Let's Protect Our Democracy with Prof. Zephyr Teachout
Hello Somebody
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Senator Turner calls out corruption with Zephyr Teachout, attorney, author and a policy police woman. These two political crime fighters get tough on the superpowers of super PACs and more. Listen and learn! #HelloSomebody.
Links:
Book:
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United by Zephyr Teachout
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674659988&content=reviews
CREW - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
https://www.citizensforethics.org/
American Economic Liberties Project
https://www.economicliberties.us/about/
ACLU and Citizens United
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-and-citizens-united
The CARES Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act
American Promise – 28th Amendment to the Constitution
PRO Act for Union Workers (Protecting the Right to Organize)
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-house-passed-pro-act-how-it-could-affect-future-labor-law
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/what-is-the-pro-act.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Media. |
| 0:10.6 | Before we begin, I want to give a special shout out to my team. |
| 0:14.8 | Thank you, Sim, Tiffany, Sam, and the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica, England, Pepper Chambers, the Hot One, and my social media team. |
| 0:46.1 | Excited today, as I am every time i get a chance to have conversations with people who reflect on what is happening in our world today on hello somebody we welcome an amazing and outspoken progressive leader she's an author and law professor she was a |
| 0:58.1 | surrogate on the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign and one of the first public figures to endorse the |
| 1:04.5 | now congress members Ocasio cortez and Jamal Bowman. She is an enthusiastic supporter of yours truly as well. |
| 1:16.1 | Woo-wee. Hello Somebody family. Let's welcome Zephyr Teachout. |
| 1:26.6 | Zephyr, how you doing, baby? |
| 1:29.0 | Oh my gosh, I'm doing so well. |
| 1:30.8 | It's so great to be on your show, Senator. |
| 1:33.1 | It is great to be with you, too. |
| 1:36.4 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:37.2 | I was just in New York. |
| 1:39.5 | I had the opportunity to interview on the Breakfast Club. |
| 1:43.2 | That interview aired, and it was just so wonderful to have |
| 1:47.2 | Charlemagne the guy who actually hello somebody is part of his black effect network but I was with him |
| 1:53.3 | I was with Angela Yee and also DJ Envy in your town and it was beautiful it was a great interview |
| 2:00.2 | I saw it on YouTube thank you I thought I and it was beautiful. It was a great interview. I saw it on YouTube. |
| 2:01.9 | Thank you. |
| 2:02.7 | I thought it was good. |
| 2:04.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:05.0 | Yeah. |
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