Today is our Thanksgiving version of Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  We TRIED to keep the conversation positive and about things we're thankful for.  In the studio, along with host Larry Whitler, was Robin MacBlane (Larry's partner in Robin And The Giant), Jan Lindsey (from Tender Loving Care home health care) and Mark Hankins (a frequent call-in listener). 

Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was listener driven.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest during the first half hour was Gus Russo, author of the book "Brothers In Arms: The Kennedys, The Castros, And The Politics of Murder."  The second half hour was listener driven.

Today on Pulse Of The Taxpayer our guests were Dennis Morgan, Roy Carmichael, Art Konstantino, and Cindy Mulvey from the Taxpayers Action Group of Marion County.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Gary Schor And Neal Connor.  Their website is www.floridalibertyalliance.org

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, the program was was listener driven and most of the calls were reflecting on the election of Senator Barack Obama as the next President Of The United States.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was State Senator Carey Baker talking about issues of concern locally and nationally and about the election today.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Dave Noble of the Donald and Alice Noble Foundation talking about the future of clean energy as an industry and the impact it will have on our economy.  Then, at the bottom of the hour, U.S. Representative Cliff Stearns called in to chat about tomorrow's elections and to speak with our listeners.  After Congressman Stearns we had a brief conversation with Jack Kemp who was campaigning in Ocala for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was U.S. Representative Cliff Stearns.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Dr. Harold McSwain of the The First Congregational United Church Of Ocala who spoke about his views on the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment (Amendment 2).

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Florida State Representative Kurt Kelly talking about his accomplishments as a state legislator and his plans for the future.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Marion County Commissioner Andy Kesselring, currently running for the office of State Representative for district 24.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer today featured Marion County Commissioner Stan McClain.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Roy Carmichael and Dennis Morgan reporting on their most recent meeting of the Taxpayer's Action Group and their guest, Superintendent of Marion County Public Schools Jim Yancey.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Steve Hering of the Marion County School Board who is currently campaigning as an incumbent for the seat he currently holds on that board.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest during the first half hour of the program was Carl M. Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of Readers Digest Magazine, talking about a poll the publication did to see how non-Americans around felt about the current U.S. elections.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Mike Sizemore, candidate for Marion County Commission.  Mike spoke about some of the issues he will address as a commissioner including water, solid waste and landfills, jobs, charter governments, etc.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer - October 10, 2008

Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today along with srudio guest Jo Laurie Penrose.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Today on Pulse Of The Taxpayer we had a panel of guests from Central Florida Community College who participated in a debate in which the students responded to questions from their own perspective as well as the perspective of the political party they were representing.  Present in the studio during the program were:

1. Lee Rosen (Professor at CFCC)
2. James McDonald
3. Kessiah Ray
4. Rich True
5. Matt Wallick
6. Nick Ivory
7. David Jockers
8. Christina Moore

Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven.

Today, Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven.

Our guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today were James Penna and Gary Schor who talked about the United Nations.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Michael Gravitz, The Ocean's Advocate with Environment America.

Our guest on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Tony Ryan, retired police officer from the Denver Police Department, Denver, Colorado.  Tony Ryan was on the air to discuss the legalized regulation of all drugs and the efforts to accomplish that goal by a group called LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition).  The website to LEAP is http://www.leap.cc

 

Our guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today were Ed Burkhart and June Dannel who came on the program to discuss a plan they are opposed to to create a "special case" instead of a rezoning in order for an assisted living facility to be built, that they don't want, in their neighborhood.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Shams Ali author of "Government Without Politics" (The Difference Between Government And Politics) and "The World Court Of Justice" (The Alternative To Wars, Terrorism And Politics).

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Brad Miner, author of the book "Smear Tactics" (The Liberal Campaign To Defame America).

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener and host-driven and the topics varied from the presidential candidates to the North American Union.

Today our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Grady Allen Bishop from Extreme Stunt And Driving Team.  Mr. Bishop is a movie stunt professional and is campaigning to encourage local, state, and national lawmakers to change legislation that will make it beneficial for motion picture companies, and other similar entities, to film their projects in Florida and, indeed, in the United States. 

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, we held a mock debate with three local residents representing three presidential candidates.  Questions were submitted by listeners via e-mail, fax, and by phone.  The debate featured:

1. James Penna representing Charles "Chuck" Baldwin of the Constitution Party
2. Monte Estes representing Senator Barack Obama of the Democratic Party
3. Lewis Dinkins representing Senator John McCain of the Republican Party.

Today's Pulse of The Taxpayer featured Dennis Morgan and Roy Carmichael from the Taxpayer's Action Group of Marion County.  Dennis and Roy spoke about Monday evening's meeting with Dee Brown, Supervison of Elections for Marion County.

 

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured Ronald Grignol, Board Member Of RADAR (Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting) www.mediaradar.org .  Mr. Grignol spoke about the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), And The National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network Act (S. 1515 And H.R. 6088).

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and was influenced, at least in part, by the previous program in which college students commented on the current presidential campaign.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Barry Leach.  Barry was a supervisor with Air Traffic Control in New York City on September 11, 2001 and, on today's program, he recalled the events of that day.  Listener participation greatly contributed to today's show, as always.

