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Castor says no to a Florida re-vote
03/10/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Yesterday, Hillsborough area Congresswoman Kathy Castor, a Barack Obama superdelegate, said she was against any type of re-vote in the state. Castor said the leader in pledged delegates in the race (currently Obama), will resolve the dispute over the delegates before the convention, avoiding a convention battle over the nomination. WMNF spoke with Rep. Castor from her office in Washington a short time ago.
Be the first to commentE.J. Dionne on religion in politics
03/07/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Washington Post syndicated columnist E. J. Dionne has just written a new book, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right. In it, he details why the era of the Religious Right – and the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage – is now over. But he writes that the end of the Christian right doesn’t signal the decline of evangelical Christianity, but is rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold out to a narrow agenda such as oppositio...
Be the first to commentConsultant: Now is time for third party candidacy
03/04/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday
Doug Schoen was a campaign consultant for more than 30 years, and has just published a book arguing for a third party presidential candidacy. The book, called Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two Party System.
WMNF spoke with Shoen last week, and asked about his book, and how he sees the presidential race unfolding.
Be the first to commentFlorida Democrats select party delegates listen
03/03/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, politics, primaries
Although there is still considerable question whether they’ll be seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August, registered Florida Democrats throughout the state came out this past Saturday to vote in caucuses to select delegates for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Based on the results of the Jan. 29 primary, Clinton received 67 district level delegates, Obama got 41, and John Edwards won 13.
Depending on what happens in tomorrow’s crucial primaries, those 67 for ...
Be the first to commentEyes turn to Texas in Democratic presidential battle
02/29/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: politics, Texas caucuses
The Fort Worth Star Telegram reported today that the Texas Democratic Party is warning that its March 4 caucuses could be delayed or disrupted after aides to White House hopeful Hillary Clinton raised the specter of an "imminent" lawsuit over its complicated delegate selection process.
The paper reported a knowledgable Democratic source said Clinton’s political director, Guy Cecil, had pointedly raised the possibility of a courtroom battle with Democratic Party officials.
Several new ...
Be the first to commentBloomberg not interested in White House bid listen
02/28/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: politics, Mayor Bloomberg
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially quashed any thoughts of his running as an Independent candidate for president by announcing he won’t run in the op-ed pages of today's New York Times.
In the piece, Bloomberg, originally a Democrat who switched his affiliation to Republican in order to have a chance to be mayor in 2001, and then last year made a high profile announcement that he was switching to Independent, wrote: “I listened carefully to those who encouraged me to run, ...
Be the first to commentLocal delegate selection is this weekend
02/27/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: politics, primaries, Florida, 2008 election
Going into next week’s series of four primary elections, Barack Obama hold a 91-delegate lead over Hillary Clinton. But who are these delegates? And when the question comes to Florida, will they count?
That has yet to be decided. But the Florida Democratic Party will decide this Saturday who those representative delegates are.
The delegates are broken down by Congressional District. So in the 25 districts throughout the state, those delegates will be chosen Caucus-style on Saturday....
Be the first to commentReport: Lawsuit against DNC still alive
02/27/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: politics, Florida, 2008 election, delegates
A lawsuit filed by a Tampa Democrat against the Democratic National Committee over Florida’s loss of all of its delegates to the convention has been given a second life.
In August, political consultant Vic DiMaio filed suit against the DNC, claiming that stripping Florida of its Congressional Delegates because of the early primary voting date was unconstitutional. But in October, federal Judge Richard Lazzarra threw out the case.
But DiMaio and his attorney, Michael Steinberg appealed t...
Be the first to commentEx-CIA agent mocks U.S. foreign policy listen
02/26/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Former CIA agent Michael Scheuer isn’t a happy fellow. The man who was responsible for getting Osama bin Ladin in the late 1990s says that under John McCain, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, bin Laden and his allies will be huge winners.
Schuer’s explosive new book criticizes Democrats and Republicans who are all part of a foreign policy he says is not serious about going after America’s foes.
Scheuer says the next president is doomed to continue the failed policies put in place by both...
Be the first to commentMore reaction on Castro's resignation
02/20/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday)
Cuban President Fidel Castro has announced he is resigning from the government because of his health. For 50 years he has bucked the United States, charting a path toward socialism and a foreign policy frequently at odds with Washington.
Today we talked with Patrick Manteiga, editor and publisher of La Gaceta, a trilingual newspaper published in Ybor City with strong ties to the local Cuban community. Manteiga discussed the U.S. embargo, the effect on Cuban families, the presidential can...
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