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Speaker 1: Twin City's news talk a I'm eleven thirty one oh

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Speaker 1: three five FM streaming worldwide on the iHeartRadio app. It

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Speaker 1: is a Freedom Friday with your on and off the

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Speaker 1: topic comments all morning long. I was sharing with Representative

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Speaker 1: Max Ramer, who joins us in studio, that I basically

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Speaker 1: have a divided stack. I have a stack of like

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Speaker 1: almost necessary topics, things that you would typically hear Monday

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Speaker 1: through Friday. And then I have the stack of stuff

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Speaker 1: that I've been sitting on that's what I call evergreen,

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Speaker 1: that's not necessary, like cocaine sharks. So we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that a little bit later on silly. Yeah, we have

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Speaker 1: a silly stack as well, So I'm hoping you spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of time in the silly Stack. We've been

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Speaker 1: moving through a lot of this material quickly already, so

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. Also excited that Grace Keating from

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Speaker 1: Center of the American Experiment American Experiment podcast, is back

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Speaker 1: from her World travel travels.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, It is so good to be back. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: how was your honeymoon? It was good? Oh, it was wonderful.

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Speaker 2: It was wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Didn't have to worry about any impact of the war

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Speaker 1: on Iran while you were traveling at all.

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Speaker 2: I had no issues.

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Speaker 3: I had no travel issues, I had no war issues.

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Speaker 2: It was it was perfect.

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Speaker 4: Did you visit China like our very normal governor went

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Speaker 4: for his honeymoon.

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Speaker 2: I didn't make it that far.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this last week, but a friend of the show,

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Speaker 1: the tax guru on the show, Dan Pilla, I had

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Speaker 1: reached out to him and it was the week that

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Speaker 1: you were the first week that you were gone Grace,

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Speaker 1: and I had a tax related question for him, and

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Speaker 1: he didn't get back to me right away, and he

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Speaker 1: finally did. He's I got a moment now if you

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Speaker 1: want to talk. I'm traveling in Italy at the moment,

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Speaker 1: and so but I've got some free space. I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Enjoy your travels. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: this close to going. You know, Grace is there in

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Speaker 1: Italy right now. But I'm like, what I'm going to

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Speaker 1: have you guys go and hang out together.

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Speaker 2: You guys should find each other, they bump into each other,

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Speaker 2: we both go on the week of Italy.

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Speaker 1: Just completely stopped myself and that's just that's just absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: As a foreigner going like, oh yeah, I got a

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Speaker 4: buddy in the United States as well, in case you

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 3: I did meet a couple from Washington, the state of Washington,

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Speaker 3: who threw out some couple's name who lives in Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: and they were.

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Speaker 2: Like, you might know them. They're your age. Yeah, very sweet,

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Speaker 2: are you? Oh go ahead, Oh go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, Max, it's like when you and

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Speaker 5: I were in Naples at the same time at the

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Speaker 5: same weekend, Like totally coincidence.

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Speaker 2: You remember that, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: But even then, like Naples is a big city, Hey

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Speaker 2: I'm in Naples, were like on the other end of

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Speaker 1: I had the funniest somewhat related I had the funniest

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Speaker 1: little moment the other day because Melinda was had Artemis

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Speaker 2: Okay, this was last weekend. Was that warm?

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Speaker 1: It was like that warm Saturday or Friday that we had,

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Speaker 1: So I went to head out on my bike ride

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Speaker 4: Know what, whoa you exist outside of the place I

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Speaker 4: normally see you.

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Speaker 2: That whole story sound the way better in my head.

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Speaker 6: Ye you talk about arguments is like, oh hey, John,

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Speaker 1: your walk, all right, let's uh, let's go here. We've

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Speaker 1: a lot of these bills have died. Yeah's everything's dying.

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Speaker 1: It's a bummer because I have a lot of prep

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Speaker 1: of bills that have died. But I still want to

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Speaker 1: spend this a little bit of time talking about them.

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Speaker 1: This one, digital ads would be tax free no more

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Speaker 1: under the House bill. So did you know I'm working

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Speaker 1: off of so housmn dot gov. The DFL had actually

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Speaker 1: put out this up on the website, available for everybody

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Speaker 1: to go and see. Once upon a time, the main

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Speaker 1: place you'd find advertising was in a newspaper. Billboards came

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Speaker 1: about commercials on the radio, television. Today, it's an escapable

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Speaker 1: element of your online experience. But as you know that,

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Speaker 1: no taxes are collected when digital ads are bought in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: nor are they for billboards. But there was a bill

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Speaker 1: with the media at the time. A yeah, Now, this

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Speaker 1: Well, the whole gist of this was I thought initially

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Speaker 1: That was an immediate red flag for me personally, because

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Speaker 1: I advertised my sci fi books on occasion, not all

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Speaker 1: that the bill didn't do that. It actually just arbitrarily

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Speaker 2: It was a tax on the advertising. Correct. Yep, that's

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Speaker 4: And I take this one personally because I am an

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Speaker 4: Google for our clients. We work with real estate agents.

