Speaker 1: All right, this is Jeffrey Lord filling in for our
Speaker 1: friend Sean Hannity. You can call us at eight hundred
Speaker 1: and nine four one seven, three two six, And we
Speaker 1: are going to talk now with a friend of mine
Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, a great Pennsylvanian by the name of Jeff Bartos,
Speaker 1: who was a former Senate and lieutenant governor candidate himself
Speaker 1: and played, as I understand it, a real role, serious,
Speaker 1: big role in the campaign to get Dave McCormick elected
Speaker 1: to the United States Senate. Jeff how are you happy
Speaker 1: New Year?
Speaker 2: Happy to hear to you, Jeffrey, and thank you so
Speaker 2: much for having me on. And of course I hope
Speaker 2: you and your family had a joyful and relaxing and
Speaker 2: just very amazing Christmas holiday. As we wind down, probably
Speaker 2: you know, not many years in our lives more extraordinary
Speaker 2: than twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Boy, I think that's the case. You know, as I
Speaker 1: said to people that I would meet in the campaign
Speaker 1: as time went on, I said, take notes, because you're
Speaker 1: going to want to look back, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you forget some of these things, this was a big deal.
Speaker 1: This was serious, major American history here. So what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts jeff on Pennsylvania. You know, I thought from
Speaker 1: the get go that it was entirely possible that President
Speaker 1: Trump was going to carry Pennsylvania. And I thought that
Speaker 1: Dave had a more uphill battle simply because his opponent
Speaker 1: was Bob Casey Junior, but still at all they both
Speaker 1: came through. What are your thoughts on the electorate in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and is it shifting a little bit? Is it
Speaker 1: more more red than purple? Or what are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Well, President Trump, I mean, Jeffery, you were very you know,
Speaker 2: you were very involved in twenty sixteen, and you had
Speaker 2: a first hand view of the remarkable win that President
Speaker 2: Trump and the team, our friend Tay Christian and David
Speaker 2: Urban and the great folks that were all involved in
Speaker 2: that twenty sixteen campaign, and what President Trump was able
Speaker 2: to do. At the same time, Senator to me won
Speaker 2: re election in twenty sixteen. So it was a fascinating
Speaker 2: study about Pennsylvania's electorate, which I think really is a
Speaker 2: microcosm of the country.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I grew up in reading, and I know, you know,
Speaker 2: you and I have deep roots in the Lancaster and
Speaker 2: Harrisburg area as well, and so you know Cheryl's from Allentown,
Speaker 2: but I feel much more familiar, if you will, Barks
Speaker 2: County and Lehigh County than I Montgomery County, where we.
Speaker 3: Raised our girls.
Speaker 2: And it just I think that what President Trump was
Speaker 2: able to achieve in twenty sixteen never went away. You know,
Speaker 2: we had some years where we didn't win elections, and
Speaker 2: who knows we can look back on that, I guess,
Speaker 2: and articles have been written, but I always felt for
Speaker 2: me personally from the morning of October seventh of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three right through four am on November sixth of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, I never I mean, let me put
Speaker 2: it more positively, I had an unshakable belief for me
Speaker 2: and Cheryl, our family and the people that we spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time I'm with that not only was
Speaker 2: President Trump going to win, but that Dave McCormick was
Speaker 2: going to win. And as the summer went on, I
Speaker 2: felt very strongly that.
Speaker 3: We were going to flip those three flippable.
Speaker 2: United States House seats. We ended up flipping two of them,
Speaker 2: and of course Stacy Garrity and Day Sunday and Tim
Speaker 2: Defour were able to win. So the first time I
Speaker 2: think in my lifetime since the attorney general's race in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania became an elected.
Speaker 3: Spot where we've held three row offices.
Speaker 2: So I think the elector in Pennsylvania microcosm of the country.
Speaker 2: The message that President Trump led with, you know, that
Speaker 2: uniting message of cutting through the silos of identity politics
Speaker 2: that the Left have been trying to build for the
Speaker 2: best fifteen years.
Speaker 3: He obliterated them with a message.
Speaker 2: That united all Pennsylvanians and all Americans around economic prosperity,
Speaker 2: peace through strength, a secure border, those cut across socioeconomic lines,
Speaker 2: racial lines, religious lines, age lines.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm still I mean, you can hear in my voice.
