Lobbying for Good?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, it's Boris Johnson's show now. In the interview, Thomas Sheridan isn't your mother's lobbyist—or wait, maybe he is? His firm, the Sheridan Group, fights for social change. He tells Mike about why lobbyists aren't all bad, how he got his start, and the tough battles he's faced over the years. Sheridan's new book is Helping the Good Do Better: How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change. In the Spiel, there's a solution to higher rates of maternal mortality among black women, and it involves putting the problem in perspective. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Want to see a special episode of The Gist live in New York? Get your tickets here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.
0:13.1	It's Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 from Slated to the Justime, Mike Pasca.
0:17.3	It's kind of hard to figure out what's going on with Brexit over there in the UK or as I call it,
0:23.0	Pro-regation nation.
0:25.0	Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a few days ago that he wanted to vote the kind of which Theresa May always felt.
0:31.1	So why was he doing that? Did he have a secret strategy?
0:34.6	Some keen insight.
0:36.6	Had we all been sucked in by his apparent to shoveled half-assury,
0:41.4	only to find out that Boris is wholly in control of events, no, no, we're not.
0:45.8	Here's what happened.
0:47.3	Boris Johnson could not solve the problem, so he tried to dissolve Parliament.
0:52.3	But that was entangled.
0:54.8	Also in dissolution was his plan for a snap election.
0:59.0	After all of the opposition and some of his erstwhile supporters were in favor of that, Parliament also voted to ban exiting the EU without a plan in place.
1:09.1	In other words, they said no to the famous No Deal Brexit.
1:13.5	Now I have to say, even though the English invented the rules of English,
1:16.7	in this case the double negative doesn't equal a positive.
1:20.3	No to no deal does not mean they have a deal.
1:24.7	So what does Labour propose?
1:27.8	Prime Minister Johnson charged Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of lacking the clear-eyed
1:34.2	goal-oriented laser focus of him, Boris Johnson.
1:38.1	We delayed in March, we delayed in April, and now he wants to delay again for absolutely no purpose.
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