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Speaker 1: I've our three on Twin Cities News Talk. My name

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Speaker 1: is John Justice. I'm glad you're with the show this morning.

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Speaker 1: going to talk with gubernatorial candidate House speaker here in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: Lisa Damoth in just a moment. I want to get

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Speaker 1: to a couple of talkbacks though, speaking of the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: before we talk with Lisa. First off, I played audio

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Speaker 1: of Representative Andy Smith. As I mentioned a few times,

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Speaker 1: if you were going to create a parody of how

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Speaker 1: your typical leftist ridiculously complains about Ice, this is exactly

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Speaker 1: what you would have written.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to replay it now.

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Speaker 1: I do want to address this talkback that came in

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Speaker 1: from a I don't know if they're a friend or

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Speaker 1: a foe, but Peter had this to say.

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Speaker 3: You forgot to walk me through which of the tirade

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Speaker 3: of Nick Smith, what was a lie? You said they

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Speaker 3: were all lies, but didn't walk through and dispute any

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Speaker 3: of those claims. I have found several of them to

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Speaker 3: be true, but again I'm open to evidence. Just would

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Speaker 3: like you to provide some as to how he's lying.

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Speaker 3: In that last part.

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Speaker 1: Forgot to do that, I mean no, I didn't forget

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Speaker 1: to do that. I actually I actually did do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were listening or not, Peter,

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Speaker 1: apparently you weren't, But if you would want to, if

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Speaker 1: you'd like to.

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Speaker 2: Leave another talkback, I can address it again.

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Speaker 1: If you like to leave another talkback to specifically lay

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Speaker 1: out what you think was true in that Feel free.

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Speaker 1: But in the lead up to playing that audio and

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Speaker 1: playing the audio, I did address his claims and how

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Speaker 1: ridiculous they were. From Bunny hat Boy and measles and

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Speaker 1: being sent to Texas he came back, and him being arrested.

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Speaker 2: It didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: He was detained to the family in the van who

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Speaker 1: intentionally left their children in the van while they went

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Speaker 1: in obstructed ice.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to repeat myself.

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Speaker 1: Too much, but you know, when foes of the show

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Speaker 1: want to question me on things, I'm happy to go

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Speaker 1: what you think he said that was true beyond just

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Speaker 1: basic facts of people being killed, because we know that happened,

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Speaker 1: I'm more than happy to go and address that here

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Speaker 1: on the show.

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Speaker 4: Good mar John, thank you for bringing up the eight

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Speaker 4: CMC budgetary situation.

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Speaker 2: This has been going on not only at eight CMC, but.

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Speaker 4: A lot of other hospitals where you get these people

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Speaker 4: that are not in this country with no insurance, they

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Speaker 4: are still treating them and guests who gets.

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Speaker 2: To pay the bill?

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Speaker 4: You and I I avoid the emergency room like the

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Speaker 4: plague because it's full of people of other countries there

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Speaker 4: for what a sniffle because they're not paying the tag ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the talk about Scott and greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Your talk back of the day is coming up in

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Speaker 1: just a moment here at eight point thirty on Twin

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Speaker 1: Cities News Talk. Right now to go to gubernatorial candidate

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Lisa David. Good morning, Lisa. How are we

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Speaker 1: doing this morning?

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Speaker 5: I'm great, John, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing all.

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Speaker 1: Right, just working through all of the nonsense of which

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Speaker 1: there is a plethora to run through here in that

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know this this Hannohin County attorney story that we

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Speaker 1: really does underscore they're dealing with this issue regarding uninsured patients,

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Speaker 1: coming from and part of the reason why Operation Metro

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Speaker 1: Malcolm now be placed in charge of that, I you know, again,

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Speaker 1: I made my points known on that, But if you

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Speaker 5: Hennepin County Medical Center has been in meeting with I

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Speaker 5: had a meeting with them, They've been at our tax

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Speaker 5: committee are kind of going through. But we also have

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Speaker 5: to know if we're going to ask Minnesota taxpayers to

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Speaker 5: we have to know that that organization is doing everything

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Speaker 5: in their power to cut back and to make wise

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Speaker 5: choices provide medical care of course, but all of us

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Speaker 5: are struggling to afford our health insurance, afford our co

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Speaker 5: a bigger issue. Yes, Hennepin County Medical Center matters very

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Speaker 5: much to Minnesota. We understand that. But there's got to

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Speaker 5: be other ways taking that though.

