'BradCast' 5/14/2018 (Israel opens fire in Gaza; Election failure in VA, Hack in TN)

Published: May 15, 2018, 12:48 a.m.

Brad and Desi are back for today's 'BradCast'! Among the stories covered on today's show: More than 50 killed and 2,000 wounded as Israel opens fire on protesters in Gaza during the 'festive' opening ceremony for the controversial U.S. embassy that Donald Trump moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.\xa0 Much of the Muslim and Arab world decried the attacks on the unarmed Palestinian protesters, but so did the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and many others. Back in the U.S., a new analysis finds that an administrative error led to at least 26 Democratic leaning voters being assigned to the wrong legislative district during last November's House of Delegates election in Virginia. The race between Democrat Shelly Simonds and Republican David Yancey was judged to be a tie after a 'recount', which was broken by a random drawing giving the seat to Yancey, allowing the GOP to retain control of the House. That, and similarly mis-assigned voters in yet another highly gerrymandered district prevented what should have been a Democratic takeover of the state's House in 2017, amidst a 'Blue Wave' that managed to flip 15 seats from "red" to "blue". Also today, a new report on what was reportedly a foreign-sourced cyberattack on Election Night two weeks ago in Knox County, Tennessee is troubling on a number of levels, although not necessarily on the one being reported by some media outlets...