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Concert Crowds & Campaign Trails · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 2: This weather, Scott is nuts. Yeah, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: eighty five today, you bet. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be fifty tomorrow, probably ten below on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: And the snow. We get eighty five tomorrow than a
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  Speaker 3: windy seventy seven tomorrow. I think that that might be
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  Speaker 3: one of those days where it starts getting much colder
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  Speaker 3: as we get later in the afternoon because it switches
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  Speaker 3: around to a north wind. We get a load tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 3: near freezing before Friday morning, and then a high on
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  Speaker 3: Friday of only about fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's your weather report, but I'm smelling a tea
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  Speaker 2: time today.
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  Speaker 3: Golf never heard of it? Is it fun? People play it?
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  Speaker 3: They enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Kevin o'rourk, my husband is playing today, and I
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  Speaker 2: bet you Scott Vorhees just might be out there playing today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I am wearing a ridiculous pair of pants. I
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  Speaker 3: might as well give it a shot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pink with flowers on them.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it's more of a salmon fuchia. Here we go,
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  Speaker 3: it's not pink. There we go.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have a security a Noaha police officer.
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  Speaker 2: I'll name him Pete Norland. Pete is known for pink pants,
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  Speaker 2: red pants, greens. I always used to laugh at what
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  Speaker 2: he had on, but he was all put together all
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  Speaker 2: the time. But you know, we were talking a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You were talking a little bit before about Amy Milton.
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  Speaker 2: You know there might be a vacancy with the Omaha
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  Speaker 2: City Council. I'm excited for Amy. This is Judge Vaughan's
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  Speaker 2: position in district Court. He was appointed to the Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court just just several months ago, and so she
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  Speaker 2: has applied and she is what we would call the
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  Speaker 2: in the final four because there was a lot more applicants.
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  Speaker 2: And so the next is with the governor. He will
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  Speaker 2: do interviews with them, and then it could be as
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  Speaker 2: suit as next week even I mean, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he has anything scheduled yet, but it certainly could be.
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  Speaker 2: But I just wanted to remind people we changed the
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  Speaker 2: city charter about a year ago and the process now
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  Speaker 2: for that if she resigns, and it would be the
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  Speaker 2: same for Brinker Harding if he wins the congressional race
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  Speaker 2: or Amy gets appointed to this judge ship is what
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  Speaker 2: the charter says. They change it several years ago for
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  Speaker 2: council members to mirror what it has said for a
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  Speaker 2: long time for the mayor, and that is if you
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  Speaker 2: have more than two years on your term, then it
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  Speaker 2: goes to a special election. If you have less than
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  Speaker 2: two years on your term than the city Council appoints.
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  Speaker 2: So both Amy and Brinker would have more than two
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  Speaker 2: years because the election just happened a year ago, so
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  Speaker 2: it would be a special election. So have to wait
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  Speaker 2: and see if she gets appointed or not. I loved
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  Speaker 2: working with Amy on the City Council. She is she's tenacious,
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  Speaker 2: she's smart, and she's got a great backstory too. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: does you know, and I'm sure she wouldn't mind me
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  Speaker 2: talking about it on the radio. But she was working
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  Speaker 2: at Eddie Bauer, and she was married, she was having
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  Speaker 2: her first child. Her marriage kind of fell apart and
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  Speaker 2: she moved back with her parents, and she really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make something of herself, and she worked her away
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  Speaker 2: with a young child through law school, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is so admirable, and was working in evenings to fill
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  Speaker 2: in and make some extra cash and money so that
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  Speaker 2: she could get by. So she's got a great backstory too.
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  Speaker 2: She's worked really really hard to get where she is
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  Speaker 2: and she's fine. She's kind of like yours truly here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she digs in and she fights about for
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  Speaker 2: things that she feels like is right. And I really
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  Speaker 2: liked working with her. So good luck. I know the
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  Speaker 2: governor will pick the right person. But we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: will happen, and then people will have to watch and
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  Speaker 2: see if she resigns. Our Brinker too. If he resigns,
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  Speaker 2: if he is elected, then there would be a special election.
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  Speaker 3: Can I jump in with a question on this? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly?
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  Speaker 3: Because you got seven members in the city Council, You've
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  Speaker 3: got three people who are much more of the conservative
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  Speaker 3: ilk Amy Melton being one of them. They're in the minority.
