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The Lee Elci Show | 10.19.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: They're saying, hey, I can get you some money saying
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  Speaker 1: you're going to take care of me. And there's got
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  Speaker 1: to be some checks and balances to this. There has
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  Speaker 1: to be. If you haven't paid in, are you collecting?
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  Speaker 1: Is this money going to people that never paid into
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  Speaker 1: the program? Is it going into family members? How does
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  Speaker 1: a program that just started? Now, remember, taxpayers are paying
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  Speaker 1: $ 497 million dollars. from our paychecks in Connecticut. Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is a new tax and we are paying it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not our employers are paying it, we are paying it.
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  Speaker 1: We match a small amount as an employer, but $ 497
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  Speaker 1: million in new tax and it's already spending more than
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  Speaker 1: it's taking in. Doesn't that sound like the state of Connecticut?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in the state of Connecticut where
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  Speaker 1: they actually have money and they actually put it towards
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  Speaker 1: our debt? When you look at these things, it's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: crazy Of all the different things that are going on,
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  Speaker 1: and the projections only get worse the longer it goes
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  Speaker 1: because we keep having the number one in.
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  Speaker 2: Unemployment.
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  Speaker 1: We have the highest unemployment of 50 states, even though
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  Speaker 1: the economy is booming. The number one employer is the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut, which means you have to have more
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  Speaker 1: businesses to create.
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  Speaker 2: When you look, we.
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  Speaker 1: Have Sikorsky, we have Electric Boat, and they've all gotten
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  Speaker 1: huge contracts from the government. And we're just not seeing
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  Speaker 1: the workforce that's going to be able to pay the bills.
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  Speaker 1: And as we're going on and we're going on and on,
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  Speaker 1: and we're catering more to illegals, we're catering more to
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  Speaker 1: people to get the free ride. And this is basically
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  Speaker 1: another section of free ride. Yes, there's people that need it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I understand how it was built. But it wasn't built
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  Speaker 1: as another tax, and it's another $ 500 million, and it's
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  Speaker 1: deficit spending again.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: One of your listeners sent an email, and the Yankee
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  Speaker 1: Institute said we spent $ 1. 3 billion on illegals last year.
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  Speaker 1: Our Hartford school system is spending $ 9 million a week,
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  Speaker 1: and the audit shows they're short $ 27 million. And when
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  Speaker 1: they did the fiscal audit, nine of the people that
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  Speaker 1: were responsible for the money all either retired or resigned.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you? So if you have, and
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  Speaker 1: going back to the Yankee Institute said that the illegals
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  Speaker 1: spend about $ 300 million in taxes. So if you had
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  Speaker 1: a business and you spent $ 1.
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  Speaker 3: 3 billion.
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  Speaker 1: On your inventory, and then you collected $ 300 million in revenue,
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  Speaker 1: how long would you stay in business? Have you thought
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  Speaker 1: about that? The long-term goal is to make money. It's
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  Speaker 1: not to spend more money than you have. And it's taxes.
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  Speaker 1: We're just taxed to death in the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere you turn with this Lamont administration, there's fraud. whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Senator McCrory out of Bloomfield giving his girlfriend's NGO,
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  Speaker 1: and NGOs are the worst thing to happen to any country.
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  Speaker 1: NGOs are non-government authorities, and they are seriously affecting what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. And so Mr. McCormick got in $ 1. 5 billion,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave his girlfriend's NGO millions of dollars and
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  Speaker 1: it's not traceable because only the NGO that got the
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  Speaker 1: money can it be traced by they can't go to
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  Speaker 1: where the money went to see how it was spent
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  Speaker 1: they can only chase the money in the NGOs so
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  Speaker 1: that's one then New Beginnings got 1.5 million dollars from
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  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut to pay 1.2 billion 1.2 million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in light bills and they bounced the check Because
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  Speaker 1: nobody was keeping track of where they were spending their
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  Speaker 1: money or how they were handling their money or the
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  Speaker 1: Mercedes they were driving or all the different cars they
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  Speaker 1: bought and all the different problems in the group. And
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  Speaker 1: this is another one. And then there's Senator Diaz out
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  Speaker 1: of New Britain. that funneled all this money into three
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  Speaker 1: homeless shelters. And he is the sole cleaning person, sole
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  Speaker 1: plowing person, sole landscaping person. He doesn't even have websites
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  Speaker 1: for his company or numbers you can find him at
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  Speaker 1: because basically he funded these homeless shelters. They gave him
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  Speaker 1: the money. And then as payback, He got the money,
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  Speaker 1: opened up companies, and so I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: spend $ 800, 000 covering three group homes or three homeless shelters
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that he was running. And this is, again,
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat out of New Britain, a Democrat out of Bloomfield.
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  Speaker 1: And do you think that Governor Lamont stripped them of
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  Speaker 1: any of their power or anything? Thank God Senator McCrory
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  Speaker 1: didn't win re-election. Somebody actually primaried him and won. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the only way we would have got them out.
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  Speaker 1: To the governor, it's small ball, but it's $ 1. 3 million here.
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  Speaker 1: It's $ 1. 2 million there. If you think about this, just
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  Speaker 1: think about this. Since 2014, they have not audited Department
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  Speaker 1: of Education, has not turned in an audit because they're
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  Speaker 1: short-staffed since 2014.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: How do you run a company that 11 years you
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  Speaker 1: don't know where.
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  Speaker 2: The assets are?
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  Speaker 1: They're thinking that there's 15 to 20 million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: assets that they don't even know where they are. Computers, cars,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Now, in the state of Connecticut, you
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  Speaker 1: have departments. Forty percent of the departments did not turn
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  Speaker 1: in audits as of yet. And they're still working on
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  Speaker 1: audits from 2022 and 2023. And as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: there's $ 2. 8 billion of assets not accounted for in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut out of the $ 8 billion in assets
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  Speaker 1: we have. Why does the state of Connecticut this size
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  Speaker 1: have $ 8 billion in assets? I mean, you can't get
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  Speaker 1: the audits because they haven't been completed, so there's no
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  Speaker 1: way to know what's considered an asset, what's not considered
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  Speaker 1: an asset. I believe we have a black market going
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  Speaker 1: on under this governor that is bigger than what was
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  Speaker 1: going on in Vietnam. 100% that something is completely wrong.
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  Speaker 1: How do you be a boss and you can't understand?
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  Speaker 1: If you worked at Pratt & Whitney or you worked
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  Speaker 1: at Bank of America and you were the president of
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  Speaker 1: that company and you only turned in 60% of your audits,
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  Speaker 1: you think you'd still have a job?
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  Speaker 2: When you look at all these things that.
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  Speaker 1: Are going on and where we are and all the
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  Speaker 1: fraud and all the problems that are going on in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut, I just, as a business owner
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut, I sit behind my desk
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  Speaker 1: and I look and I'm like, And unfortunately, I signed
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  Speaker 1: in for Capitol Reports and I get all the news. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: every news reporter in the standing gets the same stuff
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  Speaker 1: I do, but they won't report it.
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  Speaker 2: They won't say the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to talk about this workman that we're
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  Speaker 1: paying a half a percent of our pay.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Another tax. OK.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it and I understand it and I
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  Speaker 1: see where it is, but they're not talking about it. OK,
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  Speaker 1: this is a 2019 law. That's when you have a
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  Speaker 1: supermajority and you have a governor and you do not
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  Speaker 1: have that checks and balances. Where is the money being spent?
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  Speaker 1: Where is the money going? Where what's really happening? How
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  Speaker 1: can we be this far in the hole when it's
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  Speaker 1: projected we shouldn't be? Where is the money really being spent?
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  Speaker 1: What's it being directed to? Is there even an audit
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  Speaker 1: since 2019 other than how much money goes out and
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  Speaker 1: how much money comes in? Where is it going? Why
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  Speaker 1: is the flow bigger than the intake? I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: If I spent more money than I made, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be in business. I know that's the government's way. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not right. But unfortunately, until we, the taxpayers,
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  Speaker 1: hold them accountable, that's the problem. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the state of Connecticut, this is a sad fact.
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  Speaker 1: A taxpayer owes $ 45, 000 per taxpayer. But per resident, they
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  Speaker 1: only owe $ 10, 000. So that means every five of us,
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  Speaker 1: every one in five is paying for the other four.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how the democratic society works. I'll take from
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  Speaker 1: the guys that have a little bit of money and
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  Speaker 1: I'll spread it out and I'll never not get reelected.
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  Speaker 1: And then when the money runs out, look what happens
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  Speaker 1: a sudden there's just not enough money to give the
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  Speaker 1: year old buildings in this country without an uprising the
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• 20:57
  Speaker 1: This is George Agnelli with 94 News Now, Stimulating Talk.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And I'm here with Laz Montano. We've been personal friends
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: for a while. And he wrote a book, and I
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: thought people should hear Some of the stories of coming
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: over as an immigrant and following the system and using
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the system and working the system and some of the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: things this dad did were crazy. But in 1959 to 1962, 248,000
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: early Cuban exiles came over. 14,000 of them were children
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that the parents sent the kids over without parents to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: live with somebody they didn't know. That's how bad the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: crisis was. And now, right now, there's 2.9 million Cuban
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Americans as of 2024 in the United States. So I'm
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: going to hand the microphone over to Laz Montano. He
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: wrote this book, My Cuban American Life. It's good reading.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: If anybody wants to pick it up, it's at all
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the major stores and Amazon and all the bookstores. I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: going to turn the mic over to Laz for a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: few minutes and let you tell his story.
• 21:58
  Speaker 20: Thanks, George.
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: It's great to be here. You know, I think back...
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: to when I left Cuba. 1962 was the year we
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: came over here. The Cuban Revolution had just come about.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: My father was actually imprisoned after the revolution because he
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: was servicing or serving Batista at the time.
• 22:23
  Speaker 20: So he was with the prior regime.
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: After the revolution and the Castro brothers along with everyone
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: else came in, they took most of the folks that
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: were in the government and basically imprisoned them to try
• 22:38
  Speaker 12: to sort out.
• 22:38
  Speaker 20: Who was who.
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: And in those first few months, they actually literally executed
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: quite a number of people. And it was a result
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: of that that my parents then made the decision, we're
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: going to leave. And that was actually the beginning of
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: the crisis you were talking about. So 248,000 exiles in
• 23:03
  Speaker 12: the first few years from Cuba. And 14,000 are what
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: are called Peter Pan children.
• 23:13
  Speaker 20: Of those 248,000.
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: So think about it. Things were so bad that parents
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: basically put their children on a plane, left Cuba, told
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: them that they were going to leave. In many cases,
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: there were organizations, charity organizations, I think American Red Cross,
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: there's a number of organizations involved in the U.S. to
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: house these kids, but many of them came to the
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: United States without any support. I was fortunate in that
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: I left in 62 with my parents.
• 23:48
  Speaker 20: It was kind of a.
