'BradCast' 1/28/2019: (GOP power-grab in FL before 2020!)
On today's 'BradCast': Florida Republicans are brazenly stripping elected Democratic election officials of power and their jobs in advance of the 2020 election. Florida's new Secretary of State Mike Ertel, appointed by new Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, resigned after photos surfaced of him dressed in blackface, mocking Hurricane Katrina victims. Now DeSantis has used false pretexts to force out two elected county Supervisors of Elections in the state's most heavily-Democratic areas. But it's not just a Florida outrage -- it should be a national one, given that DeSantis has now installed two Republican lackeys to oversee elections in the two most Democratic-leaning areas of the closely divided Sunshine State in advance of the 2020 Presidential election. Their removal is nothing short of an outrageous GOP power-grab. Also today: The U.S. economy lost billions during Trump's shutdown.\xa0 Unlike furloughed federal employees, federal contract workers are currently screwed without any hope for receiving their back-pay. Callers ring in on why they believe Trump finally decided to fold on the shutdown -- at least for three weeks, until it may happen again, or he decides to declare a fake "national emergency" to justify stealing billions of tax-payer dollars allocated to military spending, in order to build his unnecessary and unwanted southern border wall...