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our main story tonight concerns government sports for nerds these days we are all focused on the presidential race the biggest most prominent office in all of government but I would like to talk about the opposite of that one of the smallest and most obscure forms of government Special Districts that's right tonight we are talking about special taxing districts so hello people watching for the first time because of our Trump piece and also I presume goodbye goodbye thanks for checking in but just so you know Special Districts are small unit of government with the power to take tax dollars to do one specific thing you've probably heard of a fire district or a water district but they can be set up for almost any purpose and there are way more of them than you think Special Districts over the past half century have really proliferated to the point that we have about 40,000 of them in the country now and they account for about a hundred billion dollar of spending A1 billion a year that is 16 billion more than Russia spends on its mil and when you include school districts Special Districts are the most common form of local government in the country and that's crazy it's like finding out the highest paid athlete in the world is Harold I mean who the [ __ ] is Harold what sport does he play why don't people talk about this all the time how am I only hearing about Harolds now you're making me feel a fool Special Districts are so ubiquitous and sometimes have so little accountability States may not even know how many they have or how much they spend a few years back Idaho launched an investigation of Special Districts with objective one being identify how many Special Districts there are in Idaho and when Kentucky investigated its auditor found that 40% of its districts that were required to didn't even file proper budgets I mean this is this is an extraordinary mess as one of my good friends says you can't make this up $2.7 Billion system of government uh operating uh because of a lack of oversight and accountability at almost every level has been permitted to become a level of ghost government yes ghost government and that is the shittiest idea for a ghost story I've ever heard aside of course from Ghost dad and that was a bad idea before context changed the way we felt about Bill Cosby having the power to walk through walls before then it was a bad idea after it was horrifying but if you think about it it's a little weird in a country that talks so much about government accountability that a huge amount of our tax dollars go to fund entities that most of us know absolutely nothing about you may not even know how many districts you are living in right now a school district May overlap with a Park District a water district a sewer district and so on such that it wouldn't be at all uncommon for one person to be finding themselves within the boundaries of 10 or more of these districts that's right think of a special district like a cult uh it can take your money and you may not even be aware that you are in one although it is worth remembering in a special district allowing the leader to impregnate you is not mandatory no matter what the guy in charge of the library district says no matter what he says with his words or eyes and if you're thinking well look what difference does it make what districts I'm in well it can actually make a big difference one person that we found um paid $1,000 as part of an irrigation special district that he lives in in North Central Phoenix his neighbor literally across the street is not a part of that District District their special district bill was $7 $1,000 versus $7 look the only people who should be paying $1,000 more than their neighbors across the street are the [ __ ] who cover every square inch of their house with Christmas decorations they should be taxed and then they should be imprisoned and then they should be told their lights were better last year because it's that one that would hurt them the most that's the one that would stay and it it is important to note here in theory and often in practice having small entities with a single purpose can be a great idea take Lichfield New Hampshire in 2007 they chose to create a mosquito control district to you know control mosquitoes it's run by two men who as you will see from an amazing YouTube video of one of their public meetings are almost heartbreakingly conscientious regardless of the fact that there is no one else in the room let's all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to flag of the United States of America and to the rep for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay chair will call the rooll uh acting Vice chair uh Mr Rio present and I'm here all members are present come on you you have got to admire their dedication to the rules these two men are so scrupulous they would sit at a broken red traffic light for six hours in the middle of the night red is red we live in a civilized society red is red we stay in fact they ran that 43 minute meeting so meticulously they even took input from the public with predictable results any members of the public wishing to speak seeing and hearing none look I guess when you're a member of a ghost government it's only natural your meetings are going to be attended only by the ghost public now that that is the best case scenario and and many Special Districts are like that chugging along just fine with no major problems but some like the Isaacson Municipal Utility District in Texas are not cuz an audit recently discovered $70,000 in losses and that the district build residents