1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, today, as we're 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,119 Speaker 1: watching the media try to pay Tim Waltz, the governor 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: of Minnesota, as this jovial, moderate Midwestern dad, coach, teacher, 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: this guy who gets all things done, I wanted to 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: actually bring someone in who knows his real track record 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: in the state of Minnesota. Lisa Dmouth is a Minnesota 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: state representative and the current House Minority Leader who's worked 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: with Governor Waltz since two thy eighteen, and they were 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: both elected to their current positions at that time. Thank 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Tutor. It's good to be with you, 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: and I really look forward to this conversation. 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: I'm me too. We were chatting a little bit about 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: what's gone on in Minnesota. It's so similar to what's 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: happened in Michigan, which makes sense because Gretchen Whitmer, the 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: governor of Michigan, was just out saying she loved Governor 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: Waltz because they've been kind of competing on progressive policies 18 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: for several years now. They were elected also, she was 19 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: also elected in twenty eighteen, so they've been watching each 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: other and trying to out progressive each other, I guess, 21 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: and I honestly think people don't know how progressive he is. 22 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: We've talked on the podcast about his connection to China, 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 1: and that's why we wanted to go into Minnesota and say, Okay, 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: we're going to give you the chance to tell us 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: exactly what's happening there. One of the things you were 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,919 Speaker 1: talking about was the budget. To me, this is terrifying 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: because it's very similar in Michigan, these record budgets, these 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: COVID surpluses that were just thrown away, and now a 29 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: raising of taxes. Same in Michigan. She raised our taxes here. 30 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: That should be a red flag to anyone. It is. 31 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 2: And financially, you know, even under the Biden Harris ticket, 32 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: everything in the country is more expensive. So when you 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: bring it down to the state level, and we are 34 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: on an unsustainable path, And just so your viewers actually 35 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: can hear this, we came into January twenty twenty three, 36 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: and although I've served in the legislature elected than eighteen 37 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: and started serving in twenty nineteen, this was my first 38 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: session as Minority leader in the House or Republican leader 39 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: in the House. So when we came in in twenty 40 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: twenty three full Democrat control. The other two sessions that 41 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: I'd served in, we were under a split government, and 42 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: it made it a little bit better. At least there 43 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 2: was a little bit of common sense, a little bit 44 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: of a backstop. But we came in with an eighteen 45 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: billion dollars surplus. Part of that were COVID dollars, so 46 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 2: you know they weren't going to be ongoing, but about 47 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: twelve billion of that was actually actually structural ongoing. So 48 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: anytime you spend eighteen billion dollars, there is going to 49 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 2: be ongoing spending. The Democrats do not like the word deficit. 50 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 2: They will ignore that word. They will argue against it. 51 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: They want it called a structural imbalance. And the reason 52 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: I bring that up is. 53 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: The word the thing always cracks me up, the way 54 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: they make it sound so much better, and you're like, wait, wait, wait, no, no, 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: that's not what that is. 56 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: Whatever you call it, we're going to be in worship 57 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: under government. We'll just talk about that. But not only 58 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: was the eighteen billion dollars enough and they spent it, 59 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: they raised our state budget another ten billion dollars. Taxes, fees, 60 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: we have delivery taxes, a gas tax tied to an inflator. 61 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: That is the most regressive tax. People that are trying 62 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: to just get to work don't need to be paying 63 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 2: more for gas that it is going to continually every 64 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 2: year go up many more fees in there. So our 65 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 2: state budget we are looking at a deficit. I'll be 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 2: the one to say it. We expect to take the 67 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: majority in the House. We are only four seats short, 68 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: and it is looking very good for us. We are 69 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: going to be the ones that are going to have 70 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: to make the hard decisions. 71 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: And I think it's important to point out that what 72 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats do is that they tax the most vulnerable 73 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: and they give back to the wealthy. And we talked 74 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: about this a little earlier. I mean the same in Michigan. 