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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. So far, there are two named candidates who

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Speaker 1: have declared runs for the twenty twenty six Republican gubernatorial

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Speaker 1: nomination here in Wisconsin, Josh Showman who declared this past spring,

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Speaker 1: and Tom Tiffany, the Wisconsin congressman who actually declared his

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Speaker 1: candidacy live on the Dan O'donnald's show. A couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. It has been long thought that there aren't

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Speaker 1: going to be any other candidates that get in the race,

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Speaker 1: because Tiffany is seen as a candidate who has broad

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Speaker 1: support in the Republican Party of Wisconsin and amongst the

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Speaker 1: conservative base. He's from far northern Wisconsin, and he is

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Speaker 1: thus much more likely to generate a significant percentage of

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Speaker 1: the vote up there that Republicans now need. They can

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Speaker 1: no longer count on the Wow counties, Waukesha, Ozaki, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of those voters have either become more liberal

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Speaker 1: over the past ten years, as the Scott Walker Coalition

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Speaker 1: has moved out of the state and become Florida residents primarily,

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Speaker 1: and as we have experienced a whole lot of what

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Speaker 1: I call liberal creep people who are getting a little

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Speaker 1: bit older, starting to raise families and moving out of

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee and wahwa Tosa farther west, farther north. They're creeping

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Speaker 1: into Republican territory and they're not becoming more Republican, they're

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Speaker 1: bringing their politics with them. The consensus is that for

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Speaker 1: Republicans to win now, they need to win a much

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Speaker 1: bigger percentage of the outstate vote for northern Wisconsin, for

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Speaker 1: Western Wisconsin, rural areas and exurban areas. It's widely believed

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Speaker 1: that Tom Tiffany is going to give them a very

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Speaker 1: good chance to pick up those Trump voters. There was

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Speaker 1: one key question about Tiffany, however, and that is why

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Speaker 1: he went into this race without President Trump's nomination. If

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Speaker 1: there's one thing that could theoretically end a Republican primary

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Speaker 1: before it ever really begins, it's the Trump endorsement. Four

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Speaker 1: years ago, Republican businessman Tim Michaels went into the race

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Speaker 1: relatively late in the process, in fact, very late in

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Speaker 1: Michaels got in with Trump's endorsement, and Trump was not

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Speaker 1: nearly as popular as he is now that he's won.

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Speaker 1: Becky gave it a good fight, but the race was

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Speaker 1: essentially over. In fact, Clayfish's campaign was scrambling to contact

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Speaker 1: four years later. It's just presumed that if Trump does

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Speaker 1: think I might know the reason. Tim Michaels is right now,

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Speaker 1: as in, at this very moment at the White House.

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Speaker 1: He is believed to be meeting with President Trump himself

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Speaker 1: something to the effect of he's stopping by to take

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Speaker 1: if in fact he is meeting with President Trump in

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Speaker 1: advance of a second run for governor, where he would

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Speaker 1: if in fact this is the reason that Michaels is

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Speaker 1: It was believed that Michaels and it was actually sold

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of bitterness after the general election

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Speaker 1: He wasn't campaigning as hard as he could, for example,

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Speaker 1: And also his answer on the abortion question, which was

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Speaker 1: right after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that

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Speaker 1: he said when asked, is your position on abortion the

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Speaker 1: same as Wisconsin's eighteen forty nine law eighteen forty eight,

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: You are legally required, as a good liberal media member

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Speaker 1: eighteen forty eight murder law, but you always have to

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Speaker 1: call it Wisconsin's eighteen forty nine abortion law. His answer,

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Speaker 1: That was replayed ad nauseum in Tony Evers ads that said.

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Speaker 1: Michaels is an absolute favorite of the Trump White House

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Speaker 2: In fact, our own.

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Speaker 1: Mark Belling reported last November that Michaels was actually offered

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Speaker 1: the position of Secretary of Transportation and only declined because

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration or at that time the Trump transition

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Speaker 1: team insisted that he divest his ownership interest in Michael's corporation.

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Speaker 1: As Belling reported at the time, the firm is involved

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Speaker 2: This was a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: He would have had to have divested his own interest

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Speaker 1: just don't think I can divest my ownership interest. Interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: Michael suggested someone who has turned out to be a

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Speaker 1: who is also very instrumental in getting Tim Michaels to

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Speaker 1: He is also very very close to President Trump. Remember,

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Speaker 1: he served as Trump's very first White House chief of staff.

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Speaker 2: He didn't last very long, but.

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Speaker 1: There was a whole lot of turn and turnover in

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Speaker 1: feelings about Ryan's previous. He loves Ryan's previous dearly, and

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Speaker 1: he trusts ryance on all things Wisconsin. Is it possible

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Speaker 1: that those three men are again meeting to discuss Michael's

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Speaker 1: a remarkable coincidence that he's at the White House today

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to parachute in this time around, because

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Speaker 1: there is so much support, as evidenced by a couple

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Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany is a very, very formidable candidate. Now, would

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Speaker 1: the calculation be that the Trump endorsement alone would be

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Speaker 1: enough to make a whole lot of Republican voters here

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Speaker 1: forget the fact that Michaels did lose a race that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people thought was very winnable. It is

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Speaker 1: also very interesting and this is just a total coincidence

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Speaker 1: that a candidate who also lost what many on his

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Speaker 1: Mandela Barnes has an article in The New York Times

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Speaker 1: ability to win the race. It's rather remarkable, and it's

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Speaker 1: the sort of thing that gets run in the New

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Speaker 1: want to send a message not just to voters about

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Speaker 1: in this case, potential candidate himself. The message was clear here, Mandela,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to just all drop out of the

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Speaker 1: race like we did last time. Interestingly enough, and we

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Speaker 1: will get into this New York Times piece extensively coming

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Speaker 1: there is not one mention. There is one oblique reference

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Speaker 1: to the Democrats openly rigging the Senate primary four man

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Speaker 1: deadbeat Barnes four years ago. There would be none of

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Speaker 1: that obviously for Tim Michaels. But once again, were Michaels

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Speaker 1: to get in this race, and again I don't know

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Speaker 1: whether he's meeting with Trump at the White House today

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Speaker 1: to discuss a potential run. I have a difficult time

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Speaker 1: We will take your phone calls, get your texts as well.

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Speaker 1: Dive into that New York Times Mandela Barnes article.

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Speaker 1: The fact that Trump likes Michaels so much he wanted

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Speaker 1: Here on the Dan o'donald Show. Earlier today, Eric Tony

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Speaker 1: announced that he is going to be running for a

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Speaker 1: second straight shot at Attorney General. And we will talk

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Speaker 1: with Eric in the five o'clock hour. He's set to

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Speaker 1: call in at five oh six. Meanwhile, we are breaking

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Speaker 1: what I believe could potentially be a very, very very

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Speaker 1: big story, and that is that Tim Michaels, the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two Republican gubernatorial nominee, has spent the day at

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Speaker 1: the White House meeting with President Trump, who is in

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Speaker 1: the Oval Office right now, talking about prescription drug prices.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Oval and President Trump for just

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Speaker 1: a second. Join that in progress.

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Speaker 2: But that was you know, you'll.

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Speaker 3: Learn, right. So we're doing and you guys know more

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Speaker 3: about favorite Nations than anybody, so we're going Favorite nations

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Speaker 3: were demanding it, and we've got it. And as you know,

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Speaker 3: at five zero, we had all, we had the big companies,

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Speaker 3: they were all they were all agreed or close to agree.

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Speaker 3: But the countries have agreed to. Actually, the countries would

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Speaker 3: be generally more difficult if we didn't have the power

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Speaker 3: of tariffs. They wouldn't have agreed. That would have said, nope,

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Speaker 3: you're got to pay ten times more than we pay.

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Speaker 3: We were paying ten and twelve times more than other

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Speaker 3: countries for the exact same pill, made in the exact

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Speaker 3: same lab or factory. So it's an amazing thing. I

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Speaker 3: think it's an absolute game changer. Nobody's ever even heard

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Speaker 3: of a thing like that, and you'll see the results

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Speaker 3: over the next year, year and a half. And I

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Speaker 3: think it's great. So I'd like to ask a person

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Speaker 3: who's really been fantastic. We'll ask a few of the

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Speaker 3: people to say a few words. You're an international television

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Speaker 3: so don't get nervous, Cash, would you say a few words.

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Speaker 3: Is it's done a fantastic to you?

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, mister President. It's an honor to be

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Speaker 4: a first generation in Indian America whose parents are often

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Speaker 4: the immigrated to this country and under your leadership.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is the President's celebration of d Wali Wi.

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Speaker 4: You said right to so is a triumph of good

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Speaker 4: over evil. Is just an incredible honor. It's incredibly humbly.

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Speaker 4: Indian Americans around the world and Indians around the world

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Speaker 4: are thrilled that you are such a profound leader in

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Speaker 4: sharing this diversity with the world. And we can't thank you.

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Speaker 4: And it's been happy to Valley.

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Speaker 1: That is FBI Director Cash Patel talking in the Oval

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Speaker 1: Office as the President celebrates to Wali. We will have

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Speaker 1: much more in the Daily Trump Day coming up about

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes from right now, We've still got to get

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Speaker 1: you the unhinged liberal of the day.

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Speaker 2: And as promised, boy oh.

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Speaker 1: Boy, this is this is going to be one of

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Speaker 1: those days where I had a ton of stories and

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Speaker 1: then literally, folks, literally five minutes before the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour, at about two fifty five, I got tipped

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Speaker 1: off that Tim Michaels is at the White House, and

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Speaker 1: I've pretty much been working that story ever since. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, it's potentially a bomb. It is potentially a

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Speaker 1: massive development if in fact Michaels ends up running for

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Speaker 1: governor for a second straight cycle, and that would be

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Speaker 1: rather interesting because we just had on Lieutenant governor candidate

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Speaker 1: Will Martin, who ran for the same position in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. At five oh six, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: on Eric Tony, who ran for the same position in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and actually did much much better relatively speaking.

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Speaker 2: Than Michaels did.

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Speaker 1: He only lost to Josh Call by about thirty five

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Speaker 1: thousand votes. It was a remarkably close race, and I

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Speaker 1: would be shocked if anybody else runs for Attorney General.

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Speaker 1: Eric Tony is just incredibly well liked, well respected, and

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Speaker 1: well regarded in Republican circles.

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Speaker 2: I would be stunned.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I couldn't even think of anybody else who

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Speaker 1: would mount a challenge to Tony. Gubernatorial race is another story.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in fifteen years, it's wide open.

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Speaker 1: You're not facing an incumbent, and the overwhelming choice of

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Speaker 1: Democrats in a crowded field is man deadbeat Barnes, a

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Speaker 1: guy who's such a radical leftist that he lost in

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Speaker 1: what many Democrats believe to be a very winnable race.

