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New GOP Report Says Party Is Narrow Minded, Out of Touch
03/18/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, Republican Party, narrow minded, scary, stuffy old men, out of touch
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. The web site Politico.com is reporting that "The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways.
Among the RNC’s proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform, addressing middle-class economic anxieties head on and condensing a presidential primary process that saw Mitt Romney get battered for m...
Be the first to commentThe Former GOP Operative Who Says The Party Has Become A Cult (And the Democrats Have Become Ineffectual)
08/14/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mike Logren, The Party Is Over, GOP, Tea Party, cult, budget, filibuster, Religious Right, WMNF Rob Lorei
Good morning welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll meet a former Congressional staffer who worked for Republicans on Capitol Hill. He resigned last year in frustration over the direction the Republican party was taking our country. We’ll speak with him in a moment. But first two listener comments about yesterday’s program. Yesterday our guest was Chris Hedges the Pulitzer Prize wining former war correspondent. We were talking about his new book on so called sacrifice zones ...
1 commentsLibertarian-GOP Rift
06/05/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Libertarians, Ron Paul, Florida State Fairgrounds, GOP, Ronvoy, Alex Snitker, Tampa, Rob Lorei
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk about a dispute between small "l" libertarians and the Republican Party. But first two comments about yesterday's interview with former Congressman Alan Grayson.
tape The Tampa Bay Times reported this morning that: "Supporters of Ron Paul suspect the Republican National Convention is toying ...
Be the first to commentNewt Gingrich in Tampa: I'm tired of being lectured about supporting every other religion listen
01/30/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election, RNC, GOP, Religion
Tomorrow’s presidential preference primary could decide the eventual GOP nomination. Frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are aggressively campaigning for a victory in Florida. Gingrich made a stop in Tampa this afternoon at the Tampa Jet Center where he told supporters he has run a cleaner and more deserving campaign than Romney.
Be the first to comment“Romney then decided that the only way to stop me was a three and a half mil...
The Republican Presidential candidates meet opposition at USF debate listen
01/24/12 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, USF Tampa, Students for a Democratic Society, Occupy Tampa, PUSH, Student Labor Action Project, Awake Pinellas, Fight Back Florida, Barack Obama, protests, SDS, Florida primary election, 2012 Election
The Republican Presidential debate at the University of South Florida was crucial for those four candidates, but many groups oppose their agenda. Hundreds flooded the campus to fight back against the positions of candidates on immigration, LGBT issues and tuition hikes.
Outside USF’s administration building more than 200 people held up signs. Some shouted speeches through bullhorns before marching to the site of the debate. The groups were greeted and riled up by Dus...
Be the first to commentAs Tampa GOP debate nears, Republicans and protesters weigh in listen
01/20/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Republican debate, Republican Party, GOP, Mark Sharpe, Tony DeSisto, protests, LGBT, LGBT rights, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Fernandez
After tomorrow's South Carolina presidential primary election, national attention will turn to Florida, where the next primary will be held on Tuesday, January 31. This coming Monday, Tampa's University of South Florida will host a Presidential primary debate in a state that has been recently been penalized by the National Republican party for moving the date of it's primary election forward.
Florida is a political battleground state that typically sees a lot of action during national elec...
Be the first to commentPresidential candidate Gary Johnson: Republican or Libertarian? listen
12/13/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party, GOP, Republican Party, 2012 GOP Convention, 2012 Election
Another political party is trying to recruit Republican presidential long-shot Gary Johnson. Last night in Clearwater, the Florida Libertarian Party introduced the man they hope will switch parties based on his belief in limited government and massive spending cuts. All in all, Johnson’s promise to submit a balanced budget to Congress by 2013 would include federal spending cuts to the tune of 43 percent and include a proposal for a [...
Be the first to commentSarasota protesters greet Romney, in town for a fundraiser listen
11/15/11 Doug DriscollWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mitt Romney, GOP, Womens issues, Awake the State, Sarasota
Monday night Mitt Romney attended his second fundraising dinner in Sarasota since announcing his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination. Some protesters hoped Romney would also get a glimpse of those who oppose his conservative agenda.
A sedate group of about a dozen protesters stood on the corner in a small affluent community on the way to Longboat Key. They pumped signs with one hand, the other greeting passing motorists with a friendly wave. Most returned the wave with a smile...
Be the first to commentGOP presidential candidates debate in Tampa listen
09/13/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cnn, CNN/Tea Party debate, tea party, debate, GOP, Republican Party, Republican debate, Republicans, elections, 2012 Election, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul
Last night in at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, eight Republican presidential candidates participated in the first CNN-Tea Party debate. More than 100 tea party groups attended. Candidates were fired up and ready to answer questions from the Tea Party, while seeking their support on their path to the White House.
For many conservat...
Be the first to commentThe Republican presidential debate is Tonight in Tampa: Is the GOP right about the economy?
09/12/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: debate, Tampa Fairgrounds, Robert Reich, Social Security Administration, Medicare for all, GOP, 2012 Election
Coming up today the CNN/Tea Party Express presidential candidates debate will be held tonight in Tampa at the state fairgrounds. A group of environmental, labor and civil rights activists will be outside the fairgrounds to protest the event. Today the Florida Democratic Party released an ad attacking the Republican Presidential candidates' position on Social Security and Medicare and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently gave a [speech](...
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