in 2008? again, the link may merely be correlated and not causative. it could just be coincidence. you know who else noticed there was a link between early voting and democratic success? republicans noticed. in florida, rick scott signed a bill that cuts early voting from 14 days to 8 days and takes away voting on the sunday before the election when many african-american churches carpool to the polls. and in ohio, republicans tried to cut early voting in half. they eventually had to settle for cutting just the last three days, when almost 100,000 ohioans voted in 2008. then ohio republicans tried to offer more time for early voting in republican counties than in democratic counties. so you really could vote more easily if you live in a red county. ohio republicans tried that and it almost worked. until yesterday, under public pressure and i think maybe some embarrassment, ohio s republican secretary of state john houston finally announced that he was cutting back early voting equally f
castle of delaware trashed the stimulus, voted no on the stimulus and went back to delaware and handed out giant stimulus checks in his district talking about how good it was going to be for job growth. it was so embarrassing, right? one of the republican congressmen who was making that same public case at the time was a republican congressman named paul ryan. from wisconsin. we can do better than this. this bill, this economic stimulus package, is unworthy of our new president s signature. this is just a long spending wish list from every spending interest group that s out there. if you re going to go out and borrow $825 billion so recraft it for me, congressman. this is not going to work. that s what our concern is. this is unworthy of our new president s signature, this is a giveaway to special interests, this is not going to work, not going to work, he says. a year after the stimulus passed, paul ryan went on a local radio show in massachusetts where a guy named joe from
it could just be coincidence. you know who else noticed there was a link between early voting and democratic success? republicans noticed. in florida, rick scott signed a bill that cuts early voting from 14 days to 8 days and takes away voting on the sunday before the election when many african-american churches carpool to the polls. and in ohio, republicans tried to cut early voting in half. they eventually had to settle for cutting just the last three days, when almost 100,000 ohioans voted in 2008. then ohio republicans tried to offer more time for early voting in republican counties than in democratic counties. so you really could vote more easily if you live in a red county. ohio republicans tried that and it almost worked. until yesterday, under public pressure and i think maybe some embarrassment, ohio s republican secretary of state john houston finally announced that he was cutting back early voting equally for everyone. he caved on having more early voting hours in the republ
republican congressman mike castle of delaware trashed the stimulus, voted no on the stimulus and went back to delaware and handed out giant stimulus checks in his district talking about how good it was going to be for job growth. it was so embarrassing, right? one of the republican congressmen who was making that same public case at the time was a republican congressman named paul ryan. from wisconsin. we can do better than this. this bill, this economic stimulus package, is unworthy of our new president s signature. this is just a long spending wish list from every spending interest group that s out there. if you re going to go out and borrow $825 billion so recraft it for me, congressman. this is not going to work. that s what our concern is. this is unworthy of our new president s signature, this is a giveaway to special interests, this is not going to work, not going to work, he says. a year after the stimulus passed, paul ryan went on a local radio show in massachusetts
outside ohio. we have such momentum last year from the collective bargaining legislative collective bargaining bill, first time in american history when collective bargaining rights were put on a statewide ballot. we won with 61% of the vote, gaining back the efforts to take away collective bargaining rights. we have momentum that way. i think that will continue, but it s all about organizing. i asked people on your show before to come to sherrodbrown.com, sign up to help us fight back on the big money in these campaigns. to help us fight back on citizens united. to help us organize. and that really is a key to winning, to winning for the president and for my re-election. senator sherrod brown, democrat of ohio. thanks for your time tonight, sir. thank you, rachel. all right. remember that old ronald reagan saying, trust but verify? that old saying got a workout today. please stay with us. more ahead.