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  Speaker 3: Danny Bagley is that swing vote? Absolutely so? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if she is on the city Council and looking maybe
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  Speaker 3: to take a position on the bench and have to
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  Speaker 3: leave the city council, is it because things right now
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  Speaker 3: with the city Council are such that she doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I think this is you know,
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  Speaker 2: her passion is her law degree is being a lawyer,
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  Speaker 2: and she obviously doesn't get to practice well, she does
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  Speaker 2: practice law. She has a private practice, but the City
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  Speaker 2: Council takes up, honestly, a lot of time, and I
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  Speaker 2: think being an attorney and working full time as an
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  Speaker 2: attorney is what her passion really is. And these judge
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  Speaker 2: ships don't come up that often. They really don't. And
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  Speaker 2: although Amy is much younger than me, I'm sure she
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  Speaker 2: would enjoy me saying that there comes a time in
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  Speaker 2: a lawyer's career that to kind of age out on
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  Speaker 2: hoping that they might get appointed to a judge ship,
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  Speaker 2: because once the governor appoints someone to a judge ship,
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  Speaker 2: they want them on there for the long haul. And
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  Speaker 2: so not that she's old, because she's not, but this
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  Speaker 2: is just the right time for her too, I think
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  Speaker 2: to apply. I don't think it has anything to do
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  Speaker 2: with any controversy on the city Council because the whole
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  Speaker 2: time I was mayor for twelve years, it was four Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: three Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: What about when you were on the council.
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  Speaker 2: It was four Democrats and three public and so.
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  Speaker 3: Whatman that like? It was you, Chuck Siegerson and Franklin Thompson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for the three Conservatives on the council at that time. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So you you don't have a lot of influence, But
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  Speaker 3: how many votes come up in Omaha where it's just like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, we're playing politics here, it's a four to
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  Speaker 3: three and you're just sitting there, going, why am I
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  Speaker 3: even here? Why do bother show up?
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  Speaker 2: It happens, you know, And it happened a lot, well
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  Speaker 2: not a lot, but it does happen. When I was mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know there are four to three votes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the mayor has the ability to veto a vote, and
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  Speaker 2: they have to have five to override. Because so if
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  Speaker 2: they're going to override a mayor's veto, then one of
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  Speaker 2: the three that voted, you know the other way has
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  Speaker 2: to swing over. So the mayor does that have that
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  Speaker 2: ability to do that. But the way I always looked
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  Speaker 2: at it is I thought, Okay, there's gonna be there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a dozen issues that they don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with me on that there's going to be one hundred
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  Speaker 2: more that they do. And so you really got to
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  Speaker 2: put some of those four or three votes and disagreements
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  Speaker 2: aside because there's so much you need to work together on.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to bring up one because I think
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  Speaker 2: historically this is something probably people have forgotten about. But
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  Speaker 2: when I was on the city council. Okay, So the
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  Speaker 2: four Democrats that were on the city council proposed to
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  Speaker 2: change Webster Downtown to Mike Fahee if you recall that,
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  Speaker 2: and it passed with a four to three vote. And
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  Speaker 2: so I and Chuck Seegerson and Franklin Thompson thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's think about and maybe we could get tenth
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  Speaker 2: Street in front of the Arena Convention Center named after
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  Speaker 2: hal Dab because he was so invested in that Arena
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  Speaker 2: Convention Center. Before that could be done, on a four
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  Speaker 2: to three vote, the city council changed what the policy
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  Speaker 2: is and said, you have to be deceased before you
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  Speaker 2: get a street permanently named after you, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to be deceased for ten years. So on a four
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  Speaker 2: to three vote that passed. So we were unable to
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  Speaker 2: rename tenth Street after hal dam because he is very
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  Speaker 2: much alive.
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  Speaker 3: They must have changed it back because they just named
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  Speaker 3: a portion of a street where John Ewing grew up
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  Speaker 3: after him.
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  Speaker 2: That's different. Yeah, that's that's different. That's called a commemorative street.
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  Speaker 2: So a commemorative street.
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  Speaker 3: Sign, right, this green signs the actuals right right?
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  Speaker 2: If they did a commemorative street for Mike Fahey, for example,
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  Speaker 2: it would still be called Webster and there would be
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  Speaker 2: a little plaque underneath that would say Mike Fahey. And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what happened with John Ewing Street. It's still
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  Speaker 2: if you look at street maps, it's still called whatever
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  Speaker 2: the street was. I don't even recall, but it's a commemorative.
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  Speaker 2: The city Council does commemorative street namings all the time,
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  Speaker 2: right they and people don't even really know. They say
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  Speaker 2: a little plaque under there and that's what the commemorative
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  Speaker 2: name is. But anyway, so that's an interesting four to
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  Speaker 2: three vote that went down when I was on the
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  Speaker 2: council and we're like, but you know what, that's how
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  Speaker 2: it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I ask you. And maybe the most highly annoying question
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  Speaker 3: of the week here on the kfab comment line, and
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  Speaker 3: by the way, you can get yours in as well
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  Speaker 3: comment at kfab dot com. And that is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people kind of saw Amy Melton as a potential
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  Speaker 3: candidate for mayor in the city elections, which are still
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  Speaker 3: three years away. But I'm sure there are people already
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting their team together and ready to go
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  Speaker 3: there and challenge John Ewing should he decide to run
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  Speaker 3: for reelection, And a lot of people thought perhaps Amy
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  Speaker 3: Melton would be that conservative who'd come up through city
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  Speaker 3: politics kind of like our own Gene Stouther did and
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  Speaker 3: make that challenge. But if she ends up, if she
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  Speaker 3: ends up being appointed to this position as a judge,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that she would leave that to run
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  Speaker 3: for mayor. Absolutely not. If Branker Harding's in Congress and
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  Speaker 3: she's behind a bench, what does that landscape look like
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  Speaker 3: for someone to be a conservative candidate for mayor in
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  Speaker 3: three years?
