20230202 Nicole Sandler Show - Thursday with Howie Klein and Randi Weingarten Too

I was looking forward to a quiet Thursday in which I could talk with Howie Klein [http://downwithtyranny.com/] about the travesty of ticket prices for live concerts on the day after a new Bruce Springsteen tour's start. I'll likely miss my first Bruce tour since 1980's The River due to Ticketmaster's "dynamic" and exorbitant prices. But we have politics to talk about... The racist, bigoted Republican party that has a majority in the House of Representatives today ignored the racists, bigots and criminals in their caucus, but booted Rep. Ilhan Omar from her place on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calling her anti-Semitic. (Cue the Opposite World sounder here) But that's not all... Some members of the House Democratic caucus (109 of them to be specific), went along with the Republicans' gaslighting, and voted with them in favor of a resolution from magats Maria Elvira Salazar and Steve Scalise condemning the "HORRORS of socialism". Seriously? So, music will have to wait until next week.... And, sometime in the first half-hour, we'll likely hear from Randi Weingarten [http://twitter.com/rweingarten], president of the American Federation of Teachers [http://aft.org/] to ask her how they're dealing with the fascist assault on education that 's taking hold here in Florida, with the other fascists states looking to DeSantis for guidance...