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Speaker 3: John.

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Speaker 5: Look what our governor came out with with his supplemental budget.

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Speaker 5: Look where our state is in paying people not to

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Speaker 5: show up to work when you think paid family medical

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Speaker 5: leave some of these other things. Look where our budget is.

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Speaker 5: We have a lot of decisions that need to be made.

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Speaker 5: Cooler heads need to prevail, and we have to be smart.

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Speaker 5: People need jobs here in Minnesota. We can't over regulate

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Speaker 5: our business as out of the state, clearly, and we

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Speaker 5: need to cut back on government waste and spending.

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Speaker 1: Talking with gubernatorial candidate Lisa Damuth on the issue of

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Speaker 1: paid family medical leave, at one point, are we going

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Speaker 1: to be able to readdress that program? It seems as

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Speaker 1: if every single week we're beginning to see already some

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Speaker 1: of the concerns that were put forward by Republicans within

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Speaker 1: It seems like so many of those concerns are coming

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Speaker 1: and address what looks to be a looming disaster waiting

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Speaker 1: to happen, if it hasn't already happened in this program.

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Speaker 5: House Republicans, as you said, John, have been talking about

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Speaker 5: these concerns going forward since twenty twenty three, when this

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Speaker 5: finally became law during the full Democrat control of the

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Speaker 5: state House. Republicans were saying, this shouldn't be a mandate

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Speaker 5: on businesses. Businesses should be able to opt in. You

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Speaker 5: can't provide twenty weeks of leave because how are you

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Speaker 5: going to backfill those positions? All of those concerns. What

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Speaker 5: about waste in the program? What about potential fraud because

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Speaker 5: clearly in Minnesota fraud is happening in so many different areas.

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Speaker 5: Now all of those things are starting to raise to

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Speaker 5: a level of concern, John, what I will say, as

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Speaker 5: a small business owner, but also businesses across the state

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Speaker 5: want to take care of their employees. That is how

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Speaker 5: we retain employees, that is how you recruit employees, and

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Speaker 5: so to have mandates put on all businesses, regardless of

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Speaker 5: the size, is not the right way. This doesn't make

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Speaker 5: Minnesota a business friendly state. And we know that now

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Speaker 5: with some of the concerns on the paid family medical leave,

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Speaker 5: people taking an excessive amount of time, there's not really

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Speaker 5: proof in the reasons why they're taking. If someone needs time,

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Speaker 5: offer medical condition, birth of a child, all of those

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Speaker 5: things that has been going on for years and we

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Speaker 5: know that. But to have a mandate that's not going

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Speaker 5: to be affordable was the absolute wrong way to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an it is.

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Speaker 1: It is infuriating every time I talk about the program.

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Speaker 2: It just does.

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Speaker 5: I will tell you this, John House, Republicans are still

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Speaker 5: doing everything we can to bring solutions forward and try

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Speaker 5: to make even just small changes even this year. But

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Speaker 5: we're not going to trade or negotiate for things that

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Speaker 5: we shouldn't be having to do in the first place.

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Speaker 5: When you think tax increases as we saw on the

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Speaker 5: governor's budget proposal and you know things, we're not going

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Speaker 5: to overtax Minnesotans anymore than.

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Speaker 2: They already are.

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Speaker 5: Minnesotans have.

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Speaker 2: We've been overtaxed.

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Speaker 5: Minnesota as a state has a spending problem. We've got

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Speaker 5: plenty of revenue. We need to start scaling that back well.

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Speaker 1: And to that point, I thought it was interesting because,

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Speaker 1: you know, Governor Him Walls, you know, as you know,

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Speaker 1: as late as this week, has been essentially saying that

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Speaker 1: the GOP is antithetical to affordability. He's been acting as

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Speaker 1: if the GOP doesn't want to make anything affordable. But

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Speaker 1: the quite, you know, the opposite is actually taking place.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with a speaker and gubernatorial candidate Lisa Damuth

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Speaker 1: because the truth of the matter is the Minnesota House

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Speaker 1: GOP has been offering up a lot of affordability plans

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Speaker 1: this session.

