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Primary Election Digestion · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: We have a lot to talk about with the election
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  Speaker 1: last night and some of the races are still uncalled.
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  Speaker 1: But we will always have great guests, and of course
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hear a lot of opinions from me,
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  Speaker 1: but it is your chance to speak up and sound off.
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  Speaker 1: You can send your emails to comment at kfab dot
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  Speaker 1: com or you can call us at four h two
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  Speaker 1: five five eight eleven ten, Peyton. Last night I was
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  Speaker 1: there till probably ten thirty or so to the Republican
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  Speaker 1: event with Brinker Harding.
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  Speaker 2: At the Scott Center. Lots and lots of people there.
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  Speaker 1: The governor spoke, some of the Amy Melton, Don Rose spoke,
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  Speaker 1: one of the state legislatorslate tours, Kathleen calf I spoke.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it was a really good night, but
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  Speaker 1: interesting night, and some of these races, especially one that
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  Speaker 1: we were watching very closely for the House has not
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  Speaker 1: been called yet on the Democrat side. So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have my buddy former mayor Hal Dobb on the
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  Speaker 1: show today former Congressman and Hal Dobb and I are
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  Speaker 1: will we'll be able to give you quite an editorial
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  Speaker 1: today on what we on our analysis of the election
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  Speaker 1: and what is happening.
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  Speaker 2: How are you with us?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I am.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning Jean, and good morning to your listener. You
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  Speaker 4: are building one fine radio listening audience.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing a great job. Could it do with you?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying that. I appreciate you being on too.
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  Speaker 1: And you know interesting, I mean, we were with the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans last night at the Scott Center.
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  Speaker 2: We were with brinker Harding.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we knew brinker Harding was going to be the
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  Speaker 1: Republican nominee because he didn't have any opponents. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: they are still saying it's too close to call for
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  Speaker 1: the second Congressional district for their Democrat side, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Denise is up by about Powell is up by
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  Speaker 1: about six hundred votes or so, but they're not calling
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  Speaker 1: it quite yet.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like she's a little bit ahead of Kavanaugh.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about that race and give us your
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  Speaker 1: opinion about that race before I start.
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  Speaker 4: You know, well, i'd have thanks thanks for having me
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  Speaker 4: on the show this morning, and I appreciate it would
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  Speaker 4: be a busy morning the election primary election yesterday. The
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  Speaker 4: first comment I would like to share with you and
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  Speaker 4: your listening audience is voter participation, voter turnout, and on
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  Speaker 4: the Republican side, to make sure that at least there's
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  Speaker 4: one observer weighing in on the idea that the Republican
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  Speaker 4: races for governor, for Senate, for the House second district
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  Speaker 4: seat were uncontested by and large, there was no competition.
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  Speaker 4: There was therefore no real controversy.
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  Speaker 3: There was no.
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  Speaker 4: Stimulation for the regular registered Republicans to be interested enough
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  Speaker 4: to make the effort to vote absentee or turnout and
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  Speaker 4: vote in person. So voter turnout measurements here in the next.
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  Speaker 3: Week or two.
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  Speaker 4: Comparing the Republican turnout to the Democrat turnout when they
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  Speaker 4: had this very nasty, negative House Democrat primary that stimulated
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  Speaker 4: their turnout is important.
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  Speaker 3: To keep in perspective turnout. You always wish voter turnout
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  Speaker 3: would be.
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  Speaker 4: Higher, particularly in mid term off your presidential elections. This
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  Speaker 4: particular voter turnout didn't have the stimulus in it that
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  Speaker 4: it normally has, which explains why the Republican turnout was
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  Speaker 4: not as high as.
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  Speaker 3: It we would have wished it to be.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: The second connection then to the House race is that
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't quite so sure when Councilman Harding. Brinker Harding
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  Speaker 4: characterized his commitment to the people of the second District
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  Speaker 4: and the race that he knew that he might be
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  Speaker 4: about to have to run against Denise Powell, but he
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  Speaker 4: characterized the rhetoric of the seven Democrat candidates for that
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  Speaker 4: nomination as.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Say radical, but crazy. And I wasn't so sure last
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  Speaker 4: night when I heard him say that that that was
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  Speaker 4: an accurate characterization. But as I got home last night
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  Speaker 4: and listened to the media in the news and all
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  Speaker 4: the interviews, and then this morning read the after action
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  Speaker 4: news stories all across the state, they think that Branker
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  Speaker 4: Harding was accurate in terms of not people being crazy,
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  Speaker 4: but the candidates and the positions they take on the
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  Speaker 4: issues are crazy. They're not normal. So I think that
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  Speaker 4: he kicks off the platform for his appeal to the
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  Speaker 4: second District voters, be the Republican, Democrat or independent, in
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  Speaker 4: a very positive way. And his campaign was aggressive and
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  Speaker 4: very positive. So I think he's got very high odds
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  Speaker 4: of capturing the general election in November.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how I was going to say, this
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  Speaker 1: low voter turnout all over Douglas County, it was twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight percent. No matter if the Democrats were energized or not.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent for a prime mary is really low
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  Speaker 1: when it's usually around fifty percent for this type of
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  Speaker 1: an election. And I just have to bring up the
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  Speaker 1: same thing happened my last race when out in West Omaha, Brinker,
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  Speaker 1: Harding and don Roe did not have an opponent, and
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  Speaker 1: so for city council. And so that really in turn
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  Speaker 1: decreased the voter turnout. And no matter what we do,
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  Speaker 1: we really need to try to increase that voter turnout.