for water with a disturbing consistency we're not all professional accountants or managers we may not have looked at things as closely as maybe we should have IUD has been build for 13,722 200 gallons of water every year for the last 6 years rain or drought or weather no change same number now no charges have been filed there but that level of consistency is weird the only time the exact same amount of water should appear in a document year after year is in Shamu who Rider yeah Shamu gets 13.7 million gallons of water in his tank at all times and not a drop less he's a [ __ ] artist I'm obviously kidding you can keep him in a waiting pool if you want and if you want a [ __ ] his blo hole that'll be an extra 20 the point is thanks for visiting SeaWorld but but in Kentucky in Kentucky the lack of supervision led to outright corruption with over $100,000 being fantastically misspent by one former assistant fire chief the report claims the Garrett volunteer fire department in Floyd County used taxpayer money to buy things like flat screen televisions chewing tobacco and fireworks investigators say they also found hundreds of pornographic videos on Department Electronics all right all right porn and chewing tobacco are obviously inappropriate but you know what really upsets me the most there fireworks they're a fire department that's like hearing EMTs have been using their budget to Stage scissor races they're your natural enemy but that behavior was nothing compared to what happened in a fire district in Road Island you won't believe the undercover video we gathered on The Man In Charge we spotted him drinking during the day then driving the fire department vehicle back to work we even have him taking the public safety vehicle to party up on Federal Hill drinking and apparently smoking marijuana this is you smoking what looks to be pot cigar Maybe you uh then share the cigar with your friends there I don't know that's a cigar yes it is you know I got to tell you Chief no one's going to buy that yeah no I'm pretty sure they'll definitely buy it um that's a cigar just like uh that's flour for when you want to bake one tiny cookie that's honey for my tea I use a very specific amount and that's just some quarts I keep laying around I love quarts and look corruption is not unique to Special Districts there are clearly problems in all other forms of government as well but when Special Districts only have one job it makes it all the more noticeable when things go wrong take Evergreen Park Illinois the county it's in has four different Mosquito Abatement districts to prevent the spread of West Nile so it had to be humiliating when this happened the mayor of West Suburban Evergreen Park came down with West virus the mayor got West Nile look no one is expecting a 0% failure rate here but if you're surrounded by that many Mosquito Abatement districts shouldn't there at least be agents willing to take a mosquito for him come on and one of the most interesting ways that special districts are different from any other form of government is how they can be created seemingly out of thin air for instance in Conroe Texas a company was hoping to create a new neighborhood on undeveloped land they wanted to form a special district which could issue bonds now to do this the law required a vote but remember no one lived there yet so guess what they did when Tim Kellerman saw someone installing a mobile home next to his house recently he asked them what's going on he told me there's none of my business this man and his wife moved in on Monday and signed a 9-month lease with Stingray Services after that he said they're moving out they're the only two people who can vote on $500 million worth of bonds for the new housing project two two people voting for $500 million of bonds and then leaving it's as if in The Lion King simar's father looked out over the planes and said Son someday this will all be someone else's problem and they both [ __ ] off and never came back and that whole process is perfectly legal in fact this wasn't the only place where Stingray Services provided what they called TurnKey voter trailer election Services they once even advertised on Craigslist with an ad reading eligible tenants will vote in and serve as election officials for the election which takes place in the home oh that's right you're not just the only voters you're the election officials and your trailer is the polling station it makes you wonder why they didn't just throw in some [ __ ] ballot initiatives just for fun oh and on the motion that Jenna start cleaning out her [ __ ] hairbrush cuz it's starting to look like we have a cat we seem to be tied one to one and once once a special district is created you can be pretty sure no one is going to be watching what you do cuz remember that New Hampshire video when we found it on YouTube it had zero views zero meaning those two guys themselves didn't even watch it that is antiviral as videos go and voter accountability is pretty unlikely too one County in New York found turnout rates for some special district elections could be as low as 1.8% which might be because that County held on average one special district ele every 10.9 business days with not a single one taking place on Election Day which just seems inherently suspicious think about it it would be a bit of a red flag if someone in your neighborhood offered children candy every 11 days but never on Halloween they would give you pause for thought and even if the state government does investigate Special Districts may try to blow them off when that Kentucky auditor started asking his State's districts about the uh making