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Speaker 1: and all I can say is do better, try harder,

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Speaker 1: saying it's only because of the media. I think there

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Speaker 2: It's not my job to.

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Speaker 1: Figure it out, but just try harder, fight harder for us?

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Speaker 3: Well, what does that mean? And what is your definition

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Speaker 3: of that? Thank you for the comments. Welcome to our

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Speaker 3: You know, fight harder, there are other ways? Well, what

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Speaker 3: are those other ways? When I hear those criticisms of

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Speaker 3: in what I do on a daily basis, and my

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Speaker 2: Friend of the show was speaking here.

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Speaker 3: But I can tell you from my own experience and

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Speaker 3: in almost every single circumstance have closed the gap in

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Speaker 3: Democrats had a major, major advantage. We're way out ahead

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Speaker 3: just the media. There's a lot more to this, But

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Speaker 3: I'm online every single day. I spend hours online every

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Speaker 3: there are more of our representatives in Minnesota, more of

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Speaker 3: our senators in Minnesota that are engaging in commentary, putting

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Speaker 3: it's productive to harp on the GOP to fight harder

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Speaker 3: From my perspective, they are, and I think the talkbacker

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Speaker 3: but there are no absolutes in any of this, and

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Speaker 2: And there again is another.

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Speaker 3: Great example of the closing of the gap in terms

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Speaker 3: you can only control what you personally can go and control.

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Speaker 3: Many Minnesotans expressed frustration about the stubbornly high license tab

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Speaker 3: this session to revert the license tab fee to pre

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm hearing from my district and legislators across

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Speaker 3: So far, Jasinski's bill has been scheduled for a hearing now.

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Speaker 2: There was a subsequent bill.

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Speaker 3: Proposed to eliminate the need for displaying expiration tabs on

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Speaker 2: To produce and ship all the stickers.

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Speaker 3: It has no impact on public safety, she says, and importantly,

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Speaker 3: individuals will still need to register their vehicles annually. This

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Speaker 3: yet at the same time she's proposing to quinn triple

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Speaker 3: That was for me, by the way, quintuple the rates

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Speaker 4: Us all to agree on the importance of raising revenue,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the woman's alludatic.

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Speaker 3: Almost four thousand dollars a year for a two year old,

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Speaker 5: Make it makes sense, Hey, John, I think that the

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Speaker 6: We should just pay everything we earn to the governments

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Speaker 2: That's about where Yeah, that's about where we've landed, right.

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Speaker 3: James Hurst for the Minnesota Deputy Registrar Association, expressed concerns

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Speaker 2: They'll conveniently forget it.

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Speaker 3: If they are stopped by law enforcement, they will say, oh, geez,

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Speaker 3: the proposal ultimately failed to pass on a voice vote

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Speaker 3: how's about this idea, Let's just stop having.

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Speaker 2: To register our cars altogether. That's what. I don't register

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Speaker 3: Let's just save a whole bunch of money.

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Speaker 2: These people are lunatics, all right.

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Speaker 3: More examples of this coming up in just a moment

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Speaker 3: have dfllers proposing illegal news, sanctuary state tax also forty

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Speaker 2: Again, it's so absurd.

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Speaker 3: On the one hand, this DFL lunatic wants to make

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Speaker 2: You and I both know that the majority of us.

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Speaker 3: Are still going to go and take care of our

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Speaker 2: I just again, make it all makes sense.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to more of your thoughts coming up from

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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lindahl Realty. Next

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Speaker 3: up in studio. We're monitoring the situation in Beroot.

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Speaker 5: What I miss.

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Speaker 3: Have a little tab in the corner monitoring Beyroot. I

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Speaker 7: So I can't see the right side of your screen,

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Speaker 3: I was like, baby, Yeah, they're also monitoring the situation

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Speaker 3: I have some amazing audio to share too, of Representative

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Speaker 3: back to a few of your thoughts though, before we

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Speaker 2: John, You're right.

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Speaker 8: The people that are calling in saying that Republicans have

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Speaker 8: Can they do more, I'm sure, and they're working on it,

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Speaker 8: But we, the voters, are the ones that have to

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Speaker 8: You're going to have to bolt these criminals out of office.

