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Speaker 1: Assembly Speaker Robin Voss providing a political earthquake, as he

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Speaker 1: State Assembly's year got underway today, Yes it is February nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperities, Megan Novak. They are making a major

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Speaker 1: Speaker Voss announcing his retirement. About an hour and a

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Speaker 2: My friend, the former Speaker of Iowa, Linda Upmeyer, said

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Speaker 2: the circus. Have I thought about that, and it's certainly fitting.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all for your service, thank you for the

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Speaker 2: honor you've given me. By God blessed Wisconsin. And let's

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Speaker 1: And with that, not only is Wisconsin looking for a

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Speaker 1: They currently have a three seat majorities eighteen to fifteen

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Speaker 3: We are proud to announce today that the Conservative grassroots

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Speaker 1: That is fantastic, not really a surprise, I must say,

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Speaker 1: because Tom Tiffany obviously aligns with AFP's values. What is

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Speaker 3: You know, not only does Tom have the strongest track

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Speaker 6: Now is the time for Iran to join us on

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Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcast. The spring primary in our

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Speaker 1: and a reminder that we are putting together the comprehensive, complete,

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Speaker 1: ultimate Conservative voter guide for you. It is going to

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Speaker 1: be online as part of a brand new conservative web

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Speaker 1: initiative that we are just so so excited to be

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Speaker 1: we need your help in putting this voter guide together.

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Speaker 1: While I do have, with no false modesty, a pretty

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Speaker 1: extensive knowledge of Wisconsin news, Wisconsin politics, and the like,

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Speaker 1: it is impossible for me to know every single candidate

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Speaker 1: in every single county, well every single county. Is what

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Speaker 1: we are aiming for with this voter guide. It is

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Speaker 1: not a list of recommendations, it's not a list of endorsements.

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Speaker 1: It is simply a black and white list of all

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Speaker 1: of the Conservatives who are running in as many races

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Speaker 1: as we can possibly identify. We are working with county

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Speaker 1: Republican parties, the state Republican Party, various groups across the state,

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Speaker 1: and just individual candidates. And that's why we remind you

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Speaker 1: if you are a candidate, if you are somebody who

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Speaker 1: wants to be included in this Conservative voter guide. You

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Speaker 1: need to reach out to me at iHeartMedia dot com.

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Speaker 1: Get your name included. If you know other conservatives that

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Speaker 1: of this. Look, folks, I get some of the apprehension.

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Speaker 1: I've heard from a couple of candidates, and I've heard

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Speaker 1: from a couple of very connected political people now who said, look, Dan,

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Speaker 1: some of these candidates they are running in very liberal

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Speaker 1: areas and they don't want to be endorsed by Dan.

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Speaker 1: O'dunt no offense. Sweet, We all love you, Dan, but

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Speaker 1: obviously the Libs do not, And judging by my Facebook comments,

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Speaker 1: they really really really do not like me. Ironically, ironically,

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Speaker 1: the more angry comments I get from Libs, the more

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Speaker 1: money I get. I know, what a world? What a world?

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Speaker 1: I actually get paid by Facebook. I am a brand partner,

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Speaker 1: paid contributor. I don't know what the hell you call it.

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Speaker 1: I got a blue check mark, that's what it means,

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Speaker 1: I get. I don't know. They pay me based on

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Speaker 1: some left wing algorithm where I just I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: just rage nip for the insane lefties. There was a

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Speaker 1: very sizable check that came my way. I say this

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Speaker 1: not to brag, Okay, I do absolutely say this to

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Speaker 1: brag and to spike it in liberals' faces that the

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Speaker 1: more you call me a pedophile in my Facebook comments,

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Speaker 1: the more money I get. I just I can't actually

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Speaker 1: stress that enough. If you ever want to laugh, seriously,

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Speaker 1: I am dead serious. We actually have a funny recurring bit.

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Speaker 1: We call it the most most intelligent response that Dan

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Speaker 1: has gotten all day. And I take some of the

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Speaker 1: just absolute worst comments that I get, just people calling

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Speaker 1: me all manner of names. In fact, you know what

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Speaker 1: should we do one right now? Producer Eric? Get that

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Speaker 1: theme music ready? Okay? Because the angry message the most

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Speaker 1: intelligent response Dan has gotten all day. Because you will

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Speaker 1: seriously laugh. I mean, just go through the Facebook comments.

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Speaker 1: My wife, she gets way more upset about this than

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Speaker 1: I do, right, she says, You know, I just I

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Speaker 1: don't want to I'm like, honey, honey, these angry comments

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Speaker 1: got us a vacation in Cabo. Okay, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Lives keep him coming,

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Speaker 1: all right, ladies and gentlemen, are we ready? This is

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Speaker 1: He has since either blocked me or banned me, so

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Speaker 1: we don't actually have the name. But this is the

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Speaker 1: most intelligent response Dan has gotten all day. It comes

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Speaker 1: to us from a very erudite, very intelligent Facebook user

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Speaker 1: who apparently thought better of what he had posted, because

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Speaker 1: But I can't find it, but he writes, and I quote,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the Marathon State Assembly session

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Speaker 1: in Madison going on right now. Very first thing the

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Speaker 1: Assembly took up after hearing Robin Voss's retirement speech is

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Speaker 1: something that I had warned and was almost entirely convinced

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Speaker 1: was going to happen, the Online Sports Betting Bill, which

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Speaker 1: essentially gives a modified monopoly to the Forest County Potawatamie

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Speaker 1: on all types of online sports betting here in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: I knew this thing was going to pass on a

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Speaker 1: voice vote, because the last thing that Vos and the

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Speaker 1: of all to me. You might remember last year, when

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Speaker 1: we were working against another Republican bill that was reportedly

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Speaker 1: going to pass on a voice vote, Roefer right a

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Speaker 1: first refusal where they would have created a cartel of

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Speaker 1: electrical transmission companies in this state and cost taxpayers literally

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns and a

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Speaker 1: lack of competition on electrical transmission projects. I literally sat

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Speaker 1: here in this very chair, on this very show and

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Speaker 1: simply read off the names of Republicans who I knew

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Speaker 1: were going to support this thing, and Republicans who I

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Speaker 1: knew were going to pose this thing. Well, as you

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Speaker 1: could imagine, a whole lot of Republicans got a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of calls from angry constituents after I did that.

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Speaker 1: So the last thing that they wanted. I'm not saying it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, because of Dan O'Donnell. They went to a

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Speaker 1: voice vote vote, but it was because of you, because

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Speaker 1: they don't want to hear from you. So there's a

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Speaker 1: level of h they're able to hide. I guess I

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Speaker 1: are no levels of accountability on a voice vote. Here's

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Speaker 1: what it sounded like.

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Speaker 9: You guys have it. Assembly Bill six o one is

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Speaker 9: pass Represented from the seventy second the speaker asking Amas

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Speaker 1: Message to the Senate.

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Speaker 9: Represent from the seventy second Ash and MS consent that

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Speaker 7: Message to the Senate.

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Speaker 9: Is the re objection hearing done the bills in the

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Speaker 9: Senate now.

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Speaker 1: My producer, Eric Paulson, is a longtime radio veteran. He

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Speaker 1: has been in the radio business for a long time.

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Speaker 1: He just asked, is that regular speed or was that

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Speaker 1: sped up? No, that is how fast they moved to

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Speaker 1: get this thing past. That's actually nothing. Just wait until

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Speaker 1: So the online sports bill goes to the Senate. I

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Speaker 1: had heard today that there were only about four Republicans

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Speaker 1: every Democrat wants that sweet sweet Potawatamy campaign cash ahead

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Speaker 1: of the all important Assembly elections this fall, So this

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Speaker 1: was one that I could see yes, it was very

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Speaker 1: widely supported in the Assembly. In the Senate, it faces

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Speaker 1: a much much tougher route. I have heard that there

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Speaker 1: are as many as seven different Republican state senators who

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Speaker 1: are not supporters of this bill. That would mean that

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Speaker 1: the Senate's majority leader, Devin Lemahue, would actually have to

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Speaker 1: violate what's known as the rule of seventeen, which generally

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Speaker 1: says the majority party will not bring a bill to

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Speaker 1: the floor unless at least seventeen members a majority of

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Speaker 1: every single senator in the majority party supports the bill. Well, clearly,

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Speaker 1: since only eleven or twelve Republican Senators support this, they

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Speaker 1: strong suspicion that they will. That they are going to

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Speaker 1: pass this over the objections of Republican senators who don't

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Speaker 1: want to create an online sports betting bill monopoly. Here's

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Speaker 1: how this thing would work. If an online sports betting

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Speaker 1: company like Draft Kings or like fan Duel wants to

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Speaker 1: go in Wisconsin, they currently are barred by the online

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Speaker 1: or by the state's voter compacts. The agreements that we

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Speaker 1: by Governor Diamond Jim Doyle in a literal cover of

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Speaker 1: darkness deal on of old days April first, April Fool's

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Speaker 1: Day of two thousand and three. This has given the

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Speaker 1: they have cartel control. They are independent entities, independent tribes

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Speaker 1: who nonetheless have carved this state up and have agreed. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Oneida Tribe, you're going to take this territory. Potawatamie Tribe,

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Speaker 1: you're going to take this territory which is nowhere near

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Speaker 1: the Forest County Potawatamees Reservation. The ho Chunk Tribe, you're

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Speaker 1: going to take this territory. The lack of Flambo Tribe,

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Speaker 1: You're going to take this territory. They carve it up.

