The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics The Election Truther Chairing the Redistricting Committee
Apr 1, 2021
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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Colorado Republican Party elects arguably their least electorally successful member to be their chair, there is a conspiracy theorist chairing the congressional redistricting commission, we discuss whether he believes maps exist, it’s actually infrastructure week for the first time in at least 5 years, we legislate with crayons once again, and we explain to Lauren Boebert who the anti-fascists in 1930’s Germany were fighting.
Links
- 4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on the 2020 election results (The Colorado Sun, 3/17/21)
- Kristi Burton Brown elected as next Colorado GOP chair, vows to bring “a new generation of leadership” (The Colorado Sun, 3/27/21)
- "Danny Moore is an election rigging conspiracy theorist, and the chair of the 12-person commission that will redraw Colorado's Congressional Districts." (Twitter, @nexton9news, 3/29/21)
- Joe Biden’s coming infrastructure push, explained (Vox, 3/29/21)
- Good Interview on Modern Monetary Theory (The.Ink, 3/30/21)
- The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
- Once Again, Hammers Do Not Kill More People Than Guns (Colorado Pols, 3/29/21)
- NYT Trump Biden Geography Quiz (The New York Times)
- U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (Gallup, 3/29/21)
- POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer’s 51-vote gambit (Politico, 3/29/21)
- Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century (The New Yorker, 3/29/21)
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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