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Comments After Governor Candidates · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothert. Peyton Heilach, my producer,
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  Speaker 1: is also here. Good morning, Peyton.
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  Speaker 2: Very good morning to you. And guess what, everyone?
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  Speaker 1: This is Peyton's anniversary, the most important anniversary he'll ever have.
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  Speaker 1: He's been at KFAB for one year as of today.
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 2: This is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: One year.
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  Speaker 2: One year. Mark this on your calendar.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you started a year ago, so good
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You've lasted through Scott Voorhees and Jim Rose and Chris Baker,
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  Speaker 1: and you're still here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, it's very— And what a great, interesting, fun
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  Speaker 5: time to join KFAB and talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And you get me from 10 to 11, Monday
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  Speaker 2: through Friday. That's very special. Pure torture. But anyway, thank
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  Speaker 2: you all for being with us today. We want to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: And when we want to get your feedback, we want
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  Speaker 1: to hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints.
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  Speaker 2: Anything goes.
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  Speaker 1: We won't back away from anything. City, state, national, the world,
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  Speaker 1: the streetcar, potholes, the Strait of Hormuz, whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. And we have great guests this week
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  Speaker 1: so far. And, of course, you're going to hear plenty
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  Speaker 1: of opinion from me. But it is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: speak up and sound off. Please send your emails to
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  Speaker 1: comment at kfab.com, call us, 402-558-1110, or leave us a
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  Speaker 1: recorded message if you want to hear your own voice
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  Speaker 1: on the talkback mic, and we'll play it on the air.
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  Speaker 1: But we are very happy that you are with us today.
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  Speaker 1: So we had on Wednesday, Brett Lindstrom. Running for governor
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  Speaker 1: with America First Party. Yesterday, I did have the governor on.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the studio, which he doesn't do that often.
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  Speaker 1: And he was here about 40 minutes. They told me
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  Speaker 1: he had 30 minutes and his security was pacing up and.
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  Speaker 2: Down the hall like crazy. Come on, it's time to go.
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  Speaker 1: But you get the governor talking and he will keep
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  Speaker 1: on talking. I really appreciate him being here. But we
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  Speaker 1: did get quite a few emails and some questions. I
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  Speaker 1: was able to ask the governor some of them while
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  Speaker 1: he was here. We didn't get to all of them
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  Speaker 1: because we ran out of time. And so Peyton's going
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  Speaker 1: to get to some of them again this morning. And
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  Speaker 1: then we have other things that we can talk about,
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  Speaker 1: like this midterm convention in Dallas. I know Rosie and
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  Speaker 1: Scott are Talked a lot about it this morning, but
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  Speaker 1: what the full intent of the whole midterm convention was,
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  Speaker 1: we could talk about a little bit. Peyton, did you
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  Speaker 1: listen to it last night?
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  Speaker 2: Because I did.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the whole hour and 45-minute speech that
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  Speaker 1: President Trump gave because I wanted to hear– what he
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  Speaker 1: had to say. And to me, that is what is
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  Speaker 1: missing in a lot of modern politics is people don't
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  Speaker 1: want to listen to what you have to say. They're
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  Speaker 1: just really, really quick to throw darts and swords at
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  Speaker 1: you and complain and criticize, but they really don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear what you have to say. And I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say, and he had
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say in an hour and 45 minutes. Man,
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  Speaker 1: if I was those people standing right behind him holding
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  Speaker 1: those signs up, I would have been pretty tired of
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  Speaker 1: that long of a speech. I was always taught by
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  Speaker 1: my communication director, Carrie Murphy. I'm giving you kudos right now.
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  Speaker 1: that you lose people after about 10 minutes. And I
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  Speaker 1: tried to keep any speech I ever gave to 10
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  Speaker 1: minutes or less. The state of the city and the
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  Speaker 1: budget speech was usually about a 20-minute speech, and I
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  Speaker 1: could tell I was losing people after 10.
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  Speaker 5: Ask a teacher at any grade level in any building,
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  Speaker 5: and they will tell you the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And it might even be quicker than that.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And I always tried to read the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: And when the cell phones came out, And the chair
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  Speaker 1: started emptying out and people started nodding off.
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  Speaker 2: I was losing it.
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  Speaker 1: But boy, an hour and 45 minutes or an hour
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  Speaker 1: and 40 minute speech is a long one.
