WEBVTT - 7-29-26: Is NCDOT Paying A Ransom Or A Bribe? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:29.400 Hi Oh, let's go hi oh, let's go oh, Let's 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:34.240 go oh, Let's come. Welcome back to Sean stee. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.360 Talk one oh seven point nine AFM coming to you 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.720 two and a half minutes late. Seven oh four five 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.880 seven oh one oh seven nine. Telephone number is again 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.080 seven O four five seven oh one oh seven nine. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.080 That is US of the WBT text line, driven of 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.199 course by Liberty Buick GMC and guys. Follow me on 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.720 exit BRT Underscore Jensen for all the latest and breaking 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.600 news in and on the Sean area. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:56.960 If you did guess. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.720 What, you would know what I'm talking about tonight and 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:07.000 who our special guest is tonight. So the nc DOT, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:13.000 which is under the guidance and leadership of Governor Josh 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.920 Stein or whomever happens to be governor at that particular time, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.240 they are basically in charge of the NCDOT, and the 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.680 NCDOT would not do something, in my opinion, without the approval, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:35.560 especially something major and astounding and by many aspects, by 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:42.080 many thoughts, asinine, without the approval set approval of Governor 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:42.680 Josh Stein. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.400 So it has now come out. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:54.680 That the NCDOT has offered I called a bribe, some 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.520 called a ransom three hundred million dollars. 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.960 To the community. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.920 They say will be impacted by the expansion of the 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:12.600 I seventy seven tolades. There are a lot of issues 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.440 with this, a lot of issues, and coming up in 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:22.160 about ten minutes from now, North Counta state Senator Vicky Sawyer, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.040 who goes into her district covers Ardelle County and the 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.480 northern part of Mecklenberg County, Cornelius and Davidson. She has 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 been at the forefront of these I seventy seven expansions 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.760 the tolaids. She's going to be joining us to to 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:42.280 give us her thoughts on the on the whole NCDOT 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.200 offering three hundred million dollars. The first thing that came 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.440 into my mind when Mark Garrison and I were talking 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.440 about this earlier this afternoon. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:52.960 Is that. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.080 I was like, well, wait a minute, this isn't supposed 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.800 to be about money, because they already offered about seventy 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:07.200 five million dollars for parks and stuff like that. Well, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.080 this three hundred million dollars, I call it a ransom. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.720 That the NCDOT is paying a ransom. And Governor Stein 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:19.639 has no problems with that being done because it's a 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.760 historically black neighborhood, not now, not now. It's not necessarily 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.960 a black neighborhood. Now it's it's white, it's Hispanic, and 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:32.680 it's black. Like it's very multi racial. And again, let's 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:37.840 not forget this. We're talking about twenty nine houses that 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.080 would be impacted. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.360 Well, Brad, but it's really the entire community. Stop. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.800 It's twenty nine houses. Twenty nine houses, many of which 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.240 are not owned by the people that live there. The 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:54.520 people that live there rent, not all, but many rent 0:03:54.520 --> 0:04:00.480 from companies and corporations that actually own the houses. Like, hey, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.640 we'll give you three hundred million dollars and you can 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.480 build a park if you want. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.760 You can build a park, and. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.720 We'll give you stuff where you can build, like grocery 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:23.160 stores for a food desert. Okay, and as a matter 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.160 of fact, two grocery stores, one on. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.800 The west side, one on West Boulevard and the other 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:30.760 one near Jenson C. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:36.880 Smith University, a possible new recreation center on nations Ford Road, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:38.920 and other things. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:41.760 I call this a. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:51.840 Ransom because the community, which many people associated with it, 0:04:51.880 --> 0:05:00.479 has called a grifter their words, not mine. But to 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:06.200 be clear, I'm not talking about the lawyer. But at 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:15.320 the same point, this was about a historically black community, okay, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:20.400 and they were already being offered seventy five million dollars. Now, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.520 I don't know if the community is going to accept 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.320 this because it's three hundred million and they're trying to 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.400 and the ncduty is trying to buy the way out 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.160 of this, bribe them or ransom whichever way you want 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.440 to look at it. But here's my question, and I 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.720 think this is a very serious question that needs to 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:42.919 be selled, as told or asked. And I'm gonna say 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.800 this as politely as I can, and it still may 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.680 rub people the wrong way, and I want it to 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.440 be known. I don't mean it in a bad way, Okay, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:06:00.520 I just putting that out there. Seventy five million dollars 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.120 you didn't want to deal with that, It wasn't good 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.599 enough because it was going to impact a black community, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.600 in black neighbors. