Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Better than Fox's Placko w/Cong. Davis: Berkowitz w/7th CD Dem. Primary Candidate Rep.La Shawn Ford on Cable and Streaming

State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford: Well, you know, I am a Catholic and I believe that we have to protect life and preserve life. Watch the show with State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford on your computer.

Jeff Berkowitz: But, you’re not ready to say you would like to overturn Roe v. Wade?
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State Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago): ...The minimum wage can’t be too high because these are the people that work very hard in our society.
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, you are a union guy. You think unions help. Some people say that unions cause wages to be above the market wage and therefore people become unemployed [by unions]. Do you disagree with that?

Rep. La Shawn Ford: You know. I am a union guy, I am a people’s guy…I need the unions to be more in line with what’s good for the people- what’s good for-- what the Constitution says—Justice for all.
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Jeff Berkowitz: The President says [Cap and Trade] is a good idea. You’re going to cap carbon emissions- people can trade that—others say it’s going to cost a great deal, business is going to be driven away to other countries, people in the United States [will] lose jobs. Who’s right? President Obama or his critics?

Rep. La Shawn Ford: The President is right. You know, we—
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This week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago), 7th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary candidate. The airing schedule for the Chicago Metro suburban edition of Public Affairs is included, below.
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Democratic Primary candidate State Rep. La Shawn Ford debates and discusses a broad range of domestic public policy, foreign policy and cultural public policy issues with show host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz, on a show taped on August 9, 2009. It is likely that State Rep. Ford will be facing five or more competitors in the 7th CD Democratic Primary. The current 13 year incumbent in the 7th Cong. Dist., Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago) appears committed to running in the Cook County Board President Democratic Primary. State Rep. Ford has indicated his run in the 7th CD Primary is contingent on Cong. Davis not running for re-election. Cong. Davis is circulating nominating petitions for both County Board President and Congressman from the 7tn CD, but appears to be likely to move ahead with a run for County Board President.

You can now watch the show with State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford on your computer. For a detailed partial transcript and more about the show with 7th CD candidate Rep. La Shawn Ford, please go here
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Public Affairs Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule:

The show featuring State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago), 7th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary candidate, is airing this week in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot:

Tuesday night (tonight) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette

and Tuesday night(tonight) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.

and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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Chicago and Aurora:

The "Public Affairs," show featuring State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago), 7th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary candidate, will also air throughout the City of Chicago this coming Monday night i.e., August 24 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV) and on that same night on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, ACTV-10, aka Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
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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. *************************************************************
"Public Affairs," is a weekly political interview show airing in Chicago on CANTV, in the Chicago metro area, Aurora and Rockford on Comcast and also often on the Illinois Channel. You can watch the shows, including archived shows going back to 2005, here.
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A sampling of shows and clips from those posted during the last seven months on the Public Affairs YouTube page include a show with State Rep. and 7th CD Dem Primary Candidate La Shawn K. Ford, a show w/ 2010 Cook County Board President Democratic Primary candidate Cmsr. Larry Suffredin, a show w/ Circuit Court Clerk and 2010 Cook County Board President Democratic Primary candidate Dorothy Brown. a show w/ Cook County Board President Todd Stroger (D-Chicago)- a candidate for re-election in 2010, a show with Chicago Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, a candidate for Cook County Board President in the 2010 Democratic Primary, a show with economist Art Laffer [inventor of the Laffer Curve] and FNC's Steve Moore about their book, "The end of Prosperity," and the Obama Administration's economic policies; the fastest five minutes on the web- a New York Times video about Obama-Berkowitz, , the second fastest five minutes on the web-a segment of Bill O'Reilly with Berkowitz discussing a clip of Obama from 2002 on Blagojevich and many more shows.
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