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Speaker 1: Top stories we are following this hour. Eight people now

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Speaker 1: confirmed dead after an avalanche in the Castle Peak area

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Speaker 1: near Lake Tahoe, California. Six other skiers were rescued among

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Speaker 1: One other person still at this hour, remains missing. We

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Speaker 1: will try to bring you an update on that story

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

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

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Speaker 1: Harvey Levin this afternoon that she at her kidnapper or

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Speaker 1: kidnappers maybe in mexicoach.

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Speaker 2: For Nancy Gotthrie has gone international. We have learned the

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Speaker 2: FBI has told federal Mexican law enforcement to tell various

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Speaker 2: police agencies to be on the lookout for Nancy and

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Speaker 2: her kidnapper. Now, our law enforcement sources are telling us

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Speaker 2: that it is possible they believe that Nancy was taken

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Speaker 2: across the border, but they doubt if she is across

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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: landmark trial accusing parent company Meta, as well as other

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Speaker 1: social media companies if knowingly designing addictive products that have

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Speaker 1: fueled a teen mental health. A number of Democrat lawmakers

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Speaker 1: announcing plans today to boycott President Trump's upcoming State of

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Speaker 1: People's State of the Union Rally on the National Mall. Remember,

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

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Speaker 1: outraged that Turning Point USA dared to have an alternative

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Speaker 1: halftime show at the super Bowl. The President today hosting

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

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

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Speaker 3: Jesu was a piece of work. Here is a piece

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Speaker 3: of work, but he was a good man. He was

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Speaker 3: want to pay my highest respects to Reverend Jesse Jackson

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Speaker 3: was a good man who's actually as you got to

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Speaker 3: know him, you got better and better all the time.

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

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Speaker 4: get worse and worse. Jesse got better and better.

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Speaker 1: Much more coming up in the Daily Trump Date at

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Speaker 1: the top of the four o'clock hour. At the top

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Speaker 1: the five o'clock hour, former Wisconsin governor and current President

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Speaker 1: of the Young America's Foundation Scott Walker will join us.

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Speaker 1: Now that the spring election ballot is set, We will

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Speaker 1: talk about politics, will talk about Governor Evers State of

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Speaker 1: this State address, and much much more, including a big,

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Speaker 1: big win for YAF as well as the Wisconsin Institute

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Speaker 1: for Law and Liberty as the Department of Education backs

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Speaker 1: down on a race based program now here at home.

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Speaker 1: As I said, Governor Evers delivered his final State of

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Speaker 1: the State address, and he used it to call for

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Speaker 1: calling partisan jerry mandering. Did he like forget Wisconsin is

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Speaker 1: using the electoral maps his commission drew. We will dive

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Speaker 1: O'Donnells show. Well, the biggest applause line I believe in

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Speaker 1: last night's final State of the State address clearly came

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Speaker 1: when Governor Evers took credit for Republicans in the state

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Speaker 5: Our bipartisan efforts to cut taxes, Wisconsin taxpayers, we'll see

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Speaker 5: over two billion dollars in tax relief annually, with most

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Speaker 5: of those cuts going to the middle class. Now, not

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Speaker 5: only I not only kept my campaign promise to Wisconsin

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Speaker 5: nights that I deliver a ten percent tax cut for

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Speaker 5: an income tax cut of twenty three percent, more than

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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: eight years in office, nearly eight years in office, did

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Speaker 1: they actually adopt one of his budgets. Instead, they actually

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Speaker 1: ripped up every single budget proposal that he ever made

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Speaker 1: tax cuts, the ones that Evers took credit for in

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Speaker 1: his final State of the State last night, came in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three state budget,

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Speaker 1: in which Governor Evers was going to be running for reelection,

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Speaker 1: and there was significant concern that he was simply going

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Speaker 1: there was a long drawn out drama about would he

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Speaker 1: his significant partial veto authority. Instead, he barely used any

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Speaker 1: vetos and instead largely passed the Republican budget as it

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Speaker 1: was in the summer of twenty twenty one. Why because

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Speaker 1: in the fall of twenty twenty two he was going

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Speaker 1: to stand for reelection and knew that the single best

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Speaker 1: thing that he could do would be to take credit

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

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Speaker 1: he was running for governor in twenty eighteen, was to

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Speaker 1: be a serial plagiarist. In fact, we hear on the

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

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Speaker 1: state education plan from other sources without any sort of attribution. Now,

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Speaker 1: the media largely ignored this since a Mary Burke plagiarism

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Speaker 1: and they weren't going to make the same mistake twice

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Speaker 1: with the twenty eighteen nominee Tony Evers. But this is

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Speaker 1: a long standing practice of Wisconsin's governor to take credit

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Speaker 1: for other people's work, and that's exactly what he did.

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Speaker 1: He actually had the goal to run for reelection as

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Speaker 1: he surprisingly signed it with very minimal partial vetos. Now,

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Speaker 1: he was actually asked, after he gave a speech right

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Speaker 1: the tax cuts that included that were included in it.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what he infamously said, how he was asked,

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Speaker 1: can you possibly take credit for the Republican budget that

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Speaker 1: includes tax cuts when they weren't your tax cuts? He

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Speaker 1: actually said, with a straight face, and I'm quoting to

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Speaker 1: the very near direct quote from Governor Evers, well I

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Speaker 1: could have vetoed the budget and I didn't. So the

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Speaker 1: fact that a budget passed that he didn't veto he

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the tax cuts. He flecked

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Speaker 1: the tax cuts tooth and nail. He wanted nothing to

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Speaker 1: tax cutting governor. Even though he did nothing to cut taxes,

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Speaker 1: he took credit for the tax cuts. This is what

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Speaker 1: happened in every single budget that Governor Evers was governor

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Speaker 1: and five to twenty twenty seven. Now, Governor Evers is

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Speaker 1: actually a tax increasing governor because in that twenty three

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Speaker 1: to twenty five budget he included his infamous four hundred

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Speaker 1: Veto authority to change the numbers twenty twenty four dash

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Speaker 1: by three hundred twenty five dollars per student per year

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Speaker 1: every single year for the next four hundred years. As

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Speaker 1: a result, property taxes late last year increased by their

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Speaker 1: single biggest year over year amount in at least thirty years.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't since the early nineteen nineties that we saw

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Speaker 1: a one year property tax shock the likes of which

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Speaker 1: we saw because of Governor evers four hundred year veto

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Speaker 1: in the last year. Coming up is in about fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes or so on the Dan O'Donnell Show, we will

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Speaker 1: dive into Governor Evers' claims that no, no, no, his

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Speaker 1: four hundred year veto had nothing to do with this

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Speaker 1: on the table is whether Evers would accept an offer

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Speaker 1: from legislative leaders Devin Lemahue in the Senate and Robin

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Speaker 1: Voss in the State Assembly of massive property tax relief

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Speaker 1: combined with income tax relief in the form of rebate

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Speaker 1: checks to individual taxpayers of five hundred dollars and joint

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Speaker 1: that Senate Majority Leader Devin lemahu proposed late last week.

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Speaker 1: That was combined with a property tax relief proposal that

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Speaker 1: Assembly Speaker Robin Voss proposed independently, and it was passed

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Speaker 1: over to Governor Evers shortly before his State of the

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Speaker 1: State address. Well, today, he was asked about this by

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Speaker 1: or not Governor Evers supported the idea of giving tax

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Speaker 1: rebate checks directly back to income tax payers.

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Speaker 6: This brought idea of rebate checks. Do do you support

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Speaker 6: that which one rebate checks? No, that's just that's just

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Speaker 6: a joke. I mean, that's a way for them to

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Speaker 6: It's it's like buying buying votes.

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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 and fifty dollars sound

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Speaker 1: if you live in Wisconsin, you could be getting a

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Speaker 1: refund check. And that's what Governor Evers wants to do

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Speaker 1: using surplus money in the state. Really, because now it

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Speaker 1: seems that legislative leaders want to use surplus money in

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Speaker 1: the state to give rebate checks to income tax payers. Now,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's just like buying votes. What

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Speaker 1: did Governor Evers say back then? Now, you might remember,

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Speaker 1: for those of you who have been following Wisconsin politics

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Speaker 1: for quite some time, in twenty twenty two, Democrats were

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: and Evers and the Democrats WoT that one tooth and

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

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Speaker 1: 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: up support in an election year. This ebers direct quote,

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

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Speaker 1: of course, was this is money that we're giving to

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Speaker 1: people because it's federal tax dollars that flowed into this

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

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Speaker 5: Consequences Wisconsinights, Wisconsin iightes have been going to referendum in

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Speaker 1: Now, if that was it all difficult to follow, Because

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Speaker 1: Classical conservatism contemporary style. It is the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to it. My favorite, Tony Evers has got

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

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Speaker 4: Last four state budgets.

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Speaker 1: There, all right, I will. I am perfectly willing to

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

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Speaker 1: together and feel seen. We want black students and staff

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Speaker 1: to experience school as a place where their presence is

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Speaker 1: celebrated and where community is built intentionally. Food and activities

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Speaker 1: Chick fil A will be catered Chick fil A with

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Speaker 1: drinks including We will also have additional brunch food cooked

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Speaker 1: by our very own black student Union staff. During the brunch,

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Speaker 1: staff will lead a fun and engaging cahoot game featuring

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Speaker 1: Black history facts, moments, and figures. It will be uplifting, interactive,

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Speaker 1: and full of pride. Okay, um, My daughter is about

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Speaker 1: the biggest Chick fil A fan in the known world.

