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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'Donnells show, Welcome to it. We also

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

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Speaker 1: DoD at iHeartMedia dot com is my email address. If

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald show. What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Chaz, I just wanted to throw my two cents and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there, we gotcha, there, we gotcha. What's going on? Chaz?

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Speaker 5: So I want to just put my two cents in

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Speaker 1: and to improvised Molotov cocktails. He said he was there

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Speaker 1: to assassinate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, who had just become

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Speaker 1: assassinate then Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseith, or possibly House

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Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson, or even burned down the Conservative Heritage Foundation,

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Speaker 1: but then either stopped at a library and saw a

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

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

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Speaker 1: plan and said, Okay, I am going to assassinate Bessant.

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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: a gun, a knife, zip ties, and burglary tools, is

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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 we 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 one one on himself.

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Speaker 1: That was back in twenty twenty two. He has apparently

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Speaker 1: been living as a woman in federal prison ever since. Now,

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Speaker 1: if this seems like a whole lot of high profile

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Speaker 1: transviolence lately, you're right it does, especially because people who

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Speaker 1: suffer from true gender dysphoria are only about zero point

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Speaker 1: five percent of the American population. Twice in two weeks

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Speaker 1: you have a transgender woman aka a man who who

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Speaker 1: thinks he's a woman, committed an extreme act of violence,

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Speaker 1: not just in the United States, but in Canada as well.

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Speaker 1: And while it is true that acts of extreme violence

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Speaker 1: committed by transgender individuals are rare, so too are such

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Speaker 1: extreme acts of violence committed by the general public. The

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Speaker 1: fact that the general public is ninety nine point five

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Speaker 1: percent of all of the people in said public, and

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Speaker 1: transgender individuals are about zero point five percent. I think

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Speaker 1: it is worth asking exactly what is going on in

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Speaker 1: the transgender community. We will attempt to answer that question

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

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

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Speaker 1: a much rosier picture after eight years of his leadership,

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Speaker 1: but we're going to dive into what the stats actually say,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk with Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce

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Speaker 1: Scott Manly about one of the most important studies that

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Speaker 1: I think has been done in the last decade about

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Speaker 1: just how uncompetitive Wisconsin has become under Tony Evers leadership.

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Speaker 1: That is coming up in the five o'clock hour. Is

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Speaker 1: there something innate in transgender ideology that makes transgender people

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Speaker 1: seemingly prone to acts of extreme violence? We'll discuss in

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Speaker 1: just a second. First, though, it's time to name the

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Speaker 1: unhinged liberal of.

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Speaker 8: The we are in Nazi Germany.

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Speaker 3: Is dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 5: America.

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

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Speaker 1: to violence, or at least violent fantas. Today's unhinged liberal

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: from office, not arrested, but gut it.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 8: I don't want it pagment.

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Speaker 3: I don't want them to save time.

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Speaker 2: I want to take it into the citytown square hop

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Speaker 2: from there.

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Speaker 3: I God, got damn from gotcha.

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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 3: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 8: I don't want a pagement.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so here's here's the problem. In acting.

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Speaker 1: They teach you to make a choice and then stick

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Speaker 1: with it. So she starts it. Here's the thing. I

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Speaker 1: don't want impeachment. She's doing that weird singsongy thing that

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Speaker 1: liberal women have a tendency to do. Oftentimes they accompany

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Speaker 1: that by clapping, like, here's the thing, I don't want impeachment.

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Speaker 1: But then she all of a sudden switches, like she

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Speaker 1: full hanniballector psychopath.

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Speaker 3: I don't want them to save time. I want to

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 6: Where God got them gotch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: of a transgender man I guess technically transgender woman man

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Speaker 1: who thinks he is a woman man wearing a dress

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Speaker 1: is what law enforcement described him as. Fifty six year

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Speaker 1: old man who gunned down his ex wife and his

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Speaker 1: son and then injured three other people, at least two

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Speaker 1: of whom or in critical condition before a quick thinking

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Speaker 1: good samaritan subdued him. He was attempting to kill other

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Speaker 1: people then, realizing that he was pinned down, that he

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Speaker 1: was going to be taken into custody, he turned the

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Speaker 1: in transgender ideology that makes people more prone to violence?

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but the thing that most people want to

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

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

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Speaker 1: deep depression and self loathing, as well as years of

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

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Speaker 1: a 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, is a symptom of broader based,

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

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Speaker 1: 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 the 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.

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Speaker 3: She believes she is.

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Speaker 1: Born in the wrong body that probably suggests that there's

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Speaker 1: something a little bit deeper wrong with her, does it not? Nope, nope, nope,

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Speaker 1: totally cure, totally fine. Until we get back to actually

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Speaker 1: treating severe mental illness, and until we get back to

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Speaker 1: understanding transgender ideology and gender dysphoria as a mental illness,

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Speaker 1: we are going to continue to have deeply deranged people

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Speaker 1: committing extreme acts of violence.

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Speaker 3: What is going on.

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Speaker 1: With Democrats in Milwaukee? First, the Common Council president accuses

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Speaker 1: the head of the Bradley Center district of pinching his

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Speaker 1: butt and actually files a police report. I am absolutely

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Speaker 1: dead serious about that. Jose Perez accuses Marty Brooks of

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Speaker 1: pinching his butt, and now Perez has stripped two Common

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Speaker 1: Council members of their committee assignments because of some sort

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Speaker 1: of verbal confrontation before that massive anti ice this press

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Speaker 1: conference that they held last week, This story just keeps

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Speaker 1: getting weirder and weirder. Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported

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Speaker 1: exclusively that Joe Costa Zamaipa, as well as Mark Chambers Junior,

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Speaker 1: got into some sort of screaming match in the run

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Speaker 1: up to that press conference that we covered extensively here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell show. You might remember, this was

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Speaker 1: the one in which Perez Zamaipa and let's see Marina

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Speaker 1: Dimitrievik they all admitted, as well as the truly insane

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Speaker 1: person Alex Brower, the open socialist who's on the Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Common Council, they were all talking openly about putting up

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Speaker 1: and setting up the same sort of communication networks like

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Speaker 1: the infamous telegram chat that was allowing all of the

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Speaker 1: radical anti ICE activists to be able to follow and

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Speaker 1: basically stalk ICE agents around the city and Engayjen federal

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Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. I mean, what was going on was

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Speaker 1: criminal activity in They were making it much more difficult

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Speaker 1: for law enforcement agencies to do their job. You have

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Speaker 1: the president of the Common Council, you have four different

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Speaker 1: members of the Milwaukee Common Council all talking openly about

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Speaker 1: setting up those same communication networks in Milwaukee on the

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Speaker 1: chance that ICE conducts large scale operations here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what they are talking about is establishing a criminal conspiracy. Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out that that's not the biggest controversy to

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Speaker 1: come out of that press conference. Naturally, I'm the only

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Speaker 1: one in Milwaukee media, who notices that they're all talking

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Speaker 1: about a criminal conspiracy. Heaven knows the Journal Sentinel is

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Speaker 1: not going to report on that. But apparently there was

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Speaker 1: a massive screaming match between Chambers and Zamaipa immediately before.

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Speaker 1: Zamaipa has now filed a formal ethics complaint against Chambers.

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Speaker 1: We will get into that coming up in just a second.

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Speaker 1: It is just breaking now that Zamaipa has put out

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Speaker 1: a press release saying that she has filed an ethics complaint.

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Speaker 1: I would say that Mark Chambers might have actually pinched

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Speaker 1: Joe Costa's butt, but God knows, nobody would ever, under

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Speaker 1: any circumstances want to pinch Joe Costa's butt.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into this in just a second.

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Speaker 1: For what I'm sorry, it is it not funny that

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Speaker 1: the president of the Milwaukee Common Council is accusing the

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Speaker 1: head of the Wisconsin Center District of pinching his butt.

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

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

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Speaker 1: pinches Perez's butt, and then walks away. The police investigated

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Speaker 1: and found no probable cause. Jose Perez wanted criminal charges

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Speaker 1: against the head of the Wisconsin Center District. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the Wisconsin Center District and the Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Common column to obviously need to have a close relationship,

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: like secret handshakes? It's sort of like the Stonecutters from

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Speaker 1: that old episode of The Simpsons. Is the secret handshake?

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Speaker 1: Just they pinch each other's rear ends. That would explain

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Speaker 1: so much about the modern Democratic Party, all right, four one, four, seven, nine,

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven thirty on our adventnos dot com talk

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Speaker 6: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 3: Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 2: It's also a big win for the United States.

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Speaker 3: We have to keep winning. We have to win.

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Speaker 8: Moore.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna win Moore.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: longtime friends. Trump wrote, despite the fact that I am

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

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Speaker 1: on the radical left Democrats all it was always my

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Speaker 1: pleasure to help Jesse along the way. I provide an

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Speaker 1: years in the Trump Building at forty Wall Street. Responded

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Speaker 1: to his request for helping getting criminal justice reform passed

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Speaker 1: presidents would not do. Responded to Jesse's support for Operation

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Speaker 1: Opportunity Zones, excuse me, the single most successful economic development

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Speaker 1: Another round of talks today between American and Iranian negotiators

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Speaker 1: aimed at permanently ending Iran's nuclear program. Vice President JD

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Speaker 1: Vance on Martha mccallums show on Fox News about two

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Speaker 9: I'm ab was not going to make any announcements today.

