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Speaker 1: From the mighty nine to ninety broadcast centers.

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Speaker 2: You're waking up in Starns Country with Todd Stearns.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Happy Friday to you everybody. It is Starns Country.

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Speaker 1: I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us today.

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Speaker 1: Look the weather, it's getting warmer outside. Hopefully, hopefully you

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Speaker 1: kids will be going back to school sometime this century.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we've got a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: coming your way. We have a very busy show today.

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Speaker 1: Our good friend Patty Apossel is going to be here,

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Speaker 1: and also on deck Memphis City Councilwoman Jerry Green. She

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Speaker 1: is running to be the next governor of Tennessee. She's

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Speaker 1: running as a Democrat, and she has graciously agreed to

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Speaker 1: sit down for a great conversation. Also taking your questions

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Speaker 1: as as well. Nine oh one two six zero five

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Speaker 1: nine two six is our telephone number this morning. That's

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Speaker 1: nine oh one two six zero five, nine to six,

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Speaker 1: And of course a little bit later on this morning,

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Speaker 1: heading to Nashville, I'll be speaking this weekend at the

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Speaker 1: Young America's Foundation. Their National Freedom Fest is going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. We've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: great speakers. Congressman Tim Burchett's going to be there, Scott Walker,

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Speaker 1: I believe the Governor Bill Lee is going to be there.

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Speaker 1: And also we've got a delegation of conservative young people

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Speaker 1: from Memphis and Shelby County and they're going to be

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Speaker 1: making the track that I'm probably already on the way

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Speaker 1: We'll be sure to take a lot to photos and

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Speaker 1: we'll post thos on the mighty nine to ninety social

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Speaker 1: media page. So a couple of things here. We have

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Speaker 1: two major polls going on right now. Who do you

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Speaker 1: want to see as your Republican nominee for governor? And

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Speaker 1: we have a poll on our KWA and Facebook page.

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Speaker 1: It has pinned to the very top of the page.

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Speaker 1: Would love for you to go and participate. Justin Johnson,

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Speaker 1: our good friend out in Collierville, longtime supporter of conservatives,

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Speaker 1: and he has a poll as well that was posted

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Speaker 1: last night. Now, look, all of these are not they're unscientific, right,

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Speaker 1: but these are real people. You only get to vote

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Speaker 1: one time. Almost fifteen hundred people have voted in Justin's poll,

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Speaker 1: and it's very interesting. Again, I'm just sharing the data

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Speaker 1: here and the way Facebook works, you're only allowed to

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Speaker 1: vote one time, all right, one person, one vote and

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Speaker 1: no illegals. So you know, if you're not a member

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Speaker 1: of Facebook, I don't believe you're allowed to vote in this.

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Speaker 1: So here we go. This is the Justin Johnson poll,

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Speaker 1: fourteen hundred voters right now, a state representative, Monty Fritz

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Speaker 1: getting fifty one percent of the vote, Marcia Blackburn forty

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Speaker 1: three percent, and John Rose coming in last at six percent. Now,

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Speaker 1: a poll conducted by Beacon and they had Marshall Blackburn

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Speaker 1: poll and what was very interesting was who was coming

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Speaker 1: in second place. And right now John Rose and Monti

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Speaker 1: Fritz are neck to neck in that poll. Now, the

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Speaker 1: KWAM Pole we have just launched and you'll be able

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Speaker 1: to vote throughout the day and we'll give you those

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Speaker 1: totals here I'm calling them up. All right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: We've just got just shy of five hundred people now

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Speaker 1: voting in the kwaan poll. Right now, Marshall Blackburn is

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Speaker 1: seventy one percent of the vote, Many Fritz at twenty

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Speaker 1: so you'll be able to vote on that pole all

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Speaker 1: day long, so be sure to take take advantage of

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Speaker 1: that and let your voice be heard. All right, Wow, Justin,

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Speaker 1: we we have a pair of Justins in the state House.

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Speaker 1: And there are a bunch of rabble rousers. We've got

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Speaker 1: made some pretty severe allegations against the Tennessee Highway Patrol

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Speaker 1: a protester rather during one of these anti anti ice marches,

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Speaker 1: and there he was calling for an investigation. That it

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Speaker 1: So finally the TCHP had had enough of it and said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, fine, We're going to release the dash

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Speaker 1: cam video. Last night, they did just that, and you

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Speaker 1: can you can check that out on our Kwan Facebook page,

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Speaker 1: which if you search for mighty nine ninety you'll find

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Speaker 1: video clearly shows that not only did the THCHP officers

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Speaker 1: every single bit of it. Mister Pearson lied to you.