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  Speaker 2: But we could talk about that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But Peyton, do we have any questions that I missed
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  Speaker 1: yesterday from either Brett Lindstrom's interview or the governor's interview?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Jean.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm going to compile a few of them that
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  Speaker 5: have a very similar sentiment and sort of paraphrase them
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  Speaker 5: into its own question. And these were emails that I
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  Speaker 5: was collecting at comment at kfab.com. You're always more than
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  Speaker 5: welcome to send a message, and we'll get to it.
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  Speaker 5: This one comes from Kyle, but it's a sentiment among
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  Speaker 5: many listeners. I would be less upset about the high
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  Speaker 5: taxes if the Omaha schools were excelling in education and behavior.
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  Speaker 5: With students failing in academies and terrible behavior, I just
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  Speaker 5: see it as tax dollars being wasted.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that feel that way, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand what people are saying because your goal with
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  Speaker 1: a school district and for my 11 years on the
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  Speaker 1: Millard School Board is to have a high-achieving, low-cost-per-student school district.
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  Speaker 1: That's your real goal. I mean, that's why, I mean, safety,
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  Speaker 1: all of that comes along with that too. But if
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  Speaker 1: you can have a very high achieving, low cost per student,
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  Speaker 1: you look at OPS and they do have a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I would say probably over 80% of their kids are
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  Speaker 1: on free and reduced lunch. So they have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of challenges, a lot more challenges in Omaha Public School
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  Speaker 1: District than they would say in Millard or Elkhorn. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, they are one of the highest
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  Speaker 1: cost per pupils in the whole state of Nebraska. And
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  Speaker 1: they are having a lot of difficulty with achievement that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be addressed. When people know, I can address
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  Speaker 1: just Omaha, when people know and they look at their
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  Speaker 1: property tax bill and they see at least 62% of
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  Speaker 1: that entire bill goes to the public schools and only
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  Speaker 1: 22% goes to the city of Omaha and 12.5% goes
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  Speaker 1: to Douglas County, they expect that 62% of their tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars to be meaningful and to achieve something that they
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  Speaker 1: feel like is what they're getting a lot of bang
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  Speaker 1: for their buck for. And unfortunately, you don't see that
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  Speaker 1: happening in every school district. So now we go back
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  Speaker 1: to the schools. And, you know, those school boards that
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  Speaker 1: govern the school districts are elected officials. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times people think that they're the down ballot races.
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  Speaker 1: They don't pay much attention to school boards. And they
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  Speaker 1: are so important. I mean it's so important to get
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  Speaker 1: the right people on there for the right reasons. And
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  Speaker 1: so I just– I keep on stressing how important these
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  Speaker 1: elections are, all of them, even the down-ballot candidates. Pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: Have those people talk in public. Ask them the questions.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what they're saying. That's what's really, really important.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody questioned the governor yesterday. They said, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: do debates? And the governor said, I'm around all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to people all the time. I travel everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the actual formal debates are just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of theater.
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  Speaker 2: And he's right. They are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they– they can be terrible. I did so
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  Speaker 1: many of them though. I always felt like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather be there and let them know what I
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  Speaker 1: know than to say, no, I'm not doing it. The
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  Speaker 1: first time I ran in 2013, I did over 18
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  Speaker 1: debates and forums, but they've gotten out of hand lately too.
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  Speaker 1: You see some of these town hall meetings that like
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  Speaker 1: Mike Flood is doing and people are yelling and screaming
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  Speaker 1: and You know, I had people in the audience in
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  Speaker 1: many of my forums that I did in town hall
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  Speaker 1: meetings that came because they were angry and let them speak.
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  Speaker 2: But now it's just getting out of control.
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  Speaker 1: And so I understand what the governor is saying, that
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  Speaker 1: they are just a lot of theater anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm around.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to people all the time. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, a lot of times people think that just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look good. If you want to be the governor,
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  Speaker 1: a U.S. senator, a congressman, a mayor, that you ought
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  Speaker 1: to put yourself out there, and if somebody wants to
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  Speaker 1: debate you, debate them.
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  Speaker 5: Gene, I know that you have a lot that you
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  Speaker 5: want to get into, so let me give you a
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  Speaker 5: fun talk back here. We'll take a phone call, and
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  Speaker 5: then we can segue into what you have planned here.
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  Speaker 5: This is a talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Gene.
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  Speaker 3: It's your favorite local comedian and Quick Draw news anchor, Justin.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you had a street renamed in your honor,
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  Speaker 3: the Gene Stothert Street, and that's great. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: you comment on the other little news from that, though,
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  Speaker 3: that the 13th Street Crips also renamed themselves to the
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  Speaker 3: Gene Stothert Street Crips. And one of the most deadly gangs,
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  Speaker 3: and one of their monikers is the neck tattoo, WWJD.
