We meet a first-term Congressmen who has come to politics from another profession. Dr. Raul Ruiz is an ER physician who grew up in a migrant community in California's Coachella Valley. He's eager to join the Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Dave Pomerantz and Daryl Harshbarger, Dallas-based activists, have been parking a bus outside abortion clinics to give pregnant women sonograms. Their mission, they say, is to stop them from having an abortion. They talk to Dick about the Save the Storks bus and their strategy.
Today on The Story, we reconnect with Osama. He’s a dissident in Syria and, like so many others inside that country, is now constantly on the run. His wife and daughter are now being threatened, and yet Osama says he will not waver.
We hear from Nicholas Peart, who has been stopped by the New York City Police Department three times, and is one of the young men behind a lawsuit against the department’s “Stop and Frisk” policy.
Host Dick Gordon speaks with Jack Dawley, who’s been to jail three times for failure to pay debt. Dawley says he’s never seen a judge or been given any opportunity to explain that he simply cannot afford to pay.
