'BradCast' 5/1/2020 (Guest: Iowa U.S. House candidate J.D. Scholten on trust-busting Big Ag)

On today's 'BradCast':  Despite 7,000+ meatpacking workers infected and at least 25 dead from coronavirus, Donald Trump issued an executive order earlier this week pretending to force meatpacking plants to open. Many of the worst COVID-19 hotspots in the US are at meatpacking plants in the Midwest. Just four Big Ag monopolies, mostly foreign-owned, now control 85% of the nation's beef supply chain because they were allowed to buy up and dangerously consolidate the nation's food production. And that is now costing us all in several ways. Those Big Ag companies are largely ignoring CDC guidelines for worker safety, no matter the deadly cost to the workers and their communities. Republican governors in SD, NE and IA have refused to issue stay-at-home orders, despite pleas from health officials. Iowa's governor told workers they will be denied state unemployment compensation if they refuse to work under dangerous conditions. The CEO of Tyson Foods recently declared that "the food supply chain is breaking." J.D. SCHOLTEN, fifth-generation Iowan and Democratic candidate for Iowa's 4th Congressional District, blames the consolidation of the nation's food supply for the multiple disasters the industry is now facing. He argues that we can begin to address the threats to our broken food supply chain by starting with enforcing long-standing trust-busting anti-monopoly laws, and more.   Scholten is running against incumbent Republican white nationalist Rep. Steve King, who was removed by House Republican leadership from his committee assignments after making racist statements even they couldn't ignore. Also today:  Louisiana's GOP-controlled state legislature voted -- by mail -- to gut a proposal to expand Vote By Mail. Two Pennsylvania counties are ditching germy touchscreen voting machines to switch to safer, hand-marked paper ballots. Plus: another gem from musical satirist Randy Rainbow.