1 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Hour two for a Thursday on Twin Cities News Talk. 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: My name is John Justice, Devin and the master control 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: booth next door, and of course your comments all morning long. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Justice at iHeartRadio dot com is the email address. Leave 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: us a talk back. We'll get to some more of 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: those coming up in just a moment. Governor Tim Walls 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: yesterday came out with a brand new plan that's completely 8 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: contrary to what his integrity director that he hired in January, 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: who just quit earlier this week recommended after looking into 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: all of the fraud. It also comes with a hefty 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: price tag close to eighty million dollars, which, if you 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: follow anything relating to cost to estimates when programs are 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: first presented, almost every single time they come out more expensive, 14 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: including what we'll talk about in just a moment, Minnesota's 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: new software system fifty million more than was initially approved. Also, 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: John Feelin asking the question centered the American experiment this morning, 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: will paid family and medical leave. 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 2: Need another payroll tax hike this summer? 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 3: Yeah? 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: No, And the meantime. 21 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls was out speaking to a group of 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: individuals earlier this week after making that announcement of his 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: new fraud prevention plan. 24 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: He had this to say. 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 4: What happened, right and why they left was because of 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 4: the people on the streets. 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 5: It wasn't the elected officials they left. 28 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: You may stop here. I was just going to address 29 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: every single one of these lives as we go along. 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: That's a lie. It's in the name. 31 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: It was Operation Metro Surge, meaning a surge in the 32 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: operation of going and arresting those that are here illegally 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: in committed crimes. It was never intended to be long term. 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: There was always going to be an end to the operation. 35 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: So to sit back and say, well, you know, they 36 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 1: only left because of the people that were going out 37 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: and pushing back against them, that's a lie. 38 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: To the vow and. 39 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 4: Parent teacher organizations that turned into food banks, and you know, 40 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 4: soccer and basketball carpools that turned into protecting children and. 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: Parents, that's a lie. 42 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: He's referring to the story where a family was driving 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: back allegedly from a basketball game. One of the individuals 44 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: in the car saw their mother at a protest. They 45 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: left their children in the vehicle and went and joined 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: the protest that ended up turning violent with flash bang 47 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: grenades that were tossed and ended up landing near the 48 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: vehicle where the kids had been abandoned by their parents. 49 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 4: Surrounding schools what I would tell them, and I don't 50 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 4: know if you can. 51 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 5: You can't replicate it immediately. 52 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 4: But that old adage that all politics and all action 53 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 4: is local. Minnesotans, take that to local, to your house 54 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 4: and the house next to you, and the house next 55 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 4: to you. 56 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: I'm so tired of all the neighbor talk. Give me 57 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: a break already. 58 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: You can't believe anything that Governor Jim Wall says on 59 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: any issue whatsoever, especially. 60 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: Well, not even especially no. 61 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: On everything he says, you simply cannot trust him. 62 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 2: Let's go here. 63 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 6: You know, John is sure as hard to blame Governor 64 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 6: Walls for leading these mindless fools along the way that 65 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 6: he does. I mean, you, how can you even help 66 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 6: himself at this point? It's just so easy to manipulate 67 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 6: these mindless, unintelligent, not thinking for themselves, individuals that are 68 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 6: willing to follow this garbage. 69 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for the talkback from the iHeartRadio app. Getting 70 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: back to this program. Minnesota State is switching to a 71 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: software system known as Workday. Hey, we use that at 72 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: thirty three Public colleges and universities as part of a 73 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: broader initiative to modernize its technology called next Gen. 74 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: Hey, we use that too. 75 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: The first phase of the upgrades, which included human resources 76 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: and finance software used by employees, that went live in 77 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty four. The second phase, which will 78 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: allow students to manage admissions, financial aid, and register through 79 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: one platform, that's on track to go live at twenty thirty, 80 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: four years after its initial target. George Soul, the Board 81 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: of Trustees chair, citing the systems two hundred and seventy 82 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: thousand students and fourteen thousand employees, he. 83 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: Says it's a monumental project. 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: We didn't expect everything to work out perfectly the first time. 85 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: The cost increases and. 86 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: Delays aren't the only aspects of the problem. Excuse me 87 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: the project that has drawn scrutiny. Employees saved the struggle 88 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: with the new system daily and even had to prepare 89 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: budgets by hand with spreadsheets last year. 90 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: So in June of twenty. 