This Group Gets Unlimited Sick Leave While You Don’t

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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A group of senators with unlimited sick leave voted down a measure on Thursday which would have given rail workers just seven paid days of sick leave—, a fair rise considering where they currently stand: at zero. It’s a “horrific” decision, according to host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of political podcast, The New Abnormal. “My feeling is this is not a win,” said podcast co-host Danielle Moodie. “I don’t know who this is a win for. We all just went through the heights of a global health pandemic. People lost their jobs, people needed to take off because guess what? We needed to quarantine. So the fact that even after going through this for over three years, that members of Congress could vote to deny people access to sick days, it’s draconian, it’s disgusting.” Also on the podcast, Latosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter and is founder of Southern Black Girls Consortium tells Moodie about the Georgia runoff race as it finally nears an end. Then, Daily Beast political reporter, Roger Sollenberger, talks to Levy about his story surrounding Republican megadonors Dick and Elizabeth Uihlein.

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0:45.2	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:50.4	objector. I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left. Hi, I'm Danielle Moody,
0:56.1	former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an unapologetic woke commentator on
1:01.6	America's threats to democracy. And I produce a Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things
1:06.0	don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most
1:10.9	knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media and beyond. Our goal is to try and make
1:16.2	sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh through the
1:21.7	tears. We have one hell of a show today. First we're joined by Black voters matters with Tasha Brown,
1:26.8	and she's going to tell us about the Georgia runoff race. As it finally nears an end,
1:30.6	then we'll talk to Daily Beast reporter Roger Sullenberger about the U-Ride family who
1:34.9	donates tons of money to Republican causes, as well as the latest on Mr. Hershel Walker,
1:39.7	but first, let's have some fun. Hi, Danielle, how are you? Hey, Andy, I'm good, how are you?
1:44.8	Dom doing all right. My understanding is we have maybe some rare good type news to start the show
1:50.0	off with. Oh God, give me something. So the Democrats have a new leader in the house,
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