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Speaker 9: I think the President has a lot of options. We

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Speaker 9: diplomatic team. He shown a willingness to use that too,

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Speaker 9: And so what the President has been very clear with

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Speaker 9: the Iranians. And actually I just talked to Steve Woodkoff

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Speaker 9: is the United States has certain red lines. Our primary

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Speaker 9: other regimes, some friendly, some not so friendly, who would

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Speaker 9: very much like, as the President has said, to resolve

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Speaker 9: this through a conversation, in a diplomatic negotiation. But the

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Speaker 9: one thing about the negotiation I will say this morning

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Speaker 9: was very clear that the President has set some red

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Speaker 9: acknowledge and work through.

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Speaker 3: So we're going to.

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Speaker 9: Keep on working it. But of course the President reserves

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Speaker 9: the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has

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Speaker 3: But if we do, that'll be the President's call.

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Speaker 1: The President always reserving that all options will remain on

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

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

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

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Speaker 9: This is the fundamental issue in the midterms, and I

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Speaker 9: four years that Democrats were in charge. In the first

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Speaker 9: the whole the Democrats put us in. I think the

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Speaker 9: question we're going to put to the American people is,

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Speaker 9: do you want to give the government back over to

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Speaker 9: the people who frankly burned down the House and made

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Speaker 9: most Americans much less wealthy and much less safe, or

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Speaker 9: do you want to double down on the president's leadership

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Speaker 9: which has helped us recover from some of the problems

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Speaker 9: caused by Joe Biden, and it has built a lot

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Speaker 9: done over the last year are things that are going

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Speaker 9: to pay long term dividends for the American people. Eighteen

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Speaker 9: trillion dollars of new investment, that's factories being built, that's

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Speaker 9: wages going up, a twenty percent reduction in murder rate.

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Speaker 9: We've obviously secured the border, and we've got a lot

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Speaker 9: there's a lot to run on. There's a lot to

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Speaker 3: 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 10: Proscouters this month leveling two counts against Jabbar, claiming he

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Speaker 10: was defrauding the Food Chare Benefits program, which is taxpayer funded,

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Speaker 10: out of some one point six million dollars between twenty

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Speaker 10: people cash in exchange for the food benefits on their

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Speaker 10: federal government for the full amount. They say Jabbar used

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Speaker 10: the money he made to pay off personal loans and

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Speaker 10: credit cards, to fund his membership to a vacation club,

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Speaker 10: and even spend it at retail stores like Target, Gucci,

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Speaker 10: and Nordstrump.

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

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Speaker 1: filed that formal ethics complaint.

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Speaker 3: Quote.

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Speaker 1: On February eleventh, an incident occurred at City Hall involving

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Speaker 1: Alderman Mark Chambers Junior in me. What should have been

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Speaker 1: a conversation among colleagues quickly escalated into something far more serious.

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Speaker 1: I was confronted in my office, verbally berated and physically

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Speaker 1: intimidated in a way that made me feel trapped and

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Speaker 1: the encounter. I was subjected to profane and degrading remarks,

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Speaker 1: including being taunted to quote start crying. The comments were

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Speaker 1: gendered and demeaning. This is not the first time I

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Speaker 1: have experienced hostility from this individual. This was not just

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Speaker 1: a personal disagreement or just raised voices. When an elected

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Speaker 1: official uses the authority and physical presence of their office

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Speaker 1: to intimidate or silence a colleague. It is a misuse

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Speaker 1: of public power that undermines the democratic process. It also

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Speaker 1: sends a troubling message to the residents that I represent

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Speaker 1: that their voices can be bullied or pushed aside inside

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Speaker 1: city Hall. Holding public office is built on public trust.

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Speaker 1: That trust depends on every elected official being able to

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Speaker 1: do their job without threats, intimidation, or abuse. That is

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Speaker 1: why I have filed a formal complaint and requested a

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Speaker 1: full investigation under the city's Ethics Code, including whether this

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Speaker 1: conduct constituted misuse of office and violated the standards required

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Speaker 1: representation must be respected. Now, as you can imagine, that,

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Speaker 1: of course, is a reference to the fact that she

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Speaker 3: 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?

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Speaker 3: Or start crying?

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

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Speaker 1: in my comments section probably once a day.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Granted, these aren't members of the Milwaukee Common Council, although

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Speaker 1: Congressman Mark po Can, in his steadfast refusals to come

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Speaker 1: on and debate me on literally any issue on this program,

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Speaker 1: has said some pretty mean things about me. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I would file an ethics complaint against him.

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Speaker 1: Start crying alone is not sufficient, I think, for any

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Speaker 1: sort of ethics action against Common Council Member Sanders. I

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Speaker 1: just don't see how this.

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Speaker 6: 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 count amongst those who knew her when she

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

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Speaker 1: going to fly off the handle, And this is somebody

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Speaker 1: who is going to give as good as she gets

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Speaker 1: in any sort of verbal confrontation, if the best that

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Speaker 1: she can come up with was, oh, well, he said,

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Speaker 1: start crying, and this is gendered language, this just strikes

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Speaker 1: me as the girl who cried sexism like the boy

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Speaker 1: who cried wolf. It might not necessarily be anything that

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

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Speaker 1: that you have a serious issue, I think in this

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Speaker 1: state with Democrats who frankly do not like each other

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Speaker 1: at all. Now, how much was made over the last

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

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

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Speaker 1: not being on the same page when it came to

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

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Speaker 1: seems like Assembly Speaker Voss was putting me out of

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Speaker 1: the negotiation process with Governor Evers when it comes to

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

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Speaker 1: relief package where he wants to spend a billion or

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Speaker 1: so dollars, maybe two billion dollars of the states projected

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Speaker 1: two point five to two point seven billion dollar budget

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Speaker 1: surplus on income tax relief. Five hundred two individual filers,

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to married people filing jointly. This was

871
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,720
Speaker 1: made to seem as though this is the greatest rift

872
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: in the history of politics here in this state. Just

873
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: to recap, over the past nine months, you have had

874
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers refused to endorse and very pointedly

875
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: refused to endorse his own lieutenant governor, Sarah Rodriguez, his

876
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: former lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes. Not only that, when Barnes

877
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: jumped into the gubernatorial race, you had Democrats from across

878
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: the state, both named and anonymously, telling the New York Times, Hey,

879
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: we're not going to all fall in line behind Mandela.

880
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 3: We're not going to.

881
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 1: Get the party to force Sarah god Luski and Alex

882
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: Lazri out of the primary a week before the vote

883
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: like they did when he ran for Senate in August

884
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two.

885
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 3: That's not going to happen again.

886
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: And then that was followed up by the Milwaukee Courier

887
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: saying much the same thing a couple of days later

888
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: when Mandela got in this race, or right before Mandela

889
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: got in this race, saying, hey, you're not guaranteed the

890
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: support of Milwaukee's black community. Not only that, at around

891
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: that same time this past fall, at a David Crowley

892
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: campaign fundraiser, at least at the bar after the fundraiser

893
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: had ended. You've got Marty Brooks, a Democratic Goods standing

894
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: the head of the Wisconsin Center District, allegedly pinching the

895
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: butt of the Milwaukee Common Council President Jose Perez, who

896
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: then doesn't just file an ethics complaint or go to

897
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,439
Speaker 1: the media, he actually files a police report. He wants

898
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: criminal sexual assault charges filed against Marty Brooks. Now, you've

899
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: got jo Costa Zamaripa accusing Mark Sanders of verbally abusing her.

900
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: What is going on in the Democrat Party. I'm not

901
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: entirely sure, but quite frankly you love to see it.

902
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: Let me Hue and Voss deliver a property tax proposal

903
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: to Governor Evers will break it down coming up next

904
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. You have no idea

905
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: how badly I want Alderman Mark Chambers Junior to respond

906
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: to Joe Costa Zamaipa's ethics complaint by accusing her of

907
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: being racist. Chambers is black, Zamaipa is Hispanic. Yeah, You'd

908
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: better believe I am loving every second of Democrats all

909
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: across this state being at each other's throats in an

910
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: election year. Does anything reflect this better than Governor Evers

911
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: so obviously hating both of his lieutenant governors that he

912
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: is refusing to endorse either one. In fact, we have

913
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: a SoundBite that we've been playing for the better part

914
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: of eight months now in which Evers was asked specifically

915
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: about whether or not he was going to endorse Sarah

916
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 1: Rodriguez when Rodriguez announced her bid for the governorship. As

917
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: soon as Evers announced that he wasn't seeking a third term,

918
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: he actually said, yeah, you know, if there's somebody who

919
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: gets in the race and I think is worthy of

920
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: my endorsement, then I'll endorse. But yeah, I'm not going

921
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: to endorse right now. The time, Rodriguez was the only

922
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: major Democrat candidate in the race, so him saying that

923
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: was saying quite a bit. And not only that, when

924
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: his other lieutenant governor, the guy who he was supposed

925
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: to I can remember when the two of them were

926
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: on the ticket together. And a lot of people don't

927
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: realize how this works. It's not like you pick a

928
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 1: running mate like the president picks a vice presidential running mate.