91 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: Nineteen, the plan was approved by the board, and that 92 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 1: included an early estimate for software transition in one hundred 93 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: and fifty one million. According to a Minnesota State spokesperson, 94 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: that number has now climbed to two hundred and forty 95 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: two point seven million. By the time it was improved 96 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: in November twenty twenty, that cost has now grown to 97 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety point four million. The Minnesota State 98 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: Board documents said that they were citing inflation, the timeline extension, 99 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: and fifteen million toward unexpected issues. A third of the 100 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: project is funded by the legislature. The rest is being 101 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: paid by Minnesota State. I'm actually surprised that they didn't 102 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: go and blame it on Operation Metro surg We'll get 103 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: to more of that coming up later on in the 104 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: In the hour you had Minneapolis man Baby mayor Mom 105 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: Jean's Jacob Frye. He ended up vetoing the attempts to 106 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 1: extend the eviction notices. In the meantime, the city Council 107 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: is still calculating the cost of Operation Metro Surge, and 108 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: I've already reached out to lawmakers at every level of 109 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: the government for reimbursement and aid. 110 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 7: Money. 111 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: Well, we may need more money. John Feelin, Center of 112 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: the American Experiment, writes this a month ago, citing downta 113 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: over its first four weeks of Operation. John Feelan noted 114 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: that the approvals for Minnesota's Paid Family Medical Leaf scheme 115 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: was running twenty six percent above the forecast. A couple 116 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: of weeks ago, the program director, Greg Norfleet and the 117 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: DEED Commissioner Evan Rowe testified before the Minnesota House Workforce, 118 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: Labor and Economic Development Financial Policy Committee, and they reported 119 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: that doing that thing with my fingers. 120 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: As of February. 121 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: Fifteenth, nearly forty eight thousand applications had been submitted, with 122 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: decisions already made on thirty one thousand, forty eight thousand 123 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: applications already for this Paid Family Medical Leaf. I think 124 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: about that number for just a moment, and I just wonder, Okay, 125 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: what would have happened if this program wasn't here? 126 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: That's what I want to know. 127 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: How many of those forty eight thousand individuals wouldn't be 128 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: taking any time off or would have just been utilizing 129 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: the existing options that they have with their employer to 130 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: take time off. More than twenty thousand have already been 131 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: approved now. John Feelin goes on to say that works 132 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: out to an approval rate. Can we get into some 133 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: wonky numbers here, so bear with me as an approval 134 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: rate of about four hundred and thirty five per day. Again, 135 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: that is twenty four percent above the rate of the 136 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty two approvals daily forecasted by DEED 137 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: when the scheme launched. Now, I did receive a comment 138 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: regarding because we'll get into this, because the whole point 139 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 1: that John Feelin makes in the piece is his question 140 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: of whether or not we are going to need another 141 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: payroll tax hike this summer to go and fund the program, 142 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: which is going to come from our employers and possibly you. 143 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 8: Hi, John, this is Tiffany from North Branch, and I 144 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 8: just wanted to let you know that there is a 145 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 8: tax hike baked into the Paid Family Medical Leave Fraud Act. 146 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 8: It's at eight point eight zero point eight eight percent now, 147 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 8: and it can be hiked up to one point one. 148 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 8: That's the illegal cap. So it can be hiked and 149 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 8: they will they will take more. 150 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: John Feelin noted in February the number is boosted in 151 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: part by early applications for child bonding leaves, something known 152 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: and paid leave circles as a baby bump. That initial 153 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: bump is expected to even out over time. The DEED 154 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: Commissioner said, we've seen weekly applications start to trend down 155 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: over time, in line with experience in other states, but 156 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: Felin noted later that the longer the approval rate is 157 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: above the forecast of three hundred and fifty two, the 158 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: further it will need to fall later to meet it. 159 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: It's running too high now, regardless of whether or not 160 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: we pull back. And I say pull back, meaning the 161 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: number of individuals declines who are going and taking time off. 162 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know, I guess I look at this 163 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,439 Speaker 1: and I think, in a word of mouth, how many 164 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: people aren't even aware that you can take advantage of this? 165 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: Yet not everybody is paying close attention. These are just 166 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: the individuals that are paying close attention to this. How 167 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: many people aren't and are going to find out when 168 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 1: they see their friends and their family members taking six 169 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: paid weeks off of work because they came up with 170 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: some excuse so they can go on vacation, or go skiing, 171 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: or go to a music festival. As we talked about yesterday, 172 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: the assumptions behind this program were much more opaque when 173 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: it passed in twenty twenty three than when it had 174 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 1: been proposed previously. John Feelan noted that in April, the 175 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: assumed average a leave and the length of the leave 176 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: taken seems to have been reduced from six point six 177 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 1: weeks to six weeks this year, but as he noted 178 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: in February, this is still a favorable assumption. Last month, 179 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: Director of Norfleet and the Deputy Commissioner Row told the 180 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: House that the average leave runs six to nine weeks, 181 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: less than the maximum twelve weeks allowed by law. 182 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: So it's a few more. 183 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: Details that I want to get to this and the 184 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: question of whether or not there may need to be 185 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: another payroll tax hike in the summer. This program, it 186 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: is absolutely infuriating to me. It is nothing more and 187 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: I'll keep saying this than a redistribution of wealth because 188 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: Democrats will not be open and honest on what they 189 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: actually believe and what they want to do. And rather 190 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: than going and attempting to put forward a program that 191 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: would have died if they had just labeled a redistribution 192 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: of wealth program, right, So