why is this significantly different than the department of justice lawsuit? well, thanks a lot for having me, alex. what we have in florida right now is this showdown over democracy. so on one side you have a law-breaking governor who is continuing to throw citizens off the roles, mostly hispanic, and deny them the right to vote. on the other side, you have the department of justice organizations like ours. our lawsuit is different in that it looks at two specific areas in this case. one is the discrimination in which 58% of the voters targeted on the list are hispanic. the second thing it looks at is the 90-day rule. under the national voter registration act there s a rule that says you cannot start this within 90 days of an election. there s a good reason for that. it creates chaos, intimidation and a lot of mistakes are made. we talked about this the other day, bill who is 90 years old,
heydi? yeah, a lot of people have contacted me. people that i have never heard of. and i ve been asked to talk on different shows and have different interviews from writers, too. so it s been great. i bet it has. and i heard your attorney say your name is heydi, is that how you announce it correctly? it s heydi. rick, you have to get that correctly. i always call her heydi, my apologies. i m just saying i was right. all good. he wrrks d, heydi and rick, thank you. from diapers to child-rearing costs, how much is it going to cost to raise a child? you re watching weekends with alex witt. lord, you got no reason you got no right
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said yesterday, this is coming as a relief to a lot of young people. mitt romney took refuge behind mar marco rubio s statement. this all happening during the election year. that makes sense. john, i want to switch gears with you, mitt romney is starting his six-state bus tour on friday. did this announcement work to steal some of his headlines? no question about it, it drove the campaign contribution for the last 24 hours and will over the weekend. interestingly, mitt romney is going to states where latinos are not a big part of or as critical of a constituency as in many other places, but it is significant because he s going to a lot of small towns. small town rural americas with a key republican constituency. the states he s looking at is 74 electoral votes, more than one-fourth of what he needs to win. president obama has shifted the conversation in a direction that s uncomfortable for romney. okay. manuel, your time there in miami when you worked there for a
this filing increased month over month. realtytrac projected the uptick is going to continue throughout the rest of the year most lie likely. this is as terrible as it sounds, but this is good news in the long term. these are foreclosure filings that have been delayed. default notices sitting on bankbooks for the last two years. now they are starting to push through the pipeline. we ll see downward pressure in prices in areas where foreclosure filings are the highest in the short-term. but the long-term gain here is the sooner we get these out to the market the sooner foreclosures get reabsorbed into the market and the sooner we ll start to see a real true housing recovery. long term, this is a good thing. what about the cost of raising a child? it has gone up a lot! tell us about that. it has, and just in time for father s day. we get the annual report from the usda. it shows that the cost of raising a child from birth until age 17 is at an all-time high.