well go back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour at the polls yesterday voters at one hundred communities across america overwhelmingly said no to corporate money influencing our democracy or the constitutional amendment overturning so this is united now on the horizon and democrats are still in control of the senate republicans still in control the house does that mean more

partisan gridlock for the next four years or can something be done a light a way to bring on the change america desperately needs. me your take my take a lie the phone lines are now open so if you want to tell me your opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call at two o two nine zero four twenty one thirty four now it's time for the first color of the night. that is jeff and nasa's jeff you're on the air. first time caller. just wanted to. i said thank you go ahead i just want to. touch on the drug work and i think a large part of it is so beyond our control now with the economics that come out of

long. haul rashid and making drugs illegal. i'm sorry jeff i missed part of what you're saying curtis talking to say so i guess what i'm saying is basically i think that the you know the drug war. the amount of money that's created and generated from it has outweighed the chance of ever becoming legal as oh yeah it is machine that you're absolutely right jeff in and i appreciate your calling in making that point because it's a really important one is that this is the drug war nixon's drug war has become a multi-billion with a b multibillion maybe multi tens of billion dollar industry it's feeding the fuel the private prison industry it's responsible for half of our prisoners it's response it's feeding a billion dollar testing industry it's feeding law enforcement large chunks of law enforcement history and frankly to to paraphrase dwight eisenhower's cross of iron speech every every person arrested in the drug war is

a resource taken from the rest of us a resource taken from the rest of america fred in st louis missouri a fred thanks for watching the big picture what's on your mind today. that totally total and use of at the nine hundred fifty products to keep you. know and as long as the oil you can strain oil without a refinery democrat in the voting block yeah this is this is fred i appreciate your point and it's really well made that. exactly why it got criminalized back in the nineteen ots in the nineteen teens when when they were legal and in fact i mean you go back to the founding of the country george washington grew it the first draft of the constitution were written on paper and then henry ford comes along makes a car that can run on. mr diesel diesel engine that would run hemp oil and reforming

the car that will run an alcohol made from hemp and you know holy cow we can't have this and so the oil industry the rockefeller's in the paper industry in the newspapers they didn't want that competition so they came up with this whole reefer madness thing and thus we have one hundred years of stupidity and it's been just about exactly a hundred years so i think it's time to. stupid. is it better or be to in a word california. is fida fida. thank you i would like to make a suggestion to you i really appreciate your show but i like to see more on the media because we have charlie rose. will go the media outlet is part of a divide that we have going on in in this country today and we're not going to get anything done if we don't have journalists and the media to start calling them

calling them on their on on their own what to say and do and how to interview people because they let things slide and they let the lies just just just just go on a little and in that given the facts to the people the citizens i think. if anybody . thought of all of them on yeah you're absolutely right and many people appreciate your perspective and. in fact it's more than just the media it is it is the laws under which the media. the media in the united states and in any country for that matter but here in the united states the media delivers at least the electronic media delivers via airwaves television and radio cable or the internet all of which pass through public space public airspace public rights of ways and therefore we have some claim we the people to say this is part of the commons so if you have a radio station or

a television station and you want to use that common space up until nine hundred eighty seven the requirement was you have to pay back for that or pay for that with an hour a day or the equivalent of an hour a day of actual news programming informing the populace is thomas jefferson talked about you know an informed educated electorate and reagan blew that up in eighty seven and we've had a problem ever since we need to we need to seriously be looking at some say going back to legislation like the old fairness doctrine that talks about programming in the public answers richard in bellflower california a richard what's up. when you're just mentioned the fact that the popular vote was only about two million votes difference what my question is because of the voter suppression how much bigger could that number then i think excellent point richard i appreciate your call i think at least five million i'm my best guess is that i've seen from people who do this stuff for a living who look into voter suppression and the consequences of it is that is that