Pulse of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

A listener-driven show.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured author Marco Marsan, author of the book "The Lion's Way."  Marco spoke philosophically about "might vs. right" and the more civilized approach to conflict of utilizing empathy instead of force. 

Today's guest on Pulse Of TheTaxpayer was Barbara Comstock who spoke about the Employee Free Choice Act and engaged in some stimulating conversation with listeners regarding the right of workers to maintain their privacy when casting votes in union related elections.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today and focused on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her nomination as Vice-Presidential Candidate by John McCain.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and focused on labor and the relationship between labor and government.  Today is Labor Day.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guest Captain Anthony Tortora who is listed as a write-in candidate for Marion County Commission, District 5.  Captain Tortora announced on the program that he has since withdrawn his name as a write-in candidate and explained why he registered as a write-in candidate.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and the subject we began with, and that became somewhat of a theme, was immunizations and government mandates that force parents to get shots for their children.  Also on today's program was a surprise visit from County Commissioner Charlie Stone who came into the studio to thank the voters for their support.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Pulse of the Taxpayer was listener-driven today and, among the topics, we talked about the primary election, Mexican drug cartels, etc.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

The attempted theme of today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was to get support from listeners regarding local candidates.  The theme was relatively successful.  Thanks to all who understood what I was doing.

Today's show was disappointing.  After such a great positive and productive show yesterday, today we sank to a level so low I was tempted to not even submit it as a podcast.  Nevertheless, here it is.  Listen to it if you want but nothing constructive was said and it is mostly a rehashing of the same old stuff.  What seems to be missed by many people is that if you are going to debate then you should be prepared with facts and examples.  Not a series of unrelated acquaintances.

With that said, let's hope tomorrow we can stick to the issues of local, state, and national/international concern on Pulse Of The Taxpayer.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer focused on Fleet Management of Marion County today with special guests Dennis Morgan and Michael Zeak.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer began with a guest.  Joe Lucas is the Vice President of Communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and Mr. Lucas spoke to us about coal as an energy resource for America, and the world.  Afterward, Pulse Of The Taxpayer was a listener driven show.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today and the listeners spoke about the Russia/Georgia conflict, about the tensions between Israel and Iran, about the local primary election, about Amendment 5 (Florida), and other issues.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured Ron Litterer, President of the National Corn Growers Association during the first ten minutes of the program.  The remainder of the program was "listener-driven."

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven and focused mostly on international issues.

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Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven today and focused, primarily, on the presidential race.

Another joy of a show.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured Republican State Committeeman Lewis Dinkins who answered questions from listeners and spoke about his campaign to retain his position.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Gary Schor and Neal Connor.  The topics of primary concern were the authorization for water bottling companies to pump water from the Floridan Aquifer in spite of mandates for the average citizen to conserve water, the Real I.D. Act, and a census questionaire that asks unreasonable questions and threatens a fine and/or jail time if the request is not complied with.

During today's show, the following websites were mentioned:

http://www.thebigscrub.blogspot.com

http://www.floridalibertyalliance.org

http://republican.meetup.com/601

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Christopher Thurow.  Mr. Thurow is a candidate for Marion County Republican State Committee Man and during the course of his appearance he took calls from listeners and expressed his thoughts on the position he is seeking.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and covered a variety of topics.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Jim Penna and Bill Chapman.  Mr. Penna and Mr. Chapman are supporting a movement to get the United States out of the United Nations and were on the program to explain why they feel the divorce would be in the best interest of Americans.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "listener-driven" and focused on a variety of issues including the proposed pumping of water from the Florida Aquifer in Lake County.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was author Don Corace talking about his book, "Government Pirates."  In the book, Corace takes an in-depth look at eminent domain abuse and other government regulations that strangle the rights of property owners throughout America. Government Pirates is the one book that every property owner in America has to read.  The website for the author is http://www.governmentpirates.com

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was an attempt to focus on the issue of a bailout of homeowners facing foreclosure but the listeners, instead, chose to focus on the rumor that the United States will cease to exist in the year 2010 when Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. merge into the North American Union.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Dennis Morgan and Roy Carmichael from the Taxpayers Action Group.  Dennis and Roy appeared on the program to inform the listeners of the last meeting of TAG in which their special guest was Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were from the Faith In Justice Coalition Program who are working with the Marion County Sheriff's Office to interact with inmates at the jail and the prisons with Christian counseling so that the inmates might re-enter society and avoid the troubles that led them to being incarcerated in the first place.  Our guests were Lt. Marlene Schmidt, Carolyn Fender, Lonnie Ernest, Jane Grizzard, Jim Ward, and Brenda Ward.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Steve Klein and Annie Marie Delgado from the Greater Ocala Republican Club.  Steve and Annie talked about their membership drive, among other things.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today and covered several topical issues.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "listener-driven" today and the topics varied.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Angie Boynton.  Angie was on the program to promote a campaign to recruit African-American voters to register as Republicans.

Today on Pulse Of The Taxpayer our guest was Christian Kopff talking about a book he translated titled, "Tradition: Concept And Claim" (Authored By Josef Pieper).

