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Speaker 1: State Assembly's year got underway today, Yes it is February nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: It still boggles my mind in election years, while the

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Speaker 3: My friend, the former Speaker of Iowa, Linda Upmeyer, said

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Speaker 3: Thank you all for your service, thank you for the

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Speaker 1: And with that, not only is Wisconsin looking for a

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Speaker 4: We are proud to announce today that the Conservative grassroots

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Speaker 1: That is fantastic, not really a surprise, I must say,

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Speaker 4: You know, not only does Tom have the strongest track

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Speaker 6: If you don't like the motherfuckers that are in there,

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Speaker 7: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 1: Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 1: President Trump right now in Rome, Georgia, pushing is economic

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Speaker 8: We're providing a model for how responsible sovereign nations can

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Speaker 1: Now, in addition to that US money, the President has

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Speaker 1: Trump's Washington, we call it the Daily Trump Date. Here

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Speaker 1: The spring primary in our rear view mirror, and we

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Speaker 1: are cruising towards the spring election and a reminder that

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Speaker 1: we are putting together the comprehensive, complete, ultimate Conservative voter

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Speaker 1: guide for you. It is going to be online as

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Speaker 1: part of a brand new conservative web initiative that we

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Speaker 1: are just so so excited to be a part of

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Speaker 1: and to be ready to introduce to you coming up

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Speaker 1: within the next couple of weeks. But we need your

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Speaker 1: help in putting this voter guide together. While I do have,

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Speaker 1: with no false modesty, a pretty extensive knowledge of Wisconsin news,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin politics and the like, it is impossible for me

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Speaker 1: to know every single candidate in every single county, well

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Speaker 1: every single county. Is what we are aiming for with

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Speaker 1: this voter guide. It is not a list of recommendations,

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Speaker 1: it's not a list of endorsements. It is simply a

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Speaker 1: black and white list of all of the Conservatives who

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Speaker 1: are running in as many races as we can possibly identify.

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Speaker 1: We are working with county Republican parties, the state Republican Party,

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Speaker 1: various groups across the state, and just individual candidates. And

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Speaker 1: that's why we remind you if you are a candidate,

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Speaker 1: if you are somebody who is connected to a state

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Speaker 1: or local race, somebody who wants to be included in

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Speaker 1: this Conservative voter guide. You need to reach out to

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Speaker 1: me DoD at iHeartMedia dot com. Get your name included.

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Speaker 1: If you know other conservatives that you're running with, you

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Speaker 1: absolutely want to be a part of this. Look, folks,

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Speaker 1: I get some of the apprehension. I've heard from a

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Speaker 1: couple of candidates, and I've heard from a couple of

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Speaker 1: very connected political people now who said, look, Dan, some

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Speaker 1: of these candidates they are running in very liberal areas

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Speaker 1: and they don't want to be endorsed by Dan. O'dunt

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Speaker 1: no offense. Sweet, we all love you, Dan, but obviously

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Speaker 1: the Libs do not, And judging by my Facebook comments,

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Speaker 1: they really really really do not like me. Ironically, ironically,

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Speaker 1: the more angry comments I get from Libs, the more

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Speaker 1: money I get. I know, what a world? What a world?

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Speaker 1: I actually get paid by Facebook. I am a brand partner,

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Speaker 1: paid contributor. I don't know what the hell you call it.

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Speaker 1: I got a blue check mark, That's what it means.

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Speaker 1: I get. I don't know. They pay me based on

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Speaker 1: engagement and based on the fact that I am in

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Speaker 1: some left wing algorithm where I just I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: just rage nip for the insane lefties. There was a

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Speaker 1: very sizable check that came my way. I say this

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Speaker 1: not to brag, Okay, I do absolutely say this to

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Speaker 1: brag and to spike it in liberals' faces that the

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Speaker 1: more you call me a pedophile in my Facebook comments,

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Speaker 1: the more money I get. I just I can't actually

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Speaker 1: stress that enough. If you ever want to laugh, seriously,

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Speaker 1: I am dead serious. We actually have a funny recurring bit.

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Speaker 1: We call it the most most intelligent response that Dan

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Speaker 1: has gotten all day. And I take some of the

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Speaker 1: just absolute worst comments that I get, just people calling

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Speaker 1: me all manner of names. In fact, you know what

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Speaker 1: should we do one right now? Producer Eric? Get that

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Speaker 1: theme music ready? Okay? Because the angry message the most

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Speaker 1: intelligent response Dan has gotten all day. Because you will

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Speaker 1: seriously laugh. I mean, just go through the Facebook comments.

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Speaker 1: My wife she gets way more upset about this than

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Speaker 1: I do, right, she says, You know, I just I

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Speaker 1: don't want to I'm like, honey, honey, these angry comments

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Speaker 1: got us a vacation in Cabo. Okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you lives keep him coming,

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Speaker 1: all right, ladies and gentlemen, are we ready this is

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Speaker 1: just a random comment that I got from a random user.

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Speaker 1: He has since either blocked me or banned me, so

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Speaker 1: we don't actually have the name.

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Speaker 2: But this is.

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Speaker 1: The most intelligent response Dan has gotten all day to

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Speaker 1: us from a very erudite, very intelligent Facebook user who

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Speaker 1: apparently thought better of what he had posted because he

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Speaker 1: I can't find it, but he writes, and I quote,

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Speaker 1: shut your bitch ass up, ladies and gentlemen, this has

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Speaker 1: been the most intelligent thing Damn has heard all day.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the marathon State Assembly session

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Speaker 1: in Madison going on right now. Very first thing the

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Speaker 1: Assembly took up after hearing Robin Voss's retirement speech is

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Speaker 1: something that I had warned and was almost entirely convinced

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Speaker 1: was going to happen, the Online Sports Betting Bill, which

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Speaker 1: essentially gives a modified monopoly to the Forest County Potawatamie

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Speaker 1: I knew this thing was going to pass on a

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Speaker 1: voice vote, because the last thing that Vos and the

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Speaker 1: Republicans wanted was to have any sort of accountability, least

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Speaker 1: of all to me. You might remember last year when

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Speaker 1: going to pass on a voice vote, Roefer right a

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Speaker 1: first refusal, where they would have created a cartel of

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Speaker 1: electrical transmission companies in this state and cost taxpayers literally

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns and a

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Speaker 1: lack of competition on electrical transmission projects. I literally sat

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Speaker 1: here in this very chair, on this very show and

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Speaker 1: simply read off the names of Republicans who I knew

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Speaker 1: were going to support this thing and Republicans who I

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Speaker 1: knew were going to appose this thing. Well, as you

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Speaker 1: could imagine, a whole lot of Republicans got a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of calls from angry constituents after I did that.

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Speaker 1: So the last thing that they want, I'm not saying it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, because of Dan O'Donnell. They went to a

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Speaker 1: voice vote vote, but it was because of you, because

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Speaker 1: they don't want to hear from you. So there is

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Speaker 1: a level of u they're able to hide. I guess

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Speaker 1: I want to say there's a level of accountability. No,

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Speaker 1: there are no levels of accountability on a voice vote.

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Speaker 1: Here's what it sounded.

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Speaker 5: Like you guys have it.

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Speaker 10: Assembly Bill six o one is pass represented from the

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Speaker 5: Lets speaker asking Amas cossent the rules be spending.

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Speaker 11: Sembly Bill six o one be meleily message to the Senate.

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Speaker 10: Represent from the seventy second Ash and then consent that

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Speaker 2: The Senate now.

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Speaker 1: My producer, Eric Paulson, is a longtime radio veteran. He

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Speaker 1: has been in the radio business for a long time.

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Speaker 1: He just asked, is that regular speed or was that

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Speaker 1: sped up? No, that is how fast they moved to

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Speaker 1: get this thing past. That's actually nothing. Just wait until

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Speaker 1: you hear coming up in the next segment how they

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Speaker 1: passed on a voice vote the very controversial wake vote

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Speaker 1: bill that is now going to go to the Senate.