instead what do they do? 193 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: They do stuff like this and we all have to 194 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: pay the price for it. We'll get to more of 195 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: your comments from the iHeartRadio app. If that wasn't enough, 196 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: We'll then get into the bill that recognizes the inherent 197 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: right of wild Rice by the same people who brought 198 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: you abortion up until birth, now comes a bill to 199 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: make sure that wild Rice has a right to live. 200 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 2: You cannot make this stuff up. 201 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: It's next here on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven 202 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: thirty and one oh three five FM. 203 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 9: Good morning, John Paul from Brooklyn Park. 204 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 5: You know what's going to drive up. 205 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 9: Usage in the extorted Family Medical program when people have 206 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 9: to get tax harder for it. People aren't using it now, 207 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 9: They're like, well, zero point four to four percent. It's annoying. 208 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 9: When it goes to one percent, they're going to be 209 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 9: really pissed off. They're also going to be tired of 210 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 9: covering for their co workers who are taking six weeks 211 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 9: away from work, and employers are not going to take it. 212 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 5: They're going to move to businesses they're. 213 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: Not going to take this forever well and to that point, 214 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: as we work through this pace from John Feeland, an 215 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: American experiment, will paid family and medical leave need another 216 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: payroll tax hike this summer? You're listening to Twin Cities 217 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: News Talk. Let's get to an actual business owner. 218 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 10: Good morning, John is a small business owner this twenty 219 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 10: week leave for anybody to go babysit your pet goldfish 220 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 10: is ridiculous. The only way to fight this as a 221 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 10: small business owner is get rid of all your employees 222 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 10: and hire them as a ten ninety nine subcontract. 223 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: Yes, there you go. 224 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 10: The Democrats aren't smart enough to figure out that, little Paul, 225 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 10: are they. 226 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 11: Yeah. 227 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: I want to ask I want to ask Max Rymer 228 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: when he's in tomorrow about that. I'm reminded of when 229 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: there was this the attempt to get rid of the. 230 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: Payday loan options when you could get a. 231 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: You can get a loan ahead of time on your paycheck, 232 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: and there were laws that were put in place to 233 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: go and ban that, and those that operated those businesses 234 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: and those services just ended up changing the way that 235 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: they operated to where they were doing it off the 236 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: title of your of your car. So it raises an 237 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: interesting question of what happens to those businesses because, as 238 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: this talkback states, and we've discussed this before on the show, 239 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: but just to get everybody back up to speed, it's 240 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: not just the individual who's taking the time off that 241 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: has an impact on the business. 242 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 12: Somehow, some way, I think this SAIDs need to come 243 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 12: in and out of the state of Minnesota, and these 244 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 12: bills that they put forth. I think the paid family 245 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 12: lead back it has to be some way a taxation 246 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 12: without represent Nobody put it to a vote for me 247 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 12: to vote on that to take money out of my pocket. 248 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 12: But I want to know, with all these people that 249 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 12: are taking advantage of the paid family leave and those 250 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 12: that are on welfare and those that are on unemployment, 251 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 12: who the heck is working in the state of Minnesota anymore? 252 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 2: Hey, John, paid family leave. 253 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 11: Here. 254 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 7: Here's something that's probably not bacon to anybody's number. All 255 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 7: these people who are off now have a replacement YEP, 256 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 7: and theory working that is going to become eligible for 257 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 7: paid family leave when the original person comes back. 258 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 5: So how is that going to work out? 259 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 13: It's just going to. 260 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 7: Double here, and that's going to get through most of 261 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 7: the year with half our economy and paid family leave. 262 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 14: Yeah. Can you get paid family medical leave? Why you're 263 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 14: on unemployment if you're annually doing a seasonal unemployment which 264 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 14: is allowed here in Minnesota. Or how about our teachers' unions? 265 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 14: Can they take paid family medical lead Wilder off on 266 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 14: the summer break? 267 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 2: Yeah? 268 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, we covered that extensively before the end of 269 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: last year. So let me wrap up John Feelin's piece 270 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: here and again this gets a little wonkey. Just just 271 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: bear with me for just a for just a moment. 272 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: So the key equation that John Felon notes is the 273 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: expected benefit payments equaling the expected number of claims times 274 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: the expected claim duration times the assume average weekly benefit amount. 275 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: From two of these components, the scheme appears to be 276 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: running ahead of forecast at present. The scheme is funded 277 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: by these zero point eighty eight payroll tax split between 278 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: employers and employees. As a Pioneer Press reported in February. 279 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: As to Monday, how long that rate would stand ded 280 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: officials said that that would depend on the actuarial analysis 281 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: expected in coming months. The state will have to send 282 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: employers updated premium rates by July thirty first, so there 283 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: will be a need. There will need to be an 284 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: official estimate before them. Yeah, they're going up to that 285 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: one point one percent. The payroll tax which finances the 286 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: scheme has already been hiked by twenty five percent since 287 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: it was enacted. Another hike might be on the way, 288 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: And make no mistake if they have to hike it 289 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: again to the baked in amount that they can. They're 290 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: going to work to raise it again if Democrats are 291 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: able to gain control. Make no mistake, because this is 292 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: what they wanted. They want fewer people working, they want 293 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: businesses suffering. They want to whittle down the businesses in 294 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: the state. They hate the private sector. They'd much rather 295 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: have the rich in their minds, that money redistributed to 296 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: individuals that will continue to go and vote for Democrats. 