Talk Nation Radio for June 4, 2008
A Dream Ticket spot for Clinton?
Debra Deanne Olson, environmentalist and feminist, and the Dream Team Duet Kaitlyn Olson and David Chamberlin
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Produced by Dori Smith, at Pacifica Affiliate station WHUS at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT
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We discuss the dream ticket idea as it was conveyed in a video produced by Debra Deanne Olson, of Peace Solutions an environmental company. She joined us June 3rd by phone from California.
We discuss her take on the primaries, the press, and her continued hope that Obama and Clinton will be on the ticket together. Debra Deanne Olson is the granddaughter of the first Democratic Governor of California Culbert Levy Olson, and we discuss her unique perspective as someone from a political family with a history of progressive support and work for change.
About five months ago Debra Deanne Olson was in the midst of creating a visual to go along with song lyrics given to her by friends Gloria Sklerov and Barbara Rothstein who are award winning song writers.
Their song has become a kind of anthem for those who believe in the idea of a dream ticket featuring both Obama and Clinton. The video shows pictures of Obama and Clinton together.
At first Debra Deanne Olson had anticipated that her candidate Hillary Clinton would be at the top of the ticket. But as production went on and that prospect began to be less of a sure thing she had to decide what to do. A realist, she placed the candidates side by side and did not make a selection as to which one would become the nominee.
The creators of the film hope it might be played at the Democratic Convention in Denver. We listen to, Take Our Country Back, sung by Kaitlyn Olson, Debra Deanne Olson’s daughter, and David Chamberlin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFtRxubRyA
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Debra Deanne Olson was a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and served on the Hillary Women’s Business Council.
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