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Speaker 1: So the online sports bill goes to the Senate. I

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Speaker 1: had heard today that there were only about four Republicans

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Speaker 1: every Democrat wants that sweet sweet potawatomy campaign cash ahead

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Speaker 1: of the all important Assembly elections this fall, So this

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Speaker 1: was one that I could see. Yes, it was very

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Speaker 1: widely supported in the Assembly. In the Senate, it faces

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Speaker 1: a much much tougher route. I have heard that there

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Speaker 1: are as many as seven different Republican state senators who

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Speaker 1: are not supporters of this bill. That would mean that

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Speaker 1: the Senate's majority leader, Devin Lemahue, would actually have to

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Speaker 1: violate what's known as the rule of seventeen, which generally

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Speaker 1: says the majority party will not bring a bill to

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Speaker 1: the floor unless at least seventeen members a majority of

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Speaker 1: every single senator in the majority party supports the bill. Well, clearly,

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Speaker 1: since only eleven or twelve Republican Senators support this, they

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Speaker 1: would have to violate the rule of seventeen in order

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Speaker 1: strong suspicion that they will. That they are going to

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Speaker 1: pass this over the objections of Republican senators who don't

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Speaker 1: want to create an online sports betting bill monopoly. Here's

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Speaker 1: how this thing would work. If an online sports betting

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Speaker 1: company like Draft Kings or like fan Duel wants to

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Speaker 1: go in Wisconsin, they currently are barred by the online

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Speaker 1: or by the state's voter compacts. The agreements that we

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Speaker 1: signed with the Native American tribes that were made permanent

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Speaker 1: by Governor Diamond Jim dol Oil in a literal cover

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Speaker 1: of darkness deal on of old Days April first, April

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Speaker 1: Fool's Day of two thousand and three. This has given

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Speaker 1: the tribes tremendous amounts of power. They have a cartel

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Speaker 1: on gambling, they have cartel control. They are independent entities,

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Speaker 1: independent tribes who nonetheless have carved this state up and

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Speaker 1: have agreed. Okay, Oneida Tribe, you're going to take this territory.

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Speaker 1: Potawatamie Tribe, you're going to take this territory which is

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Speaker 1: nowhere near the Forest County Potawatamees Reservation. The ho Chunk Tribe,

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Speaker 1: you're going to take this territory. The lack of Flambo Tribe,

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Speaker 1: You're going to take this territory. They carve it up.

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Speaker 1: That's how a cartel operates. In this bill, what would

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Speaker 1: be created for online sports betting is what's known as

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Speaker 1: a hub and spoke model. In order for sports betting

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Speaker 1: to be legal, it has to take place in a

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Speaker 1: sports book in a casino. Obviously, online sports betting takes

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Speaker 1: place wherever if you're on the bus, if you're on

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Speaker 1: the toilet, you can be making bets on your phone.

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Speaker 1: What the hub and spoke model says is, so long

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Speaker 1: as the Draft Kings server is located physically inside a

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Speaker 1: sports book at a casino, then you can have all

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Speaker 1: of the spokes that then go in that feed into

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Speaker 1: that hub place bets anywhere because it technically complies with

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Speaker 1: the tribal compact. Now, for the privilege of allowing the

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings or Fandual servers to be located in their

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Speaker 1: sports book, the Forest County Potawatamie would take something like

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of the profits. Now, what this means is

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Speaker 1: that while DraftKings and FanDuel would otherwise just take bets

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Speaker 1: of those bets in Wisconsin, Wisconsin would then be subject

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Speaker 1: to the gaming compacts and they would get far less

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Speaker 1: money than they otherwise would if Fan Duel and DraftKings

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Speaker 1: were allowed to just operate as they would in every

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Speaker 1: other state, any other state that simply allows them to

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Speaker 1: take bets. Now, all of this, I believe is sort

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Speaker 1: of moot because the prediction markets, which are already operating

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Speaker 1: I believe completely unlawfully here in Wisconsin, the calshi's, the

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Speaker 1: predict its, the polymarkets, they're betting. What you're doing is

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Speaker 1: you're making a prediction. And the way they couch this

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Speaker 1: is you're not actually betting on a specific outcome. You

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Speaker 1: are buying shares in an outcome. It's a distinction without

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Speaker 1: a difference. You're gambling on a specific outcome, but you're

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Speaker 1: buying shares of yes, this event will happen or no,

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Speaker 1: this event will not happen. This has led to all

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Speaker 1: manner of issues, all manner of controversies with regard to

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Speaker 1: not only sports betting, which has seems significant and I

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Speaker 1: mean significant scandal when a Hall of Fame player and

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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers gets busted for

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Speaker 1: potentially altering these prediction markets bets by benching players who

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Speaker 1: had significant amounts of action on their unders, for say,

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Speaker 1: the player is going to go under seven rebounds in

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Speaker 1: a specific game. You know you've got issues. I believe

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Speaker 1: that this bill is nothing more than a giveaway to

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Speaker 1: a significant political contributor, and I believe that this is

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Speaker 1: something that is not necessary under the current gaming compacts. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: the compacts are going to need to be opened up,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to need to potentially renegotiate them now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Jim Doyle's actions in early two thousand and

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Speaker 1: three mean that we can never ever ever reopen these compacts.

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Speaker 1: And the Wisconsin Institute for Law on Liberty has been

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Speaker 1: all over this issue, and I tend to agree with

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Speaker 1: their legal analysis. They say, look, this is almost certainly unconstitutional.

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Speaker 1: The bill that is currently on its way to the

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Speaker 1: state Senate, it's certainly not something that is likely to

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Speaker 1: go without a significant legal challenge. Will's argument is in

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Speaker 1: order to add a new form of gambling, which online

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Speaker 1: sports betting is now now, Supporters of the bill are saying, well, Dan,

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Speaker 1: it's They're saying, look, it's not a new form of gambling,

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Speaker 1: it's gambling on sports. I would argue it's absolutely a

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Speaker 1: different form of gambling. Is is video poker the same

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Speaker 1: as poker at a table? Is online poker the same

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Speaker 1: as poker at a table? Is that the exact same game?

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Speaker 1: Or is it fundamentally very different? Online sports betting is

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Speaker 1: completely different because it doesn't take place in a casino.

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Speaker 1: The very nature of it is different. That would require

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Speaker 1: a constitutional amendment the people of Wisconsin to say, yes,

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Speaker 1: we want online sports betting in Wisconsin, we want more gambling.

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Speaker 1: You can't just do that by an act of the

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Speaker 1: legislature that actually needs a constitutional amendment. Another big controversial

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Speaker 1: bill passes on a voice vote over strenuous subjections this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that coming up next big afternoon in

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin legislature. Obviously, Assembly Speaker Robin Voss announced today

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Speaker 1: that he is going to retire. I am hoping that

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Speaker 1: we are going to be able to I'd like to

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Speaker 1: play Voss's farewell speech in its entirety coming up in

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Speaker 1: the five o'clock hour here on the Dan o'donald Show,

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Speaker 1: because it was a very very well done, heartfelt speech.

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Speaker 1: I want to give thanks to my friends over at

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin I for preventing or for preventing for providing a

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Speaker 1: with the coverage of this, because they have been obviously

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Speaker 1: under the microscope because they were shut down for the

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Speaker 1: better part of two months in there, and this is

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Speaker 1: exactly why we need Wisconsin. I am so glad there

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Speaker 1: has been a deal that's been reached to provide funding

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Speaker 1: for this. They were able to on a arguably the

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Speaker 1: biggest news day of the year for the state legislature,

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Speaker 1: even without Assembly Speaker of Boss's retirement announcement. They provided

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Speaker 1: the video. We were able to get some soundbites from that,

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Speaker 1: and I was able to record the entire thing. So

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Speaker 1: I do really really appreciate them for providing the video

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Speaker 1: coverage of this and for this moment that the Republicans

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Speaker 1: who control the Assembly tried to force a voice vote

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Speaker 1: on a bill that I guess has been combined to

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Speaker 1: was two separate bills, one that dealt with hunting sand

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Speaker 1: hill cranes and another that I think is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more controversial. It's known as the wake boating bill.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a little bit here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show. Maybe I don't know a week or

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Speaker 1: two ago, and I first learned about this. There are

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Speaker 1: actually two competing bills. One of them was co authored

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Speaker 1: by Nate Gustafson, which would have allowed for far more

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Speaker 1: local control. It would have provided that wakeboats, you know

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Speaker 1: what they are. They're typically higher end boats that will

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Speaker 1: stir up the wake from well down below the surface

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Speaker 1: of the water so that you can do you know,

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Speaker 1: wake surfing and all sorts of water sports and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And look, just so we're clear, I don't really have

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Speaker 1: a dog in this fight. What I can tell you

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Speaker 1: is I love the wake boats on the lane that

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Speaker 1: my family and I go on because we have jet skis,

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Speaker 1: and we love when the wakeboats are like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna jump over the wake that they make. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm perfectly fine with wakeboats. I am not

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Speaker 1: perfectly fine with a bill, the one that just passed

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Speaker 1: the State Assembly and now heads to the Senate, that

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Speaker 1: provides little to know legal protection for any sort of

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Speaker 1: municipality that might want to exceed state law in limitations

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Speaker 1: on wakeboating on its navigable waters. What the gust of

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Speaker 1: sim bill would have done is to say, okay, wakeboats,

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Speaker 1: you cannot be within five hundred feet of shore, which

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Speaker 1: makes sense because you don't want to stir up all

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Speaker 1: of the bottom of the lake, the sand, the mud,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff and just sort of stir up

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Speaker 1: all of the crap, so you want to go deeper

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Speaker 1: five hundred feet. The bill that passed today two hundred feet.