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  Speaker 1: As Republicans, I think we do. One other thing I
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  Speaker 1: want your comment on is the thing that Brinker just
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  Speaker 1: said is he said I will be the congressman that
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  Speaker 1: will represent.
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  Speaker 2: All of you.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I said that about being mayor too,
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  Speaker 1: But there are some people that don't like that position.
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  Speaker 2: Denise Powell obviously does not.
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  Speaker 1: Like that position to say I will represent anybody, because
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  Speaker 1: all she talks about is the blue dot. So my
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  Speaker 1: question with Denise Powell would be, if you are the nominee,
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  Speaker 1: are you only going to represent Democrats? Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to represent the Republicans and the dependence.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it seems that's a good question and it seems
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  Speaker 4: to me that from listening to her as a candidate,
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  Speaker 4: she's already got her mind made up on almost every issue.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: You asked her, if you get elected to Congress, are
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  Speaker 4: you going to vote to.
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  Speaker 3: Impeach Donald Trump? And her answer is probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be yes. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to make an assumption on that, but
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  Speaker 4: she's going to get asked that question. And basically she
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  Speaker 4: ran her campaign without issues, without substance, and just anti
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, and most of them did, and so I
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  Speaker 4: think they've got a long way to go to appeal
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  Speaker 4: to the center right and center left, independent and Republican
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  Speaker 4: and Democrat to win this race. You know that the
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  Speaker 4: numbers favor Brinkle Hardy, and the registration with Western Sarpy County,
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  Speaker 4: the Graton area, with Saunders County and Douglas County combined
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  Speaker 4: in the second district, the actual Republican registration is greater
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  Speaker 4: than the Democrat registration. So that fifty two forty eight
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  Speaker 4: kind of benchmark is a pretty good one. And we
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  Speaker 4: get that unity behind the turnout and education of the
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  Speaker 4: voter messaging done, I think Brinker Harding has a better
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  Speaker 4: than even chance of being the next member of Congress
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  Speaker 4: from the second district.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we need to do.
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  Speaker 1: I think as Republicans, we really need to be more energized.
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  Speaker 1: We really need to rally around and behind our candidates
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  Speaker 1: and work hard. Now there's I said this last night
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  Speaker 1: because I spoke a bit at the event, So did you,
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  Speaker 1: And I said, you know that that here, here's what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with with a lot I think the Republican candidates
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  Speaker 1: is there's there's just been some apathy. And I think
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  Speaker 1: we need to energize ourselves too, and we need to
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  Speaker 1: get out.
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  Speaker 2: There, and we need to work.
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen a candidate work as hard as
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  Speaker 1: Brinker Harding.
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  Speaker 2: You know he knew.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't take it for granted, No he didn't, mister
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  Speaker 5: Leinster brought it out. He worked hard, morning, noon and night.
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  Speaker 5: And you worked with him as mayor and he on
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  Speaker 5: your consul, and you know that he does his homework.
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  Speaker 5: He meets everybody in a very affable way.
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  Speaker 4: He does mind it. He's a very even natured and
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  Speaker 4: mild manner, if you will, but a very hard worker
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  Speaker 4: and a very smart guy. I happen to know a
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  Speaker 4: few things about Congress, and so I know that that
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  Speaker 4: work ethic that he has will suit him well to
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  Speaker 4: being a very effective member in the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely will.
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  Speaker 1: And I said last night, I said, if there is
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  Speaker 1: any way that I would describe brinker Harding, it would
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  Speaker 1: be common sense. It would be steady conservative leadership. And
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  Speaker 1: you can trust him because of what you just said.
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  Speaker 2: He listens.
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  Speaker 1: He listens to everybody. He just doesn't listen to those
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  Speaker 1: in his own party. He does his homework, he works hard.
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  Speaker 1: He will represent us well, but he's got a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go till November.
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  Speaker 4: And all your comments well taken, Your caution is well taken.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with that. I know that in brinker Harding's
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  Speaker 4: case that he has a track record. He's been in
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  Speaker 4: the arena, he's had the bright spotlight of of examination
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  Speaker 4: focused on him, and he's proven that he can be
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  Speaker 4: effective as compared to potentially an opponent who's never held
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  Speaker 4: public office and really shoots from the hip.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's jump to this secretary of State race that
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  Speaker 1: we had, which I thought was quite interesting because usually
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  Speaker 1: secretary of State is not one that people get really
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  Speaker 1: excited about. But this became very contentious and it ended
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  Speaker 1: up that Scott Peterson. By boy, it looks like at
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  Speaker 1: least two thousand votes last night, maybe fifteen hundred last night.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're still counting, but still he
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  Speaker 1: won that race against Bob Evnan.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it boils down. I think it
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  Speaker 3: boils down to one of these.
