{"id":12763,"date":"2018-10-23T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:03:11","slug":"ga-sec-of-state-kemp-caught-on-tape-worried-everybody-may-exercise-their-right-to-vote-bradcast-10232018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"GA Sec. of State Kemp Caught on Tape Worried &#8216;Everybody May Exercise Their Right to Vote&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BrianKemp_worried_102318.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s another very busy show on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> (for a change), exactly two weeks out from this year&#8217;s crucial midterm elections.  Among the stories covered [<i>audio link to show is posted below<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/turkeys-president-to-deliver-speech-expected-to-describe-how-khashoggi-was-killed\/2018\/10\/22\/4098c300-d60c-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html?utm_term=.865373139125\">describes<\/a> the Saudi lies about their assassination of <i>WaPo<\/i> journalist Jamal Khashoggi  as &#8220;the worst&#8221; coverup &#8220;in the history of coverups&#8221; (who would know coverups better?!), the Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/10\/23\/secretary-of-state-pompeo-says-us-will-revoke-visas-and-consider-other-sanctions-those-responsible-for-khashoggi-killing.html\">announces<\/a> 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&#8217;d have been thrown in jail without their children for months!;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We finally found the &#8220;angry left wing mob&#8221;! Apparently one of them put a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/23\/nyregion\/soros-caravan-explosive-bomb-home.html\">bomb in the mailbox<\/a> of Democratic funder George Soros. That seems an odd thing for &#8220;the left&#8221; to do, doesn&#8217;t it? (Happily, nobody has attempted to bomb either the Koch Brothers or the many other Republican funders like Sheldon Adelson who give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/10\/16\/adelson-republican-fundraising-midterms-903803\"><i>far<\/i> more money<\/a> to GOPers than Soros has <i>ever<\/i> given to Dems.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida&#8217;s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis <i>really<\/i> doesn&#8217;t want to answer any <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommyxtopher\/status\/1054187265944117249\">actual questions<\/a>. On Sunday, he dodged just about everything asked of him during his debate with Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum on CNN and on Monday he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2018\/10\/22\/ron-desantis-cancels-editorial-board-meeting\/1726406002\/\">cancelled<\/a> an hour-long interview with the Editorial Board of the USA TODAY NETWORK &#8211; Florida;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Rolling Stone<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/brian-kemp-leaked-audio-georgia-voting-745711\/\">releases audio<\/a> of Georgia&#8217;s Republican Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, from a private campaign fundraising event last Friday, in which Kemp, the state&#8217;s chief election official, is heard lamenting that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams is spending millions on GOTV efforts which, he says, &#8220;continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote.&#8221;\n<p>Little wonder Kemp has spent years trying to keep Georgians from voting, supports the state&#8217;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 &#8212; particularly African-American ones, like Abrams &#8212; from voting;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Texas (as in <a href=\"https:\/\/politics.myajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/early-voting-triples-first-week-for-georgia-midterm\/aBRACgGPfpguZZiUwAZErJ\/\">Georgia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/the-early-voting-blog\">Nevada<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/the-run\/articles\/2018-10-22\/early-voting-in-some-states-is-rivaling-presidential-turnout\">elsewhere<\/a> around the country), early voting turnout is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/68ae82738326479a8728fabd2cb8feef\">breaking records<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881\">GOP enthusiasm<\/a> is up as well and lines shouldn&#8217;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;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with more global warming-fueled hurricanes coming (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-willa-mexico-track-path-evacuations-latest-weather-forecast-today-2018-10-23-live-updates\/\">Hurricane Willa<\/a> now crashing into Mexico and gunning for Texas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2018\/10\/22\/powerful-east-coast-storm-may-develop-friday-into-weekend\/?utm_term=.854a55a8f488\">maybe later this week<\/a>, the East Coast, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/typhoon-yutu-could-strike-guam-as-a-category-5-beast-1829948534\">Typhoon Yutu<\/a> 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!&#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_Khashoggi_Soros_DeSantis_Kemp_EarlyVoteRecrodsTX_102318.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_Khashoggi_Soros_DeSantis_Kemp_EarlyVoteRecrodsTX_102318.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>It&#8217;s another very busy show on today&#8217;s BradCast (for a change), exactly two weeks out from this year&#8217;s crucial midterm elections. Among the stories covered [audio link to show is posted below]&#8230; After Trump describes the Saudi lies about their assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi as &#8220;the worst&#8221; coverup &#8220;in the history of coverups&#8221; [&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":[192,1228,1154,89,675,1006,543,299,479,930,16,888,72,1246,477,958,300,546,126,1238,738,1170,658,47,280,348,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-andrew-gillum","category-beto-orourke","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brian-kemp","category-climate-change","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-election-2018","category-florida","category-george-soros","category-georgia","category-jamal-khashoggi","category-kpfk","category-mike-pompeo","category-republicans","category-rick-scott","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-ron-desantis","category-saudi-arabia","category-stacey-abrams","category-ted-cruz","category-texas","category-vote-caging","category-vote-by-mail","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","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=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}