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  Speaker 3: What would Gene do?
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  Speaker 2: Any comment on that? I did not. Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 2: Is this serious?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is the first I have heard about it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, that little strip of 13th Street is
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  Speaker 1: from Douglas to Farnham and then Farnham to Harney. It's
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  Speaker 1: two blocks of 13th Street. It's named for Gene Stothert,
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  Speaker 1: and it's right there by the Gene Leahy Mall, and
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  Speaker 1: it's right there by Mutual of Omaha, and the area
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  Speaker 1: is not– where the Crips hang out. And so, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know that Crips hang out on 13th
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  Speaker 1: Street more towards the old market or not. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what WWJD, if it really means what would
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  Speaker 1: Jean do. But I'm telling you, this is the first
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  Speaker 1: I've heard about that. But that little two-block strip of
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  Speaker 1: 13th Street that they did a commemorative street naming after me,
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  Speaker 1: that truly is not an area of Omaha where the
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  Speaker 1: Crips hang out.
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  Speaker 5: Justin from Quick Draw Comedy News, he's a funny guy
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  Speaker 5: that always has some interesting things to say. And that
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  Speaker 5: WWJD is.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually what would Jesus do. What would Jesus do.
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  Speaker 2: I know it. So that's a fun play on words.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to get one more phone– Ha-ha.
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  Speaker 6: Ha-ha.
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  Speaker 2: Funny ha-ha. One more phone call I want to get
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  Speaker 2: on your favorite topic. We built this city. Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, thank you for calling 402-558-1110. You are live with Jesus. Sauther.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: How are you? I thought you did a fine job
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  Speaker 6: as mayor. But I had a question on the streetcar.
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  Speaker 6: How come the zoo wasn't included in the plans to
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  Speaker 6: have a destination there first? Because that's the biggest attraction
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  Speaker 6: in the state, in the region, actually.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just wondering what her comment was on that, why
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  Speaker 6: the zoo wasn't included in the first set of plans.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in.
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  Speaker 1: The route of the streetcar was really looked at years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years ago, and the main reason that
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  Speaker 1: it is downtown Midtown is to get people in, around,
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  Speaker 1: and out of downtown. Right now, about half of downtown
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  Speaker 1: is surface parking, and at any given time, half is vacant.
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  Speaker 1: And so what we really wanted to do is replace
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  Speaker 1: all those vacant surface parking lots with businesses and buildings
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  Speaker 1: and jobs for people and residents downtown. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: economic development tool, the streetcar. The reason that we can
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  Speaker 1: build it in that area is we will be paying
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  Speaker 1: for it with the economic development that happens around the
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  Speaker 1: streetcar rails. We would not be able to do that
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  Speaker 1: and pay for it the same way if we ran
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  Speaker 1: it down to the zoo south or if we ran
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  Speaker 1: it up to the airport north. And so the original
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  Speaker 1: initial route where it is now from about 8th Street
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  Speaker 1: downtown all the way out to Midtown and back again,
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  Speaker 1: the way we are paying for it, like with the
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  Speaker 1: TIF that comes from the development that happens, no taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: dollars are going into that or tax increases are going
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  Speaker 1: in to pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: If we ran it down.
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  Speaker 1: To the zoo or ran it up to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: it would have to be paid for differently. It would
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  Speaker 1: probably need and require federal dollars, which takes forever, and
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  Speaker 1: it could require a tax increase, which is not where
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go. So what I did do when
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  Speaker 1: I was still mayor is we did get a grant
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  Speaker 1: from the federal government to study additional routes, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the routes was up. towards north, towards the airport.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have a grant yet to study for
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  Speaker 1: the zoo, but that has always been in the plans
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  Speaker 1: for the future, that this was just an initial route
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  Speaker 1: to boost and be a catalyst for economic development, which
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  Speaker 1: it is already doing. There's already at least one and
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  Speaker 1: a half billion of new development along the route that
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  Speaker 1: is either already happening or the plans are underway for
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  Speaker 1: it to happen. And that's exactly what we wanted to see.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we're paying for it the way we
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  Speaker 1: are with the developers. But we are looking at other
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  Speaker 1: routes in the future. And I will just say this.
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  Speaker 1: The same goes for the bus rapid transit, the BRT.
