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Speaker 1: we get more new developments new information today in the

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Speaker 1: search for Nancy Guthrie, law enforcement sources tell TMZS Harvey

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Speaker 2: Each for Nancy Gothrie has gone international. We have learned

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Speaker 1: Boyd wonder what the citizenship status is of those kidnappers.

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Speaker 1: Guthrie has been missing since the early morning hours of February. First,

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Speaker 1: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg taking the stand today and a

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Speaker 1: Remember these were the exact same people who were furious

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Speaker 1: hosting a Black History Month reception at the White House.

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Speaker 1: He honored the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Jesu was a piece of work. I want to tell you,

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Speaker 3: he was a piece of work, but he was a

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Speaker 4: A lot of people you get to know him to

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Speaker 1: the Daily Trump Date at the top of the four

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Speaker 1: former Wisconsin governor and current President of the Young America's Foundation,

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Speaker 1: about Governor Ebers State of the State address, and much

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Speaker 1: much more, including a big, big win for YAF as

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Speaker 1: the Department of Education backs down on a race based

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Speaker 1: program now here at home. As I said, Governor Evers

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Speaker 5: Tax Thanks to our bipartisan efforts to cut taxes Wisconsin taxpayers,

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Speaker 1: Now, why were those numbers, those tax decreases, cuts so significant,

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Speaker 1: Because they weren't Evers, not a single one of them.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Republicans never once, not once, in Governor evers

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Speaker 1: for other people's work. You might remember that Evers, when

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Speaker 1: on this that Governor Evers basically lifted pretty much his

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Speaker 1: Mary Burke plagiarism scandal four years earlier helped to derail

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Speaker 1: same mistake twice with the twenty eighteen nominee Tony Evers.

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Speaker 1: But this is a long standing practice of Wisconsin's governor

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Speaker 1: to take credit for other people's work, and that's exactly

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Speaker 1: partial vetos. Now, he was actually asked, after he gave

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Speaker 1: the Republican budget that includes tax cuts when they weren't

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers, well I could have vetoed the budget and

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Speaker 1: I didn't. So the fact that a budget passed that

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Speaker 1: He wanted nothing to do with the Republican tax cuts,

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Speaker 1: but because in the end politically, he realized that it

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Speaker 1: tax cuts. This is what happened in every single budget

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Speaker 1: that Governor Evers was governor twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Now, Governor Evers is actually a tax

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Speaker 1: the next four hundred years. As a result, property taxes

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show, we will dive into Governor Evers' claims

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Speaker 1: that no, no, no, his four hundred year veto had

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Speaker 1: Evers would accept an offer from legislative leaders Devin Lemahue

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Speaker 1: of massive property tax relief combined with income tax relief

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Speaker 6: This brought idea of rebate checks.

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Speaker 4: Do do you support that?

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Speaker 1: Which one the rebate checks?

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Speaker 5: No, that's just a that's just a joke. I mean,

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Speaker 5: that's a way for them to It's it's like buying

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Speaker 1: It's like buying votes in an election. Here, it's a joke,

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Speaker 1: says Tony Evers. Someone should tell Tony Evers in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two that that's a joke in buying votes, because

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Speaker 1: that is literally exactly what he proposed. Channel three in

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Speaker 1: Madison is an extra one hundred.

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Speaker 2: And fifty dollars sound if you live in Wisconsin, you

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Speaker 2: could be getting a refund check.

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Speaker 5: And that's what Governor Evers wants to do using surplus

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Speaker 1: Really, because now it seems that disislative leaders want to

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Speaker 1: use surplus money in the state to give rebate checks

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Speaker 1: to income taxpayers. Now, all of a sudden, it's just

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Speaker 1: like buying votes. What did Governor Evers say back then? Now,

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Speaker 1: you might remember, for those of you who have been

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Speaker 1: following Wisconsin politics for quite some time, in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Democrats were all for these rebate checks. Now, in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers or excuse me, Governor Walker did the exact

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Speaker 1: same thing and actually got it passed a childcare tax

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Speaker 1: credit one hundred dollars per child, you might recall, went

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Speaker 1: out and Ebs and the Democrats for that one tooth

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Speaker 1: and nail as an election year. Stunt Well Evers in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, when he was running for reelection, said no,

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Speaker 1: it's it's very different from what Scott Walker was doing,

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Speaker 1: because Scott Walker was doing this to try to gin

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Speaker 1: this is born out of COVID. This is money that

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Speaker 5: Decade of Republicans consistently failing to meaningful invest, meaningful to

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Welcome back to it. My favorite, Tony Evers

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Speaker 5: I'll go ten toes with any lawmaker about school funding.

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Speaker 1: All right, I will. I am perfectly willing to speak

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Speaker 1: According to an email that went home to parents, quote,

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Speaker 1: the brunch is open to all staff and students who

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Speaker 1: self identify as Black or African American. Feeding our Soul

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Speaker 1: is exactly what it sounds like. A moment to slow down, breathe,

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Speaker 1: eat well, laugh together, and feel seen. We want black

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Speaker 1: students and staff to experience school as a place where

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Speaker 1: their presence is celebrated and where community is built intentionally.

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Speaker 1: Food and activities Chick fil A will be catered Chick

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Speaker 1: fil A with drinks including We will also have additional

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Speaker 1: brunch food cooked by our very own Black student Union staff.

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Speaker 1: During the brunch, staff will lead a fun and engaging

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Speaker 1: cahoot game featuring Black history facts, moments, and figures. It

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Speaker 1: will be uplifting, interactive, and full of pride. Okay, um,

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Speaker 1: my daughter is about the biggest Chick fil A fan

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Speaker 1: in the known world. Whenever we ask her, Grace, where

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Speaker 1: do you want to go to dinner? She says Chick

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Speaker 1: fil A? She always wants Chick fil A. So I

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Speaker 1: know a little something about Chick fil A. What is

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Speaker 1: chick fil A's most popular food? Fried chicken, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: There is a longstanding racial stereotype about black people and

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Speaker 1: fried chicken. So all of these anti racists at Blackhawk

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Speaker 1: Middle School in Madison, all of the good white liberals,

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Speaker 1: set up a black only event and said to themselves,

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Speaker 1: what would they want? Let's give them all some fried chicken,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. When I say, you will not find

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Speaker 1: a more racist human being than a woke white liberal.

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Speaker 1: This exactly, this is what I'm talking about now. An

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Speaker 1: hour long Chick fil A lunch and free Cahoot games.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a pretty fun time, but only black students

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Speaker 1: and teachers are welcome.

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Speaker 7: Huh.

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Speaker 1: It's clear violation of federal law Title six of the

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Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, you know, the

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Speaker 1: one that pretty much every student is learning about during

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Speaker 1: Black History Month. It's unmistakably clear no person in the

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Speaker 1: United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or

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Speaker 1: national origin, be excluded from Part two dissipation in be

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Speaker 1: denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under

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Speaker 1: any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Because white,

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Speaker 1: Hispanic and Asian students are explicitly not allowed to participate

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Speaker 1: in this brunch, which is very clearly a tangible benefit

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Speaker 1: to those who attend. Not only do you get to

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Speaker 1: get out of class for an hour, but you also

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Speaker 1: get Chick fil A. And if these middle schoolers are

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Speaker 1: anything like my soon to be middle schooler, they love

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Speaker 1: them some Chick fil a. Who doesn't I love Chick

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Speaker 1: fil A. It is a fantastic, fantastic restaurant. Now do

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Speaker 1: you think these good liberals at Blackhawk Middle School know

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Speaker 1: that Chick fil A is a very conservative, very religious company,

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Speaker 1: so much so that they're not even open on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: But because these students who don't identify self identify as

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Speaker 1: black are not invited. Because this is open only two

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Speaker 1: students of one race, it violates federal law. Not only that,

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Speaker 1: it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,

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Speaker 1: which Title six of the Civil Rights Act is based on.

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Speaker 1: Not only that, as pointed out to me by Dan Lennington,

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Speaker 1: Madison also explicitly has anti discrimination ordinances, meaning not only

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Speaker 1: did this violate state law, which also has in the

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Speaker 1: state constitution. You can't have something that is only open

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Speaker 1: to one particular race. For example, if Blackhawk Middle School

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Speaker 1: had a whites only lunch and instead of fried chicken,

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Speaker 1: it was all mayonnaise sandwiches for the whites, that would

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Speaker 1: obviously be seen as very discriminatory. It wouldn't even be

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Speaker 1: a close call. This would be a violation of the

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Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment. It would be a violation of federal off

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Speaker 1: state law and of municipal ordinance. But why is it

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Speaker 1: that we still, in the year of our Lord twenty

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Speaker 1: and twenty six, think that something that is a benefit

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Speaker 1: only two students of a particular race, or only two

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Speaker 1: people of a particular race, is somehow any different or

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Speaker 1: any less unlawful or unconstitutional than something that is available

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Speaker 1: only two whites. In fact, speaking of Dan Lennington and

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a major victory

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Speaker 1: by will over the Department of Education, the Trump Doe

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Speaker 1: has relented on a significant race based standard. We will

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Speaker 1: get into that with former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker coming

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Speaker 1: up in the five o'clock hour. Coming up in just

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, we name the unhinged Liberal of

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Speaker 1: the day. You're not going to want to miss it.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Dan O'Donnell's show back before you know it.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is the final day of the legislative session here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin for the entire year. Yes, it will be

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Speaker 1: February nineteenth, but typically an election years, there is not

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of legislative work that is done it's

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Speaker 1: largely because of the way that policy is done here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. Because the budget cycle, which is an odd

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Speaker 1: year when the legislature will work on the upcoming biennial budget,

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Speaker 1: there is so much policy that is put into that

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Speaker 1: even numbered years can be largely spent in district campaigning,

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Speaker 1: doing constituent work, that sort of thing. So there is

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Speaker 1: a reason, trust me, folks, I would much rather have

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Speaker 1: them not able to write ridiculous laws. We have here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell show spent a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: time going through all of the insane bills that Democrats

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Speaker 1: have been proposing this legislative session, and that would absolutely

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Speaker 1: become law if they retaken control of the Assembly, the Senate,

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Speaker 1: and the Governor's Management maintain control of the Governor's mansion

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Speaker 1: this coming November, So I have no problem with just

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks of a year being dedicated to

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Speaker 1: legislative work. This is the libertarian in me, I suppose.

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Speaker 1: But tomorrow is the final day of the legislative session

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Speaker 1: for the year. Why is it that there appears to

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Speaker 1: be an attempt to sneak back onto the floor via

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Speaker 1: a voice vote a controversial bill regulating online sports gambling

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Speaker 1: in this state. I have learned some exclusive new information

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Speaker 1: that we will share with you right after the top

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Speaker 1: of the hour. Right now, though, it is time to

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Speaker 1: name the unhinged liberal of the oh is dangerous because

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Speaker 1: he's evil America. Oh, Today's unhinged liberal of the day

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Speaker 1: serves as an object lesson in you get what it

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Speaker 1: is you vote for, or, more accurately stated, you get

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Speaker 1: the politicians that you deserve. It is New York City

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Speaker 1: Mayor Zoran mom Dottie. Remember how he was promising that

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Speaker 1: he was going to tax the rige and there was

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Speaker 1: going to be class warfare utopia in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Everyone was going to live happily ever after because the

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Speaker 1: rich were going to be soaked and everybody else was

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Speaker 1: going to just bask in the warmth of collectivism. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be the the coldness and the rigidity

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Speaker 1: of rugged individualism, but the warmth of collectivism. Well, it

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Speaker 1: turns out that collectivism takes a whole lot more money

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Speaker 1: to keep New York State Governor Kathy Hulkel, also very liberal,

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Speaker 1: a very progressive Democrat, is not allowing poor Zorn to

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Speaker 1: simply tax the rich, and that means he had to,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately say, yeah, we're gonna have to massively spike property

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Speaker 1: tax rates.

