The Establishment Can Be Defeated (36 Min.)
Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk | March 13th, 2021
The Establishment Can Be Defeated By Us: One Local Election At A Time! Jason Cousineau and Eric Fisk discuss how a local small-town election proves voters can take on the system and win. Normal and sane everyday people can run for office to defeat incumbents with the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Jay and Eric also compare and contrast this with an article from The Hill; "Bipartisan bill would ban lawmakers from buying, selling stocks."
As a side note, this episode might also serve as the first episode in an off-shoot of The Fedora Chronicles Radio Show called "The Monadnock Report," which you can already find as a Facebook group...
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Show Notes and Links
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - "Oeser unseated; Quill takes Select Board seat," by Ashley Saari.
Challenger Marybeth Quill upset three-term Rindge Select Board member Roberta Oeser at the polls Tuesday.
Quill received a total of 682 votes to Oeser’s 434.
In other contested races, the three-way race for the two open planning board seats resulted in incumbents Katelyn Smith and Julie Sementa fending off challenger Joel Aho. Smith had the strongest showing, with a total of 806 votes, and Sementa took the second open seat with 593 to Aho’s 390.
The Hill: "Bipartisan bill would ban lawmakers from buying, selling stocks," by Sylvan Lane.
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill banning members of Congress and senior staff from buying and selling stocks, most bonds and options contracts.
Called the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, the measure is intended to prevent lawmakers and high-level staffers from enriching themselves through trades based on potentially market-moving information.
Lawmakers and senior staffers are already banned from making investment decisions based on nonpublic data obtained through their positions by the STOCK Act, a law signed by former President Obama. The practice of insider trading is also illegal under several federal securities laws.