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Speaker 4: small businesses because when you think about who's running Facebook

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Speaker 2: A television ad.

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Speaker 1: The DFL has been posting a lot of the clips

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Speaker 1: a little bit later on Max had some interesting comments

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Speaker 1: about you guys are getting a weak break, I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: for for Easter, but you expect that the nonsense is

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Speaker 2: Once you guys get back from that Easter break. It's

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Speaker 1: But the DFL has been posting these clips online of

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Speaker 1: dflers during the legislative session, and they've been touting these

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Speaker 1: in point. So the DFL posted, damn Representative Athena Hollins

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Speaker 1: and this was in regards to this very bill that's

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Speaker 7: Disappointed to hear everybody saying, well, the taxes won't work,

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Speaker 7: They're just going to get passed down to consumers.

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Speaker 2: We hear this again and again and again.

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Speaker 7: You can't do increased minimum wage, They'll just get passed

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Speaker 7: down to consumers. You can't ask people to be held accountable.

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Speaker 7: It just gets passed down to consumers. At what point

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Speaker 7: are we going to say we're ministot and we're not

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Speaker 7: going to be held hostage by large corporations? Like this

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Speaker 1: We just heard of IFAs is really quick, can anybody

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Speaker 1: by large corporations based off of Athena Collins's comments?

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Speaker 3: Just just now no, okay, because she's not making tax

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Speaker 1: This is this is this is it's like it's like

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Speaker 2: That's that's that is a perfect way to praise.

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Speaker 1: They're just this corporation, this company, this entity provides a

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Speaker 1: to take it. And that's supposedly you're a hostage. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's essentially you being a hostage. Oh but wait,

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Speaker 7: Some people who couldn't find housing, who were suffering from

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Speaker 7: addiction and needed services, parents who can't afford their childcare.

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Speaker 7: And yet we've got billionaires here and we're like, well,

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Speaker 7: there's nothing we can do. They just keep getting richer

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Speaker 7: and we just have to suffer through it. Like at

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Speaker 7: some point we need to come up with solutions, like.

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Speaker 1: How is somebody else getting richer providing you suffering?

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Speaker 2: I don't. This doesn't mean that's the crazy part. He

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Speaker 2: says it all to me. What is she talking about?

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Speaker 3: We're talking about a tax and like Meta and Google.

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Speaker 3: She's like, people are dying in the streets and the

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Speaker 3: billionaires are letting it happen and.

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Speaker 2: This tax will fix that somehow, as.

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Speaker 3: Though they're gonna care, As though like Jeff Bezos or

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Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg is going to care that you know. Athena

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Speaker 3: Hollins passes a little point one percent sales tax on him.

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Speaker 7: I'm tired of hearing people say this is never gonna work.

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Speaker 7: Then bring something that is going to work, because it's

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Speaker 7: not working for Minnesotans right now. We've heard it again

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Speaker 7: and again and again in testimony and in letters. And

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Speaker 7: the fact is, like Mark Zuckerberg owes.

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Speaker 2: Us money, period.

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Speaker 7: We deserve to have people with housing, with food, with

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Speaker 7: medical care that is stable. And if you don't think

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Speaker 7: taxes in the right way, please bring another solution because

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Speaker 7: this just isn't sustainable.

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Speaker 2: It's like this shotgun argument.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna fire off all these shots and hopefully

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Speaker 1: one of them lands again. I want to emphasize the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota DFL put this up and wrote capital letters.

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Speaker 2: Damn.

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Speaker 1: Well, President Donald Trump yesterday kind of called the Democrats

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Speaker 2: On Representative Tom Emmer, No, I mean.

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Speaker 10: These guys are cowards. I got to tell you.

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Speaker 12: First off, the President what he did was he declared

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Speaker 12: And I don't care about American security and this this

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Speaker 12: And it's just totally unacceptable that the TSA, Coastguard and

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Speaker 10: So what happens, though, is these guys, I.

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Speaker 11: Mean, all the fight.

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Speaker 2: They are such cowards.

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Speaker 10: It passed on a.

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Speaker 12: Voice vote, unanimous consent at three am this morning, with

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Speaker 10: I mean, and these guys all take off.

