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70 – Sheriff Corndog
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Nov 2, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Mother Jones’ reporters bring you food-adjacent stories from this year’s midterm election. Madison Pauly fills us in on the history of an Alabama sheriff who got rich off his jail inmates with the help of a truckload of corndogs, and how voters will decide whether it could happen again. And then Tim Murphy takes us to Nevada, a crucial swing state, where members of the culinary workers union have mastered the art of political organizing—and could have lessons for the Democratic party nationwide.
Released:
Nov 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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