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In terms of serving as a state rep for the past eight years. >> linda, do you feel the weight of history that i feel for you as someone who grew up in that district seeing you as the first woman elected there. seeing dorchester finally win one in that district? obviously, you being haitian-american is the big news of the night for that district. do you feel all that or did it just feel, to you, growing up there this is something you were going to be able to do? >> im telling you, to me, it felt ...

But for us, it was about hitting the ground and doing the work of the people and getting out there and letting people know who i am in terms of serving as a state rep for the past eight years. >> linda, do you feel the weight of history that i feel for you as someone who grew up in that district seeing you as the first woman elected there. seeing dorchester finally win one in that district? obviously, you being haitian-american is the big news of the night for that district. do you feel all that...

Back home would be mad at me for saying this word because -- they have done this to themselves. >> were going to have a country, by the way, that will be like they say about the west bank, raul, like swiss cheese. different communities totally clustered around their own thing. look at michigan, the national republ republican committee. they are rejecting calls for resignation. the former state rep here posted an offensive article on his facebook page saying everyone should know these statistics ...

Opinion. now 47% approved gay marriage. just 43% disapprove. joy reid is managing editor for the grio.com. brian sims is a pennsylvania state rep whos openly gay. thank you for joining us. i want to start with joy whos our expert here all the time. then you can be the new expert. congratulations on representing one of the more interesting parts of the city, we call center city. anyway, lets go with this, why do you think if you had to write a history paper on this, what would be your lead about ...

Collar workers of all ethnic groups. back in 2004, only 18% were in favor. now with 80% opposed back then, four out of five opposed. by december of 2012, there had been a spectacular shift in opinion. now 47% approved gay marriage. just 43% disapprove. joy reid is managing editor for the grio.com. brian sims is a pennsylvania state rep whos openly gay. thank you for joining us. i want to start with joy whos our expert here all the time. then you can be the new expert. congratulations on represen...

Need to govern and get these people health care in the kind of ideal log in his own party and know they will not do this. >> rick scott has to run statewide and youre looking at a million plus people who could get health insurance because of his decision. but its not a problem if youre a governor who has got to think about election in a few years. >> no. it will help him an awful lot. but i tell you what, if you are a state rep up from where im from. >> totally different. >> somebody says, hey, ...

Can tell you something that you will intuitively know, which is that a lot of people are just not very tuned in to whats happening in statehouses, who their state rep is. i would be interested to see what the numbers are like for the u.s. congress because in statehouses in particular, i think everything is a little bit flooky and disconnected or potentially so because the turnout can be so low, and there can be so much apathy. i wouldnt be shock iffed it was also happening at the national level....

>> i want to be clear. dissolution of the charter. not the killing of the individuals. dissolving the charter. >> when are we going to have that conversation since they are the people according to the law? >> this gets to where you want to push out the boundaries. who gets punished and who doesnt? who do they wayne down upon and where are they allowed to do what they want? getting stopped and fisked on the street. at the same time if you have to go to a state rep who is a conservative democrat r...

The past year. that is who they have, after the presidential election. they have a state rep who nobody has heard of and another guy who has never run for anything, who nobody has heard of. that is it. that said, consider who they have to work with. this is the facebook page for the senate republican caucus in massachusetts. that is not like a sub-group of them. that is all of them. there are precisely four republicans in the massachusetts state senate and, more than four times as democrats, as ...

The past year. that is who they have, after the presidential election. they have a state rep who nobody has heard of and another guy who has never run for anything, who nobody has heard of. that is it. that said, consider who they have to work with. this is the facebook page for the senate republican caucus in massachusetts. that is not like a sub-group of them. that is all of them. there are precisely four republicans in the massachusetts state senate andmo, more than fr times as democrats, as ...