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: You know, a little bit of a traumatic thing for
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: me to go through. But in comparison, it was nothing
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: to what these kids had to go through to start
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: their life here.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: And then tell me a story about some of your father,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you know, reading some of the parts of the book.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Your father came here and he got some subsidies from
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the government. And when he started making some money, he
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: tried to pay it back. And, you know, those are
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: things that just don't happen anymore. Maybe there should be
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: some sort of payback for all this money that's going
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: out when you get yourself on your feet and everything else.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: When you look at it, you know, just go ahead
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and tell us that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Tell us that little bit of a story.
• 24:30
  Speaker 20: Yeah, it was early on.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: We had made it to Connecticut and got to Connecticut
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: because actually at the time you couldn't leave Cuba unless
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: you had somebody sponsor you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 20: OK, so. a little bit different.
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: He just didn't cross the border and come across. He
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: needed sponsorship. That meant that there would be the payments
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: for the airfare to come over, and there would be
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: a guarantee that we would not become welfarers or basically
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: caretaken by the government. That was the commitment or the understanding.
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: So when we got here, My aunt was actually our sponsor.
• 25:17
  Speaker 12: We were here probably two or three months. In that
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: first couple of months, we lived in projects, which was
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: a whole different experience that I talk about in the book.
• 25:29
  Speaker 20: And after.
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: My father got his first job and he started making money,
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: his first instinct, which is really kind of very, you know, weird,
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: was to go back to the welfare office in, I
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: think it was Ansonia, and he walked into the welfare
• 25:50
  Speaker 12: office and he said to the man, I'd like to
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: settle up and pay back what you've given us since
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: we got here. And the man kind of looked at
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: him like, what are you talking about? And I'm a
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: little kid just tagging along with it, but I remember
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: it because The guy was just like, what do you
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: mean you want to pay back what we gave you
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: for welfare? So nevertheless, he didn't do that. He said, no, no, no,
• 26:18
  Speaker 12: you don't have to do that. You just, you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: you don't need it anymore. We'll take you off that
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: and so forth and so on. But, you know, it
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: does go to show that my parents, like many immigrants,
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: you know, that look to come to the United States
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: are looking to make a difference not to take advantage
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: of or to become, you know, a burden.
• 26:47
  Speaker 20: And I think that quite.
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: Often when we see what's happening today, many people, myself included,
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: look at that and go, wow, these people are coming
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: across just to take.
• 26:57
  Speaker 20: Advantage of it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: And that's not the case in many cases. However, it's
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: turned out to be that way in some.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And you see what's going on, and you see that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: there's people here that want to have a better life,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and you see there's people here that want to work. Unfortunately,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: they didn't come through the system the right way, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: they're being deported as well as the other ones.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And you made a fact.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: You said, you know, when you came here and most
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of the Cubans had settled in Miami, in Miami the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Cubans all voted about 90% Democrat.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Probably, yeah. And then now it's... the opposite way.
• 27:34
  Speaker 20: It's changed quite a bit. It's changed quite a bit. Well,
• 27:36
  Speaker 20: you know, and it's interesting.
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: I mean, the whole dynamics of socialism, communism, and even
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: within a family, right? So within our family, my extended family,
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: we've got individuals that have been diehard supporters of, you know,
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: the communist government, the whole socialist, I mean, the whole thing.
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: But they never... went through what my parents went through.
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: My father was almost executed after Castro came in. They
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: didn't believe that our future was in Cuba. That's why
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: we got out.
• 28:15
  Speaker 20: That's why they made the sacrifice.
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: There was a point, and I talk about this in
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: the book, we were actually in the airport, and my
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: father and my mother, you know, we got all of
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: our passports, and before we even get there, you had
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: to sign everything away, giving it in escrow, get this,
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: get escrow to the Cuban government so that if we
• 28:38
  Speaker 12: came back, they would give it to us. Now, we
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: weren't going to go back, but my father signed all
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: the paperwork. We're at the airport, and the Cuban official says, well,
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: there's some problems with the paperwork. Your wife and your
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: two children can get on the plane, but you have
• 28:57
  Speaker 12: to stay to clear this up. And it's in the book,
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: and it's probably the line as a kid that I
• 29:03
  Speaker 12: remember my father saying the most. And my father said,
• 29:07
  Speaker 12: either we all go or none of us go. So,
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: I mean, think about that. He was that determined at
• 29:15
  Speaker 12: that point that we either had to all leave and
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: get to the U.S. and America, if you will, to
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: the opportunity that we were hopefully going to, be able
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: to see through our hard work and whatnot, or we
• 29:32
  Speaker 12: were just going to end up staying there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 20: And he was determined.
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: And it was after that that the Cuban official then said,
• 29:38
  Speaker 12: you know, get out of here.
• 29:40
  Speaker 20: Go to the play.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: So let's go back to the people of Miami and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: how they've all switched to the Republicans from the Democrat Party.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's because of the free handouts to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: all these people and the open borders and what they
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: went through to do everything legally?
• 29:57
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean.
• 29:59
  Speaker 12: So many people ask me, you know, my thoughts on
• 30:03
  Speaker 12: the whole border crisis. And having had to go through
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: a structured process to get here and, you know, jump
• 30:13
  Speaker 12: through the hoops and so forth, I was kind of ticked,
• 30:19
  Speaker 12: if you will, that many.
• 30:22
  Speaker 20: People didn't do that, right? So that said, there's... Many.
• 30:27
  Speaker 12: People that made the argument, well, wait a minute, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: shouldn't we be more supportive? Shouldn't we be more open
• 30:33
  Speaker 12: and so forth and so on? But the problem is,
• 30:35
  Speaker 12: how do you do that if there isn't some kind
• 30:38
  Speaker 12: of structure, there isn't some kind of process, and there
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: isn't some kind of organization to that? If you don't
• 30:44
  Speaker 12: have any of those things, then what happens on the
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: other side? What happens is you have basically everyone coming across.
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: Everyone getting all these handouts or whatever.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And you don't even know who they are.
• 30:55
  Speaker 20: And you don't even know who they are, right?
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: So now, you know, so I, you know, and for
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: some folks say, well, you're an immigrant.
• 31:03
  Speaker 20: How could you be against immigration? And I'm not against immigration.
• 31:07
  Speaker 20: I'm against.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Illegal immigration, right. And there's a big difference.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: This is what people don't understand is that the people
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that came here legally and fought their way through the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: system and used the system to help them better themselves,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: not to make a lifelong journey of living on the government,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: are more upset than the average American citizen that was
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: born here.
• 31:27
  Speaker 12: Right, and I think that goes back to your point
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: about what's going on in Miami, right? So if you
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: think about it, for a long time, I think the Democratic,
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: you know, and I think a lot of the things
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: that they stood for, was more aligned to immigration, immigrants, and.
• 31:48
  Speaker 20: That whole movement, if you will. That's shifted, at least.
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: From what I've seen, and quite a bit. And I
• 31:56
  Speaker 12: think it's probably Miami and that whole Cuban, I mean,
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: if you look at that entire area, that's probably the
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: biggest shift that you can see of that.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And you see that the Democratic Party, I'm a Democrat,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: has left me. I don't know what they stand for anymore.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: They used to stand for helping. But, you know, in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: my day, I've built a homeless shelter. I've built a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: youth center. I've done a lot of things for charity
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: work to help people. And I don't mind helping people
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: as long as it's not just every year you're going
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to be. It's just like if you gave somebody a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: free fish every day, they're never going to learn how
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to fish.
• 32:30
  Speaker 20: Right, teaching to fish.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: So these are some of the things that I wanted
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: to bring up that are in your book. And there's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: other things that we can talk about. I mean, you
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: got a great gift at five years old, and you
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: had to leave it behind and sign it over to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the government.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: You can tell them that. So imagine being.
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so my fourth birthday, I get this beautiful red tricycle.
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: It was, you know, like any young kid, right? It's
• 32:55
  Speaker 12: the most memorable thing I had received to date. And
• 32:59
  Speaker 12: probably within... six to seven months of that. That's when
• 33:03
  Speaker 12: the revolution happened. My father gets in prison. They make
• 33:06
  Speaker 12: a decision that we're going to leave. So we start
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: going through the process of how we're going to get
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: to the United States. And, you know, at first they say,
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: we're going to, we're going to leave.
• 33:15
  Speaker 20: So I'm, I'm pretty excited.
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: And they say, well, everything that we have, including that
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: beautiful red tricycle that you got for your birthday, that's
• 33:24
  Speaker 12: got to stay. So, you know, I mean, as insignificant
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: as that is, um, that's what I had to give up.
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: And my parents had to give up a lot more
• 33:34
  Speaker 12: to get here too. But I think sometimes people forget
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: that immigrants give up a lot to make that shift, right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 20: And I think it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: Takes a lot of courage for people to do that. Hopefully,
• 33:51
  Speaker 12: as they're doing it, they're getting the right level of
• 33:54
  Speaker 12: support and they're doing it through the right process. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 12: But nevertheless, it's not an easy thing for them to
• 34:00
  Speaker 12: do it. And those 14,000 children, those Peter Pan children,
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: think about that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 20: Parents thought that.
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: Cuba was so bad that they would rather give their
• 34:12
  Speaker 12: kids up to someone that they didn't even know, put
• 34:16
  Speaker 12: them on a plane, and send them to a country that,
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: They never even heard of, you know, as far as.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's how bad it was. I mean, when
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you think about that, it's just unbelievable.
• 34:26
  Speaker 20: I can't imagine doing that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, it's... Well, like your father said,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: all or nothing.
• 34:30
  Speaker 20: All or nothing. All or nothing.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So tell me, this is one thing that the illegals
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that have come here illegally, that haven't done, is you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: passed through the Freedom Tower.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Tell us what that was like.
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so El Refugio, which is in Miami, it's... I
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: think I'm Biscayne Boulevard.
• 34:52
  Speaker 20: It's the Ellis Island, if you will, of Miami and Florida.
• 34:59
  Speaker 12: If you were coming in as an immigrant in the 1960s,
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: that's where you got processed. So we landed. We went
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: into that building, which basically, you know, it was kind
• 35:15
  Speaker 12: of a processing center. It just so happened that my
• 35:19
  Speaker 12: sister was ill when we got here, so they made
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: arrangements to get her to see a doctor to make
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: sure she was okay and so forth. And then they
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: would essentially, after they processed us, when my father got here,
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: one of the things that he did was he applied
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: for political asylum. So what he had not said to
• 35:42
  Speaker 12: the Cuban officials before we left was— that he was never.
• 35:48
  Speaker 20: Going to go back, right?
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: So as far as they were concerned, he had signed
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  Speaker 12: which is a whole other story. Some of my relatives
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  Speaker 2: So that's how we got together. So what town was
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  Speaker 12: She was in Ansonia. Blue collar, blue collar, Ansonia, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 9: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: You want to talk about that for a minute?
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  Speaker 35: Sure.
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  Speaker 12: You know, one of the things that shaped my life
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• 38:48
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  Speaker 20: Stay connected.
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  Speaker 2: So the book's called My Cuban American Life. You can
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• 39:01
  Speaker 12: Amazon, Barnes & Noble. There's an audio book, paperback, hardcover,
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  Speaker 12: all kinds of stuff.