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:11.599 Three hundred million dollars. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.000 Is that enough to, for lack of a better term, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.520 sell your black heritage, Because if you accept it, that's 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.360 what you're doing. You no longer care about your neighbors 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.120 or the historical black community. If you if you relent 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.159 to this and go, well, you know what, three hundred million, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.960 we're getting something out of it. You were getting something 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.039 out of it with seventy five million, But you kept 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.839 saying no because it's a historical black community, which, like 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:45.520 I said, now is actually very multiracial, very multiracial. It's 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.640 not is the community back in the day was it 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:49.520 a black neighborhood? 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:49.840 Yes? 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.760 Is it necessarily black neighborhood now? Not necessarily no? But 0:06:55.080 --> 0:07:01.080 are you selling your black heritage? You're okay selling your 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.240 blackness for three hundred million dollars when seventy five million 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.200 dollars was enough. So what you're saying is if you 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.480 accept this, then that what you're saying is that you 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.840 have that you do not have a problem with selling 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.720 yourself because apparently if you accept this, that means everything's 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.720 got a price, and you're willing to sell your heritage, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.960 sell your blackness, sell your community, sell your neighbors. That's 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.120 what it means for three hundred million, if you accept this, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.360 because at that point it was never about morals. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.320 It was just about money. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.240 If you accept this, it was never about morals or 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.160 a grifter hanger on that's just trying to get a 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:51.080 dollar anywhere he can in the city of Charlotte. So 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.559 that's the question I have, and that's the very question 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.960 that I'm going to be asking North Kunta State Senator 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.000 Vicki Sawyer when she joins us, because, like I said, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.480 she's been at the forefront of all of this, proposing 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.480 the bill, the tax like everything or the bill and 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:12.960 getting things done, having to pay stuff back, all of it. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.320 Like she's been near the forefront at all of this. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.160 Six point twenty one here on this Wednesday night of 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.560 breaking with Brad Jensen here on Charlie's News Talk one 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.520 of seven point nine FM. Okay, so by seventy seven 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.560 total lines. I explained some things to you, and I 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.480 am really really interested to hear what this person has 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.800 to say about all of this and the fact that 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.800 the NCDOT has offered basically a three hundred million dollar 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.160 bribe or is paying a three hundred million dollar ransom, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.680 whichever way you want to look at it. So joining 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.920 us now here I'm breaking with Brad Jensen is North 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.560 Kinnta State Senator Vicki Sawyer. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.720 First of all, thank you for joining us tonight. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.319 And second of all, just came out and said, look 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.560 if you let us build our toll lane expansion on 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.920 I seventy seven between Caro Win's Boulevard and uptown. We'll 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.400 give that whole community three hundred million dollars and you 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.640 can build parks and grocery stores and whatever. So when 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.920 you first heard about all of that, what was your 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:19.640 initial reaction? 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:26.080 Concern? Complete concern, because I know that the pressure is 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.920 on to get this project done or underway, and I 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.840 completely feel for those in charge who are just trying 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.800 to get that to happen. But what president are we 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.080 setting for other communities across the stage. Are they now 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.400 going to be able to hold the got in estate 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:49.800 hostage for personal or gain through redevelopment of property. I mean, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.679 that is just really setting a horrible precedent for very 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.199 precious resources that we don't quite frankly have enough to 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.880 build the roads that we already have promised to build. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.360 Fross North Carolina. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.920 Speak with North County State Senator Vicky Sawyer, who has 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.000 parts of Mecklenburg County and Irondale County. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:07.360 In her district. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.199 So do you think the NCDOT maybe did this on 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.360 their own or that there was outside influence from groups 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.160 or individuals, or do you think Josh Stein had something 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:17.439 to do. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.440 With this great question? I think probably all of the above. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.079 To be honest, there are the lobbyist class who has 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.120 been working very hard to get this project done. They're 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.360 in dot in the governor's office. I mean, this is again, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.320 Charlotte is our biggest economic driver in North Carolina and 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.440 this is a much needed project, so it has got 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.200 a lot of attention. So I could imagine all of 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.680 the above probably had influence on this decision. