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people like jesse know that. an unemployment benefit usually amounts to a fraction of what a worker was making before someone lost his or her job. fact, unless you are actively searching for a job, getting job training for a new job, or are on temporary layoff, you're not likely to be entitled to an unemployment check. i'm not for just paying people to be idle. but these are individuals who are either getting training, who are actively involved in a job search, or the few that are in the temporary layoff category there is little evidence to support the republican claim, repeated again and again, that unemployment insurance benefits are a significant factor in discouraging folks from going out and looking for work. fact, to receive extended benefits, an unemployed person is required to accept reasonable offers of employment. two out of three of the unemployee red spondents in the survey and 80% of those who were receiving unemployment benefits said they were willing to take a pay cut in order to get a new job. as
people like jesse know that. an unemployment benefit usually amounts to a fraction of what a worker was making before someone lost his or her job. fact, unless you are actively searching for a job, getting job training for a new job, or are on temporary layoff, you're not likely to be entitled to an unemployment check. i'm not for just paying people to be idle. but these are individuals who are either getting training, who are actively involved in a job search, or the few that are in the...
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. >> does ross perot have any opinion on jesse ventura? fellow reform party? >> i don't know his opinion of him personally but did not get behind jesse ventura who was a little surprising because ventura being a naval -- navy seal, and of course the reform governor of minnesota, but ross perot didn't really get behind him and his efforts very much. so there's a little bit of a schism there. i think by 1996, ross perot felt like he did what he wanted to do. again, i stress for people, this notion of being an irritant. he was always trying to just make us pay attention to issues. i know when we talked about running, you're talking about win being the white house -- about winning the white house. but ross perot, more than personally becoming president, and probably wouldn't have picked stockdale if that was his sole intention in 1992 was to remind people of duty, honor, country, old style american values and to grapple with that debt issue which he as a business person, he found repulsive, a bad road for america to take. >> we have referenced several times that r
. >> does ross perot have any opinion on jesse ventura? fellow reform party? >> i don't know his opinion of him personally but did not get behind jesse ventura who was a little surprising because ventura being a naval -- navy seal, and of course the reform governor of minnesota, but ross perot didn't really get behind him and his efforts very much. so there's a little bit of a schism there. i think by 1996, ross perot felt like he did what he wanted to do. again, i stress for...
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king, former cbs news anchor dan rather, interior secretary ken salazar and civil-rights leaders like jesse jackson, al sharpton, julian bond, joseph lowery, and congressman john lewis. there were musical performances by a wreath at franklin and stevie wonder. from the national mall in washington, d.c., this is a little over three hours. ♪ >> o say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there that stars spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ♪ home of the brave ♪ [applause] [drum roll] ♪ [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] ♪ [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. [no audio] >> and now we welcome master of ceremonies,
king, former cbs news anchor dan rather, interior secretary ken salazar and civil-rights leaders like jesse jackson, al sharpton, julian bond, joseph lowery, and congressman john lewis. there were musical performances by a wreath at franklin and stevie wonder. from the national mall in washington, d.c., this is a little over three hours. ♪ >> o say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through...
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my wish would be to see jesse ventura run on the independent ticket. the media needs to address the failures of mitt romney and the business community. this man destroy jobs and companies. third, the gentleman that was the grading the south a few minutes ago, i agree with him. we never need another president from the state of texas. we never need another president that was born in kenya. thank you. host: here is mitt romney's closing advertisement entitled freedom and an opportunity -- freedom and opportunity. >> when generations saw the statue of liberty for the first time, one thing that they knew beyond a doubt is that they were coming to a place where anything was possible and that in america, their children would have a better life. i believe in that america. the spirit of enterprise for held our economy pass that of any other nation on earth. in the campaign to come, the american ideals of economic freedom and opportunity meet a clear and unapologetic defense. we stand for freedom and opportunity the principles that made this nation a great and p
my wish would be to see jesse ventura run on the independent ticket. the media needs to address the failures of mitt romney and the business community. this man destroy jobs and companies. third, the gentleman that was the grading the south a few minutes ago, i agree with him. we never need another president from the state of texas. we never need another president that was born in kenya. thank you. host: here is mitt romney's closing advertisement entitled freedom and an opportunity -- freedom...
