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04-13-2020, 04:36 PM
Transcript - or - radio interview at:
Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections are Fair and Free
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/10/republicans-admit-they-lose-when-elections-are-fair-and-free

David Daley: "I’m not willing to believe that this democracy is over yet. The thing that I saw as I reported this book was that to the average American these issues were about fairness. They weren’t partisan issues."

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David and Bill
talked by phone on the eve of the Wisconsin primary where the governor of Wisconsin tried to postpone the election to help protect voters from the pandemic only to be blocked by the conservative dominated state supreme court and then by the five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court. There’s a link to David’s Rolling Stone report (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus-voting-rights-979504/) on analysis of the Wisconsin fracas....
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus-voting-rights-979504/

from transcript:

BILL MOYERS: David, Are you comfortable talking about down and dirty politics, the very week a killer pandemic maybe reaching its peak?
DAVID DALEY: I am. Yes. I think that there is a really big connection between how we got here and down and dirty politics, and where we go from here. We have to be really careful that in this moment, a public health crisis doesn’t also turn into a full blown constitutional crisis. And there’s lots of evidence that it may well turn in that direction.