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Speaker 1: So many Democrats in fact that read Epstein, who is

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin guy for The New York Times. I've actually

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Speaker 1: met him a number of times. You have a very

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Speaker 1: good reporter and actually surprisingly a very nice guy. I've

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Speaker 1: talked to him on background a couple of times, just

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Speaker 1: at events he'd be at, just kind of like he

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Speaker 1: would ask questions, just basic factuals. I Am not spilling

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Speaker 1: secrets of the Wisconsin GOP. He would just like ask

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Speaker 1: factual stuff, and I, you know, I would add, you know,

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Speaker 1: he kind of used me as as sort of a

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Speaker 1: bit of a walking encyclopedia of Wisconsin political history, which

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Speaker 1: I sort of am. But when someone like him writes

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Speaker 1: a story like appears at ny Times dot com today.

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Speaker 1: It is a clear message to man deadbeat, Hey buddy,

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Speaker 1: are you sure you want to run again? Because we're

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Speaker 1: not entirely sure we want you all right, We are

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Speaker 1: going to step aside for a break when we come back.

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Speaker 2: The unhinged liberal of the day.

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Speaker 1: This is the DJ Kid Casino with a remix of

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Speaker 1: yet another Disney Halloween classic, the Headless Horseman song from

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Speaker 1: the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. We're going all the way

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Speaker 1: back to like nineteen forty eight for this one, and

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Speaker 1: this would be a remix of not the Bing Crosby version,

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Speaker 1: Bing Crosby or Burro Ives. I forget it who it was.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was neither of the two. I thought Bing

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Speaker 1: Crosby was the narrator of Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong. That was actually the k Star

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Speaker 1: version of that song remixed by the djid Casino. And

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Speaker 1: that is probably the most that anyone has ever talked

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Speaker 1: about the DJ Kid Casino in the history of talk radio.

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Speaker 5: Nazi Germany tough is dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 1: America producer Eric in my ear always quick with the facts.

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Speaker 1: I was right the first time It was, in fact,

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Speaker 1: Bing Crosby who sang the Headless Horseman's Song as he

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Speaker 1: narrated the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which is actually a

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Speaker 1: tradition in the O'Donnell house. Now that the kids are older,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much they still get out of

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Speaker 1: watching the Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Halloween time.

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Speaker 2: And they certainly don't get as much as Dad does.

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Speaker 2: But they've been.

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Speaker 1: Humoring me, probably for the better part of a decade.

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Speaker 1: Now it really is. It's just it. It's the Legend

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Speaker 1: of Ichabod and Mister Toad. It was a double feature

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Speaker 1: back in theaters back in the nineteen forties, and it's

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Speaker 1: a remarkable retelling of what is really one of the

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Speaker 1: very first American novels. All Right, unhinged liberal of the

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Speaker 1: day is someone who's been around since almost the founding

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Speaker 1: of this country, it seems, Bobby de Niro, who was

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Speaker 1: once a respected movie tough guy but is now just

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Speaker 1: a crazy lib who says crazy lib things.

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Speaker 2: Like this on MSNBC a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 6: Well, we see it, we see it, We see it

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Speaker 6: every we see it all the time.

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Speaker 2: He will not want to leave. He set it up

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Speaker 2: with his I guess he's the Gebbels of the cabinet.

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Speaker 2: Stephen Miller.

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Speaker 6: He's a Nazi, Yes he is.

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Speaker 2: He's Jewish. They should be ashamed of himself.

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Speaker 1: Got to watch out for those Jewish Nazis. Those are

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Speaker 1: really the dangerous ones. And Bobby d maybe you need

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Speaker 1: to check with your acting coach on dialect and pronunciation,

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Speaker 1: because it's actually pronounced.

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Speaker 2: Gebels, not Gebbles.

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Speaker 1: Robert de Niro obviously talking about Trump not wanting to

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Speaker 1: leave office and his Joseph Gebbels, Steven Miller, the Jewish Nazi.

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Speaker 1: He is your unhinged liberal of the day coming up.

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Speaker 1: President Trump celebrates de Wali. He also talks government shutdown.

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Speaker 1: All that and more in your Daily Trump Date. Right

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Speaker 1: after the news. Our number two of the Dan o'donnald

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Speaker 1: Show starts right now. We dedicated pretty much all of

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Speaker 1: our number one to what potentially could be a massive

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Speaker 1: political story. We reported exclusively that Tim Michaels was at

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Speaker 1: the White House today, presumably meeting with the Big guy himself.

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Speaker 1: President Trump, of course, offered Michaels the job of Secretary

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Speaker 1: of Transportation just a few months ago. Michaels turned it down.

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Speaker 1: The two are very close. It is widely believed that

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Speaker 1: Michaels has been mulling a second straight run for governor.

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Speaker 1: He was the Republican nominee in twenty twenty two, lost

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Speaker 1: to Tony Evers, but he won the primary almost certainly

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Speaker 1: because of the big boost he got when he got

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Speaker 1: into the race with the Trump endorsement. It was preordained

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Speaker 1: that he was going to go in and that Trump

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Speaker 1: was going to endorse him. And Rebecca Clayfish, who had

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Speaker 1: been running for governor essentially since Scott Walker lost in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, really didn't stand a chance. Trump was loved

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Speaker 1: in Republican circles, but not like now now he enjoys

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Speaker 1: ninety even believe the polls that show ninety six ninety

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Speaker 1: seven percent support for President Trump, I truly don't.

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Speaker 2: I believe it's higher.

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Speaker 1: I honestly believe that all of the never Trump Republicans,

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Speaker 1: they aren't Republicans anymore. They're just Democrats. I mean David

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Speaker 1: French of the New York Times, he was a longtime

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Speaker 1: contributor and editor of National Review. He dropped the facade

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Speaker 1: years ago. He is now just I mean, he went

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Speaker 1: to one of the no Kings two psychotic boogaloo protests

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Charlie Sikes here in Wisconsin. He may

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Speaker 1: claim to be a conservative, he long ago stopped saying

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Speaker 1: anything even remotely conservative. That kind of happens to you

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Speaker 1: when you go on the Joy Read Show several times

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Speaker 1: per week. Those guys are no longer in the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: Trump is universally beloved. If Michaels were to get in

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Speaker 1: with the Trump endorsement, and I'm not saying that he

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Speaker 1: would instantly erase Tom Tiffany's massive lead in this primary,

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Speaker 1: but he would turn it instantly into.

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Speaker 2: A dog fight. Again.

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Speaker 1: I am not saying that that is the reason that

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Speaker 1: Michaels is at the White House today, but it's awful coincidental.

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Speaker 1: He isn't it that he's at the White House as

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Speaker 1: he is mulling a run for governor when his biggest

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Speaker 1: advantage four years ago is the Trump endorsement, And the

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Speaker 1: Trump endorsement is that much more potent and powerful. Now

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Speaker 1: we will get into Democrats saying to their twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two nominee for Senate, not governor, thanks but no thanks.

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Speaker 1: In an eye opening article in The New York Times.

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Speaker 1: These sorts of stories are planted, folks, to send a

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Speaker 1: message to the candidate. Now, man, deadbeat Barnes is going

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Speaker 1: to get in this race, whether Democrats like it or not.

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Speaker 1: This is designed to get him to potentially think twice

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Speaker 1: and for Democrats to potentially align behind a different candidate,

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Speaker 1: say current Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez. Because just like a

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Speaker 1: lot of Republicans and folks, I spent the news break

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Speaker 1: checking our adventnows dot com talk and text line. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that this is representative of the millions of

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Speaker 1: Republican voters in this state, but every single text, with

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Speaker 1: very few exceptions, was very negative on the idea of

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Speaker 1: Tim Michael's running.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is a representative sample of Republican voters,

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Speaker 1: but I'm willing to wager the overwhelming majority of Republican

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Speaker 1: voters in the cities and metro areas that we broadcast in,

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Speaker 1: and they happen to be the two biggest metro areas

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Speaker 1: in the state. Because of iHeartRadio and our podcast being

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Speaker 1: as strong as it is and our internet presence being

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Speaker 1: as strong as it is, we are very very well

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Speaker 1: listened to across the state amongst conservatives. The fact that

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Speaker 1: those who are contacting me right now are almost universally

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Speaker 1: saying thanks but no thanks to a Tim Michaels run,

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Speaker 1: I think is the same sort of dynamic that's at

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Speaker 1: play in Democrat circles, saying, look, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: just rehash the same guy who lost four years ago.

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Speaker 7: Today, I'm calling on every Senate Democrat to stop the madness,

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Speaker 7: to let our country get back in the greatest moment

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Speaker 2: It's really a shame.

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Speaker 7: So I'm asking them to be smart. It's not working.

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Speaker 7: They're getting killed in the polls. The public understands what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not like Democrats are actually going to listen to that,

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Speaker 1: as they are content to just let the government shut

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Speaker 1: down drag on. It is now in its twenty first day.

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Speaker 1: It shows no signs of slowing down or stopping anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: And President Trump made his and Senate Republicans feelings known.

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Speaker 1: They will not accept anything except Democrats ending their filibuster

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Speaker 1: and passing a clean continuing resolution the beginning.

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Speaker 7: Our message has been very simple. We will not be

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Speaker 7: extorted on this crazy pot of this. They've never done

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Speaker 7: this before, nobody has. You always vote for an extension.

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Speaker 7: Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats need to vote for

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Speaker 7: the clean bipartisan see and reopen. Our government's going to

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Speaker 7: be reopened right now. We're not doing that. They are

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Speaker 7: the obstructionists. And the reason they're doing it is because

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Speaker 7: we're doing so well. We're doing well all over the world.

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Speaker 7: We're doing well. With the close to twenty trillion dollars

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Speaker 7: that I just told you about.

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Speaker 2: It will be that number, but even if.

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Speaker 7: You take it down to over seventeen, that's a guarantee.

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Speaker 2: We're doing well with everything.

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Speaker 1: He was talking about all of the money that's flowed

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Speaker 1: into this country because of deals that he's struck with

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Speaker 1: foreign companies and foreign governments. He also went on to

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Speaker 1: say we are doing very very well with peace deals.

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Speaker 1: Vice President jd Vance is in Israel to open up

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Speaker 1: a new strategic command center. As that fragile piece of

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Speaker 8: You're one week in two President Trump's historic peace plan

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Speaker 8: in the Middle East, and things are going frankly better

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Speaker 8: than I expected that they were.

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Speaker 2: This is a very, very tough situation.