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Speaker 1: That's how a cartel operates. In this bill, what would

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Speaker 1: be created for online sports betting is what's known as

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Speaker 1: a hub and spoke model. In order for sports betting

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Speaker 1: to be legal, it has to take place in a

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Speaker 1: sports book in a casino. Obviously, online sports betting takes

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Speaker 1: place wherever. If you're on the bus, if you're on

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Speaker 1: the toilet, you can be making bets on your phone.

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Speaker 1: What the hub and spoke model says is, so long

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Speaker 1: as the Draft Kings server is located physically inside a

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Speaker 1: of the spokes that then go in that feed into

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Speaker 1: that hub place bets anywhere because it technically complies with

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Speaker 1: the tribal compact. Now, for the privilege of allowing the

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings or Fandual servers to be located in their

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Speaker 1: sports book, the Forest County Potawatami would take something like

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of the profits. Now, what this means is

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Speaker 1: that while DraftKings and FanDuel would otherwise just take bets

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Speaker 1: and pay taxes on the revenue that they generate off

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Speaker 1: of those bets in Wisconsin, Wisconsin would then be subject

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Speaker 1: to the gaming compacts and they would get far less

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Speaker 1: money than they otherwise would if Fan Duel and DraftKings

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Speaker 1: other state, any other state that simply allows them to

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Speaker 1: take bets. Now, all of this I believe is sort

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Speaker 1: of moot because the prediction markets, which are already operating

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Speaker 1: I believe completely unlawfully here in Wisconsin the calshi's, the

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Speaker 1: predict its, the polymarkets. They're betting. What you're doing is

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Speaker 1: you're making a prediction. And the way they couch this

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Speaker 1: is you're not actually betting on a specific outcome. You

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Speaker 1: are buying shares in an outcome. It's a distinction without

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Speaker 1: a difference. You're gambling on a specific outcome, but you're

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Speaker 1: buying shares of yes, this event will happen or no,

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Speaker 1: this event will not happen. This has led to all

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Speaker 1: manner of issues, all manner of controversies with regard to

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Speaker 1: not only sports betting, which has seems significant significant scandal

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Speaker 1: when a Hall of Fame player and the head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Portland Trailblazers gets busted for potentially altering these

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Speaker 1: prediction markets bets by benching players who had significant amounts

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Speaker 1: of action on their unders, for say, the player is

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Speaker 1: going to go under seven rebounds in a specific game.

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Speaker 1: You know you've got issues. I believe that this bill

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Speaker 1: is nothing more than a giveaway to a significant political contributor,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that this is something that is not

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Speaker 1: necessary under the current gaming compacts. Essentially, the compacts are

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Speaker 1: going to need to be opened up and we're going

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Speaker 1: to need to potentially renegotiate them now. Of course, Jim

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Speaker 1: Doyle's actions in early two thousand and three mean that

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Speaker 1: we can never ever ever reopen these compacts. And the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Institute for Law on Liberty has been all over

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Speaker 1: this issue, and I tend to agree with their legal analysis.

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Speaker 1: They say, look, this is almost certainly unconstitutional. The bill

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Speaker 1: that is currently on its way to the state Senate,

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Speaker 1: it's certainly not something that is likely to go without

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Speaker 1: a significant legal challenge. Will's argument is in order to

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Speaker 1: add a new form of gambling, which online sports betting

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Speaker 1: is now now, supporters of the bill are saying, well, Dan,

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Speaker 1: it's They're saying, look, it's not a new form of gambling,

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Speaker 1: it's gambling on sports. I would argue it's absolutely a

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Speaker 1: different form of gambling. Is is video poker the same

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Speaker 1: as as poker at a table? Is online poker the

660
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Speaker 1: same as poker at a table? Is that the exact

661
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Speaker 1: same game? Or is it fundamentally very different? Online sports

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Speaker 1: betting is completely different because it doesn't take place in

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Speaker 1: a casino. The very nature of it is different. That

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Speaker 1: would require a constitutional menut for the people of Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: to say yes, we want online sports betting in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: we want more gambling. You can't just do that by

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Speaker 1: an act of the legislature that actually needs a constitutional amendment.

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Speaker 1: Another big controversial bill passes on a voice vote over

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Speaker 1: strenuous subjections this afternoon. We'll get into that coming up

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Speaker 1: next big afternoon in the Wisconsin legislature. Obviously, Assembly Speaker

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Speaker 1: Robin Voss announced today that he is going to retire.

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Speaker 1: I am hoping that we are going to be able

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Speaker 1: to I'd like to play Voss's farewell speech in its

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Speaker 1: entirety coming up in the five o'clock hour here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show, because it was a very very

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Speaker 1: well done, heartfelt speech. I want to give thanks to

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Speaker 1: my friends over at Wisconsin I for preventing or for

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Speaker 1: preventing for providing a US with the coverage of this,

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Speaker 1: because they have been obviously under the microscope because they

680
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Speaker 1: were shut down for the better part of two months

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Speaker 1: in there, and this is exactly why we need Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: I am so glad there has been a deal that's

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Speaker 1: been reached to provide funding for this. They were able

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Speaker 1: to on arguably the biggest news day of the year

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Speaker 1: for the state legislature, even without Assembly Speaker of Boss's

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Speaker 1: retirement announcement. They provided the video. We were able to

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Speaker 1: get some soundbites from that, and I was able to

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Speaker 1: record the entire thing. So I do really really appreciate

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Speaker 1: them for providing the video coverage of this and for

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Speaker 1: this moment that the Republicans who control the Assembly tried

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Speaker 1: to force a voice vote on a big bill that

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Speaker 1: I guess has been combined. It was two separate bills,

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Speaker 1: one that dealt with hunting sand hill cranes and another

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Speaker 1: that I think is a little bit more controversial. It's

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Speaker 1: known as the wakeboating bill. We talked about this a

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Speaker 1: little bit here on the Dan O'Donnell show, maybe I

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Speaker 1: don't know a week or two ago, and I first

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Speaker 1: learned about this. There are actually two competing bills. One

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Speaker 1: of them was co authored by Nate Gustafson, which would

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Speaker 1: have allowed for far more local control. It would have

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Speaker 1: provided that wakeboats, you know what they are. They're typically

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Speaker 1: higher end boats that will stir up the wake from

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Speaker 1: well down below the surface of the water so that

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Speaker 1: you can do, you know, wakesurfing and all sorts of

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Speaker 1: water sports and stuff and look just so we're clear,

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Speaker 1: I don't really have a dog in this fight. What

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Speaker 1: I can tell you is I love the wake bullets

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Speaker 1: on the lake that my family and I go on

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Speaker 1: because we have jet skis, and we love when the

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Speaker 1: wakeboats are like, oh yeah, we're gonna jump over the

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Speaker 1: wake that they make. So you know it's I'm perfectly

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Speaker 1: fine with wakeboats. I am not perfectly fine with a bill,

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Speaker 1: the one that just passed the state Assembly and now

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Speaker 1: heads to the Senate, that provides little to know legal

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Speaker 1: protection for any sort of municipality that might want to

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Speaker 1: exceed state law in limitations on wakeboating on its navigable waters.

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Speaker 1: What the Gustuson bill would have done is to say, okay, wakeboats,

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Speaker 1: you cannot be within five hundred feet of shore, which

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Speaker 1: makes sense because you don't want to stir up all

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Speaker 1: of the bottom of the lake, the sand, the mud,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff and just sort of stir up

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Speaker 1: all of the crap, so you want to go deeper

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Speaker 1: five hundred feet. The bill that passed today two hundred feet.

