As of today, I’m happy to say, my show on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK here in Los Angeles has been expanded to a full hour. We made pretty good use of all of those minutes today, thanks in no small part to Rick Santorum (of all people) raising the issue of felon voting rights at Monday’s GOP Presidential Debate in South Carolina. (And one heck of a largely unnoticed Freudian slip by Mitt Romney on that topic!)
Joining me to discuss the issue and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)’s proposed “Democracy Restoration Act” — and the shameful state of 4 million American citizens disallowed from exercising their franchise, many of them even after they’ve served all of their time and have completed all probation and parole, just cause they happen to live in the wrong state — was Deborah Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel of the ACLU.
I was also joined by Desi Doyen for the latest Green News Report as well as today’s breaking news on Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline scam.
Plus 1 million signatures for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker in WI, other news of the day and a bunch of callers to boot! Listen to the entire show, commercial-free, below. Enjoy!
Download MP3 or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…
[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/KPFK_BradFriedman_DeborahVagins_011812.mp3]
P.S. As I don’t always get the chance to post all of my KPFK shows here (which is now LIVE Wednesday’s from 3p-4p PT) you can catch all of ’em by subscribing to the podcast feed here or via KPFK’s archive page for the show here.
P.P.S. Anybody wanna submit a suggestion for a cool logo for “The BradCast”? Happy to crowd source ideas, especially since you all actually came up with that name for the KPFK show in the first place! If so, here’s a photo or two that may, or may not, come in handy.
