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Highlights of Seth Grossman interview with John DeMasi on WPGTalkRadio.com, 1450AM and 95.5 FM near Atlantic City on March 21, 2026: ATLANTIC CITY HAS BIGGEST ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE EVER. BUT WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THAT TRADITION: DICK AND CATHY BURKE AND THEIR IRISH PUB. JOHN DEMASI: Before Seth Grossman gets into anything, we have a most important thing to ask him. What really happened to the Irish pub on Saint Patrick's Day? SETH GROSSMAN: Of course, I don't know. I had no idea it was closed until I read it in The Press of Atlantic City. I hate to let you down. But I do not have any inside information on what happened to the Irish Pub, other than I have very fond memories of the place going back more than fifty years. I remember how its owners, Dick and Cathy Burke put together Atlantic City's first St. Patrick's Day Parade back in the nineteen eighties. I remember marching down the Boardwalk with them. This year, Atlantic City had the biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade ever. I was sad and ironic that Dick and Cathy Burke, the people who started it all weren't there. I am here on behalf of LibertyAndProsperity.com, a private association. We are a group of individuals who share common goals and values. We formed a private organization to promote them. We meet for breakfast and talk about the issues that concern us at 09:30 every Saturday morning, at Sal's Coal Fired Pizza in Somers Point. We have a website. We have, special events from time to time. We have free email updates. And, if you'd like to get them, you know, just sign up, through the website or, email us at info@libertyandprosperity.com.  We are a typical private association of roughly 180 individuals. America was once famous for private, independent associations like outs.  To pay for our activities, we pay dues of $30 per year and we received private donations of about $30,000 per year. We use that money to be here on the radio, to have the website and the emails and the special events. So it is discouraging and ironic to find besides raising funds for our group, we are forced to pay taxes to support other private groups that pursue agendas we disagree with. Think of all the time, effort, and talent we spend persuading people to donate to us.   Every week, I beg for donations on the air, we beg for money on our website, and we have many fundraising events to pay for what we do. We need donations of roughly $33,000 each year to be on the radio, to have a website, to send email updates and to sponsor special events. And yet the Atlantic County Queer Alliance doesn't have to do any of this. They just fill out forms and a bunch of government agencies that we pay for give them all the money they need. Last Tuesday, on St. Patrick's Day, the CRDA, the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority voted to give a grant of 96,453.23 to the Atlantic County Queer Alliance. This money will be used to fund the mission of the Atlantic County Queer Alliance? According to its webgsite, that is to advance the acceptance and enrichment of LGBTQIA+ people and supporters of LGBTQIA+ so-called "rights" in South Jersey. And of course, LGBTQIA+ means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersexual, Asexual and Plus, whatever that is.  Now I'm sure the Atlantic County Queer Alliance said, "We are a nice group of people", and we would like to patronize the Atlantic City casino hotels and spend money there.  So force the casinos to give $96,000 of the tax on their gross casino win to help our group. But any private group can make that same claim. Our group, Liberty and Prosperity can go up to CRDA and say, if you give us $96,000, we will organize all sorts of events to promote Atlantic City casino hotels and invite people to meet us in Atlantic City. . . THE IRAN WAR: ARE WE DOING MORE THAN KILLING A HANDFUL OF ISLAMIC LEADERS WHO WANT TO BE MARTYRS? We are both part of the "Boomer" Generation. Our dads and their friends fought in Wo