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Speaker 1: The bill that passed today is a hard and fast

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Speaker 1: state regulation. The gust of sen bill would have said, okay,

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Speaker 1: how about we allow for local control, and we say

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Speaker 1: there is a protection mechanism, there is a level of

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Speaker 1: immunity for municipalities so they can't. Let's face it, folks,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the municipalities that will be that would

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Speaker 1: have been I should say, had the gust of Sen

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Speaker 1: bill even been given a number and even put on

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Speaker 1: the legislative calendar, what that would have done is to

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Speaker 1: what it would have done would protect from lawsuits for

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Speaker 1: all of these small little communities, the small little counties,

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Speaker 1: the small little towns that maybe have three people on

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Speaker 1: their village board, but they want to say, okay, we

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Speaker 1: want to have regulations or potentially even say we don't

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Speaker 1: want wakeboats on our lake. Well, what would happen is

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Speaker 1: the very well funded boating industry would come in and

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Speaker 1: sue them and just be able to throw its weight around.

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Speaker 1: So the Gustafson Bill would have said, okay, well we're

742
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Speaker 1: going to provide some protection for these communities. Ultimately, I

743
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Speaker 1: don't think that the bill that passed the Assembly today

744
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Speaker 1: is a terrible bill. The way that it passed today

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Speaker 1: was beyond terrible. A whole lot of Democrats opposed this

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Speaker 1: bill because they are claiming environmental concerns, and they think

747
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Speaker 1: people are just going to be, you know, turning the

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Speaker 1: sand hill crane extinct by over hunting them like it's

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Speaker 1: a Dodo bird. Somehow, I don't think that's going to

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Speaker 1: be the case. But clearly there was not the unanimous

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Speaker 1: support that would have allowed for a voice vote. However,

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Speaker 1: a voice vote is exactly what Assembly leadership held.

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Speaker 9: The question is Assembly Bill ten thirty three. I haven't

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Speaker 9: been read three times, so the bill be passed. All

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Speaker 9: those in favor, I'll signified by saying I I'll oppose.

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Speaker 7: Note the eyes have it.

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Speaker 9: Assembly Bill ten thirty three is passed. Represented from the

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Speaker 9: seventy second, Thank you, missus speaker, asking animous consent that

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Speaker 9: the rules be suspended.

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Speaker 1: Assembly Built ten thirty three.

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Speaker 9: Manly messages in the Senate, represented from the seventy second,

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Speaker 9: asking ams consent that the rules be suspended. Assembly Built

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Speaker 9: ten thirty three be a mess in the Senate? Is

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Speaker 9: there objection hearing none the bills in the Senate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was pretty much every Democrat and even a

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Speaker 1: number of Republicans saying, hey, wait a second. They all

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Speaker 1: then lined up to register that they in fact had

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Speaker 1: voted against that bill, even though their votes weren't recorded yet. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is something that unless it's naming a post office,

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Speaker 1: or unless it's you know, declaring you know, I don't know,

771
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Speaker 1: the fourth of July to be a state holiday, something

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Speaker 1: that's completely non controversial, that nobody. It's a waste of

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Speaker 1: time to have a role call vote. The voice vote

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be used. If you support a piece of legislation,

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Speaker 1: your constituents should know. This is a way of escaping

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Speaker 1: accountability for controversial votes. As it turns out, the wake

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Speaker 1: vote bill was coming up after just a brief commercial break.

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Speaker 1: We will get into the name, Image and Likeness bill.

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Speaker 1: How did that fare in this state Assembly? We'll find

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Speaker 1: out next Conservative thought not just talk. It is the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show, Welcome back to it. So how did

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Speaker 1: the so called nil bill fair in the Wisconsin Assembly, Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know. The Assembly is still in recess over

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Speaker 1: the sand Hill Crane slash wake boating bill. I have

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Speaker 1: been watching the Assembly on Wisconsin I, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we are going to be posting the Robin Voss retirement

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Speaker 1: speech in its entirety courtesy of our friends over at

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Speaker 1: wis I Wisconsin IWISI dot org I talk about this

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Speaker 1: service all the time, and I was a big supporter

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin I getting state funding because it is such

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Speaker 1: an essential service. I use it all the time. Think

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Speaker 1: of it as like Wisconsin CSPAN. It was actually shut

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Speaker 1: down for the better part of I don't know month

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Speaker 1: and a half two months in there, and there was

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Speaker 1: no video record of what is going on in state government.

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Speaker 1: And that is a horrible thing. That is an unacceptable thing.

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Speaker 1: And what Wisconsin I does, it's not politically motivated. There's

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Speaker 1: no liberal bias, there's no conservative bias. They literally just

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Speaker 1: air the press conferences and more importantly, committee hearings and

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Speaker 1: floor sessions so that people like me and reporters all

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Speaker 1: across the state can use that as a reference. They

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Speaker 1: don't actually have to be in the chambers because frankly,

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Speaker 1: I can't be I mean I can't be in my

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Speaker 1: studio and also monitoring things from the floor of the

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Speaker 1: State Assembly. Well, if I have something like Wisconsin I,

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Speaker 1: I can do that. In fact, I'm watching Wisconsin I

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Speaker 1: right now. It is literally on my computer screen right now.

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Speaker 1: And there was so much outrage over the wake Boat

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Speaker 1: bill that the nil bill was actually called as being

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Speaker 1: the next one but then almost every single Democrat wanted

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Speaker 1: to be registered as voting against the bill. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about this in the last segment here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show, and can we get the SoundBite, producer Eric,

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Speaker 1: can we get how this thing passed on a voice vote?

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Speaker 1: This is how you do not run a state legislative body.

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Speaker 1: All right, This is clearly a controversial bill. This is

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Speaker 1: clearly something that has significant opposition, not just from the

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Speaker 1: minority party, but also from members of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: In fact, one Republican number of Republicans actually introduced a

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Speaker 1: competing bill that might have actually gotten passed because of

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Speaker 1: overwhelming Democrats' support. I can't believe I'm actually siding with

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Speaker 1: the Democrats here, but I think that's on balance, probably

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Speaker 1: a better bill. That's beside the point. The point is

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Speaker 1: that this is one that should have had a role vote,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't, and this is what happened.

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Speaker 9: The question is Assembly Bill ten thirty three. I haven't

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Speaker 9: been read three times. She'll the bill be passed. All

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Speaker 9: those in favor, I'll signify by saying I I'll oppose.

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Speaker 7: Note the eyes have it.

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Speaker 9: Assembly Bill ten thirty three is passed, represented from the

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Speaker 9: seventy second.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, missus speaker, asking animous consent that the rules

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Speaker 2: be suspended, Assembly built ten thirty three.

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Speaker 1: Manly messages in.

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Speaker 9: The Senate represented from the seventy second asking ams consent

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Speaker 9: that the rules be suspended, Assembly built ten thirty three,

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Speaker 9: be a mess of the Senate? Is there objection?

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Speaker 1: Hearing none?

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Speaker 9: The bill's in the Senate hearing none, hearing none.

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Speaker 1: I have j you heard. I think that was Christine Siniki.

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Speaker 1: I object You can always tell Sinicky because she sort

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Speaker 1: of sounds like who is the character from Monsters inc Leszowski,

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Speaker 1: Remember the lady who turned out to be like the

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Speaker 1: undercover government monster agent. That's what I always think about

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Speaker 1: when I hear Christine Siniki.

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Speaker 10: I objected Withsowski, you got a point. You know when

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Speaker 10: the Democrats have a point, they've got a point. There

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Speaker 10: were tons of objections, so there has been a recess

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Speaker 10: for boy oh boy, a couple of hours now while

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Speaker 10: they figure this out, because that was a massive controversy

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Speaker 10: and now we have to wait to see the fate

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Speaker 10: of the NIL bill. The nil bill name, image and

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Speaker 10: likeness is okay on its own, it really whatever. The

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Speaker 10: issue that I have is tacked onto it is fourteen

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Speaker 10: point six million dollars in general purpose revenue i e.

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Speaker 10: Taxpayer money from you and me and everybody else that

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Speaker 10: just automatically goes to the University of Wisconsin Madison in

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Speaker 10: every single year for athletic facilities maintenance. They don't have

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Speaker 10: to take that out of the money they make. And

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Speaker 10: they make a ton of money off of Badger football,

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Speaker 10: Badger basketball, to a lesser extent, Badger hockey.

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Speaker 1: Even though the men's and women's teams aren't usually the

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Speaker 1: highest performing of ball. They've got significant revenue coming in

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Speaker 1: and they would have to take a portion of that

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Speaker 1: revenue and maintain the athletic facilities. Now they're just getting

866
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Speaker 1: fourteen point six million dollars of taxpayer money in a

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Speaker 1: giveaway from the state legislature. The same state legislature that said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you're going to do away with all your DEI programs,

869
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Speaker 1: or we're not going to allow you to hire anybody.

