Posted on 01/12/2005 5:35:08 AM PST by gridlock
Did anybody catch me on WABC Radio just before the 8:00 News Break of the Curtis and Kuby show?
They were talking about political corruption in New Jersey, and whether it would be an issue in the upcoming Gubenatorial election. I came on the telephone as "John from New Jersey", and made the point (quite eloquently, I would add) that nobody cared about Mob corruption in NYC until Rudy Giuliani reframed the debate by charging that payoffs to the mob amounted to a "Mob Tax" on every transaction in the city. Bret Schundler has to demostrate to the people that political corruption in New Jersey amounts to a Mob Tax, and that this nonsense is costing us all real money.
New Jersey already has one of the highest tax rates in the country. Because of the economic effects of corruption and the amount of money that goes to pay off various politicos, there is an additional tax built into every purchase and real estate transaction.
A slam-dunk of a call, if I do say so myself. If you can't toot your own horn in a vanity post, where can you?
Kuby is so anti american it's a pity he's got the platform. But then the station is owned by Disney!
Coming up soon in Jersey -- A Bond Issue (ie more taxes) for Stem Cell Research (ie abortion).
It's tough when you talk to those guys because they want to take your ball and run with it too quickly, usually in the wrong direction. You have to keep on making your point without sounding like a lunatic.
Not as bad as Hannity, though. Hannity can miss the most obvious on-point comment a caller it trying to make in order to repeat the same thing he has been saying for the last three hours, yet again.
They usually don't give their callers too much air time. It sems a lot of freepers in the tri-state area listen to WABC.
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