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Speaker 1: Hour two for a Thursday Why and by this morning

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Speaker 1: Quincy's News Talk from the sixty five to one carpet

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Speaker 1: Any of you of you have already this morning. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your emails. Also leave talkbacks. iHeartRadio apples are brought

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Speaker 1: those coming up here in just a moment. Wrapping up

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Speaker 1: the immigration coverage from last to hour, community activists masked

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Speaker 1: at the site of tuesday's federal rate at a business

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Speaker 1: in Saint Paul to hold a vigil for workers detained

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Speaker 1: by ICE and staye a press conference asking for answers.

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Speaker 1: We still don't know what these individuals were rested for,

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Speaker 1: beyond being here illegally, but it doesn't matter for these people.

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Speaker 1: The Immigration Defense Network gathered at Brotech's, Inc. A paper

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Speaker 1: and textile company. The organization is asking authorities this will

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Speaker 1: be the Immigration Defense Network the idea. They're asking for

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Speaker 1: clarity on the raid that took place on Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 1: ICE says I involved conducting search warrant connected to an

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Speaker 1: ongoing criminal investigation. The Immigration Defense Network wants to know

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Speaker 1: how many people were detained in the Tuesday morning rate

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Speaker 1: and what type of property was confiscated. Well, guess what,

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Speaker 1: it's none of your business. Among the speakers at the

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Speaker 1: gathering was Mayor elect Kohuli Hurr, who said that she

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Speaker 1: was not speaking from a political platform, but as somebody

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Speaker 1: who has lived the immigrant experience, and apparently so, she's also.

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Speaker 2: Claimed to be an illegal alien.

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Speaker 1: So perhaps she should sit this one out, or maybe

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Speaker 1: I should have a lengthy conversation with her. Might be

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Speaker 1: worth the time, you know, just like the conversation that

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Speaker 1: people should have with ilhan Omar's brother might also be

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Speaker 1: worth the time. Kahuli her said, when this happens to

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Speaker 1: our community, it's not just that they were detained and

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Speaker 1: released and that they will lose jobs and not to

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Speaker 1: be able to go to them. That they're families that

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Speaker 1: to be there to give them transportation to school do

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Speaker 1: not have them. There's a huge ripple effect when our

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Speaker 1: families are targeted in this way. Well, you know what,

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Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't make bad choices. Perhaps you shouldn't come

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Speaker 1: into the country illegally. Good people make bad choices. Good

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Speaker 1: people contributing to society in a positive way and to

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Speaker 1: their family make bad choices. We don't just dismiss those

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Speaker 1: bad choices suddenly because they happen to be doing some

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Speaker 1: good for their family and society. What other sectors in

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Speaker 1: life does that happen. I don't want to be too

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Speaker 1: redundant in my commentary, but again, an individual that gets

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Speaker 1: busted for a dui and gets locked up, who happens

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Speaker 1: to be a mother or a father of children and

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Speaker 1: can't go and continue to provide. I don't see a

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Speaker 1: lot of arguments from individuals, especially those on the left,

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Speaker 1: saying you can't go and put that person behind bars

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Speaker 1: for drinking and driving and putting the public at risk.

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Speaker 1: They're providing for their family and they have a job.

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Speaker 2: What is this supposed to happen now?

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Speaker 1: And consider for just a moment, as we go back

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Speaker 1: to Charlotte, North Carolina. The empty classrooms in Charlotte, North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: underscoring the number of individuals that are here in the

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Speaker 1: country illegally and how many children are here illegally from

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Speaker 1: those families occupying classrooms across the country. Here in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: not just in Charlotte, North Carolina. The state pays out

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Speaker 1: to pay for the education of illegal aliens. How many

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Speaker 1: of these schools need to remain open. I was just

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Speaker 1: texting with Melinda. There's a school that our kids went to,

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Speaker 1: my gosh, that school is closing. It's right in the

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Speaker 2: And then I realized, Oh.

