On today’s BradCast, guest hosted by my own self, Angie Coiro of In Deep Radio, we peer over to Poland to see Donny still on the election trail – reliving his November victory for a whole new crowd bused in just for the occasion. He took the time, too, to remind everyone it’s us versus the boogeymen.
The Election Commission has acquired yet another sworn enemy of voting – Hans von Spakovsky, who once pulled a sock-puppet act on law journal articles, endorsing voter suppression under a pseudonym. And the League of Women Voters released a full-blast denouncement of Kris Kobach, de facto head of Trump’s “voter fraud” commission.
That takes us right to returning guest Ari Berman, author of Give Us The Ballot. He’s added to his excellent introduction to Kobach at The New York Times Magazine with a more encouraging post at The Nation.
Then David Atkins builds on his Washington Monthly deconstruction of what happened with California’s effort toward single payer. He’s got some very specific ideas about why the GOP will cross the public to push AHCA: because they don’t care.
Then a follow-up on this week’s earlier story on the “Donny Trumps CNN” wrestling video, and the anti-semitic rants of the man who created it. Turns out the by virtue of finding that (still anonymous) man’s Star of David-emblazoned CNN photos, journalist Jared Yates Sexton became a target of online Nazis.
Finally, a plea to Gloria Allred: how about you take on this misogynistic obscenity on Capitol Hill?
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why should voters “trust” the league of women’s voters or any of the nonsense you are preaching when they’ve been around for all these years and still the same problems with the elections exist.
I disagree with you strongly on your positions about voter fraud, which you know is different than election fraud, yet you turn your head. Enough of your fake ways. a new day is dawn and the league of women’s voters have failed the the public trust it’s time to try something new, like getting these fake voters off the rolls.
On the report of the League of Women Voters confirming that Kobach’s committee is a sham.
What if Democrats had convinced a significant part of the country that there was a vast illegal gun sales system, that many of the past sales were probably illegal and most future sales especially in certain rural redneck areas were unlawful. So each state would then set up their own system of laws that were inconsistently enforced (some not enough and others too much). This was done because the federal government was not willing to create laws to make gun sales consistent and predictable across the country.
This results in some urban people being able to buy guns easily and rural “suspicious” people having a hard time being able to fulfill a Constitutional Right to buy a weapon, because it was assumed “certain people” couldn’t be trusted to buy guns properly, or that they were likely to turn around and sell them illegally anyway.
Democratic politicians would be blatantly saying that it’s OK for some people to lose their right to buy a gun because we are preventing the imaginary millions of illegal gun sales.
If it’s a cause for a cultural war to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights in one area, it is cause for a cultural revolution in another. We should make sure it’s practiced equally in all areas.