“The fact that a politician could be extorted for 50,000 euros is very worrying, the fact that he opened himself up to that through naked pictures is doubly worrying.”
Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by iPolitics reporter Marieke Walsh and Buzzfeed’s news curator and social media editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss political sex scandals, the U.S. midterm elections, and the Maclean’s “resistance” photo shoot.
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“The theory of the framers of the constitution was that they wanted members of the House of Representatives to be elected every two years so that they were directly and closely responsible to the people.”
Bill Owens, former U.S. congressman and now senior advisor in the public policy and regulation practice at Dentons, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain the United States’ midterm elections while providing a crash course on the structure of the American government.
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