early voting to be restored in the three days about before election day. but ohio activists are not sitting idly by relying solely on the courts to protect them. they are taking action trying to get a voter bill of rights added to the state constitution by way of a ballot measure this november. to do so they need to provide 385,000 signatures to the board of elections by july 2. joining me now from cincinnati, ohio, the woman leading that grass-roots campaign, ohio state representative alicia rece. so nice to see you. thank you for having me. all right. so start by telling me what this voter bill of rights provides. well, the voter bill of rights takes our current rights that we had before secretary husted started messing with early voting, before the republican-led legislature started trying to reduce access to the ballot. what it does is put the voting rights in the constitution so that we don t have to worry about who is in office.
he would rather shake hands than shake down big donors, banking more than a million on cash on hand that dwarfs weiland, and has a told of almost $385,000 during the same period. fittingly is his first bill would be federal election campaign reform. before he can beat a former governor and a former senator who have a lot of name recognition, so far the democratic party hasn t clearly and publicly embraced him. i m joined by rick weiland this morning. it seems as if democrats are on the ropes trying to control the senate. one of the races they don t have a lot of faith in nationally and don t talk about much is your
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that spending. your colleague, tom coburn released his wasteful spending book today. i was a little shocked at some of the things our government is spending money on. you can take a look right here. $1 million to study romance in movies and novels. 385,000 to study the oddity of duck penises. $3 million for nasa to investigate how congress works. you ve talked about defense cuts. how do we assume that you guys can make the right calls when this is the kind of stuff you re spending money on? this is the right step because this empowers the appropriations committee to do their job. this gives us the top line figures to go in and determine where the waste, fraud and abuse is and make sure these programs are lean and mean. we haven t had that ability before. we ve just kind of been a cr rubber stamp to move forward. and that s not the way to run a government. and that s why this budget deal needed to move forward.