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Emergency manager to run your town instead with the power to overrule your vote. they can strip elected officials of their power and take over themselves. they can even abolish the town, sell off its assets, you get no say. the governor used the new power to strip all the elected officials in benton harbor of their powers, the town council kept trying to meet, tried to pass a resolution honoring the constitution, for example, to try to make the rather obvious points. but they were not allowed to do that. they've been stripped of their powers. so benton harbor went -- a detroit suburb called al...

Constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the example in idaho. idaho has one statewide elected official that is hispanic. i am one of two congressmen in idaho that's hispanic. it's a majority white state. about 90% white. and they have no problem voting for racial minorities to represent them. i think we need to start rethinking all these things. in fact, i welcome all minorities to move to idaho and to states that are willing to vote statewide for minorities. >> how far have we come, tom? >> well, a long way but the journey is not complete yet. and i feel strongly that in this country w...

Constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the example in idaho. idaho has one statewide elected official that is hispanic. i am one of two congressmen in idaho that's hispanic. it's a majority white state. about 90% white. and they have no problem voting for racial minorities to represent them. i think we need to start rethinking all these things. in fact, i welcome all minorities to move to idaho and to states that are willing to vote statewide for minorities. >> how far have we come, tom? >> well, a long way but the journey is not complete yet. and i feel strongly that in this country w...

The demographic tide was turning against the white minority so they just stopped having elections to avert demographic tide. so this is a sense that people feel entitled to change the political process to stop mainly minorities from gaining political power. so it's sort of an ironic use of phrase. >> congressman, is it still necessary to have a voting rights act? >> clearly, congress voted for it overwhelmingly. the question is whether it's constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the example in idaho. idaho has one statewide elected official that is hispanic. i am one of two congressmen...

Three or four years. i don't understand why people are saying this, that crime is going through the roof here, and saying this is all because of illegal immigration. do drug cartels in mexico effect us? absolutely. they always have. nothing's new on that. but crime overall is going down. so i don't follow that. >> how much of it, do you think, is born of fear? this is a state that does not have a huge african-american population. relatively small compared to much of the other country. if you look at the demographics of this state, you've had a majority white state that is becoming more and mor...