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January 7, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_13]: I'm Steve Kaifin, in separate maneuvers the U.S. military has seized two Venezuelan linked tankers, one in the Caribbean, the other in the North Atlantic, vessel the U.S. had tracked for weeks and was under a Russian flag and escort.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and then cut to today and it's been a very busy day for the U.S. military not only have they seized the bellow one in U.S. European command another ship the Sophia was seized in U.S. Southern command.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Kremlin has responded they've said no state has the right to use force against vessels that are flagged under their state.
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[SPEAKER_13]: The administration says Venezuela has cooperated in the Caribbean seizure, and the U.S. will selectively remove sanctions to enable the shipping and sale of the country's oil to global economies.
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[SPEAKER_13]: As Democrats criticized the U.S. weekend attack in Venezuela that landed President Maduro in custody, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes back.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The hotline with Jeff Graham right here on America's favorite, show the noon time talk sure that's right.
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[SPEAKER_09]: we got a lot of things going on today we've got uh... see there was a lot on channel seven yesterday but but the share of carpinnelly thing we're on the share of side i'm in the bar business i know what it can be like in a situation like that which is far more than anything i ever faced thank god somebody ever ceded so these whispers and nini's and all the other well did anyone give me a c but i don't care
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[SPEAKER_09]: whatever was going on there was bad news and help us in our way so let's hear it for sheriff carpet alley okay already Anthony Constantine of the sticker mule uh... has put out a press release uh... the poll he says showing him decidedly ahead of rubber small and in a potential republican primary for the twenty-first congressional district i would believe that
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[SPEAKER_09]: He's better known from his efforts earlier this year or last year.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Mr. Smallen put out a press release, touting his endorsement by the Franklin County Republican Committee.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I don't think those little coonocracies in each county are going to or amount to anything.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Obviously, Smallen's going to get all of those, because, you know, that's what they do.
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[SPEAKER_09]: But we'll see, I don't know, there's been talk of other names.
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[SPEAKER_09]: there's been talk of maybe a special election if the current congresswoman gets out there's been all sorts of talk about things you know we follow it here because of a veteran political analyst okay now i did hear from millie this morning oh millie and millie is all upset about school board she says they will imposed a three minute limit and she's got a lot to say she's got a lot to say we're still arguing over there over this uh...
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[SPEAKER_09]: whatever it is pre-capers or grams or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Whatever milly side is is the side I'm on.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Period.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Just the way it is, I'm not, you know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, not gonna say anything other ways.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, 755, 1240, the phone number, if you'd like to give us a call, to be on the show of shows today.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The show that you have been wanting to see
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[SPEAKER_09]: Listen to yeah, we know we know how special it is to you Well, let's see What are we got here we got all sorts of things
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[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, the city, uh, what do they call it now?
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[SPEAKER_09]: The planning commission, that sounds very official.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That was, since they took the ability to approve things away from city council, it's this commission.
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[SPEAKER_09]: We don't even know who they are, but anyway, um, they approved a weed store for Northland Plaza.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That's the plaza over on state street.
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[SPEAKER_09]: There's a McDonald's over there that children's all used to be across the street.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You got a couple of low income housing projects and an elementary school nearby.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The weed store, I guess it's by the same people owned cannabis depot on outer Bradley street.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So nice people.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They got in the established record.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They know the drillers are as getting a license.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So I'm sure they'll get it open.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Lickety split.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Other people want to get a weed license or a weed store in town, but I don't think they're going to.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think they're going to.
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[SPEAKER_09]: No, sir, rebob.
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[SPEAKER_09]: How many weed stores are there?
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[SPEAKER_09]: That's what they're going to do.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we got like 15 of them now.
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[SPEAKER_09]: This will make 16.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So whatever.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Whatever.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So 755, 1240 or phone number.
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[SPEAKER_09]: If you'd like to hop on the show of shows today.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And what are we doing down there?
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[SPEAKER_09]: We grab his tanker or something down in the Caribbean?
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[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know what was going on there.
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[SPEAKER_09]: There's been talk at that new president, Rodriguez.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Kelsey Rodriguez, yeah, the one that was vice president under Maduro.
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[SPEAKER_09]: She was somehow in on this and she sort of gave up her boss.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, right.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Possibly.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's been reporting to that effect.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now, me make it up and reporting to that effect.
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[SPEAKER_09]: There isn't anybody south of the Rio Grande or can't be bought at some price.
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[SPEAKER_09]: 755, 1240, the phone number, if you'd like to give us a call, actually when Millie comes in, she's also going to tell us about her take on Venezuela and South America, because she's not only an expert in education, health care, and all sorts of things, but she's also an expert in Latin American affairs.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You didn't know that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So there you go.
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[SPEAKER_09]: uh... there's a woman arrested for leaving a dog at a freezing vehicle overnight that's not nice wasn't that cold overnight but still he shouldn't uh... shouldn't do that uh... see what's on channel seven though the window on the world as we like to call it oh we got a call but after dinner on the air
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[SPEAKER_08]: spending $7 million on a hundred-year-old building well it's about a sixty-three-year-old building but I get your point okay and to couldn't that money be spent more wisely on sidewalks on the north side it need to be replaced and infrastructure needs
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, one could make that argument.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I don't see where you're coming from.