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• 39:10
  Speaker 12: Well, I started actually in earnest after I left or
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  Speaker 20: For my children and my grandchildren.
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  Speaker 12: So that, in earnest, I started to work on it
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• 40:00
  Speaker 12: you know, it's funny. I'm in technology. You mentioned that
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  Speaker 12: I'm in technology, right? So I've been in technology all
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  Speaker 12: my life. Actually, computer security. And one of the things
• 40:09
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• 40:12
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  Speaker 35: Yes.
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  Speaker 20: It was, yeah. I think it was a different– but, yes,
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  Speaker 40: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: Right.
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• 53:40
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• 54:20
  Speaker 42: Rawwell Jr. found inside a vehicle at the Garfield Avenue
• 54:24
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• 54:32
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli from 94.9 News Now, Stimulating Talk.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I'm filling in for Lee Elsie today, and I have
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the great privilege of introducing a sharp, sharp young lady,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Sophie Felgate from Turning Point, USA.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: She is a senior at UConn, and she's going to.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Talk about what's going on in the college and voting
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: and the election, who they've supported, what they've been working on,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: and all different things. She will also take phone calls,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: anything you want to ask about the Turley- Charlie Kirk Foundation,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Turning Point, 860-464-9490. If anybody has any questions, she'll be
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: happy to take them from you.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Sophie, go ahead. What's going on up at UConn?
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: Well, it has.
• 55:49
  Speaker 35: Been a crazy couple of years up there at school.
• 55:52
  Speaker 35: I mean, we have done everything we can to get
• 55:56
  Speaker 35: the club started from the ground up, which has been
• 55:59
  Speaker 35: quite the challenge with the university. We've had a lot
• 56:02
  Speaker 35: of pushback over time, but, you know, we're still powering
• 56:05
  Speaker 35: through and we're getting new members and we continue to
• 56:07
  Speaker 35: meet regardless of what the school says.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: What happened in the spring when you were there?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, so the spring was definitely a time. We had
• 56:17
  Speaker 35: a speaker come on, Shane Winnings. If you've seen him before,
• 56:20
  Speaker 35: he is an amazing speaker. He's a Christian advocate, amazing
• 56:25
  Speaker 35: person overall. And the school actually told us that we
• 56:29
  Speaker 35: could host the event outside. And all was said and done.
• 56:33
  Speaker 35: We did all of our planning. And then just a
• 56:35
  Speaker 35: couple of days before the event had happened, they had
• 56:38
  Speaker 35: told us that it was no longer safe for us
• 56:40
  Speaker 35: to host it. And we had to move it indoors.
• 56:43
  Speaker 35: last minute, but would not give us the reason behind
• 56:47
  Speaker 35: the safety concern.
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: Like, there was no.
• 56:49
  Speaker 35: Police report that they did, no screenings that they did.
• 56:52
  Speaker 35: I mean, I even went myself to go talk to
• 56:55
  Speaker 35: the UConn PD and the safety department to see if
• 56:58
  Speaker 35: they'd had this discussion, and they knew nothing of it.
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: So it was pretty bad.
• 57:02
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: So what happened when you had the event?
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: Well, we hosted it anyways, of course.
• 57:08
  Speaker 35: It's called an unscheduled event, which you are allowed to
• 57:10
  Speaker 35: have since we are a public university event. We had
• 57:14
  Speaker 35: mixed reactions from students on campus. We probably had over
• 57:18
  Speaker 35: 150 students show up outside that day to talk with him,
• 57:22
  Speaker 35: had open debate and free conversation, which is truly what
• 57:24
  Speaker 35: it is all about. And our student of life vice
• 57:28
  Speaker 35: president came up and wanted us to shut the whole
• 57:32
  Speaker 35: thing down. She was extremely angry, confronted me about it,
• 57:36
  Speaker 35: saying that we shouldn't be doing this, we can't be
• 57:38
  Speaker 35: doing this. But as I stated before, it's a public university.
• 57:42
  Speaker 35: If somebody wants to come on and speak freely, they
• 57:44
  Speaker 35: have every right to. And, you know, the event went great,
• 57:49
  Speaker 35: and we hosted the evening event as well indoor, and
• 57:52
  Speaker 35: we had students and local community members come. And we
• 57:55
  Speaker 35: had a great time, but, you know, we did more
• 57:58
  Speaker 35: research and got some FOIA documents.
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  Speaker 21: Right.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Well, so it's okay to talk freely as long as
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: you're talking about what they want to talk about.
• 58:06
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem at UConn.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Your fighting is because it's such a liberal community that
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: they're having a hard time accepting that there's non-liberals out
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: of UConn school.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, Attorney Tong said the other day, well,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: if you voted for Trump, then you shouldn't be running
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: for office. I mean, it's just it's their idea, and
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: if you don't like their idea— And I know their
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: idea is working really well in French and in France
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and Italy right now, you know, that their idea is
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: what's happening there now. So tell us more about what
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: happened with, you know, Turning Point when you first tried it.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Because I remember being on the air talking about it
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: when you couldn't get a teacher to sponsor Turning Point
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: to even open up.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: On the college.
• 58:49
  Speaker 35: Yeah, so we ended up finding a faculty advisor and
• 58:51
  Speaker 35: he has been amazing. We're finding a new one right
• 58:55
  Speaker 35: now just because our old one just doesn't have enough
• 58:58
  Speaker 35: time to put into it. But we have a new
• 59:01
  Speaker 35: advisor coming in, which is good. You know, working on
• 59:04
  Speaker 35: our e-board to make sure that everything is set in
• 59:06
  Speaker 35: stone and everybody that is there is there for the
• 59:08
  Speaker 35: right reasons. Because we all want to see this chapter grow.
• 59:12
  Speaker 35: We want to be able to have conservative clubs on campus,
• 59:14
  Speaker 35: even though the school may not like it. I mean,
• 59:17
  Speaker 35: we have socialist groups on campus, which is crazy.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Here's the sad part.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Connecticut is made up of 40 to 45 percent Republican
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: and 50 percent Democrat. But yet the people in charge
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: are Democratic. We have a Democratic controlled legislature. And all
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the teachers are hired based on their political views, not
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: on their capability. So you can only find one advisor
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: in a state that has 40 percent Republican teachers. popularity,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and yet there's only one or two advisors, and they're
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: afraid at school to even talk about their beliefs because
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: it's not the quote-unquote school's beliefs or the Democratic Party-controlled
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: school beliefs.
• 59:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely.
• 59:59
  Speaker 35: I mean, we've had professors, I mean, I've had countless professors,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 35: I can at least say for myself, that have definitely
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 35: pushed their agendas on us in class. You know, we've
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 35: been talking about health care a lot recently, and my
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 35: contemporary economics course and all they're pretty much talking about
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 35: is universal health care and how it works in Canada
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 35: and how pretty.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: Much great it is.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 35: And, you know, I always stand up in class and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 35: say something. I question the narrative that they're pushing, and
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 35: I try to look at it from a different perspective,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 35: and I've had students actually come up to me afterwards
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 35: and say, I wish somebody else in our class would
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 35: join you in this conversation because you have so much
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 35: good things to say that the professor isn't bringing up.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Right, and if they think Canada... is such great health care.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine up in Canada got diagnosed with
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: lung cancer, but by the time he could get all
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the things scheduled, it was almost a year, he was dead.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: He never got to see the doctor. They knew what
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: was wrong with him, but by the time he could
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: get to see the doctor, because he didn't have the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: money to pay a little extra on the side, he
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't alive. So while they think it's great coverage, I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: think they ought to go up there and try it
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: when they have an illness and see how well it does.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, the professor and even our TA that's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 35: a student that comes in, graduate students usually, she kept
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 35: saying the government. And I rose my hand in class.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 35: I said, do you mean the government or the taxpayers?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 35: Because that's completely different. You know, it can be a
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 35: little bit of both. And the professor just, like, clicks
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 35: through the slides pretty much that states that with Medicare,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 35: at least 75%.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 21: Of the U.S.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 35: Taxpayers pay for it. And the other 25 is federal funding.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Which is taxpayers.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: So, again, it's the taxpayer. Whether the government pays for it,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: the only way they pay for it is they tax
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: us or they borrow, and then my grandkids are paying
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: for it rather than for what's going on now. And
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: these are the things that are being taught about and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: all this. Now, at the community college level, they're having
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: serious problems with their community college. They just made a
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: new dashboard because of all the teacher's that are sexually
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: assaulting the students or going after the students. Do you
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: see that at UConn as much, or do you see
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: professors dating the students?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Do they have a dashboard.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Like CCSU just put up because the new chancellor says
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: we've lost all trust in our profession?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, there's obviously been a couple of things.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 35: I think there was a news article that just came
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 35: out recently about a relationship with a.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 9: Student and a professor at UConn.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 35: I don't know too much about it, but what I
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 35: do know is that we have a system on campus
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 35: called the Blue Light System, and it's used so that
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 35: if there's an emergency and you can't get on your phone,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 35: you go and press one of those buttons. And they're
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 35: talking about removing that from the school overall, which nobody
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 35: can really understand why, because it's such a simple but
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 35: useful system. And now they're considering on taking that away,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 35: which is going to kind of affect our safety overall.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 9: It's at least comforting to know it's there if you
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 9: need it.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 50: Right.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: And that's it's really basically at every level. at every crosswalk,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: at every, so if you're, if something happens and a
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: car pulls up and tries to abduct you, you can
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: push the blue button and it'd be better, 10 times
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: faster than calling 911.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 9: Or even in the dorms. There's like, they're right outside
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 9: of the dorm.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 35: So if something's going on in the dorm and for
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 35: whatever reason you can't like pull up your phone or
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 35: it's an emergency, it's right there to use. And they're
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 35: saying that they want us to go on our phones
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 35: now and use an app, which, you know, new technology
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 35: is great, but.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 9: I think it's more comforting to have something right there.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: But what would be the reasoning? If it's already built
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: and it's already up and it's already running and it's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: already taken care of, why would you get rid of it?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: I don't understand this science.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, I think that the overall reasoning of
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 35: it is what they're saying is always about the funding.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 35: But what I can't really get across is that UConn's
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 35: tuition overall, especially at the Storrs main campus, has gone
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 35: up so much. It honestly, like compared to my freshman year,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 35: it has gotten like almost outrageous just to live there
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 35: and be on campus on top of the tuition. So
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 35: the question we're all having is where is all this
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 35: federal funding going? And a lot of us are kind
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 35: of thinking, well, it's probably the athletic teams because we're
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 35: a D1 school and they all get these great facilities
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 35: and we can't get a security system.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 36: Right.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: And I understand that the basketball brings in a lot
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: of money into the school and they're and they're going
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: to cater to that and everything else. But you've got
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: to cater to this. As we see with the CCSU
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: scandals and problems that are going on in the community
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: colleges and professors saying, oh, I can't wait to. be
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: your soulmate, and I can't wait to have children with you,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: and it's his third sexual assault case going on. And
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: all these things keep going on, and it doesn't seem
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: like we're paying attention to making the kids' safety number one. And,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: you know, being in a minority program in the school,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: because basically being part of the Charlie Kirk Foundation and
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: actually using your brain and thinking.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Is a way to do it.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: And, you know, they just came out with, Connecticut Mirror
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: just came out with a thing that C.C., CSU launches
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: a new way to track reforms after sexual harassment scandal
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: because so many different problems have been going on. And
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the president of the school got arrested for sexual didn't
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: get arrested for it, but got removed from sexual assault
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: and co-workers, students, everything else. How are they going to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: back the teachers after the principal's doing it or the,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: you know, the. The lead counselor is doing it to
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: the rest of them. And, you know, these are just
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: things that are happening around. And you went to school
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: to get an education. You didn't go to school in
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: how to survive sexual harassment.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: You know, and.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: That's the things that are going on. And when I look,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: when I read this blue law thing where they're going to,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you know, basically got rid of the blue laws in Connecticut,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: you know, when we had to go, everybody could work
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: on a Sunday so they could make more taxes. And
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: now the blue light system is going to disappear from UConn,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: which suppose your phone is broken. Suppose your phone isn't
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: on you. Suppose, I mean, kids always have their phone
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: on them. But, you know, suppose your phone is dead
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and you need it. And the system is there. It's
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: already built. It's already stretched. It's not like you're talking about,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: I can't see where it's costing that much money to
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: keep something around.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I totally agree.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 35: And to my understanding, at the end of the day,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 35: it comes down to the values of that these people
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 35: have and that the faith has been lost and people
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 35: just can't come to terms with that.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: And it's just difficult.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 35: Kids at school, they don't have the same respect as
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 35: I feel like maybe 20 years ago they did. If
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 35: I'm walking through a door, it's as simple as holding
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 35: the door for the person behind you, being caring and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 35: respectful and looking out for your community.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: Overall, I feel like that has been lost.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: But that's all in raising your kids.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: So a lot, a lot of parents, you know, I
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: hire a lot of young people at the jewelry store
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, there's the parents go, how did my
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: son do for the first day? Or how did my
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: daughter do for the first day? I said, you need
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: to be spanked. Your kid doesn't know how to write
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: a check. Your kid doesn't know how to do this.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, these are simple things at 18 years old
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: that are basic. And if the economics teacher didn't teach
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: it or AI didn't teach it, they can't do it.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: They have to use their phone to figure out how
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: to do everything. And You're supposed to learn by memory.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: And the phone's not supposed to be your memory.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: Your memory's supposed to be your memory.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: So when you look at these things and you look
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: at what's going on in our education system, when you
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: look at, and you're getting a good education, but it's
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: all slighted to the left.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 37: Right.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Every one of your teachers is pushing the left. And
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: that's not what school's not supposed to be there. The
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  Speaker 1: Why they think that's better. I just, for love nor money,
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, and that's why I love to challenge the professors
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  Speaker 35: And I had brought up to him, I was like,
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  Speaker 35: So why are we not looking at these different aspects?