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Speaker 1: The bill that passed today is a hard and fast

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Speaker 1: state regulation. The gust of sen bill would have said, okay,

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Speaker 1: how about we allow for local control and we say

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Speaker 1: there is a protection mechanism. There is a level of

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Speaker 1: immunity for municipalities, so they can't. Let's face it, folks,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the municipalities that will be that would

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Speaker 1: have been I should say, had the gust of Sen

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Speaker 1: bill even been given a number and even put on

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Speaker 1: the legislative calendar, what that would have done is to

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Speaker 1: what it would have done would protect from lawsuits for

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Speaker 1: all of these small little communities, the small little counties,

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Speaker 1: the small little towns that maybe have three people on

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Speaker 1: their village board, but they want to say, okay, we

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Speaker 1: want to have regulations or potentially even say we don't

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Speaker 1: want wakeboats on our lake. Well, what would happen is

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Speaker 1: the very well funded boating industry would come in and

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Speaker 1: sue them and just be able to throw its weight around.

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Speaker 1: So the Gustafson bill would have said, okay, well, we're

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Speaker 1: going to provide some protection for these communities. Ultimately, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that the bill that passed the Assembly today

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Speaker 1: is a terrible bill. The way that it passed today

751
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Speaker 1: was beyond terrible. A whole lot of Democrats opposed this

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Speaker 1: bill because they are claiming environmental concerns, and they think

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Speaker 1: people are just going to be, you know, turning the

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Speaker 1: sand hill crane extinct by over hunting them like it's

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Speaker 1: a Dodo bird. Somehow, I don't think that's going to

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Speaker 1: be the case. But clearly there was not the unanimous

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Speaker 1: support that would have allowed for a voice vote. However,

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Speaker 1: a voice vote is exactly what Assembly leadership held.

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Speaker 10: The question is Assembly Bill ten thirty three. I haven't

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Speaker 10: been read three times, so the bill be passed. All

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Speaker 10: those in favor I signified by saying I I'll oppose.

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Speaker 5: Note the eyes have it.

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Speaker 10: Assembly Bill ten thirty three is passed.

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Speaker 5: Represented from the seventy second, Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Missus speaker, asking animous consent that the rules be suspended.

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Speaker 11: Assembly Built ten thirty three be mainly messes in the Senate.

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Speaker 10: Represented from the seventy second, asking ams consent that the

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Speaker 10: rules be suspended. Assembly Built ten thirty three be a

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Speaker 10: mess in the Senate?

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Speaker 5: Is the re objection hearing none the bills in the Senate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was pretty much every Democrat and even a

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Speaker 1: number of Republicans saying, hey, wait a second. They all

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Speaker 1: then lined up to register that they in fact had

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Speaker 1: voted against that bill, even though their votes weren't recorded yet. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is something that unless it's naming a post office,

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Speaker 1: or unless it's you know, declaring you know, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: the fourth of July to be a state holiday, something

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Speaker 1: that's completely non controversial, that nobody. It's a waste of

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Speaker 1: time to have a role call vote. The voice vote

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be used. If you support a piece of legislation,

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Speaker 1: your constituents should know. This is a way of escaping

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Speaker 1: accountability for controversial votes. As it turns out, the wake

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Speaker 1: vote bill was coming up. After just a brief commercial break,

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Speaker 1: we will get into the Name, Image and Likeness bill.

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Speaker 1: How did that fare in the state Assembly? We'll find

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Speaker 1: out next Conservative Thought not just talk. It is the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show, Welcome back to it. So how did

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Speaker 1: the so called nil bill fair in the Wisconsin Assembly. Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know. The Assembly is still in recess over

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Speaker 1: the sand Hill Crane slash wake boating bill. I have

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Speaker 1: been watching the Assembly on Wisconsin I, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we are going to be posting the Robin Voss retirement

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Speaker 1: speech in its entirety courtesy of our friends over at

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Speaker 1: WIS I Wisconsin IWISSI dot org. I talk about this

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Speaker 1: service all the time, and I was a big supporter

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin I getting state funding because it is such

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Speaker 1: an essential service. I use it all the time. Think

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Speaker 1: of it as like Wisconsin cspan. It was actually shut

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Speaker 1: down for the better part of I don't know month

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Speaker 1: and a half two months in there, and there was

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Speaker 1: no video record of what is going on in state government.

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Speaker 1: And that is a horrible thing. That is an unacceptable thing.

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Speaker 1: And what Wisconsin I does it's not politically motivated. There's

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Speaker 1: no liberal bias, there's no conservative bias. They literally just

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Speaker 1: air the press conferences and more importantly, committee hearings and

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Speaker 1: floor sessions so that people like me and reporters all

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Speaker 1: across the state can use that as a reference. They

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Speaker 1: don't actually have to be in the chambers because frankly,

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Speaker 1: I can't be I mean I can't be in my

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Speaker 1: studio and also monitoring things from the floor of the

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Speaker 1: State Assembly. Well, if I have something like Wisconsin I,

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Speaker 1: I can do that. In fact, I'm watching Wisconsin I

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Speaker 1: right now. It is literally on my computer screen right now.

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Speaker 1: And there was so much outrage over the wake Boat

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Speaker 1: bill that the nil bill was actually called as being

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Speaker 1: the next one, but then almost every single Democrat wanted

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Speaker 1: to be registered as voting against the bill. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about this in the last segment here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show, and can we get the SoundBite, producer Eric,

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Speaker 1: can we get how this thing passed on a voice vote?

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Speaker 1: This is how you do not run a state legislative body.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is clearly a controversial bill. This is

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Speaker 1: clearly something that has significant opposition, not just from the

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Speaker 1: minority party, but also from members of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: In fact, one Republican number of Republicans actually introduced a

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Speaker 1: competing bill that might have actually gotten passed because of

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Speaker 1: overwhelming Democrats support. I can't believe I'm actually siding with

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Speaker 1: the Democrats here, but I think that's on balance, probably

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Speaker 1: a better bill. That's beside the point. The point is

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Speaker 1: that this is one that should have had a roll

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Speaker 1: call vote, but it didn't, and this is what happened.

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Speaker 10: The question is Assembly Bill ten thirty three. I haven't

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Speaker 10: been read three times. She'll the bill be passed. All

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Speaker 10: those in favor, I'll signified by saying I I'll oppose.

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Speaker 5: Note the eyes have it.

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Speaker 10: Assembly Bill ten thirty three is passed.

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Speaker 5: Represented from the seventy second, Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Missus Speaker, asking animous consent that the rules be suspended.

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Speaker 11: Assembly built ten thirty three. Manly messes in the.

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Speaker 10: Senate, represented from the seventy second, asking AM's consent that

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Speaker 10: the rules be suspended. Assembly built ten thirty three be

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Speaker 10: a mess in the Senate?

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Speaker 5: Is there objection? Hearing none?

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Speaker 10: The bills in the Senate hearing none, hearing none.

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Speaker 1: I have j you heard. I think that was Christine Siniki.

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Speaker 1: I object. You can always tell Sinicky because she sort

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Speaker 1: of sounds like who is the character from Monsters inc Lezowski,

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Speaker 1: Remember the lady who turned out to be like the

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Speaker 1: undercover government monster agent. That's what I always think about

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Speaker 1: when I hear Christine Seniki go I object Withowski. You

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Speaker 1: got a point. You know when the Democrats have a point,

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Speaker 1: they've got a point. There were tons of objections, So

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Speaker 1: there has been a recess for boy oh boy, a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours now while they figure this out, because

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Speaker 1: that was a massive controversy, and now we have to

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Speaker 1: wait to see the fate of the nil bill. The

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Speaker 1: nil bill name image and likeness is okay on its own.

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Speaker 1: It really whatever the issue that I have is tacked onto.

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Speaker 1: It is fourteen point six million dollars in general purpose

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Speaker 1: revenue i e. Taxpayer money from you and me and

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Speaker 1: everybody else that just automatically goes to the University of

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Madison every single year for athletic facilities maintenance. They

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Speaker 1: don't have to take that out of the money they make.

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Speaker 1: And they make a ton of money off of Badger football,

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Speaker 1: Badger basketball, to a lesser extent, Badger hockey. Even though

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Speaker 1: the men's and women's teams are usually the highest performing

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Speaker 1: of ball. They've got significant revenue coming in and they

868
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: would have to take a portion of that revenue and

869
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Speaker 1: maintain the athletic facilities. Now they're just getting fourteen point

870
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: six million dollars of taxpayer money in a giveaway from

871
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Speaker 1: the state legislature. The same state legislature that said, Hey,

872
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: you're going to do away with all your DEI programs,

873
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: or we're not going to allow you to hire anybody.