297 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: It's all just about power. Coming up, we'll get to 298 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: your talkbacks. A few thoughts have rolled in on this, 299 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 1: and then we'll dive into the bill that aims to 300 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: recognize the inerrant right of wild rice Minnesota state grain 301 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: is in decline. State agencies say such a law would 302 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: create a legal vulnerability, but advocates say that wild rice 303 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: is vulnerable and it needs protections. Wild rice is viewed 304 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: by certain demographics in Minnesota as being a living being 305 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: and a relative. Oh boy, sounds awfully familiar to another 306 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: hot button issue. We'll get into all of it. I 307 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 1: have audio to share your comments as well. It's all 308 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: coming up next here on Twinsday's News Talking Am eleven 309 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: thirty and one O three five F M. 310 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 2: Hey John great show as usual. 311 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:15,719 Speaker 11: Thanks. 312 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 2: You know, you're making a lot of good points. 313 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: So I'm saying with a lot of the callers about 314 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: the paid family medical leave, and my question is, does 315 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: feel for me and Ferrie and Eric from BRAINERD Do 316 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: they ever agree with anything you say or points like this? 317 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 2: Do they have any beefs with the Democrats or is 318 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 2: it just maga people. 319 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: It's just maga people, just maga people. I've been sparing 320 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: you the commentaries from the foes of the show. There's 321 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: been nothing of value in them. They're clearly just saying 322 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: incendiary things hoping that I'll play their comments. There's unsubstantiated 323 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: claims against the president. 324 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 2: Off topic. So again I've. 325 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: Been exercising my right as the show hosts to not 326 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: air the foe of the show commentaries until the quality 327 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: of their talkbacks improved. Before we get over to Wild 328 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: Rice and making sure that it has its right to live. 329 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: I do question whether or not we've interviewed the Wild Rice. 330 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: Who are you to assume that you speak. 331 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 2: For the Wild Rice. That's another question that I have. 332 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: I do want to do a lightning round of talkbacks, 333 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: wrapping up the conversation, at least today regarding the disaster 334 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: that has paid family medical leave. 335 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 15: Hi, John, this is greak me savage. 336 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 16: I think this paid family medical. 337 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 7: Leave was just, you know, the back door way of 338 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 7: starting a universal basic income STAKI your. 339 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 2: Way, Yeah, yeah, i'mouna agree with that. Hey, good morning John. 340 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 17: In response to the color that wanted to know who 341 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 17: the heck is so working in Minnesota, senior citizens are 342 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 17: because they cannot afford to retire because of the taxes 343 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 17: and the increase in insurance. 344 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 2: Have a great team, Hey John. 345 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 18: On the pea family leave, my full time employer changed 346 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 18: my status from that full time with benefits to. 347 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 19: Ten ninety nine on. 348 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 18: Twelve thirty one, twenty five. There's a shocker, And I 349 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 18: just looked into it, and I could qualify for it, 350 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 18: even though I'm not paying into it at all right 351 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 18: now and they're not. I could still get up to 352 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 18: twenty weeks on the taxpayer time. And all I'd have 353 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 18: to do is come up with some reasons that they. 354 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 5: Want to prove I could do it. 355 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 18: I'm not going to do, but I could do it. 356 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 20: Good morning John. I was wondering if I could create 357 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 20: a person could create a fraudulent business, Let's say like 358 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 20: a leering center or something, hire a bunch of employees 359 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 20: that and. 360 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 18: Have them all. 361 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 20: Take family medical leaveack advantages, and then I get the kickback, 362 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 20: say twenty percent. Is that possible. 363 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: I don't know about creating a business out of thin 364 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: air to make that possible, But what you could end 365 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: up and what we'll probably end up seeing in terms 366 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: of the fraud is very similar to what we've seen 367 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: in the other fraud scheme programs, wherein the state would 368 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: end up being billed for pay family medical lea for 369 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: employees that don't exist, essentially saying what you were saying, 370 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: but with those businesses that already exist at this point 371 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: in time. Thank you all for the comments from the 372 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio apples are brought you brought to you by Lindaul Realty. 373 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: Let's tarn our retention over to wild Rice, Minnesota, state 374 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: to grain is in decline. Agencies with the state say 375 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: a law could create a new legal vulnerability, but advocates 376 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: say that wild rice is vulnerable and it needs protection. 