{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"CATTY CHATS LIVE!","title":"SENATOR CAT DADDY","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1021,"description":"Hey Gritty Kitties. Welcome to another episode of Catty Chats\nMy name is Blaire Postman, founder of Cat Ladies for America and your host.\nWe are gonna do a short little special episode of Catty Chats. We are on a bit of a summer hiatus as we get ready for season 2.\nWe're booking guests we're working on new formats. We're gonna have a lot of exciting new twists for when we come back in mid to late August with full episodes every week but we're also on the road a bit this campaign season.\nAnd this episode is a short interview that I got to have with Abdul El-Sayed who is running for the democratic nomination for the US Senate from Michigan.\nAs well as some of the comments that he made at a rally that I was able to attend when I was visiting back in July\nNow this rally had all kinds of folks: It had AOC. It had Bernie Sanders. It had the president of the UAW, Shawn Fain. It had all kinds of folks there supporting him\nShare\n\nAnd what I really noticed was just how practical everything that they were talking about that they were supporting to me.\nAnd how strange it was that from the outside when I would see critics or hear critics of Abdul El-Sayed so often they were calling him dangerous which didn't make any sense to me because as someone who has health insurance from my day job it still has gotten so much worse.\nIt sort of sucks. And I'm lucky enough to have it. So Medicare for all doesn't seem crazy\nThe idea that we want accountability for ICE and for the Department of Defense, and explaining where they are spending their billions of dollars when they are cutting aid for food and security when they are cutting aid for all sorts of benefit programs that help people who are trying to get on their feet and stay there it just seemed really practical to me\nAnd I look at my own senator Senator Chris Van Hollen and he and Abdul El-Sayed seem to agree on all kinds of things.\nThey agree on eradicating ice and doing immigration in a different way.\nThey agree on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KQZFxyFO_IXzfrdNyh0wowNXdwmDlPVL05xEM-bZy14/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYzAy/MmNmMzI4MGEzMWEz/ZjY3MTIwOWU1MGE0/MTAwNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}