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Speaker 8: There's nothing more I can say about that.

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Speaker 6: You need to get.

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Speaker 8: Out in counter protests, You need to get your positions known.

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Speaker 8: These people in office are not going to be able

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I gots some advice for the caller that's frustrated

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Speaker 9: with it appearing that the Republicans aren't doing a whole lot.

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Speaker 9: What's really going on is we're in such a liberal state.

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Speaker 9: So it's just it's unproportional and so the easiest thing

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Speaker 2: It's like the winter time. If you hate winter, then

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Speaker 2: this ain't your place for you.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 3: In the midst of everything that we've been talking about,

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Speaker 3: the Democrat Minnesota lawmakers also introduce legislation aimed to create

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Speaker 3: a climate doing that thing with my fingers super fun

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Speaker 3: that would require large of fossil fuel companies to pay

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Speaker 3: they going to track that? John, Your guess is as

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Speaker 3: good as mine. NFIB Minnesota State Director John Bouchet said

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Speaker 3: if that wasn't enough, dfllers proposing illegal news sanctuary state tax.

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Speaker 3: John Feelen, Center of the American Experimentamerican Experiment dot org

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Speaker 3: Operation Metro surges winding down still some federal immigration agents

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Speaker 2: I am a hauled.

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Speaker 3: The Minnesota Department of Revenue estimates that change could bring

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Speaker 2: Guy, I mean, come on, all right, before.

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Speaker 10: I hope that there's somebody in the room that can

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Speaker 10: I don't know if mister Tolms has an.

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Speaker 12: I'll venture a guess, but please, you know, understand it.

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Speaker 10: Mister chair, I, as I'm sending through these presentations, I'm

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Speaker 13: We've known it's existed for a very very long time.

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Speaker 13: But instead we saw the eighteen billion dollar budget surplus.

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Speaker 10: We have limited funds right now, and I just it's

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Speaker 2: And yet you have.

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Speaker 3: Dflers in the legislature threatening to offer up amendments to

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Speaker 4: Paple us all to agree on the importance of raising revenue,

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Speaker 14: Good morning, John. So this crushly hatched representative who comes

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Speaker 14: you would need to hold us ransom with our license

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Speaker 2: What an idiot.

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Speaker 14: Great job electing that Democrats.

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Speaker 2: Wow, four thousand dollars a year.

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Speaker 5: That's about three hundred and thirty three dollars a month

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Speaker 15: John A few comments on the licensed tab Nearly every

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Speaker 15: I thought that they aren't supposed to pull you over

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Speaker 15: Number three had a buddy and his policy is, I'm

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Speaker 15: not gonna buy new tabs. I'm just gonna take my chances.

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Speaker 15: If I get pulled over, I guess I'll deal with it. Then, well,

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Speaker 15: he did get pulled over, and the state troopers said,

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Good morning John. As always, I love the dialogue.

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Speaker 16: This morning regarding tabs in Minnesota. I have a twenty

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Speaker 15: I really enjoy it.

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Speaker 16: My tabs were thirteen hundred and eighty four dollars. Three

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Speaker 2: It when there was an ev vam.

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Speaker 3: Dad, I'll ironic is that it's all and what drives

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Speaker 3: me mad about all this. It's also arbitrary. It's just arbitrary.

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Speaker 3: They just make the numbers up. They'll come up with

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Speaker 9: John.

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Speaker 15: The way she says twin tupple with a little snicker

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she may not be serious now, but again, given

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Speaker 2: Good morning, John, Thank you for the show.

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Speaker 17: Great As always, the legislator who thinks it's funny to

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Speaker 17: and they know by not requiring it, the law abiding

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Speaker 3: Not one hundred percent coming up. State lawmakers proposing cooling

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Speaker 3: Senator Jim Abler's bill would allow schools to send students

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Speaker 3: to talk with the senator next here on Twin Cities

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Speaker 3: News Talk, and I'll also get to your talk back

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Speaker 3: All right, before we talk with our guest here on

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Speaker 2: Forty John TJ from Northside Today. I have to say

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Speaker 2: I find it hilarire.