870
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Speaker 1: We're going to institute a hiring freeze, We're going to

871
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Speaker 1: freeze your budgets. And finally UW system leaders come to

872
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: an agreement and they say, okay, okay, fine, Board of

873
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: Regents just gives a big old middle finger to the

874
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Speaker 1: Republican legislature and says, absolutely not, we don't agree. Finally,

875
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Speaker 1: it took a couple of weeks where the chancellor had

876
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Speaker 1: to go back and say, hey, you know what do

877
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: we do? The Board of Region's president had to go

878
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: back and say, guys, we really need you to vote

879
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Speaker 1: for this one. UW. Madison, though, has been remarkably intransigent

880
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: in getting rid of its DEI programs. Did it do so?

881
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: It dismantled its DEI department. Well, it just transferred all

882
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: of the workers to different departments. So essentially it's still

883
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: got a DEI program, it's just being hidden in any

884
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:43,879
Speaker 1: number of other different departments across the university. Does this

885
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: sound like an institution that should be rewarded with an

886
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: additional fifteen million dollars in perpetuity? They're just going to

887
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: get fifteen million dollars every single year for facilities maintenance.

888
00:56:55,719 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: They won't have to spend a single cent on facilities

889
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to do fifteen million

890
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 1: dollars worth of facilities maintenance at one university and instead,

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00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I guess use the revenues that are coming in instead

892
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,959
Speaker 1: of hitting up their boosters. They're going to use more

893
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: tax dollars and revenue that's coming from taxpayer supported sports

894
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: to pay college athletes. So if you want to get

895
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Speaker 1: a hot shot running back from the transfer transfer portal,

896
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Speaker 1: you can do so using more taxpayer dollars because a

897
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Speaker 1: different form of taxpayer dollars, a different set of taxpayer dollars,

898
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Speaker 1: is going towards the facility's maintenance. So that has not

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Speaker 1: yet been voted on. I would expect that one to pass.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully the Assembly has learned its lesson about voice votes,

901
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: but I do expect that to pass. Great day for

902
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: a team. USA Women's hockey team lends the gold in

903
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: a thriller over our trival Canada this afternoon, two to

904
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Speaker 1: one in over time, and I am loving the Yes,

905
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Speaker 1: I know the NHL does at least for regular season

906
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: three on three plus a goalie for overtime. I'll admit

907
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: it's been a while since I've actually watched a regular

908
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: season hockey game. Watched the Stanley Cup playoffs and typically

909
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: don't really watch it that care I was when I

910
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: was growing up, I loved hockey, absolutely loved it. I

911
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Speaker 1: played roller hockey in front of my house with all

912
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: of my buddies from grade school, and it was the nineties,

913
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Speaker 1: everybody had rollerblades, so we did roller hockey. And we

914
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Speaker 1: must have played roller hockey every day of every summer

915
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: from probably like sixth grade all the way through about

916
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Speaker 1: sophomore year in high school. So I loved hockey back

917
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Speaker 1: that I became a huge New York Rangers fan when

918
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: they won their first and only Cup since the nineteen

919
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: fifties in nineteen ninety four. I still love Mark Messier,

920
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: Steve Larmer, Wisconsin's own Mike Richter. Congrats to the Team

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00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: USA women for a huge, huge gold medal victory today

922
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Speaker 1: over Canada. It will be the Team USA men playing

923
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Speaker 1: in the semi finals, and that brings us to the

924
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Speaker 1: unsung hero of the day. It is, in fact, a

925
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Speaker 1: Team USA men's hockey player by the name of Quinn Hughes,

926
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Speaker 1: who scored an overtime game winning goal in the quarterfinals

927
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Speaker 1: for the men's team against Sweden, and after the game,

928
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: as he was walking off the ice, a reporter asked

929
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Speaker 1: him about what it was like representing Team USA, and

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Speaker 1: Hughes's answer, spectac.

931
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Speaker 7: USA flags all over the place.

932
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Speaker 1: You can hear the chance, what's that atmosphere. Yeah, it's special.

933
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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I love the USC strains cussing

934
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Speaker 7: in the world. So happy to rep kind of hear

935
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Speaker 7: with these guys.

936
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Speaker 6: And and that's really.

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Speaker 1: Special in an Olympics where it seems like at least

938
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Speaker 1: one out of every five Team USA athletes is asked

939
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Speaker 1: about all of the social ills of the United States

940
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Speaker 1: and gives a qualified answer about its politics. While asked

941
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Speaker 1: and answering about what it's like representing the team. It

942
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: is so refreshing to see people like Quinn Hughes who

943
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: are unabashedly proud to be wearing the red, white, and blue.

944
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Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes in really every other Team USA athlete who

945
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: thinks the same way he does about the responsibility and

946
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Speaker 1: the joy of representing the country that he loves so much.

947
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Speaker 1: They are your unsung heroes of the day. When The

948
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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show returns after the top of the hour news,

949
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Speaker 1: an emotional Robin Voss delivers his retirement address. We are

950
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Speaker 1: going to play some long segments of that. I'm going

951
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Speaker 1: to comment, and then we are going to get into

952
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: America's staffing crisis. Very influential column out this week. Stay

953
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: tuned Dan o'donald Show cover right an emotional Robin Voss

954
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: today announcing that he is not going to seek another

955
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: term in the Wisconsin Assembly. It was a very well

956
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: done retirement speech, and right now here on the Dan

957
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: o'donald Show, we are going to present it to you

958
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: in large segments because it's not just about one man's retirement.

959
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: Let's face it, though, outside of the two governors that

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01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: Wisconsin has had in the thirteen years that Voss has

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Speaker 1: been Assembly Speaker, there has been nobody more powerful save

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Speaker 1: for those two governors, in state politics than Voss. And

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01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: you could even argue that Voss was on par with

964
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: Governor Evers and Governor Walker in terms of the influence

965
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: that he has wielded as the leader of this state Assembly.

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Speaker 1: And it is truly the end of an era. Even

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01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: Governor Eavers said, we disagreed far more often than we agreed,

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Speaker 1: but this does mark the end of an era in

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin politics. And we are going to now here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell's show play some extended segments of Robin

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01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:30,439
Speaker 1: Voss's retirement speech today, primarily because you're simply not going

972
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: to hear this anywhere else in the media. You might

973
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: hear a ten to fifteen second SoundBite in the five

974
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: o'clock news, but you're not going to hear just what

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01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: Voss had to say and what politics in Wisconsin has

976
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: been like over the last decade.

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Speaker 2: When I first walked in this chamber, I could not

978
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 2: have imagined how deeply this institution would shape my life,

979
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 2: or profoundly I would come to believe in its purpose.

980
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 2: I remember being struck by a few things when I

981
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 2: first was sworn into office in two thousand and five.

982
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 2: One was how beautiful this building is and how lucky

983
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 2: I felt to be able to work in it. Second,

984
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 2: how intimidating it felt to sit in a desk that

985
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 2: had been occupied by generations of Wisconsinight's before me. And finally,

986
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 2: how ordinary the work felt from the outside, especially papers

987
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 2: and microphones, debating and votes, until I realized how extraordinary

988
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 2: the responsibility truly was. So today, as I announced that

989
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 2: I will not be running for re election in November,

990
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 2: I am struck by how much this work has shaped me,

991
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 2: how honored I am to have played a small part

992
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 2: in democracy, and how proud I am to know that

993
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 2: the state of our legislature is strong. The decision wasn't easy.

994
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,439
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about it for most of twenty twenty five.

995
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 2: But sometimes the sign pushes you in the right direction,

996
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 2: and mine was at mid November when I had a

997
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 2: mild heart attack. Luckily, my doctors say I am perfectly fine,

998
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 2: but I do need to reduce my stress. And let

999
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 2: me tell you, this job is stressful.

1000
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: Now. This should at least somewhat put aside this idea

1001
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 1: that Voss is retiring now because he knows that there's

1002
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: no chance Republicans are going to retain control of the Assembly.

1003
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: In truth, this was really one of the worst kept

1004
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: secrets in the state capital that Voss was going to retire.

1005
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: In fact, he had been openly talking about possibly retiring

1006
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: for the past several years. Suffering a mild heart attack

1007
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago was just the final push

1008
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: I think that he needed, as he put it, sort

1009
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,919
Speaker 1: of a sign from God that now was the time

1010
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:48,640
Speaker 1: to step back.