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  Speaker 2: Well for us conservatives. And I've talked to like the
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  Speaker 2: Douglas County Republican Party, the state Party, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if we want a good candidate to run
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  Speaker 2: in four years, you've got to start now, and you've
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  Speaker 2: got to start vetting people to start considering running for mayor.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big job. True, Amy would have been a
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  Speaker 2: good candidate. Amy is very, very conservative, and I think
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  Speaker 2: Amy also was able to evaluate what happened to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was the conservative Republican mayor in the
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  Speaker 2: blue dot and Omaha definitely is blue. We are not purple,
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  Speaker 2: we are blue. There's approximately twenty twenty four thousand more
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  Speaker 2: Democrat voters in Omaha now than Republican and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes harder and harder for a Republican. I said
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  Speaker 2: when I was running for mayor, I said, if I lose,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a long time before there's another
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  Speaker 2: Republican mayor in the city of Omaha. And I did,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, I got to move on. That's okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that a lot of thought needs to
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  Speaker 2: go into who will run now. Remember John Ewing already
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  Speaker 2: announced it. It was in the World Herald the other
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  Speaker 2: day that he already said, which I found a bit
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  Speaker 2: odd because he's been mayor eight months and he's already
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  Speaker 2: said he's running for a second term. What I always
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  Speaker 2: did is I waited till the third year, and I thought,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm doing a good job and my team is
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  Speaker 2: doing a good job and Omaha's moving along, I'll run again.
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  Speaker 2: But if we're not and I think somebody could do better,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be happy. You know, I was going to be
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  Speaker 2: happy to step aside. And so usually you want to
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  Speaker 2: wait until you're in that term to give people some
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  Speaker 2: idea of what you and your team is going to
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  Speaker 2: accomplish before you announced. Eight eight months into a term
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  Speaker 2: and the first time he's ever served as mayor is
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  Speaker 2: pretty early to announce you're running again.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't have a name of someone who might
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  Speaker 3: be a conservative challenger here in the city of all
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  Speaker 3: oh I do.
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  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be me, I'll tell you that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done with that, with running for any any position
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  Speaker 2: at all. But I have a couple people in mind
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  Speaker 2: that I think would be excellent candidates. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to mention their names yet because I'm working on
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  Speaker 2: him because they they have not agreed to this yet.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that there are good potential candidates. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna name one, for example,
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  Speaker 2: just because I talked to him several years ago when
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  Speaker 2: I was considering whether I was going to run for
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  Speaker 2: a meryer again, and Brett Linstram came up. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Brett Linstrom is much more of a moderate. He's young,
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  Speaker 2: he's bright, he understands government, he understands finance, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to have him on the show sometime and
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that. But I asked him about that
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  Speaker 2: several years ago, I said, is that is this something
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  Speaker 2: that you might consider running for mayor of Omaha. So
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  Speaker 2: there's just some person to think about and to ponder.
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  Speaker 2: But I've I've got a couple more that I thought
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  Speaker 2: about that I've actually even spoken to to say, is
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  Speaker 2: there any interest. Some of these people that I've talked
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  Speaker 2: to are thinking about running for a city council and
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  Speaker 2: I would say, don't sell yourself short here. Although being
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  Speaker 2: on the city council was great, they would be good
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  Speaker 2: mayoral candidates too. So yeah, we have to start thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Now Brett lives in District seven. Maybe, I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to put Amy Milton in the robes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just yeah, the governor will make that decision. But if
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  Speaker 3: it does end up working out that way, and there
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  Speaker 3: are some very talented judicial minds also up for that position,
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  Speaker 3: then they're going to need someone in a special election
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  Speaker 3: to jump in quickly in District seven. So maybe you
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  Speaker 3: call your buddy Brett on that one.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's the city council. It is an
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  Speaker 2: important position. I mean, there's only seven in the legislature,
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  Speaker 2: there's forty. You're one of forty nine in the city council.
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  Speaker 2: You're one of seven and you represent quite a few
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  Speaker 2: people and it's a very very important position. And it's
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  Speaker 2: important that the city Council and the mayor have a
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  Speaker 2: good working relationship too, because, like I said, you don't
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  Speaker 2: always agree. You know, there was one council member that
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  Speaker 2: I found so difficult to talk to, which you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: in your previous time that you were on the air
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  Speaker 2: and you mentioned a cant throwing a candle with that person.
