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Speaker 1: Governor Reavers delivers his State of this State address, while

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell show, Welcome to it. We also

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Speaker 1: And finally, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has died today, a

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Speaker 1: Chris Taylor, State Supreme Court judicial candidate is desperately trying

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Speaker 4: Hey, Chaz, I just wanted to throw my two cents and.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there, we gotcha, there, we gotcha. What's going on? Chaz?

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Speaker 4: So I want to just put my two cents in

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Speaker 1: Well, I think everybody needs to have these conversations. And

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Speaker 1: news article on a website or on Reddit about Treasury

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Speaker 1: Secretary Scott Bessont just getting confirmed, and then switched his

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, we also learned that Nicholas John Rosky,

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Speaker 1: who was arrested in June of twenty twenty two near

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland armed with

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Speaker 1: in fact now transgender, identifying as a woman named Sophie Rosky.

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Speaker 1: You might remember Roski traveled all the way from California

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Speaker 1: with the intent to kill Brett Kavanaugh. After the draft

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Speaker 1: opinion in the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked,

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Speaker 1: he was furious about that. He was trying to stop

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Speaker 1: roe V Wade from being overturned, so he went all

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Speaker 1: the way across the country. Fortunately, had a rare moment

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Speaker 1: of lucidity and actually called nine to one to one

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Speaker 1: on himself. That was back in twenty twenty two. He

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Speaker 1: has apparently been living as a woman in federal prison

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Speaker 1: ever since. Now, if this seems like a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of high profile transviolence lately, you're right it does, especially

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Speaker 1: because people who suffer from true gender dysphoria are only

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Speaker 1: about zero point five percent of the American population. Twice

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Speaker 1: in two weeks you have a transgender woman aka a

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Speaker 1: man who thinks he's a woman committed an extreme act

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Speaker 1: of violence, not just in the United States, but in

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Speaker 1: Canada as well. And while it is true that acts

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Speaker 1: of extreme violence committed by transgender individuals are rare, so

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Speaker 1: too are such extreme acts of violence committed by the

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Speaker 1: general public. The fact that the general public is ninety

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Speaker 1: nine point five percent of all of the people in

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Speaker 1: said public and transgender individuals are about zero point five percent.

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Speaker 1: I think it is worth asking exactly what is going

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Speaker 1: on in the transgender community. We will attempt to answer

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Speaker 1: that question using facts in science. What is the state

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Speaker 1: of the state really? Governor Eavers is of course going

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Speaker 1: to paint a much rosier picture after eight years of

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Speaker 1: his leadership, but we're going to dive into what the

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Speaker 1: stats actually say, and we're going to talk with Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Manufacturers and Commerce Scott Manly about one of the most

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Speaker 1: important studies that I think has been done in the

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Speaker 1: last decade about just how uncompetitive Wisconsin has become under

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Speaker 1: Tony Evers leadership. That is coming up in the five

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. Is there something innate in transgender ideology that

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Speaker 1: makes transgender people seemingly prone to acts of extreme violence?

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss in just a second. First, though, it's time

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Speaker 1: to name the unhinged liberal of the name.

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Speaker 7: We are in pre Nazi Germany's dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 1: America. You want to talk about transgender people who are

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Speaker 1: prone to violence, or at least violent fantasies. Today's unhinged

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Speaker 1: liberal of the day is this person who identifies on

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Speaker 1: TikTok as quote gender fluid screeching while driving a car

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Speaker 1: about wanting to see members of the Trump administration not

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Speaker 1: removed from office, not arrested, but gut it. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to pachment. I don't want them to

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Speaker 3: save time. I want to take it.

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Speaker 5: Into the citytown square.

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Speaker 1: Hop from there, right, god damn from good dot you.

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Speaker 1: I don't know whether to be terrified or double over

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Speaker 1: in laughter. Producer Eric wants to know how many rehearsals

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Speaker 1: did it take to get just that perfect pitch. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's hear this again. Let's let's let's rate her acting.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing I don't want to pagement. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: here's here's the problem in acting. They teach you to

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Speaker 1: make a choice and then stick with them. So she

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Speaker 1: starts to here's the thing, I don't want impeachment. She's

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Speaker 1: doing that weird singsongy thing that liberal women have a

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Speaker 1: tendency to do. Oftentimes they accompany that by clapping like,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, I don't want impeachment. But then she

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden switches like she makes a different choice,

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Speaker 1: Like then she needs to go full Hannibal. Elector psychopaths

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Speaker 1: I don't want them the same time. I want to

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Speaker 1: take it into the city, like here's where she goes.

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Speaker 1: She starts to sound kind of like a professional wrestler.

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Speaker 1: I want them take it into the city and beaten

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Speaker 1: down in the steelcage Challenge Match Square. God gotch Truly

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Speaker 1: these people demand to be taken seriously. Wow, Producer Eric

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Speaker 1: says at least four rehearsals based on how raspy her

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Speaker 1: voice was that gender fluid woman, we think your unhinged

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Speaker 1: liberal of the day. Before the commercial break, we ran

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Speaker 1: down recent instances of transgender violence extreme transgender violence two

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Speaker 1: within the span of a week, a mass school shooting

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Speaker 1: in British Columbia, Canada, as well as yesterday's targeted mass shooting,

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Speaker 1: but a mass shooting nonetheless of family members of a

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Speaker 1: transgender man I guess technically transgender woman man who thinks

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Speaker 1: he is a woman man wearing a dress is what

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Speaker 1: law enforcement described him as. Fifty six year old man

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Speaker 1: who gunned down his ex wife and his son and

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Speaker 1: then injured three other people, at least two of whom

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Speaker 1: or in critical condition, before a quick thinking good samaritan

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Speaker 1: subdued him. He was attempting to kill other people. Then,

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Speaker 1: realizing that he was pinned down that he was going

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Speaker 1: to be taken into custody, he turned the gun on

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Speaker 1: himself and committed suicide. Is there something endemic in transgender

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Speaker 1: ideology that makes people more prone to violence? Not necessarily,

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Speaker 1: but the thing that most people want to ignore about

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Speaker 1: transgender ideology is the extreme connection to schizophrenia, the extreme

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Speaker 1: connection to high levels of autism and deep, deep depression

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Speaker 1: and self loathing, as well as years of funneled up

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Speaker 1: rage at a world that supposedly has wronged them, a

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Speaker 1: world that has misgendered them, misidentified them, certainly misunderstood them.

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Speaker 1: It's not that they are trans, it's that transgender ideology,

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Speaker 1: to me at least least, is a symptom of broader

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Speaker 1: based severe mental illness and one of the gravest injustices

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Speaker 1: that liberal society has foisted upon very vulnerable, very sick people.

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Speaker 1: Is this notion that if you simply change your gender,

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Speaker 1: if you simply lob off little mister happy, you will

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Speaker 1: be happy living as a woman, all your problems will

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Speaker 1: go away. So instead of getting to the root of

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Speaker 1: what it is that's causing this extreme self loathing, and

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Speaker 1: I talk about this often here on this show. Imagine

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Speaker 1: hating yourself so much that you hate the most basic

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Speaker 1: characteristic about yourself. You hate the fact that you are

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Speaker 1: a male, You hate the fact that you are a female. Well,

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Speaker 1: that obviously is going to mean that you hate other

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Speaker 1: aspects of your life. Well, for the better part of

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Speaker 1: a decade now, we have had a medical establishment that

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Speaker 1: has said, well, you don't need to treat these psychological

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Speaker 1: issues that are underpinning all of this. What you need

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Speaker 1: to do is to simply change your gender. And in

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Speaker 1: that long list of transgender radical people I completely forgot

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Speaker 1: probably the most famous here in Wisconsin, and that would

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Speaker 1: be Morgan Geyser, the slender man stabbing suspect who just

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Speaker 1: had a daring escape with her also gender fluid boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: who is forty something years old. She apparently has been

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Speaker 1: exhibiting transgender traits and identifying as a boy for the

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Speaker 1: past year or so. Nonetheless, you have members of that

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Speaker 1: medical establishment saying, well, Peyton, clearly or excuse me, Morgan

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Speaker 1: is clearly not a threat to anybody. She's cured, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: but she's establishing a clear symptom of schizophrenia. She believes

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Speaker 1: she is born in the wrong body. That probably suggests

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Speaker 1: that there's something a little bit deeper wrong with her,

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Speaker 1: does it not? Nope, nope, nope, totally cure, Totally fine.

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Speaker 1: Until we get back to actually treating severe mental illness,

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Speaker 1: and until we get back to understanding transgender ideology and

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Speaker 1: gender dysphoria as a mental illness, we are going to

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Speaker 1: continue to have deeply deranged people committing extreme acts of violence.

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Speaker 1: What is going on with Democrats in Milwaukee? First, the

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Speaker 1: Common Council president accuses the head of the Bradley Center

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Speaker 1: district of pinching his butt and actually files a police report.

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Speaker 1: I am absolutely dead serious about that. Jose Perez accuses

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Speaker 1: Marty Brooks of pinching his butt, and now Perez has

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Speaker 1: stripped two Common Council members of their committee assignments because

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Speaker 1: of some sort of verbal confrontation before that massive anti

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Speaker 1: ICE press conference that they held last week. This story

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Speaker 1: just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal

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Speaker 1: Sentinel reported exclusively that Joe Costa Zamaipa, as well as

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Speaker 1: Mark Chambers Junior, got into some sort of screaming match

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Speaker 1: in the run up to that press conference that we

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Speaker 1: covered extensively here on the Dan O'Donnell show. You might

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Speaker 1: remember this was the one in which Perez Zamaipa and

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Speaker 1: let's see Marina Dimitrievik they all admitted, as well as

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Speaker 1: the truly insane person Alex Brower, the open socialist who's

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Speaker 1: on the Milwaukee Common Council, they were all talking openly

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Speaker 1: about putting up and setting up the same sort of

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Speaker 1: communication networks like the infamous telegram chat that was allowing

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Speaker 1: all of the radical anti ICE activists to be able

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Speaker 1: and in age in federal obstruction of justice. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what was going on was criminal activity in They were

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Speaker 1: making it much more difficult for law enforcement agencies to

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Speaker 1: do their job. You have the president of the Common Council,

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Speaker 1: all talking openly about setting up those same communication networks

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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee on the chance that ICE conducts large scale

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Speaker 1: operations here. I mean, what they are talking about is

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Speaker 1: establishing a criminal conspiracy. Well, it turns out that that's

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Speaker 1: not the biggest controversy to come out of that press conference. Naturally,

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Speaker 1: I'm the only one in Milwaukee media, who notices that

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Speaker 1: they're all talking about a criminal conspiracy. Heaven knows. The