75 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: She tried to put in a gas tax that didn't 76 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: fly in the state of Michigan, but that was when 77 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: the legislature was still read and people were like, are 78 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: you out of your mind? You put a gas text in. 79 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: You hurt the most vulnerable people in the state. You 80 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: hurt the lowest income folks in the state. Everybody has 81 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: to get gas. So that's what these radical Democrats do. 82 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: They hurt the most vulnerable and then they subsidize the wealthy. 83 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: And that's what when you talk about this situation with 84 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: school lunches, this is happening across the country. Governor Walls 85 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: did it. Governor Whitmer did it. But the fact that 86 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: Walls did it, and he is now in the running 87 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: for Vice president of the United States. What they did 88 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: was they said, we're going to give free and reduced lunch, 89 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: well free lunch to have, not even free and reduced 90 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: free lunch to every student in this state. Now to 91 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: your point, kids that needed it, they had free and 92 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: reduce lunch. They manipulate this by saying, oh, you know, 93 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: it's embarrassing for these kids that have to get free 94 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: and reduced lunch in front of kids that don't. So 95 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: we're going to give free lunch to everybody. So we're 96 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: going to subsidize the rich people, well that didn't need 97 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: free lunch. We're going to take tax dollars from the 98 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: most vulnerable and pay for the wealthy kids to eat lunch. 99 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: Like there's no other way to make it so that 100 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: kids would free and reduce lunch aren't called out in 101 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: the line. 102 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: Well, and kids aren't called out in the line. You know, 103 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: I remember way back in school in elementary there would 104 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 2: be a different colored lunch ticket for the kids that 105 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: had free or reduce and they'd have to have that punched. 106 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: In the district that I represent, one of my schools, 107 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: they have a coding system. It's just like a box. 108 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: The kids punch in their lunch number. Nobody knows the difference. 109 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 2: You're not going through a different line, you're not grabbing 110 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: different food. And what we've heard from schools around the 111 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: state is there is so much waste because kids are 112 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: taking the free lunch that they have to take, eating 113 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: one or two things, throwing the rest away, and going 114 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: and buying all the cart because they can afford it. 115 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: It is ridiculous. And as House Republicans, we had a 116 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 2: number of amendments that would have made this so much better. 117 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: We wanted to increase you know, on the federal poverty 118 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 2: guidelines is how that is figured. We wanted to increase 119 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: that from one hundred and seventy five percent a federal 120 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: poverty guideline to two hundred percent or three hundred percent. 121 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 2: We wanted to make it so that those were facing 122 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 2: the most challenges would have the help that they needed, 123 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: but that wasn't enough. So people making a seven figure income, 124 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 2: their kids are getting free lunch. Let me tell you, 125 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 2: those people don't want their kids eating that unless the 126 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: kids want to. They have choices. It is just so 127 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 2: on the surface, so tone deaf for reality. But the 128 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 2: sound bites really play well. 129 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: They do, and it's a hard it's hard to explain 130 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: on the other side because you have to explain it. 131 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: You have to say you have to understand what they've 132 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: really done here. I mean, this is the opposite of Robinhood. 133 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: They're taking from the bore and giving to the rich. 134 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: It's insane, and yet it's really hard to get people 135 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: to hear that. When they hear all kids should be 136 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: able to there should be no food inequity and all 137 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: these weird thing that they say, and instead of just 138 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: there are kids that are hungry. You know, they come 139 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: up with these talking points. They're quick and they're concise, 140 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: and people go, yeah, I want to support that, having 141 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: no idea that they are giving money to the rich. 142 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I think that's so important and a 143 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: lot of times those talking points, like you said, you know, 144 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 2: when we're outdoor knocking right now, you have about ten 145 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: seconds at the door unless somebody wants to have a conversation. 146 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: You know, again, the mainstream media in the state of 147 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 2: Minnesota does not cover things fairly, and they don't cover 148 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: them if they might shed a potential questionable light on 149 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: the decisions that a one party Democrat controlled state have made. 150 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: And so we try to push it back. We can 151 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: get off on these side things eighteen billion dollars a surplus, 152 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 2: gone ten billion dollars in taxes and fees raise. Our 153 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: kids in the state of Minnesota are not reading at 154 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: grade level. We only have forty nine percent of our 155 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: kids reading at grade level. Third graders are reading only 156 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 2: forty seven percent of them can read at grade level. 