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Governor Braun talking Mears, Hogsett, and Bears · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Then grab your popcorn because there is more. Are the
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  Speaker 1: Bears coming? What do we do about violence at Indianapolis?
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  Speaker 1: And how many more times can we suspend the gas tax?
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  Speaker 1: Governor Mike Brawn joins me right now on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and sir, I appreciate you taking the time. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to get into the Chicago Bears and whether or
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  Speaker 1: not they're gonna be playing in Hammond. But of course
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  Speaker 1: we've got the story here of a fourteen year old
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  Speaker 1: killing a twenty three year old man in a parking
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  Speaker 1: garage in Indianapolis. This has become a national story, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly it is a moment of concern and the anecdotal stories.
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  Speaker 1: Why in the world do I have a job downtown?
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  Speaker 1: Why in the world would I go visit something downtown?
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  Speaker 1: This is the capital city. Is there a place for
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  Speaker 1: the State of Indiana to look at the city of
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis and say taking over because you can't do the job?
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  Speaker 2: Tony. It's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: And the tragedy of that event I think shocked everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty four year old parking a vehicle and somebody comes
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  Speaker 3: up from behind and takes your life I think that
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  Speaker 3: was a straw that's probably going to break the camel's
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  Speaker 3: back in this one. I remember a year ago had
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  Speaker 3: to send the state police in at the fourth of
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  Speaker 3: July shoot out at the Ok Corral downtown, and then
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  Speaker 3: I think a couple of weeks later preemptively let them
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  Speaker 3: help IMPD, you know when the WNBA came in. So
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  Speaker 3: it's clear that we're willing to help.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I think you've got.
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  Speaker 3: Legislators probably taking notice because miors and hogsit, especially mirors,
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  Speaker 3: they're not doing their job. And you saw Banks, you
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  Speaker 3: saw many others this time speak up, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's good that it's in Unison. So I think more
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  Speaker 3: and more there's going to be interest among legislators to
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  Speaker 3: do something that starts to rein it in. I noticed
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  Speaker 3: it all when I was a state legislator back in fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: sixteen and seventeen, just homelessness and then crime. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 3: you turn the radio on, you thought they were talking
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  Speaker 3: about Chicago, and we really had that.
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  Speaker 2: Now for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing seems to have changed, And of course the voters
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  Speaker 3: don't seem to.
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  Speaker 2: Care much about it.
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  Speaker 3: That live here else they'd get rid of the folks
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  Speaker 3: running it, So yes, begs the question is.
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  Speaker 2: It all the voters served?
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  Speaker 1: Is it all the voters? Do you hear from civic
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  Speaker 1: leaders in Indianapolis about the issues with the city and
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  Speaker 1: is there do you ever get requests for the state
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  Speaker 1: to get involved.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we're hearing as much from the people
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  Speaker 3: that live here as you should.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, more and more, And this.
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  Speaker 3: Is not the This is just to me, the most vivid,
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  Speaker 3: tragic example of it. I think that you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: really going to hear more of it what the state
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  Speaker 3: can do or is willing to do when you're crossing
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  Speaker 3: a jurisdiction. I mean, it's a state capital. We already
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  Speaker 3: can use the state police IMPD asks for that help.
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  Speaker 3: I think they too need to be unleashed a little
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  Speaker 3: more in terms of what they're able to do and
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  Speaker 3: have kind of been, you know, not doing it to
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  Speaker 3: the extent that they need to. And again I think
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  Speaker 3: that comes from the administration. But to me, the prosecution
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  Speaker 3: part of it is where you'd set an example and
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  Speaker 3: for some of this senseless stuff, I would hope that
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  Speaker 3: they'd take the cue from it that this fourteen year
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  Speaker 3: old is going to be you know, the trial is
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  Speaker 3: going to be as an adult. I understand, and we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: But I think at this point it's going to impact
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  Speaker 3: in a broader way. People coming down here, they interview
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  Speaker 3: a few people I saw on some of the local stations.
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  Speaker 3: Well we still feel safe. Well, I think this is
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  Speaker 3: the one UH incident that's going to really have an impact.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, I think the state's going to be willing
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  Speaker 3: to do something because I don't think you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see the local UH politicians, especially the prosecutor's office do
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  Speaker 3: something drastically different.
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  Speaker 2: They've had plan.
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  Speaker 1: You're not leaving You're not leaving the mayor out of
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  Speaker 1: that equation. I mean you've talked because I think the
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  Speaker 1: mayor is the mayor is going to has got the
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  Speaker 1: ability to crank up their own enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: UH.
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  Speaker 3: You know, have this UH any police UH be more aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: We're willing to help, you know by aiding with state police.