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  Speaker 4: Situations where mister Peterson has to be given credit for
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  Speaker 4: the simple idea that he focused on the incumbent's been
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  Speaker 4: there too long and it was time for a change,
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  Speaker 4: and it worked in this case.
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  Speaker 1: And do you think that there is a mistrust of
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  Speaker 1: what we do in Douglas County, what we do across
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  Speaker 1: the state as far as our voting. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that what happened in two thousand with Donald Trump, do
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  Speaker 1: you think that that is still on people's mind. And
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  Speaker 1: when you start talking about mistrust in the voting system,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing that aggravates people more than that to think that.
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  Speaker 4: It may not count. There must be something to that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't sense that or feel it. I think most
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  Speaker 4: people in Nebraska believe we have very well run elections
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  Speaker 4: and very secure elections. I think it's interesting. It was
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  Speaker 4: a kind of a Johnny One note campaign that mister
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  Speaker 4: Peterson ran. He didn't talk about the eighty percent of
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  Speaker 4: the other work that the office of Secretary of State
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  Speaker 4: has to do on all citizens' behalf, from the parton
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  Speaker 4: board to managing all the legal affairs and filings and
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  Speaker 4: registrations for business in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big, big job.
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  Speaker 4: He focused simply on casting doubt and the seeds of
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  Speaker 4: mistrust with.
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  Speaker 3: Respect to our election process.
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  Speaker 4: There are still a lot of election deniers in this country,
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  Speaker 4: in both parties, and it's interesting that there seems to
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  Speaker 4: be not very much proof of that, some antidotal circumstances
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  Speaker 4: that get blown up in the press here and there, incidentally,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it's simply carry over from that general
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  Speaker 4: cable news show sensationalization about the suspicions behind whether elections
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  Speaker 4: are secure or not.
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  Speaker 3: I think most Nebraskans believe that.
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  Speaker 4: They are right.
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  Speaker 1: In Secretary of State, they oversee the elections, but as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, they also handle business registration and international relations
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  Speaker 1: and trade opportunity, and they do travel.
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  Speaker 4: So the job much well we have. We have to
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  Speaker 4: wish the winner well and will be interested in listening
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  Speaker 4: to his explanation of what else he has learned about
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the duties that he will now be
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  Speaker 4: required to perform.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Former mayor, former Congressman hal Bob is with us today.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the US Senate race. Obviously, Pete Ricketts
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  Speaker 1: is the Republican. Not many Cindy Burbach Burbank, it's Burbank.
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  Speaker 1: Last night was on the news. She is a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: nominee for US Senate, and she said on the news
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  Speaker 1: not last night that she's I'm paraphrasing, dislikes Pete Ricketts
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  Speaker 1: so much she may drop out and put her support
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  Speaker 1: between or behind Osborne.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you see, that's the same thing that the most
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  Speaker 4: of the candidates for the congressional nomination.
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  Speaker 3: They campaigned on one thing.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't like the person they were running against. Right,
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  Speaker 4: They had an anger that they displayed in the.
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  Speaker 3: Negative way in which they approach.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't tell the photers what they would like to do,
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  Speaker 4: or what changes in policy or programs they would seek
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  Speaker 4: or promote or or or stand behind. They just campaigned
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  Speaker 4: in the negative. I think at the end of the
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  Speaker 4: day that wear'stin and so if in fact that's her view,
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  Speaker 4: then I certainly questioned why she paid the one percent
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  Speaker 4: filing fee and ran. If she really didn't intend to
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  Speaker 4: stay in the race and try to win, that proves
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  Speaker 4: that she's a very disingenuous and or it was an
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  Speaker 4: organized filing with the specific intent of making sure that
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  Speaker 4: there was no competitive Democrat so that Dan Osborne, who
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  Speaker 4: says he's unaffiliated and an independent, if he gets the
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  Speaker 4: signatures to get his name on the ballot to support
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  Speaker 4: his campaign. It's a very disingenuous environment on the Senate side,
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  Speaker 4: on the Democrat side, with both the Republican and the
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  Speaker 4: other Democrat filings. It's actually very curious. I think it
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  Speaker 4: bears some investigation.
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  Speaker 2: It is very curious.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we had a caller yesterday that called
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  Speaker 1: in and said, you know, I went to vote today
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  Speaker 1: and for governor there were six people and five of
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  Speaker 1: them I've never heard of. And he said, do people
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  Speaker 1: just put their name on the ballot just for the
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  Speaker 1: heck of it? And you wouldn't think that Cindy Burbank
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  Speaker 1: would do this for US Senate, but obviously that's what
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  Speaker 1: she might have done.
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  Speaker 4: It.