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Speaker 1: People move into the community, people have children in that community,

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Speaker 1: Those kids go to the school in that community, and

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Speaker 1: And suddenly you have the community filled with empty nesters

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Speaker 1: and there's no need for that school anymore. So guess

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Speaker 1: what the school is closing down. How much of our

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Speaker 1: tax dollars could be saved if we if and when

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Speaker 1: But I'll just give you the headline, Minneapolis a wash

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Speaker 1: in empty schools. Minneapolis High schools alone have the space

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Speaker 1: for twelve eight hundred and forty one total students, yet

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Speaker 2: Maybe we need to start closing some schools down. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, we have all of these districts around

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Speaker 1: the state that are begging for more money from their constituents,

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Speaker 1: and their liberal voters are more than happy to go

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Speaker 1: costing you more in your property taxes.

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Speaker 2: And we'll get to that and coming up in just

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Speaker 2: a moment. Let me wrap up this article though.

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Speaker 1: Marco Hernandez, the outreach director for the Minnesota Attorney's Office,

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Speaker 1: regarding the raid that took place on Tuesday, spoke of

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Speaker 1: the tactics used by federal agents and the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: to strip away civil rights of those seeking status. The

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Speaker 1: conduct that we've seen around the country is disturbing. Mass

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Speaker 1: to agents have been tearing families apart and terrorizing communities.

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Speaker 1: It's just such ridiculous, over the top fear mongering rhetoric.

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Speaker 2: Terrorizing communities.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I go back to that article that I

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Speaker 1: patrol officers Rome Charlotte looking for people to detain and report.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the images it conjures up. I keep saying

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Speaker 1: it's just propaganda. The operation was one of several by

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Speaker 1: ICE agents in recent months that have community organizers concerned.

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Speaker 2: Now it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It has these community organizers salivating at the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: for that they don't genuinely care about Carol Levin spoke

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Speaker 1: sheriff James Stewart on the rise of ICE activity in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: and he maintains that we're moving undocumented immigrants is something

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Speaker 1: that's been going on for years.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 1: It's sad to me it's become such a political device,

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Speaker 1: and tragically we're getting too much bystander involvement that is

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Speaker 2: It's not that they're enforcing.

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Speaker 1: The law and holding people accountable for coming into the

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Speaker 1: the problems. And as that individual just mentioned, he's right

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Speaker 1: if you go back and look, I just been conducting.

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Speaker 2: All kinds of operations in the state. They always have.

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Speaker 1: You rarely hear about them unless it is an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for the activist organizations to grab onto it because it

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Speaker 2: Are suddenly interested in.

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Speaker 1: And you can just roll in the Epstein commentary from

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Speaker 2: Coming up.

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Speaker 1: You want to know why there are a record number

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Speaker 1: of individuals that are running to be the nominee for

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Speaker 1: Republicans against Governor Tim Wallas. It's because he's vulnerable. That's why.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say upfront, though, there is no

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Speaker 1: perfect GOP candidate out there, and people need to get

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Speaker 1: that through. They need to understand. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: that they can look at it and go, that's the one.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's not gonna happen, guys.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't. That's not how any of this of this works.

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Speaker 1: I get sick and tired of see people, see people disparaging.

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Speaker 2: H Walls is just gonna win. Anyways, All these candidates suck.

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Speaker 2: Coming up with that from Alpha News.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and their twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: Business Benchmarks published it yesterday. Minnesota's economy has fallen behind

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Speaker 1: on nearly every measure of growth except for one, and

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Speaker 1: it's not a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Janitch here. So speaking of ice in their raids,

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Speaker 3: I was in downtown Austin, South Austin, Texas yesterday went

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Speaker 3: to Home DEEPOT. There's usually one hundred illegal ilion day

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Speaker 3: labors in the parking lot. There were none. They were calm,

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Speaker 3: so they're not hanging out at Home Deep anymore looking

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Speaker 3: for work. So anyway, just to be news.

