Senate Candidate David Hoffman nibbles on ACORNs and much more: Cable and now Streaming
Jeff Berkowitz: …the federal government has now severed relationships with ACORN for Census work, right?
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the Illinois Democratic Primary]: Um-um. I believe so. watch the interview with Hoffman here.
Jeff Berkowitz: If you had been there, if you had been in the Senate, where would you have been in terms of voting on funding or de-funding for ACORN?
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A Sunday Magical Mystery Tour with David Hoffman.
It was a fun Sunday afternoon. I had seen an interview, or two, with U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman [D-Chicago], but nothing really substantive [Not due to any fault of Hoffman, see, below]. It turns out David Hoffman is a very bright, thoughtful guy who knows the issues and seems to enjoy discussing them and applying his varied life experiences and philosophy to them. Unlike some candidates, he seems to listen to questions--answers them and takes them further, sometimes, than the interviewer intended. As I said, a fun time for a show host who likes discussing issues and learning from and with his guest.
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: Where’s the intellectual beef?
Carol Marin did the usual issue-light, eight-minute discussion with Mr. Hoffman [that has come to mark her tenure at Chicago Public TV WTTW] a few days before; I’d say two quasi-substantive topics [healthcare and Wall St.] were raised with Hoffman by host Marin, unless you count-- Where did you go to college? To law school? And other interview oddities. A few weeks ago, WTTW’s Phil Ponce spent fifteen minutes with Senate Candidate Cheryle Robinson Jackson and managed to ask no substantive questions, e.g., the war, abortion, bailouts, etc. Of course, Phil did cover at length whether Ms. Jackson thought her tenure as Communications Director with Gov. Blagojevich somehow disqualified her from holding any public office, apparently irrespective of her views on the issues, which I suppose WTTW plans to start discussing around 2011.
Ideas have consequences.
In any case, if you think issues like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Economy, free trade, public financing of campaigns, healthcare reform, ACORN and much, much more matter, watch the interview here, go here to read more about the show and read below for a very small sample of the interview.
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Jeff Berkowitz: …the federal government has now severed relationships with ACORN for Census work, right?
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the Illinois Democratic Primary]: Um-um. I believe so.
Jeff Berkowitz: If you had been there, if you had been in the Senate, where would you have been in terms of voting on funding or de-funding for ACORN?
David Hoffman: Yeah. I would have voted to de-fund and I saw that in the House the Illinois delegation was actually split: some voted to defund, some did not. I think that accountability is important and I think accountability is important whether it is people in the government, whether it is people who get governmental money or whether it is folks in the private sector like important players on Wall St. And, I do think…I would have concerns about giving significant federal grant money to an entity where there now is strong evidence…I mean one of the things that I thought was compelling that on 100% of the times that the videographer went in, they got consistent advice to do something that was violation of law; so I don’t think this is a permanent ban on ACORN getting funding but I think until ACORN comes back and shows that it has put in place systems that are going to prevent this and insure that it is a law abiding place that gives out advice to follow the law-then I do think that it is appropriate to take money away. I also think, though, that we need to make that standard consistent across the board…on issues of how Wall St. acted…and how the big financial institutions acted; when we see greed and irresponsibility that led to …basically the collapse of the banking industry that then fell on regular folks both in terms of paying for the bailout and in layoffs and job losses; and Wall St. quickly going back to it’s same MO, both in terms of salaries and bonuses and in terms of activities with very little insistence on transparency or increased regulation. I see that as a problem, too and I think people want more accountability. Everyone is tight on money- whether it’s banks or the way our tax dollars are spent—we should demand it.
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, if you had been in … the Senate in the Fall of 2008, when the President, then Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chief Bernanke…
***************************************************** From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on September 20, 2009.
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More than 110 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . *********************************************************************
Also posted on our YouTube page are two recent WVON 1690 AM Radio shows:
(1) an August 23, 2009 Voice of the People show with State Rep. (and 7th CD Dem Primary Candidate) LaShawn K. Ford, co-hosted by Jeff Berkowitz, with Cong. Danny K. Davis (Candidate for Cook County Board President in the Democratic Primary) and call ins. The show focuses on issues related to the Cook County Board President Democratic Primary.
(2) an August 30, 2009 Voice of the People show with State Rep. (and 7th CD Dem Primary Candidate) LaShawn K. Ford, co-hosted by Jeff Berkowitz, with, with Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft, ABC-7 Political Editor Charles Thomas , Terry O'Brien, President, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and Candidate for Cook County Board President in the Democratic Primary, and call ins. The show focuses on gubernatorial race issues, including state spending, tax, education and school choice; and Cook County Board President race issues of race, taxes and much more.