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  Speaker 2: It's very I.
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  Speaker 4: Did hear the interview, and I was flabbergasted. I think
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  Speaker 4: that speaks to her character.
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  Speaker 3: And she'll just have to live with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, any other races. Let's see Douglas County Treasurer Tony
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  Speaker 1: Vargas finally has a job. How many races has he
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  Speaker 1: run but he is now the Douglas treasure.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I've always encouraged people to run for
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  Speaker 4: public office, regardless of their party affiliation, if I could
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  Speaker 4: gauge truly in their heart, whether I agreed with him
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  Speaker 4: or not on some or much, to seek public service.
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  Speaker 4: You did that for many, many years. I have had
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  Speaker 4: a few years of that myself, and I admire people,
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  Speaker 4: regardless of party, that will throw their hat in the rings,
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  Speaker 4: stand up the public scrutiny, and you know, somebody wins
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  Speaker 4: and somebody loses. Sometimes people like Tony Vargas have to
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  Speaker 4: find their niche and they have to.
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  Speaker 3: Lose a few elections to win one.
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  Speaker 4: You did, and so did I.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, I mean, And I always say there's no
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  Speaker 1: shame in running and losing, because you're never going to
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  Speaker 1: win if you don't try. And there's been many great
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  Speaker 1: presidents in the United States that have won in races
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  Speaker 1: and lost in races and went on to be president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: So I agree, and I said that last night.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, they're just an old thing that you can't hit
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  Speaker 4: the ball if you don't get up to bet. So
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  Speaker 4: it's a pretty simple thing, and you can have the
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  Speaker 4: trepidation about it. But you should never seek to do
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  Speaker 4: anything in life, whether it's in politics and government service,
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  Speaker 4: or whether it's in business or family and church. Don't
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  Speaker 4: engage in a pursuit if you don't have.
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  Speaker 3: Some view of the consequences. If you don't succeed.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely one of the consequences is you learn more sometimes
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  Speaker 4: from not succeeding, then you might lose or learn when
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  Speaker 4: you succeed.
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  Speaker 1: You are absolutely right, And I always bring this up.
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  Speaker 1: The race of two thousand and six when I ran
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  Speaker 1: for the legislature for District twelve that I lost by
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  Speaker 1: fourteen votes. I think I learned a lot more about
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  Speaker 1: myself losing that race and how to pick yourself up
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  Speaker 1: and go forward and win gracefully and move forward than
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  Speaker 1: I did if I would have won that race.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, things, things happened for a reason.
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  Speaker 4: Good way to look back at it. I called you
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  Speaker 4: and congratulated you then, because I heard from the early
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  Speaker 4: returns that you would want.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that was that was a ninth on the ninth
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  Speaker 1: day after is when we found out after the provisional
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  Speaker 1: ballot account. Let's briefly talk about the governor's race. It
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  Speaker 1: will be governor Jim Pillen, although there was seven people
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot, but he came out clearly the winner
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  Speaker 1: against Lynn Walts.
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  Speaker 3: He did well. Yeah, he did very well.
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  Speaker 2: And Lynn Waltz is Tim Waltz's sister. Correct?
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  Speaker 4: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I know Scott Vorhees was questioning that this morning.
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  Speaker 2: What relation to Tim?
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  Speaker 4: Let me say, let me say that they were related. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: not sure, sister, but I understand. I understand that they
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  Speaker 4: are related.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Any comments about the governor's race, Well, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think in tandem in the midterm environment with lots of
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  Speaker 4: other issues on voters' minds, mostly the issue of cost
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  Speaker 4: of living, the economic issue being the most important issue
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  Speaker 4: in almost every election that I've watched or been a
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  Speaker 4: part of. It's the financial aspects of how people feel
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  Speaker 4: about their circumstances as it relates to their pocketbook. So
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  Speaker 4: whether it's egg prices or meat prices or gas.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Prices, or whether it's the cost of.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Tuition for college or medical bills or house insurance or
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: car insurance. Those are the key issues. And so as
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: the next six months passed by, governors have an awful
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: lot to say, like presidents do about economic circumstances, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I think the governor has a good record. I think
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: that he's going to be very hotly contested. I think
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: that the National Democrat Party are looking at the governor
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: races in Iowa and Nebraska as possible pickups or turnovers.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: So I think that will be competitive, as will the
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Senate and the House races. We're going to have three
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: very competitive top.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Of ballot races in this general election in my opinion.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you know, some of those we don't have
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: time to go through all of them, but some of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: those legislative races were quite interesting too. Who some of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the races were who I thought would be the front
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: runner are not. But those are going to be all
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: interesting to watch too.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: As again, I think that then the down ballot candidates
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: marging on the Republican side, even though they're nonpartisan style nonpartisan,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: were affected by the voter turnout that we talked about
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: earlier in the program. So so I'm not going to
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: put too much into the careful voter analysis of some
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: of these very small post these damp pieces of geography
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: called state Senate districts.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I don't think that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I think you have to evaluate the top two as
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: opposed of seeing who.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Had more votes than the second place person.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think that logic is going to be very salient.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be more of an analysis