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Speaker 2: Here Twin City's News Talk.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the talkback brought to you by Lindahl

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Speaker 1: Realty here on Twin City's News Talk from the sixty

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Speaker 2: All right, so let's get into this.

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Speaker 1: I only laughed because it would be unbecoming for me

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Speaker 1: to cry on the air. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

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Speaker 1: and their twenty twenty six Business Benchmarks Report published yesterday

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Speaker 1: annual review it paints a gloomy picture of Minnesota's economy.

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Speaker 1: Doug Lone, CEO of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, says

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Speaker 1: that our state has fallen behind on nearly every measure

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Speaker 1: of growth. From twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four. Minnesota

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Speaker 1: ranked thirty third in GDP, thirty ninth in job growth,

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Speaker 1: fortieth in labor force growth, forty six in growth of real.

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Speaker 2: Median household income.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, more people are leaving our state than moving here

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Speaker 1: now what's interesting about that.

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Speaker 2: There's one metric.

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Speaker 1: That was actually positive, and it's the one relating to

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Speaker 1: the population in the state, which has remained stable for

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Speaker 1: one particular reason. But it's not necessarily good news. The

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Speaker 1: Chambers report noted that Minnesota ranks.

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Speaker 2: Forty fourth for overall.

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Speaker 1: Tax competitiveness, with the second highest corporate rate and the

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Speaker 1: sixth highest personal income tax rate. Let me do a

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Speaker 1: quick just perusal here live on the air, because they

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Speaker 1: whether or not. So I'm over on the Star Tribune

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Speaker 1: see Star Tribune lead story leaders of a Duluth church

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Speaker 1: community enabled a child abuser through forgive and Forget sessions.

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Speaker 1: Got a story about Sarah mclaughlan's Lilith Fair opening doors

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Speaker 1: for Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at all the headlines on the home

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Speaker 1: Foreign firms, high dollar investment to Minnesota, startup, nightmare restaurants

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Speaker 1: charging fees. I don't see anything about the Chamber of

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Speaker 1: through lockdowns, now we're fighting for gun safety laws.

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Speaker 2: We've got that.

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Speaker 1: Uh, let's see, no nothing there, all right, So let's

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Speaker 1: go over to let's see what the Pioneer Press has

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Speaker 1: to say regarding this. Their lead story. Immigrant group confirms

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Speaker 1: too were detained during Saint Paul business. Checking for more

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Speaker 1: regarding the ice rates, We've got a story from the

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Speaker 1: University of Minnesota. Walmart raises profit expectations, Joe Biden's attending

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Speaker 1: Dick Cheney's schunerals. Still nothing on this Minnesota paid family

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Speaker 1: But what happened to us being a sanctuary refuge, a

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Speaker 2: You know, it's almost as if a whole bunch.

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Speaker 1: that's called fraud. Minnesota's economy has fallen behind on nearly

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Speaker 4: I will bet you the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, like

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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, John. I have to assume, but we

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Speaker 2: Growth, right right?

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Speaker 5: Come on, we have to be with everything we did,

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Speaker 5: we have to be first in something. I know Minnesota

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Speaker 1: It is not on my Minnesota Chamber of Commerce list here,

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Speaker 6: At this point in Minnesota politics, a loaf of dry

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Speaker 6: Democrats in the States do not like people. They never

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Speaker 1: And before I move on to the other items for

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Speaker 1: More announcements are going to be made. There was somebody

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Speaker 2: Is that a bad thing?

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Speaker 1: What is a bad thing is the prevailing narrative among

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, your perfect GOP candidate.

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Speaker 2: Does not exist. They just don't. I understand the desire.

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Speaker 1: When you're up against somebody like Governor Tim Walls, he

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Speaker 2: He was the VP pick. So even with an individual

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Speaker 2: Choose the individual you want to support. Support that person.

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Speaker 1: Don't disparage your fellow Republican, your fellow Conservative, if they

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Speaker 1: Frustrated as you get for your friend who may not

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Speaker 2: And I would not be surprised, and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: This would mean that the news that I shared with

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Speaker 2: Emerge to challenge him.

