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Speaker 2: and we've got a lot of different things we're gonna
Speaker 2: get into tonight. Victoria Wallington put out a video and
Speaker 2: so we're gonna break it break down her video about
Speaker 2: the I seventy seven toilines. We're gonna break it, break
Speaker 2: it down, but we're gonna start off tonight was CMS
Speaker 2: and doctor Crystal Hill and the school board. Crystal Hill
Speaker 2: is the superintendent for those of you who do not
Speaker 2: know or those of you who do not live in
Speaker 2: Mclimburg County.
Speaker 3: So there's.
Speaker 2: The school board met today around four o'clock in a
Speaker 2: closed session. But I would probably be there right now
Speaker 2: doing my show from the Government Center, waiting for them
Speaker 2: to come out. But the closed session about Crystal Hill
Speaker 2: was done virtually, So that's why your boy is sitting
Speaker 2: in the studio right now. Otherwise I would be doing
Speaker 2: this show live from the Government Center right now, waiting
Speaker 2: on the school board to come out if let's say
Speaker 2: they came out at five point thirty, and then trying
Speaker 2: to get people to talk and maybe I could get
Speaker 2: back to the studio in time. I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: it just depends because this Government Center is like eight
Speaker 2: minutes from here. So but yes, that is that's what
Speaker 2: I would have been doing. But here's the thing. There's
Speaker 2: a lot going on, and like I was on with
Speaker 2: Vince Cokeley this morning, and Vince Cokeley asked me what
Speaker 2: I thought was gonna happen to Crystal Hill. And by
Speaker 2: the way, you need to listen because I've got some
Speaker 2: breaking news for you that you will not hear anywhere
Speaker 2: else concerning CMS and how a major, major person in
Speaker 2: the hierarchy of Crystal Hill has resigned. And from what
Speaker 2: I've been told, does it have anything out there? Meaning
Speaker 2: you're resigning without having something else set up?
Speaker 3: So we'll get into that in a minute.
Speaker 2: By the way, just for the record, found out about
Speaker 2: this last week like around as a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: the day it happened. So anyways, we'll get into that momentarily.
Speaker 2: So Vince Quackley asked me this morning on a show
Speaker 2: at today M what I thought was going to happen
Speaker 2: to Crystal Hill, and I said, without question, I am
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent positive she has served her last days
Speaker 2: as active superintendent with CMS. Granted, she's still getting paid
Speaker 2: while on suspension, suspended with pay. That is the goal
Speaker 2: of every human in America. Don't work, get full pay,
Speaker 2: suspended with pay.
Speaker 4: That is the goal of every American, not fired with
Speaker 4: a severance, not vacation, suspended with pay. We should all
Speaker 4: be so lucky getting a full paycheck without having to
Speaker 4: do a damn thing.
Speaker 2: So anyways, the fact that she was suspended with pay
Speaker 2: and is currently suspended with pay, and by the way,
Speaker 2: got a big fat pay raise retroactive while being suspended
Speaker 2: with pain. But here's the thing, here's why Crystal Hill
Speaker 2: I believe has served her last day as acting superintendent
Speaker 2: because she is not acting superintendent.
Speaker 3: That is Melissa Balkknight, one of her.
Speaker 2: BFFs that I'm not even joking like I am being
Speaker 2: dead serious. Came in from Gaston County, and I can
Speaker 2: tell you a lot of people from Gaston County are going,
Speaker 2: thank god she's not here anymore. She can go CMS
Speaker 2: and ruined CMS. There are a lot of people that
Speaker 2: I spoke to in Gaston County that we're happy Melissa
Speaker 2: Bultmate came along with her BFF or as they call
Speaker 2: it in the Central Office CMS, Central Office FOC.
Speaker 3: Friends of Crystal.
Speaker 2: FOC and then the NCAA and T mafia. Those are
Speaker 2: the two terms. If you went to NCAT or you're
Speaker 2: a FOC, you got a good chance of getting hired
Speaker 2: and a good chance of making two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year. And by the way, we'll just create a
Speaker 2: position for you and give you two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year. So anyways, here's why I believe she has
Speaker 2: served her last day as acting superintendent. You have suspended
Speaker 2: her with pay. That means, as a board, you believe
Speaker 2: she has done something wrong. There is an investigation by
Speaker 2: a law firm trying to figure out what has happened.
