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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: We take a hard look at the 2012 GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., from the partying to the homophobia to the shadowy fundraising. And what’s this about welfare reform?

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Alan Minsky, author of “Fear and Loathing in Florida 2012,” speaks to us from Tampa.

Liz Bartolomeo of the Sunlight Foundation reports on GOP fundraising and corporate sponsors Google and AT&T.

We ask The Advocate’s Lucas Grindley why the Republican Party hasn’t been designated a hate group.

Robert Scheer is mad as hell about the welfare debate.