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Sandy Trusso, Republican Precinct Committee Woman. 

Today's guest, during the first half hour of Pulse Of The Taxpayer, was attorney and author Stephen P. Halbrook talking about his book, "The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins Of The Right To Bear Arms."  The second half hour was listener driven.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was broken into two halves.  The first half hour was dedicated to our guest who spoke about the future of higher education in the United States.  The second half hour featured Roy and Thelma Carmichael who talked about a program the Marion County Sheriff's Office is utilizing to help rehabilitate inmates in the local jail.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "listener-driven."

Political activist Gary Schor was our guest on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and the topic focused on was the feud among Marion County Republicans.

Special July 4th Pulse Of The Taxpayer!  Today's POSITIVE theme was "What is good about America?!"

Happy Independence Day!

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and featured lively discussions about several issues.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven and, in part, continued the conversation started yesterday regarding comments from Gen. Wesley Clark on Face The Nation this past Sunday.

Movie critic, Mike Iannacone, was our opening segment guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer and he gave a commentary and review of the animated motion picture "Wall-E" and suggested that there is a political agenda woven into the film.  The remainder of the program was listener driven.

Gary Schor and Neal Connor were today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  The listeners brought issues to the show that were then commented on by all in attendance.

Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "listener driven" and covered several topics including the Supreme Court decision about the right to bear arms (2nd Amendment), the purchase of land from U.S. Sugar (Everglades), and the last minute write-in candidate in a local election for County Commissioner.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Ray Strickland who came on the program to express his thoughts on the "Universal Primary" as it applies in Marion County, and to the Supreme Court and their current dilemma of ruling on the 2nd Amendment and whether the city of Washington DC is violating that amendment by banning guns.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today and a variety of topics were introduced including the deal between the State Of Florida and the Sugar industry to purchase most of the Everglades for restoration purposes, the Marion County Sheriff's inmate farm program, and other issues.

On today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer our guests were Pat Santospirito and Annie Marie Delgado.  Pat Santospirito is campaigning for the position of Marion County Republican State Committeewoman which will be voted on August 26th.  She is opposing incumbent Marguerite Cavanaugh.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was fueled, in part, by a discussion about a new website from Ross Perot.  If you're interested in looking at it the URL is http://www.perotcharts.com .  Not everyone seemed to be in support of the opinions of Mr. Perot but we thought it was a well done site and wanted to share it with our listeners.

This morning's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured two guests who are attending the Ballot Initiative Conference in Orlando both today and tomorrow and representing Strong American Schools (http://www.edin08.com).  Our guests were Jocelyn Webster and Rachel Byrd and both ladies spoke about the conference for the first half of the program. The second half hour of today's show was listener driven and the topics varied.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Marguerite Cavanaugh, Marion County Republican State Committeewoman.  Marguerite is campaigning as an incumbent to maintain her position and gave an overview of the role of the Committeewoman.  Listeners also contributed to the discussion with a variety of topics from drilling for oil to application fees for candidacies.

 

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Pat Sasso, from Republican Women Federated and Annie Marie Delgado, president of the Greater Ocala Republican Club.  Both ladies were on to discuss a candidate's debate being held this Thursday.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and the callers made some excellent points regarding school vouchers.

Tim Schmidt substituted as host on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and he, along with his co-host Terry, conducted a listener-driven show.

Tim Schmidt substituted as host on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and led a lively discussion between the listeners and himself.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, radio personality Tim Schmidt sat in during the program and offered commentary on some topical issues generated by both news stories and by the listeners.  Tim will be the guest host on Pulse Of The Taxpayer on June 12 and 13.

Ray Strickland was our guest today on Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  Ray talked about the economy of Marion County and Ocala in general and specifically about the role the Economic Development Council plays in bringing jobs and business to the area.

Mike Sizemore was our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today talking about a study that encompasses all the water issues concerning Florida.  Quite a few categories were covered by Mike including the health of the aquifer, surface water, pumping water out of the area, desalination, the affects of septic tanks, the affects of fertilizers, the metering of private wells, etc.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Dennis Morgan and Roy Carmichael from the Taxpayer's Action Group (TAG) of Marion County and gave us some insight into the past TAG meeting.  Listener participation also contributed to today's program.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Alex Gillespie, Investment Advisor from Merrimac Corporate Securities located in Ocala, Florida.  Alex gave insight into his observation that the rising cost of gasoline is being fueled by speculators more than it is by President Bush or even the oil companies.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Dave Noble, President of The Noble Foundation.  Mr. Noble specialized in oil and gas production and pipeline law and was on the program to discuss the Lieberman-Warner Act before the US Senate this week.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today and focused on issues of interest to those listeners including the most recent GI bill, attendance at taxpayer meetings, and nine amendments being proposed to the Florida constitution.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Dr. Robert Zubrin, author of "Energy Victory: Winning The War On Terror By Breaking Free Of Oil."  Dr. Zubrin brought a lively discussion to the program that is supported by the details of the book.  During the interview Dr. Zubrin mentioned the following websites: http://www.setamericafree.org and http://www.energyvictory.net .

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today.

