The Norm Kent Show - WFTL 850 AM: Distinguished Guests

Some of Norm's Previous Guests

Clay Shaw
Unites States Congressman - Florida: 22^nd District

Congressman Shaw, the third most senior Republican on the Committee on Ways and Means, serves as the chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee. From 1995-1998 he served as chairman of the Human Resources Subcommittee where he was credited with authoring the welfare reform legislation. He is also a member of the Trade Subcommittee. Congressman Clay Shaw has represented a South Florida Congressional District since 1981.

Alcee L. Hastings
Unites States Congressman - Florida: 23^rd District

Alcee L. Hastings represents his native state of Florida by serving as Congressman of District 23, which includes parts of Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hendry, Martin, St. Lucie, and Okeechobee Counties. Congressman Hastings was first elected in 1992 and most recently reelected in 2002. Born in Altamonte Springs, he attended Florida's public schools, and graduated from Fisk University in 1958. Having been accepted to Meharry Medical School, he decided instead to pursue jurisprudence. He received his Law Degree from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Known to most as "Judge," Alcee Hastings has distinguished himself as an attorney, civil rights activist and judge.

John E. Rodstrom,Jr.
Broward County Commissioner - District 7

Commissioner Rodstrom, a leader in Broward County for over 20 years. He brings with him a business perspective necessary for the administration of a $2 billion dollar county budget. His record of public service began as a City Commissioner, next as Mayor Pro-Tem, then as Vice-Mayor of the City of Fort Lauderdale.

Following his term with the City of Ft. Lauderdale, he was appointed Mayor of the City of Sunrise. He has been serving as a Broward County Commissioner since 1992, as well as Vice Chair in 1992-93 and Chair in 1993-94 and 2000-01.

Norm Coleman
United States Senator - Minnesota

Coleman, Norm Kent's Hofstra University classmate, first served Minnesota as an Assistant Attorney General, before being elected mayor of Saint Paul in 1994. He was elected mayor as a conservative Democrat, but in 1996 he joined the Republican Party, and was reelected in 1997 as the first Republican mayor of Saint Paul in over 25 years. Through his Mississippi Riverfront Development Initiative, Coleman helped to revitalize downtown St. Paul by creating a new science museum, housing for all income levels, planting over 25,000 new trees along the river, and boosting tourism. He also secured a National Hockey League franchise for St. Paul (the Minnesota Wild) probably the only thing he and Norm Kent now agree on.

Jim Naugle
Mayor, City of Ft. Lauderdale

Jim Naugle was elected Mayor of Fort Lauderdale in February 1991 and re-elected with no opposition in February 1997. He has served on the City Commission since 1985, and on City Boards since 1976. Mayor Naugle operates a real estate company in downtown Fort Lauderdale and is in his 25th year as a real estate professional.

Dean Trantalis,
Ft. Lauderdale City Commissioner

Steven Geller
Florida State Senator, District 31

Senator Geller was elected to the Florida Senate in 1988, where he has served subsequently, District 31.
Committee memberships include, Chair, Comprehensive Planning, Criminal Justice, Finance and Taxation.... Senator Geller served the Florida House of Representatives, 1988-1998.
He has been a practicing attorney in Broward County since 1982.

Stacy J. Ritter
Florida State Representative, District 96

Jonathan D. Moreno, Author of,
Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans.

"...an earnest, often chilling account..." -—The New York Times Book Review.

Undue Risk is an unprecedented and chilling history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological and chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. government from World War II to the present. Jonathan Moreno, a senior researcher on the president's special commission, goes where few researchers have gone before, exploring secret government documents which reveal a plethora of government experiments. He exposes startling details of experiments like those involving the exposure of soldiers to atomic blast fallout and secret LSD and mescaline experiments.

Broward County Sheriiff Ken Jenne.

As you know, the Broward Sheriff’s Office assists all municipal police departments and provides full law enforcement protection in the county’s unincorporated areas and the cities of North Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Dania Beach, Pembroke Park, Lauderdale Lakes, Tamarac, Deerfield Beach, Oakland Park, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Southwest Ranches and Weston. We also provide security for the Broward County Courts, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades.

Ann Coulter, author of Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right

Ann Coulter is an attorney and legal affairs correspondent. Her first book, High Crimes An Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was a New York Times Bestseller. She lives in New York and Washington DC.

Former San Diego Padre's player Billy Bean

Back in 1994, Bean had to play a crucial game after having watched his first partner die on a hospital gurney that morning from a burst pancreas. The pain of telling no one on his team of the loss and grief he went through forced Bean to vow that, should he be lucky enough to find another man, he would quit baseball for love. He did. The 35-year-old moved to Miami to be with his partner, Efrain Veiga, who runs a new restaurant called Mayya. Add that to your must-do list for Florida. (Photo by Marice Cohn Band)