377 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 3: Born John Steve from what Saint Paul. Yeah, this wild 378 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 3: Rice thing smells of land grab all from the beginning. Here, 379 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 3: They're gonna they can't get an Endangered Species Act. So 380 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,479 Speaker 3: they're going to protect it this way. And I'm assuming 381 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 3: there might be some wild rice up in northern Minnesota 382 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 3: work maybe a mine might be going into have a 383 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 3: great day. 384 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: So here's the story from the Star Tribune. Cups of 385 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: cooked wild rice, traditionally harvested from the Leech Lake Reservation, 386 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: handed out to the Minnesota Senate Committee members on Tuesday 387 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: by advocates of the State grain. A proposed bill would 388 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: amend the definition of the State grain to in statute 389 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: to include this doing that thing with my fingers. It 390 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: is the policy of this state to recognize the inherent 391 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: right of wild rice to exist and thrive in Minnesota. 392 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 3: Okay. 393 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: Opponents asked what an errant right means and how it 394 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,479 Speaker 1: would be enforced, arguing the language opens the state up 395 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: to potential litigation. Indigenous rights and environmental advocates say that 396 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: there are great risks to wild rice, of course, pollution, 397 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: climate extremes. Wild rice is viewed by Native Americans as 398 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: a living being and relative. Okay, So you have a 399 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: group of individuals, a demographic, if you will, that views 400 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: something as being a living being, going so far as 401 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: to say that it is a relative and they are 402 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:53,959 Speaker 1: asking the state to codify its right to exist and 403 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: put that into law. 404 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: Am I. 405 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: Huh that sounds familiar, doesn't right. The bill is being 406 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: brought to you by Dflaer's Democrats, who also were the 407 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: ones who voted two years ago for abortion to be 408 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: legal up to the moment of birth. Please don't please 409 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: tell me that somebody has brought this up during the 410 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: legislative session when they were debating this. Please, I want 411 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: to hear what a Democrats response is of why they 412 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: would support putting into statute wild rice being a living 413 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 1: being and yet still go and support the most extreme 414 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: abortion laws here in Minnesota that we have versus the 415 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: rest of the country. Representative Mary Kanesh dfl Out of 416 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: New Brighton first introduced the Wild Rice Act on the 417 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: heels of one of the state's worst harvest in recent memory. 418 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,919 Speaker 1: The legislation died in come Vidon was reintroduced in parts 419 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: of this session, with Knesh, the first Indigenous woman to 420 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: serve in the state Senate, spearheading the efforts. 421 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 2: Here's a bit of what she had to say. 422 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 17: First, this bill applies the legal. 423 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 21: And I would have loved to have gone into the 424 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 21: history of this wild rice and gone into real depth 425 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 21: around this whole subject. But I've boiled it down to 426 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 21: just a few sentences here, so we Centipile thirty seven 427 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 21: forty nine is adding just one sentence to the definition. 428 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 2: Of our state grain. 429 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 21: It states, it is the policy of this state to 430 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 21: recognize the inherent right of uncultivated wild rice to exist 431 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 21: and thrive in Minnesota. By recognizing this, the state of 432 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 21: Minnesota is stepping into a reciprocal relationship with the plant 433 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 21: that has been our state grain for nearly fifty years. 434 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 21: Minnesota is already legally required by treaties to consider manumen 435 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 21: and the waters it depends on, and this is just 436 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,199 Speaker 21: ensuring that this takes place going forward. Wild rice is 437 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 21: a source of food and maintains the ecological structure of 438 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 21: lakes and waterways. It prevents toxic algae bloom, absorbs carbon dioxide, 439 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 21: fosters vital inhabitants, and stabilizes lake beds. Wild rice is 440 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 21: a core component. 441 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: Of the Anishinabi identity. 442 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 21: Anishinabi people were called to travel to a place where 443 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 21: the food grows on the water, and that place is Minnesota, Michoki. 444 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 21: Where it is we call it Minnesota. Wild rice is 445 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 21: struggling right now, and it needs our protection. Today it 446 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 21: is only able to grow on sixty four thousand of 447 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 21: the state's fifty million acres. And so I ask you 448 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 21: to consider this bill and vote positive for Senate File 449 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 21: thirty seven forty nine. 450 00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 16: It's not easy being green, having to spend each day 451 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 16: the color of leaves. 452 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 15: First they gave wild rice human rights. Then they gave 453 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 15: the rivers human rights, followed by forests, and then no 454 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 15: one could build on any land because it was all 455 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 15: filled with rights. 456 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 2: The vegans are eating all over world race they need 457 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 2: to step it. Start eating a cow. 458 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 17: Hey, John, Maybe the crazy left will now just take 459 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 17: on a new gender called wild race. 460 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: Oh, I like that. 461 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: A similar debate resurfaced with leaders of the Minnesota Department 462 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: of Natural Resources in the Minnesota Pollution Agents Control Agency 463 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: alleging the ambiguity of an errant rights is a legal 464 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: vulnerability in state agencies. Senator Steve Draskowski. So the proposal 465 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: didn't pass out of committee last year when two Democrats 466 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: voted with Republicans against the measure. Now we're bringing it 467 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: back again. It appears to me, said Draskowski. At least 468 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: as a bill, this doesn't have a chance of passage. 469 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: Why are we here today, he asked the representative from 470 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,479 Speaker 1: New Brighton. Say we brought it because we believe in it. 471 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: We recognize that wild rice is a voterable entity and 472 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: that we have not been good stewards of it over 473 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: the years, no matter what we do. Again, please tell 474 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: me that somebody brought up the abortion debate in this 475 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: I just to get it on record. I know it 476 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The Democrats in Minnesota have taken the art 477 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: of lying to new links over the course of the 478 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: just the start of this year, it is incredible to 479 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: me the blatant lies that the dfllers have been spewing. 