Tony Katz Today - Episodes Tagged with “Democrat”

What Does The South Bend Police Department Think Of Mayor Pete Buttigieg? South Bend FOP President Harvey Mills Explains

Tony Katz — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:00:00 -0400

Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has angered both the police in South Bend and the residents with his reaciton to a police involved shooting. In the Democratic debates, and on the campaign trail, Mayor Buttigieg has made comments angering police, intimating that they are racist and policing is based in systemic racism.

South Bend Fraternal Order of Police Preisdent Harvey Mills talked to Tony Katz about tensions in South Bend, how the police department has responded to Mayor Buttigieg's statements (including when the Mayor sent the police department pizza) and how city residents are reacting.

The interviewed occured on July 23rd, and originally aired on Tony Katz Today.

(Screenshot from original article on WIBC.com)

Tony Katz Teaches Sen. Cory Booker How To Properly Answer A Question About The Second Amendment Without Fear Mongering

Tony Katz — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:00:00 -0400

At a town hall featuring presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, a woman named Rachel asked him about guns, claiming that she is not free because she has to fear gun violence in schools and places of worship.

Sen. Booker's response was one of codifying her fear, and declaring that he will take the fight to the NRA.

Tony Katz goes about answering the question. Instead of telling Rachel that she should be afraid, Tony gives her a better way to look at her life, to turn her fear into empowement and the opportunities she has to control her destiny.

> If you want a society that can guarantee your safety, you will never have freedom. Government can not guarantee security. The American citizen is the first line, and the last line, of defense.

Ocasio-Cortez Tries To Insert Herself Into Hoosier School Safety Debate

Tony Katz — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has inserted herself into a school safety debate in Indiana. Training for active shooter situations has received press in the Hoosier state as teachers say they were shot at with pellet guns by police officers during the drills.

Tony Katz agrees: shooting the teachers is ridiculous. However, the commentary and ham-fisted argument of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on school safety - that it is not necessary to train teachers and students for active shooter situations if we had, among other things, universal background checks and safe storage laws - is not just wrong, it's ugly and dangerous.

"Can't you (Rep. Ocasio-Cortez) stop just for a moment?" says Tony. "We're talking about the lives of children. Why is it that you're ok with children and teachers not being trained to deal with problematic, dangerous situations?"

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett Attacks The NRA Months Before The NRA Has It's Annual Meeting In Indianapolis

Tony Katz — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:00:00 -0500

Indianapolis Democrat Mayor Joe Hogsett used the NRA as a vehicle to attack GOP Mayoral candidate Jim Merritt. In addition to calling out Merritt's voting record as a state senator, Hogsett went after his support of the National Rifle Association.

Hogsett claimed that Merritt takes his "marching orders" from the NRA, and that gun rights is out of step with Marion County voters. Hogsetts NRA attack is ill-timed, as the NRA is holding it's annual meeting in Indianapolis in April. The event will bring an estimated $55 million to the city.

Tony Katz talks about the personal nature of the attack, and how out of touch Mayor Hogsett is with Indianapolis and America.

KATZ: For Blackface We Have Outrage. For Infanticide We Have Silence.

Tony Katz — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:00:00 -0500

The blackface photo on Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page is ugly. It's a photo of person in blackface, standing next to a person in a KKK robe and hood.

As Tony Katz says, "I don't defend that. It's ugly. And that's being kind."

However, the outrage over the photo was met by nearly equal silence over his endorsing if not advocating infanticide as part of an abortion bill bring proposed in Virginia.

Tony wonders why one gets outrage and one gets barely a mention?