'BradCast 4/1/2022' (Guest: Eric Kramer of Arizona for Fair Elections; Good economy news; Annoy a Nazi!)

Published: April 2, 2022, 2:31 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Get a booster shot if you haven't yet, with the new COVID variant BA.2 now dominant in the US. COVID hospitalizations are at their lowest rate since pandemic record-keeping began. New jobs report shows the unemployment rate is at its lowest in half a century amid a booming economy. Experts say job openings are going unfilled due to lack of childcare assistance, which was blocked when Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) obstructed President Biden's Build Back Better Act. Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, NY are the first to unionize. A second unionization vote at a Bessemer, AL Amazon warehouse is too close to call. Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed a wildly unconstitutional new voter suppression law that requires voters to prove citizenship to vote, and blocks them from utilizing early voting, vote by mail, and voting for state offices and U.S. President. ERIC KRAMER, Director of the Arizona Deserves Better non-profit, explains the draconian new state law, HB 2492, how it targets Native American and elderly voters in particular, and how voting rights advocates are fighting back. Kramer explains their effort underway to qualify a new statewide initiative for the November 2022 ballot, Arizona for Fair Elections, which will overturn the new voter suppression measures and prevent Arizona's increasingly extremist, radical Republican state legislature from enacting them again. Also today: House Democrats voted to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, but Senate Republicans will filibuster it, despite overwhelming public support. Plus: a new ditty from Canadian comedian Stewart Reynolds, who urges you to 'Annoy a Nazi' today..."