480 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: I know they've been doing it all along, but it 481 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: just seems like now they've turned it into a sport. 482 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: Tribal and state leaders recognize while rice is under threat, 483 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: but can't agree on what to do about it in 484 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: the face of earlier summers and warmer winter's pollution and 485 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: invasions invasive species. Jessica intermill, an attorney who helped draft 486 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: the Wild Rice Act and current legislation, said, inherent right 487 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: sounds ethereal, but really it's the same as the Declaration 488 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: of Independence, A policy applied to a species, not an 489 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: individual grain. Minnesota grows more wild rice than anywhere in 490 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: the US. If we say that where the wild rice 491 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: state that it's time to be the relative that it 492 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: needs to be. Here's more testimony from the legislative session 493 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: over this issue. 494 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 8: This bill applies the legal inherent rights doctrine to a 495 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 8: plant that has been in Minnesota since long before there 496 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 8: was a Minnesota. 497 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: That doctrine does. 498 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 8: Not grant any right to wild rice. 499 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 2: Rather, it recognizes that. 500 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,479 Speaker 13: The plant's inherent right to live exists because it is 501 00:30:59,560 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 13: a lot. 502 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 21: I wonder what these people would do if they were 503 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 21: faced with an actual, real problem. 504 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: They stay in their bubble. 505 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 5: And give life to rights and inanimate. 506 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 17: Objects their lunatics, but they'll do anything for power and money. 507 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 22: I'd like to propose a genet bil operating you consider 508 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 22: wild right, you get a legal driver's lightning, any other 509 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 22: benefits you're doing by the government or the subbrain. The 510 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 22: right have had manure and the inability to thrive because 511 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 22: of such strains. 512 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: Well, the question that I have is what sort of 513 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: impact that Operation metro Surge have on the wild rice population. 514 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: Maybe then Democrats could go and add a few more 515 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: zeros to their dollar amount. Regarding the fiscal impact of 516 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: what took place with Operation Metro Surge, John. 517 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 19: Regarding the wild rice lady in Congress or Senator whatever, 518 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 19: did she say that she was going to boil it down? 519 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 11: But these people are nuts and to your point, yes, 520 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 11: they are willing to kill a living child, but they'll 521 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 11: protect the rights of wild rice to live. 522 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane. Well, these people are nuts. You can't 523 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 2: even reason with them anymore. Yep, No, they're insane. They're 524 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 2: absolutely insane. 525 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: Keeping with the hypocrisy, And thank you for the talkbacks 526 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,959 Speaker 1: this morning from the from the iHeartRadio app. So, there 527 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: was a couple of different news stories regarding you. Probably 528 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: weren't even aware of this, but there was still a 529 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: Target boycott going on. 530 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 2: By activist organization. 531 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: A national leader yesterday was calling for an end to 532 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,959 Speaker 1: the nationwide boycott of the Minneapolis based Target Corporation. Local 533 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: activists say it's very much still alive and well so. 534 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: Georgia based passed Jamal Bryant, in a YouTube video yesterday, 535 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: claimed the boycott was ending. He thanked the Target CEO 536 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: and the company's senior leadership for agreeing to fulfill a 537 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: two billion dollar promise to support diverse causes, including the 538 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: support of black owned businesses and brands and historically black 539 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: colleges and universities. But in a statement provided to bring 540 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: me the news by Target, they gave no hint of 541 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: a reversal and it's January twenty five decision to scrap 542 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: the series of diversity initiatives. And then locally, the boycott 543 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: is apparently not ending here at least in Minnesota. Local 544 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: organizer activist and well activist nikim O Levi Armstrong, who 545 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: likes to go in protest churches and get arrested for it, 546 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: she says it's far from over in Minnesota. She wrote 547 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: that Bryant does not speak to us for our community 548 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott at Target, 549 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: a company that's headquartered in Minneapolis. I have a question 550 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: how many of the Target boycott idiots occupied those targets 551 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: with their hippie dippy sit ins during Operation Metro Surge. 552 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to venture I guess quite a few of them, 553 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: just because we're making a lot of comparisons this morning, 554 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: you know, like the comparisons of Democrats who pass the 555 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: most extreme abortion policies in the United States, but then 556 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: want to declare that wild rice is a living being 557 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,240 Speaker 1: and deserves it's an errant right to live and exist. 558 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,240 Speaker 11: I can make it make sense. 559 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: In the meantime, speaking of Operation Metro Surge, Minneapolis officials say, 560 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 1: the financial fallout, it's still growing. 561 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 2: Oh, I bet it is. I bet it is. Every 562 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 2: day that goes by. 563 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: Minneapolis officials and Democrats here in the state figure out 564 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: new ways to try to tally the cost relating to 565 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: Operation Metro Surge so they can hopefully take advantage of it. 566 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: The recent city estimates show the federal immigration enforcement operation 567 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: has already created more than two hundred and three million 568 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: in impact across the city in just one month. 