1011
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 2: It was a sign from God that convinced me I

1012
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 2: needed to choose a different path. I have always believed

1013
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 2: that our republic, in order to remain healthy, the legislature

1014
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 2: must be the strongest branch of government, not because it

1015
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 2: should dominate, but because it represents When legislatures grow weak,

1016
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 2: the people's voice grow faint. When executives governed by unilateral

1017
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 2: fiat or action or courts are forced to resolve political questions,

1018
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 2: it's often because legislators failed to do their job. My

1019
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 2: work here in the state Capitol has been guided by

1020
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 2: the conviction that this body must never surrender its authority,

1021
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 2: its responsibility, or its relevance, no matter who the governor

1022
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 2: is or what party he or she are from. Like

1023
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 2: most of you, I did not arrive here with a

1024
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 2: grand plan to stay for twenty two years. I arrived

1025
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: with a belief that this institution mattered, and that a

1026
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 2: healthy respect for the fact that the people who sent

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01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 2: me here expected me to take the job seriously, even

1028
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 2: when it was hard, unpopular, or lonely. Over the years,

1029
01:05:54,360 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 2: that belief has only deepened. Serving as a member of

1030
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Speaker 2: this Assembly, and for the past thirteen years as a Speaker,

1031
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 2: has been the greatest professional honor of my life. Together

1032
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 2: we have worked upholl the legislature as a coequal branch

1033
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 2: of government, defending its constitutional role and restoring balance when

1034
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 2: the balance was tested. We strengthen legislative oversight, even though

1035
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Speaker 2: our court has not weakened it. We reaffirmed the power

1036
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 2: of the purse, even though some want to take it away,

1037
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 2: and insisted that major policy decisions be made by elected

1038
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 2: representatives accountable to voters, not unelected state employees.

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Speaker 1: What he is talking about is rather obviously the state

1040
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, as well as unelected bureaucrats in say, the

1041
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Elections Commission staff, as well as in Tony Evers administration.

1042
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 1: He also had a pointed rebuke of Governor Evers in

1043
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: talking about taking away the power of the purse. The

1044
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: four hundred year property tax veto is exactly that. It

1045
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: is the governor appropriating for the next four centuries tax

1046
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: money that was never authorized by the legislature.

1047
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 2: The Wisconsin State legislature is not just where laws are passed,

1048
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 2: It's where democracy slows itself down on purpose. We debate

1049
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 2: in public, we answer to voters. We live with the

1050
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 2: consequences of our decisions, right or wrong. I learned early

1051
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 2: on that in the legislature it's strongest when everyone agrees,

1052
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 2: not only because of that, but because people are prepared

1053
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 2: to show up and argue their case. Honestly, I've had

1054
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,640
Speaker 2: days in this chamber when flooria debates ran long and

1055
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: tempers flared. In fact, many of us can remember the

1056
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 2: longest debate in state history, lasting over sixty three hours.

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Speaker 7: Right here in this chamber.

1058
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 2: And now many of you complain when we go more

1059
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 2: than three hours, right, And yet I have to tell

1060
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 2: you that those are some of the days when I

1061
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 2: felt most that the system worked exactly as the founders intended.

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01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 2: As speaker, I've also learned that the job is all

1063
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 2: about relationships, and for the people here in this room,

1064
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 2: thank you. You are some of the smartest people I

1065
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 2: have ever met, the most capable. A Wisconsin should be

1066
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 2: so proud of you. But the job is about quiet

1067
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 2: conversations and hallways. It's about the late night meetings when

1068
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 2: deadlines loomed because we all need a deadline, and the

1069
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 2: moments when you came up and talked to me about

1070
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:25,600
Speaker 2: an event or something that was personal to you and

1071
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 2: I got to listen to your stories. What made the

1072
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Speaker 2: biggest impact was regular people coming up to you in

1073
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,679
Speaker 2: the coffee shop or wherever it was tell you their opinion,

1074
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Speaker 2: even if you didn't want to hear it. There were

1075
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Speaker 2: moments of real pressure, moments when the institution itself was

1076
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Speaker 2: being tested.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I am so incredibly proud that all of us were

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Speaker 2: able to stand together. We advanced reforms aimed at fiscal responsibility,

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Speaker 2: holding the line on spending, protecting taxpayers, and making difficult

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Speaker 2: decisions to secure Wisconsin's long term economic stability. We pursued

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Speaker 2: policies to grow jobs and courage investment, and keep Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: competitive in a rapidly changing environment. We expanded educational opportunities

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Speaker 2: for kids, particularly in families who fell trapped by circumstance

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Speaker 2: of their birth rather than by a choice that they made.

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Speaker 2: We tried to change a system that far too often

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Speaker 2: traps our neighbors and their circumstances rather than what we

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Speaker 2: all want, which is helping to lift them to greater circumstances.

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Speaker 2: Some of the complishments I am proudest of will never

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Speaker 2: make headlines. Improving how this institution functions, modernizing its operations,

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Speaker 2: and ensuring that future legislators inherit a legislature that is stronger,

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Speaker 2: more transparent, and more resilient than the one I entered.

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Speaker 7: Two decades ago.

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Speaker 2: No accomplishment in this building is ever the work of

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Speaker 2: one person. To the members of this Assembly, Republicans and

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Speaker 2: Democrats alike.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: We have argued fiercely, we have disagreed passionately, and yet

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Speaker 2: we have all shown up day after day by a

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Speaker 2: shared respect for this institution. The debates that we have

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Speaker 2: in this chamber actually matter. They matter because they happen

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Speaker 2: in the open, because they require compromise, and because they

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Speaker 2: reflect the will of the people that we all serve.

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Speaker 7: To my personal staff.

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Speaker 2: Today, my very first staffer, and we're gonna give people

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Speaker 2: a round of applause, mister speaker, even if you don't

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Speaker 2: want to. To my very who now works for the

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Speaker 2: clerk's office, Janine.

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Speaker 7: Up there, let's give her a round of applause.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know, especially my Democratic friends like to stand up,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to introduce all these people and then

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Speaker 2: we can stand up at the end. But that's okay.

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Speaker 2: To the woman who took me to the Howard Dean

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Speaker 2: interview and pushed me out of the window or out

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Speaker 2: of the door of the car without telling me what

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Speaker 2: I was doing, my very first communications director, Kit Buyer,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna run down it because it's gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: start crying, so I can't do it. So Lizzie and

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Speaker 2: Abby and Zach and Mariah and Jake and Kate and

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Speaker 2: Tyler and Mac and Tyler Ellison, the other Tyler and

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Speaker 2: Luke Wolfe, who are all here today, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. You have made me a better person,

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Speaker 2: and you've instance you made this institution stronger.

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Speaker 1: You have you have.

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Speaker 2: But to the person, But to the person who I

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Speaker 2: am closest to, with the exception of someone I'm related to,

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Speaker 2: the woman who really runs everything. I mean, I always

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Speaker 2: tell people I get to be the pretty face, but

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Speaker 2: she's the one who's pretty er and the harder worker.

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Speaker 7: We all know how.

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Speaker 1: This institution works.

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Speaker 2: It's the people behind the scenes who don't get enough credit,

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Speaker 2: who do all the work, who are here at night

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Speaker 2: when we leave to the bar. They know everything that works. Jenny,

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Speaker 2: I could not have done it without you. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much.

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Speaker 1: Kind of believe it is his longtime chief of staff.

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Speaker 2: Eighty two people have worked in my office since I started,

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Speaker 2: about half interns, about half professional staff in the office,

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Speaker 2: each and every one of them fantastic. To the other

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Speaker 2: professional staff of the legislature, the people who work for

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Speaker 2: our FISCO Bureau and the reference Bureau. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to start naming them all the six service agencies. Right,

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Speaker 2: incredible people. We are so blessed, and they do not

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Speaker 2: get the stanks that they deserve. Every day, day in

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Speaker 2: and day out, the stupidest questions that we have, they

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Speaker 2: act like they're serious.

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Speaker 7: Right, they are amazing.

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Speaker 2: They're the steady hands, the institutional knowledge, the quiet professionals

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Speaker 2: who really make us work their long nights, their careful

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Speaker 2: counsel and devotion to process often go unseen by the public,

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Speaker 2: but they are truly the foundation of everything that we do.

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Speaker 2: Any success attributed to me belongs rightly with the professional

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Speaker 2: staff who made it happen. Let's give them a round

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Speaker 2: of applus to its in the sixty thirdy District and now

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Speaker 2: because of the evers Jerryman the thirty third Assembly District.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for placing your trust in me. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for placing your trust in me time and time again

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Speaker 2: over the past two decades. I am deeply humbled by

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Speaker 2: the confidence in my ability to servicing in Walworth Counties.

