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"Governor Me-Maw's Redistricting" (Saturday, May 2, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 3: Joe.
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Speaker 2: God bless you for being on the receiving end of
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Speaker 2: all of this, and you never know who's listening. President
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Speaker 2: Trump has taken up what had been only a call
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Speaker 2: on this program to add the word national uh to
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Speaker 2: X that we add national to it so that they
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Speaker 2: would be nice officers. That was something doctor Clark said, gosh,
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Speaker 2: half a year ago, I think. And then Bill O'Reilly himself.
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Speaker 2: And got to think it's because he heard it on
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Speaker 2: the radio again. He said, you know, may have been
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Speaker 2: embarrassed by it at the time, but you know that's
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Speaker 2: a defining moment in his career. Back in the early
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Speaker 2: edition days there Clark was on the line with us,
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Speaker 2: we'll get our first things into your earbone in a
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Speaker 2: moment or two. But he wanted to talk about MEMA
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Speaker 2: and redistricting. Apparently that's what you call the governor of Alabama.
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Speaker 2: So Mema is redistricting. Louisiana Governor Tom Landry is, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: Greg Landry is redistricting. He actually suspended primary voting in
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Speaker 2: order to do the redistricting, and then the governor camp
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Speaker 2: in Georgia and the South Carolina governor wouldn't suspend prime
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Speaker 2: very voting to do that, but Tennessee's doing it as well. Clark,
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Speaker 2: what was your thought on redistricting?
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Speaker 8: My thought on redistricting? You know, you learn in church
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Speaker 8: that the road to hell is paved with.
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Speaker 9: Good intentions, Joe, intentions are one thing.
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Speaker 8: It's really about what you actually achieve.
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Speaker 2: Right. There's a theological debate about that that you know,
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Speaker 2: we you know, we may have to open a bigger
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Speaker 2: can of worms on on that, because there there.
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Speaker 8: Are what to achieve.
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Speaker 9: Then top Svanburger House, Vanburger House, Vanburger, Abigail and the
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Speaker 9: Overreachers have done what no politician has done for at
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Speaker 9: least sixty years, and that's unify Republicans to get off
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Speaker 9: their butts and actually go do something for the Republicans.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're hoping. Anyway, Yesterday there was a
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Speaker 2: whole there was a whole kerfuffle here in Virginia because
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Speaker 2: there was a thought and the rumblings went through the
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Speaker 2: news that there was going to be a ruling from
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, which surprised me. I was told it
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Speaker 2: wasn't going to be till closer to the fifteenth. But
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Speaker 2: I think it was because the state Board of Elections
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Speaker 2: was about to certify the vote, but they had already
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Speaker 2: been enjoined to stop that. And I guess there was
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Speaker 2: a question because the Board of Election could have certified
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Speaker 2: the vote in violation of the injunction and faced pop
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Speaker 2: fines and or jail time or whatever, but they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Governor Spanberger's minions in the Board of Elections did not
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Speaker 2: certify the election in violation of the law, And so
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Speaker 2: I know there were a lot of folks who were
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Speaker 2: running around saying, oh, there was going to be a ruling.
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Speaker 2: I think I think it was a combination of that.
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Speaker 2: federal government could take over the airline. In the wake
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Speaker 2: of the Supreme Court decision regarding the Voting Rights Act
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Speaker 2: and minority majority congressional districts, Louisia, Anna, Alabama, and Tennessee
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Speaker 2: have called on their state legislatures to begin redrawing their
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Speaker 2: state's district. Mississippi has already started the process, while Georgia
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Speaker 2: and South Carolina's governors have ruled it out. In Virginia,
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Speaker 2: But in Alabama, they're gonna look into redrawing their districts.
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Speaker 2: And there is no solution to Alex Bollinger's op ed
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Speaker 2: piece there, But it identifies something that I've said all along,
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Speaker 2: that we outnumber them. Conservatives constitutionalists outnumber the progressive you know,
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Speaker 2: Marxist liberals at least two to one, if not three
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Speaker 2: to one. I think it's closer to three to one
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Speaker 2: in the United States. So if you take away all
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Speaker 2: the ways to gerrymander districts, yeah, Republicans are going to
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Speaker 2: pretty much run the table if they have the guts
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Speaker 2: to do it. Now, that's a big lift, isn't it,
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Speaker 2: Doctor Clark, to say that a Republican party is going
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Speaker 9: Okay, yes, I think you're right. Probably it is three
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Speaker 9: to one. It might be even four to one. I
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Speaker 9: think we could be actually eighty twenty. But here's the thing, shoke. Yeah, ah,
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Speaker 9: I think we are going to see redistricting throughout the South.
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Speaker 9: And here's the thing. Now, allegedly you're in a purple state.
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Speaker 2: I think what you are? I think we are too.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I think you're a red state.