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Speaker 1: Whenever we ask her, Grace, where do you want to

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Speaker 1: go to dinner? She says Chick fil A. She always

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Speaker 1: wants Chick fil A. So I know a little something

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Speaker 1: about chick fil A. What is chick fil A's most

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Speaker 1: popular food? Fried chicken, isn't it? There is a longstanding

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Speaker 1: racial stereotype about black people and fried chicken. So all

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Speaker 1: of these anti racists at Blackhawk Middle School in Madison,

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Speaker 1: all of the good white liberals, set up a black

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Speaker 1: only event and said to themselves, what would they want?

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Speaker 1: Let's give them all some fried chicken ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: when I say, you will not find a more racist

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Speaker 1: human being than a woke white liberal. This exactly, this

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Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about now. An hour long Chick

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Speaker 1: fil A lunch and free Cahoot games. Sounds like a

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Speaker 1: pretty fun time, but only black students and teachers are welcome. 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, anticipation in, be denied

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: some Chick fil A. Who doesn't I love Chick fil A?

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Speaker 1: It is a fantastic, fantastic restaurant. Now do you think

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Speaker 1: these good liberals at Blackhawk Middle School know that Chick

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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: fantastic attorney over at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty,

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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 lawne of municipal ordinance. But why is it that

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Speaker 1: we still, in the year of Our Lord twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: think that something that is a benefit only two students

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

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Speaker 1: particular race, is somehow any different or any less unlawful

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Speaker 1: or unconstitutional than something that is available only two whites.

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Speaker 1: In fact, speaking of Dan Lennington and the Wisconsin Institute

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Speaker 1: for Law and Liberty, a major victory by will over

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Speaker 1: the Department of Education, the Trump Doe has relented on

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Speaker 1: a significant race based standard. We will get into that

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Speaker 1: with former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker coming up in the

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Speaker 1: five o'clock hour. Coming up in just a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 1: we name the unhinged Liberal of the day. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna want to miss it. Stay tuned. Dan O'Donnell's show

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Speaker 1: back before.

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Speaker 4: 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 retake control of the Assembly, the Senate,

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Speaker 1: and the Governor's Mansion. 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.

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Speaker 7: Oh you want.

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Speaker 1: Is dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 4: America.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Today's unhinged liberal of the day serves as an

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Speaker 1: object lesson in you get what it is you vote for, or,

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Speaker 1: more accurately stated, you get the politicians that you deserve.

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Speaker 1: It is New York City Mayor Zoran mom Dottie. Remember

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Speaker 1: how he was promising that he was going to tax

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Speaker 1: the rich and there was going to be class warfare

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Speaker 1: utopia in New York City. Everyone was going to live

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Speaker 1: happily ever after because the rich were going to be

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Speaker 1: soaked and everybody else was going to just bask in

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Speaker 1: the warmth of collectivism. It wasn't going to be the

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Speaker 1: the coldness and the rigidity of rugged individualism, but the

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Speaker 1: warmth of collectivism. Well, it turns out that collectivism takes

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more money to keep New York State

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Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hokeel, also very liberal, a very progressive Democrat,

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Speaker 1: is not allowing poor Zorn to simply tax the rich,

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Speaker 1: and that means he had to, unfortunately say yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to massively spike property tax race.

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Speaker 7: At the heart of this path is a property tax increase.

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Speaker 7: This would effectively be a tax on working in middle

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Speaker 7: class New Yorkers who have a median income of one

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Speaker 7: hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. The second path also

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Speaker 7: requires us to raid our reserves. It would mean with

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Speaker 7: drawing nine hundred and eighty million dollars from our city's

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Speaker 7: Rainy Day Fund in fiscal year twenty twenty six and

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Speaker 7: two hundred and twenty nine million dollars from the Retiree

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Speaker 7: Health Benefit Trust in fiscal.

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Speaker 1: Year twenty twenty seven. Folks, this sound familiar at all,

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Speaker 1: this sort of thing absolutely barely, with Milwaukee barely escaped

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Speaker 1: bankruptcy from doing the exact same thing. And wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: know it, we also have here in the state of Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: a massive hike in property taxes to cover up for

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Speaker 1: fiscal mismanagement from the governor's office. Zoran, Mom, Dannie, your

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Speaker 1: unhinged libro of the day, just how big is New

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Speaker 1: York City's budget one hundred and fifteen point nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: To put that into some sort of context for you,

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Speaker 1: Florida's budget is one hundred and seventeen point four billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The entire state of Florida. Florida has three times more

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Speaker 1: people than does just New York City, but yet the

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Speaker 1: difference in spending is about one point three percent. New

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Speaker 1: York City spends a staggering amount of money, and Momdannie

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Speaker 1: wants to spend even more than ever before. How's he

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Speaker 1: going to pay for it? Well by taxing middle class

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers. Congratulations, lefties, you got what you wanted. Could

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Speaker 1: Republicans in the state legislature be preparing to unleash a

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Speaker 1: voice vote on one of the most controversial pieces of

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Speaker 1: legislation this session during the last day of this session tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: This is what I am hearing, and apparently I am

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Speaker 1: not the only one. But in a Dan o'donald's show exclusive,

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Speaker 1: we are going to break down efforts to get an

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Speaker 1: online sports betting bill passed by violating the so called

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Speaker 1: Senate rule of seventeen and giving members in the State

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Speaker 1: Assembly cover by trying to go to a voice vote.

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Speaker 1: We will break down what it all means and why

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Speaker 1: it is a singularly bad idea. Coming up in just

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Speaker 1: a second here on the Dan o'donald Show. But first,

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Speaker 1: it is time now to take a look at what's

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Speaker 1: going on in 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 8: It's also a big win for the United States.

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Speaker 4: We have to keep winning.

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

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

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Speaker 1: the White House, well.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for the strength and courage and 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 9: I just want to say to everyone that's here, you know,

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Speaker 9: as we celebrate this special day in not only Black history,

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Speaker 9: but American history. This year that we've been here, you know,

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Speaker 9: under President Trump, the Lord has been so gracious to us,

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Speaker 9: and he's been faithful, and the President has been a

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Speaker 9: 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 10: Tomorrow President Trump will host a Board of Peace meeting

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Speaker 10: at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, where he

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Speaker 10: will announce that member States have pledged more than five

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Speaker 10: billion dollars towards the Gaza humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and

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Speaker 10: have also commit thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization

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Speaker 10: Force and local police to maintain security and peace.

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Speaker 1: For gossens Levitt focused today's White House press briefing primarily

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

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Speaker 1: wage increases, and decreases in housing costs.

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Speaker 10: A key part of the American dream is buying a home,

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Speaker 10: 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 10: The annual mortgage cost for a new home has fallen

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Speaker 10: by four thousand dollars so far under President Trump after

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Speaker 10: rising by roughly fifteen thousand dollars under Joe Biden. As

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Speaker 10: a result, mortgage affordability has reached a four year best

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Speaker 10: following recent bold action by the President to make home

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Speaker 10: ownership more attainable for American families, not large Wall Street

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Speaker 10: corporate institutional investors. At the same time, national media and

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Speaker 10: rates rents have fallen to a four year low, have

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Speaker 10: 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 11: In his statement about Jesse Jackson, the President said, despite

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Speaker 11: the fact that I'm falsely and consistently called a racist

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Speaker 11: by the scoundrels and lunatics and the radical left Democrats, all,

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Speaker 11: it was always my pleasure to help.

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Speaker 4: Jesse along the way.

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Speaker 1: Where or when.

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Speaker 11: Does the president believe he's been falsely called racist?

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Speaker 10: You're kidding, right, I will pull you plethora of examples.

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Speaker 10: And I'm sure there's many people in this room and

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Speaker 1: And she did indeed get her team to immediately pull

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Speaker 1: the news for a while now. Don Lemmon, this is

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Speaker 4: Also very old and a racist and a neo Nazi.

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Speaker 1: is April seventh, and again we need your help. We

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Speaker 1: Libs do this every single spring election. Look, it's difficult.

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

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Speaker 1: everybody has got R or D next to their name

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Speaker 1: on the ballot, you can tell, just under no circumstances,

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Speaker 1: vote for anybody with the D by their name. But

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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: vote for, who it is that aligns with their values,

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

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Speaker 1: pull the lever for the unhinged radical lib so they

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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: to mothers in state statutes. She also wanted to introduce

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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 Rights that would be able to take revenue and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Pottawatamie Tribe by forcing companies like Draft Kings and fan Duel,

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Speaker 1: who want to go into business and do online sports

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Speaker 1: betting here in Wisconsin, to actually have their servers at

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Speaker 1: the Sports Book of Pottawatamie Hotel and Casino in downtown Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: I have learned that there is at least a feeler

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Speaker 1: that has been put out there about the possibility of

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Speaker 1: this going to the floor of the State Assembly tomorrow

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Speaker 1: on the last day of the session on a voice vote.