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  Speaker 2: And what was his answer?
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  Speaker 9: He couldn't give me one.
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  Speaker 35: And that was why my classmates came up to me
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  Speaker 35: afterwards because they were like, every single time you ask
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  Speaker 35: him a question like that, he never knows how to respond.
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  Speaker 35: And I kind of just sit there and look at
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  Speaker 1: Well, how does he make a decision that this is
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  Speaker 26: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can look at all the different answers
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the professors there have a one-way track mind on
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  Speaker 1: the school. And this is one of the things that
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, that's something that we and my friends
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  Speaker 28: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's because there's too many attorneys and there's not
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  Speaker 2: enough electricians.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 35: And in addition to that, you know, as I'm in
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  Speaker 35: something that I wish in high school they had taught us, you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, What is what does it mean to own a business?
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  Speaker 35: You know, they always tell you, oh, you can go
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  Speaker 35: to school just like you had mentioned all these different things.
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  Speaker 35: But then they forget about the trades and entrepreneurial side.
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  Speaker 35: And the younger, the sooner you tell the students that
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  Speaker 35: that is also a path and it's not just college.
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  Speaker 35: I think that you'll see a lot like a shift
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  Speaker 1: We don't teach common sense. We don't teach basic stuff
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  Speaker 1: and we don't teach all these different things that are
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  Speaker 1: going on. When you look at what kids are learning
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  Speaker 1: and to what real life is, it's completely different. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: they should be learning about things earlier in life and
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• 1:12:27
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  Speaker 1: We talk about 30 to 30 all the time in
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  Speaker 1: And those are the different things that aren't taught by parents,
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  Speaker 1: how to get the kids further ahead in life and
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  Speaker 1: how they're going to do. And then if your kids
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  Speaker 1: are further ahead in life and they're doing well, chances
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  Speaker 1: are they might be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Take care of you later on in life. And that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that we forgot.
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  Speaker 1: We teach our kids how to fish rather than just
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: give them fish. It's a huge undertaking to get them
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  Speaker 1: ready and prepared. And I don't think we're doing it
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  Speaker 1: at the younger age. I know what I did at
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  Speaker 1: look at the kids today, and if they have an Xbox,
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  Speaker 1: they're a happy camper. And it makes the parent's job
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  Speaker 1: very easy. Well, he's got his Xbox for the next
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  Speaker 1: three hours. He'll leave me alone. And that's not the
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  Speaker 1: way it should be. I mean, go out, throw a baseball,
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, I think at the end of the day, it
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  Speaker 35: has completely ruined my generation, at least being a Gen Z.
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  Speaker 9: It has just it's been terrible.
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  Speaker 35: And the algorithm will just continue to push out that
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  Speaker 35: information that you want to see, which pushes those ideologies.
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  Speaker 42: A three-alarm fire destroyed a log cabin on Jerusalem Road
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  Speaker 42: safely as 40 to 50 firefighters from 12 agencies responded.
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  Speaker 12: To the blaze.
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  Speaker 42: The house is considered a total loss and the cause
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  Speaker 42: A 63-year-old Lisbon man was arrested for allegedly stealing more
• 1:25:40
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  Speaker 42: Rhode Island's new United Football League team unveiled its name
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli filling in for Lee Elsie
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• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: with Sophie Felgate talking about what's going on as a
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: senior player in a Republican position in UConn. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take one second plug here for the Shoreline
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  Speaker 1: Church is having a movie night Friday, October 23rd. It's
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: called Young Washington, and it's an Old Lyme Turning Point
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  Speaker 1: Activation Hub Presents Freedom Movie Night. It's at the Shoreline Church,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: 287 Shore Road, Old Lyme, Connecticut, Friday, October 23rd at 630.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a fun show, a nice evening, and
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  Speaker 1: it would be nice when you're young people that you
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: get crowds of young people so you can talk about
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: what's going on together, and you're like-minded and you can
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: actually have a debate. That's the one thing about Charlie
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: Kirk is he loved to debate whether it was good, bad,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: or whatever he did debating. And they had a vigil
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: up at UConn for Charlie Kirk for what happened to
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: him on September 10th. And why don't you go in
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  Speaker 1: and tell them a little bit about how well received
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: that was.
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, so we had gone to the school and put
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 35: an event request in to have an outdoor vigil on
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 35: the terrace in honor of him.
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  Speaker 9: And me and my fellow peers put the event together.
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  Speaker 9: The school was actually pretty receptive of it.
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  Speaker 35: We have a new director for student activities, and he
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 35: was very helpful, had a meeting with us. We went outside,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 35: set up, we had candles and, you know, a picture
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 35: frame of Charlie, some flowers, and probably about 15 or
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 35: 20 of our peers came and some community members to,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 35: you know, mourn the loss of Charlie. Not even 15
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 35: minutes after we had started to get set up, slowly
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 35: we had students coming onto the student union lawn, started
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 35: turning the lawn chairs that they put outside for us
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 35: to face us and watch us almost like we were
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 35: on a theater stage. While we were up there, one
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  Speaker 35: of our students in the faith community had gone up
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 35: and said a prayer. And the student majority was screaming, cursing,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 35: just being overall unbelievably vulgar while he was in prayer.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 35: And it was so sad to see that even though
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 35: we were there for Charlie and people may not have
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 35: agreed with him, they were screaming when they were talking
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 35: about the words of God, not even just about Charlie himself.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 35: And as the night progressed, we probably had almost 300
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 35: student protesters stand outside with signs that we truly couldn't
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 35: really read because they were poorly made. And the UConn
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 35: Police Department did come and made sure that we had
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 35: our space to say our words and, you know, do
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 35: what we needed to do to spend this day together
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 35: as a community. But it was just a really terrible
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 35: environment and it was so unfortunate to see. And it
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 35: is the truth that we're not the only campus like
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 35: organization on.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: Campus that experiences this type of hate. But.
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  Speaker 35: After the event had ended, after all the protesting continued,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 35: the school actually had us have a police escort because
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 35: it was to that degree that they felt that for
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 35: our safety, they needed to escort us back to our
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  Speaker 35: cars and to our dorms.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty bad when you're trying to celebrate someone's
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: life and they don't even want to do that.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: And it just shows the class and.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: Humility that we don't have anymore in the United States
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: for our students, for our our family members and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'm sure that if I was at, I
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  Speaker 1: was one of the ones protesting and my father saw
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: me on TV, I'd feel a smack in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the head one day when I wasn't expecting it,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: you know? And that's the problem is that we don't
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: teach respect in our own houses. The kids aren't taught
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: to respect their parents or not taught to respect their
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: teachers or not taught to respect life really when you
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: look at it. And, um, you know, those are the
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: different things that are the teachings have to keep happening
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: and go from there and And we'll see what goes
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: on from there. So tell us a lot of the
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: different things that you do. You're a travel agent. You
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: do influencing.
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You get paid by TikTok.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So all these different things. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Because as we're older people, this stuff wasn't available to
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: us when we were younger. And being a college student,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: and here's a question if somebody's listening. Can she write
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: off her dorm expenses against her business account? Can she
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: write off 20% of her dorm expenses saying that was
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: her office for her TikTok and things like that? So
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: when you're talking to people like this that have.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: Done so much and they're so young, you know, there's
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: only good things coming for you and better things coming
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: for you. And so but talk a little bit about
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: starting a travel agency, doing all these different things as
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: a college student.