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Speaker 9: That federally employed leftist carpet bikers have seized control of
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Speaker 9: in northern Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, And and can I just apropos of
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Speaker 2: nothing and it's moderate tangent, you know, we look at
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Speaker 2: you know, we mark red state, blue state, you know,
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Speaker 2: and and we give them those titles for fifty fifty
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Speaker 2: three percent of their population, maybe fifty five percent of
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Speaker 2: their population voting for Republicans. I again dislike this idea
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Speaker 2: of giving Republicans and Democrats too much power in our society.
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Speaker 2: They are they are organizations. Can can can we sort
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Speaker 2: our voters by what fraternal organization they're in? You know,
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Speaker 2: all Knights of Columbus took Indiana in their governor's race
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Speaker 2: over the Lions there. You know. It's it's just a club.
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Speaker 2: It's just a club we join, you know. And that's
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Speaker 2: we're giving them too much gravitas, at.
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Speaker 9: Least until after the special session on Monday. I believe
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Speaker 9: I am in the second red estate. I think why
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Speaker 9: homing outreads us? Okay, okay, hopefully that changes on Monday
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Speaker 9: me more special session.
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Speaker 2: We will see. But here's the thing, Joe.
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Speaker 9: Since two thousand and ten, it has been very apparent
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Speaker 9: in the state of Alabama that if you want to
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Speaker 9: run for political office, unless you're in a couple of
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Speaker 9: different areas, you don't be putting no D behind your name,
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Speaker 9: right because you're not going to get elected. So we
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Speaker 9: have supermajorities in both House and we have the governor's mansion,
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Speaker 9: and we have to fight very hard to get anything passed.
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Speaker 9: Things that you would think would just well, that will
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Speaker 9: breeze right through.
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Speaker 8: How can this be? What's very simple.
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Speaker 9: Politicians that before twenty ten that would have run as
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Speaker 9: a Democrat and now put an R behind their name
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Speaker 9: and there's no betting. All you have to do is
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Speaker 9: say you're a Republican and you get a run as one.
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Speaker 9: And guess who gets help in the primary process from
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Speaker 9: the media and out of state money. The Democrat that
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Speaker 9: called herself a Republican.
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Speaker 2: But you know, and I don't mean to argue with you,
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Speaker 2: because they tell me good form is always agree with
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Speaker 2: the caller. But the same thing happens in California in
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Speaker 2: the other direction. You have the they call them the
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Speaker 2: business Democrats that people are. If it wasn't California would
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Speaker 2: have been a Republican. But if you're going to go
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Speaker 2: and you know, so it cuts both ways, doctor Clark,
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Speaker 2: you know, so you see this. So it's frustrating. I
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Speaker 2: know if you live in Alabama and you're a conservative
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Speaker 2: and you watch, you know, Texas is going through the
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Speaker 2: same thing with their Republicans.
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Speaker 9: Look at your own good manatorial election.
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Speaker 8: Abigail's van Berger was the moderate Democrat.
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Speaker 2: Right well, she pretended to be well.
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Speaker 9: And everybody went along with it support wise, right well.
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Speaker 2: And there are a lot of people who just didn't
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Speaker 2: like the lieutenant governor for various reasons. Some of them
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Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about on the air because
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Speaker 2: they make me mad, and I just don't. I don't
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Speaker 2: do good radio when I get mad. I try to
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Speaker 2: control the fists of fury when I can. But you know,
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Speaker 2: so they just did they And this is a funny thing,
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Speaker 2: you know. And again partisan party people in the House,
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Speaker 2: you know, I will hear from people who are good conservatives.
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Speaker 2: They will say why did the party pick this person?
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Speaker 2: And then when the party does pick a person they
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Speaker 2: don't like, they are like, oh, I don't like it
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Speaker 2: when the party picks the candidate. I'm like, you can't
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Speaker 2: have it both ways. Either the party picks the candidate
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Speaker 2: or they don't. But you know, at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, you got to dust yourself off and get
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Speaker 2: on with it. Governor is governor, and so they're going
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Speaker 2: to have their run. Senator is senator. But I think
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Speaker 2: one of the things that I hope out of this
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Speaker 2: whole scenari if we carry anything out of twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six except some you know, sore spots on our HeiG knees,
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Speaker 2: is that we can have a real conversation about the
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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act, which has left us
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Speaker 2: with three times as many people in the country and
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Speaker 2: the same number of Congress people. It's as simple as that.
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Speaker 2: And more people are actually picking this up. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know if it's because they listen to first thing today,
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Speaker 2: but they're they're getting it somewhere. And I really think
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Speaker 2: that this is something we have to have an honest
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Speaker 2: conversation about.
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Speaker 8: Well, the yeast will spread throughout. So you know, talking
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Speaker 8: about the primaries.
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Speaker 9: Joe who would have been the Democrat candidate for president
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Speaker 9: in twenty sixteen and an uninterfered with primary process.
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Speaker 2: Well, it could have been Bernie Sanders.
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Speaker 2: That's a very specific term. It's the original law book.