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Speaker 5: So you keep calling and over and or I think

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Speaker 5: we should petition the city of Andover to change the day.

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Speaker 2: Have a good week, all right.

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Speaker 3: First off, congratulations on being the talk back of the day,

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Speaker 2: Secondly, I only did it once? Did I do it

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Speaker 3: No, I thought I just did it the one time,

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just a human being.

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Speaker 1: Hey, John, I have the utmost respect for you. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just do that to make myself feel better.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's not leave them on hold any longer.

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Speaker 3: Joining us. Very pleased to welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 3: It's been a while. Senator Jim Abler, Good morning, Jim.

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Speaker 3: How you doing this morning?

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Speaker 5: Well? It's it's a beautiful morning and the ice is

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Speaker 5: out on the Rum River, so we're moving along towards spring.

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Speaker 5: So there's hope.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's good news.

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Speaker 3: I wish I had more to say about the current

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Speaker 3: what's been going on in this bill. You're proposing to

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Speaker 3: What's your assessment so far about how the legislative session

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Speaker 3: Senate side, Jim Abeler, Well.

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Speaker 5: There's some days you pray for only a dumpster fire.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, i'd be the good news.

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Speaker 5: The administration continues to forge ahead with ideas that they

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Speaker 3: It seems as if there's a You know, there's a

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Speaker 2: This is not a budget year, it's a bonding year.

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Speaker 3: Any expectation about how the rest of the session is

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Speaker 5: A bunch of us are doing the very best weekends.

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Speaker 5: And you know, when we went away from a shared

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Speaker 6: And my voice has been to say, how about.

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Speaker 5: Bringing forward ideas that actually might become law, that could

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Speaker 5: And there's this one end of political posturing after another,

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Speaker 5: And you know what we're talking about today is just

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Speaker 3: it was first brought to my attention.

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Speaker 9: This.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's written, I don't know if

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Speaker 3: it's spoken. Maybe you can help fill in the blanks

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Speaker 3: on this. But if you have a child that's causing

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Speaker 3: a disruption inside of the schools, we're evacuating the entirety

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Speaker 3: of the classroom to deal with the one child. She

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Speaker 3: told me that, and I was just absolutely Florida, you

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Speaker 3: got to be kidding me. I mean, when I was

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Speaker 3: going up to school, if you had a child that

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Speaker 3: was disrupting the classroom, you would remove the child from

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Speaker 3: the classroom and you would deal with them outside and

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Speaker 3: the education could continue. But looking at the story here

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Speaker 3: and talking about your bill. In Anoka, where my kids

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Speaker 3: went to school one hundred and forty two times this year,

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Speaker 3: already classes have been evacuated. Where is this policy? Why

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Speaker 3: is this happening? Before we get to the solution you're proposing.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Oh, yeah, Well.

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Speaker 5: In twenty three with the trifecta, they were concerned that

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Speaker 5: kids are being suspended over racial issues, which is maybe

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Speaker 5: happened somewhere, but not in Anoka, not in the well

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Speaker 5: run districts that I'm fully aware of. But they were

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Speaker 5: worried it was a thing. And because of the thing,

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Speaker 5: then they decided you couldn't suspend a kid for more

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Speaker 5: than a portion of the day. And since in the

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Speaker 5: very beginning, that was done also with no input from

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Speaker 5: the educators, the principal superintendents and the teachers who are

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Speaker 5: actually getting hurt now because of this, and they've been

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Speaker 5: stubborn about keeping the policy and it's disrupting classes in

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Speaker 5: so many cases, there so many kids in the name

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Speaker 5: of educations.

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Speaker 3: So talk about your solution to this and the likelihood

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Speaker 3: or you know, the possibility of this being able to

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Speaker 3: pass given the divided nature of the legislatures, particularly in

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Speaker 3: the in the House.

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Speaker 2: Talking with Senator Jim.

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Speaker 5: Abelod and I don't know why this is a divided thing.

