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\"\"<\/a>David Gornoski<\/strong> <\/a>and I had fun today\u00a0 thrashing the Omnibus Boondoggle Bonanza on his “Neighbor’s Choice” radio<\/a> program on NewsTalk Florida WHBO Tampa Bay. The Senate passed the bill without reading it and the House is a down deal, pratfall guaranteed. We will be learning in the coming weeks about the specific outrages and boondoggles that this bill contains. <\/span><\/p>\n

We were discussing my New York Post piece \u00a0<\/a><\/strong>on this train wreck.\u00a0 The FBI also caught some heat late in the show.<\/p>\n

You can hear the 22 minute interview by clicking or downloading below.<\/p>\n

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David Gornoski and I had fun today\u00a0 thrashing the Omnibus Boondoggle Bonanza on his “Neighbor’s Choice” radio program on NewsTalk Florida WHBO Tampa Bay. The Senate passed the bill without reading it and the House is a down deal, pratfall guaranteed. We will be learning in the coming weeks about the specific outrages and boondoggles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[415,391,15,47,3477,3475,734],"class_list":["post-17859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boondoggle","tag-censorship","tag-congress","tag-fbi","tag-gornoski","tag-omnibus","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"\nBashing the Omnibus Boondoggle Bonanza on Florida Radio - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Gornoski and I thrashed the Omnibus Boondoggle on his Tampa Bay radio program.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/bashing-the-omnibus-boondoggle-bonanza-on-florida-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bashing the Omnibus Boondoggle Bonanza on Florida Radio - 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