Speaker 2: I'm still as excited today as I was on the
Speaker 2: evening of November fifth and early November sixth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too. Well, I think it's amazing. And
Speaker 1: from my own experience earlier in my career, one of
Speaker 1: the things I did in working for Senator John Hines,
Speaker 1: and I was his executive assistant in the Senate. But
Speaker 1: as you and you know how this works, when you
Speaker 1: get to election season, if you're going to be participating
Speaker 1: in the campaign, you have to leave the Senate staff
Speaker 1: and you know, go from Washington to Philadelphia and get
Speaker 1: involved there. And one of the things that I did,
Speaker 1: I became a big coordinator of what was known in
Speaker 1: the day as Latinos for Hines, and it was very interesting.
Speaker 1: He paid a great deal of attention to the Hispanic
Speaker 1: community in the Philadelphia area and around the state. He
Speaker 1: would go to their events, we would be I would
Speaker 1: be talking on the phone to these folks all the time.
Speaker 1: And of course he won re election in in you know,
Speaker 1: considerable fashion, and I thought, there's a lesson there for
Speaker 1: Republican candidates. You know, get out, don't just do the
Speaker 1: traditional sort of things that Republican candidates have always done,
Speaker 1: but go out to other constituencies and spend real time
Speaker 1: with him and and you know, create the bond that
Speaker 1: I've seen created. This is this is something that can
Speaker 1: be done. And you know, when I would drive around
Speaker 1: the state, as you know, yeah, I'd get invited to
Speaker 1: go here or there, and I would drive and it
Speaker 1: always amazed me how many Trump signs I saw. They're
Speaker 1: all over the place, and I thought, hello, is there
Speaker 1: a message here of what's coming. But I really do
Speaker 1: think that you know, there are lots of grassroots enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for him, and I'm I'm wondering what your thoughts are
Speaker 1: for how it plays down the road. I mean, come
Speaker 1: January twentieth, that what well.
Speaker 3: So at, I'll tell you a real quick personal story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lines.
Speaker 2: We live in Laura Marion and you know, I say,
Speaker 2: a lot of highly educated people who may have a
Speaker 2: somewhat lacking in common sense, and we love most of
Speaker 2: our neighbors. It's also grown over the last twenty years
Speaker 2: to be a very hotbed a really kind of vibrant
Speaker 2: Orthodox Jewish community in and around where we live.
Speaker 3: And oh gosh, it was a couple of days.
Speaker 2: After the election, Charyl and I were going for a
Speaker 2: walk and a rabbi that I know, Orthodox rabbi that
Speaker 2: I know, stopped his car as he saw us walking,
Speaker 2: came over and gave.
Speaker 1: Me the biggest hug wow, wow, that I've.
Speaker 2: Probably ever received from a man, and not someone not
Speaker 2: in my family. And he just the joy on his
Speaker 2: face and the relief on his face that President Trump
Speaker 2: had one, that David won, and that we had had
Speaker 2: this big victory up and down the ballot. He didn't
Speaker 2: even need to say anything. It was just there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people I know and we saw a lot
Speaker 2: of Trump signs in our community, in our neighborhood that
Speaker 2: you never would have seen in twenty twenty and you
Speaker 2: didn't see back in twenty sixteen either.
Speaker 3: So it was you.
Speaker 2: Had the sense. And so for me looking forward, I
Speaker 2: think we as a Republican Party, we had a reconstituted,
Speaker 2: realigned Republican party with the statewide success that we had,
Speaker 2: the House race success, we had the state Senate, I
Speaker 2: mean that state senancy picking up a state senency in
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and northeas Philadelphia, right, we have a once in
Speaker 2: a generation you made reference to Senator Hines and of
Speaker 2: course President Reagan at that same time. We have a
Speaker 2: once in a generation opportunity to really take this message
Speaker 2: of economic prosperity, peace through strength, safe neighborhoods, secure border,
Speaker 2: and we have a chance to take that, I think
Speaker 2: through for the next decade or more and really build
Speaker 2: a sustainable coalition that this should win a lot more elections,
Speaker 2: and it's on us to do it. We have, I mean,
Speaker 2: President Trump's a once in a one hundred year cana
Speaker 2: that JD. Vance is a generational talent. Dave McCormick ran
Speaker 2: one of the best Senate campaigns in our lifetimes with
Speaker 2: a great team. So we have leaders at the federal
Speaker 2: level and across the state that they can take us there,
Speaker 2: and it's really up to us to deliver. And I'm
Speaker 2: as confident as I was that President Trump was going
Speaker 2: to win and A Dave was going to win and
Speaker 2: we were going to have this success. That's how confidence
Speaker 2: I am that we're going to deliver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, delivery is all. And one of the things
Speaker 1: I learned in working for Senator Hines there was always
Speaker 1: two tracks to what he was doing. One was the
Speaker 1: thing that every United States senator has to do. You know,
Speaker 1: the issue comes up about some foreign policy situation, or
Speaker 1: do we vote yay or nay on some tax bill
Speaker 1: or budget bill or what have you. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: there's Pennsylvania itself and whatever problems may be current for
Speaker 1: Pennsylvanians that are not current for Americans and other states.
