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On and Off Lobbying
It’s Issue 4 in our 2006 election series, 30 Issues in 30 Days: No More Jack Abramoffs! We’ll hear two views and ask if lobbying corruption is mostly a Republican Party problem and whether our legal lobbying system perverts our democracy. Also, a call-in for Afghani- and Pakistani-Americans on Karzai and Musharraf; and the Pirro and Hevesi scandals
Khyber Pass
Murtaza Solangi , broadcaster and producer for Voice of America Urdu Service
- analyzes the meeting between Hamid Karzai, Pervez Musharraf and George Bush
Pearls of Wisdom
Judea Pearl, father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2001
- talks about Daniel Pearl's life, work and ultimate death and the new documentary about his life
Fat of the Land
Sonia Angell, MD, MPH, director of the cardiovascular disease prevention and control program, NYC Dept. Of Health.
- discusses the city's new ban on trans fats
» NYC Dept. of Health
30 Issues in 30 Days: No More Abramoffs!
Joanne Battise, tribal council chairperson for the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of
Texas
- on her tribe's lawsuit against Jack Abramoff and associates
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Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group founding by Ralph Nader in 1971
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Stephen Moore, member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board
- discuss lobbying and corruption
» Public Citizen
» WSJ Opinion Journal
» Open Secrets' Lobbying charts
The Trouble with Hubby
Patrick Healy, Metro political correspondent for The New York Times
- discusses the latest scandals involving Jeanine Pirro and Alan Hevesi.
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