On The Edge with Whitney McKnight
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On The Edge with Whitney McKnight
On the Edge with Zach Dembo (D), Kentucky 6th District Congressional candidate
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Welcome to On the Edge with me, Whitney McKnight, your host and producer.
It’s election season. And you’re listening to The Edge’s election coverage. It is still early, but with so many candidates, I am going to need a lot of time to get them all on the podcast! There are at least 8 candidates alone in the race to fill Andy Barr’s 6th district Congressional seat.
We’ll kick off our coverage with Zach Dembo, a Lexington-based attorney and former federal prosecutor who is entering politics for the first time, to run as a Democrat for the 6th Congressional district.
Dembo and I recorded this interview in early December, which means the US still had not invaded Venezuela. Instead, we talk about the veracity of claims Venezuelans are fentanyl traffickers. We muse why Democrats allowed themselves to become elitists, although they haven’t been alone in that. We also tackle corruption at all levels of government, as stopping it is the key to why Dembo says he has entered the race.
We also discuss whether politics attracts corrupt people, or if politics corrupts people.
Thank you for listening. Here’s my interview with Congressional candidate, Zach Dembo.
Reporting from The Edge of Appalachia in Berea, Kentucky.