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Speaker 5: Correct, absolutely we have, and we're looking at ways to

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Speaker 5: make things affordable. And I know you talked about this earlier,

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Speaker 5: but I'm so grateful that you brought up that Scholarship

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Speaker 5: Granting Organization, the SGO. It's a tax credit that would

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Speaker 5: help us schools really of all kinds. It's a federal

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Speaker 5: tax credit, would cost the state absolutely nothing. So somebody,

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Speaker 5: if you want to write out a seventeen hundred dollars check,

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Speaker 5: you get that full tax credit back, and it would

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Speaker 5: go to benefit Minnesota students, who, by the way, only

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Speaker 5: have can read at grade level, goes out of their

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Speaker 5: way mental gymnastics to turn this into what they're calling

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Speaker 5: a voucher program that is not it at all. This

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Speaker 5: benefit any kid in Minnesota in different ways. So what

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Speaker 5: does the governor do in his proposal? He twists that

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Speaker 5: and says, fine, then we're going to take away the

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Speaker 5: non public aid. We're not going to do that, which

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Speaker 5: we already do here in the state of Minnesota. This

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Speaker 5: new program at a federal level would cost to state nothing.

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Speaker 5: The mental gymnastics that you have to do to try

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Speaker 5: to understand how Democrats twist things is.

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Speaker 2: Just mind boggling.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, this morning again gubernatorial candidate Lisa Damuth. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about the campaign. I'll ask you

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Speaker 1: there's been debates that have taken place between the various candidates.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of gubernatorial candidates for Republicans. I find

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Speaker 1: it interesting though, because one would be hard pressed to

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Speaker 1: know that Amy Klobashar was even running. I mean, she's

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Speaker 1: been conspicuously absent at least from my opinion, it knows

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Speaker 1: that she's been in some congressional hearings that have taken place,

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Speaker 1: but I just find it interesting that she's, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of just been absent from, you know, talking about

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Speaker 1: the governor's race, almost as if this is the tactic

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Speaker 1: of not bringing her name up and waiting until we

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Speaker 1: get closer to the election. Carrieous, you know your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on you know, what my view is of her lack

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Speaker 1: of engagement in terms of the governor's race, but also

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Speaker 1: just how your campaign has been going.

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Speaker 5: Lisa, Well, thanks for asking. My campaign is going phenomenal.

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Speaker 5: It has been excellent to be across the state. Clearly,

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Speaker 5: I'm working as Speaker of the House, but that's part

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Speaker 5: of the reason why. As we've had all these BPOU

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Speaker 5: or local grassroots conventions going on, I've been across the state,

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Speaker 5: sometimes in the evening, but mostly they're on the weekends,

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Speaker 5: and I've enjoyed getting to meet Minnesotan's and let them

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Speaker 5: making us stronger, better, getting us back on track. You're

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Speaker 7: She sounds very election deniary in this clip. So I

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Speaker 2: We have fundamentally lost it. And until I hear someone

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Speaker 7: This man President Trump will actually allow us to have

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Speaker 2: There is zero trust here and.

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Speaker 7: I cannot trust that he won't try and steal it again.

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Speaker 1: What Mark Kelly said wasn't true. If you're already registered

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Speaker 2: Make it make sense.

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Speaker 8: The core of the bill is handing the voter rolls

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Speaker 8: But the evidence is almost no illegal immigrants vote.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what's the problem. It'll be a program that's

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Speaker 1: If we're going to make a government program, we got

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Speaker 9: Eight point two million people registered to vote in Georgia.

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Speaker 9: The Republican Secretary of State found twenty instances of non

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Speaker 9: This is a solution in search of a problem that

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Speaker 1: Well, no, you just admitted the problem existed, it just

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Speaker 10: You know what, if you're so lazy that you can't

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Speaker 1: The arguments that are made by the Democrats over not

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Speaker 1: It's as if there isn't any other hardship relating to

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Speaker 1: It is just about this singular issue, and any other

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Speaker 1: To jump through to get a driver's license ID or

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Speaker 1: Channels where there are individuals that have like reports from

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Speaker 1: Disneyland on a weekly basis on a number of different

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Speaker 1: things that are going on. I often throw this up

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Speaker 1: when I'm prepping in the background. I grew up going

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Speaker 1: to the theme park in southern California. It's one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite places to go to a part from being

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Speaker 1: at home with my family. But like the hoops that

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Speaker 1: people have to go through to.

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Speaker 2: Go to Disneyland for crying out loud, just.

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Speaker 1: As an example, But when Democrats go and argue these issues,

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Speaker 1: it as if any other attempt to make an argument

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Speaker 1: regarding any other aspect of life and IDs is just

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Speaker 1: completely irrelevant to the debate that they're having.