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Speaker 1: And it's important that you know that because that man

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Speaker 1: because my understanding he is a religious man. And for

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Speaker 1: better than that. And now his cohort, Justin Jones out

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Speaker 1: of the Nashville area, has posted an item regarding the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show by one bad Bunny. Take a listen,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a halftime show.

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Speaker 3: I know some folks will be a little bit triggered

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Speaker 3: by an artist named bad Bunny, but I want to

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Speaker 3: just announcement that before you rage tweet. Bad monnies from

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Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is a part of America.

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Speaker 3: They have American citizenship because of colonization. So I want

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Speaker 3: to just give you some information before we.

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Speaker 1: See a few racist tweets.

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Speaker 3: Secondly, I know some of you are gonna be watching

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Speaker 3: the bootleg te MoU version of the halftime show that

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Speaker 3: Turning Point and Magas doing with a man named Kid

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Speaker 3: Rock kind of weird. He's a girl man named kid Rock,

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Speaker 3: but he has lyrics about liking underage girls, which is

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Speaker 3: called pedophilia, and I think we should be a little.

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Speaker 1: Uncomfortable by that.

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Speaker 3: I know that's very common right now in the White House,

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Speaker 3: but I think that we should not support people who

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Speaker 3: have lyrics about liking underage girls. So Kid Rock shameful.

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Speaker 3: I hope you all tune into bad money. It's some

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Speaker 3: good music, get some culture, and.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy all right. So it is no that, no, that

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Speaker 1: is completely not true. And by the way, the lyrics

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Speaker 1: which were taken out of context came from a song

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Speaker 1: he wrote back in two thousand and one. And of

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Speaker 1: course we all know there are there are no there

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Speaker 1: there is no evidence that President Trump has ever done

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Speaker 1: what mister Pearson just accused him of doing. And I

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Speaker 1: certainly hope the Trump administration and Kid Rock sue the

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Speaker 1: ever living daylights out of Justin Jones. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that's how you put a stop to this nonsense. That's

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Speaker 1: how you put a stomp to the liars. Liars gonna

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Speaker 1: sort of a podunk trailer park. Unbelievable. All right, nine

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Speaker 1: up next. Paddy Pozzle joins us. She's look, we need

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Speaker 1: your help, and you're gonna give it to Paddy Possel

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Speaker 1: because she is a great American patriot and we've got

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Speaker 1: a great audience out there. Again, our telephone number if

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Speaker 1: you want to weigh in on bad Bunny. Nine oh

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Speaker 1: oh one two six zero five, nine two six. Let's

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Speaker 1: check in with Commander and Chuck standing with a look

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Speaker 1: at your traffic, and welcome back to Starning's Country. We

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Speaker 1: are broadcasting in the Principal Toyota Memphis studio this morning.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you're looking for a great car,

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Speaker 1: I want you to go and visit my friend Todd

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Speaker 1: Lockner over at Principal Toyota Memphis. He's going to take

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Speaker 1: very good care of you. Just be sure to tell

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Speaker 1: him that you're a big k Wayam listener. All right, Wow,

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Speaker 1: election season is upon us, and it seems like election

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Speaker 1: season has never stopped. For some weird reason. Our good

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Speaker 1: friend Patty Apostle joins us and she is here in

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Speaker 1: her in her position as a Shelby County Election commissioner.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Patty, great to see you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Todd. Thanks I'm having.

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, I'm envious because all of the

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Speaker 1: ladies that listen to Kawin when they show up in

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Speaker 1: person at the crack of dawn, it's like you guys

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Speaker 1: how you ladies do it, but God bless you.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. It's called getting ready before I went

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Speaker 1: So we have Jerry Green coming up in the at

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, and and I'm always hesitant

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Speaker 1: about those, you know, it's it's early. It's in the morning.

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Speaker 1: And she goes, I have three kids. I'm up at

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Speaker 1: five am, so this is a piece of cake for me.

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Speaker 4: So oh well, it's not for me. My kids are

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Speaker 4: grown and gone, so I can sleep.

