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Speaker 1: Our three on your election day Twin Cities News Talk

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Speaker 1: Am eleven thirty one oh three five FM from the

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Speaker 1: six five to one carpet Next Day Install studios the

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Speaker 1: Enoka Hennepinn school district. I've seen a rise in school

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Speaker 1: race spending. They're not the only one. I'll bring you

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Speaker 1: the story here in just a moment from Fox nine.

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Speaker 1: We have highly contested school board races taking place one

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Speaker 1: in Prior Lake. A clear distinction between the two candidates.

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Speaker 1: You have Dustin Smith endorsed by the school Board Integrity Project,

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Speaker 1: and then you have John Conlin endorsed by the Minnesota Parents' Alliance.

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Speaker 1: You can tell by my inflection which one that I

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Speaker 1: rolled with, right? That wasn't obvious at Students' first pls

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Speaker 1: local parent had put together their local voter decoder. You

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Speaker 1: can see the clear difference between the candidates there. Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Parents Alliance, if you do a Google search on them,

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Speaker 1: will provide you a lot of information as as well.

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Speaker 1: You see John Conlin has stated that he supports, for example,

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Speaker 1: protecting girls in girls' sports. Dustin Smith has stated that

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Speaker 1: telling a student they do not belong in a space

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Speaker 1: that gives them joy is fundamentally wrong. If that's the

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Speaker 1: way that Dustin Smith worded it, that is a very

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Speaker 1: clever way to dance around the issue in and of itself.

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Speaker 1: I think John Conlin, in my opinion, would be the

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Speaker 1: preferred candidate and also endorsed by Minnesota Parents. Alliance goes

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Speaker 1: a long way. Now we'll talk with Matt Addett running

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Speaker 1: in the Anoka had it been school district races coming

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Speaker 1: up just after eight fifteen this morning.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I want to welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Justin middaw Justin Middaugh running for school Board ISD six

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Speaker 1: twenty two Maplewood, Oakdale, north of Saint Paul, little bit

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Speaker 1: of Woodbury as well. Thank you so much for coming

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Speaker 1: on the show this morning. Justin is great to speak

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Speaker 3: Great thanks for having me for those.

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Speaker 1: That again we're talking about these local races. Give us

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Speaker 1: a little bit of your background. I know it goes

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Speaker 1: beyond you running for school board. You've been involved in

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Speaker 1: politics for a while. Give us a little bit of

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Speaker 1: your story. Justin midde.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm a small business owner and you know,

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Speaker 3: like a lot of us here, you know, I'm like,

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Speaker 3: I'm a small business owner like Akay, of course, and

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Speaker 3: you know we're we're you know, we're out here watching

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Speaker 3: everything that's been going on in Minnesota. Of course, So

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Speaker 3: I got involved. Probably I've been involved in legislate it

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Speaker 3: stuff before with some probles the right stuff back in

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Speaker 3: the day, but recently, probably about three four years ago,

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Speaker 3: I started to getting really involved to find out what

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Speaker 3: is going on with our children? Why are they Why

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Speaker 3: is first of all, why is there's such a high

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Speaker 3: mental health uh situation going on with our children? They

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Speaker 3: keep telling us about mental health, you need more health services.

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Speaker 3: And I'm more like, let's find out why why are

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Speaker 3: our children having such a couple of times and having

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Speaker 3: a hard time in this day and age. So I

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Speaker 3: just started running in twenty twenty four. I ran last

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Speaker 3: year and it was my first time running for anything,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, hey, school board, you know, it's nonpartisan,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty probably pretty simple, it's very local. I'll be

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Speaker 3: able to get out meet parents and teachers and get

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Speaker 3: out my community and you know, just try to figure

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Speaker 3: out how we can fix some of these things in

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Speaker 3: our schools. And I was also helping out a legislative

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Speaker 3: a candidate as well last year, and I found out

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Speaker 3: that hers was way less political than mine. My school

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Speaker 3: board race was so political is unbelievable. So I started

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Speaker 3: I see people say, well, vote for my opponent because

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Speaker 3: the teachers are backing him and he's supported by the teachers.

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Speaker 3: And my question is are they really supported by the teachers,

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Speaker 3: because when I talk to teachers, they tell me ninety

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Speaker 3: trying to figure out how we have solutions to fix those,

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Speaker 3: such as maybe having consequences for troubled students. Again, we

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Speaker 3: But what I'm finding is the unions don't want that.

