Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris

The “featured” BlogTalkRadio program “Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris” opens the Monday, October 20, 2014th broadcast day at 10:00 a.m. EDT with Monday co-hosts John Bailey, publisher and editor of the White Plains CitizeNetReporter and Hezi Aris, publisher and editor of Yonkers Tribune in celebration of foreign ports, people, cuisine, and issues of concern from the other side of the Atlantic.

International news coverage and analysis with Hezi from 11-11:30 a.m.

Fordham University Professor Zephyr Teachout, recent Democratic Gubernatorial Primary challenger to incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo, and recently published author of “Corruption In America”, joins the program at 11:30 until its conclusion at 12 Noon. We will delve into to why public financing of elections is a feminist issue; reveal the example of “corruption” of Benjamin Franklin by Louis XVI when Franklin was presented with a diamond encrusted snuff box with an inset of the King’s portrait; reflect over the two centuries during which corruption flourished in the courts while the absence of clear rules governed. It was said to be a time when the voters, civil officers, and election officials were said to have corrupted 50 percent of elected officials, at minimum. When does an implicit promise count as bribery? Learn of Zephyr Teachout’s interest in reducing political corruption – and learn how and if it can come about?

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