their information available to the public he got some pretty unhelpful responses here's one direct quote by the way we didn't take any liberties with these quote this contains information the public is not entitled to know this is a good one we don't want to fill this out because there are too many crackpots in the world and my favorite uh will we just rather the public contact us directly to gain information so we know who's asking what you get the sense their preferred mode of contact would be an email to fake email address at [ __ ] off.gif packing peanuts or the enduring friendship of Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake they'll be with us until the end of time now to be fair some states are pushing to reform Special Districts California for instance has made them far more transparent in recent years and a Special Districts Association in San Diego even launched a competition for school children uh to create a one minute video educating the public about what's so special about Special Districts the deadline was Tuesday and it had a $1,500 top prize and the reason I know that is we entered with some local school kids and this is the result top story Special Districts what's so special about them Special Districts are smaller governments that collect taxes that handle one specific service like fight fire or provide water or buy fireworks or smoke cigars Special Districts are special because they can receive little oversight they sometimes called ghost governments I used to be afraid of ghosts but now I'm afraid of girls Special Districts can also be very easy to create sometimes the only people voting for them are two people in a trailer in the middle of of nowhere made by two people in a trailer in an empty field sounds like my younger brother you know it's true duin you w wanted sometimes Special Districts aren't so special though like when the mayor of a village in a county with four mosquito spring districts came down with the West Nile Virus come on that would barely be acceptable if you're time were near the actual Nile and you think so little about you don't even realize that's not the N this is the the special about special district is how hard it is to get rid of them they're almost impossible to destroy like Wolverine even Superman couldn't destroy Wolverine though obviously they would never meet because that's Crossing universes so to recap Special Districts take their money and do whatever they want with it with little to no consequences when I grow up I want to be a special district yay and now just time for a quick recap of the week and we begin with the US election or as you may Know It the clown Town [ __ ] the world [ __ ] show 2016 this was a particularly big week for the Republican party with Donald Trump winning seven states on super Tuesday and two more last night and while yesterday's wins were a little narrower it does appear that Republican voters have for the time being decided not to make Donald Trump again #m Donald Trump again in fact in fact Trump's opponents spent the week seeming in increasingly desperate he's always calling me Little Marco and I me guy he's taller than me he's like 6'2 which is why I don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who's 5'2 have you seen his hands they're like this and you know what they say about men with small hands you can't trust them no no that is not what they say about men with small hands and if you can't say the word penis don't imply the word penis because at that point it's not even an insult it's a Christian rock lyric but but even as primary voters Embrace Trump the Republican establishment is rejecting him like a transplanted organ which is fitting As Trump does resemble a kidney dropped on the floor at a supercast but but to truly reject an organ you need white blood cells and the GOP called up the whitest blood cell of them all now Donald Trump trp tells us that he is very very smart I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy he is very very not smart okay and that is very very not a very good insult but but but Romy Romney wasn't alone prominent Republicans lined up to publicly attack their own party's front runner I'm just hopeful that we aren't faced with the possibility of having Mr Trump as our nominee I cannot in good conscience vote for him and I will not if we nominate Donald Trump and put him on a Glide path to the nomination Republicans will be committing an abortion on their own party and it will be the end of the Republican party as we know it holy [ __ ] you know they're getting desperate when they're just throwing in their favorite buzzwords he won't just be an abortion he'll be a Sharia law wrapped in a Benghazi themed gay wedding and I mean it I'm notating that a mean it but but Trump not surprisingly not surpris Trump hit back hard at his critics with his tiny hamster siiz fists during Thursday's debate he referred to my hands if they're small something else must be small I guarantee you there's no problem I guarantee that's right Donald Trump just talked about his dick during a presidential debate a dick which I presume looks like a cheetah with a cheese dust rubbed on I presume that's a that's a guess but you know what I'm glad he brought it up mainly because I now have an excuse to play you something that we didn't have time to include last week specifically an audio book excerpt from his ex-wife ivana's for Love Alone a barely fictionalized account of their marriage as read by Morgan Fairchild in a moment they were on the floor on top of the meink coat katrinka's legs gripping his waist as he moved deeper and deeper into her as Adam