Today's broadcast/podcast of Pulse Of The Taxpayer is a previously released program from April 11, 2008 which was a specially produced program featuring two minutes per listener with a message to the next president of the United States of America.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.  Several topics were brought to our attention by the listeners including a "global tax" proposal by the United Nations that the U.S. Congress is addressing.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was much better today. 

I have decided to change the premise of this program a bit.  I had originally wanted this to be an absolute open forum for anyone to talk about anything at all.  The intent of the program is to contribute constructively to the community through dialogue that will help our elected officials make decisions that more accurately reflect the wishes of the people they represent.  Instead, what has emerged, is a program where religion and/or theology are presented by the callers as a justification for bigotry, hatred, discrimination, name-calling, and mean spirited hurtfulness. Religion often does play a role in the civic duties and decision making of our representatives (for example, prayer in schools) and so I don’t want to totally forbid such discussions.  However, I will no longer engage in religious discussions that seem to have no bearing on issues facing our governing representatives. 

– Larry

A whole lot of nothing.  Listen if you have no life at all and just want to waste the better part of an hour.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and focused, mostly, on a story from Daytona in which a 38 year old mother had her children taken away from her because the state of Florida said her IQ was too low.

Neal Connor and Gary Schor, from The Liberty Sentinel newspaper, were our guests on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and, with the direction of the show primarily controlled by the listeners, we discussed minimum wages issues, North American Union concerns, issues of concern to the Florida voter and taxpayer, etc.

A variety of topics were covered by the listeners on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  Much of the conversation was theological in nature.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was awful.  Don't even bother with this one.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven again today and seemed to focus on illegal immigration following an announcement from the State of North Carolina that they would no longer permit illegal aliens to attend community colleges in that state.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven and attempted to focus on community, state, and/or national issues and what suggestions might be implemented in order to address the issue at hand.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer had a loosely adhered to theme of "pet peeves" which maintained itself throughout the other issues brought to the program by the listening audience.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was a discussion regarding what to believe and what to question.  Propaganda and our own levels of astuteness and/or gullibility are important elements in all discussions especially when they are of political nature and I wanted to explore those elements by putting myself into the "hot seat."  The results were pretty interesting, I would say.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and focused on public education and teachers and other local and state issues.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven for the first 3/4s of the show and then, for the final 15 minutes, we had Lt. Col. Oliver North on the air promoting his book, "American Heroes."

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven and touched on a few local issues as well as presidential candidate issues and others.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Chris Gunn, Communications Director of the American Small Business League.  We learned from Mr. Gunn how government contracts, intended for small business, are often entered into with large corporations.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener driven.  Several legislative issues were brought up during the course of the show that were based on current events in the Florida news.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guest Rabbi Sam Berman.  Rabbi Berman is the Rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Ocala, Florida and we talked about Holocaust Remembrance and the political climate in the world during the early 1900s that led to the rise of Hitler and contrasted those observations with today's political climate in the world.

A variety of issues were discussed on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer including a lawsuit based on the fact that gasoline expands during hot temperatures, a DVD by Alex Jones that documented many of the New World Order issues, plus a visit by Gary Schor.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was a listener/caller driven show.  Several issues were brought up by the listeners including the presidential candidates, Florida legislative activities, the IRS, and others.

Today's program took a look at the voting records of the three U.S. Senators who are currently the front-runners in the campaign to become the next President of the United States.  The look was done anonymously, identifying the candidates as simply "Candidate One", "Candidate Two", and "Candidate Three."  At the end of the show the true identities of each of the candidates was revealed.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured an interview with our guest, Marion County Commissioner Stan McLain.  Commissioner McLain spoke to the audience about solid waste management, the crowded agenda of the County Commission, Earth Day related topics, and a variety of other issues.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was caller driven and touched on several issues including a local issue regarding the use of off-road trails in the Ocala National Forest, a national issue regarding the contracts issued by the US Military to gun manufacturers, presidential candidate Barak Obama, and a proposal in Arcadia, Florida to boost the local economy by authorizing a nudist resort.

Today's program was listener driven and included discussions about a dog that was shot and killed on a man's private property by a law enforcement officer conducting an investigation, a treasure of old coins pulled from a shipwreck off the coast of Portugal by a Tampa based marine exploration company and Spain's efforts to claim the found coins are their property, and some sound bites from Jackie Mason's radio program regarding comments he made about Barak Obama.

Today's program focused on the conservation of the natural waterways in Florida and in America and, particularly, the need to conserve and protect the quality and quantity of the St. John's River and it's local tributary, the Ocklawaha River. 

Today's show was an attempt to look at the issue of the North American Union but was thrown off course and never recovered.  Oh well...  the joys of live local radio...

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was a caller-driven program today and focused, somewhat, on the issue of permitting teachers in public schools to mention that evolution is not the only theory of creation.  Other issues were politically motivated and focused on the presidential campaign currently underway.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured special guests Neal Connor and Alex Newman from the Liberty Sentinel newspaper.

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SPECIAL PODCAST

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Today's very special broadcast and podcast consists of 22 listeners from Ocala, Florida who were each given two minutes to be on the air to answer the question, "What do you want from the next President of The United States?"