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Speaker 1: Journal Sentinel is not going to report on that. But

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Speaker 1: apparently there was a massive screaming match between Chambers and

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Speaker 1: Zamaipa immediately before. Zamaipa has now filed a formal ethics

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Speaker 1: complaint against Chambers. We will get into that coming up

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Speaker 1: in just a second. It is just breaking now that

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Speaker 1: zama RepA has put out a press release saying that

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Speaker 1: she has filed an ethics complaint. I would say that

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Speaker 1: Mark Chambers might have actually pinched Joe Costa's butt, but

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Speaker 1: God knows, nobody would ever, under any circumstances, want to

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Speaker 1: pinch Joe Costa's butt. We'll get into this in just

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Speaker 1: a second. For what I'm sorry, it is it not

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Speaker 1: funny that the president of the Milwaukee Common Council is

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Speaker 1: accusing the head of the Wisconsin Center District of pinching

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Speaker 1: his butt. It is inherently funny. Like he just Marty

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Speaker 1: Brooks just kind of walks up. He just sort of

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Speaker 1: police investigated and found no probable cause. Jose Perez wanted

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Speaker 1: criminal charges against the head of the Wisconsin Center District.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the Wisconsin Center District and

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Common oun To obviously need to have a

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Speaker 1: close relationship, not that close, not close like they're you know,

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Speaker 1: pinching each other's butts all the time. I always wondered,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talk about Democrats, and you know they

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Speaker 1: have the secret communications networks to interfere with ice. Do

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Speaker 1: they have like secret handshakes? It's sort of like the

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Speaker 1: Stonecutters from that old episode of The Simpsons. Is the

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Speaker 1: secret handshake? Just they pinch each other's rear ends. That

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Speaker 1: would explain so much about the modern Democratic Party, all right,

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

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Speaker 1: Trump mourning the death of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who

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Speaker 1: passed away today at the age of eighty four, in

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Speaker 1: a post on truth Social accompanied by a number of

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Speaker 1: pictures of the two together. The two remember were longtime friends.

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Speaker 1: Trump wrote, Despite the fact that I am falsely and

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Speaker 1: consistently called racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the

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Speaker 1: radical left Democrats all it was always my pleasure to

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Speaker 1: help Jesse along the way. I provided office space for

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Speaker 1: him and his Rainbow coalition for years in the Trump

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Speaker 1: Building at forty Wall Street. Responded to his request for

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Speaker 1: help in getting criminal justice reform passed and signed, when

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Speaker 1: no other president would even try single handedly pushed and

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Speaker 1: passed long term funding for historically black colleges and universities,

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Speaker 1: which Jesse loved, but also which other presidents would not do.

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Speaker 1: Responded to Jesse's support for Operation Opportunity Zones, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: the single most successful economic development package yet approved for

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Speaker 1: black business men and women, and much more. Trump concluded

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Speaker 1: the post by saying Jesse loved his family greatly, and

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Speaker 1: to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse

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Speaker 1: will be missed. Another round of talks today between American

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Speaker 1: and Iranian negotiators aimed at permanently ending Iran's nuclear program.

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Speaker 1: Vice President Jade Vance on Martha mccallums show on Fox

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Speaker 1: News about two hours.

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Speaker 8: Again, i'mb was not going to make any announcements today.

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Speaker 8: I think the President has a lot of options. We

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Speaker 8: do have a very powerful military. The President's shown a

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Speaker 8: willingness to use it. He also has a remarkable diplomatic team.

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Speaker 8: He's shown a willingness to use that too. And so

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Speaker 8: what the President has been very clear with the Iranians,

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Speaker 8: and actually I just talked to Steve Wookoff and Jared

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Speaker 8: Kushner this morning about some of their negotiations is the

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Speaker 8: United States has certain red lines. Our primary interest here

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Speaker 8: is we don't want to Ran to get a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 8: We don't want nuclear proliferation. If it Ran gets a

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Speaker 8: nuclear weapon, there are a lot of other regimes, some friendly,

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Speaker 8: some not so friendly, who would get nuclear weapons after them.

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Speaker 8: That would be a disaster for the American people because

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Speaker 8: then you have these crazy regimes all over the world

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Speaker 8: with the most dangerous weapons in the world. And that's

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Speaker 8: one of the things the President has said he's going

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Speaker 8: to prevent. Now, we would very.

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Speaker 1: Much like, as the President has said, to resolve.

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Speaker 8: This through a conversation, in a diplomatic negotiation, but the

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Speaker 8: President has all options on the table. And you know,

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Speaker 8: one thing about the negotiation I will say this morning

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Speaker 8: is you know, in some ways it went well.

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Speaker 1: They agreed to meet afterwards. But in other way is

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Speaker 1: it was very clear that the President has set.

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Speaker 8: Some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing

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Speaker 8: to actually acknowledge and work through. So we're going to

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Speaker 8: keep on working it. But of course the President reserves

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Speaker 8: the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has

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Speaker 8: reached its natural end. We hope it will get to

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Speaker 8: that point, but if we do, that'll be the President's.

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Speaker 1: Call, the President always reserving that all options will remain

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Speaker 1: on the table, including military action, which the Iranians learned

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Speaker 1: the hard way over the summer when American B two

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Speaker 1: bombers destroyed Iran's nuclear program. Now, the Vice President on

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Speaker 1: Fox Today was also asked about this year's midterms and

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Speaker 1: what the message was going to be coming from the

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Speaker 1: White House.

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Speaker 8: This is the fundamental issue in the midterms, and I

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Speaker 8: think we're going to make this argument to the American people,

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Speaker 8: and the American people are obviously they're going to be

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Speaker 8: the ones who.

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Speaker 1: Make this decision.

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Speaker 8: Is Look, if you go back to the Biden administration,

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Speaker 8: the average American lost about three thousand dollars in take

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Speaker 8: home pay during the four years that Democrats were in charge.

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Speaker 8: In the first year of the Trump administration, they've gained.

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Speaker 8: Average Americans have gained about twelve hundred dollars. Now, there's

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Speaker 8: kind of a good news bad news dynamic there. If

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Speaker 8: you're looking at it from the perspective of the last year,

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Speaker 8: Americans have done better. If you're looking at it from

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Speaker 8: the perspective of the Biden administration, we're still digging out

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Speaker 8: of the whole. The Democrats put us in. I think

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Speaker 8: the question we're going to put to the American people is,

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Speaker 8: do you want to give the government back over to

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Speaker 8: the people who frankly burned down the House and made

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Speaker 8: most Americans much less wealthy and much less safe, or

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Speaker 8: do you want to double down on the president's leadership

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Speaker 8: which has helped us recover from some of the problems

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Speaker 8: caused by Joe Biden, and it has built a lot

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Speaker 8: on top of it, because so much of what we've

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Speaker 8: done over the last year are things that are going

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Speaker 8: to pay long term dividends for the American people. Eighteen

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Speaker 8: trillion dollars of new investment, that's factories being built, that's

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Speaker 8: wages going up, a twenty percent reduction in murder rate.

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Speaker 8: We've obviously secured the border, and we've got a lot

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Speaker 8: of criminals out of this country in the process. So

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Speaker 8: there's a lot to run on. There's a lot to

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Speaker 8: talk about, but Martha, there's still so much to do now.

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Speaker 1: The White House is also highlighting its efforts to combat

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Speaker 1: foreign fraud and highlighting toward that end, a massive fraud

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Speaker 1: case from the Milwaukee area today, posting this video from

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Speaker 1: Channel twelve on Nail Jabbar, who is charged with defrauding

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Speaker 1: the SNAP program out of more than one point five

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Speaker 1: million dollars.

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Speaker 9: Proscooters this month, leveling two counts against Jabbar, claiming he

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Speaker 9: was defrauding the Food Chare Benefits program, which is taxpayer funded,

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Speaker 9: out of some one point six million dollars between twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty two and twenty twenty four. Prosecutors say he'd give

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Speaker 9: people cash in exchange for the food benefits on their

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Speaker 9: quest EBT cards. The cash would be less than the

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Speaker 9: amount of the cards, but he charged the state and

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Speaker 9: federal government for the full amount. They say Jabbar used

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Speaker 9: the money he made to pay off personal loans and

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Speaker 9: credit cards, to fund his membership to a vacation club,

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Speaker 9: and even spend it at retail stores like Target, Gucci,

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Speaker 9: and nordstromp.

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Speaker 1: Of course it was at Gucci, because of course it

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Speaker 1: was that. Ladies and gentlemen. Is your daily Trump date?

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Speaker 1: Joe Costa Zamaripa, who is running for Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. She is a former state assembly woman. She

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Speaker 1: is a Milwaukee older woman, and she is accusing her

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Speaker 1: fellow older person, Mark Chambers Junior of essentially harassing her

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Speaker 1: and verbally abusing her in some sort of shouting match

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Speaker 1: that took place last week February eleventh. That would have

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Speaker 1: been last Wednesday at City Hall, right before this big

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Speaker 1: press conference in which the President of the Common Council

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Speaker 1: unveiled the anti ice ice out MKE package of municipal

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Speaker 1: ordnance proposals. This is this statement from Zamaripo has now

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Speaker 1: filed that formal ethics complaint. Quote. On February eleventh, an

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Speaker 1: incident occurred at City Hall involving Alderman Mark Chambers Junior

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Speaker 1: in me. What should have been a conversation among colleagues

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Speaker 1: quickly escalated into something far more serious. I was confronted

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Speaker 1: in my office, verbally berated and physically intimidated in a

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Speaker 1: way that made me feel trapped and unable to safely exit.

