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Liberadio(!) Podcast: April 28, 2008

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Summary: Guests include Congressman Jim “Coop” Cooper of Tennessee’s Fightin’ 5th!, Rachel Smolker, a research biologist at the Global Justice Ecology Project; and Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.

Part 1 - We have a very specific delegate count question for a Senator Clinton supporter… Anyone…? Anyone…? Bueller…?. (21:02 33.7MB)
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The Politicization of Free and Fair Elections

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Yesterday in Washington, the Holt bill (HR 5036) - which would authorize reimbursement for states and counties that convert to paper ballot voting machines before the November elections or help pay for manual audits after the election - was added to the congressional calendar used for non-controversial measures. And then prompted objected to by the […]

Coop’s In a Bad Moody

Friday, January 11th, 2008

The Moody Credit Rating company issued a warning this week that the U.S. is “at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending.” U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN, The Fightin’ 5th!) is all, “Tell me something I don’t know, […]