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after that came jesse ventura, elected governor of minnesota in 1998, i believe. in 2000, pat buchanan was the nominee of the party and you can was a firebrand conservative andthoughtbut he cd not ought motivate the reform party people like perot did. and the party was sort of found -- it initially was established with the same kind of priorities that perot had set in his first campaign. reducing the deficit. term limits. some of these issues that ended it up being in the contract for cannot america. so i think there was definitely an impact. and you saw the republican party co-opt some of those issues. term limits was never passed. but it was part of the contract. gingrich's contract. so i think that -- with buchanan in 2000, the party was struggling to find its core. what was it all about? and a lot of people thought that perot -- i mean, not perot, buchanan, did not really represent them. did not represent their interests very well. and i think what's happened since then, the party really has sort of fizzled. there's still a few state affiliates that are trying
after that came jesse ventura, elected governor of minnesota in 1998, i believe. in 2000, pat buchanan was the nominee of the party and you can was a firebrand conservative andthoughtbut he cd not ought motivate the reform party people like perot did. and the party was sort of found -- it initially was established with the same kind of priorities that perot had set in his first campaign. reducing the deficit. term limits. some of these issues that ended it up being in the contract for cannot...
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in 1991 in a speech at cleveland, jesse jackson was leading a counterprotest and there was a point earlier in the campaign where doug wilder was suggesting that bill clinton ought to start talking about welfare after david duke did so well in louisiana. he always talked about reconciliation and it was popular with african-american voters. it wasn't like it was welcomed by everyone in the party. >> i saw it as a jourmist at the time. i was an -- journalist at the time. "u.s. news and world report", and i was covering part of the campaign. and my kids like to tease me and say, it was 17 years ago right now this happened. it was exactly 20 years ago today, sounds like the beatles, 20 years ago that i closed the first article that i ever wrote about bill clinton and go into the magazine the week he was announcing his candidacy down here. and i spent an extended period of time with him on a flight from washington to memphis because you couldn't fly directly to little rock and pretty much can't now -- [laughter] >> and i don't know if he remembers that we hit bad weather around memphis and could
in 1991 in a speech at cleveland, jesse jackson was leading a counterprotest and there was a point earlier in the campaign where doug wilder was suggesting that bill clinton ought to start talking about welfare after david duke did so well in louisiana. he always talked about reconciliation and it was popular with african-american voters. it wasn't like it was welcomed by everyone in the party. >> i saw it as a jourmist at the time. i was an -- journalist at the time. "u.s. news and...
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he came on saying that he wanted to support jesse helms every day, almost every minute. he had a commercial. and nobody knew that this gentleman here was a paraplegic until after he was elected. and the only line that he said during his campaign was, send me up to help jesse helms. i just could not believe at that point in time that the more that we hear somebody and get the packaging on these videos, i do not believe the north carolinian is would have voted for him if they saw the whole package. host: an e-mail from felix. a democratic caller in virginia, what do you think? are you with us? i have to push the button. we can hear you. caller: i think that videos can have an influence on your opinion, on your candidate. just an example of the previous caller, andrew, i have not heard anything about ron paul. had it not been for the video and is going to the youtube and taking that to the media, i really would not have known and now my opinion is that he is a racist. i am a democrat and will support barack obama. i think the ads that these candidates are spending are outra
he came on saying that he wanted to support jesse helms every day, almost every minute. he had a commercial. and nobody knew that this gentleman here was a paraplegic until after he was elected. and the only line that he said during his campaign was, send me up to help jesse helms. i just could not believe at that point in time that the more that we hear somebody and get the packaging on these videos, i do not believe the north carolinian is would have voted for him if they saw the whole...