pulled away from her as [ __ ] fell for a moment into the valley between her legs leaving a smear of seen on the dark silk he smiled with satisfaction now you have to keep the coat he said oh that is horrible although whatever you think about that you can't say [ __ ] all over your girlfriend's clothes is not presidential [Applause] okay you can't say that but the the Republican Party wasn't just doing damage control at the national level this week a number of local elections also threw up terrifying results just look at Texas the Lone Star State in that a lone star is what most people would give Texas on Yelp uh this week this week voters in Travis County Texas voted for a republican chairman and look who they picked real anger tonight after a man many Republicans considered to be vulgar and Brash just won control of their party in Travis County I'm not politically correct I'm Politically Incorrect I'm like Donald Trump on stero sweetheart so get ready to have some fun reading my Twitter feed oh for a start that guy's overall look can only be described as guy kicked out of your gym for trying to smell women although although in his defense I'll say this he's not overselling his Twitter feed cuz in just the 48 hours after his election he actually tweeted I am the face of the Republican party and I like boobies which is still nothing compared to my absolute favorite tweet of his which read if you Google Robert marrow 11in penis confirmed you get over 11, 800,000 hits I'm just saying which for the record is not true because we did it and we only got 472,000 hits although interestingly if you Google Robert Maro 1 in penis confirmed the results go up by 150,000 but that's not the point that's not the point the point is this guy is now an actual elected official chair of the Travis County Republican Party this guy do you think Hillary Clinton would swallow your [ __ ] or would it be more of a Lorina bobbit type situation George W bush is like Rick Perry both of them were closet homosexuals that's my personal opinion George Walker Bush was being provided young teen boys to have sex with I think Barack Obama is a gay man who got married Bill Clinton serial rapist uh Hillary Clinton rampaging bisexual adulterer Rick Perry rampaging bisexual adulterer yes yes that all sounds appalling but to be fair the question he was asked was what sounds does an culta make as she falls down the stairs so with that context he's not entirely wrong and look he wasn't even the only candidate to embarrass the Republican party in Texas this week let me introduce you to Mary Lou Brunner a woman who based on her jacket I can only assume was a member of the 1996 women's gymnastics team is she ker strug I think she's Ker strug she's running a successful campaign for a place on the Texas state board of education so let's find out some more about her Brennan has recently come under Fire online for some passionately stated opinions she holds including the idea that global warming was made up to promote Global socialism and that President Obama paid for a drug addiction in his 20s through homosexual prostitution how do people think that people own welfare who also have a drug habit how do they think they pay for their drugs well they steal they prostitute themselves say what you will about that woman I would read any history textbook she had a part in creating wait Teddy Rosevelt fathered an illegitimate child that was half human half bear why did nobody tell me this education is fun I yearn to learn and look the Texas state board of education is not known for having the least controversial Personnel in the country but she seems extreme even for them she's previously written that the dinosaurs were on Noah's Arc but went extinct afterward because and I quote they may have been babies and not able to reproduce it might make sense to take the small dinosaurs onto the ark instead of the ones bigger than a bus which is clearly scientifically wrong the reason we don't have dinosaurs isn't because they were too small to have sex it's because nobody [ __ ] on a cruise the dinosaurs were probably just too full from the buffet crack a book lady crack a science book now to their credit Republicans were quick to diss themselves from both candidates with the current School Board member saying Brunner would be a human reain delay and the Texas governor's office issuing the statement Robert marrow in no way speaks for the Republican party or its values but doesn't he though because in this election cycle it'll be a lot easier to argue that your party shouldn't be judged by people who spread weird Obama conspiracy theories and brag about their dicks if that didn't also accurately describe your presumptive nominee for the presidency it's a weird election time we're going through so let's move on to L's end uh the clothing company so boring its name is literally synonymous with water the L end catalog has recently become the source of an unexpected Scandal the retailer known for glossy cataloges like this one a apologizing for what's inside the new spring issue an interview with feminist journalist and political activist Gloria steup yes people were upset over a glorious steum interview which featured such incendiary quotes as dreams are bigger than goals each person is a unique miracle and Lan end is helping people become themselves which is absurd the only way Lanz end helps people become themselves is by providing a visual expression of Rock Bottom because that is a puffy coat with lapels [ __ ] lapels it's a puffy Blazer if you see a loved one wearing that don't just stand there Comfort them it's a cry for help they're