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  Speaker 1: And that starts, you know, at 8th Street downtown. It
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  Speaker 1: goes all the way out to the West Roads and
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  Speaker 1: back on Dodge Street. But that is an initial route.
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  Speaker 1: And they are already looking. And that's Metro Transit. that
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  Speaker 1: runs the BRT. They're always already looking at additional routes
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  Speaker 1: to go off for the BRT. So you got there's
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  Speaker 1: an old saying, you got to walk before you can run.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we're doing with the streetcar
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  Speaker 1: and with the BRT both.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jim, for that question.
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  Speaker 5: And segwaying into our new topic here, we had Governor
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  Speaker 5: Jim Pillen on the KFAB comment line yesterday and Governor
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  Speaker 5: candidate Brett Lindstrom on the show on Tuesday. If you
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  Speaker 5: missed those or would like to give them another listen,
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  Speaker 5: go to KFAB.com. Under podcasts, Gene Stothert and the KFAB
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  Speaker 5: comment line, you can find those edited down the whole episode.
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  Speaker 5: And I got an email last night, Gene, and I
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  Speaker 5: know you got something on your side as well. This
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  Speaker 5: is an email from Tom, comment at KFAB.com. Gene, did
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  Speaker 5: you know Governor Pillen was hiring undocumented workers at his
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  Speaker 5: Nebraska hog farms when you interviewed him?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: If so, Why didn't you bring it up?
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  Speaker 5: If not, what is your opinion regarding the illegal activity
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  Speaker 5: by the governor of our state?
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  Speaker 1: No, I did not know this. And I usually get
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  Speaker 1: up and try to read the World Herald. and the
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal every morning before I come in. If
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  Speaker 1: I have time, I'll read some of the online. I
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  Speaker 1: don't read the New York Times. I read the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal. I don't read the New York Times because
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  Speaker 1: it leans so liberal. I can't stand to read it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I received a text message from Brett Lindstrom last night
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  Speaker 1: at 7.29 p.m., First, it came with a photo of
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  Speaker 1: Governor Pillen, and it said, Pillen Parms, illegals welcome. Nebraskas
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  Speaker 1: need not apply, which is just campaign crap. Again, but
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  Speaker 1: then it goes on to say, hi, I'm Brett Lindstrom,
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  Speaker 1: candidate for governor. This was at 729 last night. We
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  Speaker 1: all woke up this morning to a shocking story from
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I don't read it.
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  Speaker 1: And the Flatwater Free Press, which is in Nebraska, which
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to yesterday morning. So I didn't wake
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  Speaker 1: up shocked about Governor Pillen's mockery of our immigration system
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  Speaker 1: by employing dozens of illegal workers for decades on his farm.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly who Governor Pillen is. He talks big
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  Speaker 1: about cracking down on illegal immigration. But when it benefits
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  Speaker 1: its own bank account, he ignores the law to recruit
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  Speaker 1: and hire illegal immigrants to Nebraska. As your next governor,
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  Speaker 1: I will work directly with the Trump administration– Federal, state,
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  Speaker 1: and local enforcement to crack down on all illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 1: Find out more about my campaign on VoteLindstrom.com. Okay, Brett's
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  Speaker 1: coming out swinging. There's no doubt. Gloves are off here.
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  Speaker 1: He's ready for a fight. I think that, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: campaign crap earlier. I do not think of the Jim
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  Speaker 1: Pillen I know that has a very successful family business
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Nebraska. We said yesterday he's a veterinarian.
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  Speaker 2: He is Dr. Pillen, too. Not everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 1: But to say, Pillen Farms, illegals welcome, Nebraskans need not apply,
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  Speaker 1: is the usual campaign slogan. fear-mongering, scare tactics. I can
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  Speaker 1: bet you that there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of agriculture businesses throughout the United States that somehow have
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  Speaker 1: hired some that are undocumented workers. And don't think for
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  Speaker 1: one minute that Jim Pillan is sitting there with a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of resumes saying, you're hired, oh, you're illegal, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to hire you too, and you're illegal, I'm going to...
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  Speaker 1: Don't think for a minute that he is involved in
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  Speaker 1: this hiring. He probably has a lot of people as well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of big ag farmers and ranchers and whatever,
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of people that work on the farm
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  Speaker 1: that help hiring people.
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  Speaker 2: And so if this is happening.