157 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: And that is under Governor Walts. Those third graders were kindergartener, Yeah, 158 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: kindergarteners when he came in. They have been failing. So 159 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: he claims to be this teacher and coach and great guy. 160 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: You know what, I would think a teacher, a former teacher, 161 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: would look and say, we have got to get a 162 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: hold of this. Now, not going out, Tudor. We haven't 163 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: even started talking about the fraud. And I hope we 164 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: get a chance to talk about the fraud under Governor 165 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 2: Walls and what has been spent, wasted and gone out 166 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 2: to fraudsters. 167 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about it. Get into that. I mean, 168 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: that's something that happened in Michigan too. COVID was a 169 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: great time for fraudsters to come in because they had 170 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: this extended, extended welfare program and so they had and 171 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: they had no checks and balances, and that was something 172 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: that I don't think that anybody hit them hard enough on. 173 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: We had I think it was eight billion, eight or 174 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: nine billion dollars that the Whitmer administration just went. I 175 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: don't know, we don't know where it went. So tell 176 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: us about Governor Walls. 177 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 2: So, Governor Walls. During COVID, Minnesota Department of Education oversaw 178 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 2: a program called Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit that was 179 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 2: feeding kids during the pandemic because they weren't in school. Now, 180 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 2: we didn't have the free school lunches and breakfasts at 181 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 2: that time that was put in now. But they oversaw 182 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 2: this program and it has been proven two hundred and 183 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars have gone out to Feeding our Future. 184 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: Fraud to buy property in Africa, homes, cars, Yes, it 185 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 2: has gone out in fraud. The concept money thing you 186 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: state money, taxpayer dollars, and like I say, in the 187 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 2: state of Minnesota taxpayers, So the ones that are actually 188 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: paying for all this are tired of funding fraud and 189 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: what I'll tell you, I want to bring you through 190 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: a couple of different things. So that was just under 191 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 2: the Department of Education. So far, no one under the 192 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: Waltz administration has been held accountable. No commissioners have lost 193 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: their job, no government employees have been disciplined or lost 194 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 2: their job. So everybody just keeps it well. Just as 195 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 2: the commissioner was interviewed during this Office of Legislative Auditor report, 196 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: he said that he wasn't there to assess blame. But 197 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 2: yet the Office of Legislative Auditor in the state of 198 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 2: Minnesota is nonpartisan, so I'm not talking about partisan talking points, 199 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 2: nonpartisan saying that going back to twenty eighteen, so as 200 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 2: Governor Walls was coming in, he could have before the 201 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 2: pandemic gotten a hold of this, saying we don't know 202 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: for sure, but why don't we just stop it? Instead 203 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 2: he let it go forward because of a lack of oversight. 204 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: These were the things reported. There was a lack of 205 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: oversight and the conditions, the conditions were ripe for fraud. Now, 206 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: when you have fraud in one government agency, it usually 207 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: spreads through others. But yet there was no checks and balances, like, 208 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: if these people are creating fraud here, maybe we shouldn't 209 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 2: be giving them other benefits. Not only in the feeding 210 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 2: our future. Under Minnesota Department of Education, we also had 211 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 2: frontline worker pay, so five hundred million dollars was allocated 212 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 2: by the legislator to be sent out to those that 213 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 2: were working during the front lines during the height of 214 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 2: the pandemic. Took a lot of time to kind of 215 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,599 Speaker 2: get that through, but it made sense. We wanted to 216 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 2: help those that had put themselves out limited number of dollars. 217 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 2: Two hundred million dollars of the hot five hundred million 218 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 2: have gone out and fraud to people that were not eligible, 219 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 2: some that did not live in our state, some that 220 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 2: died before the application process even opened, not necessarily from COVID, 221 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: they were not alive to get these dollars. So instead 222 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: of almost nine hundred dollars checks to each person because 223 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 2: of the fraud, the people that got the checks four 224 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 2: hundred and eighty seven dollars per person, so half of 225 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: almost half of that went out to fraud. On top 226 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 2: of that, we've got an FBI investigation in auditism spending. 