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  Speaker 2: But so difficult to talk to. I mean, I found
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  Speaker 2: it it almost impossible to even have a conversation with.
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  Speaker 2: So those those members that are on the City Council
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  Speaker 2: are very important. Levanna Goodwin who now represents District two
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  Speaker 2: that that is newly elected, that defeated this this council
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  Speaker 2: member wanting the Johnson that we're talking about. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I like I like her, I really do. And I
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  Speaker 2: always think you got to give credit where credit is due.
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  Speaker 2: And Lavannya she was the director are the chair of
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  Speaker 2: the North twenty fourth Street bid, which is the Business
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  Speaker 2: Improvement District, and she achieved more in a short period
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  Speaker 2: of time than any other bid that we had in
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  Speaker 2: the City of Omaha. And she and it was moving
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  Speaker 2: forward at just rapid speed. She knows her area and
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  Speaker 2: she did a very good job, and I think she's
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  Speaker 2: going to do a good job on city Council. She listens, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she listens a lot, and I met with I saw
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  Speaker 2: her the other night at an event at the Holland
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  Speaker 2: the new Tenasca Center for Arts Engagement and talk to
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  Speaker 2: her a little bit there. We could have her on
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  Speaker 2: the show sometime. It be interesting listening to the kfab
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  Speaker 2: comment line. This is your host, Gene Stothard. I am
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  Speaker 2: your producer today, Scott Vorhees and emails and phone lines
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  Speaker 2: are open four O two five to five eight eleven ten.
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  Speaker 2: That's four oh two five five eight eleven ten or
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  Speaker 2: comment at kfab dot com. And we've got some people
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  Speaker 2: lined up here. But I know that you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: address a couple of other things here before we mixed
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  Speaker 2: in the comments here.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've been talking a lot about streetcar, maybe too much,
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  Speaker 2: but I will take any of your questions on the streetcar.
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  Speaker 2: I truly know a lot about what's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: I know about the history. But there is an issue
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  Speaker 2: coming up right now. It's on the front page of
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  Speaker 2: the World Herald today about the cost of the street cars,
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  Speaker 2: and I was involved when we were picking out the
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  Speaker 2: street cars. They are already ordered. We thought we had
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  Speaker 2: a really good price on them. They're being made in Spain, however,
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  Speaker 2: and the price that we got for the street cars,
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  Speaker 2: and we ordered six. Somebody asked me the other day
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  Speaker 2: on the air how many we had, how many are
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  Speaker 2: going to be running at one time? So I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to clarify that because of this article made me think
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  Speaker 2: about it in the World Herald today. We ordered six cars,
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  Speaker 2: and those six cars we expected to pay forty one
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  Speaker 2: million for those six vehicles. Now the city is dealing
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  Speaker 2: with is there going to be terriff on those a
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  Speaker 2: tariff bill? And if there is a tariff on that,
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  Speaker 2: that will add twelve and a half million dollars to
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  Speaker 2: the costs. So then the cost is up to fifty
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  Speaker 2: three and a half million dollars, So twelve and a
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  Speaker 2: half million on a tariff bill for purchasing those streetcars
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  Speaker 2: in Spain, and they are already purchased. But there's six cars.
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  Speaker 2: The plan is to be running four at a time,
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  Speaker 2: and if there is an event going on, they will
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  Speaker 2: be running five at a time. Someone also asks what
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  Speaker 2: a complete loop? How long it would take. There really
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  Speaker 2: isn't a lot of reason to do just get on
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  Speaker 2: and do a complete loop because you're end up right
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  Speaker 2: where you started. But to go from one end to
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  Speaker 2: another typically it would take about twenty minutes. If you
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  Speaker 2: do a complete loop, then twice that much. But there's
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  Speaker 2: like I said, there's really not a need to just
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  Speaker 2: sit there and go in a big circle unless you
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  Speaker 2: just want to ride the street car.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: And maybe you do. All right, you do. We've got
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a call on the street car here. You brought it up,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: so we'll start there. Joseph on eleven KFAB with Jean Stothard.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Good morning, good morning, slow simple, If in fact the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: street cars need to be manned by police, would that
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: cost be incurred by the city or would it be
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: incurred elsewhere it would come from.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: The cost would be from the project itself, not from
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: the taxpayers. So as we talked many times before, the
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: project or the street cars, and the construction of the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: street car, the rails, the whole thing, the vehicle maintenance facility,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: it will be paid for from the project and that
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: means from the tiff from all the developments that are
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: popping up around the streetcar quarter that's where the cost
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: of the street car and the construction will come from,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: not from the taxpayers and not an increase in their taxes.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: And so the other costs that we are talking about
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: and what you ask about, will come from the cost
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: or from the project itself, but not from your property
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: taxes being increased.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Joseph, thank you very much for the call. Why would
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: it cost anything more if police are patrolling, and they'd
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: be patrolling on the streets anyway, one of them could
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: hop on the street car see what's going on, why
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: would that be any additional costs.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Well, there's other things too that we're looking at doing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: You know, in Kansas City they had an issue, for example,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: of homeless people wanting to live on the streetcar so
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: they would jump on it and stay on it all day,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and they just came up, you know, within other cities.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of ideas from other cities of
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: problems that happened that that after one complete loop, everybody
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: has to go off. Kansas City has ambassadors, they're not
