good idea and somewhere in the morning and within a couple of hours, two out of the eight dropped off and just pulled their name off the bill. one went on, my colleague, who came after myself, matt allen come also on wpro, and one state senator said i never led the bill, i did not know laura: of course not. now tara, rhode island is such a democrat-controlled state at the statehouse level, you sometimes have republican governors, they tend to be a little squishy, but i think it is time to try to take back these new england states. this is insane, what s happening. and there are great people in rhode island. i agree. i think we at least have to have some kind of a balance. we ve got a female republican candidate for governor who no one had ever heard of before, she just sort of landed here. i don t know. name recognition, rhode island is very much who you know, who you grew up with, i hate to say i know a guy state, but it is kind of and i know i guy state.
politics, rhode island. now while it s representation is overwhelmingly democrat, in the state house, they control the governor s mansion, their latest actions may serve a result. samuel bell proposed legislation that is i think totally offensive, not to mention probably unconstitutional. his bill would not just enforce monthly fines on rhode islanders 16 years of age end up who are not vaccinated, but it would also call for the doubling of their personal income taxes. now part of bell s defense here is he says he has received calls from constituents who are not fully recovered and who are suffering long-term effects from covid. a mother of two and rhode island radio host at wpro is shining a light on this story and she joins us now. tara, there is a headline and another headline about how those with lower income levels here also do have low vaccination
so she will try to run on that. the republican party in rhode island really needs to step it up and dig a little deeper because we are very unbalanced. laura: all right, tara, great to see you and thanks for shining a light on this. now we turn to nevada, where the state s top democrat trail republican rivals in the race for governor and also in the u.s. senate, according to new polling. and more troubling for the democrats in the state might be the emerging trends of the majority nonwhite state. democratic strategists right to sarah recently noted, no matter democrat margin among hispanics dropped by eight points between 2016 and 2020 and was driven almost entirely by working-class hispanics. carol lena serrano is running for congress in nevada s first district and she joins us now. tara lena, would it be safe to say since biden s election, things have all gotten worse for
your personal income tax. and ifer you i weref an employeo with someone and you re found to have violated and they re unvaccinated, then you get whacked with a five thousand dollar fine that s now try to get back to ireland. yeah, lovely. now tara, i was in radio for 17 years and i was was on in rhode island a whole bunch of w you re across the country. oh, yes. you really hear fromal the peope when something isus this outrageous your switchboard lights up. i bettc in your case when youin first started talking, it s certainly did. and what i thought was, you know, we can sit, we complain and talk radio is a greatat plae to do that . but let s let s get back to basics. t t goingngback to take back here? when are we going to get out of the covid hangover? when are we going to just not allow this to happen anymore?ym so i said to the listeners of wpro pick the phone call the state senators and senator sambell isn t the only one on the bill. th he sponsored the bill. they were eight state