874
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Speaker 1: We're going to institute a hiring freeze. We're going to

875
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: freeze your budgets. And finally UW system leaders come to

876
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 1: an agreement and they say okay, okay, fine, Board of

877
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: regents just gives a big old middle finger to the

878
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: Republican legislature and says, absolutely not, we don't agree. Finally,

879
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: it took a couple of weeks where the chancellor had

880
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: to go back and say, hey, you know what do

881
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: we do? The Board of Region's president had to go

882
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: back and say, guys, we really need you to vote

883
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: for this one. UW. Madison, though, has been remarkably intransigent

884
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: in getting rid of its DEI programs. Did it do so?

885
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: It dismantled its DEI department. Well, it just transferred all

886
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: of the workers to different departments. So essentially it's still

887
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: got a DEI program, it's just being hidden in any

888
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: number of other different departments across the university. Does this

889
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: sound like an institution that should be rewarded with an

890
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: additional fifteen million dollars in perpetuity? They're just going to

891
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: get fifteen million dollars every single year for facilities maintenance.

892
00:56:55,560 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: They won't have to spend a single cent on facilities

893
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Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to do fifteen million

894
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: dollars worth of facilities maintenance at one university and instead,

895
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: I guess use the revenues that are coming in instead

896
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: of hitting up their boosters, they're going to use more

897
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: tax dollars and revenue that's coming from taxpayer supported sports

898
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: to pay college athletes. So if you want to get

899
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Speaker 1: a hot shot running back from the transfer transfer portal,

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Speaker 1: you can do so using more taxpayer dollars because a

901
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: different form of taxpayer dollars, a different set of taxpayer dollars,

902
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Speaker 1: is going towards the facility's maintenance. So that has not

903
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Speaker 1: yet been voted on. I would expect that one to pass.

904
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the Assembly has learned its lesson about voice votes,

905
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: but I do expect that to pass. Great day for

906
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: a team. USA Women's hockey team lends the gold in

907
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: a thriller over our Trifle Canada this afternoon, two to

908
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: one in over ten and I am loving the Yes.

909
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: I know the NHL does at least for regular season

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00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: three on three plus a goalie for overtime. I'll admit

911
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: it's been a while since I've actually watched a regular

912
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Speaker 1: season hockey game. I watched the Stanley Cup playoffs and

913
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: typically don't really watch it that care I was. When

914
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Speaker 1: I was growing up, I loved hockey, absolutely loved it.

915
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Speaker 1: I played roller hockey in front of my house with

916
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Speaker 1: all of my buddies from grade school, and it was

917
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Speaker 1: the nineties, everybody had rollerblades, so we did roller hockey.

918
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Speaker 1: And we must have played roller hockey every day of

919
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: every summer from probably like sixth grade all the way

920
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: through about sophomore year in high school. So I loved

921
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: hockey back that I became a huge New York Rangers

922
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 1: fan when they won their first and only Cup since

923
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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties in nineteen ninety four. I still love

924
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Speaker 1: Mark Messier, Steve Larmer, Wisconsin's own Mike Richter. Congrats to

925
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: the Team USA women for a huge, huge gold medal

926
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Speaker 1: victory today over Canada. It will be the Team USA

927
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Speaker 1: men playing in the semi finals, and that brings us

928
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: to the unsung hero of the day. It is, in fact,

929
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Speaker 1: a Team USA men's hockey player by the name of

930
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Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes, who scored an overtime game winning goal in

931
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Speaker 1: the quarterfinals for the men's team against Sweden, and after

932
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: the game, as he was walking off the ice, a

933
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Speaker 1: reporter asked him about what it was like representing Team USA,

934
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Speaker 1: and Hughes's answer, spectac.

935
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Speaker 2: USA flags all over the place. You can hear the chance.

936
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Speaker 2: What's that atmosphere?

937
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 10: Yeah?

938
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Speaker 5: Special?

939
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Speaker 12: I mean, you know, I love the USC screens cussing

940
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Speaker 12: in the world, so I'll not be the represent and

941
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Speaker 12: here with these guys, and.

942
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Speaker 1: That's really special. In an Olympics where it seems like

943
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: at least one out of every five Team USA athletes

944
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Speaker 1: is asked about all of the social ills of the

945
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: United States and gives a qualified answer about its politics.

946
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Speaker 1: While asked and answering about what it's like representing the team,

947
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: it is so refreshing to see people like Quinn Hughes

948
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: who are unabashedly proud to be wearing the red, white,

949
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Speaker 1: and blue. Quinn Hughes in really every other Team USA

950
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Speaker 1: athlete who thinks the same way he does about the

951
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Speaker 1: responsibility and the joy of representing the country that he

952
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Speaker 1: loves so much. They are your unsung heroes of the day.

953
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Speaker 1: When The Dan O'Donnell Show returns after the top of

954
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: the hour news, an emotional Robin Voss delivers his retirement address.

955
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Speaker 1: We are going to play some long segments of that.

956
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to comment, and then we are going to

957
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: get into America's staffing crisis. Very influential column out this week,

958
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: Stay tuned Dan o'donald show, Come right, an emotional Robin

959
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: Voss today announcing that he is not going to seek

960
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Speaker 1: another term in the Wisconsin Assembly. It was a very

961
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Speaker 1: well done retirement speech, and right now here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show, we are going to present it to

963
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: you in large segments because it's not just about one

964
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Speaker 1: man's retirement. Let's face it, though, outside of the two

965
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Speaker 1: governors that Wisconsin has had in the thirteen years that

966
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: Voss has been Assembly Speaker, there has been nobody more

967
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: powerful save for those two governors, in state politics than Voss.

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Speaker 1: And you could even argue that Voss was on par

969
01:01:56,280 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: with Governor Evers and Governor Walker in terms of the

970
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: influence that he has wielded as the leader of this

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Speaker 1: State Assembly. And it is truly the end of an era.

972
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Speaker 1: Even Governor Reavers said, we disagreed far more often than

973
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Speaker 1: we agreed, but this does mark the end of an

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Speaker 1: era in Wisconsin politics. And we are going to now

975
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Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell's show play some extended segments

976
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: of Robin Voss's retirement speech today, primarily because you're simply

977
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: not going to hear this anywhere else in the media.

978
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Speaker 1: You might hear a ten to fifteen second SoundBite in

979
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: the five o'clock news, but you're not going to hear

980
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: just what Voss had to say and what politics in

981
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: Wisconsin has been like over the last decade.

982
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Speaker 3: When I first walked with this chamber, I could not

983
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 3: have imagined how deeply this institution would shape my life,

984
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 3: or profoundly I would come to believe in its purpose.

985
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 3: I remember being struck by a few things when I

986
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 3: first was sworn into office in two thousand and five.

987
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 3: One was how beautiful this building is and how lucky

988
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 3: I felt to be able to work in it. Second,

989
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 3: how intimidating it felt to sit in a desk that

990
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 3: had been occupied by generations of Wisconsinight's before me. And finally,

991
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 3: how ordinary the work felt from the outside, especially papers

992
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 3: and microphones, debating and votes, until I realized how extraordinary

993
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 3: the responsibility truly was. So today, as I announced that

994
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 3: I will not be running for re election in November,

995
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 3: I am struck by how much this work has shaped me,

996
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 3: how honored I am to have played a small part

997
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 3: in democracy, and how proud I am to know that

998
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 3: the state of our legislature is strong. The decision wasn't easy.

999
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about it for most of twenty twenty five.

1000
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 3: But sometimes the sign pushes you in the right direction,

1001
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 3: and mine was at mid November when I had a

1002
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 3: mild heart attack. Luckily, my doctors say I am perfectly fine,

1003
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 3: but I do need to reduce my stress.

1004
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 2: And let me tell you, this job is stressful.

1005
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 5: Now.

1006
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: This should at least somewhat put aside this idea that

1007
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: Voss is retiring now because he knows that there's no

1008
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: chance Republicans are going to retain control of the Assembly.

1009
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: In truth, this was really one of the worst kept

1010
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: secrets in the state capitol that Voss was going to retire.

1011
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: In fact, he had been openly talking about possibly retiring

1012
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: for the past several years. Suffering a mild heart attack

1013
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago was just the final push

1014
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: I think that he needed. As he put it, sort

1015
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: of a sign from God that now was the time

1016
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:48,479
Speaker 1: to step back.