Speaker 2: Here's what I've been told by my multiple sources, and
Speaker 2: I think you guys know by now over these lasts
Speaker 2: that started in September tenth, twenty eighteen, nearly eight years,
Speaker 2: there is not a single soul in Mecclnberg County that
Speaker 2: has more CMS sources than I do. There's a reason
Speaker 2: why yours truly has broken the story of the last
Speaker 2: three superintendent's getting fired. Even though the school board comes
Speaker 2: and goes, everyone kept thinking it was all the people
Speaker 2: on the school board telling me, see that's where you're wrong.
Speaker 2: School board people come and go. It was never school
Speaker 2: board people. Never was, never is schoolboard people you can
Speaker 2: only count on for a certain amount of time before
Speaker 2: they're gone.
Speaker 3: You have to get people who are lifers.
Speaker 2: So anyways, but with that being said, Christal Hill was
Speaker 2: suspended with pay because the school believes that she has
Speaker 2: done something wrong, whether it's the twenty something cars that
Speaker 2: she's given out to all her focs and NCAA T
Speaker 2: mafia again Friends of Crystal twenty two people making over
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars a year, while Wake County, a
Speaker 2: bigger school system and by all accounts, a better school
Speaker 2: system and a safer school system, only has three people
Speaker 2: making over two hundred thousand dollars a year. So not
Speaker 2: only are these people getting cars, they're all getting this
Speaker 2: ridiculous amount of money, more money than they've ever made
Speaker 2: in their entire lives, so that the retirement will be
Speaker 2: padded and they can literally retire when they're fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty five sixty and not have to worry about a thing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So, now that the school board has suspended her with pay,
Speaker 2: are you going to bring her back?
Speaker 3: Of course not.
Speaker 2: You can't because as a school board, especially Stephanie Snead
Speaker 2: who buy most accounts, people believe that she has major,
Speaker 2: much bigger political aspirations, whether it's mayor or to take
Speaker 2: the place of Alma Adams. You've got major egg on
Speaker 2: your face. And if you bring Crystal back, you know
Speaker 2: what you've done. You've empowered her, You've emboldened her. Go
Speaker 2: and see, told you, I haven't done anything wrong. So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing, and you
Speaker 2: know what, I might even double down on what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: It's like Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 2: You get a car, and you get a car, and
Speaker 2: you get a car and you get a car. Right, Okay,
Speaker 2: So that's why she can't come back. You embolden her,
Speaker 2: you empower her. And we're also by the way, she
Speaker 2: has not been very effective.
Speaker 3: How do we U say? How do you how can
Speaker 3: you say that? Bright?
Speaker 2: Well, she's had three different plans of organization in three
Speaker 2: consecutive years. What quality leader has that? You know what,
Speaker 2: here's my plan twelve months later. Man, this plan sucks.
Speaker 2: Here's a new plan. Twelve months later. Man, this plan sucks.
Speaker 2: Here's a new plan.
Speaker 3: Three straight years.
Speaker 2: She's done that completely change the structure and organization will
Speaker 2: within the hierarchy of CMS. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: this all goes back on the board. You get what
Speaker 2: you pay for. You knew what you had in Ernest
Speaker 2: Winston zero point zero experience state literally had you change
Speaker 2: the rules in order it in for him to get
Speaker 2: the job, literally change the rules, and you swore you'd
Speaker 2: never make that mistake again, getting someone for the fourteenth
Speaker 2: or seventeenth biggest district in the country with no experience.
Speaker 3: Crystal Hill had zero point zero experience and was like.
Speaker 2: Not exactly in charge of a lot of things at
Speaker 2: Cobert's County Schools. From everything I was told that when
Speaker 2: they made her like assistant superintendent or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: It was basically just to get her out of the way,
Speaker 2: sort of like the vice president.