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Speaker 11: I think what's scarce of Democrats most about picture ID

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Speaker 11: is they won't be able to take students from precinct

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Speaker 11: to precinct, claim that their students and vouch for each other,

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Speaker 11: and have multiple people voting multiple times in multiple precincts.

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Speaker 11: If you would stop that, elections might have different results.

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Speaker 9: And now for the most famous words and partisan politics,

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Speaker 9: Democrats start your fairmunger buffalo fuffalo.

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Speaker 12: Rafael Warnick says it doesn't happen that often, that illegal

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Speaker 12: voting doesn't happen often. Even if that were true, which

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Speaker 12: it's not. There was a recent election in Florida and

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Speaker 12: poker ratone where the mayor was decided by five votes.

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Speaker 12: Every vote matters.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for the comments from the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 1: Let's Go Here, a Minnesota state senator took to social

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Speaker 1: media voicing her concerns over what she alleges our deeply

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Speaker 1: troubling incidents that undermine the rules.

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Speaker 2: Of the process.

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Speaker 1: Republican Representative Jim Nash suggested that DFL Senator Susan Faw's

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Speaker 1: concerns about delegate excuse me, yeah, delegate residency requirements highlight

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Speaker 1: the need for voter identification laws. Nash, Republican out of Laconia,

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Speaker 1: posted an ex screenshot of a statement from Faw DFL

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Speaker 1: out of Brooklyn Park, in which she outlined complaints from volunteers, delegates,

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Speaker 1: and longtime DFL participants in this year's DFL caucus and

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Speaker 1: convention process taking place in Senate District thirty eight. Faugh

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Speaker 1: wrote that participants reported troubling incidents, including the recruitment of

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Speaker 1: individuals from outside of the district to participate as delegates,

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Speaker 1: and instances where candidates and campaign organizers instructed people to

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Speaker 1: list addresses where they do not live in order to

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Speaker 1: qualify as delegates. Faugh said these kinds of actions undermine

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Speaker 1: the rules and the process and are deeply troubling, adding

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Speaker 1: the convention system only works when the rules are followed

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Speaker 1: equally and when the participants can trust that the process

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Speaker 1: is fair and legitimate.

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Speaker 2: Now, Faugh added the.

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Speaker 1: Questioning whether delegates meet the basic eligibility requirements, such as

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Speaker 1: living in the district they represent. It's not about targeting

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Speaker 1: any community or suppressing voters. It's about protecting the integrity, fairness,

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Speaker 1: and transparency of the process for everyone, especially where there

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Speaker 1: is credible information that calls a delegate delegates residency in

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Speaker 1: the district into question. Nash responded to the post saying

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Speaker 1: it's almost like Senator Faugh is advocating for a form

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Speaker 1: of ID like voter ID used it to prove that

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Speaker 1: you live somewhere and that you can vote in that area. Huh,

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Speaker 1: crazy voter integrity mm HM. Representative Walter Hudson also weighed in,

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Speaker 1: saying if they'll do this to their own why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: they do this in an election. That is a very

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Speaker 1: very good question, one that I do not expect Governor

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls to be answering at any time in the

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Speaker 1: near future. You can trust me on this.

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Speaker 2: The person's angriest about this fraud is me.

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Speaker 1: FA is running for reelection as a primary opponent Neamiah Garley.

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Speaker 1: According to gar neither candidate won their endorsement during the

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Speaker 1: recent convention. The Senate District thirty eight DFL said the

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Speaker 1: convention will convene reconvene at a later date to complete

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Speaker 1: his endorsement process. The Senate District thirty eight DFL ended

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Speaker 1: up releasing a lengthy statement in response, saying it has

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Speaker 1: a structured process for reviewing delicate challenges and convened a

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Speaker 1: credentials committee to look.

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Speaker 2: Into the matter.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure they'll get to I'm sure they'll get

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Speaker 1: to the heart of this, take care of it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not holding my I'm not holding my breath on that.

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Speaker 1: Catalytic converter thefts are rising again in the Twin Cities

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Speaker 1: after a decline in recent years.

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Speaker 2: It's all not that the snow is melting.

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Speaker 1: That how many people have had there like catalytic converter

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Speaker 1: stolen multiple times. Saint Paul Police reported ninety seven thefts

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Speaker 1: by the end of February. That's up from sixty at

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Speaker 1: the same time in twenty two, twenty five and forty

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Speaker 1: one in twenty twenty four. The numbers to signaled the

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Speaker 1: resurgence in the crime that plagued the early twenty twenties.