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Speaker 6: At the heart of this path is a property tax increase.

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Speaker 6: This would effectively be a tax on working in middle

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Speaker 6: class New Yorkers who have a median income of one

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Speaker 6: hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. The second path also

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Speaker 6: requires us to raid our reserves. It would mean with

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Speaker 6: drawing nine hundred and eighty million dollars from our city's

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Speaker 6: Rainy Day Fund in fiscal year twenty twenty six and

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Speaker 6: two hundred and twenty nine million dollars from the Retiree

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Speaker 6: Health Benefit Trust in fiscal year twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Folks, this sound familiar at all, this sort of thing

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Speaker 1: absolutely barely, with Milwaukee barely escaped bankruptcy from doing the

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Speaker 1: exact same thing. And wouldn't you know it, we also

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Speaker 1: have here in the state of Wisconsin a massive hike

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Speaker 1: in property taxes to cover up for fiscal mismanagement from

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Speaker 1: the governor's office. Zoran, Momdannie, your unhinged liberal of the day,

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Speaker 1: Just how big is New York City's budget one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifteen point nine billion dollars To put that into

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Speaker 1: some sort of context for you. Florida's budget is one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen point four billion dollars. The entire state

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Speaker 1: of Florida. Florida has three times more people than does

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Speaker 1: just New York City, but yet the difference in spending

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Speaker 1: is about one point three percent. New York City spends

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Speaker 1: a staggering amount of money, and Momdannie wants to spend

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Speaker 1: even more than ever before. How's he going to pay

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Speaker 1: for it? Well by taxing middle class New Yorkers. Congratulations, lefties,

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Speaker 1: you got what you wanted. Could Republicans in the state

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Speaker 1: legislature be preparing to unleash a voice vote on one

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Speaker 1: of the most controversial pieces of legislation this session during

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Speaker 1: the last day of this session tomorrow? This is what

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Speaker 1: I am hearing, and apparently I am not the only one.

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Speaker 1: But in a Dan o'donald's show exclusive, we are going

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Speaker 1: to break down efforts to get an online sports betting

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Speaker 1: bill passed by violating the so called Senate rule of

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Speaker 1: seventeen and giving members in the State Assembly cover by

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Speaker 1: trying to go to a voice vote. We will break

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Speaker 1: down what it all means and why it is a

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Speaker 1: singularly bad idea. Coming up in just a second here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald Show. But first, it is time

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Speaker 1: now to take a look at what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's Washington. It's the daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired

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Speaker 3: of winning.

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Speaker 1: Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 4: It's also a big win for the United States. We

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Speaker 4: have to keep winning.

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Speaker 1: We have to win the We're gonna win more. The

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Speaker 1: president today attending a Black History Month event at the

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Speaker 1: White House, well.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for the strength and courage, in grit and

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Speaker 3: devotion of Black Americans who have helped make America the

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Speaker 3: most powerful country in the history of the world.

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Speaker 1: HUD Secretary Scott Turner among the speakers at today's event.

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Speaker 8: I just want to say to everyone that's here, you know,

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Speaker 8: as we celebrate this special day in not only Black history,

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Speaker 8: but American history. This year that we've been here, you know,

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Speaker 8: under President Trump, the Lord has been so gracious to us,

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Speaker 8: and he's been faithful, and the President has been a

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Speaker 8: tremendous leader.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavin announced that

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Speaker 1: President Trump will meet tomorrow with his new Board of Peace.

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Speaker 9: Tomorrow, President Trump will host a Board of Peace meeting

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Speaker 9: at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, where he

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Speaker 9: will announce that member States have pledged more than five

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Speaker 9: billion dollars towards the Gaza humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and

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Speaker 9: have also committed thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization

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Speaker 9: Force and local police to maintain security and peace for.

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Speaker 1: Gossens Levitt focused today's White House press briefing primarily on

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Speaker 1: good news about the nation's economy, discussing jobs numbers, wage increases,

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Speaker 1: and decreases in housing costs.

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Speaker 9: A key part of the American dream is buying a home,

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Speaker 9: and that is finally becoming more affordable under this president.

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Speaker 4: This past week, it was announced.

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Speaker 9: The annual mortgage cost for a new home has fallen

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Speaker 9: by four thousand dollars so far under President Trump after

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Speaker 9: rising by roughly fifteen thousand dollars under Joe Biden. As

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Speaker 9: a result, mortgage affordability has reached a four year best

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Speaker 9: following recent bold action by the President to make home

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Speaker 9: ownership more attainable for American families, not large Wall Street

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Speaker 9: corporate institutional investors. At the same time, national media and

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Speaker 9: rates rents have fallen to a four year low and

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Speaker 9: how declined for six consecutive months now.

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Speaker 1: The highlight of today's briefing was easily Caroline Levitt taking

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Speaker 1: quite possibly the dumbest question is the history of White

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Speaker 1: House press briefings. It came from Ed O'Keefe of CBS

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Speaker 1: News yesterday.

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Speaker 10: In his statement about Jesse Jackson, the President said, despite

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Speaker 10: the fact that I'm falsely and consistently called a racist

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Speaker 10: by the scoundrels and lunatics and the radical left Democrats,

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Speaker 10: all it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along

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Speaker 10: the way.

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Speaker 1: Where or when.

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Speaker 10: Does the president believe he's been falsely called racist?

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Speaker 9: You're kidding, right, I will pull you plethora of examples.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to get my team in that room to

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Speaker 9: who have accused this president falsely of being a racist.

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Speaker 9: And I'm sure there's many people in this room and

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Speaker 9: seen it with my own.

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Speaker 1: Eyes, and she did it. Indeed, get her team to

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Speaker 1: been in the news for a while now, Don Lemon.

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Speaker 4: This is Salmon tonight. I'm Don Lemon.

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Speaker 1: The President of the United States is racist. I love

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Speaker 1: It's super easy to put together a voter guide. When

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Speaker 1: these nonpartisan races, I am convinced, oftentimes see depressed turnout

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Speaker 1: because quite simply, people don't know who they want to

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Speaker 1: and the last thing they want to do is to

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Speaker 1: races on the ballot save for the ones that generate

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Speaker 1: all the headlines, usually the state Supreme Court. That's generally

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Speaker 1: the biggest nonpartisan race that we have here in this state.

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Speaker 1: And yes, there is a state Supreme Court race on

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Speaker 1: the ballot this spring, Conservative Maria Lazar goes against far

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Speaker 1: left transactivist radical Chris Taylor. We exposed her truly insane

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Speaker 1: bills in the twenty nineteen legislative session when she was

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Speaker 1: a member of the Wisconsin Assembly. She actually proposed a bill.

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Speaker 1: She authored a bill mandating that there be tampons in

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Speaker 1: every boy's bathroom in every school in Wisconsin. Boys bathroom boys.

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Speaker 1: She also wanted to replace the word mother with the

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Speaker 1: there would be no mother, there would be no reference

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Speaker 1: a trans basically a trans team, a trans I don't

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Speaker 1: even remember what it was called, a Blue Ribbon Commission

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Speaker 1: for trans rights that would be able to take revenue

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Speaker 1: and would be able to take resources from literally any

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Speaker 1: department of state government that it wanted. We actually have

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Speaker 1: a video segment of the show up at Dan O'donnald's

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Speaker 1: show on Exit Facebook. Another Dan O'donnald's show exclusive. I

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Speaker 1: have learned that there is a behind the scenes effort

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Speaker 1: in the state Assembly to get a bill that would

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Speaker 1: essentially turn all online sports gambling over to the Forest

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Speaker 1: County Pottawatamie Tribe by forcing companies like Draft Kings and

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Speaker 1: Fan Duel, who want to go into business and do

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Speaker 1: servers at the sportsbook of Potawatamie Hotel and Casino in

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Speaker 1: downtown Milwaukee. I have learned that there is at least

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Speaker 1: a feeler that has been put out there about the

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Speaker 1: possibility of this going to the floor of the State

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Speaker 1: Assembly tomorrow on the last day of the session on AVA.

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Speaker 1: As you can imagine, this is remarkably controversial. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it's not even clear whether this is constitutional. The Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Institute for Law on Liberty has argued that it most

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Speaker 1: certainly is not that any sort of change to what

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Speaker 1: is and is not allowed in terms of state gaming

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Speaker 1: compacts or new forms of gambling as online sports gaming.

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Speaker 1: Most certainly is that that needs to be done via

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Speaker 1: constitutional amendment, not simply a bill that's introduced. Well, when

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Speaker 1: this was first introduced, we got wind of it here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell Show, and frankly I thought it

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Speaker 1: was a bad idea, just as we vehemently opposed Roefer

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Speaker 1: or right of first refusal for electrical transmission companies, which

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Speaker 1: would effectively have allowed the in state transmission companies to

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Speaker 1: form a cartel. I said this was going to be

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Speaker 1: a cartel for sports gambling that only Native tribes that

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Speaker 1: currently have casinos and currently have sports books would allow

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Speaker 1: would be allowed to partner with out of state companies

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Speaker 1: to come in and do sports gambling. Well, it turns

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Speaker 1: out that the only beneficiary of this is going to

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Speaker 1: be the Forest County pot and Watamie, So it's not

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Speaker 1: technically a cartel. It's just a good old fashioned monopoly.

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Speaker 1: I still believe this is a fundamentally bad idea. If

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings and fan Duel are going to be operating

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, FanDuel and Draft Kings could simply pay the

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Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin. Not only that these are massive companies,

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Speaker 1: and the argument that I have heard is well if

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Speaker 1: because of the gaming compacts.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: You might remember, way back when Diamond Jim Doyle, the

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Speaker 1: Democrat governor, was first inaugurated in the winter of twenty three,

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Speaker 1: one of the very first things he did is on

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Speaker 1: April first, April Fool's Day, under cover of darkness, drumamatically

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Speaker 1: alter the state's gaming compacts, and he actually made them permanent,

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Speaker 1: so the deals that he signed unilaterally without any input

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Speaker 1: from the state legislature would be in effect in perpetuity. Well,

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Speaker 1: the state Supreme Court shut this down, of course, But then,

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Speaker 1: majority in the Supreme Court and the case goes right

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Speaker 1: back to them and they say, miraculously, hey, we were

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Speaker 1: wrong last time for reasons, and now you can absolutely

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Speaker 1: just unilaterally and perpetually change the state's voter compact. Diamond

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Speaker 1: Jim Doyle, congratulations on this newfound power. Because of that,

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Speaker 1: the argument is, if we were as a state to

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Speaker 1: allow Draft Kings or fan Duel or any online sports

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Speaker 1: a massive penalty to Potawatami or to any of the

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Speaker 1: other tribes because it would be a violation of the

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Speaker 1: gaming compact that only they are allowed to do sports betting.

