Episode 64: Does the GOP win in CA25 matter? Pandemic President got sick! Civil Liberties in the age of COVID
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
- Actual politics! HOORAY! An election happened and we debate if it means anything or not
- If Trump got sick from the Vid, he wouldn't be the first president felled by a pandemic. In fact, he would certainly be able to recover with less pressure on him. The story you will be pissed you didn't know before you heard it here!
- Interview with Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the dangers of technical solutions to COVID and her organizations work to help protect digital rights.
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| 0:00.0 | The following content is brought to you by Will Harris, Andy Beach, and Paul Boyer. Now to the California Congresswoman facing an ethics investigation for an alleged relationship with one of her staffers on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:25.0 | The writing star in the Democratic Party, Katie Hill denies the allegations, but admits |
| 0:29.1 | to a relationship with a young campaign staff. |
| 0:32.0 | Freshman Katie Hill just announced she is resigning amid a bizarre scandal involving |
| 0:36.2 | racy photos and an alleged affair with a congressional staffer. |
| 0:39.8 | She just tweeted this. |
| 0:41.2 | It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation |
| 0:44.8 | from Congress. This is the last speech that I will give from this floor as a |
| 0:48.9 | member of Congress. I wasn't ready for my time here to come to an end so soon. |
| 0:53.3 | We will not stand down. |
| 0:55.1 | We will not be broken. |
| 0:56.8 | We will not be silenced. |
| 0:59.0 | We will rise. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you and I yield the balance of my time for now but not forever. |
| 1:06.0 | There's a special election Tuesday in the 25th Congressional District of California. |
| 1:10.0 | Democrat Assemblywoman Christie Smith is running against |
| 1:12.8 | former Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia the Republican |
| 1:15.7 | to fill out the term of Katie Hill. |
| 1:18.2 | When President Trump endorsed the Republican candidate Garcia, |
| 1:22.0 | she and her campaign leapt on that, |
| 1:24.4 | believing, I think correctly, that Trump's unpopularity in that district |
| 1:28.6 | would probably do Garcia more harm than good. |
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