A pleasure to read your latest book. And it was wonderful to have this conversation. And im hopeful that those watching this conversation will pick it up, learn for themselves and pass it on. Ithanks for coming, everyone ths is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, where project centered was founded almost 50 years ago. Project has been around for a while and so im going to probably start just by telling you a little bit about what projects a
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That if the world is going to be a better place, were going to have to be the leaders to make it happen. I ve it. All right. Well, eddie, brother eddie, this was a real pleasure. A pleasure to read your latest book. And it was wonderful to have this conversation. And im hopeful that those watching this conversation will pick it up, learn for themselves and pass it on. Ithanks for coming, everyone ths is my pleasure to welcome mickey huff for the second time. To the avid reader, we had him last year for the previous day, the free press, you know, 2023. And today im going to be discussing the free press 2020 before we have. Hell be discussing the book good discussing i think media and that of thing and then ron opened it up to questions afterwards so please welcome mickey one of the others thanks so much know thanks to everybody here at the avid and broadway in sacramento its always delight to be here and its been a really great place since i since i moved over here from sonoma county, w
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith gooas i call this the Jimmy Stewart washington scenario and that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. The hightech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20 years ago the