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Program note: Watch Randi Kaye’s live report from the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, tonight at 10pm ET on AC360°.
Randi Kaye | BIO
AC360° Correspondent
I hadn’t been to Little Rock Arkansas in 16 years.
I had worked there as a reporter, my very first reporting job, and honestly, I wasn’t sure I’d ever be back.
Sure enough, I traveled to Little Rock this week to interview a man named Bob Porto. You’ll meet him tonight on AC360.
He was a home builder but the recession dried up all his business and when the bank came to collect a $300,000 loan on Porto’s house, he didn’t have the money. He also didn’t have anywhere to turn. That was September 2008 and that’s when Bob Port co-founded the Pulaski County Tea Party, which includes Little Rock and is the biggest Tea Party in the state.
Porto never cared much for politics but these days he’s busy giving speeches and going on the radio to push the Tea Party values.
Like most tea partiers, Porto isn’t happy with the direction he says President Obama is taking this country.
Tea Partiers oppose big government and big spending by government. They also oppose higher taxes and stand for freedom and fiscal responsibility. They do not want to see an increase in the national debt and they view health care reform as if it’s a health care takeover. More spending that they say “we the people" don’t need and won’t benefit from.
Randi Kaye | BIO
AC360° Correspondent
It is the quintessential Napa Valley experience.
Passengers aboard sleek antique rail cars pay more than $100 for a four-course meal, not including the wine. A recent lunch aboard the train included steak, lobster cakes and local greens.
During their three-hour journey winding through Napa Valley, passengers can choose from more than 100 wines to complement their meal.
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A state senator from Ohio says his state is spending $1 million on road signs to advertise the use of stimulus money for road projects. In other words, the state is using your money to tell you it's spending your money.
State Sen. Tim Grendell, R-Ohio, calls it a waste of taxpayer dollars. The road signs he's concerned about display words such as "Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" Some road projects have two signs, and some don't have any at all, but the signs aren't cheap.
The bigger signs can cost as much as $3,000 each, according to Grendell, who says this is just a big "thank you" to the Obama Administration.
Randi Kaye | BIO
AC360° Correspondent
Someone I know once said to me, “You can ride an elephant down Fifth Avenue in New York City, and nobody will look. Nothing phases New Yorkers.”
Well, today I found out that isn’t exactly true.
My proof: the electric car I drove around the city for a story for Anderson Cooper 360°.
The car looks like a souped-up golf cart. They come in black, white, red, green, champagne and blue, but no matter what the color, they are all “green” because they are all electric. They run on battery power instead of gasoline.
I climbed into one today to test it out for our story. In the passenger seat was Colin Reilly, who owns the company, www.freeelectriccar.com.
Program Note: For more details on the killing of Annie Le, a Yale medical student, watch AC360° tonight at 10 p.m. ET.
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AC360° Correspondent
I covered the brutal murder of Yale medical student Annie Le in September.
She’s the 24-year-old lab student whose body was found stuffed inside the wall at one of Yale’s labs on campus.
They arrested and charged an animal research technician, Raymond Clark III, who is still locked up.
At the time, we all wondered, what the heck happened? Well, today, we know a lot more.
I just got my hands on the arrest warrant affidavit which has some fascinating new details about what led police to arrest Ray Clark and charge him with strangling Le to death.
The affidavit appears to show that Clark was trying to cover his alleged tracks right in front of the officers investigating the murder.
Police say Clark raised eyebrows immediately when he allegedly tried to move a box of wipes that were splattered with blood out of the direct line of vision of a police officer. The wipes were on a cart in the lab and according to the affidavit the officer says she watched Clark turn the box around in attempt to hide the blood.
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