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Libertarian added back in to Debate Audio for US House 7th Seat
Libertarian voice re-incorporated into the debates between Brat vs Spanberger! (audio link below …See More)
Hear the Libertarian Joe Walton for Virginian (the third candidate in the US House of Representatives 7th District running to unseat incumbent Republican David Brat as well as Democrat Abigail Spanberger).
The Culpeper Chamber of Commerce hosted the only debate between Brat and Spanberger on October 15th, 2018 and did not invite the Libertarian to join the debate.
The *only* radio station in Virginia to live simulcast this debate was WRWK 93.9 The Work FM so the Libertarian recorded his responses as if he had been in on the debate with the same rules for length of time for comments.
So in the interests of having as informed a population as possible as the citizens go to the polls – WRWK added the Libertarian voice into the debate!
This is unique to WRWK … PLEASE share it around!
Libertarian voice re-incorporated into the debates between Brat vs Spanberger! (audio link below …See More)Hear the…
Posted by The Work FM on Monday, November 5, 2018
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Elections are so very boring, if you are looking for real, not invented, issues
If it weren’t for all the hate fear and suspicion this election would be boring
because we’ve seen it all before, and it’s not really what people care about: check out this excerpt from a few years back on the eve of the presidential election in 2012:
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….. It’s boring because it’s a huge amount of drama built around a very small conversation. In American politics today, so little can really happen…and conversely, so much can happen over so very little. When the Presidential “Debate Commission” — made up only of Democratic and Republican operatives — took the Presidential Debates out of the hands of the League of Women Voters several years ago, any chance of those debates actually covering a meaningful array of topics, much less a more meaningful array of candidates, went out the window.
I assume the mainstream journalists who’ll be moderating the debates will ask just the right small questions, towing the line of the corporate driven political messaging. I’m sure we’ll all just be sitting at the edge of our seats.
Politics is boring — yet ironically enough, real democracy is exciting. If democracy itself – the real impulses of the American people — actually inspired the political process, then I think we’d get some much more interesting answers because we’d be asking far more interesting questions. The candidates would be asked such things as:
“What is your feeling about the 23.1 percent child poverty rate in the United States — among 35 developed nations of the world, second only to Romania?”
“Why is it that, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “if we give it to the poor we call it a handout, but if we give it to the rich we call it a subsidy?”
“How, if my child doesn’t get a decent education, can I expect that they’ll ever have a chance to attain true prosperity, much less a job at all, in a competitive global economy?”
“Why are we just talking about tax rates— rather than on how little money the average citizen is able to make period, and how little access they have to capital?”
“If college were free, wouldn’t it actually help the economy by producing a more educated work force?”
“Explain to me again why a fire in my house elicits a ‘We’re coming to help you!’ but cancer in my body elicits help only if I can pay for it?”
“How will we ever have peace in the world if we spend so much of our money on waging war and so comparatively little of it on waging peace?”
“What do you think about the fact that the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world, or any nation in history?”
Or, “Given that our military defense expenditures, at $700 billion a year, are almost twice that spent by every other nation in the world combined, could it be argued that our defense budget has as much to do with feeding the military-industrial complex as it does with keeping America safe?”
Then the Presidential debates would be more than just the pabulum now being served up to the American people as meaningful political dialogue.
Until then, corporations will continue to define where the political parties can go, and the political parties will define where the debates can go. I hope that in the next chapter of American politics – the one that begins the day after this next election — the people of the United States will say where we want to go.
And democracy, with all its grit and genuine glory, will have a chance.
7th Congressional District Discussion LIVE with Libertarian candidate comments
Right now WRWK 93.9 The Work FM is hosting a discussion of the election featuring the answers that the Libertarian Joe Walton gave to us as if he had been up on the stage!
WRWK was told that David Brat refused to go on stage and debate if the Libertarian was included in the debate!!
So we asked Joe Walton, Libertarian Candidate for the US Congressional 7th district to make the statements following the same rules as were given for Dave Brat and Abigail Spanberger during the debate as if he had been there!
So you can hear his opening statements, answers to 10 questions and closing statements!
YOU CAN CALL IN WITH YOUR THOUGHTS AS WELL during the live recording of this show at 804-464-1089
Discussion of Tuesdays Election, with audio from the Spanberger-Brat debate with a Libertarian response by Joe Walton, commentary by Scott Berger and Jay Tubb
Posted by The Work FM on Sunday, November 4, 2018
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We are kicking off a fundraiser for WRWK today, we wanted to wait for our “sister station” WRIR to finish theirs, which they did over target and days early.
WRIR reaches up north of Richmond several miles but it doesn’t make it to WRWK studios to the south. We fill in that gap in the southern part of RVA with similar news and talk.
And like WRIR we are totally volunteer run and donation supported. Hence this fundraiser.
Check out the site, the menu is on the left and you can trace our history up to today from the show hosts to the literature professor who puts together a new 6 hour loop each day that runs when there are no live shows or events to broadcast. He also puts a full index of all shows in the loop and how to contact them and their producers.
And the best part? It’s all yours; it’s Chesterfield’s locally owned and operated community radio station.
Community Radio – Pre-election
This is a great time to be doing community radio.
In the chaos of our current media storm, there is plenty of confusing information out there, lots of need for clarity, fresh ideas, specific details and a context that adds sense, value, and a path to action for community members.
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