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Greg Palast announces his new book at Fighting Bob Fest

16 September 2012
[Last updated 23 October]
Pam Rotella

Journalist and author Greg Palast announced his new book Billionaires and Ballot Bandits will become available later this week. Palast made the announcement on Saturday, 15 September, at Fighting Bob Fest in Madison, Wisconsin.

Palast, a regular speaking guest at Bob Fest, is famous for extensive reporting and subsequent books exposing the election fraud of 2000 and 2004 that brought the Bush/Cheney administration to power.

After the event, Palast told me that his publisher allowed him to reveal the new book to Fighting Bob Fest's audience a few days earlier than the official announcement date.

Fighting Bob Fest is an annual Wisconsin event, described on FightingBobFest.org as carrying on "the tradition of Robert 'Fighting Bob' La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on issues facing Wisconsin and the nation."

Palast is one of Fighting Bob Fest's most prominent regular speakers. The following are photos of some speakers at Fighting Bob Fest 2012. Check back later for more information on Palast's book and the event...

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin was one of the festival's first speakers. She is running against former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson for retiring Senator Herb Kohl's US Senate seat.

John Nichols, editor of The Capital Times and correspondent for The Nation, held up a copy of a Wisconsin Judge's decision of the previous day, striking down Governor Walker's collective bargaining law. The law had been a primary reason for massive protests across the state and a recall election that left Governor Walker in power only after campaign expenditures in excess of sixty million dollars.

The "Solidarity Singers" performed a few musical numbers for the festival. The group had been recently harassed and some members arrested by Capitol Police over permits for their musical performances, as Capitol Police Chief David Erwin vowed to crack down on protests in Madison.

Populist author of Thieves in High Places among other books, Jim Hightower is one of Bob Fest's most popular regular speakers.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore said that she is a member of the House Budget Committee that Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan now chairs. Moore feels that Ryan is using the budget process for his "divide and conquer" strategy. She said that Ryan's rhetoric and budget policies divide citizens by groups like seniors, the military, and women, and pit them against each other for funding.

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