929
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: In Wisconsin, you actually run in the primary to be

930
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: your party's nominee for lieutenant governor, and then you are

931
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: automatically added to the ticket in the general election. So

932
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Evers didn't pick Mandela Barnes, Evers didn't pick Sarah Rodriguez.

933
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: They just happened to win the primary. So there was

934
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: no real loyalty there. But we were told I remember

935
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: the general election campaign in twenty eighteen when we were

936
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: told that Evers and Mandela Barnes, the old white man

937
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: and the young black man, they were the odd couple,

938
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,919
Speaker 1: they were the best of friends. Turns out I don't

939
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: know if Mandela hates Evers' guts, but it turns out

940
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: that Evers clearly hates Mandela Barnes's guts. Why do I

941
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: say that, because if he didn't, he would have endorsed

942
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: Mandela right away now that the field is set. I

943
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: don't know if Evers just doesn't think that there's anybody

944
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: worthy of his endorsement, but he clearly is not going

945
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,959
Speaker 1: to endorse either Rodriguez or four Barns when it would

946
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: do them any good. In this primary. Evers's going to

947
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: deliver his eighth and final State of the State address,

948
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: and it is very likely tonight he is going to

949
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: talk about all of the successes over the past eight years,

950
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: but he is very likely not going to talk about

951
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: the single most destructive policy I think of his entire

952
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: time in office, and that is the four hundred year

953
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: property tax veto. Just by way of a very very

954
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 1: quick explainer, Governor Evers used his very powerful partial veto

955
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: authority in twenty twenty three to change the numbers twenty

956
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: twenty four dash twenty twenty five to twenty four to

957
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: twenty five, and to increase the school funding levy by

958
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty five dollars per student per year until

959
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: the year twenty four to twenty five, So four hundred years.

960
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: I guess one year down, three hundred ninety nine to go,

961
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: since we're in twenty twenty six. But already in just

962
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: the first year that this four hundred year veto was

963
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: in effect, because the State Supreme Court gave its stamp

964
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: of approval. Of course, along partisan lines, the four liberal

965
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: hacks approved a very obvious unconstitutional van of white veto,

966
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: and the three conservative justices said, what are you crazy?

967
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: This is absolute insanity and it's completely and totally unconstitutional. Well,

968
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: for the first time, property tax payers opened their bills

969
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: and they saw the single biggest one year increase in

970
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: their property tax rates in thirty plus years. Why because

971
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: school districts didn't need to go to referendum. They could

972
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: simply add three hundred and twenty five dollars per pupil

973
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: every single year. It's not as though they've added three

974
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five dollars for the taxiar twenty twenty four

975
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty five. They can add an additional three

976
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five dollars in twenty twenty six, twenty seven,

977
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty and so on and so

978
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: on and so on until the year twenty four to

979
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now, Devin Lemaheue and Robin Voss, the two

980
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: leaders of the Wisconsin legislature in the Senate and Assembly,

981
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: respectfully respectively, understand that Evers is not going to agree

982
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: to undo the four hundred year veto, and both of

983
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: them apparently agree that allowing him to do so would

984
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: be politically a mistake because you know, dog gone Well,

985
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany is going to campaign hard on the fact

986
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: that Governor Evers increased everybody's property taxes for the next

987
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: four centuries. So in their proposal that they sent to

988
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: the Governor's office late yesterday, they are incorporating Lema Hughes's

989
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: proposal of income tax rebates, and all of this would

990
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: be part of spending the proposed two point three billion

991
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: dollar budget surplus that was announced by the state's legislative

992
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: Fiscal Bureau. This is at the end of the current

993
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: budget cycle. At the end of the fiscal year June

994
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: thirtieth of twenty twenty seven, Lemme Hue was called for

995
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: one time payments of five hundred dollars per individual tax

996
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: filer or one thousand dollars for married couples filing jointly.

997
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: This would cost about one point five billion dollars. There

998
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: would be an additional five hundred million dollars allocated to

999
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: the School levee tax Credit also called the school property

1000
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: tax credit. This uses state funds to sort of offset

1001
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: the part of local property taxes that are attributable to

1002
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: school levies, which again increased by the biggest margin since

1003
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: the early nineteen nineties. There would then be an extra

1004
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars for special education reimbursements to help

1005
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 1: cover the costs for districts of providing special education. But notably,

1006
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: the two leaders said there will not be any increase

1007
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: in general school aid funding. Evers wants about four hundred

1008
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars over the next year, just one year.

1009
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: He wants an increase of nearly half a billion dollars,

1010
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: even though the number of students that need to be

1011
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: educated has decreased precipitously. Now so too over the last

1012
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: twenty five years have the number of teachers in Wisconsin's

1013
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: K twelve public school districts. But do you know what

1014
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: has gone up considerably the number of non teaching school employees.

1015
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: This is educational bureaucrats, assistant principles, people who aren't actually

1016
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: in the classroom, but rather serve as administrators or educational specialists.

1017
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: They've made out like literal bandits as the declining student

1018
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 1: population because of massive demographic shifts. My generation and Generation

1019
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: X having far fewer children than did the Baby Boomers

1020
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 1: or greatest generation before them, has meant that it should

1021
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: not cost more money to educate a fewer children, to

1022
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: educate a significantly smaller student body. Now, Governor Evers, of course,

1023
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: is going to reject this proposal, but the leaders of

1024
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: the State Assembly and State Senate say, okay, we're going

1025
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: to end this legislative session on Thursday, so time is

1026
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 1: clearly of the essence. We will see tonight what Governor

1027
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 1: Evers says about this, if anything, he does deliver his

1028
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: State of the State address this evening. What is the

1029
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin really after eight years of Tony Evers?

1030
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: We discuss next here on the Dan o'donald's show. Governor

1031
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: Evers delivers his eighth and final State of this State

1032
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: address tonight, and well, he is going to be taking

1033
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: a massive victory lap about just how great Wisconsin has

1034
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: done under his watch. The truth is that Wisconsin is

1035
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: quite literally falling behind in pretty much every single metric.

1036
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: This was outlined in what should be an absolute must

1037
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: read report from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. We highlighted this

1038
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: about two weeks ago, and I've actually invited Scott Manley,

1039
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: who is an executive vice president with WMC on it

1040
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: is just absolutely devastating. He is going to focus on

1041
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: education funding and in fact, he is the one that

1042
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: was the one who basically outlined just how badly Wisconsin

1043
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 1: is misspending its education funding. Consider this under Governor Evers

1044
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: since two thousand, spending has more than doubled. Over the

1045
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: same period, enrollment fell by sixty five thousand, total students.

1046
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 1: Non teaching staff grew by more than eight thousand. This

1047
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: means for every eight students lost, schools hired one additional

1048
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: non instructional employee. And this explosion in school budgets even

1049
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: as the per pupil spending has gone up, but the

1050
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: total number of pupils has gone down. What this has

1051
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: meant is so education is funding on a per pupil basis.

1052
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: Here in Wisconsin, the state pays based on how many

1053
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 1: kids it is that you need to educate. We have

1054
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: gone from about eight thousand dollars per student in the

1055
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: year two thousand to about eighteen thousand per student today. Amazingly,

1056
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: nearly two thirds of Wisconsin's students are below grade level

1057
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: in math according to NAP national standards. This is stunning.

1058
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Scott Manley about this. This

1059
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: report also found that under Governor Evers, Wisconsin's top individual

1060
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: tax rate. Now this was set to be fair before

1061
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:24,719
Speaker 1: Evers took office, seven point sixty five percent ninth highest nationally.

1062
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 1: Corporate income tax rate seven point nine percent, twelfth highest

1063
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: in the country. But here is where Governor Evers really

1064
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: did a number on the state. Wisconsin is now the

1065
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: thirteenth most regulated states in the country. The state administrative

1066
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: code contains over one hundred and sixty five thousand regulatory restrictions.

1067
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: That number just exploding over the last eight years. Now

1068
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: a big reason that Wisconsin has what's known as brain drain,

1069
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: where we have a lot of talented young people just

1070
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 1: leaving the state because sixteen states now have flat income

1071
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:09,440
Speaker 1: taxes while nine states have no income tax at all.

1072
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: Seeing us, Wisconsin is not exactly the best weatherwise. Sure,

1073
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: yesterday and the day before we're about as beautiful as

1074
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: a February day can possibly get here. It's like that

1075
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: every single day in a lot of these states that

1076
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: have no state income tax, including Texas. And don't even

1077
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: get me started about what Florida is like this time.

1078
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 1: If here it's absolutely gorgeous, you go to southern Florida

1079
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: eighty five degrees, you can lay around on the beach.

