Episode #133: Glass Ceilings and Emotional Feelings

Were the Senate votes this week on gun legislation about guns, or about politics?  That’s what Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times talks about, as she assesses how the issue may play in November. While Hillary Clinton may have all but officially wrapped up the Democratic nomination earlier this month, there is the history of the moment to consider.  Debbie Walsh of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University reflects on both Clinton’s accomplishment and the women who preceded her. And on the presidential campaign front, the big news out of Camp Trump this week was the firing of manager Corey Lewandowski.  Jim Barnes of Ballotpedia talks about what that portends for Donald Trump, and he reflects on other campaign staff shake-ups of the past. Finally, we go back seven years to South Carolina, where then-Gov. Mark Sanford reappeared after being missing for four days to say he wasn’t hiking the Appalachian Trail, as his staff suggested, but was meeting his “soul mate” in Argentina.  John O’Connor, now with WNYC but then a reporter with The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., remembers the surreal events of June 2009. Music used in the podcast: Heartbeats by The Knife Monster by Steppenwolf History Never Repeats by Split Ends Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs Leader of the Pack by The Shangri-Las I’m Walkin’ by Fats Domino This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License