'BradCast' 3/21/2018 (Guests: DuPage County, IL candidate Jean Kaczmarek; Progressive blogger Howie Klein)

Published: March 22, 2018, 12:37 a.m.

b"An actual Nazi won the Republican Party nomination for a U.S. House seat on Tuesday in Illinois' 2018 mid-term primaries. But while Democratic turnout was way up, progressive candidates on the 'blue' team did less well than hoped, according to the reported results. After an update on what Texas law enforcement officials hope will have been the dramatic late-night conclusion to the three-week long bombing spree in Austin, we tackle the results, fallout and concerns about the computer tabulation systems from Tuesday's primary. We're joined first by longtime election integrity champ and government watchdog JEAN KACZMAREK, who is now officially the Democratic nominee for County Clerk in DuPage County, IL, where the computer tallies of hand-marked paper ballots collapsed on Tuesday night. Kaczmarek explains what is believed to have gone wrong, leading election officials in the county to stop all tallies in the very Republican county until some 256 precinct-based optical-scan computers could be collected and brought back to County headquarters. Then we're joined by HOWIE KLEIN of 'Down With Tyranny' to analyze the tough day for progressive Democrats in the Land of Lincoln, where a number of conservative establishment (and even far-right) Democrats edged out more progressive candidates. We cover the gubernatorial primary that has resulted in a race between two billionaires, the highly contentious IL-3 House race in which rightwing Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski is reported to have barely defeated progressive candidate Marie Newman, and why Congressional leadership chose to put their support behind Lipinski. Plus some inside info on the Talking Heads' David Byrne from Klein's days as a top music industry executive before opting for the glamorous life and big bucks of independent progressive political blogging..."