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Speaker 1: The Deputy Chief Kirk Houstrom of the Saint Paul Police

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Speaker 1: Department says, I think the numbers are definitely on the rise,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think it's anything that the community needs

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Speaker 1: to be overly worried about like they were two or

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Speaker 1: three or four years ago.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: The Deputy chief highlight of the financial impact for victims.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about thirty seven hundred bucks for a cattle

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Speaker 1: of the converter replacement.

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Speaker 2: The latest one.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw a bill that was thirty seven

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars for this fellow to get his cattle at

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Speaker 1: a converter, put on his truck or replaced on his truck.

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Speaker 1: Saint Paul Police Department data showed twenty twenty four was

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Speaker 1: actually a low point after the twenty twenty surge. The

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Speaker 1: sharp decline in thefts followed the introduction of a new

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Speaker 1: state law in twenty twenty three that added criminal penalties

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Speaker 1: for possessing the car parts without proper identification. Listen, you

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Speaker 1: might be able to put a little bit on on

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Speaker 1: this law. But at the same time, I think people

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Speaker 1: also started to protect their vehicles. And if you remember

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Speaker 1: back when we were covering this issue, there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of catalytic converters that were stolen.

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Speaker 2: So how many individuals ended up moving.

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Speaker 1: Over to you know, bicycles ear ear eart a curiosity,

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Speaker 1: all right? Moving through a couple of stories that have

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Speaker 1: been in the stack for you for a while. Actress

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Speaker 1: Catherine Heibel, remember her knocked up fame. What was the

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Speaker 1: wedding was forty seven dresses? I think that was another one.

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Speaker 1: He was a darling of the rom com movies for

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Speaker 1: a while. So she was in attendance at a at

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Speaker 1: mar Alago last weekend on can't do that. Uh no,

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Speaker 1: you're immediately going to get criticized. She posed for photos

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Speaker 1: with both Laura Trump and Janine Piro Oh no. And

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Speaker 1: while the left was not happy seeing the actress there,

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Speaker 1: this was an event and she was specifically at this

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Speaker 1: event to raise five point five million dollars for Big

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Speaker 1: Dog Ranch Rescue. So from the party that we'll gather

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Speaker 1: again on March twenty eighth to declare no Kings comes.

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Speaker 1: How dare you want to rescue homeless dogs? Blaze TV

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Speaker 1: hosts Sarah Gonzalez commented, liberals outrage outraged. I told you

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Speaker 1: everything about everything, including dogs. That's right, dogs. They don't

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Speaker 1: like dogs. That's how you know they're not the party

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Speaker 1: for you. They are the party of hating dogs. Because

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Speaker 1: there was a fundraiser at Marlago to rescue dogs, and

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Speaker 1: now everyone hates Catherine Heigel for going there and trying

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Speaker 1: to raise money to save dogs. Well, it's it's Trump

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Speaker 1: arrangement syndrome. There was a debate going around yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't heard this before. I ended up posting a video

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Speaker 1: a video about this just because I thought it was funny.

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Speaker 1: So the debate was who's more irration those is suffering

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Speaker 1: from Trump derangement syndrome or those suffering from Trump devotion syndrome.

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Speaker 1: I had never heard Trump devotion syndrome before. Now for me,

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Speaker 1: it's an easy question to answer. Okay, you already know

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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna say Trump arrangement syndrome is more irrational.

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Speaker 1: But I actually have a reason why I'm saying that. So,

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Speaker 1: first off, Trump's arrangement syndrome being irrational, it's just baked

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Speaker 1: into having it. You just will not get on board

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Speaker 1: with anything if it's attached to President Donald Trump. I

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Speaker 1: mean this dog story here, individuals writing f her and

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Speaker 1: anyone attending a mega lago for any reason supporting Nazis.

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Speaker 1: So many organizations that aren't run by white supremacists, And

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Speaker 1: this is what you choose. The tax credits that while

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Speaker 1: the Democrats completely inconsequential to the taxpayer, can only benefit

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Speaker 1: the schools and the children. And they simply will not

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Speaker 1: get on board with it. One because they don't want

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Speaker 1: a dollar going to any private schools.

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Speaker 2: They don't want any chance.