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Speaker 5: I think that your listeners and you and I would

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Speaker 5: believe that most of these administrators are on the left

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Speaker 5: side of center, you know, and so they're actually no

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Speaker 5: one can accuse them of being you know, unnean or

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Speaker 5: anything about kids. But let me just read you a

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Speaker 5: few quick excerpts. I'm a kindergarten teacher. Our schools are

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Speaker 5: unrecognizable due to the twenty twenty three mandates. From one

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Speaker 5: my chel came home with reports to being scorn at

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Speaker 5: kids throwing chairs or pregnant teacher being kicked in the

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Speaker 5: stomach in kindergarten. Second grader is threatening to bring a

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Speaker 5: nice to school that poked my daughter. Nothing happened.

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Speaker 6: And then there's another teacher that says, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Thinking of taken the rest of the year off to

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Speaker 5: the strain, but I know it would not be shared

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Speaker 5: to the kids. And so I tried to get three

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Speaker 5: days last year and was unsuccessful, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 5: how about a day?

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Speaker 6: And the point of a day is so maybe it's

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Speaker 6: not even for.

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Speaker 5: Disciplinary reasons, uh, which you have the impact of that

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Speaker 5: a little bit, but it would give the school time

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Speaker 5: to come up with a plan for the child to

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Speaker 5: actually help make this you know, young student get back

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Speaker 5: on track. And in the meantime, you know, if there's

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Speaker 5: one hundred and forty two evacuations. That's like four or

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Speaker 5: five thousand kid events where it's just up to four

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Speaker 5: thousand other kids and they have to matter.

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Speaker 6: And so I thought, well, how about.

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Speaker 2: A day that's how is that.

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Speaker 5: For a really reasonable compromise? And so uh and these

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Speaker 5: are all spontaneous females that came and I've gotten several

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Speaker 5: more than that, But the administrators and the school districts

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Speaker 5: are like, we need help, we need relief. How about

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Speaker 5: a day? Could you give us the date? And it

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Speaker 5: actually faces an uphill fights.

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Speaker 3: Frankly, what what are the excuses that you're that you're hearing?

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Speaker 3: I mean, how can anybody go and and push and

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Speaker 3: push back on this? Not that I want to give

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Speaker 3: any credit to those on the on the left currently,

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Speaker 3: because you know, when it comes to their arguments, and

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Speaker 3: I'm putting a lot of stock in them, but I'm

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Speaker 3: just wondering what what it is you're hearing is to

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Speaker 3: watch this is not getting wide support even across you know,

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Speaker 3: across the aisle.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's thank you from lack of paying

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Speaker 5: attention to the people that live in the educational world daily.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know this, but when someone

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Speaker 5: goes to Saint Paul and office, they become much more bright.

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Speaker 5: They were able to look at the state using their

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Speaker 5: broad experience and decide what's good for the entire state,

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Speaker 5: even though they may not be expert at that, but

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Speaker 5: they know that they're the ones to make that decision.

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Speaker 5: This is a case of that where the rank and file,

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Speaker 5: universally across the state, superintendents, principals, teachers who love their

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Speaker 5: kids and want everybody to be treated well, say like,

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Speaker 5: we have a problems, and all it's we've replied with

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Speaker 5: is I can't believe a kindergarten would do that. That's

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Speaker 5: just something's sensible. Yet there's testimony after testimony, and you know.

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Speaker 6: Of this then. I mean, we spent two.

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Speaker 5: Point two billion dollars in twenty twenty three on education,

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Speaker 5: the most ever usually it's a third of that, and

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Speaker 5: every district cuts programs because they spend it so badly.

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Speaker 6: But you know, just calm down.

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Speaker 5: They are the experts. They know how to do it.

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Speaker 5: And the districts are also begging for flexibility, which they're

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Speaker 5: not getting. It should matter to have a school board,

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Speaker 5: to have a school board, So it's just quit having

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Speaker 5: school boards and let the education geniuses at the state

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Speaker 5: aside everything.