1017
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Speaker 3: It was a sign from God that convinced me I

1018
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 3: needed to choose a different path. I have always believed

1019
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 3: that our republic, in order to remain healthy, the legislature

1020
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 3: must be the strongest brand government. Not because it should dominate,

1021
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 3: but because it represents. When legislatures grow weak, the people's

1022
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 3: voice grow faint. When executives governed by unilateral fiat or

1023
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 3: action or courts are forced to resolve political questions, it's

1024
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 3: often because legislators failed to do their job. My work

1025
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 3: here in the state Capitol has been guided by the

1026
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 3: conviction that this body must never surrender its authority, its responsibility,

1027
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 3: or its relevance, no matter who the governor is or

1028
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 3: what party he or she are from. Like most of you,

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01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 3: I did not arrive here with a grand plan to

1030
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 3: stay for twenty two years. I arrived with a belief

1031
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 3: that this institution mattered, and that a healthy respect for

1032
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 3: the fact that the people who sent me here expected

1033
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 3: me to take the job seriously, even when it was hard, unpopular,

1034
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Speaker 3: or lonely.

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Speaker 2: Over the years, that belief has only deepened. Serving as a.

1036
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Speaker 3: Member of this Assembly, and for the past thirteen years

1037
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Speaker 3: as a speaker, has been the greatest professional honor of

1038
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 3: my life. Together we have worked uphold the legislature as

1039
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 3: a coequal branch of government, defending its constitutional role and

1040
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 3: restoring balance. When the balance was tested, we strengthen legislative oversight,

1041
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 3: even though our court has not weakened it. We reaffirmed

1042
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 3: the power of the purse, even though some want to

1043
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 3: take it away, and insisted that major policy decisions be

1044
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 3: made by elected representatives accountable to voters, not unelected state employees.

1045
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Speaker 1: What he is talking about is rather obviously the state

1046
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, as well as unelected bureaucrats in say, the

1047
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Elections Commission staff, as well as in Tony Ebs administration.

1048
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Speaker 1: He also had a pointed rebuke of Governor Evers in

1049
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: talking about taking away the power of the purse. The

1050
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: four hundred year property tax veto is exactly that. It

1051
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: is the governor appropriating for the next four centuries tax

1052
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: money that was never authorized by the legislature.

1053
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Speaker 3: The Wisconsin State legislature is not just where laws are passed,

1054
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 3: It's where democracy slows itself down on purpose. We debate

1055
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 3: in public, we answer to voters. We live with the

1056
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 3: consequences of our decisions.

1057
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Speaker 2: Right or wrong.

1058
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 3: I learned early on that in the legislature it's strongest

1059
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 3: when everyone agrees, not only because of that, but because

1060
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Speaker 3: people are prepared to show up and argue their case. Honestly,

1061
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Speaker 3: I've had days in this chamber when Florida debates ran

1062
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Speaker 3: long and tempers flared. In fact, many of us can

1063
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Speaker 3: remember the longest debate in state history, lasting over sixty

1064
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Speaker 3: three hours right here.

1065
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Speaker 2: In this chamber.

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Speaker 3: And now many of you complain when we go more

1067
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 3: than three hours, right, And yet I have to tell

1068
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 3: you that those are some of the days when I

1069
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 3: felt most that the system worked exactly as the founders intended.

1070
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Speaker 3: As speaker, I've also learned that the job is all

1071
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 3: about relationationships, and for the people here in this room,

1072
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Speaker 3: thank you. You are some of the smartest people I

1073
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 3: have ever met, the most capable of Wisconsin should be

1074
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 3: so proud of you. But the job is about quiet

1075
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Speaker 3: conversations and hallways. It's about the late night meetings when

1076
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 3: deadlines loomed because we all need a deadline, and the

1077
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 3: moments when you came up and talk to me about

1078
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 3: an event or something that was personal to you and

1079
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Speaker 3: I got.

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Speaker 2: To listen to your stories.

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Speaker 3: What made the biggest impact was regular people coming up

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Speaker 3: to you in the coffee shop or wherever it was

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Speaker 3: tell you their opinion, even if you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Want to hear it.

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Speaker 3: There were moments of real pressure, moments when the institution

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Speaker 3: itself was being tested. Now I am so incredibly proud

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Speaker 3: that all of us were able to stand together. We

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Speaker 3: advanced reforms aimed at fiscal responsibility, holding the line on spending,

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Speaker 3: protecting taxpayers, and making difficult decisions to secure Wisconsin's long

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Speaker 3: term economic stability. We pursued policies to grow jobs and

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01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 3: courage investment, and keep Wisconsin competitive in a rapidly changing environment.

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Speaker 3: We expanded educational opportunities for kids, particularly in families who

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Speaker 3: fell trapped by circumstance of their birth rather than by

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Speaker 3: a choice that they made. We tried to change a

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Speaker 3: system that far too often traps our neighbors and their

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Speaker 3: circumstances rather than what we all want, which is helping

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Speaker 3: to lift them to greater circumstances. Some of the accomplishments

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Speaker 3: I am proudest of will never make headlines. Improving how

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Speaker 3: this institution functions, modernizing its operations, and ensuring that future

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Speaker 3: legislators inherit a legislature that is stronger, more transparent, and

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Speaker 3: more resilient than the one I entered two decades ago.

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Speaker 3: No accomplishment in this building is ever the work of

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Speaker 3: one person to the members of this Assembly, Republicans and

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Speaker 3: Democrats alike, thank you. We have argued fiercely, we have

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Speaker 3: disagreed passionately, and yet we have all shown up day

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Speaker 3: after day by a shared respect for this institution. The

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Speaker 3: debates that we have in this chamber actually matter. They

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Speaker 3: matter because they happen in the open, because they require compromise,

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Speaker 3: and because they reflect the will of the people that

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Speaker 3: we all serve. To my personal staff today, my very

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Speaker 3: first staffer, and we're going to give people a round

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Speaker 3: of applause, mister speaker, even if you don't want to.

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Speaker 3: To my very who now works for the Clerk's office,

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Speaker 3: Janine up there, let's give her a round of applause. Now,

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Speaker 3: I know, especially my Democratic friends like to stand up.

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Speaker 3: But I'm going to introduce all these people and then

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Speaker 3: we can and up.

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01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 2: At the end. But that's okay.

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Speaker 3: To the woman who took me to the Howard Dean

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Speaker 3: interview and pushed me out of the window or out

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Speaker 3: of the door of the car without telling me what

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Speaker 3: I was doing, my very first communications director, Kit.

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Speaker 2: Bayer, thank you very much. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna run down it because it's gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: start crying, so I can't do it. So Lizzie and

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Speaker 3: Abby and Zach and Mariah and Jake and Kate and

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Speaker 3: Tyler and Mac and Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Ellison, the other Tyler and Luke Wolfe, who are all

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Speaker 2: here today, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: You have made me a better person, and you've instant

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01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:45,759
Speaker 3: you made this institution stronger.

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Speaker 2: You have you have.

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Speaker 3: But to the person, But to the person who I

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01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 3: am closest to, with the exception of someone I'm related to,

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01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 3: the woman who really runs everything. I mean, I always

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Speaker 3: tell people I get to be the pretty face, but

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01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 3: she's the one who's pretty er and the harder worker.

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Speaker 2: We all know how this institution works.

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01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:14,719
Speaker 3: It's the people behind the scenes who don't get enough credit,

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 3: who do all the work, who are here at night

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01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 3: when we leave to the bar. They know everything that works. Jenny,

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Speaker 3: I could not have done it without you. Thank you

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01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 3: very much.

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01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: Kind I believe it is his longtime chief of staff.

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01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:48,519
Speaker 3: Eighty two people have worked in my office since I started,

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01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 3: about half interns, about half professional staff in the office,

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01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 3: each and every one of them fantastic. To the other

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Speaker 3: professional staff of the legislature, the people who work for

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Speaker 3: our fifth Bureau and the Reference Bureau. I'm not going

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01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 3: to start naming them all the six service agencies. Right,

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01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 3: incredible people. We are so blessed, and they do not

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01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 3: get the stanks that they deserve. Every day, day in

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01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,840
Speaker 3: and day out, the stupidest questions that we have, they

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01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:15,839
Speaker 3: act like they're serious.

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Speaker 2: Right, they are amazing.

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01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 3: They're the steady hands, the institutional knowledge, the quiet professionals

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01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 3: who really make us work their long nights, their careful

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01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:30,799
Speaker 3: counsel and devotion to process often go unseen by the public,

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01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 3: but they are truly the foundation of everything that we do.

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 3: And they success attributed to me belongs rightly with the

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,679
Speaker 3: professional staff who made it happen. Let's give them around

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Speaker 3: of applus tos in the sixty thirdy District and now

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01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 3: because of the evers Jerrymander the thirty third Assembly District.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for placing your trust in me. Thank you

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01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 2: for placing your trust in me time and time again

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Speaker 2: over the past two decades.