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Speaker 1: That a kid gets pulled out of public school to

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Speaker 1: go to private school, because however will they indoctrinate them

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Speaker 1: and turn them into dutiful Democrat voting activists that they

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Speaker 1: aren't in a public school. But the other part of

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Speaker 1: that is simply coming from the Trump administration. But the

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Speaker 1: other argument I'll give you as to why those suffering

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Speaker 1: if this is even a thing from Trump devotion syndrome,

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Speaker 1: is it's the Achilles heel of the Democrat Party, I mean,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, of the Republican Party. I mean the same

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Speaker 1: act is a perfect example. What's the thing that gets

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Speaker 1: in the way of Republicans most often the fact that

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Speaker 1: Republicans can't agree with Republicans, whereas Democrats usually end up

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Speaker 1: voting in lockstep. We hear about it all the time.

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Speaker 1: I get the complaints all the time. It's hardly devote

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Speaker 1: if that's what ends up happening. And look at what's

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Speaker 1: going on with the Save America Act right now. But yes,

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Speaker 1: even going so far as to hate the fact that

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Speaker 1: homeless dogs are going to be rescued, Heigel told a

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Speaker 1: Page six Catherine Heigel she wasn't taking the attacks lying down,

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Speaker 1: saying animals don't vote. The only room they don't like

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Speaker 1: is the euthanasian euthanasia room at the shelter. They are

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Speaker 1: completely at the mercy of us, and they have no

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Speaker 1: choice and no voice of their own. This event was

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Speaker 1: about animal advocacy, something that's always been deeply personal to me,

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Speaker 1: she continued. Anyone who knows that protecting animals is one

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Speaker 1: of my greatest passions. The point is, animals, of course,

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Speaker 1: do not knowingly vote. Somebody went on to say further,

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Speaker 1: they're not involved in our politics. And the charity event

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Speaker 1: raised five point five million dollars for rescue dogs. But

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Speaker 1: for the broken and brainwash, they have been convinced that

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Speaker 1: this is the party of Nazis. So again, getting back

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Speaker 1: to what I said before, Trump devotion syndrome or Trump

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Speaker 1: derangement syndrome. Yeah, it's clearly Trump derangement syndrome that wins

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Speaker 1: out every single time.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to some.

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Speaker 1: Of your talkbacks where we wrap things up today.

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Speaker 13: Good morning, John Jess. Yes, our pastor at our church

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Speaker 13: got his stolen twice in our parking lot. Oh and

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Speaker 13: this is downtown Minneapolis, and he had it done twice,

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Speaker 13: so we put out more security out there. So nobody's

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Speaker 13: been doing anything, you know, parking lots lately. But that

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Speaker 13: was a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, talking about the catalytic converters. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for the talkback from the iHeartRadio app. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: close on this. I did have a story that we

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Speaker 1: were going to get to and I decided to save

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Speaker 1: it for tomorrow when our Freedom Friday guests are in studio,

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Speaker 1: specifically Akkamar, because I know he's gonna want to chime

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Speaker 1: in on this. Doomsday believers are no longer fringe to

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Speaker 1: study suggests they're actually a third of Americans that are

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Speaker 1: adopting a doomsday scenario believe in the apocalypse may take

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Speaker 1: place within their lifetime. May not be the apocalypse, maybe

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Speaker 1: an alien invasion. Reports Wednesday indicated that the domain name

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Speaker 1: aliens dot gov has been registered within the federal government

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Speaker 1: official website system.

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Speaker 14: Regarding aliens dot gov being registered by the government, five

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Speaker 14: Bucks says, as Trump just trolling people, and it's going

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Speaker 14: to be like a redirect to Ice. He's probably not

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Speaker 14: has nothing to do with extraterrestrial aliens. It's probably just

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Speaker 14: illegal aliens.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's hilarious because I'm sure that's what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen. Well, we will see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Multiple individuals New York Times and Newsweek have gone and

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Speaker 1: double checked the claim, and sure enough, aliens dot gov

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Speaker 1: is registered by the federal government now it. Asked for comment,

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Speaker 1: a White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Newsmax stay tuned

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Speaker 1: exclamation point and included the alien face emoji.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: I think it could be a project Hail Mary tie

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Speaker 1: in or Steven Spielberg's disclosure Day, that's a possibility as well.

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Speaker 1: Some are saying that's the actual first step towards exposure.

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Speaker 1: Catherine Johnson, Max Rymer, and ak Kamara in studio for

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Speaker 1: a Freedom Friday tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Have a great day.

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Speaker 9: Bye, Thanks everybody.

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Speaker 2: You guys are the fast