1080
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:42,719
Speaker 1: As a result of policies that are driving people away,

1081
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: driving entrepreneurs away, Wisconsin's median age is about a full

1082
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: year and a half older than the national average. Our

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Speaker 1: median age here in the state is forty point seven

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Speaker 1: national average thirty nine point two. What this means is

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin has a significantly older population than the country at large.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin residents who are of retirement age sixty five and

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Speaker 1: older nearly twenty percent of the population, compared to just

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Speaker 1: eighteen percent nationally. What this means is you have got

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Speaker 1: fewer people of working age and fewer people who are

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Speaker 1: in their peak earning years who are supporting more and

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Speaker 1: more retirees. That is what's known as a demographic death spiral.

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Speaker 1: And ask nations like Germany and Japan and China how

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Speaker 1: difficult it is to get out of that. Wisconsin's labor

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Speaker 1: force participation rate, according to Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, actually

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Speaker 1: peaked in nineteen ninety seven and has steadily declined ever since.

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Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, okay, Dan, a lot of

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Speaker 1: these terms, a lot of these trends predate Governor Evers.

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Speaker 1: This is true, But what has Evers done in eight

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Speaker 1: years to reverse them? Job creation under Tony Evers has

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Speaker 1: slowed to a standstill. In eight years, Wisconsin has gained,

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Speaker 1: and this is almost unbelievable. Just to net one thousand,

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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.

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Speaker 3: Now you could say.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Dan, Governor Evers doesn't have a whole lot to

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Speaker 1: do with this, because, let's face it, Wisconsin's crime rate

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Speaker 1: is dictated almost entirely by the City of Milwaukee. That

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Speaker 1: is true, But when this state needed a governor at

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Speaker 1: its hour of need when one of its cities was

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Speaker 1: quite literally burning to the ground. In August of twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: during the rioting over Jacob Blake, a rapist who is

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Speaker 1: attempting to kidnap his children at knife point and pulled

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Speaker 1: out a curved blade knife on officers and was shot

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Speaker 1: and paralyzed as a result of it. Governor Evers, as

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Speaker 1: well as Lieutenant Governor Barnes, fanned the flames.

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Speaker 3: He put out a press release.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: for them to do that. I will never forget how

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Speaker 1: he or far more likely one of his staffers, phrased this,

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

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Speaker 1: state to be shot or brutally killed by law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: This was all but encouraging or justifying the violence that

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Speaker 1: was to come, and in fact, it took Governor Evers'

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Speaker 1: days to call on the National Guard, even though the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration and Congressman Brian's Style were doing everything they

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Speaker 1: could to try to get the federal cavalry into Kenosha.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't until Kyle Rittenhouse essentially took matters into his

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Speaker 1: own hands and shot two people in what turned out

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Speaker 1: to be justifiable self defense that Governor Evers finally relented

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Speaker 1: and called in the National Guard. It was one of

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Speaker 1: the most disgusting displays in the history of the Wisconsin governorship.

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Speaker 1: That ultimately is what the state of the state has

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Speaker 1: been under Tony Evers. Confusion, punctuated with periods of utter

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Speaker 1: disaster for this state, but a long term trend over

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Speaker 1: the last nearly one decade of steady decline, managed by

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Speaker 1: an increasingly incompetent steward of both the economy and the people.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show. So I've been

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Speaker 1: watching the Olympics pretty much every morning. My wife and

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Speaker 1: I have been having our coffee, and you know, the

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Speaker 1: kids go off to school, the boys, my older one

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

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Speaker 1: my daughter to school. Typically, I'll hang out with the

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Speaker 1: dog for a little bit and then she'll come back

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Speaker 1: and we'll watch the Olympics. I'll get some work done,

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Speaker 1: and I'm seriously wondering, are there any Olympic sports besides

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Speaker 1: curling and figure skating, and also is it like a

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Speaker 1: new thing. I've noticed just in the last two Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games that curling has become like the sport that everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to watch. I would rather watch dudes play corn

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Speaker 1: hole at a Memorial Day barbecue than watch curl Like. Look,

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01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 1: I get that it's a lot of skill, but come on,

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Speaker 1: given the choice between that or some dude hurling his

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Speaker 1: body down a sheet of ice face first at one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles an hour, I'm going to take

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Speaker 1: the insane daredevil over the fat guy who's chucking a

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Speaker 1: rock down the nice that said, I have been absolute

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Speaker 1: captivated by the Canadian cheating scandal. Apparently both the men's

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Speaker 1: and women's curling team were caught cheating by after releasing

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Speaker 1: the stone, touching it ever so slightly with their finger.

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Speaker 1: Today's unsung Hero of the day is an Olympian and

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Speaker 1: he's an alum of my alma mater, Marquette University. Emery Layman,

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Speaker 1: who won his second ever Olympic medal today, winning silver

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Speaker 1: with Team USA and the Team Pursuit speedskating event. USA

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Speaker 1: finished in three minutes forty three seconds, well off the

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Speaker 1: pace of the winner and host country Italy at three

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Speaker 1: point thirty nine. According to the Journal Sentinel, the head

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

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

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Speaker 1: medal pairing. Layman was paired with Ethan Kappuran and Casey Dawson.

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Speaker 3: All three were part.

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Speaker 1: Of the team that won bronze at the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two Olympics in Beijing. Layman is a native of Illinois

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Speaker 1: who lives and trains in Utah. He's also going to

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Speaker 1: compete in the fifteen hundred, an event where Jordan Stoltz

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Speaker 1: is the heavy favorite. Congratulations Emory Layman, the unsung hero

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Speaker 1: of the day.

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Speaker 3: It is the Dan o'donald Show. Welcome back to.

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Speaker 1: At five o'clock hour, and let's get right down to business.

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Speaker 3: Today is the.

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Speaker 1: Primary election day ahead of Wisconsin's spring election on April seventh.

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Speaker 3: Very good chats.

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Speaker 1: You do not have anything on your ballot, but a

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Speaker 1: number of county party chairs and county party representatives have

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Speaker 1: contacted me saying that, hey, there are going to be

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Speaker 1: some races for some of our conservative candidates in Ozaki

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Speaker 1: County in parts of Waukeshaw County, Milwaukee County as well.

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Speaker 1: There are primary elections. Be sure to check my vote

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Speaker 1: dot Wi dot gov. If you have something on your ballot,

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01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: you can actually see what's on my ballot. If you

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01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: do not have anything show up on your ballot today,

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01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 1: that means you do not have a primary election. For example,

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Speaker 1: there are only two candidates statewide running for the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court, so that means that both are going to

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01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: advance to the general election automatically. If there was a

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Speaker 1: third candidate, say an ed Fallone type who's just going

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Speaker 1: to run for the hell of it, then there would

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Speaker 1: need to be a primary. But because there isn't a

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Speaker 1: primary for everybody, the vast majority of people in this

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Speaker 1: state aren't going to be voting tonight. We will be

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Speaker 1: following the results, of course, but what we are really

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Speaker 1: focused on is that April seventh general election, and that's

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Speaker 1: why we are introducing the Dan O'Donnell shows Ultimate Conservative

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Speaker 1: Voter Guide. We are going to all seventy two county

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01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: and we are trying to find every single conservative candidate.

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Speaker 1: One thing I get asked every single year without fail

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Speaker 1: is Dan, who should I vote for?

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Speaker 3: Dan? Who is the conservative candidate in this race.

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Speaker 1: Well, we actually have a staff of people investigating that

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01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: right now, and we are working with the county Republican

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01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: parties on trying to get lists of conservative candidates. We

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01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:28,480
Speaker 1: are doing our own research to try to vet candidates

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01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,520
Speaker 1: to try to figure out who are the most conservative

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

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01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: is not Dan O'Donnell saying to you you need to

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01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: vote for this person. This is just me saying this

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01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: is a conservative. This is a person who has been

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01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 1: identified as somebody who is going to stand up for

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01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: conservative values and is someone that you can vote in

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Speaker 1: confidence for knowing that they likely share your values. If

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Speaker 1: you are a candidate, if you know a candidate, if

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01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: you work with a group, or a county p party

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01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: or the state party, or anybody who has any knowledge

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01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:09,480
Speaker 1: of conservative candidates, please do contact me Dood at iHeartMedia

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Speaker 1: dot com. We would love to include you in our

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01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 1: candidate list. I've had at least one candidate reach out

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01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: to me and say Dan, hey, on second thought, I

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01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want people to know that I'm the conservative

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Speaker 1: candidate i am running in a blue district, or I'm

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01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: running in a blue city. I can tell you, folks,

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Speaker 1: the Libs are not going to be reading this, They

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01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: are not going to be looking at this, and you

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01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: are far better served by getting your people to know

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

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01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 1: one of the big things that conservatives do not do

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01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: is go out and vote because they don't know who

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

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Speaker 1: one of the things I am convinced, and I have

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Speaker 1: been convinced for a long time. Depresses turnout now. Democrats

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Speaker 1: have no problem. The state Party and the ten billion

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Speaker 1: different five OHO one C three group hoops that should

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Speaker 1: absolutely not be doing this sort of thing do this

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

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Speaker 3: They all do this.