The idea to do this comes from the observation that the listeners to WOCA, which is a small radio station in Ocala, Florida, seem to be concerned about issues that are not being addressed by the Presidential Candidates or even the mainstream media. 

Ocala is a very diverse and eclectic population and, therefore, it would appear that the opinions of these listeners represent a cross-section of the country as a whole.

Thank-you to the following listeners who participated in this show:

1. Dennis Morgan
2. Jeannine Rodgers
3. Gary Schor
4. Merv Leckbee
5. Liz Penna
6. Roy Carmichael
7. John Lovill
8. Leonard Barriner Sr.
9. Ray Judd
10. Floyd S. "Sonny" Muckey III
11. Jo Laurie Penrose
12. Fred Kahler
13. Rabbi Sam Berman
14. Ray Rice
15. Marti Lyle
16. Mike Sizemore
17. Pastor Snyder
18. Peter Palermo
19. Brad Nimmo
20. Dick Gray
21. Louis Monaco
22. Robin MacBlane

Thank-you to all participants.

 

Today's program was listener "driven" and, at about the halfway point, became focused on the polygamist cult in the news recently and whether or not they were being singled out for religious reasons or because child abuse and pedophelia was being committed.

Today's Pulse program was caller driven and covered topics that included commentary from Ray Strickland regarding yesterday's interview with Marion County Commissioner Charlie Stone, the polygamist cult in this morning's news, the premise of the United States being a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our special guest was Marion County Commissioner Charlie Stone.  Commissioner Stone addressed several issues of concern to Marion County residents and took questions from listeners as well.  Among the topics discussed were ambulance service, water management, and poker games at the jai-alai fronton. 

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was open-line.  The primary topic was based on an article from the Guardian website, out of Britain, that reported an unofficial movement of American truck drivers to hold a strike as a way of sending a signal to the federal government to address the issue of the high cost of diesel fuel.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was open-line format and, among other issues, we talked about political party delegates and whether or not a "pledged" delegate was ethically bound to his or her pledge.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured Bret Cyr, Vice President of the International Association Of EMTs And Paramedics Local Union 621.  Bret continued the discussion from yesterday's show to help the average citizen of Marion County understand the issues facing Marion County Fire-Rescue and the Emergency Management Services Alliance.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Heather Danenhower, Public Information Officer, Chief Shari Hall, Chief Bart Walker, all of whom are with Marion County Fire-Rescue.  Our discussion today was focused on the transition process of the ambulance service with the Fire Department and included calls from listeners.

Today's Pulse was open-line format and, among other topics, we discussed the super-delegate and the current situation in Michigan and Florida in which delegates of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are either being banned or are being partially banned from their respective national conventions.

 

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was caller/listener driven.  Topics discussed were Governor Charlie Crist's efforts to change a US trade agreement with Columbia, a report of an increase in the unemployment rate in the state of Florida, some new specialty license plates that the Florida legislature is considering, and other issues.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was caller/listener driven and was conducted as an "open-line" format.

Today's program was open-line and most of the calls were responding to a story of a decision to implement eminent domain in the city of Hollywood, Florida, to take private land and turn it over to another private developer against the wishes of the current property owner.  Other issues included the drilling of oil in the Florida Straits north of Cuba and an official apology issued by the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate for the State's historical position on slavery.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was caller-driven and, among other issues, we discussed the "no-aid" amendment of the Florida constitution and the implications of a movement to remove it in the general election in November.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was caller driven today.  Among the topics was a proposed one dollar additional tax on a pack of cigarettes, a bill that would expand the list of disorders recognized by the pschiatric profession, an effort to reverse the "no aid" amendment in the Florida constitution, and a bill in Tallahassee to force schools to enforce "droopy drawers" regulations.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Gary Schor and Neal Conner from the Liberty Sentinel newspaper.  Taxes and transparency of government spending with among the topics Gary and Neal brought to the program.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "Open Line" and listeners generated most of the issues including an idea to pipe rainwater and melting snow water from water rich areas of the country to the more arid areas.  Other issues were also addressed.

Today's guests on Pulse of The Taxpayer were Bruce Fishalow, Executive Director for the Marion County Humane Society and Lillian Pollice, Animal Care Coordinator.  The Humane Society of Marion County is a perfect example of an agency that survives without the aid of tax money.  Bruce and Lillian answered questions and addressed concerns from the listeners.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Ray Strickland, candidate for Marion County Commission.  Ray fielded questions from the listeners.

Pulse of The Taxpayer was caller/listener driven today.  Local topics included a pedestrian bridge proposal over SR 200, scouting for a parcel of land for a school in Silver Springs Shores, a property tax cut and one cent sales tax on the ballot for Florida in November, and the EMSA issue currently in the transition stage.  National issues included: Ron Paul, Federal Reserve, North American Union, National Debt.

Today's program was caller driven and the listeners brought up topics of national concern as well as those of local concern.

Mike Sizemore was our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today and spoke about local solutions that could affect gasoline and energy consumption.

Marion County Commissioner Barbara Fitos and Marion County Fire Rescue Public Information Officer Heather Danenhower were our guests on Pulse today.  The two ladies talked about the transition of Emergency Medical Services Alliance as it merges with the Fire Department.