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first caller mentioned jesse ventura. and i was always upset that if he won 39% of the vote, that meant that 60% of the voters in minnesota had a governor they didn't want. and then the other caller talked about how voting isn't working. i ran for congress and i ran for state assembly with the ross perot ticket back in 1994 and 1996 and it just seems to me that none of this can work unless the people have a chance to run off voting. insisting -- this has to be changed that if we're going to have three choices, we're never going to have a candidate win with more than 50% of the vote. i mean, the more serious the candidates get, i should say. obviously, you can have like 50 and 25 and 25. but if we had the instance runoff voting, i'm wondering if american elect have the option and trying to promote its use and any of the states. guest: well, thank you for your question. we're staying focused on making sure that we have an opportunity to put a ticket on the ballot for 2012. but california gives you a great example of where t
first caller mentioned jesse ventura. and i was always upset that if he won 39% of the vote, that meant that 60% of the voters in minnesota had a governor they didn't want. and then the other caller talked about how voting isn't working. i ran for congress and i ran for state assembly with the ross perot ticket back in 1994 and 1996 and it just seems to me that none of this can work unless the people have a chance to run off voting. insisting -- this has to be changed that if we're going to...
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. >> does ross perot have any opinion on jesse ventura? fellow reform party? >> i don't know his opinion of him personally but did not get behind jesse ventura who was a little surprising because ventura being a naval -- navy seal, and of course the reform governor of minnesota, but ross perot didn't really get behind him and his efforts very much. so there's a little bit of a schism there. i think by 1996, ross perot felt like he did what he wanted to do. again, i stress for people, this notion of being an irritant. he was always trying to just make us pay attention to issues. i know when we talked about running, you're talking about win being the white house -- about winning the white house. but ross perot, more than personally becoming president, and probably wouldn't have picked stockdale if that was his sole intention in 1992 was to remind people of duty, honor, country, old style american values and to grapple with that debt issue which he as a business person, he found repulsive, a bad road for america to take. >> we have referenced several times that r
. >> does ross perot have any opinion on jesse ventura? fellow reform party? >> i don't know his opinion of him personally but did not get behind jesse ventura who was a little surprising because ventura being a naval -- navy seal, and of course the reform governor of minnesota, but ross perot didn't really get behind him and his efforts very much. so there's a little bit of a schism there. i think by 1996, ross perot felt like he did what he wanted to do. again, i stress for...
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i jesse -- i just see figures. i was with dan in iowa. >> i want to thank you for your service. my question is, what would you do, or what with the country look like, with a santorum administration in the first week? >> the first thing we would do is on national security -- you heard the plan i outlined. i pray, i do pray, that we do not have an explosion in the middle east in iran that proves that they have a nuclear weapons capability by the time january 20, 2013 rolls around. if they have not done that, the plan and put in place is the first thing i will do on day one to make sure we are safe from this threat. that is number 1. number 2, i would repeal obamacare. i think that is the biggest threat. [applause] it is the biggest threat threat to freedom in this country. it will increase dependency in this country. we need to create stability and certainty and lower regulation and taxes for a business community, repealing obamacare, you cannot wait it -- waive it. you can get rid of it. you guys were card. -- work hard. you give us 50 in the senate, we will use the reconciliatio
i jesse -- i just see figures. i was with dan in iowa. >> i want to thank you for your service. my question is, what would you do, or what with the country look like, with a santorum administration in the first week? >> the first thing we would do is on national security -- you heard the plan i outlined. i pray, i do pray, that we do not have an explosion in the middle east in iran that proves that they have a nuclear weapons capability by the time january 20, 2013 rolls around. if...