the republicans intentionally threw at least five million people off the voter rolls and and in it are an aggregate of five million people between three being thrown off the voting rolls and having to wait two three four five hours or being intimidated with jiah billboards of say you might go to prison if you vote you screw something up i would guess that obama's victory was actually at least five million larger this time and probably at least three million larger four years ago . steve in fairfax virginia a steve what's on your mind tonight. well if it's good joe a first time caller besides the tax advantages of having a new product on the market like marijuana the mexican people and the mexican officials are so glad to see this happen so that the cartels down in mexico have no leverage to commit the crimes that they've done and kill all the people leave killed because you legal now we should grow it ourselves yeah you're absolutely

right stephen i'm sure that the mexican government would have would appreciate your saying that as well because they issued a report about a week and a half two weeks ago we covered on this program that said that this was the the mexicans that said that if three states in the united states were to do you could decriminalize america just those three states where it was on the ballot they represent such just those states represented such a market it would pull five to six billion dollars out of the illegal drug trade in mexico and help put some of the narco traffickers out of business i mean you know prohibition creates john diligence modern day prohibition creates the narco narco gangs in mexico josh in montreal's canada a josh thanks for watching us and canada what's up. josh in montreal a little hey you're on the air what's up. is it is it me it's on there it's you on the air you are live. i i saw my name is robert tom oh. ok

sorry that's fine robert go ahead what's up. you know i've been keeping up with a lot of things appreciate everything you bring on to us you know and let miss miller everything and. but you know what i notice you know i watched the whole debate all the campaigning. the two parties democrat and republican and i noticed. either one of them talking about the economy never brought up the gas prices. we know of troops before. gas prices affect the price of everything cause businesses to a lot of republicans. robert a good point i appreciate bring it up the republicans try to bash obama on gas prices in fact they ran a whole series of ads on that gas prices are actually down right now by the way about twenty twenty or thirty cents a gallon from where they were just a week ago. but the big point that most people don't get is that

probably about twenty percent of the total cost of gasoline right now in the united states is the consequence of speculation its banks taking the money not all companies tony and poll asking virginia tell me what's on your mind tonight do not . limit auto new shoe what's up. i just want to bring up a simple fact and see what your opinion was on the between the republican and democratic parties and even the independents. and the tea party issues. the main focus and in my opinion i want to have your opinion on this for wants. is they should all work together for the better good or the common good of the united states of america here's the problem tony you have conservatives and progressives defining the common good differently conservatives believe that the common good is best taken care of if the government doesn't have any role to play as the employer

of last resort or providing for the commons and etc etc and progress is believe that the common good is better taken care of with something that looks like f.d.r.'s new deal so if you're both actually operating in good faith and trying to try to pursue what you really believe is the common good but your world views are that different then you end up with a bit of a problem. and compromise makes both both sides feel like dirty like they didn't quite make it happen so tony thanks for the call jose and woodland hills hate to say what's on your mind tonight. good afternoon what i was going to talk about was . yesterday that the g.o.p. made in the elections in my opinion. because now the atmosphere is right for him to run jeb bush for president come two thousand and

sixteen i don't disagree with you and i appreciate your perspective and and i personally expect jeb bush is going to be the twenty sixteen republican presidential candidate george in greenville south carolina george we have thirty seconds left it's yours. and i want to bring up with the fact that i've been on lifetime problem a. again i would not support either john mccain and mitt romney because they simply wanted to extend these useless wars in the mideast they're like the fact that we would get into videos that just fight just least senseless wars i cause i actually vote for any of the major parties excellent points. thank you very much i appreciate the call my dad was a republican his whole entire life he was a good and decent man dwight eisenhower was a republican and he was one of the greatest advocates for peace this country's ever seen because he saw horrible war was and i just i'm mourning the loss of