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Speaker 8: You have two peoples, two enemies who have fought a

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Speaker 8: very tough conflict against each other. You have a terrorist

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Speaker 8: You've got an Israeli army that was defending itself on

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Speaker 8: we here at the Civilian Military Cooperation Center, which we

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Speaker 8: to rebuild Gaza, to implement a long term piece and

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Speaker 8: actually ensure that you have security forces on the ground

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Speaker 8: in Gaza not composed of Americans, who can keep the

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Speaker 1: The Vice President did reiterate President Trump's statement of a

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Speaker 1: day ago saying that Hamas will uphold its end of

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Speaker 1: that the President spoke very very clearly. Vice President Vance

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Speaker 1: normalized relations with Israel from other Arab states, effectively isolating

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Speaker 1: can be a model not just for the entire Middle East,

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Speaker 8: This model, I think could serve for a foundation for

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Speaker 8: normalization not just in the Middle East, but across the world,

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Speaker 8: conflict with tunemies who really don't like each other, and

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Speaker 8: we're actually creating a model that can lead towards sustainable peace.

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Speaker 8: Now we know that a lot of our Golf Arab

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Speaker 8: friends would like to have normalized relations with Israel. We

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Speaker 8: know that getting this piece on a sustainable.

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Speaker 2: Pathway is sort of the critical first step of that.

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Speaker 2: But look, I feel.

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Speaker 8: Very optimistic about where we are. Knock on wood, you

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Speaker 8: never know how this stuff is going to go. But

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Speaker 8: given what I've seen, given the incredible talent and effort

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Speaker 8: that's going in to the reconstruction of Gaza, to the

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Speaker 8: long term security of the Gazans in that territory, I

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Speaker 8: we get this right, I really do think it's going

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Speaker 8: further peace.

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Speaker 1: That ladies and gentlemen, your daily Trump date. As we

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Speaker 1: are now in the third week of this government shut down,

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Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the White House today said, look,

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Speaker 1: this is the first time ever anyone has ever shut

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Speaker 1: down the government over a clean continuing resolution. When people

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Speaker 1: say clean CR, clean continuing resolution, I always bristle a

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Speaker 1: little bit because I'm not sure a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: the general public understands what they're talking about. Republicans all passed,

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Speaker 1: every single one of them voted for a bill that

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Speaker 1: simply continues funding for government at current levels or adjusted

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Speaker 1: slightly for inflation. This has always been a thing. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer himself voted time and again for these bills

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Speaker 1: that don't introduce any new policy items or don't have

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Speaker 1: any poison pills. They are, in other words, clean. This

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Speaker 1: is the first ever government shut down over a clean CR.

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Speaker 1: There has never been a filibuster of a clean CR before.

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Speaker 6: Here's the Senate, Republicans, House Republicans, and the President of

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Speaker 6: the United States are all in favor of reopening the

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Speaker 6: federal government. In fact, so much so that we've now

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Speaker 6: all voted eleven times to reopen the federal government. But

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Speaker 6: the longer the federal government stays closed, the more the

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Speaker 6: impacts are being felt.

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Speaker 2: Travel delays, benefit delays.

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Speaker 6: You know, farmers are being impacted, millions of people going

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Speaker 6: without paychecks. That's what this government shut down, Democrat government

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Speaker 6: shutdown is bringing to the American people.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin has actually been more vocal during

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Speaker 1: this shutdown than when the government's actually open. It's sort

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Speaker 1: of a weird paradox because you never ever see or

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Speaker 1: never ever hear from Tammy Baldwin. She doesn't appear to

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Speaker 1: do anything when the government is open, but she has

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Speaker 1: been tweeting pretty consistently through it. This got me thinking,

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Speaker 1: I will never ever ever get an interview with Senator

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Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin for rather obvious reasons. They're terrified of the

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Speaker 1: questions that I would ask her, Questions like this, which

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Speaker 1: every single Republican who does, or excuse me, every single

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Speaker 1: reporter who does have the ability to ask Senator Baldwin questions,

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Speaker 1: they should ask this one Senator Baldwin, you have tweeted

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Speaker 1: repeatedly that you want the government to open. This is

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Speaker 1: the very first time a party has ever filibustered a

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Speaker 1: clean continuing resolution. In other words, you could read open

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Speaker 1: the government by simply voting with Republicans to do so,

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Speaker 1: continuing funding at current levels.

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Speaker 2: Why will you not do so?

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Speaker 1: The fact that nobody has asked that question speaks volumes

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Speaker 1: about the state of the media in this state. Then again,

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Speaker 1: given the fact that this is the sort of reporting

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Speaker 1: that we get from local media, I shouldn't be too surprised.

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Speaker 1: I have been looking for this single most biased report

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Speaker 1: on the government shutdown, and I believe we have founded.

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Speaker 1: It comes from CBS fifty eight in Milwaukee at THECBS

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Speaker 1: fifty eight dot com website. It is entitled Wisconsin food

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Speaker 1: Share program will run out of funding in ten days,

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Speaker 1: Evers says, And it's all about Governor Evers announcing today

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Speaker 1: that due to the federal shutdown, Wisconsin's food share program

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Speaker 1: will be out of funding in ten days. This is

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Speaker 1: an actual paragraph from what purports to be an objective

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Speaker 1: news station. The byline is credited to the CBS fifty

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Speaker 1: eight newsroom. So I have no idea who actually wrote it?

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: The governor's announcement comes as the Trump administration and Republicans

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Speaker 1: in Congress enter day twenty one of the federal government shutdown,

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Speaker 1: largely over a refusal to negotiate on extending tax credits

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Speaker 1: under the Affordable Care Act that ensure millions of Americans,

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Speaker 1: including hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites, can afford the cost

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Speaker 1: of their healthcare coverage. Republicans appear poised to allow the

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Speaker 1: shutdown to continue, even as seventy eight percent of Americans

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Speaker 1: and nearly sixty percent of Republicans support extending the Affordable

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Speaker 1: Care Act tax credits that could have been written by

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Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin herself. In fact, I think I know what

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Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin is now doing. Instead of actually voting for

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Speaker 1: a clean continuing resolution, she's ghostwriting news stories for.

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Speaker 2: CBS fifty eight. That might be the single.

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Speaker 1: Most biased paragraph I think I have ever read about

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Speaker 1: any government shutdown ever. Now you might be saying, well, Dan,

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Speaker 1: isn't this a factual statement of what's going on? Okay,

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Speaker 1: how about I write my own CBS fifty eight paragraph.

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Speaker 1: The governor's announcement comes as Democrats in Congress enter day

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Speaker 1: twenty one of the federal government shutdown, largely over their

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Speaker 1: refusal to pass a clean continuing resolution that ensures the

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Speaker 1: thousands of wis sconsinites, get the benefits.

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Speaker 2: That are promised to them.

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Speaker 1: Democrats appear poised to continue to shut down the government,

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Speaker 1: even though no party has ever shut down government or

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Speaker 1: ever filibustered a clean continuing resolution that adds no new

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Speaker 1: policy items. That is also one hundred percent true, but

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Speaker 1: it is coming from the perspective of an avowed conservative Republican.

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Speaker 1: The fact that that paragraph was written not by an

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Speaker 1: station reveals that that is not an objective news station

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Speaker 1: Congratulations CBS fifty eight the single most biased report on

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Speaker 1: the shutdown, possibly in the entire country. A part of

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Speaker 1: me wants to just thoroughly debunk the Democrats' current hysteria

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Speaker 1: over the changes to the East Wing that President Trump

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Speaker 1: is making. You do realize that the East Wing is

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Speaker 1: not part of the White House proper. It was actually

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Speaker 1: it has been added to and it has been changed

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Speaker 1: multiple times. This is the thing, though, that Democrats are

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Speaker 1: seizing on, because there was the image of the construction,

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Speaker 1: the demolition of part of the east wing portico for

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Speaker 1: notion that nobody wanted a ballroom, that it's not needed

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Speaker 1: three times in the past what ten months? Okay, it

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Speaker 1: House when you think of the White House, it's the

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Speaker 1: West wing. There is the Presidential Residence. There is the

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Speaker 1: Eisenhower Executive Building. Do you know who, seriously, any limb

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Speaker 1: Do you know who primarily uses the East wing of

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Speaker 1: the White House?

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Speaker 2: Anybody? Anybody?

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Speaker 1: First Lady? It's primarily for the First Lady and her staff.

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Speaker 1: Not only has it been renovated multiple times. Do you

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Speaker 1: realize Richard Nixon put a bowling alley in the White House?

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Speaker 1: Do you know there's a White House bowling alley? Not

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Speaker 1: only that, President Barack Obama actually installed a White House

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Speaker 1: basketball court, and nobody was freaking out about it. Nobody

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Speaker 1: was saying, well, he's destroying the natural beauty of the

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Speaker 1: Rose Garden by putting in this basketball court. No, they

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Speaker 1: were celebrating it and using it as propaganda for just

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Speaker 1: how cool this hip young president was. I will take

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Speaker 1: you back to CBS News April second, twenty ten, when

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Speaker 1: Harry Smith was at the White House playing basketball with Barack.

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Speaker 2: H Obama as the president. The question there you go

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Speaker 2: that everybody wants to know. Can you go to your right?

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Speaker 2: I can go to my right, but I prefer my left.

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Speaker 2: Harry and the President went online. I see him making

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Speaker 2: some shots.

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Speaker 5: How about you, my friend?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's tell you what we started out.

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Speaker 5: We're there with Clark Kellogg from CBS Sports and we're complaining.

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Speaker 2: We started playing a game of pig pig. It turned

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Speaker 2: into a game of potus. Exactly right, absolutely shameless.

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Speaker 1: Smith went on to say how Kellogg and Barack played

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Speaker 1: a game of one on one and Clark Kellogg, the

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Speaker 1: sports announcer, very very well respected sports journalist, not above

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Speaker 1: doing a little political propaganda himself.

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Speaker 2: He's a d one athlete at home.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, President Obama, he hung right with him, and

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Speaker 1: of course the two did an interview and played basketball,

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Speaker 1: and that was going to air on CBS's coverage of

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Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament Final four coming up that weekend. That

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Speaker 1: was a fundamental change to the White House that was celebrated.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, here are the harpies.

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Speaker 1: On the You talking about the White House ballroom today.

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Speaker 2: That is not your building. You don't own that. That

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Speaker 2: would be like me.

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Speaker 9: Going over to Trump Tower and and saying, I'm gonna

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Speaker 9: build a disco. You know, I'm They've wanted a disco

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Speaker 9: in Trump Tower fraight hundreds of years. Yeah, So I mean,

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Speaker 9: come on that this. You don't own that building. That

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Speaker 9: is the people's building. You I owned it.

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Speaker 1: No, he doesn't, but he can make changes to it.

