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Employee Free Choice Act a possibility in Obama administration listen
12/17/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
With a Democratic president and large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, labor organizers are optimistic that pro-union legislation can win passage in 2009. At the top of the wish list is the Employee Free Choice Act. Over the last 20 years, an imbalance has been created between employers and employees, according to Rich Templin, communications director with the Florida AFL-CIO, a labor union that supports the Employee Free Choice Act.
“What the ...
Be the first to commentBeckner promises more open government listen
12/10/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, Hillsborough County Commission, Kevin Beckner
Kevin Beckner was elected to the Hillsborough County Commission last month. Today, at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tampa and the League of Women Voters of Hillsborough County, he urged citizens to get more involved in the community.
“For too long we have focused on political agendas, self-interest groups, special interest groups, and too long I think some of our leaders have focused and have...
Be the first to commentLocal women activists speak out
12/06/08 Mary Glenney and Arlene EngelhardtFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Women's issues, politics
Local women activists talked about their work in the Tampa Bay area. Participants were: Sally Phillips, HCDEC state Rep. and LGBT Chair; Grace Maneri, The Spring; Sarah Romeo, Crossroads; Terry Binder, SOA Watch; Pat Kemp, HCDEC Chair; Betsy Davis, WOMEN.
Be the first to commentBetty Reed weighs in on Ray Sansom listen
12/05/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, Betty Reed, Ray Sansom
Florida’s new Speaker of the House, Ray Sansom, has been criticized for accepting a position with Northwest Florida State College on the day he became House Speaker. Sansom, a Republican from Destin, helped funnel $25 million to the school earlier this year. Because of that, some have called for Speaker Sansom to resign from one or both of his new positions.
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1 commentsPasco DEC chair defends her tenure
12/05/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, Democrats, Pasco County, Allison Morano, Jose Pena
Tomorrow in Pasco County, Democrats will decide whether to retain their current chair, Allison Morano, or vote for her challenger, Jose Pena.
We heard from Pena last night; tonight, we hear from the incumbent.
Allison Morano has been in the Sunshine State for nearly a decade. She ended up leading the Pasco County Chamber of Commerce from 2001 to 2004. She then got involved with the Pasco Democrats, saying that the party wasn’t very strong. She was elected chair of the Party in early 20...
Be the first to commentDiscussion on expectations of the Obama presidency listen
12/04/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, USF, Barack Obama
How will President-elect Barack Obama tackle the critical issues facing America? The University of South Florida’s Department of Africana Studies and Institute on Black Life attempted to answer that question today in a roundtable discussion called “A Change Has Come.”
Rhetoric doctoral student Kendra Bryant read her work, “We Be Theorizing,” that catalogs accomplishments of people ...
Be the first to commentRace for Democratic Chair in Pasco County heats up listen
12/04/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday
Tags: Politics, Pasco County, Democratic Party, Alison Morano, Jose Pena
On Saturday, Pasco County Democrats will vote on whether to retain their current chair, Alison Morano, or to replace her with challenger Jose Pena.
Pena was elected as a precinct man in Pasco in 2004. He got involved in politics in his native Ohio starting in the late 1970s, supporting Dennis Kucinich in his race for mayor of Cleveland.
Pena has been telling Pasco County Democrats that although change came to America last month, it stopped at the Pasco County line.
Pena says that d...
Be the first to commentSurvey on women's views of the election published listen
12/03/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, politics, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, pollsters
As part of its nonpartisan Every Woman Counts campaign to engage women in the political process, Lifetime Networks today announced the results of a national poll of women on the historical presidential election and its impact on the future of female political leadership.
The poll found that two-thirds of all women polled said that President-elect Barack Obama should not consider gender at all when appointing his Cabinet and should focus just on qualifications, while 27 percent said he shou...
2 commentsHouse Speaker Sansom urged to choose a job listen
12/03/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, Ray Sansom, Karen Thurman, Northwest Florida State College
Florida Democratic Chairwoman Karen Thurman today called for House Speaker Ray Sansom to step down as Speaker, or leave his controversial new job at Northwest Florida State College.
Her call comes after several Florida newspapers have charged the new speaker with a gross conflict of interest for his role in providing funding this year for his new employer.
The St. Petersburg Times reported last week that Sansom has been able to provide more than $25 million to his alma mater, formerly...
1 commentsPinellas DEC race - Part 3 listen
12/03/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Politics, Pinellas County, Democrats
Last night in Tampa, Hillsborough County Republicans elected Deborah Cox-Roush to be their new Chairperson.
Meanwhile, Pinellas County Democrats will vote for a new chairman tomorrow night.
Ramsey McLaughlin, Mark Hanisee and Jack Killingsworth are the candidates.
Tonight, we speak to Jack Killingsworth, who was just on the ballot in Pinellas County last month challenging longtime incumbent Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark. He lost.
Killingsworth is an electrical engineer; h...
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