Speaker 3: Just get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Just stand to the side, stay out of the way,
Speaker 2: go to the ribbon cuttings, go and like shake hands
Speaker 2: at schools, shake the hands, kiss the babies.
Speaker 3: So zero experience. So what she do. She brought in.
Speaker 2: All her BFFs, the FOC friends of Crystal and ncat
Speaker 2: went to NC andt here's a check, here's a check
Speaker 2: Kelly Klutz, like her name was mud in Cabars County
Speaker 2: and in charge of finances and now she's in charge
Speaker 2: of finances here. And as I reported, that was a
Speaker 2: disaster from the beginning. And I asked Crystal Hill about it,
Speaker 2: and she's like, well, that's not accurate. And guess what,
Speaker 2: it was one hundred percent accurate everything that reported about
Speaker 2: all the people being fired or quitting just in that
Speaker 2: finance department. I think at one point, I know it
Speaker 2: was fourteen and I think it got up to eighteen.
Speaker 2: So do I think Crystal Hill's coming back. No, But they,
Speaker 2: from what I understand, they were just getting an update
Speaker 2: on everything. But I will tell you this from all
Speaker 2: my sources, that I have spoken to, and now I much
Speaker 2: to say this earlier when I was talking about sources
Speaker 2: that have a crued from all my sources, and there
Speaker 2: are multiple, many more than anyone else in this city has.
Speaker 2: They were doing the investigations, this law firm, investigating and
Speaker 2: interviewing people, and it would be like me interviewing Lonnie
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, Lonnie dropping something about
Speaker 2: Travers and Bernie. Well, now I got to interview Travers
Speaker 2: and Bernie and guess what. They start talking about Keith
Speaker 2: Young and they start talking about Mark Garrison, and then
Speaker 2: they start talking about Jim z Oki and things that
Speaker 2: were going.
Speaker 3: On crazy with that, and I so now I got.
Speaker 2: To interview these three people, and they kept having to
Speaker 2: go down this rabbit hole because it kept getting deeper
Speaker 2: and deeper and deeper, and the more they investigated and
Speaker 2: spoke to people.
Speaker 3: The wider it got, the more people.
Speaker 2: So that's what I've been told from day one that
Speaker 2: has been going on that caught a lot of people
Speaker 2: off guard.
Speaker 3: A lot of people apparently.
Speaker 2: Have a lot of things to say, especially people that
Speaker 2: no longer work at seam as people that were either
Speaker 2: fired or said I am.
Speaker 3: Out so that's what I've been told. I don't know.
Speaker 2: What the end result is or if and when a
Speaker 2: decision will be made, no idea about that as I
Speaker 2: talk to you right now, but I do have some
Speaker 2: breaking news when we come back.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Breaking with Brod Johnson. I don't know
Speaker 3: how I follow that and keep it straight face, but
Speaker 3: we'll try, Okay.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Angela would Angela Wood is the chief Human Resource officer
Speaker 2: for CMS. Multiple people last week told me that she
Speaker 2: had resigned. Chief Human Resource Officer had resigned. She hasn't
Speaker 2: been there that long, so you need to know that
Speaker 2: she's only been there since December twenty twenty five. Prior
Speaker 2: to that, she was the assistant I mean associates super
Speaker 2: wide in her job since December twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure I got that clear.
Speaker 2: She was in her job as Chief Human Resource Officer
Speaker 2: at CMS since December twenty twenty five. Prior to that,
Speaker 2: she was the Associate Superintendent of human Resources at CMS
Speaker 2: from starting in July twenty twenty three. Prior to that,
Speaker 2: she was the assistant superintendent of human Resources at Stanley
Speaker 2: County Schools It's ALBUMARO then. Prior to that human resources
Speaker 2: director at Union County Schools. She was only there, not
Speaker 2: even a year. She was only at She was only
Speaker 2: at Stanley County Schools for exactly one year, human resource
Speaker 2: director at Cabert's County Schools for a few months, just
Speaker 2: a few months from April to October, and then human
Speaker 2: resource coordinator at Cambart's County school is part of that
Speaker 2: for six years from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: And prior to that, she was an assistant principal in
Speaker 2: Cabert's County Schools for twelve or for two years.