reaching out actually what upset some Len customers wasn't so much steam's interview as one of her beliefs to do a feature on a pro-abortion feminist it's like why why would you do that prolife customers promising to boycott the business or flooding the company's face page the company apologized to customers who were offended and it has removed steum from its website lanen says its goal was to feature people who have made a difference and not to take a political or religious stance oh come on apologizing for the interview is taking a political stance and if you didn't want to be religious maybe stop making all your clothes look like they're designed for Mormon spring break in an amazing added twist steinm supporters are now threatening to boycott the company as well so I guess congratulations L end with one pointless interview which incidentally didn't even mention abortion you've done the impossible you've pissed off everyone involved in the abortion debate I don't know how you did it but but by the way since you are apologizing about things how about apologizing for this shirt designed to look like the blueprints of a sailboat or whatever the [ __ ] this is it looks like something an ER nurse would wear to a book burning or maybe apologize for this beige sweater vest which and this is a fact you legally are not allowed to own unless you're a middle school vice principal that's a legal fact well I guess I guess it does make sense that LS end back down here because they know if a woman truly has the right to choose the first thing she'll choose to do is to shop somewhere else than L ENT and now this and now people on TV mean [ __ ] there's a new study up that says women are more attracted to wide faac men not to marry though just to cuz go to pipy you know what I mean Viagra for men it's not just for the men if you know what I mean she said they lost it having a little honeymoon fun if you know what I mean the only thing the guys do of any value involving children is getting the process started if you know what I mean if you're a husband who likes to help your wife out around the house it may not pay off if you know what I mean they're giving it to you but then they're giving it to you if you know what I mean he uh wants to sew some Wild Oats if you know what I mean let's just say it all starts with a banana if you know what I mean you have to heat it up in different ways you know what I mean why don't you just get yourself a nice Dicky if you know what I mean well I don't know what you mean moving on our main story tonight concerns government sports for nerds these days we are all focused on the presidential race the biggest most prominent office in all of government but I would like to talk about the opposite of that one of the smallest and most obscure forms of government Special Districts that's right tonight we are talking about special taxing districts so hello people watching for the first time because of our Trump piece and also I presume goodbye goodbye thanks for checking in but just so you know Special Districts are small unit of government with the power to take tax dollars to do one specific thing you've probably heard of a fire district or a water district but they can be set up for almost any purpose and there are way more of them than you think special district over the past half century have really proliferated to the point that we have about 40,000 of them in the country now and they account for about hundred billion of spending a100 billion do a year that is 16 billion more than Russia spends on its military and when you include school districts Special Districts are the most common form of local government in the country and that's crazy it's like finding out the highest paid athlete in the world is Harold I mean who the [ __ ] is Harold what sport does he play Why don't people talk about this all the time how am I only hearing about Harolds now you're making me feel a fool Special Districts are so ubiquitous and sometimes have so little accountability States may not even know how many they have or how much they spend a few years back Idaho launched an investigation of Special Districts with objective one being identify how many Special Districts there are in Idaho and when Kentucky investigated its auditor found that 40% of its districts that were Reed to didn't even file proper budgets I mean this is this is an extraordinary mess as one of my good friends says you can't make this up $2.7 Billion system of government uh operating uh because of a lack of oversight and accountability at almost every level has been permitted to become a level of ghost government yes ghost government and that is the shittiest idea for a ghost story I've ever heard aside of course from Ghost dad and that was a bad idea before context changed the way we felt about Bill Cosby having the power to walk through walls before then it was a bad idea after it was horrifying but if you think about it it's a little weird in a country that talks so much about government accountability that a huge amount of our tax dollars go to fund entities that most of us know absolutely nothing about you may not even know how many districts you are living in right now a school district May overlap with a Park District a water district a sewer district and so on such that it would be at all uncommon for one person to be finding themselves within the boundaries of 10 or more of these districts that's right think of a special district like a cult uh it can take your money and you may not even be aware that you are in one although it is worth remembering in a special district allowing the leader to impregnate