Beam Me Up: The James Traficant Story w/ Alex Hastie of The Ohio v. The World Podcast

We discuss the life and career of Youngstown, Ohio congressman James Traficant with Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast. We rerun part of the episode from his podcast.   We hear from Eric Murphy, director of the documentary “The Congressman from Crimetown”   The frumpled congressman was a fixture of Ohio politics and a…

“Small Money” and Big Hope in Politics

A bit about small money donors in history, and about Jimmy Carter’s (Code name Dasher) 1976 run.  A re-broadcast of an episode that seems apt as another campaign begins.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/mhcbuyp/smallmoney2.mp3