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Speaker 3: They don't want change. They want everything the same. They're

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Speaker 3: That's not how this works. So when someone says the

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Speaker 3: So when we meet with the union numbers, there's like

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Speaker 3: then a few of the stewards from the schools, you know,

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Speaker 3: so there are few teachers there. And they called me

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Speaker 3: great job. You said some things that were spot on.

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Speaker 3: It was a really tough decision this year, but we

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Speaker 3: me and another opponent. And he said, again, you did

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Speaker 3: better than last year. You were spot on. Everything you

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Speaker 3: said was spot on, but we're going to still vote

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Speaker 3: for your opponents. So my point is that teachers don't

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Speaker 3: really endorse the candidates. It's the unions. And then you

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Speaker 3: start looking at the money. We started following the money,

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Speaker 3: and my question is why is education MINESDA spending thousands

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Speaker 3: They're not a local union. But Darian, they got their

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Speaker 3: the teachers. I would actually love to be in front

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Speaker 3: what I'm finding. Well, we're goingning tons of money to

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Speaker 3: beat anyone that's just a normal guy, a normal person,

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Speaker 3: a regular person that wants to serve their community, you know,

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Speaker 3: So but yeah, what's your questions for me?

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Speaker 1: Well, no, with with that again, talking with justin mid

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Speaker 1: we're going to be getting into the funding and how

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Speaker 1: much money is being spent on these school board races.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking time out this morning to join us.

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Speaker 1: And for those that are in the area where they

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Speaker 2: You're running for school board ISD six twenty.

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Speaker 3: That'd be great. I really need your vote so that

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Speaker 3: we can show these unions that money doesn't actually buy

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Speaker 3: the board numbers, because if they're buying the board numbers,

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Speaker 3: they're literally buying the board numbers that are going to

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Speaker 3: negotiate their future contracts. So think about that. They're buying

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Speaker 3: exactly who they want in the board, so if they

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Speaker 3: little pie charts. I want to see what we could

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Speaker 3: pescibly cut. We have a huge levey that they want

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Speaker 3: to go from two hundred to twelve hundred dollars per

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Speaker 3: And so if you want to, we really need your help.

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Speaker 3: I could use your vote. You can vote for me

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Speaker 3: if you're in Maplewood nor Saint Paul, Oakdale and they're

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Speaker 3: who you are. So I thank you all for your

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Speaker 2: Time justin Midde.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support of the show

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Speaker 1: and for calling in this morning. Good luck in your race,

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Speaker 1: and today, thank you so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, John good sare coming up.

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Speaker 1: A handful of school board races on the ballot this

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Speaker 1: year in Minnesota, Kerry growing concerns about big spending in

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Speaker 1: races that are supposed to be officially non partisan. Fox

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Speaker 1: nine took a look at this. We'll share with you

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Speaker 1: a bit of the story, but listen, the big reason

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Speaker 1: why there's a lot of spending on these races schools especially,

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Speaker 1: is because it's crucial for Democrats right now to indoctrinate

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Speaker 1: You had a Minnesota school board group saying that being

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Speaker 1: neutral is harmful in the classroom. I said it so

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Speaker 1: many times on the show. It used to be arguments

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Speaker 1: Where you have founders and executive directors of school board

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Speaker 1: school board candidate, Matt Audette, running in a very hotly

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Speaker 1: From the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios,

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Speaker 1: Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty one oh three

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Speaker 1: school board races. We have the race we were talking about

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Speaker 1: a moment ago in prior Lake. You know, two different

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Speaker 1: candidates and Dustin Smith endorsed by the school Board Integrity

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Speaker 1: John wants to protect girls in girls sports. Dustin stated

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Speaker 1: that telling a student they do not belong in a

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Speaker 1: space that gives them joy is fundamentally wrong. Before we

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Speaker 1: a talkback regarding that particular statement from the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 4: John John just addressing the quote that I think is

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Speaker 4: from a school board candidate as far as big being

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Speaker 4: wrong to tell someone they don't belong somewhere that provides

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Speaker 4: them joy, Where does that end? And how about the

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Speaker 4: joy of all the others being taken away for the

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter for the sake of the agenda. I

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Speaker 1: know you know that we had another comment that rolled in.