Our guest on Pulse today was Pete Tesch, President of the Economic Development Council for Ocala and Marion County.  Mr. Tesch answered questions from listeners and gave a comprehensive overview of the mission of the EDC and how that mission is implemented.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Robyn Tomlin, Executive Editor for the Star Banner.  Ms. Tomlin answered questions from listeners regarding investigative reporting and the political slant that is often associated with media in general. 

Today was an open-line format on Pulse.  Topics included: Efforts by the state of California to require parents to become certified as teachers before legally home-schooling their children, efforts by the state of Florida Democratic Party to include delegates in the DNC convention, and discussion on a video depicting a U.S. soldier throwing a puppy off of a cliff in Iraq.

Today's broadcast was "open line" and a variety of issues were discussed including Larry's rebuttal to a listener's implied accusation of making conflicting and hypocritical statements.

Another exciting episode of Pulse.

Ocala City Manager Paul Nugent was our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today.  Mr. Nugent answered questions from listeners and also gave information on different issues facing the city of Ocala now and in the near future.

Today was an "open line" format on Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  One of the primary topics was based on a news item reporting that newspaper carriers were losing money delivering papers because of the rising cost of gasoline.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Bret Cyr, Vice President of International Association of EMTs and Paramedics, Local Union 621, who commented on the transition of EMSA with Ocala/Marion County Fire-Rescue.

Today's program opened with a discussion about an item in today's news which reported that Governor Charlie Crist had proposed tapping into trust funds, primarily established by condominium owners, to add funding to the state budget.  The second half hour featured guest Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, who told us about legislation pending in Florida to make all government spending "transparent" allowing citizens to see exactly how their tax dollars were being spent.

Today's program focused during the first half on a study to widen SR 40, east of Silver Springs, to a four lane highway.  Our guest during that segment was Bill Walsh, Project Manager for East State Road 40 Widening Project for the State of Florida.  Other issues brought up during the program by listeners included EMSA, the recession, Ron Paul, and other issues.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was movie producer Mark Mathis who talked about his upcoming film "Expelled" starring Ben Stein.  The film is a documentary and profiles a trend among public universities in the United States to dismiss professors who introduce "intelligent design" into their lectures and curriculums.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Gary Schor and Neal Conner from the Liberty Sentinel newspaper.  Health care legislation proposed for the state of Florida kicked off the hour which grew into a discussion about health care, in general, and then to the broader topic of a free market versus a socialized government.

Today's show began with an interview with Sandra Fabry from Americans for Tax Reform who commented about a conference held yesterday in Tallahassee regarding HB181 and SB392 which will make government spending, in Florida, more transparent.  Other issues on today's program were called in by the listeners including gun control, the presidential campaign, and other issues.

Today's program featured Thomazine McNeil from State Representative Larry Cretul's office.  Ms. McNeil told us about a program called Farm Share that will be giving away 42,000 pounds of produce tomorrow in Ocala.  In addition to Ms. McNeil's appearance, listeners chimed in on a number of issues including the NAFTA Highway, and other issues.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Marion County Supervisor of Elections Dee Brown and her assistant Wesley Wilcox.  Both Ms. Brown and Mr. Wilcox answered questions from listeners regarding the protocol of an election as well as other issues the Supervisor of Elections Office is responsible for.

Gary Schor, Ocala Bureau Chief for the Liberty Sentinel newspaper was our guest today and discussed a variety of issues from the U.N. land grab, to voter fraud, to Ron Paul, as well as other issues introduced into the dialogue from the listeners.

Today's program featured Florida State Representative Kurt Kelly who spoke about several issues facing the Florida Legislature.

Today's program was driven primarily by calls from the listeners.  Among the issues brought up was the proposal to reduce property taxes by 25% and replacing that revenue through a 1 penny sales tax.

Today's program featured special guests Heather Danenhower, Public Information Officer for Marion County Fire Rescue and Judge Cochran, Public Information Officer for the Marion County Board of County Commissioners.  Both guests addressed listener's concerns regarding solid waste management, The Emergency Medical Service Alliance, and the pending transition of management for Ocala city parks to Marion County Parks.

Today's show began with a discussion about an eminent domain issue that is occurring here in Ocala in which the local school board is acquiring land, through eminent domain, to build a school.  Other issues were also covered in the program.

Today's program attempted to bring a variety of local, taxpayer related, issues but was sidetracked by religious discussions.  Among the local issues that DID manage to get mentioned was the study to widen SR 40 east of Silver Springs, the merging of EMSA with the Ocala/Marion County Fire Rescue, and a proposal to reduce property taxes by 25% and add a penny to state sales tax.

Today's program was caller driven and focused, mostly, on ways to cut expenditures in both our personal lives and from the public budgets we all contribute to through our taxes.

Today's show took an interesting turn as the listeners brought in the religious view of people and illustrated the influence those views often have on political and even social issues.

Today's program was called driven and focused on solid waste management and the varying ideas on how to improve the current system and make it more efficient.  Thrown into the mix was a story regarding a "deer carcass composting" device.  Strange, but true!

