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, & 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 pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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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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