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Speaker 1: At a minimum, as I mentioned, I just want to

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Speaker 3: Born in John Jim from Oakdale. Great show as usual. Hey,

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Speaker 2: Thanks well, and again, listen, I love Walter.

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Speaker 2: If Walter Hudson.

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Speaker 2: And that's my point.

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Speaker 1: He's no less a perfect candidate or more of a

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Speaker 1: support them, but do not tear anybody else down in

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Speaker 1: the process. John Feelin, at Center of the American Experiment,

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Speaker 2: I want to share with you a couple of points

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Speaker 1: Yesterday he covered why are property taxes going up? He writes, Previously,

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Speaker 2: Under the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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Speaker 1: Signed in the law in July, state governments would be

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Speaker 1: required to cover fifteen percent of that. The bill also

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Speaker 1: cut federal reimbursement that states received to administer the program

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Speaker 1: from fifty to twenty five percent to administer the program

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Speaker 1: to do the work of doling out the money. Minnesota

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Speaker 1: is particularly vulnerable to some other OBBB provisions. Were one

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Speaker 1: of less than ten states where counties administer Medicaid and SNAP.

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Speaker 2: The OBBB.

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Speaker 1: The One Big Beautiful Bill added a work requirement for Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: which workers will have to verify, and counties will also

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Speaker 1: have to review eligibility twice a year instead of once.

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Speaker 2: Julie Ring, the executive director.

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Speaker 1: Of the Association of Minnesota Counties, said, it's pretty simple math.

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Speaker 1: They've doubled the workload. The Minnesota Reformer puts it this way.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Department of Human Services is estimating that administering

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Speaker 1: the new Medicaid work requirements will cost the state, county,

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Speaker 1: and tribes one hundred and sixty five million dollars annually.

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Speaker 1: The new Medicaid eligibility checks will cost another five million.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Family estimates that

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Speaker 1: the state and counties will lose thirty nine million a

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Speaker 1: year and snap federal administration funding and increased workloads to

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Speaker 1: push that number higher. Now. John Feelan goes on to

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Speaker 1: say there are measures besides tax hikes which can mitigate

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Speaker 1: all of this. Ideally, we would deal with doubling of

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Speaker 1: the by increasing the amount of work done within a

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Speaker 1: given set of resources.

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Speaker 2: There's ways to do this. In Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You look to improve labor productivity of welfare workers. But

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Speaker 1: then we also run into the situation that a majority

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Speaker 1: of these government entities wherein they have to do the

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Speaker 1: work they're working off of antiquated equipment. Dakota County officials

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Speaker 1: were asked for a rough estimate of any efficiency costs,

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Speaker 1: and they said it's not possible to measure them all,

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Speaker 1: but they gave examples of the inefficiencies occurring in programs

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Speaker 1: using these outdated computers. So staffers who are there to

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Speaker 1: help Minnesotas are spending days battling systemic slowness, endless workarounds,

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Speaker 1: the need to enter duplicate information, or the inability to

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Speaker 1: add personal information that could change benefit eligibility. The MAXIS

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Speaker 1: program requires fluency in cryptic keyboard commands because it's so

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Speaker 1: old it doesn't allow for a computer mouse to.

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Speaker 2: Move the cursor around.

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Speaker 1: Modernizing these systems will require an investment, but in the

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Speaker 1: genuine sense of the word, not as a disguise for spending.

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Speaker 1: So basically, in part one of what John Feeling lays

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Speaker 1: out here, it's antiquated equipment and workloads that are causing,

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Speaker 1: in one way, counties across the state to go and

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Speaker 1: increase your property taxes to pay for it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know about you. I don't buy any

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Speaker 2: of it. I just don't I get it.