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: actually police officers, but they call them ambassadors that ride
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the streetcar. They also have cameras and you know, we
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: do have the ability with the Omaha police to man
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: those cameras and watch those cam and we do have
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the ability for Omaha police to be on the street
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: cars too, but you know, the Omaha police go where
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: they're needed, and you know, we have to see how
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it works in Omaha with the street car. But the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: one thing we want to really assure people that whether
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you jump on the street car at ten in the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: morning or at one in the morning after a ballgame
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: or a concert or something, you're going to be safe.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And that's what we really want to see what other
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: cities have done, what they have done to guarantee safety,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: and that's what we'll do too, you know, Scott. The
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: other day the mayor announced the Memorial Park concert with
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Smokey Robinson and Cake. I like Smokey. Smokey's getting up there,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: but I like him. Think I'll go. I think it's
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: going to be fun. But I didn't know who Cake was.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Oh you do, and so I googled Cake and I
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: got about ten bakeries and a recipe for red velvet cake.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: So I still didn't get a lot about who Cake is.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: You're all good, I know Cake is a nineties, quirky
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: kind of a fun funk alternative rock band, a little
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: bit of genre defying. They had a hit with I
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. They did their own twist
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: on it, so it's a little bit of an interesting pairing.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: But I think they'll revel the opportunity to win over
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the Smokey Robinson fans. I think a lot of people
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: who'll go, and they'll kind of be in the same
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: age lane that I am, which is grew when I
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: was a kid. Of course, Smokey Robinson's music is timeless,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: but that was on my mom's forty fives when I
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: was a kid. But he had a couple of big
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: hits on the radio in the late eighties when I
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: was growing up and listening to that. But then we
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: transition over to the modern rock sound of cake, but
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: we still appreciate Smokey Robinson. So I think there'd be
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: a lot of people. They are going to see both artists.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Something for everybody, I think, And I love that concert.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You know, it's so weather dependent. Though lucky the past
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: twelve years we've been pretty good, but I remember times
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: when people put their you know, their blankets out and everything,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and it just had a big storm and it poured
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: and it rained, but that's a fun concert. I was
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: lucky enough the past, within the past twelve years that
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I was able to meet several of the performers. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: met Sheryl Crow, Stevie van Zant. One of the nicest,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: absolutely nicest, was Chris Isaac when he was here. And
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that's the one when he called me up on stage
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and had me dance with him.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Seriously, yeah, you re enacted the Wicked Game video. No
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: one will forget that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: And how could I ever go up on stage and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: dance with Chris Isaac? But boy was he nice. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: even after the show, when I was walking to where
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the car was parked, he was still backstage. He said, hey, Mayor,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and come on over. He was just a very nice, friendly,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: good looking guy too. Yeah, he was very nice. Stevie
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: van Zant was funny too, because when I talked to
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Stevie van Zant, alls I could think about him is
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: being on the Sopranos. Had great roll he had on
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the Sopranos. And I asked him, I said, was that
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: just a ball and he said, oh, yeah, it was.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: There'll be another fun show. Kfab is honored to be
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: a part of it Sadeve Omaha celebrates America concert Friday,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: June twenty sixth.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: So much fun.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Get back here into the KFAB comment line four oh two, five, five,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: eight to eleven ten. I'm producer Scott Vorhees. Today. Your
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: host is Jean Stothard and we've got Adam on the line. Adam,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Welcome to news radio eleven ten KFAB with Jean Stouth.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning. I hope everybody is doing well today.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: So I won't take up too much of your guys's time,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: but I have a question here. So I actually am
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: with the Veterans Freedom March occurring on October twenty fourth,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: and what we are is a nationwide movement bringing together
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: awareness for you know, homeless veterans who are homeless and
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: you know how they're treated at BA facilities. So here's
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: my question. I'll kind of tee up the question here
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: is I So I'm the state coordinator for Nebraska, by
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: the way, But so my question is is what is
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: the city done and what can the city do to
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: not only about homelessness, but more specifically it'll help us
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: out with veteran homelessness.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Sure, you know, we have a lot of initiatives underway
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that have, in my opinion, has really helped the issue.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Are we going to completely eliminate homelessness. I don't think
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: we are, but I think we can greatly reduce it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: When I appointed well, I created the job description and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: appointed Tamra Dwyer as the Homeless Service Coordinator. I think
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that was a big step and the current mayor, Mayor Ewing,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: is obviously keeping her on because I wanted somebody in
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the mayor's office that responded directly to the mayor, reported
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: directly to the mayor to coordinate all of our street
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: outreach and all of those great groups we have out
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: in the community. Now, I will tell you this, her
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: actions and what she is doing has really made a
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: different And I remembered one year there was over ninety
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: different we call them families because it could be one person,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: two people, or four people, but about ninety we got
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: into shelter or got the services that they need, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I think that shows great progress. Now, I will tell
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you this, HUDD every year does what they call account
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: in time, and my team went out there and they