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Speaker 1: In rightly exactly there you go. That's that's it. There is.

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Speaker 1: You and I were talking a few days ago, and

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Speaker 1: we've got a big we've got a big challenge, and

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Speaker 1: we need some help here from our KWAM listers.

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Speaker 4: We need what pole watchers, no, not watchers, workers, poll work.

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Speaker 4: There is a difference between a pole watcher, and there's

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Speaker 4: the shortage of those as well, but we need poll workers.

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Speaker 4: And the difference is a watcher gets credentials and they

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Speaker 4: And then the poll workers are the people like when

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Speaker 4: and half of them need to be on the Republican side.

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Speaker 4: And right now we're imbalanced and we're shy about four

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Speaker 1: So we're needing four hundred Republican pollworks. More more more. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so right now there's somebody listening and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I think I could probably do that. Are there any

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Speaker 4: Number one, you have to be over seventeen, because we

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Speaker 4: will take you if you are seventeen or eighteen, even

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Speaker 4: though you're not able to vote. Well, some eighteen year

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Speaker 4: step up as well, and they're like assistant workers. The

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Speaker 4: rest of us have to be eighteen or older registered

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Speaker 4: to vote. The first time. You don't have to vote

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Speaker 4: it in a primary the first time you work, but

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Speaker 4: the second time you have to have voted in a primary.

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Speaker 4: So you have to be a citizen to registered to vote,

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Speaker 4: and that's about it, and be willing to come in

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Speaker 1: All right, So are these and these are all what

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Speaker 4: You actually get paid.

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Speaker 1: Wait what, yes, you actually.

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Speaker 4: You do it and it's not bad pay. It's two

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Speaker 1: So you're getting a little bit of cash in your

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's a great idea, and again we

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and just just statistically and off year elections. Here

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, and we're going to ask We're going to

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Speaker 1: Right, Elections SHELBYTN dot gov. Pattyposel goodness. Ye by the way,

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Speaker 1: You do need anything special for the Super Bowl? I

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Speaker 4: I'm more of ballet watcher, so I'm more in the

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Speaker 1: But ladies and gentlemen, this lady right here makes the

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Speaker 1: all right, Patty, great to see you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, folks, there you go. Elections SHELBYTN dot gov.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Green wants to be your next governor. She'll be

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Speaker 1: here next all right, welcome back. It is now thirty

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Speaker 1: Todd Lockner over at Principal to Yota, Memphis. I've been

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Speaker 1: just a moment. Callie Prescorn is a young lady, and

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Speaker 5: I live in Oxford, Mississippi, and we were hit pretty

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Speaker 1: I have no idea we're going to find out here

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Speaker 2: Thank you. And I love that story you just started

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Speaker 1: I just love it. And that is one of the

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Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. When people ask me about Memphis, I tell

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Speaker 2: here and you meet the people, you'll fall in love

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Speaker 2: with the city.

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Speaker 1: When we were chatting, O, you ran into Patty Postle

436
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Speaker 1: on the way downstairs and we heard somebody laughing. I'm like,

437
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Speaker 1: who is downstairs laughing? I had no idea. I forgot

438
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Speaker 1: that Patty was like on the art side of the equation.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's so funny. So my husband played football

440
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Speaker 2: at Vanderbilt and I went to ut So let me

441
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Speaker 2: just say, this year's been hard in my family, mostly

442
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Speaker 2: on me, but we're big football people and we'll definitely

443
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Speaker 2: be having some nachos and watching the super Bowl together.

444
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Speaker 2: But I was cackling at whether she was having beer

445
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Speaker 2: and wings before ballet that.

446
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Speaker 1: I get to see it out at the Memphis Ballet,

447
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Speaker 1: you know, and just a little little wing carcasses all

448
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Speaker 1: over the place. You know. One of the things that

449
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Speaker 1: that I also enjoy about KWIM. And you know, when

450
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: I bought the radio station, I felt it was important

451
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Speaker 1: for our to have a locally owned news talk radio station.

452
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Speaker 1: We can talk about all this stuff you're not supposed

453
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Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, around the dinner table. I

454
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Speaker 1: think that's what radio is for, and I think it's important.

