Monday, August 20, 2007

Better than Monday night Football: 14th CD Stein on Cable and Streaming

Jeff Berkowitz: …Would you repeal those Bush tax cuts?

Jotham Stein: I would repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. I think they were unfair—

Jeff Berkowitz: Does that mean anybody with an income above $150,000 is getting an income tax increase?

Jotham Stein: I would cut them for people with an income above $200,000 because those tax cuts were paid for [by] what? on the backs of the middle class. They took from social security. They increased the deficit. They were blatantly unfair.
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On Friday morning, Former Speaker and current 14th Cong. Dist. Congressman J. Dennis Hastert announced he is hanging them up at the end of this term, if not before. See here. One of at least three Democrats vying for the opportunity to run for the 14th Cong. Dist. seat in Nov. 2008, Stanford Law School and Princeton grad Jotham Stein, is featured on Tonight's City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs. The show airs throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm, Cable Ch. 21.

Jotham Stein is also featured on tonight's City of Aurora edition of Public Affairs , airing through-out Aurora and in some surrounding areas on Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10 at 7:30 pm. The Aurora station reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.

If you miss tonight's show on cable with Stein, Go here to watch the show on your computer.

This week's suburban edition of Public Affairs features Dr. Steve Sauerberg, who is running in the Republican Primary for the right to take on Senator Dick Durbin in November, 2008. Sauerberg, who has already put 250K of his own wealth into his race and contemplates putting in at least a million dollars of his own net worth into his Senate race, is featured in next Monday night's City of Chicago and Aurora editions of Public Affairs.

Additionally, you can watch Sauerberg's show here.

Tonight's show topics include the following:

1. How would Stein have voted on the so-called “Iraq War Powers Resolution,” in the Fall of 2002?
2. Did the Coalition forces win the War by removing Saddam Hussein from power?
3. Does Iraq have natural or artificial borders?
4. Does Jordan have natural or artificial borders?
5. Would a “soft partition,” of Iraq work?
6. Should the U. S. be involved in nation building?
7. What would Woodrow Wilson say and do about Iraq?
8. Was there an absence of a democratic history in Iraq? If so, is that a major barrier to establishing or building a democracy in Iraq now?
9. What is the significance, if any, of a significant presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq now and most likely for the last few years.
10. Should the U. S. pursue comprehensive immigration reform now? In 2009?
11. Should the U. S. issue many more temporary immigrant/worker visas than is now the case?
12. Should the U. S. build a fence/wall/solid barrier across the entire southern border?
13. Should the U. S. make use of unmanned drones as part of its border control policy?
14. Should immigrants and others be required to carry biometric cards to establish to employers that they are who they purport to be?
15. Should the U. S. government endeavor to promote innovation in business?
16. Should the U. S. have universal health care? What does that mean?
17. Should the U. S. health care system have a single payer?
18. Should we repeal the Bush income tax cuts? If so, at what annual income? Anything above a 200K annual salary?
19. Should we have a federal law that guarantees all minors in the U. S. food and health care?
20. Do we need a plan to address global warming?
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. You may watch "Public Affairs," shows with Presidential Candidates Richardson, Obama, McCain, Giuliani and Cox and many other pols at www.PublicAffairsTv.com