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Speaker 1: Well don't you think FanDuel or DraftKings would want to

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Speaker 1: pay that and see that as a small price to

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Speaker 1: pay for bringing their operations to a state of five

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Speaker 1: point eight million people five point eight million potential customers.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they would pay it. It's not even a

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Speaker 1: question of whether they would pay it. Now, why is

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Speaker 1: it that we would somehow need the Forest County Pataguamie

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Speaker 1: at all. It comes from the so called hub and

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Speaker 1: spoke model of online gambling thanks to a federal court

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Speaker 1: decision involving the Seminole tribe down in Florida. What that

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Speaker 1: court ruled is that online sports betting would be permitted

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Speaker 1: if the physical server that handles all the bets is

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Speaker 1: actually placed in a sports book on a native casino.

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Speaker 1: That's the hub, and all of the phones or iPads

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Speaker 1: or computers that connect to it and actually do the

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Speaker 1: online sports gambling, those are the spokes. We would essentially

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Speaker 1: have a hub and spoke model here in Wisconsin, and

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Speaker 1: the hub would be at Potawatame Hotel and casino sportsbook, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is a pretty awesome sports book. And

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get this misconstrued that somehow I'm

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Speaker 1: picking on the Potawatami or somehow I'm picking on the

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Speaker 1: Native tribes. I actually think over the course of the

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Speaker 1: past few decades they've been incredible corporate citizens. I really

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Speaker 1: do believe that. I just do not believe that the

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Speaker 1: State of Wisconsin should be a expanding gambling and online sports. Gambling, folks,

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Speaker 1: is much much different than every other kind of gambling,

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Speaker 1: simply because you can always do it. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to go down to the casino to play a hand blackjack.

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Speaker 1: You can simply bet on the bucks game from your phone. Moreover,

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Speaker 1: you don't just bet on the over under. You don't

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Speaker 1: just bet on the money line. You don't just bet

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Speaker 1: on the points spread. You can actually bet on whether

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Speaker 1: Giannis is out, Bobby Portis is going to have more

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Speaker 1: or less than ten points. There are about a million

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Speaker 1: different bets that you can make. This makes it incredibly

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Speaker 1: addictive and incredibly dangerous. Now, I'm not going to even

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Speaker 1: take a moral stand on whether or not we should

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Speaker 1: be expanding gambling. I happen to think that we probably

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Speaker 1: should not, because problem gambling is a big, big problem,

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Speaker 1: And the easiest way to get someone who has a

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Speaker 1: problem with gambling not to be able to gamble anymore

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Speaker 1: is to take away the ability for them to gamble

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Speaker 1: and potawatomy the Oneida Ho chunk. If someone clearly has

866
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Speaker 1: a problem with gambling, in fact, they can be banned,

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Speaker 1: and they can self ban themselves from casinos. I actually

868
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Speaker 1: know somebody who had a gambling problem, lost a significant

869
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Speaker 1: amount of money and actually went to a casino and said, look,

870
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Speaker 1: do not under He finally had enough, He finally had

871
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: a moment of lucidity, and he said, look, do not

872
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: allow me in, ban me, take my picture, and put

873
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Speaker 1: me on the band list, and if I ever try

874
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: to come back, you throw me out on my rear end.

875
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Speaker 1: It worked. What happens if you can just go to

876
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Speaker 1: your phone and gamble, folks, It's the same thing I

877
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: have been inundated with people talking about. First of all,

878
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Speaker 1: I think this started. I got on the algo of

879
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm just I've I've been fascinated by the marijuana debate

880
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: and all of the science that has come out about

881
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: hardcore and long term marijuana use and it's ties to schizophrenia.

882
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: One of the big reasons I think that we are

883
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: seeing unprecedented levels of mental illness, especially violent bouts of

884
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and other dissociative disorders, is because we're seeing huge

885
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: increases in the number of young people who are using

886
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: marijuana all the time. It's just much much easier to

887
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: get there's much easier access to it, and as a result,

888
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: people are abusing it. Well, I'm on that algo, and

889
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: now I'm seeing the same basic argument being made about

890
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Speaker 1: internet porn and how online pornography is damaging relationships, damaging marriages,

891
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 1: because it's just it's destroying intimacy. And what's the big

892
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: reason that online pornography has just exploded in the last

893
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: fifteen years. It's because, well, obviously, you have access to

894
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: online pornography every single time, every single time you go

895
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Speaker 1: into your pocket. No, not for that reason, you pervs.

896
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Speaker 1: I mean to go in your pocket to go and

897
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: look at your phone. It's just always there. It is

898
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: an ever present temptation. Well, it's the exact same thing

899
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Speaker 1: with online sports gambling. And this is just a fundamentally

900
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: bad idea morally, But even independent of the moral argument,

901
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: constitutionally it does not make a whole lot of sense.

902
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Speaker 1: And I think we would be opening ourselves up to

903
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: huge lawsuits from a business sense, given the fact that

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Speaker 1: the compacts that were signed by Diamond Jim Doyle all

905
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: those decas ago are just fundamentally bad for the state

906
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin, that we're not nearly getting as much in

907
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: tax revenue as we might otherwise get what's to say

908
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: that just allowing DraftKings and FanDuel into Wisconsin wouldn't get

909
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: us much more in tax revenue, even after paying a

910
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: penalty to the Native tribes for a supposed breach of

911
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: the online gaming Compact. But the biggest thing that I

912
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: just despise about this whole process, it's about how Republicans

913
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,479
Speaker 1: have been acting like Democrats. And yes, Democrats who want

914
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: that sweet sweet Potawatomy and other Native tribe campaign cash

915
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: have all been going along with these bills. Of course

916
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: they're going to be yes is, but how Republicans have

917
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: acted like Democrats. They don't want to answer for the

918
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: vote on this So if there is a vote, instead

919
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 1: of making every single member cast an affirmative vote for

920
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: it and therefore be subject to scrutiny from the public,

921
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: and you'd better believe that I will read the names

922
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Speaker 1: of every single Republican who voted for this bill as

923
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Speaker 1: soon as they vote for this bill. Well, they don't

924
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: want to do that. They don't want to have to

925
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Speaker 1: face the consequences. They don't want to have to face

926
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Speaker 1: you or your conduit in me who broadcasts this sort

927
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Speaker 1: of information to thousands and thousands of people across the state.

928
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: So they want to hide behind a voice vote. It's

929
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: the exact same thing they tried to do on write

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00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: a first refusal, knowing full well that that was a

931
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Speaker 1: bill just like this online sports betting bill that the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of Wisconsinites don't want. On top of that,

933
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Speaker 1: there is a long standing rule in the Wisconsin Senate.

934
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Speaker 1: So the Assembly is just going to go with a

935
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Speaker 1: voice vote. You can't really do that in the Senate

936
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Speaker 1: because there are only thirty three members, right, So what

937
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: the state Senate wants to do, there's a long standing rule.

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Speaker 1: It's called the rule of seventeen thirty three members. You

939
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: need to have if you're in the majority party, seventeen

940
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: members a majority of the entire Senate be behind a

941
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: bill before it goes to the floor. What I am

942
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: hearing from Senate leadership is that they're going to just

943
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Speaker 1: violate the long standing rule of seventeen. Well, it wasn't

944
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Speaker 1: really ever a rule. So what is this Pirates of

945
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: the Caribbean or it's like the Pirate's Code isn't really

946
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: a code, it's more like guidelines. No, this is how

947
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Speaker 1: you get widespread support for your bills. You ensure that

948
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Speaker 1: the entire caucus is behind them, or at least a

949
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Speaker 1: significant percentage an overwhelming majority of your caucus. What they're

950
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Speaker 1: going to do is, apparently, if this thing passes on

951
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: a voice vote with remarkable speed tomorrow, on again, the

952
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: final day of the legislative session, they're simply going to

953
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Speaker 1: violate the rule of seventeen. Bring it to a floor vote,

954
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: know that they've got every single Democrat with them, and

955
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Speaker 1: pass this as quickly as possible, regardless of what you

956
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: in the public might think about it. You're listening to

957
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show, You're gonna have to forgive me, folks.

958
00:59:54,960 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: I am just recovering a little bit. Yes, I am

959
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: actually watching the Team USA hockey match right now. Spoiler

960
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: alert if I mean, are they even are they going

961
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Speaker 1: to rebroadcast it tonight? I don't even know. Well, seeing

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01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: as NBC only shows curling and figure skating at night

963
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: during prime time, probably not spoiler alert if if you

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Speaker 1: want to watch the game or something like that. It

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Speaker 1: turned down the radio for like five minutes tops in

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Speaker 1: three to one. Team USA was leading Sweden one nil

967
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: heading into the last ninety seconds of the third period.

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Speaker 1: Sweden pulls their goalie, they get the equalizer. We are

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01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: now going to overtime in this quarter final game, and

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01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna switch it back. Switched it

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Speaker 1: after that, here we go. Put it back on Fox

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01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: News where Greg Guttfelt looks like he's on ozepic. I

973
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy. I love Greg, but

974
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: he looks like he has lost like twenty five pounds

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Speaker 1: in a month. This has been like I watch. My

976
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: daily routine is I watch Will Caine at three o'clock

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Speaker 1: and then I watch The Five at four pm Central,

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01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: and then Brett Bayer. I have Brett Baher. This is

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Speaker 1: when my own father, my own father says he will

980
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: listen to me only until five o'clock Central because then

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01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: he has to watch Brett Bayer. Brett loved that. By

982
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: the way, we follow each other on x and about

983
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: a year ago, I just happened to message that with

984
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: and he said, tell your dad, he's got good taste.

985
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: And I forget. I think I forgot to tell my

986
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Speaker 1: dad because I'm still so mad at Brett Baher. He's

987
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: robbing me of listeners, even in my own family. But okay,

988
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: we are back. The first overtime period is set to

989
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: begin Team USA in Sweden, with the winner moving on

990
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: to the semi finals, which would be the metal round where, boy,

991
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: you got to get past this one. Team USA women,

992
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: by the way, the gold medal matches tomorrow. They're playing Canada,

993
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: and boy, I do not see tam USA. Half of them,

994
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 1: by the way, are Wisconsin Badger hockey players, are former

995
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: Badger hockey players. And the overtime period is just underway.

996
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,919
Speaker 1: It is a ten minute overtime. Oh and they play

997
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: four on four. Oh, I didn't know that. Producer Andrew

998
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:42,439
Speaker 1: is sitting in for Eric as our musical chairs. Game

999
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: of Producers keeps going. Yeah, Andrew on loan to us

1000
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: from the Big nine to twenty or Fox Sports nine

1001
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: to twenty our sports station. He has produced the Dan

1002
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: O'Donnell show before. It's been a while, so he had

1003
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: a brief training day yesterday, and it's good to be

1004
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: back in the saddle again. You produced for us when

1005
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: we were on in the mornings. All right, back to

1006
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: our regularly scheduled program. Unless you would like me to

1007
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: hear you'd like to hear me call a hockey match?

1008
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: Can we get like Aaron Simms? On the phone. Oh

1009
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Speaker 1: my god, did did they just? Oh?

1010
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 11: No?

1011
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I thought they actually scored a goal there.