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it's. or cross the nation yesterday americans work just in voting for a president or a senator or a member of the house of representatives in nearly one hundred cities coast to coast voters are faced with the question of whether we should amend the constitution of the united states to overturn the citizens united decision that has flooded our democracy with millions hundreds of millions perhaps billions of

dollars in corporate cash joining me now to tell us how these votes went is the national spokesperson for a move to a man for a green party presidential candidate and turning activist david cobb david welcome back. thank you tom it's always a pleasure to be on with you great having you with us were you at all surprised by the overwhelming positive response across the country or state and could you characterize for us what happened yesterday well obviously was a huge progressive victory across the board a couple of notable losses but progressives won and won big on progressive messaging even deeper time the move to him in coalition with some of our partners helped to put on the ballot before seven million voters in the united states call for a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate constitutional rights and abolish the idea that money is speech we won every single one of those races a third of the state of massachusetts the entire state of montana and colorado. you

know across the country two million voters in illinois every single place we won and tom by supermajorities over sixty seventy in one case eighty percent of the vote this is an unbroken string of victories that moved him in we haven't lost yet and we'll win in traditionally conservative areas and move to amend is something that is really uniting americans regardless of party affiliation or ideology it's something you talk about a lot about the idea of a functioning democratic republic it's working time by doing grassroots organizing it's actually working and it's apparently deeply and profoundly trans partisan i mention in the intro pueblo colorado a very conservative famously conservative community and the residents there what what was the how did that vote come out and did it surprise you almost seventy percent and in fact it didn't surprise me because in pueblo colorado is where get

this weight for it the local tea party has invited me to come in and do a presentation and discussion so what we're finding is that by taking on individual issues where we may. agree or disagree and instead focusing on the core principles of how the rules of our political and legal system are supposed to operate that there is a norm it's common ground elections for candidates are different because you have to choose but the move to amend effort is able to actually go beyond candidate and actually get to core principles and if the winner yeah and indeed sherrod brown yesterday won his son a seat or kept his senate seat bernie sanders kept his senate seat both of them have been campaigning as part of their campaign basically not explicitly endorsing move to amend so much but they had. petitions on their websites to to amend the

constitution i don't think either of them were as comprehensive as move to a man's and and i and i know that both of them are reevaluating that issue and looking at making the more comprehensive but this seems to be a a real winning strategy for politicians are you starting to sense that this is already to get some political mojo beyond i mean sure brought a bernie sanders or considered the liberals right but it hasn't gone beyond that well you know let's put it this way tom again a rank in file republicans are with us on this rank and file democrats are with us on this independence on are with us on this i want to give a real acknowledgment not just shared brown and bernie sanders but also a shout out to elizabeth warren and alan grayson others who have been champions on this issue of course jim mcgovern in massachusetts what we're seeing is progressive taking the lead but what we're going to do within the next two to five years is to

see change in what people consider possible you know but i don't really think that this movement is being led out of washington d.c. there are a few notable champions you've mentioned several but let's just be. clear this movement is growing in the heartland it's growing it's ordinary americans rolling up their sleeves and doing work together across ideologies and it's going to ultimately affect congress but i'd say we move to amend is about a quarter million people right now i think tom the magic number is either a half million or one million when we hit that number what you're going to see is that people who thought it was impossible are now going to say at the navigable. i'll close with this if you want to see a politician actually lead something build a parade and watch how fast they will get in front of it that's right and of course the flag david just a quick question we saw in ca in california the vast majority of californians

wanted to know whether or not their food had genetically modified organisms in it and then and so they got on the ballot and then monsanto and dow come in drop forty million bucks or thereabouts into the into advertising and just blew it out of the water it didn't pass at what point do you have you noticed any yet and if not at what point do you expect that the billionaires in the corporations are going to start coming after move to ammend dot org well you know they haven't yet and i think it's because they think that will either go away or because they have mistaken the fact that we're doing the advisory effort for a lack of seriousness you know it's true fifty it was closer to fifty million dollars actually defeated prop thirty seven the g.m.o. right to know campaign we started by with eighty percent approval and it cratered as a result of the lies and misinformation by month santo down and other g m a perv ayers