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Speaker 2: To my friends and neighbors who stood with me from

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Speaker 2: the very beginning and every step since the matter with

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Speaker 2: my recall or whatever your faith has been something that

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Speaker 2: means more to me than I can say. To my

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Speaker 2: friends from around the country who I know might be

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Speaker 2: watching that I've gotten the know through wonderful organizations like

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Speaker 2: NCSL and SLLF. Thank you for being mentors to me

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Speaker 2: and an incredible sounding board. Cliff Andre kurt Al, Tim Stacy,

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Speaker 2: Eric Steve, Linda Pete, and so many others. You know

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Speaker 2: who you are and you know what you did for me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for helping me to make my work as

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Speaker 2: a leader more meaningful.

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Speaker 1: And for your friendship even deeper.

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Speaker 2: To my leadership team and my caucus colleagues, thank you

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Speaker 2: for your trust. Thank you for your candor and your

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Speaker 2: willingness to carry responsibility when it is heavy. Leadership is

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Speaker 2: never about authority alone. It's about accountability, and I was

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Speaker 2: fortunate to share that burden with people of integrity. The

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Speaker 2: people of Wisconsin, as I said earlier, are so lucky

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Speaker 2: to have you serving in your roles, and I have

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Speaker 2: confidence in the future that you'll keep doing it. And finally,

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Speaker 2: to my family, thank you for the sacrifices you made

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Speaker 2: so that I could serve the public. Public service demands time,

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Speaker 2: it demand's patience, and it depends understanding from those that

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Speaker 2: we love the most. Your support made it all possible.

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Speaker 2: Winston Churchill famously said, everyone has his day, and some

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Speaker 2: days last longer than others. My time has lasted quite

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Speaker 2: a while, but my service in this chamber will end

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Speaker 2: when the new class of freshmen are sworn in. I've

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Speaker 2: been so honored to serve with all of you in

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Speaker 2: this chamber, and I will miss many of you.

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Speaker 7: But not all of you.

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Speaker 4: Ah.

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Speaker 2: But to those of you who I will miss, and

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Speaker 2: actually all of you, I appreciate your service. As I

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Speaker 2: step away from this chamber of My hope is super

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Speaker 2: simple that those who follow will remember that the legislature

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Speaker 2: is not meant to be convenient or fast or easy.

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Speaker 2: It is meant to be deliberative. It's meant to be independent,

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Speaker 2: and it's meant to be strong. If this institution remains strong,

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin will remain strong. So, as my friend, the former

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Speaker 2: Speaker of Iowa, Linda Upmeyer said on her own retirement,

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Speaker 2: I'll miss the clowns, but not the circus. Have I

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Speaker 2: thought about that, and it's certainly fitting. Thank you all

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Speaker 2: for your service, Thank you for the honor you've given me.

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Speaker 2: May God bless Wisconsin and let's end with a great

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Speaker 2: session day, hopefully in the reasonable hours of the night.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: That is Assembly Speaker Robin Voss in his farewell address

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. We will be back in two seconds here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell's show to provide some analogists of

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Speaker 1: that and much more. Stay tuned. I don't actually think

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Speaker 1: I have ever seen Assembly Speaker Scott Scott. Assembly Speaker

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Speaker 1: Robin Voss that emotional. This was a man who went

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Speaker 1: into the trenches with Scott Walker, who battled Tony Evers

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Speaker 1: to the bitter end. But he was very emotional as

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Speaker 1: he announces today that he is not going to seek reelection,

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Speaker 1: that he is retiring after more than twenty years in

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Speaker 1: the State Assembly, more than thirteen years as Assembly speaker.

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Speaker 1: He is the longest serving Assembly Speaker in the history

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Speaker 1: of the Wisconsin State Assembly, which is something. And what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about was obviously very high minded ideas

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Speaker 1: about the deliberative nature of the legislative role in state government.

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Speaker 1: And he of course thanked the people closest to him,

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Speaker 1: his staffers, his colleagues. But what I took away was

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Speaker 1: the pointed nature with which he not necessarily attacked the

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Speaker 1: other two branches of government. But as we see an

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Speaker 1: imperial executive and an imperial judiciary here in Wisconsin, both

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Speaker 1: under the control of liberals who talk a big game

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Speaker 1: about democracy but are continually trying to chip away at

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Speaker 1: the lawful authority of the closest thing that we have

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Speaker 1: to actual representation of the people. You don't get closer

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Speaker 1: than you do to your state assembly person. You don't

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Speaker 1: get closer than your state senator. Sure, you have a

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Speaker 1: congressional representative, you have a House of Representatives member. But

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Speaker 1: in state government, it is very likely that if you

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Speaker 1: are at all interested in politics, if you are at

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Speaker 1: all somebody who follows what's going on, and somebody who

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Speaker 1: you know is is visible politically, you probably know and

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Speaker 1: have a relationship with your state rep with your state senator.

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Speaker 1: There's really something to that. And what we have had

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Speaker 1: over the last seven years was an executive branch that,

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Speaker 1: under the auspices of doing what's right in awe, shucks,

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Speaker 1: we just want to get some more money for the kids.

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Speaker 1: We actually had the single biggest affront to the separation

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Speaker 1: of powers I think that we've ever had in this state.

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Speaker 1: First of all with Governor Evers continually extending the state

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Speaker 1: of emergency, the the COVID emergency. He would declare new

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Speaker 1: public health emergencies every couple of weeks, just so he

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Speaker 1: could have his legislature. He could have his statewide mask

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Speaker 1: mandate without any legislative oversight. I don't think people realize.

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Speaker 1: I remember screaming about this to the high heavens in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two as Evers was doing it,

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Speaker 1: But it felt like people didn't really understand the threat

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Speaker 1: that this posed. And Robin Voss was one of the

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Speaker 1: few who did, who said, look, if he can just

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Speaker 1: declare a new state of emergency over something as stupid

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Speaker 1: as a mask mandate, well, what's to stop him from

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Speaker 1: simply declaring a new state of emergency and giving himself

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Speaker 1: all sorts of new powers that were never delegated to

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Speaker 1: him by the Wisconsin Constitution. And I can remember talking

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Speaker 1: with Voss about that and why he fought so hard

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Speaker 1: against it. And it's the same thing with now that

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Speaker 1: we have an imperial judiciary in the form of the

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Speaker 1: left wing Supreme Court that first took power in August

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, when Janet proto Sewitz was sworn

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Speaker 1: in as the fourth Liberal and immediately, immediately you surved

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Speaker 1: the lawful constitutional authority of the state legislature to draw

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Speaker 1: state legislative maps and said, okay, we're just going to

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Speaker 1: on the flimsiest of anti constitutional grounds, saying we're just

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Speaker 1: going to strike down your maps. We're going to draw

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Speaker 1: our own, unless basically bullying the legislature into accepting Governor

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Speaker 1: evers map, which again, the governor has no lawful constitutional

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Speaker 1: authority to draw legislative maps in Wisconsin under the Wisconsin Constitution.

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Speaker 1: That falls specifically under the auspices of legislative power. But

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court signed off on that. The Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: actually asserted for itself that power. And then we got

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Speaker 1: the big one where the governor, through this four hundred

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Speaker 1: year veto simply delegated state money for the next four

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Speaker 1: hundred years, that the power of the purse belongs to

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Speaker 1: the state legislature, just as it does federally to the

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Speaker 1: United States Congress. It in Wisconsin belongs that power to

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Speaker 1: allocate taxpayer money. That is the sole authority of the

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Speaker 1: state legislature. With the four hundred year veto, the governor said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I am going to take that authority from the legislature

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Speaker 1: and give it essentially to school board, say okay, you

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Speaker 1: can up the revenue limit by three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five dollars per student per year for the next four centuries.

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Speaker 1: That was never authorized by the state legislature. There was

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Speaker 1: a tremendous affront to the separation of powers, and Voss

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Speaker 1: in his farewell address, was right full and purposeful in

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Speaker 1: not talking about that directly because he wanted to be magnanimous.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to be political, and he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: sound petty or anything like that. But that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about when he was talking about the

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Speaker 1: threats to the deliberative body that is the legislature. All right,

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Speaker 1: we do have threats in the form of jobs and

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Speaker 1: a skills gap here in Wisconsin. That doesn't show any

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Speaker 1: signs of A fascinating article from a very astute conservative

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Speaker 1: business man here in Wisconsin. He's going to join me

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Speaker 1: in studio. Scott Mayor is up next here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We are going to talk about Wisconsin's

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Speaker 1: economic future. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after this

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Speaker 1: welcome back. It is the danodonald Show. We are so

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Speaker 1: pleased to be joined live in studio by Scott Mayor.

