maybe. Something interesting is afoot right now in michigan that is maybe threatening to turn this whole situation upside down. In one of the cities thats now under Emergency Management is the city of pontiac, michigan, which is just north of detroit. After the emergency manager in pontiac last year decided, personally, unilaterally, to yank Peoples Health insurance, a Class Action Lawsuit was filed against the city. They argued that that one person, no vote, no hearing, unilateral decision by the emergency manager, they argued that violated the Due Process Rights afforded to us by our constitution. It violated the u. S. Constitution. Last month, a federal judge in michigan ruled against the lawsuit, let the Emergency Managers decision stand. But when they appealed the case up to the federal Appeals Court, which is just one level below the u. S. Supreme court, the people who were suing won. They struck gold. It was an unexpected, improbable victory that ultimately could be a really big deal, for the idea that when we have problems in this country, the way that we fix those problems is through a little system called democracy. And of course democracy is a terrible political system. Its very messy, its slow, its annoying. Everybody gets a say, jabber, jabber, jabber. Its so inefficient. Democracy is terrible. Its the worst political system in the world, except for all the others. Thats why we picked it. You may remember that back in november at the same time as the president ial election, michigan voters went to the polls and they voted resoundingly to repeal the emergency manager law, to repeal the republicans radical emergency manager law, which stripped democracy at the local level in michigan, and instead install as three oneman governments. These unilateral Emergency Managers, chosen by republican governor, rick schneider. The republicans radically expanded emergency manager law was put on the ballot and michigan voters repealed it. They chose to eliminate the law altogether. In response to that, michigan republicans in the State Capitol just went ahead and passed a new one. They just passed a new emergency manager law a month later, a month after the voters had repealed the previous one. Redid basically all the things that they had done under the old law, except this time, they did it in a way that it basically cant be repealed. So screw the voters, right . Republicans know what they want. Voters repealed it. Eh, well put it back. Turns out maybe not. This federal Appeals Court, in very plain english, is now telling michigan republicans, not so fast. The ruling does kick the law back to a lower court, but theyre directing the lower court to, quote, consider whether the Michigan Legislature possesses the power to retroactively immunize its own acts that the voters rejected by referendum. You may also remember our coverage of how the republicans passed this law in the first place. I mean, after you pass a law, normally, theres a long lag time before the law goes into effect. Most laws in michigan go into effect three months before the end of the session in which they are passed. But when michigan republicans pass this emergency manager law, they decided it would go into effect immediately. Under the michigan constitution, you can only do that if you have the support of twothirds of the legislature. Republicans did not have the support of twothirds of the legislature, but they rushed the bill through like that anyway. They claimed they had the votes for it to go into immediate effect, but they plainly did not. Well, the federal Appeals Court is shutting them down on those grounds now too. Saying, quote, the Michigan Legislature seems to have ignored the twothirds vote requirement when it gave the emergency manager law immediate effect. The legislature has perverted the immediate effect exception. And then listen to this, with this is from the ruling, quote, apparently the Michigan Legislature believes the michigan constitution can be ignored. So the federal Appeals Court is now asking a lower court to essentially look into whether republicans passed that law illegally. So, against the voters and against the constitution. Against all the interests our governing system is supposed to serve in a democracy. What started off here as a smallscale dispute between angry retirees in pontiac, michigan, and their emergency manager, has now grown into something that could potentially restore small d democracy across that state. Democracy has been dead in michigan, in a lot of places in michigan, for a few years now. And, you know, antidemocratic fantasies aside, it turns out that stripping people of their right to have a say in their government is no magic bullet for fixing those places. Take flynt or hamtrammic, which got stripped of their local government and they got Emergency Managers. Even after they got Emergency Managers, the state decided they still apparently werent fixed. It didnt take, so the state put them under Emergency Management again. Wait, i thought that was supposed to be the magic bullet. If it didnt work the first time, why do you think it would work the second time. Or maybe in americas great troubled city, citizens having a vote, or having a say isnt the problem, and therefore getting rid of democracy isnt the solution. It may be that detroits emergency manager, detroits unelected oneman government thinks that selling the city tease greatest assets, scattering them to the winds is just what the city needs. Thatll fix everything. But now maybe the u. S. Federal courts and the u. S. Constitution will intervene will stop what michigan is doing and make sure that one mans whims are not what happens to these great treasures. [announcer] theres no hiding the goodness of the latest from beneful baked delights. New heartfuls are made with real bacon. And ovenbaked to crisp perfection. Add a soft appleflavored center. And say no more. New heartfuls from beneful baked delights. Spark more play in your day. Mayo . Corn dogs . 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Now shes asking the court to permanently block the law. Get out of her way. And it turns out in the great state of North Carolina, they have their own vivya applewhite, and her name is rosanell eaton. Rosanell eaton is 92 years old. She registered to vote back in the days of jim crow. She rode to the county courthouse with her mother and her brother in a wagon that was pulled by a mule. As we approached their office, there were three white men seated. One of them looked at me and asked me, what do you want, little girl . I quickly told them the story what i wanted and what i was there for. One of the men, looking at each other again, told me, stand up straight against that wall, with your eyes looking directly toward me and repeat the preamble of the United States of america, without missing a word, i did it. You want to vote, little girl, stand up, look at me, and recite the preamble from the constitution, do not miss a word. If you were frip and you wanted to vote back then, you might get put to all kinds of challenges, ridiculous challenges like this. Ridiculous challenges like these ones from louisiana that were recently dug up by slate. Com. Quote