Speaker 3: From twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: So she was a friend of Crystal's FOC. That's literally
Speaker 2: what they call them in Central Office at the CMS headquarters.
Speaker 2: They say, oh, that's at FOC, friends of Crystal. Oh
Speaker 2: that's part of the NCAA and T mafia. That's not
Speaker 2: my words. These are words coming from people from within
Speaker 2: the main office at CMS, the headquarters. These are my words.
Speaker 2: These are the people who work there. This is what
Speaker 2: they're saying. So usually when you leave at that position,
Speaker 2: you say, like if I resigned tomorrow, said hey, I've
Speaker 2: accepted a job with like I went I decided to
Speaker 2: go back to Fox Sports dot Com and you turn
Speaker 2: in your resignation.
Speaker 3: I am accepting.
Speaker 2: I'm turning in my resignation because I've accepted a job wherever.
Speaker 2: Right from my understanding, Angela Wood did not do that.
Speaker 2: She just said, see, you wouldn't want to be and
Speaker 2: then she gave six weeks notice. But again an foc
Speaker 2: Now there's a lot of speculation as to why she's leaving.
Speaker 2: Is are you leaving quitting as opposed to being fired?
Speaker 2: Because you know, let's be honest, I have no idea,
Speaker 2: but we know how this works in the world of business.
Speaker 3: Lonnie. Would you rather be fired or would you rather quit?
Speaker 2: And there's especially at that level when you're making over
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3: Would you rather be fired or would you rather quit? Quit? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely? You know why because you don't want on
Speaker 2: your resume that you are fired. Because when they call
Speaker 2: human resources, they can say, oh, she was fired.
Speaker 3: I think they can say that. I know there's some
Speaker 3: kind of things of what you can and can't say
Speaker 3: with human resources.
Speaker 2: Now, some people say, oh, no, you're going to have
Speaker 2: to fire me, because if you get fired, then you
Speaker 2: get to collect unemployment. But at that level, unemployment's are
Speaker 2: relevant when you're making two twenty five a year. If
Speaker 2: you haven't saved up and you're making two twenty five
Speaker 2: a year, If you're making twenty thousand dollars a year
Speaker 2: or a month and you can't survive, you got a problem,
Speaker 2: at least in short term, you got a problem. So
Speaker 2: Angela would chief human resources officer from everything that I
Speaker 2: was told, turned it in her resignation last week and
Speaker 2: it was this gave a six week notice. That's that's
Speaker 2: pretty telling. Is it purely coincidental? While all this stuff
Speaker 2: was going on with Crystal and you talk about all
Speaker 2: these cars and all these contracts and everything else.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And someone like Kelly Klutz is she is she gonna
Speaker 2: have to resign for the second time in her tenure
Speaker 2: being the chief financial officer of the school district.
Speaker 3: She had to in compariss is she gonna have to
Speaker 3: do it here? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: How many of those people are still driving the cars
Speaker 2: that they were given. There's a minimum twenty one or
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, but I was told was more or not.
Speaker 2: So anyways, you're not gonna hear that info anywhere else
Speaker 2: in this city. Again, these are all coming from people
Speaker 2: very familiar with the situation that told me all this
Speaker 2: last week and then again today. So I just wanted
Speaker 2: to pass that along for you. When I find out
Speaker 2: you find out, welcome back to breaking with Brad.
Speaker 3: Jensipers to go up until seven o'clock and then TJ
Speaker 3: and the Bear Richie will take you from seven to nine.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So, Charlotte City Council Member Victoria Wallington put out a
Speaker 2: video on Facebook where she discusses the ice seventy seven tolanes.
Speaker 3: Now, I will tell you.
Speaker 2: She is highly educated, exceptionally educated. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: she's right on things. That doesn't mean that she's woke
Speaker 2: or conservative or whatever. But it just means that she's educated.