227 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 2: In four years, we have a seven hundred percent increase 228 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 2: on those that are providing autism services with a three 229 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 2: thousand percent increase on the payments going out to those. 230 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 2: Have there been any cross references or checks to know 231 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 2: about fraud and other areas. I don't know. So that's 232 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 2: Department of Human Services with the frontline worker pay, That's 233 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: the Department of Revenue that we talked about, the Department 234 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 2: of Education. Nobody again, has been held accountable. This is 235 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 2: solely on the shoulders of Governor Walls. He needs to 236 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 2: take responsibility when he's not going to hold those that 237 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 2: he's chosen to be commissioners responsible well. 238 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: And it used to be that we had a media 239 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: that would hold these governors responsible, and that's not the 240 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: situation in Minnesota. You've got this media that's covering their tracks. 241 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 242 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. I mean, you look at this campaign, 243 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: it's somewhat shocking. You have com Harris out there saying, oh, 244 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: prices are higher than we've ever seen. On day one, 245 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to lower them. She's the vice president, I mean, 246 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: not happening in a vacuum. She's not incapable of doing 247 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: anything now, and last I checked, the president wasn't in 248 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: the best shape, So seems like she could kind of 249 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: step in there now and do something. But she's running 250 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: on this. The media is not saying anything. The media 251 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: is not asking them to take questions, not asking them 252 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: to sit down, not asking them to answer for this 253 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: military record or anything that we're hearing about, walls, all 254 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: of these things. These are the big things, but you're 255 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: talking about how he actually has governed in your state, 256 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: and his record of governing is abysmal when we look 257 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: at COVID, and I'm not a fan of going back 258 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: to COVID, but I think in this particular case, you 259 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: have to look at how the person governed in a 260 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: crisis to understand what they would do on the world scale, 261 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: because we're going into to a time when we see 262 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: wars across the globe. We're very much teetering on the 263 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: edge of another world war. And COVID was a real 264 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: disaster that happened to this country, and he shut everything down, 265 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: kept kids out of school, kept people out of their churches, 266 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: but I think also the scary thing to me is 267 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: the COVID snitch line. And I say that because you 268 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: create a society of chaos, You create a society where 269 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: people are calling to say, get this person, get that person. 270 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: There's no accountability. I mean, this is an anonymous line 271 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: where you can call and say and tattle on your neighbor. 272 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: Who knows if you don't like your neighbor. It is 273 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous to have this, But it's also this ability 274 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: to kind of have government come in and control, have 275 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: government come in and take people and put them in 276 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: places that they people that they don't like, maybe take 277 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: them out of the scenario. We had it in We 278 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: had restaurants that stayed open. They handcuffed these people, took 279 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: them to jail. We had in Michigan a website where 280 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: they would put up any any business, no matter what restaurant, manufacturing, farm, 281 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: anyone who had COVID violations. It was just a public site, 282 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: so you can like publicly shame businesses that didn't comply 283 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: perfectly with the COVID loss. So tell us a little 284 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: bit about him during COVID, because I think that's so 285 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: telling as to how they're going to act when a 286 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: crisis occurs. 287 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you know when you talk about that snitch line, 288 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 2: that was shocking going back to when Governor Walls ran 289 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 2: on this one Minnesota. That was his campaign slogan when 290 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 2: he first ran for governor. What we didn't know was 291 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: that was going to mean one rule Minnesota. 