Episode 332: The Politics of Hurricanes. What's Off Limits On the Campaign Trail?
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Inside what it was like to live through Hurricane Andrew in 1992. How do hurricanes affect Florida politics and why is the insolvency of Citizens insurance a bad issue for Ron DeSantis?
Herschel Walker's campaign is tested by two different scandals. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania another campaign plays Hide-a-John.
A selection from We're Not Wrong with Andrew Heaton and Jen Briney on what's on and off limits in campaigning.
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| 0:13.0 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, yes, come on, |
| 0:22.6 | and you, |
| 0:23.4 | hey you, |
| 0:24.0 | and yeah, |
| 0:24.4 | and me you, uh, |
| 0:25.8 | uh, |
| 0:26.4 | e-b-a-e-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. Hello and welcome everybody to the balladics October 7th, 2022, your old pal, Justin Robert Young joining you here in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:49.1 | We're going to talk about the politics of Hurricane Ian. |
| 0:53.0 | I've got some personal thoughts about what it's like to kind of be |
| 0:58.0 | in the middle of a hurricane from the Floridian perspective. |
| 1:01.0 | I think it's fairly unique. Some of you guys might |
| 1:03.4 | enjoy it, but we also have a news peg there and that is the insurance market |
| 1:09.7 | of Florida. It is a ticking time bomb and we have hit triple zeros on the clock. A |
| 1:16.8 | gigantic explosion of Floridians that are going to be calling in insurance claims is here. |
| 1:25.0 | And yet what happens when the largest insurer in the state is the state, |
| 1:32.0 | and the state might not have the money to cover it and also there's a |
| 1:38.2 | governor's race so it has become a political issue. |
| 1:43.0 | We also have some snap polls in Georgia. |
| 1:49.0 | Will there be a massive reckoning for Herschel Walker after the |
| 1:55.8 | bombshell announcements from the Daily Beast that he paid a woman in the |
| 2:01.6 | two thousands to have an abortion and sent her a get well card for it as well and I would say even more so that his son |
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