August 12 - The Romney/ Ryan Race to the Right; Paul Ryan and the First Family of "Frackers"; Undoing Pennsylvania's Voter Purge

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Part 1	We begin with Jonathan Chait, a writer for New York Magazine who has extensively profiled Paul Ryan, just chosen by Mitt Romney as his Vice-President on the Romney/Ryan R&R ticket. We discuss why someone who has been a Washington insider with little to no experience in the public sector, who voted for TARP and the Budget-busting prescription drug bill, is the darling of the Tea Party.
Part 2	Then we look into the source of the Ryan family wealth which comes from oil and gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in the state of Oklahoma. Karen Webb, an Oklahoma-based journalist and regular contributor to the Oklahoma Observer joins us to discuss how Paul Ryan’s father-in-law Dan Little manages the family business for his nephew Congressman Dan Boren, having signed 325 oil and gas leases between 2005 and 2011 for the family who are heavily involved in “fracking”.
Part 3	Then finally we look into what is being done in the state of Pennsylvania to overcome voting restrictions that a Republican leader in the legislature boasted “will deliver the state of Pennsylvania for Mitt Romney”. Will Bunch, an award-winning Senior Writer with the Philadelphia Daily News joins us to discuss how many of the million voters who have been suppressed, will get their voting rights back before November.