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Republican line. Caller good morning. This hill, the paper you work for, do you write things about both parties . Do you lean more towards the democrats than the republicans . Guest i say we strive to be as middle of the road as absolutely possible. Host thank you s cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning at 7 00. M. , David Wasserman also, George Washington University Professor of law and a columnist will discuss the integrity of voter systems. Cspan washington journal live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern this morning. Join the discussion. I came up with the idea for reproductive rights. I went to a end researched and i knew i could find information me figure outelp which points i wanted to say about it and how to form my outline. Approach. A methodical made thehat really piece as dense as this i would say. Reworking a end working as i was trying to come up with my theme. I was coming up with more ideas ideahen i came up with an i
And the pork chops in which. Justin terms to open that up what is this about . I will tell you where the title comes from. Right after bush v. Gore and in fact he was telling me and i looked in the documents inside there, the transcript where he went by the house and the soul black woman who is probably in 90 now in louisiana and told her that there was vote buying going on and she said be talking about . He said well do you but in she said yeah, this preacher comes by here and he picks us all up in his car and he takes us down to the polls and he gives us a piece of paper and tells us who to vote for. We go in and he tells us to talk to a particular clerk in there and tell them we need some help with voting and we go over and we vote his numbers and we come out and they put us back in the car they drive us over to the daiquiri shop in louisiana. They had daiquiri shops than to buy boos and he comes back with the pork chops and much in the drink and then he drives us home and gives us
Afterwards is next, this weeks former u. S. Of a rights commissn chair Mary Frances Berry. She discusses illegal voting practices with spencer overton,. I enjoyed your book, 5 and a pork chop sandwich. I thought it was original. Just in terms of opening it up. Could you tell us what it is about. The title came from, a fellow named greg malvo who is the chief Fraud Division for about four years in 20002004, where talking recently, not back in the day. He ran into me one day in city hall when i was down there doing research and he said i have been looking for you, i have all of these boxes of documents i want to give you. I want you to write something. And i said, what is it about. He said nothing clicked. And i said you can bring a little by and i wont read it. He brought about ten boxes of stuff to the place where i was staying. I read them. This was about when he was head of the Fraud Division and they discovered one a lot to the campaign in the state and local election were in fact t