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Breaking down Denise Powell · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton Hilock, the producer,
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Speaker 1: is also here this morning. Good morning, Good morning to you, Jane,
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Speaker 1: have a great guest again today, but of course you're
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Speaker 1: are with us. Mary Barrett, Welcome. Mary Barrett is back
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Speaker 1: with us today. Welcome Mary Gosh.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad to be here.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that you are here too. And you know,
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Speaker 1: just if they didn't listen to the last time you
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Speaker 1: were here, which is right after the primary. Mary is
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Speaker 1: a lifelong Democrat, she was and now she is an independent.
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Speaker 1: I remember I took a quote that you said a
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Speaker 1: long time ago, Irish, I'm Catholic and I'm a Democrat
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Speaker 1: until now in a teeny bit chubby but there, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna mention that I know, but I have to. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: but I tell you have talked about the Democrat Party
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Speaker 1: losing sight of its values. And you know you are
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Speaker 1: as you said, you have been around a long time.
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Speaker 1: Your dad, Frank Barrett, really got you into politics many
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Speaker 1: many years ago. He was an attorney. He has since
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Speaker 1: passed away, But boy, the Barretts are Barrett's Barleycorn Pub
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Speaker 1: and grill down on Levenworth. Tell the listeners your relationship
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Speaker 1: with the Kavanaughs, just so they know, Well, we kind.
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Speaker 2: Of grew up with them in politics.
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Speaker 3: I mean the kids were a little bit younger than
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Speaker 3: I was, but we grew up with all the Kavanaughs,
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Speaker 3: and John and Kate were just wonderful friends, and their
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Speaker 3: kids became great friends. And I just had such a
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Speaker 3: respect for Johnny Kavanaugh when he ran. He is smart,
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Speaker 3: he's kind, he gets it. He's got a voting record,
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Speaker 3: you know, I think the voting records are a really
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Speaker 3: important thing. And Denise Powell has not won, she hasn't
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Speaker 3: taken a vote, and when you listen to her, it's
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Speaker 3: as though she's she's run the she's run.
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Speaker 2: All of Omaha politics. It's just not true.
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Speaker 1: And you know I will back that up because Mary,
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Speaker 1: you know I have been in a campaign. I've been
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Speaker 1: elected in a campaign nine times, so you I won seven,
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Speaker 1: I lost two, but if you consider the primaries, it's
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Speaker 1: eighteen times. I was on the ballot, but I served
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Speaker 1: for mayor for twelve. Everybody knows that I was around Omaha.
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Speaker 1: I was involved in everything. I was attending a lot
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Speaker 1: of events. I worked with the nonprofits. I had never
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Speaker 1: heard of Denise Powell, and yet you know with her commercials,
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Speaker 1: she first started out with being a pod mom and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden she has been the self
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Speaker 1: proclaimed leader in Omaha for years and I have never
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Speaker 1: heard of her, and now many people are saying that too.
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Speaker 1: And yet she I think she was the founder of
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Speaker 1: Women to Run and that I scratched my head too,
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Speaker 1: because I'm thinking, here is somebody who has never won
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Speaker 1: run for anything is trying to teach other people how
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Speaker 1: to run for political office. Didn't make sense to me
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Speaker 1: at all. But let's talk about this past weekend. If
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Speaker 1: we could. I talked a bit about it yesterday. Derek Odin,
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Speaker 1: who is a consultant for Brinker Harding's campaign, is a
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Speaker 1: niece friend who is Denise Powell's opponent. And I will
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Speaker 1: start out by saying too, I have asked Denise Palell
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Speaker 1: if she will be on this show, I will give
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Speaker 1: her equal time. I sent an email to her campaign. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even respond to say no, They just ignore.
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Speaker 1: And you know, once again, for as many times if
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Speaker 1: I have run for a political office nine times, one
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Speaker 1: thing you learn you never turned away free Mediah, never never,
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Speaker 1: because they are going to do the story with or
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Speaker 1: without you, so why not be part of it. But
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Speaker 1: they're not even they're not even answering, So our listening
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Speaker 1: are responding to me. So anyway, this weekend, we had
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Speaker 1: House speaker Mike Johnson come to Omaha on Saturday for
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Speaker 1: Brinker Harding. Right before that, I think a week ago,
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Speaker 1: Pete Budajeg, secretary or former mayor Pete Budajeg was here
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Speaker 1: for Denise Powell. But Denise Palell put out a video
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Speaker 1: that looks like she recorded herself that I talked about yesterday,
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Speaker 1: But Mary, I want to play it today and I
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Speaker 1: want you and I to go through these claims because
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Speaker 1: I said yesterday she starts out from the very beginning
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Speaker 1: with a lie and then it deteriorates from there. So
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Speaker 1: if Peyton, if you could plus start her video that
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Speaker 1: she recorded herself, that's out all over the over the web.