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Speaker 3: I am deeply humbled by the confidence in my ability

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Speaker 3: to servicing in Walworth Counties. To my friends and neighbors

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Speaker 3: who stood with me from the very beginning and every

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Speaker 3: step since the matter with my recall or whatever. Your

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01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 3: faith has been something that means more to me than

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Speaker 3: I can say to my friends from around the country

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Speaker 3: who I know might be watching that I've gotten the

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01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 3: note through wonderful organizations like NCSL and SLLF. Thank you

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01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 3: for being mentors to me and an incredible sounding board.

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Speaker 3: Cliff Andre kurt Al, Tim Stacy, Eric Steve, Linda Pete

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Speaker 3: and so many others. You know who you are and

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Speaker 3: you know what you did for me. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: helping me to make my work as a leader more

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01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 3: meaningful and for your friendship even deeper. To my leadership

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01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 3: team and my caucus colleagues, thank you for your trust.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 3: Thank you for your candor and your willingness to carry

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01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:07,800
Speaker 3: responsibility when it is heavy. Leadership is never about authority alone.

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01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 3: It's about accountability, and I was fortunate to share that

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Speaker 3: burden with people of integrity. The people of Wisconsin, as

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Speaker 3: I said earlier, are so lucky to have you serving

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Speaker 3: in your roles, and I have confidence in the future

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Speaker 3: that you'll keep doing it. And finally, to my family,

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01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 3: thank you for the sacrifices you made so that I

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01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,879
Speaker 3: could serve the public public service demands time it demand's patience,

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01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 3: and it depends understanding from those that we love the most.

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01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,880
Speaker 3: Your support made it all possible. Winston Churchill famously said,

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 3: everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

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Speaker 3: My time has lasted quite a while, but my service

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Speaker 3: in this chamber will end when the new class of

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Speaker 3: freshmen are sworn in. I've been so honored to serve

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Speaker 3: with all of you in this chamber, and I will

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Speaker 3: miss many of you.

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Speaker 2: But not all of you.

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Speaker 13: Ah.

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Speaker 3: But to those of you who I will miss, and

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01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 3: an actually all of you, I appreciate your service.

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Speaker 2: As I step away from this chamber.

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Speaker 3: Of My hope is super simple that those who follow

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Speaker 3: will remember that the legislature is not meant to be

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Speaker 3: convenient or fast or easy. It is meant to be deliberative.

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01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 3: It's meant to be independent, and it's meant to be strong.

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01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:23,640
Speaker 3: If this institution remains strong, Wisconsin will remain strong. So

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Speaker 3: as my friend, the former Speaker of Iowa, Linda Upmeyer

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Speaker 3: said on her own retirement, I'll miss the clowns, but

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01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 3: not the circus. Have I thought about that, and it's

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Speaker 3: certainly fitting. Thank you all for your service, Thank you

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Speaker 3: for the honor you've given me. May God bless Wisconsin

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Speaker 3: and let's end with a great session.

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Speaker 2: Day, hopefully in the reasonable hours of the night. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: That is Assembly Speaker Robin Voss in his farewell address

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. We will be back in two seconds here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell's show to provide some analysis of

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Speaker 1: that and much more. Stay tuned. I don't actually think

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Speaker 1: I have ever seen Assembly Speaker Scott Scott assembly Speaker

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Speaker 1: Robin Voss that emotional. This was a man who went

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Speaker 1: into the trenches with Scott Walker, who battled Tony Evers

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Speaker 1: to the bitter end. But he was very emotional as

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Speaker 1: he announces today that he is not going to seek reelection,

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Speaker 1: that he is retiring after more than twenty years in

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Speaker 1: the State Assembly, more than thirteen years as Assembly speaker.

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Speaker 1: He is the longest serving Assembly Speaker in the history

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Speaker 1: of the Wisconsin State Assembly, which is something. And what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about was obviously very high minded ideas

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Speaker 1: about the deliberative nature of the legislative role in state government.

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Speaker 1: And he of course thanked the people closest to him,

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Speaker 1: his staffers, his colleagues. But what I took away was

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Speaker 1: the pointed nature with which he not necessarily attacked the

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Speaker 1: other two branches of government. But as we see an

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Speaker 1: imperial executive and an imperial judiciary here in Wisconsin, both

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Speaker 1: under the control of liberals who talk a big game

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Speaker 1: about democracy but are continually trying to chip away at

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Speaker 1: the lawful authority of the closest thing that we have

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Speaker 1: to actual representation of the people. You don't get closer

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Speaker 1: than you do to your state assembly person. You don't

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Speaker 1: get closer than your state senator. Sure, you have a

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01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 1: congressional representative, you have a House of Representatives member, But

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Speaker 1: in state government, it is very likely that if you

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Speaker 1: are at all interested in politics, if you are at

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Speaker 1: all somebody who follows what's going on, and somebody who

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Speaker 1: you know is is visible politically, you probably know and

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01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:08,679
Speaker 1: have a relationship with your state rep with your state senator.

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Speaker 1: There's really something to that. And what we have had

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Speaker 1: over the last seven years was an executive branch that,

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Speaker 1: under the auspices of doing what's right in awe, shucks,

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Speaker 1: we just want to get some more money for the kids.

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Speaker 1: We actually had the single biggest affront to the separation

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Speaker 1: of powers I think that we've ever had in this state.

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Speaker 1: First of all, with Governor Evers continually extending the state

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Speaker 1: of emergency, the the COVID emergency, he would declare new

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Speaker 1: public health emergencies every couple of weeks, just so he

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Speaker 1: could have his legislature. He could have his statewide mask

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Speaker 1: mandate without any legislative oversight. I don't think people realize.

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Speaker 1: I remember screaming about this to the high heavens in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two as Evers was doing it,

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Speaker 1: But it felt like people didn't really understand the threat

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Speaker 1: that this posed. And Robin Voss was one of the

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Speaker 1: few who did, who said, look, if he can just

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Speaker 1: declare a new state of emergency over something as stupid

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Speaker 1: as a mask mandate, well, what's to stop him from

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Speaker 1: simply declaring a new state of emergency and giving himself

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Speaker 1: all sorts of new powers that were never delegated to

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Speaker 1: him by the Wisconsin Constitution. And I can remember talking

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Speaker 1: with Voss about that and why he fought so hard

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Speaker 1: against it. And it's the same thing with now that

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Speaker 1: we have an imperial judiciary in the form of the

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Speaker 1: left wing Supreme Court that first took power in August

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three when Janet proto Sewitz was sworn

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Speaker 1: in as the fourth Liberal and immediately, immediately you served

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Speaker 1: the lawful constitutional authority of the state legislature to draw

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Speaker 1: state legislative maps and said, okay, we're just going to

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Speaker 1: on the flimsiest of anti constitutional grounds saying we're just

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Speaker 1: going to strike down your maps. We're going to draw

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Speaker 1: our own, unless basically bullying the legislature into accepting Governor

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Speaker 1: evers map, which again, the governor has no lawful constitutional

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Speaker 1: authority to draw legislative maps in Wisconsin under the Wisconsin Constitution.

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Speaker 1: That falls specifically under the auspices of legislative power. But

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court signed off on that. The Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: actually asserted for itself that power. And then we got

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Speaker 1: the big one where the governor, through this four hundred

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Speaker 1: year veto simply delegated state money for the next four

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Speaker 1: hundred years, that the power of the purse belongs to

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Speaker 1: the state legislature, just as it does federally to the

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Speaker 1: United States Congress. It in Wisconsin belongs that power to

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Speaker 1: allocate taxpayer money. That is the sole authority of the

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Speaker 1: state legislature. With the four hundred year veto. The governor said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I am going to take that authority from the legislature

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Speaker 1: and give it essentially to school board, say okay, you

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Speaker 1: can up the revenue limit by three hundred twenty five

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Speaker 1: dollars per student per year for the next four centuries.

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Speaker 1: That was never authorized by the state legislature. There was

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Speaker 1: a tremendous affront to the separation of powers, and Voss

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Speaker 1: in his farewell address, was right full and purposeful in

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Speaker 1: not talking about that directly because he wanted to be magnanimous.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to be political, and he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: sound petty or anything like that. But that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about when he was talking about the

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Speaker 1: threats to the deliberative body that is the legislature. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we do have threats in the form of jobs and

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Speaker 1: a skills gap here in Wisconsin. That doesn't show any

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Speaker 1: signs of A fascinating article from a very astute conservative

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Speaker 1: business man here in Wisconsin. He's going to join me

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Speaker 1: in studio. Scott Mayor is up next here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We are going to talk about Wisconsin's

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Speaker 1: economic future. Stay tuned. We'll be right back after this

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Speaker 1: welcome back. It is the Dan o'donald Show. We are

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Speaker 1: so pleased to be joined live in studio by Scott Mayor.