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host: jesse is a democrat from chicago. caller: good morning, a gentleman. i have a question. how do you feel about a lot of the right wing media saying if ron paul won the iowa caucus, the iowa caucus itself is irrelevant? how do you feel about that? if he did win, would you stand by the people of iowa's voices and stand behind him yourself? host: as -- guest: of course as the chairman i will support the gop nominee, and especially a state that is a swing state. iowa will likely determine the care of the perot vote to the next president is. maybe for the viewers, you should know the chairman of the party has to be neutral. i am neutral throughout the entire process. on caucus night, i will attend my local caucus but i will not cast a vote since my office has to oversee the election. i will not speculate on what may or may not happen. but i talked earlier about the message that ron paul has that is resonating in iowa, and it is on a limited government, reducing spending, shrinking the influence of washington in the lives of americans. but also he has been on the ground buildin
host: jesse is a democrat from chicago. caller: good morning, a gentleman. i have a question. how do you feel about a lot of the right wing media saying if ron paul won the iowa caucus, the iowa caucus itself is irrelevant? how do you feel about that? if he did win, would you stand by the people of iowa's voices and stand behind him yourself? host: as -- guest: of course as the chairman i will support the gop nominee, and especially a state that is a swing state. iowa will likely determine the...
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host: jesse is a democrat from chicago. caller: good morning, a gentleman. i have a question. how do you feel about a lot of the right wing media st. if ron paul won the iowa caucus, the iowa caucus itself is irrelevant. how do you feel about that? if he did win, would you stand by the people of iowa's voices and stand behind him yourself? host: as -- guest: of course as the chairman i will support the gop nominee, and especially a state that is a swing state. iowa will likely determine the care of the perot vote to the next president is. maybe for the viewers, you should know the chairman of the party has to be neutral. i and neutral throughout the entire process. on caucus night, i will attend my local caucus but i will not cast a vote since my office has to oversee the election. i will not speculate on what may or may not happen. but i talked earlier about the message that ron paul has that is resonating in iowa, and it is on a limited government, reducing spending, shrinking the influence of washington in the lives of americans. but also he has been on the ground building
host: jesse is a democrat from chicago. caller: good morning, a gentleman. i have a question. how do you feel about a lot of the right wing media st. if ron paul won the iowa caucus, the iowa caucus itself is irrelevant. how do you feel about that? if he did win, would you stand by the people of iowa's voices and stand behind him yourself? host: as -- guest: of course as the chairman i will support the gop nominee, and especially a state that is a swing state. iowa will likely determine the...
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jesse. what do you think about the u.s.-iraq relationship? caller: it was based on a lie. they had no business there in the first place. i can't believe we have people here -- "washington journ talking about iraq, but not taking care of our own people here. every country in sticking our nose in the business -- you know what? america and israel the most threat to peace in the world. iran has no -- and other countries. iran does not have military and other countries. we need to get out of the imperialism we have and take care of our own a business. as far as i'm concerned, he is doing the same thing george bush is doing. all you so-called obama lubbers, this man is not doing anything to bring peace to the world -- all you so-called obama lovers. host: let's hear from president obama himself talking about how he is doing as president. he was a guest on "60 minutes" last night. here is what he has to say about reaching across the aisle. >> i think when i came into office in 2008, faugh -- it was my firm belief at such an important moment in our country, there is no reason why
jesse. what do you think about the u.s.-iraq relationship? caller: it was based on a lie. they had no business there in the first place. i can't believe we have people here -- "washington journ talking about iraq, but not taking care of our own people here. every country in sticking our nose in the business -- you know what? america and israel the most threat to peace in the world. iran has no -- and other countries. iran does not have military and other countries. we need to get out of...
