“The Advocates”
With
Richard J. Garfunkel
WVOX – AM Radio 1460- 12 Noon Wednesday
December 3, 2008
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show “The Advocates” on WVOX- 1460 AM, or you can listen to the program’s live streaming at www.wvox.com. The show will be taped, so this week and next week there will be no live call-in. Today I will be talking to Ms. Allegra Dengler about our “national voting system and is your vote being counted?”
Allegra Dengler was a former Dobbs Ferry Village Trustee, is a member of the Sierra Club, serves on the New York Democratic Lawyer’s Council HAVA Committee (Help America Vote Act), and is a member of the Progressive Democrats of America Election Protection Working Group. She was a candidate for the Greenburgh Town Board in 2005 and narrowly lost election for Mayor of Dobbs Ferry. She is constantly working, along with the League of Women Voters, and other groups, to insure that New Yorkers have the proper paper ballots when the current lever machines are replaced under our new law. Ms. Dengler, who has been an active watchdog regarding the Hudson River and Indian Point, is currently the co-coordinator of the Greenburgh Office of Energy Conservation.
Meanwhile, the mission of the “Advocates” is to bring to the public differing views on current “public policy “issues. “Public policy,” therefore, is what we as a nation legally and traditionally follow. Over the years, the “public policy” of the United States has changed or has been modified greatly. As an example, “free public education” is the public policy of the United States. Also, over time great struggles have ensued over the control of the direction of “public policy” For example: free trade vs. protectionism, slavery vs. emancipation, state’s rights vs. Federalism, and an all-volunteer armed forces or the “draft.”
One can find my essays on FDR and other subjects at https://www.richardjgarfunkel.com. One can also listen to all of the archived shows at: http://advocates-wvox.com. Next week, I will be talking to Mr. Tony Rudel at Manhattanville College, about his new book, “Hello, Everybody! the Dawn of American Radio.”
Richard J. Garfunkel