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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll |
0:13.3 | soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak |
0:19.9 | in the afternoon. |
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0:31.3 | Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. |
0:32.3 | Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest. |
0:36.5 | He's a former congressman. His name is Jason Altmeyer, and he wrote a book back in 2017. |
0:41.3 | The title of the book is Dead Center, How Political Polarization Divided America and what we can do about it. |
0:48.3 | And Congressman Altmeyer served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013. |
0:55.5 | And during his time in the office, the nonpartisan National Journal calculated Altmire's voting record to be at the exact midpoint of the House or the dead center. |
1:05.3 | That's the title, giving him the most centrist voting record in Congress. |
1:09.5 | So he had a very interesting time. This is a first person accountrist voting record in Congress. So he had a very interesting time. |
1:12.2 | This is a first person account of his time in Congress. So he has a lot of wisdom and |
1:16.3 | experience he can share and applied to really current situation in the United States in 2021. |
1:22.8 | So Jason Altmeyer, are you there? I am. Thank you, William, for having me on, looking forward to the conversation. |
1:29.3 | Likewise. |
1:30.3 | So for people who may not have heard your name, can you talk about your background, what part |
1:33.3 | of the country you're from, and how you got involved in politics and what led to your entrance |
1:38.8 | into Congress in 2007? |
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