Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008

GOP Oldliners–Recapturing Their Party?

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Old-school Republicans have for the last decade or two been wringing their hands and gnashing teeth over the take-no-prisoners, make-no-liberal-friends radical right shift their party has taken as the state's and the nation's Constitutional compact with its citizens tanks and the proud legacy of Minnesota GOP luminaries like Governors Harold Stassen, Harold LeVander, Luther Youngdahl, Elmer L. Andersen, Al Quie and Arne Carlson and many other so-called moderate-to-progressive party members goes up in smoke. Who will bring it back? Who can bring it back to its glory as the education-minded, workforce-developing, fair-taxation party representing Minnesota's conservative wing? TTT'S ANDY DRISCOLL and former KFAI News Director ANN ALQUIST talk with a former state GOP party chair, a “big-tent” veteran GOP activist, and a think tank official about where the state's Republicans might go to recapture its former luster as a fiscal watchdog with a big heart. Our guests talk about "Big Tent" Republicans for a Real Majority and a fundraiser to bring home the wanderers - and a Sept 3rd Growth & Justice symposium on Minnesota's Progressive Republican Tradition. GUESTS: • CHUCK SLOCUM - former MN (Independent) Republican Party chair and public policy activist, owner of The Williston Group policy consultants. • DANE SMITH – President, Growth & Justice, former StarTribune Capitol reporter, author, "Mr. Wellstone Goes to Washington." • SALLY PILLSBURY, longtime Republican activist, wife of former State Senator George Pillsbury, and "Big Tent Celebration" organizer. Podcasts are available for all archived Truth to Tell shows.

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Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008

AUG 20: VETERANS FOR PEACE/IRAQ VETS AGAINST WAR and POOR PEOPLES’ MARCH

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AUG 20: VETERANS FOR PEACE/IRAQ VETS AGAINST WAR and POOR PEOPLES’ MARCH

The names and numbers of organizations planning events coincident with and in response to the Republican National Convention (RNC) just keep on coming. At the end of the month the national and local chapters of the VETERANS FOR PEACE (VFP) will hold their convention, joined by the IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR (IVAW), while on September 2, the second large parade of protesters will seek the eyeballs and ears of RNC delegates and the media – the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES organized by the POOR PEOPLE’S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (PPEHRC). TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN will talk with leaders of all these events and get their take on the dynamics of the convention in St. Paul, Sept. 1-4 at the Xcel.

GUESTS: • CHANTE WOLF, Vice President, VFP Minnesota Chapter 27 • JIM STEINHAGEN, Past President, VFP Minnesota Chapter 27 • WES DAVEY, Iraq Veterans Against the War • DAVID HARRIS, VFP CH 115, Red Wing, Organizer of Veterans for Peace Memorial March to the RNC- 8/31 • CHERI HONKALA, National Organizer, PPEHRC Podcasts are available for all archived Truth to Tell shows.

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Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008

TTT#0833-Covering RNC Coverage

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August 13: COVERING THE COVERAGE OF THE GOP CONVENTION What will – what can – happen when 15,000 fawning and cynical reporters, pundits, satirists, analysts, columnists and their editors, producers, camera people, assistants and what-not from every media outlet in the world converge on little St. Paul and it’s Xcel Circus in September? TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN try to avoid insider baseball as we ask a few locals who work here, but will look in on this stuff to talk about expectations. Hell, we’re a part of the center ring ourselves. More on that later. GUESTS: • JASON BARNETT – Executive Director, The Uptake online video journal • DAVID BRAUER, Media critic and News Digester- “The Daily Glean,” MinnPost.com • JIM LEINFELDER, Free-lance Reporter/Producer, MSNBC, CNN, ABC • ERIC PUSEY, “The Big E” of MNBlue Blog Podcasts are available for all archived Truth to Tell shows.

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Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008

TTT#0832-MediaReformReplayII

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August 6: MEDIA REFORM AND THE GOP CONVENTION Join us this week to hear a compacted version of a 90-minute Truth to Tell Special we first aired live from 6:00-7:30 PM June 6 and features our first interviews with comedian and Daily Show and Air America co-founder LIZZ WINSTEAD, who brings her new online satire on network morning shows – “SHOOT THE MESSENGER” – to the Parkway Theater Sept. 1-4 and which will be seen by convention-goers and residents on True Blue Minnesota’s Jumbotron screens hours after the live performance; Then, ANDY DRISCOLL talks with vigilant media guru, former FCC COMMISSIONER NICK JOHNSON and his contemporary colleague, current COMMISSIONER MICHAEL COPPS, one of the two Democratic members keeping the FCC honest. Then comes CLIFF SCHECTER, author of THE REAL McCAIN, in time for McCain’s GOP coronation in St. Paul next month, talking about why McCain could be one of our most dangerous presidents, if elected. Finally, CRAIG AARON, conference sponsor FreePress.net’s Communications Director and legislative policy director talks about movement media reform.

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