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: of whether the voter turnout in the Republican side of
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: the ballot can be stimulated to turn out to a
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: higher number than it did in this primary.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And I think that will happen absolutely.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Howl Dob was with us this morning. We have a
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: lot of work to do between now in November. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: know we're going to be talking about these races a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: lot more. But I really appreciate you being on. Good
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to see you again last night.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Same here, Gana. Thanks for having me on and to
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: have a great day.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks again, Hal Dob, former mayor of Omaha and former
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: congressman and former a lot of things. Hal has done
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so much for this community and really appreciate I tell
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you he's ubiquitous. Every time I go to an event,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: there's Hal and Mary Dobb, right there and they work
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: hard and they help people. And you know, how won't
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: mind me saying this because everything with us that have
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: people that have been elected before. Everybody knows that everything
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: about us, including our age, probably our weight, our social
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Security number.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know everything else. But Hal is eighty five.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Years old, and I mean he is just like a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: little hummingbird. He just keeps on going all the time.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: So I really appreciate our friendship. And he's been very
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: influential to me too, So thank you. We are back
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and Teyton Hylock is doing everything today with his right
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: arm and he's left handed because his left arm is
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in a sling.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Poor guy, You will recover from this. Yeah, even putting
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: on the headphones is a little bit tough. I can't
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: see you doing that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Of course he doesn't have a shirt on this morning,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but you know, no he does, he does. You know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I wanted to just wrap up talk about the election,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: but I know we're going to talk about it a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: lot more. But you know, I received an email the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: other day for something I said on the air, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I said that people told me in my election, the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: one I lost, the last one that they thought I
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: would win, and so they didn't go out to vote.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And somebody thought I was red for saying that, and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: they sent me an email about that and laughed about it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Haha.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: There's other reasons why jeans do the didn't win, well,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: there is other reasons, but this is true too. It
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: is absolutely true. And you see this also with the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: second congressional race with Brinker Harding and you know, the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: voter turnout in Douglas County was twenty eight percent. Brinker
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: didn't have an opponent. People just said, oh, you're going
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to get through. I'm not going to vote, and that's
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: why things can happen. You know, elections have consequences and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the wrong people can get in if you don't go
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: out there and vote. But it is true that if
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it's not competitive and you don't have, you know, an opponent.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And what happened in my race is don Roe and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Brinker Harding out in West Omaha. I didn't have opponents,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: so there was nobody to vote for for city council.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And people said some people not everybody. Some people said
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd win, and they.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Just didn't vote. And this does happen.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, this is it's very true, and it
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: absolutely does happen. I have to do it a correction,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad a caller called in because I said
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I asked Cal Dobb, who was on previously, if Lynn
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: walt was Tim Waltz's sister, and he said he didn't recall,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: but apparently Lynn Waltz is related to Tim Waltz, the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: governor of Minnesota, through her husband, and they are third cousins,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: so it's distant, but there is a relationship there. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to correct that because guess what, Peyton,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not always.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Right, but you're a guaranteed human, yes, but I am
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: guarantee human. Yes. But you know, it was really good
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: last night to see everybody.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Also at the watch party, there were so many people
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: there and my new best friend Tony Connor from the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Omaha Police Department, who is now president of the Nebraska FOP.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He and I were on the stage together and I said,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: are we the odd couple or one? So I told
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: him I go just smile and act like you like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: me tonight. So we put on a good show. We
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: were there for a brinker and there for to support
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the Republicans. So I think we've got some calls and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: some emails coming in here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Let's take those, Yes, ma'am, we do.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: And if you want to reach out to us four
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: zero two five five eight to eleven ten comment at
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: kfabe dot com. Is the email or the radio talkback
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Mike on your iHeartRadio app. As we go to the
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: phone lines here, this is Angie.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Angie.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: You are live with Jean Stauthar here on news radio
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: eleven ten KFABE.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: How are you today?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Really good?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Thank you awesome.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: So I'm just curious how to even get started in politics.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: I've been pretty involved in the last ten years or so,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: and I'm pretty disgusted by what I'm seeing and I
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: just kind of feel like maybe I should give it
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: a try. So how do you get started?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: You know, you absolutely should, and I think I encourage
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: people to do that. You know, there are organizations out there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Ready to Run is one of them that kind of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: goes through the process of what you do to actually
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: file and move forward with running for something. But you know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: how I started out was just when we moved here.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It was in nineteen ninety three and we moved here