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Speaker 1: Multiple individuals witnessed what occurred during the encounter. I was

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Speaker 1: subjected to profane and degrading remarks, including being taunted to

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Speaker 1: quote start crying. The comments were gendered and demeaning. This

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Speaker 1: is not the first time I have experienced hostility from

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Speaker 1: this individual. This was not just a personal disagreement or

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Speaker 1: just raised voices. When an elected official uses the authority

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Speaker 1: and physical presence of their office to intimidate or silence

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Speaker 1: a colleague. It is a misuse of public power that

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Speaker 1: undermines the democratic process. It also sends a troubling message

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Speaker 1: to the residents that I represent that their voices can

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Speaker 1: be bullied or pushed aside inside city hall. Holding public

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Speaker 1: office is built on public trust. That trust depends on

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Speaker 1: every elected official being able to do their job without threats, intimidation,

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Speaker 1: or abuse. That is why I have filed a formal

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Speaker 1: complaint and request did a full investigation under the city's

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Speaker 1: ethics Code, including whether this conduct constituted misuse of office

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Speaker 1: and violated the standards required of city officials. Accountability matters

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Speaker 1: not only for me, but for the integrity of city

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Speaker 1: government and the communities whose representation must be respected. Now,

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Speaker 1: as you can imagine, that, of course, is a reference

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Speaker 1: to the fact that she is Hispanic and represents a

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Speaker 1: largely Hispanic constituency. I don't see. I guess how this is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if this was now maybe in the detailed

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Speaker 1: ethics complaint there was far more abusive language, or there

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Speaker 1: is going to be a far more detailed account of

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Speaker 1: what it was that happened. But simply telling somebody all,

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Speaker 1: are you going to start crying or start crying. I mean,

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Speaker 1: my god, I tell that to the libs in my

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Speaker 1: comments section probably once a day. Now. Granted, these aren't

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Speaker 1: members of the Milwaukee Common Council, although Congressman Mark po Can,

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Speaker 1: in his steadfast refusals to come on and debate me

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Speaker 1: on literally any issue on this program, has said some

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Speaker 1: pretty mean things about me. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: would file an ethics complaint against him. Start crying alone

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Speaker 1: is not sufficient, I think for any sort of ethics

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Speaker 1: action against Common Council Member Sanders. I just don't see

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Speaker 1: how this.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she didn't want to put this in the press release,

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Speaker 1: but it seems to me that if there was much

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Speaker 1: more abusive language, you'd want to include that to say, oh, yeah, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is clearly abusive. What my spider sense is telling

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Speaker 1: me is that Zamaripa, who is a hot headed person

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Speaker 1: and has a reputation of being very hot headed inside

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Speaker 1: the Common cant soil and amongst those who knew her

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Speaker 1: when she was in the state legislature, this is somebody

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Speaker 1: who is going to fly off the handle, and this

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Speaker 1: is somebody who is going to give as good as

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Speaker 1: she gets in any sort of verbal confrontation. If the

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Speaker 1: best that she can come up with was, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: he said, start crying, and this is gendered language. This

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Speaker 1: just strikes me as the girl who cried sexism like

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Speaker 1: the boy who cried wolf. It might not necessarily be

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Speaker 1: anything that rises to that level, but what is abundantly

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Speaker 1: clear is that you have a serious issue, I think

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Speaker 1: in this state with Democrats who frankly do not like

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Speaker 1: each other at all. Now, how much was made over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days of Devin Lemahue, the leader

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Speaker 1: of the State Senate, and Robin Voss, the Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the State Assembly, not being on the same page when

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Speaker 1: it came to property tax relief, and lem Hue saying, well,

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Speaker 1: it seems like Assembly speak. Ker Voss was cutting me

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Speaker 1: out of the negotiation process with Governor Evers when it

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Speaker 1: comes to tax relief. So Lemihue put out his own

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Speaker 1: income tax relief package where he wants to spend a

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Speaker 1: billion or so dollars, maybe two billion dollars of the

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Speaker 1: states projected two point five to two point seven billion

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Speaker 1: dollar budget surplus on income tax relief, five hundred to

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Speaker 1: two individual filers, one thousand dollars to married people filing jointly.

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Speaker 1: This was made to seem as though this is the

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Speaker 1: greatest rift in the history of politics here in this state.

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Speaker 1: Just to recap, over the past nine months, you have

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Speaker 1: had Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers refused to endorse and very

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Speaker 1: pointedly refused to endorse his own lieutenant governor, Sarah Rodriguez,

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Speaker 1: his former lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes. Not only that, when

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Speaker 1: Barnes jumped into the gubernatorial race, you had Democrats from

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Speaker 1: across the state both and anonymously telling the New York Times, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to all fall in line behind Mandela.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to get the party to force Sarah

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Speaker 1: god Luski and Alex Lazary out of the primary a

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Speaker 1: week before the vote like they did when he ran

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Speaker 1: for Senate in August of twenty twenty two. That's not

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Speaker 1: going to happen again. And then that was followed up

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Speaker 1: by the Milwaukee Courier saying much the same thing a

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Speaker 1: couple of days later when Mandela got in this race,

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Speaker 1: or right before Mandela got in this race, saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're not guaranteed the support of Milwaukee's black community. Not

863
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: only that, at around that same time this past fall

864
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: at a David Crowley campaign fundraiser, at least at the

865
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: bar after the fundraiser had ended. You've got Marty Brooks,

866
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: a Democratic good standing the head of the Wisconsin Center District,

867
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: allegedly pinching the butt of the Milwaukee Common Council President

868
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: Jose Perez, who then doesn't just file an ethics complaint

869
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: or go to the media, he actually files a police report.

870
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 1: He wants criminal sexual assault charges filed against Marty Brooks.

871
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: Now you've got jo Costa Zamaripa accusing Mark Sanders of

872
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,760
Speaker 1: verbally abusing her. What is going on in the Democrat Party.

873
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure, but quite frankly, you'll love to

874
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: see it. Let me, Hugh and Voss deliver a property

875
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: tax proposal to Governor Evers will break it down coming

876
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: up next here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. You have

877
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: no idea how badly I want Alderman Mark Chambers Junior

878
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: to respond to Joe Costa Zamaipa's ethics complaint by accusing

879
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: her of being racist. Chambers is black, Zamaipa is Hispanic. Yeah,

880
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: you'd better believe I am loving every second of Democrats

881
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: all across this state being at each other's throats in

882
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: an election year. Does anything reflect this better than Governor

883
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: Evers so obviously hating both of his lieutenant governors that

884
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: he is refusing to endorse either one. In fact, we

885
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: have a SoundBite that we've been playing for the better

886
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: part of eight months now in which Evers was asked

887
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: specifically about whether or not he was going to endorse

888
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: Sarah Rodriguez when Rodriguez announced her bid for the governorship.

889
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: As soon as Evers announced that he wasn't seeking a

890
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: third term, he actually said, yeah, you know, if there's

891
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: somebody who gets in the race and I think is

892
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: worthy of my endorsement, then I'll endorse. But yeah, I'm

893
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: not going to endorse right now. The time, Rodriguez was

894
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: the only major Democrat candidate in the race, so him

895
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: saying that was saying quite a bit. And not only

896
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: that when his other lieutenant governor, the guy who he

897
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: was supposed to I could remember when the two of

898
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: them were on the ticket together. A lot of people

899
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: don't realize how this works. It's not like you pick

900
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: a running mate like the president picks a vice presidential

901
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: running mate. In Wisconsin, you actually run in the primary

902
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: to be your party's nominee for lieutenant governor, and then

903
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: you are automatically added to the ticket in the general election.

904
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: So Evers didn't pick Mandela Barnes, Evers didn't pick Sarah Rodriguez.

905
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: They just happened to win the primary. So there was

906
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: no real loyalty there. But we were told I remember

907
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: the general election campaign in twenty eighteen when we were

908
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: told that Evers and Mandela Barnes, the old white man

909
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: and the young black man, they were the odd couple.

910
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: They were the best of friends. Turns out I don't

911
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: know if Mandela hates evers guts, but it turns out

912
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: that Evers clearly hates Mandela Barnes's guts. Why do I

913
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: say that, because if he didn't, he would have endorsed

914
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: Mandela right away now that the field is set. I

915
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: don't know if Evers just doesn't think that there's anybody

916
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: worthy of his endorsement, but he clearly is not going

917
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: to endorse either Rodriguez or Barns when it would do

918
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: them any good. In this primary, Evers's going to deliver

919
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 1: his eighth and final State of the State address and

920
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: it is very likely tonight he is going to talk

921
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: about all of the successes over the past eight years,

922
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: but he is very likely not going to talk about

923
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: the single most destructive policy I think of his entire

924
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: time in office, and that is the four hundred year

925
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: property tax veto. Just by way of a very very

926
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: quick explainer, Governor Evers used his very powerful partial veto

927
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 1: authority in twenty twenty three to change the numbers twenty

928
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: twenty four dash twenty twenty five to twenty four to

929
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: twenty five, and to increase the school funding levy by

930
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty five dollars per student per year until

931
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: the year twenty four to twenty five, So four hundred years.

932
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: I guess one year down, three hundred ninety nine to go,

933
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: since we're in twenty twenty six. But already in just

934
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: the first year that this four hundred year veto was

935
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: in effect, because the State Supreme Court gave its stamp

936
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: of approval, of course, along partisan lines, the four liberal

937
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: hacks approved a very obvious, unconstitutional van of white veto,

938
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: and the three conservative justices said, what are you crazy?

939
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: This is absolute insanity and it's completely and totally unconstitutional. Well,

940
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: for the first time property taxpayers opened their bills and

941
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: they saw the single biggest one year increase in their

942
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: property tax rates in thirty plus years. Why because school

943
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: districts didn't need to go to referendum. They could simply

944
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: add three hundred and twenty five dollars per pupil every

945
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: single year. It's not as though they've added three hundred

946
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars for the taxiar twenty twenty four

947
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty five. They can add an additional three

948
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five dollars in twenty twenty six, twenty seven,

949
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty and so on and so

950
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: on and so on until the year twenty four to

951
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now, Devin Lemahue and Robin Voss, the two

952
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: leaders of the Wisconsin legislature in the Senate and Assembly

953
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: respectfully respectively, understand that Evers is not going to agree

954
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: to undo the four hundred year veto, and both of

955
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: them apparently agree that allowing him to do so would

956
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: be politically a mistake because you know, dog gone well.

957
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany is going to campaign hard on the fact

958
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: that Governor Evers increased everybody's property taxes for the next

959
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 1: four centuries. So in their proposal that they sent to

960
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: the governor's office late yesterday, they are incorporating Lema Hugh's

961
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: proposal of income tax rebates, and all of this would

962
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: be part of spending the proposed two point three billion

963
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: dollar budget surplus that was announced by the state's legislative

964
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: Fiscal Bureau. This is at the end of the current

965
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: budget cycle. At the end of the fiscal year June

966
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 1: thirtieth of twenty twenty seven, lem Mehue was called for

967
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: one time payments of five hundred dollars per individual tax

968
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: filer or one thousand dollars for married couples filing jointly.

969
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: This would cost about one point five billion dollars. There

970
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: would be an additional five hundred million dollars allocated to

971
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: the school levee tax Credit also called the school property

972
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: tax credit. This uses state funds to sort of offset

973
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: the part of local property taxes that are attributable to

974
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: school levees, which again increased by the biggest margin since

975
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: the early nineteen nineties. There would then be an extra

976
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars for special education reimbursements to help

977
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: cover the costs for districts of providing special education. But notably,

978
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 1: the two leaders say there will not be any increase

979
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: in general school aid funding. Evers wants about four hundred

980
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars over the next year, just one year.

