co-incidences to suggest it that maybe someone is deliberately behind this. we have not been able to make any determination to point any fingers or place any blame on anybody at this point. when we step back and look at the fact that there s no facts, no factual evidence to back these up, we can only infer that someone is trying to basically wreck my character and like the other gentlemen alluded to, plant doubt in the minds of a lot of people who are going to go to the polls and vote. last night on the jimmy kimmki kimmel show they said they were raising so much money since the sexual harassment allegations were made public, that if other republican candidates for president were smart, they would hire women to make similar accusations, which is hilarious. but that was late night. joking around time. today it was time for explanations for some straight talk. making things clear.
recall effort. that is directly about governor kasich. although this certainly reflects on the state s feelings about him. why do you think the governor and state republicans in the legislature where you serve made going after union rights such a top priority? i mean, they could read the polls, themselves. they knew this would be dramatically unpopular among ohio voters. it s a power grab, rachel, in ohio. and around the country. the fact is that the republicans are doing everything they can to consolidate the power that they currently have. so they re changing the election laws, you ve talked about it on your show, with photo i.d.s and getting rid of early voting. they re attacking labor, because labor is a powerful counterforce to the big corporate interests. mr. minority leader they re doing everything they can to tilt the player field. i never like to interrupt people on the show for any reason. i have news you d like to hear. the associated press has just called issue
very good. would you turn around and tell the people behind you that news? i will be happy to. they just called it. issue 2 is gone! we won! we won! [ cheers ] i think people are happy, rachel. i figured that people would be mad at me if they didn t know because you were on tv with me when it happened, sir. so thank you for helping and that means that i probably need to pay you some sort of royalty for the show for helping out. it s great news. this is a huge victory for the people of ohio. for the middle class, for working people. this is great. democratic state representative armond budish, the democratic leader in the ohio statehouse. i m going to leave you in columbus, ohio, with your happy supporters. thank you for joining me.
ed lee facing 15 different challengers tonight. if he is elected today, he will be san francisco s first asian mayor. san francisco a heavily asian-american, particularly chinese-american city. ed lee will also be the only mayor in the country elected in part due to a video endorsement that is anything at all like this. thank you for blessing me and the rest of the city with mayor ed lee too legit to quit ed lee let the record show that was emc m.c. hammer but not doing the dance, himself. we re waiting on the mayor race results tonight. the most closely watched race is where we re getting the live shot right now. the effort to repeal what ohio republicans did earlier this year to strip union rights. a yes vote tonight for ohio s issue 2 would leave what the
with democracy. i hope the voters are starting to question this bizarre agenda out there. chellie pingree, democratic congresswoman from maine. thank you for talking to us tonight. i really appreciate it. thanks for having me. thanks to all the voters for doing the right thing. all right. next on this show, some more election results. we re still live here. it s going to be a long night. in all sorts of good ways. stay with us. economy delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they re closing thousands of offices, slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. and here s what we did today: supported nearly 3 million stea