is claiming responsibility for rewarding voters with gift cards. this is the candidate s last day of campaigning. stacy cohan has more on the story. reporter: good morning. i can tell you we just got off the phone with cora masters barry who tells fox 5 news that she was not giving out gift cards in an effort to entice to buy votes, she was giving them out after people had voted as sort of a thank you and get out the vote effort and in no way was making an effort to violate election law by buying votes. that s what she tells fox 5 news. and meantime let necessity get to why this is happening and there is so much controversy surrounding this hotly con contested slug race that is down to the wire. and we have some video of the gift card controversy. hidden camera style that was given to us by a fenty supporter who postd it on you tube and it was thought that councilman gray s campaign was handing out the gift cards as an effort to entire people to come out and vote early. t
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any more speculative spending by the federal government. mr. obama and vice president biden are determined to convince the american people their vision is correct. so mr. biden took his crusade to the good elementary school in york, pennsylvania where he talked to a fourth grade class on tuesday. you have had a lot of teachers who used to work here, but because there is no money for them in the city, they re not working and so what happens is when that occurs, each of the teachers in the state have more kids to teach. they don t get to spend as much time with you as you did when your classes were smaller. we think the federal government, washington, d.c. should say to the cities, lock, we re going to give you some money. you can hire back all these teachers. the way we re going to do it is we re going to ask people who have a lot of money to pay just a little bit more in taxes. bill: kids look thrilled. joining us now from los angeles to react, dr. carolyn hellman,