981
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 1: He wants an increase of nearly half a billion dollars,

982
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: even though the number of students that need to be

983
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: educated has decreased precipitously. Now so too over the last

984
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: twenty five years have the number of teachers in Wisconsin's

985
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 1: K twelve public school districts. But do you know what

986
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: has gone up considerably the number of non teaching school employees.

987
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: This is educational bureaucrats, assistant principles, people who aren't actually

988
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: in the classroom, but rather serve as administrators or educational specialists.

989
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: They've made out like literal bandits as the declining student

990
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: population because of massive demographic shifts. My generation and Generation

991
01:04:56,600 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: X having far fewer children than did the Baby Boomers

992
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: or greatest generation before them, has meant that it should

993
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 1: not cost more money to educate a fewer children, to

994
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: educate a significantly smaller student body. Now, Governor Evers, of course,

995
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: is going to reject this proposal, but the leaders of

996
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: the State Assembly and State Senate say, okay, we're going

997
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: to end this legislative session on Thursday, so time is

998
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: clearly of the essence. We will see tonight what Governor

999
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: Evers says about this, if anything, he does deliver his

1000
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 1: State of the State address this evening. What is the

1001
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin really after eight years of Tony Evers?

1002
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 1: We discuss next here on the Dan o'donald Show. Governor

1003
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: Evers delivers his eighth and final State of the State

1004
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: Address tonight, and well, he is going to be taking

1005
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: a massive victory lap about just how great Wisconsin has

1006
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: done under his watch. The truth is that Wisconsin is

1007
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: quite literally falling behind in pretty much every single metric.

1008
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: This was outlined in what should be an absolute must

1009
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: read report from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. We highlighted this

1010
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: about two weeks ago, and I've actually invited Scott Manley,

1011
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: who is an executive vice president with WMC on it

1012
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: is just absolutely devastating. He is going to focus on

1013
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: education funding, and in fact, he is the one that

1014
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: was the one who basically outlined just how badly Wisconsin

1015
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 1: is misspending its education funding. Consider this under Governor Evers

1016
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: since two thousand, pupil spending has more than doubled. Over

1017
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: the same period, enrollment fell by sixty five thousand total students.

1018
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: Non teaching staff grew by more than eight thousand. This

1019
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 1: means for every eight students lost, schools hired one additional

1020
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: non instructional employee. And this explosion in school budgets even

1021
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: as the per pupil spending has gone up, but the

1022
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: total number of pupils has gone down. What this has

1023
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 1: meant is so education is funding on a per pupil basis.

1024
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: Here in Wisconsin, the state pays based on how many

1025
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: kids it is that you need to educate. We have

1026
01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: gone from about eight thousand dollars per student in the

1027
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: year two thousand to about eighteen thousand per student today. Amazingly,

1028
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: nearly two thirds of Wisconsin's students are below grade level

1029
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: in math according to NAP national standards. This is stunning.

1030
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Scott Manly about this. This

1031
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:17,480
Speaker 1: report also found that under Governor Evers, Wisconsin's top individual

1032
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: tax rate, Now this was set to be fair before

1033
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:24,839
Speaker 1: Evers took office, seven point sixty five percent, ninth highest nationally.

1034
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: Corporate income tax rate seven point nine percent, twelfth highest

1035
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: in the country. But here is where Governor Evers really

1036
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,560
Speaker 1: did a number on the state. Wisconsin is now the

1037
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: thirteenth most regulated states in the country. The state administrative

1038
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 1: code contains over one hundred and sixty five thousand regulatory restrictions.

1039
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: That number just exploding over the last eight years. Now

1040
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: a big reason that Wisconsin has what's known as brain drain,

1041
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 1: where we have a lot of talented young people just

1042
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:04,759
Speaker 1: leaving the state because sixteen states now have flat income

1043
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: taxes while nine states have no income tax at all.

1044
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: Seeing us, Wisconsin is not exactly the best weatherwise. Sure,

1045
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 1: yesterday and the day before we're about as beautiful as

1046
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 1: a February day can possibly get here. It's like that

1047
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: every single day in a lot of these states that

1048
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: have no state income tax, including Texas. And don't even

1049
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: get me started about what Florida is like this time.

1050
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 1: If here it's absolutely gorgeous, you go to southern Florida,

1051
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: eighty five degrees, you can lay around on the beach.

1052
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 1: As a result of policies that are driving people away,

1053
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: driving entrepreneurs away, Wisconsin's median age is about a full

1054
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: year and a half older than the national average. Our

1055
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: median age here in the state is forty point seven

1056
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: national average thirty nine point two. What this means is

1057
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: Wisconsin has a significantly older population than the country at large.

1058
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:07,600
Speaker 1: Wisconsin residents who are of retirement age sixty five and

1059
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: older nearly twenty percent of the population, compared to just

1060
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:15,679
Speaker 1: eighteen percent nationally. What this means is you have got

1061
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: fewer people of working age and fewer people who are

1062
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: in their peak earning years who are supporting more and

1063
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 1: more retirees. That is what's known as a demographic death spiral.

1064
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: And ask nations like Germany and Japan and China how

1065
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 1: difficult it is to get out of that. Wisconsin's labor

1066
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,679
Speaker 1: force participation rate, according to Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, actually

1067
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: peaked in nineteen ninety seven and has steadily declined ever since.

1068
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, okay, Dan, a lot of

1069
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: these terms, a lot of these trends predate Governor Evers.

1070
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: This is true, but what has Evers done in eight

1071
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: years to reverse them? Job creation under Tony Evers has

1072
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: slowed to a standstill. In eight years, Wisconsin has gained

1073
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:09,240
Speaker 1: and this is almost unbelievable. Just to net one thousand,

1074
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:15,560
Speaker 1: five hundred eleven jobs one five hundred eleven jobs in

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Speaker 1: eight years. This means almost as many jobs have left

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Speaker 1: the state to more competitive states than have been created

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Speaker 1: here in Wisconsin. I don't think I need to tell

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Speaker 1: you that that is utterly horrible. Not only that, across

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Speaker 1: the state the crime rate dramatically increased. For years under

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers, the homicide rate exploded, and after a brief respite,

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Speaker 1: it's right back up again. At least it was in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five when we had the highest murder rate

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two. Ever, since the decriminalization of crime era,

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Speaker 1: the post George Floyd George Floyd effect on policing and

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Speaker 1: George Floyd effect on criminality, we have seen a dramatic

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Speaker 1: increase in both property crime and violent crime, most notably

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Speaker 1: in the homicide rate. Now, you could say, okay, Dan,

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers doesn't have a whole lot to do with this, because,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, Wisconsin's crime rate is dictated almost entirely

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Speaker 1: by the City of Milwaukee. That is true, But when

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Speaker 1: this state needed a governor at its hour of need,

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Speaker 1: when one of its cities was quite literally burning to

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Speaker 1: the ground. In August of twenty twenty, during the rioting

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Speaker 1: over Jacob Blake, a rapist who is attempting to kidnap

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Speaker 1: his children at knife point and pulled out a curved

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Speaker 1: blade knife on officers and was shot and paralyzed as

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Speaker 1: a result of it. Governor Evers, as well as Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: Governor Barnes, fanned the flames. He put out a press

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Speaker 1: release at ten o'clock PM at the exact time when

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Speaker 1: people were gathering in Kenosha, presumably to burn it to

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Speaker 1: the ground, which they did, and he basically created the

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Speaker 1: permission structure for them to do that. I will never

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Speaker 1: forget how he or far more likely one of his staffers,

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Speaker 1: phrased this, Jacob Blake is not the first black person

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Speaker 1: in this state to be shot or brutally killed by

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Speaker 1: law enforcement. This was all but encouraging or justifying the

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Speaker 1: violence that was to come, and in fact, it took

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers' days to call on the National Guard, even

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Speaker 1: though the Trump administration and Congressman Brian Style were doing

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Speaker 1: everything they could to try to get the federal cavalry

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Speaker 1: into Kenosha, it wasn't until Kyle Rittenhouse essentially took matters

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Speaker 1: into his own hands and shot two people in what

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Speaker 1: turned out to be justifiable self defense. That Governor Evers

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Speaker 1: finally relented and called in the National Guard. It was

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Speaker 1: one of the most disgusting displays in the history of

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin governorship. That ultimately is what the state of

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Speaker 1: the state has been under Tony Evers. Confusion, punctuated with

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Speaker 1: periods of utter disaster for this state, but a long

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Speaker 1: term trend over the last nearly one decade of steady

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Speaker 1: decline managed by an increasingly incompetent steward of both the

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Speaker 1: economy and the people. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 1: So I've been watching the Olympics pretty much every morning.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I have been having our coffee, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the kids go off to school, the boys,

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Speaker 1: my older one drives the younger one of course, and

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Speaker 1: my wife takes my daughter to school. Typically, I'll hang

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Speaker 1: out with the dog for a little bit and then

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Speaker 1: she'll come back and we'll watch the Olympics. I'll get

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Speaker 1: some work done. And I'm seriously wondering are there any

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Speaker 1: Olympic sports besides curling and figure skating? And also is

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Speaker 1: it like a new thing. I've noticed just in the

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Speaker 1: last two Olympic Games that curling has become like the

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Speaker 1: sport that everybody wants to watch. I would rather watch

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Speaker 1: dudes play corn hole at a Memorial Day barbecue than

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Speaker 1: watch curl Like. Look, I get that it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of skill, but come on, given the choice between that

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Speaker 1: or some dude hurling his body down a sheet of

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Speaker 1: ice face first at one hundred and fifty miles an hour,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take the insane daredevil over the fat

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Speaker 1: guy who's chucking a rock down. Then, that said, I

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Speaker 1: have been absolutely captivated by the Canadian cheating scandal. Apparently

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Speaker 1: both the men's and women's curling team were caught cheating

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Speaker 1: by after releasing the stone, touching it ever so slightly

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Speaker 1: with their finger. Today's unsung hero of the day is

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Speaker 1: an Olympian and he's an alum of my alma mater,

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Speaker 1: Marquette University, Emery Layman, who won his second ever Olympic

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Speaker 1: medal today, winning silver with Team USA and the Team

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Speaker 1: Pursuit speedskating event. USA finished in three minutes forty three seconds,

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Speaker 1: well off the pace of the winner and host country

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Speaker 1: Italy at three point thirty nine. According to the Journal Sentinel,

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Speaker 1: the head to head competition featured a series of qualifying runs,

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Speaker 1: then a semi final win over China to reach the

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Speaker 1: gold medal pairing. Layman was paired with Ethan Kapuran and

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Speaker 1: Casey Dawson. All three were part of the team that

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Speaker 1: won bronze at the twenty twenty two Olympic in Beijing.