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, so I started my travel business my
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 35: sophomore year because I had gone on my first vacation
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 35: in a very long time. And my mom had been
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 35: in the industry for about 15 years. And when I
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 35: got back, I pretty much looked at her and said,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 35: why would you ever leave this? So I did a
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 35: lot of research, looked at the market, and saw how
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 35: I could leverage it with social media, with co-branding links.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 9: I built my website with GoDaddy Arrow.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 35: I reached out to my regional directors in different resort
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 35: groups to continue to build the brand. And it kind
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 35: of just took off within the first year or so.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 35: And that all came with consistency and learning how to
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 35: utilize social media instead of it being a negative and
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 35: dark place, which it can be, to use it to push.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 9: A business out and make money off of it.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 35: And I can say that in the past two years
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 35: of school, I have not clocked into a job and
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 35: I live a pretty comfortable lifestyle, I like to say.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 35: I know we were just talking about me going to
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 35: Florida for 24 hours. So, you know, it can be
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 35: good for, it can be used for good.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 9: And for bad. And I'm excited to see where it
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 9: all goes.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 28: Right.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: But you posted, and we don't want to say the airline,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: but you posted a video for an airline and they
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: gave you two free tickets because you posted on your
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: social media.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: Explain that.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: How that all works.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 35: So I work with brands in different companies. Sometimes they
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 35: reach out to me. Other times I reach out to them.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 35: I've worked with companies like SeatGeek before and They pretty
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 35: much pay me to post a video on my social
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 35: media platform and they push ads out.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 9: And then when it comes to the airline company.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 35: I work directly with their marketing team. So I could
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 35: pitch a proposal to them and say, hey, you know,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 35: Formula One, that's my next trip in November. I could say, hey,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 35: I want to go to Formula One. I pitch a
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 35: proposal to them on how I can sponsor Breeze. And
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 35: if it gets approved by the marketing team, I get
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 35: tickets in my account and we're set to go.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 9: So it's pretty cool.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 12: Nice.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: And you don't get a 1099 for the tickets, so
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: it's like in trade.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 36: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: Well, this is just an education that most of the
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: listeners probably don't have on how to leverage and leverage
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: and leverage, and you're just leveraging what's available to make
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: your life better. The parents don't understand this, and if
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: the kids don't figure it out— They don't figure it out.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: But these are just different things that you can do
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: to leverage your experience. And you can do it with
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: a phone and a click and, you know, the things
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: that weren't available to us when we either washed the car,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: mowed the lawn.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: There was some way to make money, but it was
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: the hard way of making money.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 9: You're going to get me audited.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 34: Yes.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: But anyway, these are different things that are going on
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: in colleges and programs. And I wanted to bring what's
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: going on with Sophie trying to be– a normal child
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: at a public school, because UConn is a public school,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: and what they're dealing with on a daily basis of
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: the left-wing mentality and what they're doing to the kids.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: They're basically brainwashed. It's either our way or the highway,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: most of your professors.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 35: Yeah, and you know what's funny about the social media
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 35: thing is a lot of my peers on campus do
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 35: know that I am Republican or at least lean more right.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 9: And if somebody asks me, I'm like, I'm.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 35: A constitutionalist, you know, just to play that middle ground
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 35: sometimes if need be. And since they're aware of that,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 35: my platform ends up getting more views because of that.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 9: But what they don't realize is that it all helps
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 9: the algorithm.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 35: So they'll go and post about it on, there's a
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 35: platform at school called Yik Yak.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 9: It's an anonymous Twitter forum, pretty much.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 35: And I've been trending here or there being like, oh,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 35: the TikTok girl is a part of Turning Point or
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 35: College Republicans. And it just brings more traction to my page.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: So I take it and I leverage it.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it's like the people that listen to Howard Stern,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the people that didn't like him listened longer than the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: people that did like him. They wanted to see what
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: you were doing. And those are all the different things
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: that are going on in the schools. Tell us, what
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: was your best experience at UConn?
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 35: There's been so many of it. Probably the national championship.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 35: I believe I was a freshman the year that it happened.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 35: That was such an amazing night.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 9: It was so much fun.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 35: I mean, yes, it got a little bit crazy, but
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 35: being surrounded by such a big community is something that I'm.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: So grateful for.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 35: When you put politics aside and people can come together
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 35: just because they have school spirit, that's when you kind
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 35: of feel this deeper level of connection.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 9: That night, we were.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 35: All just UConn students able to celebrate our school, and
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 35: the community is great, and I do love the school
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 35: regardless of all the other things that do go on.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 35: I've had an amazing college experience, and that's coming from
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 35: somebody that wanted to go to Florida and was honestly
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 35: disappointed when I had to go to UConn. And four
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 35: years later, I'm proud to say that I'll be a
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 35: Husky alumni.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: So what happened with Florida? Because I know your sisters
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: are in Florida. Your mom won't let you go?
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 9: No, everybody was supportive of me going.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 35: But at the end of the day, UConn was going
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 35: to be the best D1 school that I could go to.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 9: And staying local to home was just comfortable for me
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 9: at the time.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 35: But now that I'm coming close to graduation, I'm starting
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 35: to look at other cities that I'll potentially venture off
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 35: to to continue to expand and grow further.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: And will you be looking at states that have income tax,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: states that have no income tax?
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 9: Preferably no income tax.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 34: Right.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: So that's one of the things we have to work
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: on in the state of Connecticut is we have to
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: start paying our debt off and start lowering our income tax. And,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: you know, we had $ 1. 3 billion spent on illegals last year.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: We had $ 800 million In our budget surplus, that's $ 2. 3
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: billion we were overtaxed.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 39: Yeah, I know.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 35: I remember hearing about the credit cards and the hotels.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the different counselors. And it's crazy.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: We're paying for steak dinners for chancellors that are making $ 400, 000
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: a year. It makes zero sense. And then the students
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: struggle to just get a permit to have an outdoor
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: activity if it's not what they want to sanction.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, Connecticut, to my understanding, is one of
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 35: the few states that the governor doesn't have a set
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 35: amount of terms.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 9: Isn't that correct?
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: Say that one more time.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 36: I didn't miss it.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 35: Connecticut is one of the few states that the governor
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 35: can't have a set amount of terms, so he can
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 35: continue to run.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: He can continue to run, yes. As long as he wants.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 9: As long as he wants, yes.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 35: Yeah, so that is something that makes me a little
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 35: bit nervous because he's been in office for eight years now,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 35: running for a third term.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 35: If there's something I could change, I would change that
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 35: there are set terms.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: Well, term limits need to be everywhere.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 43: Right.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: The president has them, you know, and some of us
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: are going to be sad that he doesn't have a
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: chance to go for a third term.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: But that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 21: I have two questions. Why did you want to go
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  Speaker 9: Are you an athlete.
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  Speaker 21: Forward slash forward slash forward.
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  Speaker 52: Slash and number two, what was the worst thing about UConn?
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  Speaker 18: Okay.
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  Speaker 35: So I definitely went to UConn and the priority of
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  Speaker 35: it being D1 was just to leverage that as I
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  Speaker 35: applied in my career life. Um, going to a school
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  Speaker 35: for me. Um, The only negative thing I would say
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  Speaker 9: It failed.
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  Speaker 35: There was a report, like research that was done, and
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  Speaker 35: we scored extremely badly, very bad.
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  Speaker 9: So that's the only downside of it. But honestly, besides that,
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  Speaker 35: I mean, we're definitely overpopulated now and have the housing crisis,
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  Speaker 35: but I think if they can learn how to manage
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  Speaker 35: those things, it can continue to be a great university.
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  Speaker 1: So as you're saying, there's a housing crisis. They have
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  Speaker 1: buildings around the school? You need to build more housing?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, we could definitely use some more infrastructure because the school.
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  Speaker 9: Can't handle the capacity.
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  Speaker 35: It's just I believe freshmen now are the only ones
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  Speaker 35: that are guaranteed housing, and it used to be guaranteed
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  Speaker 35: all four years. And that just shows you. And then
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  Speaker 35: if you move off campus, rent, I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 35: great market. If you're looking for property, you could charge
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  Speaker 35: like over $ 2, 000 a month at least for some of
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  Speaker 35: these houses. And you're living in Storrs, Connecticut, where there's
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  Speaker 35: nothing for like a 30-mile radius to go to the
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  Speaker 35: grocery store like Trader Joe's.
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  Speaker 9: You've got to go to Manchester.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy when you look at it. stores is basically
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  Speaker 1: you're making money if you have a house out in
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  Speaker 1: stores you're renting bedroom and you're saying two thousand two
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  Speaker 1: thousand per room it's not two thousand per house so
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  Speaker 60: You're making eight thousand dollars a month yeah off a
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  Speaker 60: real estate no i'm just kidding um but uh the
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  Speaker 60: numbers are there uh that are crazy and You know,
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  Speaker 60: they want more kids in school for the more money.
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  Speaker 2: But talk about the tuition increase in the last four years.
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  Speaker 28: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 35: So I think when I first started going to school
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  Speaker 35: at UConn in state to live there. And this is
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  Speaker 35: like the most basic plan you can get on food, housing,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 35: all the additional fees that they add in there. I
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  Speaker 35: wanted to say it was about thirty two thousand for
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  Speaker 35: in state for the full year.
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  Speaker 9: Now I'm paying about.
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  Speaker 35: Forty two thousand to forty four thousand a year and
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  Speaker 35: out of state. I want to say around $ 65, 000. I
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  Speaker 35: would definitely check those numbers. I'm gauging that that's just
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  Speaker 35: about accurate. So it has definitely gone up in price,
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  Speaker 35: and there's definitely value for it. But considering that we're
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  Speaker 24: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, again, it's the cost, cost, cost, everything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, teachers get a raise, insurance rates go up,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of doing business everywhere increases. Especially in the state.
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  Speaker 1: You know, look at the light bill alone. I mean,
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  Speaker 26: A stab wound to the back.
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  Speaker 42: The victim became unresponsive at the scene, prompting an emergency
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  Speaker 42: response from EMS and firefighters. Further information was unavailable. A
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 42: man died after being struck by a vehicle in a
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  Speaker 42: Putnam parking lot early Sunday. Police say 25-year-old Brandon Livingston
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  Speaker 42: hit the victim while fleeing an altercation. Livingston faces manslaughter
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  Speaker 42: and other charges and is held on $ 750, 000 bond. New
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  Speaker 42: London police are investigating the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Richard
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  Speaker 42: Rawwell Jr. found inside a vehicle at the Garfield Avenue
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  Speaker 42: Apartments last week. Rawwell later died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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  Speaker 42: Police believe the shooting was not random and are asking
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  Speaker 42: anyone with information to come forward.
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  Speaker 27: Rhode Island's new.
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  Speaker 42: introducing the Rhode Island Breakers. The team will begin playing
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  Speaker 42: next spring at Centerville Bank Stadium under head coach A.J.
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  Speaker 27: McCarron.
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  Speaker 42: The name and lighthouse-themed logo reflect Rhode Island's maritime heritage.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: This is George Agnelli with 94.9 News Now.
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  Speaker 2: And we're on.
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  Speaker 1: We have Ben Proto on for the next segment. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, things are getting unraveling in front of this
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: governor like crazy with Trump. Missing audits, missing money, stuff's everywhere,
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: everything's falling apart. You want to clue us in, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: to what the latest scandal is going on with the governor?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the latest scandal with the governor is
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 5: that he thinks that everybody else but him and the
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  Speaker 5: Connecticut Democrats are to blame for the problems in the
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 5: state of Connecticut. If ever anybody was trying to shift blame...