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  Speaker 3: But then when you do all that, I think the
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  Speaker 3: real UH sign to actually tamp it back is going
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  Speaker 3: to be prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to the governor of Indiana, Mike Brawn. Let's now
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  Speaker 1: head north and talk about the Bears. They're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be making a decision soon. Illinois did not meet their deadline,
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  Speaker 1: and they realized late, hey, why don't we just try
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  Speaker 1: and absolutely steal the concept.
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  Speaker 2: Of what Indiana is doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to try and have another session, They're going
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  Speaker 1: to try and take another bite at this, but in
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  Speaker 1: the end this seems fada complete. Even Mayor Brandon Johnson
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  Speaker 1: has eliminated Chicago from contention by going on to a
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  Speaker 1: podcast and saying traffic is so bad getting out of
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  Speaker 1: Soldier Fields that I left the Packers game early and
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  Speaker 1: by the time I got out of the area, the
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  Speaker 1: Bears that come back and won the game, which is
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  Speaker 1: really not a good story you're telling for the team
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  Speaker 1: staying in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: When does this announcement tappen?
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  Speaker 1: Are the Bears coming to Indiana?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't hear that one, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: the Chicago legislators, both in the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: The comprise close to the majority of the voting block
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  Speaker 3: in the legislature, and I think that was a spot
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  Speaker 3: that kept it from going through. I think the Senate
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  Speaker 3: actually passed something the House left. If you get a
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  Speaker 3: statement like that, which I had not heard. We all
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  Speaker 3: know that Hammond logistically would be much easier to get
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  Speaker 3: to in the Arlington Heights. Chicago's teed off that they
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  Speaker 3: can't keep it within their city, But who would want
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  Speaker 3: to have a business there of any sort? When the
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  Speaker 3: cities run the way it is, they're paying so much
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  Speaker 3: in their own city budget to service their own debt.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you think is going to pay that off
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  Speaker 3: in the future taxpayers? So I think that's out of
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  Speaker 3: the question. There's a spat among them. Now the clock's
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  Speaker 3: coming into play, and I think we've made it so easy, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: We've done this quickly legislature and the public statement came
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  Speaker 3: on that same day, which should have signaled something, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we passed it originally as an administration. My team
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  Speaker 3: has been in contact with the Bears organization twice a
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  Speaker 3: week ever since. I think that, along with where would
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  Speaker 3: you want to be the next fifty years, we'll pease
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  Speaker 3: that favorable announcement out soon. Not exactly sure when they've
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  Speaker 3: indicated that they now are going to move to come
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  Speaker 3: to some conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: So I say stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this thing's gone on from Illinoi's point of
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  Speaker 3: view for five and a half years.
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  Speaker 2: They came to us six months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now let's get to the part too, because you
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  Speaker 1: bring up something interesting. There was a story out Russ
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  Speaker 1: McQuaid Fox fifty nine saying that there's a ninety million
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  Speaker 1: dollar buyout if they leave Soldier Field.
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  Speaker 2: I have said we should not pay that.
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  Speaker 1: The deal we have for the Bears is the deal
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  Speaker 1: that's going to make them millions and millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future as long as they.
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  Speaker 2: Play foot well.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think the NFL is going anywhere. Are
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  Speaker 1: we going to pay their ninety million dollar buyout?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Or no?
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  Speaker 3: Did not hear that. The deal that's on the table
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  Speaker 3: is on the table. They've been going through due diligence
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  Speaker 3: in some discussions on maybe needing a little more land
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  Speaker 3: to accommodate parking and all the stuff they want to
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  Speaker 3: do there, and that would be a function of what
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  Speaker 3: the City of Hammond works out. But other than stuff
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  Speaker 3: we've been working on that you would in any real
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  Speaker 3: estate deal of this magnitude. We've been working on that
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  Speaker 3: ever since the bill passed, and a lot of that
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  Speaker 3: stuff has been checked off. So anything else that comes up,
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  Speaker 3: including what you just mentioned, I think for us we'd
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  Speaker 3: have to come back in the session to do something
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  Speaker 3: that would be of a magnitude different from what we've done.
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  Speaker 3: I think all that is secondary. I think where we're
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  Speaker 3: at currently is the fact that they dropped the ball.
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  Speaker 3: The time is running out. The league has said they
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  Speaker 3: need to know soon, and any other things that eventuate
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  Speaker 3: in terms of what we need to do, we need
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  Speaker 3: to look at it. But they know they've got a
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  Speaker 3: good package. They've been willing to live with it. And
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  Speaker 3: the only thing that's come up is maybe the need
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  Speaker 3: for more land. And it's not a lot, so it
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be a major item.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would never say you're willing to live with it.
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  Speaker 2: They're lucky to have it.
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  Speaker 1: It's an incredible deal for them, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a winner for us who's waiting in
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  Speaker 1: the wings here.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this massive possible.
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  Speaker 1: Development in Hammond's Who have we reached out to and
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  Speaker 1: who has reached out to us to say, hey, if
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  Speaker 1: the Bears come, we think we see some opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: Lake and Porter Counties, for northwest Indiana, for being in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Lownds.
