{"id":9867,"date":"2013-02-13T21:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:59:04","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-elections-environment-and-other-sorry-states-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"KPFK ‘BradCast’: Elections, Environment and Other Sorry States of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s KPFK\/Pacifica Radio BradCast<\/i> we covered the State of the Union Address last night, with extended focus on the President’s call for election form and his new “Presidential Commission on Election Administration” [PDF]<\/a>, to be questionably co-chaired by Swift Boat GOP attorney Ben Ginsberg<\/a>. As we noted yesterday, color us dubious about all of that.<\/p>\n

My guest in the first half-hour was Marcia Johnson-Blanco, Co-Director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law<\/a>, and we also discussed their recent report on “Our Broken Voting Systems And How to Repair It”<\/a>, as well as the upcoming February 27th U.S. Supreme Court hearing in Shelby County v. Holder<\/i><\/a>, challenging the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act’s Section 5 protection<\/a> of jurisdictions with a history of discrimination at the voting booth.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, she was more optimistic about all of the above than I was.<\/p>\n

In most of the second half of the show, we focused on the many<\/i> environmental issues raised in Obama’s State of the Union with the Green News Report’s<\/i><\/a> Desi Doyen. I’m not sure who was more (or less) optimistic in that<\/i> half of the show.<\/p>\n

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