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.880 North Kunta State Senator Vicky Sawyer joins us here on 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.400 breaking with brat Jensen. So let's say the community actually 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.800 accepts this offer of three hundred million dollars. I'll call 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.800 it a bribe. They call it an offer, but I'll 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.840 call it a bribe. How do you think this will 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.840 actually come across if they actually accept this offer. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.760 It's kind of sad that a person or a grouse 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.960 morality is for sale. And I guess now they have 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:12.880 put the price on their morality, and I don't know 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.600 that that's a good look for them, because now it's 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:20.640 going to undercut their value system and their virtue signaling 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.520 that they are really there to help folks that have 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.439 been disadvantaged in the past, but they'll help them until 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.000 they get paid. That's a really bad look. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 Speak with North kinda State Senator Vicki Sawyer. I don't 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.480 know if you know this off the top of your head, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.520 but do you know how many requests are put in 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.160 for road repair or road expansion, either from a dollar 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.800 figure side or whatever, from across the state. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.400 Do you have any idea about that? 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.800 A little bit, the DT came out and there are 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:54.640 one hundred and forty four billion dollars worth of requests 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.160 for new road construction across North Carolina in the next 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.400 ten years. Now we have I have a state budget 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.320 of around eight to nine billion dollars annually, so you 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.440 can see that we do not have enough money in 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.160 transportation to honor the commitments that we already have on 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.880 the books, much less expanding current commitments by three hundred 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.000 million dollars. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.720 I don't know if this is true or not, so 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.640 maybe you can clear something up for me. I've been 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.280 told for a long long time that if they pull 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.880 out of the I seventy seven expansion and it does 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.120 not go through, that the next time that they want 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.400 to do the expansion they actually go back to the 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.880 bottom of the list that you are just describing, and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.480 they have to start from square one and wait their turn. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:38.600 Is that true? 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.880 It can be accurate? Now again, this ten year construction 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.760 plan that we call the Step that Governor McCrory helped 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.679 shephard during his time in office, is a fluid document. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.559 So that means every two years, the DOT selects the 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.840 committee and that committee sets standards for those projects to 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.080 be considered. So I can say for now that is accurate, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.479 but you never know two years for now what that 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.360 those standards could have been changed at that time. So 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.760 it is a fluid optumy. So for now it goes 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:10.760 to the back of the line. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.360 North Khana State Senator Vicky Sawyer here, I'm breaking with 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.520 Brett Jensen. So is there anything that you want to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.560 talk about that I didn't ask you about? Is there 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.280 anything going on up in Raleigh right now? Is there 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.840 anything happening that you want to discuss that I didn't mention? 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.760 Well, I'm on the road back now from Raleigh, but 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.679 the answer is no. There's all there's always some things 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.640 going on in Raleigh and but there's nothing currently that 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:38.560 I can report on. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.000 North Kina State Senator Vicky Sawyer. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.080 Is there anything you'd like to say to the listeners 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.480 and your constituents and the people of Mecklenboro. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:45.760 County right now? 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.520 No, just want to thank you for listening to the 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.720 Brett Jenson. So you do an amazing job with contacting 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.800 and really working with electives and to get the answer 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.600 to the people, and I enjoy being a listener. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.680 Well, that was clearly unexpected, and now I feel like 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.440 I have to send you flowers or something. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:06.079 Honestly, again to nine because I had someone who listened 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.360 to our interview about the seventy seven tolls and he 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.480 complimented and said he listened to the show and that 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.559 was made a lot of sense after we listened. So 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:14.720 I am very grateful for that. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.319 Well, I really really do appreciate the kind words. That's 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.560 extremely nice of you. So North Kulina State Senator Vicky Sawyer, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:22.920 thank you for joining us tonight. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:23.600 I really mean it. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.240 Thank you, thanks for having me. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.480 All right there she goes North Kountain State Senator Vicky Sawyer, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.360 and again her districts are Idoll County and then the 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.240 northern part of Mecklenberg County, which is Cornelius and Davidson 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.760 talking about the I seventy seven tollings selling your morals 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.400 exactly what I talked about last segment. And I didn't 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.320 think about this. When she said it was like a 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.320 light bulb went off. Oh well, now you're given the 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.160 blueprints for every town across all over North Carolina to 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.080 try and. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:54.080 Ransom. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.840 We're trying to get more money, negotiate to get more money. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:01.120 How to hold the NCDOT hostage. Because if they're doing 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.920 it for Charlotte, if you're in Rocky Mount, or you're 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:09.560 in Blowing Rock, or you're in Brunswick wherever Brunswick County, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 it does not matter. Now anywhere can say no, no, no, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.640 we want more money. You gave it to Charlotte, why 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.960 not give it to us. Are you playing favorites, dude, 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:27.800 based on race, you're playing favorites based on location. Like, now, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:35.120 that's what's happening. That's what's happening. So again, we'll see 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:41.560 if that community sells their black heritage or not. Because 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.000 it's seventy five million dollars, they were steadfast against it, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.240 three hundred million dollars. We'll see what happens in a 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.920 couple of grocery stores a park. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.000 We'll see what happens. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.760 Running back to breaking mcbrett Jensen here on the Wednesday 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.080 night Live and Living Colors, we go up until seven 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.240 o'clock and then TJ and the Bear Richie takes over 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:07.160 from seven to night. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.480 I'm still trying to figure out who the bear is 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:17.800 for TJ. Is it Lonnie? Is it Travers? I'm what 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.080 I said, Why not, man, I'm cuddly. I just I 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.520 don't I'm just trying to figure this out. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.880 I don't, you know, I don't want to, you know, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.280 cast dispersions on Travers or you or anyone else. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.040 I just don't know who his bear is. I'll be 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.560 the bear, and you know he squeeze up to me 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.200 at night. You know, you know the. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.600 Bear has to wear a diaper when he walks around 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.680 so he don't crap everywhere. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.920 Oh, it depends, it depends. That's funny. It's actually funny. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.840 Uh pretty good, Lonnie. Nice job. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.680 MLS All Star Game is tonight. Show a hands to 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.240 the room of everyone that's gonna watch it. Yeah, that'd 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.200 be zero, just just wondering. There's only three of us. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.080 To be fair, there's only three of us in this room. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.680 And I was just curious how many people were gonna 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.439 watch that MLSTIC. Somebody said that they had like a 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.440 skills competition last night. I did not even know that 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.920 until someone just texted me. I didn't even know that. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:17.400 And so today's my brother's birthday. Yeah, I forgot about 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.480 that until about five o'clock. I didn't try to call 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.359 him on the way to the station, and he didn't answer, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.720 and then I texted him, so, hey, he's up in 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:27.760 the Philadelphia area. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.399 You know you live in Philadelphia. You don't deserve to 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:34.120 be told happy birthday in Philadelphia is a rat hole, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:35.960 Like it really is a rat hole. 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.680 Yeah, they got Lebron, but yeah, he has no idea 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.040 what's about to hit him when they start struggling. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.080 He has no clue what those fans. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.359 There's a reason why they had a jail underneath the 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.639 baseball and football stadium, I mean, and an actual magistrate 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.480 and a judge down there, Like there's there's a reason 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.520 it's Philadelphia. So's the reason why they call it Filthiadelphia. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.400 It's a rat hole anyway, one of my three least 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.640 favorite cities in America, the other two being Atlanta and Orlando. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.560 Just for the record, not that anyone cares, but still 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.920 did not know that the MLS All Star Game is tonight. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.760 Was not a I mean I did know that, but 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.560 I did not know they had the skills competition last night. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.119 I didn't even know it was a two day event. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.680 But apparently it is. So thanks for the enlightenment. I 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.639 appreciate that. Also want to say, and by the way, 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.160 next segment, I'll have like actual news. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.680 But the also want to say this. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.240 I'm a little salty right now, a little upset, perturbed, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.920 you might say, disgruntled. I did not win the seven 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.520 hundred plus million dollar Mega Millions lottery last night. That 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.199 happened was some clown in Florida who clearly is going 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.960 to use it to buy all the gene shorts he 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.600 can and all the tank tops, because that's what they 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.560 wear in Florida. Gene shorts and tank tops, white black, Hispanic. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:07.440 It does not matter. That is the state official wardrobe, 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:14.399 jeene shorts, jorts and tank top. And but yeah, so 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.760 if it's somebody from Florida, like there's the whole thing 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.720 that like a man from Florida, a man from Florida, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:23.800 Like if you just type in a man from Florida. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.720 On Google, there's a million things that pop up about 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:28.800 all the stupid. So there was a man from Florida 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.119 that tried to wrestle an alligator and lost a foot. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.280 There was a man from Florida that thought it would 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.320 he could dive into a three foot pool. There was 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.640 a man from Florida like whatever, Right, there's all kinds 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.879 of stuff. So man from Florida wins three hundred million dollars. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.600 Man from Florida blows it in three years. I can 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:51.879 see the headlines now. It's Florida love the state. People 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.879 do love some, Tampa do love some. I love some, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:06.320 Miami Love, Palm Beach Love, Palm Beach love, Miami, Boca, Tampa, Clearwater, Bradenton, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:12.879 like that whole area a lot. Jacksonville No Okalla, no Orlando, absolutely, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:13.600 one hundred percent. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:18.000 Not Daytona. It's okay for two days, then you got 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:18.359 to get. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.520 Out, sort of like Vegas, Like you don't want to 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.199 stay more than two or three days in Vegas and 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.080 you got to get out. That's sort of the way. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:31.080 That's pretty much the way Daytona is. Pensacola it's okay, 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:39.000 Talla has he it's highly It's not a good city 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.000 except for Florida State, except for Florida State football games, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.720 Florida State weekends where they have a home football game. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.480 Tallahassee's pretty cool. Outside of that, it's a rat hole. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:52.639 Desm Florida. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.640 Nice, Pensacola, You're, okay, a nicer version of Myrtle Beach. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.439 So talking to someone who has been all over this 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.000 damn country like a million times because of work, because 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.600 of work when I was traveling all the time, so 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:11.199 I know all about Florida. I think I've only been 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.359 to Florida about seventy five times, all over that damn state, 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.440 from Miami all the way up to the very northeast 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:24.760 corner Jacksonville to the far left corner Pensacola, down towards 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:29.680 again Tallahassee and Sarasota and Bradenton and Clearwater in Saint 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.959 Pete Fort Myers. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:39.720 Been all down in there, know it all. Welcome back 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.640 to breaking with Brett Jackson here on this Wednesday night. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:44.920 Go up to seven o'clock. TJ. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.879 Richie comes up from seven to nine. Okay, so a 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.760 little bit ago, like not that long. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:51.880 It does. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:53.800 Matter of fact, I'll give you the exact time when 0:21:53.840 --> 0:22:00.880 this took place, got a got a message from CMPD 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.080 and this came out at six', ten so not even 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.880 an hour, ago so forty minutes ago this came. OUT 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:13.080 cmpd officer arrested and charged with the illegal access of 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:20.439 a government. Computer Meckelburray Police Department Internal Affairs division is 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:25.159 conducting an internal investigation regarding the arrest OF Cmpd Officer Seth. 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.639 Elliott On june, eighteenth twenty twenty, six The State bureau 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:36.000 Of investigation informed the INFORMED cmpd that during an unrelated, 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:44.080 INVESTIGATION sbi developed, information including On, Tuesday june, Sixteenth Officer 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:49.439 elliott had improperly accessed THE flock system and THE cj 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:54.800 leads once for non law enforcement. Purposes On, Monday june twenty, 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.320 second twenty twenty, Six Officer elliott was placed on paid 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:01.440 administrative assignment and his equipment and access to the systems 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:05.639 with criminal intelligence information was revoked pending the outcome of 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.960 THE sbi. Investigation On july twenty, Ninth Officer elliott was 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:14.040 arrested by THE sbi on a charge of illegally accessing 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.560 a government, computer A class one. Misdemeanor he was placed 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.719 on administrative leave pending the outcome of the internal. Investigation 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:27.120 he was hired In february of twenty twenty four and 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:32.679 was currently assigned to The University. DIVISION cmpd does not 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.720 own or operate any of The flock camera. Devices, HOWEVER 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:40.200 cmpd does have a memorandum of understanding AND. MoU we've 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:45.760 heard a lot About MoU's With iran WITH flock that 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:50.800 allows officers to ACCESS flock devices of other agencies and 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:56.240 entities at no. Charge and then there's a statement from 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.359 A Stella Patterson and from WHAT i understand OR i 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.080 think What i've seen so far briefly is that he 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:06.360 was basically looking up the registration of, someone like saw 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.159 the license plate or, whatever and was maybe looking up 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:12.320 the registration for. SOMEONE i don't, know if it was a, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.240 FEMALE i don't, know if it was a, MALE i don't. 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.440 KNOW i don't know the, situation BUT i think that's 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:20.639