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Speaker 1: Layman is a native of Illinois who lives and trains

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Speaker 1: in Utah. He's also going to compete in the fifteen hundred,

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Speaker 1: an event where Jordan Stoltz is the heavy favorite. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: Emory Layman, the unsung hero of the day. It is

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'donnald's show. Welcome back to at five o'clock

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Speaker 1: hour and let's get right down to business. Today is

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Speaker 1: the primary election day ahead of Wisconsin's spring election on

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Speaker 1: April seventh. Very good chats. You do not have anything

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Speaker 1: on your ballot, but a number of county party chairs

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Speaker 1: and county party representatives have contacted me saying that, hey,

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Speaker 1: there are going to be some races for some of

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Speaker 1: our conservative candidates in Ozaki County, in parts of Waukeshaw County,

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee County, as well, there are primary elections. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to check my vote dot Wi dot gov. If you

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Speaker 1: have something on your ballt you can actually see what's

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Speaker 1: on my ballot. If you do not have anything show

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Speaker 1: up on your ballot today, that means you do not

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Speaker 1: have a primary election. For example, there are only two

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Speaker 1: candidates statewide running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, so that

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Speaker 1: means that both are going to advance to the general

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Speaker 1: election automatically. If there was a third candidate, say an

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Speaker 1: ed Fallone type who's just going to run for the

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Speaker 1: hell of it, then there would need to be a primary.

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Speaker 1: But because there isn't a primary for everybody, the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of people in this state aren't going to be

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Speaker 1: voting tonight. We will be following the results, of course,

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Speaker 1: but what we are really focused on is that April

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Speaker 1: seventh general election, and that's why we are introducing the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell shows Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide. We are going

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Speaker 1: to all seventy two and we are trying to find

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Speaker 1: every single conservative candidate. One thing I get asked every

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Speaker 1: single year without fail is Dan, who should I vote for? Dan?

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Speaker 1: Who is the conservative candidate in this race? Well, we

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Speaker 1: actually have a staff of people investigating that right now,

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Speaker 1: and we are working with the county Republican parties on

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Speaker 1: trying to get lists of conservative candidates. We are doing

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Speaker 1: our own research to try to vet candidates to try

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Speaker 1: to figure out who are the most conservative ones that

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Speaker 1: will be part These are not endorsements. This is not

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell saying to you you need to vote for

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Speaker 1: this person. This is just me saying this is a conservative.

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Speaker 1: This is a person who has been identified as somebody

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Speaker 1: who is going to stand up for conservative values and

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Speaker 1: is someone that you can vote in confidence for knowing

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Speaker 1: that they likely share your values. If you are a candidate,

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Speaker 1: if you know a candidate, if you work with a group,

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Speaker 1: or a county party or the state party, or anybody

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Speaker 1: who has any knowledge of conservative candidates, please do contact

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Speaker 1: me DoD at iHeartMedia dot com. We would love to

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Speaker 1: include you in our candidate list. I've had at least

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Speaker 1: one candidate reach out to me and say, Dan, hey,

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Speaker 1: on second thought, I don't necessarily want people to know

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Speaker 1: that I'm the conservative candidate. I am running in a

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Speaker 1: blue district or I'm running in a blue city. I

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Speaker 1: can tell you, folks, the Libs are not going to

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Speaker 1: be reading this. They are not going to be looking

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Speaker 1: at this, and you are far better served by getting

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Speaker 1: your people to know who it is that they should

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Speaker 1: be voting for, because one of the big things that

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Speaker 1: conservatives do not do is go out and vote because

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Speaker 1: they don't know who it is that they should be

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Speaker 1: voting for. This is one of the things I am

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Speaker 1: convinced that I have been convinced for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Depresses turnout Now. Democrats have no problem. The state Party

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Speaker 1: and the ten billion different five oh one c three

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Speaker 1: groups that should absolutely not be doing this sort of

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Speaker 1: thing do this sort of thing every single year. Labor unions, teachers' unions,

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Speaker 1: they all do this. They print voter guides for all

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Speaker 1: of their people so that they can know exactly who

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Speaker 1: it is that they should be voting for. This is

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Speaker 1: my effort to even the score. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to be a part of the Conservative voter Guide, dood

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Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia dot com, you want to join the show

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Speaker 1: four one four seven nine to nine eleven thirty or

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Speaker 1: one eight hundred eight three eight nine four seven six again,

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Speaker 1: email me dood at iHeartMedia dot com at Dan O'donnald's

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Speaker 1: show on Facebook on Instagram, on across social media. Really,

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Speaker 1: we're also streaming live on YouTube via the danocamp Hey,

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Speaker 1: speaking of candidates, a congressional candidate from way up North

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Speaker 1: Dare is doing something not necessarily related to his run,

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Speaker 1: but it is very important work. I am so pleased

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Speaker 1: to be joined on the Dan o'donald Show by Michael Alfonso.

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Speaker 1: He is a congressional candidate who was just at one

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Speaker 1: of the wildest school board races I think I have

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Speaker 1: ever seen. Michael. Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Dan, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Well, the pleasure is all mine. So how many people

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Speaker 1: do you think don't know about what's going on in

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Speaker 1: New Richmond but need to? The New Richmond School District

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Speaker 1: has been getting national attention for all of the wrong

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Speaker 1: reasons because of a transgender bathroom policy. And we just

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Speaker 1: actually reported exclusively here on the Dan o'donalds Show in

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Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour that none other than Chrissy Taylor

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Speaker 1: State Supreme Court candidate actually proposed a similar transgender bathroom bill.

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Speaker 1: Has no problem with tampons in the boys' bathroom, but

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Speaker 1: the New Richmond School District, Michael, they don't want just

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Speaker 1: tampons in the boys' bathroom. They want boys in the girls' bathroom, right.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly right. And you say, who needs to

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Speaker 5: know about this? Every single taxpayer in New Richmond. You

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Speaker 5: are paying for this lunacy. You know, they didn't even

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Speaker 5: tell parents that this policy was in place. Some people

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Speaker 5: say it's been in place for ten years. I mean

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Speaker 5: the parents found out about this when there was finally

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Speaker 5: a brave young girl who actually told their parents this

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Speaker 5: was going on, and they called an emergency school board

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Speaker 5: meeting where the school board, the cowardly school board, voted

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Speaker 5: two to four to one abstaining to keep the policy

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Speaker 5: in place. They were afraid of the over five hundred

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Speaker 5: parents that were in the meeting, and they decided to

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Speaker 5: table it for today. And my wife and I are

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Speaker 5: actually heading back to the New yool really now, Yes,

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Speaker 5: and we will keep everyone up to date on what

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Speaker 5: they officially decide what to do.

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Speaker 1: Okay, see, I got I'm so bladad you called about this, Michael,

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Speaker 1: because I thought this was tabled until like a month

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Speaker 1: or two from now. I did not realize that the

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Speaker 1: next meeting was tonight. So are you literally calling me

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Speaker 1: from the car right now on your way up to

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Speaker 1: New Richmond.

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Speaker 5: Yep, I'm calling you from a Senex on the way to.

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Speaker 1: That is phantastic. Yeah, make sure you get yourself a

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Speaker 1: light dinner and go to battle for us.

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Speaker 5: So geez, I don't even know if I can get

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Speaker 5: dinner because I might throw up if they decide to

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Speaker 5: keep going the same way they're going.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the final decision is going to be?

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Speaker 1: Do you think? Because I know Jessica over at Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: right now, I know Scarlett Johnson, who is a great

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Speaker 1: advocate with Moms for Liberty, I know you and your wife,

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Speaker 1: a Vita by the way, the daughter of the person

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Speaker 1: who formerly held the seat you're now running for. Sean

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Speaker 1: Duffy has been drawing attention to this. We sort of

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Speaker 1: briefly mentioned it on this show. But I think with

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Speaker 1: all the attention that has been paid to this, do

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Speaker 1: you think that there's a chance that New Richmond does

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Speaker 1: the right thing tonight?

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Speaker 5: You know, honestly, as someone who went to college during

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Speaker 5: COVID and BLM and saw what all everything happened under

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01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:21,919
Speaker 5: the Biden administration, I'm not generally hopeful in our government.

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Speaker 5: But here's what I can tell you. Sometimes conservatives feel

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Speaker 5: like they can't win this. This is a winnable issue.

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Speaker 5: This is a district with sane parents, and they need

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Speaker 5: to not stop pushing. They can't give up hope. They

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Speaker 5: need to play the long game because there are elections

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Speaker 5: coming up for these school board members and if they

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Speaker 5: don't make the right decisions, we will make them pay

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Speaker 5: for it in April.

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Speaker 1: And are there a lot of these members who are

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Speaker 1: up in April.

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Speaker 5: So it's kind of a strange election system. There are

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01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 5: three seats open and four candidates running, so only one

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Speaker 5: person possibly be replaced from the board.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 5: Now, I will say the board was horrible. I do

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Speaker 5: want to give a shout out to mister ben Engelhardt.

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Speaker 5: He was an absolute champion for the parents, for all

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Speaker 5: the daughters, the girls in that district. He was a

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Speaker 5: rock star. I also want to formally put in that

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Speaker 5: Christy Westlin, she's running for school boards. Moms for Liberty

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Speaker 5: fully endorses her.

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Speaker 4: I got the chance to meet her.

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Speaker 5: You need to put her on your list, Dan, she

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Speaker 5: is a rock star as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, And any help that you are your

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Speaker 1: campaign could provide up in the seventh Congressional district, we

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Speaker 1: will absolutely take it. Michael Alfonso, who is running for congress. Michael,

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01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:44,720
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, could I ask a question or

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01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 1: two about your congressional campaign.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely all right.

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Speaker 1: So you have a rather unique background. You are twenty

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Speaker 1: six years old now, yep, twenty six years old. That

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Speaker 1: is remarkable. You would actually be would you be the

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Speaker 1: youngest member of Congress certainly one of the youngest if

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Speaker 1: you're elected in November, right.

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Speaker 5: I would be the youngest in the country if elected. Yep.

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Speaker 1: That that is actually kind of remarkably. You are also

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Speaker 1: the son in law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Obviously

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Speaker 1: we know him very well, great friend of the show,

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Speaker 1: the former congressional representative in the seventh Congressional district represented

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Speaker 1: it with distinction. You're married to his daughter, a Vita,

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Speaker 1: and that I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. That has led

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Speaker 1: to some allegations of nepotism here, that you're backed by

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Speaker 1: Sean and you're backed by the Duffy family. You've got

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Speaker 1: the Trump endorsement because obviously Trump loves Sean Duffy, but

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Speaker 1: you're a twenty five, twenty six year old. I know

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Speaker 1: you worked with We do love Dan Bongino in his podcast.

