Spooky campaign ads! Can’t we get rid of them?
It's Halloween, but the truly scary day is just around the corner. That’s right, Election Day!
Campaigns are spending record amounts of money on ads that border on the ghoulish. The midterms are on track to be the most expensive congressional elections in history and may hit $5 billion -- the Kim Schrier-Dino Rossi race in Washington's 8th Congressional District is the costliest House campaign in state history.
In this special Halloween edition of SoundQs we’ll look at what can be done to get money out of politics (spoiler alert: not much) and how campaign spending can be made more transparent, so voters will be better informed about who’s lurking behind those political ads.
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Deborah Wang
Contributing Reporter, Editor, and Host
Deborah is a contributing reporter, editor and host at KUOW. Since joining the staff in 2005, Deborah has done everything from political reporting to podcast hosting and is now serving as Interim News Director. She is an award–winning radio and television journalist whose career spans more than three decades.
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Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He helped get KUOW's listener based podcast SoundQs off the ground before then heading on to pitch and create THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a sound rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation.
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David Hyde
Reporter
David’s people-focused politics coverage tracks local and national races. At KUOW, David has also reported for our Hearken Team answering listener questions,and covered a variety of other topics ranging from vaccine hesitancy to climate change.
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