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[SPEAKER_09]: But that's the priority they set.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now, they will tell you it's a mandate.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They had no choice.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm not even sure what they're doing.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They're putting a new courtroom in the city court.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's going to move over to the county court building.
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[SPEAKER_09]: In the meantime, why can't they just stay over there?
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, one of the big things whenever they redo courtrooms, the judges to have nice chambers and a robe room, you ever hear that?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it's the only public employee who gets a robe room.
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[SPEAKER_09]: A special place to put their robe design.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Can't just throw them on any office or on the way to the bench.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They have to have a robe room.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Oh boy, so I don't know what they're doing at City Hall.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I assume there's some other improvements too.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I know some of the windows are old and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It is a lot of money though, but $7 million doesn't go as far as it used to.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I really don't know what they're doing though.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So I really can't comment on it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now we were talking yesterday about that fountain.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And I did, I got a hold of two people yesterday who know a lot about it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: One is the Jeff Rural, who was the artist who painted it, and the other one was a welder.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And now retired, I think, so I'm not going to give his name, but who did in the last, who fixed it up after it was hit by that truck a few years ago.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now, the welder was touting this welder, not the one I know, but this welder was telling me it's in good shape.
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[SPEAKER_09]: and uh... Jeff rule as an artist said i you know i love like that they would look good being back there and some other paint something else on it that's fine so uh... we're gonna see and i got one council member who's expressed interest in caring the ball on it but he's afraid of what do you have to think and will they let us and you know it's always a well mister well mister we're going to let us do that we got to tell them call the resolution three to two billet
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, maybe they can open up front doors.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That'd be interesting.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Wouldn't that be cool, so when people have to go over there and they walk up to the front doors, they can go open, they don't look stupid going around the other side, like where the police station is safe.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, and should be again.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, so anyway, that's my GCN.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, well thank you.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: 755, 1240 is the phone number if you'd like to give us a call to be on the show of shows today.
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[SPEAKER_09]: We'll put you on talk about whatever you want.
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[SPEAKER_09]: We don't care.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Sure show belongs to you, the people.
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[SPEAKER_09]: These are public airways, by God.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, some guy down in Georgia claimed a mega million.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So there's 900 and something million.
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[SPEAKER_09]: He really gets 450.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I was reading the news coverage and it still says, oh, well, he's anonymous.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Then I don't think he won it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: How can it be, and not let me tell you something, if, oh my God, let's say let's pick somebody here at the station, let's say Johnny Spazano, let's say he won $500 million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And maybe he wants to lay low for a little while, I don't know, I wouldn't blame him, but you think nobody's going to know about it, you think it's not news, you think Jeff Call wouldn't report it, he'd be negligent if he didn't.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So there's something that goes wrong when they refuse to say who won these things.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now listen, I've got a cart blind to go bother these people or anything else.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's been a while since that drawing was occurred.
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[SPEAKER_09]: There was plenty of time to get as a fair as an order.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And when they say, oh, well, we can't tell you who won, I say, well, maybe nobody won.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They may be the government, truck at all.
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[SPEAKER_09]: seven five five twelve forty the phone number if you'd like to be on the show of shows today and we're hoping millie to get in here millie if you're out there get in there what are you doing come on uh... now who knows who knows maybe she'll get here soon or maybe she's stiffness wouldn't be the first time i've been stood up
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[SPEAKER_09]: And at seven, five, five, 12, 40, the phone number if you'd like to be on the show of showies today.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I have travel issues around the area, especially up north.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So be careful if you're driving, and no big problem coming over here.
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[SPEAKER_09]: But yeah, you're really got to be careful out there.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Now, the weather's supposed to be, come and see, come size, I would say, or one of those expressions.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, somebody said, here's a text, City Hall was a biohazard this morning, a homeless guy left a trail of poop in the lobby.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, man, yeah, we had to clean that up.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It happens.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Somebody else texted meme page, doesn't know what to do after the new council spends
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Here's a guy texting.
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[SPEAKER_09]: He has a 404 area code, so he lives in Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Mayor, the winner is from Newton, Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Next town over me, and I don't know who it is.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I'm just saying that job in the news media.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Ask around.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Millies text it, she'll be here in five minutes.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Clearly, she got something huge happened.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, well listen, why don't we take a break?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Get that out of the way.
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[SPEAKER_09]: already we're back on the online here we've got uh... millie smithere uh... millie how long good can i call you millie absolutely okay what else would you call me i don't know i mean uh... well currently you're functioning as uh... uh... latin america affairs course by sent here from aquator right no i'm actually from peru peru one of the one of those countries uh... what do you think of this uh... stuff in uh...
