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Analysis of Mayor Superman Interview 8-4-26 · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton Highlock, my producer,
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Speaker 1: is also here. Good morning Peyton.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Jane. How are you?
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Speaker 3: I am good and we are guaranteed human, always human here,
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: I mean we're so good. People may think that we
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Speaker 4: Peyton.
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Speaker 1: You know I always come back and correct myself if
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Speaker 1: I think I'm wrong, which is you know, it could
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Speaker 1: be pretty often. But Number one, I will say my
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Speaker 1: favorite scooters that I go to every morning. I said
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Speaker 1: the other day it was on seventy eighth in Underwood.
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Speaker 4: It's seventy eighth in cass I know better than that.
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Speaker 1: So scooter people that I stopped by every single morning,
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Speaker 1: seventy eighth cast great little scooters there.
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Speaker 4: They're all so nice.
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Speaker 1: The other thing, I think you asked me the question,
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Speaker 1: but a couple other people asked me the question about
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Speaker 1: the Omaha Police Department yesterday and confusing numbers that are
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Speaker 1: out there of how many officers we currently are down.
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Speaker 1: We are budgeted for nine hundred and six. After twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: after the riots, the protest George Floyd COVID, every single
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Speaker 1: police department in the country were struggling to get applicants.
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Speaker 4: We weren't any different, and for.
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Speaker 1: The last several years when I was mayor, we were
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Speaker 1: down about one hundred police officers and those that were
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Speaker 1: applying to be police officers. That pool went way down compared.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we used to have eight nine hundred apply
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Speaker 1: for a class, and we were lucky to get a
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Speaker 1: couple hundred applying for the class. And even with that
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Speaker 1: couple hundred, those are not all people that you would
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Speaker 1: want to become police officers. And I always told Chief Schmutter,
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Speaker 1: I would rather be low than to hire a bunch
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Speaker 1: of officers that are not suited to be officers. And
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Speaker 1: so we stayed, and we did made a lot of changes.
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Speaker 1: Razor salary did the five percent more than any law
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Speaker 1: enforcement agency that's still in policy. But we were still
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Speaker 1: around one hundred down when you looked at the retirements
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Speaker 1: and those you know that were in the class, et cetera. Now,
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Speaker 1: yesterday I said, you asked the question, and I said,
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Speaker 1: of that nine hundred and six, we were down about
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Speaker 1: sixty one officers. That is correct. I want to make
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Speaker 1: clarify this for you listeners. If you count those that
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Speaker 1: are in the academy now, and there are thirty five
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Speaker 1: in the academy right now, so that still means out
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Speaker 1: on the street if you take that, you know, I said,
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Speaker 1: there is eight hundred and forty five now counting those
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Speaker 1: in the class. If you take those in the class
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Speaker 1: out because they're not going to graduate till December, then
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Speaker 1: we have eight hundred and ten. So we are still well,
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Speaker 1: that's ninety six down. So we are still about one
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Speaker 1: hundred officers down. And if you recall Mary Ewing said
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Speaker 1: in his State of the City address that and he
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Speaker 1: gave that that address quite a while ago, he said,
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Speaker 1: by the end of the year we will be fully staffed.
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Speaker 1: We will not, So just keep that in mind. So
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Speaker 1: right now, and I want us to clarify this for
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Speaker 1: all the police officers that may be listening, because when
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Speaker 1: I said we're only down sixty one, I'm sure a
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Speaker 1: lot of them said, hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, we're down a lot more than that.
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Speaker 1: They if you count who is on the street right now,
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Speaker 1: they're down to a ten. They're about one hundred down.
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Speaker 1: There will be another lateral class, which are those that
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Speaker 1: are already certified in law enforcement from some other agency,
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Speaker 1: that will start in September. That class gets done quicker
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Speaker 1: about half the time. And then there's another regular academy
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Speaker 1: that will start in January, but that's not till next year. Also,
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Speaker 1: we expect at least seven to ten retirements by the
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Speaker 1: end of the year. You know, like I said that
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Speaker 1: they are done with the academy in December, but then
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Speaker 1: before they go out on the street, they have another
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Speaker 1: fifteen weeks of field training. So to say we are
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Speaker 1: going to be fully staffed by the end of the
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Speaker 1: year is a promise that is not going to happen
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Speaker 1: at all. And that State of the City was given
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Speaker 1: May twentieth this year that we will be fully staffed
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Speaker 1: by the end of the year and we will not.
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Speaker 1: So all you cops that are out there, if you
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Speaker 1: or any of you are listening, which I'm sure they're
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Speaker 1: all just glued to this radio station, but that I
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Speaker 1: appreciate what you do, and I know you are stretched
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Speaker 1: as thin as you can be, but congratulations for the
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Speaker 1: work you do being stretched very very thin, because our
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Speaker 1: crime rates are still something to really brag about, and
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Speaker 1: that is because of the men and women of the
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Speaker 1: Omaha Police Department and the men and women of the
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Speaker 1: Douglas County Sheriff's Department working together, which brings me to
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Speaker 1: another subject right now. So yesterday I did talk a
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Speaker 1: bit about the interview with John Ewing, and Chris Baker
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Speaker 1: that havep and at three thirty on Friday afternoon, I
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Speaker 1: did say that I was going to let you all
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Speaker 1: listen to the podcast which is up, and you make
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Speaker 1: your own decision on what you think or how that
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Speaker 1: interview went. But the more I think about it, the
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Speaker 1: more I just want to play part of that interview.