Speaker 1: And when I was there, we were with the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Navy Yard was a big deal and because of the
Speaker 1: Reagan build up, there was a constant battle to get
Speaker 1: the Pentagon to deliver ships. They called it the SLEPT
Speaker 1: program Service Life Extension Program, and to get these battleships
Speaker 1: and aircraft carriers into the Navy yards so that they
Speaker 1: could be reoutfitted and sent sent back out. Well, hello,
Speaker 1: and you will get this immediately. There was a guy
Speaker 1: named Trent Lott who represented a like the Philadelphia Navy
Speaker 1: Yard equivalent in Mississippi or Louisiana. I know he was
Speaker 1: centered from Mississippi. But we were constantly doing battle and
Speaker 1: we had to, you know, bring the the Navy yard
Speaker 1: folks into the Pentagon. They had to se the Secretary
Speaker 1: of the Navy. They had to make their case, but
Speaker 1: we made sure that they got it. And I remember
Speaker 1: on one occasion Senator Hines and I was with him.
Speaker 1: We were able to borrow thanks to the good graces
Speaker 1: of our visitor to the Navy Yard, that would be
Speaker 1: Senator John Tower from Texas, who was then the Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Senate Armed Services Committee. We were given a
Speaker 1: loaner from President Reagan of Marine I and we flew
Speaker 1: from the Pentagon to the Philadelphia Navy Yard so that
Speaker 1: Senator Tower could be shown the USS Wisconsin, which of
Speaker 1: course had been in World War Two in all of this,
Speaker 1: and it was now in Philadelphia in the Navy Yard
Speaker 1: for slap and how important it was and it really
Speaker 1: helped a lot with all this and that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing. And then you know, this being a big
Speaker 1: state with different interests, you'd go to the other end
Speaker 1: of the state and you realize you needed to work
Speaker 1: on tariff issues with US steel. So that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that you know, is down home politics, if
Speaker 1: you will, that I think can't be forgotten. It isn't
Speaker 1: just the national issues here. And I think, wow, we
Speaker 1: have such a diverse state. You know, I went to
Speaker 1: high school in my last few years of high school
Speaker 1: in Allentown, and Allentown is an area and it isn't
Speaker 1: Lancaster as it were.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's I find Pennsylvania having. It's been such
Speaker 2: a privilege to run twice statewide, once as a standard
Speaker 2: bearer of our party as a Republican nominee for lieutenant
Speaker 2: governor back in twenty eighteen with our friend Scott Wagner.
Speaker 2: What a privilege it is the campaign of the state
Speaker 2: like Pennsylvania because it's so diverse, and you never I mean,
Speaker 2: the issues are never forget boring, right, They're they're never dull,
Speaker 2: they're never easy. You're always challenged.
Speaker 3: But we have the leadership to do it. I think
Speaker 3: a race to look for. Look, we should take a
Speaker 3: little break from looking at.
Speaker 2: The upcoming race is but there's going to be a
Speaker 2: primary in Philadelphia in I believe April or May. That's
Speaker 2: we have a chance to take out the Soros backed prosecutor.
Speaker 2: And that will be you know, in the Democrat primary.
