Sides and on the sidelines and their families. So thank you so much, cynthia, for being here today. Guest thank you, donna. Host why dont we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself. How did you get here . How did you get drawn to the issue . Why bully . Why you, why now . Guest well, i come from a background as a writer, and when i was in middle school, i was one of the kids who was really shy, um, i i think i tried to sail under the radar, and i was someone who i saw bullying taking place around me, and i didnt know what to do about it. And as all of us, i think, in this country were starting to see people coming out and talking about their experience of this phenomenon that so many of us had experienced in one way or another and had had no words for other than adolescence, other than growing up. Um, when finally people were starting to stand back and say, hold on, this isnt actually a normal part of growing up, this isnt a normal rite of passage. I think there was a mom
Arrive out of nowhere or cemetery logs that turn into a dead of night tiebreakers but the more we are learning about what happened, the more it looks like something more subtle, some manipulation that would favor in this case democrats. Through a series of state rule changes that kicked in in the weeks prior to the election, these changes made it easier to open up the spigot on what is an acceptable ballot. It got easier in the closing weeks to have a ballot to make it through than it had in the past. Thats what we are exploring tonight primarily in michigan and also in georgia. The New York Times back in september raised concerns about the mailin ballots that were coming in on normas numbers for the first time ever, setting analysis that found that in 24 primary elections this year more than 500,000 mailin ballots were rejected or 2 returned by voters, theres a growing concern that the number of ballots rejected could surpass 1 million. The democrat lawyer mark elias went to work, he
This week. Tuesday was pry mire night in ohio where the tea party wanted to make an example of john boehner, a House Speaker they have never trusted since he took over three weeks ago. Boehner ridiculed the resistance of conservatives to immigration reform. The appetite amongst my colleagues for doing this is not real good. This guy is back here with a camera, but heres the attitude. Oh, dont make me do this. Oh, this is too hard. You should hear them. John boehner was on the republican primary ballot in ohio on tuesday and the tea partys idea was to embarrass him to send the message he would hear. When the votes were counted, the egg was on the tea partys face. Boehner took nearly 70 of the vote. He crushed the closest Tea Party Candidate by almost 50 points. There was another congressional primary in ohio as well where the tea party was convinced it could win and would win. Freedom works and the Tea Party Citizens Fund chipped in 100,000 total in an effort to knock off first term con
An extraordinarily broad coalition of powerful people joined forces and prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to blink and scuttle the controversial $15 congestion toll for Midtown.
The lawyers for the teachers' union lawsuit seeking to block the first-in-the-nation congestion pricing scheme sent a letter to a federal judge flunking the MTA's announcement that the new $15 toll to enter Manhattan south of 60th street will go into effect June 30.