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: actually count how many are unsheltered and get information from
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: our shelters that are how many are in shelters, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the numbers were going down. Now, despite what you heard
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: from a lot of candidates during the mayor's race, the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: numbers are going down. And the number that went down
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the most was our veterans, which I thought was very significant.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And so I think that that really shows that there
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: was some extra attention on the veterans and the other
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: services that were available for the veterans. But there is
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I explained this the other day, there's such a difference
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to between those are homeless that are in shelter and
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: those that are choose to be unsheltered, because we want
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: all those unsheltered to be in shelters, but some choose
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: not to, and a lot of times it's because they
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: don't want to follow the rules, they have animals, or
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: they have some real mental health issues and addiction issues.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Adam, thank you very much for what you're doing. Tell
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: me again the details about the upcoming Veteran Freedom March.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: So the Veterans Freedom March, I'll pull the permit for
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: it around the state capitals, happening October twenty fourth at
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: eleven am. And I just became the state coordinator. So
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: this is a little bit evolving we are looking for,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: you know, keynote speakers. Anybody that's interested or has questions
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: can call me at for zero here.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: We don't give our phone numbers on the radio.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: You guys got a website, yes, so, Nebraska Freedom or
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: excuse me, Veterans Freedom March dot com.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Got it, Veteransfreedommarch dot com. Adam, thank you very much,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Thank you you're doing. Appreciate the call four two, five, five,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: eight eleven ten or comment at kfab dot com. I've
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: got a comment for you. This one comes from EJ. Says,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: good morning, Gene. There's a neighbor on my street that
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: is running a business out of their residential home. They've
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: got anywhere from ten to fifteen vehicles at the house
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: every day, five seven work cars and personal cars parked
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: in the street. There's a major school bus route and
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: on street parking is reduced to one lane. This is
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: an old neighborhood with no sidewalks, so of course I'm
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: concerned about what could happen here. Isn't there an ordinance
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: that limits the amount of cars for a single residence.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I've emailed my city council person for help, never received
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: a response. Tried searching online. I don't know the correct
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: legal terms to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Love the show that's from EJ.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You know what you know the I mentioned
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: the Mayor's Hotline many times, and I really paid a
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: lot of attention to to what complaints were coming into
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the hotline when I was mayor and how we were
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: addressing those problems. But I will tell you the number
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: one issue that comes into the hotline is problems with neighbors.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Neighborhood problems, whether it's a darking bar, dog, noisiness, a
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: trashy yard, vehicles parked in the yard, people parked in
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you know, there are RVs in the street, whatever, But
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: neighbor issues. Now I know. I know the current mayor,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Mayor Ewing has said his focus this year is going
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to be the year of the neighbor and just being
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: friendly to your neighbor. Well that that works only so far.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you have an issue like you're talking about,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: it's it's difficult to say we'll just go hug it
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: out with your neighbor. So I will suggest to you
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: to call the Mayor's Hotline. That's why they're there. You
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: call four four four five five five five and report
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: that because to me, it sounds like that there are
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: several numerous issues that are violent leading wood is in
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: city code that can be addressed, whether it would be
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: by an inspector from the Planning department or actually a
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: police officer. That I do believe that there are quite
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a few issues that could be addressed that are violating
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: city code. But I would I would encourage you to
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: follow or to call the mayor's hotline again. Four four
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: four five five five five. That's the hotline. Boy, do
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I know that one?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: That's one number we can give out because that's why
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: they're there. Trish emails and says we were on stage
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: with you and Chris Isaac. He'd called up my daughter
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: and then me. That's from Trish. Oh yeah, comment CA
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: dance better.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: She danced better than I did.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Comment at kfab dot com or four oh two five
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: five eight eleven ten, John, Welcome to the kfab comment line.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: You're on with Jeans to third.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning. My question is of the four eighty
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: bridge over in Missouri River. I've been coming up here
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to Omaha for a long time, and I remember when
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: it was shut down for two years and since then
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: it has not been like free from construction every year since.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And I was wondering who coordinates between Iowa and Nebraska
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the construction on that bridge. Why couldn't they have got
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: all that done when it was shut down for those
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: two years? And why does it continue to keep going on.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It just seems like it's the NonStop project of shutting
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: down lanes on the for eighty bridge going across the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Missouri River, which just causes problems daily because people don't
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: know how to drive right.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And you know it's with bridges, especially those crossing the river.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: It's like the never ending story.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I told every people many times. I grew up in Illinois.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: My first job I had after I got a nursing
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: school was in Saint Louis. So that's when I moved
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: to Saint Louis when I was an adult. The Poplar
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Street Bridge over the Mississippi has been under construction for decades.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: This is just I mean, I don't understand it myself.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: These are coordinated with the Iowa Department of Transportation and
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the Nebraska Department of Transfer in rotation. The two dots