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[SPEAKER_04]: well I think you know you've got a mixed audience on that um personally I think that was a great thing that our Trump administration did uh this guy is a narco terrorist there's a lot of information on that and Trump tried to go out to him in 2020 and
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[SPEAKER_04]: that never happened and then he sat through the entire Biden administration and now we finally conquered him and his wife and this guy is truly a narcissist.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean he went up in front of the court in the judge and said I am the president of Venezuela.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, he's not anymore.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, I am a decent man.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I am innocent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was kidnapped and he's trying to use this semantics of
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[SPEAKER_04]: kidnapping.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, they were during the Biden years.
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[SPEAKER_09]: He had a 15 million dollar bounty in them.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And before he left, just before he left office Mr. Biden raised it to 25.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So you must authority, you don't put a bounty on somebody unless you want to catch them.
24:28
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, did you listen to the Faulkner focus today?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because I did.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because that's exactly what she said.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sure I got it from.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know I listen to.
24:36
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's exactly what she said.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You rate he went from 15 to 25.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, did you do something?
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, you didn't do anything to try to capture this guy.
24:45
[SPEAKER_04]: But you know, the other thing, too, that is really astonishing is that the left has made no mention of praise or military.
24:53
[SPEAKER_04]: To go into this, I mean, really, did you see the movie Zero Dark 30?
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[SPEAKER_09]: No, but I know what they did was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_04]: amazing that movie is actually amazing and I got the impression that that was the exact type with the Delta Force, the exact type of... Well, they can't bring themselves to praise anything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Trump.
25:13
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Even if it's our military.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Not only that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_04]: If Trump decided to give every single...
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[SPEAKER_04]: Trump hater or people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I never believed in Trump arrangements syndrome.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I really believe it now.
25:27
[SPEAKER_04]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: People are just crazy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But even if Trump gave all of those people a million dollars, they'd still hate them.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, you know, this to me is similar to a Biden going after bin Laden.
25:37
[SPEAKER_09]: You went into a foreign country.
25:39
[SPEAKER_09]: Pakistan in that case.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You had an indictment.
25:41
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
25:42
[SPEAKER_09]: In that case, they killed them.
25:44
[SPEAKER_09]: Double-tapped him, as they say in the business.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Um, I wonder what they were thinking.
25:53
[SPEAKER_09]: Especially his wife.
25:54
[SPEAKER_04]: Who the wife?
25:55
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, the wife is just as rotten as he is.
25:57
[SPEAKER_09]: I wonder about Delta, I read guys, the new president.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, I'm a little bit confused about that because Delta obviously was his, her, his compadry like she,
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[SPEAKER_04]: understands and did what he wanted her to do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And now it seems like she is going to work with the United States.
26:17
[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm a little confused about the other woman who has been very, I forget her.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Machado.
26:22
[SPEAKER_04]: Machado.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She has been very eloquent and extremely informative and cooperative and giving some insight from the world.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, you got to deal with somebody.
26:31
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
26:31
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The train is running on time.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Rodriguez, I saw some reports that she may have been communicating and gave up for bars in a sense.
26:44
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It may be, and I do agree that they should transition with whoever's in power now, like it's very hard to go in there and just kind of overturn everything, but listen, everything's going to declare itself, right?
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[SPEAKER_11]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Should declare herself, eventually she's going to declare herself, and then if she doesn't work with the United States, where does 32 Cubans come from?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They were at the house.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They must have been.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, maybe those were his bodyguards or his...
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[SPEAKER_09]: Apparently so.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
27:13
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Is it true that you can't find anybody south of the Rio Grande or can't be bought?
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, corruption in Latin America is pervasive.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's why law enforcement.
27:26
[SPEAKER_04]: And I can say this is for my country as well, from Peru.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, law enforcement is bought in those countries.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So you can pay off a judge, you can pay off a lawyer, you can go, so if you go renew your passport, right?
27:40
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Give you a great example.
27:41
[SPEAKER_04]: You go renew your passport.
27:43
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a 20 mile line, you go up to the front, you tell the guard, here's $20.
27:49
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're in, in front of everybody.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like that would never happen in the United States.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So it's a pervasive thing in Latin American countries.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's part of their culture.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The only other person from Peru, I know, is Lorraine a Bob at she's from everything she Yeah, I was proud of her I would have done the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_09]: She's been famous for years Anyway, you're mixing it up with the school board again
28:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, so, you know, last, I wanted to come on the show today just to share with the public what transpired last night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not really sure how many people stream the show, but- No, yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So anyway, they passed a new policy where people are only allowed to talk for three minutes.
28:36
[SPEAKER_04]: And it was brought up to public floor, and I made a comment in front of everyone.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's fine, I think it's a decent thing, it's a logical thing, but it was understood that if someone's in the middle of a sentence or they're presenting something that's valuable to the community that you would allow them to talk.
28:57
[SPEAKER_04]: So they bought immediately, they bought this big buzzer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not like a fire alarm.
29:02
[SPEAKER_04]: And so yesterday, when Mandy Bird, who's the president of the Treehouse, was speaking in the middle of her thought, they just buzzed her out.
29:11
[SPEAKER_04]: So I thought, oh, well, they're just going to let her talk.
29:14
[SPEAKER_04]: No, they cut her off.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Who's that you or me?
