<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>John Sakowicz and Sid Cooperrider interview one of our country's most distinguished journalists, Hedrick Smith. As chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, Smith won two Pulitzer Prizes and two Emmy Awards.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>KMEC RADIO</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>We broadcast at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream live from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Our shows are archived and available as podcasts. Shows on our Youtube channel are followed by more than 42,000 subscribers</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Monday's show with Hedrick Smith is the third time he has been featured at KMEC Radio.</span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>HEDRICK SMITH</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>In 1971, Smith </span>was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its work on the Pentagon Papers. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1974 for stories from Russia and Eastern Europe.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;">His Frontline shows on PBS, "The Wall Street Fix" and "Can You Afford to Retire?" each won an Emmy Award. His Frontline shows, "Critical Condition" and "Tax Me If You Can" were both nominated for Emmies. </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Smith has won or shared the Columbia-Dupont Gold Baton for the year’s best public affairs program on U.S. television twice. He has also won the George Polk, George Peabody and Hillman awards for his excellence in reporting along with two national public service awards</div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>On Monday, December 19, 1 pm, Pacific Time, at KMEC Radio, Smith will talk about the role of dark money in U.S. politics. We'll also talk about about some </span>good political reform stories that are under-reported by mainstream media.. </div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;">For example, recently, Smith has reported on and filmed the movement in South Dakota that won public funding of campaigns --- amazing for a red state where the Koch brothers spent hundreds of thousands of dollar trying to kill the reform - and failed. </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;">There's also the amazing gerrymander reform in Florida which has generated five new faces in the Florida Congressional delegation, almost half the gains that Democrats made nationwide, from one state. </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><br></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;">And there's the California dark money story of 2012 - exposing the Koch network. …and anti-gerrymander decisions by federal courts IN Wisconsin and North Carolina.</div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>A lot is going on that deserves attention. For the second half hour of Monday's show, Smith will talk about grass </span>roots citizens reform movements as an antidote to the so-called "Trump Revolt" and Trump's new "Billionaires Club" of Cabinet appointments. See Smith's following pieces:</div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>How Reformers Beat the Koch Brothers in South Dakota – goo.gl/4HDVAp </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>How Gerrymander Reform Opened Up Politics in Florida - goo.gl/NTESkh </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Can the States Save Our Democracy? - goo.gl/fJDe4S</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><img alt="David and Charles Koch. 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