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  Speaker 1: With his farm and with the Pillen Farms, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that this is not something he individually went out
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  Speaker 1: and was looking for. As Brett Lindstrom says, it's a
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  Speaker 1: mockery of our immigration system. Jim Pillen has come out
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  Speaker 1: very strongly and says what he feels about illegal immigration.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: He came out very strongly in support of closing the border,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you know, and he came out very strongly about the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: ICE detention center that they have out in McCook. and
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: talks a lot about that. And so don't just immediately say, well,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: now he says he's cracking down, but if it benefits
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: his own bank account, he ignores the law.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, that's campaign scare tactics once again. The
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: governor has worked directly with Trump. supports the Trump administration
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: on what they're doing to crack down on illegal immigration.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And you could bet that he.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Will look in to what is going on with whoever
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is responsible for the hiring with his business. But to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: say that he knew about this and he's doing it
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: personally– I think that's just throwing darts like they normally do. Again,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I did not read the New York Times, nor do I.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Flatwater Free Press, I didn't even look at it last night.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I got this message about 8 o'clock, I said, last night, 7.29
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: last night. And I think this– The message that we
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: got to the studio wasn't even in until.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: 10 o'clock last night. Yeah, just about 10 o'clock. Yeah, yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So the caller or the emailer did it about 10
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: o'clock last night. So no, I did not know about it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: If I did, I would have asked him about it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But these are some of these things that people, they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: just try to find something to turn it around and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: make it look like you are just doing something terrible
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and are not fit to continue in the office.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I would be more than willing to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: bet that although he would take responsibility because it's his
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: business and I know he would and be accountable for it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But this is something that if somebody found out about
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that he will look into and that he will try
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to remedy it because I think he's been very, very
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: clear on how he stands on illegal immigration or illegals
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: being hired too.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: 402-558-1110. Comment at KFAB.com.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: If you have anything to say in regards to Pellin
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: and the undocumented on his hog farm, the Republican National
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Convention for the midterms and something Trump had to say
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: last night or anything that comes to your mind here
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: on the KFAB comment line, your host of the show,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Gene Stothert. My name is Peyton Highlock. KFAB Comment Line
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: returns after Fox News. Gene Stothert in the KFAB Comment Line.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: My name is Peyton Highlock. There's a lot of different
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: things to discuss today. And we are here to do it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, we are. And you know what?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to what we were just
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: talking about with this breaking story last night about this
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: shocking story that Brett Lindstrom put out all over the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: place about Pillan Farms hiring undocumented workers. My whole point
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is let's look into it and let's find out the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: facts before we start pointing fingers– accusing people of illegal activity.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Let's just find out what the truth is. And I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: think that's what everybody would like to hear first. So
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying just brush it away. I think this
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: issue came up quite a while ago of what I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: can recall. But let's find out what the truth is,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and then we could go from there instead of, All
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, making Jim Pillen look like he's making
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a mockery of our immigration system, and I think it's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: far from that. So I think, in my opinion, what
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: came out from Brent Lindstrom was way– I mean he's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: coming out. He's getting the gloves on, and he's coming
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: out swinging right now. And I think it's unfair because
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: we don't know what the truth is and what actually
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is going on there. But a lot of big farms,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of big agriculture industries that we have in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this country, they usually hire third parties that do all
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the hiring. Don't think that Jim Pillen, like I said,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is sitting at a desk doing interviews and taking resumes
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: because he's not. And so they depend on someone else.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to do this hiring and to make sure who they
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: are hiring and whatever. And so let's just find out
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the truth of what's going on before we start pointing
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: fingers and making, oh my gosh, the world's falling apart.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: And Gene, just to wrap up this conversation about it,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: just to get both sides, I've gotten a few comments. Again,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: these are just comments from the listeners. One caller suggested
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: that it was a third party that came in and
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: they've been known for doing this. And this said third
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: party has been under lawsuit anyway. And then another emailer said,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I've heard that he's been bringing up, he as in
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Pillen or his group, have been bringing immigrants from Mexico
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: and Central America to work on the farms on a
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: work visa or a student visa, and then they expire
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: and now they're illegal or undocumented. So there's a few
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: different things that go into it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: But do any of us really know exactly what was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: going on?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: We don't yet. No, we do not.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: No, no.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And you know, This is interesting, too. I'm going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: bring this up. This is way off the subject. But
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: as I said, I read the World Herald and the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal every morning. And there's a public pulse
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: letter today. And this is just typical of kind of
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: what we're talking about. That has my name in it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So now I got to bring it up again because
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: my name's in it. Because they call the streetcar the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Stothert Streetcar Folly. But anyway, this writer, his name is
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Rick Taylor, writes in. And he says he lives in
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the area directly affected by the road work on Q
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Street between 192nd and 204th. We talked about this about
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a week ago. In fact, there were questions about this,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and that area is not in the city of Omaha.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It is in Douglas County. So I had the Douglas