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Speaker 1: They print voter guides for all of their people so

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Speaker 1: that they can know exactly who it is that they

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01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: should be voting for. This is my effort to even

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Speaker 1: the score. So if you want to be a part

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Speaker 1: of the Conservative Voter Guide, Dood at iHeartMedia dot com

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Speaker 1: you want to join the show four one four seven

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Speaker 1: nine to nine eleven thirty or one eight hundred eight

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Speaker 1: three eight nine four seven six again, email me Dood

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Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia dot com, at Dan o'donnald's show, on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, on across social media. Really, we're also streaming

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Speaker 1: live on YouTube via the danocam. Hey, speaking of candidates,

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Speaker 1: a congressional candidate from way up North Dare is doing

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Speaker 1: something not necessarily related to his run, but it is

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Speaker 1: very important work. I am so pleased to be joined

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald Show by Michael Alfonso. He is

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Speaker 1: a congressional candidate who was just at one of the

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Speaker 1: wildest school board races I think I have ever seen.

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Speaker 3: Michael. Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Dan, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: Well, the pleasure is all mine.

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Speaker 1: So how many people do you think don't know about

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Speaker 1: what's going on in New Richmond but need to?

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Speaker 3: The New Richmond School.

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

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

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Speaker 1: just actually reported exclusively here on the Dan o'donald Show

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

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Speaker 1: Taylor State Supreme Court candidate actually proposed a similar transgender

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Speaker 1: bathroom bill. Has no problem with tampons in the boys' bathroom.

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Speaker 1: But the New Richmond school district, Michael, they don't want

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Speaker 1: just tampons in the boys bathroom, they want boys in

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Speaker 1: the girls' bathroom.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, that's exactly right. And you say, who needs

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Speaker 6: to know about this? Every single taxpayer in New Richmond.

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Speaker 6: You are paying for this lunacy. You know, they didn't

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Speaker 6: even tell parents that this policy was in place. Some

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Speaker 6: people say it's been in place for ten years. I

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Speaker 6: mean the parents found out about this when there was

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Speaker 6: finally a brave young girl who actually told her parents

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Speaker 6: this was going on, and they called an emergency school

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Speaker 6: board meeting where the school board, the cowardly school board,

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Speaker 6: voted two to four to one, abstaining to keep the

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Speaker 6: policy in place. They were afraid of the over five

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Speaker 6: hundred parents that were in the meeting, and they decided

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Speaker 6: to table it for today. And my wife and I

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Speaker 6: are actually heading back to New Yool really now, yes,

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Speaker 6: and we will keep everyone up to date on what

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Speaker 6: they officially decide what to do.

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Speaker 1: Okay, see, I got I'm so glad 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 6: Yep, I'm calling you from a Senex on the way to.

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Speaker 3: That is phantasmic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you get yourself a light dinner and

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Speaker 1: go to battle for us.

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Speaker 6: So gee, I don't even know if I can get

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Speaker 6: dinner because I might throw up if they decide to

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Speaker 6: 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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01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:45,360
Speaker 1: advocate with Moms for Liberty, I know you and your

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Speaker 1: wife a Vita, by the way, the daughter of the

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Speaker 1: person who formerly held the seat you're now running for.

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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy has been drawing attention to this. We sort

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Speaker 1: of briefly mentioned it on this show. But I think

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Speaker 1: with all the attention that has been paid to this,

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Speaker 1: do you think that there's a chance that New Richmond

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Speaker 1: does the right thing tonight?

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Speaker 6: You know, honestly, as someone who went to college during

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Speaker 6: COVID and BLM and saw what all everything happened under

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01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:21,799
Speaker 6: the Biden administration, I'm not generally hopeful in our government.

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01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 6: But here's what I can tell you. Sometimes conservatives feel

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01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,480
Speaker 6: like they can't win this. This is a winnable issue.

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Speaker 6: This is a district with sane parents, and they need

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Speaker 6: to not stop pushing. They can't give up hope. They

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01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 6: need to play the long game because there are elections

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Speaker 6: coming up for these school board members and if they

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01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 6: don't make the right decisions, we will make them pay

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Speaker 6: 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 6: So it's kind of a strange election system. There are

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01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 6: three seats open and four candidates running, so only one

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01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 6: person could possibly be replaced from the board.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 6: Now, I will say the board was horrible. I do

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Speaker 6: want to give a shout out to mister Ben Engelhardt.

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Speaker 6: He was an absolute champion for the parents, for all

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Speaker 6: the daughters, the girls in that district. He was a

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Speaker 6: rock star. I also want to formally put in that

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Speaker 6: Christy Westlin, she's running for school board. Moms for Liberty

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Speaker 6: fully endorses her. I got the chance to meet her.

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Speaker 6: You need to put her on your list, Dan, she

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01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 6: 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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Speaker 1: if you don't mind, could I ask a question or

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01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:46,280
Speaker 1: two about your congressional campaign?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely all right.

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Speaker 3: So you have a rather unique background. You are twenty

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Speaker 3: six years old now, yep, twenty six years old. That

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Speaker 3: is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: You would actually be would you be the youngest member

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Speaker 1: of Congress? Certainly one of the youngest if you're elected

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Speaker 1: in November.

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Speaker 6: Right, I would be the youngest in the country if elected.

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Speaker 5: 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 allations and

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Speaker 1: the sort of rumblings I'm hearing of there that you know,

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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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01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:15,639
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 6: Yeah, you know, I would tell you that anyone that

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Speaker 6: thinks you can walk into the seventh District, the biggest

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Speaker 6: district east of the Mississippi, with some simple name recognition

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Speaker 6: and win this race doesn't know anything about the seventh District.

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Speaker 6: These voters want to meet the person they're going to

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Speaker 6: vote for. They want to look him in the eye

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Speaker 6: and know that he's genuine. And that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 6: We're going to every single county and we're not just

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01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:45,200
Speaker 6: asking for a vote, we're earning that vote. And I

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Speaker 6: would just say, you know, when it comes to the

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Speaker 6: Trump endorsement, I set across from him in the Oval office.

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Speaker 6: I made my case and I promised him no one

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Speaker 6: would ever outwork me. No one will have more energy

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01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,599
Speaker 6: for the seventh district than this twenty five, twenty six

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Speaker 6: year old you're talking to, and no one will ever

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Speaker 6: outwork me. So yeah, you know, people can have some

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01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 6: claims and they can judge why I got into this race,

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01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 6: But let me tell you exactly why I got into

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01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:14,840
Speaker 6: this race. They shot Charlie Kirk. This is a guy

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Speaker 6: I've known, I've met him and even though he might

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Speaker 6: not remember me, he's been on my phone since I

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01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 6: was in high school. And when that moment happened, that

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01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 6: was it. You know. I went through college during COVID

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Speaker 6: and BLM. I didn't wear a mask. I was put

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Speaker 6: on academic probation for not taking a vaccine. I took it.

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Speaker 6: I was I didn't take the vaccine. I allowed this

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Speaker 6: to all to happen and to unfold because I didn't

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01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 6: want anything to do with politics. It wasn't until they

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01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 6: shot Charlie, a Christian, a father, a conservative, that I

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01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 6: knew it's time for some action. And that's why I

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Speaker 6: 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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01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a disadvantage because I know the

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01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:05,040
Speaker 1: other candidates in the race. I mean, you've got some

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01:30:05,479 --> 01:30:10,760
Speaker 1: fairly accomplished conservatives. Obviously, in this district, it is thanks

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01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: to the work of your father in law who really

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01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: revolutionized I mean, Dave Obie was a Democrat and represented

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01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: it for boy about one hundred and seventy five years,

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01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,439
Speaker 1: and then he wanted no part of Sean Duffy when

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01:30:22,479 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: Sewn first announced his run, so he retired and it

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01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 1: has been a deep, deep red district ever since. So

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01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: the winner of the primary is almost certainly going to

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01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:34,679
Speaker 1: win the general election. Your opponents in that race have said, well,

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01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:38,639
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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01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: the Oval Office sitting across from President Trump if he

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01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:48,639
Speaker 1: wasn't married to who he's married with two.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I would tell you. When it comes

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01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 6: to experience, I've spent six years working construction, I spent

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01:30:55,720 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 6: a year working with Dan Bongino as his producer on

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01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 6: the radio show and the podcast. But you know, when

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01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 6: it comes to President Trump. He had the opportunity to

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01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 6: endorse any candidate in this race, and he chose me.