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Speaker 1: This idea that he has to go through Congress. Nixon

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Speaker 1: didn't go through Congress for his bowling alley. Obama didn't

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Speaker 1: go through Congress for his uh basketball court. Do you

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Speaker 1: have any idea how many times since the East Wing

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Speaker 1: was first constructed that there have been material changes? First

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Speaker 1: of all, did you know who actually made the Oval

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Speaker 1: office into an oval honest to god, this is great

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Speaker 1: presidential trivia. It was actually William Howard Taft Teddy Roosevelt

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Speaker 1: was the one who built the west wing structure.

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Speaker 2: FDR put in an indoor pool.

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Speaker 1: Have you wondered why the East wing sort of the

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Speaker 1: exterior of it kind of looks weird. It sort of

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Speaker 1: looks like a pool deck. It's because it originally was.

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Speaker 2: Truman.

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Speaker 1: When he was president, he gutted the entire thing. He

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Speaker 1: did a lot of the renovations of the White House.

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Speaker 1: All of this, by the way, is very well known

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Speaker 1: and if you ever take a White House tour, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure how many they give nowadays, you will learn

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Speaker 1: about this. Trump building a ballroom is not out of

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Speaker 1: the ordinary. Trump paying for the entire ballroom himself, something

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Speaker 1: that yes, has been needed for a long time. The

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Speaker 1: White House hosts a lot of formal state dinners and

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Speaker 1: events where there would need to be a massive gathering

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Speaker 1: space space like a ballroom. There hasn't been one, going

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Speaker 1: all the way back to Grover Cleveland in the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: Presidents have lamented that they haven't had the space to

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Speaker 1: host the entire visiting delegations. Now they will, But this

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Speaker 1: fits into the left wing narrative that Trump isn't actually

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Speaker 1: going to leave the White House when his term ends

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty nine, that he's not building a ballroom

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Speaker 1: because he ever expects to leave, he's going to be

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Speaker 1: president for life. This is hysterical thinking, yet it fits

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Speaker 1: right in with this narrative that they have been spoon

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Speaker 1: feeding to gullible boomer libs through MSNBC and CNN and

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Speaker 1: amplified by social media algoes for the past ten months.

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Speaker 1: That Trump is a dictator, that he's trying to take

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Speaker 1: away your freedom, and this is a very visual representation

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Speaker 1: of that. But it also presupposes that if you buy

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Speaker 1: into this narrative, you're stupid, or rather that you're ignorant

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Speaker 1: of actual White House history. And this is a pretty

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Speaker 1: good representation therefore, of how the left operates. It will

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Speaker 1: give you an hysterical headline, Trump is destroying the White House. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: these are the same people who spent all of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty tearing down statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington,

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Speaker 1: who are suddenly very concerned about preserving American history and

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Speaker 1: the history of the American presidency.

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Speaker 2: But what they rely on.

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Speaker 1: Is this hysterical headline Trump is destroying the White House,

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Speaker 1: eaten up and regurgitated by people who don't know anything

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Speaker 1: about what it is that they're talking about. It really

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Speaker 1: is the perfect left wing narrative. Dan o'donald's show, Conservative Thought,

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Speaker 1: Not Just Talk. Coming right back, Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We are following breaking news. The City

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Speaker 1: of Milwaukee has just reached a new agreement on a

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Speaker 1: contract with the Milwaukee Police Association. Rank and file police

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Speaker 1: officers had been working without a contract since the end

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, and the two sides were in

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Speaker 1: the middle of salary and arbitration. This adjoint statement from

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Speaker 1: Mayor Cavalier Johnson and the MPa, a tentative voluntary agreement

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Speaker 1: has been reached between the Milwaukee Police Association MPa and

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Speaker 1: the City of Milwaukee regarding the outstanding labor agreement. The

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Speaker 1: new contract would cover a majority of the Milwaukee Police

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Speaker 1: Department's law enforcement officers. The agreement is subject to approval

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Speaker 1: by MPa members and by the Milwaukee Common Council. Terms

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Speaker 1: of the agreement were not immediately disclosed. A finalized agreement

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Speaker 1: would end the arbitration that has been underway over the

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Speaker 1: past several weeks. I have got that statement tweeted out

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Speaker 1: and posted on my Facebook and x accounts. It appears

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Speaker 1: that the City of Milwaukee, which by all accounts was

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Speaker 1: the more inflexible one when it came to giving officers

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Speaker 1: a new contract, was the one that I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say, caved a little bit. And because this is

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Speaker 1: still a preliminary agreement, I don't want to say anything

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Speaker 1: that would potentially jeopardize either of the two sides from

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Speaker 1: signing this, because ultimately, these rank and file Milwaukee police officers,

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Speaker 1: who put their lives on the line every single day

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Speaker 1: and every single night in one of the more dangerous

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Speaker 1: cities in America, have not had a pay raise since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. That's unconscionable, especially when you consider that

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Speaker 1: as soon as the City of Milwaukee got brand new

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Speaker 1: sales tax revenue after Act twelve, passed by the Republican legislature,

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Speaker 1: allowed the city to institute a new two percent sales tax,

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Speaker 1: it had never before been allowed to have its own

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Speaker 1: sales tax, and they got more shared revenue. We reported

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Speaker 1: exclusively on the Dan O'Donnell Show months before anybody else

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Speaker 1: had this story that Mayor Chevy Johnson was giving massive

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Speaker 1: raises to himself and every one of his politically connected buddies,

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Speaker 1: every member of the Common Council, every appointed position in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: like police chief, fire chief, top officials at city Hall.

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Speaker 1: They were all getting raises. Milwaukee police officers did not.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we broke another big story using research provided

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Speaker 1: by State Senator Van Wanguard that showed ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: the new revenue that was generated by Act twelve went

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Speaker 1: to raises for everybody except police officers. In fact, every

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Speaker 1: department in the city got a massive budget boost because

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Speaker 1: of this sudden two hundred million dollar windfall as a

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Speaker 1: result of the first full year of getting city sales

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Speaker 1: tax revenue as well as more in shared revenue coming

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Speaker 1: directly from state tax revenue. Every single department except the

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Speaker 1: police department. In fact, the only money that went to

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Speaker 1: the police department in that new city of Milwaukee Act

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Speaker 1: twelve windfall was for the top command staff, including Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Police Chief Jeffrey Norman, who got a massive raise in

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Speaker 1: spite of the fact that he has been interviewing for

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Speaker 1: every police chief job opening. It seems in America I

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Speaker 1: have never seen a human being more desperate to get

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Speaker 1: out of Milwaukee. In fact, if they do another Snake

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Speaker 1: pliskin movie, they should call it Escape from Milwaukee and

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Speaker 1: the role of Snake should be played by Jeffrey Norman

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Speaker 1: because this guy is so desperate to get out of town.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of another top member of the command staff,

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Speaker 1: I did not forget about Milwaukee Police Captain Colleen Sturma,

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Speaker 1: who is the night shift commander, meaning she is in

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Speaker 1: charge of the entire Milwaukee Police Department when jeff Norman

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Speaker 1: and other top deputies commanders are at home asleep. She

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Speaker 1: posted you might recall and a story broken by my

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Speaker 1: friend and colleague Mark Belling last week a Facebook meme

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Speaker 1: comparing ICE agents to Nazis, saying, Anne Frank had to

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Speaker 1: hide in an attic somewhere a little girl is hiding.

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Speaker 1: The uniforms change, the cruelty remains the same. I actually

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Speaker 1: reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department for a statement

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Speaker 1: of the status of the investigation. Do you know the

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Speaker 1: statement they sent to me The exact same statement that

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Speaker 1: they sent to Belling when he first broke.

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Speaker 2: The storm, I mean word for word.

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Speaker 1: Saying the investigation is on going. How long does it

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Speaker 1: take to investigate a two sentence Facebook post? She deleted it.

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Speaker 1: It's all over social media. The thing about it is

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Speaker 1: you can screen cap it. It is obvious what she posted.

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Speaker 1: Why is she not facing any sort of consequences for

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Speaker 1: she got a raise, She got a raise, She got

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Speaker 1: a big raise. But your average rank and file street

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Speaker 1: cop who is putting his life on the line. Just

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Speaker 1: a week and a half ago, one of them was

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Speaker 1: nearly killed when he was driving to work at the

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Speaker 1: academy worked as a firearms training instructor. He gets into

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Speaker 1: some fender bender, there's some road rage incident, and the

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Speaker 1: guy comes out loaded for bear, quite literally, he had

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Speaker 1: a loaded gun. He pistol whipped the cop with it.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately he picked the exact wrong cop to mess with.

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Speaker 1: The marksman pulled out his side arm shot the guy once,

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Speaker 1: I'm told, right in the eye in a completely justified

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Speaker 1: off duty shooting. Thank god that officer had a dash

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Speaker 1: cam installed on his own personal vehicle, he was not

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Speaker 1: driving a squad car at the time. Or because the

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Speaker 1: officer is white and the suspect that he shot who

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Speaker 1: assaulted him is black, you'd better believe all of the

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Speaker 1: national vultures were moving in on Milwaukee to turn this

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Speaker 1: into the next Derek Chauvin I can't breathe scandal. But

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Speaker 1: the dash cam video completely exonerated the officer, and even

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Speaker 1: the perp's family said, look, this was completely out of

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Speaker 1: character for him, but we accept that this was a

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Speaker 1: justified shooting. And kudos to that family through their grief

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Speaker 1: saying no, we are not going to be used by

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Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter movement. We mourn for our son,

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Speaker 1: we mourn for our brother, but what he did was

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Speaker 1: unfortunately a decision that led directly to his death, and

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Speaker 1: the officer needed to shoot the suspect because otherwise he

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Speaker 1: could have very easily been killed. These are the people, folks,

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Speaker 1: that have not gotten a raised in three years. Finally,

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Speaker 1: it seems the city of Milwaukee came to its census

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Speaker 1: and caved, and we won't have to get an arbitrator's decision.

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Speaker 2: Rest assured, folks.

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Speaker 1: The arbitrator almost certainly would have ruled for the officers

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Speaker 1: because there is there was nothing in their demand for

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Speaker 1: a new contract that was unreasonable. The city was being

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Speaker 1: unreasonable and intransigent in just refusing to negotiate with them

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Speaker 1: slow walking this for as long as possible, so good

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Speaker 1: to see. There's a tentative agreement in place coming up

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Speaker 1: at the top of the five o'clock hour about ten

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Speaker 1: minutes from right now. First your chance set one thousand

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Speaker 1: bucks in our full fortune cash contest.

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Speaker 2: You want want to miss that?