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  Speaker 5: It's Ned Lamont. You know, I said the other day,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was interesting, they had a press conference
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  Speaker 5: the other day with the governor and Senators Murphy and
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 5: Blumenthal and I think Luke Bronin and a couple of others. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the governor flat out said that the reason
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: Connecticut is unaffordable is because of Donald Trump. And, you know, George,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 5: I've been doing this a long time, and I know
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  Speaker 5: you've been doing business in the state of Connecticut a
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 5: long time. Did you know, because I bet you didn't
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  Speaker 5: know this, that on January 19, 2025, Connecticut was a
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 5: tremendously affordable state, and at noon on January 20, 2025,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 5: suddenly Connecticut became unaffordable? In an instant, like that. It
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 5: amazes me that the governor and the Democrats can actually
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 5: put those words in their mouth and have them come out.
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  Speaker 5: And what's even more troubling is that people believe it,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: that they have lost sight of the fact that it's
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 5: this governor who destroyed the energy market in the state
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 5: of Connecticut. It's this governor who destroyed the insurance market
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 5: in the state of Connecticut. It's this governor who caused
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 5: property taxes to become the third highest in the country.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 5: It's this governor who imposed a mileage tax on trucks
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  Speaker 5: that make everything you buy in any store you go
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 5: to more expensive. It's this governor who who appointed Costas Diamantis,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 5: who stole tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers. It's
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 5: this governor who took an 18-month, $ 90 million state peer
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  Speaker 5: project and turned it into a five-year, $ 400 million project
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 5: that's still going strong. It's this governor and the Connecticut
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  Speaker 5: Democrats who, over the last 16 years, including those times
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  Speaker 5: with Dan Malloy, have completely destroyed the economy in the
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 5: state of Connecticut. It's this governor who gave state employees
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  Speaker 5: a 40% percent pay raise over the last eight years,
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  Speaker 5: thereby continuing to destroy our pension liability system, while private
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  Speaker 5: sector employees have not kept up their wages as it
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 5: is across the country. It's this governor who took Connecticut
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  Speaker 5: and put our inflation rate at a higher rate than
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 5: the national average.
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  Speaker 54: Yep, but on.
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  Speaker 5: January 20th, 2025, is when Connecticut fell apart, according to
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  Speaker 5: this governor. What he is, and I never thought I
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 5: would say this really about Ned Lamont, is he has
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 5: turned into Governor Liar. I mean, the guy is lying
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  Speaker 5: through his teeth to the people of the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like Governor Lamont also left two or three
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  Speaker 1: seats— vacant on pura so that he would have the
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  Speaker 1: rights to see what he wanted to do for all
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: these benefits that he didn't have to fight with a
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: board um you know the board was controlled by him
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  Speaker 1: because he he picked the appointees and he picked the
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: appointees and he left two or three seats vacant so
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: that he would have more control of all these public
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  Speaker 1: benefits and where he could extra put the extra tax
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  Speaker 1: in as we look at and this is under ned
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  Speaker 1: lamont he put in the family act And we all
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: get taxed 5 percent of our pay, which is another
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  Speaker 1: half a billion dollars. And now it's running short of funds.
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  Speaker 1: And they had to put money from the general ledger
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: over to cover it. And by law, they can't tax anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is definitely a Democratic tax. Had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with Trump. And it's a half a billion
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: dollars a year coming out of working families' pockets to
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: pay for the people that don't want to work. And
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: you look at this stuff, and now they're having a shortfall,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: and they just had to transfer $ 20 million into it
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  Speaker 1: from the general fund, which is another $ 20 million that
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: came out of the hardworking taxpayer's pocket.
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 5: Well, and the money comes out of the half-a-billion-dollar slush
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: fund that Ned Lamont and the Democrats created last year
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  Speaker 5: to pay for things that really are not things that
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 5: society should be paying for. in addition to providing additional
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: health care for people who are here illegally, providing other
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 5: services for people that are not here or not in
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 5: this country legally. And it goes on and on. And
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 5: when we look at other things that Ned Lamont and
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 5: the Democrats have done, again, they want to blame Donald
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 5: Trump for what's happening with ICE in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 35: No.
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  Speaker 5: The reason ICE does what it does in Connecticut is
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 5: because Ned Lamont and– the Democrats took away the ability
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 5: of local law enforcement to talk with federal law enforcement officials.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 5: ISIS said time and time again, in those states where
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 5: we can have conversations with and work with local law enforcement,
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 5: the process is much easier, much simpler, much cleaner. We
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: don't have these issues. But where local law enforcement can't
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: talk to us, can't tell us what's going on, where
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 5: we can't walk into local lockups and take people out,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 5: where we can't work with local police to take out
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: bad guys, then.
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  Speaker 54: Yeah, this is what happens.
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  Speaker 5: And that's all on Ned Lamont and the Democrats, and
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 5: they keep wanting to try to switch that blame to
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  Speaker 5: the president. And it's just not the case.
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  Speaker 24: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when you look at it, if you're a governor
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  Speaker 1: and you're an attorney general and you're sworn to uphold
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution of Connecticut and to protect its citizens, are
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: you protecting your citizens when you're harboring illegal aliens that
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: have violated the law already?
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 2: And then we'll do it again.
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  Speaker 1: And this cashless bail and all this stuff that's going
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: on in our state has just proven to be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And look at France. I mean, they want illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 2: They want this.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't seen the big protests or the fighting or
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: the or the problems. But because we have a you know,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: we have a president that I don't think will put
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: up with it, you know, burning of anything anymore or
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: anything like that. But they want what's happening in France
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: to happen to us. They want to protect these people
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: over the citizens of the city. And if you look
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: at the city of Hartford, it's a nine million dollar
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: a week to educate kids in Hartford. And now they
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: have a huge teacher shortage. They have more kids in
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: their school that are English is their second language. And
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: it's affecting the kids that are living here in it.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: What they're doing to society is destroying it from within,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: and that's the biggest problem we have to deal with.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, it's clear that the Democratic Party is not
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party that George, you and I grew up with,
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 5: with really whether we necessarily.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: Agree with their politics or not.
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  Speaker 5: Some really great leaders in this country like Harry Truman
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  Speaker 5: and Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson You know,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 5: you can go down the line, you know, with some of,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 5: you know, the great congressional leaders of the day, you know, who,
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: you know, we might not have agreed with their politics,
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 5: but clearly had in their minds the best interest of
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 5: America at heart. I don't believe the Democratic Party has
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 5: the best interest of America at heart. In fact, they're
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out how to destroy America, how to take,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: you know, two of the greatest documents ever written to
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 5: govern the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 5: United States and just completely tear them apart. and create
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 5: a whole new society that is a tremendously government-driven society,
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: that is a redistribution of wealth society. And we know
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 5: what happened. You know, Margaret Thatcher had the best line,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 5: socialism is great, but you run out of other people's money.
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 5: And what's happened in Connecticut is we've run out of
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: other people's money. And so now we're trying to find out,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 5: you know, where do we get money from? Well, you're
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 5: going to start getting money from the middle class and,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 5: you know, working men and women, uh... who don't have
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 5: the ability to pay their bills as it is and
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 5: you're going to see more and more cost being lost
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 5: the problem and what the working men and women of
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 5: this state by the democrats they retain the power that
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 5: they have it was funny you know this weekend you
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 5: know we had more no things rally and what's interesting
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 5: about it the truth came from the state of connecticut
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 5: and then lamont the democrat it's not donald trump in
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: the republican it's not lamont the democrats who are posing
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 5: their will upon people and basically saying you have no choice.
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  Speaker 5: This is what you shall do in this state. Per
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 5: order of King Ned, and he imposes it upon his subjects,
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 5: and we have to pay tribute to the king.
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  Speaker 1: Especially as Attorney Tong, if you voted for Donald Trump,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't even be running for office. If you support him,
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't be running for office. You've got to join
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: the rest of us. If you don't like it my way,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: then it's too bad, but your way doesn't count. And
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: that's your attorney general.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he loses sight of the fact that he
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 5: says the people who support Donald Trump shouldn't run for office,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 5: yet he took an oath to uphold the Constitution of
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 5: the United States and the state of Connecticut and continually
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 5: just tries to shred it and work around it. My
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 5: opinion is if that's your position, then you should not
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 5: be putting your hand on the and raising your right
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 5: hand and saying you swear to uphold and defend the
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 5: Constitution because that's not what you're doing.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: Well, it's their– they swear to uphold their Constitution. It's
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: not our Constitution. It's whatever they want is what they're
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: going to force on us. I mean, Attorney General Tong,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, again, we.
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  Speaker 2: Won't bypass the gas tax, which will save $ 0.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 55: 35 or $ 0.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: 25 a gallon in the state of Connecticut. We have
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: an $ 800 million surplus. on top of spending $ 1. 3 billion
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: on illegal aliens last year. So that's $ 2. 1 billion we're overtaxed.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: Why can't we have a gas holiday? You know why
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: we can't have a gas holiday? It might help Donald Trump.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: That's the whole reason why we can't have a gas
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: tax holiday. Georgia did it. South Carolina did it. North
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: Carolina did it. And their gas is down to $ 3. 70
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: a gallon. And again, New Haven needs to build the
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: oil-to-gas plant.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: It's there. The docks are there for it. Everything was
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: built to build it.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: And we would save 15 cents a gallon in transportation
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: fees once that thing was built. And the city of
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: New Haven would be completely tax free because it would
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: be a trillion dollar plant. And that's just about what
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: New Haven taxes the citizens. So can you imagine New
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: Haven under a Republican governor? Just think about this. We
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: make a Republican governor and we can actually build the
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: oil to gas plant. New Haven will become tax free,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: the biggest Democratic city in the. the state of Connecticut,
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: the most liberal city in the state of Connecticut, could
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: actually become tax-free under a government, right now under Ned Lamont,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: but he won't do the things needed to make it happen.
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  Speaker 5: No, and there's no upside benefit to that happening because
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 5: obviously it goes against the whole green initiative. And everyone
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 5: is up in arms about the whole revolutionary wind project
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 5: out in the middle of Long Island Sound. And what
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 5: I think people don't understand, if you really take a
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 5: hard look at your public benefits charge, a big portion
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 5: of the public benefits charge goes to pay and subsidize
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 5: renewable energy because, George, as you know, renewable energy costs
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 5: more to produce than they can sell it for. So
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 5: they have to subsidize it. So how do they subsidize it?
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 5: There's charges on your electric bill. There's charges on your
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 5: gas bill to subsidize that power.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: Well, my neighbor got a Tesla, and he was talking about, oh,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: they gave me a free charging station with it for
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: my house. So then I read in the public benefits
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: bill that everybody that bought a $ 60, 000 car got a
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: free charger. And because you and I paid for it,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: we paid for it as part of our public benefits.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: So all these free chargers you see that your neighbors got,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: they weren't free. You paid for them to have the
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: right to drive a $ 60, 000 car.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 5: And there's no such thing as free, George, as you
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 5: well know. You've been in business a long time. When
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 5: you say we're going to do free child care, no,
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 5: it's not free. We're going to do low-cost public housing. No,
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 5: it's not low-cost. It's just as expensive to do that
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 5: as it is for market rate housing. Somebody has to
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 5: make up the difference in the cost. And where does
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 5: the money come from? It comes from working men and women.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 5: who in this state right now their wages are not
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 5: keeping up, they can't pay their bills, their property taxes
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 5: have skyrocketed, and the governor's answer to that is to
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 5: give you a $ 500 tax credit next year on your
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 5: income tax. Here's a concept for you, George, that I
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 5: would love to see out there, and I beg Republicans
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 5: to push this concept. Most people think because of the
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 5: way our state income tax works off of the federal
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 5: income tax that they're getting the deduction for their property taxes.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 5: They're not. We do not get to deduct our property
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 5: taxes on our state income tax. Why not make property
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 5: taxes fully tax-deductible on your state income tax so you're
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 5: not paying a tax on the tax that you've already paid?