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Speaker 1: Scott played part of the interview this morning, but not
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Speaker 1: everybody has listened all morning, and perhaps you are just
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Speaker 1: tuning in. So to save you from going on the
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Speaker 1: web page and pulling up the podcast and saying, now,
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Speaker 1: where is this part that we're really talking about, I
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Speaker 1: want to play it now, and then I have a
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Speaker 1: few things to say about it, and I want to
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Speaker 1: hear what you have to think about it. So Peyton,
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Speaker 1: why don't you roll the end of that. You are
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Speaker 1: producing Chris's show at the time, so you know where
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Speaker 1: I want to start on that.
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Speaker 5: A while back, you made a comment and referred to
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Speaker 5: the Sheriff's Department as an occupying force. Would you like
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Speaker 5: to walk that bat a little bit?
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Speaker 6: No? No, no. What I was referring to was the
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Speaker 6: fact that we do community policing in the city of Omaha,
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Speaker 6: and we have individual who has done primary policing in
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Speaker 6: Omaha with the Sheriff's Department, and we would rather have
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Speaker 6: them working together with us as a partner so that
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Speaker 6: we know what they are doing and have an opportunity
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Speaker 6: to partner with them, rather than have them doing things
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Speaker 6: and we're not aware of it.
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Speaker 5: Well, the Sheriff's department is it covers all a Douglas County,
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Speaker 5: which is the city of Omaha. And if there's not
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Speaker 5: enough officers to do enough traffic enforcement, wouldn't you want
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Speaker 5: a partnership with them to help.
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Speaker 6: Sure if they're going to partner with us, that was
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Speaker 6: the question.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we look.
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Speaker 6: At partnership, and partnership means there's communication and there's partnership
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Speaker 6: where those at the top of an organization know what
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Speaker 6: is happening between those two organizations, and that was not happening.
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Speaker 6: We have a very safe city. We do very low
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Speaker 6: crime rate. We believe we're doing a great job. We'd
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Speaker 6: love to partner with the Sheriff's Department on specific issues,
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Speaker 6: but then let's have those conversations.
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Speaker 5: So can you tell me what incident even brought on
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Speaker 5: that comment that they were an occupying force.
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Speaker 6: No, I'm not going to keep talking. I'm not going
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Speaker 6: to keep talking about this all day. I made my statement,
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Speaker 6: I told you why I made it. I think I'm
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Speaker 6: done with that question. We have a great chief, we
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Speaker 6: have a great police department. I believe we have the
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Speaker 6: finest law enforcement agency in the United States. We just
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Speaker 6: had a volunteer event where we recognize amazing people who
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Speaker 6: are committed to helping our police department be great and
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Speaker 6: serving the people of this community. I prefer to focus
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Speaker 6: on that.
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Speaker 5: But you didn't tell me why you've said that though.
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Speaker 6: That's the thing. If you don't understand it, that's okay.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I understand it. I understand you didn't tell me.
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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, next question. Thank you. We're focused on the positive.
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Speaker 6: This is the Year of the neighbor. We're trying to
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Speaker 6: do everything we can to build an even greater community.
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Speaker 5: And I agree with you one hundred percent. It's just
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Speaker 5: you know, when you call a law enforcement agency that
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Speaker 5: has jurisdiction and occupying force, I never under did.
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Speaker 7: I didn't say.
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Speaker 6: Hello, okay, next question, thank you.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay, next question. So my next question is do
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Speaker 5: you still see them as an occupying force?
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Speaker 6: Next question? Okay, thank you for your time. If you
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Speaker 6: don't have anything you want to ask about units or
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Speaker 6: use Climate Action Fund and what we're trying to do
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Speaker 6: with that. Have a great day and a great weekend.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, there it is, so now you can listen
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Speaker 1: to the part that I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: are focused on.
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Speaker 8: There.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let me say just a few things. Uh, focus
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Speaker 1: we we are only focused on the positive. Yes, American
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Speaker 1: focus on the positive. But we also need to address
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Speaker 1: the problems.
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Speaker 9: Jo.
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Speaker 1: You can't just say, hey, this is the Year of
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Speaker 1: the neighbor and we're all going to go hug it out.
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Speaker 1: We've got to address the problems that we have.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: If the mayor says we need to increase our communication
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Speaker 1: and our collaboration and our partnership with Douglas County Sheriff,
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Speaker 1: then how in the world does that help communication? When
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Speaker 1: the mayor comes out before the primary and actually endorses
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Speaker 1: the current Douglas County Sheriff's opponent, how does that help
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Speaker 1: the communication and the collaboration. And he's when he endorsed
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Speaker 1: Mark Martinez against over Aaron Hanson. Then that is when
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Speaker 1: he actually said in a public setting that the Douglas
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Speaker 1: County sheriff's department is an occupying force or an occitucping army,
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Speaker 1: which one he said, but he won't explain why he
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Speaker 1: said that. And when he is talking about is he's
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Speaker 1: talking about Sheriff Aaron Hanson. So how in the world
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Speaker 1: is this going to increase our partnership with the Douglas
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office. And it is true Douglas County, Omaha
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Speaker 1: is in Douglas County, Omaha now occupies about eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of Douglas County. But the sheriff, by law, by state law,
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Speaker 1: there is a sheriff for every county. And the state
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Speaker 1: law says the sheriff is elected. And when the mayor
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Speaker 1: is elected too, And when you get an elected mayor
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Speaker 1: to come out and come out and endorse somebody against
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Speaker 1: the incumbent, how in the world is that going to
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Speaker 1: help the communication and the positive and the year of
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Speaker 1: the neighbor atmosphere when this is going on. Now, I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of you have written in and say, Gene,
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Speaker 1: I'm tired of you talking about when you are mayor,
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Speaker 1: But you can't just ignore the last twelve years. And
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Speaker 1: you know I can speak on behalf of being the
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Speaker 1: interviewer now and the interview e in the last twelve years.