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Speaker 1: You know him as a former indie car driver. He

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Speaker 1: is also the chairman of the board, founder, CEO and

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Speaker 1: all around head honcho of QPS Employment Group. He joins

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Speaker 1: us live in studio. Scott, Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: So great to have you here.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: Dan.

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Speaker 7: By the way, you're getting me in trouble right out

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Speaker 7: of the gate. I'm no longer the CEO. Will you

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Speaker 7: go to next Gen? You are everything else? The founder executive.

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Speaker 1: I am executive chairman. Actually I'm reading your CV and

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Speaker 1: right on here at executive chair of the board. That's right,

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Speaker 1: not chief executive. I blame my on existence dyslexia. Are so.

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Speaker 1: You have a fantastic piece in here from RealClearPolitics dot

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Speaker 1: com entitled Solving the Next Labor Shortage. You obviously know

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01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:20,400
Speaker 1: this very very well. Is that RealClearPolitics dot com. We

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01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 1: clearly have a disconnect and we've heard a long time

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Speaker 1: about the skills gap here in Wisconsin, but you are

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Speaker 1: tying this not just to tech jobs, but also to

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Speaker 1: a very hot button issue and that is immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 7: Correct. You know, let me start by saying, I appreciate

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Speaker 7: that we sealed the border. We needed to do that.

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Speaker 7: We need to get rid of the bad people. But

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Speaker 7: the hard working people in this country and in our

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Speaker 7: state that are just here because they couldn't find a

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Speaker 7: path legally, we can't get rid of them when you

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Speaker 7: seal the border. If you don't bring in two and

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Speaker 7: a half million more each year because of the people

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Speaker 7: that age out or die or retire, we're in the

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Speaker 7: hole right out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: Now. A lot of people say to that, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: And obviously Wisconsin being the dairy state, we know, Look,

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Speaker 1: there are a whole lot of illegal aliens who work

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Speaker 1: in the agriculture industry. That's just we understand that. But

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Speaker 1: there are those who say, well, can't increased automation solve

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Speaker 1: a part of that? Or is this something that is

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Speaker 1: going to hit critical mass if in fact we do

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Speaker 1: see major deportation efforts of non criminal illegals. And it

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Speaker 1: is very important to note that the Trump administration has

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Speaker 1: been focusing on criminal illegals those who are This is

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Speaker 1: why it was such a big deal to get in

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Speaker 1: the jails in Minnesota, right because it's just very easy

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Speaker 1: to pick up people who are already in custody.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But do you think that this is something that could

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Speaker 1: be solved through increased automation or are we still going

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Speaker 1: to need millions of human beings here?

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Speaker 7: Well, we can only automate so much. I'm working with

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Speaker 7: Derek van Orden, congressman up north, and he's got a

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Speaker 7: ton of farms in his district and you can't automate

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Speaker 7: everything there. And let me tell you, he's those farms

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Speaker 7: are full of migrant labor, and Americans buy and large

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Speaker 7: don't want those jobs. Your kids, my kids, doesn't matter

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Speaker 7: the pay rate, you're not going to get them to

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Speaker 7: go work in a farm. And automation can only do

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Speaker 7: so much. So we really need we still need labor,

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Speaker 7: believe it or not. And that's really a good thing

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Speaker 7: because if everybody had a job, how are you going

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Speaker 7: to make money and pay your bills. So there will

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Speaker 7: be jobs and there always will be, and we need labor.

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Speaker 7: We need migrant labor factories, farms and fields. It's a

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Speaker 7: critical issue right now.

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Speaker 1: But obviously, as you note in your piece, it's important

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Speaker 1: to note what the Trump administration is doing. It's not

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. We cannot be a nation without laws

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Speaker 1: or borders. We witness years of the open borders crisis

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Speaker 1: under Joe Biden, when millions of illegals crossed into our country,

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Speaker 1: including criminals from terrorist organizations and gang members. However, immigration

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Speaker 1: is far more nuance nuanced than just sending people back

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Speaker 1: across our borders. Immigration and migrant work are as vital

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Speaker 1: to our labor force and economy as seeking the American

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Speaker 1: dream and the land of Opportunity is for those who

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Speaker 1: so desperately want to start a new life in our country. Now,

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Speaker 1: as a general rule, I do agree with that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I do absolutely agree with that. However, we do need

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Speaker 1: to have a process by which I think the United

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Speaker 1: States has the ability to sort of say, okay, this

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Speaker 1: is somebody who is vetted, this is somebody who has

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Speaker 1: proven themselves to be a hard worker. Do you understand

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Speaker 1: the concern about maybe not, I don't know, making sure

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Speaker 1: we have an adequate vetting process. Are you talking about

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Speaker 1: increasing the number of Green cards, H one B visas,

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Speaker 1: that sort of.

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Speaker 7: Thing we're looking at, Derek and I are working on.

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Speaker 7: We want like a worker visa, like a couple of

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Speaker 7: year deal. That can be renewed because listen, we haven't

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Speaker 7: had immigration reform since I believe nineteen eighty seven, if

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Speaker 7: I'm not missing eighty six. Okay, been a long long time,

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Speaker 7: and by the way, I've been speaking on this for

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Speaker 7: well over a decade. Do you know it's literally impossible.

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Speaker 7: Let's say I'm a Mexican welder, never committed a crime,

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Speaker 7: perfect record, and I wanted to come over legally. Do

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Speaker 7: you know it was like a zero percent chance. So

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Speaker 7: we need to come up with a legal path to

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Speaker 7: actually bring people in as the country has needs. Now,

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Speaker 7: let's say the needs shut down, we shut the border down.

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Speaker 7: But when there are needs, we've got to find a

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Speaker 7: way to do it legally to bring people over. Because

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Speaker 7: what keeps our country strong is by having labor to

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Speaker 7: fill the jobs that are needed. You know, to go

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Speaker 7: to a store and find milk and lettuce and pork chops,

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Speaker 7: and if we run short of people to do those jobs,

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Speaker 7: that would be a national security issue. If you go

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Speaker 7: to pick and save and you can't find produce.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's anybody who disagrees with that absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And one thing that is one of the great secrets

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Speaker 1: of Hispanic labor, especially those from Mexico is especially men.

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Speaker 1: They're increasingly Republican in like massive, massive numbers. But when

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Speaker 1: you talk about stuff like this, Scott, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people say, Okay, we go back to that nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: six and that led to amnesty for millions and millions

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Speaker 1: and millions of people. And before the sort of Trump

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Speaker 1: revolution here, we did have a lot of people believe

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Speaker 1: California was a red state before we had that mass amnesty. Right,

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Speaker 1: is this something that Democrats have won at a You're

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Speaker 1: not in favor of it, any sort of mass amnesty

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Speaker 1: pathway to citizenship for just you know, blanket magic wand amnesty. Like,

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with someone earning their citizenship. I

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Speaker 1: actually love it. My own sister in law is from Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: She became a citizen what fifteen years after first coming

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Speaker 1: here as a little girl, excuse me, on a visa

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Speaker 1: at like ten years old something like that, after her

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Speaker 1: parents died. And that obviously is something that I think

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Speaker 1: everyone can get behind. But I think what people are

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Speaker 1: very wary of is again a repeat of the eighty

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Speaker 1: six amnesty, in which Democrats are quite literally and they've

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Speaker 1: been pretty open about this for the last three decades,

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Speaker 1: a pathway to voting and importing political power.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I never didn't hear one word of amnesty. That's

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Speaker 7: a non starter. In Washington, d C. We're talking about

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Speaker 7: worker visas to have the opportunity to be here to work.

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Speaker 7: I don't think any of most of the migrants aren't

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Speaker 7: trying to get I mean, they probably would appreciate US

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Speaker 7: citizenship and be a path. But at this point, what

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Speaker 7: we're focused on is a very narrow path of worker visa,

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Speaker 7: and we're starting with just in the food processing industry.

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Speaker 7: We're not going any wider than that. We want to

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Speaker 7: get something through very narrow that everybody can get their

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Speaker 7: head around. You know, we need to eat right, We

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Speaker 7: need to be able to go to this store and

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Speaker 7: get vegetables and milk and meat and so forth. So

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Speaker 7: we're starting with that, and it's strictly a worker visa,

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Speaker 7: an opportunity to be here working, and like a two

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Speaker 7: year process, and then it can be automatically renewed with

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Speaker 7: as long as people are checked out that they're still here,

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Speaker 7: clean and doing their thing.