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Speaker 1: But how do you answer the sort of allegations and

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Speaker 1: the sort of rumblings I'm hearing of there that you know,

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01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 1: this kid hasn't paid his dues. This is sort of

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Speaker 1: a nepotism higher that if he wasn't married into the

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01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: Duffy family, we wouldn't have heard about him. I guess

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Speaker 1: make your case to some of those skeptics.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I would tell you that anyone that

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Speaker 5: thinks you can walk into the seventh District, the biggest

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Speaker 5: district eas east of the Mississippi, with some simple name

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Speaker 5: recognition and win this race doesn't know anything about the

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Speaker 5: seventh District. These voters want to meet the person they're

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Speaker 5: going to vote for. They want to look him in

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Speaker 5: the eye and know that he's genuine. And that's what

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Speaker 5: we're doing. We're going to every single county and we're

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Speaker 5: not just asking for a vote, We're earning that vote.

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Speaker 5: And I would just say, you know, when it comes

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Speaker 5: to the Trump endorsement, I set across from him in

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Speaker 5: the Oval office, I made my case and I promised

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Speaker 5: him no one would ever outwork me, No one will

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Speaker 5: have more energy for the seventh District than this twenty five,

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Speaker 5: twenty six year old you're talking to, and no one

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Speaker 5: will ever outwork me. So yeah, you know, people can

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01:29:06,479 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 5: have some claims and they can judge why I got

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Speaker 5: into this race, But let me tell you exactly why

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01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 5: I got into this race. They shot Charlie Kirk. This

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Speaker 5: is a guy I've known, I've met him and even

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Speaker 5: though he might not remember me, he's been on my

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Speaker 5: phone since I was in high school. And when that

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Speaker 5: moment happened, that was it. You know, I went through

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Speaker 5: college during COVID and BLM. I didn't wear a mask.

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Speaker 5: I was put on academic probation for not taking a vaccine.

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Speaker 5: I took it. I didn't take the vaccine. I allowed

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Speaker 5: this to all to happen and to unfold because I

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Speaker 5: didn't want anything to do with politics. It wasn't until

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Speaker 5: they shot Charlie, a Christian, a father, a conservative, that

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Speaker 5: I knew it's time for some action, and that's why

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Speaker 5: I jumped into this race.

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Speaker 1: And I guess your conservative bonifides your you know your resume.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's a disadvantage because I know the

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Speaker 1: other candidates in the race. I mean, you've got some

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Speaker 1: fairly accomplished Conservatives obviously in this district, it is thanks

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01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: to the work of your father in law who really

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01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:16,160
Speaker 1: revolutionized them. Dave Obie was a Democrat and represented it

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01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: for boy about one hundred and seventy five years, and

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01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: then he wanted no part of Sean Duffy when Sewn

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01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,360
Speaker 1: first announced his run, so he retired and it has

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01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 1: been a deep, deep red district ever since. So the

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Speaker 1: winner of the primary is almost certainly going to win

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Speaker 1: the general election. Your opponents in that race have said, well,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, he's twenty five. What has he done.

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Speaker 1: Would he be able to be in that meeting in

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01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 1: the Oval Office sitting across from President Trump if he

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Speaker 1: wasn't married to who he's married with two Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 5: I would tell you. When it comes to experience, I've

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01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 5: spent six years work in construction, I spent a year

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01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 5: working with Dan Bongino as his producer on the radio

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01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 5: show and the podcast. But you know, when it comes

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Speaker 5: to President Trump. He had the opportunity to endorse any

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01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 5: candidate in this race, and he chose me. He evaluated

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01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 5: the experience, he evaluated the character and the convictions of

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01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 5: each candidate, and he chose me because he knows that

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01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 5: no one will fight harder for the people of the

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01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:24,320
Speaker 5: seventh and President Trump's agenda than I will.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying you are totally in line with President Trump,

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01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 1: the MAGA agenda. What is your basic platform, Like, why

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01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:39,120
Speaker 1: are you the conservative choice independent of the Trump endorsement,

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01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:41,360
Speaker 1: which I think obviously, I mean, as we've seen in

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin politics and nationwide, Trump endorsement just carries a tremendous

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01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 1: amount of weight, So this is a significant advantage for

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01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,800
Speaker 1: you in this race. But independent of that, what is

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01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 1: the case that you're making to voters of the seventh

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Speaker 1: Congressional District that you are going to be their man

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Speaker 1: in Washington, Because I can tell you there there is

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Speaker 1: also and I'm just you've got to understand, I'm sort

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01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 1: of following this from hundreds of miles away down south,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just sort of hearing, you know, all the

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01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: all the rumblings, the idea that you are sort of

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01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 1: a carpetbager, that you're not really of the district, that

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01:32:20,280 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: you're not really living in the district, that you're just

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01:32:24,439 --> 01:32:26,640
Speaker 1: sort of coming back because it's going to be an

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01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: easy congressional district. Like how do you assuage those sorts

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01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: of fears.

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01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I actually really appreciate the tough questions

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01:32:35,280 --> 01:32:37,880
Speaker 5: because I want a chance to tell everyone and let

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01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:41,200
Speaker 5: them get any chance ask any question anytime. But you

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01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:44,040
Speaker 5: know what, in terms of a percentage of life spent

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01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 5: in the district, I've spent more of my life in

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01:32:46,320 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 5: this district than any other candidate in the race.

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Speaker 1: That's actually, that's actually true. That is statistically true. Because

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01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 1: I kind of look that up. I actually it must

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01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:57,840
Speaker 1: have been was emailed by one of your supporters who

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01:32:57,960 --> 01:33:00,200
Speaker 1: told me that same thing a couple of weeks go

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Speaker 1: when a lot of this was kind of going down,

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01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 1: and they said, well, if it's a percentage of his

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01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 1: life spent in the district, he actually broke down the math.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, by God, they're correct, So that is true.

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Speaker 5: I from from the age of four when I started

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01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 5: playing hockey, I think I've been to every single Catholic

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01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:22,280
Speaker 5: church in the district. And let me tell you why

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01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,560
Speaker 5: that matters. It's because I've been around the district my

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01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 5: entire life. I view everyone here as my family, and

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01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:33,360
Speaker 5: no one will fight harder for something than fighting for

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01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:35,880
Speaker 5: your family. And that's why I want to represent this

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01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 5: district because I deeply care about it. It's my home

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01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,640
Speaker 5: and I will never let it turn into the communist

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01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 5: healthcape that's happening in New York or even Madison. You know,

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Speaker 5: I had to esteemed the esteemed honor of voting against

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Speaker 5: Francesca Hang because I went to the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's that's enough conservative bona fides for me. You say, Hey,

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01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 1: the communist hellhole of New York. What about the communist

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01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:08,480
Speaker 1: hell whole of New Richmond? Michael, I really do appreciate,

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01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 1: and and just so we're clear, Michael had no idea.

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01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 1: You contacted me and said, Hey, I want to come

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01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 1: on and talk about New Richmond stuff. I don't want

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01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: to be accused of sandbagging you and asking you those

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01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:25,519
Speaker 1: tough questions, but you didn't really know that they were coming.

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01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 1: And I really do appreciate your willingness to answer those

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01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,879
Speaker 1: and to just talk honestly. That really does speak volumes

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Speaker 1: about you.

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Speaker 5: Dan. We're not liberals, We're not afraid of questions. This

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01:34:38,120 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 5: is true from any questions at any time.

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01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,559
Speaker 1: Hey, I do appreciate where can people go to find

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01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:43,679
Speaker 1: out more about your campaign?

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01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 5: Sir Alfonso four Wisconsin dot com. You can sign up,

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01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 5: you can donate, and you can be a volunteer, and

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01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 5: that is.

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Speaker 1: Alf O NSO the number four or f O R

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin f O R Alfonso four Wisconsin dot com. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. Enjoy your time in New Richmond. Keep

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Speaker 1: me posted about what happens tonight. I'm sure I'll be

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Speaker 1: following along on social media. And again, really do appreciate

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01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:12,600
Speaker 1: you stopping by the Dan o'donald show. Sir, don't be

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01:35:12,680 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: a stranger. I'm sure we'll be talking again.

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01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:16,640
Speaker 5: Great, I look forward to it.

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Speaker 1: All right. He is Michael Alfonso coming up in just

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Speaker 1: a second. We are going to talk to Scott Manly

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01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 1: about some of those statistics that I outlined from the

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01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:29,920
Speaker 1: great WMC report about just how bad Wisconsin has gotten

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01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:33,800
Speaker 1: under Tony Evers. Stay tuned Dan o'donald's show, coming right back.

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Speaker 1: This is rock Me by the hip hop violin group Amadaeus. Yes,

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01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 1: it is a cover of the rock classic rock Me

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01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 1: Amadais group is Amadeus. The song is called rock Me.

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Speaker 1: Do appreciate Michael Alfonso, congressional candidate in the seventh Congressional District,

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01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 1: joining us giving us an update on what's going on

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01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:59,760
Speaker 1: in New Richmond. They desperately want the boys in the

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Speaker 1: Earl's bathrooms up there. He also was a real good

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01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 1: sport I did not get a chance to Normally it's

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01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:12,800
Speaker 1: just considered good journalistic practice. He contacted me and said, hey,

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01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: can I give you an update on this? I think, yeah, absolutely.

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01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:17,759
Speaker 1: I haven't really done anything on the New Richmond controversy,

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01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: which has been a big, big thing on social media.

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01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,480
Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask him all of the questions

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01:36:24,560 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 1: that have sort of been swirling around his campaign that

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Speaker 1: really got escalated after he got that Trump endorsement, and

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Speaker 1: let's just be totally honest with ourselves. In a race

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01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 1: like that, that probably is going to put him over

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01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 1: the top. And as he said, he would be the

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Speaker 1: single youngest member of Congress if he's to win. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty six years old. He worked in construction, he worked

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01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:49,719
Speaker 1: as a producer of the Dan Bongino podcast. And people

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01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: are saying, well, wait a second, would this guy have

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01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:57,639
Speaker 1: any chance if he wasn't married to Avita Duffy, who

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01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: of course is the daughter of Rachel Campo Stuffy of

1505
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 1: Fox News, And of course the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Now,

1506
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I love the Duffy family. Sean

1507
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 1: has been nothing but great to me. In fact, we

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01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: used to do when he was in Congress every year

1509
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:14,719
Speaker 1: right around Saint Patrick's Day, he would come into studio.

