Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Infrastructure Now AND OC Labor Remembers Mr. Trumpka

Returning to the show are local Citizen’s Climate Lobby organizers, Mark Tabbert and Craig Preston, closely tracking the carbon tax in federal infrastructure legislation. In the second segment (minute 38:13), Gloria Alvarado, executive director of the OC Federation of Labor, takes stock of the late president of the AFL CIO Richard Trumpka.
Music credits: Greg Foat, “Symphonie Pacifique;” Emily Barker, “Machine;” and Aaron Burdette, “Working Class.”

http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/CCL_OCFedPod8-10-21.mp3

2020 Electoral Predictions From a Leading Lady AND Planet Lobbying Heats Up

Rachel Bitecofer, political scientist and forecaster at the Wason Center at Christopher New Port University, and senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, returns to the show to bring her inestimable model of forecasting, fresh off the press, on what the electoral map will look like in 2020. Not a Twitter follower, watch for her app.

In the second half (minute 19:53), Citizens’ Climate Lobby activists Virginia Bernal and Tabbert talk about the heady times they had on Capital Hill this last June, and ways in which the political ground is shifting on climate policy on the municipal as well as the federal levels. Marching orders provided