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Speaker 12: Now today for they're a little two week away from

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Speaker 11: That they've got their job done.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's going to be interesting. We're going to

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Speaker 12: The details today. We what sata.

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Speaker 12: Bipartisan funding bill three separate times. This is a bill

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Speaker 11: They didn't get any of them.

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Speaker 10: John, After all of this, this is much like the

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Speaker 12: Days shutdown of the entire government last fall, where these.

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Speaker 10: Guys got nothing when it was over.

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Speaker 12: What was this all about other than just causing pain,

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Speaker 11: It's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 12: Well, first off, anybody who's listening John should realize no

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Speaker 11: Look, it's going to come down to what.

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Speaker 12: It always comes down to, John. The vast majority of

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Speaker 12: the Marxist socialist radical left, but these others that represent

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Speaker 12: themselves as being more mainstream. The issue is we have perception.

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Speaker 2: That we aren't there yet, and.

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Speaker 11: We've got reality that.

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Speaker 10: You know what, nobody's talking about eggs anymore, and they

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Speaker 10: want to complain about gas because.

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Speaker 11: The Iran experience. This is the only.

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Speaker 10: President that's ever been willing to.

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Speaker 11: Do something about this in forty seven years.

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Speaker 12: But the gas prices are still a couple bucks lowered

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Speaker 12: than where they were in the worst times under Joe Biden. John,

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Speaker 12: And once this Iran thing has been completed, which the

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Speaker 12: President is telling us is going to be in very

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Speaker 12: short order, you will see those gas prices start to

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Speaker 12: tumbel down. So I think perception and reality will intersect

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Speaker 12: sometime at the end of the summer early fall, and

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Speaker 12: that is a great thing because we will hold the House,

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Speaker 12: will defy their history and their puictions. We're going to

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Speaker 12: hold the Senate, and we've got Donald Trump for another

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Speaker 12: two years. So I think the future looks bright.

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Speaker 1: Representative Tom Emmer, I will take that heading into the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Thank you as always for the time. I look forward

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Speaker 1: to speaking with you again next week.

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Speaker 11: Happy Spring, John, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: RC Committee Man Ak Kamara should be joining me John

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Speaker 1: Justice along with Grays and Max in studio next on

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Speaker 1: a Freedom Friday, Minnesota Elections Office subpoena in federal criminal

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Speaker 1: probe probe over whether non citizens are on the state

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Speaker 1: voter rolls. Also, Hennepin County Shriff responding to unhinged comments

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Speaker 1: by the Hennepin County Commissioner yesterday, and we'll share those

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Speaker 1: comments coming up and your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 1: on a Freedom Friday here.

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Speaker 2: On Twin City's News Talk.

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Speaker 8: John former neighbor Mike here, we need some key him

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Speaker 8: energy quickly.

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Speaker 13: Energy patch is something reasonable, you.

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Speaker 9: Know, John, Not to burst your bubble or make Max

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Speaker 9: feel absolutely worthless. But I'm glad all these bills are dying.

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Speaker 9: But honestly, we have way too many laws in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let me let me pause this really quick

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Speaker 1: before we get further into it. On Twin City's News Talk.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel worthless that all these bills are dying?

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Speaker 11: There? Next? No?

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Speaker 2: Okay, no one to listen.

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Speaker 4: I love I love voting, though I love killing these bills.

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Speaker 2: I the less that we can do to screw things up.

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Speaker 4: If we can't get anything positive done, if we can't

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Speaker 4: get paid bamly medically repealed, if we can't cut taxes

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Speaker 4: because of our tithe house, I would prefer to kill

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Speaker 4: all everything that comes through.

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Speaker 1: Just play the rest of the rest of the talk

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Speaker 1: back here on Twin City's News Talk and Something.

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Speaker 9: If there's some bad legislation out there, we've got here

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Speaker 9: in Minnesota. So unless you're taking laws off the book,

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Speaker 9: go ahead and let them all die, or at least

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Speaker 9: play goalie or gatekeepers op the Dems from passing bad love.

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Speaker 9: We have way too many laws Minnesota. I'm sure we

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Speaker 9: all break about ten a day and don't even knowing.

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Speaker 4: I'm raising my hand and preaching agreement. You preach, man, preach.

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Speaker 4: It is a freedom Friday.

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Speaker 1: Here on Wednesday's News Talk, I am eleven thirty one

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Speaker 1: oh three five FM. We have our in studio guest today.