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jesse jackson will be here. that will be a good event. again, i think that helps us engage that conversation of how we move beyond a two-party system that has created a stranglehold on our democracy and prevented us from moving forward in any substantive way. host: ed fallon, how will you measure your success after next tuesday? guest: we already measure some success from the first month of the occupy wall street movement. 650,000 new credit union accounts were opened. people move their money from national banks to credit unions. bank of america instituted a $5 monthly charge that was dropped. data success. how do we measure success in this case? trying to get the candidates to do a better job at indicating their position on key issues. i do not know what we will succeed much in that room. but it is an important step in a movement, and hopefully what comes out is more people understanding that confluence between corporate corruption and political corruption, and continue to make those connections in new hampshire, florida, nevada, other s
jesse jackson will be here. that will be a good event. again, i think that helps us engage that conversation of how we move beyond a two-party system that has created a stranglehold on our democracy and prevented us from moving forward in any substantive way. host: ed fallon, how will you measure your success after next tuesday? guest: we already measure some success from the first month of the occupy wall street movement. 650,000 new credit union accounts were opened. people move their money...
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morning, house ethics committee announced that it would extend it's investigation of representative jesse jackson, jr., his part in the rod blagojevich scandal -- jackson, 46, denies the wrongdoing, being examined for two alleged violations. one on whether a-- at least $1.5 million in campaign cash reportedly offered. reported use of two most senior staffers and office resources paid with tax dollars, one staffer termed a very aggressive -- >> caribou, maine, hello, jim. >> good morning, how are you? >> well, thank you. between romney and gingrich, neither would be my answer. >> because? >> with mitt romney, in 2007, last election cycle, i was watching a debate in michigan, cnbc today about the economy, and mitt romney -- all stood up there and told the american public that the economy was robust. to me he did not have the foresight to see this coming down the road. ron paul has been talking about this coming for years what our economy is facing. right there that puts me off for romney. and gingrich, his comments about him being a historian, fannie mae and freddie mac, and receiving over
morning, house ethics committee announced that it would extend it's investigation of representative jesse jackson, jr., his part in the rod blagojevich scandal -- jackson, 46, denies the wrongdoing, being examined for two alleged violations. one on whether a-- at least $1.5 million in campaign cash reportedly offered. reported use of two most senior staffers and office resources paid with tax dollars, one staffer termed a very aggressive -- >> caribou, maine, hello, jim. >> good...
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i'm not putting my fingers at you because your constituents are responsible for what you do, but jesse ventura receive nor corporate money when he was going to the governorship of minnesota as an independent. i found that impressive. is that still possible and if not? why not? >> i am the poster child for what happens the federal candidates after the disastrous decision of citizens united, which is the greatest threat to democracy that we face in this country. [applause] and i say that because i had $2.5 million of outside money by secret donors don't into my raese when i was on nobody's endangered species list. i went from leading by 30 points in 2008 to barely surviving with less than 50% of the vote and winning by two points in 2010 all because of secret outside madrid at bad as it was in 2010, it is much worse than 10,012. -- in 2012. i heard that one of the super pacs just got a $25 million donation from a single individual. if you do not think how that is a threat to democracy and how candidates have to raise money to compete with that, you are in for a rude awakening for 2012. t
i'm not putting my fingers at you because your constituents are responsible for what you do, but jesse ventura receive nor corporate money when he was going to the governorship of minnesota as an independent. i found that impressive. is that still possible and if not? why not? >> i am the poster child for what happens the federal candidates after the disastrous decision of citizens united, which is the greatest threat to democracy that we face in this country. [applause] and i say that...
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jake -- jesse jackson will be here, as well as terry nichols from "the nation." that helps to be in the conversation of how we move beyond a two-party system that has created a stranglehold on our system and has prevented us from moving forward substantively. host: how would you measure success or achieving your goals by next tuesday? guest: this is just in the first month of the movement. 650,000 new credit union accounts were opened. people moving their money from big, national banks to local credit unions. bank of america had instituted a $5 monthly charge that was dropped. that is a success. how do we measure success in this case? trying to get the candidates to do a better job at indicating their position on key issues. i do not know if we are going to succeed much in that realm, candidly, but that is a step. hopefully, more people can understand the confluence between corporate corruption and political corruption, continue to make those connections in new hampshire, florida, nevada, other states where presidential candidates will soon be coming up for of vo
jake -- jesse jackson will be here, as well as terry nichols from "the nation." that helps to be in the conversation of how we move beyond a two-party system that has created a stranglehold on our system and has prevented us from moving forward substantively. host: how would you measure success or achieving your goals by next tuesday? guest: this is just in the first month of the movement. 650,000 new credit union accounts were opened. people moving their money from big, national...