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[SPEAKER_09]: no.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They cut her off and then they did the same thing to me.
29:23
[SPEAKER_04]: So I looked at the president.
29:24
[SPEAKER_04]: I said, are you really going to allow this to happen?
29:27
[SPEAKER_04]: You're now censoring the community.
29:29
[SPEAKER_04]: We are here.
29:30
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, you know, you wanted to have many people who are at the board meeting last night that were just there out of their own private time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Two.
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[SPEAKER_04]: me and her and that there was some other gentleman I don't know who he was so we take the time out of our from our families to go and address some of the issues at the school board and you've got this president who by the way is absolutely become a puppet for the superintendent watch the ideas well it's disgusting and you know there's three seats coming up you're going to run again absolutely I'm going to run again
30:03
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, well, make sure you get me a petition so and get some of them.
30:07
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I want to, I've been talking to people because we need to overturn what's going on here.
30:12
[SPEAKER_09]: These, well, I'm all right, would you want to overturn him?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
30:17
[SPEAKER_04]: I think he should be gone.
30:18
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot of people who think he should be gone.
30:20
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, he likes to rant and rave about what I'm praising himself about.
30:24
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's just talk for a second here about the Cyclone Academy.
30:27
[SPEAKER_04]: He wants to take full credit for that.
30:29
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, here's a memo for you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We used to have something called alternative relearning.
30:33
[SPEAKER_04]: You remember that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And night school.
30:35
[SPEAKER_04]: So his concept of the Cyclone Academy wasn't new.
30:39
[SPEAKER_11]: at all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He just renamed it and he brought it to light because his son needed to benefit from an alternative program.
30:47
[SPEAKER_04]: That was a self-invested interest for his son.
30:50
[SPEAKER_04]: That's how his son was able to graduate from the high school.
30:53
[SPEAKER_04]: He has another son that he wanted in a gifted program and so we implemented this entire gifted program and there were parameters for those kids to be accepted.
31:03
[SPEAKER_04]: His kid did not
31:05
[SPEAKER_04]: and he obliged the parties that were supposed to get these kids into these gifted programs and forced his kid into this program.
31:14
[SPEAKER_04]: And when he didn't have enough points on the rubric, he said his kid needed to, his kid should get a point because he was adopted.
31:23
[SPEAKER_04]: So everything this guy does has been for his own invested in it.
31:27
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just don't go towards the drive and a link in there.
31:29
[SPEAKER_04]: No, he's always had a, a, a, a, you know, it's a Denali.
31:34
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a Denali or a UConn.
31:36
[SPEAKER_04]: One of those guys, and interestingly enough, yesterday when I went to the board meeting, the black one that I made a big fuss about because he was driving on taxpayers dollars.
31:45
[SPEAKER_04]: He put all these decals on it and the vehicle was not parked.
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[SPEAKER_04]: at Wiley yesterday.
31:52
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm going to inquire about that.
31:53
[SPEAKER_04]: His vehicle was, but that's another thing that he's done.
31:58
[SPEAKER_04]: And here's the other thing.
31:59
[SPEAKER_04]: The atmosphere at the school district, like so many people call me, they can't say anything because as soon as you say something to him, you're retaliating.
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[SPEAKER_09]: How do you think he listens to a show like this?
32:10
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, absolutely, I don't know that he listens to it, but he's got his little minions that call him and say, oh, he'll know today that Omeli Smith was on the Graham show.
32:20
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know what, I have a message for you, Larry, if you're going to come you off for three minutes, I'm welcome on this show for an entire hour, every time there's a board meeting.
32:29
[SPEAKER_04]: and the platform on this radio show is a lot bigger than your platform.
32:33
[SPEAKER_04]: And I will be heard because I will not allow stranger to come into our community and rule what we should have what is right for us.
32:41
[SPEAKER_04]: Sensoring our community, look at our UPK program.
32:46
[SPEAKER_04]: Almost 100 kids did not get slots this year.
32:50
[SPEAKER_04]: because of his, you know, just dogmatic views on what he thinks is better, and he's not transparent at all, Laurie Converse worked very hard.
33:01
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm getting a policy where it would be transparency and people would be able to publicly speak without being censored.
33:06
[SPEAKER_04]: And what does he do?
33:07
[SPEAKER_04]: He pushes Randy Richardson and Jason Harrington out of their president and vice president position, and he puts John Cain and Collie Gosher, which by the way, in memo to the community,
33:17
[SPEAKER_04]: have wives that work in the district.
33:21
[SPEAKER_04]: Cully Gosher's wife was a Spanish teacher, phenomenal Spanish teacher.
33:26
[SPEAKER_04]: She got promoted to instructional coach, booku dollars, and John Keynes wife, phenomenal principal over at North Elementary.
33:34
[SPEAKER_04]: So do you think that those two are going to ever oppose Larry?
33:38
[SPEAKER_04]: But what they failed to see is that if they did get rid of Larry and ended his contract prematurely, he'd have no say on what their wives would be doing.
33:46
[SPEAKER_04]: And that is my goal, and it's not a secret goal.