569 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,360 Speaker 11: Well, it's a lot. 570 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,280 Speaker 1: City Council President Elliott Payne said, Minneapolis is still working 571 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 1: to understand the full scope of the damage. You see, 572 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: they're hesitant to go and put a number forward because 573 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: they obviously want to put the biggest number possible. It 574 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: has no it has nothing to do with getting to 575 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: the truth or getting to affirm number. It's just the 576 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: biggest number they can How much can they say Operation 577 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: Metro Surge costs the people of Minneapolis without any regard 578 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: whatsoever that it was ninety nine point nine percent all 579 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: self inflicted. Paine said, the city has been reaching out 580 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: to lawmakers at every level of government for reimbursement or aid. 581 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 2: We have some audio. 582 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 1: Of some of those conversations taking place between the city 583 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: clown soul and the Minneapolis leadership that might have been 584 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: from parks and rec Pain is unsure how helpful the 585 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 1: government will be. However, it's hard to believe the federal government, 586 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: who created this chaos in the first place, would seek 587 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: to re leave us of the impact of the chaos. No, 588 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: the people on the street created the chaos, the words 589 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,280 Speaker 1: of Governor Tim Walls, Minneapolis Man Baby Mey or Mom Jeans, 590 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: Jacob Fry, the police chief, Keith Ellison, the activist organizations 591 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,720 Speaker 1: well funded by a lot of organizations too. By the way, 592 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: if we don't get any relief from the state or 593 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: federal government, we're going to have to absorb all that 594 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 1: completely at the local level. Oh what are they talking about. 595 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,479 Speaker 1: Oh they're talking about increasing property taxes. So the city 596 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,400 Speaker 1: will be left with very difficult choices. Payne went on 597 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: to say, very simply put, it looks like either cuts 598 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: to city services or an increase in property taxes. There's 599 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: no other way to be able to make up those differences. 600 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 1: We have a further audio coming from the city clown 601 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: Soil leadership asking the state for money. Conny Poe, an 602 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: economist who reviewed the city's early numbers, says a financial 603 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 1: impact of Operation Metro Surge will unfold in two phases. 604 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 1: He says, FIRSUS the immediate costs. This is King Bananian, 605 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: Saint Cloud University economist King Bananian. You're going to get 606 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: overtime and emergency spending going up because of the You 607 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,920 Speaker 1: need more of your peace officers working right away and 608 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,839 Speaker 1: so forth. Although officers weren't doing anything be it as. 609 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: You're going to see a second impact, which is softer revenues. 610 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: Sales taxes are going to go down, income tax flows, 611 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: other tax flows will shrink as well, which means that 612 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: next year's budget is the one thing that's going to 613 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 1: get tighter. 614 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:11,839 Speaker 2: He said. 615 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: The disruption on city streets, workers staying home, customers avoiding businesses, 616 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 1: and events canceled will eventually show up in the city's 617 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 1: bottom line, and it was all self inflicted. 618 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:25,719 Speaker 2: He added. 619 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: Next year's tax levy is set in September, and that's 620 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: when the impact could be felt by taxpayers. A city 621 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 1: document shows that at least two hundred and three million 622 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,720 Speaker 1: in losses, but warrens a true cost could be likely higher. 623 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure they are warning that. 624 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: The report warrants that the impacts will last in our 625 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 1: community for years, if not decades or a generation, and 626 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,879 Speaker 1: notes that at least seventy six thousand residents now need 627 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: urgent relief assistance. It's all such a joke. It's all 628 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 1: just a scam, one big, massive scam. You got Governor 629 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: Tim Walls out there saying that it's because of the 630 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:18,760 Speaker 1: efforts that these individuals are now trying to reap fiscal 631 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: reward for that caused Operation Metro Sarch to end. 632 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 4: What happened, right, and why they left was because of 633 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:27,720 Speaker 4: the people on the streets. 634 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 5: It wasn't the elected officials they left because of that. 635 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,399 Speaker 1: No, they left because the operation was over. They were 636 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: here longer because you supported individuals going out and obstructing 637 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,759 Speaker 1: the lawful law enforcement of ICE agents. They would have 638 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: been done sooner and gone sooner without the loss of life. 639 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,520 Speaker 1: If morons like Governor Tim Walls hadn't been out there 640 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,359 Speaker 1: encouraging individuals armed with their cell phones to go and 641 00:39:53,400 --> 00:40:01,720 Speaker 1: observe what was taking place, using the adage once again 642 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: of a broken clock being twice being right twice a day. 643 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: Jacob Frye, even he knows that this would have been 644 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:15,000 Speaker 1: a disaster, he actually vetoed an ordinance that the Minneapolis 645 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: City Council was attempting to extend the eviction notices. What's 646 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 1: fascinating about this story, though, is that it keys in 647 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: on something that I had said yesterday, but now I 648 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,719 Speaker 1: actually have the numbers. So, facing a push by advocates 649 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,840 Speaker 1: and select Minneapolis City Council members to approve the ordinance 650 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,239 Speaker 1: extending the eviction notice period, Minneapolis man Baby may Or 651 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: Mom Jeans, Jacob Frye announced that he had vetoed the proposal, 652 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: outlining an effort instead to focus on retail assistance for residents. 