Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson For 24Aug22

Reviewing Filibuster Drama, Rick Scott’s on a Boat, Whitmer Kidnap Plot Conviction, w/ Charles Bradt

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, August the 24th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting past the headlines about US Senator and NRSC Chair Rick Scott yachting in Italy while questions swirl as to the GOP prospects in the midterms, and get to who is pushing the story and why positioning for who will take the blame for Republicans not winning back the Senate majority is driving this story. Our guest to is Charles Brandt joins to review a debate that raged for 18 months but suddenly went away when legislation started getting past; the filibuster. Charles walks us through the history of the filibuster, what it is and isn’t, what it was intended to be, and what it has become over the years. We discuss why institutional rules are important, when they should be changed, and how both parties have used and abused rules like the filibuster in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. Charles also discusses the importance of safeguarding minorities in our representational system of government, and the need for the majority…