33:49
[SPEAKER_04]: He has been nothing but venom and viciousness to this community and our school system and our tax dollars continue to rise.
33:57
[SPEAKER_09]: Our budget continues to rise, and what are we seeing for our investment?
34:09
[SPEAKER_04]: So that poor art teacher was hung out to drive by Larry Schmiegel.
34:13
[SPEAKER_04]: That poor teacher made a mistake, we're all human.
34:17
[SPEAKER_04]: She made a mistake and she tried to rectify it with her own terms.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She was not allowed to speak.
34:23
[SPEAKER_04]: She was not allowed to communicate with parents.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She was not allowed to do anything.
34:26
[SPEAKER_04]: So his genius resolution was to force her to resign as an art teacher.
34:34
[SPEAKER_04]: Give her a position as an English teacher because she
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[SPEAKER_04]: and then she could go back to the same school.
34:43
[SPEAKER_04]: So she's dealing with the same children, the same parents, the same building and just changed her title around.
34:51
[SPEAKER_04]: And let me put this cool out there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She wasn't a tenure teacher, so you figure out the motive in that action.
34:57
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
34:59
[SPEAKER_09]: So what, she's still working now, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: She is still working there.
35:04
[SPEAKER_09]: And if she gets tenure,
35:06
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, she is supposed to be getting 10 years, I think it's four years, so she's got another year.
35:13
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
35:13
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, that whole art thing, what's wrong with just, and going Picasso and all that stuff?
35:18
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm gonna explain that to you.
35:20
[SPEAKER_04]: There's nothing wrong with that.
35:21
[SPEAKER_04]: The problem that happened with the Keith hearing art was that unfortunately she gave the website loosely to the students and she relied on the filters that are supposed to be implemented by our IT department at the Water Town City School District.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We have two people in IT, that's it.
35:40
[SPEAKER_04]: So that IT department was supposed to filter all of those pornographic pictures.
35:48
[SPEAKER_09]: from a gut on artists through draws things that are considered pornographic, you might consider it art, but I mean drawing a picture of the state of Empire State building and it looks like a penis or something like that.
35:59
[SPEAKER_09]: How important is that for kids to learn that?
36:01
[SPEAKER_04]: And I understand that, but I just will say I knew who Keith hearing was, and that wasn't all of his art.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
36:08
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
36:08
[SPEAKER_04]: And so what she was trying to teach was she was trying to teach color and and he had a lot of expressions within his art that were non pornographic there is let me just say let me just say Jeff I know you don't know this so I'm going to tell you this I know you don't know this I know a lot there is well you're not on the you don't know this there is an approved seventh grade art curriculum that was created by Keith hearing it is an approved curriculum.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, like I said, the filters didn't take place, but of course, Larry didn't hold IT accountable.
36:44
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you know that this poor woman hasn't even gotten spoken to by the superintendent after everything that happened?
36:53
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No one spoke to her.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She's been outcasted, which is sad because she's a phenomenal art teacher.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And let me just say also that we only lose in our teacher.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She was also coach.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For two sports.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I'm an artist now with AI and everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I bet you are.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I make all sorts of pictures.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I bet you are.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So it's handy.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You don't have to be talented anymore.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, so unfortunately, or fortunately, the school still has retained her.
37:22
[SPEAKER_09]: So there's another art teacher.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's another art teacher that we place to which
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[SPEAKER_04]: Great, we should have many art teachers, but really to demote her from what she loves and what she does best to English is really a dig to the community in English.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It is important.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It is, but that's not her specialty.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And can you just logically, your smart man, where do you see the game in that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Where is the gain of taking someone who is good at what she does?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I would have just apologized to the parents, told the teacher that was a mistake and move on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But he didn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So now we have a lawsuit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We have parents that are suing, so he's now involved in two new litigations.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One for discriminatory, behavior, and retaliatory behavior against the tree house.
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[SPEAKER_04]: as a CBO and another one for this art teacher.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Those are all things that could have been addressed at the lowest level.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We try to talk to him even when I was on the board, but he wouldn't have it and now he shifted the majority to support all of his dogmatic views and everyone's afraid to oppose him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And let me tell you something else, every email, every letter all gets responded by legal.
38:41
[SPEAKER_04]: Because the language that comes back to you is all legal which is certain house lawyer who is it?
38:47
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not an in-house lawyer.
38:48
[SPEAKER_04]: We pay which is why I challenge Kali Gosha because he's the head of the finance committee.
38:52
[SPEAKER_04]: I said, you know, you're a veteran here.
38:54
[SPEAKER_04]: Go back and look compare illegal costs prior to Larry Schmeigel being in this scene.
38:59
[SPEAKER_04]: It's disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Every single little thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So then I propose I go, well, if you want to pay for legal then haven't come to all the board meetings.
39:07
[SPEAKER_04]: And then they can be hearing advice is right on real time or zoom them in, of course, then I can do that because what Larry likes to do is present his scenario and you know this when you talk to a attorney or you talk to anybody Whatever you say, you get legal advice based on what you are saying.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So if you have no counter, what do you really what are we really doing here?