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Speaker 3: I guess talking with Senator Jim Abler again, his bill

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Speaker 3: would allow schools to send those students with dissimonary problems

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Speaker 3: a home for a maximum of one partial day and

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Speaker 3: one full day after the after the incident. So where

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Speaker 3: is this bill currently and what are the what are

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Speaker 3: the next steps regarding it?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's a waiting and hearing in the Senate Policy

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Speaker 5: Committee and it's being actually greeted with eye rolls, and like, really,

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Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't think of this. This came from

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Speaker 5: people who make this their career. So I'm hoping to

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Speaker 5: get a hearing. They said, well, you know, we'll try

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Speaker 5: to be fair here, give Republicans a hearing. And I said, well,

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Speaker 5: this is the one that I want, and like, oh my,

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Speaker 5: so it's is it? Are we trying to educate the

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Speaker 5: kids who were telling up every student learn? Are we

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Speaker 5: trying to help young kids understand? If you as they

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Speaker 5: watch a child who disrupted the class and to a

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Speaker 5: death and injured a teacher and punched a child, a

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Speaker 5: pregnant woman in the stomach, and they come back to

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Speaker 5: class at eight o'clock the next day, do the students

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Speaker 5: also learn that there's no consequences and you know it's

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Speaker 5: not cuinative, but the messages are all wrong and the

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Speaker 5: effect on this child is wrong, and it just it's

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Speaker 5: actually kind of furthers the decay of the education that's

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Speaker 5: so important that we spend so much money on that.

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Speaker 5: We want kids to learn, and parents want to feel

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Speaker 5: confident when their child goes to school that they'll actually

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Speaker 5: be safe in their classrooms, that learning can occur, and

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Speaker 5: they should be concerned that maybe parents need to have

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Speaker 5: an outcry and write right to leg player and say

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Speaker 5: how can you let this go on? We're not trying

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Speaker 5: to punish the kid all though, some kids, you know,

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Speaker 5: need a little guidance. This is the time for the

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Speaker 5: public to weigh in. And I think your listeners would

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Speaker 5: be really a good, good vector of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you you you kind of hit the

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Speaker 2: nail on the head.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the question that I have is you know,

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Speaker 3: to the to to the DFL, you know what, what

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Speaker 3: is it that you expect our education system is supposed

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Speaker 3: to be there for. You know what, what what are

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Speaker 3: we actually supposed to be doing on a daily basis

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Speaker 3: when it comes to students supposed to be educating.

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Speaker 2: Them or do we do?

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Speaker 3: We just want them to be, you know, due to

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Speaker 3: full DFL voters once they once they get out of

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Speaker 3: school and they reach that voting age, and I tend

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Speaker 3: to think it's the it's the ladder there, Senator Jim Abler,

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Speaker 3: thank you for the time this morning. I know it's

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Speaker 3: still early on, but I'll ask this last question. Do

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Speaker 3: you think the legislative session will wrap up on time?

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Speaker 3: Or is it too soon to tell?

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Speaker 6: I would gamble be done on time? Uh?

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Speaker 5: And I I don't know what the uh? What do

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Speaker 5: they call it a thing where you put the fish

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Speaker 5: when you're our creole? I don't know how soul or

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Speaker 5: creed will be with quality of work. But frankly, your listeners,

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Speaker 5: I mean people should listen to you, and then they

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Speaker 5: should go turn it into action and they should contact

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Speaker 5: both their Republican and Democratic legislators. The people need to

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Speaker 5: speak up. And it is an election year and I

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Speaker 5: think that's common sense comments from everybody. And what do

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Speaker 5: we think is the best to actually influence people, to

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Speaker 5: influence the Saint Paul people, they.

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Speaker 6: Do a better job.

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Speaker 5: Their duty is to serve the people on this on

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Speaker 5: this radio show and also the one on the left

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Speaker 5: shows it belongs to Minnesota, belongs to the people, and

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Speaker 5: the people don't pick up the phone and pick up

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Speaker 5: the mantle of being a beautiful citizen, then they won't

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Speaker 5: get what they think they want.

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Speaker 2: Senator Abler, encourage them. Senator Abler, do me.

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Speaker 3: A favor, keep me keep you posted on how this

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Speaker 3: progresses or doesn't progress. And and I also want to

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Speaker 3: encourage the audience to get involved and contact your your

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Speaker 3: senators and your representatives over this issue. And I thank

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Speaker 3: you so much for reaching out and coming on the

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Speaker 3: show this morning.