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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 would

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Kings and fan Duel are going to be operating in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: FanDuel and Draft Kings could simply pay the state of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: Not only that these are massive companies, and the argument

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Speaker 1: that I have heard is well if because of the

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Speaker 1: 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, ragmatically

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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: as liberals are wont to do, they get him a

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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: betting company into the state, we would have to pay

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Speaker 1: a massive penalty to Patuarami 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 fan Duel or DraftKings would want

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

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

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Speaker 1: five 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 Pataguadamie

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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 Potawatam 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 Potawatomie 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

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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

864
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: know somebody who had a gambling problem, lost a significant

865
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Speaker 1: amount of money and actually went to a casino and said, look,

866
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: do not under any final had enough. He finally had

867
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: a moment of lucidity and he said, look, do not

868
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: allow me in, ban me, take my picture and put

869
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: me on the band list, and if I ever try

870
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: to come back, you throw me out on my rear end.

871
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: It worked. What happens if you can just go to

872
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: your phone and gamble, folks, It's the same thing I

873
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,919
Speaker 1: have been inundated with people talking about. First of all,

874
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: I think this started. I got on the algo of

875
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm just I've I've been fascinated by the marijuana debate

876
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: and all of the science that has come out about

877
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: hardcore and long term marijuana use and it's ties to schizophrenia.

878
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: One of the big reasons I think that we are

879
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: seeing unprecedented levels of mental illness, especially violent bouts of

880
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and other dissociative disorders, is because we're seeing huge

881
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: increases in the number of young people who are using

882
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: marijuana all the time. It's just much much easier to

883
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: get there's much easier access to it, and as a result,

884
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: people are abusing it. Well, I'm on that algo, and

885
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: now I'm seeing the same basic argument being made about

886
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: internet porn and how online pornography is damaging relationships, damaging marriages,

887
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,479
Speaker 1: because it's just it's destroying intimacy. And what's the big

888
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,439
Speaker 1: reason that online pornography has just exploded in the last

889
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: fifteen years. It's because, well, obviously you have access to

890
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: online pornography every single time, every single time you go

891
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: into your pocket. No, not for that reason, you perves,

892
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: I mean to go in your pocket to go and

893
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: look at your phone. It's just always there. It is

894
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: an ever present temptation. Well, it's the exact same thing

895
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 1: with online sports gambling. And this is just a fundamentally

896
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: bad idea morally, But even independent of the moral argument,

897
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: constitutionally it does not make a whole lot of sense.

898
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: And I think we would be opening ourselves up to

899
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: huge lawsuits from a business sense, given the fact that

900
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: the compacts that were signed by Diamond Jim Doyle all

901
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: those decades ago are just fundamentally bad for the state

902
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin that we're not nearly getting as much in

903
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: tax revenue as we might otherwise get. What's to say

904
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: that just allowing DraftKings and FanDuel into Wisconsin wouldn't get

905
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: us much more in tax revenue, even after paying a

906
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: penalty to the Native tribes for a supposed breach of

907
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: the online gaming Compact. But the biggest thing that I

908
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: just despise about this whole process, it's about how Republicans

909
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: have been acting like Democrats. And yes, Democrats who want

910
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: that sweet sweet potauatomy and other Native tribe campaign cash

911
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: have all been going along with these bills. Of course

912
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: they're going to be yes is, but how Republicans have

913
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: acted like Democrats. They don't want to answer for the

914
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: vote on this So if there is a vote, instead

915
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: of making every single member cast an affirmative vote for

916
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: it and therefore be subject to scrutiny from the public,

917
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: and you'd better believe that I will read the names

918
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Speaker 1: of every single Republican who voted for this bill as

919
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: soon as they vote for this bill. Well, they don't

920
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: want to do that. They don't want to have to

921
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: face the consequences. They don't want to have to face

922
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: you or your conduit in me, who broadcasts this sort

923
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: of information to thousands and thousands of people across the state.

924
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: So they want to hide behind a voice vote. It's

925
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: the exact same thing they tried to do on write

926
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: a first Refusal, knowing full well that that was a

927
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: bill just like this online sports betting bill that the

928
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: vast majority of Wisconsinites don't want. On top of that,

929
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: there is a long standing rule in the Wisconsin Senate.

930
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: So the Assembly is just going to go with a

931
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: voice vote. You can't really do that in the Senate

932
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: because there are only thirty three members, right, So what

933
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: the state Senate wants to do, there's a long standing rule.

934
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Speaker 1: It's called the rule of seventeen thirty three members. You

935
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: need to have if you're in the majority party, seventeen

936
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: members a majority of the entire Senate be behind a

937
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: bill before it goes to the floor. What I am

938
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: hearing from Senate leadership is that they're going to violate

939
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: the long standing rule of seventeen. Well, it wasn't really

940
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: ever a rule. So what is this Pirates of the

941
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: Caribbean or it's like the Pirate's Code isn't really a code,

942
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: it's more like guidelines. No, this is how you get

943
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: widespread support for your bills. You ensure that the entire

944
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: caucus is behind them, or at least a significant percentage

945
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: an overwhelming majority of your caucus. What they're going to

946
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: do is, apparently, if this thing passes on a voice

947
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: vote with remarkable speed tomorrow, on again, the final day

948
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Speaker 1: of the legislative session, they're simply going to violate the

949
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: rule of seventeen, bring it to a floor vote, know

950
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: that they've got every single Democrat with them, and pass

951
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: this as quickly as possible, regardless of what you in

952
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: the public might think about it. You're listening to the

953
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show, You're gonna have to forgive me, folks.

954
00:59:55,120 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: I am just recovering a little bit. Yes, I am

955
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: actually watching the Team USA hockey match right now. Spoiler

956
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: alert if I mean, are they even are they going

957
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: to rebroadcast it tonight? I don't even know. Well, seeing

958
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: as NBC only shows curling and figure skating at night

959
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: during prime time, probably not spoiler alert if if you

960
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: want to watch the game or something like that. It

961
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: turned down the radio for like five minutes tops in

962
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Speaker 1: three to one. Team USA was leading Sweden one nil

963
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: heading into the last ninety seconds of the third period.

964
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Speaker 1: Sweden pulls their goalie. They get the equalizer. We are

965
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: now going to overtime in this quarter final game, and

966
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna switch it back. Switched it

967
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: after that, here we go. Put it back on Fox

968
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: News where Greg Guttfeldt looks like he's on ozepic. I

969
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy. I love Greg, but

970
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: he looks like he has lost like twenty five pounds

971
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: in a month. This has been like I watch. My

972
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: daily routine is I watch Will Caine at three o'clock

973
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: and then I watch The Five at four pm Central,

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Speaker 1: and then Brett Baher. I have Brett Baher. This is

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01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: when my own father, my own father says he will

976
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: listen to me only until five o'clock Central because then

977
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: he has to watch Brett Bayer. Brett loved that. By

978
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: the way, we follow each other on X and about

979
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: a year ago, I just happened to message that with

980
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: he said, tell your dad, he's got good taste. And

981
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: I forget. I think I forgot to tell my dad

982
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: because I'm still so mad at Brett Bher. He's robbing

983
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: me of listeners, even in my own family. But okay,

984
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: we are back. The first overtime period is set to

985
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: begin Team US say in Sweden, with the winner moving

986
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: on to the semi finals, which would be the metal

987
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: round where, boy, you gotta get past this one. Team

988
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: USA women, by the way, the gold medal matches tomorrow.

989
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: They're playing Canada, and boy, I do not see Team USA.

990
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: Half of them, by the way, are Wisconsin Badger hockey players,

991
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 1: are former Badger hockey players. And the overtime period is

992
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: just underway. It is a ten minute overtime. Oh and

993
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: they play four on four. Oh, I didn't know that.

994
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: Producer Andrew is sitting in for Eric as our musical

995
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: chairs Game of Producers keeps going. Yeah, Andrew on loan

996
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: to us from the Big nine to twenty or Fox

997
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: Sports nine to twenty, our sports station. He has produced

998
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show before. It's been a while, so

999
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: he had a brief training day yesterday, and it's good

1000
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: to be back in the saddle again. You produced for

1001
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: us when we were on in the mornings. All right,

1002
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: back to our regularly scheduled program. Unless you would like

1003
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: me to hear you'd like to hear me call a

1004
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: hockey match? Can we get like Aaron Simms on the phone?

1005
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did did they just oh no, okay, okay,

1006
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: I thought they actually scored a goal there. See I'm

1007
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: sort of watching oh as a good say by the keeper.

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01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 3: All right.

1009
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Speaker 1: Producer Andrews says, Aaron is one of the best hockey

1010
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, he's incredible. He's he's he absolutely

1011
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: needs to get an NHL job. I think he's perfectly

1012
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: happy doing Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Admirals are in the AHL.

1013
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: That's like a Triple A baseball affiliate of the Nashville Predators,

1014
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: and they air on our sister station, Fox Sports nine twenty.

1015
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: He's just he's got a great voice, he's got great energy,

1016
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: and like, you can't you can't turn the radio off

1017
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: when you hear Aaron. Big big fan of Aaron Simms

1018
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: here on the Dan o'donald Show. Okay, that's enough about hockey.