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Speaker 1: Now play that. Let's start out with it.
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Speaker 4: Hi, I am in Carney today because my son's baseball
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Speaker 4: team is playing in the state Little League championships. It's
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Speaker 4: really exciting to come on here because yesterday speaker Mike
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Speaker 4: Johnson was here something with Brinker Harding and sounds like
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Speaker 4: they had a great event with like five people, and
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Speaker 4: Speaker Johnson said that this election is about the difference
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Speaker 4: between common sense and crazy. And while I'd love to
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Speaker 4: think that he was referring to me as the common
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Speaker 4: sense one, I don't think he was.
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Speaker 1: Stop right there, Yeah, okay, it's like stop, halt right there. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Once again, I was there myself, Denise pal you were
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Speaker 1: not there. And to say there were like five people there,
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Speaker 1: that is a lie. I mean there was two events.
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Speaker 1: I was at the earlier event. They were at Wheat
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Speaker 1: Fields later on and the place was packed to capacity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that division of five people is a lot
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Speaker 3: different than ours.
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Speaker 1: Yes, And you know they people said when Pete Bododageg
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Speaker 1: was here that people were lined up to get in.
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Speaker 1: And I will say this, you know that doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: a whole lot. It doesn't because I keep on bringing
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Speaker 1: up when I ran against our pe or Heath Mellow
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Speaker 1: and I were opponents in twenty seventeen. He had Bernie
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Speaker 1: Sanders come into town, filled up the Baxter Arena, people
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Speaker 1: lining up down the street to get in. But that
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Speaker 1: didn't mean all of those people were voting for Heath Mellow.
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Speaker 1: And that didn't mean that all those people were omahall voters.
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Speaker 3: No, And people wanted to come see Pete Buddha Judge
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Speaker 3: just because they like him.
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Speaker 1: I think that's it.
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Speaker 3: You know, Pie's a solid guy. I've known him. He's
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Speaker 3: just he's really a good person. But people came to
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Speaker 3: see him.
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Speaker 1: That's what. That's my point.
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Speaker 2: Gitting when you.
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Speaker 3: Stand up there and talk nasty and say things about
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Speaker 3: brinker Harding, has she ever even met brinker Harding?
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Speaker 1: I I do not think that she has. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think so. But then she
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Speaker 1: goes on to say this is what Brinker says. Brinker
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Speaker 1: and Johnson both said this is about common sense versus crazy,
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Speaker 1: and she said, I hope I am the common sense.
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Speaker 2: Well you're not. You're you're a socialists. That's what I've
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Speaker 2: taken over.
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Speaker 3: You're trying to take over the Democratic Party, which the Barretts,
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Speaker 3: the Boils, the Kavanaughs. You know, there's just names and
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Speaker 3: names and names and carries people that understand the Democratic
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Speaker 3: Party and believed in what that Democratic Party was. I
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Speaker 3: mean Sam Howell, for God's sakes, and these people have
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Speaker 3: turned it on its head. I mean they think this
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Speaker 3: is all fine and dandy to just be crappy to
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Speaker 3: people and say things, you know, you're a p od mom,
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Speaker 3: get out of your car and watch your kid at
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Speaker 3: a little league game.
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Speaker 1: Mm instead of doing videos here. So when she says,
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Speaker 1: I hope I'm the common sense one, we'll we'll get
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Speaker 1: to the primary with with or Don Cavanaugh what she
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Speaker 1: did to him, But that wasn't using much common sense
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. I mean, calling him a maga, I
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Speaker 1: mean that was just ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: But the Pete Buddhajes things, I think she thinks these
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Speaker 3: people are coming to see her, tell her and she's
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Speaker 3: got yeah, and she's got all this dark money coming
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Speaker 3: in and they want to know who it is and
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Speaker 3: they want want the money too, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So it's so let's go on, Peyton play the next
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Speaker 1: part when she says that Mike is how she is
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Speaker 1: addressing the speaker, because that's showing disrespect. How Mike and
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Speaker 1: Brinker think it's crazy that go ahead and play the
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Speaker 1: next part.
