try to go to the post office on a weekend or try to go visit your congressman s office on a weekend, on a sunday. they re almost never open. having to pay these folks overtime, all of this burden falls on the local elections officials. they re the ones who came to us. they re the ones who came to the secretary of state and to the legislature and asked for some relief. your response to that? it is just absolutely absurd. first of all, how do you put a price tag on democracy? we know what happens when we don t fund these things appropriately. the state has a $60 billion plus budget. they can t find a way to help fund this? the ironic thing is, chris, that those counties that said they would pick up the cost like my county, one of the things that this legislation does is it prevents us from spending our own money that we budgeted for these purposes. repeat that again. one of the things that the legislation that was just passed by the legislature and it was just signed into law by
make the argument that it was too costly. take a listen. having government offices open on weekends is an unusual thing. try to go to the post office on a weekend or try to go visit your congressman s office on a weekend, on a sunday. they re almost never open. having to pay these folks overtime, all of this burden falls on the local elections officials. they re the ones who came to us. they re the ones who came to the secretary of state and to the legislature and asked for some relief. your response to that? it is just absolutely absurd. first of all, how do you put a price tag on democracy? we know what happens when we don t fund these things appropriately. the state has a $60 billion plus budget. they can t find a way to help fund this? the ironic thing is, chris, that those counties that said they would pick up the cost like my county, one of the things that this legislation does is it prevents us from spending our own money that we budgeted for these purposes. repeat that
your congressman s office on a weekend, on a sunday. they re almost never open. having to pay these folks overtime, all of this burden falls on the local elections officials. they re the ones who came to us. they re the ones who came to the secretary of state and to the legislature and asked for some relief. your response to that? it is just absolutely absurd. first of all, how do you put a price tag on democracy? we know what happens when we don t fund these things appropriately. the state has a $60 billion plus budget. they can t find a way to help fund this? the ironic thing is, chris, that those counties that said they would pick up the cost like my county, one of the things that this legislation does is it prevents us from spending our own money that we budgeted for these purposes. repeat that again. one of the things that the legislation that was just passed by the legislature and it was just signed into law by the governor, it prohibits local boards of elections from fun
let s talk to democratic voices in a little bit. but first, let s really give a fair shake to this argument that you re advancing, how many money do you think will be saved statewide? i can tell you this was a recommendation that came from the elections officials because their cost in some instances have almost doubled to administer these elections and staff these polling places and early voting locations and you know, having government offices open on weekends is an unusual thing. try to go to the post office on a weekend or visit your congressman s office on a sunday. they are almost never open. having to pay folks overtime all of this burden falls on the local elections officials. they are the ones who came to uts and to the secretary of state sean legislature and asked for some relief. it is in fact their recommendations bipartisan, republicans and democrats who have made this recommendation
and marlene caride serves on the newly created special select committee on investigations. i want to start with michael. i was watching you this morning on morning joe. this case, i m just wondering where it s going. already we have mayor zimmer speaking with u.s. officials from the u.s. attorney s office. i assume that is already putting her in a position where she better be telling the truth. she better have told the truth. in those two hours. look, that meeting was the potential game-changer here, because, look, on a sunday, the u.s. attorney s office? the other thing mayor zimmer s statement said at their request. they called her in on a sunday to get this, on a holiday weekend to get her story. it is a crime to lie to a federal agent. so she is telling her story to the u.s. attorney s office. she is locked in. and she turns over her diary. she turns over her notes, her e-mails, everything they ve got.