Speaker 2: There will be people lining up and I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: surprised if we see some of the folks who got
Speaker 2: involved at national politics for the first time recognizing that
Speaker 2: they could be a counterweight or frankly, even a prevail
Speaker 2: over the Soros back which we did just you know
Speaker 2: last month. We should be able to take some of that,
Speaker 2: some of that energy and some of those wins and
Speaker 2: some of that organizing that we did just over the
Speaker 2: last year or last year and a half and take
Speaker 2: that to taking back cities like Philadelphia. Philadelphia is critical
Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania as well being an economy, and the only thing,
Speaker 2: really not the only thing, the major thing holding us
Speaker 2: back right now is the district attorney who won't prosecute crimes.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journals today, I'll bet about it. I'm
Speaker 2: shocked up in the Wall Street Journal and there's an
Speaker 2: o bed about Philadelphia and the DA and how he's
Speaker 2: backed the mayor's progress. This is the Democrats are eating
Speaker 2: each other for the good of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: For the good of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: We really have a chance now, I think to take
Speaker 2: out just frankly, the worst, the worst elected official in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania right now and Larry Krafts and put someone in
Speaker 2: there who will actually prosecute crimes.
Speaker 1: Well, I've become increasingly convinced. I mean, this whole business
Speaker 1: with sorrow's prosecutors around the country, Uh, watching what's going out,
Speaker 1: And I guess it was Los Angeles, where you know,
Speaker 1: sort of a similar situation, and finally there was a rebellion.
Speaker 1: I forget where there's Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Speaker 3: But both both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a rebellion to all of this. And
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I think people
Speaker 1: sometimes forget, and this applies to President Biden as well,
Speaker 1: is you've got candidates out there that say elect me
Speaker 1: and I'll do a B and C. Then they get
Speaker 1: elected and they actually do a B and C and
Speaker 1: it turns out the results are terrible and it backfires.
Speaker 1: And in this situation, you had I think people at
Speaker 1: the around the country that saw the Biden presidency at
Speaker 1: work and said, you know, thanks, but no thanks.
Speaker 2: It was a whole scale I mean, for the for
Speaker 2: the sitting president who's on his way out to once
Speaker 2: again failed to take any responsibility for the failures of
Speaker 2: the administration. Right then administration where nobody was fired, going
Speaker 2: all the way back to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
Speaker 2: is yes, twenty twenty one, all the way.
Speaker 3: Forward to its last days.
Speaker 2: This is really I said about the vice president's Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris's campaign. It was a campaign born in desperation
Speaker 2: that meandered for one hundred and ten days or so
Speaker 2: without a message, and then you know, died not with
Speaker 2: a bang, with a whimper. And you really could almost
Speaker 2: talk about the Biden presidency that way. I remember they
Speaker 2: installed him as the nominee back in the spring of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty in desperation. And this is the presidency we
Speaker 2: will we will long forget. Yeah, you know, like they
Speaker 2: little remember this, this administration. I think thirty forty years
Speaker 2: down the road, it will.
Speaker 1: Be I thank you, right, Jeff, Jeff, we are getting
Speaker 1: the hand sign signal here, So thank you very much
Speaker 1: for coming on the future, Beckons, and I know you
Speaker 1: will be involved.
Speaker 2: A healthy and happy new Year to you and your
Speaker 2: family and all of your listeners. And thanks thanks for
Speaker 2: having me on today.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey, thank you you bet bye bye. All right, welcome
Speaker 1: back to our last half hour. This is Jeffrey Lord
Speaker 1: filling in for our friend Sean Hannity, and feel free
Speaker 1: to call us at eight hundred and nine four one seven,
Speaker 1: three two six. And as I read the board, I
Speaker 1: see that there is Bob from Massachusetts who knew me
Speaker 1: from Crescent Street where I grew up, and that his
Speaker 1: dad was my principal. Bob, are you there, I'm there,
Speaker 1: jeff all right, give me your last name.
Speaker 4: President. We're ready to vote for you and give you
Speaker 4: a room similar at Forbes Library that we gave Calvin Coolidge.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you know my dad held Calvin Coolidge's Ward
Speaker 1: two seat on the city council when we were there
Speaker 1: and I was a kid. Wow, And I always say
Speaker 1: Calvin Coolidge is the one president who really worked his
Speaker 1: way up from the bottom. He was I think first
Speaker 1: a town clerk, then I think he became the town solicitor.
Speaker 1: He got elected to the city council, then mayor, state representative,
Speaker 1: state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor, vice president and finally
Speaker 1: he hit the big one and became president.