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Speaker 1: same lines. I mean, that whole idea of you know,

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Speaker 1: preventing a student from being in a space that brings

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Speaker 5: Is anybody else confused about why these schools are putting

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, why why is there so much focus

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Speaker 6: Well, in our in our district in particular, being the

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling about things today?

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Speaker 6: I'm feeling good. You know, I've had a lot of support.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those get those other candidates a bit of a

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Speaker 6: Sure. So we've got Tiffany Strabolo's who's running in Southern

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Speaker 1: Well, if you're if you're in any of these areas Anoka, Hennepin,

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Speaker 6: I actually voted early and I was the I was

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Speaker 1: The well, I I hope that's a that's a harbinger

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Speaker 1: I want to get to a few of your your talkbacks.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that Fox nine story coming up in

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Speaker 1: a bit. Share with you in Okahannapen districts. She's a

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Speaker 7: Good morning. I just wanted to say that on my ballot,

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Speaker 8: Good morning, John? Encourageable here. I know for a fact

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Speaker 8: It's important to know that this is all done simply

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Speaker 1: Hard Radio, a national organization focused on training and electing

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Speaker 1: I can believe it. Twin Cities News Talk from the

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Speaker 2: My name is John Justice.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with the show this

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Speaker 1: morning on this election day. As I mentioned, expect your

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Speaker 1: Education Minnesota's Pack and other progressive DFL aligned packs. You see,

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Speaker 1: but when the left does it is perfectly acceptable. Kristen

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Speaker 1: Shut attempts to justify her outside spending by arguing that

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Speaker 1: it is modest compared to the amounts spent by other groups.

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Speaker 2: The Midwest Values Pack.

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Speaker 1: Whose mission is to support progressive Democrats, contributed forty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to the school Board Integrity Pack from twenty four

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Speaker 1: to twenty five. Other contributions came in from the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: DFL Senate Central Committee. The left Landing Majority Rules organization

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Speaker 1: also consis that there's dollars the funders of the school

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Speaker 1: Board Integrity Project spend. In fact, Education Minnesota's Pack admitted

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Speaker 1: in July to taking over one hundred thousand dollars from

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Speaker 1: both their national affiliates, the National Education Association the NEA

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Speaker 1: and the AFT the American Federation of Teachers to influence

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Speaker 1: school board elections. Candidates affiliated with the school Board Integrity

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Speaker 1: Project include Abby Payer, who was running against incumbent Matt Audit,

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Speaker 1: who we just had on She recently posted a YouTube

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Speaker 1: video titled our schools are Not for Sale, stating that

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Speaker 1: enormous amounts of money are being poured into our local

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Speaker 1: school board elections, but is silent on the dollars spent

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Speaker 1: on school board races by the organization she has aligned

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Speaker 1: with and its political affiliates. For example, the Enoke Hennepin

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Speaker 1: Education political Fund spent over twelve thousand dollars just on

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Speaker 1: postcards for Matt Addebt's challenger. The school Board Integrity Project's

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Speaker 1: recent stance on neutrality in the classroom and from school

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Speaker 1: board members raises serious questions. If neutrality is dismissed as

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Speaker 1: impossible or undesirable, what replaces it and who gets to

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Speaker 1: decide That.

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Speaker 2: Catherine's absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: With organizations and groups on both ends of the political spectrum,

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Speaker 1: either directly or indirectly spending to influence outcomes, communities face

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Speaker 1: a dilemma. Some argue that since politics has entered the arena,

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Speaker 1: all sides should have equal freedom to organize, spend money,

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Speaker 1: campaign openly under partisan manners. Others contend that introducing limits

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Speaker 1: on spending and partisan activity is the only way to

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Speaker 1: restore the original nonpartisan spirit of school board elections. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: communities must decide whether to embrace the new reality or

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Speaker 1: regulate it fairly, or to take other deliberate steps to

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Speaker 1: isolate education from partisanship all together.

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Speaker 2: It's all become political. It's all become political, and.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats have been incredibly effective of pushing back on

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Speaker 1: individuals that want to remove the politics from it by

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Speaker 1: making anything that you wouldn't remove suddenly now turn you

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Speaker 1: into the horrible, awful person. So they don't frame the

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ issues, what they put up on the walls in

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Speaker 1: the classroom, what they teach, the focus on identity, because

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Speaker 1: they don't see anything wrong with it. They don't see

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Speaker 1: that it's politicized. And if you go and push back

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Speaker 1: against it, well then again you are the homophobic bigot.