292 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: Right exactly. We did not. 293 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, we did not realize that he was not doing 294 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 2: anything to unify in the time of a crisis. And 295 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: he could have done that, He could have looked at it. 296 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: He kept all of our kids out of school in 297 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: public schools, but our private schools and our tribal schools 298 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 2: could remain open. So, I mean we first heard from him, 299 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 2: you know, there were. 300 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: Pretty fine how that worked, because that's shocking to me. 301 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: A lot of people when they finally realized how their 302 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: kids were being educated. You know, maybe parents that were 303 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: listening in on Zoom because the kids were all on zoom, 304 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: you know for the last part. 305 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: Of the. 306 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: Nineteen twenty school year, so you know until May or June, 307 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 2: they were on Zoom. I happened to have a daughter 308 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 2: that was an elementary teacher at the time. She went 309 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 2: out on maternity leave and then returned for the last 310 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: two weeks, and it was it was absolutely wild. But 311 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 2: parents were realizing both what their kids were being educated 312 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 2: in even in that and parents made a very much 313 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: of a different choice. They started looking at private schools. 314 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: Private schools in the fall of twenty twenty were at 315 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 2: capacity most of them. Parents were made choices to homeschool 316 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: because this you can be in, then you have to 317 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 2: be out. The guidelines that were given from the Governor's 318 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: office and the Department of Education had kind of like 319 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: a whole step process of how you needed to do 320 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 2: it and when you had to report. And it was complicated. 321 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: And I understand that we were in time of a crisis, 322 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 2: but we did not have a governor that unified us 323 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: in a time of crisis. The other thing with our 324 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 2: businesses shutting them down and then having the Attorney General 325 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 2: threatened to come in and to have people arrested, businesses closed, 326 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 2: they are still trying to recover. There are new business mandates, 327 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: taxes that are put on in what I've talked to 328 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 2: you about about the budget already that even this far out, businesses, 329 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 2: the small ones, even some of the large ones, but 330 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 2: the small ones specifically are still in that recovery mode, 331 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 2: and I would have constituents that own businesses call me 332 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: because Governor Waltz would do a weekly zoom update with 333 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 2: the Commissioner of Health and they would call me and 334 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 2: we're still shut down. What do we do? Can you 335 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 2: give me any hope? I finally started giving out his 336 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 2: office number. I said, I've sent letters, I've tried everything 337 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 2: that I can. You can call him. And I remember 338 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 2: a resort owner, she was probably in her late seventies. 339 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 2: She said, these are just a handful of people that 340 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 2: have come for forty fifty years. And I said, you 341 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 2: can call the governor and she was so shocked she 342 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: could and I said, he's not going to answer. They 343 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: never returned the calls. You leave a voicemail, but you 344 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: can do that. So people were looking just to have 345 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 2: some common sense. There isn't a single person in our 346 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: state that wanted to make someone else sick, but we 347 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 2: were told that we were going to have it. Seventy 348 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 2: thousand people die in the state of Minnesota. So he 349 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: closed everything the first two weeks to flatten the curve. 350 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 2: Those were the terms that were used. You know this 351 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: big like bell curve. Oh I remember anyway, So that 352 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: was you know, going back. But then with the murder 353 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 2: of George Floyd and the protests that ensued, and protests 354 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 2: turned to riots, and Governor Walls was nowhere to be found. 355 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 2: We had the city of many of Minneapolis burning for 356 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 2: three days before he finally took action. 357 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: You know, I was just watching a video of this 358 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: because I think people really need to recognize what did 359 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: go on. I think he completely botched the COVID crisis. 360 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: Went after people for their religious beliefs, went after people 361 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: for their values, whether they were Christian values or American values, 362 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: they weren't his values. And that was who was targeted. 363 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 1: And I look at that and I think that was critical. 364 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: But in the midst of this, he's targeting people. You 365 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: have to stay home, you have to wear a mask, 366 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: you can't open your business. But then he allows days 367 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: of protests where people are not masks, some are, some aren't. 368 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: Who cares, they're all together. They're breaking into people's businesses. 