Round up the crew. It's time for Meet the New Press radio!
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..Pat Hynes Skip Murphy Doug Lambert
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Once again, this week's broadcast version of GraniteGrok and AnkleBitingPundits brings an array of items and guests for your consideration. As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and analytical skills of Skip (the GraniteGrok media empire's secret weapon), if you are beyond the broadcast area of Newstalk 1490 WEMJ, simply click here for instructions on how to connect and listen on the Internet via livestream. (Podcasts here)
- We'll review Fred's visit to Laconia Friday.
- Liz Mair of LizMair.com drops in to see if we can sort out the anti-Mormon "push-poll" phone calls "scandal" once and for all. Who did it? Liz also had a piece in NRO this week about Hillary Clinton & free trade. Is it Clinton versus Clinton on this one? We'll also talk about the so-called "youth vote". Does Rudy win it? Will it matter? Is Mitt Romney going to suffer a "Willie Horton moment"? In the name of gender politics?
- Theodora Blanchfield is the associate editor of Campaigns & Elections magazine. They featured GraniteGrok in their October issue in a section reporting on which blogs to watch during the campaign cycle. (Click here and go to page S-4 S-5) Theodora will discuss blog & other new media and the role they play in today's political campaigns. We'll also look at how activists are also using the new media to connect with people. Does all of this make for strange bedfellows as we see new alliances made up of those who would have been in conflict in an earlier era?
- Randal O'Toole, AKA the "Anti-Planner", is author of The Best Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future. He checks in to tell us why, contary to what you might think, when government plans, it oft goes awry. We'll ask about such programs like the "Main Street Program" that I alluded to in this post, and we'll talk one of our favorite subjects here on the 'Grok- highway and transportation planning. We'll throw in some talk about wasteful public transportation projects as well, and we'll find out how much time, effort, and gas tax money is wasted on non- highway spending.
- Rhode Island lays off state workers to save money due to a budget deficit of some $450 million? What are we going to do here in NH about ours?
- Will you do as Ray Burton admonishes and call the Governor & state legislature & ask to have gas taxes increased? I didn't think so...
