Better than Dellimore and Ryan w/Jim Ryan:Berkowitz w/Cong.Danny Davis on the Tamil Tigers,Afghanistan, jobs and education; Cable and now streaming
Updated on Thursday at 12:45 pm: You can now watch our show with Cong. Danny Davis here.
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Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. District): The one thing that I did agree with and I really liked was the fact that President Obama said…we are going to have a surge and we are going to start pulling out at a time certain…but I am not enthralled that we are sending 30,000 additional troops [to Afghanistan].
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Jeff Berkowitz: Sri Lanka? You know… the Tamil Tigers [are] known as a terrorist group, right?
Cong. Danny Davis: I went to Sri Lanka.
Jeff Berkowitz: …Was that paid for by the Tamil Tigers?
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Jeff Berkowitz: We have to go on, Glass Steagall. You get criticism of that because you voted in favor of repealing Glass Steagall. Ald. Dixon [challenging Cong. Davis in the 7th CD Democratic Primary] says that compounded and caused some of the economic crisis in the country. What do you say to Ald. Dixon?
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, I think Ald. Dixon wouldn’t even know what that is. Or, wouldn’t know how to evaluate it...
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Jeff Berkowitz: You said no to those parents who want to have [school] choice.
Cong. Danny Davis: Because the few people who were going to have vouchers were only a small portion of the kids who go to DC schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: And, it only cost a small portion [of what is currently being spent on the DC schools].
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This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features thirteen year incumbent Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist. The Chicago Metro Suburban airing schedule for Public Affairs is included, below. The show was recorded on Sunday, December 13, 2009.
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You can NOW watch here the show w/ 7th Cong. District Congressman Danny K. Davis, , who is facing challenges in the Democratic Primary from Chicago Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon [Watch Dixon] [24th Ward], Darlena Williams Burnett [Watch Burnett], Jim Ascot [Read about Ascot] and Desmond Clemons.
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Cong. Danny K. Davis debates and discusses a broad range of domestic policy, foreign policy and cultural issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz on this week’s suburban edition of “Public Affairs.” **************************************
A trip financed by the Tamil Tigers?
Jeff Berkowitz: Did you take money for a trip that was financed by the Tamil Tigers?
Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist.): Take money?
Jeff Berkowitz: Sri Lanka? You know… the Tamil Tigers [are] known as a terrorist group, right?
Cong. Danny Davis: I went to Sri Lanka.
Jeff Berkowitz: …Was that paid for by the Tamil Tigers?
Cong. Danny Davis: I don’t know if it was or not. There have been some allegations that some of it may have been put into the trip, but the group that paid for the trip technically were not Tamil Tigers, but let me just tell you…the Tamil Tigers is a group that while they were on terrorist lists and that kind of thing, I don’t think they were anymore terrorist than the government.
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Parental Choice of Schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: What about school vouchers? You know we’re spending $15,000 per kid per year in the Chicago Public Schools (“CPS”)?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, we’re not.
Jeff Berkowitz: Yes, we are. Six billion dollars is the budget [for the CPS]. Do you dispute that? The budget is six billion dollars. 400,000 students [in the CPS]. You divide 400,000 into six billion dollars and you get $15,000 per kid per year.
Cong. Danny Davis: Then talk to Mayor Daley and the people who run the schools.
Jeff Berkowitz: Give them a voucher. Do you want to have [school] vouchers?
Cong. Danny Davis: Talk to Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education. Talk to the people who run the schools. All I do is get money into Chicago for them to use.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, would you like to …have the Federal Government encourage [school] vouchers, so parents who want to leave the public schools can do that?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, I’m not interested in extending any more vouchers.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’re not going to give [parents] choice. You don’t believe in parental choice [in schools]?
Cong. Danny Davis: I’m interested in making sure that our schools are equipped to educate all of the children. And, if the failure of the Chicago Public Schools is so bad, then talk to the people who’ve been running them. I’ve never run them. Talk to Arne Duncan. Talk to Mayor Daley.
