The Rick Smith Show 7-18-2018

David Faris, author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty joins Rick to discuss his recent Washington Post article proposing once Democrats regain control of the White House and both chambers of congress they pursue the FDR idea of packing the US Supreme Court with addition justices to balance the court more favorably to the will of the people.

@davidmfaris

Melissa Ryan, visiting fellow at Media Matters for America and editor of Ctrl Alt Right Delete joins Rick to discuss persistent whining amongst conservatives that the world is out to censor their hate speech and provide the data that conclusively debunks the myth of conservative censorship on Facebook.

@MelissaRyan @mmfa

John Fetterman, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and current Mayor of Braddock joins Rick form the campaign trail to discuss why this election cycle is so important, the issues people are telling him they care about, and how reelecting Tom Wolf as Governor of Pennsylvania is going to help move the Commonwealth forward.

@JohnFetterman

John Feltz, TWU Rail Division Director and Amy Griffin, TWU Local 1460 President joins Rick to discuss the needless cuts to Amtrak, the furloughed Amtrak workers, and explain what should be happening with the Amtrak system.

@transportworker @AmtrakCouncil #coldcuts