you is not mandatory no matter what the guy in charge of the library district says no matter what he says with his words or eyes and if you're thinking well look what difference does it make what districts I'm in well it can actually make a big difference one person that we found um paid $1,000 as part of an irrigation special district that he lives in in North Central Phoenix his neighbor literally across the street is not a part of that District their special district bill was $7 $1,000 versus $7 look the only people who should be paying $11,000 more than their neighbors across the street are the [ __ ] who cover every square inch of their house with Christmas decorations they should be taxed and then they should be imprisoned and then they should be told their lights were better last year because it's that one that would hurt them the most that's the one that would stay and it it is important to note here in theory and often in practice having small entities with a single purpose can be a great idea take Lichfield New Hampshire in 2007 they chose to create a mosquito control district to you know control mosquitoes it's run by two men who as you will see from an amazing YouTube video of one of their public meetings are almost heartbreakingly conscientious regardless of the fact that there is no one else in the room let's all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay cheer will call the rooll uh acting Place cheer uh Mr ratchel present and I'm here all members are present come on you have got to admire their dedication to the rules these two men are so scrupulous they would sit at a broken red traffic light for 6 hours in the middle of the night red is red we live in a civilized society red is red we stay in fact they ran that 43 minute meeting so meticulously they even took input from the public with predictable results any members of the public wishing to speak seeing and hearing none look I guess when you're a member of a ghost government it's only natural your meetings are going to be attended only by the ghost public now that that is the best case scenario and and many Special Districts are like that chugging along just fine with no major problems but some like the Isaacson Municipal Utility District in Texas are not because an audit recently discovered $770,000 in losses and that the district build residents for water with a disturbing consistency we're not all professional accountants or managers we may not have looked at things as closely as maybe we should have IUD has been build for 13,722 200 gallons of water every year for the last 6 years rain or drought or weather no change same number now no charges have been filed there but that level of consistency is weird the only time the exact same amount of water should appear in a document year after year is in Shamu's Rider yeah Shamu gets 13.7 million gallons of water in his tank at all times and not a drop less he's a [ __ ] artist I'm obviously kidding you can keep him in a waiting pool if you want and if you want to [ __ ] his blow hole that'll be an extra 20 the point is thanks for visiting in SeaWorld but but in Kentucky in Kentucky the lack of supervision led to outright corruption with over $100,000 being fantastically misspent by one former assistant fire chief the report claims the Garrett volunteer fire department in Floyd County used taxpayer money to buy things like flat screen televisions chewing tobacco and fireworks investigators say they also found hundreds of pornographic videos on Department Electronics all right all right porn and chewing tobacco are obviously inappropriate but you know what really upsets me the most there fireworks they're a fire department that's like hearing EMTs have been using their budget to Stage scissor races they're your natural enemy but that behavior was nothing compared to what happened in a fire district in Rhode Island you won't believe the undercover video we gathered on The Man In Charge we spotted him drinking during the day then driving the fire department vehicle back to work we even have him taking the public safety vehicle to party up on Federal Hill drinking and apparently smoking marijuana this is you smoking what looks to be pot cigar maybe you uh then share the cigar with your friends there I don't know that's a cigar yes it is you know I got to tell you Chief no one's going to buy that yeah no I'm pretty sure they'll definitely buy it um that's a cigar just like that's flour for when you want to bake one tiny cookie that's honey for my tea I use a very specific amount and that's just some quarts I keep laying around I love quarts and look corruption is not unique to Special Districts there are clearly problems in all other forms of government as well but when Special Districts only have one job it makes it all the more noticeable when things go wrong take Evergreen Park Illinois the County it's in has four different Mosquito Abatement districts to prevent the spread of West Nile so it had to be humiliating when this happened the mayor of West Suburban Evergreen Park came down with West Nile Virus the mayor got [ __ ] West Nile look no one is expecting a 0% failure rate here but if you're surrounded by that many Mosquito Abatement districts shouldn't there at least be agents willing to take a mosquito for him come on and one of the most interesting ways that special districts are different from any other form of government is how they can be created seemingly out of thin air for instance in Conroe Texas a company was hoping to create a new neighborhood on undeveloped land they wanted to form a special district which could issue bonds now to do