1019
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: Let's get back to our regularly scheduled program. Governor Evers

1020
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: is calling for a special legislative session in order to

1021
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: deal with jerrymandering. He says he wants fair maps, and

1022
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: he wants them now, apparently forgetting that all of the

1023
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: maps Wisconsin is using are his now obviously obviously a

1024
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: special session to set up a nonpartisan redistricting group that

1025
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: would instead of the state legislature draw district maps. This

1026
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't take place until after the next census in twenty thirty.

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01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: Don't you worry, though, Democrats are challenging right now the

1028
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 1: maps that Democrats drew as being jerrymandered. There are two

1029
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: cases currently before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme

1030
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: Court has basically abdicated its duty to two different panels

1031
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: of left wing Circuit court judges incomplete contravention of the

1032
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:10,439
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Constitution. But Governor Evers he wants a special legislative

1033
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: session to get a fair maps commission.

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Speaker 4: I know people here disagree sometimes.

1035
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 5: Sometimes a lot politics could get in the way of

1036
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 5: creating a nonpartisan commission that everyone can support. But there's

1037
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 5: one thing that we all should be able to do

1038
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 5: to agree on, which is that politics should stay out

1039
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 5: of the redistricting from start to finish. So tonight I'm

1040
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 5: announcing that I'll be calling a special session of the

1041
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 5: legislature the spring to take up the constitutional amendment the

1042
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 5: ban partisan jerrymandering once and for all in Wisconsin.

1043
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: Yeah is listen to those clapping seals on the Democrats

1044
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: side of the Aisle. We want a non partisan Iowa

1045
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: style redistricting process, right right, This is what Democrats said

1046
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: they wanted forever during the Scott Walker They wanted us

1047
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:20,439
Speaker 1: to be more like Iowich, which uses a nonpartisan redistricting commission. Well,

1048
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: the thing about Democrats, the thing that I think is

1049
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: a hallmark now of Democrat statements, Democrat policy, Democrat talking points,

1050
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: pretty much everything having to do with Democrat politics, is

1051
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: they count on the people who hear their messages or

1052
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 1: who are the consumers of their narratives and their talking points,

1053
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: to either be stupid or to have really really short memories.

1054
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Speaker 1: Because I want to take you back to September of

1055
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three when Republicans in the state Assembly actually

1056
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: introduced a measure that would replace partisan redistricting with using

1057
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: the Legislative Reference Bureau, a non partisan organization, to draw

1058
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: new voting maps. The plan was to replace the current

1059
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: system and it would use the Legislative Reference Bureau to

1060
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Speaker 1: create truly nonpartisan maps in a model similar to that

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Speaker 1: Iowa has used for some years. Iowa actually prohibits using

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Speaker 1: partisan data or incumbent addresses in drawing those maps. It

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

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Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty three and passed a short time later.

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Speaker 1: It then passed the Wisconsin State Senate in early twenty

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

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

1068
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Speaker 1: Why because Democrats were in the process of jerry mandering

1069
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Speaker 1: the state legislative maps by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. You

1070
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:55,439
Speaker 1: might remember in early twenty twenty three, Janet Protesscewitz got

1071
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Speaker 1: herself elected to the Court and Conservatives finally lost control

1072
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: after fifteen years of ideologically controlling the court. And one

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: or a Redistricting Commission that they appointed. Republicans realized in

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

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

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Speaker 1: which were still jerrymandered by Governor Evers draconian, Soviet sounding

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Speaker 1: People's Maps Commission. But we're better than what it was

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Speaker 1: going to be feared that the state Supreme Court's radical

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Speaker 1: leftists would draw. So it's Governor Evers maps that are

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

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Speaker 1: Court was going to strike down the legislative maps that

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Speaker 1: they eventually did. They actually went to Governor Evers and

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

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Speaker 1: the Senate and said, look, this is what you've always wanted.

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Speaker 1: You wanted an Iowa style, nonpartisan commission. Let's just turn

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Speaker 1: the whole thing over to the Legislative Reference Bureau. Evers

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Speaker 1: vetoed it. Not a single Democrat voted for it, because

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Speaker 1: what they want is to jerry mander in favor of Democrats.

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Speaker 1: It's what they've always wanted, and it's what they have

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Speaker 1: done with the current maps. I can actually prove it

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Speaker 1: and will do So coming up next right here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell Show, So a couple of big updates

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Speaker 1: Team Usay, well you know what I think I need

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Speaker 1: to I need to offer the spoiler alert turned down

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Speaker 1: the radio if you don't want to know what happened

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Speaker 1: in today's Team USA versus Sweden quarterfinal hockey match three

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Speaker 1: two one. Team USA scores a winner in overtime to

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Speaker 1: advance to the semifinals two to one over Sweden. Sweden

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Speaker 1: had tied it up in the waning seconds of the

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Speaker 1: third period with the United States up one to nothing,

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Speaker 1: but in just a couple of minutes in overtime. I

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Speaker 1: did not realize that they skateed four on four in

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Speaker 1: overtime to try to promote goal scoring. That wait, what

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Speaker 1: was that? Oh, because they're using a smaller rink. It's

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Speaker 1: now three on three.

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Speaker 12: 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 in favor

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Speaker 1: of Democrats. It's never about fair maps and never was.

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Speaker 1: When the state Supreme Court overturned the legislative maps that

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Speaker 1: again were given a stamp of approval by the State

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court when it was under conservative control, and then

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Speaker 1: the United States Supreme Court declined to overturn those maps

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Speaker 1: as overly jerrymandered, and the US Supreme Court is actually

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Speaker 1: held to the sort of rule that jerrymandering claims and

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Speaker 1: redistricting this is an inherently political process, so of course

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Speaker 1: there are going to be questions of political advantage, and

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Speaker 1: this is beyond the scope of what courts can answer.

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Speaker 1: So after a twenty nineteen decision, the United States Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court has really taken a hands off approach to questions

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Speaker 1: of partisan jerrymandering. But when the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned

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Speaker 1: the state legislative maps, they realized that they couldn't possibly

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Speaker 1: have any sort of federal constitutionutional question that could potentially

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Speaker 1: be appealed to the US Supreme Court because rather obviously

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Speaker 1: they would be slapped down and they would be overruled,

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Speaker 1: and the case would be remanded right back to them.

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Speaker 1: So they had to figure some state constitutional precept or

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Speaker 1: constitutional rule that would keep the decision out of the

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Speaker 1: federal court system. What they settled on was the asinine

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Speaker 1: notion that somehow what are known as municipal islands were

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Speaker 1: unconstitutional even though municipal islands, which are usually like park

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Speaker 1: areas that are a part of, say the city of Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: but not actually in the contiguous boundary of the City

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Speaker 1: of Milwaukee. A lot of times these are landfills. They're

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Speaker 1: almost never inhabited, and they have been included in every

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Speaker 1: legislative and congressional map pretty much for the last seventy

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Speaker 1: five to one hundred years without any question, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: courts have explicitly declined to strike down maps based on

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Speaker 1: the issue of municipal islands. But because the Wisconsin Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court pretended that there was this requirement that there needed

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Speaker 1: to be contiguous boundaries for the districts. And the reason

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Speaker 1: for this is if there's not a contiguous boundary, if

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Speaker 1: you really do have districts that don't touch, that is,

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Speaker 1: if it looks like a Roarshack ink blot test, then yes,

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Speaker 1: obviously there is an attempt at jerrymandering. But the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court couldn't find excessive jerrymandering in the state legislative map,

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Speaker 1: so instead it drew an instant by adopting Governor Evers

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Speaker 1: People's Commission Map. An instant plus ten Democrat advantage. The

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Speaker 1: first election that the new maps were used in was

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Speaker 1: the presidential election of twenty twenty four, where Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: won a clear majority of was ssconsinites. Democrats still somehow

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Speaker 1: picked up ten seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: the maps were suddenly fair. Then it was a huge

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Speaker 1: Republican year, and yet Republicans lost a whole ton of

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: But 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 state 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, come right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. It is conservative thought,

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Speaker 1: at Dan o'donald Show on x on Facebook, on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: on YouTube, we are everywhere. We are streaming live via

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

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Speaker 1: o'donnald's show with limited almost no commercial interruption. How great

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the spring election and 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 10: Democrats are the reason that the Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 10: is currently shut down. They have chosen to act against

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Speaker 10: the American people for political reasons. And now we have

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Speaker 10: FEMA workers, the men and women of the United States

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Speaker 10: Coast Guard, men and women of TSA who keep our

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Speaker 10: airports moving, who will be working without paychecks for no

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Speaker 10: good reason other than the Democrats wanting to pick a

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Speaker 10: fight with Donald Trump. And the President thinks that is

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Speaker 10: 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 era 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 law lawsuit 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'Donnell 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 12: Huh, huge win right appropriately in the year that will

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Speaker 12: sob at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of a

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Speaker 12: Declaration of Penance, which begins by reminding us that we're

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Speaker 12: all created equal, endowed not by the government but by

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Speaker 12: our creator, by God, with certain unaiable rights. In this case,

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Speaker 12: it's saying race should have never been a factor in

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Speaker 12: issues in the past. It's not going to be a

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Speaker 12: factor when it comes to these scholarships or other things

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Speaker 12: in the federal going forward. And a big, big thank

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Speaker 12: you to WILL, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

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Speaker 12: for stepping up and being our partner in this 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 12: Well, it shows you how political this is too. I mean,

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Speaker 12: this is one of those where and again big banks

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Speaker 12: they helped us at Young America's Foundation. One of the

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Speaker 12: planners was a local chapter. We had two litigants, specifically

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Speaker 12: two students who would have been an in eligibles program

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Speaker 12: based solely on their skin color, one of which is

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Speaker 12: a student involved with US at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Speaker 12: This eliminates that, but it's amazing. Not only was it

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Speaker 12: discriminate against white students, there were certain who didn't qualify.