Jeff Berkowitz: You can encourage, as a Congressman. You can encourage these things.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah, you can encourage but you don’t run the Chicago Public Schools.
Jeff Berkowitz: You [Congress] run DC’s schools. In Washington, DC, there’s a school voucher program, did you vote as a congressman for vouchers in DC? [The school voucher program, for new students [most of the students are minority], was terminated recently by President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan].
Cong. Danny Davis: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: All right. That was a direct vote. You had control over that and you said no.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah.
Jeff Berkowitz: You said no to those parents who want to have [school] choice.
Cong. Danny Davis: Because the few people who were going to have vouchers were only a small portion of the kids who go to DC schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: And, it only cost a small portion [of what is currently being spent on the DC schools].
Cong. Danny Davis: And, there are some terrible problems.
Good idea for Cong. Davis to have supported Glass Steagall?
Jeff Berkowitz: We have to go on, Glass Steagall. You get criticism of that because you voted in favor of repealing Glass Steagall. Ald. Dixon [challenging Cong. Davis in the 7th CD Democratic Primary] says that compounded and caused some of the economic crisis in the country. What do you say to Ald. Dixon?
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, I think Ald. Dixon wouldn’t even know what that is. Or, wouldn’t know how to evaluate it, though, wouldn’t have any—
Jeff Berkowitz: She said, she said it’s—
Cong. Danny Davis: But, but—
Jeff Berkowitz: You know what Glass-Steagall is. It requires the separation of commercial banking from investment banking.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, the repeal of that legislation said those folks could interact [in the same company]. They could do both.
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, let me just tell you about the banking system. I disagree with much of—
Jeff Berkowitz: That’s what [Ald. Dixon said], did she get that right?
Cong. Danny Davis: what is around with the banking system. But, some of that, all of that, has to do with the state of the economy. The biggest impact on our economy [is] One, we’ve been spending an enormous amount of money on war and warlike activity. We’ve had trade policies that have taken—
Jeff Berkowitz: Afghanistan. Do you support that? The 30,000 troops in Afghanistan?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, I don’t
Support Obama’s surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan?
Cong. Danny Davis: The one thing that I did agree with and I really liked was the fact that President Obama said…we are going to have a surge and we are going to start pulling out at a time certain… …but I am not enthralled that we are sending 30,000 additional troops [to Afghanistan].
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have recommended to him any additional troops.
Cong. Danny Davis: You’ve got to replace troops. Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, no additional troops. You wouldn’t increase the number that is there [in Afghanistan]…?
Cong. Danny Davis: …it is possible that President Obama may have known something that I don’t know…there are briefings, there is confidential information; there is information that he may have [been] privy to and so, I give him some benefit of the doubt and I still don’t agree that there ought to be 30,000—
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From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on December 13, 2009
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The Chicago Metro suburban episode of "Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz," featuring this week's guest-- Cong. Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist.) airs :
tonight, Tuesday night, 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 tonight, Tuesday night, 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.
The Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," usually airs, as well, 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.
Due to a transfer this month of control of broadcast facilities from Comcast to the Village of Highland Park for the above referenced ten suburbs, the airing of Public Affairs in those ten suburbs has ceased for the month of December and will resume, on the same airing schedule, on January 4, 2010. This episode of the "Public Affairs," show will air in the above referenced ten suburbs at a date to be determined in January, 2010.
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The Public Affairs show, featuring Cong. Danny K. Davis also will air on Monday night, Dec. 28, 2009, throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21
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More than 118 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . Now streaming are our most recent shows w/Cong. Danny Davis, Patrick Collins, former Chairman of the Illinois Reform Commission; Democratic Primary candidates: for State Comptroller, Raja Krishnamoorthi; for U. S. Senate, David Hoffman; for 7th CD, Chicago Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon; [24th Ward]and for State Comptroller, Clint Krislov.