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Speaker 1: That was Representative Max Rymer. We have Grace Keating from

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Speaker 1: Center of the American Experiment. American Experiment podcast another great

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Speaker 1: episode this week. By the way, thank you. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: it earlier, hik k, I'll get you. I mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: It was yesterday where I had a surreal moment because

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Speaker 1: I turned your podcast on while I was prepping. But

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Speaker 1: I was only half paying attention because I was prepping,

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Speaker 1: and then suddenly I heard our music bed from the show,

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Speaker 1: and then I heard my voice. I'm like, why am

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Speaker 1: I hearing myself and then I realized, Oh, they were

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Speaker 1: playing back a portion of the show from when you

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Speaker 1: guys weren't here, when it was being speculated you guys

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Speaker 1: took advantage of paid family medically for your time off.

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Speaker 1: Ak Kamara, RNC Committeeman, what's the luddy?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, great morning in America.

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Speaker 5: Glad to see you back here, Grace that you guys

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Speaker 5: were able to go and have your or like what

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Speaker 5: two years ago?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you're and a half.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, year and a half, finally getting that honeymoon. But

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Speaker 5: I think that it's fascinating to me that I think

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Speaker 5: this legislative session and what you've been able to do, Max,

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Speaker 5: and what Republicans are doing. We're blocking all the nonsense.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, man, anytime we can stop craziness from becoming law,

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Speaker 5: we should be happy. But the most important thing is

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Speaker 5: make sure you understand this is why Republicans need to

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Speaker 5: turn out and vote, because if you guys did not

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Speaker 5: have the power that you have.

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Speaker 2: Right now, all of these things would be passing.

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Speaker 11: Yet.

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Speaker 4: Man, right now be a flood of crazy and like, hey,

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Speaker 4: don't thank me, but do if you get some time

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Speaker 4: this weekend, think about who your state representative is give

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Speaker 4: them a word of encouragement. Thanks for going on a

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Speaker 4: week break here, and you had this really acute sense

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Speaker 4: this past week because there was so much crazy that

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Speaker 4: it was like, wow, if it weren't for this priority

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Speaker 4: that we have. These idea is the quintumple car tabs fees,

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Speaker 4: this collector car thing, a number of other just insane

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Speaker 4: ideas of social media ad tax These are things that

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Speaker 4: they want, They actually want.

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Speaker 2: Yep, they're dead serious about.

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Speaker 1: The flip side though, unfortunately, is that with the triority,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that aren't getting passed. And

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Speaker 1: so while we didn't get the quintupling of the vehicle tabs,

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Speaker 1: we also weren't able to go and lower them either.

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Speaker 1: The bill to lower the licensed tab fees did fail

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Speaker 1: in the House Transportation Committee, which means the cost is

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Speaker 1: unlikely to go down anytime soon. And I want to

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Speaker 1: point something out because I saw some people making comments

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Speaker 1: about this online. In the story here from Channel five,

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Speaker 1: it says in twenty twenty three, the legislature increased the

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Speaker 1: tax rate for licensed tab fees while at the same

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Speaker 1: time dramatically slowing their rate of depreciation, so you pay

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Speaker 1: a higher rate on an artificially high valuation of your vehicle.

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Speaker 1: And we took took a ton of talkbacks yesterday and

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Speaker 1: emails from individuals that were sharing the exorbitant amount every

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Speaker 1: single year that they have to go and pay for

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Speaker 1: their for their tabs. But I also had a handful

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Speaker 1: of people that were like, well, why wasn't anybody pointing

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Speaker 1: this out or complaining about it back in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is there was some conversation. However,

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Speaker 1: it kind of snuck by because the local media didn't

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Speaker 1: draw much attention to it. And I know this because

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Speaker 1: I covered this stuff on a daily basis. When the

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Speaker 1: story came about, I was scratching my own head, going

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Speaker 1: wait a second, way to second, wait a second, why

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Speaker 1: were we Because I absolutely would have been raising a

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Speaker 1: massive stink about this in twenty twenty three because it's

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Speaker 1: just so arbitrary and ridiculous. Next to paid family medical leave,

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Speaker 1: these vehicle tab prices, they're.

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Speaker 2: Over the top ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is it really wasn't

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Speaker 1: covered extensively back in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: And as I said, I would have known that.

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Speaker 1: Because I would have been I would have spent an

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Speaker 1: abundance of time focused on it back then.

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Speaker 5: Well that's also because they were passing bills that gave

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Speaker 5: illegal aliens healthcare and gave them free college tuition. Like

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Speaker 5: there were so many other insane radical things that they did.

