{"id":12744,"date":"2018-10-10T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:10:56","slug":"a-scary-time-hurricane-michael-exxons-carbon-tax-scam-the-fight-to-vote-in-nd-mo-ga-bradcast-10102018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12744","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Scary Time&#8217;: Hurricane Michael; Exxon&#8217;s Carbon Tax Scam; The Fight to Vote in ND, MO, GA: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_HurricaneMichael_RegisterToVoteNow_101018.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, with vigor and no small amount of occasional vitriol. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The catastrophic and climate change-fueled <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2018-10-10-hurricane-michael-cat4-historic-landfall-gulf-coast-florida\">Hurricane Michael<\/a> made landfall in Florida on Wednesday as a deadly and unprecedented Category 4, the strongest ever to strike the Panhandle since record keeping began in 1851;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In not unrelated news, another major coal company, one of the nation&#8217;s oldest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/be1a0a46444f45a79802512787bc9ba9?__twitter_impression=true\">declares bankruptcy<\/a>. It&#8217;s the fourth to do so in the past three years;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ExxonMobil gets some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-09\/exxon-puts-1-million-into-quest-for-carbon-tax-and-rebate-plan\">great publicity<\/a> from Bloomberg by spending just $1 million (which they generated every two minutes in 2017) in pretending to support a carbon tax scheme (that would benefit them anyway);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/10\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-for-tribal-north-dakotans-to-vote\/\">U.S. Supreme Court allows<\/a> a lower court&#8217;s voter ID ruling to stand in North Dakota, despite the fact that the rule is a change from voting laws used during the April primary and is now likely to result in the disenfranchisement of thousands of Native Americans in a state where Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp faces re-election after winning by just 3,000 votes in 2012. (Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuthHHopkins\/status\/1049811245346500608\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1049811245346500608&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2018%2F10%2F9%2F1803245%2F-SCOTUS-Joins-North-Dakota-GOP-to-Make-\">ridiculous effort<\/a> that thousands of Native Americans without a residential address, as now required by ND law to vote, must now go through to get one registered somehow before November 6th.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article219758240.html\">state court in Missouri blocks<\/a> part of their new voter ID law for being &#8220;contradictory and misleading&#8221; and &#8220;impermissibly infring[ing] on a citizen&#8217;s right to vote&#8221; in the state where Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is in a very close re-election battle. Her opponent, Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley is defending the law and is likely to seek an appeal from a higher state court;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After Georgia&#8217;s Republican Sec. of State Brian Kemp was found to have purged hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls over the past several years, AP finds that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/voting-rights-become-a-flashpoint-in-georgia-governors-race\/\">some 53,000 voter registrations<\/a> are currently in a suspended state due to GA&#8217;s &#8220;exact match&#8221; rule, which allows election officials to block registrants whose names aren&#8217;t listed identically to the way they are on found on file at either the state&#8217;s Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration. A missing hyphen or a typo by officials entering a name into one of the databases is enough to result in a suspension which, the AP finds, is disproportionately keeping black voters off the rolls. 70% of those blocked are African-Americans, even though GA&#8217;s population is just 32% black. Kemp is currently running for Governor against Stacey Abrams who, if successful on November 6th, would become the nation&#8217;s first African-American female Governor;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some listener mail on a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12741\">recent show<\/a> regarding West Virginia&#8217;s Sen. Joe Manchin, who voted in favor of Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court last weekend, as the coal state Democrat faces re-election after WV voted for Trump by 42 points in 2016;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, finally, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/national-news\/2018\/10\/10\/a-scary-time-lynzy-lab-youtube-song-video\">viral musical ditty<\/a> to close us out today on the &#8220;very scary time for young men,&#8221; as Donald Trump appallingly described it, following the multiple credible allegations of sexual assault by now-Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_Michael_CoalOilCarbonTax_VoteReg-ND-MO-GA_ScaryTime_101018.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_Michael_CoalOilCarbonTax_VoteReg-ND-MO-GA_ScaryTime_101018.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s BradCast, with vigor and no small amount of occasional vitriol. [Audio link to show follows below.]&#8230; The catastrophic and climate change-fueled Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida on Wednesday as a deadly and unprecedented Category 4, the strongest ever to strike the Panhandle since record keeping began in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,675,1006,1243,952,543,499,299,479,930,28,200,548,701,16,1152,1242,934,477,188,120,822,512,172,546,126,1170,313,280,243,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brian-kemp","category-carbon-tax","category-claire-mccaskill","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-election-2018","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-exxon-mobil","category-florida","category-heidi-heitkamp","category-hurricane-michael","category-joe-manchin","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-missouri","category-native-americans","category-north-dakota","category-photo-id-laws","category-rick-scott","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-stacey-abrams","category-us-supreme-court","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-west-virginia","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}