On today’s BradCast: What’s really going on in Baltimore? We discuss the riots and the reason and turn to Fox “News”, of all places, for a bit of sanity! (No, really. Thank you, Shep Smith!)
Then, Doug Hughes, the U.S. postal worker who landed his gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol to bring attention to the need for campaign finance reform in the wake of Citizens United, joins me for a conversation that focuses — for a change — on why he actually did it. See his website TheDemocracyClub.org for more.
It’s an “orgy of spending,” Hughes told me, and he’s hoping to see a “nonpartisan, ground swell voter rebellion” against it. He also talked about his cool gyrocopter, what his bosses at the USPS have done since his brush with infamy, and the failure on behalf of our national security apparatus to stop him. The letter he was attempting to deliver to 535 members of the U.S. Congress is now posted here.
Plus: Marriage equality is winning the day even on Fox ‘News’, but can it win once and for all in the U.S. Supreme Court?…
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Brad – Thanks for having me on the show. Thanks even more for a sharp conversation on the issue of corruption and the solutions to it.
Thank you,Doug Hughes! That must have been a heart pounding trip.