1510
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:17,719
Speaker 1: We'd have a whole lot of fun and we would

1511
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 1: do a big interview and just you know, shoot the

1512
01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:24,520
Speaker 1: breeze and all that stuff. But there are serious questions

1513
01:37:24,880 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 1: about a nepotism and be qualifications. And I actually have

1514
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:37,160
Speaker 1: to tell you for not knowing that those questions were coming.

1515
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: And I honestly I felt like a little I felt

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01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 1: like I should have said he called right before we

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01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:43,760
Speaker 1: went on the air. I didn't have a chance to

1518
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: go off here and say, hey, I want to ask

1519
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,960
Speaker 1: you these questions. He answered them gamely, and he is

1520
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:54,160
Speaker 1: right statistically, he has. Just to be clear, there are

1521
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:56,679
Speaker 1: a number of other candidates in this race, including one

1522
01:37:57,439 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 1: who is actually one of the hostages. He was one

1523
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 1: of the Iran hostage crisis hostages, and he's been a

1524
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: very very successful businessman. Everybody in this race essentially has

1525
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:12,400
Speaker 1: questions about whether or not they're carpet bagging and whether

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01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:14,519
Speaker 1: or not they're just coming back to the district in

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01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 1: order to run for this seat, because again, it's almost

1528
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 1: certainly going to go to the winner of this primary.

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01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 1: It's just there's there's not going to be a strong

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01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 1: Democratic candidate. But you take a look at the congressional

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01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,560
Speaker 1: race in twenty twenty four, in which you had a

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01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 1: whole lot of candidates Andre Jacques, Roger Roth, and a

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01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 1: relative unknown by the name of Tony Wead who ended

1534
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:40,479
Speaker 1: up getting the Trump nomination, and that was it. I mean,

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01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: that was basically the deciding factor. Now, the Trump endorsement

1536
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:48,639
Speaker 1: clearly is coming to Michael Alfonso because of that Duffy

1537
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:53,040
Speaker 1: family connection. But the fact that Alfonso was willing to

1538
01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:56,280
Speaker 1: answer those questions with no foreknowledge that they're coming, that

1539
01:38:56,720 --> 01:39:00,720
Speaker 1: tells me that he is. And you know, I don't

1540
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:03,160
Speaker 1: want to say, like, well, you know, there's a kid nuts.

1541
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 1: You know what do I always say? I want the

1542
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: next generation, like I want the next generation to embrace conservatism.

1543
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: I do believe that Michael's generation. He's a gen zer.

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01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 1: I think I'm taking a wild guess. Yeah, he's not

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01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: a millennial. He's twenty oh god, he was born in

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01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:22,800
Speaker 1: the two thousands. All right vote against Michael Alfonso just

1547
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 1: for that. I don't know if I can handle a

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01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:29,519
Speaker 1: congressman born in two thousand. I'm still getting over the

1549
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: fact that the vice president is younger than me. My

1550
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: old but but no age alone is not a reason

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01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:43,280
Speaker 1: to vote against somebody. The fact that the person might

1552
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,920
Speaker 1: not have political experience alone is not. Tony Weed has

1553
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:51,040
Speaker 1: been a fantastic congressman for the Green Bear he's been.

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01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:55,759
Speaker 1: He's been tremendous for that district. His performance in committee

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01:39:55,800 --> 01:40:00,040
Speaker 1: hearings has been spectacular. I hear his constituent services. The

1556
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,800
Speaker 1: game is very, very strong. He's just been a very

1557
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: very good congressman. And I have no doubt that Michael

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01:40:06,160 --> 01:40:10,880
Speaker 1: Alfonso will be too. But there there is that that

1559
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:16,480
Speaker 1: is the big question around him. I mean, when Scott Fitzgerald,

1560
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:19,560
Speaker 1: for example, decided he was going to run for congress,

1561
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:22,880
Speaker 1: nobody said, well, what's he done? Who's the leader of

1562
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 1: the state Senate. He's been around politics for much of

1563
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 1: his adult life. Brian Style, when he was a staffer forever,

1564
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:35,360
Speaker 1: he had been around politics. Very impressive. Got both of

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01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 1: those guys are excellent congressional representatives, and I truly I

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01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:45,559
Speaker 1: have no doubt Michael Alfonso would be two And frankly,

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01:40:47,080 --> 01:40:48,599
Speaker 1: I don't really have a horse of this. Say if

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01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:50,720
Speaker 1: any of the other candidates up there would like to

1569
01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:54,160
Speaker 1: call in and be guests on the show, I'm not like,

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01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:58,560
Speaker 1: did you follow the controversy about Stephen Colbert today? He

1571
01:40:58,640 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 1: wanted to have James Tallarica on, who's running for the

1572
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:05,240
Speaker 1: US Senate down in Texas, and his bosses at the

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01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:09,040
Speaker 1: or at CBS told him, no, don't air this interview

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01:41:09,120 --> 01:41:12,000
Speaker 1: because then we would have to give equal time. The

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01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:16,640
Speaker 1: equal time doctrine says if a candidate for office is

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01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 1: given an interview on a news show, you need to

1577
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:26,160
Speaker 1: provide equal time to their opponent within a certain window

1578
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 1: before an election, before a primary, before a general election.

1579
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: CBS obviously didn't want What are they running against Ted Cruz?

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01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:38,439
Speaker 1: You really think Ted Crue that that CBS Stephen Colbert

1581
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:42,640
Speaker 1: wants to have Ted Cruz on? No, of course not.

1582
01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:47,840
Speaker 1: So you know, I'll tell you what. We're gonna step

1583
01:41:47,880 --> 01:41:50,320
Speaker 1: aside for a break because we are going to talk

1584
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:54,040
Speaker 1: in the next five minutes. But my point is that

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01:41:54,200 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: anybody else who's running in that primary wants to come on,

1586
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 1: we'll put him on. Of course, we'll do that. Scott

1587
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 1: Manley a WMC, coming up next, Welcome back to the

1588
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. Governor Evers delivers his State of the

1589
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:10,240
Speaker 1: State address tonight, and while he's going to say the

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01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:15,960
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin is strong, we have incredible data from

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01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: Wisconsin manufacturers and commerce that shows it is not. The

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01:42:21,439 --> 01:42:26,160
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Competitiveness Report came out two weeks ago and we

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01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:28,720
Speaker 1: outlined some of the data earlier on today in the

1594
01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We covered this extensively when it first

1595
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 1: came out. Joining us now to talk about it once

1596
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 1: again and to offer something of a preview of the

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01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,439
Speaker 1: Wisconsin State of the State address once again. Here is

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01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:47,680
Speaker 1: Scott Manly of WNC WMC. Excuse me, Scott, welcome back

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01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:48,920
Speaker 1: to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me back, Dan Well, the pleasure.

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01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 1: Is all mine, sir. Again. I said two weeks ago

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01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:58,880
Speaker 1: that I thought this was one of the more important

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01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: studies that's and done in Wisconsin in years. And Governor

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01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:08,720
Speaker 1: Evers declared last year to be the Year of the kid. Well,

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01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:12,519
Speaker 1: this year, kids have gotten a lot more expensive because

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01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 1: he wants four hundred and fifty million dollars in general

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01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:22,480
Speaker 1: purpose education spending after his four hundred year Veto increased

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01:43:22,600 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 1: the revenue limit by three hundred and twenty five dollars

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01:43:26,320 --> 01:43:31,280
Speaker 1: per student for the next four centuries. And this just

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01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:34,439
Speaker 1: is not good education policy, is it.

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01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 6: No, it really isn't. And what the problem isn't that

1612
01:43:39,479 --> 01:43:42,800
Speaker 6: we're not generous with our tax money for education. We are,

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01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:47,599
Speaker 6: I mean, as the report noted, since two thousand, we've

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01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:51,639
Speaker 6: more than doubled what we spend per kid on education,

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01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 6: but the results don't show it. In fact, the results

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01:43:55,520 --> 01:44:01,000
Speaker 6: for reading comprehension and math proficiency have actually gone down,

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01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:04,599
Speaker 6: and they have been going down Dan, And we're at

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01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 6: the point now where I mean, on a statewide basis,

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01:44:09,680 --> 01:44:14,360
Speaker 6: we've got about sixty one percent of kids who can't

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01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:18,519
Speaker 6: do math proficiently, and we've got sixty nine percent of

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01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:22,560
Speaker 6: kids who can't read proficiently. Now that's statewide. When we

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01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 6: look at Milwaukee, the state's largest school district, seventy six

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01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 6: percent of kids in Milwaukee Public Schools cannot read proficiently

1624
01:44:33,479 --> 01:44:36,760
Speaker 6: and eighty percent can't do math proficiently.

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01:44:36,920 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: Wait, seventy six percent of all MPs students are not

1626
01:44:41,120 --> 01:44:44,719
Speaker 1: reading at grade level and eight out of ten cannot

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01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:46,760
Speaker 1: do math at grade level.

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01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:50,720
Speaker 6: That's correct, And those aren't Those aren't my numbers. Those

1629
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 6: are dpi's numbers. Jeez, so it you know, look, throwing

1630
01:44:56,200 --> 01:45:00,720
Speaker 6: more money at this problem indiscriminately isn't going to fix it.

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01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:03,880
Speaker 6: We got to be smart about how we spend the money.

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01:45:04,439 --> 01:45:07,479
Speaker 6: And as we talked about on your show last time,

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01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 6: and what's in the report, it documents that since the

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01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 6: year two thousand, we have lost sixty five thousand kids

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01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:19,519
Speaker 6: in the system just because our birth rates are so low.

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01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 6: We've lost twenty seven hundred teachers, but we've added eight

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01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:30,320
Speaker 6: thousand non instructional staff. And as a taxpayer and somebody

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01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 6: who wants my money that I give to the government

1639
01:45:33,439 --> 01:45:38,240
Speaker 6: to be spent correctly and wisely, I'm just not on

1640
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 6: board with giving a bunch of more money to hire

1641
01:45:41,320 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 6: non instructional staff in schools. That the money isn't making

1642
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:48,960
Speaker 6: its way into the classroom, and we shouldn't expect better

1643
01:45:49,120 --> 01:45:52,520
Speaker 6: results when the money isn't making its way into the classroom.