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Speaker 1: So I know what it's like on both sides. And
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Speaker 1: when you're asked a question and you are at the
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Speaker 1: chief elected official, the chief executive of the city of Omaha,
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Speaker 1: you should answer it.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice there was a time in that recording
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Speaker 1: that we just played that there obviously was a it
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Speaker 1: went quiet, and then Chris Baker said hello, and then
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Speaker 1: they came back on the air.
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Speaker 4: Do you want to play that again?
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Speaker 5: A law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction and occupying force,
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Speaker 5: I never under.
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Speaker 6: Hello, okay, next question.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So what apparently happened then is there were people guiding
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Speaker 1: him during that phone conversation, and that they turned the
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Speaker 1: mic off for a few seconds, and then Chris said hello,
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Speaker 1: and then he came back and said next question, because
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Speaker 1: obviously he was prompted to do that.
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Speaker 2: Allegedly, that's well speculation, but.
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Speaker 1: I said, obviously, let's say you are correct, Peyton allegedly
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Speaker 1: that you could tell the mic was turned off for
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Speaker 1: a few seconds there.
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Speaker 4: Now here's what I want to say too.
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Speaker 1: During the campaign, I was in numerous debates forums with
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Speaker 1: John Ewing, and he said over and over and over
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Speaker 1: again in public. I am not a politician. I am
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Speaker 1: a public servant. That was what he said over and
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Speaker 1: over and over and right now, our mayor is playing
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Speaker 1: politician more than anyone I've seen in a long time
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Speaker 1: doing this one hundred percent playing politics here and endorsing
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Speaker 1: candidates against the current incumbents. He endorsed Crystal Rhodes to
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Speaker 1: start out with with for the Congressional District two race.
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Speaker 1: She did not make it through the primary, and just
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Speaker 1: yesterday I believe he comes out and endorse versus Denise
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Speaker 1: Powell along with his wife, which is another thing I
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Speaker 1: don't understand why the who he insists on calling the
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Speaker 1: first lady is endorsing candidates. He endorsed Denise Powell over
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Speaker 1: brinker Harding, current City council member, vice president of the
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Speaker 1: city Council, somebody that he should be collaborating with and
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Speaker 1: working with. I don't know if Mary Ewing feels like, well,
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Speaker 1: I've got four Democrat votes and I don't need brinker
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Speaker 1: Harding's vote on the City council. But that's not how
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Speaker 1: a mayor should be. I mean, a mayor should try
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Speaker 1: to collaborate with whoever is on the city Council a
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Speaker 1: lot of times. I mean, your goal is to get
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Speaker 1: a seven zero vote on the city Council, because then
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Speaker 1: you know everybody is on the same page and everybody
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Speaker 1: is agreeing with the direction that you're going and not say, hey,
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Speaker 1: it's okay to get a four to three vote. Who
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Speaker 1: cares about the three Republicans on the city Council. I'm
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Speaker 1: just speculating on that. So he came out now and
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Speaker 1: endorse Denise Powell over Brinker Harding. He endorses we said,
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Speaker 1: Mark Martinez over Aaron Hanson. He has endorsed Mikayla Danner
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Speaker 1: excuse me again, Mikayla Danner over current Douglas County Attorney
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Speaker 1: Don Klein, who, by the way, will be in the
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Speaker 1: studio with us tomorrow. Don Klin, Douglas County Attorney, will
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Speaker 1: be in the studio. But he is endorsing Democrat candidates
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Speaker 1: over the current elected officials. Don Klin is elected. Don
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Speaker 1: Klin is the Douglas County Attorney or otherwise the DA
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Speaker 1: the district attorney who the City of Omaha and the
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Speaker 1: Mayor's office should be working with in collaboration and have
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Speaker 1: a good relationship. And he has come out and endorsed
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Speaker 1: Donklin's opponent already, So how is this saying being true
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Speaker 1: to saying I am not a politician, I am a
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Speaker 1: public servant. When you're jumping in these races as especially
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Speaker 1: endorsing people over the current incumbent, that does not play
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Speaker 1: well for increasing communication and collaboration within the mayor's office.
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Speaker 1: And I will bring this up again. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why it is so important that the mayor's wife is endorsing.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand that at all, you know. I mean again,
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Speaker 1: I was mayor twelve years. If you know, I never
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Speaker 1: had my husband stand up with me when I was introduced,
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Speaker 1: or walk on stage with me when I was asked
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Speaker 1: to speak, or used my husband with an endorsement. I
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Speaker 1: just I don't understand that, And maybe you could explain
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Speaker 1: that to us sometime. But again, he's not going to,
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Speaker 1: obviously want to be on my show. So again I
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Speaker 1: want to bring this up because I think it's important
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Speaker 1: for us to.
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Speaker 4: All keep in mind what is going on.
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Speaker 1: And if you want to increase your communication, your collaboration,
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Speaker 1: you want to focus on the positive, that is fine,
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Speaker 1: but you.
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Speaker 4: Got to tell the truth.
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Speaker 1: And you also have to address the problems and not
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Speaker 1: just say next question, next question, or maybe I plead
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Speaker 1: the fifth who knows. So that's my my little editorial
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Speaker 1: for today. But I thought I was very surprised yesterday
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Speaker 1: when I saw Denise Powell's posts that she did that
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Speaker 1: Mayor Ewing and the First Lady were endorsing her, and
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Speaker 1: that is over. Current City council member Brinker Herding loved
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Speaker 1: for you to hear what you are thinking about this
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Speaker 1: interview and about what I was saying too, because I
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Speaker 1: think it's problematic.
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Speaker 4: And if again, if.