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: County engineer, elected official, Todd Fitzer, himself, come on the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: show and talk about that area out there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Because it is not in the city of Omaha.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And he did explain, they did a story on it
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: on WOWT, but he explained that that area had been
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: delayed in the work that was being done in Douglas
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: County because of all of the utility work that had
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to be done under the ground, which includes OPPD, MUD,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and the cable companies. And he did say that because
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of all the development going on in Omaha County, that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: those utility companies are stretched very, very thin with the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: work they're doing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: This is not unusual.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: This is not atypical at all. It happens all the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: time that you are ready to do a road, you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: ready to get going, but you got to wait for
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the underground work to get done first.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And so Todd came in and explained that, and he.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Said one of the areas that there's a lot of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: utility work going on is the streetcar. But it's not
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the only area that is having utility work done. So
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: now this writer on the World Herald Public Poll says
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it was supposed to be finished by now, but for
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: some reason the city has decided that the streetcar is
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: entitled to take all the resources in town.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Not true, Rick. The city did not make that decision.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The city did not say that the streetcar can take
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: all the resources in town. If you drive from one
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: end of Omaha to the other, there is development going
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on everywhere. There is street work. There is bridge work.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's going on all over the place. It is not
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: just because of the streetcar. And then he goes on
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to say, this one always gets me. Why can't the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: city finish one project at a time? Okay, Rick, Taylor,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: if we did one project at a time, we would
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: never get anything done. We have a short construction season
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: in Omaha because of rough winter weather, and we will
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: keep on working on those roads until the snow starts falling.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But we do multiple bids every springtime for multiple road work, resurfacing,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: rehabilitating streets, and we are doing it all over Omaha
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: in every city council district, And we have to do
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: more than one project at a time. You know, one
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: of the number one things that people would complain about
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to the city of Omaha is the condition of our roads.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And so what did we do back in 2020? We
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: got a $ 200 million bond issue passed, and that has
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: been reauthorized by the voters two times already. So we
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: have so much more money right now going into our roads,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and we are rehabilitating and repairing roads. More of our
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: roads than we ever did before, but we have to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: do more than one road at a time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: You already said it a little bit, Jean, but whenever–
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: when people talk about Omaha, they say, oh, the.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Roads, the potholes. The roads, the potholes, terrible. So now
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: we're fixing them.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: So I don't know how you can complain about it
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: if you want them fixed. You can't complain about both
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: sides of that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Well, and true.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: There's detours. There's– there's– Cone zones everywhere. I mean, look
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at this big project going north on 680 right now
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that Hawkins is doing, widening 680. All the bridge work
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: around Pacific Street. Massive amount of road work going on.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Very inconvenient to a lot of the drivers that take
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that route. And now they're turning around and they're going
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to go on the southbound lanes and add another lane.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: They'll be done by the end of the year. You know,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of inconvenience while they are doing it.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: But come on, people. You cannot blame the streetcar for this. Everything.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of utility work going on downtown, but
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of utility work going on all over
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the city of Omaha. And it's not just MUD, it's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: OPPD and it's the cable companies too. And if you're
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: going to do a street, you want everything underground to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: be fixed first before you start laying down asphalt or concrete.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And so this writer, again, Rick Taylor, goes on to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: say the road department's motto is inconvenience as many people
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: as possible and as many places as possible for as
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: long as possible.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Not true.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: That is not true at all. And then he says
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: there is more to this town than downtown and the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Stothert streetcar folly. Well, remember Mayor Ewing, Mayor John Ewing,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: called it the Stothert folly trolley all during the campaign campaign.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And now he says it's the best thing that's ever
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: happened to Omaha as far as economic development, and he's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: 100 percent for it. So it is not a streetcar folly.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It's going to be great for the city. It already is.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And when it's done, it's going to be very similar
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to the feedback we all got when we were building
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the new ballpark downtown. I don't want the ballpark downtown.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I will never go downtown again. I will never go
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to another College World Series again. I don't want the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Arena Convention Center. We don't need it. I will never
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: go downtown. I will never go there. I will never
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: watch a basketball game there. Not true, not true. Once
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: they're done and the inconvenience is over and people start
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: seeing how great it is, they're going to love it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And they're going to love the streetcar, too. I can
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: guarantee you. We built this city. Adopti. All right, Jean,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: let's get to the phones real quick.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: 402-558-1110.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Jim, you are now live with Jean Stothert here on KFAB.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: We have a lot of Jims calling in today.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Hi, Jim.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Hello. Good morning, former Mayor Gene Stothert.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: I got something to talk about here that seems to
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: be an increasing problem in residential side streets. I live
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: in Midtown Omaha, and I've noticed a lot of side
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: street parking is now the parking is facing the same way.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Yes. call it parking on the wrong side of the