39:33
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[SPEAKER_09]: get into it and you'll be amazed what you get out of it a seven five five four forty the phone number millie smith is here uh... misses smith uh... what about you know politics sneaks its way into everything and i know there's all sorts of groups and schools now gale ions and isn't that and uh... woke things and everything is there any countering conservative
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, like, are you, are you psychic or something that you're asking for?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We currently do not have a conservative platform as a club in the school, but it is being worked on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There was a group of kids who have gotten together and have presented.
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[SPEAKER_04]: a proposition for a new club within the high school, and we're hoping that that reaches the board agenda within the next one or two meetings and it gets approved.
43:50
[SPEAKER_04]: But the answer to your question is, we currently do not have a conservative platform.
43:54
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know a lot about turning point USA, but there are a lot of new chapters and colleges in all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Correct.
44:04
[SPEAKER_09]: But it doesn't strike me as an organization that would coincide much with Dr. Schmiegel's viewpoint.
44:10
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm pretty sure that Dr. Schmiegel has declared his political stance even though he says he doesn't have one.
44:18
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm sure that he would not be supportive of something like that.
44:22
[SPEAKER_04]: But ever since Charlie Kirk's death, yes, there has been a significant rise in high school chapters.
44:34
[SPEAKER_04]: and incited that Trump should be the next person to be assassinated was not fired from our school district.
44:43
[SPEAKER_04]: And Larry Schmiegel did not do anything about that, despite the voluminous amount of people that came to the board, meaning it spoke out against it.
44:52
[SPEAKER_09]: And could he agree with it?
44:53
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, his stance, his defense, was that well, she can sue us.
44:59
[SPEAKER_04]: That no, no, that was his, that's what he told the board, and unfortunately we have a board that's extremely weak, they don't have independent thinking ability, the majority of that board does not have an ability to think independently.
45:11
[SPEAKER_04]: They just go with the flow and they don't do any fact checking.
45:16
[SPEAKER_04]: The other thing I want to share with you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: is how much the superintendent has gouged our community.
45:21
[SPEAKER_04]: I had said in previously with our budget, we went from a 79 to a 96 to a 110 million dollar budget and we went to the 110 million budget.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We had at least 30 million dollars left from the previous budget.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But he gouged the community.
45:36
[SPEAKER_04]: We have a pop Warner football team that wanted to rent the field a turf field for a one-day event
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[SPEAKER_04]: And he responded saying, he can't give that for free.
45:49
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, well, he is allowed to charge for like custodial and maintenance.
45:54
[SPEAKER_04]: So I asked, well, what are your charges?
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[SPEAKER_04]: No response.
45:59
[SPEAKER_04]: We had a parent who foiled, or you'll love this one, foiled information, and he's charging her $1,300, because he says that the lowest paid clerk that can accumulate the information as she wants makes $33 an hour and it's going to take X amount of hours.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She never submitted the foil to have like voluminous information like she has.
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[SPEAKER_09]: No, it doesn't matter, it's supposed to provide it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That person's fault that it caused money to get it.
46:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
46:30
[SPEAKER_04]: So there's a public law that he is now using again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He had legal right this letter that they're allowed to charge.
46:38
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know what?
46:39
[SPEAKER_04]: maybe, but this is a commute like an ant, let me just add, that the woman that he's charging that to is pretty lower income.
46:48
[SPEAKER_04]: So he did that and I said this on public floor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If Jeff and I had to pay for all the foil requests, we'd be bankrupt.
46:58
[SPEAKER_04]: right?
46:58
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But here's this foreigner who comes into our community and is gouging our community and for lack of transparency won't even divulge foil requests.
47:14
[SPEAKER_09]: Amazing.
47:14
[SPEAKER_09]: It's amazing, isn't it?
47:16
[SPEAKER_09]: But not surprising now.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, most of
47:19
[SPEAKER_09]: If you watch a lot of this stuff nationally, a lot of these school districts like in suburban Virginia there, they really feel that the parents are more or less a nuisance.
47:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
47:30
[SPEAKER_04]: And hopefully, you know, with the changes that are coming forth with this administration, parents will take more of an active role, parents are not allowed to talk by the way.
47:38
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he proved that with the IM Leo assignment, parents spoke up, shot them down.
47:48
[SPEAKER_04]: On his school board, the majority of- Was out of bunch of minions as deputy superintendents, doesn't he?
47:55
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean?
47:55
[SPEAKER_09]: No, they're a whole bunch of assistant superintendents for the right time.
47:58
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's two assistant superintendents.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Are you kidding me?
48:01
[SPEAKER_04]: Nobody would ever oppose him at all.
48:03
[SPEAKER_04]: We have two board members that are in the minority right now, and they are being absolutely suppressed.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
48:10
[SPEAKER_04]: Because they're being outvoted by the other four.
48:13
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, is that democracy, though?
48:15
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, but here's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Democracy is, is that if you're elected official for the Board of Education, your voice should be representing the people and not a superintendent.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
48:27
[SPEAKER_09]: All righty, 755-1240, the phone number.