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Speaker 1: I know some of the numbers are here. I understand

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Speaker 1: the equipment. I think it's ridiculous that we haven't upgraded

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Speaker 1: this equipment. But really, this is one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why the changes in the one big Beautiful Bill that

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Speaker 1: require a more thorough go going through of the money

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Speaker 1: that's being distributed by the federal government is going to

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Speaker 1: cause so much extra work and doing that thing with

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Speaker 1: my fingers for government employees here in Minnesota, that these

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Speaker 1: counties are all going to go and jack up your

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Speaker 1: property taxes, it makes me wonder whether or not they

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Speaker 1: saw an opportunity to simply take more money from you,

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Speaker 1: And where is that money going to end up going

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Speaker 1: If they commit to making sure that your property tax

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Speaker 1: dollars that they are increasing to the tune of one

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Speaker 1: billion dollars next year, is actually going to go to

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Speaker 1: increase the workload or load or buy new equipment.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but it's going to follow up on that.

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Speaker 1: And with the amount of corruption that we've already seen

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Speaker 1: in the state, one would be stupid to not question

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Speaker 1: where that extra money coming in is actually going. He

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Speaker 1: has another piece out today, part two of why the

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Speaker 1: property taxes are rising. Yesterday he looked at the coming

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Speaker 1: from the federal action. As I just mentioned today, he

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Speaker 1: looks at the pressures coming from state government. So in

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Speaker 1: Ramsey County they improved a levy hike of nine point

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Speaker 1: seven percent, or thirty eight point six million. The Pioneer

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Speaker 1: Press reports the biggest drivers of expenses are unfunded mandates

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Speaker 1: from the State of Minnesota, employee compensation, and directing resources

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Speaker 1: to our core services and improving our organizational performance. This

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Speaker 1: is according to county manager Lynn ling Becker in September.

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Speaker 1: So what are unfunded mandates? A former Triton schools As

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Speaker 1: Superintendent Craig Schikta Ling explained in February in the Dodge

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Speaker 1: County Independent, unfunded mandate is any policy or requirement that

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Speaker 1: is created by legislation without sufficient funding to cover the

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Speaker 1: cost of implementation. One example of an unfunded mandate is

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Speaker 1: summer unemployment for our wage world workers who do not

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Speaker 1: work you around. I seem to recall talking about that

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Speaker 1: at length on the show in the past, and how

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Speaker 1: Republicans call that into question didn't matter though they were

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Speaker 1: ignored by Democrats. For the first to two years, the

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Speaker 1: state allocated one hundred and thirty five million toward unemployment

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Speaker 1: payments for those staff members, which is not enough to

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Speaker 1: cover the projected expense until twenty twenty seven, as the

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Speaker 1: money has already been estimated to run out before this

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Speaker 1: summer is over. This will end up costing the Triton

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Speaker 1: School District about fifty thousand dollars every single year. Oh

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Speaker 1: and then we get to paid family medical leave, paid

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Speaker 1: for through the employment tax of zero point seven percent

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Speaker 1: on wages, with the costs allowed to be shared between

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Speaker 1: employers and employees. There is no state aid to support

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Speaker 1: the increase for employers for the Triton School District. Again,

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Speaker 1: this increase is going to cost about twenty eight thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars per year when you start to look at the

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Speaker 1: combined impact of all the mandates and increased expenses at

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Speaker 1: the district. In this case, you have no choice but

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Speaker 1: to either cut staff or to ask the legislature for help.

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Speaker 1: In Scott County, which is proposing a roughly ten percent

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Speaker 1: hike on his property tax levies, the deputy county Administrator,

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Speaker 1: Dan Lentz told the Star Tribune the county has to

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Speaker 1: cover eight hundred and sixty four thousand in higher costs

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Speaker 1: from the state due to the new paid family leave

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Speaker 1: law and changes.

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Speaker 2: In social service programs.

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Speaker 1: So not only are you going to get screwed on

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Speaker 1: your paycheck because the government is forcing you to pay

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Speaker 1: for other individuals paid family medical leave, of which you

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Speaker 1: can just simply provide any excuse you'd like to go

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Speaker 1: and take that time off. So if you don't go

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Speaker 1: and take that time off, then you are paying for

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Speaker 1: somebody else's. Now you can go and take that time off,

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Speaker 1: but you do that to your own risk. Don't think

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Speaker 1: for a second that employers aren't going to be looking

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Speaker 1: at new hires and making sure that they are really

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Speaker 1: doing a deep.