653 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,880 Speaker 1: If approved by fry the sixty day requirement would have 654 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,319 Speaker 1: stayed in effect until August thirty first of. 655 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six. 656 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,959 Speaker 1: But the reality is those evictions were taking place long 657 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:03,720 Speaker 1: before Operation Metro Surge had started, and, as a matter 658 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,640 Speaker 1: of fact, according to the Mayor's office, as of Friday, 659 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: March sixth, Minneapolis had recorded nine hundred and eighty two 660 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: eviction filings in twenty twenty six. That was compared to 661 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,000 Speaker 1: one thousand and forty during the same period in twenty 662 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: twenty five. It was a five point five percent decrease 663 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: year over year. And yet the scam artists on the 664 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: Minneapolis Sydney Council trying to go and throw a bone 665 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,840 Speaker 1: to individuals that they want to keep voting for them, 666 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,320 Speaker 1: or trying to say that these evictions were only happening 667 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 1: because of Operation Metro Surge, even though they went down. 668 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: Officials say the number of eviction filings so far in 669 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six remains consistent with a monthly average in 670 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:45,239 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. 671 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 2: But yeah, you're supposed to. 672 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 1: Believe them when they give you a number regarding the 673 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: cost of Operation Metro Surge. Again, it's all a scam. 674 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,240 Speaker 1: This is a Minneapolis City Council member who oddly looks 675 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:07,920 Speaker 1: just like alternative artist Moby. His name is Soren Stevenson 676 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: posted this video online very distraught at the veto of Minneapolis. 677 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,759 Speaker 1: Maam baby me or mom jeans Jacob Fry. 678 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,840 Speaker 13: Everyone in Minneapolis agrees our top priority right now is 679 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 13: to support our neighbors who were targeted and harassed by ice. 680 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: Let me stop right there. No, not everybody agrees with that. 681 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,319 Speaker 1: That is a lie, That is a generality that is 682 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: not indicative of the truth. And when you're talking about neighbors, 683 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,880 Speaker 1: you're defending individuals, many of whom had been charged with 684 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:44,280 Speaker 1: horrible crimes, you know, like sex offending, abusing children, domestic abuse, 685 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,040 Speaker 1: and assaults. 686 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,879 Speaker 2: Moby doesn't care. So the city council. 687 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 13: Here in Minneapolis, we voted to extend the eviction timeline 688 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 13: from thirty days to sixty days to give those neighbors 689 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 13: a little breathing room to come up with that extra Unfortunately, 690 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,920 Speaker 13: the mayor vetoed that this is a devastating blow to. 691 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,000 Speaker 5: Our immigrant neighbors. 692 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,280 Speaker 13: It's an abdication of his power to protect many app 693 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,800 Speaker 13: the data said that this policy would keep our neighbors 694 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 13: in their homes. The mayor chose to listen to landlords 695 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,880 Speaker 13: who cared more about immediate profits than keeping our neighbors 696 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:18,440 Speaker 13: in their homes. 697 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,240 Speaker 2: In Saint Paul, our neighbors. 698 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: They use profit like it's a pejorative. They care about 699 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:32,760 Speaker 1: their profits, their landlords. It's a business. Yes, they're offering 700 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,040 Speaker 1: up places to stay. But it's not alltruistic. They need 701 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 1: to make money off of it as well. It's their livelihoods. 702 00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 1: These idiots don't care. 703 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,279 Speaker 13: River are working to allocate three point eight million dollars 704 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,520 Speaker 13: for rent support. Tomorrow I'll start working with my colleagues 705 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,640 Speaker 13: to get our level of support closer to theirs. While 706 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 13: this money is not going to move fast enough to 707 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 13: help all the neighbors that this policy would have helped, 708 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,600 Speaker 13: it will be an essential stop gap. 709 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,120 Speaker 1: A little point on this, We have our next guest, 710 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,080 Speaker 1: Senate candidate Tom Weyler, will be joining us next here 711 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: on Twin Cities News Talk. But there was a piece 712 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 1: out of the Star Tribune from late last week, as 713 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 1: Operation Metro Surge recedes, concerns grow over tactics of Twin 714 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 1: Cities bounty hunters. There are no licenses needed to become 715 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,600 Speaker 1: a bounty hunter in Minnesota, an issue that is raising 716 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: concerns after highly public actions by bounty hunters in the 717 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:37,840 Speaker 1: Twin Cities this week. This entire article right is based 718 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:44,399 Speaker 1: off of this bogus claim. It's a smear campaign, that's 719 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:49,440 Speaker 1: all this is. They're moving off of Operation Metro Surge 720 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,719 Speaker 1: and now they're pointing out that, oh, some of these 721 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,919 Speaker 1: bounty hunters might have had some contracts with ICE, even 722 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,799 Speaker 1: though you have the federal government pushing back on that 723 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 1: no confirmation bounty hunters seen in downtown encounter deputized by 724 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:07,000 Speaker 1: the federal government. Their actions mixed with the continued vigilance 725 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,799 Speaker 1: of community members seeking to observe Operation Metro Search. They're 726 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: trying to conflate the two issues. So as Operation Metro 727 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,360 Speaker 1: Surge ends, you still have this issue of bounty hunters 728 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,720 Speaker 1: that have always existed here in Minnesota. The DHS denies 729 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,319 Speaker 1: contracting with bounty hunters last year and a request for 730 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,360 Speaker 1: information first reported by the Interset, the department conducted market 731 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 1: research with skip tracing vendors another term for bailbond agencies. 732 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,760 Speaker 1: But they want to keep this Operation Metro Searche fear alive. 733 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: So now you have the Star Tribune that's getting in 734 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 1: on the act of the activists saying that, oh, we've 735 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,640 Speaker 1: got these bounty hunters we got to contend with too. 736 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,319 Speaker 1: The situation isn't over. Bounty hunters exist and they do 737 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,600 Speaker 1: stuff like ICE, so you still need to be worried. 738 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,680 Speaker 1: It's all about control, control through propaganda and fear mongering, 739 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:02,120 Speaker 1: all right, coming up FBI alerts warning that Iran may 740 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: i a drone attack on American soil. During Operation Epic Fury, 741 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,480 Speaker 1: we actually saw a submarine, saying one of Iran's flag 742 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,239 Speaker 1: ship vessels. One of the first times in a long 743 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,080 Speaker 1: time we've had a submarine engaged in this kind of conflict. 744 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,319 Speaker 1: We're going to talk with a former submariner and now 745 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 1: send it. Candidate Tom Wiler next here on Twinsday's News 746 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,800 Speaker 1: Talk AM eleven thirty and one O three five FM.