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Speaker 1: Then he announced this morning he is seeking another shot

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Speaker 1: at being the Republican nominee for Attorney General. Eric Tony,

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Speaker 1: great friend of the program, will join us to talk

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Speaker 1: about his second run and a second shot at facing

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Speaker 1: the exact same candidate. You might remember that Josh Cole

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Speaker 1: decided not to run for governor. Apparently he was scared

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Speaker 1: of a poll that shows man deadbeat Barnes is the

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Speaker 1: overwhelming favorite of Democrat voters in this state, and instead,

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Speaker 1: just a couple of days after that badger pole came out,

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Speaker 1: he said he was going to seek a third term

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Speaker 1: as Attorney General. Well, he only beat Tony by thirty

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Speaker 1: five thousand votes in a race that Governor Tony Evers

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Speaker 1: actually won relatively easily, I won't say handily, but given

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Speaker 1: the fact that the other two major statewide races were

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Speaker 1: incredibly close, Johnson narrowly defeated man deadbeat and call narrowly

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Speaker 1: defeated Eric Tony Evers escaped by the skin of his teeth.

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Speaker 1: Now I am reporting exclusively that the man he beat

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Speaker 1: is potentially seeking another run. Tim Michaels at the White

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Speaker 1: House today. It does appear that he is going to

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Speaker 1: be seeking a second term. I have reached out to

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Speaker 1: a number of different sources connected with the last Michael's campaign.

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Speaker 1: They all tell me, hey, you know who knows? There

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Speaker 1: could be a million reasons that he's at the White

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Speaker 1: House when he's mulling a run for governor and would

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Speaker 1: want Trump's endorsement, totally million reasons.

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Speaker 5: He's that.

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Speaker 1: Time out to name the unsung heroes of the day,

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Speaker 1: and they are the heroes on the Milwaukee Police Department

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Speaker 1: who have been working since late twenty twenty two without

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Speaker 1: a contract.

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Speaker 2: They have not had a pay raise.

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Speaker 1: Even as every politically connected Democrat in the city got

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Speaker 1: showered with the largess of that sweet sweet news sales

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Speaker 1: tax revenue and got massive raises of their own. They

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Speaker 1: have just been going to work every single day and

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Speaker 1: keeping America's streets safe, the streets of one of America's

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Speaker 1: most dangerous cities, specifically safe. They have the most dangerous

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Speaker 1: job in the city and today, as we reported the

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Speaker 1: breaking news about ten to fifteen minutes ago, a joint

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Speaker 1: statement from the Milwaukee Police Association and the City of

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Cavalier Johnson the Mayor's office a tentative agreement as

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Speaker 1: the two sides were in arbitration.

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Speaker 2: It is very likely a victory for.

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Speaker 1: The MPa as the city was, although certainly not liking

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Speaker 1: how arbitration was going. Those rank and file officers, we

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Speaker 1: salute you every single day, but today you are the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell shows unsung heroes of the day. We're going

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Speaker 1: to take a quick break for the news. When we

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Speaker 1: come back, Eric Tony, newly announced candidate for Attorney General,

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Speaker 1: joins us live classical conservatism and contemporary style. You get

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Speaker 1: both in equal measure here on Dan O'Donnell's show. It

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Speaker 1: is three hours of broadcast excellence each and every day,

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Speaker 1: or you know, at the very least, and let's face it,

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Speaker 1: it's far more likely that you will get broadcast competence,

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Speaker 1: but you will get three chances to win one thousand bucks.

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Speaker 1: The third and final one today fall Fortune Cash Contest,

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Speaker 1: Word of the Hour.

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Speaker 1: You have got until fifty five past the hour to

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Speaker 1: go to our website and enter the keyword deposit to

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Speaker 1: enter the contest.

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Speaker 2: For this hour.

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Speaker 1: All so long, I have been teasing a really remarkable

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01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:42,800
Speaker 1: article in The New York Times today all but encouraging

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01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: Man Deadbeat Barnes not to run for governor because of

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01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: how many Democrats still have a sore taste in their

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Speaker 1: mouth over the fact that he lost what many considered

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Speaker 1: to be a can't lose race. Democrat saw Ron Johnson

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01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two as the number one target. They

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01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 1: wanted Ron john gone from the Senate more than anything.

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01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 1: Every other dem candidate dropped out of the race so

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Speaker 1: that Man Deadbeat wouldn't have to face an actual primary.

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Speaker 1: Is very bizarre because early votes were already being tallied

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Speaker 1: and the primary was just a week week and a

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Speaker 1: half away, and the top two contenders, Alex Lazrie and

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Speaker 1: Sarah Godluski just randomly decided on the same day or

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Speaker 1: were rather told that they needed to suspend their campaigns

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Speaker 1: so that Man Deadbeat would win a greater percentage of

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Speaker 1: the votes. I still don't really understand that decision, but

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Speaker 1: oh well, one guy who definitely will not have an

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Speaker 1: article written about him urging him not to run. Is

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Speaker 1: a guy who just announced today that he is going

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Speaker 1: to run again for Attorney General. And even though he

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Speaker 1: lost in twenty twenty two, I cannot think of someone

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Speaker 1: who enters a race with more widespread support among both

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Speaker 1: the Republican voter base as well as the donor class

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Speaker 1: the party infrastructure. He is Fondelac County District Attorney Eric Tony. Eric,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Welcome to the race.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much. Dan, It's great to be

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Speaker 5: with you, and glad we had an opportunity to join

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Speaker 5: you on day one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is so good that you came on after

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Speaker 1: announcing Where were you Waukeshaw County?

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we started the day in Waukeshaw County with a

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Speaker 5: number of our sheriffs and das talking about some of

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Speaker 5: the failures of our Attorney general, which I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 5: get to. We had a little stop and Vaboo did

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Speaker 5: another stop in Sparta with the sheriff and DA. We're

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Speaker 5: on our way to Hudson now and have a pat

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Speaker 5: week of different stops and just spreading the message.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like you.

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Speaker 1: Have really been front and center at pretty much every

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Speaker 1: Republican event since twenty twenty two. I know you only

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Speaker 1: recently decided to run, but was it always in your

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Speaker 1: mind because you ran so much better than the guy

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Speaker 1: at the top of the ticket In the gubernatorial race.

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Speaker 1: You were within thirty five thousand votes of Josh Cole

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Speaker 1: in what turned out to be a much better year

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Speaker 1: for Democrats than I think anyone and myself included expected.

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Speaker 1: Did you think from there that you want another shot

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Speaker 1: at this? Were you, in other words, always sort of

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Speaker 1: eyeing a second run.

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Speaker 5: When we lost that race. I was mowing my lawn

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Speaker 5: within a few days of that, and I started getting

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Speaker 5: the phone calls with people already encouraging me to run,

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Speaker 5: But it wasn't front and center. And I've been trying

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Speaker 5: to travel and help our other candidates, especially some of

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Speaker 5: our Supreme Court candidates, because we know how important those

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Speaker 5: races are. But when it really started to crystallize for

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Speaker 5: me was back in twenty twenty three, right before I

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Speaker 5: had a very unexpected open heart surgery, which was a

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Speaker 5: surprise for me, having done marathons and run cross country

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Speaker 5: and track that I was just reflecting on my life

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Speaker 5: and thinking about the difference that I got to make

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Speaker 5: in my community as a district attorney and helping keep

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Speaker 5: people safe, and that I knew that I had lived

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Speaker 5: a life that mattered, and it gave me this immense

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Speaker 5: sense of peace going into that surgery in God's hands

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Speaker 5: and the surgical teams, that I knew that if everything

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Speaker 5: went well with that surgery, that I would want to

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Speaker 5: do this again. Take some of the great things we've

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Speaker 5: collaborated with our law enforcement partners in Fondelette County and

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Speaker 5: take that to the state of Wisconsin. But we don't

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Speaker 5: do things just because we want to. And I've just

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Speaker 5: been humbled by the incredible support from people across Wisconsin

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Speaker 5: that have been encouraging me for years to do this.

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Speaker 5: And unfortunately, there's a lot of change that's needed at

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Speaker 5: our Department.

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Speaker 1: Of Justice, and we'll get to that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, I reported exclusively that Tim Michaels, the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two gubernatorial nominee, spent part of the day at

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Speaker 1: the White House meeting with President Trump, presumably to talk

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Speaker 1: about another run for governor. When I reported that, it

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Speaker 1: was to my surprise, almost universally met with people texting

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Speaker 1: in and emailing and reaching out on social media saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we really don't want a candidate who

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Speaker 1: just lost four years ago to run for the exact

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Speaker 1: same race. Paradoxically, Eric, I don't think I have heard

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Speaker 1: a single person in Republican circles saying, oh, man, I

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Speaker 1: hope eric Tony doesn't run again. It was always just

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Speaker 1: sort of assumed that you would run and out of

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Speaker 1: every statewide race I think that we have next year.

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Speaker 1: I have not seen one where nobody else is even

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Speaker 1: thinking about running because of your widespread support. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that to to sort of butter you up.

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Speaker 1: I think you know you and I have a very

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01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 1: good relationship. I'll tell you suck when you suck. But

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Speaker 1: but why do you think that is that it is

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01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 1: so controversial that Michaels would potentially run again, that look

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Speaker 1: at on the Democrat side, that man deadbeat would run

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Speaker 1: again after a loss, whereas you running again after a

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Speaker 1: loss is not only accepted, it's celebrated by the party.

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Speaker 5: You know, I can't speak to how people feel about

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Speaker 5: other potential candidates, but no, no.

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Speaker 1: And I please don't misunderstand I don't. I don't want

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Speaker 1: you to. I'm not asking you to weigh in on that.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it just happened. But yeah, yeah, if you like,

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Speaker 1: why do you think?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, when I when I travel around the state, I

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Speaker 5: try to be as honest and upfront with people as

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Speaker 5: I can, and to be genuine and tell them what

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Speaker 5: I'm really thinking. And sometimes that leads to difficult conversations

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Speaker 5: where people don't always agree with me, but I think

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Speaker 5: they know that I'm going to tell them where I

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Speaker 5: stand on different issues, that I'm going to work hard

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Speaker 5: to help elect people that are going to make a

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Speaker 5: difference here in Wisconsin, and that after I lost, I

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Speaker 5: stayed engaged. Right after that race, I was helping in

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Speaker 5: Judge Doro and then Justice Kelly try to help hold

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Speaker 5: on to that Supreme Court race. And that's something that

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Speaker 5: has just been really important to me because I know

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Speaker 5: how hard it is for our candidates across the state,

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Speaker 5: whether you run into a state wide race or a

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Speaker 5: local race, it is incredibly important and difficult. And when

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Speaker 5: somebody is willing to put their name on the ballot,

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Speaker 5: I know how hard that is, and I've tried to

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Speaker 5: do what I can to help our candidates across the.

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Speaker 2: State generally speaking.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're talking about Eric, talking too, and

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Speaker 1: about Eric Tony, he is the FINALEC District attorney. He

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Speaker 1: announced today he is running for Attorney general again. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, it was widely believed that it was

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Speaker 1: going to be a big Republican year here in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: because it's been a general rule in wiscon in politics

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01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 1: that whichever party controls the White House is probably not

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Speaker 1: going to want going to win in the next statewide race.

