Barry Broad, COCRA’s Legislative Advocate and Published Author
Posted on July 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pm, by Gordon Aiavao
Many of you COCRA members who’ve attended our annual conferences in the past have probably had the opportunity to hear a legislative report given by Barry Broad, COCRA’s lead legislative advocate in Sacramento. And if you’ve heard Barry speak, you know that he’s deeply invested in defending the court reporting profession. You may have even picked up on what a colorful personality he is.
Yet what you may not know is that Barry is also a published author. Barry’s novel “The Eve of Destruction” gets released soon and if you’re wondering what Barry’s novel is about, you can check out this synopsis published in an interview that Barry gave to the Los Angeles Times.
As lawmakers droned, he fell into a daydream. Broad, an avid news consumer and armchair geopoliticist, began pondering the Middle East, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
“What if CIA secret agents could engineer a Chernobyl-like nuclear meltdown that would stymie Iran’s ambitions to build a nuclear bomb?” Broad mused. “What if Iran’s mullahs could smuggle a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ into the Port of Los Angeles and set it off at Griffith Observatory?” And “what if both events were to occur simultaneously?”
Almost makes the battles that officials have with electronic recording pale in comparison. You can read the rest of the interview with Barry and learn more about his book by clicking here. And Barry will be having a book signing in Sacramento next month and I’ll post more info on it or update this post.