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Interview with Texas populist Jim Hightower

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Tags: Wisconsin, teachers, high-speed rail, Rick Scott, Rick Perry, middle class, poverty

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up first today an interview with Texas populist Jim Hightower. Hightower is a former agriculture commissioner in Texas and is now an author (Against the Current) and radio commentator (his commentaries are carried on WMNF).

Bernie Sanders on the President's budget; prank phone calls; and the assault on civil liberties

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Tags: Sadequee, Peter Erlinder, civil liberties, crank call, Bernie Sanders, Obama's budget, Wisconsin, unions, labor

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. We had originally intended to have one of the Haitian presidential candidates on this program. Unfortunately his plane is arriving late in Tampa so we'll hear about some other issues.

We'll hear an interview that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave to the PBS Newshour on President Obama's budget proposal.

We'll hear the first half of that [crank call by a Buffalo blogger to the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker](http://www.readersupp...

Wisconsin governor admits union busting policy could spread to Florida listen

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Tags: Koch brothers, unions, union busting, Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Rick Scott

In Wisconsin, demonstrators in the capital, Madison, gathered for a ninth day to oppose anti-union legislation. Inside, a marathon session was underway in the Assembly, where Democrats have introduced dozens of amendments and made long speeches criticizing the bill. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been duped by a blogger posing as one of the powerful Koch brothers. In the [recorded phone conversation](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/23/948732/-Busted:-Scott-Walker-fell-for-Prankster...