Today's program was caller driven and focused on the state of the Republican Party, issues on a local issue of Marion County maintaining parks owned by the city of Ocala, the potential for Hillary Clinton to garnish wages of Americans who opt out of a social health program, and a report of a rumor that local radio host John Lund left the airwaves because of a threat of a lawsuit.

Today's program was caller driven and focused, for most of the show, on the right to bear arms lawsuit pending in Washington, D.C.  We also discussed the so-called NAFTA Highway.  Other local, state, and national issues were also discussed.

Today was a caller driven program and we introduced a new idea called "Political Jukebox" in which headlines from various publications are read and then the listeners can call to request the synopsis of the whole story.  We also discussed the "superdelegates", voter fraud, the possibility of Ron Paul running as a "write-in" candidate, and other issues.

Today's program was caller driven and focused on a variety of topics including Ron Paul's candidacy, the 2008-2009 fiscal budget for the state of Florida, a $600,000 federal contribution to Marion County, and other taxpayer related issues.

Today's program was caller driven with a variety of topics including commentary on a story of a 70 year old widow from Spring Hill who had $9,000 extracted from her bank account by the Social Security Service.

Today we focused on the results of yesterday's elections.

Today is the Presidential Primary date in Florida.  Our guest was Roy Beck, President of Numbers USA who talked about the rate of immigration in the United States.  Listeners called in to weigh in on the subject. 

Former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift was a guest on today's program, one day before the Presidential Primary Election in the State of Florida, to endorse the candidacy of Senator John McCain for President. 

Gary Schor, from the Liberty Sentinel newspaper, gave us a great program today with intelligent dialogue on the Amendment "1" issue, the Ron Paul campaign, and other related issues.

Today's program featured Florida State Senator Charlie Dean who took a break from the legislative session in Tallahassee to talk about the issues of energy, of water desalination, and even some local issues regarding the ambulance service.  A brief discussion also took place regarding our involvement in Iraq and our freedoms.

Congressman Ric Keller was on today's program to offer support to presidential candidate Senator John McCain.  Also discussed in the course of the program was water-boarding/torture, local ambulance service, Mitt Romney, the Lousiana presidential primary results, and other issues.

Today's program featured an interview with John Sebree, Vice President of Public Policy for the Florida Association of Realtors.  Mr. Sebree was on the air to discuss the constitutional amendment that will revise the property tax laws in the State of Florida.

The first half of today's program featured an interview with author Daniel Estulin about his book "The Bilderberg Group."  In the interview, Estulin predicts that Michael Bloomberg will be elected as the next president of the United States.

The second half of the program was caller driven and included a short discussion on Amendment "1" on the upcoming election to amend the Florida Constitution regarding homestead exemptions and portability of the "Save Our Homes" tax caps.

Today's program was an open-line format and caller driven.  Topics varied from tax issues, to presidential candidates, to an amendment to the Florida Constitution.

Today's show featured two guests from The Liberty Sentinel.  Executive Editor, Alex Newman, and Publisher, Neal Conner shined bright with their keen observations on the political landscape of the United States and Florida.

Today's show was an open-line program with listeners dictating the line of discussion which included education, the length of time the callers speak, Wesley Snipes tax trial, Sheriff Ed Dean's previous appearance of the show, voting maching tampering, and other things.

Republican Presidential Candidate, John Cox, was the guest on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer.

Today's program featured special guest Villie Smith, Marion County Property Appraiser.  Mr. Smith discussed the property tax amendment to the state constitution for the State of Florida that voters will decide on in the January 29th election. 

In the program Villie Smith gives out his web address.  It is: http://www.pa.marion.fl.us

Florida Speaker of the House Marco Rubio was our guest today and answered listeners questions about property taxes, education, casinos, and answered a few minor personal questions.

Today's show dealt with Rudy Giuliani's tax proposals, a discussion on public schools and teachers (again), and other issues.

One of the primary issues discussed on today's program is a study, being conducted by the state of Florida, through three public meetings, to determine whether public schools in the state will include the word "evolution."  An other issue included the extra fees tagged onto the Ocala Electric Utilities bills.

An exciting show, for sure.  Today we spoke about public schools, public school teachers, and their efficiency and relevence in today's society.  Other topics included:

1. Property tax amendment
2. Taxpayer's Action Group meeting
3. Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio

One day before the New Hampshire primaries and surprisingly very little dialogue was generated from listeners regarding the presidential campaign.  Nevertheless, Barack Obama and Ron Paul's name both came up as did Mike Huckabee.  Other issues on today's show included upcoming meetings for the Taxpayer's Action Group, and the City Council and County Commission meetings.

Two primary topics were covered on today's program.  Those topics are:

1. Implications and commentary on the Iowa caucus from yesterday.
2. A consideration by the education officials in the state of Florida to include Evolution into the curriculum of public schools and whether or not to also include Creationism.

Today's program featured the audio from the statement by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benadir Bhutto in which she said Osama Bin Laden had been killed. Listeners also brought up the money system in the United States, the $40 coupons for the digital-to-analog boxes, and other issues.

January 2, 2008.

Today's topics included:

1. David Frost's interview with Bhutto in which she said Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
2. The property tax amendment on the January 29th ballot
3. The $40 coupons for digital-to-analog boxes being offered by the government.
4. A meeting of the Fair Tax volunteers this evening at the public library.