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Speaker 5: This one kind of just like snuck in. But I

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Speaker 5: will say that one of the things that Republicans did

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Speaker 5: really well back then is they explained, we just spent

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Speaker 5: an eighteen billion dollars surplus, and we raised taxes, and

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Speaker 5: this was part of those raised taxes. And so you know,

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Speaker 5: I think there's probably some gurus that's over at the

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Speaker 5: House Caucus, Senate Caucus that can probably figure out this

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Speaker 5: has been awesome to be able to show here's all

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Speaker 5: the things that Democrats were trying to pass, here's all

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Speaker 5: the things Republicans. So when you go and vote, ask yourself,

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Speaker 5: do you want these things that Republicans would have been

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Speaker 5: able to pass if they had a majority, or do

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Speaker 5: you want these things that Democrats tried to pass.

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Speaker 2: When they want a majority.

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Speaker 5: And I think if we can get that type of

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Speaker 5: marketing message out there.

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Speaker 2: It's like, holy cow, this is a huge.

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Speaker 5: Difference of what the state would look like under Republican

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Speaker 5: or Democrat control.

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Speaker 4: And the ads write themselves right now, by the way,

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Speaker 4: because you have the leader of this, we can't lower

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Speaker 4: car tab fees because how are we going to fund

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Speaker 4: all of this other stuff? Is your shakape representative Brad

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Speaker 4: tab Key, who we like to call Brad tab Fee. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: oh nice Brad tab Bee and he's going to raise

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Speaker 4: your tab fees.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Ice scares him a lot too.

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Speaker 11: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Ice agents freak him out, He stalks him, they ran

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Speaker 1: his plate and stresses him out a bunch. I do

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Speaker 1: want to share one clip regarding the tabs. We didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to play this on yesterday's show. This

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Speaker 1: was a Democrat Representative Aaron Kogel on the bill to

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Speaker 1: lower the tab fees in Minnesota. This is what she

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Speaker 1: had to say about its importance. This is classic.

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Speaker 14: So we come in, we fix the giant hole in

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Speaker 14: the budget, we get make sure that we can actually

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Speaker 14: take care of our roads and bridges and assets, and

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Speaker 14: then you guys put in a bill that just blows

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Speaker 14: it all up without any plan. So this is not serious.

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Speaker 14: This is just for talking points. And I suggested no vote.

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Speaker 1: You're charging Minnesotan's close to a grand every single year

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Speaker 1: to simply register or re register their vehicle, and to

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Speaker 1: want to go and limit that is suddenly blowing up

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Speaker 1: the budget because they can't seem to wrap their heads

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Speaker 1: around tackling the fraud, which if you did, you could

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Speaker 1: easily go and find the money. What is the seven

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars that they keep touting that the amount

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Speaker 1: of the vehicle tabor registration brings in on a yearly

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Speaker 1: basis and they can't go and bring them down because

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Speaker 1: where you're going to be able to go and find

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Speaker 1: that money? Oh, I know, there's like nine to night

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Speaker 1: a bully that went out the window. Maybe we can

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Speaker 1: get to some of them to some of that for

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Speaker 1: their thoughts, anybody.

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Speaker 4: Aaron Cagile very interesting person. Yesterday we had choosing his

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Speaker 4: words carefully. We had a conversation about, uh, we brought

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Speaker 4: up on the house floor age verification for pornography Okay,

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Speaker 4: got up on the house floor and Aaron Cagel was

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Speaker 4: more outraged that we shared the video of Representative Lee

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Speaker 4: Fankee saying that pornography is educational.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, basically said.

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Speaker 4: I'm voting no, and you almost got my colleague killed.

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Speaker 5: What Yeah, I mean, that's this is the insanity. Insanity,

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Speaker 5: and even just to kind of peel back and say,

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Speaker 5: is there this big looming problem if we don't raise

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Speaker 5: a license tab fees. So I was able to use

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Speaker 5: GROC and I asked it to do a bunch of

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Speaker 5: analysis on similarly situated states in regards to population mileage, wrote,

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Speaker 5: you know how many miles we have of road? Because

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Speaker 5: one of the things I always say about Minnesota is

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Speaker 5: that we're like, of all miles in Minnesota including bike pass,

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Speaker 5: we're like in the top five in the country. So

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Speaker 5: it's like, okay, well, well, how do these other states fair?

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Speaker 5: And the truth of the matter is they have different

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Speaker 5: funding mechanisms from their general fund to pay for these

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Speaker 5: things that actually goes up and down where we have

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Speaker 5: tied our hands to saying this is what we must do.

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Speaker 2: And then we also have the stupid.

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Speaker 5: Formula when it comes to actually spending for roads, where

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Speaker 5: it used to be you can't spend more than sixty

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Speaker 5: percent on highways and roads and no less than forty

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Speaker 5: percent on alternative like you know, bus lanes or rail

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Speaker 5: or bike pass. That's what it used to be, and

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Speaker 5: that's what the insanity is. There's very common sense.