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Speaker 1: You know him as a former indie car driver. He

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Speaker 1: is also the chairman of the board, founder, CEO and

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Speaker 1: all around head honcho of QPS Employment Group. He joins

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Speaker 1: us live in studio, Scott, Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: So great to have you here.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. Dan.

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Speaker 13: By the way, you're getting me in trouble right out

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Speaker 13: of the gate. I'm no longer the CEO. Will you

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01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 13: go to next Gen? You are everything else? The founder executive.

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Speaker 1: I am executive chairman. Actually I'm reading your CV and

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Speaker 1: right on here at executive chair of the board. That's right,

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Speaker 1: not chief executive. I blame my not existent dyslexia are So.

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Speaker 1: You have a fantastic piece in here from RealClearPolitics dot

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Speaker 1: com entitled solving the Next labor Shortage. You obviously know

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01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: this very very well. Is at RealClearPolitics dot com. We

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01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: clearly have a disconnect and we've heard a long time

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Speaker 1: about the skills gap here in Wisconsin, but you are

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01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 1: tying this not just to tech jobs but also to

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Speaker 1: a very hot button issue, and that is immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 13: You know, let me start by saying, I appreciate that

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Speaker 13: we sealed the border. We needed to do that. We

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Speaker 13: need to get rid of the bad people. But the

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Speaker 13: hard working people in this country and in our state

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Speaker 13: that are just here because they couldn't find a path legally,

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01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 13: we can't get rid of them when you seal the border.

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Speaker 13: If you don't bring in two and a half million

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Speaker 13: more each year because of the people that age out,

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Speaker 13: or die or retire, we're in the hole right out

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Speaker 13: of the gate.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people say to that, Okay, yes, And

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Speaker 1: obviously Wisconsin being the dairy state, we know, Look, there

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Speaker 1: are a whole lot of illegal aliens who work in

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Speaker 1: the agriculture industry. That's just we understand that. But there

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Speaker 1: are those who say, well, can't increased automation solve a

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Speaker 1: part of that? Or is this something that is going

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: to hit critical mass if in fact we do see

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Speaker 1: major deportation efforts of non criminal illegals. And it is

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Speaker 1: very important to note that the Trump administration has been

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Speaker 1: focusing on criminal illegals those who are This is why

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Speaker 1: it was such a big deal to get in the

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Speaker 1: jails in Minnesota, right, because it's just very easy to

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Speaker 1: pick up people who are already in custody. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: do you think that this is something that could be

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01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: solved through increased automation or are we still going to

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Speaker 1: need millions of human beings here?

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Speaker 13: Well, we can only automate so much. I'm working with

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Speaker 13: Derek van Orden, congressman up north, and he's got a

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Speaker 13: ton of farms in his district and you can't automate

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Speaker 13: everything there. And let me tell you, he's those farms

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Speaker 13: are full of migrant labor, and Americans buy and large

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Speaker 13: don't want those jobs. Your kids, my kids, doesn't matter

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Speaker 13: the pay rate, you're not going to get them to

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Speaker 13: go work in a farm. And automation can only do

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Speaker 13: so much. So we really need we still need labor,

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Speaker 13: believe it or not. And that's really a good thing

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Speaker 13: because if everybody had a job, how are you going

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Speaker 13: to make money and pay your bills. So there will

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Speaker 13: be jobs and there always will be, and we need labor.

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Speaker 13: We need migrant labor factories, farms and fields. It's a

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Speaker 13: critical issue right now.

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Speaker 1: But obviously, as you note in your piece, it's important

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Speaker 1: to note what the Trump administration is doing. It's not

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. We cannot be a nation without laws

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Speaker 1: or borders. We witness years of the open borders crisis

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Speaker 1: under Joe Biden, when millions of illegals crossed into our country,

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Speaker 1: including criminals from terrorist organizations and gang members. However, immigration

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Speaker 1: is far more nuance nuanced than just sending people back

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Speaker 1: across our borders. Immigration and migrant work are as vital

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Speaker 1: to our labor force and economy as seeking the American

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Speaker 1: dream and the land of opportunity is for those who

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Speaker 1: so desperately want to start a new life in our country. Now,

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Speaker 1: as a general rule, I do agree with that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I do absolutely agree with that. However, we do need

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Speaker 1: to have a process by which I think the United

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Speaker 1: States has the ability to sort of say, okay, this

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Speaker 1: is somebody who is vetted, this is somebody who has

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Speaker 1: proven themselves to be a hard worker. Do you understand

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Speaker 1: the concern about maybe not, I don't know, making sure

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Speaker 1: we have an adequate vet process. Are you talking about

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Speaker 1: increasing the number of Green cards, H one B visas,

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Speaker 1: that sort of.

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Speaker 13: Thing we're looking at, Derek and I are working on.

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Speaker 13: We want like a worker visa, like a couple of

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Speaker 13: year deal that can be renewed because listen, we haven't

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Speaker 13: had immigration reform since I believe nineteen eighty seven, if

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Speaker 13: I'm not missing eighty six eighty six. Okay, been a

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Speaker 13: long long time. And by the way, I've been speaking

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Speaker 13: on this for well over a decade. Do you know

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Speaker 13: it's literally impossible. Let's say I'm a Mexican welder, never

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Speaker 13: committed a crime, perfect record, and I wanted to come

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Speaker 13: over legally. Do you know it was like a zero

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Speaker 13: percent chance. So we need to come up with a

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Speaker 13: legal path to actually bring people in as the country

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Speaker 13: has needs. Now, let's say the needs shut down, we

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Speaker 13: shut the border down. But when there are needs, we've

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Speaker 13: got to find a way to do it legally to

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Speaker 13: bring people over because what keeps our country strong is

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Speaker 13: by having labor to fill the jobs that are needed.

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Speaker 13: You know, you got to go to a store and

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Speaker 13: find milk and lettuce and pork chops, and if we

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Speaker 13: run short of people to do those jobs, that would

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Speaker 13: be a national security issue if you go to pick

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Speaker 13: and save and you can't find produce.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's anybody who disagrees with that absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that is one of the great secrets

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Speaker 1: of Hispanic labor, especially those from Mexico is especially men.

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Speaker 1: They're increasingly Republican in like massive, massive numbers. But when

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Speaker 1: you talk about stuff like this, Scott, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people say, Okay, we go back to that nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: six and that led to amnesty for millions and millions

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Speaker 1: and millions of people. And before the sort of Trump

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Speaker 1: revolution here, we did have a lot of people believe

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Speaker 1: California was a red state before we had that mass amnesty. Right,

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01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 1: is this something that Democrats have won at a You're

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Speaker 1: not in favor of any sort of mass amnesty pathway

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01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:05,640
Speaker 1: to citizenship for just you know, blanket magic wand amnesty.

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Speaker 1: Like I have no problem with someone earning their citizenship.

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Speaker 1: I actually love it. My own sister in law is

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Speaker 1: from Ukraine. She became a citizen what fifteen years after

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Speaker 1: first coming here as a little girl, excuse me, on

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Speaker 1: a visa at like ten years old something like that,

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Speaker 1: after her parents died. And that obviously is something that

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Speaker 1: I think everyone can get behind. But I think what

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Speaker 1: people are very wary of is again a repeat of

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Speaker 1: the eighty six amnesty, in which Democrats are quite literally

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Speaker 1: and they've been pretty open about this for the last

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Speaker 1: three decades. A pathway to voting and importing political power.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I never didn't hear one word of amnesty. That's

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Speaker 13: a non starter. In Washington, d C. We're talking about

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01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:53,720
Speaker 13: worker visas to have the opportunity to be here to work.

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Speaker 13: I don't think any of most of the migrants aren't

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Speaker 13: trying to get I mean, they probably would appreciate US

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Speaker 13: citizenship and maybe a path, But at this point, what

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01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 13: we're focused on is a very narrow path of worker visa,

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Speaker 13: and we're starting with just in the food processing industry.

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Speaker 13: We're not going any wider than that. We want to

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01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:14,519
Speaker 13: get something through very narrow that everybody can get their

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01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 13: head around. You know, we need to eat right, We

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01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:18,720
Speaker 13: need to be able to go to this store and

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01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 13: get vegetables and milk and meat and so forth. So

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Speaker 13: we're starting with that, and it's strictly a worker visa,

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01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 13: an opportunity to be here working, and like a two

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Speaker 13: year process, and then it can be automatically renewed with

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Speaker 13: as long as people are checked out that they're still here,

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Speaker 13: clean and doing their thing.