1012
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: See I'm sort of watching oh as a good say

1013
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: by the keeper.

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Speaker 3: All right.

1015
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Speaker 1: Producer Andrews says, Aaron is one of the best hockey

1016
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, he's incredible. He's he's he absolutely

1017
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Speaker 1: needs to get an NHL job. I think he's perfectly

1018
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: happy doing Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Admirals are in the AHL.

1019
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: That's like a Triple A baseball affiliate of the Nashville Predators,

1020
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: and they air on our sister station, Fox Sports nine twenty.

1021
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: He's just he's got a great voice, he's got great energy,

1022
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: and like, you can't you can't turn the radio off

1023
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Speaker 1: when you hear Aaron. Big big fan of Aaron Simms

1024
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: here on the Dan o'donald Show. Okay, that's enough about hockey.

1025
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to our regularly scheduled program. Governor Evers

1026
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: is calling for a special legislative session in order to

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Speaker 1: deal with jerrymandering. He says he wants fair maps, and

1028
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: he wants them now, apparently forgetting that all of the

1029
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 1: maps Wisconsin is using are his now obviously, obviously a

1030
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Speaker 1: special session to set up a nonpartisan redistricting group that

1031
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: would instead of the state legislature draw district maps. This

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01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't take place until after the next census in twenty thirty.

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Speaker 1: Don't you worry, though, Democrats are challenging right now the

1034
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:53,439
Speaker 1: maps that Democrats drew as being jerrymandered. There are two

1035
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: cases currently before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme

1036
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: Court has basically abdicated its duty to two different panels

1037
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: of left wing Circuit Court judges incomplete contravention of the

1038
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Constitution. But Governor Evers he wants a special legislative

1039
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 1: session to get a fair maps commission.

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Speaker 5: I know people here disagree sometimes sometimes a lot politics

1041
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 5: could get in the way of creating a nonpartisan redistrict

1042
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 5: commission that everyone can support. But there's one thing that

1043
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 5: we all should be able to do to agree on,

1044
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 5: which is that politics should stay out of the redistricting

1045
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 5: from start to finish. So tonight I'm announcing that I'll

1046
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 5: be calling a special session of the Legislature the spring

1047
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 5: to take up the constitutional amendment, the ban partisan jerrymanderin

1048
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 5: once and for all in Wisconsin.

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01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, is listen to those clapping seals on the Democrats

1050
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 1: side of the aisle. We want a non partisan Iowa

1051
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 1: style redistricting process, right right, This is what Democrats said

1052
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: they wanted forever during the Scott Walker They wanted us

1053
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 1: to be more like Iowich, which uses a nonpartisan redistricting commission. Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing about Democrats, the thing that I think is

1055
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Speaker 1: a hallmark now of Democrat statements, Democrat policy, Democrat talking points,

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Speaker 1: pretty much everything having to do with Democrat politics is

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Speaker 1: they count on the people who hear their messages or

1058
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: who are the consumers of their narratives and their talking

1059
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Speaker 1: points to either be stupid or to have really really

1060
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: short memories. Because I want to take you back to

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Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty three when Republicans in the State

1062
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Speaker 1: Assembly actually introduced a measure that would replace partisan redistricting

1063
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Speaker 1: with using the Legislative Reference Bureau, a non partisan organization,

1064
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Speaker 1: to draw new voting maps. The plan was to replace

1065
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Speaker 1: the current system and it would use the Legislative Reference

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Speaker 1: Bureau to create truly nonpartisan maps in a model similar

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Speaker 1: to that Iowa has used for some years. Iowa actually

1068
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Speaker 1: prohibits using partisan data or incumbent addresses in drawing those maps.

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Speaker 1: It was called Assembly Bill four fifteen. It was introduced

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Speaker 1: in September of twenty twenty three and passed a short

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Speaker 1: time later. It then passed the Wisconsin State Senate in

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Speaker 1: early twenty twenty four. What do you think happened when

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Speaker 1: it went to Governor Ever's desk? He vetoed it. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly right. Why because Democrats were in the process of

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Speaker 1: jerry mandering the state legislative maps by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: You might remember in early twenty twenty three, Janet Protess

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Speaker 1: Switz got herself elected to the Court and Conservatives finally

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Speaker 1: lost after fifteen years of ideologically controlling the court. And

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Speaker 1: one of the big promises that protece what's made was

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Speaker 1: that the maps are rigged, as she said over and

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Speaker 1: over and over, and she would be the fourth vote

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Speaker 1: of seven to overturn them. Right before Christmas, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: the Friday before Christmas, the Supreme Court did just that.

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Speaker 1: They overturned They struck down the maps that had passed

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Speaker 1: muster by both the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the United

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Speaker 1: States Supreme Court, and they replaced them with what they

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Speaker 1: thought were going to be maps drawn by the justices

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Speaker 1: themselves or a redistricting commission that they appointed. Republicans realized

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Speaker 1: in the legislature that this was going to be the

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Speaker 1: most radical jerrymander imaginable, so they relented and agreed to

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Speaker 1: the maps, which were still jerrymandered by Governor Evers draconian

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Speaker 1: Soviet sounding People's Maps Commission. But we're better than what

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Speaker 1: it was going to be feared that the State Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court's radical leftists would draw. So it's Governor Evers maps

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Speaker 1: that are in effect now. Because Republicans were terrified that

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court was going to strike down the legislative

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Speaker 1: maps that they eventually did. They actually went to Governor

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Speaker 1: Evers and went to Democrats in the Assembly, went to

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the Senate and said, look, this is what

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Speaker 1: you've always wanted. You wanted an Iowa style, nonpartisan commission.

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Speaker 1: Let's just turn the whole thing over to the Legislative

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Speaker 1: Reference Bureau. Evers vetoed it. Not a single Democrat voted

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Speaker 1: for it, because what they want is to jerry mander

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Speaker 1: in favor of Democrats. It's what they've always wanted, and

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Speaker 1: it's what they have done with the current maps. I

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Speaker 1: can actually prove it and will do so coming up

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Speaker 1: next right here on the Dan O'Donnell show. So a

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Speaker 1: couple of big updates Team Usay, well, you know what

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Speaker 1: I think I need to I need to offer the

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Speaker 1: spoiler A law art turned down the radio if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to know what happened in today's Team USA

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Speaker 1: versus Sweden quarterfinal hockey match three two one. Team USA

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Speaker 1: scores a winner in overtime to advance to the semifinals

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Speaker 1: two to one over Sweden. Sweden had tied it up

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Speaker 1: in the waning seconds of the third period with the

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Speaker 1: United States up one to nothing, but in just a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes in overtime. I did not realize that

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Speaker 1: they skateed four on four in overtime to try to

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Speaker 1: promote goal scoring. That wait, what was that? Oh, because

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Speaker 1: they're using a smaller rink. It's now three on three.

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Speaker 7: See.

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Speaker 1: I can only see it kind of partially through my

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Speaker 1: camera and lighting and teleprompter and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: We got a ton of camera equipment here, and I

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Speaker 1: can only sort of see the screen through the corner

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Speaker 1: of my eye. And I wasn't really able to watch

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Speaker 1: much of the overtime period, as we were talking about

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Speaker 1: the nonpartisan legislative redistricting plan that Governor Rivers now wants

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Speaker 1: a special session to call. Republicans actually introduced one in

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Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty three. The following month, it passed

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Speaker 1: the Assembly, and then it passed the state Senate in

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Speaker 1: early twenty twenty four. I was actually reminded by a

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Speaker 1: legislative source that there were a couple of Democrats in

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Speaker 1: the Assembly who voted for it, but then Assembly Democratic

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Speaker 1: Leader Greta Nubauer actually sent them home. They were Hispanic Democrats,

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Speaker 1: and she sent them home in an effort to block

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Speaker 1: passage of the bill. Some might say she attempted to

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Speaker 1: deport them from the state Capitol. So I guess I

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Speaker 1: was right. There were a tiny handful of Democrats who

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Speaker 1: actually did vote for that, but Governor Rivers vetoed it,

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Speaker 1: and now he's calling for a special session to end

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Speaker 1: partisan redistricting. Look, I can prove that this entire effort

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Speaker 1: has been an attempt to jerrymander this state favor of Democrats.

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Speaker 1: It's never about fair maps and never was. When the

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Speaker 1: State Supreme Court overturned the legislative maps that again were

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Speaker 1: given a stamp of approval by the state Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: when it was under conservative control, and then the United

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Speaker 1: States Supreme Court declined to overturn those maps as overly jerrymandered,

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Speaker 1: and the US Supreme Court is actually held to the

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Speaker 1: sort of rule that jerrymandering claims and redistricting. This is

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Speaker 1: an inherently political process, so of course there are going

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Speaker 1: to be questions of political advantage, and this is beyond

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Speaker 1: the scope of what courts can answer. So after a

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen decision, the United States Supreme Court has really

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Speaker 1: taken a hands off approach to questions of partisan jerrymandering.

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Speaker 1: But when the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned the state legislative maps,

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Speaker 1: they realized that they couldn't possibly have any sort of

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Speaker 1: federal constitutional question that could potentially be appealed to the

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Speaker 1: US Supreme Court because rather obviously they would be slapped

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Speaker 1: down and they would be overruled and the case would

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Speaker 1: be remanded right back to them. So they had to

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Speaker 1: figure some state constitutional precept or constitutional rule that would

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Speaker 1: keep the decision out of the federal court system. What

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Speaker 1: they settled on was the asinine notion that somehow what

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Speaker 1: are known as municipal islands were unconstitutional. Even though municipal islands,

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Speaker 1: which are usually like park areas that are a part of, say,

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Speaker 1: the city of Milwaukee, but not actually in the contiguous

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Speaker 1: boundary of the City of Milwaukee. A lot of times

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Speaker 1: these are landfills. They're almost never inhabited, and they have

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Speaker 1: been included in every legislative and congressional map pretty much

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Speaker 1: for the last seventy five to one hundred years without

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Speaker 1: any question, and in fact, previous courts have explicitly declined

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Speaker 1: to strike down maps based on the issue of municipal islands.

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Speaker 1: But because the Wisconsin Supreme Court pretended that there was

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Speaker 1: this requirement that there needed to be contiguous boundaries for

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Speaker 1: the districts. And the reason for this is if there's

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Speaker 1: not a contiguous boundary, if you really do have districts

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Speaker 1: that don't touch, that is, if it looks like a

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Speaker 1: Rarshack ink blot test, then yes, obviously there is an

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Speaker 1: attempt at jerrymandering. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court couldn't find

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Speaker 1: excessive jerrymandering in the state legislative map, so instead it

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Speaker 1: drew an instant by adopting Governor Evers People's Commission map

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Speaker 1: an instant plus ten Democrat advantage. The first election that

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Speaker 1: the new maps were used in was the presidential election

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, where Donald Trump won a clear

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Speaker 1: majority of Wisconsin nights. Democrats still somehow picked up ten

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Speaker 1: seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Oh well, the maps

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Speaker 1: were suddenly fair. Then it was a huge Republican year,

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Speaker 1: and yet Republicans lost a whole ton of states now,

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, a whole ton of seats now. This

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Speaker 1: rather obviously isn't a real criterion for judging whether a

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Speaker 1: map is partisan or jerrymatterd or something like that. But

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Speaker 1: this is something that Democrats have been saying for years.

