KPFK’s ‘BradCast’: Sacramento Registrar Jill Lavine on 1000s of Fraudulent GOP Voter Registrations; Brad Jacobson on Fukushima’s ‘Ticking Time-Bomb’

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Had a jammed-packed BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio today.

We led off with the breaking news of Obama finally seeing the light on marriage equality.

Then I was joined by Sacramento, CA Registrar of Voters Jill Lavine to discuss the thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by the GOP-hired firmed Momentum Political Services, as we detailed late last week. Lavine tells me that she’s confident that in her nine years as Registrar, there has been no in-person impersonation at the polling place, despite the continuing pattern of GOP voter registration fraud in the state and the Republican push to disenfranchise (largely Democratic) voters by claiming, disingenuously, that polling place Photo ID restrictions have anything to do with “voter fraud”.

We then enjoyed a quick visit with the lovely Desi Doyen from the Green News Report, fresh off her guest-hosting gig this afternoon on The Young Turks (I’ll try to post that video soon!)

Finally, since it’s called The BradCast, I was joined by Brad Jacobson to discuss his terrifying new report at Alternet on the “ticking time-bomb” that is the precarious Spent Fuel Pool — now fully exposed, 100 feet off the ground in a listing building — at Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor #4. His report should scare the hell out of you. It certainly does me. And the scariest part: It’s being covered by virtually nobody in the mainstream corporate media. I guess that’s what The BradCast is for.

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