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Speaker 1: What about the argument that Americans can do this work?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're in the industry, so you obviously would

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Speaker 1: be able to say, is this I mean, is there

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01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 1: truth to what people have long said that these are

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Speaker 1: jobs that American citizens just aren't doing? Correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 13: Absolutely, I mean so many of these jobs Americans don't want.

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Speaker 13: Let me talk about another state, the state of Washington,

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Speaker 13: largest apple grower in the country. Do you know that

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Speaker 13: twenty five percent of the apples go unpicked because they

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Speaker 13: can't get enough labor there and it's been that way

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Speaker 13: for a decade, So they pick the premium apples and

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01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 13: let the lesser valued apples rot because they can't get

1474
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 13: enough people. Doesn't matter the pay rate, you're not going

1475
01:32:18,240 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 13: to get Bill Gates kids to go pick apples. Those

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01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,680
Speaker 13: are jobs that Americans buy and large don't want. And

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01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 13: it's perfect because migrant labor takes those jobs and they're

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01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:29,200
Speaker 13: happy to when they work hard and they do a

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01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:31,400
Speaker 13: good job, and then they go home at night and

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Speaker 13: restart the next day. So no, we're not taking Americans

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Speaker 13: jobs at you know, even if there was twenty percent unemployment,

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Speaker 13: I just don't think you're gonna get my kids or

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01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 13: your kids to go pick apples. It's just not going

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Speaker 13: to happen.

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01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. If I've got an apple

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Speaker 1: tree in the backyard and their chore is to pick

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Speaker 1: those apples, They're picking the damn apples.

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Speaker 13: Okay, now you're splitting hairs with me, but I'm talking.

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Speaker 1: About no, no, every day, I'm kidding with you. I'm

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Speaker 1: kidding with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There is, there is definitely that. I guess. The one

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01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:00,880
Speaker 1: thing that there is the concern and about also, though,

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01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 1: is sort of the exploitative nature of that, Like our

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01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:09,640
Speaker 1: wages artificially down because we're importing labor, whereas Americans, and

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Speaker 1: trust me, I am very receptive to the argument that

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Speaker 1: especially unionized labor has in many respects priced itself out

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Speaker 1: of the global market. If we actually do want to,

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Speaker 1: as President Trump says, reshure a lot of these jobs,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to have the just

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01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and fifty dollars an hour wages

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Speaker 1: that some of the unionized labor forces are going to demand.

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01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 1: But I guess, is there a concern about exploiting some

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Speaker 1: of these people and saying, you know, paying below market wages? Right?

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Speaker 1: I guess I suppose that the market is sort of

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Speaker 1: deciding what people are willing to do right.

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Speaker 13: You know, Dan, I can tell you that there was

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01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 13: a time where maybe the migrants weren't making as much

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01:33:57,240 --> 01:34:00,439
Speaker 13: as you know, legal Hispanics, if you will, But that

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01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:04,280
Speaker 13: day has come and gone and they've wised up and

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01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:07,800
Speaker 13: they're demanding the same pay rates as Puerto Ricans or

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01:34:07,840 --> 01:34:11,160
Speaker 13: those here legally. So that's been an issue in the past,

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01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 13: but not so much today. They're getting paid comparable and

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01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 13: you know, we have nothing at QPS but good high

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01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:20,040
Speaker 13: pay rates going are the day of you know, seven

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01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:23,240
Speaker 13: dollars an hour minimum wage never comes into play. QPS

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01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:26,599
Speaker 13: is a you know, entry level fifteen to twenty dollars

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01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 13: an hour starting pay rate for just about any entry

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01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 13: level job. So it's not an issue why you want

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01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:33,280
Speaker 13: to come over and work kind of I'm.

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Speaker 1: There, you go, there are slave drivers over here at Iheartnet. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Yeah, Producer Eric said, that's better than what

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Speaker 1: they're paying us. What's going on here?

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Speaker 13: Okay, I want to get you in trouble, but yeah,

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01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 13: we got good pay rates because the market has dictated that.

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01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 13: You know, you can set any federal minimum wage you want,

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01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 13: but the market should dictate what the pay rate is.

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01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 13: And it's gone up. Why because we have a shortage

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01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 13: of workers and there it brings full circle down.

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Speaker 1: He is Scott Mayor with the QPS Employment Group and

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01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 1: the article is at RealClearPolitics dot com. Definitely some food

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01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 1: for thought solving the next labor shortage. And this is something, folks,

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01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:19,080
Speaker 1: that we do need to confront as President Trump is

1534
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: very obviously doing the right thing on immigration enforcement, but

1535
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 1: there is this other pull when it comes to the

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01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,479
Speaker 1: counterweight of the push on that and Scott, I really

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01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:34,360
Speaker 1: do appreciate. We love having you here, a great insight.

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01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 1: Thank you so so much. I'd love to have you

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01:35:37,880 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: back anytime here on the Dan o'donald show.

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Speaker 13: All right, I'll see you tomorrow dotal thirty.

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01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:46,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to talk about Robin Voss. Let's see

1542
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:48,640
Speaker 1: what are some of the other big stories of the day. No,

1543
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,559
Speaker 1: we absolutely do love it. Thank you so much, sir.

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01:35:52,640 --> 01:35:55,880
Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan o'donald. We're back to

1545
01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 1: wrap things up for the Thursday edition coming up next.

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Speaker 1: My thanks again to Scott Mayer for joining us. It

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Speaker 1: ish look, folks, it is a reality of the immigration debate.

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Speaker 1: As he said, he is working with Derek van Orden,

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin congressman who represents a significant amount of the

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01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:21,160
Speaker 1: dairy industry here in this state. That you know, obviously,

1551
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 1: deportations of people who have valid deportation orders, people who

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01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,799
Speaker 1: have committed heinous crimes. This is necessary. But the United

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01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: States has become dependent on illegal immigrant labor, and there

1554
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:37,440
Speaker 1: are a whole lot of people in the illegal immigrant

1555
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:41,120
Speaker 1: community who do love this country, who do want nothing

1556
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: more than to be American to work here, and this

1557
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 1: is something that does need to be addressed. There is

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01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:52,920
Speaker 1: a whole lot of nuance. As Scott wrote in his

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01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: piece up at RealClearPolitics dot com, all right, the State

1560
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:05,839
Speaker 1: Assembly is settling in for a long winter's night of debate,

1561
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 1: and hopefully they have learned their lesson after an utter

1562
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 1: debacle earlier this afternoon regarding the wake Boat bill passing

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01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:18,719
Speaker 1: on a voice vote that absolutely should not have gone

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01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:23,559
Speaker 1: on a voice vote. I have been running around trying

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01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 1: to get to as much of what the legislature has

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01:37:27,720 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 1: been doing. They have gone into closed session for much

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01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:35,560
Speaker 1: of this evening, and a lot of the significant legislation

1568
01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:39,439
Speaker 1: is going to be passed probably late at night. Something

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01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 1: I am also not a major fan of But the

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01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 1: biggest action that we have had thus far, not just

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01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:49,799
Speaker 1: the wake boat bill, but also passing on a voice vote,

1572
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: is the online sports Betting bill, which is by far

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01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:55,680
Speaker 1: the most significant piece of legislation that is going to

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01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:57,920
Speaker 1: come out of this session. Much more than the nil bill,

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01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 1: much more than wake voting. This is something that impacts

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01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people. I am told that there

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01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 1: are a significant number of Republicans in the Senate who

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01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 1: just do not support this bill. So it is going

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01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:14,519
Speaker 1: to be on the Senate leadership. It's going to be

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01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 1: on Devin Lemaheue to decide whether he wants to abandon

1581
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:24,440
Speaker 1: the longstanding rule of seventeen, in which he needs seventeen

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01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:28,759
Speaker 1: members a majority of all Senators, not just a majority

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01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:30,639
Speaker 1: of members of his own party, to bring a bill

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01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 1: out of committee and to bring it out of the

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01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:35,040
Speaker 1: floor to vote. This is just something that's always been done.

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01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:40,680
Speaker 1: Is he going to abandon that to essentially give monopolistic

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01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:44,400
Speaker 1: control over online sports betting in this state something that

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01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:47,600
Speaker 1: might not We don't even know whether this is constitutional,

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01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 1: whether the voters of Wisconsin need to go to a

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01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 1: constitutional amendment. The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty whose

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01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 1: legal opinion I treat as gospel. They are very very good,

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01:38:57,600 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: very very thorough, and talented lawyers. They say this is unconstitutional,

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01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:06,120
Speaker 1: and I tend to agree with them. We will discuss,

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01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:09,920
Speaker 1: of course, tomorrow in much greater depth, out of time

1595
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 1: for tonight's show three zero six. Tomorrow we're back at

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Speaker 1: it on The Dan o'donald Show