Speaker 4: But and that was it. He said, that's enough, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And in the later days he passed in nineteen thirty three,
Speaker 1: as I recall, but Missus Coolidge was alive and well,
Speaker 1: and my mom was the chair of the Hampshire County
Speaker 1: Republican Women and she and her colleagues in that group,
Speaker 1: it was one of the things to do was to
Speaker 1: go pay a courtesy call periodically on Missus Coolish and
Speaker 1: talk to her about what's going on in politics and
Speaker 1: all of that kind of thing. I always found that
Speaker 1: kind of fascinating. So so, what'd you.
Speaker 4: Call about Bob A Christmas story? Yeah, your dad and
Speaker 4: my cousin Bobby, who was in the Navy and Submarines.
Speaker 4: He had gotten released in Norfolk, was on the Beltway
Speaker 4: hitch hiking up to Barry Vermont, but he didn't get there.
Speaker 4: Your dad picked him up, took him up to Crescent
Speaker 4: Street and of course my aunt's house Qui's on fifty
Speaker 4: seven Crescent Street down near the Magna House, and so
Speaker 4: they had a long talk all the way up until
Speaker 4: you made the curb up there where the the botanis
Speaker 4: live where you live. Yeah, yeah, And basically it was
Speaker 4: just such a nice thing that this poor guy got
Speaker 4: out of a submarine and your dad saw sale or
Speaker 4: hitch hiking on the road literally and he got to
Speaker 4: Bury the following day. Of course someone hauled up hauled
Speaker 4: him up there and all that. But what a what
Speaker 4: a neat thing that your dad did. Oh those are
Speaker 4: great people.
Speaker 1: Yes they were. And he was going to Bury Vermont.
Speaker 4: As you could guess what's that He was.
Speaker 1: Going to Bury Vermont.
Speaker 4: Did you say, well, that's where where Bobby Mitchell, who's
Speaker 4: now a Queen's cop retired. Of course, and he his son,
Speaker 4: by the way, is I think a general now wow,
Speaker 4: went to a West Point. I mean his dad served
Speaker 4: under patent. I mean it was a military family.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Don't. Hey, my dad wasn't a shrieker either. He doesn't
Speaker 4: talk about it, but he was a Tenian. When the
Speaker 4: Leonola Gates who often ended the show, I bet you
Speaker 4: didn't know nothing about that. You just knew him as
Speaker 4: a principal at Vernon Street and his last name was Moriarty.
Speaker 1: Oh, miss Moriarty. Of course, of course, exactly right, got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was terrific. He was terrific. I gave up.
Speaker 4: I'm a conservative like you, and you've been on the
Speaker 4: Howie Carr Show, and I wasn't able to catch you
Speaker 4: in there because you're on that they give you the
Speaker 4: old Northampton treatment. But we have a room available at
Speaker 4: Forbes Library, which by the way, my dad ended up
Speaker 4: being trustee of In every election he got the most
Speaker 4: votes of anybody in town.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And you know, but you knew him, of course, as
Speaker 4: just the principal at Vernon Street. Yes, And I think
Speaker 4: you moved on before I went to Hawley.
Speaker 1: Did you go to HALLI I left after the eighth grade,
Speaker 1: so that would be suck in nineteen seventy five, not.
Speaker 4: Have it wasn't integrated like it is now. Well they were.
Speaker 4: They make the eighth graders blend in and all that.
Speaker 4: And then you moved, I guess to Pennsylvania, great state there.
Speaker 1: We moved first to Virginia, the Stanton, Virginia. Dad was
Speaker 1: in the hotel business. We were there for two years,
Speaker 1: and then we went on to Pennsylvania and that they
Speaker 1: stuck around and I got in I got, you know,
Speaker 1: graduated from high school, from college there and uh, and
Speaker 1: then went to work my first job in the Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: State Senate Republican communications staff, and ever after it was
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania as home and still is, I might add.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it's a great state. It bailed us out
Speaker 4: and gave us Trump. If you think you're going to
Speaker 4: get help from Mets to chooses, Oh my, hey, Reagan. Right.
Speaker 4: I go to the tribute for Coolidge and it's right
Speaker 4: on near the Court House.
Speaker 1: I know exactly where it is. I think I was
Speaker 1: in the White House when President Reagan called to that
Speaker 1: was part of the ceremony.
Speaker 4: For that, And I was looking like, north Ampton, don't
Speaker 4: you get it. You had a president of the United
Speaker 4: States and you're not respecting him.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I was a big Coolish and we had
Speaker 1: a double connection in our family with Coolidge. My father's mother,
Speaker 1: my grandmother, her family lived on the farm that was
Speaker 1: next to the Coolidges, and they were friends of the
Speaker 1: Coolidge family. And if you know the tale, his namesake son,
Speaker 1: Calvin Junior, died when cal was in the White House
Speaker 1: and he was playing tennis on the White House tennis
Speaker 1: court got a blister. It got infected and he died.
