He has a Ph.D in political science and a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. An investigative journalist, he is the author of eleven books, through which he has won eleven major investigative journalism awards including "Best Coverage of Politics in Ohio" from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. He served as an international election observer in the 1994 presidential elections in El Salvador and was the co-author and editor of the report to the United Nations.

Fitrakis rose to national prominence during the 2004 U.S. presidential election and related 2004 U.S. election voting controversies by calling the first public hearings on election irregularities in Ohio and by filing a challenge in the Ohio Supreme Court to Ohio's presidential election results in the cases Moss v. Bush and Moss v. Moyer with three other attorneys.

Fitrakis ran for Governor of Ohio in 2006 on the Green Party ticket with his running mate, Anita Rios.

Bob is working with Cliff Arnebeck on the Ohio lawsuit, King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell, and we'll be discussing updates on that case and its implications for tying in Karl Rove to the election fraud of 2004 in Ohio.

We will also be talking in our first hour with another interesting guest, SHEILA DEAN, about Real IDs - a Congressional mandate for a nationalized ID card with potential to end identity security and privacy as we know it by late 2009. 

Sheila is the blog Editor for BeatTheChip.org and Campaign manager for the 5-11 Campaign: Texans Against Real IDs . Sheila has been involved with media activism for World Can't Wait, The Los Angeles National Impeachment Center, Dennis Kucinich, Author Michael Weinstein, David Swanson, Ron Paul, and Focus The Nation, a national green teach-in event for Santa Monica College and UCLA.