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Speaker 2: Ways to fix us.

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Speaker 5: We just have to divorce ourselves in the idea that

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Speaker 5: we're going to get rid of private vehicle uses, which

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Speaker 5: is what I actually think these marksists want to do.

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Speaker 1: No, I absolutely agree. As a matter of fact, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking through my stack here. I don't know where I

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Speaker 1: put it. There was a lot of conversation over the

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Speaker 1: light rail concern over oh here it is GOP lawmakers,

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Speaker 1: like in Blue Rail extension project or the Rondo neighborhood disruption.

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Speaker 1: But the takeaway I don't want to dive further in.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to dive into this one right now,

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Speaker 1: but just use it as a as a point the

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Speaker 1: Republican lawmakers comparing the extended Blue Line trail from downtown

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis to Brooklyn Park to the I ninety four project

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Speaker 1: that ripped apart the predominantly black Rondo neighborhood in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 11: Right.

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Speaker 2: But the goal here is, to your point, keep.

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Speaker 1: The vehicle tab sky high and hopefully force everybody out

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Speaker 1: of their automobiles and onto the light rail that they

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Speaker 1: continue to go and throw throw money at me.

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Speaker 3: That is the plan, and that has been the strategy

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Speaker 3: of the met Council for years. It is to make

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Speaker 3: driving a car in the Twin Cities as difficult as

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Speaker 3: annoying as possible. Traffic and congestion and terrible roads are

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Speaker 3: good for them because they want you to They want

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Speaker 3: to force you to either bike in the winter or

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Speaker 3: take their gross, unsaved public transport.

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Speaker 5: And one last little piece, understand that if the Democrats

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Speaker 5: take back control of the House and Senate, they will

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Speaker 5: do what New York has done, where they're going to

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Speaker 5: have a per mileage fee that.

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Speaker 2: They will assess on people that drive.

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Speaker 5: And this is going to devastate small businesses that have

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Speaker 5: higher driving And on top of that, they're going to

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Speaker 5: probably pass some type of like congestion fee in Minneapolis

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Speaker 5: and Saint Paul, like they are trying to price people

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Speaker 5: out of private vehicle ownership.

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Speaker 2: That's what their goal is.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Secretary of State to office yesterday did receive

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Speaker 1: a grand jury subpoena ordering it to turn over certain

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Speaker 1: individual voter records as part of the federal investigation into

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Speaker 1: whether non citizens are registered or have unlawfully cast ballots.

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Speaker 1: The investigation, which is being run by the Justice Department

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Speaker 1: and DHS, appears to represent an escalation in the ongoing

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Speaker 1: dispute between states and federal government over efforts to review

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Speaker 1: the state's voter roles. And it has been I believe

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Speaker 1: confirmed that Secretary of State Steve Simon was directly subpoenaed

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Speaker 1: with regard to this, So something we'll be keeping an

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Speaker 1: eye on. It's a step in the right direction. This

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Speaker 1: is me sitting here talking to you, not holding my

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Speaker 1: breath because I have a rest of the show to do.

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Speaker 1: That being said, I am glad to see that this

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Speaker 1: is being done and that the federal government is moving

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Speaker 1: forward to try to have some accountability and get our

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Speaker 1: hands on these voter roles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what I've voted for.

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Speaker 5: This is something that I've been pushing and you know,

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Speaker 5: not to humble brag too much, but back when the

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Speaker 5: RNC was going around the country, we're having these voter

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Speaker 5: integrity kind of rallies. And we actually had Pam Bondi

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Speaker 5: before she was you know, even in the runn because

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Speaker 5: Psident Trump had won a second term. She came here

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Speaker 5: and we were her and I were literally talking about

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Speaker 5: Minnesota's voter roles, Minnesota's voting, you know, same day registration

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Speaker 5: and vouching all these different things, and I was like,

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Speaker 5: when President Trump wins and you have a job in

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Speaker 5: the administration, please do something about this. But this is

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Speaker 5: the next step is is you have to start bringing

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Speaker 5: these elected officials, you know, into a subpoena hearing where

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Speaker 5: they are going to be held liable if they lie,

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Speaker 5: and you have to say, what are you doing to

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Speaker 5: actually protect the actual vote for American citizens and people

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Speaker 5: that should legally be able to vote, and what are

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Speaker 5: you doing to stop a llegal.

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Speaker 2: Aliens from voting?

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Speaker 5: And I think everyone that has listened to the show

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Speaker 5: understands that this is part of the Democrat strategy, not

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Speaker 5: just in Minnesota but across the country. But our voter

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Speaker 5: roles are nasty. That's why Steve Simon hasn't turned them over.