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01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:13,920
Speaker 6: He evaluated the experience, he evaluated the character and the

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01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 6: convictions of each candidate, and he chose me because he

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01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 6: knows that no one will fight harder for the people

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01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 6: of the 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

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01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: Trump the MAGA agenda. What is your basic platform, like,

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01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: why are you the conservative choice independent of the Trump endorsement,

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01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 1: which I think obviously, I mean, as we've seen in

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01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: Wisconsin politics and nationwide, Trump endorsement just carries a tremendous

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01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 1: amount of weight, So this is a significant advantage for

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01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 1: you in this race. But independent of that, what is

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01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 1: the case that you're making to voters of the seventh

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01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:58,879
Speaker 1: Congressional District that you are going to be their man

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01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 1: in one Washington, Because I can tell you there there

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01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:06,839
Speaker 1: is also and I'm just you've got to understand, I'm

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01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:10,759
Speaker 1: sort of following this from hundreds of miles away down south,

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01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:12,640
Speaker 1: So I'm just sort of hearing, you know, all the

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01:32:12,680 --> 01:32:16,680
Speaker 1: all the rumblings, the idea that you are sort of

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01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:20,120
Speaker 1: a carpetbagger, that you're not really of the district, that

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01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: you're not really living in the district, that you're just

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01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 1: sort of coming back because it's going to be an

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01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:29,679
Speaker 1: easy congressional district. Like, how do you assuage those sorts

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01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 1: of fears?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I actually really appreciate the tough questions

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01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 6: because I want a chance to tell everyone and let

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01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:41,080
Speaker 6: them get any chance ask any question anytime. But you

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01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 6: know what, in terms of a percentage of life spent

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01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 6: in the district, I've spent more of my life in

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01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 6: 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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01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: I kind of look that up. I actually it must

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Speaker 1: have been was emailed by one of your supporters who

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01:32:57,800 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 1: told me that same thing a couple of weeks ago

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01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:02,840
Speaker 1: when a lot of this was kind of going down,

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01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:05,640
Speaker 1: and they said, well, if it's a percentage of his

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01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 1: life spent in the district, they actually broke down the math.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, by God, they're correct. So that is true.

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Speaker 6: From the age of four, when I started playing hockey,

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01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:20,519
Speaker 6: I think I've been to every single Catholic church in

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01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 6: the district. And let me tell you why that matters.

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01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:26,640
Speaker 6: It's because I've been around the district my entire life.

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01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:30,559
Speaker 6: I view everyone here as my family, and no one

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01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,920
Speaker 6: will fight harder for something than fighting for your family.

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01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 6: And that's why I want to represent this district because

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Speaker 6: I deeply care about it. It's my home and I

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01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 6: will never let it turn into the communist healthcape that's

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01:33:43,320 --> 01:33:46,640
Speaker 6: happening in New York or even Madison. You know, I

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01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 6: had to esteemed the esteemed honor of voting against Francesca

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Speaker 6: Hang because I went to the University of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 7: Madison.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's enough conservative bona fides for me. You say,

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01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: the communist hell whole of New York? What about the

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01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: communist hellhole of New Richmond? Michael, I really do appreciate

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01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 1: and and just so we're clear, Michael had no idea.

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01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 1: You contacted me and said, Hey, I want to come

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01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 1: on and talk about New Richmond stuff. I don't want

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01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: to be accused of sandbagging you and asking you those

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01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 1: tough questions, but you didn't really know that they were coming.

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Speaker 1: And I really do appreciate your willingness to answer those

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01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: and to just talk honestly. That that really does speak

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Speaker 1: volumes about you.

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Speaker 6: Dan. We're not liberals, We're not afraid of questions. This

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01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 6: is true from any questions at any time.

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01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:42,400
Speaker 1: Hey, I do appreciate. Where can people go to find

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01:34:42,439 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 1: out more about your campaign, Sir.

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01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 6: Alfonso four Wisconsin dot com. You can sign up, you

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01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 6: can donate, and you can be a volunteer and that.

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Speaker 1: Is alf O NSO the number four or f O

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Speaker 1: R Wisconsin f O R Alfonso four Wisconsin dot com.

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01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: Tell you what enjoy your time in New Richmond. Keep

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01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 1: me posted about what happens tonight. I'm sure I'll be

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01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:09,480
Speaker 1: following along on social media. And again, really do appreciate

1512
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 1: you stopping by the Dan o'donald show.

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01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 3: Sir, don't be a stranger. I'm sure we'll be talking again.

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01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 6: Great, I look forward to it.

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01:35:16,960 --> 01:35:20,800
Speaker 1: All right, he is Michael Alfonso coming up in just

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01:35:20,800 --> 01:35:23,360
Speaker 1: a second. We are going to talk to Scott Manly

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01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:26,320
Speaker 1: about some of those statistics that I outlined from the

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01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:29,799
Speaker 1: great WMC report about just how bad Wisconsin has gotten

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01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:33,719
Speaker 1: under Tony Evers. Stay tuned Dan o'donald's show, coming right back.

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01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: This is rock Me by the hip hop violin group Amadaeus. Yes,

1521
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 1: it is a cover of the rock classic rock Me.

1522
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 1: Amadaeis group is Amadeus. The song is called rock Me.

1523
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:53,360
Speaker 1: Do appreciate Michael Alfonso congressional candidate in the seventh congressional district,

1524
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 1: joining us giving us an update on what's going on

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01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:59,680
Speaker 1: in New Richmond. They desperately want the boys in the

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01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: girl bathrooms up there. He also was a real good

1527
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: sport I did not get a chance to normally it's

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01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:12,720
Speaker 1: just considered good journalistic practice. He contacted me and said, hey,

1529
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,160
Speaker 1: can I give you an update on this? I think, yeah, absolutely,

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01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: I haven't really done anything on the New Richmond controversy,

1531
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:20,840
Speaker 1: which has been a big, big thing on social media,

1532
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:24,360
Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask him all of the questions

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01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 1: that have sort of been swirling around his campaign that

1534
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: really got escalated after he got that Trump endorsement. Let's

1535
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 1: just be totally honest with ourselves in a race like that,

1536
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 1: that probably is going to put him over the top.

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01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:40,040
Speaker 1: And as he said, he would be the single youngest

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01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,760
Speaker 1: member of Congress if he's to win. He's twenty six

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01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 1: years old. He worked in construction, he worked as a

1540
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 1: producer of the Dan Bongino podcast. And people are saying, well,

1541
01:36:50,200 --> 01:36:54,360
Speaker 1: wait a second, would this guy have any chance if

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01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:58,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't married to Avita Duffy, who of course is

1543
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 1: the daughter of Rachel Campo Stuffy of Fox News, and

1544
01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:04,760
Speaker 1: of course the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy. Now, don't get

1545
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: me wrong, I love the Duffy family. Sean has been

1546
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:09,680
Speaker 1: nothing but great to me. In fact, we used to

1547
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 1: do when he was in Congress every year right around

1548
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:14,599
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day, he would come into studio.

1549
01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:16,560
Speaker 3: We'd have a whole lot of fun.

1550
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:19,559
Speaker 1: And we would do a big interview and just you know,

1551
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 1: shoot the breeze and all that stuff. But there are

1552
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 1: serious questions about a nepotism and be qualifications. And I

1553
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:35,920
Speaker 1: actually have to tell you for not knowing that those

1554
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:38,800
Speaker 1: questions were coming. And I honestly I felt like a

1555
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: little I felt like I should have said he called

1556
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: right before we went on the air. I didn't have

1557
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: a chance to go off here and say, hey, I

1558
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:49,799
Speaker 1: want to ask you these questions. He answered them gamely,

1559
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: and he is right statistically he has. Just to be clear,

1560
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:55,880
Speaker 1: there are a number of other candidates in this race,

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01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: including one who is actually one of the hostages. He

1562
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: was one of the Iron Hostage Crisis hostages, and he's

1563
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:07,920
Speaker 1: been a very very successful businessman. Everybody in this race

1564
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 1: essentially has questions about whether or not they're carpet bagging

1565
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:13,880
Speaker 1: and whether or not they're just coming back to the

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01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: district in order to run for this seat, because again,

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01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 1: it's almost certainly going to go to the winner of

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01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,880
Speaker 1: this primary. It's just there's there's not going to be

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01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 1: a strong Democratic candidate.

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01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 3: But you take a look at the.

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01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: Congressional race in twenty twenty four, in which you had

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of candidates Andre Jacques, Roger Roth, and

1573
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: a relative unknown by the name of Tony Wead who

1574
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 1: ended up getting the Trump nomination, and that was it.

1575
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that was basically the deciding factor. Now, the

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01:38:44,320 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: Trump endorsement clearly is coming to Michael Alfonso because of

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01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: that Duffy family connection. But the fact that Alfonso was

1578
01:38:52,479 --> 01:38:56,080
Speaker 1: willing to answer those questions with no foreknowledge that they're coming,

1579
01:38:56,080 --> 01:39:00,120
Speaker 1: that tells me that he is. And you know, I

1580
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 1: don't want to say, like, well, you know, there's a

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01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:04,720
Speaker 1: kid nut. You know what do I always say? I

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01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 1: want the next generation, like I want the next generation

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01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: to embrace conservatism. I do believe that Michael's generation. He's

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01:39:12,479 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 1: a gen zer. I think I'm taking a wild guess. Yeah,

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01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 1: he's not a millennial. He's twenty so, oh god, he

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01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 1: was born in the two thousands. All right, vote against

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01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 1: Michael Alfonso just for that. I don't know if I

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01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:28,760
Speaker 1: can handle a congressman born in two thousand. I'm still

1589
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 1: getting over the fact that the vice president is younger

1590
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:38,200
Speaker 1: than me. My old But but no, age alone is

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01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: not a reason to vote against somebody. The fact that

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01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:45,800
Speaker 1: the person might not have political experience alone is not.

