The Rick Smith Show

Khary Penebaker, Treasurer DNC Black Caucus @kharyp

Khary Penebaker: Racism didn't just turn on when Trump became President; it's been here for years and years and years.

@kharyp

Pedro da Costa, Senior Reporter at Market News, columnist for Forbes and MarketWatch @pdacosta

Pedro da Costa: It's not surprising, given that we've shut down the economy. The reason it got so bad in the first place was because of a lack of leadership & a lack of a sense of urgency in the gov't to address what we're facing.

@pdacosta

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman @BobNey

Bob Ney: Trump is known for his tweets, and that's what he likes. He wants to push around & bully the networks themselves. If he weren't the President, they would have taken him off Twitter long ago.

@BobNey

Today's Podcast

Sarah Riggs Amico, GA Senatorial Candidate

@SarahRiggsAmico

Daniel Stone, Terminated by @DollarGeneral

@DanielGStone

Dr. Kelly Sennholz

@MtnMD #CoronavirusPandemic #CoronaVirusUpdate

 

PA State Rep Pat Harkins

@PaHouseDems

https://www.pahouse.com/Harkins/

Michael Muscato, Congressional Candidate AZ-8

@michael_muscato @NDLB2020

Sarah Riggs Amico, GA Senatorial Candidate @SarahRiggsAmico

Sarah Riggs Amico:It's important, as a business person, to explain why univ. healthcare is so important to businesses. In the U.S., healthcare costs take up 7% of costs,& we're competing w/ employers in other countries w/o that cost b/c they have univ. healthcare

@SarahRiggsAmico

Daniel Stone, Terminated by @DollarGeneral @DanielGStone

Daniel Stone: Corporate doesn't like their own speaking out against what's going on in their stores. I started asking about paid sick leave & hazard pay that

@DollarGeneral

employees should be given.

@DanielGStone

Dr. Kelly Sennholz @MtnMD #CoronavirusPandemic #CoronaVirusUpdate

Dr. Kelly Sennholz: Solidarity is the word of the day. Right now, as we're talking, protesters have shut down I-25 in Denver [to protest treatment of George Floyd]. I'm so proud of them.

@MtnMD

#CoronavirusPandemic #CoronaVirusUpdate

PA State Rep Pat Harkins @PaHouseDems

PA State Rep Pat Harkins: I was alerted yesterday when a person in the media called for my reaction to a member of the PA House testing positive for COVID who hid his illness. I was exposed; how many people may I have unknowingly infected, incl my high-risk sister?

@PaHouseDems

Michael Muscato, Congressional Candidate AZ-8 @michael_muscato @NDLB2020

Michael Muscato: The issue I'll die on is making sure my kids have a better life than I have. I want to make sure my kids have access to a good education & access to healthcare.

@michael_muscato

@NDLB2020

@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation@PhilGlover15 @AFGENational @3Afge@deutsch29blog @BadassTeachersA @BobNey

@sarahkendzior @gaslitnation@PhilGlover15 @AFGENational @3Afge@deutsch29blog @BadassTeachersA @BobNey

Sarah Kendzior, Writer, scholar, and Co-host of Gas Lit Nation @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

Sarah Kendzior: People should be alarmed by Trump's executive order to regulate social media. I've been expecting an attack on free speech, an attack on social media, if Trump were to be "installed" for another 4 yrs, but maybe that's coming sooner.

@sarahkendzior

@gaslitnation

Phil Glover, AFGE District 3 National Vice President @PhilGlover15 @AFGENational @3Afge

Phil Glover: We've been having trouble getting federal agencies to acknowledge that people have contracted COVID-19 on the job; the agencies are fighting us on workers comp.

@PhilGlover15

@AFGENational

@3Afge

Mercedes Schneider, teacher-blogger-author @deutsch29blog @BadassTeachersA

Mercedes Schneider: I wrote my latest book after teaching colleagues how to conduct research, how to find publicly-available information. I had so much information I'd need to write a book...so I did.

@deutsch29blog

@BadassTeachersA

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman @BobNey

Bob Ney: I think censorship is in the eye of the beholder; I think both sides have censored at will. If you or I had done 1/10th of the nature of the tweets Trump has, we'd be in Twitter Jail, as I call it.

@BobNey

The Rick Smith Show

Michael Linden, Executive Director, Groundwork Collaborative @MichaelSLinden Eric LeCompte, Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network @Eric_LeCompte @JubileeUSA Jennifer Cohn, Election Integrity Advocate and writer @jennycohn1 Rob Anderson, Congressional Candidate LA-03 @RobAnderson2018

Michael Linden, Executive Director, Groundwork Collaborative @MichaelSLinden

Michael Linden: Most Americans don't own stock, including in retirement accounts. What happens in the stock market doesn't reflect what's in real peoples' lives.

@MichaelSLinden

@Groundwork

Eric LeCompte, Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network @Eric_LeCompte @JubileeUSA

Eric LeCompte: Jubilee USA was founded in mid 1990's to work on how global economic policies affect the poorest, most vulnerable people in the world.

@Eric_LeCompte

@JubileeUSA

Jennifer Cohn, Election Integrity Advocate and writer @jennycohn1

Jennifer Cohn: I want to know who the vendors are who will be counting absentee ballots, and that should be done in public.

@jennycohn1

#ProtectOurVotes #PaperBallotsNow #HandMarkedPaperBallots

Rob Anderson, Congressional Candidate LA-03 @RobAnderson2018

Rob Anderson: One of my literary heroes is Don Quixote--just because something is hard doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. I decided instead of complaining about politics, I would do something about it, so I am running for Congress.

@RobAnderson2018

#NoDemLeftBehind

The Rick Smith Show 05-22-2020

William Attig, Executive Director Union Veterans Council at AFL-CIO @WillAttig @unionveterans Kavita Patel, Primary Care Physician, Fellow at the Brookings Institution @kavitapmd Emily de La Bruyère, co-founder of Horizon Advisory @edelabruyere #AmericanMade Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman @BobNey