369 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: I was just watching a report from NBC where there 370 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: is a guy on the streets and he's saying, hey, 371 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm out here, and you can see it's total chaos 372 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: behind him. I'm out here. I don't see a single 373 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: police officer. I don't see a single fire truck. I 374 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: don't see the National Guard. There is no one protecting 375 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: these people. This is a neighborhood where you've got a 376 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: lot of minority entrepreneurs. This is their family business. They 377 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: poured their heart and soul and all their money into 378 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: this and it just gets destroyed. And then you have 379 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 1: the governor's wife quoted as saying I opened the windows 380 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: so I could smell Minneapolis burning. 381 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 2: What yeah, yeah, And that you know as a as 382 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 2: a lawmaker, when I when I watched this start happening, 383 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 2: and then the governor's lack of response, and I remember 384 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 2: the night that was the very worst where they let 385 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 2: the third Precinct go down. What I should say as preference, 386 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 2: the district that I represent right now is in central Minnesota. 387 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 2: I was actually born here, but my family moved when 388 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 2: I was seventh to Minneapolis, and we lived from the 389 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: time I was in seventh through eleventh grade just blocks 390 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: off of George Floyd Square. So even though I don't 391 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 2: have family in that area anymore, the night that everything 392 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 2: was so like the complete chaos, I'd watched it every night, 393 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 2: and the news they had live coverage, local media which 394 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 2: was very good because that's the only way you could 395 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 2: kind of know what was going on. But I had 396 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 2: Twitter open, and I had two computers going, and I'm 397 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 2: watching everything. And they let the third Precinct go down. 398 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: And what you've heard Governor Wall say is they thought 399 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 2: that was going to quell the violence. 400 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: And letting the businesses burn, letting people's yes, letting their 401 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: life savings go up and flames. I'll just let see 402 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: if that works exactly. 403 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 2: So I and a handful of other lawmakers and some 404 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: of the business owners in the area had a chance 405 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 2: to tour and kind of walk that area of Lake 406 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 2: Street and we met with some of those Mercado Central 407 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 2: is the place that I remember having this conversation outside 408 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 2: with some of these business owners that said, they said 409 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: somebody would be here to protect us, so we left. 410 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: They had older business owners, family members sitting in the doorway, 411 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 2: turning away those that were there to do violence. They 412 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: had people from other places on. 413 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: I remember people camping out in their stores hoping that 414 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: they could stop the people from coming in and breaking 415 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: into their homes or into their stores. They were spending 416 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: the night in their own businesses because they had no protection, 417 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: nothing they called, They called nine to one one. No 418 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: one's coming. 419 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 2: No, And you would think that a governor would actually respond. 420 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 2: And I remember one of the news stations the reporter saying, governor. 421 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: Where are you? Where are you? 422 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: And obviously he was nowhere to be found. One of 423 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 2: the most chilling text or Twitter tweets that I saw 424 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: was from a Democrat lawmaker in that area that represented 425 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: a part of Minneapolis and said, you know, didn't assess 426 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 2: blame whether or not people were you know there was 427 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 2: going to be protection or not, but telling people how 428 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: to protect their homes. Pull your garbage cans inside, don't 429 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,239 Speaker 2: leave them outside, wet down everything around your area. And 430 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 2: I'm thinking your governor, our governor is failing us. Yet 431 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: a lawmaker from the area is trying as best as 432 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 2: he could to protect the area that he represented. What 433 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 2: an abject failure. So when you think of this same 434 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 2: governor that failed in so many ways. Plus when you 435 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 2: talk about you know, Vice President Harris saying that she'll 436 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 2: cut taxes and you she'll cut spending, Well, the person 437 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: she's picked as running mate will not do that. Obviously 438 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 2: he's on on break. 439 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: She'll do that either. I think again that sounds like 440 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: a nice thing to say. There's nobody holding her accountable. 441 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: There's nobody saying, well, wait a minute, why haven't you 442 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: done anything yet? You've seen the American people suffering. Stick 443 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: around for more of my interview with Minnesota State Representative 444 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: Lisa Damouth, but first I want to tell you about 445 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: my partners at IFCJ. 