Speed Gibson

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My Morning with AIr America

With the Minnesota government Slowdown in effect this July 1, I thought it might be interesting to get the full reaction of Nick Coleman and Wendy Wilde this morning. So I recorded all four hours via Replay Radio, edited out the commercials, and started listening today while I'm waiting for the Pepsi 400 to start. Hey, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is there at Daytona!

Here's the outline:

Nick Coleman:

    7:00 to 7:30 - The 646 lb catfish and the "Shutdown"

    7:30 to 8:00 - Interview with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace

    8:00 to 9:00 - Discussion with two historians about the First Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg

Wendy Wilde:

    9:00 to 10:00 - A couple of minutes on the "Shutdown", then Colleen Rowley for the remainder of the hour.

    10:00 to 10:30 - Interviews with a central Minnesota DFL activist, then the "freeway blogger" who advocates putting up anti-war signs on freeway overpasses.

    10:30 to 11:00 - Bobby De Pace of the Machinists District 143 talks Northwest Airlines, politics, and sings a tribute song to the late Paul Wellstone.



The track is dry, the race is on, but later I'll go into detail. I won't of course, fisk Mr. Coleman per this site's policy, just the quotes. But Ms. Wilde is fair game.