A Republic, If You Can Keep It

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On our agenda this week…
  • Another Trump cabinet nominee is barely hanging on, with alleged sexual offender and alleged alcoholic Pete Hegseth on the ropes for Defense Secretary – ironically, on the 91st anniversary of the repeal of prohibition.
  • Trump reportedly is talking to Meatball Ron De-Sanctimonious as his backup choice for DOD … possibly in a deal where the Florida Governor first names Lara Trump to fill out the term of Senator Marco Rubio.
  • More criminals and Fox News personalities have been named to the Trump Parade of Cabinet Clowns. The latest: onetime Fox Business reporter and ex-con Peter Navarro, and Fox talking head Monica Crowley.
  • In case you missed, there’s another Trump grift: the official Trump Golf Video Game, just $9.99 or $99 for the super deluxe autographed digital game. It never ends.
  • State House Speaker Joe Tate takes the first step to run for Detroit Mayor.
  • But the huge story this week: Detroit’s highly successful Mayor, Mike Duggan, is running for Governor … as an independent. No independent has ever won statewide partisan office in our state’s history. Can Duggan be the first?
  • Joining us is Michigan two-term Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. She literally wrote the book on the job: “State Secretaries of State (Election Law, Politics, and Theory)”. She has been a champion for election and ethics reforms during his 6 years on the job. Previously she was the dean Wayne State University’s Law School. At the time she was the youngest woman in U.S. history to lead a top-100 law school. She’s widely considered a first-tier possible candidate to succeed Gretchen Whitmer as Governor. Welcome bacl to the podcast Jocelyn.

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