i cant even say this one. Write right from the left to the right as you see it spelled here. Huh . How about this one . Print the word vote upsidedown but in the correct order. Or this one. Spell backwards, forewords. What . you cant do that quick . Then you cant vote. Rosanell eaton knows what it means to want to vote even when powerful people try to keep you from it. She has lived this. This week she became a named plaintiff in a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina, challenging the new Voter Suppression laws there. The new law thats expected to keep her and up to 600,000 other north carolinians from voting. People who are legal voters. Who may have been legal voters for years or for decades, but do not have the documentation that republicans now say you cannot vote without. The republicans new law in North Carolina also cuts early voting and Voter Registration and ends all voting on sunday. Elections expert rick haszen calls North Carolinas new law, which was just signed on monday, he calls it the worst Voter Suppression law passed in any state since 1965, since before the Voting Rights act put a stop to literacy tests and poll taxes. That is the law that rosanell eaton, 92 years old, that is the law that she is challenging now in federal court. But that law is only part of what they are doing in North Carolina. As weve been reporting this week, North Carolinas new republican governor has also stacked the state board of rexes th elections this year with republicans, who in turn have been stacking the county board of elections with republicans. And those new republican majority boards are becoming National News in a hurry. Consider the case of montravis king, a senior at the historically plaque college in North Carolina, where he has lived and voted since 2009. This year mr. King decided that he would run for city council in Elizabeth City. But the chairman of the local Republican Party this week challenged his right to do that. The local Republican Party boss told the new republican majority board that montravis king shouldnt be allowed to run for office. And the republican board said, thats right. In our view, mr. King, you may have been living here and voting here since 2009, but in our view, you dont live here anymore. You are not one of us, not anymore. They disqualified him from running. And since it seems like the qualifications for running for office and the qualifications for voting are identical, if local republicans in North Carolina can now pronounce montravis king ineligible to run for office, what about his right just to vote . Can they not just take away his Voting Rights, his and the entire universitys . Well, that same county republican chairman, who successfully challenged his right to run for office, says that he now plans to challenge the right of students at that school to vote. And then he expects the Republican Party will do that all over the state. Quote, he says, i am going to take this show on the road. Montravis kings run for city council in North Carolina is about a whole lot more than that one City Council Seat in North Carolina and that one young man. Its about something really, really radical going on in the american south, again. And montravis king joins us next. Stay tuned. Nywhere in the world, but you had to leave right now, would you go . 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On what grounds did the local election board object to you running for city council . The local elections board, which is republican controlled, they objected to me running for city council on the grounds of my residency, which is currently 1704 wheatsville road, the permanent address for Elizabeth CityState University. They contend that an university address, an oncampus address, cant be a legal residence for the purpose of running for office. Are they also saying that that cant be a legal residence for the purpose of voting . In fact, thats exactly what theyre saying, rachel, because the residency requirements for a candidate are the exact same residency requirements for a voter. And ive been voting at the wheatsville road address as a student since 2009. Why has the change happened . Is this because the local elections board has changed its makeup recently . If youve been voting there since 2009, this wasnt a problem before. Thats correct. Well, this has been going on now in Elizabeth City for some time. This has been going on, you know, as far as i can remember, since 2008, you know, its just been thrust into the National Spotlight now with the passage and signage of North Carolinas restrictive voter i. D. Law. In terms of the Voting Rights of students at your school, and, indeed, of students across North Carolina, one of the reasons people are calling the new law in North Carolina the most restrictive Voter Suppression law, maybe, since the 1960s, is in part because those voter i. D. Laws dont include student i. D. S. Your student i. D. Is not an appropriate i. D. For establishing your ability to vote in the state. What are your fellow students, people at your school, thinking about whether or not theyre going to be able tostudents, people thinking about whether or not theyre going to be able to vote in North Carolina . A lot of students are very concerned about it. We want to know why is it that we cannot use our student ids, when Elizabeth CityState University is part of the unc system, which is a statesupported which is a statesupported system, university. In North Carolina. So this is clearly efforts on the part of the republicans to suppress the college vote. Mr. King, i know that you have been an activist. I read that youre studying prelaw and politics. I know that you are both a civicminded student and a civicminded man. What happens here next . I mean, the county elections has ruled you cannot run for city council. The republican county chairman is saying he definitely will use the same tactics to try to go after everybodys rights to vote at your school . What will be your response, what will you do next . Well, rachel, we are definitely going to appeal this to the state board of electios. S and we are very optimistic about that. We also are going to make sure that students on campus are aware of what is happening and that they are registered to vote. And that no one can intimidate them. No one can stop them from voting here on campus. It is our constitutional right to vote where we attend school at. Were going to make sure the schools understand that, that no one can stop them from voting. Mr. King, there is a lot of National Attention to this law. But beyond the law, your case and what is happening in your county is like it is a bit of a canary in the coal mine, i think a lot of what is happening in your state. Montravias king, thank you very much for talking to us. Conspiracy theorists, you know i love you. No matter what you learn here in the next segment, remember, well always have roswell. The truth is out there. Stay with us. [ male announcer ] americas favorite endless shrimp is back people wait for this promotion all year long. And now there are endless ways to love it. From crispy to spicy to savory. 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