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: from Texas. My kids were little and they were going
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: into kindergarten in second grade, and I thought if I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: went back and worked as a critical care nurse, Say'd
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: stick me on weekends, on you know, midnights on the weekends.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So I started out really slow with my career, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I started out with just getting active in their school.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And then there was a position on the Millard Board
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of Education. Somebody resigned and so they were going to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: appoint somebody, and I thought, I can do this. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: want to do this, and that's how I started out,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and so I was appointed to the Millard school Board.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Then I ran and was elected.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I served three terms, and then I thought there was
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: something else calling my name out there. I ran in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: two thousand and six for the Nebraska Legislature, lost that race,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: That's the one I lost by fourteen votes, but then
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: went on and ran for the Omaha City Council, won
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that race, and then I decided to run for mayor.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So my career to get to mayor spanned over and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: finish three terms as mayor spanned over twenty seven years.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So I started out very very slowly, but I never
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: had any ambition or desire when say I was on
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the school board, I never thought I was running for
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: city council. And when I first ran for city council,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the last thing on my mind was running for mayor.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So I wasn't a climber. I wasn't doing these things
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to think, Oh, next, I got to do something bigger
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and bigger. So you can you know, you could just
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: pick something you're passionate about and you want to give
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it a try. But like I said with the interview
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: with Hal Dubb, there is no shame in running for
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: an elected position, in losing. There are fantastic presidents of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the United States that have lost races in the past.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: At least you did it, and you're never going to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: win unless you try, and coming in second place really
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't make any difference. You either win or lose. But
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I lost a in two thousand and six.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I lost this last mayor's race. But let me tell you,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I would do everything the same all over again. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I've loved every position that I've had, So you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: like I said, there are different groups that can potentially
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: help a bit, but what I hear with those groups,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing. They'll tell you, we got to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: get out there and you got to wear out two
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: pairs of shoes and this and that and the other.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: They say the same thing.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I think you need to be passionate about something, you
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: need to be informed about it. You need to see
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: what's going on now, and you need to really say,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: if I was running for this position, what would I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do differently? What would my focus be, and what would
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I tell the people, you know, why they should vote
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: for me. My races have always focused on why people
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: should vote for me. I never wanted to focus on
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: why they shouldn't vote for my opponent.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't believe in this, all this negative campaigning.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of I started out slow, but then
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's people like Denise Powell that have never
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: run for anything in our life and is running for Congress.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, different people.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: The reason why I feel like I want to get
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: into politics because and you can assess to this, I
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: feel like politics in the last ten years, well fifteen years,
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: have gotten really, really nasty, and seeing a lot of
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: the stuff that she has done in commercials has kind
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: of put a burn in my belly. And so you know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: obviously I'm not a big fan of hers, but I'm like,
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: if she can do it, I can totally do it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: So Mayor, thank you so much for your hop. I
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: really appreciate you again, and.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your comments.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's po Denise Powell, and I think that's just
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: what we need in Congress, another angry person. But but
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you know, I think you just got to be passionate
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: about something and give it a try. You don't have
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to start out like I did, you know, with a
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: lower ballot office and then move your way up. You
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: can do it any way you want, but at least
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you try. Thank you for the call this morning, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you were going to move to another one. This is
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Chris on the phone lines. Chris, you are alive with
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Jeane Stouthar here on KFAB.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm married Jane. Good morning.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Hey, I got a question for you. Do you think
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: with Lynn Walls, I'm going against pealand do you think
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: that she'll be successful in taking away some of the
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: Republican votes in like the Metro areas, you know, with
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: with the lack of of Palan's ability to communicate effectively
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: with the needs of at least Omaha.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, I will say this.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I think it didn't mean to interrupt you, but I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: think all of our Republican delegation seems to have a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: difficult time in Douglas County and in Omaha. That's why
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we've been labeled, of course, you know, the blue dot.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And I think that that's difficult for the governor. It
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was difficult for for you know, uh, a lot of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: candidates that are our congressional delegation to win in Douglas
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: County and win in Omaha. Now for the governor, though,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you got the rest of the state. And you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: although the Omaha area it's called the blue dot, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I was the mayor of the Blue Dot, so I
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: know exactly what is going on.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: The rest of the state is very red.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And so I think that people will still lean that
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: are Republican and are still conservative. I think they will
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: still lean towards Governor Pillon.