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Speaker 4: So apparently Brinker and Mike think that it is crazy
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Speaker 4: to think that you should be able to go to the.
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Speaker 5: Doctor when you're sick and it shouldn't bankrupt you.
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Speaker 4: And if your doctor gives you a prescription, you should
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Speaker 4: be able to fill that prescription without having to choose
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Speaker 4: between the medication you need and.
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Speaker 5: Say groceries, okay, your electric bills.
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Speaker 1: Don stop right there again. They never said that, and
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Speaker 1: that is not the position they have either. And you
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Speaker 1: know Obama, you know it is much better now than
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Speaker 1: it was with Obamacare. And she's saying that Mike and
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Speaker 1: Brinker think that people should it's okay that people could
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Speaker 1: have to choose between a prescription drug or getting their
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Speaker 1: groceries or electric bill. They never said that.
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Speaker 3: They never said that, and it's if you look at
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Speaker 3: what Brinker has and I talked to people after they
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Speaker 3: had gone to that. We had the brad Ashford Street
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Speaker 3: naming that day, but I was unable to stop by.
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Speaker 3: But the speaker Number one, the respect you don't call
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Speaker 3: someone mike. I mean, if you get elected, you get
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Speaker 3: to keep that title absolutely, And that's just I don't
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Speaker 3: care if you're a Democrat, Republican, whatever you are, you
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Speaker 3: get to keep that title and retain it for life.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how it works.
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Speaker 3: And if she can't even have the respect to call
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Speaker 3: someone speaker because that's what he is.
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Speaker 1: That's right. I called him speaker, mister speaker when I
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Speaker 1: talked to him. I still call Hal daub or Jim
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Speaker 1: subtle mayor. I mean I still do out of respect.
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Speaker 1: But this was showing her disrespect for them. But they
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Speaker 1: never said that, and that is not part of their
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Speaker 1: agenda to think that. They think it's crazy that somebody
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Speaker 1: should be able to get a prescription filled without having
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Speaker 1: to choose between that and their groceries or their electric bill.
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Speaker 1: They never said that, and that's not part of their campaign.
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Speaker 1: Peyton play the next statement she made.
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Speaker 5: Or your electric bill that month.
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Speaker 4: Apparently Mike and Brinker think it's crazy to think that
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Speaker 4: every kid in this country should be able to go
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Speaker 4: to any public school and not only be.
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Speaker 5: Safe, but also get a great education.
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Speaker 1: Okay, stop right there, stop that one too. You cannot
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Speaker 1: go to any public school in the United States and
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Speaker 1: have a good education or be safe.
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Speaker 3: You can't go to Kentucky, go to Alabama, go to Arkansas, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And they never said they think it's crazy that it
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Speaker 1: is okay for any kid to I mean, they never
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Speaker 1: said these things.
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Speaker 3: But did she brings in ram Emanuel to do a
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Speaker 3: union strike right at it? I think it's Midwest or something,
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Speaker 3: But she does this thing. Rama Manuel closed over fifty
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Speaker 3: public schools in Chicago when he was there. Their crime
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Speaker 3: rate was over sixty three percent in the midterm. For him,
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Speaker 3: he was not a good leader. The only reason he's
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Speaker 3: here was because he's trying to run for president and
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Speaker 3: he wants to know where her dark money came from
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Speaker 3: so that he can get it.
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Speaker 1: It's absolutely ridiculous, and it's on the front page of
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Speaker 1: the Midland section today in the World Herald about rom
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Speaker 1: Emmanuel joins Palell on a beer picket line, and it
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Speaker 1: even says this in here about he jousted with local
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Speaker 1: teachers in Chicago over control of Chicago's public schools, and
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Speaker 1: he pressed police and crop prosecutors to get tougher with
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Speaker 1: criminals in one of the nation's largest cities. Okay, that's good,
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Speaker 1: But the public school issue he was fighting with the teacher.
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Speaker 2: He was fighting with him.
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Speaker 3: And why would n SEA then promote promote this event
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Speaker 3: with romy Emmanuel.
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Speaker 1: And that is another head scratcher.
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Speaker 3: I just I mean, I don't understand it. You can't
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Speaker 3: have it both ways.
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Speaker 1: No, No, Okay, Peyton play her next little blurb and.