Speaker 1: So my grandmother was invited to the funeral and took
Speaker 1: my then ten year old dad and went to it.
Speaker 1: And I had the presence of mind to get my
Speaker 1: grandmother on audio tape talking about this, and I can
Speaker 1: still hear her saying, I can see Cal's red hair
Speaker 1: glinting in the sunlight. It was pretty amazing. And then
Speaker 1: all those later, Dad gets elected to Calvin Coolidge's seat
Speaker 1: in the City Council and Mom is spending time with
Speaker 1: missus Coolidge. It was it was interesting. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I went to work in the White House, one
Speaker 1: of the first things President Reagan did when he took
Speaker 1: office was hanging Calvin Coolidge's official portrait in the cabinet room,
Speaker 1: so that every single time there was a meeting, a
Speaker 1: cabinet meeting or whatever in the cabinet room, they would
Speaker 1: be reminded of Calvin Coolidge and the conservative president. President
Speaker 1: Reagan really liked Calvin Coolidge a lot.
Speaker 4: Hey, Trump would like him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's I think so. And you know,
Speaker 1: of course, he had this reputation as being very taciturned,
Speaker 1: in other words, not speaking a lot. And the joke
Speaker 1: was that some society lady sat next to him an
Speaker 1: event and said, mister President, and I have a bet
Speaker 1: that I can get you to say more than two words,
Speaker 1: to which Coolish replied, you lose.
Speaker 4: That was coming. It's it's sad that they really let
Speaker 4: the Coolidge room at Forbes Library go to hell.
Speaker 1: That's too bad because I've been there. I went, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a number of years ago. I went, oh, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, fascinating stuff. And my one of my best
Speaker 1: friends from school, the Mazorskis, lived Caddy corner to the
Speaker 1: house there that was on Massasoytte Street where the Coolidges
Speaker 1: had lived, and then they got what did they call
Speaker 1: it the beaches?
Speaker 4: I think that was the Yeah, that was over on
Speaker 4: tom Ary Terrace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, if.
Speaker 4: I'm kicking in, I know that you left a long
Speaker 4: time ago, and it was my stopping although I worked
Speaker 4: all over the country.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well I went back. I guess it was
Speaker 1: two summers ago. I went back. First, I went with
Speaker 1: a friend. We went to uh Boston to see the
Speaker 1: Red Sox play, of course, and then she had to leave,
Speaker 1: so I high tailed it to Northampton and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: did sightseeing saw some old friends, and uh, it was
Speaker 1: it was. It was great, you know, great great memories there.
Speaker 1: Dad was dad and mom very involved in politics, and
Speaker 1: uh they helped elect one of his friends, uh Durban Wells,
Speaker 1: who was also a friend of his son was a
Speaker 1: Teddy was a good friend of mine. And uh so,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was good times back then, innocent,
Speaker 1: I must say. So, okay, all right, well, Bob, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for calling, and on we go here.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go to Uh oh wow, Frank in Denver,
Speaker 1: did your family bug you for White House tours when
Speaker 1: you worked for Reagan? Yes, I'm here. It wasn't it
Speaker 1: wasn't just it wasn't just my parents and fairness, you know.
Speaker 1: And that was it was interesting to me, is that
Speaker 1: that was part of the assignment of the White House
Speaker 1: political staff. You know, you have your work day done
Speaker 1: by you know, six o'clock, seven o'clock or whatever, but
Speaker 1: then you had to stay and take Reagan supporters who
Speaker 1: had called in to announce that they were coming to
Speaker 1: Washington and all this, and give them a tour, a
Speaker 1: West wing tour, which I did over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over again every night after work. It seemed,
Speaker 1: and then also on the weekends, on Saturdays and Sundays.