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Speaker 1: Tony Weed has been a fantastic congressman for the Green

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01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: Bear He's been. He's been tremendous for that district. His

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01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: performance in committee hearings has been spectacular. I hear his

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01:39:58,479 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: constituent services GA is very, very strong. He's just been

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01:40:02,280 --> 01:40:05,519
Speaker 1: a very very good congressman. And I have no doubt

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01:40:05,520 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 1: that Michael Alfonso will be too. But there is that

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01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:15,120
Speaker 1: that is the big question around him. I mean, when

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01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:18,679
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald, for example, decided he was going to run

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01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:21,839
Speaker 1: for congress, nobody said, well, what's he done?

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01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 3: Who's the leader of the state Senate.

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01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 1: He's been around politics for much of his adult life.

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01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:32,720
Speaker 1: Brian Style, when he was a staffer forever, he had

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01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 1: been around politics. Very impressive. Got both of those guys

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01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 1: are excellent congressional representatives, and I truly I have no

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01:40:41,320 --> 01:40:47,280
Speaker 1: doubt Michael Alfonso would be two. And frankly, I don't

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01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:48,920
Speaker 1: really have a horse of this. If any of the

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01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:52,000
Speaker 1: other candidates up there would like to call in and

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01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 1: be guests on the show, I'm not like. Did you

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01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: follow the controversy about Stephen Colbert today? He wanted to

1612
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:02,160
Speaker 1: have James Tallarico, who's running for the US Senate down

1613
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:07,000
Speaker 1: in Texas, and his bosses at the or at CBS

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01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 1: told him, no, don't air this interview because then we

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01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 1: would have to give equal time. The equal time doctrine

1616
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 1: says if a candidate for office is given an interview

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01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:22,679
Speaker 1: on a news show, you need to provide equal time

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01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: to their opponent within a certain window before an election,

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01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 1: before a primary, before a general election. CBS obviously didn't

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01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 1: want What are they running against Ted Cruz? You really

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01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 1: think Ted crue that that CBS Stephen Colbert wants to

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01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 1: have Ted Cruz on?

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01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 3: No, of course not. So you know, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: We're going to step aside for a break because we

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01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 1: are going to talk in the next five minutes. But

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01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:55,400
Speaker 1: my point is that anybody else who's running in that

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01:41:55,439 --> 01:41:57,479
Speaker 1: primary wants to come on. We'll put him on, of course,

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01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:02,400
Speaker 1: we'll do that. Scott Manley, a WMC up next, Welcome

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01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: back to the Dan o'donald Show. Governor Evers delivers his

1630
01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: State of the State address tonight, and while he's going

1631
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: to say the state of Wisconsin is strong, we have

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01:42:14,080 --> 01:42:20,400
Speaker 1: incredible data from Wisconsin manufacturers and commerce that shows it

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01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 1: is not. The Wisconsin Competitiveness Report came out two weeks

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01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:28,080
Speaker 1: ago and we outlined some of the data earlier on

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01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:31,640
Speaker 1: today in the Dan o'donald Show. We covered this extensively

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01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 1: when it first came out. Joining us now to talk

1637
01:42:34,479 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 1: about it once again and to offer something of a

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01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:40,639
Speaker 1: preview of the Wisconsin State of the State address once again.

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01:42:40,880 --> 01:42:47,000
Speaker 1: Here is Scott Manly of WNC WMC. Excuse me, Scott,

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01:42:47,040 --> 01:42:48,800
Speaker 1: welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

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01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:51,799
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me back, Dan Well.

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01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:53,839
Speaker 3: The pleasure is all mind sir. Again.

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01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:57,519
Speaker 1: I said two weeks ago that I thought this was

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01:42:57,560 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 1: one of the more important studies that's been done in

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01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: Wisconsin in years. And Governor Evers declared last year to

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01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:10,360
Speaker 1: be the Year of the kid. Well, this year, kids

1647
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: have gotten a lot more expensive because he wants four

1648
01:43:13,080 --> 01:43:18,200
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars in general purpose education spending

1649
01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:23,759
Speaker 1: after his four hundred year Veto increased the revenue limit

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01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:27,519
Speaker 1: by three hundred and twenty five dollars per student for

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01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:32,800
Speaker 1: the next four centuries. And this just is not good

1652
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 1: education policy, is it.

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01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 7: No, it really isn't. And look, the problem isn't that

1654
01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 7: we're not generous with our tax money for education. We are.

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01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:47,479
Speaker 7: I mean, as the report noted, since two thousand, we've

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01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:51,519
Speaker 7: more than doubled what we spend per kid on education,

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01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:55,320
Speaker 7: but the results don't show it. In fact, the results

1658
01:43:55,360 --> 01:44:01,280
Speaker 7: for reading comprehension and math proficiency have gone down, and

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01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:04,559
Speaker 7: they have been going down Dan, And we're at the

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01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:09,760
Speaker 7: point now where I mean, on a statewide basis, we've

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Speaker 7: got about sixty one percent of kids who can't do

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01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 7: math proficiently, and we've got sixty nine percent of kids

1663
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:22,720
Speaker 7: who can't read proficiently. Now that's statewide. When we look

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01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:29,200
Speaker 7: at Milwaukee, the state's largest school district, seventy six percent

1665
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 7: of kids in Milwaukee Public Schools cannot read proficiently and

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01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,640
Speaker 7: eighty percent can't do math proficiently.

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01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 1: Wait, seventy six percent of all MPs students are not

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01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:44,640
Speaker 1: reading at grade level, and eight out of ten cannot

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01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:46,599
Speaker 1: do math at grade level.

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Speaker 7: That's correct, And those aren't Those aren't my numbers. Those

1671
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 7: are dpi's numbers. Geez, so it. You know, look, throwing

1672
01:44:56,040 --> 01:45:00,640
Speaker 7: more money at this problem indiscriminately isn't going to fix it.

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01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:03,799
Speaker 7: We got to be smart about how we spend the money.

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01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 7: And as we talked about on your show last time,

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01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:11,760
Speaker 7: and what's in the report, it documents that since the

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01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 7: year two thousand, we have lost sixty five thousand kids

1677
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:19,439
Speaker 7: in the system just because our birth rates are so low.

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01:45:19,840 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 7: We've lost twenty seven hundred teachers, but we've added eight

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01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:30,240
Speaker 7: thousand non instructional staff. And as a taxpayer and somebody

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01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:33,200
Speaker 7: who wants my money that I give to the government

1681
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:38,200
Speaker 7: to be spent correctly and wisely, I'm just not on

1682
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 7: board with giving a bunch of more money to hire

1683
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 7: non instructional staff in schools. That the money isn't making

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01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:48,880
Speaker 7: its way into the classroom, and we shouldn't expect better

1685
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:52,360
Speaker 7: results when the money isn't making its way into the classroom.

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01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:56,719
Speaker 1: Well, especially since the student population K twelve public schools

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01:45:56,720 --> 01:46:00,240
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin is declined by sixty five thousand but at

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01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 1: the same time, the number of teachers has declined. Right

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01:46:04,840 --> 01:46:07,599
Speaker 1: more modest Radawa was at two or three thousand fewer

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01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,679
Speaker 1: teachers than there were in two thousand, it would expect

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01:46:09,720 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: that sixty five thousand fewer kids to educate. The fact

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01:46:13,120 --> 01:46:17,799
Speaker 1: that there are eight thousand more non teaching staff members

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01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:21,920
Speaker 1: is frankly, that's insulting, all right. And when you've got

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01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:26,560
Speaker 1: a governor who's supposedly the education governor and he's demanding

1695
01:46:26,680 --> 01:46:30,000
Speaker 1: more money, so much so that he doesn't even think

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01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:32,800
Speaker 1: that school districts should have to go before voters in

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01:46:32,840 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 1: the form of school referendu that they should just get

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01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:38,599
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five bucks more per student per

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01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: year for the next four centuries. To then have those

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01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:45,800
Speaker 1: districts turn around and spend it on assistant principles.

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01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 3: I don't know what.

1702
01:46:47,240 --> 01:46:52,600
Speaker 1: Football coaches, education curriculum specialists. How many janitors does a

1703
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:56,599
Speaker 1: school I don't even know what sort of non teaching staff.

1704
01:46:56,880 --> 01:47:01,200
Speaker 1: How you increase that exponentially the number of non teaching

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01:47:01,240 --> 01:47:05,560
Speaker 1: staff all the while we've seen such a precipitous decline

1706
01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:07,759
Speaker 1: in the number of kids in the number of teachers,

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01:47:08,200 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 1: it's insulting.