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Speaker 4: Might think that it's crazy to want to end Citizens
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Speaker 4: United and and ban corporate stock trading in DC.
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Speaker 1: Okay, stop stop right there again. Ban they think it's
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Speaker 1: crazy to ban corporate stock trading. Let's see what did
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi do? Yeah about two hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 1: worth and Citizens United? I thought she supported Citizens United.
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Speaker 1: I could be wrong on that. I don't know. No,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't anymore. No, so, I mean some
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Speaker 1: of these statements she's making again, she is just throwing
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Speaker 1: out statements that neither Brinker, Harding or Speaker Mike Johnson
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Speaker 1: said anything about or nor do they feel that way,
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and play the rest.
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Speaker 4: Sprinker and Mike think it's crazy to think that veterans
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Speaker 4: who put their lives on the line for this country
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Speaker 4: should be treated well when they come home and shouldn't
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Speaker 4: have to fight for access to healthcare and food assistance
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Speaker 4: and housing. I guess Mike and Brinker think it's crazy
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Speaker 4: to think that seniors should be able to retire with dignity.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you have to stop here we go again. Brinker
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Speaker 1: and speaker Mike Johnson absolutely support our veterans and absolutely
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Speaker 1: feel that when they come home that they will have
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Speaker 1: good healthcare, good housing, food. They never have made that
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Speaker 1: part of their never, No, not they do with veterans.
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Speaker 3: They care about veterans and they think that they should
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Speaker 3: be taken care of. And look at the VA Center.
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Speaker 3: I mean when Brad Ashford and Don Bacon, they have
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Speaker 3: worked as hard as they could work to get.
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Speaker 1: That veterans together. But together they work together on that.
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Speaker 2: Up and running.
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Speaker 3: And if you don't have friends on the other side
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Speaker 3: of the aisle, you've got nothing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're at Ashford. You know it was the
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Speaker 2: same thing.
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Speaker 3: But when Brad was running and then when he was
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Speaker 3: in the primary, Car Eastman beat him. And this she
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Speaker 3: was a big she's a big Car Eastman.
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Speaker 1: Fan, you know.
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Speaker 3: So the other day we're at we're up at the
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Speaker 3: Veterans up at you know, we're having a street naming
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Speaker 3: for Brad Ashford and let's talk about that. Yeah, So
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Speaker 3: we're having this great event, which of course Anne texted
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Speaker 3: a bunch of people to come to. We had a
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Speaker 3: great crowd and we get up there and I look
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Speaker 3: over and I see who do I see?
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Speaker 2: But Denise Powell?
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Speaker 3: Interesting, Well, yeah, because she wasn't a supporter of Brad
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Speaker 3: Ashford's and if she thought that was the place that
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Speaker 3: she was going to go to see John Cavanaugh or
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Speaker 3: to be able to talk to him, because she's been
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Speaker 3: calling tons of people, especially women, tons of women here
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Speaker 3: in Omaha try to figure out how to best go
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Speaker 3: and get John Cavanaugh to be on her team. And
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Speaker 3: it's never ever going to work. I mean, what she
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Speaker 3: did with this dark money and what she did and
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Speaker 3: the things she said, she's not just a pod mom,
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Speaker 3: she's insane.
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Speaker 1: Well you know what, yes, and you said that, you
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Speaker 1: said she's insane. I will say there are things that
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Speaker 1: she has said that just doesn't make sense to me
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Speaker 1: at all. And I have a lot of friends who
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Speaker 1: are Democrats. I have a a lot of friends who
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Speaker 1: are very liberal that did support me in the past,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know of any of them that I've
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Speaker 1: talked to that didn't say, you know what, I am
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Speaker 1: still a Democrat, but I supported John Cavanaugh. And I
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Speaker 1: am mad of what she did to John Cavanaugh, how
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Speaker 1: she lied about him, and then she comes back and
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Speaker 1: wants his support now. And I know she is calling
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Speaker 1: them because a lot of those people have told me
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Speaker 1: she is calling me, yes, and she wants my support,
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Speaker 1: and they're sent They're like, uh uh, I don't care
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Speaker 1: about how you ran that campaign and what you said
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Speaker 1: about John Cavanaugh. And I told you this before. I
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Speaker 1: like John Cavanaugh. Yeah, I mean he was so good
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Speaker 1: in the legislature. He was easy to talk to. He
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Speaker 1: was he reached out to me many times and said
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Speaker 1: what do you think about this bill or that bill.