455
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Speaker 1: And what I love about you, though, is that the

456
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Speaker 1: Senator Brent Taylor, you know, who is probably I guess

457
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Speaker 1: you guys may be polar opposes politically, but when it

458
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Speaker 1: comes to like the big things that matter, like picking

459
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Speaker 1: up trash you know that's in the neighborhood. He actually,

460
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Speaker 1: he actually tweeted about you and and the idea that

461
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Speaker 1: you're one tough mother, which is a great slogan.

462
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Speaker 2: We actually thank you. I came up with it myself.

463
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Speaker 2: I he and I worked together all the time. In fact,

464
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Speaker 2: he texted me this past week about a particular road

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Speaker 2: in front of a school that needed to be taken

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Speaker 2: care of, and I immediately got on the phone to

467
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Speaker 2: our director of public works. Yeah, whether it's he sees

468
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Speaker 2: a burnout car in front of Shelby Farms or a

469
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 2: house in a neighborhood that's all blighted and needs to

470
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Speaker 2: be torn down, he texts me, I get on it,

471
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Speaker 2: and the great you know, I make some calls. The

472
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Speaker 2: really the hard workers are the people in Memphis who

473
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Speaker 2: go and cover up the graffiti and the overpass and

474
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Speaker 2: things like that. But he sees it, I call the

475
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Speaker 2: people and we get it done.

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Speaker 1: I want to read this. This is from last year

477
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Speaker 1: the Brent. Senator Brent Taylor says, when council, when Green's

478
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Speaker 1: not cutting the city budget or fighting for a higher

479
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Speaker 1: pay for our first responder, she is cleaning up the city.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure you're not really a Republican? That's throw

481
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Speaker 1: that out there.

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Speaker 2: I tell you this, I am. I am very progressive,

483
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Speaker 2: but I am pragmatic because I'm a mom, you know,

484
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Speaker 2: and what moms do is get things done. And whether

485
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Speaker 2: it's cleaning up a mess you didn't make, like a

486
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Speaker 2: blighted property, or being sensible with your budget, I think

487
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Speaker 2: those are all things that go back to my most

488
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Speaker 2: important job, which is being a mom, and that's just

489
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Speaker 2: who I am.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people when they see Memphis,

491
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Speaker 1: you know, and we see what's happening in Nashville with

492
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Speaker 1: the massive growth, you know, they've experienced in the skyscrapers

493
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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. And you know, I

494
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Speaker 1: spent fifteen years in Brooklyn and I love a vibrant

495
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Speaker 1: downtown and we just don't have that yet right now.

496
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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people are wanting to know,

497
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Speaker 1: you know, why don't we have those things, you know

498
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Speaker 1: here in Memphis, And what is it going to take

499
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Speaker 1: to really revive you know, our city we're losing population,

500
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Speaker 1: bringing those people back and you know, helping especially Jen

501
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Speaker 1: Alpha and gen Z understand we are. We're a great

502
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Speaker 1: place to start a family, to start a career, and

503
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Speaker 1: maybe end up here for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a great cost of living here, I

505
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Speaker 2: think really and it's one of the reasons that I

506
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Speaker 2: think it would be important for us to have a

507
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Speaker 2: governor from Memphis. We haven't had one in over one

508
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Speaker 2: hundred years. And when you're not at the table, you're

509
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Speaker 2: often on the table or you're forgotten. And so I

510
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: think a lot of times we've been left behind Nashville

511
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Speaker 2: and investments in ways that have been detrimental to us

512
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Speaker 2: because you know what they say, when you're bad, they

513
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: put you in a corner, and we live over here

514
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: at a corner, right, So I think having somebody who

515
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: puts Memphis as a priority will be helpful. I do

516
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 2: think we've done some great things to turn around some

517
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Speaker 2: of the concerns. So like around crime. You know, we

518
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: started our real time crime center. We've seen record lows

519
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: even before the task force got here. So we're working

520
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 2: really diligently. Whether it is cleaning up the streets. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think probably my first week on council, I walked

522
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Speaker 2: down the streets with Sam Hardman and Daily Memphion and

523
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 2: Bill Street and said, see this, we got to clean

524
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Speaker 2: up this. See this, we got to clean up this.

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Speaker 2: And then I walk down the streets with our public

526
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Speaker 2: works director and we got those things fixed. People want

527
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Speaker 2: to see a vivor downtown, and I think we're getting there.

