i would say to the american people, president trump has been making history since the first day of this administration. this is one of the great privileges in my life to stand here on the statehouse lawn with the president who i love and appreciate so much. listen, these men were not all on on board from day one. so what went through your mind as you watched that? what happened? this is an overdose of the pill they took that day. the republicans have figured out that if they can make trump feel good about a legislative accomplishment, maybe they will get more of it. this is really to get his endorphins going. i think lauren is right. his thumbprint is very small. but there s two counter gambles going on here. one is that most people will see a tax cut but it won t come into
late 70s the national organization for women organized a boycott against the states that you see here the results, that boycott failed to get enough states to ratify the equal rights amendment. two, the boycott in arizona over the martin luther king holiday. the governor rescinded the state paid holiday declared by his predecessor. and because of the controversy, the 1993 super bowl was moved from tell pea to pasadena florida and the result a referendum re-established martin luther king jr. day as a state holiday. three now, a 1999 boycott in south carolina over a confederate flag that once flew over the statehouse. that flag was taken down a year later but still flies on the statehouse lawn according to the naacp. the harlem globetrotters returned after more than a decade. arizona was boy koting over
state senate will swing to the democrats. so, it looks like just a little special election in virginia, not that big a deal, but could control something important in that part of the country depending on which way it goes. also on tuesday, chris christie is going to enjoy his reinauguration and festivities. he will also be hosting extra guests who are not planning on paying to get into the festivities. they will be lying down as of saturday to camp out on the statehouse lawn in protest of the other scandal involving overspending for the stronger than the storm ads that feature the governor and his family in the wake of hurricane sandy. occupy christy protesters are planning on camping out starting tomorrow and will be there through the swearing in at 11:30 at the trenton war memorial. one note about the festivities on tuesday, the party is on ellis island. it s half new jersey and half
using the power of his office to try to make voting harder in his state. the longer the lines, the fewer people voting, the better republican expect to. it worked like it was supposed to. in november, florida voters waited six, seven, even ten hours in line just to vote. latino and african-american voters, groups who tend to vote democratic, they waited longer than white voters in florida did. it was the stay in line election in november. and even rick scott was embarrassed by what a national point and gasp horror show florida s elections became in november. by january, the governor, himself, was calling for the legislature to put back those early voting days he had taken away. in may, he signed a bill into law that reversed himself. almost two years to the day after he turned his state into a late-night joke, he had to take it all back and undo the damage he had caused. that swift and painful lesson, the humiliation of rick scott, the disaster by design in florida elections is why tod
carolina. the pink flamingos were a silent protest in hard plastic that was supposed to remind everybody of florida. the flamingos planted on the statehouse lawn as a message to the republic ans in that state, a message to the republicans in the north carolina legislature and north carolina s republican governor, the message was, please do not make our elections look like florida s. in north carolina, which has gone crazy this year, republicans are making one more last-minute grab the silverware drawer and throw it in the air chaos move in the legislature. an old bill to change voter i.d. laws in state had been sitting dormant for about three months, but all of a sudden today the republicans in the legislature brought it back to lifetimes a million. they rewrote the old bill. they stuffed it full of a whole bunch of new stuff that never gets debated and never has hearings and are ramming this new bill through with basically no debate with just two days left in the legislative session.