{"id":15224,"date":"2024-11-07T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T02:45:13","slug":"its-not-all-bad-abortion-rights-won-big-almost-everywhere-on-tuesday-bradcast-1172024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15224","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not All Bad: Abortion Rights Won Big (Almost) Everywhere on Tuesday: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/7\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_YesOn3-EndMOAbortionBan-Victory_110724.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We do our best to avoid being Pollyanna-ish on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>. But not everything that happened on Tuesday (or since) has been terrible. Just a lot of it. But, in fact, some of it was quite good and worth taking notice! [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our many stories today&#8230;both good, bad and otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A quickly moving wildfire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/thousands-under-evacuation-orders-california-wildfires-destroy-homes-2024-11-07\/\">exploded<\/a> northwest of <b>Los Angeles<\/b> on Wednesday, fueled by dry brush and wind gusts up to 80mph. As of Thursday afternoon it had scorched some 14,000 acres, burned through several homes, mansions, ranches and agricultural areas and threatens another 3,500 other structures in the suburban community. 10,000 residents have been evacuated. The so-called &#8220;Mountain Fire&#8221; was 0% contained at air time. &#8220;It&#8217;s like trying to put out a blowtorch with a squirt gun,&#8221; said a Ventura County Fire Dept. official in a climate changed wildfire season that has, so far, burned three times as much land as last year at this time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of <b>California<\/b> and climate, Democratic Gov. <b>Gavin Newsom<\/b> on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/07\/us\/newsom-trump-california.html\">called<\/a> an emergency special state legislative session beginning next month &#8220;to protect our state against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1854572280200012139?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">declared on Twitter<\/a> that &#8220;California is ready to fight. Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate action &#8212; we refuse to turn back the clock and allow our values and laws to be attacked.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pennsylvania-senate-2024-election-david-mccormick-casey-866a8712dea0b52b5d8d6b4844968b53\">AP announced<\/a> late this afternoon that carpet-bagging hedge-fund billionaire and <b>Pennsylvania<\/b>&#8216;s Republican U.S. Senate candidate <b>Dave McCormick<\/b> had defeated three-term Democratic Sen. <b>Bob Casey<\/b> on Tuesday, adding yet another pick up for Republicans in next year&#8217;s <b>U.S. Senate<\/b>, where they are already set to take back majority control. (After we got off air, however, Democratic election attorney <b>Marc Elias<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marceelias\/status\/1854655669883830426\">countered<\/a>, &#8220;The Pennsylvania Senate race is not over,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marceelias\/status\/1854665421623890259\">citing a statement<\/a> from PA&#8217;s Republican Sec. of the Commonwealth estimating another 100,000 ballots remain to be adjudicated in the race where McCormick currently leads by a reported 32,000 votes over Casey.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This morning, President <b>Joe Biden<\/b> took to the Rose Garden to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/president-biden-white-house-address-thursday\/story?id=115595175\">his first public remarks<\/a> since Election Day, following <b>Kamala Harris<\/b>&#8216; apparent loss to the lawless former President, noting, &#8220;You can&#8217;t love your country only when you win,&#8221;. By way of contrast to Trump, Biden vowed a peaceful transfer of power, lauded Harris&#8217; run, discussed the importance of democracy (even when ya lose) and offered encouragement to staffers and supporters by telling them that &#8220;setbacks are unavoidable, giving up is unforgivable.&#8221; We share his brief remarks today in full.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Protecting and\/or expanding reproductive freedoms was on the ballot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2024\/11\/6\/2283344\/-A-bright-spot-Voters-in-7-states-passed-abortion-rights?pm_source=ICYMI&#038;pm_campaign=ICYMI11062024\">10 different states<\/a> on Tuesday. Abortion rights won in seven of them, including <b>Arizona<\/b>, <b>Colorado<\/b>, <b>Maryland<\/b>, <b>Missouri<\/b>, <b>Montana<\/b>, <b>Nevada<\/b>, and <b>New York<\/b>. In fact, otherwise &#8220;deep red&#8221; MO became the first state in the union, since <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i> was overturned in 2022, to reverse a near-total abortion ban and enshrine reproductive rights into the state&#8217;s constitution!\n<p>Similar initiatives failed, however, in three states: <b>Florida<\/b>, <b>Nebraska<\/b> and <b>South Dakota<\/b> and for various reasons in each, which we discuss today. Most notably, in FL, the measure to restore freedoms and repeal the state&#8217;s Big Government six-week ban was supported by a healthy 57% to 43% majority of voters. But the state mandates a 60% supermajority for adoption of Constitutional ballot amendments and, at the same time, Republican Gov. <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b> applied state muscle and seemingly unlawful measures to prevent passage.<\/p>\n<p>Politico&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/alice-miranda-ollstein\">longtime Capitol Hill heath care reporter<\/a> <b>ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN<\/b> joins us today to break down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/06\/election-abortion-ballot-measures-states-00187854\">what happened<\/a> in each state, and where the never-ending battle for and against reproductive freedoms goes from here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In other good ballot measure news, voters in <b>Washington<\/b> state overwhelmingly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/washington-climate-law-repeal-initiative-vote-bbac4bb2601db447d783ba5c511c9cbd\">rejected<\/a> an attempt to repeal the state&#8217;s landmark climate law, adopted two years ago under outgoing Democratic Gov. <b>Jay Inslee<\/b>. The new law slashes dangerous carbon emissions by charging fossil fuel polluters for their pollution. The law has already brought in some $4 billion for habitat restoration and hardening the state against the worsening ravages of climate change. Voters reportedly voted by a 24-point margin to keep the law in place!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen is here with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15223\">our first post-election <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with details on the troubling worldwide implications for climate under the incoming <b>Trump Administration<\/b>, as environmental groups vow to press forward. Also, details on both the wildfires in <b>Los Angeles<\/b> and the rare, late-season <b>Hurricane Rafael<\/b> which has knocked out power to <b>Cuba<\/b> (again) and is making its way into record warm <b>Gulf of Mexico<\/b> waters&#8230;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\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-WildfiresLA-NewsomPushbackCA-CaseyMcCormickPA-BidenPostElection_AliceOllstein-AbortionMeasures_110724.mp\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>We do our best to avoid being Pollyanna-ish on The BradCast. But not everything that happened on Tuesday (or since) has been terrible. Just a lot of it. But, in fact, some of it was quite good and worth taking notice! 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