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Speaker 5: And I think that this is going to be the

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Speaker 5: first step into actually saying what do we do to

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Speaker 5: change or hold people accountable? And people need to go jail.

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Speaker 5: In my opinion, our voter roles are nasty? Is your

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Speaker 5: podcast too title? By the way, I wanted to go

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Speaker 5: and point that out.

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Speaker 2: Let's go here.

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Speaker 1: Hannipin County commissioner catching heat for comments about the sheriff's office.

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Speaker 1: So the Hannipen County Commissioner Mary and Green, facing criticism,

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Speaker 1: stating that she doesn't believe the sheriff's office can effectively

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Speaker 1: provide public safety and is unwilling to fund it. This

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Speaker 1: is what she had to say yesterday.

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Speaker 15: This conversation reminds me a little bit of a tour

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Speaker 15: that I took last year.

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Speaker 2: That was it was through the.

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Speaker 15: National Association of Counties, and it was down along the border,

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Speaker 15: and the idea was to look at the border wall

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Speaker 15: and sort of see the pressure that border patrol is under.

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Speaker 15: And their hope, of course, that we would all was

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Speaker 15: that we would all walk away and say, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 15: like they need more funding. We've got to put more

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Speaker 15: people along the border so that we can defend our

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Speaker 15: borders and all that. And my takeaway was where, no

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Speaker 15: matter where I fall on the issue of the border,

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Speaker 15: we are throwing good money after bad. If we think

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Speaker 15: that there's a way to secure the border, it is

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Speaker 15: like this multi hundred mile long stretch that there is

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Speaker 15: not enough money in.

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Speaker 2: The United States to quote unquote secure.

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Speaker 15: And so in this case, I asked myself, like, are

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Speaker 15: we you know, we are not funding the sheriff to

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Speaker 15: provide share it's safety, public safety for Henneban County and so,

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Speaker 15: and also I'm not I guess I'm going to, you know,

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Speaker 15: reveal my cards. I'm not willing to fund.

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Speaker 2: The sheriff to provide public safety for Hennebon County.

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Speaker 15: I don't think that that can be something that that

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Speaker 15: office can take on and do well. I think there

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Speaker 15: has to be more pressure put on.

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Speaker 2: The local police forces. And I really appreciate.

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Speaker 15: What Commissier Lundy teed up about the city of Minneapolis.

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Speaker 15: I already emailed staff to ask for more information about that.

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Speaker 15: You know, she is not I'm sorry, the Sheriff's office

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Speaker 15: is not set up to succeed to provide public safety

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Speaker 15: for Hennepin County, and so I think we should take

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Speaker 15: a look at that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things here, I wish I had I

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Speaker 1: wish I had the cameras on all your faces while

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Speaker 1: that audio was playing. What was that, so, Max Rymer,

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Speaker 1: you had mentioned earlier what the commissioner gets paid some

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Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is your h if you're

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Speaker 4: in Hennepin County like we are, right now sitting in

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Speaker 4: the studio. Just know that wonderful person is making just

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Speaker 4: about two hundred thousand dollars a year plus government benefits

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Speaker 4: at the hidden layer of government called the Hennepin County Commission.

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Speaker 3: And her philosophy as a leader is it sounds hard.

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Speaker 3: It's probably impossible, so let's not even try.

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Speaker 5: I also love how she prefaces and she goes, no

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Speaker 5: matter where I fall on the bar, we know where

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Speaker 5: you fall on the border, you're an open borders leftist.

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Speaker 5: And then she's like, I'm gonna reveal my card. So

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Speaker 5: it's like she was setting herself up to pretend like

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Speaker 5: she was like this moderate arbiter.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the facts of information. And then

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Speaker 2: she just can't even hold herself to.

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Speaker 5: That old standard and she's like, all right, let's just

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Speaker 5: let's just be honest, Like I just don't believe that

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Speaker 5: funding law enforcement makes any sense because I don't do anything.

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Speaker 4: It's like, okay, it's like, Minneapolis is a big city.

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Speaker 4: Imagine if you're the chief. Minneapolis is a big city.

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Speaker 4: I don't think the Minneapolis Police Department can cover all

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Speaker 4: of Minneapolis, so therefore, let's defund them.

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Speaker 2: Like you're on your own. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: I love comments like this when, first off, there's a

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Speaker 1: level of confidence that she has, and I appreciate this.

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Speaker 1: I want democrats to be as confident as possible, because

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Speaker 1: when they are as confident as possible, this is the

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Speaker 1: type of truth and honesty that you end up getting.

