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Leid Stories—Free Your Mind! Let’s Hear What You’re Thinking!—08.03.18

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and you’re in the driver’s seat, taking the conversation wherever you want it to go.

Add your perspective on the issues of the day to the information, opinions and ideas shared in this open forum. It’s the best in peer-to-peer education!

Call in (888-874-4888) and let’s hear what you’re thinking.

Leid Stories—The Bloviator-in-Chief’s Big Bluff; Obama ‘Eager’ to Lead from Behind; What’s Your Meter Reading On the 2018 Midterm Elections?—08.02.18

That loud, incessant, screeching noise we’re hearing? It’s America’s bloviator-in-chief and his dimwitted legal adviser squealing that the sky is falling. And it very well may be, because President Trump is being asked to respond, in person and in writing, to specific questions from Special Counsel Robert Muller’s ongoing probe. No hype, no misstatements, no bluffs. Just hard, cold facts. Trump’s not ready to submit to scrutiny.

This being a critical election year for the Democratic Party, former President Barack Obama yesterday threw his support behind 81 candidates from 14 states running in the midterms. He’ll announce a second set of endorsements prior to the election, his office said. Obama said he’s “eager to make the case for why Democratic candidates deserve our votes this fall.” Obama has laid low since leaving office while President Donald Trump has been on the campaign trail for other candidates and the Republican Party since winning office.

Leid Stories “polls” listeners on their attitudes about the midterm elections this November.

Leid Stories—A Lawman and Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law—08.01.18

On July 19, security cameras outside a Clearwater, Fla., convenience store captured a violent altercation between two men—one white, one black. It appeared they had a brief but heated verbal exchange, and the black man shoved the white man, who fell to the ground.  The footage showed the white man, identified as Michael Drejka, pulling out a handgun and shooting the black man, identified as Markeis McGlocton. Mortally wounded, McGlocton staggered back into the store.

McGlocton died, but his killer has not been arrested or even charged.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri quickly became the target of public outrage. But he says that Florida law prohibits him from either arresting or charging Drejka, who has invoked Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law to defend his deadly action.

Gualtieri yesterday called a news conference to explain how the “Stand Your Ground” law applies in the case and what it allows him to do and not do, notwithstanding public opinion.

Leid Stories will be covering different aspects of this case. We begin with Sheriff Gualtieri’s perspective on the “Stand Your Ground” law.

Leid Stories: Dems Fear the ‘S’ Word More Than Losing--07.31.18

With midterm elections looming, you’d think the Democratic Party would heed the most important lesson from its last big battle in 2016, when it lost not only the House, the Senate and the White House, but 69 of 99 state legislatures as well. The lesson? Act like defeating this hateful administration really, really matters.

By now, the Democratic Party’s voter base should be electrified by a (much deeper) working relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Our Revolution movement that grew out of his first run for president. By now, the party should have extolled several of the platform positions that gave Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, a stunning victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in the primary election for New York’s 14^thCongressional District.

Why aren’t such things happening? Because, says Leid Stories, both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are self-described democratic socialists, and Democratic Party leaders are more afraid of the S-word that losing elections.