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David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the Illinois Democratic Primary]: Um-um. I believe so. watch the interview with Hoffman here.
Jeff Berkowitz: If you had been there, if you had been in the Senate, where would you have been in terms of voting on funding or de-funding for ACORN?
***************************
A Sunday Magical Mystery Tour with David Hoffman.
It was a fun Sunday afternoon. I had seen an interview, or two, with U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman [D-Chicago], but nothing really substantive [Not due to any fault of Hoffman, see, below]. It turns out David Hoffman is a very bright, thoughtful guy who knows the issues and seems to enjoy discussing them and applying his varied life experiences and philosophy to them. Unlike some candidates, he seems to listen to questions--answers them and takes them further, sometimes, than the interviewer intended. As I said, a fun time for a show host who likes discussing issues and learning from and with his guest.
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: Where’s the intellectual beef?
Carol Marin did the usual issue-light, eight-minute discussion with Mr. Hoffman [that has come to mark her tenure at Chicago Public TV WTTW] a few days before; I’d say two quasi-substantive topics [healthcare and Wall St.] were raised with Hoffman by host Marin, unless you count-- Where did you go to college? To law school? And other interview oddities. A few weeks ago, WTTW’s Phil Ponce spent fifteen minutes with Senate Candidate Cheryle Robinson Jackson and managed to ask no substantive questions, e.g., the war, abortion, bailouts, etc. Of course, Phil did cover at length whether Ms. Jackson thought her tenure as Communications Director with Gov. Blagojevich somehow disqualified her from holding any public office, apparently irrespective of her views on the issues, which I suppose WTTW plans to start discussing around 2011.
Ideas have consequences.
In any case, if you think issues like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Economy, free trade, public financing of campaigns, healthcare reform, ACORN and much, much more matter, watch the interview here, go here to read more about the show and read below for a very small sample of the interview.
***********************************************
Jeff Berkowitz: …the federal government has now severed relationships with ACORN for Census work, right?
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the Illinois Democratic Primary]: Um-um. I believe so.
Jeff Berkowitz: If you had been there, if you had been in the Senate, where would you have been in terms of voting on funding or de-funding for ACORN?
David Hoffman: Yeah. I would have voted to de-fund and I saw that in the House the Illinois delegation was actually split: some voted to defund, some did not. I think that accountability is important and I think accountability is important whether it is people in the government, whether it is people who get governmental money or whether it is folks in the private sector like important players on Wall St. And, I do think…I would have concerns about giving significant federal grant money to an entity where there now is strong evidence…I mean one of the things that I thought was compelling that on 100% of the times that the videographer went in, they got consistent advice to do something that was violation of law; so I don’t think this is a permanent ban on ACORN getting funding but I think until ACORN comes back and shows that it has put in place systems that are going to prevent this and insure that it is a law abiding place that gives out advice to follow the law-then I do think that it is appropriate to take money away. I also think, though, that we need to make that standard consistent across the board…on issues of how Wall St. acted…and how the big financial institutions acted; when we see greed and irresponsibility that led to …basically the collapse of the banking industry that then fell on regular folks both in terms of paying for the bailout and in layoffs and job losses; and Wall St. quickly going back to it’s same MO, both in terms of salaries and bonuses and in terms of activities with very little insistence on transparency or increased regulation. I see that as a problem, too and I think people want more accountability. Everyone is tight on money- whether it’s banks or the way our tax dollars are spent—we should demand it.
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, if you had been in … the Senate in the Fall of 2008, when the President, then Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chief Bernanke…
***************************************************** From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on September 20, 2009.
*******************************************************
More than 110 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . *********************************************************************
Also posted on our YouTube page are two recent WVON 1690 AM Radio shows:
(1) an August 23, 2009 Voice of the People show with State Rep. (and 7th CD Dem Primary Candidate) LaShawn K. Ford, co-hosted by Jeff Berkowitz, with Cong. Danny K. Davis (Candidate for Cook County Board President in the Democratic Primary) and call ins. The show focuses on issues related to the Cook County Board President Democratic Primary.
(2) an August 30, 2009 Voice of the People show with State Rep. (and 7th CD Dem Primary Candidate) LaShawn K. Ford, co-hosted by Jeff Berkowitz, with, with Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft, ABC-7 Political Editor Charles Thomas , Terry O'Brien, President, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and Candidate for Cook County Board President in the Democratic Primary, and call ins. The show focuses on gubernatorial race issues, including state spending, tax, education and school choice; and Cook County Board President race issues of race, taxes and much more.
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