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Speaker 2: Dive into this, into these individuals.

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Speaker 1: Who want to go and work for a particular business,

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Speaker 1: knowing that if they hire the wrong individual they could

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Speaker 1: absolutely go and take advantage of the paid family medical leave.

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Speaker 1: And this is before we even get to the concerns

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Speaker 1: of what it's going to do to businesses because of

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Speaker 1: the costs, well, you're going to have to shoulder some

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Speaker 1: of that cost in your rising property taxes next year.

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Speaker 1: Then you get to the issue of fraud, which is

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Speaker 1: where I want to go now from Fox nine. In

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Speaker 1: a matter of weeks, Minnesota will introduce a new paid

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Speaker 1: family medical leave program. The headline is Minnesota officials say

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Speaker 1: that they're prepared for paid leave rollout on January first.

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Speaker 1: That's probably the only truth here. They are prepared for

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Speaker 1: it to roll out, but it's still going to end

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Speaker 1: up being a disaster. The program, passed by the DFL

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Speaker 1: controlled legislature in twenty three provides twelve weeks of family

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Speaker 1: leave annually, twelve weeks of medical leave, or twenty weeks

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Speaker 1: for a combination of both. Every single time I read

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Speaker 1: how much time you can take off, I just want

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Speaker 1: to pull the gray hairs out of my head.

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Speaker 2: Given the scale of.

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Speaker 1: The more than six hundred million dollar program, state officials

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Speaker 1: in the Minnesota Department of Education and Economic Development say

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Speaker 1: there are safeguards in place to prevent the kind of

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Speaker 1: fraud seen in other areas of state government. It certainly

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it, and fraud is only the one

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Speaker 1: thing to be concerned about on this. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: start with the businesses themselves having to shoulder the.

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Speaker 2: Bird, and of the cost.

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Speaker 1: What that's going to do to your smaller businesses people

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of this, What that's going to do to

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Speaker 1: businesses and their productivity. Even before we get to fraud,

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Speaker 1: so sins we're talking about fraud.

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Speaker 2: Let's go there.

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Speaker 1: There was a meeting that took place Fraud Committee hearing

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Speaker 1: about the upcoming paid family medical Leave program. Here is

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Speaker 1: a one restaurant owner, Troy Reading, expressing concerns about preventing

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Speaker 1: fraud and misuse in Minnesota's paid family medical leave program.

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Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, Madam chair, Good morning members. My name is

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Speaker 7: Troy Reading. I own and operate Ally Restaurants, which operates

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Speaker 7: Holman's Table here in Saint Paul and Rocky Elm tavern

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Speaker 7: in Plymouth. We currently employ one hundred and five people

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Speaker 7: to operate our two locations and our food truck. We're

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Speaker 7: extremely proud of the culture we've built at Ally Restaurants,

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Speaker 7: providing our employees with a flexible and inclusive work of environment,

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Speaker 7: and offering healthcare, including mental health care that's fully funded

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Speaker 7: by us as the employer, with a robust PTO program

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Speaker 7: for our salary to back of those employees in an

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Speaker 7: opt out company matching for one k over time. I

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Speaker 7: have raised concerns with the implementation of paid Family leap program. Specifically,

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Speaker 7: I'm concerned at what protections are in place to prevent

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Speaker 7: fraud and how DEED will prevent misuse. A challenge we

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Speaker 7: have seen with earned sick and Safe time, which the

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Speaker 7: Department of Labor is working to address through rulemaking, is misuse.

