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Bonus: How One Senator Found His Calling In The Wake Of Tragedy

Bonus: How One Senator Found His Calling In The Wake Of Tragedy

FromI'm Still Here


Bonus: How One Senator Found His Calling In The Wake Of Tragedy

FromI'm Still Here

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Instead of a new episode of I’m Still Here, we’re running an episode from another HuffPost podcast called Candidate Confessional. It’s a show about tough defeats, and on this episode, hosts Sam Stein and Jason Cherkis spoke to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.Shortly after he won election to the senate in 2012, 20 first graders were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary school. The tragedy, which took place in Murphy’s old district, fundamentally changed him and his career, but it didn’t change gun laws. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Nov 8, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (7)

Katrina. Ferguson. Oak Creek. In America, a local tragedy can spark a national conversation. But what happens after the national news cycle moves on? On this podcast, we’ll visit communities whose tales of adversity have put them on the map and we’ll explore what “survival” in America really looks like. What does it mean to survive when your classmate has been gunned down by a cop? When you’re surrounded by an opioid epidemic? When your child is told she can’t use the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity? Because when the controversies of our time become politicized, we can’t forget about the people affected by them every day.