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Speaker 1: We're the year of the neighbor, we've got a lot
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Speaker 1: more to work on, to be work together and to
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Speaker 1: collaborate with each other. I think we are getting some
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Speaker 1: messages here that we want to bring on the air. However,
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Speaker 1: someone just wrote in and said they don't like my
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Speaker 1: entry song This Girl's on Fire, and they were getting
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Speaker 1: it was painful for.
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Speaker 2: Them to listen to every day.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you that just wrote in, give me another suggestion
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Speaker 1: and be sincere about this. Don't be snarky. Give me
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Speaker 1: give me another suggestion for what a good entry song
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Speaker 1: would be. There's a there's a little story behind this
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Speaker 1: Girl's on fire, and I gotta say it because it's
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Speaker 1: It was important to me because the night I won
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Speaker 1: the first Mayor's race in twenty thirteen, we had our
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Speaker 1: victory party at the German American Society up on one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twentieth Street. But anyway, when I walked on
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Speaker 1: the stage to say woo, who I won, they played
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Speaker 1: that song and I didn't know they were playing it.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, when I was thinking about what in the
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Speaker 1: world could I use as an entry, then I thought, well,
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Speaker 1: that would be kind of fun. So y'all have any
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Speaker 1: other better ideas, you can sure let me know. I'm
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Speaker 1: open for that. So here we are back. Do we
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Speaker 1: have any questions here that.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to?
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Speaker 3: News Radio eleven ten KFAB KFAB comment Line, Jean Stouth,
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Speaker 3: the host Peyton Hilock over here on the board four
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Speaker 3: zero two five five eight eleven ten comment at kfab
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Speaker 3: t we want to hear from you, And I did
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Speaker 3: get a phone call here that I want to bring
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Speaker 3: on the show. But I got an email really quick
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Speaker 3: for you, Gene, and this one came in at comment
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Speaker 3: at kfab dot com. And this is just a little
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Speaker 3: bit more on the general consensus and is there friction
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Speaker 3: between the police chief and the mayor or the sheriff.
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Speaker 3: Another question for the former mayor, how many days is
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Speaker 3: kfab going to beat this quote occupying force horse. I
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Speaker 3: think the daily hammering of the current mayor is beneath you.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's something that people want to talk about, and
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Speaker 1: that's why we do this show. People are writing in,
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Speaker 1: they're making comments about it, they have their opinions about it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, this happened on Friday, and this is
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and so we've I brought it up two days.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of important subjects that we bring
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Speaker 1: up and talk about more than one day. And so
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Speaker 1: as long as you all are interested in talking about it,
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Speaker 1: then we will talk about it. Otherwise we have a
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Speaker 1: lot of other things we could talk about and we
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Speaker 1: will move on. So anyway, as long as people are
21:13
Speaker 1: talking about it and ask questions about it, people said, well,
21:16
Speaker 1: I haven't listened to it. I want to listen to it.
21:19
Speaker 1: People are scratching their heads about why it went the
21:21
Speaker 1: way it did.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk about it.
21:24
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
21:25
Speaker 3: Let's go to the phone lines for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven,
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Speaker 3: ten or comment at kfabe dot com for the email.
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Speaker 2: This is Christina.
21:32
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining kfabe. Christina, you are
21:35
Speaker 3: live with jeanst Author.
21:40
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning.
21:42
Speaker 10: I wanted to let you know, first of all, we
21:44
Speaker 10: appreciated you as mayor, and second of all, we voted
21:48
Speaker 10: for you repeatedly. We would just like to let you
21:52
Speaker 10: know that the mayor that we have now, I don't
21:54
Speaker 10: really appreciate how he claims that he's supposed to be
21:58
Speaker 10: a police officer, but he doesn't act as such.
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Speaker 7: And another thing is is I wish that he would.
22:04
Speaker 10: Work with all of our police department because they are
22:10
Speaker 10: all working very well and hard to do what they're
22:14
Speaker 10: supposed to be doing, so they should all work well together.
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Speaker 1: And I appreciate your comment and I agree with you.
22:20
Speaker 1: I mean, they have been down around one hundred cops
22:26
Speaker 1: since about mid twenty twenty, and I mean they are
22:29
Speaker 1: truly burning the candle at both ends and at the
22:32
Speaker 1: same time, they are still keeping our city safe. And
22:36
Speaker 1: when you talk about sometimes in the different precincts, who
22:40
Speaker 1: is out on patrol in the evening, sometimes it's one
22:43
Speaker 1: cop because that's all they have. But you know, we
22:46
Speaker 1: need to build that back up. But my point is,
22:49
Speaker 1: let's not make promises that we can't deliver on, because
22:53
Speaker 1: obviously we are not going to be full strength by.
22:56
Speaker 4: The end of the year.
22:57
Speaker 1: But they are the men and women of the Amount
22:59
Speaker 1: Police departm, the men and women of Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
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Speaker 1: They are working together and need to work together to
23:06
Speaker 1: keep our city safe. And that's what they're doing now.
23:09
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's I think of what the last
23:12
Speaker 1: information I got is there's only excuse me, about five
23:15
Speaker 1: to seven potential retirees by the end of the year,
23:19
Speaker 1: maybe a few more. But that's what you always have
23:21
Speaker 1: to keep in mind too. You know, you got a
23:23
Speaker 1: twenty two week class, you got people that are retiring,
23:26
Speaker 1: then they go out on fifteen weeks of field training.