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Speaker 2: We're getting there.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Green is a running for governor on the Democrat

530
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Speaker 1: side of the aisle, and we posted a message last

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Speaker 1: time on the social media page what questions you know,

532
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Speaker 1: what questions do you have? And we had a number

533
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Speaker 1: of people right in a Generalisapio who owns Rum Bookie

534
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Speaker 1: and a number of restaurants around the mid South, and

535
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 1: got to give us a shout out to Jim. They

536
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: just had the International Blues competition and it was insanely good.

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Speaker 1: Jim says, I would like to know what council Member

538
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Speaker 1: Green is doing about crime in Memphis was doing prior

539
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Speaker 1: to the surge of federal agents arriving.

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Speaker 2: So we did multiple things. You mentioned that post by

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Speaker 2: Brent Taylor. So the first thing and the first priority

542
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Speaker 2: was to increase the pay and benefits for our first

543
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Speaker 2: responders for our police department to make sure that we

544
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Speaker 2: could recruit and retain talent. We also did a deep

545
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Speaker 2: dive on their budget to make sure that we weren't

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Speaker 2: outsourcing services that needed to be done by MPD and

547
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Speaker 2: to save money for the city. After that, we also

548
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 2: invested in their benefits. So I worked really hard on

549
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Speaker 2: some on the job PTSD, especially after we lost Officer McKinney,

550
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 2: to make sure that they're getting the care they need

551
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 2: to be able to do their job. And then we

552
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Speaker 2: did things outside of police. One of the very first

553
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Speaker 2: initiatives I put in the first budget was two hundred

554
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars for youth mental health. We've got to get

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Speaker 2: these kids on the right track, and we've got to

556
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Speaker 2: invest in them. We also put a million dollars back

557
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Speaker 2: into our schools, which is something the City of Memphis

558
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 2: doesn't have to do anymore. We gave up the charter,

559
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: but we know investing in our children is investing in

560
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: our future and that helps with crime. I on the

561
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Speaker 2: county side, because I was a deputy chief of staff

562
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Speaker 2: for the mayor, I've done multiple things. The thing I'm

563
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: probably most proud of in this is my website called

564
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 2: Work to Break the Cycle, where we hire people regardless

565
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Speaker 2: of their record, and we've hired two hundred people with

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Speaker 2: criminal histories and we've had zero recidivism. So when they've

567
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: served their time and they want to serve their community,

568
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: we're going to give them an opportunity to get a

569
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Speaker 2: job and a career and get back on the right track.

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Speaker 2: And so I've done multiple things. I started a free

571
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Speaker 2: gunlock by mail program, and the two years that I've

572
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: done it, we've had two thousand people take advantage of it.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a twenty five percent reduction in gun stolen

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Speaker 2: out of cars, and we used to have forty percent

575
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: of our violent crime trace back to gun stolen out

576
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Speaker 2: of cars. So I think all of those things combined

577
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: really have helped crime. And we did that before the

578
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Speaker 2: Task Force got here.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Green is joining us in studio and maybe you

580
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Speaker 1: have a question, give us a call. Nine oh one

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Speaker 1: two six zero five nine two six. Luke Symbol who's

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Speaker 1: been very active.

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Speaker 4: You know, I know, Luke Hi Luke for listening.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, yeah, here's his question. Wait for the

585
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Speaker 1: question here, Jerry, before we get.

586
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Speaker 2: To it excited neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Actually, is that right? You know what he's doing like

588
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: a fixer upper thing. So all right, here's what Luke said.

589
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Speaker 1: Why did she say the Memphis Safe Tank Force would

590
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Speaker 1: terrorize citizens during a press conference?

591
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Speaker 2: So I was talking about bringing in the National Guard,

592
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Speaker 2: not the full task Force, and I think that needs

593
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Speaker 2: to be really made clear. I, again, as a Georgetown

594
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 2: trained lawyer, have spent my life defending the Constitution and

595
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: it troubles me on a deep level to think about

596
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Speaker 2: unilaterally armed troops being dropped into cities. So that's what

597
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: that press conference was about. And we did see in

598
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Speaker 2: other places where communities, particularly communities of color, communities, Hispanic communities,

599
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: did feel terror and we have seen that here in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: We have talked to church leaders that have had to

601
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: move their masses and services online. We've talked to people

602
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: at church health because people are not showing up for

603
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: their doctor's appointments and they're worried that they're gonna end up,

604
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: you know, sick or dying. And we have kids who

605
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: are not going to school. That's really problematic for me.

