It’s another very busy show on today’s BradCast (for a change), exactly two weeks out from this year’s crucial midterm elections. Among the stories covered [audio link to show is posted below]…
- After Trump describes the Saudi lies about their assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “the worst” coverup “in the history of coverups” (who would know coverups better?!), the Administration announces they will revoke visas for some of those involved. Good thing those guys only chopped up a journalist instead of showing up at our border to legally claim asylum or they’d have been thrown in jail without their children for months!;
- We finally found the “angry left wing mob”! Apparently one of them put a bomb in the mailbox of Democratic funder George Soros. That seems an odd thing for “the left” to do, doesn’t it? (Happily, nobody has attempted to bomb either the Koch Brothers or the many other Republican funders like Sheldon Adelson who give far more money to GOPers than Soros has ever given to Dems.);
- Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis really doesn’t want to answer any actual questions. On Sunday, he dodged just about everything asked of him during his debate with Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum on CNN and on Monday he cancelled an hour-long interview with the Editorial Board of the USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida;
- Rolling Stone releases audio of Georgia’s Republican Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, from a private campaign fundraising event last Friday, in which Kemp, the state’s chief election official, is heard lamenting that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams is spending millions on GOTV efforts which, he says, “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote.”
Little wonder Kemp has spent years trying to keep Georgians from voting, supports the state’s easily-hacked, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems, and is being sued by at least five different voting rights organizations for the myriad ways the state has been working hard to prevent voters — particularly African-American ones, like Abrams — from voting;
- In Texas (as in Georgia, Nevada, and elsewhere around the country), early voting turnout is breaking records over previous midterm elections and even nearing Presidential election numbers in some cases. But Democrats would be wise not to make too much of those numbers for a host of reasons that we discuss in detail today. Among them: evidence suggests GOP enthusiasm is up as well and lines shouldn’t be as long as they are, with hours-long waits in some places, suggesting unprepared election officials and failing voting equipment which could make for a nightmarish Election Day;
- Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, with more global warming-fueled hurricanes coming (including Hurricane Willa now crashing into Mexico and gunning for Texas and maybe later this week, the East Coast, as well as Typhoon Yutu barrelling towards the Marianas and Guam), more new global heat records, and some reasonably encouraging news about debates taking place around the country in advance of the November 6 midterms, where candidates are finally being asked by journalist moderators about their positions on climate change!…
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From the “If You Thought the DeSantis Recording Thing Was Bad” Department…
Here is the story, from WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-supremacist-group-targets-floridas-andrew-gillum-in-new-racist-robocall/2018/10/23/cbb722e6-d6e9-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?utm_term=.ca6b40cec1c1
I heard the audio on my drive home from work yesterday on the SIRIUS Progressive Channel program hosted by Michaelangelo Signorile. I can’t get the actual audio itself because it is likely that no one will host it.
But finding it should be possible with BRADBLOG’s massive resources (that’s you, Desi!).
If you find it, I — as an African American — vote for you to broadcast it. I think people need to hear it to believe it.
As we say, it’s gettin’ real up in here!
This would have been a great episode to play that Paul Weyrich quote about voting as the lead-in.
I recommend you play that whenever such a topic arises.