Speaker 1: I remember on one occasion we had some a couple
Speaker 1: and their kids, and they were from Pennsylvania. I didn't
Speaker 1: know them. Their congressman had called and asked if I
Speaker 1: would take them around, So so I do this, But
Speaker 1: it was going to be on a Saturday, and I thought, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's Saturday. Nobody's generally around on a Saturday. So
Speaker 1: they arrive and I start to take them on the
Speaker 1: tour and we get stopped suddenly by the Secret Service
Speaker 1: that said the President's in the Oval Office, so you
Speaker 1: have to wait outside here. Well, they were pretty agog
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my goodness, And sure enough, within
Speaker 1: a matter of minutes, out came President Reagan, uh nicely
Speaker 1: attired in a dressed sports coat and tie and all
Speaker 1: this because he felt that the working in the Oval
Speaker 1: Office was sank re sank, so he was always well
Speaker 1: dressed and came out and I introduced them to these
Speaker 1: people and told him they were Penn State fans, and
Speaker 1: by chance, Penn State happened to be playing that day,
Speaker 1: and so he, off the top of his head, goes
Speaker 1: into all sorts of stuff about Joe Paterno, whom he knew,
Speaker 1: and what was going on with Penn State and all that.
Speaker 1: So it was it was quite fun. You never got
Speaker 1: to know who you were going to meet when you
Speaker 1: did these tours. So well, Frank, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for calling. And I want to move on to Jose
Speaker 1: from Texas, who wants to talk about election integrity being
Speaker 1: the number one issue facing the country. Yes, sir, can
Speaker 1: you hear me? I can, Jose, I can merry Christmas
Speaker 1: and a.
Speaker 5: Happy New Year, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: So I'll keep it.
Speaker 5: Short because I know we're you're running out of time here,
Speaker 5: but I just think that you know that if we do,
Speaker 5: if we don't put voter integritymost important at the top
Speaker 5: of the list, we're going to lose everything because we
Speaker 5: will no longer be a government of the people, by
Speaker 5: the people and for the people.
Speaker 1: You know, you.
Speaker 5: Can't you can't buy cigarettes, alcohol, a vehicle and numerous
Speaker 5: other things without an ID. But yet we have so
Speaker 5: many states that don't require a voter ID to vote,
Speaker 5: and that's probably the most important that we have in America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with you, Jose. You know, as
Speaker 1: I was saying, I have lived in Pennsylvania since high school,
Speaker 1: and I came up through the Pennsylvania political system, you know.
Speaker 1: I was in the teenage Republicans and the college Republicans
Speaker 1: and all that kind of thing. And if I learned
Speaker 1: anything to my sorrow, it is that my home state
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania has had a pretty not so good reputation
Speaker 1: for election integrity. And we had in uh it was
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, there was a special election or state
Speaker 1: Senate seat in Philadelphia and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: it was on the front page of the New York Times,
Speaker 1: of all places, and the deal was that the loser,
Speaker 1: so called in quotes, was the Republican. But he was
Speaker 1: somebody I know. He'd worked for Senator Arlen Inspector. He
Speaker 1: had the presence of mind to challenge the results. He
Speaker 1: did so, and the federal judge overturned the election and
Speaker 1: said there was a massive scheme by Democrats to steal
Speaker 1: it and they had to redo the whole thing. So well,
Speaker 1: I guess, Jose, I'm just about out of time here,
Speaker 1: so thank you very much for calling, and thank all
Speaker 1: of you, and we'll be back in a minute. All right,
Speaker 1: welcome back. I recognize that music from my youth. Wow,
Speaker 1: the monkeys. This is Jeffrey Lord. I have filled in
Speaker 1: today for our friend Sean Hannity, and I wish you
Speaker 1: all a happy new year out there. Twenty twenty four was,
Speaker 1: to say the least interesting. That is one for the
Speaker 1: history books that you will be telling. For those of
Speaker 1: you who are going to be having great grandchildren, You're
Speaker 1: going to be telling them this for a very long
Speaker 1: time to come. It was quite remarkable. So now we
Speaker 1: move on. So now we move on to the second
Speaker 1: Trump administration, and we've all I've gotten to know him
Speaker 1: a bit, and doubtless he has all kinds of plans
Speaker 1: that he is going to go out of his way.
Speaker 1: He is very focused. I've gotten to know him a bit.
Speaker 1: He's a very focused guy. He knows what he wants
Speaker 1: to do. He asks questions, and he says, as I
Speaker 1: recall the other day in a speech, that he wants
Speaker 1: to make this America's Golden Age. So with that in mind,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. We've got a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: to look forward to. This is Jeffrey Lord filling in
Speaker 1: for Sean Hannity, and on we go to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year,