23:29
Speaker 1: This is a long time before those that are in
23:32
Speaker 1: the class right now get out on the street and
23:35
Speaker 1: help build that force back up. The reason that the
23:39
Speaker 1: city very frequently will say and they said it about
23:43
Speaker 1: when we ask how many officers we are down now,
23:47
Speaker 1: and they said, you know, it is about sixty one
23:50
Speaker 1: officers right now, because they are counting the thirty five
23:55
Speaker 1: in the class. And if you say, well, they shouldn't
23:57
Speaker 1: be counting that thirty five in the class because they're
23:59
Speaker 1: not on the street. They look at it mainly as
24:02
Speaker 1: a budgetary issue, so they will say that we are
24:05
Speaker 1: budgeted for nine hundred and six officers, and right now
24:09
Speaker 1: we have eight hundred and forty five on the payroll
24:12
Speaker 1: because those that are in the academy are being paid,
24:15
Speaker 1: and so that means on the payroll we're down sixty one.
24:19
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that out on the street we are
24:21
Speaker 1: just down sixty one. So I hope I've made that clear, because,
24:25
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't want those officers that are
24:28
Speaker 1: out there busting their butts to be thinking I'm here saying, oh,
24:31
Speaker 1: we're only down sixty Sixty is a lot. One hundred
24:34
Speaker 1: is a whole lot. And they've been dealing with this
24:37
Speaker 1: for quite a few years now.
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Speaker 3: Well, Geene, something we talked about yesterday too, And on
24:42
Speaker 3: a technicality, the officers in training that are in the academy,
24:46
Speaker 3: they're on the payroll, they're being paid by the city exactly.
24:50
Speaker 3: I just don't completely agree with them counting that towards
24:53
Speaker 3: the total officer count because they're not the ones in
24:55
Speaker 3: the field or in the office. Yet contributing, but I
24:58
Speaker 3: can also understand why they use that sixty one.
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Speaker 1: It's true, but they are hired as officers and they're
25:04
Speaker 1: on the payroll and they're being paid, they're receiving benefits,
25:07
Speaker 1: and so that's why they do it.
25:09
Speaker 2: Amazing.
25:09
Speaker 3: I did get an email here from Bob, and this
25:11
Speaker 3: is a bit of an email, so just bear with
25:14
Speaker 3: me here.
25:14
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
25:15
Speaker 3: This is in regards to the Baker Ewing interview. Chris
25:20
Speaker 3: Baker egotistical agitator. I love a show. John Ewing big ego.
25:26
Speaker 3: I don't think he's very bright. Jean stautht Oh big
25:30
Speaker 3: ego who seems to miss being in the limelight. I
25:33
Speaker 3: enjoyed the show for the most part. OPD Chief of Police,
25:37
Speaker 3: big ego comes across as being quite smug, but I
25:40
Speaker 3: respect him. Aaron Hanson big ego, who seems to be
25:44
Speaker 3: very self promoting. But I think he's doing a great
25:47
Speaker 3: job and we'll still vote for him.
25:50
Speaker 2: End of email.
25:51
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we all have big egos, I guess, but
25:53
Speaker 1: I can only answer for myself, and that is no,
25:57
Speaker 1: I do not miss being in the limelight. People have
26:01
Speaker 1: said before, you just want to still be mayor and
26:03
Speaker 1: I will tell you with one hundred and ten percent certainty, no,
26:07
Speaker 1: I don't. I was mayor for twelve years. I loved it.
26:10
Speaker 1: I love what I'm doing now. It's fun doing a
26:12
Speaker 1: radio show. It's fun being able to travel and see
26:15
Speaker 1: my grandkids and do what I want to do. I've
26:18
Speaker 1: mentioned this before. I had an elected position for the
26:20
Speaker 1: last twenty seven years. I am as happy as I
26:23
Speaker 1: can be where I'm at right now. And no, I
26:25
Speaker 1: don't miss the limelight at all. I don't miss walking
26:28
Speaker 1: into high ve and having somebody go I have a
26:31
Speaker 1: pothole in front of my house, or my trash wasn't
26:33
Speaker 1: picked up.
26:34
Speaker 4: You know I mean.
26:35
Speaker 1: And that's the great thing about being mayor is you
26:38
Speaker 1: could deal with people on their daily issues and problems
26:41
Speaker 1: and you try to make their life better for that day.
26:44
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's hard to have a
26:47
Speaker 1: private life and love. I love what I'm doing now,
26:50
Speaker 1: and you all know me. My age is really out there.
26:53
Speaker 1: There's no way to hide it. And I'm not a
26:56
Speaker 1: young gal anymore, that's for sure, and so hopefully I
27:00
Speaker 1: don't look as old as I am, but maybe I do.
27:02
Speaker 1: I don't know, But no, I don't miss the limelight
27:05
Speaker 1: at all. I love what I'm doing right now. But
27:08
Speaker 1: the whole ego thing, hmmm, I'm not sure. I mean,
27:12
Speaker 1: that's your opinion, okay, But you know I've worked with
27:14
Speaker 1: Todd Schmater, I work with Aaron Hanson. You know, I've
27:17
Speaker 1: worked with a lot of these folks, and you know,
27:20
Speaker 1: I don't think. To me, it's not an ego. It's
27:23
Speaker 1: more of a I have I have a job. I
27:27
Speaker 1: have a really important job, and I've got to do
27:29
Speaker 1: my job well and I've got to be strong.
27:33
Speaker 3: Geene, any thoughts on slipping your way into a political
27:36
Speaker 3: race as an independent.
27:37
Speaker 1: No, I mean I will tell you all that absolutely,
27:41
Speaker 1: with one hundred percent certainty. I don't want to run
27:44
Speaker 1: for and I won't run for anything again. Like I said,
27:46
Speaker 1: I felt like I've done my civic duty and I've
27:50
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I loved being on the school board. I
27:53
Speaker 1: love being on the city council. I mean, I've loved everything.
