AM950 Best of Interviews
Best of Interviews - AM950 The Progressive Voice of Minnesota
Our Democrat of the Day is Sarah Brakebill-Hacke, who is seeking the DFL nomination in the special election for the 1st Congressional district in southern Minnesota.
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Brett Johnson speaks with Walker Orenstein of MinnPost. They discuss a carbon fuel standards bill at the legislature and take a look at MinnPost’s list of all the candidates running for state legislature and what rural races Walker thinks will be most competitive.
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Our Democrat of the Day is Arik Forsman who is running in house district 8B, which includes portions of eastern Duluth and surrounding areas.
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Our Democrat of the Day is Nicole Mitchell in Senate district 47, which includes Woodbury and surrounding areas.
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It’s our national political expert Jeff Stein. Matt and Jeff continue talk about glue girl from last night’s Wolves game and how she was protesting how chicken are killed at a farm owned by Glenn Taylor, food prices, E15 gas and more.
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Brett speaks with Patrick Coolican of the Minnesota Reformer. They discuss Republican crocodile tears over Governor Tim Walz not attending the “official” fishing opener (he is attending one though on the Leech Lake reservation), The proposed Republican lobbyist club at the capitol and the Biden administration allowing E15 gas during the summer months.
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Matt is joined by criminal defense attorney Jack Rice. They talk about the lack of a conviction for the Michigan men who devised a plot to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s 2020 car crash where he killed a pedestrian and more.
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Brett Johnson speaks with Matt Lelou of the Communications Workers of America union at New Flyer in St. Cloud, a bus manufacturing plant. Their union recently authorized a strike seeking higher pay, sick time, paid religious holidays and limits on mandatory overtime.
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Matt is joined by Eric Bernstein, a progressive policy analyst focused on state tax and budgetary policy and policy director for We Make Minnesota. He talks about his Minnesota Reformer article titled, “The GOP tax cut plan is tilted to the rich.”
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Our Democrat of the Day is Richard Painter, who is running for the DFL nomination in the special election for the 1st Congressional district.
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