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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.
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Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. District): The one thing that I did agree with and I really liked was the fact that President Obama said…we are going to have a surge and we are going to start pulling out at a time certain…but I am not enthralled that we are sending 30,000 additional troops [to Afghanistan].
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Jeff Berkowitz: Sri Lanka? You know… the Tamil Tigers [are] known as a terrorist group, right?
Cong. Danny Davis: I went to Sri Lanka.
Jeff Berkowitz: …Was that paid for by the Tamil Tigers?
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Jeff Berkowitz: We have to go on, Glass Steagall. You get criticism of that because you voted in favor of repealing Glass Steagall. Ald. Dixon [challenging Cong. Davis in the 7th CD Democratic Primary] says that compounded and caused some of the economic crisis in the country. What do you say to Ald. Dixon?
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, I think Ald. Dixon wouldn’t even know what that is. Or, wouldn’t know how to evaluate it...
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Jeff Berkowitz: You said no to those parents who want to have [school] choice.
Cong. Danny Davis: Because the few people who were going to have vouchers were only a small portion of the kids who go to DC schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: And, it only cost a small portion [of what is currently being spent on the DC schools].
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This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features thirteen year incumbent Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist. The Chicago Metro Suburban airing schedule for Public Affairs is included, below. The show was recorded on Sunday, December 13, 2009.
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You can NOW watch here the show w/ 7th Cong. District Congressman Danny K. Davis, , who is facing challenges in the Democratic Primary from Chicago Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon [Watch Dixon] [24th Ward], Darlena Williams Burnett [Watch Burnett], Jim Ascot [Read about Ascot] and Desmond Clemons.
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Cong. Danny K. Davis debates and discusses a broad range of domestic policy, foreign policy and cultural issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz on this week’s suburban edition of “Public Affairs.” **************************************
A trip financed by the Tamil Tigers?
Jeff Berkowitz: Did you take money for a trip that was financed by the Tamil Tigers?
Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist.): Take money?
Jeff Berkowitz: Sri Lanka? You know… the Tamil Tigers [are] known as a terrorist group, right?
Cong. Danny Davis: I went to Sri Lanka.
Jeff Berkowitz: …Was that paid for by the Tamil Tigers?
Cong. Danny Davis: I don’t know if it was or not. There have been some allegations that some of it may have been put into the trip, but the group that paid for the trip technically were not Tamil Tigers, but let me just tell you…the Tamil Tigers is a group that while they were on terrorist lists and that kind of thing, I don’t think they were anymore terrorist than the government.
*************************************
Parental Choice of Schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: What about school vouchers? You know we’re spending $15,000 per kid per year in the Chicago Public Schools (“CPS”)?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, we’re not.
Jeff Berkowitz: Yes, we are. Six billion dollars is the budget [for the CPS]. Do you dispute that? The budget is six billion dollars. 400,000 students [in the CPS]. You divide 400,000 into six billion dollars and you get $15,000 per kid per year.
Cong. Danny Davis: Then talk to Mayor Daley and the people who run the schools.
Jeff Berkowitz: Give them a voucher. Do you want to have [school] vouchers?
Cong. Danny Davis: Talk to Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education. Talk to the people who run the schools. All I do is get money into Chicago for them to use.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, would you like to …have the Federal Government encourage [school] vouchers, so parents who want to leave the public schools can do that?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, I’m not interested in extending any more vouchers.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’re not going to give [parents] choice. You don’t believe in parental choice [in schools]?
Cong. Danny Davis: I’m interested in making sure that our schools are equipped to educate all of the children. And, if the failure of the Chicago Public Schools is so bad, then talk to the people who’ve been running them. I’ve never run them. Talk to Arne Duncan. Talk to Mayor Daley.
Jeff Berkowitz: You can encourage, as a Congressman. You can encourage these things.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah, you can encourage but you don’t run the Chicago Public Schools.
