Today on my show on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK in Los Angeles, I spent the first part on a “Republican War on Democracy” update.
The update kicked off this week with the latest details in the story of Indiana’s new Republican Sec. of State Charlie White who is facing seven felony charges, three of them for voter fraud, as yesterday, the Indiana Recount Commission found (incredibly enough) that though White was registered at his ex-wife’s house to vote (rather than his own) and had re-married and purchased a condominium, he actually hoped to someday move back into the ex-wife’s house. Therefore, he wasn’t illegally registered to vote, so he was not illegally on the ballot, so he gets to remain as Indiana’s Secretary of State. So sayeth the Indiana Recount Commission.
The Democrats who filed the complaint with the commission may still decide to take the case to court where, in the meantime, White is still facing those seven felony violations. (Did I mention that three of them are related to voter fraud?)
As well, I offered a quick review of all of the other recent high-profile GOP vote fraudsters, such as Ann Coulter, Gov. Mitt Romney, Ambassador Jon Huntsman and Rep. Todd Akin, and the latest news on which states’ GOP-fueled voter-suppressing polling-place Photo ID restrictions have been passed into law, and which ones have been thankfully stopped by gubernatorial vetoes.
Also, there was a remarkable statement by Ohio’s new Republican Sec. of State John Husted against Photo ID disenfranchisement recently! He deserves big props for that!
That part of the show is here:
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In the second part of the show, I was joined by Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s energy program. He’s an expert on the dangers and pitfalls of nuclear power and other fossil fuels. We discussed the unprecedented floods threatening the Fort Calhoun and Cooper nuclear plants in Nebraska; the wildfire threats to New Mexico’s Los Alamos nuclear site; the woeful state of nuke plants across the country (as detailed of late in Jeff Donn of AP’s remarkable investigative reports here, here, here & here); and the fact that there seems to be absolutely nobody at the federal level of our government able or willing to do a damn thing to protect the citizens from the looming and growing dangers.
My interview with Slocum (and a shot at climate change denying Rep. Steve King (R-IA)) is here:
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Good job Brad on the nuke coverage.
The nuke-power-plant danger needs to be aired, but the MSM is not doing the job well, if at all.
Somebody has to.
So if some candidate files for office in Indiana, but they happen to be a thousand signatures or a thousand dollars short by the filing deadline, can they just say, respectively, I hope to get 1000 signatures or pay off the rest of the filing fee SOMEDAY, and still make the ballot according to the rules of the Indiana Recount Commission? Why not, same bizarre logic?
You forgot to mention the the Ohio SOS was charged with Voter fraud too for voting at a house the he did not live. He was registered to vote in a home he owned, in his home district, but did not live for more than a year (the toilet was not flushed in more than a year. While living near Columbus with his wife an kids where they went to school and his wife worked. His “buddies” on the Ohio Election Commission let him off the hook, too.
Sal –
Which Ohio SoS? The new one, Husted? Got link on that, if so?