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Speaker 1: You end up hearing point blank the buffoonery. And she

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Speaker 1: is so confident in what she is saying, right thinking

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Speaker 1: she's on the right side of this, but it ends

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Speaker 1: up drawing, in this case, the ire of individuals that

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Speaker 1: will typically be on her side. So let me just

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Speaker 1: play for you or share with you a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the letter that was written in response to this.

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Speaker 1: The Hennepin County Sheriff responded. As mayors and police chief

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Speaker 1: police chiefs of Hennepin County Cities, we write to express

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Speaker 1: serious concern about the recent statements made by Commissioner Marion

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Speaker 1: Green regarding the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office role. Public safety

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Speaker 1: in Hennepin County is a shared responsibility, and the Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Office is an indispensable part of that ecosystem. This is

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Speaker 1: not abstract. Our cities benefit from this work every single day.

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Speaker 1: I'm bullet pointing this. They have a lot of details

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Speaker 1: in here. The sheriff's statutory obligation under Minnesota law is

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Speaker 1: to doing that thing with my fingers keep and preserve

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Speaker 1: the peace within the community, a mandate that is long

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Speaker 1: established and essential. Commissioner Green's suggestion that local police departments

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Speaker 1: can absorb this responsibility is not grounded in reality, tradition,

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Speaker 1: or Minnesota law.

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Speaker 2: The data makes this plane.

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis Metro already ranks among the lowest in police.

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Speaker 2: Staffing per capita in the country.

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Speaker 1: In a comparison of the twelve most similarly sized cities nationally,

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis is ranked second lowest in combined to police and

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Speaker 1: sheriff staffing, above only Omaha, Nebraska and Nebraska. Remove the

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Speaker 1: sheriff support and we would rank the lowest in the

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Speaker 1: country by a wide margin. And what's hysterical about this

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Speaker 1: is believe Max, I think you had shared it over

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Speaker 1: overnight and it was another another pocket wallet survey that

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Speaker 1: was done showing that Minneapolis was like one of the best.

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Speaker 2: Rate stressed cities cities from.

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Speaker 4: I just want to make an on air correction because

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Speaker 4: I got a text massive all right, the Hennipin County commissioners.

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Speaker 4: They don't make two hunder grand. Oh they almost made

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Speaker 4: two under grand. They almost gave themselves a salary increase.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Hennepin County commissioners only make a paltry one

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Speaker 4: and forty thousand dollars. Ohs government, benettl how dare you be.

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Speaker 2: Off by that? How dare you wallet?

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Speaker 1: For the record, that was your cohort and crying by

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Speaker 1: the way, I don't know if you really I can.

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Speaker 4: Tell yeah, that was that was not a crazy parent

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Speaker 4: or something like that.

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Speaker 2: I was, actually I was. I was yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I was trying to create an image that was going

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Speaker 5: to have a wallet that had Catherine's face on it.

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Speaker 5: But it's just I started rabbit hole. I'm like, this

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Speaker 5: is gonna take way too its time just to be

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Speaker 5: a stupid throwway comment in our text threat a wallet.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me give you a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a preview what we have coming up on the show

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Speaker 1: in hour three. All right, I do want to play

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Speaker 1: some audio speaking of Democrats getting confident the Minneapolis City

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Speaker 1: clown soul descended into madness yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We have some audio. We have some.

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Speaker 1: Audio to share from what happened during the Clowncil meeting.

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Speaker 2: We will talk about the No Kings rally. They'll take

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Speaker 2: place tomorrow. No Kings bring.

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Speaker 11: Me the gun.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be right up there, man, Me and Bruce

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Speaker 2: Brings and the Boss. I've seen how you're going to

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Speaker 2: be dressed and looking forward to it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah. Man.

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Speaker 1: Also we'll get into cocaine sharks, a woman who married

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Speaker 1: a river. Yes, there may be there may be an

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Speaker 1: appearance of extreme tree huggers. I think there might be

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Speaker 1: some people in studio that've never heard that gem, that

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Speaker 1: classic of the John Justice Show. Of course your comments

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Speaker 1: as well from the iHeartRadio app coming up an hour

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Speaker 1: three on a Freedom Friday.

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Speaker 2: It's Twin City's News Talk and Lady.

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Speaker 16: That showed your heart what I'd like to say. Of course,

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Speaker 16: there's not enough guards to control every single inch of

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Speaker 16: the border.

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Speaker 2: But if you want to go.

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Speaker 16: With that analogy, there are not enough security measures to

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Speaker 16: control every single child in a school, or enough food

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Speaker 16: to feed every single child in the world, except for

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Speaker 16: feeding our futures. So why don't we just not do anything?

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Speaker 2: They knew and they let it happen