Jeff Berkowitz: You [Congress] run DC’s schools. In Washington, DC, there’s a school voucher program, did you vote as a congressman for vouchers in DC? [The school voucher program, for new students [most of the students are minority], was terminated recently by President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan].
Cong. Danny Davis: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: All right. That was a direct vote. You had control over that and you said no.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah.
Jeff Berkowitz: You said no to those parents who want to have [school] choice.
Cong. Danny Davis: Because the few people who were going to have vouchers were only a small portion of the kids who go to DC schools?
Jeff Berkowitz: And, it only cost a small portion [of what is currently being spent on the DC schools].
Cong. Danny Davis: And, there are some terrible problems.
Good idea for Cong. Davis to have supported Glass Steagall?
Jeff Berkowitz: We have to go on, Glass Steagall. You get criticism of that because you voted in favor of repealing Glass Steagall. Ald. Dixon [challenging Cong. Davis in the 7th CD Democratic Primary] says that compounded and caused some of the economic crisis in the country. What do you say to Ald. Dixon?
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, I think Ald. Dixon wouldn’t even know what that is. Or, wouldn’t know how to evaluate it, though, wouldn’t have any—
Jeff Berkowitz: She said, she said it’s—
Cong. Danny Davis: But, but—
Jeff Berkowitz: You know what Glass-Steagall is. It requires the separation of commercial banking from investment banking.
Cong. Danny Davis: Yeah.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, the repeal of that legislation said those folks could interact [in the same company]. They could do both.
Cong. Danny Davis: Well, let me just tell you about the banking system. I disagree with much of—
Jeff Berkowitz: That’s what [Ald. Dixon said], did she get that right?
Cong. Danny Davis: what is around with the banking system. But, some of that, all of that, has to do with the state of the economy. The biggest impact on our economy [is] One, we’ve been spending an enormous amount of money on war and warlike activity. We’ve had trade policies that have taken—
Jeff Berkowitz: Afghanistan. Do you support that? The 30,000 troops in Afghanistan?
Cong. Danny Davis: No, I don’t
Support Obama’s surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan?
Cong. Danny Davis: The one thing that I did agree with and I really liked was the fact that President Obama said…we are going to have a surge and we are going to start pulling out at a time certain… …but I am not enthralled that we are sending 30,000 additional troops [to Afghanistan].
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have recommended to him any additional troops.
Cong. Danny Davis: You’ve got to replace troops. Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, no additional troops. You wouldn’t increase the number that is there [in Afghanistan]…?
Cong. Danny Davis: …it is possible that President Obama may have known something that I don’t know…there are briefings, there is confidential information; there is information that he may have [been] privy to and so, I give him some benefit of the doubt and I still don’t agree that there ought to be 30,000—
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From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on December 13, 2009
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The Chicago Metro suburban episode of "Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz," featuring this week's guest-- Cong. Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago, 7th Cong. Dist.) airs :
tonight, Tuesday night, 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 tonight, Tuesday night, 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.
The Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," usually airs, as well, 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.
Due to a transfer this month of control of broadcast facilities from Comcast to the Village of Highland Park for the above referenced ten suburbs, the airing of Public Affairs in those ten suburbs has ceased for the month of December and will resume, on the same airing schedule, on January 4, 2010. This episode of the "Public Affairs," show will air in the above referenced ten suburbs at a date to be determined in January, 2010.
*************************************************************
The Public Affairs show, featuring Cong. Danny K. Davis also will air on Monday night, Dec. 28, 2009, throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21
******************************************
More than 118 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . Now streaming are our most recent shows w/Cong. Danny Davis, Patrick Collins, former Chairman of the Illinois Reform Commission; Democratic Primary candidates: for State Comptroller, Raja Krishnamoorthi; for U. S. Senate, David Hoffman; for 7th CD, Chicago Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon; [24th Ward]and for State Comptroller, Clint Krislov.
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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.
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