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01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:56,880
Speaker 1: Well, especially since the student population K twelve public schools

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01:45:56,880 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin is declined by sixty five thousand, yet at

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01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:04,080
Speaker 1: the same time the number of teachers has declined, right

1647
01:46:05,000 --> 01:46:07,679
Speaker 1: more modest rado, was it two or three thousand fewer

1648
01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:09,840
Speaker 1: teachers than there were in two thousand, It would expect

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01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 1: that sixty five thousand fewer kids to educate. The fact

1650
01:46:13,280 --> 01:46:17,919
Speaker 1: that there are eight thousand more non teaching staff members

1651
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: is frankly, that's insulting, all right. And when you've got

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01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:26,680
Speaker 1: a governor who's supposedly the education governor, and he's demanding

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01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:30,080
Speaker 1: more money, so much so that he doesn't even think

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01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:32,880
Speaker 1: that school districts should have to go before voters in

1655
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:35,840
Speaker 1: the form of school referenda that they should just get

1656
01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:38,680
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five bucks more per student per

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01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: year for the next four centuries. To then have those

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01:46:42,240 --> 01:46:46,720
Speaker 1: districts turn around and spend it on assistant principles. I

1659
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:51,840
Speaker 1: don't know what football coaches, education curriculum specialists. How many

1660
01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: janitors does a school I don't even know what sort

1661
01:46:55,200 --> 01:47:00,280
Speaker 1: of non teaching staff. How you increase that exponentially the

1662
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: number of non teaching staff all the while we've seen

1663
01:47:03,960 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: such a precipitous decline in the number of kids in

1664
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: the number of teachers, it's insulting.

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01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:14,280
Speaker 6: Well, And the the thing that's probably the most frustrating

1666
01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:19,200
Speaker 6: for us is we don't even have an education system

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01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:21,639
Speaker 6: that's willing to admit that we have a problem. Correct,

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01:47:21,840 --> 01:47:25,600
Speaker 6: I mean we have we have a state superintendent in

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01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:29,200
Speaker 6: Jill Underley and a governor in Tony Evers who are

1670
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:35,360
Speaker 6: in denial. I mean they keep dumbing down the achievement levels. Yes,

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01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 6: both both for the both for reading and math proficiency,

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01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 6: but also the school report cards that get done every year.

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01:47:43,479 --> 01:47:46,000
Speaker 6: The DPI does, I mean, we we have a situation.

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01:47:46,120 --> 01:47:48,879
Speaker 6: Let's let's take a look at a real world example

1675
01:47:48,960 --> 01:47:53,360
Speaker 6: here right in Milwaukee, Maple Tree Elementary, and this is

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01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:56,080
Speaker 6: this is DPI data. And it was in a report

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01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 6: that our friends at Wisconsin Institute for Long Liberty did.

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01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 6: They highlighted the fact that at Maple Tree Elementary, eighty

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01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:12,640
Speaker 6: two percent of the kids cannot do cannot read at

1680
01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:17,560
Speaker 6: grade level, and ninety two percent of s can't do

1681
01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:22,679
Speaker 6: math at grade level. But under Jill Underley's report card,

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01:48:23,160 --> 01:48:26,599
Speaker 6: the Department of Public Instructions says, not only do they

1683
01:48:26,720 --> 01:48:34,200
Speaker 6: meet expectations, they exceed expectations. That's just I mean, if

1684
01:48:34,240 --> 01:48:37,280
Speaker 6: only eight percent of your kids can do math and

1685
01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:42,519
Speaker 6: thirteen percent can read and that's exceeding expectations. What in

1686
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 6: the world are the expectations I mean you have?

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01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 1: And then to add insult to injury, they have an

1688
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:56,840
Speaker 1: all expenses paid jaunt to the Wisconsin Dells for a

1689
01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:00,800
Speaker 1: luxurious stay at the chu La Vista. They can dumb

1690
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 1: down testing standards to make it seem like more kids

1691
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: are proficient, more kids are at grade level, and then,

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01:49:08,040 --> 01:49:10,320
Speaker 1: of course all of that is undone when the national

1693
01:49:10,479 --> 01:49:14,599
Speaker 1: testing standards, the NAP tests come out and show, hey,

1694
01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:17,639
Speaker 1: wait a second, the books are clearly being cooked here.

1695
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:22,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's It seems to me that one of

1696
01:49:22,360 --> 01:49:27,880
Speaker 1: the biggest problems that we have in Wisconsin losing competitiveness

1697
01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 1: is the fact that I have no trouble saying we

1698
01:49:31,200 --> 01:49:35,439
Speaker 1: have a thoroughly corrupt K twelve public education system from

1699
01:49:35,600 --> 01:49:36,960
Speaker 1: DPI on down.

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01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 6: And what it means for our economic competitiveness, Dan, is

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01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 6: this We already know, because of demographics and our crashing

1702
01:49:48,400 --> 01:49:52,760
Speaker 6: birth rates, that the pipeline of young workers, you know,

1703
01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:55,360
Speaker 6: coming into the workforce is not what we need it

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Speaker 6: to be. But then when we're failing to educate the

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01:49:58,439 --> 01:50:01,640
Speaker 6: ones that we do have, that's a huge problem. We

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01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:06,160
Speaker 6: just did a statewide survey of our member CEOs got

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01:50:06,200 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 6: the data back last month. Sixty four percent of them

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01:50:10,800 --> 01:50:13,920
Speaker 6: said that they have employees who struggle to read or

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01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 6: do math, and fifty six percent of the more than

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01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:21,000
Speaker 6: half said that our K twelve education system is not

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Speaker 6: adequately preparing kids to meet the needs of the workforce.

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Speaker 6: So we already are under this severe number crunch in

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01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:36,000
Speaker 6: terms of what our future workforce looks like, and we're

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01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:38,760
Speaker 6: just not educating them. I mean, you cannot as a

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01:50:38,840 --> 01:50:43,640
Speaker 6: society expect to have a functioning workforce when two out

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01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:47,000
Speaker 6: of three kids can't read or do math that grade level.

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Speaker 6: It just simply isn't going to work. It's a real problem,

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01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 6: and our state superintendent and our governor won't even admit

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01:50:54,160 --> 01:50:56,840
Speaker 6: that it's a problem. In fact, you know, I put

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01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:59,080
Speaker 6: a lot of blame on Jill Underlee because she's the

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01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:03,479
Speaker 6: one who fudged the standards. But the Republican legislature sent

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01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 6: a bill to Tony Evers to say, Okay, you can't

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01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:09,760
Speaker 6: do that, let's put the standards back to where they were,

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01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:10,960
Speaker 6: and he vetoed it.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Yes, he did, Yes, he did, even though he said, well,

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01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:18,719
Speaker 1: I believe his quote was when the numbers were changed

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01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:20,800
Speaker 1: and the books were cooked. He said, well, that's not

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01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:23,480
Speaker 1: saying you remember he's, of course the former state superintendent.

1729
01:51:23,680 --> 01:51:26,320
Speaker 1: Said well, that's not something I would have done. But

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01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:30,240
Speaker 1: then he vetos any chance to undo it, meaning he

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01:51:30,720 --> 01:51:36,160
Speaker 1: absolutely would have done that. Scott Manley, Executive vice President

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce WMC dot org. The competitiveness

1733
01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:45,600
Speaker 1: report is up there. We're going to link to it

1734
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 1: again as Governor Evers delivers his final State of the

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01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:52,960
Speaker 1: State address tonight. Scott, because I'm not just blowing smoke,

1736
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: this was one of the most eye opening reports I

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01:51:55,479 --> 01:52:00,280
Speaker 1: think I have ever seen. It is required reading for ever. Everyone.

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01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:02,559
Speaker 1: Thank you again for coming on the show against Scott

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01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:05,120
Speaker 1: Manly of WMC.

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01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:07,599
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me Dan.

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01:52:07,720 --> 01:52:10,439
Speaker 1: Now, the pleasure is always mine. We are going to

1742
01:52:10,560 --> 01:52:12,960
Speaker 1: be back in just a second to wrap things up

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01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:16,040
Speaker 1: here on the Tuesday edition of The Dan o'donald Show.

1744
01:52:16,080 --> 01:52:20,560
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. My thanks again to Scott Manley of WMC

1745
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,600
Speaker 1: for joining us in that last segment. How do I

1746
01:52:23,880 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 1: know that it's a good interview. I got this text

1747
01:52:28,040 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: from one of my high school buddy still one of

1748
01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:34,360
Speaker 1: my very best friends of all time. Tim. This is

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01:52:34,439 --> 01:52:37,640
Speaker 1: a great interview, Dan, he said, thanks buddy, He responds,

1750
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:44,240
Speaker 1: spittin facts calling out hacks. I am actually I think

1751
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:46,080
Speaker 1: I am going to use that as one of the

1752
01:52:46,160 --> 01:52:49,720
Speaker 1: new positioning statements or the taglines here. Welcome back to

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01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:53,080
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. Spittin facts calling out hacks.

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01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:54,600
Speaker 5: I like that.

1755
01:52:57,280 --> 01:53:01,160
Speaker 1: Tim's contribution to the Dan o'donald Show. Eight thousand non

1756
01:53:01,400 --> 01:53:07,360
Speaker 1: teaching positions. Wow, what a bleeping joke, I think, Tim, Buddy,

1757
01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:11,800
Speaker 1: you speak for thousands and thousands and thousands of Wisconsin.

1758
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:16,519
Speaker 1: It is a bleeping joke. Sixty five thousand fewer kids

1759
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 1: in twenty five years, and that's due to largely demographic changes.

1760
01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 1: Just people of our generation are not having as many children.

1761
01:53:23,360 --> 01:53:26,839
Speaker 1: I have three. That is a larger than normal family

1762
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:30,280
Speaker 1: that would have been considered a small family fifty years ago.

1763
01:53:31,720 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 1: Times have changed. The number of teachers in Wisconsin schools

1764
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:37,880
Speaker 1: has of course gone down by about two to three

1765
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 1: thousand according to WMC, the number of non teaching positions

1766
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:45,240
Speaker 1: going up by eight thousand. How can you possibly justify

1767
01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:52,280
Speaker 1: that accept as essentially welfare for people with education degrees

1768
01:53:52,920 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: paid for by taxpayers? Do you need fifteen curriculum specialists

1769
01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: at MPs Central Office. You most certainly do not, and

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01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:08,679
Speaker 1: you could justify it if student test scores were going

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01:54:08,760 --> 01:54:12,680
Speaker 1: through the roof. They're not. They're plummeting. And what does

1772
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:17,880
Speaker 1: DPI do well. They cook the books, They rig the

1773
01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:22,000
Speaker 1: cut scores so that it looks like more schools are passing,

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01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:25,200
Speaker 1: more students are passing. They clearly are not. Governor revers

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01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:28,160
Speaker 1: Deliveracy's State of the State address tonight. We will of

1776
01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:31,839
Speaker 1: course be watching and we will have a full recap

1777
01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:36,160
Speaker 1: and response tomorrow right away three zero six pm right

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01:54:36,240 --> 01:54:38,800
Speaker 1: here on the DAN. O'donald SHO. Have a great night, Wisconsin.