Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the books "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow" (2008) and "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion" (1998). Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Our Favorite Kitchen-Table Populist Is Coming To Town.
By Tim Vanderpool
JIM HIGHTOWER IS Thomas Paine in a Stetson, Michael Moore
with a drawl, a bona- fide populist for modern times who lacerates
corporate greed and political corruption with down-home humor. This week the tall Texan brings his bulls-eye perspective to
Tucson for a special dinner benefiting the Pima County Democratic
Party and Southern Arizona Central Labor Council. He ll also attend
a reception sponsored by the National Writer s Union. He s also the host of a syndicated show, Hightower Radio (broadcast
until recently on Tucson station KMRR). Hightower also writes
a syndicated column appearing in the