The Matt McNeil Show – April 7, 2022

Hour 1 segment 1: A missing pet monkey in Minnesota!

Hour 1 segment 2: The MN COVID-19 update. The avian flu has now reached 1 million turkeys in Minnesota, which might only get worse in Minnesota.

Hour 1 segment 3: Matt is joined by Eric Bernstein, a progressive policy analyst focused on state tax and budgetary policy and policy director for We Make Minnesota. He talks about his Minnesota Reformer article titled,  “The GOP tax cut plan is tilted to the rich.”

Hour 1 segment 4: A wrap up of what Matt and Eric talked about with the Minnesota republican tax bill.

Hour 2 segment 1: Ketanji Brown Jackson gets confirmed to the SCOTUS. How will history judge the Republicans who voted against her? A Duluth firefighter testifies he was defending himself when he knocked over a 60-year old woman with a bicycle when the woman told him his dogs, as required by law, needed to be on a leash.

Hour 2 segment 2: Campaign ads Democrats should be running this fall.

Hour 2 segments 3/4: Matt goes over what Democrats will be facing this year with extreme far right Republicans. And why Democrats need to get up and start fighting back!