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01:47:10,240 --> 01:47:14,200
Speaker 7: Well, and the the thing that's probably the most frustrating

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01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:19,120
Speaker 7: for us is we don't even have an education system

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01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 7: that's willing to admit that we have a problem. Correct,

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01:47:21,680 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 7: I mean we have we have a state superintendent in

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01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 7: Jill Underley and a governor in Tony Evers who are

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01:47:29,120 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 7: in denial. I mean they keep dumbing down the achievement levels. Yes,

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Speaker 7: both both for the both for reading and math proficiency,

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01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:43,280
Speaker 7: but also the school report cards that get done every year.

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Speaker 7: The DPI does, I mean, we we have a situation.

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Speaker 7: Let's let's take a look at a real world example

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Speaker 7: here right in Milwaukee, Maple Tree Elementary. And this is

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01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:55,960
Speaker 7: this is DPI data. And it was in a report

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Speaker 7: that our friends at Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty did.

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01:47:59,840 --> 01:48:05,960
Speaker 7: They highlighted the fact that at Maple Tree Elementary, eighty

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Speaker 7: two percent of the kids cannot do cannot read at

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Speaker 7: grade level, and ninety two percent of s can't do

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01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:22,559
Speaker 7: math at grade level. But under Jill Underley's report card,

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Speaker 7: the Department of Public Instructions says, not only do they

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01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:34,320
Speaker 7: meet expectations, they exceed expectations. That's I mean, if only

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01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:37,799
Speaker 7: eight percent of your kids can do math and thirteen

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01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:42,559
Speaker 7: percent can read, and that's exceeding expectations. What in the

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01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:46,080
Speaker 7: world are the expectations I mean you have?

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Speaker 1: And then, to add insult to injury, they have an

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01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 1: all expenses paid jaunt to the Wisconsin Dells for a

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01:48:56,800 --> 01:49:00,280
Speaker 1: luxurious stay at the Chu La Vista so they can

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01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:04,320
Speaker 1: dumb down testing standards to make it seem like more

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Speaker 1: kids are proficient, more kids are at grade level. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course all of that is undone when the national

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Speaker 1: testing standards, the NAEP tests come out and show, hey,

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01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:17,639
Speaker 1: wait a second, the books are clearly being cooked here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's It seems to me that one of

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01:49:22,200 --> 01:49:27,800
Speaker 1: the biggest problems that we have in Wisconsin losing competitiveness

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01:49:28,400 --> 01:49:31,000
Speaker 1: is the fact that I have no trouble saying we

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01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: have a thoroughly corrupt K twelve public education system from

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01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:38,680
Speaker 1: DPI on down.

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Speaker 7: And what it means for our economic competitiveness, Dan, is

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01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:48,200
Speaker 7: this we already know because the demographics and our crashing

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01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:52,680
Speaker 7: birth rates, that the pipeline of young workers, you know,

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01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 7: coming into the workforce is not what we need it

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01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 7: to be. But then when we're failing to educate the

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01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,479
Speaker 7: ones that we do have, that's a huge problem. We

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01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 7: just did a statewide survey of our member CEOs, got

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01:50:06,040 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 7: the data back last month. Sixty four percent of them

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01:50:10,680 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 7: said that they have employees who struggle to read or

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01:50:13,840 --> 01:50:17,519
Speaker 7: do math, and fifty six percent of the more than

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01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 7: half said that our K twelve education system is not

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01:50:21,160 --> 01:50:25,760
Speaker 7: adequately preparing kids to meet the needs of the workforce.

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01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 7: So we already are under this severe number crunch in

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01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:35,920
Speaker 7: terms of what our future workforce looks like, and we're

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01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:38,680
Speaker 7: just not educating them. I mean, you cannot as a

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01:50:38,720 --> 01:50:43,519
Speaker 7: society expect to have a functioning workforce when two out

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01:50:43,560 --> 01:50:46,880
Speaker 7: of three kids can't read or do math that grade level.

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01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:50,480
Speaker 7: It just simply isn't going to work. It's a real problem,

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01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:54,000
Speaker 7: and our state superintendent and our governor won't even admit

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01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:56,720
Speaker 7: that it's a problem. In fact, you know, I put

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01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:58,840
Speaker 7: a lot of blame on Jill under Lee because she's

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01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:03,120
Speaker 7: the one who fudged the standards. But the Republican legislature

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01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 7: sent a bill to Tony Evers to say, Okay, you

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01:51:06,439 --> 01:51:09,200
Speaker 7: can't do that, let's put the standards back to where

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01:51:09,240 --> 01:51:10,840
Speaker 7: they were, and he vetoed it.

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Speaker 3: Yep, yes he did, Yes, he did.

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Speaker 1: Even though he said, well, I believe his quote was

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01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:19,719
Speaker 1: when the numbers were changed and the books were cooked.

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01:51:19,720 --> 01:51:21,640
Speaker 1: He said, well, that's not saying you remember he's, of

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01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:24,639
Speaker 1: course the former state superintendent. Said well, that's not something

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01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:27,719
Speaker 1: I would have done. But then he vetos any chance

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01:51:27,800 --> 01:51:33,280
Speaker 1: to undo it, meaning he absolutely would have done that.

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01:51:34,080 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 1: Scott Manley, Executive vice President of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce

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01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:44,599
Speaker 1: WMC dot org. The competitiveness report is up there. We're

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01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:47,919
Speaker 1: going to link to it again as Governor Evers delivers

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01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:50,800
Speaker 1: his final State of the State address tonight. Scott, because

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01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm not just blowing smoke. This was one of the

1780
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:56,479
Speaker 1: most eye opening reports I think I have ever seen.

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01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:00,840
Speaker 1: It is required reading for everyone. And thank you again

1782
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:05,000
Speaker 1: for coming on the show against Scott Manly of WMC.

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01:52:06,240 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me Dan.

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01:52:07,600 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: Now, the pleasure is always mine. We are going to

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01:52:10,400 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 1: be back in just a second to wrap things up

1786
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Speaker 1: here on the Tuesday edition of The Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 3: Stay tuned.

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01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:21,160
Speaker 1: My thanks again to Scott Manley of WMC for joining

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01:52:21,200 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: us in that last segment. How do I know that

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01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:28,240
Speaker 1: it's a good interview. I got this text from one

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01:52:28,280 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: of my high school buddy still one of my very

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01:52:30,240 --> 01:52:35,559
Speaker 1: best friends, of all time, Tim, this is a great interview, Dan,

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01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:38,120
Speaker 1: he said, Thanks buddy, he responds.

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01:52:37,840 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 3: Spittin facts calling out hacks.

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01:52:42,800 --> 01:52:45,120
Speaker 1: I am actually I think I am going to use

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01:52:45,160 --> 01:52:47,680
Speaker 1: that as one of the new positioning statements or the

1797
01:52:47,760 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 1: taglines here. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald show. Spittin

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01:52:51,320 --> 01:52:52,960
Speaker 1: facts calling out hacks.

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01:52:53,840 --> 01:52:54,519
Speaker 3: I like that.

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01:52:57,120 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: Tim's contribution to the Dan o'donald shows one thousand non

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01:53:01,280 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 1: teaching positions. Wow, what a bleeping joke, I think, Tim, buddy,

1802
01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:11,720
Speaker 1: you speak for thousands and thousands and thousands of Wisconsin.

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01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:12,800
Speaker 3: It is a bleeping joke.

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01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,599
Speaker 1: Sixty five thousand fewer kids in twenty five years, and

1805
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:21,120
Speaker 1: that's due to largely demographic changes. Just people of our

1806
01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 1: generation are not having as many children.

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01:53:23,240 --> 01:53:24,000
Speaker 3: I have three.

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01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:27,800
Speaker 1: That is a larger than normal family that would have

1809
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:29,600
Speaker 1: been considered a small family.

1810
01:53:29,360 --> 01:53:32,439
Speaker 3: Fifty years ago. Times have changed.

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01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 1: The number of teachers in Wisconsin schools has, of course,

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01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:39,320
Speaker 1: gone down by about two to three thousand according to WMC,

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01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 1: the number of non teaching positions going up by eight thousand.

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01:53:43,400 --> 01:53:49,560
Speaker 1: How can you possibly justify that accept as essentially welfare

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01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: for people with education degrees paid for by taxpayers? Do

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01:53:56,520 --> 01:54:03,559
Speaker 1: you need fifteen KIM specialists at MPs Central Office. You

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01:54:03,680 --> 01:54:07,040
Speaker 1: most certainly do not, and you could justify it if

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01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:09,240
Speaker 1: student test scores were going through the roof.

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01:54:09,479 --> 01:54:14,320
Speaker 3: They're not. They're plummeting. And what does DPI do well.

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01:54:14,439 --> 01:54:19,360
Speaker 1: They cook the books, they rig the cut scores so

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01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:22,679
Speaker 1: that it looks like more schools are passing, more students

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01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:25,560
Speaker 1: are passing. They clearly are not. Governor Reavers delivers his

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01:54:25,800 --> 01:54:28,439
Speaker 1: State of the State address tonight. We will of course

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01:54:28,560 --> 01:54:31,920
Speaker 1: be watching and we will have a full recap and

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01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: response tomorrow right away three zero six pm right here

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01:54:36,480 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald Show. A great night, Wisconsin,