but let's be clear tom ours is a tactic it is building the grassroots first so that by the time they come after us we will have be so broad and so deep that they won't be able to convince people that up is the. down in black is white david letterman i'm in strategy so they're not coming after us yet but they will but we'll be ready there you go from your lips to god's ears david carter thanks for joining us thank you david thank you time go to move to a man dot org for more information and to learn how you can get. just . the. it's the good the bad of the very very modestly ogling the good residents of troy michigan voters and try michigan to remove their mare from office yesterday because of her blatant homophobic comments over the past few years after new york passed

marriage equality former troyer marriage janice daniels posted on facebook that she had thrown out her i love new york shirt quote now that queers can get married there end quote and earlier this year she told high school students that homosexuality is quote a dangerous mental disease and quote and compared to the dangers of smoking daniel's ouster another great victory for l.g.b. tea quality in our nation the bat the state of california among the flurry of ballot measures facing california voters yesterday was a measure to repeal the death penalty in that state and unfortunately california voters chose not to repeal the measure was defeated fifty three to forty seven the death penalty should no longer have a place in the american criminal justice system with the vote in california it looks like for a while anyway it's here to stay and a very very ugly the maracas school district and christine could and it was a middle schooler in the one nine hundred ninety s. she was sexually abused assaulted by two of her teachers now she's suing her former

school district in seeking compensation for being raped and abused for so many years but the district has offered a surprising and frankly appalling defense ragged school district says they could name was her quote herself responsible and quote for being raped and abused and that she was careless and negligent in the matter of her own rape so rather than admit that i am that they employed teachers who were sexual abusers the school district is blaming the victim saying she brought it all up and bad it's very very . president obama won and the democrats increased their majority in the senate and moved it in a far more progressive direction last night so for now the supreme court is safe

from the radical right wing ideology but to guarantee its safety for future generations harry reid must take decisive and historic action on day one for the do so term he must end or radically reform the filibuster the filibuster is mentioned nowhere in the constitution it's something in its modern form the founders knew nothing about while the constitution says a simple majority in this case fifty votes now is all that's needed in the senate to pass a law the filibuster requires sixty votes out of one hundred votes to end debate and move on to a vote and thus your pot republicans have used over three hundred seventy times to obstruct legislation during harry reid's tenure is as majority leader for comparison lyndon johnson was senate majority leader for the same period so i misread six years in an incredibly chair ability time back in the sixty's fifty's and sixty's and only had to deal with in the entire six years one single republican

filibuster harry reid himself knows that something needs to be done in a senate floor speech in may earlier this year reid praised senators tom udall all and jeff merkley who desperately tried to pass filibuster reform at the beginning of two thousand and eleven reid said these two young fine senators said it was time we changed the rules in the senate and we did it they were right the rest of us were wrong or most of us now anyway what a shame. now reid has a chance to correct this mistake and it looks like he'll try to do just that in a press conference the day reid said in regard to the filibuster i think the rules have been abused and we are going to work to change them we will not do away with the filibuster but will make the senate a more meaningful place we're going to make it so we can get things done on day one of the new senator or there will be a small window of a few hours open for harry reid and democrats to reform the filibuster and all

it'll take to change the senate rules is fifty one votes a simple majority considering the democrats are going to be entering the new senate with as many as fifty five votes this is a real possibility they just have to have the courage to do it. today the republican party has been rejected by the american people both because demographics are changing and conservatives are increasingly looking like. something is happening in this country and harry reid needs to seize on it by passing filibuster reform immediately or soon as a new congress so the progressive movement can freely march forward without republican relics in the senate obstruct president obama will have the power to do just that but if harry reid doesn't kill the filibuster first so progressive laws can pass and progressive judges can survive the nomination process and will end up with no forward process legislatively and will get weak judges on the bench and that ain't progress senator reid and the filibuster when the new senate session

begins in january please and that's the way it is tonight wednesday seven twenty twelve and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active tag you're it.

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