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American Dynasty: Fmr. Top Republican Strategist Discusses
The Bush Family’s Rise To Power Since WWI
DC Holds Early, Non-Binding Primary Election To Focus Attention
On Non-Voting Rights Of Residents
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:50 American Dynasty: Fmr. Top Republican Strategist
Discusses The Bush Family’s Rise To Power Since WWI
INTRO: We speak with Kevin Phillips, a former top Republican
strategist, who was generally acknowledged as the Republican
party’s principal electoral theoretician after Ronald
Reagan’s election in 1980. His latest book, "American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics in the House
of Bush" examines how the Bush family has been consolidating
its power for four generations.
We speak with Kevin Phillips is a former top Republican strategist.
He first became well known in 1969 with the publication of
his book his book "The Emerging Republican Majority"
which Newsweek described as “the political bible of
the Nixon Administration.”
After Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, Phillips was
generally acknowledged as the Republican party’s principal
electoral theoretician. In 1982, the Wall Street Journal described
him as “the leading conservative electoral analyst --
the man who invented the Sun Belt, named the New Right, and
prophesied ‘The Emerging Republican Majority’
in 1969.”
He has since become a prolific writer and a critic of the
current state of the Republican Party. Among his books are
"Wealth and Democracy" and "The Politics of
Rich and Poor."
His latest book is "American Dynasty: Aristocracy,
Fortune and the Politics in the House of Bush." It examines
how the Bush family has been consolidating its power for four
generations and how the Bushes have been staging their ascent
to national power since World War I.
- Kevin Phillips, author of the new book "American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics in the House
of Bush."
Link: www.americandynasty.net
8:50-8:58 DC Holds Early, Non-Binding Primary Election
To Focus Attention On Non-Voting Rights Of Residents
INTRO: The first primary election of 2004 will not be held
in New Hampshire, but in the District of Columbia. District
officials moved up the ballot from May in an effort to garner
national attention to the fact that DC residents have no vote
in Congress. We speak DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton,
who is a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives.
Voters go to the polls tomorrow in the first primary election
of 2004. And they’re going in the District of Columbia.
District officials moved up the ballot to January from its
customary spot in May in an effort to garner some of the national
attention normally reserved for the New Hampshire primary,
which is scheduled this year for Jan. 27.
The reason is to send a message to the world: That residents
of DC have no vote in Congress.
That’s right. In the nation’s capital - where
535 members of Congress work - the residents do not elect
a single one.
National Democratic Party officials only approved D.C.'s
primary move to January on condition that the ballot is non-binding.
In other words, the results won't matter. But Local Democratic
Party officials hope that the move will focus attention on
DC resident’s non-voting status, where lawsuits and
“Taxation Without Representation” license plates
have not succeeded.
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, civil rights activist
Al Sharpton, former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Ohio Rep.
Dennis Kucinich are the only major candidates who will contest
the D.C primary. Kucinich has announced that he will introduce
a bill in Congress when it returns to session that will make
Washington DC the 51st state.
Yesterday, eight of the nine Democratic presidential candidates
debated in Iowa where recent polls have suggested a tightening
race in the state. The only candidate to skip the debate was
retired Gen. Wesley Clark of Arkansas, who is not contesting
Iowa.
Race was a recurrent theme throughout the two-hour debate
sponsored by the Iowa Brown and Black Presidential forum.
The sharpest exchange came when Sharpton accused Dean of not
having hired any minorities to fill senior policy positions
in his state saying “It seems as though you discovered
blacks and browns during this campaign."
Throughout the debate, candidates criticized President Bush's
recently announced immigration proposal and questioned the
president's commitment to voting rights.
- Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the sole congressional representative
for the district. Norton serves in the House of Representatives
and can vote on legislation before House committees, but
cannot vote on the House floor.
Link: www.norton.house.gov
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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