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Speaker 1: Because Democrats are winning fifty percent or more of the

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Speaker 1: statewide vote, they should have roughly fifty percent or more

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Speaker 1: of all of the state legislative seats. Well, that's not

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Speaker 1: how it works, especially when Democrats refuse to live anywhere

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Speaker 1: in this state outside of Madison or Milwaukee. They essentially

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Speaker 1: self segregate. They pack themselves into two districts. And when

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Speaker 1: you have got to draw districts that include here's the requirement.

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Speaker 1: Each eight Senate district needs to include three state legislative districts.

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Speaker 1: We have thirty three state Senate seats, ninety nine state

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Speaker 1: Assembly seats, and you need to do this in as

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Speaker 1: contiguous and as geographically neutral way as you possibly can.

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Speaker 1: If Democrats only exist in two cities, how are you

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Speaker 1: supposed to do that? When we come back after the

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Speaker 1: top of the hour news, we talk with former Governor

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Speaker 1: Scott Walker. Stay tuned Dan o'donald Show coming right back.

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Speaker 1: live via the danocam, and we are a podcast as well.

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donnald's Show with limited almost no commercial interruption. How

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Speaker 1: great is that? After we just got back from what

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Speaker 1: an eleven minute commercial break. I apologize I had a

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Speaker 1: lot to say about claims of jerry mandering. Governor Evers

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Speaker 1: wants to call into special session the state legislature to

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Speaker 1: pass a non partisan redistricting board that Republicans wanted in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and Evers vetoed because he knew the

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Speaker 1: State Supreme Court was going to jerrymander the state legislative

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Speaker 1: map for him. We will discuss that and more. Plus

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Speaker 1: a big win the Department of Education striking down a

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Speaker 1: race based graduate school grant program. We will discuss that

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Speaker 1: with Scott Walker, the president of Young America's Foundation, former

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin governor and one heck of a sharp political mind.

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Speaker 1: We will talk about the midterm elections. We will talk

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Speaker 1: about the spring election more. But first, here are some

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Speaker 1: of the stories that we are following this hour. One

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Speaker 1: skier is still missing an eight are confirmed dead after

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Speaker 1: an avalanche struck Castle Peak that's near Lake Tahoe, California. Fortunately,

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Speaker 1: six skiers were pulled off the mountain and rescued amid

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Speaker 1: blizzard conditions. Democrat lawmakers are going to boycott President Trump's

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Speaker 1: upcoming State of the Union address. They're going to instead

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Speaker 1: attend something that they're calling the People's State of the

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Speaker 1: Union rally on the National Mall. Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers

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Speaker 1: last night delivered his final State of the State address and,

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Speaker 1: as could be expected, basically took credit for a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of Republican tax cuts. The federal government remains partially

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Speaker 1: shut down. The Department of Homeland Security is unfunded, except,

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Speaker 1: of course, for the things that Democrats don't want funded,

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Speaker 1: ice and border patrol, which are fully funded through the

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Speaker 1: end of President Trump's second term thanks to the One

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Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill. During the White House Press briefing, Press

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Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt put the blame on Democrats for this

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Speaker 1: partial show.

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Speaker 9: Democrats are the reason that the Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 9: is currently shut down. They have chosen to act against

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Speaker 9: the American people for political reasons. And now we have

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Speaker 9: FEMA workers, the men and women of the United States Coastguard,

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Speaker 9: men and women of TSA who keep our airports moving,

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Speaker 9: who will be working without paychecks for no good reason

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Speaker 9: other than the Democrats wanting to pick a fight with

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Speaker 9: Donald Trump, and the President thinks that is irresponsible and despicable.

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Speaker 1: It certainly is The education Department today has agreed not

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Speaker 1: to enforce biden Earra rules in a federal grant program

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Speaker 1: aimed at growing the number of underrepresented students obtaining doctoral degrees.

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Speaker 1: The guidelines for the McNair Post Baccalaureate Education and Achievement Program.

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Speaker 1: It prompted a laws suit from the Wisconsin Institute for

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Speaker 1: Law and Liberty. The group has now dropped after reaching

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Speaker 1: a written agreement with the Trump administration. A big part

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Speaker 1: of that action against the Department of Education led by

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Speaker 1: Young America's Foundation, which is led by a man we

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Speaker 1: know very well here in Wisconsin. Great friend of the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show, Scott Walker joining us on the program, Sir,

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Speaker 1: great to have you on Big win today.

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Speaker 7: Huh, huge win right appropriately in the year that will

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Speaker 7: sob at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of a

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Speaker 7: Declaration of Penance, which begins by reminding us that we're

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Speaker 7: all created equal, endowed not by the government, but by

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Speaker 7: our creator, by God, with certain uneable rights. In this case,

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Speaker 7: it's saying race should have never been a factor in

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Speaker 7: issues in the past. It's not going to be a

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Speaker 7: factor when it comes to these scholarships or other things

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Speaker 7: in the federal going forward. And a big, big thank

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Speaker 7: you to WILL, the Wisconsin to Instance the Law and

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Speaker 7: Liberty for stepping up and being our partner in this

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Speaker 7: particular case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was a case on which WILL did just

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Speaker 1: tremendous work, and they remind us just how important it

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Speaker 1: is to have conservative litigation because things can get done.

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Speaker 1: No real surprise that the Trump administration understood just how

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Speaker 1: damaging this is. But it is remarkable that six years

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Speaker 1: after the peak woke era following the death of George

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Speaker 1: Floyd Scott, that we're still seeing sort of these last

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Speaker 1: vestiges of race based discrimination under the guise of improving

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Speaker 1: race relations or affirmative action or DEI or whatever it's

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Speaker 1: being called this year.

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Speaker 7: Well, it shows you how political this is too. I mean,

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Speaker 7: this is one of those where and again big banks

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Speaker 7: they helped us at Young America's Foundation. One of the

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Speaker 7: planners was a local chapter. We had two litigants, specifically

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Speaker 7: two students who would have been an eligibles programmed based

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01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,719
Speaker 7: solely on their skin, one of which is a student

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Speaker 7: involved with US at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Speaker 7: This eliminates that, but it's amazing. Not only was it

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01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 7: discriminate against white students. There were certain who didn't qualify

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01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 7: students who were ethnicity would be considered Asian, Jewish, Arab,

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01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 7: I mean even some of Latino students. So this was

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01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:25,680
Speaker 7: really not just about race, but about race based politics.

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Speaker 7: And we knew you and I have talked about this before.

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01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 7: We knew that the Trump administration was on the right

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01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 7: track on this, and I remember some people said, well,

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01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 7: why are you contending this now, even with a new president,

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01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 7: new administration. Well, we needed to give them the levers

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01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 7: to go deep within the administrative state, to go right

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01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 7: into the core of these issues, not just an executive word,

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01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 7: but to really force it where the lower levels of

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01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:52,760
Speaker 7: government were not following through. So this goes all the

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Speaker 7: ways to scholarships and the partner of education because we

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01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 7: want to make sure that this is cleared up everywhere.

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Speaker 7: And by putting it in court action now they've agreed

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Speaker 7: in court, not just in the administrative area, but in court,

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01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,839
Speaker 7: this should help us lock us in long into the future,

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01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 7: long after Donald Trump's press the United States.

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Speaker 1: And another reason is sometimes these departments don't know about it,

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01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: like it's entirely possible that Linda McMahon, the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Education before this suit was filed, had no idea the

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Speaker 1: extent of what was going on with this McNair program.

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Speaker 1: Scott Walker, the head of YAFF Young America's Foundation, joining

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Speaker 1: us here on the Dan O'Donnell show. Of course, he

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Speaker 1: was for eight years the governor of Wisconsin. Last night,

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Speaker 1: Sir Governor Evers delivered his eighth and final State of

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Speaker 1: the State address, in which he took credit for Republican

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01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 1: tax cuts based on your budgets. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: don't think people quite remember this. Every single budget that

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Speaker 1: has been passed over the past eight years was not

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Speaker 1: a Tony Evers budget, but was rather based on a

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Speaker 1: Scott Walker budget. Some legacy you've left.

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Speaker 7: Huh, Well, we love it. It's great for the tax periers.

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01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 7: In fact, since twenty eleven, I think we've seen over

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Speaker 7: thirty billion dollars worth of tax relief. Obviously, the eight

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Speaker 7: years I was in, along with my friends and the

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Speaker 7: Republican majorities in the legislature, we saw income taxes and

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01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 7: property taxes actually lower after eight years than when we started. Thankfully,

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01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:27,720
Speaker 7: Republicans have continued to push in the state legislatures. Why

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01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 7: keeping the State Senate, keeping the State Assembly so critically important.

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01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 7: The one thing not Tony Heavers should take credit for

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01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 7: what he won't is something where he the only way

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01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 7: he was getting around working against his strong Republican majority

1347
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 7: was when he used his very targeted viewed authority in

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01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 7: a way that no one ever dreamed possible to create

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01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 7: a four hundred year increase in property taxes. And of

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01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 7: course in my old stopping grounds in Wawaitosa, they're seeing

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01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,679
Speaker 7: property taxes go through the roof Milwaukee, Bloyd all across

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01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 7: the state. That's the one and only that Tony Evers

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01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 7: could take credit for. He didn't do that last night,

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01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 7: but people shouldn't forget when they vote next November or

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01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:07,839
Speaker 7: this coming November.

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Speaker 1: Are you just sort of kicking yourself? You know, all

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: these years later you realize you could have just used

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01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: your partial veto authority to you know, enshrine Act ten

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Speaker 1: for the next like four centuries. You could have voter

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01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: id for the next thousand years. I mean, you could

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01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 1: have had you could have had a kingdom without end

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01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: Governor Walker if you had just done what Tony Evers did.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised when that was actually upheld as constitutional?

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Speaker 7: Well, it's just an absolute joke. If Tommy Tampster and

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Speaker 7: I had tried something like this. You know, in the

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01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 7: past there were tweaks to the line out of Vito

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 7: this was completely absurd. But it's opened the window. You know,

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Speaker 7: Tom Diffany, with a lot of help and support from

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Speaker 7: you and I and a lot of our listenerss a

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01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 7: big governor. There's no reason why he couldn't turn around

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Speaker 7: and say I'm going to cut property decks just for

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Speaker 7: four hundred years. That's why I think a lot of

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01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 7: people would loved say, well, not four hundred, at least

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Speaker 7: the next four years given the chance. But this is

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01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 7: exactly what radicals do when they get in. They search

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01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 7: for power. It's not about policy, it's not about putting

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01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:14,600
Speaker 7: people first. It's about power structures. And that was a

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01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 7: payoff to some of the big government unions who wanted

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01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:21,440
Speaker 7: more money instead of actually thinking about the hard working taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, without question, that's exactly what it was. You know,

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Speaker 1: we sort of touched on Act ten for a second.

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Speaker 1: There is a case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court right

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Speaker 1: now that would overturn Act ten. I think you and

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Speaker 1: I sort of agree that these justices have been waiting

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01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 1: their entire careers to find an excuse to strike down

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01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 1: Act ten, which, by the way, has been upheld by

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01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,799
Speaker 1: how many different courts, federal and state courts have upheld

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Speaker 1: it over the years. But now the stake it.

