they could be doing a whole lot of other things. you have houses here, roofs are falling in. i mean they could be focused on a lot more serious issues. than me feeding children. andrea: absolutely! dana, i guess tons of e-mailed flowed in, so now the city, mayor nutter is standing behind her. the city said wait a minute, we re not going to fine you. you still have to pay $1,000 to go in front of the board and get a permit. we re not going to fine you $600 a day. the government regulating every area of our lives, even do-gooders. dana: what struck me another resident alerted the council about the distribution. you would not want to be that person s friend. whoever alerted the council because she was doing something that was kind. andrea: eric, this isn t a neighborhood that is affluent and a snob calls up and says i don t want this going on. this is neighborhood where the kids need help. the ample income is $19,000 a year. this the average income is $19,000. she used to do a g
it makes an impact. this is the alaska senate race. our country deserves better pac, which is the tea party express, gave a lot of money to joe miller, the candidate in alaska. the money started coming in back in july, $550,000 total. when the money started coming in, lisa murkowski was leading 62% to 30%. the money flowed in, on primary day, joe miller won that race 59/49. pretty easy to make the case there that outside spending helps his campaign because it dwarfed his other spending. with me now to have this debate, tim phillips, the president of americans for prosperity, and bill addison, editorial director of the sunlight foundation, who doesn t like them. simple question off the top. we have seen the impact of this money, why is it a bad idea? the court says let it in. well, i think, one of the biggest problems is we don t know where the money is coming from. if you go back to 2004, 2006, 2008, a report was released