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[SPEAKER_09]: We got Millie Smith here, and you know, your follow-city council.
51:55
[SPEAKER_09]: First meeting of the year.
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[SPEAKER_09]: A couple of two council members.
51:57
[SPEAKER_09]: The meeting was a little bland.
51:58
[SPEAKER_04]: It always is, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: The first meeting is always kind of like, uh-uh.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
52:04
[SPEAKER_09]: You think they should put that fountain back, I'm like an hour blind as well.
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[UNKNOWN]: Ooh.
52:08
[SPEAKER_04]: instead of the garden hose I have in there now i don't know the owner i don't really have a strong opinion either way okay i really don't what do you think of sculpture on the east end of the square one looks like a book but nobody knows what it is yeah at the you know when i remember that one of when Jeff was married yeah and i remember asking him like what is that
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[SPEAKER_04]: And apparently, I didn't actually, I didn't even know it was above.
52:35
[SPEAKER_04]: Personally, I don't think I don't like it.
52:38
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
52:38
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think it's appealing.
52:39
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there was so many more things that could have happened.
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[SPEAKER_09]: See, it attempts to have something too detailed.
52:43
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, these history scenes in it.
52:46
[SPEAKER_04]: and you know you look at art from a distance right you don't get right on top of the Mona Lisa and stick your eye up to you know so although that's not true I was in Paris and so that I went to the Mona Lisa you know I was actually really disappointed so it's not that big is it no it's like an 11 14 they have it on a wall they have it robed off and you could get as close as like two feet literally
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[SPEAKER_11]: Really?
53:12
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And there was tons of people taking pictures.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was almost an impressive thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was really surprised, like I would think that, you know, the war, even some of the other paintings were much more sophisticated.
53:25
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a grab from jewelry on the way out.
53:28
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I was with my girlfriend, I said, how do they not have, I knew there was insecurity there?
53:33
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, look, I have pictures of the jewels on my phone that they stole because we were there on a Sunday and the following Sunday was when they stole the jewels.
53:43
[SPEAKER_09]: Wow.
53:43
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, literally we were right there.
53:46
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm.
53:48
[SPEAKER_04]: It's amazing.
53:49
[SPEAKER_09]: It's amazing.
53:50
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, anyway, we're talking about art and the statues and stuff.
53:54
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't...
53:55
[SPEAKER_09]: you know you hate to criticize it because the one on the east end of the square was made by mr. Greeko was local ties yeah it was with a grant on that ten million dollar downtown program or something and i think art is a good thing but
54:09
[SPEAKER_09]: I just don't see that.
54:11
[SPEAKER_09]: And the one in that was at the fountain, like an hour of blasts up, kind of symbolize the industrial paths, the symbol, you know, that type of thing, just like the one in the middle of the square.
54:21
[SPEAKER_09]: But for some reason, the planning department is dead set against that.
54:24
[SPEAKER_09]: They ripped it out of there when they read it's court street and the council's afraid to ask to put it back in, I heard.
54:32
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really know anything about that.
54:34
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I'll use your influence, all right?
54:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, okay.
54:37
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
54:37
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you want?
54:38
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you want?
54:39
[SPEAKER_04]: you want to put back.
54:41
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I think it'll fit in there and I think you could, you know, take it out to Mike you, it's welding shop at Limerick, you look it over, make sure it's in good shape, get her painted up and put her back in.
54:53
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't have to hire Bernie a car and it doesn't consultants and all of that.
54:57
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what they do all the time.
54:59
[SPEAKER_09]: What they do, Millie, and you probably notice this.
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[SPEAKER_09]: When they don't want to do something, they make it so prohibitive, cost-wise, or whatever, we can't do that too.
55:09
[SPEAKER_09]: You've got this agency, an ad agency, and you've got to pay this, and it costs $300,000 to put that back in.
55:15
[SPEAKER_09]: And then the council says, oh, no, we can't afford it.
55:18
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how they talk the out of it.
55:20
[SPEAKER_09]: I've seen that before.
55:22
[SPEAKER_04]: When you say they are referring to...
55:24
[SPEAKER_09]: The administration.
55:25
[SPEAKER_04]: The administration.
55:25
[SPEAKER_09]: This administration or any of them.
55:27
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
55:27
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the tactic.
55:28
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm sure that happens at the school board, too.
55:31
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, 100% that happens.
55:33
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, they always have a reason something can't happen.
55:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
55:37
[SPEAKER_04]: And I always like to be of the perspective of what if we do it?
55:40
[SPEAKER_04]: Look, what about the other side?
55:43
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
55:43
[SPEAKER_04]: What if you do do it?
55:44
[SPEAKER_04]: So what?
55:44
[SPEAKER_04]: So bite the bullet, right?
55:46
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
55:46
[SPEAKER_04]: If you're going to look at all the hindrances you're never getting anything done, because nothing's smooth and everything costs money.
55:53
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, you're a fiscal conservative, aren't you?
55:56
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I am.
55:58
[SPEAKER_09]: What are we going to do about this budget this spring?
56:00
[SPEAKER_09]: They seem to just be a lolly gang and long.