27:55
Speaker 1: I've loved being a nurse. I really love being a
27:58
Speaker 1: critical care nurse. But I'm not going to do any
28:00
Speaker 1: of that anymore. You know, I don't want to run
28:03
Speaker 1: for another political office. That's just not going to happen
28:05
Speaker 1: with me. So I'm i've boy, I mean the I've ran.
28:10
Speaker 1: I've been in nine different campaigns and if you think about,
28:13
Speaker 1: you know, the primary that's on the ballot eighteen times,
28:17
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's a lot. And so right now
28:20
Speaker 1: I would really like to help other candidates get elected
28:24
Speaker 1: and try to also get the word out with this
28:27
Speaker 1: radio station about these candidates so that people want to
28:31
Speaker 1: go out and vote and people are informed. That's really
28:35
Speaker 1: what I want to do.
28:35
Speaker 3: Now four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten or
28:38
Speaker 3: comment at kfab dot com. Greg is on the phone lines. Greg,
28:42
Speaker 3: you are alive with Jeans st Author here on kfab.
28:45
Speaker 11: Good morning, Yeah, thank you.
28:47
Speaker 6: Hey.
28:47
Speaker 9: I think it's a pretty serious issue when the mayor
28:50
Speaker 9: endorses Denise Powell, who at best is a socialist and
28:55
Speaker 9: probably a Marxist at hard And wasn't it Lennon that
28:58
Speaker 9: said the goal of social communism?
29:01
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm pretty that you're absolutely right.
29:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's a serious issue. We're going to turn
29:10
Speaker 9: on Maha into Seattle before you know it.
29:13
Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
29:14
Speaker 1: You are, thanks for Colin, and you know, the thing
29:17
Speaker 1: of it is, and we've talked about this before is
29:20
Speaker 1: there are a lot of self proclaimed socialists that are
29:24
Speaker 1: running in these elections now, and they are getting elected,
29:28
Speaker 1: and in many states they are defeating some already elected
29:34
Speaker 1: incumbent Democrats who are doing a relatively good job, and
29:38
Speaker 1: they're defeating them.
29:40
Speaker 4: And I could tell you time.
29:43
Speaker 1: After time after time when socialism does not work, it's
29:48
Speaker 1: government controlling managing everything. I can't think of one time
29:54
Speaker 1: where it worked. And if any of these socialists that
29:57
Speaker 1: are running wanting government to control everything from healthcare to
30:03
Speaker 1: grocery stores, tell us how this is really going to work,
30:07
Speaker 1: This dependence on government. You know, they hate capitalism, They
30:13
Speaker 1: hate it when somebody is successful. They want government to
30:17
Speaker 1: pay for everything. This is really a concern and I
30:20
Speaker 1: think we really, really, and hopefully that's one thing I
30:23
Speaker 1: could do, is bring out who these candidates are and
30:26
Speaker 1: we've got to know what they are going to do
30:29
Speaker 1: if they get elected.
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Speaker 3: Gene, you made a comment yesterday about capitalism versus socialism.
30:35
Speaker 3: Have we ever seen somewhere that socialism has worked, been effective?
30:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was just referring to.
30:41
Speaker 2: I got an email yesterday that said.
30:45
Speaker 3: You mentioned we actually have a capitalism versus socialism side
30:49
Speaker 3: by side experiment. This was an email comment at kfab
30:52
Speaker 3: dot com. We've seen an experiment on a very large scale.
30:55
Speaker 3: From nineteen forty five to nineteen eighty nine, West Berlin
31:00
Speaker 3: versus East Berlin, West Germany versus East Germany.
31:04
Speaker 2: Socialism lost big.
31:06
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.
31:08
Speaker 1: And many of these candidates are not socialists. They are
31:13
Speaker 1: true communists, and that is that is who is running
31:16
Speaker 1: in elections in this country. That is my big worry
31:19
Speaker 1: right now.
31:20
Speaker 3: This is news radio eleven to ten KFAB. Let's go
31:23
Speaker 3: to the phone lines for Dave. Dave, you are alive
31:25
Speaker 3: with Jane Stoutht here on KFAB.
31:29
Speaker 11: Good morning this day.
31:30
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call. I was driving.
31:33
Speaker 8: Around in my car and I had a pull over and.
31:38
Speaker 11: I just wanted to talk about a few issues because
31:41
Speaker 11: I was interested about marry you and not answering questions
31:46
Speaker 11: and then being fed questions ahead of time.
31:49
Speaker 8: I'm glad you replay that.
31:51
Speaker 12: So all your listeners could also hear that. You know,
31:54
Speaker 12: initially that interview started about climate change and bringing young
31:59
Speaker 12: people into the political world and getting them more involved,
32:04
Speaker 12: which is great, but uh, the interview is certain quickly
32:08
Speaker 12: changed to something else and talked about traffic deaths between
32:12
Speaker 12: Lincoln and Omaha and data through twenty twenty four.
32:17
Speaker 8: Now, how did the former mayor address that?
32:22
Speaker 4: Address the traffic deaths?
32:24
Speaker 7: Is that?
32:25
Speaker 4: Is that what you're asking?
32:27
Speaker 12: Yeah, because I think you were you were the mayor.
32:30
Speaker 8: At the time.
32:32
Speaker 1: Well, I mean there, I'm not sure how you what
32:36
Speaker 1: you're looking for here. But the thing of it is
32:39
Speaker 1: is what what marror youing? His response was is more, well,
32:42
Speaker 1: we're one hundred cops down and what But my response
32:46
Speaker 1: to that was is that that that's not an excuse
32:50
Speaker 1: because we can't we couldn't just say well crime is
32:53
Speaker 1: going up greatly in Omaha, but we're one hundred cops down,
32:56
Speaker 1: you know, and crime is not going down. What the
32:59
Speaker 1: mayor's job is to work with with let me finish
33:02
Speaker 1: the work with the police department if we are one
33:05
Speaker 1: hundred down, and to work with them to work smarter
33:09
Speaker 1: and to have uh more efficiently with what we have.