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: street facing the wrong way.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: According to section 31-153, cars standing or parking in any
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: way other than parallel to the roadway heading in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: direction of lawful traffic movement is the legal way to park.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: A cruiser could come through my neighborhood and just ticket
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: car after car and generate some quick income for the city.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: The city is getting income from ticketing these illegally parked cars,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: and our resident streets are becoming clearer and more safe
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: for passing vehicles. Because especially at night, when you have cars,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: when you see two sets of headlights staring back at you,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and you're not familiar with the area, you might think
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: this is a one-way road.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it's very confusing. Your point is well taken.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And two things I want to say. Number one, we
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: are still down about 100 cops, 90-something right now. Hopefully,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: by the end of next year, we'll be back where
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: we used to be, so we don't have as many
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: out on traffic patrol as we used to. But that
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's okay to just let that go because
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you are right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: It's in the law.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It's in city code about how you should be parking
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: on these streets, which direction you should. It can cause
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a real problem and it could cause a danger in
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a neighborhood. And so here's what I would do. I
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: would suggest right now that you call your city council
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: member for that area. Now, I don't know the area
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you live in. If you don't know who your city
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: council member is, there's seven representing all the different districts,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: seven different districts in Omaha. But you could go to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the City of Omaha webpage and then just the City
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of Omaha, you can hit where it says City Council
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and it lists all the city council members and the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: district they represent and basically what that area is. Call
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that city council member. There's a way to call them
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and email them. Let them know, and they should be
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the ones that get involved and take care of this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: They could request extra patrol of the police in that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: certain area to have police just drive up and down
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: neighborhood streets. It sounds good, but it's just not going
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to happen right now. If you contact your city council
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: member and let them know there's a specific problem on
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: that street, they will request the police. They can do
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: this through the chief, ask for extra attention in that neighborhood,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and they will send a cruiser out there. So call
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: your city council member, tell them the problem, and ask
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: them if they will address that for you.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Gene Stothert in the KFAB comment line. My name is
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Peyton Highlock. I got an email from Susan just now.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: I used to work at NDOT, Nebraska Department of Transportation,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: and I would just tell people that sometimes progress is painful.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Love the show, Jean. Thank you. I mean, really.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, when we talk about our interstates, our bridges,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: our roads, these are things that are so important to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: all of us. And, folks, we're not going to get
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: them done unless we tear them apart and get them
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: done and do them right. And, you know, most of
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the time, if they're just going to resurface the street–
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: They still need to mill it down. They need to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: fill up the potholes, and then they need to do
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: an overlay of asphalt. That's what they're doing all over
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Omaha now, and they're trying their best to get all
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: this stuff done before, like I said, the snow starts falling.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of work to be done.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of extra money now going into our roads,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: which is what people want. But like, again, to the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: person that wrote into the public polls, if you really
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: think that we could do one project at a time,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, we would never get done.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You got to do as much as you can. And
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: get those bids out in the springtime. And it's not
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the city doing these rehabilitation work. I mean the city
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is filling potholes and the city does some milling down.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: But it's the other companies that you hire to do
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: this massive amount of road work. So there's a lot
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of road work, a lot of utility work all over Omaha.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I made sure– And I assume Mayor Ewing will do
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the same, that when we did bids out for road work,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: we got road work done in every city council district.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: All seven city council districts had road work being done
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so that nobody could say, well, you're doing more for
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that district than my district. And, you know, when we
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: always do a bond issue, it's five different types of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: bonds about every four or five years that goes out
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and the people vote for. One is roads. And the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: one for roads always gets the most votes. It gets
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: approved by the biggest majority, usually 85 to 90 percent
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of the people. There's park bonds, public facility bonds, public
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: safety bonds, sewer bonds, and then there's road bonds. The
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: road bond always gets passed with the highest majority of votes.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Because people want their roads fixed.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But yes, you're going to have cone zones and you're
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: going to have inconvenience temporarily.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: I got an email yesterday, Gene, in regards to the
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: conversation that was brought up about Brinker Harding going down
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: to the Republican National Conventions for the midterms. And the emailer, Tom,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: suggested that Brinker paid $ 25, 000.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: To attend the event. $ 25, 000. Yeah, I haven't heard about that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: And I was linked an article from the same Tom
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: that says– this is from the Wall Street Journal. Lawmakers
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: and candidates. Incumbent Republican House members and congressional candidates were
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: asked to pay $ 25, 000 for ticket and lodging packages distributed
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: by the National Republican Party.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Congressional committee. They were asked or they were required? I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: think that's an important distinction. I do too. So who knows?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So again, we're accusing one candidate, Brinker Harding, of, I guess,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: wasting $ 25, 000 to go down there. But that caller also
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: ended up with saying he paid $ 25, 000 to, what did
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: he say, to lick Trump's boots? Kiss Trump's feet.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, similar. OK, to kiss Trump's feet.
