The Rick Smith Show 6-1-2018

Elizabeth Guzman, Delegate for the Virginia House of Delegate's 31st district joins Rick to share her electoral victory as Virginia Democrats saw historic gains in the House of Delegate and Senate that are already reaping benefits for 400,000 Virginians in the form of Virginia becoming the 34th state including DC to expand Medicaid.

Peter Morley, Patient advocate, Disabled cancer survivor, & lupus warrior joins Rick to talk about the daily stress of dealing with a chronic ailment or disability and constant worry that the AVA life line is going to be ripped away from millions of Americans who currently have coverage, many for the first times in their lives.

Mike Mikulka, President of AFGE Local 704 joins Rick to explain the recent attacks by Donald Trump’s Executive Order pen and the lawsuit AFGE filed in response to defend their members and to discuss Scott Pruitt’s leadership failures at EPA, moral, and the many lawsuits that plague the agency.

 

Greg LeRoy, Executive director of Good Jobs First joins Rick to talk beggar thy neighbor economic development failure and how these tax handout schemes actually make inequality worse and do considerable hard to those we are told the schemes are meant to help.