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Speaker 12: Students who were ethnicity would be considered Asian, Jewish, Arab,

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Speaker 12: I mean even some of Latino students. So this was

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Speaker 12: really not just about race, but about race based politics.

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Speaker 12: And we knew you and I've talked about this before.

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Speaker 12: We knew that the Trump administration was on the right

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Speaker 12: track on this, and I remember some people said, well,

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Speaker 12: why are you continding this now, even with a new president,

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01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:40,799
Speaker 12: new administration. Well, we needed to give them the levers

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Speaker 12: to go deep within the administrative state, to go right

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Speaker 12: into the core of these issues, not just an executive word,

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Speaker 12: but to really force it where the lower levels of

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Speaker 12: government were not following through. So this goes all the

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Speaker 12: ways to scholarships and the Department of Education, because we

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Speaker 12: want to make sure that this is cleared up everywhere.

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Speaker 12: And by putting it in through at court action, now

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Speaker 12: they've agreed in court, not just in the administrative area,

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Speaker 12: but in court, this should help us lock us in

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Speaker 12: long into the future, long after Donald Trump's press the

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Speaker 12: United States.

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Speaker 1: And another reason is sometimes these departments don't know about it,

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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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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 12: Huh, Well, we love it. It's great for the tax periers.

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Speaker 12: In fact, since twenty eleven, I think we've seen over

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Speaker 12: thirty billion dollars worth of tax relief. Obviously, the eight

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Speaker 12: years I was in, along with my friends and the

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Speaker 12: Republican majorities in the legislature, we saw income taxes and

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Speaker 12: property taxes actually lower after eight years than when we started. Thankfully,

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Speaker 12: Republicans have continued to push in the state legislatures. Why

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Speaker 12: keeping the State Senate, keeping the State Assembly so critically important.

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Speaker 12: The one thing not Tony Evers should take credit for

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Speaker 12: what he won't is something where he the only way

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Speaker 12: he was getting around working against this strong Republican majority

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Speaker 12: was when he used his very targeted view authority in

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Speaker 12: a way that no one ever dreamed possible to create

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Speaker 12: a four hundred year increase in property taxes. And of

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Speaker 12: course in my old stopping grounds in Wawaitosa, they're seeing

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Speaker 12: property taxes go through the roof Milwaukee Bloyd all across

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Speaker 12: the state. That's the one and only thing that Tony

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Speaker 12: Evers could take credit for. He didn't do that last night,

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Speaker 12: but people shouldn't forget when they vote next November or

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Speaker 12: this coming November.

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Speaker 1: Are you just sort of kicking yourself? You know, all

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Speaker 1: these years later you realize you could have just used

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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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Speaker 1: id for the next thousand years. I mean, you could

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Speaker 1: have had you could have had a kingdom without end

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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 12: Well, it's just an absolute joke. If Tommy Tampster and

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Speaker 12: I had tried something like this. You know, in the

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Speaker 12: past there were tweaks to the line out of Vito.

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Speaker 12: This was completely absurd, but it's opened the window. You know,

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Speaker 12: Tom Tiffany, with a lot of help and support from

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Speaker 12: you and I and a lot of our listeners, is

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Speaker 12: a big governor. There's no reason why he couldn't turn

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Speaker 12: around and say I'm going to cut property deck just

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Speaker 12: for four hundred years. That's why I think a lot

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Speaker 12: of people would love you should say, well, not four hundred,

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Speaker 12: at least the next four years, given the chance. But

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Speaker 12: this is exactly what what radicals do when they get in.

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Speaker 12: They search for power. It's not about policy, it's not

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Speaker 12: about putting people first. It's about power structures. And that

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Speaker 12: was a payoff to some of the big government unions

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Speaker 12: who wanted more money instead of actually thinking about the

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Speaker 12: 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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Speaker 1: their entire careers to find an excuse to strike down acten, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, has been upheld by how many different

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Speaker 1: courts federal and state courts have upheld it over the years.

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Speaker 1: But now the.

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Speaker 12: Stake it doesn't It's like it's the state of Wisconsin's

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Speaker 12: own supreme court. This is a totally defined president. Nothing

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Speaker 12: new has happened, there's no change in the law. This

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Speaker 12: is literally what happens when you put politicians, like one

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Speaker 12: of the people running this spring, when you put politicians

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Speaker 12: in the state Supreme Court instead of jurists, instead of

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Speaker 12: people uphold the 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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Speaker 1: because you want to see property taxes, You want to

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Speaker 1: see every tax just dramatically increase. Repeal Act ten. I

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Speaker 1: mean you said it, what thirty billion dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: savings over the last fifteen years if that goes away,

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Speaker 1: if you think your property tax bill was high? Now

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Speaker 1: just wait, do you think there's any chance this very

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Speaker 1: political court that they know the impact of their decisions.

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Speaker 1: No way, this is happening before April seven. But do

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Speaker 1: you think it happens before November.

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Speaker 12: No, I think they are so political. We saw this

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01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 12: last year in the Supreme Court race, where they waited

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01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 12: in several key issues just to stoke fear before they

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01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 12: ruled on some of those key issues last before last

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Speaker 12: year's election to the State Supreme Court. I think they

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Speaker 12: will push this back well after the November elections. But

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Speaker 12: I have no doubt, particularly if you have Taylor, who's

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Speaker 12: the most radical Madison politician I've ever seen, running for

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Speaker 12: the State Supreme Court. If they add another there, I

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Speaker 12: think they'll just wait till after November and then take actions,

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Speaker 12: and then Katie bar the door. Not only will your

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Speaker 12: property taxes go up beyond their wildest fears, on top

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Speaker 12: of it, it's a double whammie. It will also take

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Speaker 12: money out of the classroom. So not only do your

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Speaker 12: taxes go up, it'll take money out of the classroom

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Speaker 12: where it's actually helping students and put it into these

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Speaker 12: massive union contract benefits that we saw before. That will

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Speaker 12: be painful not only the property taxpayers, but on top

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Speaker 12: of that, will take money out of the classroom and

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Speaker 12: ultimately hurt students. It's a lose lose proposition, but it's

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Speaker 12: what you get both with the State Supreme Court. Or

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Speaker 12: if you get people like Mandela Barnes and Democrats controlling

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Speaker 12: the State Senate and the State Assembly, all the things

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Speaker 12: will happen.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's going to be Barnes. I mean

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Speaker 1: it was very clear. By omitting Governor, Evers thanked pretty

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Speaker 1: much everybody. He did not think or did not mention

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Speaker 1: either of his two lieutenant governors, Mandela or Sarah Rodriguez,

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Speaker 1: both of whom are running to replace him. He did

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Speaker 1: not mention the Attorney General Josh Cole, who is running

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Speaker 1: for a third term, against the very very good Eric Tony,

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Speaker 1: Republican candidate who's running again. It's very clear I think

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Speaker 1: Evers wants none of those three to win their respective races.

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Speaker 1: He was pictured backstage after the speech last night with

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Speaker 1: David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, who it's believed he

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Speaker 1: might want. How do you see this race playing out?

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Speaker 1: Because I just saw an IBD tip poll that came

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Speaker 1: out last night, sir, that shows Mandela twenty eight percent,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Rodriguez twenty percent, and Crowley in a distant third

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Speaker 1: at seven.

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Speaker 12: Yeah. I think in the end, well, two things. One,

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Speaker 12: I think Tony eavers really just as he isn't much

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Speaker 12: in policy outside of education policy. Uh politically, I don't

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01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 12: think is actively engaged. I think it's a handful of

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Speaker 12: people in his office that are really driving this and

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Speaker 12: they're very better uh anybody that they've got a gripe with.

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Speaker 12: So it didn't surprise me that there wasn't any praise

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Speaker 12: for either his current or former lieutenant governor nor the

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Speaker 12: attorney general.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 12: You know, David Crawley actually a very nice guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 12: I think my appearances comes across very well, pleasant, jovial guy.

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Speaker 12: But think about this is a guy whose administration couldn't

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Speaker 12: bother to actually renew their health insurance. That's the basic,

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01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 12: you know, test of litmus test of competency. But I

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01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 12: think more damning is this is a guy who lobbied

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Speaker 12: to get the state government to allow him to raise

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Speaker 12: your sales tax and still had to come back and

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Speaker 12: raise property taxes after that we had a deficit. So

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Speaker 12: if you're worried about that kind of nonsense, the problems

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Speaker 12: in Milwaukee happening all across the state, the last thing

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Speaker 12: you want to do is put Mandela Barnes or David

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Speaker 12: Crawley in 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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Speaker 1: of Milwaukee being brought back from the brink of bankruptcy.