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  Speaker 1: And so so I would ask that caller when they
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: have the national conventions that they do every year for
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the presidential elections, when the Democrat National Convention happens, does
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: everybody that attend, are they going just to kiss the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: incumbent Democrats feet?
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  Speaker 2: I bet I doubt it. If you would. accuse them
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, most people go down to these conventions to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: listen to people, whatever happened to that, that you could
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: sit down and listen to people and listen to what
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: they have to say and to be part of it
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and to energize the party. That's what the intent was.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: It wasn't to go down there and kiss the president's feet.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So that's what bothered me, that statement. I don't know
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: that anybody was re required to pay $ 25, 000. And we'll
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: ask Brinker Harding if he paid.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: $ 25, 000.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But if he did, it was from campaign money. And
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: campaign money is money that was donated to him. And
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: if you want to get into where the campaign money
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: came from, well, let's bring Denise Powell into that too.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Dark money Denise. Let's talk about that, where her campaign
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: money came from and how she's spending it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Speaking of money, Jean, and we didn't get into this
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: too much today, but In regards to Trump's speech last night,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: he was talking about giving $ 5, 000 away to Americans that–
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: after they got– kept the House, kept the Senate, kept
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: all of these things.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Which comes out, if you figure out, at 290-something million
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: adult Americans, I think that comes out to about $ 1. 2 trillion. Yes,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: he said that. I don't know if he could do that. So,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really not– sometimes I'm like, what?
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: What did he just say?
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: So Bob sent an email, and it's a funny title
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: to the email. He said, check, check, one, two, three.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Because we're radio and it's Trump checks.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. I get it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Bob said, do the 5K checks Trump is promising– Is
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: it considered socialism or just illegally buying votes?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Well, that concerns me because, I mean, I think immediately
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: people would say, are you trying to buy votes? And
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: so I think that's illegal. And so I don't know.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, when he made a statement like that, it's like, what?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, does this money come from where? And does
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: he need approval from the Senate and from the House?
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: And I mean, there's so much of unknowns with that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: There's so much to it as well. Scott Voorhees and
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: Lucy Chapman were talking about it a little bit this morning.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: They had a good time with it. All of the
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: things that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Needed to be accomplished in order to get the $ 5, 000
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: check is extremely improbable.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Yes. But regardless, I don't think you can just do that.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. I really don't. So,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: you know, as I said, as Governor Powell, Pillon said yesterday.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: He said, I don't agree with everything Trump does or says,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and I don't either. But I think the point that
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Pillon made yesterday that I did like is he said,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: but you can agree and be respectful. There were so
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: many things that the city council and I disagreed with,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: but you do it respectfully because you feel like well,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I won this one and I may lose another one,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: but we still got to move forward and work together
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to get things done. And so- If you disagree, do
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it respectfully, and you can still work together and hopefully
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: get things done. So I don't know where this $ 5, 000
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: came from. There will be a lot more people that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: will have a lot to say about that today, that's
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: for sure. And with that, I hear you're playing our music.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I'm always sad to hear this music because that means
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the show is over. But yesterday, I went to a
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: great event with the first responders. That was their annual
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: 9-11 luncheon. of honor and ran into mayor of La Vista,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Doug Kendig. He's going to be on the show tomorrow.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on in La Vista. So mayor
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Doug Kendig will be on tomorrow. We're going to talk
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: about that event, but we're going to talk about what's
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: going on in La Vista too. But thank you so
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: much for being with us and spending this hour with
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: us today.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: And we'd love for you to join us tomorrow.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: We have a lot more to talk about and a
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: lot more emails coming in that we'll try to address
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: tomorrow too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jean Stothert and this is 1110 KFAB.