606
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: Those those feel like things that people should be able

607
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: to do to go to drop their kid off at school,

608
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: to go to a doctor's appointment, and to go worship.

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Speaker 2: So I was not talking about the task force overall,

610
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Speaker 2: and that was not what I said. But I do

611
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Speaker 2: think there is a sense of terror out there. And

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Todd, I've been across the state multiple

613
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Speaker 2: times now. I've done about fifty stops. I meet people

614
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 2: in South Pittsburgh or in Dixon and they're immigrants, and

615
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: they say, I don't go out and speak now, even

616
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Speaker 2: though I'm a US citizen, because I'm afraid. I don't

617
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Speaker 2: want people to live in fear that have come here

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Speaker 2: to complete the AMA.

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Speaker 1: And then on the other side of that equation, though

620
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Speaker 1: people have been terrorized for years in Memphis, they have

621
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Speaker 1: been living in fear because of this incredibly violent crime

622
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Speaker 1: and the gangs. And you know when Mayor Young, you know,

623
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Speaker 1: one of his first orders of business was to invite

624
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Speaker 1: the gang leaders to city Hall for a confab. I

625
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: think that sends the wrong message here, and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, especially business owners, are just really

627
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: they were frustrated and they were to a point where

628
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: we can no longer do business here, and they were

629
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: packing up and leaving and we don't want that to happen.

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Speaker 1: So what do you say about because again, city council

631
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Speaker 1: was not, you know, providing the resources we need. Our

632
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: complement of officers has never been where it's supposed to be at.

633
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Speaker 1: And when you see more bodies on the street with

634
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: law enforcement, that's what the bad guys see that, and

635
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Speaker 1: you know they either are relocating to another city or

636
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Speaker 1: they're not going to do that crime.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I actually went on a ride along with the police

639
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: officer to ask him if he thought the National Guard

640
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Speaker 2: help because I believe getting really close to the problem

641
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: right to see what the solutions are. We talked to

642
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: prostitutes that were out that night and he's like, these

643
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: ladies need drug treatment, counseling and housing. The National Guard

644
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 2: can't help with that. We talked about apartment complex. We've

645
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 2: got a lot of domestic violence calls. They needed different,

646
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: you know, resources for these women to be able to leave.

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Speaker 2: The National Guard couldn't help with that. He every place

648
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Speaker 2: we went. We met a man who was schizophrenic and

649
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Speaker 2: off his medicine and attacking his mom. He needed to

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Speaker 2: be put in a facility. We took him to that facility.

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Speaker 2: Art Billingsley who works with Alliance really helped me there.

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Speaker 2: But that's the sort of thing that people are needing,

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Speaker 2: and that's what the officers are telling me.

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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of folks that want to ask questions.

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Speaker 1: Is that okay?

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Speaker 2: Sorry?

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Speaker 1: Real? All right, well hang tight, let's go right to

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Speaker 1: the phones and guys, just keep your questions pretty brief.

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Speaker 1: We want to try to get them in. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Dean and East Memphis. Dean, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: What's your question to council Member Green?

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Speaker 6: Give them one of my screen All right, I'll change

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Speaker 6: minu just a little bit. But you said you were

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Speaker 6: more against the National Guard coming in. Me and my

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Speaker 6: wife both have been out and about the city of

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Speaker 6: Memphis or whatever, and the National Guard wouldn't terrorize in anybody.

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Speaker 6: They were just saying hello and walking around and do

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Speaker 6: haf other kinds of things. So I don't know what

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Speaker 6: the problem is.

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Speaker 2: Right, and so I'll say this. I also think that

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Speaker 2: the National Guard. I've seen them at Target, I've seen

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Speaker 2: them at Crosstown. I saw them walking up and down

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Speaker 2: Main Street. I don't see them solving either the underlying

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Speaker 2: root causes of crime or actually stop being criminals in acts.

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Speaker 2: And so for me, again we go back to good

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Speaker 2: government spending and good use of your tax payer dollars.

