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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Barney Frank is the only openly gay member of Congress. In light of John Kerry’s defeat in the Presidential election, Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, says the the rush to marry gay couples in San Francisco probably played a part.

The Rock Drops

Elaine Bartlett, served 16 years in prison for a single sale of cocaine, explains how she influenced Joe Bruno
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Jennifer Gonnerman, Staff writer for the Village Voice, reporting on criminal justice system and author, Life on the Outide: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett (Farrar Strauss and ...

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A Matter of Interpretation

Irshad Manji, president of VERB, a TV channel being developed to engage young people on issues of global diversity and host of Big Ideas, TVOntario’s weekly show aimed at college students, The Trouble with Islam (St. Martin's Press 2003), on her controversial views over Islam and its interpretation by its ...

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The Rebuke

Barney Frank, United States representative (D-MA), says the push for gay marriage hurt John Kerry
» Barney Frank
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Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, believes equal marriage rights should remain a priority
» National Center for ...

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E-Headaches

Will Doherty, Executive Director of Verified Voting Foundation, says there were widespread problems with electronic voting, but stops short of claiming fraud
» VerifiedVoting.org

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Recount Update

Our series on questions over voter irregularities continues this morning. We'll speak to Will Doherty from Verifiedvoting.org about problems with electronic voting. The latest news on the Ohio front comes in the form of two letters from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe and four Democratic Congressmen including Rep. Jerold Nadler of New York. Read on for the two letters...

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In the meantime, you can listen to our past segments on the issue:

UPDATED:
December 15
John Conyers, Congressmember (D- Michigan 14th District)
[read the response letter Rep. Conyers received from Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell (and Conyers' response)]
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December 15
Bev Harris, Founder of Blackboxvoting.org

December 8
Will Doherty, Executive Director of the Verified Voting Foundation

December 1
Bill Cohen, reporter in the Ohio Public Radio TV Statehouse News Bureau
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Jon Craig, statehouse reporter for the Columbus Dispatch

November 17
Miles Rapoport, President of the think tank Demos and former Connecticut Secretary of State

November 12
David Corn, Washington Editor of The Nation, and FOX News Channel contributor
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Thom Hartmann, nationally syndicated radio host
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-8th Congressional District

November 5
Miles Rapoport, President of the think tank Demos and former Connecticut Secretary of State and Bill Cohen, reporter in the Ohio Public Radio TV Statehouse News
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November 5
Greg Palast investigative journalist

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