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Speaker 7: Doesn't Yes, it's the state of Wisconsin's own Supreme court.

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Speaker 7: This is a totally defined present. Nothing new has happened,

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01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 7: there's no change in the law. This is literally what

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Speaker 7: happens when you put politicians, like one of the people

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01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 7: running this spring, when you put politicians in the state

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Speaker 7: Supreme Court instead of jurists, instead of people uphold the

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01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 7: law on the constitution.

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Speaker 1: Do you obviously think they're going to strike it down?

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Speaker 1: Do you think they do it before the gubernatorial election?

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01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,600
Speaker 1: Because you want to see property taxes, You want to

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01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 1: see every tax just dramatically increase. Repeal Act ten. I

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01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 1: mean you said it, what thirty billion dollars worth of

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01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 1: savings over the last fifteen years if that goes away,

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01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: if you think your property tax bill was high? Now

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01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 1: just wait, do you think there's any chance this very

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01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:41,800
Speaker 1: political court that they know the impact of their decisions.

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01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 1: No way, this is happening before April seven. But do

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01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 1: you think it happens before November.

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01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,360
Speaker 7: No, I think they are so political. We saw this

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01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 7: last year in the Supreme Court race, where they waited

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01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 7: in several key issues just to stoke fear before they

1410
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 7: ruled on some of those key issues last before last

1411
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 7: year's election to the State Supreme Court. I think they

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01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 7: will push this back well after the November elections. But

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01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 7: I have no doubt, particularly if you have Taylor, who's

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01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 7: the most radical Madison politician I've ever seen, running for

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01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 7: the State Supreme Court. If they add another there, I

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01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:23,080
Speaker 7: think they'll just wait till after November and then take actions,

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01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 7: and then Katie bar the door. Not only will your

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01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 7: property taxes go up beyond our wildest fears, on top

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01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 7: of it, it's a double whammie. It will also take

1420
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 7: money out of the classroom. So not only do your

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01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 7: taxes go up, it'll take money out of the classroom

1422
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 7: where it's actually helping students and put it into these

1423
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 7: massive union contract benefits that we saw before. That will

1424
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 7: be painful not only the property taxpayers, but on top

1425
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 7: of that, will take money out of the classroom and

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01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 7: ultimately hurt students. It's a lose lose proposition, but it's

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01:28:56,840 --> 01:29:00,160
Speaker 7: what you get both with the State Supreme Court, or

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01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 7: if you get people like Mandela Barnes and Democrats controlling

1429
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 7: the State Senate and the State Assembly, all the things

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01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 7: will happen.

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01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: Do you think it's gonna be Barnes. I mean it

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01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:14,480
Speaker 1: was very clear. By omitting Governor Evers thanked pretty much everybody.

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01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:17,640
Speaker 1: He did not think or did not mention either of

1434
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: his two lieutenant governors, Mandela or Sarah Rodriguez, both of

1435
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 1: whom are running to replace him. He did not mention

1436
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 1: the Attorney General Josh Cole, who is running for a

1437
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:31,440
Speaker 1: third term against the very very good Eric Tony, Republican

1438
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: candidate who's running again. It's very clear I think Evers

1439
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: wants none of those three to win their respective races.

1440
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 1: He was pictured backstage after the speech last night with

1441
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, who it's believed he

1442
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:51,040
Speaker 1: might want. How do you see this race playing out?

1443
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: Because I just saw an IBD tip poll that came

1444
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,599
Speaker 1: out last night, sir, that shows Mandela twenty eight percent,

1445
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 1: Sarah Rodriguez twenty percent, and then probably in a distant

1446
01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: third at seven.

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01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think in the end, well, two things one.

1448
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 7: I think Tony Eavers really just as he isn't much

1449
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:13,679
Speaker 7: in policy outside of education policy. Uh politically, I don't

1450
01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 7: think is actively engaged. I think it's a handful of

1451
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 7: people in his office that are really driving this, and

1452
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 7: they're very better uh, anybody that they've got a gripe with.

1453
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 7: So it didn't surprise me that there wasn't any praise

1454
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 7: for either his current or former lieutenant governor nor the

1455
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:30,200
Speaker 7: attorney general.

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01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:30,800
Speaker 5: Uh.

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01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 7: You know, David Crawley actually a very nice guy. Yeah,

1458
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 7: I think my appearances comes across very well, pleasant, jovial guy.

1459
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,479
Speaker 7: But think about this is a guy whose administration couldn't

1460
01:30:41,479 --> 01:30:44,599
Speaker 7: bother to actually renew their health insurance. That's the basic,

1461
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 7: you know, test of litmus test of competency. But I

1462
01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 7: think more damning is this is a guy who lobbied

1463
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,559
Speaker 7: to get the state government to allow him to raise

1464
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 7: your sales tax and still had to come back and

1465
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 7: raise property taxes after they had deficit. So if you're

1466
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,559
Speaker 7: worried about that kind of nonsense, the problems in Milwaukee

1467
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 7: happening all across the state, the last thing you want

1468
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:10,200
Speaker 7: to do is put Mandela Barnes or David Crawley in

1469
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 7: charge of your state government.

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Speaker 1: It is actually interesting that Governor Reavers did make mention

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01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:18,640
Speaker 1: of Milwaukee being brought back from the brink of bankruptcy.

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01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: I made note of that pixuse I'm like, well, wait

1473
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 1: a second, which political party was in tro I seem

1474
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 1: to remember we were brought back from the fiscal brink

1475
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,639
Speaker 1: after a pension scandal in Milwaukee County in the early

1476
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 1: two thousands. I seem to recall that what political party

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01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 1: was in charge back then. I want to, if I may, sir,

1478
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on something. I was going to dive

1479
01:31:40,920 --> 01:31:44,519
Speaker 1: into a little bit later, but I think this is

1480
01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 1: sort of right up your alley. Mark Halpern, very very

1481
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:51,679
Speaker 1: good reporter, said last night at the Capitol Hill Club,

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01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:56,320
Speaker 1: there was a two hour meeting about seventy five to

1483
01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:01,839
Speaker 1: one hundred people. Cabinet members Scott Best, Howard Lutnik, RFK Junior,

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01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 1: Sean Duffy, good friend of ours, Susie Wiles also spoke.

1485
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 1: There were polsters like Tony Fabrizio, a whole bunch of

1486
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:15,960
Speaker 1: legislative aids, and they were all talking about strategy for

1487
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: the midterm. Okay, and Fabrizio laid out what the issue is,

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01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: to quote Halprin, the economy will be the issue in

1489
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:30,520
Speaker 1: the election. Messages that break through banning stock trading for Congress,

1490
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: a bill by the way that our own Brian's style,

1491
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: introduced transparency on health insurance data, including on pricing and

1492
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: claims reimbursement, lowering prescription drug costs. The Trump tax cuts.

1493
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 1: Housing affordability is a huge issue for voters, especially young people,

1494
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:51,200
Speaker 1: and taking credit for closing the border does not resonate

1495
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:55,240
Speaker 1: that much. Men moderates, true independence and Hispanic voters are

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01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:59,600
Speaker 1: the true persuadable voters, and the message from Fabrizio was

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Speaker 1: not pessimistic. He said, spend time on podcasts and social

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Speaker 1: media more than national news interviews. Paid media should go

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Speaker 1: on targeted media, not broadcast or even cable. So it's

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Speaker 1: sounding like a very targeted, very economic focused message for

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Speaker 1: everyone heading into the midterms. What do you make of that?

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Speaker 7: Oh, I think it's dead on the money. I said

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Speaker 7: it in twenty four You heard me on your program

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Speaker 7: anothers saying, you know, I don't talk about inflation, I

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Speaker 7: don't talk about the economy. I talk about the cost

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Speaker 7: of living. I talk about you know, in the four

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Speaker 7: years during Joe Biden, filling up a tank of gas

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Speaker 7: at quick Trip went up a buck and a quarter.

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Speaker 7: Going to the local grocery store in Delafield cost me

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Speaker 7: the you know, two grocery cards I could get four

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Speaker 7: years earlier. Was what one about one cost me that

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Speaker 7: I stugged with my kids, saying almost one thousand dollars

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Speaker 7: more a month in the mortgage payments from what they

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Speaker 7: pay during Trump's first term. Those things resonated in the

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Speaker 7: November twenty fourth election. I think people are still They're

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Speaker 7: appreciative of many of the changes, but I think they

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01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 7: still feel that and particularly we see it Young America's

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Speaker 7: Foundation in our polling and research. Young people really concerned

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Speaker 7: about housing, really concerned about even being able to afford

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Speaker 7: a house someday, starting a family, owning a home. They

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Speaker 7: want to hear people talk about. I would add to

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Speaker 7: that list. In Wisconsin, property taxes and utility prices. We

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Speaker 7: can say clear as day, when I was governor and

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Speaker 7: Republicans were in charge, property taxes, income taxes were down,

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Speaker 7: utility rates, the cost of energy was way down compared

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Speaker 7: to the last seven years when you had Tony Eavers

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Speaker 7: in charge. And going forward, it gets even worse. So

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Speaker 7: that is the difference. You want to pay more you

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01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 7: put liberals in charge. You want to pay less and

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01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 7: be able to get by and support your family and

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01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:56,560
Speaker 7: your loved ones. You got to vote for conservatives.

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Speaker 1: That you do. Scott Walker, former governor and president to

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Speaker 1: Young America's Foundation, Sir, it is always a pleasure having

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01:35:03,479 --> 01:35:05,719
Speaker 1: you on. We'd love to have you on again soon.

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01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,919
Speaker 1: I just I love your political analysis.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Dan, thanks for your good work, and thanks again

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01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:12,599
Speaker 7: to Will for helping you out out.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it absolutely, sir, have yourself a wonderful evening.

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01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,760
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that in a little bit

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01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:23,479
Speaker 1: more depth. What a bunch of the top Republican figures

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01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: in the administration, legislative leaders, congressional leaders as well. We're

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01:35:27,280 --> 01:35:32,479
Speaker 1: talking about the midterm message. Also, Democrats put out a

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01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: trans Bill of rights. All that and much more. When

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01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 1: The Dan o'donald Show returns. Well, thanks once again to

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01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: Scott Walker, former governor President of y AF for joining

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Speaker 1: me here on the Dan o'donald Show. It's kind of

1547
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 1: amazing to me. We talked to governors, we've talked to presidents,

1548
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 1: We've talked to the richest man in the world. Here

1549
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 1: on this show, we do a lot of important work

1550
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 1: legislative lee bringing you exclusive stories, investigative reports you're not

1551
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 1: going to hear anywhere else. We impact the body politic

1552
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:13,800
Speaker 1: here on The Dan O'Donnell Show. And yet my eleven

1553
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:17,479
Speaker 1: year old daughter is still convinced that I am going

1554
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: to forget to pick her up from soccer practice. Literally,

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01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:28,479
Speaker 1: as I'm coming back from commercial break, my wife texts me.

