state by state by state and what republicans did is looked at how the obama campaign won in 2008. by registering new voters, by turning out voters early, particularly african-american voters, by expanding the electorate. they said those are the very things that we re going to crack down on. it s no coincidence in states like florida and ohio they now don t have early voting on the sunday before the election when black voters historically mobilize their constituents. i don t think that s a coincidence. i think they looked exactly at what the obama campaign did and said we re not going to let this happen again. yeah. and sneaking up on with the democrats distracted by everything they ve been trying to do in the last couple of years in federal legislation, that s where all the attention is. being able to sneak this in from the sidelines was really easy. it was really easy. first thing, they had huge majorities in a ton of states. they were able to just ram things through in states l
limited constitutional government and balanced budgets. joining me now, kari ann rinker, state coordinator with national organization for women in kansas. thanks for joining me tonight. thank you so much for having me. could you just walk me through the strategy on what s going on in the city council on this vote? well, from what i hear, they feel that if they revoke the city ordinance that is for domestic violence that it will force the hand of the county d.a., that it will require him under the state statute to enforce domestic violence within the city once again. but the troubling thing that i have with the proposition of such a vote, the problem that i have with that is that it is not guaranteed. their own city attorneys have not been able to guarantee that this would be the end result.
89 days ago the senate took its first important step toward tax justice. on a sense of the senate resolution, sense of the senate resolutions are not law. most of them are not controversial. a lot of them pass unanimously. many of them just sound like hallmark greeting cards and legislative language. like this one from january 11th. it is the sense of the senate that the people of the united states should observe and celebrate the 150th anniversary of the admittance of the state of kansas to the united states as the 34th state. typical sense of the senate resolution. but the sense of the senate resolution that harry reid introduced 89 days ago turned out to be sharply partisan. it was written by majority leader reid and contained this preamble. congress makes the following findings. the wall street journal reports median pay for chief financial officers of s&p 500 companies increased 19% to $2.9 million last year.
the fiscal crisis that has hit federal, state and local government is now having a shocking impact on life in america. we are seeing not just fewer police officers on patrol in this country and teacher/student ratios getting out of hand as we lay off teachers, but we re losing our ability to sustain some of the basic elements of a civilized society. witness topeka, kansas. tomorrow evening the city council in topeka will decide whether to repeal an ordinance outlawing domestic battery. it is in response to a decision by the district attorney of shawnee county, chad taylor, faced with a 10% cut to his budget. taylor has announced his office will no longer prosecute
the fiscal crisis that has hit federal, state and local government is now having a shocking impact on life in america. we are seeing not just fewer police officers on patrol in this country and teacher/student ratios getting out of hand as we lay off teachers, but we re losing our ability to sustain some of the basic elements of a civilized society. witness topeka, kansas. tomorrow evening the city council in topeka will decide whether to repeal an ordinance outlawing domestic battery. it is in response to a decision by the district attorney of shawnee county, chad taylor, faced with a 10% cut to his budget. taylor has announced his office will no longer prosecute misdemeanor crimes including domestic battery.