limited constitutional government and balanced budgets. joining me now, kari ann rinker, state coordinator with national organization for women in kansas. thanks for joining me tonight. thank you so much for having me. could you just walk me through the strategy on what s going on in the city council on this vote? well, from what i hear, they feel that if they revoke the city ordinance that is for domestic violence that it will force the hand of the county d.a., that it will require him under the state statute to enforce domestic violence within the city once again. but the troubling thing that i have with the proposition of such a vote, the problem that i have with that is that it is not guaranteed. their own city attorneys have not been able to guarantee that this would be the end result.
i keep hearing words like shall and probably but when we re dealing with the issue that is life or death, such as domestic violence, there should be more guarantees before the city council even considers the revocation of a municipal ordinance protecting women in that community. kari, 18 arrests since the district attorney thought this was a good way to save money. no prosecutions off of 18 arrests. that starts to feel like a dangerous climate for at least the partners of those 18 people. of course. and, yeah, the judges in that community are letting these men go because they know that they will not be prosecuted and there s no way that you can hold someone if they are not to be prosecuted. and as a matter of fact, there is one case that we have had confirmed by the police chief in that community where we have had another offense. multiple offense.
we had someone that was picked up, that was held and then let go and then within 48 hours he committed another crime against his partner, was arrested and then he was again let go. and, you know, the end result could very well be with having a murder on the hands of these officials that refuse to get along with each other using the old-fashioned art of compromise. you know, you were discussing problems at the federal level and we have problems at our state level with people working together on issues. but certainly when we re talking about the basic safety of the individuals in your community, that is the most rudimentary level of protection that we can provide citizens and they are not providing them to the women of topeka. kari, i understand that tax revenues are down. they re down all over the country, but kansas has an average typical state income tax
see you back here tomorrow night. good news for the democrats. the republican presidential candidates are trying to destroy each other. the race took an ugly turn. obfuscation and bewilderment. after this poor bastard loses i ll get a nice head start. the field is starting to target mitt romney. i will not surrender. not just because of the mormon issue. there are a lot of reasons to not elect me. i don t think mitt romney will energize evangelical voters. in iowa the evangelical vote is anywhere from 35% to 50%. attack on romney s faith. the campaign accusing the candidate directly and through surrogates are going to say they think people who attack mormons are being bigots. deplorable, deplorable statement. mormonism is not christianity. some moron can stand up and make a comment like that. some people define it as a cult. it s always been considered a cult. you did rick perry no good, sir in what you had to say. joe scarborough, i refe
parts of papers please. but in the meantime, arizona voters, angry or grossed out by the whole sb-1070 ordeal started a recall campaign against russing pierce. the campaign said, overt disdain for the united states constitution. they put his petition out there and russell pierce up for a vote. through no fault of the arizona recallers, they re watching a cautionary tale unfold about the way we make decisions these days in our little democracy. here s how it goes. ready? the candidate who s trying to unseat russell pierce is in fact a fellow republican, this guy here. he s a totally mainstream local republican from the district who was urged into the race by other local republicans who within embarrassed by russell pierce. he says he accepted the challenge after a period of prayer and fasting. his biggest asset in the race is of course that he is not russell pierce. russell pierce seems to have decided he maybe couldn t win that way, if it was just him against this other regul