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With Lisa Dumouth 472 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: right after this, she picked a guy who is a 473 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: total progressive to run with. She had the opportunity to 474 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: pick a Josh Shapiro, who people felt was more of 475 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: a moderate, was going to talk to the Jewish part 476 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: of the party. There's some concern over whether or not 477 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: she didn't choose him because of his Jewish background. Tim 478 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 1: Walls has an interesting connection to a Muslim cleric who 479 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: was celebrating October seventh, the Hamas attack. He's had him 480 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: to at least over to his I believe his home. 481 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,479 Speaker 1: He's hosted him five times as governor of Minnesota. Is 482 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: this is this ticket going to be reaching out to 483 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: the Hamas, the Hamas supporters And I'm not saying let 484 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: me be clear, this is not who I think the 485 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: Muslim community is. This is a man who supported and 486 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: celebrated the Hamas attack. Is Tim Walls, and for that matter, 487 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris trying to appease the supporters of a terrorist organization. 488 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 2: You know, I can't speak to that. I don't know. 489 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 2: I would say I, along with the rest of the country, 490 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 2: would hope not. But knowing that Tim Walls has changed 491 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 2: his tune all the way from Congress the moderate NRA 492 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 2: indoors to now know absolutely taking away Second Amendment rights 493 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: as much as he can and moving forward, I don't 494 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 2: know who he will be as this continues to go on, 495 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 2: as his campaign as vice president continues to go on, 496 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 2: if they were to be elected, I don't know who 497 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 2: he would be. 498 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: So as we watched these news casts and everything, and 499 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: we're looking when we're looking back at what happened in 500 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I again remind everyone that was in the 501 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: midst of COVID where he was telling everybody to stay home. 502 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: The combination of Kamala Harris telling people to stay in 503 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: the streets and riot his wife saying she was smelling 504 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: to burn, and there was like some sort of a 505 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: twisted enjoyment in that, and him refusing to send in 506 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: the National Guarden. I know there's some question about that story, 507 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,959 Speaker 1: but the truth about that behind the scenes is that 508 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: he felt that he hadn't gotten a good enough report 509 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 1: from them as to how they would stop the violence, 510 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: so he waited. Now, ultimately he did send in the 511 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: National Guard, but he waited. There is no waiting when 512 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: you have a Chinese by balloon. There is no waiting 513 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: when you've got jets on the airspace in Alaska and 514 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: you have to scramble your own jets out there. There 515 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: is no waiting when you're about to be attacked by 516 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. So if this guy is the guy 517 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: who is second in command and he's like, you know what, 518 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: I haven't gotten the exact plan I want yet, so 519 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: I'm just going to wait and see in an emergency. 520 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: What does this mean for the country. 521 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: I think it means that our country will be less safe. 522 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 2: We know that in Minnesota we were less safe, and 523 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 2: again the financial things unable to aurffloord our lives in 524 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 2: a meaningful way here. We are not doing better under 525 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: Governor Walt. Our country will be less safe and worse 526 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 2: off when it comes to a Harris Walls ticket if 527 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 2: they were to win that election, we will not be 528 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 2: in a position. I don't have confidence that the vice 529 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: president would do what she has done as president because 530 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 2: she I can't point to what she's done. She wants 531 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 2: to lower prices. 532 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: Right now we're pundering. 533 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me what she's done. Yeah, tell me what 534 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 2: she's done. And I know from Governor Wall's track record 535 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: giving driver's license to those that are here illegally, giving 536 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 2: health care this is on the back of taxpayers. We 537 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 2: need legal immigration and I absolutely support that. So them 538 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 2: running the country. I don't know what that would look like, 539 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 2: but it would not be good. There's nothing good that 540 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: would come out of it. 541 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: Well, you make a great point. Walls goes beyond just 542 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: not being secure and I think that's been the complaint 543 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: with Harris, is like, you don't even know how to 544 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: secure the border. You were the borders are you were 545 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: in charge of this? 546 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? 