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Speaker 1: He worked across the all to get things done. So
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Speaker 1: what she said about him so that she could win
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Speaker 1: that primary is so offensive, I think to me, And
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Speaker 1: you know, when she said that, Mike, who is Speaker
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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson and Brinker think it's crazy that seniors can
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Speaker 1: retire with dignity. What about the big beautiful bill. I
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Speaker 1: mean that took taxes off Social Security, they improved seniors retirement.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's bar none what the big Bill?
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Speaker 3: And there's things that I completely disagree with, But I
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Speaker 3: just think we have taken the opportunity to make people's
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Speaker 3: lives better.
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Speaker 2: Is gas too much? You bet it is? Our grocer
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Speaker 2: is expensive? You bet it is?
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Speaker 3: Is you know, all of those things that they're complaining about.
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Speaker 3: But it's not just Denise axis though, it's only the Democrats,
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Speaker 3: and only she cares about people. She doesn't give a
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Speaker 3: rats rear end about me. You know, she doesn't care
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Speaker 3: what it is. I am an old time Democrat, I am,
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Speaker 3: you know. Just the things that she says are so foul.
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Speaker 2: And that's the only reason I can put it. She
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Speaker 2: is a she will not be a good leader.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think this says it all when
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Speaker 1: she said in this article in the World Herald today
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Speaker 1: about ram Emmanuel joining Powell on a beer picket line.
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Speaker 1: He comes out and says, this is it. If Denise wins,
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Speaker 1: we win the majority if Denise doesn't, we don't. He's
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Speaker 1: talking just about Democrats. And then she turns around and says,
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Speaker 1: I will represent everybody, Democrats, Republicans and independents.
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Speaker 2: Really no, and these people are not coming here for her.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: She goes on about Ram Emmanuel and Pete Buddha, Judge
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Speaker 3: and all these other people that are going to come
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Speaker 3: to help her, and they're not coming because of that.
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Speaker 3: They're coming because they're next door to Iowa. And they're
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Speaker 3: coming because they want to know who the billionaires, billionaires
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Speaker 3: she's getting money from, and they want to embrace those people.
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Speaker 1: They want to see the celebrity of it. And you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said in twenty seventeen, when Heath Mellow, God
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Speaker 1: loved him because I love Heath Mellow. When he filled
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Speaker 1: the Baxter Arena, we were like, my campaign was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we're sunk. It backfired on it because
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Speaker 1: they were not there just to see Heath Mellow. They
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Speaker 1: were there to see Bernie.
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Speaker 3: They were there to see Bernie, and they were Bernie Bots, right,
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Speaker 3: And I was never a Bernie supporter, but I couldn't
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Speaker 3: believe when he did that. We all said, you know,
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Speaker 3: our group of friends said, oh my god, what is
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Speaker 3: he doing? You know, because Heath was a solid He's
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Speaker 3: a great man and he's been a great friend for years.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I like you too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a great guy. But it's just it was
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Speaker 3: a big mistake. But I think she'll continue to fall
18:29
Speaker 3: over these mistakes and her lives will catch up with her.
18:31
Speaker 2: I mean, when people make things up.
18:33
Speaker 3: You know, you're sitting in a car by yourself at
18:35
Speaker 3: your son's t ball game, Go out and.
18:37
Speaker 2: Talk to the other mom.
18:38
Speaker 1: Do it doing your video that you could get out
18:40
Speaker 1: right away to criticize Brinker Harding and Mike. Go ahead
18:44
Speaker 1: and play the rest of it.
18:45
Speaker 6: Page about thirty seconds left in this video, Gene, let's
18:47
Speaker 6: just play it out here.
18:48
Speaker 1: Okay.
18:48
Speaker 4: The stock shelves at home depot to make ends meet
18:51
Speaker 4: because they can't afford their medications and their housing.
18:55
Speaker 5: So if that's.
18:56
Speaker 4: Crazy, then I'm just gonna go ahead and take that
18:58
Speaker 4: as a badge of honor, and I if.
19:01
Speaker 5: You agree, I'd love your sport, I'd love your vote.
19:05
Speaker 4: And even if you don't support me, now, just know
19:07
Speaker 4: that if I get to DC, I will support you when.
19:09
Speaker 2: I get there.
19:10
Speaker 5: So have great Sunday, friends, and see you soon. Let's
19:13
Speaker 5: play ball.