Speaker 2: But again, it doesn't mean that she's right. Just means
Speaker 2: that she's educated. And she's got her doctorate degree. And
Speaker 2: the thing is is that you know, she went University
Speaker 2: of Florida, got a mechanical engineering degree, got a Master's
Speaker 2: of Science from UNC Charlotte and Engineering, and she also
Speaker 2: got a infrastructure or doctorate in infrastructure and environmental systems,
Speaker 2: economic mobility and stuff like that and a graduate certificate
Speaker 2: in public policy research and analysis.
Speaker 3: All right, so then now you know her background.
Speaker 2: She put out this video about the I seventy seven
Speaker 2: tollis so what we're going to do is we're going
Speaker 2: to analyze this video or audio video.
Speaker 3: But I just took the audio of the video.
Speaker 5: You know, again, we're still talking about seventy seven. Sadly, yes, me,
Speaker 5: I'm an engineer, a policy researcher, and an elected official.
Speaker 5: My child's not to have all the answers, but it
Speaker 5: is to ask the right question. I help lead the
Speaker 5: vote to recind seventy seven South. Not because I'm against
Speaker 5: mobility investment. I'm not, but because as an engineer, I
Speaker 5: just couldn't get a straight answer on what problem we
Speaker 5: were actually solving.
Speaker 2: Okay, what problem we're actually solving. They have done all
Speaker 2: these studies, and unless I have my information wrong, I
Speaker 2: believe it's nine of the top ten most congested areas
Speaker 2: in the state of North Carolina, or on I seventy
Speaker 2: seven between Carolin's Boulevard and Uptown.
Speaker 3: I think that's right. And if it's not.
Speaker 2: That it's damn close to nine out of the top
Speaker 2: ten in the entire state.
Speaker 3: Of North Carolina.
Speaker 2: So that's one thing widening the lanes. Because let me
Speaker 2: tell you something. Every day that I come here to
Speaker 2: the station across I'm on Wilkinson Boulevard to seventy seven
Speaker 2: going into Wilkinson, I cross over ICE seventy seven, and
Speaker 2: I looked to my left on I seventy seven where
Speaker 2: Woodlawn goes into the exit ramp goes into seventy seven South.
Speaker 3: It stopped at a dead stop.
Speaker 2: Every single day, every single day, it's dead stopped like
Speaker 2: nothing but bright red lights.
Speaker 3: So that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It's going to solve is expanding it and giving more
Speaker 2: writers more options.
Speaker 3: As opposed to.
Speaker 2: Being dead stuck in traffic and taken an hour to
Speaker 2: get home if you live in South Charlotte.
Speaker 5: And now here we go again, same project, same corridor,
Speaker 5: same conversation. So my question isn't widen or don't widen?
Speaker 5: My question is simply, what changed If I seventy seven
Speaker 5: South failed the test before, what new analysis makes it pass?
Speaker 3: Now? Okay, here's the new analysis.
Speaker 2: The reason it failed before wasn't because they thought expanding
Speaker 2: I seventy seven was a bad idea, engineering wise or
Speaker 2: infrastructure wise.
Speaker 3: Because it passed. It passed from the forget go, don't
Speaker 3: forget this thing.
Speaker 2: Passed, and that's why the NCDOT spent more than sixty
Speaker 2: three million dollars. What changed, here's exactly what changed. They
Speaker 2: turned it into a race issue. That's exactly what they did.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine houses. That's the number of houses impacted by this. Now,
Speaker 2: some can say an entire neighborhood, and there's been history, and.
Speaker 3: I get it. But I got news for you.
Speaker 2: That's not the only neighborhood that's ever been impacted by
Speaker 2: a road being expanded in the city of Charlotte. How
Speaker 2: about I seventy seven toll lanes from uptown all the
Speaker 2: way to Davidson. So you tell me there were no
Speaker 2: neighborhoods impacted all the way to Davidson. Okay, So here's
Speaker 2: another thing. So they turned it into a race issue.
Speaker 2: Even though your city council voted for this and everyone else,
Speaker 2: they turned it into a race issue. And because there's
Speaker 2: what one white person on city council, I think. I
Speaker 2: think there's one white person at Driggs. I think everyone else,
Speaker 2: whether it's Asian, Hispanic, or black, I think that makes
Speaker 2: up the rest of the city.