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: are the one that coordinate work on all the bridges,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: including the ones over the river, you know, and the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: bridges are always a concern. Like I talked about before,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: bridges on four eighty. There are six bridges on four eighty.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: They all were on the list to be reconstructed. All
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: six bridges we moved and with conversations with the Nebraska
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Dot to move the Harney Street and the Farnham Street
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: up because of the streetcar reels being put in, but
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: they were already on the list to be done anyway.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And so oh and they're speaking of this. I'm getting
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: off track here, but there is some rumors out there
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: that four eighty is going to be closed down during
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the College World Series. That is not true. That is
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: not true.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: There weren't rumors. That's what was reported.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: It is not true.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: They're not closing down the whole thing, but they'll be
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: squeezed down to only a few lanes.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Well, no, not that I am aware of. But I
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: did call to find out if that rumor, if any
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: part of it was true, and they said, oh, good heavens, no,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: not during the College World Series. So we'll see. We
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: could maybe get some more information. But it is the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: two Department of Transportations with the state because they are
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the ones that take care of our interstates and our bridges.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: John, thank you very much for the call. Four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Got emails here from Randy says we shouldn't ever vote
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: for you for any office because you're not a conservative anymore.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Michael emails and says it'll be a great day when
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Jean Stothard comes back to Omaha politics and runs for something.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And then we've got Ollie who says, would you consider
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: running for streetcar conductors? So we're getting no, no, a
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: little bit of everything, he says, Toot. Those are all
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: In comment to kfab dot com, here's a question, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: it has to do with the street car. Jim says,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: just curious why we bought the street cars from Spain
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: when there are companies in the US say that make them.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: There are very few companies in the USA that makes them.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: But we got the best price on the company in Spain,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and that's where Kansas City bought theirs, So we were
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: able to look at those cars, see what they look like,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: and we got the best price with that. So yes,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: we did look at the American companies, but that one
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: was the best price and that's why we wanted to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: take that. I do have to mention Scott didn't let
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: me respond to those three calls, but to two. No,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to be the streetcar conductor. I'm sure
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: that was a little tongue in cheek comment right there.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I am not going to run for any political office anymore.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I've been in an elected position for twenty seven years.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I loved it. I've said this before. I love school board,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I love city council, I love being mayor. But I
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: think my time is done as far as running for
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: an elected position. Plus I'm on kfab right now too,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: which is pretty good.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Bet.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I do want to comment about one comment that Scott
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: just read saying I'm no longer conservative, and I would
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: say that is absolutely wrong. In fact, one of the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: reasons why I didn't win a fourth term is because
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: of my conservative position that I have in the blue dot,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: which is what Omaha is right now. And I have
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: always said that I would be the mayor for everybody,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: whether you are a Democrat, Republican, what the color of
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: your skin was, whether what your gender was, and I
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: meant it that I'll be the mayor for everyone. But
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I also said I am not going to change who
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I am and my conservative points of view and my
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: conservative feelings for anyone or to be elected. I'm a conservative,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I'm a Republican. People know that and that's who I am.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: So I want to make that very very clear.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Well, you know how it works. If you agree with
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: someone nine out of ten times, but that tenth one, yes,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: you're just slightly off. You are a rhino and should
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: should never be heard from. Yes, we make enemies out
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: of friends all the time, and I hate that term.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Let's get to this call from Dave Hanging on for
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: a while here. Dave, you're on the KFAB comment line
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: with your host Jean Stothard.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: I live in Millard in a circle type area and
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: a tree truck that came to trim trees had a
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: big hydraulically and left that huge dark stain out in
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: the circle at the end of my drive on. Oh,
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: I mean we're talking, you know, twenty foot long, five
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  Speaker 7: foot wide. It's an ugly stain. Would the city come
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  Speaker 7: out and remove something like that, powerwash it if you
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  Speaker 7: call them, or how would you address that?
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  Speaker 2: H the tree company? Is that somebody that you had
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  Speaker 2: doing work for you or was it just were they
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  Speaker 2: doing it in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it was doing some work for me and some
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  Speaker 7: of the neighbor Yes, right, you know, that's.
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  Speaker 2: A question I've not been asked. The city typically does
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  Speaker 2: not come by and powerwash in neighborhoods. They do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they have street sweepers and and that they bring out
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  Speaker 2: in the in the springtime, but usually those are on
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  Speaker 2: the mains and secondaries. But I know I'm saying this
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but with that issue, it's it's hard for
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  Speaker 2: me to answer what the city really has the capability
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  Speaker 2: of doing. But I would encourage you again to call
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  Speaker 2: the Mayor's hotline because that's why they're there, and they
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  Speaker 2: will take your your concern and they will they will
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  Speaker 2: send it to the appropriate department and that would be
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  Speaker 2: Public Works. So that's that's what I would suggest you do.