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: You don't, I mean, it just seems like with with Palin,
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: you know, he just he just you know, the people
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: voted on medical marijuana, he do just by passed it,
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: you know, And it just seems like all of his
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: communication is built upon rural areas. And I have called
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: before and talked with you about my concern of Omaha
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: losing you know, through now the mayor possibly now the
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: governor of identity and the hard work that everyone has
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: done in the city, not to mention Lincoln, and it
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: just seems like Feeling just doesn't really care much about
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: the metro areas. And you know, maybe Lynn Walls, although
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: I don't free with everything that she's she stands for,
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: but you know, we can't. I just don't think that
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: we should have a governor that just decides against what
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: the people voted on because Murley or you know whatever,
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: he doesn't agree with it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So I appreciate your call, but do this for me too.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Just really study what Lynn Waltz wants to do if
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: she is governor, because if that fits with what your
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: philosophy is, you know, is she one that's gonna be
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: very liberal? Is she going to be one that's going
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to raise taxes? Is she one that's going to make
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: your life better in Nebraska? You know, you've got to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: look at what their platforms are and what they're really representing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You know, the blue dot, I'll go back to that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: in Omaha and in Douglas County particularly, Omaha has become
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: more symbolic than anything, and you know, it's it's symbolic
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: for their liberal movement. It's symbolic for pro choice, it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: symbolic for higher taxes. I mean, it's it's symbolic that
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: they want to hold on to this. And it's getting
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a little bit confused because in the beginning, the blue
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: dot just meant there were more Democrat voters in Omaha
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: than Republican and there are. But now the blue dot
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: means something more, and it means it's kind of drifted
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: into the winner takes all issue too, and they look
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: at it as one issue. And you know, Nebraska, besides
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the Nebraska and Maine are the only ones that treat
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: our electoral votes that the way we do, and they
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: really want to maintain that we have the electoral votes
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: go the way that they are going now. And you know,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the state or the state of Nebraska has five electoral votes.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: They have one for each of our congressional districts and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: then two for basically the overall winner. And all the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: other states, the overall winner gets all of them, but
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska and Maine not, and they really want to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: hold on to that because this is the area that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: usually goes to the Democrats.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: And this morning there is a lot of primary election
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: digestion taking place here on the genes dot there show.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah, we're gonna go to
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: the email here. This comes from Mark and in regards
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: to brinker Harding, he sided with NP Dodge on the
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: Sunset Golf Course development, which was totally opposed by the
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: residents there.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: That's why he will lose votes.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: So, Gene, can you give us a little context as
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: as far as the Sunset Golf Course development goes? And uh,
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: why was this so opposed by the residents and why
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: is this gonna cause him to lose votes?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You know, because I was mayor when when when this
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: was going on? And the bottom line is this is
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that brinker Harding and the rest of the city council,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: all seven of them with legal advice, had no legal
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: reason that they could vote this down.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: The the the.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Residents that lived in that area liked the golf like
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the the green space, they liked the look of it,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and I understand that. But it was zoned accordingly so
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: that a development could happen there, and that with that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: MP Dodge was going to do the development and there
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: was no legal reason that the city council could say
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: no because the residents that lived around there didn't want it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an example of myself. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: live about one hundred and twentyeth in Q. There used
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: to be a movie theater there and it was a
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: lot of open space, and then there was Project Harmony
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: put in there where an insurance business used to be,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and then someone bought it. It was zoned accordingly and
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: they developed it into apartments. My neighbors in my neighborhood,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: which is just south of there, were furious and they
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: were saying to me, Jean, can't you stop this. We
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: don't want these apartments there. We want it left just
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the way it is. We want open spaces. But there
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: was no legal reason to turn it down because private
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: property owners had their rights and that's all there is
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to it. So I think if brinker Harding would have
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: voted against it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Of course, you.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to your constituents, but sometimes you have to look
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  Speaker 1: at what.
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  Speaker 2: The law is.
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  Speaker 7: To thank you for that context there, Gene cut back
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  Speaker 7: to the phone lines here, Larry, you are alive on
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  Speaker 7: news radio eleven ten kfab Hi, Larry, good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, thank you.
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  Speaker 10: In regards to the apathy, there's a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 10: for apathy, and one of them is the way citizens
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  Speaker 10: are now treated as participants in their city hall, their
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  Speaker 10: city council. They have done everything they can to keep
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  Speaker 10: it to absolute minimum three minutes to talk with now,
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  Speaker 10: and it has to be specifically listed as a hear
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  Speaker 10: at public hearing, and if you're two words off the
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  Speaker 10: wording of the agenda item, they say, excuse me, you're
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  Speaker 10: off topic and they cut you off. Now, that's why
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  Speaker 10: there's only one or two citizens that are not there
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  Speaker 10: for a hand out that are there in attendance. That's
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  Speaker 10: the way they're treated. But also most citizens can't get
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  Speaker 10: the time off during the day.
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  Speaker 2: That is true. And Larry, I got to hand it
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: I know this has been an issue with you for
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  Speaker 1: a while, but you do attend the city council meetings
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  Speaker 1: and you do attend county board meetings. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that it's up well, I know it's up to the
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  Speaker 1: president of the city Council to how they run a meeting.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that Danny Bagley now is the president.
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  Speaker 1: He runs meetings quite differently than Pete Festerson, did, Pete
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  Speaker 1: Randham differently, very differently than Chris Jerrem did, but the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you know, their philosophy might be let's get this moving,
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  Speaker 1: let's get this this meeting going. Let's address what's on
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  Speaker 1: the agenda, because the agenda has to be published ahead
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  Speaker 1: of time and you can't really get off the agenda.
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  Speaker 1: But is Larry still on the line, Larry still there?
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  Speaker 1: What what would your suggestion be, because we've we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this many times. Do you think that there should
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  Speaker 1: be say, a period at the end of each city
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  Speaker 1: council meeting for a period of a certain amount of
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  Speaker 1: time for an open mic or do you I mean
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  Speaker 1: that the issue is wonder if somebody wants to come
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  Speaker 1: in and talk for an hour?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what do you do well?