19:14
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see assume Denise, But are you going to
19:16
Speaker 1: represent me as a Republican? Are you going to represent
19:19
Speaker 1: the independence? Are are again? Are you saying things just
19:23
Speaker 1: to get a vote? When you say that seniors have
19:26
Speaker 1: to stock shells at home depot, well I don't find
19:28
Speaker 1: that as being really a bad thing. I mean, stocking
19:30
Speaker 1: shells at home depot is kind of fun. But I
19:33
Speaker 1: would I have.
19:34
Speaker 3: Friends whose dands are worked at home depot cards or
19:36
Speaker 3: ace hardware.
19:37
Speaker 2: I know it for they were having the greatest time ever.
19:39
Speaker 1: For something to do. But when she again says can't
19:42
Speaker 1: afford their meds, Trump our X has made a lot
19:46
Speaker 1: of medications and drugs a lot cheaper, a lot cheaper.
19:50
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the generic drugs, A lot of
19:52
Speaker 3: the generic drugs have gone down by.
19:57
Speaker 1: Absolutely they have.
19:58
Speaker 6: Oh.
19:58
Speaker 2: I just think she's.
20:01
Speaker 3: I think what's happening is people have gone so far
20:04
Speaker 3: over the other way. I mean, these are AOC people,
20:07
Speaker 3: and AOC I'm sure is a nice person. She's not
20:10
Speaker 3: my politics, and she's not a lot of our politics
20:13
Speaker 3: here in Omaha.
20:15
Speaker 2: We're Nebraska nice.
20:16
Speaker 3: We don't buy elections, which she's trying to do and
20:20
Speaker 3: we are looking for someone to take us and make
20:24
Speaker 3: it a more positive experience for everybody.
20:27
Speaker 1: And you know, I said this yesterday, but I got
20:30
Speaker 1: to repeat it that Senator Nebraska Senator Bob Carey said
20:35
Speaker 1: back in a nineteen ninety five interview about Bill Clinton,
20:39
Speaker 1: and he said Bill Clinton is an unusually good liar,
20:43
Speaker 1: unusually good. Do you realize that that's what Bob Carey
20:47
Speaker 1: said about Bill Clinton. I think what Denise pal is
20:49
Speaker 1: doing is she is saying things to try to get
20:52
Speaker 1: your vote, but she will not come out in public
20:56
Speaker 1: and talk about it and support it.
20:57
Speaker 4: No.
20:57
Speaker 3: And what I think happens is people just throw as
20:59
Speaker 3: much as they can against the wall and they're like,
21:01
Speaker 3: oh God, let something stick. And her stuff is just
21:04
Speaker 3: not sticking. It's just not sticking. I mean the other
21:07
Speaker 3: day when we were at Brad Ashford's, you know, she
21:09
Speaker 3: shows up to a street signing, which the most important
21:12
Speaker 3: part of it was to honor Brad Ashford for all
21:15
Speaker 3: the public service he's done.
21:16
Speaker 1: And that's the only reason to be there, really, that's.
21:19
Speaker 3: The only reason, you know, And she shows up knows
21:21
Speaker 3: that Kavanaughs and Ashford's are good friends. If she's done
21:23
Speaker 3: any of her research or if any people around her
21:26
Speaker 3: are telling her this. And she shows up to this
21:28
Speaker 3: thing and I thought, oh my gosh, and I was
21:31
Speaker 3: I was looked at her like she had four heads.
21:34
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you doing here? And she's
21:37
Speaker 1: place not the time. No, she went back to her car.
21:40
Speaker 1: All right, Mary Barrett is with us today. Mary, can
21:42
Speaker 1: you come back after the commercial first more. Okay, we're
21:45
Speaker 1: going to take a break right now. And Mary Barrett
21:47
Speaker 1: is with us today and she'll be back right after
21:50
Speaker 1: our break. But the Democrat agenda has changed so much.
21:55
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of these new radical candidates
21:59
Speaker 1: that are more socialist and communists number one. I said
22:02
Speaker 1: this in the last segment. They are they are winning
22:05
Speaker 1: races and they are ousting longtime Democrat elected officials for
22:10
Speaker 1: these communists that say now a lot of them are
22:13
Speaker 1: saying they want to do away with the US constitution,
22:15
Speaker 1: in the judicial system. It seems like their agenda is
22:19
Speaker 1: get rid of Trump, get rid of ice, get rid
22:21
Speaker 1: of police, and open the borders. What else are they
22:25
Speaker 1: talking about?
