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RFK's last campaign documented in book listen
06/11/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
It was 40 years ago last week that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles, the night after he won the California Democratic primary.
The bullets ended his life ended at age 42 and his amazing but short campaign for the Democratic nomination for president.
Thurston Clarke has written a new book, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America. WMNF spoke with Clarke yesterday and began by asking the author, who was 22 in 1968, what he was doing during ...
1 commentsClinton supporters urged to get behind Obama
06/11/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Election, Politics, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
In the aftermath of the divisive battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, many Clinton supporters - women in particular - have expressed anger at the media, the Democratic Party and the rules which allowed Barack Obama to gain more delegates though he did not win most of the big states.
But that’s not reflected in a new gallup poll, which shows Obama has moved into a double digit lead over John McCain among women since Clinton conceded last week.
Today, a couple of major Clint...
3 commentsWayne Garcia on potential of Obama-Clinton ticket listen
06/04/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
Wayne Garcia is the political editor for Creative Loafing, Tampa Bay's alternative newspaper. Garcia says that up until recently, he agreed with Jimmy Carter and some others that an Obama-Clinton ticket would not work – but now he says, it may be the only ticket that could be victorious this November.
Be the first to commentUnions protest McCain Fundraiser
06/03/08 Jamie KidderWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, John McCain, politics
John McCain was in St. Petersburg last night holding an upscale campaign fundraiser at the Vinoy. Just outside, the AFL-CIO and various anti-war groups protested the event.
Josh Hannijar is the Zone Coordinator for the Florida AFL-CIO. Hannijar, along with rank-and-file members, were there protesting John McCain’s economic policies.
Shortly after the anti-McCain protesters organized, a smaller group of McCain supporters joined the fray, holding identical John McCain sign. Jonathan Gear...
Be the first to commentTampa Democrat gets a little notoriety
06/02/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, DNC
Megan Foster is a grassroots Tampa Bay area Democrat.
At the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting on Saturday, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson invoked her name when talking about how Florida’s 1.75 million voters who participated in the Jan. 29 primary should have their vote counted.
Foster, who supported the idea of restoring Florida’s delegation with half their votes, thought Nelson was on a different page.
Be the first to commentFreedman balks at decision on delegates listen
06/02/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, DNC
Former Tampa Mayor Sandy Freedman is a strong Hillary Clinton supporter. She attributes the fact that so many superdelegates have chosen Clinton over Barack Obama to the power of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Freedman is not happy with the decision to cut Florida’s congressional delegation in half, and she’s as unhappy as Clinton advisor Harold Ickes about how the delegate breakdown came out in Michigan.
1 commentsClinton camp awaits DNC ruling listen
05/28/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, DNC
The Hillary Clinton camp refused to say today whether they’ll appeal if the meeting this Saturday of the Democratic Party’s Rules and By-Laws Committee does not rule in their favor.
The meeting this Saturday in Washington could potentially end the divisive issue of whether or not to seat Florida and Michigan’s congressional delegations, which have not counted since the national party ruled those states disobeyed party rules by moving up its primary date.
In anticipation of the meeting, ...
Be the first to commentGeller on why he's suing the DNC listen
05/22/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller today announced that he has filed suit in federal court to force the national Democratic Party to recognize the votes cast by 1.75 million Floridians during the Jan. 29 presidential primary and seat the state’s delegation with full voting authority.
Geller is an uncommitted “super delegate.” There are two other plaintiffs, a Barack Obama delegate and a Hillary Clinton delegate.
The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the So...
Be the first to commentClinton not willing to compromise on Florida delegates listen
05/22/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Election, Politics, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
A day after Hillary Clinton reiterated her call for having all of the delegates count in Florida, comparing it to the fight to free the slaves and the current situation in Zimbabwe, her campaign kept the pressure up on a conference call with political reporters.
The Clinton campaign today argued that their candidate would be better in a head to head match up against John McCain in the fall, using new polls released today by Quinnipiac University that show Clinton beating McCain in three cr...
2 commentsIorio endorses Obama at rally in Tampa listen
05/21/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush, Election Reform, Energy conservation, Iraq war, affordable housing, elections, labor, politics
Sen. Barack Obama claimed a major milestone with his win Tuesday in Oregon, wrapping up a majority of the Democratic Party’s pledged delegates. WMNF’s Seán Kinane reports from a crowded Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa that kicks off a three-day Florida tour.
During his first campaign stop since last fall in the country’s largest swing state, Obama all but claimed victory and the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.
Before he took the stage, Obama was endorsed ...
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