DeConcini and the Race to replace Kolbe
Dennis DeConcini spent 18 years in the U.S. Senate from 1977 to 1995. A new book chronicles the Tucson Democrat's time in office and his career in Arizona and Washington, D.C.: "Senator Dennis DeConcini: From the Center of the Aisle." Senator DeConcini joins host Steve Goldstein to talk about his career and the democratic party in Arizona, this week on Here and Now. Wednesday from 11am to Noon on KJZZ 91.5 FM.
The first Republican to represent southern Arizona in Congress is retiring after this session. Jim Kolbe is Arizona's longest serving member of the House of Representatives, having first won election in 1984. Three republicans and two democrats vie for Kolbe's seat. Journalists covering the primary election will join Here and Now to discuss the election races.
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This hour was a new low for KJZZ and NPR. Allowing this unfettered tripe to be spewed on your station unquestioned has shaken my confidence in your ability to represent our state with local interviews. You allowed a crooked politician to spew lies about the past without questioning the accuracy of his statements. How can you do a 30 min interview with this thief without mention Clarence "Coke Can" Thomas once? Shame on KJZZ and Here and Now.
You allowed this man to appear and not take phone calls so he can make money off a book?
Arriving here in 1997 from the Bay Area & found that Keating 5 & his building corp built senior community I'm living in; Wells Fargo underwrote funding & ended up with this complex due to his Lincoln Trust Co. I had never heard whole story & was riveted to your show with Sen. DeConcini; will definitely get Mr. August's book. Also never have your station off.
Ted, Senator Deconcini could not do the interview live, so we taped the interview Friday and played about 19 minutes of the interview in two different segments on Here and Now. Your point about not being tough enough in our questioning is fair, however I must remind you this wasn't a congressional hearing. It was an interview with a former senator who hasn't really talked about the Keating Five scandal since he left office. If we had the time to interview him at length, I guarantee you we would have gotten into the details. But, you have to realize, this was not that kind of interview. Once the book comes out, it's a different story. I hope Mr. DeConcini will agree to be interviewed again, this time live, so if you feel we aren't asking the right questions you can call in and ask yourself. Because the interview was pre-taped that was not possible this time.
Allowing this advertisement for a book and allowing the the corrupt former Senator to talk without asking any tough questions shows that you are not a news organization. Pre-taped interviews with corrupt former politicians without questioning the misguided tail he was telling is one of the worst abuses of the public trust I have heard on radio since Walter Winchell. May I have time to read a editorial correcting the mistruths that the Senator spewed on this "so-called" news show?