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  Speaker 3: They have an RDA up there. It is the place
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  Speaker 3: that regardless if the Bears would come or not. It's
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  Speaker 3: got the most turnaround potential most people don't realize. Was
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  Speaker 3: our second largest city at one time, larger than Fort Wayne.
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  Speaker 3: And when Steele left the country and wooshed out of it,
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  Speaker 3: they went from one hundred and eighty thousand people to sixty.
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  Speaker 3: You've got the Gary Airport, you get a convention center
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  Speaker 3: going on up there. If this does happen, Hammond, East, Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: Whiting and Gary and then the entirety of Lake County
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  Speaker 3: will see probably growth that they never imagined. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a place, basically due to Gary alone that has swooned
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  Speaker 3: the most over the last several decades. So lots of
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  Speaker 3: people are interested in development, in more and more interest
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  Speaker 3: as they see this thing getting closer to the finish line.
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  Speaker 1: Well, clearly, you know, if we would already name me
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  Speaker 1: the Trade Ambassador of Indiana, we would already be growing
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  Speaker 1: on this stuff. And I honestly don't know what we're
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  Speaker 1: waiting for anymore. I've provided you the greatest opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: the world, and the answer is I need a sash,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a scepter. And then, of course again with the Parker,
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  Speaker 1: how do you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to do that in the region, not just New York.
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  Speaker 1: Statey I want to Oh, I want to be the
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  Speaker 1: trade ambassador for Indiana. I'm going to do it all
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  Speaker 1: over the country, but I am going to take care
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  Speaker 1: of New York in LA because I know how to
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  Speaker 1: speak those languages.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But this, I've been serious about this, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why it isn't done.
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  Speaker 3: But the third time you've asked me that publicly, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say you're serious at this point.
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  Speaker 1: That's and that's how one converts. But before I let
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  Speaker 1: you go talking to the Governor of Indiana, Mike Braun,
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Convention is coming up in Fort Wayne, and
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  Speaker 1: the story is the Secretary of State race. Does Governor
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  Speaker 1: Mike Braun have a position on the next Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State and on this race and what delegates should be
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  Speaker 1: looking at.
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  Speaker 3: So my position is the same as it has been
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  Speaker 3: from the beginning. I went through a convention that was
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  Speaker 3: rowby and we all came through it.
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  Speaker 2: You live with what you have to deal with, and.
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  Speaker 3: In this case, I think there's not been anything probably
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  Speaker 3: on a higher profile than what we've been watching over
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. And I think you do
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  Speaker 3: sooner or later have to account for stuff that might
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  Speaker 3: not make sense for what you've been doing or what
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  Speaker 3: you need to do to reclaim the office. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to let it play out. I never endorsed along the way,
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't put in a position where I had
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  Speaker 3: to pull one. I'm a believer in the system working out,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that whatever happens, we do need to
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  Speaker 3: take seriously the fact that affordability.
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  Speaker 2: Is a big issue.
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  Speaker 3: And the weirdest thing since I've been in politics is
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats now trying to stay they're the party of affordability.
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  Speaker 3: They're better at that game than we are, especially on
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  Speaker 3: the national level, and when you look at what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in terms of competition in the Secretary of States race,
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  Speaker 3: that's symbolic.
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  Speaker 2: Of a broader challenge.
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  Speaker 3: We need to make sure, and I think Indiana's addressing
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  Speaker 3: it better than anyone. On affordability, and that's been the
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  Speaker 3: key theme for me for a long time, from property taxes,
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  Speaker 3: utility rates, extending the gas reprieve again, Republicans need to
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  Speaker 3: make sure, especially in a place.
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  Speaker 2: Like Indiana where we've held.
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  Speaker 3: The realm for so long, and anything that happens like
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  Speaker 3: this drama at the Secretary of State's office. Don't dismiss it, don't.
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  Speaker 3: I've been through the two hardest campaigns probably ever fought
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  Speaker 3: in this state, running for Senate and governor, and I
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  Speaker 3: respect the process and that's the way I'll be at
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  Speaker 3: the convention.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say, we were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of States race and you took it to affordability,
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  Speaker 1: and sir, that is some fantastic political spin, but there's
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  Speaker 1: no endorsement coming from you on the Secretary of States race. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I've got ten seconds left.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have a slate of at least four candidates there,
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  Speaker 3: and I think, however it ends up, we take everything
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  Speaker 3: serious from there and know that there's a thing called competition,
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  Speaker 3: and even though we haven't had much of it, respect it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the governor of Indiana, Mike Braun. I will see
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  Speaker 1: you up there, sir, where you can name me trade
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  Speaker 1: ambassador right there in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of the delegates.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to that, Governor, Mike Braun, I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you there. Thank you for being with us. Tony Katz
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  Speaker 1: ninety three WIDC, Good morning,