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Speaker 1: I made note of that pixus. I'm like, well, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, which political party was in tro I seem

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Speaker 1: to remember we were brought back from the fiscal brink

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Speaker 1: after a pension scandal in Milwaukee County in the early

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Speaker 1: two thousands. I seem to recall that what political party

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Speaker 1: was in charge back then. I want to, if I may, sir,

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Speaker 1: get your thoughts on something. I was going to dive

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Speaker 1: into a little bit later, but I think this is

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Speaker 1: sort of right up your alley. Mark Halpern, very very

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01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:51,839
Speaker 1: good reporter, said last night at the Capitol Hill Club,

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Speaker 1: there was a two hour meeting about seventy five to

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Speaker 1: one hundred people. Cabinet members Scott and Howard lutnek RFK Junior,

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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy, good friend of ours, Susie Wiles also spoke.

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Speaker 1: There were polsters like Tony Fabrizio, a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: legislative aids, and they were all talking about strategy for

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Speaker 1: the midterm. Okay, and Fabrizio laid out what the issue

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Speaker 1: is to quote Halprit, the economy will be the issue

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01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 1: in the election. Messages that break through banning stock trading

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01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: for Congress, a bill, by the way that our own

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Speaker 1: Brian's style, introduced transparency on health insurance data, including on

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01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: pricing and claims reimbursement, lowering prescription drug costs. The Trump

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01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,519
Speaker 1: tax cuts. Housing affordability is a huge issue for voters,

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Speaker 1: especially young people, and taking credit for closing the border

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01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 1: does not resonate that much. Men moderates, true independence and

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01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:58,559
Speaker 1: Hispanic voters are the true persuadable voters, and the message

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01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: from Fabrizio was not pessimistic. He said, spend time on

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Speaker 1: podcasts and social media more than national news interviews. Paid

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Speaker 1: media should go on targeted media, not broadcast or even cable.

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Speaker 1: So it's sounding like a very targeted, very economic focused

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Speaker 1: message for everyone heading into the midterms. What do you

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Speaker 1: make of that?

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Speaker 12: Oh, I think it's dead on the money. I said

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Speaker 12: it in twenty four You've heard me on your program

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Speaker 12: and others saying, you know, I don't talk about inflation,

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Speaker 12: I don't talk about the economy. I talk about the

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01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 12: cost of living. I talk about you know, in the

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Speaker 12: four years during Joe Biden. Filling up a tank of

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Speaker 12: gas a quick trip went up a buck and a quarter.

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Speaker 12: Going to the local grocery store in Delafield cost me

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Speaker 12: the you know, two grocery cards I could get four

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01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:54,960
Speaker 12: years earlier. Was what one about one cost me that

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01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 12: I started about my kids saying almost one thousand dollars

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Speaker 12: more a month in the mortgage payments from what would

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Speaker 12: have paid during Trump's first term. Those things resonated in

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Speaker 12: the November twenty fourth election. I think people are still

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01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 12: They're appreciative of many of the changes, but I think

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01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 12: they still feel that and particularly we see a young

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01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:17,639
Speaker 12: America's foundation in our polling and research. Young people really

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01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 12: concerned about housing, really concerned about even be able to

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Speaker 12: afford a house someday, starting a family, owning a home.

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Speaker 12: They want to hear people talk about. I would add

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01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:30,919
Speaker 12: to that list. In Wisconsin, property taxes and utility prices.

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Speaker 12: We can say clear as day, when I was governor

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01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:37,719
Speaker 12: and Republicans were in charge, property taxes, income taxes were down,

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01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:41,799
Speaker 12: utility rates, the cost of energy was way down compared

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01:34:42,160 --> 01:34:44,799
Speaker 12: to the last seven years when you had Tony Eavers

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01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 12: in charge. And going forward it gets even worse. So

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01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:50,120
Speaker 12: that is the difference. You want to pay more, you

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01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 12: put liberals in charge. You want to pay less and

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01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 12: be able to get by and support your family and

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01:34:54,320 --> 01:34:56,680
Speaker 12: your loved ones. You got to vote for conservatives.

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Speaker 1: That you do. Scott Walker, former governor and president into

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01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:03,639
Speaker 1: Young America's Foundation, Sir, it is always a pleasure having

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01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:05,880
Speaker 1: you on. We'd love to have you on again soon.

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01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: I just I love your political analysis.

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01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 12: Thanks Dan, thanks for your good work, and thanks again

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01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 12: to Will for helping you out out.

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01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: We appreciate it absolutely, sir, have yourself a wonderful evening.

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01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:18,880
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that in a little bit

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01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:23,639
Speaker 1: more depth. What a bunch of the top Republican figures

1538
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:27,400
Speaker 1: in the administration, legislative leaders, congressional leaders as well. We're

1539
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 1: talking about the mid term message. Also, Democrats put out

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01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 1: a trans Bill of rights. All that and much more.

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01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 1: When The Dan o'donald Show returns, we thanks once again

1542
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:42,600
Speaker 1: to Scott Walker, former governor President of y AF, for

1543
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:45,720
Speaker 1: joining me here on The Dan o'donald Show. It's kind

1544
01:35:45,720 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 1: of amazing to me. We talked to governors, we've talked

1545
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:53,320
Speaker 1: to presidents, We've talked to the richest man in the world.

1546
01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: Here on this show, we do a lot of important

1547
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:03,800
Speaker 1: work legislative, bringing you exclusive stories, investigative reports you're not

1548
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: going to hear anywhere else. We impact the body politic

1549
01:36:09,360 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 1: here on The Dan O'Donnell Show. And yet my eleven

1550
01:36:14,040 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: year old daughter is still convinced that I am going

1551
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: to forget to pick her up from soccer practiced. Literally,

1552
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:28,640
Speaker 1: as I'm coming back from commercial break, my wife texts me.

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01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: She said, my daughter is is very worried because one time,

1554
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 1: one time I was a little late in getting her

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01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:41,160
Speaker 1: from practice. I normally I'm the I'm the soccer coach,

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01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:44,800
Speaker 1: but obviously, you know, with with moving to afternoons, I've

1557
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:46,759
Speaker 1: had to give that up. And she plays. She plays

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01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,840
Speaker 1: for a couple of just incredible coaches. They are so nice,

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01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:53,720
Speaker 1: they are so kind, they're great friends, and they're just

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01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: they're wonderful. So I, you know, I picked her up

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01:36:56,040 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 1: one time it got dark a little early and her

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01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:04,720
Speaker 1: best friend's parents. You know, She's in the car and

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01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 1: I pass her in the parking lot. And ever since,

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01:37:10,040 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: she is convinced that I Am not going to pick

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01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: her up from soccer practice. So I get a text

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01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:21,000
Speaker 1: saying at four fifteen, my wife texts me, are you

1567
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,599
Speaker 1: picking up Grace? I said yes, and then I text,

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01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 1: for the love of all things Holy Grace, I will

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01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: pick you up. Because she can see all the texts

1570
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:35,280
Speaker 1: because she uses my Apple ID on her iPad. My

1571
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:38,360
Speaker 1: wife just texts me as she drops off my daughter

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01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 1: literally coming back from commercial break. We checked the text

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01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:46,680
Speaker 1: one last time just to make sure you were in

1574
01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:50,559
Speaker 1: fact coming. So, no matter what I do, no matter

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01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: how much responsibility is placed on me by conservatives here

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01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, by Republican leadership, by the White House. For

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01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:03,320
Speaker 1: I've broadcast from the Whitehouse like three times, but my

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01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:05,960
Speaker 1: daughter still thinks I Am not going to pick her

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01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:13,559
Speaker 1: up from soccer practice tonight. You're your producer producer, Andrew said, Grace,

1580
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:17,799
Speaker 1: He's got your back. He is reminding me that after

1581
01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: we do our interview, Jerry Bott is going to come

1582
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:22,600
Speaker 1: on the program to talk about the Trip of a

1583
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 1: Lifetime used to be Jay Weber's Trip of a Lifetime,

1584
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: but then Jay the Turncoat decided he wanted to retire

1585
01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:34,519
Speaker 1: from Daily radio and get up at a normal human

1586
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: being time. How dare he? We're kidding? We love Jay.

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01:38:38,280 --> 01:38:42,799
Speaker 1: He is an incredible friend, incredible broadcaster. We are so excited.