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Speaker 1: Now regarding the money that's been rolling in, Fox nine

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Speaker 1: has a piece this morning a handful of school board races,

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Speaker 1: growing concerns about big spending in races that are officially

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Speaker 1: supposed to be nonpartisans we've been talking about. Here's a

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Speaker 1: bit of the story from Fox nine.

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Speaker 9: Teacher's union president in the state's largest school district says

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Speaker 9: the amount of money flooding into the anka hand of

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Speaker 9: been school board race is concerning.

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Speaker 10: For Union has often spent money on elections in the past,

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Speaker 10: but ultimately we are the teachers of the district and

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Speaker 10: are locally based. This election, one thing that's really different

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Speaker 10: is we're seeing lots of money coming from across the

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Speaker 10: state and even outside of the states into this race.

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Speaker 9: Let's see what's happening in this.

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Speaker 2: Odd year election.

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Speaker 9: Twenty one of the three hundred and thirty one school

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Speaker 9: districts are holding regular elections. We took a look at

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Speaker 9: campaign finance records. Recent reports show that Excellence Minnesota, associated

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Speaker 9: at the same Wyzetta address as Minnesota Parents Alliance that

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Speaker 9: backs more conservative leaning candidates, has spent over one hundred

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Speaker 9: thousand dollars in various school board races across the state.

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Speaker 9: According to their website, they prioritize student achievement and excellence

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Speaker 9: above politics and bureaucracy. Theanoka Hanna Been school board race

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Speaker 9: has been a focus for donors. The six member school

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Speaker 9: board has been split on hot button issues, and this

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Speaker 9: selection could shift that balance as candidates face off over

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Speaker 9: three of the six seats. The executive director of Minnesota

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Speaker 9: school Boards Association, a nonprofit that represents all the school

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Speaker 9: districts in the state, says they've seen heightened interest in

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Speaker 9: school board races coming out of the pandemic. Their advice

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Speaker 9: for voters is to do their research before heading.

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Speaker 2: To the polls.

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Speaker 11: I think it's very important not only to understand the

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Speaker 11: issues on which the candidates are running, but also the

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Speaker 11: complete package. Know what the candidates are bringing with them,

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Speaker 11: perhaps as well as the issues that they're either supporting

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Speaker 11: or opposing.

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Speaker 9: And we've reached out to Minnesota Parents Alliance for comment

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Speaker 9: on the matter and have not heard back yet. Polls

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Speaker 9: close at eight pm tomorrow. Reporting in studios, So Young

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Speaker 9: Kim Fox nine.

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Speaker 1: Again Foxe with the story regarding the funding and there's

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Speaker 1: a broader comment Terry. And it's a nice bookend to

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Speaker 1: the show today as we get ready to wrap things

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Speaker 1: up here on Twin City's News Talk and it's where

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Party is. We played you the audio earlier.

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Speaker 1: Here's just a snippet from CNN.

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Speaker 12: Democrats at this point are historically divided. It is a

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Speaker 12: complete and utter mess. It is messier than a hoarter's basement.

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Speaker 12: What are we talking about here? The national early poll

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Speaker 12: leader twenty five percent plus. Normally that's where Democrats are.

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Speaker 12: Biden was twenty five percent plus in twenty twenty, Hillary

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Speaker 12: Clinton was in eight and sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Gore was a to o four. At this particular point.

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Speaker 12: There is no one, no one in the Democratic race

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Speaker 12: for president who's polling at twenty five percent plus.

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Speaker 2: The water is quite warm.

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Speaker 12: If you're a Democrat potentially thinking about running in twenty

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Speaker 12: twenty eight, jump right in because at this point there

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Speaker 12: is no front runner.

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Speaker 1: It goes on to talk about just how out of

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Speaker 1: touch Democrats continued to be even with their own base

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Speaker 1: of voters. They'll continue to have success because of what

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Party has become. They're not issues based anymore.

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Speaker 1: It is nothing but one hundred percent opposition to Republicans.