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: No, it's true. I mean, there's a lot of different things.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 5: That is true property tax relief. If I could take
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 5: my $ 13, 000, $ 14, 000, $ 15, 000 a year property tax bill and
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 5: deduct it on my state income tax return... That would
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 5: be true property tax. It's not going to reduce my
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 5: property taxes, but it's going to reduce my overall tax
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 5: charge to the state of Connecticut and put more money
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 5: in my pocket.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: So you get taxed 30 percent of your pay to
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: then go to the gas pump and get charged 50
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: cents a gallon tax, which you've already paid a tax.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 2: You already paid one tax.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: Now you're using what's left of your money after taxes
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: to pay more taxes to to buy gasoline to get
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: to work. So when you look at it, gas isn't
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: really $ 4 a gallon. You've got to add another 4.5%
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: to it for the state income tax because you have
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: to pay that first before you can even fill up
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: your tank.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 5: And it goes on and on and on. You know,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 5: the mileage tax and the tax on prepared food, the
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 5: 1% additional tax on prepared food, it doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 5: a lot. But we know that a lot of young families,
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  Speaker 5: and particularly a lot of single moms, oftentimes are buying
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  Speaker 5: at the grocery store prepared meals for their kids, or
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  Speaker 5: senior citizens are buying prepared meals for their dinners and whatnot,
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  Speaker 5: and it's costing them additional dollars just to feed their
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  Speaker 5: families in a lot of cases, not counting, of course,
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  Speaker 5: the mileage tax that the truck had to pay to
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  Speaker 5: of it. So, yeah, this is all Ned Lamont and
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  Speaker 5: I find it amazing, you know, when we look at,
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  Speaker 5: they don't make enough money to pay their bills. And
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  Speaker 5: then they say, but I want to reelect the guy
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  Speaker 5: who did it. The counterintuitiveness to it is amazing to me,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't quite get it, that people are willing
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  Speaker 5: to reelect the problem who has no solution, just more problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, zero solution because you haven't heard.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for the debates because I'm hoping they're
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  Speaker 1: do so poorly in the first debate. There'll be a
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  Speaker 1: reason why he cancels the second debate. And the other
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  Speaker 1: thing is, you know, I was talking to Levi's the
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  Speaker 1: other day. I said, you know, you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to make a fifth pocket, Gene.
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  Speaker 2: And they said, why?
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  Speaker 1: I go, because the state of Connecticut is so far
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: in all four of my pockets. I'm going to need
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  Speaker 1: a fifth pocket. So I have a little money left
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  Speaker 1: for myself.
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  Speaker 5: You have a little money left?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. Lucky.
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  Speaker 5: Because of Ned Lamont and the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the tax on owning a business instead of
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: getting it. The taxes are just ridiculous. You know, so
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  Speaker 1: when you have all these different things and you look
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  Speaker 1: and you try to adjust to each president, you try
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: to adjust to each candidate. governor and everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: eight years of him is a nut. You got your record.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tax and spend. And the Democratic supermajority is
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: becoming more liberal. As you saw, they put up a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Elliott that wants free everything for everybody. And
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: as you see, it just doesn't work because after a while,
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  Speaker 1: for every resident, there's $ 10, 000 in state debt. For every taxpayer,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: there's $ 55, 000.
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  Speaker 2: So that means.
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  Speaker 1: One in six or one in five are paying for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us, and you can't keep paying and
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  Speaker 1: sustain life. We only have a few seconds left. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything else you'd like to say?
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  Speaker 5: No, Joe, I appreciate you being on the show and
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  Speaker 5: filling in there for our boy Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Helping him out.
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  Speaker 5: Contrary to popular belief, Lee is not an idiot or
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  Speaker 4: uh.
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  Speaker 5: mark uh... you know i think i'd like that you
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  Speaker 5: She's dumb as a stone but i i really don't
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  Speaker 5: in the state senate folks you know com November 3rd,
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  Speaker 5: let's make sure we send Lee Elsie up to the
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: to my last half hour filling in for Lee. It's
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  Speaker 21: Good morning, George.
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  Speaker 54: Imagine if Governor Lamont had to introduce himself the same
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  Speaker 54: way and say, if you have any criticism, please let
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  Speaker 54: me know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would take up about five days.
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  Speaker 54: That would jam the lines up.
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  Speaker 5: And I do.
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  Speaker 54: I encourage people, like, people forget. We are, the capital
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  Speaker 54: That's where we send the people we choose to represent us.
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  Speaker 54: is that we haven't gotten that message through quick enough.
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  Speaker 54: But I do think as we head into this election cycle,
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  Speaker 54: a lot, I mean a lot of people have woken
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  Speaker 54: you know, they hold the bucket of water on this
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  Speaker 54: issue and they ruined it for us on that issue
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  Speaker 54: everything that we're seeing, not only in Connecticut, but in
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  Speaker 54: pockets of Democrat districts. And that's a fact. In Democrat
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  Speaker 54: districts where they win, they tend to win, they are,
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  Speaker 54: they're the ones turning out the fraud. So aside from fraud,
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  Speaker 54: we have to do our part. We have to show
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  Speaker 54: up on election day. You know, I just listened to
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  Speaker 54: Ben and I can't believe you're, I mean, you're a
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  Speaker 54: part of the group. Um, when we, we haven't gotten
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  Speaker 54: together in a while, but when we get together and
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  Speaker 54: we have brainstorm sessions and we air grievances and we debate, um,
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  Speaker 54: on how money should be spent, where it should be
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  Speaker 54: spent and how the state of business is going with
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  Speaker 54: the Connecticut Republican party, we have come so far. in
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  Speaker 54: listening to Ben this morning with so many things in
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  Speaker 54: the Connecticut Republican party, like there's such a fight in
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  Speaker 54: Ben's voice this morning, you know, like the issues roll
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  Speaker 54: off his tongue. Like he can't wait to tell the listener,
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  Speaker 54: this is the problem. And the Republicans have the solution
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  Speaker 54: this time. We're on more ballots than ever. We have
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  Speaker 54: solid candidates. We have people that have made it through
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  Speaker 54: an incredibly difficult time. vetting season you look at look
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  Speaker 54: at what happened with aaron stewart i mean there's no
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  Speaker 54: leaf unturned when it comes to vetting in politics and
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  Speaker 54: our republican slate everywhere from out east greg howard you
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  Speaker 54: um heather summers You know, here we have a candidate,
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  Speaker 54: She's one of the far left progressive in a winnable seat.
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  Speaker 54: And so I'm just, you know, I'm just so happy
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  Speaker 54: this year. And look at what he has to go through.
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  Speaker 54: want to attach to that, how do we get people
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  Speaker 54: How do we get them to leave their house? How
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  Speaker 54: do we get them to drop the bitterness? How do
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  Speaker 54: we get them to do this? How do we get
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  Speaker 54: them to do that? And it really comes down to,
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  Speaker 54: number one, look at the endorsements that they're getting this year.
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  Speaker 54: Everyone falls into a box.
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  Speaker 40: Everybody.
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  Speaker 54: Law enforcement is a box. Parents is a box. People
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  Speaker 54: that can't stand transgenders on girls' teams and in locker
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  Speaker 54: rooms is a box. The people that deal with taxes,
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  Speaker 54: pay taxes, owe taxes, that's a box. It's a big box.
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  Speaker 54: But all these people are the ones that we need
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  Speaker 54: they are like, ah, they always talk about this issue
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  Speaker 54: ready to vote for, which at this point, the cake
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 54: is baked. Like anything that would have come out on
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 54: a candidate, it would have already come out. So feel confident.
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 54: I would just want people to feel confident that they
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 54: can walk into a town hall or a city hall
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 54: and cast their vote proudly for a Republican candidate that
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 54: represents all of the issues that they have been fighting for,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 54: and they came with receipts this election cycle. We have
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 54: the clips of them arguing public benefits, begging for them
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 54: to eliminate them, begging for them to put them in
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 54: the general budget so people can see how much do
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 54: we owe, how much is left.
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 19: Will it ever go away?
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 54: Do we keep adding more places that we charge public benefits?
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 54: How do we follow these things if we don't do
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 54: what needs to be done? And we have candidates that
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 54: have been doing it, and they've been debating it on
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 54: the Senate floor, like Rob Sampson and Steve Harding and
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 54: Vinnie Candelora. They've been putting the work in, and we
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 54: come with receipts this year. I'm going to let you
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 54: say something because I know that was like my little
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 54: monologue right there.
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 2: I feel strongly about getting the vote out beginning today.
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 2: So a couple of things.
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: I was at Ryan Fazio's town hall last night in
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: Middletown and 150, 200 people showed up and they had
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: real questions for him. And, you know, this is Sunday
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: night at nine o'clock. He was still surrounded by a
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: group of people answering their questions, talking to them. And
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: at 930, I left because I had to be I
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: have to leave at four o'clock in the morning to
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: make this show on time or get up at four
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning to make this show on time.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 2: And what.
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: Amy's talking about is Gary Byron from Connecticut Talk of Connecticut.
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: literally got all of us together to have a chance
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: in the party.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 2: To do things and to get involved.
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: And we had meetings at Water's Edge and several different
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: restaurants all around the state with different groups. And Gary
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: started like, we have to get on the same page.
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: And Amy will tell you, there was some knockdown drag outs.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: They were getting ready to call 911, the amount of
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: yelling the first meeting. And we got everybody on the
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: same page and everybody's working together. And that's one of
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: the biggest problems with the Republican Party is that we
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: were not working as a team. And I think we're
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: working as a team. I think Ryan has brought a
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: lot of people together. He's got a lot of under ticket. And,
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: you know, If he wins and we and we still
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: have a super majority of Democrats, we really lose. If
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: he wins and Tong stays as attorney general, we really
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: lose because he's not going to be able to get
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: the work done that he needs to be doing. He'll
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: just be spinning his wheels and we'll pay for it.
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: So it's very important that we get– you just grab
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: two neighbors, go get a cup of coffee with your neighbor,
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: the one you've been fighting about over the fence, let
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: them have the two inches and get the fence up
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: as long as they vote Republican. You know, I mean,
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: it's about– it's just not about you voting, but making
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: sure– like, I already texted my kids, and some of
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: them live in different states.
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 2: Have you voted yet?
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: You know, have you– make sure this election, whether it's
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: the House, whether it's the Senate, whether it's the state
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: of Connecticut– It's our longevity. Look what's happening in France
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: with open borders and Europe. Well, we have open borders
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut. They are not supporting deportation
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: of people that are killing people and that are maiming people.