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Speaker 7: For example, if we have an employee utilizing ESST, creating

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Speaker 7: a gap in our staff for the day, their colleagues

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Speaker 7: take on the responsibility will frustrating. This is generally short lived. However,

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Speaker 7: it impacts the trust on our team. For example, a

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Speaker 7: team member takes off for EST but is posting pictures

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Speaker 7: on social media traveling or not use e SST for

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Speaker 7: the intended purposes. My concerns with the paid family leave

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Speaker 7: and fraud stems from generally removing the employer from the

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Speaker 7: leave process. Now our employees will work directly with state

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Speaker 7: agency for extended periods of leave. We are concerned with

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Speaker 7: the mechanisms that will be in placed at THEED to

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Speaker 7: verify that employee is appropriately caring for the designated individual

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Speaker 7: on leave. What are the mechanisms in place to preclude

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Speaker 7: an individual from working a second job in Minnesota or

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Speaker 7: in another state as they are caring for their loved one.

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Speaker 7: How why is an employer be able to validate raise

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Speaker 7: abuse issues with the program. Will it mirror the UI

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Speaker 7: program where I have the ability to denign or rebut

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Speaker 7: the claim. Thank you, Madam Chair and Committee for your time.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I have more audio to share from that hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You are not going to want to miss coming up

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Speaker 1: on the show. But consider this. Consider how bad the

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Speaker 1: quality of education here is here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: How bad it is.

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Speaker 1: Graduation rates are up, but only because Governor Tim Walls

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Speaker 1: and his administration lowered the standards to increase the graduation rates. Well,

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Speaker 1: you and I both know that when it comes to

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Speaker 1: reading and math proficiency, half of the students that are

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Speaker 1: graduating don't know how to do either.

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Speaker 2: To the standards given, which aren't very high.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, you have the indoctrination taking place,

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Speaker 1: the critical race theory that's being implemented and already being

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Speaker 1: utilized within our schools, where too many of our future

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Speaker 1: workforce leaving high school. They're coming out of high school angry,

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Speaker 1: ready to do activism, hating Republicans, selfish in the way

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Speaker 1: that they view the world, believing that everything needs to

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Speaker 1: come to them, that they don't have to work hard

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Speaker 1: to achieve anything. Meritocracy has gone up in smoke under

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Speaker 1: Governor Tim Wallas's administration. And then these individuals are the

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Speaker 1: people that are going to need to be hired to

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Speaker 1: and yet they don't have the work ethic whatsoever. Now,

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Speaker 1: typically you go and develop that over time working for businesses.

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Speaker 2: But if you've gone through.

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Speaker 1: A quality education, even before you get to those first jobs,

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Speaker 1: you should already have instilled a sense of wanting to

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Speaker 1: do a good job, personal responsibility, and accountability. But we've

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Speaker 1: nuked those things, well, not we, not you, not me,

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Speaker 1: not Republicans, Democrats have. So these young people that are

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Speaker 1: going to be hired at these gigs, at these jobs

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Speaker 1: underpaid family medical leave, do you really think they're going

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Speaker 1: to have the level of respect they need for that

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Speaker 1: to be paid even for a fraction a portion of

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Speaker 1: what they typically get paid and get twenty the twenty

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Speaker 1: weeks off a year. Right, more audio coming up. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to your talkbacks as well. I want to sneak

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Speaker 1: one in here. We had a comment that rolled into

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app Talkbacks brought to you by Lyndahl Realty.

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Speaker 1: This was going back to the property tax increase and

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Speaker 1: how the workload coming from the one big beautiful bill

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Speaker 1: relating to Medicaid, how that's increasing causing you to have

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Speaker 1: to pay more because people in the government are simply

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Speaker 1: going to have to work harder.

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Speaker 8: You don't have no sympathy none whatsoever with the increased

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Speaker 8: workload and cost for these departments. Not when we watch

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Speaker 8: nineteen billion dollar surplus disappear for relatively nothing, When we've

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Speaker 8: got a billion dollar plus Senate office building that never

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Speaker 8: needed to be built. The way they waste money in

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Speaker 8: this state, it's hard to find any sympathy for these

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Speaker 8: departments and these groups that are complaining