[Now UPDATED with audio archives below. Enjoy!]
We’re back tonight guest-hosting the nationally-syndicated Mike Malloy Show tonight and it’s gonna be a busy one!
We’ll be BradCasting, as usual, LIVE from 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the globe from L.A.’s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank. Join us by tuning in, chatting in, Tweeting in and calling in! Our LIVE chat room will be up and rolling right here at The BRAD BLOG, as usual, while we are on the air. Please stop by and join the fun while you’re listening! (The Chat Room will open at the bottom of this item a few minutes before airtime, see down below, just above “Comments” section.)
Scheduled tonight:
- JOHN WASHBURN of Fair Elections Wisconsin on the breaking news about Waukesha County, WI’s Kathy Nickolaus, the upcoming state recall elections of Gov. Scott Walker and friends, and what you all need to know and do in order to make sure we can all have confidence in the reported results!
- PAMELA SMITH, President of Verified Voting Foundation and DAN MCCREA, President of the Florida Voters Foundation on the March 13th election disaster that struck Palm Beach County, FL as Dominion/Sequoia optical-scanners declared several losing candidates as the “winners”, requiring a court to approve a hand-count last weekend to determine the real winners of the elections. And on why the hell we just don’t start, finally hand-counting ballots in the first place, as per “Democracy’s Gold Standard”.
- GABRIEL REY-GOODLATTE of ColorofChange.org on their Anti-ALEC campaign calling on corporations to stop their funding of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) due to their voter-suppression advocacy and much more.
- MARGOT PAEZ of <http://kpfk.org>KPFK’s Evening News on the fall out from students who were pepper sprayed at Santa Monica College this week while trying to express their opinions to the Board of Trustees on a 400% tuition hike.
- PLUS! Much much more than we don’t have time to detail here, your phone calls over your public airwaves at 877-520-1150 and your tweets to @TheBradBlog!…
The Mike Malloy Show is nationally syndicated on air affiliates across the country and also on SiriusXM Ch. 127. You may also listen online to the free LIVE audio stream at our Sante Fe affiliate KTRC 1260, or our Minnesota affiliate KTNF 950 (use code 55447 when asked). Also, you should be able to listen live at WhiteRose Society if the radio gods are with us.
POST-SHOW UPDATE: All three “hours”, busy ones, commercial-free, now follow below. My Easter/Passover gift to you. Enjoy! (And no, Elijah never showed up, even though we kept an open mic for him all night. Slacker.)…
(Each “Hour” actually 38 mins, now that commercials are removed.)
HOUR 1: Pam Smith and Dan McCrea discuss the computers that declared the wrong winners in Palm Beach, FL (the same ones that will be used to declare the President of the United States this year) and whether we’d all be better off, at this point, tossing the computers and hand-counting ballots once and for all. Plus, a few words about the Anchorage, AK, Prop 5 election…
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[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/MikeMalloy_BradFriedman_GuestHost_040612_Hour1.mp3%5DHOUR 2: John Washburn on Waukesha, WI’s Kathy Nickolaus, whether Badger State voters should have confidence in the results of the upcoming recall elections and what they can do to try to ensure an accurate count. Gabriel Rey-Goodlatte on the campaign to target ALEC’s corporate sponsors. Margot Paez on the Santa Montica College tear gas madness…
Download MP3 or listen online below…
[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/MikeMalloy_BradFriedman_GuestHost_040612_Hour2.mp3%5DHOUR 3: Your calls! All hour long! (And a few Brad rants for good measure)…
Download MP3 or listen online below…
[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/MikeMalloy_BradFriedman_GuestHost_040612_Hour3.mp3%5D
Is ALEC a 501-c3?
“Chapter One — Overview
This report examines the history, finances, and activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a 501(c)(3) organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C., that bills itself as �the nation�s largest bipartisan, individual membership association of state legislators.� ”
From Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2...e-501c3-Veneer
“Per the Guidestar web page for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) it is noted that ALEC was founded in 1973 and received their 501c3 status in 1977. Since that time, as a 501c3, ALEC has depended on the kindness of their corporate members and foundations to fund the majority of their operations.
Yet, it should be noted that although ALEC claims 501c3 status as an educational nonprofit – in 2009, in the State of North Dakota ALEC was a registered employer for lobbyists #484, #485.
On to the nonprofit saga of ALEC…a shiny veneer, hiding something very ugly underneath.
ALEC is a 501c3 ““ they pay no taxes.
ALEC is a 501c3 ““ all donations to ALEC are tax deductible.”