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Speaker 2: We're seeing that these National Guard deployments could be costing

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Speaker 2: us billions. I don't think that that's the smartest way

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Speaker 2: for us to go about attacking crime. That's why I

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Speaker 2: invested in police force. I invested in new cars for them.

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Speaker 2: I invested in the real time crime center downtown so

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Speaker 2: that we can watch things happening in real time. I'm

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Speaker 2: that and at the same time investing in our youth,

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Speaker 2: investing in pathways and career ways for them. That to

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Speaker 2: me is a better investment of your tax dollars than

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Speaker 2: just having people walk around your target.

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Speaker 1: Dean, I got a run, but you got your question in.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Nine oh one two six zero

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Speaker 1: five nine two six. We've got to take a quick break.

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Speaker 1: You to stick around for a few more minutes. We

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Speaker 1: have Jerry Green with us right now. Need to check

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Speaker 1: in with Parker May standing by with your KWAMS sports update.

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Speaker 1: All right, Green for governor dot com. That's green for governor.

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Speaker 1: That's like literally f o R not the number for

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Speaker 1: Jerry position. Thank you for not making it U what

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Speaker 1: is it? One tough mother? Is that right?

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Speaker 2: That's the slogan.

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Speaker 1: I love that. That's great. Let's go to the phones here.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Northeast Memphis. Hey, Jerry, what's your question for? Jerry Green?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 7: I just want to know why you're sitting back?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jerry? I think Jerry hasn't had his coffee.

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Speaker 2: Yet this week's all right. That's all right.

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Speaker 1: Let's you and me both. Let's go to Mike in Memphis. Hi, Mike,

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Speaker 1: what's your question?

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Speaker 7: Great and salt, there is an obvious authoritarian overreach going

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Speaker 7: on right now, and what I would ask you to

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Speaker 7: do is look at the root causes of the crime

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Speaker 7: as opposed to the heavy handedness that we're dealing with.

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Speaker 7: That it's it's clearly a way to drive money from

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Speaker 7: the public. But if you would admit that, you will

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Speaker 7: commit to eliminating all the infringements against the rights of

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Speaker 7: the people in the state, as the Constitution calls for

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Speaker 7: the right of the people to bear armshall not be infringed.

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Speaker 7: Also eliminate these private for profit prisons which the state

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Speaker 7: has a statue that guarantees occupancy, which enforces the judges

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Speaker 7: to put people in prison that are otherwise eligible for

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Speaker 7: probessional paroles.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, let me jump in here because you've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff here, and I want Jerry

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Speaker 1: to respond to what you just said. Thanks, thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Mike, I I agree with a lot of

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Speaker 2: the things you just said there. I actually was just

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Speaker 2: appointed the interim Chief Public Defenders. So also I joke

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Speaker 2: often that I've probably been in prison more than any

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Speaker 2: other person running for governor. So I agree that we

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Speaker 2: do need to get private corporations out of prisons. And

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Speaker 2: I also am a gun owner and do believe in

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Speaker 2: the secondment. I got my first gun when I was

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Speaker 2: nine years old. My dad gave me a hunting gun.

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Speaker 2: I recently had to get a side arm because I've

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Speaker 2: had multiple credible death threats that resulted in arrest. And

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Speaker 2: so now I too want to make sure that our

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Speaker 2: constitutional rights are upheld. But that goes for all of them,

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Speaker 2: that goes for free speech, that goes for searches without warrants. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: that's what I've done my whole career.

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Speaker 1: I've got about thirty seconds here, forty seconds? Why do

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Speaker 1: you want to be governor?

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Speaker 2: Look, I do have special interests. Their names are Bo,

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Speaker 2: Vivian and Wilder. I look at them every day across

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Speaker 2: the table and I want to make Tennis see better

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Speaker 2: for them in the future. That means that they can

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Speaker 2: live out the American dream, and I know that means

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Speaker 2: a lot of things that we could work on together.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's well said, and we're gonna have to leave

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Speaker 1: it there. We'd love for you to come back, absolutely

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Speaker 1: all right, Jerry Green running for governor on the Democrat

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Speaker 1: side of the ail. That's how we roll here at Kawim. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: we want to hear from everyone here in the Mid South.

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Speaker 1: Get out there, have a great one. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: back for the National Show eleven o'clock right here on

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Speaker 1: the bighty nine to ninety. Have a great one, everybody,