Speaker 3: Council.
Speaker 2: So with that being said, it was turned into a
Speaker 2: race issue, not a people issue. Oh and you know
Speaker 2: why they're also now revisiting this because the state just
Speaker 2: passed a law on the budget that said, yeah, Charlotte,
Speaker 2: you have to write back and check for sixty three
Speaker 2: million dollars. And Cornelis is like, well, we can't afford that,
Speaker 2: and Minhill's like we can't afford that, and Monroe's like
Speaker 2: we can afford that. So all these small towns are like,
Speaker 2: we can't afford that. We can't just struct a check.
Speaker 2: So guess what, we're gonna vote for it, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna put all the money on Matthews and Muckleburg County
Speaker 2: and the city is Charlotte. You three are not going
Speaker 2: to be responsible for having to pay this back. That's
Speaker 2: what's changed. You voted for it. You turned it into
Speaker 2: a race issue, NCDOT, and the state legislature said you
Speaker 2: now have to pay back the sixty three million dollars
Speaker 2: because you had initially voted for it.
Speaker 3: That's what's changed. Don't act like you don't know.
Speaker 5: Because if the answer is, well, nothing changed, but the
Speaker 5: pressure did. That's not a transportation decision that's a political one.
Speaker 5: Wearing an engineering.
Speaker 2: Costume political decision. No, No, turning it into a race issue.
Speaker 2: You made it a political situation by turning it into
Speaker 2: a race issue. And the city is Charlotte changing their
Speaker 2: vote only because of race. That's why. That's how it
Speaker 2: became political. You made it political.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing that most people don't realize. This project
Speaker 5: isn't one decision, it's two. First, is the widening itself justified? Second,
Speaker 5: if it is, how do we make sure that the
Speaker 5: neighborhoods along that corridor actually sharing that benefit?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's justified. Simple, it's purely justified. It's twenty nine
Speaker 2: homes that owe. Those twenty nine homes, many are not
Speaker 2: owned by the people that live there. They just rent,
Speaker 2: They don't even own the homes. Number two, the fact
Speaker 2: that people are now going to be able to get
Speaker 2: around and go from point A to point B without
Speaker 2: having to deal with it. And how are the neighborhood that's
Speaker 2: going to benefit. Oh, I think it's like seventy five
Speaker 2: million dollars. The state is committed to invest in those neighborhoods,
Speaker 2: seventy five million dollars that you will now not get
Speaker 2: a single penny.
Speaker 5: Of those are two separate questions with separate answers, and
Speaker 5: right now we're being asked to say yes to both
Speaker 5: at once without proof of either. A family making fifty
Speaker 5: thousand dollars a year doesn't care about interchange design. They
Speaker 5: care about whether they can actually afford the toll lane
Speaker 5: and whether they're the bus that actually gets them to
Speaker 5: work on time. If we can't answer that, we haven't
Speaker 5: done the analysis.
Speaker 3: Okay, So.
Speaker 2: If you're taking a bus to work, you're not worrying
Speaker 2: about the toll lanes. That doesn't make sense. If you're
Speaker 2: taking the bus to work, you don't care about the
Speaker 2: toll lanes. And by the way, that we do have
Speaker 2: these things called bus express lanes, don't we.
Speaker 3: Right then we got those? Okay, just asking asking for
Speaker 3: a friend. We've done the announcement. So here's what I'm
Speaker 3: asking for.
Speaker 5: Plainly, show the marginal benefit of every mile, Show the
Speaker 5: alternatives that will compare. Show me that the community get
Speaker 5: something because the project earned it, not something to get
Speaker 5: us to stop asking.
Speaker 3: Okay, show you the benefits. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Again, almost all of the top ten most congested areas
Speaker 2: in the state of North Carolina are right there on
Speaker 2: I seventy seven, between Caron's Boulevard and uptown. That's the
Speaker 2: benefits expanding it and loosing it up. That's the benefits
Speaker 2: this community getting seventy five million dollars invested into the community.