33:14
Speaker 1: And the Omah Police Department has been very successful in
33:17
Speaker 1: doing that. For example, a lot of you know, like
33:20
Speaker 1: fender benders, now you can just call them in and
33:23
Speaker 1: they will they have a whole basically like a phone
33:25
Speaker 1: unit that they will handle a lot of calls like
33:27
Speaker 1: that without having to have a cruiser go out on
33:29
Speaker 1: the street. So these are things that you can work
33:32
Speaker 1: with with the with the current administration, with the police department.
33:39
Speaker 1: You know, we have that Vision zero plan that we
33:42
Speaker 1: initiated in the city of Ala.
33:45
Speaker 6: Right.
33:46
Speaker 8: Let me let me respond to that, because I see
33:48
Speaker 8: that you you did start that in yese twenty but
33:52
Speaker 8: nothing really nothing popped up in my neighborhood because I
33:55
Speaker 8: live let's say east of forty second Street. Nothing hopped
34:00
Speaker 8: up until the last year. Well, so I don't know
34:03
Speaker 8: if there was money. Addressing that there were a money
34:06
Speaker 8: issue or not.
34:07
Speaker 4: No, there has been.
34:08
Speaker 9: The thing is.
34:09
Speaker 8: That you know, addressing the sheriff issue is concerned me
34:13
Speaker 8: because I also see that you know, the sheriff offered you,
34:19
Speaker 8: but again the former mayor bodies to work on the street,
34:23
Speaker 8: and you declined no.
34:26
Speaker 4: That is not correct.
34:28
Speaker 1: He the the what the former sheriff did is they
34:32
Speaker 1: were they were really really engaged in our homeless situation
34:37
Speaker 1: at that time. I did not decline the sheriff's help
34:40
Speaker 1: at all. That would not be me that you know,
34:43
Speaker 1: that would be the sheriff in the Douglas County Sheriff's
34:45
Speaker 1: Department working with the Omaha Police Department and letting the
34:49
Speaker 1: police chief make those decisions. I did not turn down
34:54
Speaker 1: the Douglas County Sheriff for working with us with the homeless.
34:56
Speaker 1: I tried to work with them. I hired a Homeless
34:59
Speaker 1: Service Corp NAT, Tamera Dwyer. She was more than willing
35:04
Speaker 1: to work with the Douglas County Sheriff. Now Aaron Hanson,
35:07
Speaker 1: he had different ideas that he wanted to do as
35:11
Speaker 1: far as the homeless. He was out on the street
35:14
Speaker 1: all the time. He was meeting with the encampments. But
35:18
Speaker 1: my position was let's all work together. That's why I
35:22
Speaker 1: have a homeless service coordinator, have her work with the
35:25
Speaker 1: Sheriff's department, which she did. You know, they had a
35:27
Speaker 1: task force that they developed that she was on. Oma
35:30
Speaker 1: Police was on and the Sheriff's Department was on. They
35:34
Speaker 1: were working together. But the homeless issue is one that's
35:37
Speaker 1: not going to be solved overnight either. But Aaron Hanson
35:40
Speaker 1: had a lot of ideas and they were working together
35:43
Speaker 1: and sharing those ideas. Will we ever obliterate the homeless situation?
35:48
Speaker 8: No?
35:48
Speaker 1: I mean I lived in Seattle in the late seventies
35:51
Speaker 1: and they still have homeless. But let me go back
35:53
Speaker 1: to the Vision zero if I could.
35:56
Speaker 8: Before I get cut off, though, can I just have
35:58
Speaker 8: two more things real quick? I know there's I know,
36:01
Speaker 8: you know, the mayor's trying to run the city and
36:05
Speaker 8: you're trying to build your audience, which.
36:06
Speaker 7: Is great because you caught it many times your show.
36:10
Speaker 8: And do you believe in term limits?
36:14
Speaker 1: You know, I think the term limits should be determined
36:18
Speaker 1: at the ballot box, and I that's that's how I feel.
36:24
Speaker 4: Now.
36:24
Speaker 1: There is no as you know the City of Omaha.
36:27
Speaker 1: There we are guided by our city charter, which is
36:29
Speaker 1: like our constitution. There is no term limits for the mayor.
36:33
Speaker 1: There is no term limits for the city council within
36:35
Speaker 1: the City of Omaha. It could change. You could do
36:38
Speaker 1: a charter amendment and change that. Maybe that's a good
36:42
Speaker 1: idea because that voter fatigue is really out there. But
36:45
Speaker 1: why is there not voter fatigue and term limits in Congress?
36:49
Speaker 1: I mean, some of these congressmen and senators are one
36:52
Speaker 1: hundred and ten years old and they still keep on
36:55
Speaker 1: getting elected again.
36:57
Speaker 7: But that the only other thing is that you know
37:02
Speaker 7: where I live. Mayor Ewing and his wife came to
37:05
Speaker 7: my house on a Saturday when it was raining.
37:07
Speaker 8: And then knocked on my door for my vote.
37:09
Speaker 7: And I had voted for Tea. Just like you said,
37:12
Speaker 7: I've never seen you in my neighborhood and because most
37:16
Speaker 7: of your pistitious are probably a way out west, but
37:20
Speaker 7: you came to my house in the rain with.
37:22
Speaker 8: His wife asked my vote, and that's where I'm at.
37:25
Speaker 6: Well, good, I appreciate you.
37:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, and good for him because I did that.