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in 1991, jesse jackson was essentially leading a counter protest. there was a point where doug wilder suggested that bill clinton all the started talking about welfare after david duke sit -- did so well. racial reconciliation became popular with african-american voters, this was not welcomed by everyone in the party. >> i saw it from the perspective of the journalists that the tide. i was an editor and a reporter from sotheby's to called a national news magazine -- something we used to call a national news magazine. i was covering part of the campaign. i'm getting old enough where i am saying it was 17 years ago that this happened. it was exactly 20 years ago today that i closed the first article that i ever wrote about bill clinton, and it was to go into the magazine the week that he was announcing his candidacy down here. i spent an extended time with him on a flight from washington to memphis, because you could not fly directly to little rock at the time. i do not know if he remembers as, but we did that whether or memphis and we could not land,
in 1991, jesse jackson was essentially leading a counter protest. there was a point where doug wilder suggested that bill clinton all the started talking about welfare after david duke sit -- did so well. racial reconciliation became popular with african-american voters, this was not welcomed by everyone in the party. >> i saw it from the perspective of the journalists that the tide. i was an editor and a reporter from sotheby's to called a national news magazine -- something we used to...
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jesse kempa. . tom singer. jerome sorrow. howard scos inch e, joe read whitman, sam w. yazzie. n.a. brown. rubin curly, alfred dwooly, edwin freeman, billy goldman, roger hawthorne, h. jake, william keen, johnson nazwood. joe price, wilson h. price. peter tracy, woody bsocsie. don bahey. charlie begay. guy chaucie. livingston, martin martinez. with those i submit those names on a wonderful treasure from the four corners to our america and what they gave this country is so valuable and look back on their life and what they gave us is immeasurable. i would like to do is honor them on today, the anniversary of peril harbor and i hope we look fondly on their attributes and what they gave to this great country and we are all great because of them. i want to take the liberty and acknowledge one other person, it's her birthday today, my mom, she turned 78. happy birthday, mom. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from seek recognition? >> permission t
jesse kempa. . tom singer. jerome sorrow. howard scos inch e, joe read whitman, sam w. yazzie. n.a. brown. rubin curly, alfred dwooly, edwin freeman, billy goldman, roger hawthorne, h. jake, william keen, johnson nazwood. joe price, wilson h. price. peter tracy, woody bsocsie. don bahey. charlie begay. guy chaucie. livingston, martin martinez. with those i submit those names on a wonderful treasure from the four corners to our america and what they gave this country is so valuable and look back...
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i talked to the son of jesse jackson and he talked about how he went out and was hanging out with corn farmers recently. he never but he would be doing that. in detroit where there has been a lot of black population, migration and loss, john conyers and hansen clarke are the two black incumbents from detroit. we have also seen them expand in new orleans. the district a distress always been armorers. the voting next rights requires the redistricting is to maintain black districts. part of it is that republicans are drawing the line in some cases and combining the black voters to as few districts as possible and that is politically beneficial to them. we have seen a proliferation of these very oddly drawn majority black districts. it has helped republicans solidify their broad majority of districts nationwide. these majority black districts and majority hispanic districts have generally assisted in that process. >> maybe you could say a little something about -- there has been, for the last several cycles, sometimes alliances between republicans and african- american democrats to create
i talked to the son of jesse jackson and he talked about how he went out and was hanging out with corn farmers recently. he never but he would be doing that. in detroit where there has been a lot of black population, migration and loss, john conyers and hansen clarke are the two black incumbents from detroit. we have also seen them expand in new orleans. the district a distress always been armorers. the voting next rights requires the redistricting is to maintain black districts. part of it is...