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Speaker 1: That trend did not continue in twenty twenty two, as

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Speaker 1: Tony Evers became the first gubernatorial candidate or governor since

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Speaker 1: Tommy Thompson to win reelection while his party controlled the

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Speaker 1: White House. In twenty twenty six, Republicans control the White House,

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Speaker 1: which means that, at least on paper, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a more difficult run. We just saw, sir, Since

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Speaker 1: you last ran two state Supreme Court races where the

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Speaker 1: liberal won by ten points, it's entirely possible we have

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Speaker 1: a third state Supreme Court race where the liberal wins

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Speaker 1: by ten points. By the time you run for attorney

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Speaker 1: general next November, there are things going to be different

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Speaker 1: this time. Around with potentially a more hostile electorate.

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Speaker 5: You know, one of the things we saw, even in

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Speaker 5: kind of bookending some of these Supreme Court races, we

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Speaker 5: saw President Trump win Wisconsin. We saw Eric Covey get

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Speaker 5: on the doorstep of almost winning that race. And one

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Speaker 5: of the challenges it might have been, frankly, the biggest

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Speaker 5: challenge we faced in twenty twenty two was we were

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Speaker 5: outspent five to one to Call's campaign, and we still

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Speaker 5: got within thirty five thousand votes. And so we've made

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Speaker 5: a really concerted effort of that outreach to donors, talking

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Speaker 5: to them making sure they understand the importance of this

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Speaker 5: race and how we can target what some of those

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Speaker 5: different issues are. And we're seeing a lot of different

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Speaker 5: issues that have been even coming up in mainstream media

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Speaker 5: with some of the failures of Call to administration, especially

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Speaker 5: related to our crime labs, that we have some really

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Speaker 5: concrete issues that we're going to be able to drive

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Speaker 5: this time that we really didn't have last time. And

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Speaker 5: we're going to be much more financially competitive based on

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Speaker 5: what we're starting to get a sense from some of

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Speaker 5: our donors as we've been having that outreach. So I

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Speaker 5: think we're going to see a very different dynamic this

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Speaker 5: time around.

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Speaker 1: The crime lab issue in particular is especially nauseating to

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Speaker 1: me because I could remember when Cole was first elected,

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Speaker 1: When he was first running, the biggest issue was just

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Speaker 1: blasting Brad Shimmel over the failures of the State Crime Lab,

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Speaker 1: especially when it came to completing rape kits, and he

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Speaker 1: was basically intimating that Brad Shimmel was responsible for rapists

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Speaker 1: getting off. Well, we've had eight years of Josh Cole,

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Speaker 1: he wants a third term, and the State Crime Lab

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Speaker 1: has somehow gotten exponentially worse.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty remarkable. He's taking the crime labs backwards. And

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Speaker 5: just to give a simple stat on this, if you

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Speaker 5: compare Josh Call's crime labs to Brad Shimmeles's final year

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Speaker 5: in office, Josh Call's testing about twenty five percent less.

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Speaker 5: That's about three thousand less different items. And that's the

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Speaker 5: result of the policies that they've put in place limiting

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Speaker 5: what law enforcement or prosecutors can have tested and when

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Speaker 5: it can be tested. And we can get to the

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Speaker 5: consequences of that. But then one of the other things,

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Speaker 5: despite testing less, these labs are taking longer to test

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Speaker 5: many of these categories of items, including DNA, and it's

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Speaker 5: not the fault of the amazing staff at the crime labs,

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Speaker 5: it's the poor leadership from our attorney general, and that

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Speaker 5: has some devastating consequences across Wisconsin. We saw and know

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Speaker 5: that we have judges in Wisconsin that are having to

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Speaker 5: reschedule hearings and adjourned jury trials because they don't have

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Speaker 5: crime lab results. And we see in some areas judges

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Speaker 5: are not always using the cash bail tools that are

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Speaker 5: available to them, and so the consequence of this we

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Speaker 5: have congested court calendars, higher case loads for prosecutors, and

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Speaker 5: then in some circumstances, we have these dangerous criminals out

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Speaker 5: on our streets while we have a victim waiting for justice,

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Speaker 5: the revolving door of new crimes being committed and new

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Speaker 5: victims being victory by these people, and that's a direct

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Speaker 5: consequence of not having timely crime lab results that we

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Speaker 5: can fix.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, it's not just on the issue of

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Speaker 1: crime labs. I mean, that is a big one, and

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Speaker 1: that's sort of a good microcosm of all of the

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Speaker 1: things wrong with the leadership of DOJ that sort of

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Speaker 1: has this trickle down effect to law enforcement across the state.

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Speaker 1: But what Josh Cole has presided over from the time

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Speaker 1: he took office in early twenty twenty nine until now

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Speaker 1: is the single biggest jump in crime and violent crime

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Speaker 1: across the state in decades. I mean, there is no

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Speaker 1: way around that he has presided over just an exponential leap.

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee is one of the more dangerous cities in this country,

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Speaker 1: and now you're seeing that crime just sort of pulse

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Speaker 1: out of the city out to the suburbs, and you're

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Speaker 1: starting to see violent crime, especially related to the fentanyl

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Speaker 1: trade in rural Wisconsin, where you never did before.

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Speaker 2: All of this happened on his watch.

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Speaker 5: Well, and when we talk about Milwaukee, it is a

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Speaker 5: wonderful city they have so you know, you can check

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Speaker 5: out sporting events, music concerts, festivals, all of these amazing

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Speaker 5: things that we want people to be able to go

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Speaker 5: and experience. And we have people and I'm sure everybody

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Speaker 5: that's listening knows people and maybe it's them themselves that

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Speaker 5: are afraid to go to Milwaukee or avoid going to

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Speaker 5: the city because of their concern because of violence or

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Speaker 5: the reckless driving that we see that takes lives and

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Speaker 5: creates havoc in what should be very beautiful city. And

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Speaker 5: we have amazing law enforcement and public safety officials, but

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Speaker 5: they're being sailed by the leadership in those cities. And

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Speaker 5: it doesn't have to be that way. If we have

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Speaker 5: an attorney general that can actually stand up helping empower

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Speaker 5: our law enforcement and prosecutors to hold these criminals accountable,

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Speaker 5: to make Milwaukee a place that people feel safe in,

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Speaker 5: that's a win for Wisconsin because the reality is a

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Speaker 5: safe for Milwaukee. To say for Wisconsin, yeah.

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Speaker 1: That is a great point that Milwaukee has such incredible potential,

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Speaker 1: but it has been failed by the same sort of

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Speaker 1: liberal leadership, especially in law enforcement, especially and I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily say law enforcement specifically, but in the prosecutor's offices,

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Speaker 1: in the district attorney's office, in the circuit court judges

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Speaker 1: who are elected in Milwaukee. We see the same thing

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Speaker 1: in Madison. We see the same thing in liberal run

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Speaker 1: cities across America. And what we also see in the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice is what I consider to be rather corrupt.

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Speaker 1: Josh call hired an attorney that is one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: paid for by Michael Bloomberg's climate change group. That attorney

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Speaker 1: has filed lawsuits or joined lawsuits that the Bloomberg Group

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Speaker 1: has been bringing one half of the people of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: This is a story that has not gotten nearly the

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Speaker 1: attention I think that it should. But you're an attorney,

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Speaker 1: mister Tony. Does that not smack of quid pro quo

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Speaker 1: corruption to you?

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Speaker 5: Well, I won't go as far as to say corruption,

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01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 5: but there are concerns that anybody should have if we

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Speaker 5: have an outside group funding a position like that. Now,

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Speaker 5: there are times where we have federal grants or state

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Speaker 5: grants that may cover positions, and we can do open

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Speaker 5: records requests, we can see the background of what the

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Speaker 5: purpose of that is. But if you have a private group, yeah,

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Speaker 5: funding that, there's a layer of transparency that does not

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Speaker 5: exist for the public. And if I were our attorney general,

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Speaker 5: we will not have any positions that are funded by

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Speaker 5: a private group that would not have that level of transparency.

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Speaker 1: Eric Toni announced his candidacy to replace one of the worst,

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Speaker 1: if not the worst attorneys general in Wisconsin's history today

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Speaker 1: and he's my guest on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Sir,

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Speaker 1: what is your campaign website? Where can people go to

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Speaker 1: support you.

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Speaker 5: Well, Dan, they can go visit erictony dot com to

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Speaker 5: learn more about me, support me and one of the

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Speaker 5: other you know, we have to talk about another major

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Speaker 5: failure though of our attorney general medical deal with the

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Speaker 5: border crisis and Operation Yes. And in fact.

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Speaker 1: I've got a ton of stories on that exact thing,

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Speaker 1: including an illegal alien on the loose here in Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: who just ran over an eleven year old on a

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Speaker 1: mini bike, injured two kids and left one of them

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Speaker 1: with two broken legs.

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Speaker 5: Well, and one of the things he promised a few things,

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Speaker 5: and we've talked about the crime lab. That was a

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Speaker 5: promise he made that's been broken, he failed to fix

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Speaker 5: and made it worse. And another promise that he made

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Speaker 5: when he first ran was dealing with opioids, and that's

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01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:50,719
Speaker 5: another broken promise. He's completely failed and ignored the border

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Speaker 5: crisis that we've seen under the Biden administration, where we

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01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:57,559
Speaker 5: have seen fetanyl, methamphetamine and drugs pouring into this country

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01:32:57,800 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 5: and into Wisconsin that have devastated families and communities with

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01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 5: the overdose deaths that we're seeing. Just today, when I

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01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 5: was at a lunch in Baraboo, I had a dad

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01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 5: come up to me and tell me about his son

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01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 5: that he lost to an overdose death. And it doesn't

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01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 5: have to be that way. I've sat across from too

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01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,640
Speaker 5: many parents that have buried their child. I did two

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Speaker 5: homicide trials on those overdose deaths earlier this year, and

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Speaker 5: our Attorney general has ignored it because it doesn't fit

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Speaker 5: those liberal politics. And we need somebody at our Department

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Speaker 5: of Justice that is going to stand up for all

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01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 5: Wisconsin ights, not just when it aligns with their political values.