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01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: She said, my daughter is is very worried because one time,

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Speaker 1: one time I was a little late in getting her

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Speaker 1: from practice. I normally I'm the I'm the soccer coach,

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01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:44,640
Speaker 1: but obviously, you know, with with moving to afternoons, I've

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Speaker 1: had to give that up. And she plays. She plays

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Speaker 1: for a couple of just incredible coaches. They are so nice,

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Speaker 1: they are so kind, they're great friends, and they're just

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01:36:53,640 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: they're wonderful. So I, you know, I picked her up

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01:36:55,880 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 1: one time it got dark a little early and her

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01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 1: best friend's parents. You know, She's in the car and

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Speaker 1: I pass her in the parking lot. And ever since,

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Speaker 1: she is convinced that I Am not going to pick

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Speaker 1: her up from soccer practice. So I get a text

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Speaker 1: saying at four fifteen, my wife texts me, are you

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01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: picking up Grace? I said yes, and then I text,

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Speaker 1: for the love of all things Holy Grace, I will

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01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 1: pick you up. Because she can see all the text

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01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 1: because she uses my Apple ID on her iPad. My

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01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 1: wife just texts me as she drops off my daughter

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01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:42,799
Speaker 1: literally coming back from commercial break. We checked the text

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01:37:42,880 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 1: one last time just to make sure you were in

1577
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 1: fact coming. So, no matter what I do, no matter

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01:37:50,760 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 1: how much responsibility is placed on me by conservatives here

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01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:58,479
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, by Republican leadership, by the White House. For

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01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: I've broadcast from the One House like three times, but

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Speaker 1: my daughter still thinks I Am not going to pick

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Speaker 1: her up from soccer practice tonight. You're producer producer, Andrew said, Grace.

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01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:17,639
Speaker 1: He's got your back. He is reminding me that after

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01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:20,240
Speaker 1: we do our interview, Jerry Bott is going to come

1585
01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 1: on the program to talk about the Trip of a

1586
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:26,000
Speaker 1: Lifetime used to be Jay Webber's Trip of a Lifetime,

1587
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 1: But then Jay the Turncoat decided he wanted to retire

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01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:34,360
Speaker 1: from daily radio and get up at a normal human

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Speaker 1: being time. How dare he? We're kidding? We love Jay.

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Speaker 1: He is an incredible friend, incredible broadcaster. We are so excited.

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Speaker 1: You've been hearing the promos over the past couple of

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Speaker 1: days here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The Jay Webber

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01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:54,120
Speaker 1: podcast is going to debut April seventh. It's going to

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01:38:54,160 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: be Tuesday and Friday. I believe the Mark Belling podcast

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01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:01,559
Speaker 1: is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. It would make sense Jay is

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01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: going to do his podcast twice a week, and I

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01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 1: can't wait for it because there has been avoid as

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01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: much as I'd loved I have loved listening to Ben

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01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 1: as well as Jason Gotch our newest edition on WISN.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing like the ogs, Jay Lever and Mark Belling

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01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:27,160
Speaker 1: to complete your day of broadcast listening. And in fact,

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01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: I was actually just meeting with Jason and Ben yesterday

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01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 1: and I don't know if I'm authorized to speak on

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01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 1: behalf of all of us, but we are expanding better

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01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,400
Speaker 1: Noah Candidate, the segment that we have always done here

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01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald Show where local candidates from across

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01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 1: our listening area call in and make their elevator pitches.

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01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:49,800
Speaker 1: It is not just going to be on the Dan

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01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: o'donald Show this year. It is going to be on

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01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: the benyout Show and The Jason Gotch Show. We're tentatively

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01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:00,200
Speaker 1: going to do this on Monday, March twenty third, so

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01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:04,680
Speaker 1: the day before in person absentee voting opens up. We

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01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 1: are going to have a full day where you are

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01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:12,000
Speaker 1: going to be able to get information about the candidates,

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01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:15,759
Speaker 1: listen to the candidates, hear them in their own words,

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01:40:15,800 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: make their pitches for why they are the conservative choice.

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01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:21,680
Speaker 1: And for the first time ever, we are going to

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Speaker 1: do something that frankly, has not been done before and

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01:40:25,360 --> 01:40:27,680
Speaker 1: should have been done a long time ago. We are

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01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 1: presenting the Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide. We are working with

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01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:35,960
Speaker 1: conservatives and Republican Party operatives and people all across the

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01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin in order to present a digital interactive

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01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,679
Speaker 1: map of Wisconsin that is going to be introduced probably

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01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: about a month from today as part of a brand

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01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:50,600
Speaker 1: new digital initiative that we are so proud to be

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01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:54,680
Speaker 1: able to debut for you. It is the Ultimate Conservative

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01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:58,719
Speaker 1: Voter Guide. It is going to be a digital map

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01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: where you can just click on your county or bring

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01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: your county down from a drop down menu, and you

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01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:06,759
Speaker 1: will have a list of every single conservative on the ballot.

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01:41:07,600 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: It is something that we have been working very hard on,

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01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:13,679
Speaker 1: and now that the primary is over, we are going

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01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 1: to be getting candidate lists from all over the state.

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01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:20,599
Speaker 1: Individual candidates have been reaching out to us for about

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01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:23,800
Speaker 1: the last week week and a half, and we are

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01:41:24,479 --> 01:41:28,679
Speaker 1: going to be debuting the state's Ultimate Conservative voter Guide,

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01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:33,720
Speaker 1: very likely on March sixteenth, or Saint Patrick's Day on

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01:41:33,880 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 1: the seventeenth, right as mail in ballots get mailed out,

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01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,439
Speaker 1: so right around there you are going to be able

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01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:45,599
Speaker 1: to have a complete guide to who the conservative candidates are.

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01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 1: We're not going to be endorsing. We're not going to

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01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:52,560
Speaker 1: be saying, Okay, this is someone it is just ideologically

1643
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:56,559
Speaker 1: Is this a conservative? Is this somebody who you can,

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01:41:56,760 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: in good conscience if you are a conservative vote for

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01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: Once again, I have had a number of candidates I

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01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:06,559
Speaker 1: actually had too now say hey, Dan, you know, I'm

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01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 1: not really sure do I want to be a part

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01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 1: of this. I'm kind of in a blue area. I'm

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01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 1: worried that people will see my name on this voter

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01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:15,320
Speaker 1: guide and they'll say, well, I'm not going to vote

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01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:18,640
Speaker 1: for you. I'm telling you it is a huge advantage

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01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,439
Speaker 1: to be partner. We are going to be spending a

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01:42:21,479 --> 01:42:25,160
Speaker 1: decent amount of money to pay to promote this on

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01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: social media, on some traditional media, and we may even

1655
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:33,400
Speaker 1: be doing candidate mailers to get this in the hands

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01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:37,120
Speaker 1: of as many people as humanly possible as a way

1657
01:42:37,240 --> 01:42:41,479
Speaker 1: of sort of advertising the Dan O'Donnell Show and all

1658
01:42:41,520 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: of our various related entities and initiatives. But we have

1659
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 1: got a staff of people, myself included, working on this,

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01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 1: and we are working. Let me tell you, folks, I

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01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: am spending way more time on a Google spreadsheet than

1662
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 1: I ever thought I was going to as a broadcast professional.

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01:42:59,080 --> 01:43:02,360
Speaker 1: But this, this is, this is how much we care

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01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 1: about getting conservatives elected to those local races. I mean

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01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 1: those local positions school board, village board, mayor clerk, I

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01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:18,719
Speaker 1: mean judge, for goodness sakes, district attorney. Actually, district attorney

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01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 1: is a partisan position. But you know what I'm saying,

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01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: Like the races that you're not going to hear a

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01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:27,960
Speaker 1: lot about on this show, just because we have so

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Speaker 1: many counties, we have so many communities, I can't possibly

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01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 1: spend time on every single one as much as I'd

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01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 1: like to. But these are the people who make the

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01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:44,000
Speaker 1: decisions that most directly impact you like government that picks

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01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 1: up your trash, government that is in charge of your

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01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: kid's school policies, government that's in charge of your fire department,

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01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:55,479
Speaker 1: your police department. Those are the government officials that have

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01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:58,920
Speaker 1: the most power over your life, that most directly impact

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01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:01,880
Speaker 1: your life. And it's sort of a paradox that we

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01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:04,519
Speaker 1: sort of know the least about them. We know everything

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01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,839
Speaker 1: about President Trump. We know a lot about Governor Evers,

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01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:09,600
Speaker 1: we know a lot about our congressman, we know a

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01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: lot about our senators. Well, Ron Johnson. I mean, you know,

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01:44:14,080 --> 01:44:17,679
Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin disappears every six years for six years before

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01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 1: she resurfaces like the groundhog for election day. Yeah, if

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01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: she sees her shadow, it's six more years of do

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01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:34,360
Speaker 1: nothingness in the United States Senate. That's why. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the State's conservative

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01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:42,800
Speaker 1: Ultimate Conservative voter Guide, email medd at iHeartMedia dot com.

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01:44:42,800 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 1: That'll be online in about a month. More still to

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01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:47,679
Speaker 1: come here on the Dan O'donnald Show. As I said

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Speaker 1: in our interview with former Governor Scott Walker, the Trump

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01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:55,959
Speaker 1: administration a whole lot of top cabinet officials. Susie Wilds,

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01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 1: the chief of staff sat down for about two hours

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01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:02,400
Speaker 1: last night with chief polster Tony Fabrizio. He is one

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01:45:02,439 --> 01:45:04,960
Speaker 1: of the most respected Republican posters out there as President

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01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:08,880
Speaker 1: Trump's polster forever. He said, it is all about economic

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01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:12,679
Speaker 1: messaging ahead of the midterms. The American people care about

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01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:18,600
Speaker 1: their financial future, they care about affordability, So naturally, Democrats

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Speaker 1: spent today introducing a trans bill of Rights. Here's Promilajaia Paul.

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Speaker 11: To trans people everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I also want you to know this.

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Speaker 11: Those people are threatened by your strength, by your joy

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01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:39,120
Speaker 11: in being fully who you are. Those who fight against

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01:45:39,200 --> 01:45:43,680
Speaker 11: trans people are just jealous of the freedom that they

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Speaker 11: have taken to be fully who they are, and so

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Speaker 11: those people just want to destroy that rather than imagine

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Speaker 11: what it would be like to be fully who they are.

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Speaker 11: Wise words from our young people.

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Speaker 1: So the people who are fully who they are, just

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01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 1: so are clear, have like a forty percent suicide rate,

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Speaker 1: so high that it's referred to as a trans genocide.

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Speaker 1: Nobody hates trans people, least of all me. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I sometimes feel like I am the one person who

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Speaker 1: actually cares about people who are truly dealing with serious

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Speaker 1: mental illness. I am, and I try to use my

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Speaker 1: position to be a mental health advocate. I have been

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Speaker 1: very open about my own I was diagnosed with ADHD

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Speaker 1: about a year ago. I know, shocking, shocking that I've

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Speaker 1: got ADHD, and I've been dealing with generalized anxiety disorder

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Speaker 1: for pretty much my entire life. And I urge people like,

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Speaker 1: that's not something I'm ashamed of. It's not something that

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01:46:50,040 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: anybody should be ashamed of, but it should be something

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01:46:53,360 --> 01:46:56,759
Speaker 1: if you are not feeling right, if you're not feeling

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01:46:56,840 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 1: healthy mentally, you're not healthy and you need to see treatment.

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Speaker 1: And what I am so disgusted by is a medical profession.