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Speaker 1: What about the argument that Americans can do this work.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're in the industry, So you obviously would

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Speaker 1: be able to say, is this I mean, is there

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Speaker 1: truth to what people have long said that these are

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Speaker 1: jobs that American citizens just aren't doing?

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Speaker 7: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, I mean so many of these jobs Americans don't want.

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Speaker 7: Let me talk about another state, the state of Washington,

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Speaker 7: largest apple grower in the country. Do you know that

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Speaker 7: twenty five percent of the apples go unpicked because they

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Speaker 7: can't get enough labor there and it's been that way

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Speaker 7: for a decade, So they pick the premium apples and

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Speaker 7: let the lesser valued apples rot because they can't get

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Speaker 7: enough people. Doesn't matter the pay rate, you're not going

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Speaker 7: to get Bill Gates kids to go pick apples. Those

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Speaker 7: are jobs that Americans buy and large don't want. And

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Speaker 7: it's perfect because migrant labor takes those jobs and they're

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Speaker 7: happy to when they work hard and they do a

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Speaker 7: good job, and then they go home at night and

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Speaker 7: restart the next day. So no, we're not taking Americans

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Speaker 7: jobs at you know, even if there was twenty percent unemployment,

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Speaker 7: I just don't think you're going to get my kids

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Speaker 7: or your kids to go pick apples. It's just not

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Speaker 7: going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, if I've got an apple

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Speaker 1: tree in the backyard and their chore is to pick

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Speaker 1: those apples, They're picking the damn apples.

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Speaker 7: Okay, now you're splitting hairs with me, but I'm talking.

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Speaker 1: About no, no, every day, I'm kidding with you. I'm

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Speaker 1: kidding with it. Yeah, there is, there is, definitely that.

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Speaker 1: I guess. The one thing that there is the can

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Speaker 1: certain about also though, is sort of the exploitative nature

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Speaker 1: of that, Like our wages artificially down because we're importing labor,

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Speaker 1: whereas Americans, and trust me, I am very receptive to

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Speaker 1: the argument that especially unionized labor has in many respects

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Speaker 1: priced itself out of the global market. If we actually

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Speaker 1: do want to, as President Trump says, reshure a lot

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Speaker 1: of these jobs, you're not going to be able to

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Speaker 1: have the just you know, one hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: an hour wages that some of the unionized labor forces

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Speaker 1: are going to demand. But I guess, is there a

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Speaker 1: concern about exploiting some of these people and saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: paying below market wages? Right? I guess I suppose that

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Speaker 1: the market is sort of deciding what people are willing

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 7: Right, you know, Dan, I can tell you that there

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Speaker 7: was a time where maybe the migrants weren't making as

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Speaker 7: much as you know, legal Hispanics, if you will U. Yeah,

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01:34:00,479 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 7: that day has come and gone and they've wised up

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01:34:04,200 --> 01:34:07,799
Speaker 7: and they're demanding the same pay rates as Puerto Ricans

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01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:10,880
Speaker 7: or those here legally. So that's been an issue in

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01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:13,719
Speaker 7: the past, but not so much today. They're getting paid

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01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 7: comparable and you know, we have nothing at QPS but

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01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:19,840
Speaker 7: good high pay rates going are the day of you know,

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01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:22,679
Speaker 7: seven dollars an hour minimum wage never comes into play.

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01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 7: QPS is a you know, entry level fifteen to twenty

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01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:28,800
Speaker 7: dollars an hour starting pay rate for just about any

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01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:31,559
Speaker 7: entry level job. So it's not an issue why you

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Speaker 7: want to come over and work kind of I'm.

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Speaker 1: There, you go. They are slave drivers over here at iheartmeeting. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Yeah, producer Eric said that better than what

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Speaker 1: they're paying us. What's going on here?

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Speaker 7: Okay, I want to get you in trouble, but yeah,

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01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:48,760
Speaker 7: we got good pay rates because the market has dictated that.

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01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 7: You know, you can set any federal minimum wage you want,

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01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 7: but the market should dictate what the pay rate is.

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Speaker 7: And it's gone up why because we have a shortage

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01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 7: of workers and there it brings you full circle down.

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Speaker 1: He is Scott Mayor with the QPS Employment Group and

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Speaker 1: the article is at RealClearPolitics dot com. Definitely some food

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Speaker 1: for thought solving the next labor shortage. And this is something, folks,

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01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:19,240
Speaker 1: that we do need to confront as President Trump is

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01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,640
Speaker 1: very obviously doing the right thing on immigration enforcement, but

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01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: there is this other pull when it comes to the

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01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: counterweight of the push on that and Scott, I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate. We love having you here, a great insight.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so so much. I'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: back anytime here on the Dan o'donald show.

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Speaker 7: All right, I'll see you tomorrow dotal thirty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to talk about Robin Voss. Let's see

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01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:48,760
Speaker 1: what are some of the other big stories of the day. No,

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01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:52,679
Speaker 1: we absolutely do love it. Thank you so much, sir,

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01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:56,040
Speaker 1: you are listening to the Dan o'donald. We're back to

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01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: wrap things up for the Thursday edition coming up next.

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Speaker 1: My thanks again to Scott Mayer for joining us. It

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01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:11,040
Speaker 1: is look, folks, it is a reality of the immigration debate.

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Speaker 1: As he said, he is working with Derek van Orden,

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin congressman who represents a significant amount of the

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01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 1: dairy industry here in this state. That you know, obviously,

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01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 1: deportations of people who have valid deportation orders, people who

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01:36:25,360 --> 01:36:28,920
Speaker 1: have committed heinous crimes. This is necessary. But the United

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01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: States has become dependent on illegal immigrant labor, and there

1548
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:37,559
Speaker 1: are a whole lot of people in the illegal immigrant

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01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:41,280
Speaker 1: community who do love this country, who do want nothing

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01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: more than to be American to work here, and this

1551
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:50,439
Speaker 1: is something that does need to be addressed. There is

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01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:53,080
Speaker 1: a whole lot of nuance. As Scott wrote in his

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01:36:53,240 --> 01:37:00,679
Speaker 1: piece up at RealClearPolitics dot com, all right, this Assembly

1554
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: is settling in for a long winter's night of debate,

1555
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:10,439
Speaker 1: and hopefully they have learned their lesson after an utter

1556
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 1: debacle earlier this afternoon regarding the wake Boat bill passing

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01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:18,800
Speaker 1: on a voice vote that absolutely should not have gone

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01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:23,719
Speaker 1: on a voice vote. I have been running around trying

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01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: to get to as much of what the legislature has

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01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:31,519
Speaker 1: been doing. They have gone into closed session for much

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01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:35,720
Speaker 1: of this evening, and a lot of the significant legislation

1562
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:39,599
Speaker 1: is going to be passed probably late at night, something

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01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:43,519
Speaker 1: I am also not a major fan of, but the

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Speaker 1: biggest action that we have had thus far, not just

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01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: the wake boat bill, but also passing on a voice vote,

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01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: is the online sports Betting bill, which is by far

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01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 1: the most significant piece of legislation that is going to

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01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,080
Speaker 1: come out of this session, much more than the nil bill,

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01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:01,480
Speaker 1: much more than wake voting. This is something that impacts

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people. I am told that there

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Speaker 1: are a significant number of Republicans in the Senate who

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01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: just do not support this bill. So it is going

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01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 1: to be on the Senate leadership. It's going to be

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01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:17,759
Speaker 1: on Devin Lemahue to decide whether he wants to abandon

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01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: the long standing rule of seventeen, in which he needs

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01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:28,439
Speaker 1: seventeen members a majority of all Senators, not just a

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01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 1: majority of members of his own party, to bring a

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01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:32,240
Speaker 1: bill out of committee and to bring it onto the

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01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:35,160
Speaker 1: floor to vote. This is just something that's always been done.

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01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:40,840
Speaker 1: Is he going to abandon that to essentially give monopolistic

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01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 1: control over online sports betting in this state something that

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01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:47,760
Speaker 1: might not We don't even know whether this is constitutional,

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01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:50,559
Speaker 1: whether the voters of Wisconsin need to go to a

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01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 1: constitutional amendment. The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, whose

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01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:57,519
Speaker 1: legal opinion I treat as gospel. They are very very good,

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01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:02,880
Speaker 1: very very thorough and talented lawyers. They say this is unconstitutional,

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Speaker 1: and I tend to agree with them. We will discuss,

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01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: of course, tomorrow in much greater depth, out of time

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Speaker 1: for tonight's show three h six Tomorrow, we're back at

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Speaker 1: it on The Dan o'donald Show