37:29
Speaker 1: Also, I knocked on doors for all four of my
37:34
Speaker 1: mayoral races. The first race, they estimated that I alone
37:38
Speaker 1: knocked on over twenty thousand doors. I announced I was
37:42
Speaker 1: running for mayor the first time in April, I started
37:45
Speaker 1: knocking on doors and I knocked on doors till the
37:48
Speaker 1: next may So if I didn't knock on your individual door,
37:52
Speaker 1: that could happen. But I did knock on a lot
37:55
Speaker 1: of doors. And going back to Vision Zero, which I started,
37:59
Speaker 1: that was a group that we got together of engineers,
38:03
Speaker 1: of experts of all law enforcement to say our goal
38:07
Speaker 1: in Omaha has to be that there are zero traffic deaths. Now,
38:11
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lofty goal, but how could you
38:15
Speaker 1: say our goal is to have ten traffic deaths this year.
38:18
Speaker 4: It had to be a lofty goal.
38:20
Speaker 1: And with that, they came out with a lot of
38:22
Speaker 1: recommendations that we have incorporated into what we do in
38:27
Speaker 1: the City of Omaha, even with construction of new roads.
38:31
Speaker 1: Some of the things that they have suggested. For instance,
38:34
Speaker 1: one of the things that has came out of Vision
38:36
Speaker 1: zero is that hated thing roundabouts. Chris Baker hates roundabouts.
38:41
Speaker 1: But when we use roundabouts, they work, and they work
38:45
Speaker 1: all over the country because the two main reasons we
38:49
Speaker 1: have accidents are red light running and speeding, and the
38:52
Speaker 1: roundabout takes care of both of those. So that came
38:56
Speaker 1: out of Vision zero and we are incorporating more and
38:59
Speaker 1: more roundabouts within the City of Omaha because of that,
39:03
Speaker 1: and it is reducing traffic incidences. Also, if there is
39:08
Speaker 1: an intersection that's a high crash intersection, the City of
39:12
Speaker 1: Omaha will go out and study it and they will
39:15
Speaker 1: study if they need to change the signaling, etc. Another
39:18
Speaker 1: thing we have done is we have modernized our whole
39:20
Speaker 1: traffic signal system in the City of Omaha so that
39:24
Speaker 1: that the signals talk to each other. So when you
39:27
Speaker 1: say in your neighborhood you haven't seen anything that's unfortunate.
39:31
Speaker 1: But in individual neighborhoods like your street you live on,
39:35
Speaker 1: perhaps there hasn't been anything done, but there's a lot
39:38
Speaker 1: of change in what our policies are and those changes
39:42
Speaker 1: have made a difference. Speeding is something that we have
39:46
Speaker 1: laws against speeding. There are speed limits. People know what
39:49
Speaker 1: the laws are and they still violated. Another thing we
39:53
Speaker 1: did though, is about the street racing. That is another
39:55
Speaker 1: thing Douglas County Sheriff and Aaron Hanson and the chief
39:59
Speaker 1: in Omaha have worked together on and now we have
40:03
Speaker 1: more policies against the street raising, making it a crime
40:07
Speaker 1: for you not only to do it, but for you
40:09
Speaker 1: to be a spectator. So these are things, yes, we
40:12
Speaker 1: have done in the city of Omaha has done. So
40:14
Speaker 1: appreciate your call and I you know that that's what
40:18
Speaker 1: we want with this show. We want people to call
40:20
Speaker 1: in and give their opinion, and that is fine, but
40:22
Speaker 1: you got to understand that for every time you say
40:26
Speaker 1: that say mayor Ewing knocked on your door, or every
40:29
Speaker 1: time I say I knocked on Peyton's door, there's going
40:33
Speaker 1: to be one hundred more people say, well, you didn't
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Speaker 1: knock on my door, because you cannot, as a candidate
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Speaker 1: knock on every single door in the City of Omaha.
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Speaker 1: Is our city's property taxes. There was a great Midlands
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Speaker 1: Voice by Ian Swanson about a week or so ago
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to get into because the budget, the
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Speaker 1: City of Omaha's budget is out there. Mayor Ewing gave
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Speaker 1: the budget presentation to the council and about a week ago.
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Speaker 4: The process is when the mayor.
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Speaker 1: Gives the budget to the council, it is balanced to
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Speaker 1: the penny. The council has it for about five weeks.
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Speaker 1: They can amend it if they get, you know, at
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Speaker 1: least four out of seven votes, but it has to
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Speaker 1: be balanced to the penny. So if they come back
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Speaker 1: and they try to make some big changes in any
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Speaker 1: one department, it still has to be balanced.
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Speaker 4: That is the process.
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Speaker 1: And there is no property tax levy reduction presented in
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven budget, and I know that that
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Speaker 1: has a lot of council members concerned because the revenues
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Speaker 1: are way up. So we're going to get into that tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: We do have a great guest tomorrow, Don Klin. He's
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Speaker 1: also running for reelection of the Douglas County attorney. He
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Speaker 1: will be on the show in the studio, and then
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Speaker 1: Don Bacon, Congressman Don Bacon will be on the show
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Speaker 1: on Friday morning, and so we will have a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about with Congressman Bacon two on Friday morning.
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Speaker 1: So and then we have our Attorney General, my Kilders
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Speaker 1: is going to come on in about a week and
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Speaker 1: a half and we're going to talk about his campaign
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Speaker 1: and his role and I think they'll all be interesting
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Speaker 1: for you to hear what these folks have to say
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Speaker 1: about what they do and what their job is and
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Speaker 1: why it is so important for all of us. So
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Speaker 1: that's it for us today. Boy, time flies when we're
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Speaker 1: having fun, doesn't it. But thank you for spending this
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Speaker 1: hour with us today. 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 kfab