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01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:47,640
Speaker 1: You've been hearing the promos over the past couple of

1589
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:50,559
Speaker 1: days here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The Jay Webber

1590
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 1: podcast is going to debut April seventh. It's going to

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01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:58,120
Speaker 1: be Tuesday and Friday. I believe the Mark Belling podcast

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01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:01,920
Speaker 1: is Monday Wednesday. It would make sense. Jay is going

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01:39:01,960 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 1: to do his podcast twice a week. And I can't

1594
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:08,360
Speaker 1: wait for it because there has been avoid as much

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01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:12,639
Speaker 1: as I'd loved I have loved listening to Ben as

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01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:18,479
Speaker 1: well as Jason Gotch our newest edition on WISN. There's

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01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: nothing like the ogs Jay Webber and Mark Belling to

1598
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: complete your day of broadcast listening. And in fact, I

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01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 1: was actually just meeting with Jason and Ben yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm authorized to speak on behalf

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01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 1: of all of us, but we are expanding better Noah Candidate,

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01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:42,720
Speaker 1: the segment that we have always done here on the

1603
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show where local candidates from across our listening

1604
01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: area call in and make their elevator pitches. It is

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01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:50,679
Speaker 1: not just going to be on the Dan o'donald Show

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01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:53,240
Speaker 1: this year. It is going to be on The benyout

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01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:57,400
Speaker 1: Show and The Jason Gotch Show. We're tentatively going to

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01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,920
Speaker 1: do this on Monday, March twenty third, so the day

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01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:05,400
Speaker 1: before in person absentee voting opens up. We are going

1610
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: to have a full day where you are going to

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01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:12,920
Speaker 1: be able to get information about the candidates, listen to

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01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: the candidates, hear them in their own words, make their

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01:40:16,320 --> 01:40:18,680
Speaker 1: pitches for why they are the conservative choice. And for

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01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:22,439
Speaker 1: the first time ever, we are going to do something

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01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:25,880
Speaker 1: that frankly has not been done before and should have

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01:40:25,920 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 1: been done a long time ago. We are presenting the

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01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:32,479
Speaker 1: Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide. We are working with conservatives and

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01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:36,559
Speaker 1: Republican Party operatives and people all across the state of

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01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Wisconsin in order to present a digital, interactive map of

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01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:45,240
Speaker 1: Wisconsin that is going to be introduced probably about a

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01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 1: month from today as part of a brand new digital

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01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:51,160
Speaker 1: initiative that we are so proud to be able to

1623
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 1: debut for you. It is the Ultimate Conservative voter Guide.

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01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:59,240
Speaker 1: It is going to be a digital map where you

1625
01:40:59,240 --> 01:41:01,559
Speaker 1: can just click on your county or bring your county

1626
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:03,640
Speaker 1: down from a drop down menu and you will have

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01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:07,840
Speaker 1: a list of every single conservative on the ballot. It

1628
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: is something that we have been working very hard on

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01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:13,800
Speaker 1: and now that the primary is over, we are going

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01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:17,000
Speaker 1: to be getting candidate lists from all over the state.

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01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 1: Individual candidates have been reaching out to us for about

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01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:23,960
Speaker 1: the last week week and a half, and we are

1633
01:41:24,640 --> 01:41:28,759
Speaker 1: going to be debuting the state's Ultimate Conservative voter Guide,

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01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 1: very likely on March sixteenth, or Saint Patrick's Day on

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01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:38,519
Speaker 1: the seventeenth, right as mail in ballots get mailed out,

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01:41:38,600 --> 01:41:41,559
Speaker 1: So right around there you are going to be able

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01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:45,760
Speaker 1: to have a complete guide to who the conservative candidates are.

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01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: We're not going to be endorsing. We're not going to

1639
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:52,720
Speaker 1: be saying, Okay, this is someone it is just ideologically

1640
01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:56,679
Speaker 1: is this a conservative? Is this somebody who you can,

1641
01:41:56,920 --> 01:42:00,640
Speaker 1: in good conscience if you are a conservative, vote for

1642
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:04,080
Speaker 1: Once again, I have had a number of candidates I

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01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:06,720
Speaker 1: actually had too now say hey, Dan, you know, I'm

1644
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:08,439
Speaker 1: not really sure do I want to be a part

1645
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: of this. I'm kind of in a blue area. I'm

1646
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,479
Speaker 1: worried that people will see my name on this voter

1647
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:15,479
Speaker 1: guide and they'll say, well, I'm not going to vote

1648
01:42:15,479 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: for you. I'm telling you it is a huge advantage

1649
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:21,559
Speaker 1: to be part. We are going to be spending a

1650
01:42:21,640 --> 01:42:25,320
Speaker 1: decent amount of money to pay to promote this on

1651
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 1: social media, on some traditional media, and we may even

1652
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:33,559
Speaker 1: be doing candidate mailers to get this in the hands

1653
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 1: of as many people as humanly possible as a way

1654
01:42:37,400 --> 01:42:41,639
Speaker 1: of sort of advertising the Dan O'Donnell Show and all

1655
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 1: of our various related entities and initiatives. But we have

1656
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:49,400
Speaker 1: got a staff of people, myself included, working on this,

1657
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:51,600
Speaker 1: and we are working. Let me tell you, folks, I

1658
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:54,639
Speaker 1: am spending way more time on a Google spreadsheet than

1659
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 1: I ever thought I was going to as a broadcast professional.

1660
01:42:59,200 --> 01:43:03,639
Speaker 1: But this, this is how much we care about getting

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01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:08,719
Speaker 1: conservatives elected to those local races. I mean those local

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01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:14,639
Speaker 1: positions school board, village board, mayor clerk, I mean judge,

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01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:19,040
Speaker 1: for goodness sakes, district attorney. Actually, district attorney is a

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01:43:19,360 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: partisan position. But you know what I'm saying, Like the

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01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 1: races that you're not going to hear a lot about

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01:43:26,640 --> 01:43:28,719
Speaker 1: on this show, just because we have so many counties,

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01:43:28,720 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: we have so many communities, I can't possibly spend time

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01:43:31,560 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: on every single one as much as I'd like to.

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01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:39,679
Speaker 1: But these are the people who make the decisions that

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01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:45,080
Speaker 1: most directly impact you, Like government that picks up your trash.

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01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:49,440
Speaker 1: Government that is in charge of your kid's school policies,

1672
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:52,439
Speaker 1: government that's in charge of your fire department, your police department.

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01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 1: Those are the government officials that have the most power

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01:43:56,439 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 1: over your life, that most directly impact your life. And

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01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: it's sort of a paradox that we sort of know

1676
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: the least about them. We know everything about President Trump.

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01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:08,439
Speaker 1: We know a lot about Governor Evers, we know a

1678
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: lot about our congressman, we know a lot about our senators. Well,

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01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,960
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson. I mean, you know, Tammy Baldwin disappears every

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01:44:16,080 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 1: six years for six years before she resurfaces like the

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01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:27,360
Speaker 1: groundhog for election Day. Yeah, if she sees her shadow,

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01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:31,759
Speaker 1: it's six more years of do nothingness in the United

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01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 1: States Senate. That's why. So if you want to be

1684
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,719
Speaker 1: a part of the State's conservative Ultimate Conservative voter Guide,

1685
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:44,040
Speaker 1: email medd at iHeartMedia dot com. That'll be online in

1686
01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 1: about a month. More still to come here on the

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01:44:46,200 --> 01:44:48,720
Speaker 1: dan O'donnalds Show. As I said in our interview with

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01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 1: former Governor Scott Walker, the Trump administration a whole lot

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01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 1: of top cabinet officials. Susie Wilds, the chief of Staff,

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01:44:57,320 --> 01:45:00,719
Speaker 1: sat down for about two hours last night chief pollster

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01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:04,000
Speaker 1: Tony Fabrizio. He is one of the most respected Republican

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01:45:04,040 --> 01:45:07,320
Speaker 1: pollsters out there as President Trump's polster forever, he said,

1693
01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:10,799
Speaker 1: it is all about economic messaging ahead of the midterms.

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01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: The American people care about their financial future, they care

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01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:21,400
Speaker 1: about affordability, So naturally, Democrats spent today introducing a trans

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01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: bill of Rights. Here's Promilajaia Paul.

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Speaker 13: To trans people everywhere.

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01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 1: I also want you to know this.

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Speaker 13: Those people are threatened by your strength, by your joy

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01:45:35,880 --> 01:45:39,320
Speaker 13: in being fully who you are. Those who fight against

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01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 13: trans people are just jealous of the freedoms that they

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01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:48,080
Speaker 13: have taken to be fully who they are, and so

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01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:53,120
Speaker 13: those people just want to destroy that rather than imagine

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01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:56,240
Speaker 13: what it would be like to be fully who they are.

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Speaker 13: 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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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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Speaker 1: anybody should be ashamed of, but it should be something

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01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:56,920
Speaker 1: if you are not feeling right, if you're not feeling

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Speaker 1: healthy mentally, you're not healthy and you need to say treatment.

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Speaker 1: And what I am so disgusted by is a medical profession.

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01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:09,839
Speaker 1: Political people say well, you can just change your gender,

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01:47:09,880 --> 01:47:12,000
Speaker 1: and if we just affirm your gender, all of your

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01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:15,920
Speaker 1: other underlying, very serious mental health conditions can go away.

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01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:18,120
Speaker 1: It's very very dangerous thinking. All right, we're going to

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01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 1: lighten things up. Talk about a European get away, the

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Speaker 1: trip of a lifetime. Coming up next. It's the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Stay tuned, it's the Dan o'donald Show. Just

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01:47:29,200 --> 01:47:32,800
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left here on the Dan o'donald Show.

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01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:36,879
Speaker 1: I am already looking forward to a couple of days

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Speaker 1: in Prague. It's our European getaway. We take a smaller

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01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:44,720
Speaker 1: group of listeners. We go for about six days or

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01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:47,880
Speaker 1: so to a great European city, this time the Czech Republic.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be in the middle of April,

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Speaker 1: but coming up next October. The trip of a lifetime,

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Speaker 1: a cruise of the Northern Mediterranean with our friends at

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Speaker 1: Cruise and you are joining me now to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Wy s N program director Jerry Bot, Jerry, this, this

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Speaker 1: is one of my bucket list cruises. This is a

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Speaker 1: fantastic one.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 8: It's a really great itinerary. Thank you for letting me

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01:48:12,080 --> 01:48:14,759
Speaker 8: on your program to to talk to your listeners about this.