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  Speaker 10: That time asolutely unreasonable. But there used to be a
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  Speaker 10: period of time for open mind when you and how
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  Speaker 10: Dob were in charge, and it was more it was
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  Speaker 10: more interesting, it was more fun. The only way now
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  Speaker 10: that I can get a discussion on him in one
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  Speaker 10: of those items is to challenge them.
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  Speaker 3: And the only time I can challenge.
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  Speaker 10: Them is when it is called a public hearing. And
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  Speaker 10: but they won't explain anything personally back and forth while
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  Speaker 10: I am there. That is upsetting. Yes, they will comment
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  Speaker 10: after I leave the podium, they will not talk to
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  Speaker 10: me directly, and that is true. That is that's why
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  Speaker 10: citizens do not go down there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate your comments again, and just to remind
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  Speaker 1: our listeners that with the city Council meeting, they are
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  Speaker 1: held in public.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can go.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: They're held in the legislative chamber down at City Hall.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: When they pass an ordinance, which is a city law,
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  Speaker 1: there's always three readings, and the first one is publication.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be at three different meetings. Publication, it's
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: on the agenda, so you know it's coming up. The
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  Speaker 1: second is a public hearing, and then the third is
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  Speaker 1: a vote. And so that second reading, with the public hearing,
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  Speaker 1: people can come and comment about it, whether they're pro
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: or con or whatever, and they try to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you stay on that subject. But I know there
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is some people that will come and because that's the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: only time really to have a public comment, they will
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  Speaker 1: use that period of time to try to talk about
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  Speaker 1: something else if it's not on the agenda. So it
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: does get a little bit confusing. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's up to the president to limit what people say,
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  Speaker 1: but it might be something to consider. I think I
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  Speaker 1: always thought that there should be a time for a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: limited amount of time for public comment on any subject.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm hearing you, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks for thanks for your time that you spend
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  Speaker 1: down there listening to what goes on at City Hall too.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for your call, Larry. We're going to hit
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: another one. This is Ronda on the phone lines. You
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: are live with jeens't author on KFAB.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Hiight. Did you know that there is a ballot referendum
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: gathering signatures right now to put the winner take All
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: issue on the ballot for the whole cit and Rasta
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  Speaker 6: to vote on in November.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: No, I did not know that there is a petition
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  Speaker 1: going out now.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, no, gathering signatures right.
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  Speaker 2: What's your opinion on it? Winner take All?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be the ballot referendum will tell
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  Speaker 6: you what the whole state thinks and the blue dot
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  Speaker 6: will disappear.
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  Speaker 2: You think it will?
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  Speaker 1: You think the state would be all four, Winner takes
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  Speaker 1: all generally?
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  Speaker 6: Definitely, definitely.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: All Right, Peyton, we are back and you know what,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Chris Baker is back too. That's what it says when
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: they announce his show, they'll say Baker is back, Yes
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: he is. And yesterday, Peyton and I are on the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: air and Chris Baker is outside in the hallway pounding
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: on our door wanting to come on. Didn't he He
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: was out there pounding, so we let him in.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: You unlock the door. We lock it to keep hick it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: We unlocked the door and he came in, got on
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the air with us, and what he wanted to talk
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: about is he asked me, if I take all of
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: my ballots from past races and if I frame them? Yeah, right, Chris,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you know I will paper my walls at home with
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: my ballots. And then he had to go on and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: make it even worse, and he said, he asked if
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I hang the frame of my ballots in my home
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. Okay, I've had it, So I'm sending
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: him an email today.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Are we ready?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I'm getting out my laptop right now. I'm ready. So
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: here we go. De Chris, you say you are a comedian,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: but you are not funny at all. And if you
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: say I live in Saint Louis one more time, there
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: will be a price to pay. They don't call me
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: mean gene for nothing, period exclamation point. Make sure he
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: reads that Moonba email today.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Got it? Where we go? All right?
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: And you know what I brought him from New or
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I told him I brought him a toy, which I did,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: but I bought him an Aquarius voodoo doll.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, voodoo doll in I mean that's the culture.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in voodoo dolls, but that's the culture
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: down in New Orleans. It's all this creepy kind of
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: stuff and haunted and things like that. But if you
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: go into a store, you see voodoo dolls everywhere. And
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I thought, then I saw one of Aquarius, and I thought,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give that to Chris and he could ward
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: off his moonbat emails. But they are very entertaining. So
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: where is it? It was hanging in here yesterday. Maybe
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: he took it with him to play with it. My
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: voodoo doll of my Aquarius there it is?
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  Speaker 2: This is it? I don't know. I was on my side.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I do have an Aquarius voodoo
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: doll in here to haunt. I really like a look
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: of it. It's a good one. It's a good one.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: That's it for us today.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Everyone, Thank you for spending this hour with us, Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening to us. We'd love for you to join
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  Speaker 1: us again tomorrow. I am Jean Stothard and this is
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  Speaker 1: eleven ten, babe,