this the law required a vote but remember no one lived there yet so guess what they did when Tim Kellerman saw someone installing a mobile home next to his house recently he asked them what's going on he told me there's none of my business this man and his wife moved in on Monday and signed a 9-month lease with Stingray Services after that he said they're moving out they're the only two people who can vote on $500 million worth of bonds for the new housing project two people voting for500 million dollars of bonds and then leaving it's as if in The Lion King Simba's father looked out over the planes and said Son someday this will all be someone else's problem and they both [ __ ] off and never came back and that whole process is perfectly legal in fact this wasn't the only place where Stingray Services provided what they called TurnKey voter trailer election Services they once even advertised on Craigslist with an ad reading eligible tenants will vote in and serve as election officials for the election which takes place in the home oh that's right you're not just the only voters you're the election officials and your trailer is the polling station it makes you wonder why they didn't just throw in some [ __ ] ballot initiatives just for fun oh and on the motion that Jenna start cleaning out her [ __ ] hairbrush cuz it's starting to look like we have a cat we seem to be tied one to one and once once a special district is created you can be pretty sure no one is going to be watching what you do cuz remember that New Hampshire video when we found it on YouTube it had zero views zero meaning those two guys themselves didn't even watch it that is antiviral as videos go and voter accountability is pretty unlikely too one County in New York found turnout rates for some special district elections could be as low as 1.8% which might be because that County held on average one special district election every 10.9 business days with not a single one taking place on Election Day which just seems inherently suspicious think about it it would be a bit of a red flag if someone in your neighborhood offered children candy every 11 days but never on Halloween it would give you pause for thought and even if the state government does investigate Special Districts may try to blow them off when that Kentucky auditor started asking his State's districts about the making their information available to the public he got some pretty unhelpful responses here's one direct quote by the way we didn't take any liberties with these quote this contains information the public is not entitled to know this is a good one we don't want to fill this out because there are too many crackpots in the world and my favorite uh will we just rather the public contact us directly to gain information so we know who's asking what you get the sense their preferred mode of contact would be an email to fake email address at [ __ ] Dogo and and by the way if after hearing that some kuckian wanted to shut a district down they might not be able to because as that auditor wrote many types of districts may continue to exist because there is not a process for them to be dissolved there's no way to break them up they're like styrofoam packing peanuts or the enduring friendship of Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake they'll be with us until the end of time now to be fair some states are pushing to reform Special Districts California for instance has made them far more transparent in recent years and a Special Districts Association in San Diego even launched a competition for school children uh to create a one minute video educating the public about what's so special about Special Districts the deadline was Tuesday and it had a $1,500 top prize and the reason I know that is we entered with some local school kids and this is the results today top story Special Districts what so special about them Special Districts are smaller governments that collect taxes that handle one specific service like fight fire or provide water or buy fireworks or smoke cigars Special Districts are special because they can receive little oversight they're sometimes called ghost governments I used to be afraid of ghosts but now I'm afraid of girls Special Districts can also be very easy to create sometimes the only people voting for them are two people in a trailer in the middle of nowhere made by two people in a trailer in an empty field sounds like my younger brother you know it's true duckin you weren't wanted sometimes Special Districts aren't so special though like when the mayor of a village in a county with four mosquito spring districts came down with the West n virus come on that would barely be acceptable if your town were near the actual Nile everything you think so little about you don't even realize that's not the Nile this is but perhaps the most special part about Special Districts is how hard it is to get rid of them they're almost impossible to destroy like Wolverine even Superman could have destroy Wolverine though obviously they would never meet because that's Crossing universes so to recap Special Districts take our money and do whatever they want with it with little to no consequences when I grow up I want to be a special district yay and now this that's our show thank you so much for watching see you next week good I used to be afraid of ghost but I'm afraid of girls I used to be afraid of ghost but now I'm afraid of ghs even Superman couldn't destroy War come on that would barely be acceptable if you're telling near the actual Nile um that's not the Nile this is theal right here you know it's true Des duck one you weren't w