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Speaker 1: Vilify and demonize your enemy while making sure that your

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Speaker 1: base is scared to go and vote for anybody other

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Speaker 1: than a Democrat. And when it comes to the funding

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Speaker 1: in our schools, they need to get to the children

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Speaker 1: as early as possible and doctrinate them into the progressive policies.

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Speaker 1: Strain those children's relationships with their parents, make them angry,

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Speaker 1: have them focused on identity, turning away from God. If

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Speaker 1: they were even given that foundation to work from basically

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Speaker 1: making them their own little gods, saying that this will

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Speaker 1: go and make you happy, your identity will go and

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Speaker 1: make you happy. For Dems to increase the possibility of

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Speaker 1: election victories in the future, these are the tactics that

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Speaker 1: they are taking.

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Speaker 2: They'll win, hopefully not majorities.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully not when we get to the larger elections again

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Speaker 1: next year. But they'll have some victories today. And again

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting a lot of stock in those victories

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Speaker 1: the amount of money that's pouring into the school districts

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Speaker 1: for this very reason, because if they end up having

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Speaker 1: majorities of conservatives and what are supposed to be non

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Speaker 1: partisan races, they are going to start removing the ways

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Speaker 1: in which they and doctor Nath the children and therefore

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Speaker 1: the higher probability that they won't win elections in the future.

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Speaker 1: Before we wrap things up today, I do need to

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Speaker 1: get to our talk back of the day.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit late on this.

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Speaker 13: Hey, good morning John Dan reporting from Liberal Lakes on

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Speaker 13: election day, where I'll be going in to vote for

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Speaker 13: a week ineffective man baby mom jeans and hopes to

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Speaker 13: keep the socialist con artists out of office.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Let's go.

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Speaker 1: That is your talk back of the day, brought to

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Speaker 1: Congratulations Dan, When did let's go make it a reappearance?

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Speaker 1: By the way, I've hearing that everywhere now and is

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Speaker 1: driving me nuts. No offense to Dan, Melinda, and I've

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Speaker 1: been watching amazing race and every single time they show

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Speaker 1: any of the competitors, they are doing the let's go

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Speaker 1: Like I just it, it made a return.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. I didn't know it laught.

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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe that's my problem like that, let's go, Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: let's not, let's not do that. Speaking of the mayoral race,

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Speaker 1: before we wrap things up today, Representative Tom Emmer had

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Speaker 1: some spicy words relating to Chuck Schumer, Zohra Mamdani, and

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Speaker 1: Omar Fate.

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Speaker 14: They shut the government down to pick a fight with

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Speaker 14: President Trump and to score points with Kami Mandami and

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Speaker 14: Omar Fada, the Omar Fada wing of their party. The

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Speaker 14: Democrats have become kamikazi politicians who are so focused on

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Speaker 14: winning some kind of political game that they've justified blowing

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Speaker 14: up everything in their wake, including the livelihoods of their

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Speaker 14: own constituents. Democrats Senator John Fetterman said it best on

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Speaker 14: CNN yesterday. Quote, we are hurting the very people that

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Speaker 14: we fight for, and now we're getting nothing for them

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Speaker 14: if we continue to keep our government shut down.

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Speaker 6: Quote. This is wrong.

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Speaker 14: He went on to say, and he's exactly right.

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Speaker 11: Everybody living in ann and Dale School District get out

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Speaker 11: and vote tonight.

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Speaker 2: They wanted Jackie taxes up again.

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Speaker 6: Read for bodies.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you get out and vote that referendum.

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Speaker 4: Dog and a big thank you to all those who

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Speaker 4: go and do.

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Speaker 1: Still, thank you for the talk back. Get out and

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Speaker 1: vote today tomorrow on the show. Newly announced gubernatorial candidate

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Speaker 1: Lisa Damith will be joining me in studio.

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Speaker 2: At seven to thirty tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: Also should be talking with Liz Collin from Alphanows at

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Speaker 1: a thirty plus whatever election results we have, I will

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Speaker 1: share those with you when the show gets underway just

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Speaker 1: after six o'clock. If you missed any portion of today's show,

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Speaker 1: be sure to check out the podcast.

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Speaker 2: That's available up on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have yourself a fantastic election day again,

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Speaker 1: Get out to vote. Thank you to Brett. I'll see

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Speaker 1: you when I see you, my friend, and I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.

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Speaker 7: Bye call hell yeah.

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Speaker 9: He