56:02
[SPEAKER_09]: And somebody's got to say 30, 40 positions after we caught.
56:08
[SPEAKER_09]: I hate to say that.
56:09
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know what?
56:10
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's give them a chance.
56:11
[SPEAKER_04]: I think we do have the council now that can make sound decisions.
56:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I agree.
56:19
[SPEAKER_04]: There were multiple positions that
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[SPEAKER_04]: should not have been added and there's stuff that needs to be eliminated.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Otherwise, I don't know this budget is just going to be atrocious.
56:27
[SPEAKER_04]: And let's just have the school budget to that.
56:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see what Larry's going to do this here.
56:32
[SPEAKER_04]: We have our first hearing on February 4th or something like that.
56:36
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll see.
56:37
[SPEAKER_04]: We went to 110 million.
56:39
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll see what he's going to say.
56:41
[SPEAKER_04]: He implemented a $1.2 million dollar.
56:44
[SPEAKER_04]: Clash UPK for two classrooms?
56:47
[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.
56:48
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll see where that where that investment went.
56:50
[SPEAKER_04]: So you're talking about city council and school taxes.
56:53
[SPEAKER_04]: On let's just add that he decided unilaterally that he was now going to start collecting school taxes.
57:00
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a mess.
57:01
[SPEAKER_04]: Why did they take it away from the city?
57:04
[SPEAKER_04]: Who knows?
57:04
[SPEAKER_04]: They had to implement a new system.
57:07
[SPEAKER_04]: It's, yeah, no, you're right.
57:09
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
57:10
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't want to say that.
57:11
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
57:12
[SPEAKER_04]: He thinks he's going to screw the city by him doing himself.
57:15
[SPEAKER_04]: Meanwhile, they don't have the manpower for it.
57:18
[SPEAKER_04]: It has been a disaster.
57:21
[SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm.
57:22
[SPEAKER_04]: But these are his ideas, and this is the majority of that board think that every idea that comes out of his head is grandiose.
57:29
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
57:32
[SPEAKER_09]: You got to run.
57:34
[SPEAKER_09]: And you got to get more than you run.
57:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I know, trust me.
57:37
[SPEAKER_09]: I have a slate of candidates.
57:39
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm working on that.
57:40
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, who else you got?
57:42
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to say now.
57:43
[SPEAKER_09]: OK.
57:44
[SPEAKER_04]: But let me just tell you, I'm pretty sure that Larry and his minions are going to come up with their own slate to try and overpower me.
57:54
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what he's going to try to do.
57:55
[SPEAKER_04]: He does not want to see them or.
57:57
[SPEAKER_04]: No, he does not want to see them or.
57:58
[SPEAKER_04]: John Kane, the president.
58:00
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, that would be.
58:01
[SPEAKER_04]: OK, you know, he's not representing the community in an effective manner at all.
58:10
[SPEAKER_04]: OK.
58:11
[SPEAKER_04]: Lori Comvers who was never replaced on purpose so that Larry could have the majority citing with him because he's got Randy and Jason on the other side who don't necessarily agree with everything that he says or does.
58:25
[SPEAKER_04]: And then you have Jason Harrington, the immediate past president.
58:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
58:30
[SPEAKER_09]: He's a Larry guy.
58:32
[SPEAKER_04]: He's a what?
58:33
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
58:33
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, not Jason Harrington.
58:35
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
58:35
[SPEAKER_04]: He's the one that he's slightly kicked out of the presidency to put John Kane in there.
58:41
[SPEAKER_04]: No, Jason Harrington is a straight-up stand-up guy.
58:44
[SPEAKER_04]: He's done a lot for the community.
58:46
[SPEAKER_09]: So he has the power to just take somebody out of his president?
58:48
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you mean a superintendent?
58:50
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
58:51
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he did it.
58:52
[SPEAKER_04]: On open floor and humiliated Jason and Randy.
58:56
[SPEAKER_04]: On public floor, he absolutely did that.
58:59
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I don't know.
59:01
[SPEAKER_09]: You got to do something there.
59:03
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm doing it.
59:04
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, when's the school board election, May?
59:06
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's not until May.
59:07
[SPEAKER_04]: Petitions go out in April.
59:11
[SPEAKER_09]: This time, make sure you drop a blank off with me because I run into people.
59:15
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
59:16
[SPEAKER_09]: And that kind of stuff.
59:19
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, you don't want to end up like with all me there with a bunch of soggy petitions you got in front of the bush.
59:24
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my gosh.
59:25
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, no, Larry made a big deal about my petitions last time because I mean, I really couldn't argue because it was legit, but people who signed my petitions didn't necessarily some of them didn't put down their addresses.
59:38
[SPEAKER_04]: And so he gave him back to me and said, they all have to have addresses on it.
59:43
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
59:43
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
59:43
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, thank you.
59:45
[SPEAKER_09]: We got to go.
59:46
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
59:46
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[SPEAKER_09]: Alrighty, this has been the hotline Glenn Curry at five on AM-1240WAT and Watertown, New York, the time one o'clock.