Today’s BradCast is as lively as it is maddening in equal measures. [Audio link to show follows below.]

Among the stories covered on today’s program (during which we also opened up the phones to callers for the first time in a long time!):

• San Antonio’s 97-year old former Mayor and political icon Lila Cockrell was turned away from the polling place during the city’s Mayoral runoff election last week for lack of the type of ID now required to vote in the Lone Star State. Cockrell was the city’s 4-term mayor and its first female chief executive in a city where she is known by all, regarded as a bit of a legend, and even has buildings named after her. But, last week, despite showing her voter registration ID card at the polls — which, until SCOTUS gutted much of the Voting Rights Act — used to be enough to vote in Texas — she was turned away. It’s not the first time Texas has made it incredibly difficult for nonagenarian WWII veterans (like Cockrell) and both political icons and non-icons alike to cast a vote under purposely disenfranchising, unconstitutional polling place Photo ID restrictions. Sadly there are more than 600,000 legally registered Texans who also do not possess the very specific type of ID now required to vote in the state;

• We also catch up, briefly today, on the mass shooting that happened last Friday in Virginia Beach which resulted in 12 killed at a municipal building by a shooter with several semi-automatic pistols and extended magazines. Democrats in the state have been trying for years to introduce gun safety measures, such as those that would limit the sale of extended magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Alas, a decade of Republican gerrymandering has made such measures virtually impossible to enact in VA, even though more Democrats voted in the last election legislative election than Republicans, as the GOP retains its lock on both chambers in the statehouse thanks to bastardized voting maps;

• Then it’s on to matters of impeachment once again, as Republicans continue to make the best public case for it of late, with Trump’s 2020 Republican primary challenger, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld being just the latest GOPer over the weekend to call for accountability for our scofflaw President. Also, since many Americans (particularly those who only follow fake news outlets such as Fox “News”) still appear completely unaware of the many crimes by Donald Trump, meticulously detailed in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel report, we’ll need to keep talking about ourselves, apparently. Hopefully Democratic U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who continues to block an official impeachment inquiry, will soon get the message and allow such a proceeding among her caucus in the House;

And with that — and throughout today — we take a bunch of calls from listeners on all of the above! Enjoy!…

The BradCast with Brad Friedman 6/3/2019

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