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45:59
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Speaker 2: ups boxes. So the fewer checked bags they have, the
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Speaker 2: more cargo space they have for freight. And it's the
47:34
Speaker 2: same thing really that happened to the rail lines in
47:37
Speaker 2: course abstract, you know, the rail lines became less and
47:42
Speaker 2: less able to run a train with some passenger and
47:46
Speaker 2: some freight on it by regulation. So it became too
47:51
Speaker 2: expensive to run just a passenger line. And so it
47:57
Speaker 2: comes the seventies, a lot of the railways wanted to
47:59
Speaker 2: get out of the passenger rail service, and the politician said,
48:03
Speaker 2: I have constituents in Delaware, we need to get to Washington.
48:07
Speaker 2: I have constituents in central New Jersey that need to
48:10
Speaker 2: get to New York or Boston or whatever. So they
48:14
Speaker 2: created Amtrak because that's what politicians do. They go when
48:19
Speaker 2: they write a law that protects a business in their
48:23
Speaker 2: area and basically makes the taxpayers on the arm for it.
48:27
Speaker 2: And since then, Amtrak outside of the Northeast Corridor hasn't
48:32
Speaker 2: been profitable since it founded itself. I mean, it's a
48:37
Speaker 2: little bit better now because they use the Jet Blue
48:41
Speaker 2: model of if you buy early, it's going to cost
48:44
Speaker 2: you a lot less, and they can fill up trains
48:47
Speaker 2: a whole lot better than they could before. But still,
48:51
Speaker 2: you know who's taking the train from Chicago to Denver,
48:56
Speaker 2: which was a very popular line when the Colorado Rockies
48:59
Speaker 2: were formed as a baseball team. My wife and I
49:03
Speaker 2: thirty three years ago, thirty three years ago, May second
49:08
Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety three. We were getting on an airplane
49:13
Speaker 2: and we flew to Denver for our honeymoon, and we
49:16
Speaker 2: took in a Colorado Rockies game. They had just been
49:19
Speaker 2: made a franchise of Major League Baseball, and everyone there
49:23
Speaker 2: had Cubs gearon. You know why because the Colorado Bears
49:28
Speaker 2: were a minor league affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. Because
49:32
Speaker 2: it was a train ride, and there was a lot
49:34
Speaker 2: of connection between Chicago and Denver, because there was this
49:38
Speaker 2: mainline line. But it was not profitable anymore. And my
49:44
Speaker 2: industry is full of this too, we call you know,
49:46
Speaker 2: news talk stations cost a lot of money to run,
49:50
Speaker 2: a lot more money. Well, I guess in the days
49:54
Speaker 2: of the BMI and ASCAP and now GMR the royaltympanies
50:00
Speaker 2: are trying to make music radio less affordable for But
50:05
Speaker 2: you didn't need to spend as much money running a
50:08
Speaker 2: music radio station as you would have to invest into
50:11
Speaker 2: a news operation with reporters and anchors and all these
50:14
Speaker 2: other moving parts that you had to have in order
50:18
Speaker 2: to operate a news operation. So you would, you know,
50:23
Speaker 2: you would have affiliates, and you know, the news station
50:27
Speaker 2: fed the news to the music station, so the music
50:29
Speaker 2: stations were connected to the community more easily. So it
50:33
Speaker 2: was a symbiotic relationship. But airlines don't have that. But
50:39
Speaker 2: when it was a United merged with Continental and then
50:46
Speaker 2: USAir merged with American, I mean, you're running into fewer
50:50
Speaker 2: and fewer choices in air travel, and fewer and fewer
50:54
Speaker 2: choices is bad. But we're we're looking at a world
50:58
Speaker 2: that is again allowing young people to say, this is
51:04
Speaker 2: why capitalism is bad. Because what happens is these mega
51:09
Speaker 2: airlines dominate these airports who can't build terminal space enough
51:16
Speaker 2: for the amount of air travel we want to do.
51:19
Speaker 2: And yet even United and American are struggling to make
51:23
Speaker 2: ends meet because it's an expensive proposition. And the danger is,
51:31
Speaker 2: you know, if the US government got into owning Spirit
51:36
Speaker 2: airlines and now all of a sudden, Jet Blue and
51:40
Speaker 2: United and American have to compete with the US government,
51:45
Speaker 2: who we've proven now with our debts surpassing our GDP
51:52
Speaker 2: has no problem with spending more than they take in.
51:58
Speaker 2: That's not how the American economy is to work. Now.
52:00
Speaker 2: The big part is are there regulatory things that are
52:07
Speaker 2: done through the FAA and DHS. Now at these airports
52:13
Speaker 2: that are even unintentionally colluding to make it hard for
52:19
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52:24
Speaker 2: and I've searched for airfare, good luck finding a Spirit
52:28
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52:33
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52:36
Speaker 2: almost till the next day to get the next plane out.
52:41
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52:43
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