Sunday, March 27
It's Easter Sunday, but that hasn't tempered the holier-than-thou fury of the religious right and the Terri Schiavo tragedy. Today we step back and look at progressive values - where actions and deeds often come before evangelizing and belief-based bullying.
Today's show includes an update from Ohio, where Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell got a dressing-down from passionate Democrats in hearings the media saw fit to ignore this week. Our senior producer was there and we'll play tape. Monty Python's TERRY JONES will join us live in studio to discuss Spamalot the Python's arrival on Broadway -- and "Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror," his latest collection of "observations and denunciations." Also with us, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winner, WOLE SOYINKA who says we are questing for dignity in a dehumanized world. Join us.
Hey Alan, do you subscribe t...
Hey Alan, do you subscribe to the daily updates from www.votersunite.org. They are really good about the nuts and bolts of what is happening in the election reform world.
The sad truth is the most significant questions raised by Ohio went un-examined: ie, there's been tons of testimony on the obstacles to voting that the GOP instituted. But on the vote counting side, the evidence trail simply was censored by Blackwell issuing a gag order and sealing election day paper records. And no-one I know of - except employees of the voting machine companies, who in some cases did the recount and turned in the results to county officials - got to examine the central tabulating computers. Sigh...
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By Steve RosenfeldMarch 28, 2005 - 12:42am