the states are trying to make it harder to vote or to register to vote it this year. today with the stroke of a pen the great state of kansas became the gold standard in making it almost impossible to register to vote. kansas governor sam brownback, he used to be a senator. you may remember hem as one of the c street guys. now is he the governor of kansas, and today he signed into law a bill that requires kansas voters to prove their u.s. citizenship before registering to vote for the first time. to do that to register to vote, you are going to need to submit your birth certificate or a passport unless you have one of a list of much more obscure documents. back in february when this bill was first gathering steam, kevin miles, president of the kansas state conference of the naacp told us about this voter registration drive that had been held in the run-up to the 2008 election. voter registration drive was held at a park in wichita, kansas and was put together by a bunch of different co
mr. trump responded thusly. i think it s a very bad thing for cantor to have done, because i will tell you, people love this issue. especially in the republican party. there s something to what we re saying. when you think of this odd publicity stunt candidacy, mr. trump is telling the truth about the birther thing. not about the substance of the issue. that s total nonsense, obviously. but he is telling the truth when he says that republicans love this as an issue. eric cantor might not like it, but republicans do, and those hawaiian born chickens are now coming home to roost for republicans. not just the embarrassingly successful candidacy of mr. trump, among likely republican voters. chickens are also coming home to roost here in the state of arizona. last week the same legislature that brought you sb 10-70, the papers please, law, that same legislature passed with a third bill. a bill that would keep off the ballot of the presidential candidate who does not provide arizona with
could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their early baptismal or circumcision certificates among other records to the arizona secretary of state. the legislature would need a two-thirds majority to override the governor s veto. based on the votes for the bill, republicans could easily do just that, which means it s likely that this bill could still become law. he told the ap that he had discussed this measure with donald trump personally, who liked it. he did not say whether trump liked the circumcision caveat specifically, but we have reached out to mr. trump s office to ask how he feels about that little bit at the end. increasing network capacity. and making a substantial investment to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download,
benton harbor s state appointed, state appointed emergency financial manager telling the elected city commission, that they can stay, that s about it. they can no longer do anything. state appointed manager is in complete control of benton harbor, michigan. if the state desires they could dissolve benton harbor completely. let its wealthier neighbor, saint joseph swallow it up. you don t have to ask benton harbor. the law that makes extrem measures possible, the michigan emergency manager law was sponsored by the state legislat legislator, al posholca, former staffer for the local congressman, fred upton, also a republican, fred upton is heir to the whirlpool fortune, that is his family money. his critics have called his first state bill financial martial law. on his website called the polsholca bill. you will want to know represents the district that includes
hasn t done so for years, which means that arizona in its infinite wisdom has just passed a bill through both houses of its legislature that would prevent future presidential candidates from arizona from appearing on that state s ballot. however, loophole. if you do not have that particular type of birth certificate that arizona doesn t even issue, you can supplement your weird prove your citizenship to arizona dossier with additional documents, such as a circumcision certificate. i am not making this up. that s what it says. a circumcision certificate. what s that you have there? a totally official printout of your birth record that everyone thinks of as a birth certificate? no, we arizonians do not accept that. but if you give us a document attesting to some sometimes religiously significant knife work in your down there area after birth, we ll take that. tonight only half an hour ago january brewer vetoed the birther bill saying that her veto letter, i never imaged being presente