Speaker 3: That's the benefits.
Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty two thousand cars a day go
Speaker 2: in between that area Carolyn's Boulevard and uptown, So you're
Speaker 2: sacrificing one hundred and sixty two thousand people of cars.
Speaker 2: More than that people wise, one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 2: thousand cars a day for twenty nine houses, many of
Speaker 2: which are not even owned by the people that live there.
Speaker 5: Not a payoff to certain leaders to get them to
Speaker 5: change a position. I'm not a posed to investment. I'm
Speaker 5: opposed to skipping the homework. And here's what nobody else
Speaker 5: has put on the table.
Speaker 3: It's seven months of this fight.
Speaker 5: Nobody has proposed an actual path pasting, just pressure, just
Speaker 5: the deadline, just reverse your voter pay us that well,
Speaker 5: the same legislation creating that threat also creates the off ramp.
Speaker 5: NCDOT can determine that our decision was a legitimate act
Speaker 5: by a duly constituted board not unilateral, and if they
Speaker 5: make that finding that arbitrary ninety day deadline, it disappears
Speaker 5: and we get to do exactly what everyone claims they want,
Speaker 5: the real network analysis on its own timeline, not a
Speaker 5: manufactured want, and this isn't theoretical. We've already funded UNC
Speaker 5: Charlotte to help design the updated regional model that makes
Speaker 5: that analysis possible. The groundwork is already in motion, but
Speaker 5: we need ncdot's partnership to upgrade our transportation and planning
Speaker 5: tools so we can stop having these conversations and.
Speaker 3: Start seeing better outcomes.
Speaker 5: Nobody demanding we reverse course has offered that sequence, but
Speaker 5: I am because it's the only version of this that
Speaker 5: isn't just round two of the same sight.
Speaker 3: So, mister governor, are you with us?
Speaker 2: Actually, I can go ahead and tell you from sources
Speaker 2: close to the situation, No, he's not the governor. What's
Speaker 2: I seventy seven tollin's expanded, So my sources are telling me,
Speaker 2: and again, you're sacrificing one hundred and sixty two thousand
Speaker 2: cars a day for twenty nine homes, many of which
Speaker 2: are not owned by the people that live there. And
Speaker 2: it's not the same thing and by the way, this
Speaker 2: was a state law that was put.
Speaker 3: Into the budget.
Speaker 2: NCUDT ncdut no, no, no, no, you have to pay
Speaker 2: it back period as you should.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to breaking with Fred Jefson. I've got a
Speaker 3: vowel totally ninety seconds or so, so real quick.
Speaker 2: The House not long ago up in DC passed a
Speaker 2: law that basically said no more insider trading. Even some
Speaker 2: Democrats got on board, which now means Nancy Pelosi's gravy
Speaker 2: train has immediately stopped. Doesn't matter because she's been doing
Speaker 2: it for thirty forty years and she's damn near a billionaire.
Speaker 2: When you outperform by like tenfold the top investment firms
Speaker 2: in the entire country, you think that's by coincidence and
Speaker 2: pure luck and just the fact that she's a genius.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so so anyways,
Speaker 2: but the House did pass that earlier today, so again, uh,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's good. I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: in the House were I have been using that for
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 3: It's expensive to live in DC A little ex day,
Speaker 3: come don't r. So hopefully I'll.
Speaker 2: Be able to speak to a couple of congressmen later
Speaker 2: this week, tomorrow or Friday about that very vote, and
Speaker 2: you know the situation going on and around. All right,
Speaker 2: everyone that's gonna do it for us tonight. I'm a
Speaker 2: little upset Lonnie's not playing TJ and the Bear music,
Speaker 2: my theme music every day. I told you, well, I
Speaker 2: want to do this every day leading into TJ.
Speaker 3: TJ Ritchie.
Speaker 2: So but anyways, so TJ, you got a reprieve for today,
Speaker 2: My man, you gotta reprieve.
Speaker 3: We'll start back up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right, everyone, my name is Brett Jensen, and you've
Speaker 2: been listening to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Speaker 4: TJ.
Speaker 3: Richie's coming up next