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Speaker 5: And our Attorney general has failed to address this issue,

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01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:36,600
Speaker 5: and we see the consequences all across Wisconsin. Not to

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01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 5: mention illegal immigrants that have come in and committed in

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Speaker 5: sometimes very serious crimes, but just crimes in general. I've

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01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:47,640
Speaker 5: prosecuted this year illegal immigrants for human trafficking where a

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01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 5: mother illegally in the country was trafficking her own daughter

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Speaker 5: to her boyfriend who was in the country illegally trying

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01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:56,720
Speaker 5: to sexually assault her. Prosecuted somebody earlier this year that

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Speaker 5: was in the country illegally in a brutal attempt at

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Speaker 5: homicide stabbing. These are crimes that are happening in our communities,

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Speaker 5: and that is one of the great accomplishments of the

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Speaker 5: Trump administration this year is helping gain far greater control

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Speaker 5: over the border. That makes a difference in helping keep

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Speaker 5: people safe. And there are even some of those lower

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Speaker 5: level crimes that are flooding our court system across Wisconsin,

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Speaker 5: where our law enforcement are conducting traffic stops on some

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Speaker 5: of these lower level crimes. These people are coming into

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Speaker 5: the court system, public defenders are having to get appointed

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Speaker 5: on it. We're spending state dollars on that. That's taking

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Speaker 5: those public defenders away from other cases. Prosecutors are having

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Speaker 5: to spend the time to get those cases into the

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Speaker 5: system and manage them through, and then it takes up

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Speaker 5: significant court time, and then counties are having to foot

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Speaker 5: the bill for the interpreters in many of these circumstances.

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Speaker 5: That has a ripple effect across the state.

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Speaker 1: He is Attorney General candidate and Fondelac County District Attorney

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Speaker 1: Eric Tony. He is a great friend of the Dan

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell show, and I'm sure he will be back regularly

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01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: on the campaign trail over the next year or so. Sir,

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Speaker 1: congratulations on your run. Don't be a stranger, I know

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01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: you won't be well.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for having me Dan, and looking forward

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01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 5: to being on many, many more times.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, my friend, good luck to you when we come back.

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Speaker 2: As promised, a.

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Speaker 1: Rather remarkable New York Times story all but urging Mandela

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Speaker 1: Barnes not to run for governor. Intelligent discourse and irreverent fun.

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Speaker 1: You get both here on The Dan o'donald Show. We

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Speaker 1: also break a lot of big stories, including one that

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Speaker 1: might be massive. Earlier today, at the start of this program,

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Speaker 1: we reported exclusively that Tim Michaels spent at least part

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Speaker 1: of his day at the White House.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: Could be nothing, or it could be Tim once again

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01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:57,679
Speaker 1: seeking President Trump's endorsement. The two of them are very

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01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:01,800
Speaker 1: very close. Michaels has been rumored for some time to

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Speaker 1: be potentially kicking the tires on the feasibility of a

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Speaker 1: second run for governor. Michaels did get the Republican nomination

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Speaker 1: four years ago, he lost to Tony Evers, and it

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Speaker 1: is believed that he might be considering a second shot

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01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:23,519
Speaker 1: at an empty seat. Evers, of course, announced earlier this

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01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 1: year he will not seek reelection. Power of the incumbency

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01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 1: is very very big, and had Michael's not been facing

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01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: an incumbent governor. He very well could be the governor

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin right now. While there is some trepidation about

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01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:48,000
Speaker 1: Michael's potentially running again, there is not what's going on

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01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 1: on the Democrat side. In an all out assault on

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Speaker 1: the possibility of man deadbeat Barnes running again. The New

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01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: York Times read Epstein, who covers Wisconsin politics, has a

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01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:09,759
Speaker 1: piece entitled this Democrat lost to big race. The party

1511
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:16,360
Speaker 1: is uneasy about his return. This has a primary audience

1512
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:24,280
Speaker 1: of one that Democrat. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat read Epstein reports,

1513
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:28,000
Speaker 1: who has handed a major nomination only to lose what

1514
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,679
Speaker 1: the party considered to be a winnable general election against

1515
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 1: a detested Republican rival, comes back four years later seeking

1516
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:40,000
Speaker 1: to run for an open seat and finds no deference

1517
01:37:40,200 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 1: from a large field of primary opponents. The apprehension about

1518
01:37:46,040 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: Mandela Barnes thirty eight, is less about his age or

1519
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 1: a connection to a detested party establishment than it is

1520
01:37:54,840 --> 01:38:00,600
Speaker 1: about a desire to avoid renominating a candidate who recently lost.

1521
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: While Barnes in twenty twenty two fashioned himself as a

1522
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 1: dynamic newcomer emblematic of the party's future, he lost by

1523
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 1: one percentage point, while Governor Tony Evers on this same

1524
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: ballot won by more than three percentage points. Mister Evers,

1525
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: who has never been accused of being the nation's most

1526
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:27,719
Speaker 1: exciting governor, declared in his victory speech that boring wins.

1527
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 1: A poll conducted this month by Platform Communications, a Republican

1528
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: political firm in the state, found that mister Barnes had

1529
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:39,880
Speaker 1: support from sixteen percent of Democrats, to figure twice as

1530
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:43,639
Speaker 1: much as any of the announced Democrat candidates in the race,

1531
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:49,719
Speaker 1: but not necessarily high enough to intimidate primary rivals. Even

1532
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: some of mister Barnes's allies have been startled at the

1533
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:59,160
Speaker 1: resistance to a new run. Dan Schaeffer, a progressive journalist

1534
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, wrote that he was genuinely surprised when only

1535
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: twenty one percent of his followers on x responded to

1536
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:10,720
Speaker 1: a poll saying mister Barnes should run for governor. The

1537
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:15,720
Speaker 1: leading Republican candidate is widely considered to be Representative Tom Tiffany,

1538
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 1: whose district covers a wide swath of rural northern Wisconsin.

1539
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:24,640
Speaker 1: Josh Shulman, the Washington County executive, is also running with

1540
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:29,440
Speaker 1: mister Tiffany. Looming in the general election, the state's Democrats

1541
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 1: increasingly find themselves comparing the situation to the uneasy prospect

1542
01:39:35,640 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris running again in twenty twenty eight. Dave Schislevitch,

1543
01:39:41,240 --> 01:39:45,680
Speaker 1: a former Madison Mayer, said there were fond feelings in

1544
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: the party for both mister Barnes and miss Harris, though

1545
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 1: he said there was little desire to build a new

1546
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 1: campaign around either of them.

1547
01:39:55,160 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 2: Mister sis Levitch said.

1548
01:39:57,040 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 1: I was happy to vote for her, but I wouldn't

1549
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: support her again for the nomination because I don't think

1550
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:07,320
Speaker 1: she can win. It's the same kind of calculation I'm

1551
01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: making about this race for governor. There remains angst about

1552
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:16,680
Speaker 1: mister Barnes's twenty twenty two race, which Democrats in Wisconsin

1553
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: and beyond viewed as winnable. Barbara Lawton, a Democrat who

1554
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:24,479
Speaker 1: served as Lieutenant governor for eight years, said he proved

1555
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: to be to us beyond a shadow of doubt that

1556
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:31,200
Speaker 1: he can't run hard enough and give us a winning

1557
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:34,840
Speaker 1: campaign on a statewide basis.

1558
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 2: Wow Wow.

1559
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:45,040
Speaker 1: That sort of stuff never gets said in the pages

1560
01:40:45,120 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 1: of the New York Times about a Democrat unless that

1561
01:40:49,720 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: Democrat is persona non grata by powerful Democrats who don't

1562
01:40:56,280 --> 01:41:00,840
Speaker 1: want that Democrat to run. That is exact exactly what's

1563
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:05,799
Speaker 1: going on here. This is a concerted effort to get

1564
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 1: man deadbeat not to or at least to get him

1565
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: to think twice about running. That platform communications poll was

1566
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:19,760
Speaker 1: enough to scare Josh Cole, another Democrat who is not

1567
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:24,639
Speaker 1: particularly well liked by the power structure of the party

1568
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 1: in this state. Is this going to be enough to

1569
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:30,679
Speaker 1: convince Barnes not to run?

1570
01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 2: Of course not.

1571
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:36,559
Speaker 1: But is it laying the groundwork here in Wisconsin for

1572
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:41,280
Speaker 1: the powers that be to say nobody should give up

1573
01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:47,559
Speaker 1: against man deadbeat Barnes. Frankly, I would love to run

1574
01:41:47,600 --> 01:41:51,120
Speaker 1: against man deadbeat Barnes again because I think he's an

1575
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:55,680
Speaker 1: incompetent moron who has been handed every single thing in

1576
01:41:55,760 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: his life because of his skin color. Yes I said it,

1577
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 1: and yes I stand by it. He is Chevy Johnson,

1578
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:12,120
Speaker 1: only far less competent. If his name was John Smith

1579
01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:15,880
Speaker 1: and he was a fifty two year old, blonde white guy,

1580
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:20,280
Speaker 1: there's no chance he'd even get to one percent in

1581
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,360
Speaker 1: a Democrat primary poll.

1582
01:42:24,479 --> 01:42:25,280
Speaker 2: Don't believe me.

1583
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:31,920
Speaker 1: Name me the blonde white guy who is currently a

1584
01:42:32,040 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 1: front runner or even a candidate in the Democrat Party primary.

1585
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:44,360
Speaker 1: Tony Evers won in a different era of Democrat politics,

1586
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:50,200
Speaker 1: when identity politics didn't rule the day. This was back

1587
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 1: in the day where it was believed that in order

1588
01:42:55,520 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 1: to win a general election, Democrats needed to the radical

1589
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:06,280
Speaker 1: socialist idiot wing of the party, as represented currently by

1590
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:12,599
Speaker 1: Barnes and Francesca Hong, the loudmouthed state assembly woman whose

1591
01:43:12,600 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: only qualification seems to be that she's willing to say

1592
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: the C word and the F word on social media.

1593
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 1: The thinking used to be, you disown those crazies and

1594
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:31,759
Speaker 1: nominate the As Ebers said, most boring candidate boring wins

1595
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:34,920
Speaker 1: worked for Joe Biden, didn't it.

1596
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:37,120
Speaker 2: That was pre George Floyd.

1597
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 1: The biggest challenge man deadbeat is going to have is

1598
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: if the party's faithful said, okay, well we need to

1599
01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:50,680
Speaker 1: have a black man, We need to have a black candidate.

1600
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 1: And it seems to not particularly matter who. Remember Joe

1601
01:43:55,840 --> 01:43:59,200
Speaker 1: Biden famously pledged he was going to nominate a black

1602
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 1: woman to be as running mate. Didn't matter who. He

1603
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: was going to find himself a black woman. He was

1604
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: going to nominate a black woman to be Supreme Court justice,

1605
01:44:06,200 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 1: didn't matter who he picked the dumbest black woman in

1606
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: America in Katanji Brown Jackson. The biggest risk for Barnes

1607
01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: is that he gets in this race and the Democrats

1608
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: who say, yes, yes, yes, we need to play racial

1609
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: politics once again. But here we have a black man

1610
01:44:25,080 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: who isn't crazy and can appeal to a broader swath

1611
01:44:30,520 --> 01:44:35,599
Speaker 1: of the Democrat electorate. In Milwaukee Counties Executive David Crowley,

1612
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:39,680
Speaker 1: I can tell you, as someone who knows Wisconsin politics,

1613
01:44:40,040 --> 01:44:43,760
Speaker 1: I would much rather face man deadbeat Barnes than I

1614
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 1: would David Crowley. Doesn't really matter to me. I think

1615
01:44:47,120 --> 01:44:51,519
Speaker 1: both are eminently beatable. Believe me, I want to pound

1616
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 1: on David Crowley very clearly, going back to college when

1617
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be on company time.

