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Today on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio’s The BradCast<\/i> I interviewed Joyce Block (seen at right<\/i>), the 90-year old Doylestown, PA resident who has voted legally for 70 years<\/i>, without fail and without a problem until this year, when the GOP’s new polling place Photo ID restriction law threatens to disenfranchise her and so many others like her.<\/p>\n
Her story is all the more remarkable considering she was born just two years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote — at least until now. She is a pistol and more than ready for the fight! We were also joined by her grandson-in-law Det Ansinn, the Doylestown Borough Council president who has been working like hell to try and see that Block will be able to vote this year.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, I wrote about Block’s remarkable story<\/a> and the difficulty she’s had in receiving one of the so-called “free” IDs, under the new restriction, that would allow her to vote this year, despite all<\/i> of the paper work she presented to prove that she was who she said she was after a 30 minute-trip to the DMV (thanks to Ansinn!) Today, we got an update on her story, and it includes a bit of good news…sort of.<\/p>\n We were also joined by Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report<\/a>, and some good callers, including one who wanted to challenge me on gun rights. So I obliged him…<\/p>\n Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…<\/i> Reminder<\/i>: I don’t post ALL of the KPFK shows here, but you can subscribe to the RSS feed<\/a> to get ’em all, or stop by the KPFK BradCast<\/i> archives<\/a> anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio’s The BradCast I interviewed Joyce Block (seen at right), the 90-year old Doylestown, PA resident who has voted legally for 70 years, without fail and without a problem until this year, when the GOP’s new polling place Photo ID restriction law threatens to disenfranchise her and so many others like her. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,675,400,28,477,48,172,300,126,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-election-2012","category-election-reform","category-kpfk","category-pennsylvania","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","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=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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