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Speaker 5: Well my final thought is people should pray, pray for

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Speaker 5: wisdom and our leaders and just pray pray to God

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Speaker 5: for mercy in our great states.

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Speaker 3: Amen to that. Thank you so much. Let's go to

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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Got a couple of comments that rolled in.

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Speaker 3: Those talkbacks are brought to you by Lindahl Realty.

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Speaker 7: From Milake. Elmel Hey. I had my daughter pull a

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Speaker 7: fire alarm in fourth grade. The school said we don't

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Speaker 7: suspend fourth graders. I said, yeah, you do. Give her

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Speaker 7: to me for a couple of days and we'll straighten

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Speaker 7: it out. She's a great twenty seven year old woman

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Speaker 7: right now.

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Speaker 2: So let's wrap on this.

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Speaker 3: When you want to know what democrats are actually doing

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Speaker 3: in terms of our education system, look no further than

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Speaker 3: this editorium inside of the Minnesota reformer Spencer Shrman in Rochester,

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Speaker 3: Minnesota based principal consultant and Education First, a national policy

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Speaker 3: and strategy organization, former chief of Innovation at the Rhode Island.

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Speaker 2: Department of Education.

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Speaker 3: Once again, a credibility statement on this individual that shows

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Speaker 3: you can be educated a lot and still be an idiot.

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Speaker 3: The title of this piece is see the whole ice

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Speaker 3: Berg Ice is in capital letters.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota. Students need resources to cope.

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Speaker 3: Spencer writes, large scale disruptions don't end when headlines do.

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Speaker 3: I learned that to doing the two other crises. I

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Speaker 3: served as a state education official during COVID nineteen and

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Speaker 3: as a teacher in posed to Katrina New Orleans. Let

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Speaker 3: me stop here because what he gets into and I

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Speaker 3: don't have time to get into the entirety of it,

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Speaker 3: so let's give you a kind of the bullet point version.

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Speaker 3: What he gets into here is equating Katrina and COVID

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Speaker 3: to Operation Metro Surge.

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Speaker 2: You know this, and I know this. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 2: it anyways.

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Speaker 3: Both of the events that he's using for reference were

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Speaker 3: natural disasters. He's essentially saying that the democrats overreaction is

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Speaker 3: akin to an unstoppable natural disaster because everything he lays

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Speaker 3: out in this is one hundred percent self inflicted. During

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Speaker 3: Operation Metro Surge, student absenteeism increased on a scale unseen

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Speaker 3: since COVID through the pandemic. Although the pandemic began nearly

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Speaker 3: six years ago, our students and schools have not yet recovered.

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Speaker 3: That has nothing to do with Operation Metro Surge. I

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Speaker 3: just want to point that out, and to the student

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Speaker 3: absenteeism increasing to a scale unseen while Operation Metro surg

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Speaker 3: was going on. That was also one hundred percent self inflicted.

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Speaker 3: I have no sympathy. The rate of chronic absenteeism today

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Speaker 3: is higher in every single state than it was before

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Speaker 3: the pandemic. Again, that's nothing to do with Operation Metro Surge.

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Speaker 3: Enrollment in public schools is down by one point two

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Speaker 3: million students, leading to a vicious cycle with reduced enrollment

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Speaker 3: driving funding cuts students. Test scores are far still far

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Speaker 3: below pre COVID levels, effectively wiping out more than fifteenth

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Speaker 3: worth of hard won education gains. All of that is true,

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Speaker 3: and it all was happening before Operation Metro Search, but

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Speaker 3: the COVID comparison doesn't quite capture the psychological impact of

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Speaker 3: students witnessing large scale instability in their communities and the

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Speaker 3: separation of families, again self inflicted. There's an easy solution

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Speaker 3: to everything that he's laying out in this For educators

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Speaker 3: and parents outside of targeted enforcement areas, it may be

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Speaker 3: tempting to believe that their students and children will not

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Speaker 3: be affected, but new research shows that inc