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: And we have people that are dying, innocent people in
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut that are doing nothing wrong, but
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: an illegal runs them over because they've been drinking. That's
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: happened three or four times, I think even one to
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: a police officer. And then you have this guy, Mike Alvarez,
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: who's the chairman of the Democratic Party in Danbury, and
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: he wants to make it illegal as policemen. Oh, they
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: did a really good job of stopping the burning in
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: France this weekend. You know, when you think about it,
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and all these different things are going on.
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 54: People don't understand that what's happening in France has been...
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 54: in the making for about three decades now. And anyone
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 54: that knows me knows that I have a video. I've
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 54: sent it to Gary. I'll send it to you. I'll
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 54: send it to Talit. I have a video that talks
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 54: about the science of how Islam, one of their ways
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 54: of conquering the West is through immigration. And then they
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 54: have a lot of children and six, seven kids. In Connecticut,
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 54: parents can barely afford to have one or two. So,
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 54: I mean, culturally even, like when you want to sustain
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 54: your culture, and does the American people in Connecticut, do
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 54: they care about the culture here? Do they understand the
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 54: foundations of it? You know, you see churches burning in France. Like,
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 54: that is anti-Christian. Now we have anti-Semitism. Now we have
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 54: anti-Christian swirling. And the world just kind of stands by
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 54: with their phone and records it, and that's it. I mean,
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 54: if people don't think that this is coming here, unless
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 54: you wake up and start to pay attention to how
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 54: things are done around the world and how we need
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 54: to avoid those same mistakes with immigration, with socialism... Look
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 54: at the kids. They're, like, quote-unquote protesting, rioting, whatever, their
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 54: education system. I mean, that's a product of socialism. You know,
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 54: everything goes down a notch when you enter socialism. The
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 54: quality of your health care comes down a notch. Everything.
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 54: Taxes go up. It's wealth redistribution. The people that are working, earning,
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 54: and have revenue, they get taxed. they are the revenue
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 54: now to redistribute around the state. And what Connecticut has
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 54: done is they keep adding state agencies or giving grants
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 54: to NGOs, non-governmental organizations. So, you know, you want to,
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 54: you say you want an NGO that feeds the poor or,
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 54: you know, feeds the hungry, you get grant money. And
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 54: I believe Gary did one show where he listed out, like,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 54: All these agencies that got like $ 980, 000 a year or
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 54: something like that. It was a lot of money and
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 54: there was like 40 of them. I mean, this is
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 54: how it's done. So, you know, in theory, people want
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 54: to say, well, the quickest way to making things more
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 54: affordable is by just taking a little bit more money
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 54: from everyone so we can solve the people's problems without anything.
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 54: And that is not the solution in a capital system.
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 54: capitalism society. That is not the solution here. And Americans,
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 54: not just conservatives, but people that want to have a
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 54: normal middle-class lifestyle, they need to start putting their foot
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 54: down and taking a hard stance against this and saying, no,
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 54: we're not allowing you to raise our taxes anymore. We're
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 54: not doing it. And voting and voting the people out
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 54: that are doing it is the quickest way to make
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 54: dramatic change quickly. And so we really, we have to
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 54: get everyone's pain point to translate to getting to the polls.
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 54: So if everyone today could just think about what they
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 54: could say to inspire the five people that they need
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 54: to talk to, you know, maybe I know five women
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 54: right now that I'm going to call and say, Hey,
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 54: if you really don't like boys and girls sports, here's
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 54: who you need to vote for. Because they represent the
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 54: opposite stance. If they get elected, they are going to
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 54: be your voice. And boom, those five women, they're like,
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 54: all right, what's their names again? And this year, I
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 54: can proudly say, just vote Republican. Party lines from top
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 54: to bottom. If it says R next to it, bubble
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 54: it in. And by the way, they also got a
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 54: lot of independent endorsements.
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 3: So.
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 54: they're running on two tickets. That's the popularity of the
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 54: Republican Party right now. But we have to excite people
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 54: and remind them that we, we made the ones that
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 54: took two of those spots on the ballot. We're running
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 54: under two parties. People want us, but we have to
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 54: get people to go and feel the deal. You know,
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 54: go to the polls. This is it.
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 64: It's like, I don't know.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: So the Democrats have what's called the Connecticut Project, and
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: it's run by this billionaire, Victor Mandel, who wants all
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: this no zoning, charter schools, all these different things.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 2: And he's using social media. And he's really a lobbyist.
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: He's really a paid lobbyist, even though he's not registered
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: as a lobbyist for this program.
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 2: And, you know, he's pushing this.
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 1: And, you know, this is the hill we're fighting against
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: is that you have billionaires who who have DTS in
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: the worst way and are trying to take control. And
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: he's the one with, he is the one with, you know,
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: pulling the strings for John Larson because John Larson wouldn't
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: back charter schools. So he gave Luke Bronin $ 265, 000 for
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: three weeks of consulting so he could pay off whatever
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: debt he had so that he could run for office.
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: And then he used the Connecticut Project, which is an NGO,
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: which gets money from the state.
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: To then help build Democratic leadership across the state of Connecticut.
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm not so sure he's not the one that
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: put Elliott up. He just didn't have enough backing for
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: that yet. But he was just putting Elliott up now
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: so that he could use Elliott in four years if
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: Ryan wins. And these are the things that people don't understand.
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: And if we had an attorney general that took his
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: head out of his butt, but, you know, this guy's
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: helping Tong win reelections, Tong's not going to go against him. And,
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: you know, this guy really had some serious answering to
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: do before a legislative panel about what he's doing with
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: this NGO money he's getting. And he hasn't turned in
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: an audit since 2024 to know what's really going on
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut.
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 54: Well, allegedly, these NGOs, aside from being tax dollar funded
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 54: by us. So, you know, the gay and lesbian community centers,
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 54: there's like I don't even there's a dozen of them
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 54: on this list for NGOs. Like your tax money is
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 54: all going to that. There was one that was a
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 54: Jeep enthusiast drivers club. Okay. Your tax money people, listeners,
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 54: how do you feel about funding a bunch of people
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 54: that own Jeeps and go out and go four wheeling
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 54: and driving around with their rubber duckies in the windshield?
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 54: How do you like to fund their habit and their,
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 54: you know, their, uh, their hobby.
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 1: There's no idea where the money is going. Yeah, but
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: you don't even know what they're doing with the money.
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: It just goes as $ 1. 8 million of funds that you
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: don't even know where it's going to. And it's $ 50, 000
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: here and $ 100, 000 there.
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 2: And it's all these different things.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: And you look at that list that came out with
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: the sitting egg.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 2: The biggest thing.
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 54: Is Murphy is very famous for donating to these NGOs
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 54: from like his campaign fund. So tell me that's not crooked.
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's like buying votes.
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 54: That's like buying votes.
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: Well, he knows he's not going to have... In the
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: last election when he was running, he wouldn't even give
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: a debate until like two or three days before the
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: final voting, like 10 days into final voting. So when
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: you have somebody that's running a public office, and then
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: Channel 3, Channel 30, Channel 9, all the different... Channel 8,
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: all the different news networks, there's $ 2. 8 billion in assets.
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: Not accounted for in the state of Connecticut because the
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: audits haven't been turned in where the money is. Well,
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: maybe the reason the audits isn't turned in because maybe
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: there's only a billion dollars worth of stuff and there's $ 1. 8
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: billion of cars and vehicles and everything that's missing. And
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: we talk in these numbers and these are real numbers.
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: that 40% of the department to.
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 54: Carry the one when, when they're calculating our taxes. But
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 54: then when you're like, okay, let's see what you got now.
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 54: Let's see your financials. They're like, ah, yeah, about that. Um,
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 54: let me get back to you. How is that acceptable?
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 54: The controller, all of these people need to go. Like
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 54: when you start hearing that there's missing billions and millions, it's,
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 54: this is not Saturday night live skip people. This is
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 54: real life. Like, You vote out the comptroller. You bubble
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 54: in the Republicans. You get rid of them. You have
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 54: to get rid of these people. They are fired. This
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 54: is a job they get hired for by the people.
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 54: We are the people.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 24: Time's up.
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 54: There's a job interview going on. There's people out there stumping,
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 54: like you said, Ryan Fazio. I mean, he doesn't sleep.
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 54: He really is Superman. The guy doesn't seem to rest.
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 54: You know, these are your options. These are the people
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 54: that you need to go in confidently this year, and
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 54: we need to have that enthusiasm spill over into conversations
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 54: and interactions with other people, whether it's privately, text messaging,
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 54: group threads, reminding your son or daughter how they need
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 54: to get their ballot, what needs to be done if
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 54: they're away at college or within the state, and you
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 54: can help them out with facilitating it. These things matter,
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 54: and this is how we win. We need to vote
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 54: out the fraud, vote out the controversy, vote out a
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 54: guy that kept Pura empty. Our biggest issue in the
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 54: state and in the region, by the way, like, welcome
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 54: to the party, Lamont, but energy is an issue in
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 54: the region. It's the Northeast region. That's New England and
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 54: the tri-state.
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 2: This is a biggie.
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 54: So for him to leave two and sometimes three seats
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 54: unfilled on Pura is a dereliction of duty, and it's
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 54: really weird to me. It makes me wonder why.
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 2: And people that have been paying.
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 54: Attention know why. And it's exactly what you said. It
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 54: gives him more power, more control. It's less people to
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 54: have to manipulate.
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: And he turned down the two generators that would, triple
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: our gas from Pennsylvania, which will save us 30%. But
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: he refuses to put the generators in that we need
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't follow his, you know, the new green
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: law effect. And so we could be saving, if we
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: could just get our gas from Pennsylvania, we'd be saving
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: 30% of our gas bill and 30% of the 38%
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: of electricity that is produced by that. Wouldn't it be
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: nice if your gas bill went down 30% this year
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: and your town's high school gas bill went down 30%?
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: And I tell Lamont, I go all the time, if
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: you just put the gas pipe in, you'll have more
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: money for Muslim teachers in our schools. We have to
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 1: put it the right way so that he'll know what
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: he's going to do because they did pass that we're
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: going to have to start teaching Muslim, and they passed
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 1: it for the Department of Consumer Education. They didn't make
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: it mandatory this year because it's an election year, but
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: next year it will be a mandatory teaching.
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 54: Oh, well, you know, this is kind of how it's
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 54: done next is you'll start seeing Arabic being shown as
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 54: an option for a language. So mark my words. Remember that.
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 54: And then you're like, whoa, Amy was right about that.
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 54: because I have friends in intelligence, and we talk about propaganda.
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: Amy, I have to cut you short because we have
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: to make the producers, or John is not going to
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: be happy with me.
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 54: Oh, that's okay.
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 2: All right. I appreciate the half an hour.
• 2:44:08
  Speaker 54: I miss Lee, but I love listening to you too, George.
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate you, Amy, as always.
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: This is 94.9 News Now with George Agnelli covering for
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie. I hope you have a great and positive Monday.