547 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: And she can say, oh, I was in charge of diplomacy. WHOA, Okay, 548 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: what'd you do? 549 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: You know? 550 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: Show me what you did to stop the massive amount 551 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: of flooding of immigrants coming across the border, of illegal 552 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: immigrants coming across the border. But he goes beyond that. 553 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: He says, I don't care about your status. I want 554 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: to create a sanctuary state. He's off for sanctuary beyond 555 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: cities sanctuary states. He's created the sanctuary state. He wants 556 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 1: to provide healthcare, and he wants to give housing and 557 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: money and everything and driver's licenses to illegals. But we're 558 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,959 Speaker 1: talking about allowing people who we don't know who they 559 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: are when they're not vetted, we don't know that they 560 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: came here because they wanted to assimilate and become an American. 561 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: They're giving them voting rights. Essentially, once you give somebody 562 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: an ID, given them voting rights. And I think we 563 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: have to be very clear about that. But also, again, 564 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: you are taking the hard earned money of Minnesotans and 565 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: paying for someone's health care. World, they have to pay 566 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: for their own health care right. 567 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 2: Right exactly, and it is so off balanced with the 568 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 2: things they want to do. Think of energy alone. We 569 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 2: know that Vice President Harris her energy policies are concerning. 570 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: We know that Governor Waltz has signed into law Clean 571 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 2: Energy by twenty forty to kind of figure it out 572 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 2: as we get there. There's a vilification of gas powered vehicles. 573 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: Minnesota gets really cold, and if you want to have it, 574 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 2: if you want to have an electric vehicle, do that. 575 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: I think that's great, but don't make it a penalty 576 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 2: if you choose something else. And the vilification of the 577 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 2: different types of energy. I think energy is in all 578 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 2: of the above. We need all forms of energy to 579 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 2: keep it affordable and reliable. So when you look at 580 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 2: all of the different things healthcare again, wanting to get 581 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 2: rid of healthcare, as the Vice President has said, there 582 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 2: have already been changes that Governor Waltz. He signed a 583 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 2: law into a place that because of the way managed 584 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 2: care is handled insurers, private people on insurance plans, almost 585 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 2: thirty two thousand Minnesotans will be losing their healthcare as 586 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 2: they know it now. There is a track record, so 587 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: it's not just talking about what maybe they want to do. 588 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 2: I've got a track record. It is data. Again, it's 589 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 2: not part of it is data of what Tim Walls 590 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: has already done to the state of Minnesota. And I 591 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 2: don't believe our country would be in a better place 592 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 2: with him as vice president. No. 593 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: No, he's the face of big government and he wants 594 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: to tell you what your car is going to be. 595 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: He wants to tell you who you're going to pay 596 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: for for their healthcare. He wants to tell you what 597 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: healthcare providers you're going to choose. I mean, this is crazy. 598 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: And no one questions that it's cold in Minnesota. I mean, 599 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: the one thing I love about Minneapolis is you can 600 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: go places, you can walk places without ever going outside 601 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: because it's so darn cold there. So if you are 602 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: there in the winter, there's all these different ways to 603 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: get from building to building. So there's not a question 604 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: the governor Walls knows if you have to go to 605 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: electric vehicles in states like Minnesota and Michigan, you are 606 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,959 Speaker 1: in big trouble when it comes to wintertime with an 607 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: electric vehicle. We all are aware of that. Everybody knows 608 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: batteries die in the cold, but I guess it doesn't 609 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: matter to these people, because again, radical big government, We're 610 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: going to force you to do whatever we say, and 611 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: we don't care how it affects you. Listen. I am 612 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: so grateful you were here today. State Representative Lisa Dumouth, 613 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming and talking to us. 614 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I look forward to future conversations 615 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: as this moves forward, but thank you, Tutor for the 616 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: opportunity to bring a little bit of truth to the 617 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 2: race that we see ahead of us, and a little 618 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 2: bit of common sense on what has been passed and 619 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 2: what we maybe need to do to change it. 620 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you and thank you all for joining us 621 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: on the Tutor Dixon Podcast for this episode and others. 622 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: Go to Tutor dixonpodcast dot com and subscribe right there, 623 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: or head over to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 624 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts and join us next time 625 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: on the Tutor Dixon Podcast. 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