 

New Year's Day broadcast focused on property taxes, the "Fair Tax", homeowner's insurance, and insurance in general.

End of the year program.  Listener driven dialogue focused on several issues including a Fair Tax meeting in the local library, a DUI task force checkpoint for this evening (New Year's Eve), and other issues.

Today's program focused on issues presented by the listeners and covered topics from overpopulation of the south from northern states, to theology, to bahia grass as a solution to the high nitrate levels in local waterways.

Today's program was caller driven and included the following topics:

1. Public Schools
2. Income taxes
3. Ron Paul
4. Green Party Candidate
5. Absentee Ballots
6. January 29th primary
7. Border control/illegal immigration

Caller driven program today.  Topics included the property tax bill on the ballot January 29th, and the Citizens' Initiative being championed by Florida Speaker of the House, Marco Rubio.

Today we compiled a "Taxpayer's Wish List."  The following listeners, and their wishes, made this a fun Christmas Eve program:

1. Jim - That taxpayers should remember the the government is "We the people."
2. Roy-  That Ron Paul will be president of the United States.
3. Laura- Wishes that we would get out of the U.N., that there would be a tax cut across the board, and that Ron Raul and Duncan Hunter would be running mates.
4. Dennis- Wished for a detailed and published budget.
5. Liz- Wished that we would do something to prevent "Vote-scam."
6. Jean- Wished that taxation would occur WITH TRUE representation!
7. Ray- Wished that people would repent and turn back to Jesus Christ.
8. Ray - Wished that the Fair Tax would replace the IRS.
9. Dick- Wished that when the IRS loses a lawsuit for the transcript of the case to be published and made available to the public.
10. Don- Wished for people to realize the the government is not Santa Claus.
11. Sonny- Wished that we would, once again, have a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
12. Marilyn- Wished that we would all remember the free gift of Jesus Christ and that we would all remember all the good things about the United States.
13. Bill- Wished that the Taxpayers Action Group would expand and that elected officials would actually read the U.S. Constitution.
14. Jo- Called to compliment the positive broadcasts typical of WOCA.

Today's program began with a recording of a Christmas message from comedian Jackie Mason.  The remainder of the program was caller driven and touched on issues relevant to the presidential campaigns and a bill to ban incandescent lightbulbs by the year 2020.

Caller driven program included the following topics:

1. Ron Paul
2. Straw poll resusts vs. network/"mainstream" poll results
3. Voter registration deadline
4. Bay of Pigs and Fidel Castro

Today we had two guests:

1. State Representative Larry Cretul
2. U.S. Congressman Cliff Stearns

Great input from the listeners made this another great "Pulse Of The Taxpayer."

Today's topic was The Fair Tax and our local authorities on the subject were Barbara and Nick Rudelic.  For more information on the Fair Tax go to fairtax.org.

Special guest, State Representative Kurt Kelly, spoke about the issues he is addressing in Tallahassee including desalination options and legislation that would give law enforcement the tools necessary to intervene in a domestic type situation between dating individuals.  Representative Kelly also answered questions and responded to statements from listeners.

Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean was our guest and fielded questions from listeners about the Sheriff's Department.

Program Number 28.

Guest: Mike Sizemore

Topic: Water use, private residential wells, septic tank ordinances, the Floridan Aquifer, private property rights, nitrate counts in the local rivers and in the aquifer, and other related issues.

Today's program was caller driven and focused on the following topics:

1. Global Warming: Man Created or Sun Created?
2. Water Supply, water use, septic tanks, private wells, etc.
3. Letters addressed to "Wounded American Soldier"
4. Indian reservations that straddle the US border with Mexico and Canada
5. Mall Security fortification and American shoppers tolerance to metal detectors, spot checks, etc.

Today's program focused on the Ron Paul campaign with guests Gary Schor and Chris Dillard.  Listener calls fueled the discussion for a lively interview.

Program 25.

Topics:

1. Ron Paul
2. Republican debates on Univision (in Spanish)
3. User readable gauges for electricity and water so residents can tell how much money they are spending on those utilities.

We remembered Pearl Harbor on today's program.  We also compared the world as it looked in 1941 to the world we live in today and discussed the importance of remembering the course of events that led to World War II to, hopefully, prevent World War III.

Program Number 23. 

Topics:

1. Omaha Mall Shooting
2. North American Union
3. Pensions, Social Security, and Personal Responsibility
4. Space Shuttle and Astronauts
5. Local Railroad Crossings, Bridges, and Road Conditions

Program 22.  Listener driven.  Topics included:

1. Incorporated Churches
2. Fraudulent claims to FEMA
3. Radical Islam
4. Christian Right and Ron Paul

Program 21.  Topics were:

1. Ocala City Council issue
2. Salaries of local law enforcement officers
3. The philosophy of a democratic society
4. Taxpayers Action Group (TAG) meeting
5. UN proposal to tax carbon emissions

Program Number 20!  Today's program focused on a variety of issues both local and national.

Program Number 19.  Today's program was "caller driven" and focused on politics, religion, and caller feedback.