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Summary: With the special Metro Council District 18 election this Thursday, March 26, our guests include all District 18 Candidates – Stephenie Dodson, Kristine LaLonde, John Ray Clemmons, and David Glasgow.

More information about this Thursday’s special election can be found at Nashville.gov/vote. If you live in the Fightin’ 18th!, you go to your regular polling place between 7 am and 7 pm. Go to Nashville.gov/vote and click on the “Find Where I Vote” link to find your polling place.

Plus, Lee Poston of the World Wildlife Fund & Earth Hour, and Elbert Ventura of Media Matters.

Part 1 – Faux Spring Break, Part 1 – Intro and some news items – dumping slurry, buying debt, and gutting voter confidence. [5.6 MB 4:53 download MP3]

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Independence Day – Martina McBride
Cannonball – The Breeders
Better Already – Northern State

Part 2 – Interview with Kristine LaLonde – Joining us as the first of all four Metro Council District 18 candidates is Kristine LaLonde. Kristine is a Belmont-Hillsboro resident and director of the leadership studies program for Honors students at Belmont University. She tells us why she’s running, what District 18 means to her, and what would happen if she were elected and a zoning issue involving her employer – Belmont University – came before the council. Plus, what is the secret that her Mom threatened to tell the press? [14.8 MB 12:56 download MP3]

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Drivin’ Me Wild – Common w/ Lily Allen (Album: Finding Forever)
See a Little Light – Bob Mould (Album: Workbook)

Part 3 – Interview with Stephenie Dodson Stephenie is a candidate for Metro Council District 18, the Director for Percy Priest Extended Day Program (PPEDP) at Percy Priest Elementary School, and a 25-year resident of the Hillsboro-West End neighborhood. She has also served on the board of the Hillsboro-West End Neighborhood Association for the past nine years. She tells us why she’s running, what the endorsement of the Nashville Neighborhood Defense Fund means, and why she didn’t fill out the survey from Nashville’s premier GLBT news source, Out & About Newspaper. And although she has “secrets,” she’s not spilling the beans. [15 MB 13:03 download MP3]

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Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Original Radio Edit Remix) – Cornershop (Norman Cook Mix)
Philadelphia Freedon – Sir Elton John

Part 4 – Interview with John Ray Clemmons – Candidate for Metro Council District 18, John Ray is also a lawyer who, among other things, worked as a legislative aide for Congressman Bob Clement, a research assistant for George Stephanopoulos, and the Political Director for the Tennessee Democratic Party. He tells us why he’s running, if – after having worked for the campaign of the mayor’s runoff opponent – he’ll have any difficulty working with Mayor Dean, and what qualifies him – as the District’s most recent resident – to run. We also ask him to do some singin’ in the stormwater and weigh in on whether or not the version of the bill that passed the Council was fair and equitable. [15.3MB 13:19 download MP3]

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Oooo Chile – The Five Stairsteps (album: Best of)
People Get Ready – The Impressions (album: People Get Ready)

Part 5 – Interview with David Glasgow – David Glasgow, also a candidate for Metro Council District 18, is a lawyer who currently works as the communications director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development office in Nashville. We ask him why he wants to serve the Fightin’ 18th! and what makes him uniquely qualified to do so. Plus, we see if our “Repubdar” goes off when he tells us, in light of the recent revelation that he voted in a Republican primary or two, if partisanship is relevant to the way he’ll represent his constituents and when answers the question, “Who did you vote for in November of 2008?” [15.3MB 13:20 download MP3]

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Part 6 – Interview with Lee Poston – Lee is the Director of Conservation and Science Communications at World Wildlife Fund. He works on strategic communication plans for WWF’s priority places, threats and issues. He’s based in D.C. but came to Nashville to talk to us about Earth Hour. [15:16MB 17:50 download MP3]

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Part 7 – Media Matter for America with Elbert Ventura – Media Matters research fellow Elbert Ventura joins us to talk about the creepiness that is Glenn Beck. [19.7MB 17:14 download MP3]

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Pure – Lightening Seeds

Part 8 – The Vote You Save May Be Your Own – In what is perhaps the most disgustingly anti-American, anti-democratic, and politically cynical maneuver ever, the same Tennessee legislators – Republicans all – who voted for the Voter Confidence Act last year now want to gut it. [11.9MB 10:26 download MP3]

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