1618
01:44:59,040 --> 01:45:00,000
Speaker 2: Taxpayer time.

1619
01:45:00,040 --> 01:45:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm more accurately stated as Milwaukee County executive and selfishly,

1620
01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: I want man deadbeat to run because I have more

1621
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:12,760
Speaker 1: fun than a human being should be allowed to have.

1622
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:16,120
Speaker 1: As the Great Rush Limbaugh famously said, when I am

1623
01:45:16,160 --> 01:45:19,639
Speaker 1: making fun of man deadbeat Barnes, the guy is a

1624
01:45:19,680 --> 01:45:25,800
Speaker 1: walking cartoon. I would love if he ran again, but

1625
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: let's not kid ourselves. Democrats are not going to just

1626
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 1: fall over themselves to clear the decks for him, as

1627
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 1: they did in the peak woke era of twenty twenty two.

1628
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: If you don't think that Democrats forced the white guy

1629
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:50,120
Speaker 1: and the blonde white woman out of the race, either

1630
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:53,639
Speaker 1: of whom probably would have had a much better chance

1631
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:58,839
Speaker 1: of beating Ron Johnson than man deadbeat Barnes, did your nuts.

1632
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:01,600
Speaker 1: They clearly, of course the white people out of the

1633
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:06,120
Speaker 1: race because they wanted a minority candidate. They had a

1634
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,920
Speaker 1: white guy running for governor, they had a white guy

1635
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:14,960
Speaker 1: running for attorney general. They needed some diversity on the ticket,

1636
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:19,439
Speaker 1: and for some reason they thought that Barnes was going

1637
01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 1: to be the candidate who they needed. Turns out he

1638
01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:28,360
Speaker 1: was a disaster. Well, now we're not beholden to the

1639
01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:31,559
Speaker 1: black Lives Matter movement in the Democrat Party nearly as

1640
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:36,120
Speaker 1: much as we were four years ago in the era

1641
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:42,240
Speaker 1: of Trump and the fierce backlash to woke liberalism. There

1642
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 1: appears to be more of a movement towards competent candidates.

1643
01:46:47,560 --> 01:46:51,720
Speaker 1: What a concept that we actually judge people on the

1644
01:46:51,760 --> 01:46:55,320
Speaker 1: content of their character and not the color of their skin.

1645
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:58,800
Speaker 1: We will have much more on this when The Dan

1646
01:46:58,840 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show returns before you know it. Welcome back to

1647
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:10,360
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. I am still processing that New

1648
01:47:10,439 --> 01:47:14,559
Speaker 1: York Times hit piece. And it wasn't a hit piece

1649
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 1: in the way that The New York Times does hit

1650
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:18,960
Speaker 1: pieces on Republicans.

1651
01:47:19,600 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 2: But that was a message.

1652
01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:26,320
Speaker 1: In mafia terms that would be like a mock execution.

1653
01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:28,960
Speaker 2: It was like what they did.

1654
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 1: To Christopher Multa santi in episode three of The Sopranos.

1655
01:47:33,880 --> 01:47:36,320
Speaker 1: They didn't want to take him out like Brendan fallone,

1656
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 1: but you know, just scare him, just let him know,

1657
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:40,960
Speaker 1: let him know who's real.

1658
01:47:41,360 --> 01:47:42,520
Speaker 2: Really the boss.

1659
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:48,840
Speaker 1: Man Deadbeat lost a race that many Democrats thought should

1660
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:52,240
Speaker 1: have been won in twenty twenty two. The New York

1661
01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:56,840
Speaker 1: Times does not run a story like that unless all

1662
01:47:56,920 --> 01:48:02,240
Speaker 1: of the Democrat power players get together and say, all right,

1663
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:05,680
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Read Epstein over at the

1664
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:09,720
Speaker 1: New York Times to try to, if not convince man

1665
01:48:09,720 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: Deadbeat not to run, because there is no convincing man Deadbeat.

1666
01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:16,960
Speaker 1: He is all in. Epstein is reporting the same thing

1667
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,240
Speaker 1: that I've been hearing that it did not matter what

1668
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:22,959
Speaker 1: Cole was going to do. Remember when I was reporting

1669
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,920
Speaker 1: for several weeks that if Cole got in, he was

1670
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:32,640
Speaker 1: likely to get a lot of the institutional Tony Evers support,

1671
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: he was going to get a lot of the Evers staffers,

1672
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: he was likely to get in with a whole lot

1673
01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 1: of money. Well, it turns out the donor class just

1674
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:46,680
Speaker 1: was not there. They wanted more of an open primary

1675
01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:51,360
Speaker 1: and that Barnes was going to get in regardless of what,

1676
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:54,000
Speaker 1: or that Barnes was going to wait and see. Initially

1677
01:48:54,400 --> 01:48:58,800
Speaker 1: what Cole did, thinking that the lane for him was

1678
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:02,599
Speaker 1: through the Madison in power base of the Democrat Party,

1679
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:08,439
Speaker 1: whereas either David Crowley or Chevy Johnson would represent the

1680
01:49:08,479 --> 01:49:14,600
Speaker 1: Milwaukee corridor of Democrats, the more urban blacker, more Hispanic,

1681
01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 1: whereas the wasp crowd, the liberal wine ant crowd would

1682
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 1: either get behind Man Deadbeat or Josh Cole. Well, eventually

1683
01:49:26,520 --> 01:49:29,679
Speaker 1: Man Deadbeat said, I don't care. I don't think anybody

1684
01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: really likes Caaul. I'm going to get in regardless because

1685
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:36,400
Speaker 1: he thinks he's going to get a substantial amount of

1686
01:49:36,439 --> 01:49:40,880
Speaker 1: the black vote all across the state, more so than

1687
01:49:41,080 --> 01:49:45,680
Speaker 1: say a David Crowley. And that poll by Platform Communications

1688
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: really did solidify that he's got twice the support of

1689
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 1: any other candidate, including Crowley. Big follow up on an

1690
01:49:57,800 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 1: exclusive story we report last week about a Waukeshaw alderman

1691
01:50:03,960 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 1: by the name of Rico not So Macho Camacho, Remember him.

1692
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:15,720
Speaker 1: He falsely flagged a group of guys who were just

1693
01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 1: standing around downtown Waukeshaw as being undercover ICE agents and

1694
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 1: urged people to take precaution. Well, that was widely seen

1695
01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 1: by many, including me, as a potential attempt to dox

1696
01:50:32,360 --> 01:50:36,599
Speaker 1: those ICE agents or to potentially even get someone out

1697
01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: to downtown Waukeshaw to theoretically violently confront them. He was

1698
01:50:42,920 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: then forced to admit in a later Facebook page post

1699
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:51,520
Speaker 1: that they weren't Ice agents at all. He got bad information.

1700
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:56,120
Speaker 1: They were just random dudes. Well, now the Waukeshaw Freeman's

1701
01:50:56,320 --> 01:51:01,360
Speaker 1: Karen Polarski is reporting Catholic Memory Oriel High School, where

1702
01:51:01,720 --> 01:51:05,280
Speaker 1: not So Macho Camacho had been working as a teacher,

1703
01:51:06,760 --> 01:51:11,559
Speaker 1: has fired him, or at least relieved him of his

1704
01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:15,799
Speaker 1: teaching duties. Catholic Memorial could not be reached for comment.

1705
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:20,040
Speaker 1: Alderman not So Macho Camacho did promise that he was

1706
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:22,800
Speaker 1: going to have this is so typical left wing democrat

1707
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 1: saying I'll have a statement either later this week or

1708
01:51:27,760 --> 01:51:31,400
Speaker 1: early next week. Yeah, you know, when I get around

1709
01:51:31,439 --> 01:51:36,160
Speaker 1: to it. Clearly this guy is a motivated self starter.

1710
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 1: Either that or he truly has no idea how to

1711
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:45,320
Speaker 1: spin one of the single dumbest things that I have

1712
01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 1: seen an elected Democrat do this year. And frankly, folks,

1713
01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:53,360
Speaker 1: that's saying something. Dan O'Donnell's show coming right back in

1714
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 1: just a sec, just a couple of minutes left here

1715
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:01,120
Speaker 1: in the Tuesday edition of the Dano o'donald's show.

1716
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:03,960
Speaker 2: So many things.

1717
01:52:05,160 --> 01:52:08,479
Speaker 1: Because of this breaking news about the Tim Michaels White

1718
01:52:08,520 --> 01:52:12,320
Speaker 1: House visit that we didn't get a chance to get to.

1719
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have got like fifteen different stories here,

1720
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:19,360
Speaker 1: a lot of them. We're just gonna have to save

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Speaker 1: for it tomorrow. I'm like, how can we close the show?

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01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:25,360
Speaker 1: How can we have some fun? How can we you know,

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01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:29,960
Speaker 1: just just have a good time. How about this? Let's

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Speaker 1: finish by reading the most intelligent response Dan has gotten

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01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:47,200
Speaker 1: all day. This comes to us from and I swear

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01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:52,799
Speaker 1: I am not making this name up deer Nuts hunter

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01:52:53,640 --> 01:52:59,920
Speaker 1: on Facebook. Deer Nuts like the animal and presumably the

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01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 1: the body part, he writes, and I quote you seem

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01:53:09,720 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 1: to think you speak for all.

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Speaker 10: You are quite the moron, and most certainly do not

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Speaker 10: sit down, Shut up and learn something, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 10: That has been the most intelligent response Dan has heard

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Speaker 10: all day. Thank you, dear nuts Hunter. I am sure

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Speaker 10: I have a lot to learn from you. World Series

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Speaker 10: is set.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Toronto Blue Jays. Actually,

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01:53:49,080 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays had the better regular season records,

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Speaker 1: so they will get home field advantage. Turns out it

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01:53:55,120 --> 01:54:00,640
Speaker 1: doesn't actually matter. Look for the Dodgers to destroy Toronto.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic Game seven. If you were not watching, you missed out.

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01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:08,639
Speaker 1: Seattle was basically leading the entire game, and a big

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01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:12,759
Speaker 1: three run homer by George Springer sealed it. Much more

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Speaker 1: still to come. We'll get to it all tomorrow. I

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Speaker 1: have no fear.

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Speaker 2: It's the Dan O'Donnell Show.