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01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:09,679
Speaker 1: Political people say well, you can just change your gender,

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01:47:09,720 --> 01:47:11,840
Speaker 1: and if we just affirm your gender, all of your

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01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:15,760
Speaker 1: other underlying, very serious mental health conditions can go away.

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01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 1: It's very very dangerous thinking. All right, we're to lighten

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Speaker 1: things up. Talk about a European getaway, the trip of

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Speaker 1: a lifetime. Coming up next. It's the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, it's the Dan o'donald Show. Just a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes left here on the dano'donald Show. I am

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01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:37,559
Speaker 1: already looking forward to a couple of days in Prague.

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01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 1: It's our European getaway. We take a smaller group of listeners.

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Speaker 1: We go for about six days or so to a

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Speaker 1: great European city, this time the Czech Republic. It is

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Speaker 1: going to be in the middle of April, but coming

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01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:57,320
Speaker 1: up next October. The trip of a lifetime, a cruise

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Speaker 1: of the Northern Mediterranean with our friends a Kruzan two.

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Speaker 1: You are joining me now to talk about it. W

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Speaker 1: y s N program director Jerry Bot. Jerry, this, this

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01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 1: is one of my bucket list cruises. This is a

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01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:09,479
Speaker 1: fantastic one.

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Speaker 10: It is.

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01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 12: It's a really great itinerary. Thank you for letting me

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01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:13,760
Speaker 12: on your program to you talk to your.

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01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:14,639
Speaker 4: Listeners about this.

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Speaker 12: This is Jay Weber's old trip before we decided to

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01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:20,760
Speaker 12: take himself off of Daily Radio and dare go to

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01:48:20,760 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 12: the world of podcasting. So they've asked me to talk

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01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 12: about the trip and I more than please to do so.

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01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 4: It really is.

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Speaker 12: We said, talk trip of a lifetime. If you had

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01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:31,759
Speaker 12: a trip to France, or to Italy, or to Spain

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01:48:31,960 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 12: or to Monica, that could be a triple a lifetime.

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01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:37,719
Speaker 12: This is all four all four of those places, Italy, France,

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01:48:37,760 --> 01:48:41,799
Speaker 12: Being and Monica. It's basically a cruise of the northern

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01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:44,640
Speaker 12: rim of the Mediterranean. So the trip starts out, you

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01:48:44,680 --> 01:48:47,840
Speaker 12: fly from O'Hare to Rome, spend a night in Rome.

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Speaker 4: What's you've you've done?

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Speaker 1: It was just there in November.

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Speaker 4: What What's what's the biggest highlight of the trip.

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Speaker 1: Not even close. It was St. Peter's. It was I mean,

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01:48:57,120 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: the coliseum is a must see the Pantheon, but just

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01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:04,400
Speaker 1: to see the awe inspiring majesty of Saint Peter's is incredible.

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Speaker 12: So you get a full day in Rome state a

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01:49:07,280 --> 01:49:10,759
Speaker 12: five star hotel. Then you get on a fabulous ship

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Speaker 12: for the actual seven day sale of the Northern Mediterranean.

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Speaker 12: It's the Azamara Onward is the name of the ship.

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01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:20,880
Speaker 12: Much more intimate than your big ocean going ships. Seven

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01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:25,599
Speaker 12: hundred passengers maximum capacity, so very very intimate experience, world

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01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 12: class dining, very personalized service.

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Speaker 4: To what I understand well.

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Speaker 1: And normally these cruise ships are three four thousand people,

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01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:36,599
Speaker 1: which is nice, but it sometimes feels a little big.

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01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:38,600
Speaker 1: I can tell you we did one with Cruise and

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01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:41,800
Speaker 1: Tour where it was just our listeners and chartered a

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01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 1: ship that was incredible. Everybody says like that was you know,

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01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: their true highlight. The smaller the ship, the better. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of the downsides to one of those super small

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01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:54,439
Speaker 1: ships is you don't get the world class amenities and entertainment.

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Speaker 1: This one you do. That's what Ozamara is sort of famous.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's really very impressive.

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Speaker 12: I watched her a real a ten minute video on

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01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:03,920
Speaker 12: the ship itself on the onward and it was pretty

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01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:06,840
Speaker 12: incredible with regard to the amenities. And as you say,

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01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 12: they got a couple of lounges, a couple of different

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01:50:09,439 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 12: areas where you can just kind of chill, but there's

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Speaker 12: a lot of activity too.

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Speaker 4: The ports of call are very very interesting.

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Speaker 12: By the way, this is the end of October, so

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01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:20,080
Speaker 12: October twenty ninth through the first week of November.

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Speaker 4: I checked out the weather and in the Mediterranean beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh we were there. We were in Rome and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gorgeous. Yeah, it's like it's if the sun is out,

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01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:31,840
Speaker 1: it's going to be seventy degrees but it feels like

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Speaker 1: about eighty.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, it's really really nice.

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Speaker 12: So the course and call in Italy other than Rome,

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01:50:37,280 --> 01:50:41,120
Speaker 12: Florence and Pisa in Italy nice and Marseille in the

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01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:44,920
Speaker 12: south of France, Palamos and Barcelona in Spain. And then

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Speaker 12: the one that I just love because it's a bucket

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01:50:47,160 --> 01:50:50,000
Speaker 12: list thing for me. I like the gamble is Monica

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01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:51,960
Speaker 12: Monte Carlo. You get to spend a full day in

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01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 12: Monte Carlo, which I think would just be awesome.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely, You're going to be in the tuxedo living

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01:50:57,439 --> 01:50:58,839
Speaker 1: out your James Bond fantasy.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely exactly.

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Speaker 12: Maybe you know any James Bond girl that would like

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01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 12: to show up with me, and that would be would

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01:51:05,200 --> 01:51:08,439
Speaker 12: be just fine. So it's it's really really a wonderful trip.

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Speaker 12: And and I don't think that I'm trying to think back.

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Speaker 12: I don't think that any other trip in my years

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Speaker 12: with cruise and tour has done the Northern Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I know that you guys that you're doing Greek Isles

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01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:20,760
Speaker 4: this year.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we do have believe it or not,

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01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:27,479
Speaker 1: we set sail in late July. We have like one

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01:51:27,560 --> 01:51:29,680
Speaker 1: or two cabins still available. They said, you know, I

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Speaker 1: got to put this on social media, so while you're

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01:51:32,479 --> 01:51:36,160
Speaker 1: checking out your Northern Mediterranean cruise, check the Greek Isles

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Speaker 1: cruise as well. Yeah, this this is an itinerary. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love Italy. I'm half Italian, so golf figure, but

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Speaker 1: I loved we did the London, Paris and uh Normandy

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01:51:48,600 --> 01:51:50,479
Speaker 1: or the World War two for the for the eightieth

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01:51:50,479 --> 01:51:54,320
Speaker 1: anniversary of D Day. And the French countryside is just beautiful,

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01:51:54,360 --> 01:51:57,599
Speaker 1: so Marseille and nice. That is going to be fantastic.

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Speaker 4: If south of France's supposed to be spectacular.

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Speaker 12: And and the other thing too, if you go and

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01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:03,879
Speaker 12: take a look at the entire itinery and the pricing

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01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:04,759
Speaker 12: is this.

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01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:06,719
Speaker 4: Is a really affordable I was surprised.

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Speaker 12: I mean some of the upper end cabins on on

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01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:13,560
Speaker 12: the the onward of the ship very very affordable. The

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Speaker 12: veranda ones yah ones are the where you can actually

1839
01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:19,160
Speaker 12: go outside and enjoy the weather. Here's how to book

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Speaker 12: a trip, or if you want more information, call Cruise

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Speaker 12: and Tour. Here's their number, it's eight hundred three eight

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Speaker 12: three thirty one thirty one again eight hundred three eight

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Speaker 12: three thirty one thirty one.

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01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:30,360
Speaker 4: Or if you want to.

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01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:32,680
Speaker 12: Get a brochure and look at the entire itinerary and

1846
01:52:32,720 --> 01:52:35,280
Speaker 12: some photos and that sort of thing, just go online

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01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:37,800
Speaker 12: log on to Cruise dash tour dot com.

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Speaker 4: Again Cruise dash Tour dot com.

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Speaker 12: It's our Northern Mediterranean excursion end of October through the

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Speaker 12: first week of November to be.

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Speaker 1: Spectactic, and it's going to be fantastic because the folks

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01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:51,760
Speaker 1: at Cruise and Tour, they are the ultimate professionals. I

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01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:53,880
Speaker 1: mean I've been working with them for now, oh my gosh,

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01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:59,160
Speaker 1: eight years, and they have never once failed to completely

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01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:02,360
Speaker 1: surpass expects. I mean, everything you want, everything you could

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01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:06,240
Speaker 1: possibly need, is taken care of. These things can be intimidating.

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01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:08,280
Speaker 1: You know your book, you're going to oh my gosh,

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01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:09,920
Speaker 1: we're going to France, We're going to Italy, We're going

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01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:12,920
Speaker 1: to Monaco. Well, they take care of everything, you know,

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01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:15,919
Speaker 1: the people that they have on board to answer every question,

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01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:19,280
Speaker 1: to help you through customs, to help you through the

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Speaker 1: airports and stuff. And the other thing I always talk about,

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01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:27,760
Speaker 1: and it is a big selling point, is that you

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01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 1: are there with a group of people just like you.

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01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:34,080
Speaker 1: They all listen to this radio station, you all think

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01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: pretty much the same. Politically, there's always something to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Value system, right, it's Wisconsin nice And I'm telling you

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01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:45,040
Speaker 1: doing these trips for so long, there's a group of

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01:53:45,080 --> 01:53:48,519
Speaker 1: people that come together and really become friends. I mean,

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01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:51,559
Speaker 1: my goodness. My in laws have a group of people

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01:53:51,720 --> 01:53:55,360
Speaker 1: from the Mark Belling Slash Dan O'Donnell's show cruises that

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01:53:55,400 --> 01:53:58,920
Speaker 1: they go out with every couple of Ye, go figure.

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01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: My wife and I are typically invited, but we can't

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01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:06,400
Speaker 1: quite leave the puppy. Yeah. So yeah, Cruise Dash Tour

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 4: They do take care of everything.

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01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 12: If you're gambling at a casino in Mony Carlo and

1878
01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:14,080
Speaker 12: you've got seventeen against the dealer six, the'll tell you

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01:54:14,080 --> 01:54:14,680
Speaker 12: whether that's to hit.

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01:54:15,520 --> 01:54:17,840
Speaker 1: The answer is no, by the way, no, never you

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01:54:17,920 --> 01:54:22,040
Speaker 1: kidding me. That's a bus card right there. Well, the

1882
01:54:22,320 --> 01:54:24,599
Speaker 1: dealer has to stand on a soft seventeen.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:26,439
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about money, Carl.

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01:54:26,520 --> 01:54:28,880
Speaker 1: That's good. That's a good question. I should probably remember

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01:54:28,920 --> 01:54:31,000
Speaker 1: that because I'm gonna be in Vegas in like two months.

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Speaker 1: All right, Cruise Dash Tour dot com. It is the

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01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:37,320
Speaker 1: trip of a lifetime. Jerry, thank you, Thank you sir

1889
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:39,800
Speaker 1: so much. We are at a time, believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: For the Wednesday edition of the Dan o'donald Show back

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01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 1: tomorrow three oh six pm. Talk to you then,