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01:48:14,760 --> 01:48:17,240
Speaker 8: This is Jay Weber's old trip before we decided to

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01:48:17,240 --> 01:48:20,920
Speaker 8: take himself off of Daily Radio and dare go to

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01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,519
Speaker 8: the world of podcasting. So they've asked me to talk

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01:48:23,560 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 8: about the trip and I more than please to do so.

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01:48:26,800 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 8: It really is. We said talk trip of a lifetime.

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Speaker 8: If you had a trip to France, or to Italy,

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01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:33,800
Speaker 8: or to Spain or to Monica, that could be a

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01:48:33,800 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 8: trip of a lifetime. This is all four all four

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Speaker 8: of those places, Italy, France, Being and Monica. It's basically

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Speaker 8: a cruise of the Northern rim of the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 4: So the trip starts out.

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Speaker 8: You fly from O'Hare to Rome, spend a night in Rome.

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Speaker 1: What's you've you've done? It was just there in November.

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Speaker 1: What What's what's the biggest highlight of the trip, not

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01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,880
Speaker 1: even close. It was Saint Peter's Basilica. It was I mean,

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01:48:57,280 --> 01:49:00,519
Speaker 1: the coliseum is a must see anthy on, but just

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Speaker 1: to see the awe inspiring majesty of Saint Peter's is incredible.

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Speaker 8: So you get a full day in Rome state a

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Speaker 8: five star hotel. Then you get on a fabulous ship

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Speaker 8: for the actual seven day sale of the Northern Mediterranean.

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Speaker 8: It's the Azamara Onward is the name of the ship.

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01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:21,080
Speaker 8: Much more intimate than your big ocean going ships. Seven

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Speaker 8: hundred passengers maximum capacity, so very very intimate experience, world

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Speaker 8: class dining, very personalized service.

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Speaker 1: To what I understand well. And normally these cruise ships

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Speaker 1: are three four thousand people, which is nice, but it

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01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: sometimes feels a little big. I can tell you we

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01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:40,360
Speaker 1: did one with Cruise and Tour where it was just

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01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:44,360
Speaker 1: our listeners and chartered a ship that was incredible. Everybody

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01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 1: says like that was, you know, their true highlight. The

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01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 1: smaller the ship, the better. Now, one of the downsides

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01:49:51,400 --> 01:49:52,920
Speaker 1: some of those super small ships is you don't get

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Speaker 1: the world class amenities and entertainment. This one you do,

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Speaker 1: and that's what Ozamara is sort of famous.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, it's really very impressive. I watched a real

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Speaker 8: a ten minute video on the ship itself on the

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Speaker 8: onward and it was pretty incredible with regard to the

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Speaker 8: amenities and as you say, you think had a couple

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Speaker 8: of lounges, a couple of different areas where you can

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01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:13,200
Speaker 8: just kind of chill, but there's a lot of activity too.

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Speaker 8: The ports of call are very very interesting. By the way,

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Speaker 8: this is the end of October, so October twenty ninth

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Speaker 8: through the first week of November. I checked out the

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Speaker 8: 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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01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:31,960
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 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, it's really really nice.

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Speaker 8: So the portion and call in Italy other than Rome,

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Speaker 8: Florence and Pisa in Italy, Nice and Marseille in the

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Speaker 8: south of France, Palamos and Barcelona in Spain. And then

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Speaker 8: the one that I just love because it's a bucket

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Speaker 8: list thing for me. I like the gamble is Monica

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Speaker 8: Monte Carlo. You get to spend a full day in

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Speaker 8: 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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01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,000
Speaker 1: out your James Bond fantasy.

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01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:02,679
Speaker 8: Absolutely. Maybe you know any James Bond girl that would

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01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 8: like to show up with me, and that would be

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01:51:05,120 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 8: would be just fine. So it's it's really really a

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Speaker 8: wonderful trip. And and I don't think that I'm trying

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Speaker 8: to think back. I don't think that any other trip

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01:51:14,080 --> 01:51:16,960
Speaker 8: in my years with Cruising Tour has done the Northern Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I know that you guys that you're doing Greek Isles

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01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:22,000
Speaker 8: this year, which could be could be.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we do have believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: we set sail in late July. We have like one

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01:51:27,720 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 1: or two cabins still available. They said, you know, I

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01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:32,519
Speaker 1: got to put this on social media, so while you're

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01:51:32,600 --> 01:51:36,320
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 go figure, but

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Speaker 1: I loved we did the London, Paris and uh Normandy

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01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 1: or the World War two for the for the eightieth

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Speaker 1: anniversary of D Day, and the French countryside is just beautiful,

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01:51:54,520 --> 01:51:57,160
Speaker 1: so Marseille and nice. That is going to be fantastic

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01:51:57,400 --> 01:51:59,920
Speaker 1: if south of France is supposed to be spectacular.

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Speaker 8: And the other thing too, if you go and take

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Speaker 8: a look at the entire itinery and the pricing is this.

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Speaker 1: Is a really affordable I was surprised.

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 8: Some of the upper end cabins on on the onward

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01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,920
Speaker 8: the ship very very affordable. The Veranda ones, yeah, ones

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Speaker 8: with the where you can actually go outside and enjoy

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Speaker 8: the weather. Here's how to book a trip, or if

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Speaker 8: you want more information, call Cruise and Tour.

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Speaker 1: Here's their number. It's eight hundred three eight three thirty

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Speaker 1: one thirty one.

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01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:28,800
Speaker 8: Again eight hundred three eight three thirty one thirty one.

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01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:31,559
Speaker 8: Or if you want to get a brochure and look

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01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:34,000
Speaker 8: at the entire itinerary and some photos and that sort

1839
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:37,040
Speaker 8: of thing, just go online. Log on to Cruise dash

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Speaker 8: tour dot com. Again, Cruise dash tour dot com. It's

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01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 8: our Northern Mediterranean excursion end of October through the first

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Speaker 8: week of November should be spectactic.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be fantastic because the folks at

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Speaker 1: Cruise and Tour they are the ultimate professionals. I mean,

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01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:54,040
Speaker 1: I've been working with them for now, oh my gosh,

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01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:59,320
Speaker 1: eight years, and they have never once failed to completely

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01:52:59,360 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 1: surpass X. I mean, everything you want, everything you could

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01:53:02,520 --> 01:53:06,400
Speaker 1: possibly need, is taken care of. These things can be intimidating.

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01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:08,400
Speaker 1: You know your book, you're going to oh my gosh,

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01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,040
Speaker 1: we're going to France, We're going to Italy, we're going

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Speaker 1: to Monaco. Well, they take care of everything. You know

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01:53:13,120 --> 01:53:15,120
Speaker 1: that the people that they have on board to answer

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01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:19,040
Speaker 1: every question, to help you through customs, to help you

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01:53:19,120 --> 01:53:22,720
Speaker 1: through the airports and stuff. And the other thing I

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01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:26,719
Speaker 1: always talk about, and it is a big selling point,

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01:53:27,040 --> 01:53:29,280
Speaker 1: is that you are there with a group of people

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01:53:29,600 --> 01:53:32,519
Speaker 1: just like you. They all listen to this radio station,

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01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:37,479
Speaker 1: you all think pretty much the same politically, there's always

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01:53:37,479 --> 01:53:41,439
Speaker 1: something to talk about system right, it's it's Wisconsin nice.

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01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:44,240
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, doing these trips for so long,

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01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:47,599
Speaker 1: there's a group of people that come together and really

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01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:50,800
Speaker 1: become friends. I mean, my goodness, My in laws have

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01:53:50,880 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 1: a group of people from the Mark Belling slash Dan

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01:53:54,120 --> 01:53:56,880
Speaker 1: O'Donnell's show cruises that they go out with every couple

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01:53:56,880 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 1: of yees go figure. Wife and I are typically invited,

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01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:05,519
Speaker 1: but we can't quite leave the puppy. Yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: Cruise Dash Tour dot com.

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Speaker 8: They do take care of everything. If you're gambling at

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01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:13,320
Speaker 8: a casino in money, Carlo, and you've got seventeen against

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01:54:13,360 --> 01:54:14,800
Speaker 8: the dealer six, I'll tell you whether that's to hit.

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Speaker 1: The answer is no, by the way, no never, never,

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Speaker 1: You kidding me. That's a bus card right there. Well,

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01:54:22,160 --> 01:54:25,160
Speaker 1: the dealer has to stand on a soft seventeen.

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01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:26,920
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I don't know, but money, Carl, that's.

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01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:29,320
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I should probably remember that because

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01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:31,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in Vegas in like two months. All right,

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Speaker 1: Cruise Dash Tour dot com. It is the trip of

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Speaker 1: a lifetime. Jerry, thank you, Thank you sir so much.

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Speaker 1: We are at a time, believe.

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Speaker 12: It or not.

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Speaker 1: For the Wednesday edition of the Dan o'donald Show back

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01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:46,800
Speaker 1: tomorrow three oh six pm. Talk to you then,