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  Speaker 2: And again it's four four four five five five. I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting a lot of calls going to come into the hotline.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there are lots of cleaning products you can get
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  Speaker 3: at the store that clean concrete as well. Every once
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  Speaker 3: in a while, you know you're one of your kids, right, Well,
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  Speaker 3: friends will come over and park in your driveway and
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: there'll be a little oil drip there, drive every parent crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But they got some concrete cleaner. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: big this stain is there that day's dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: If just a garden hose, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: good to go out there and really scrub it down.
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  Speaker 2: If that would work too, And maybe there's a maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of dirt and debris in that stain
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  Speaker 2: too that will wash away. Maybe we need a good rain,
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  Speaker 2: we need to We need it to rain a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that had wash it.
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  Speaker 3: Away for several reasons. Let's go back to the phones here, Michael,
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  Speaker 3: you're on the KFAB comment line with Jean Stothart.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Jean, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: I still live in Omaha, and one of my visits
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  Speaker 6: back I attended Jerald R. Ford Memorial, and I just
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  Speaker 6: pointing the upkeep of the area, who's responsor for that
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  Speaker 6: the city?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we had a caller about that the
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  Speaker 2: other day too, and I totally agree with you. I
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  Speaker 2: know what it looks like. Several years ago I went
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  Speaker 2: by there, and you know, they had an American flag
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  Speaker 2: hanging out front that was ripped into and I think
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  Speaker 2: that that keeping that up that especially since the memorial
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  Speaker 2: excuse me for the president, that that is something that
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: deserves a lot more attention. But that is exactly why
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  Speaker 2: I ask our Parks Department to do a new parks
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  Speaker 2: master Plan and really prioritize which of our two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty six parks that we have in Omaha should
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  Speaker 2: be address the issues in those parks first, to prioritize it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Mary Ewing is going forward with that plan.
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  Speaker 2: We already had in place. We had a consultant that
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  Speaker 2: we hired. I was interviewed by the consultant about a
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  Speaker 2: year or so ago. But I agree with you, and
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  Speaker 2: that is definitely an area that they let run down
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  Speaker 2: and didn't prioritize, and they absolutely need to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure that that will be on their list
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  Speaker 2: of what is what will be a priority in the
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  Speaker 2: coming year.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you very much for the call. Michael. Appreciate
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: that you can also send us a message with your
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: own voice via the talkback Mike. You don't want to
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: wait on hold, you can send us a message via
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: our free iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 8: Blessings, Jane, Thank you Ken from Lincoln. I just wanted
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: to call and thank you for the very kind words
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  Speaker 8: you gave about Levanna Goodwin Levanna Wats and her maiden name.
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  Speaker 2: She's my little sister. Oh well, I like her a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice to hear good.
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  Speaker 8: Comments about my sister in politics.
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  Speaker 2: She does a good job and I appreciate what she
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate her passion.
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  Speaker 3: And you worked with Frank Brown. He was on the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: city council when you were on there. He wasn't now,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: he was already out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Frank had moved on when I was on the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: city council. And I'm telling you in the council offices,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: there are stories about Frank Brown and a lot of challenges.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, everybody's a little bit different,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: and everybody has a different focus and a different vision
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: about what they want to achieve.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: But former member of the Kfab team as well, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: he was on the council when I started here on
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: the radio, and he and I battled and battled, and
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: then we met at some event unrelated to politics and
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: started off bickering again, but it quickly turned to just
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  Speaker 3: the most wonderful conversation and I was like, I like you, Frank,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: And as we ended up getting along just fine after that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know him real well at all, but interesting
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  Speaker 2: that that's what I've heard about him, and that's okay.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he will look at Ernie Chambers, you know.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that there are people that can
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: be very contrary, but they are forcing you to think
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: about things. They're forcing you to debate things. They have
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: their own vision about what they want in their area,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: and that's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we just got about a minute in the left
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  Speaker 3: half left here on the comment line. You've got a
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: great topic ready to go for tomorrow. Can you give
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: us an early heads up on that?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Well, what is you really and this is not related
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: to the streetcar, but what is really burning up the
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: internet now, and I really want people's opinion on this
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: is should we have dress codes for restaurants? I mean,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: this is burning up the the internet now and to
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  Speaker 2: the point that some restaurants are actually putting out ads
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: saying we just want you to come and eat. We
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: don't care what you have on but I'd love to
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: have your opinion on it too. So thanks for listening
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  Speaker 2: to us today and thanks for being with us, and
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  Speaker 2: come back tomorrow.