22:25
Speaker 2: Yeah? And how else are we going to do this?
22:27
Speaker 1: I mean, how are you going to do with those things?
22:29
Speaker 3: I mean, what I want you to do is to
22:31
Speaker 3: do your job exactly, you know, and not part of
22:35
Speaker 3: doing your job is not just saying.
22:38
Speaker 2: Bad I have to help myself from not swearing.
22:41
Speaker 1: But we can beat you, but better not.
22:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be like, but these people.
22:49
Speaker 3: That are getting ousted who are good public servants, you know,
22:53
Speaker 3: and they're getting ousted because this crazy dark.
22:56
Speaker 2: Money keeps coming in, that's right.
22:58
Speaker 3: And I am against against the dark money.
23:01
Speaker 2: And you can't only say, well, we just want to
23:04
Speaker 2: get rid of Trump.
23:04
Speaker 3: And every time you get in front of a Democratic
23:06
Speaker 3: crowd you talk about Trump. I mean, I'm not the
23:09
Speaker 3: one that's going to your town hall meetings. I mean,
23:11
Speaker 3: we've got this governor in Iowa, this governor candidate in
23:14
Speaker 3: Iowa now who doesn't want it. He doesn't want anybody
23:17
Speaker 3: but a Democrat to come in.
23:18
Speaker 1: That's right. That's Rob sand He's a Democrat candidate for
23:21
Speaker 1: governor in Iowa. And it is reported that he will
23:25
Speaker 1: only let Democrats into his town hall and he wants
23:28
Speaker 1: to be the governor of Iowa.
23:31
Speaker 2: Well you're not.
23:32
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow, that that makes me scratch my
23:35
Speaker 1: head too. And you know, the one question that I
23:37
Speaker 1: asked speaker Mike Johnson when he was here, I said,
23:40
Speaker 1: but how do we It seems to me that the
23:44
Speaker 1: far far left, Democrats, the socialists, they are so spun
23:49
Speaker 1: up now and they are energized, and they are they're
23:52
Speaker 1: absolutely rabid, and I'm finding the Republicans tend to be
23:57
Speaker 1: pretty apathetic. I go back to my a year ago,
24:01
Speaker 1: and the voter turnout was twenty seven percent in the
24:04
Speaker 1: general election. In the May primary it was twenty six
24:09
Speaker 1: percent voter turnout. How do we get people activated to
24:13
Speaker 1: go whether you're Democrat or Republican or independent, and go
24:17
Speaker 1: to the polls and vote for the right person. The
24:19
Speaker 1: one thing that the speaker said to me is he
24:22
Speaker 1: said people vote for basically three reasons. They vote out
24:26
Speaker 1: of anger, they vote out of fear, and they vote
24:29
Speaker 1: out of hope. And he said, those are the three reasons.
24:33
Speaker 1: And if anybody's going to say, well, what do I
24:35
Speaker 1: need to do with my campaign to win, You've got
24:37
Speaker 1: to hit those issues. You got to make people fearful
24:41
Speaker 1: of what could happen if the wrong people get elected
24:45
Speaker 1: in these offices, which we are seeing happen.
24:47
Speaker 2: Oh, we're seeing it happen. In saying we're seeing far
24:50
Speaker 2: right and far left.
24:52
Speaker 3: And I think there was a poll done by Main Street,
24:57
Speaker 3: which is in Washington, d C. It's based out of Washington,
25:00
Speaker 3: but it's called main Street and a couple started at
25:03
Speaker 3: a one hundred year not one hundred years ago, but
25:05
Speaker 3: a long time ago, and they did a lot of
25:07
Speaker 3: polling on women voting in primaries. Sixty four percent of
25:11
Speaker 3: women do not vote in a primary.
25:13
Speaker 1: And I can believe that sixty four percent.
25:16
Speaker 3: How do we engage those women and how do we
25:18
Speaker 3: have our election commissioners and those people become activated in
25:22
Speaker 3: not as a democratic thing, but you take all the
25:25
Speaker 3: people who are working at different companies and you go
25:27
Speaker 3: in to talk to them about the importance of elections,
25:30
Speaker 3: not the constitution. You know, you speak only of why
25:36
Speaker 3: you need to get there and whether it's fear or hope.
25:39
Speaker 2: They've got to get to the polls.
25:40
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. And you know, people they what they
25:43
Speaker 1: want to know in a candidate is what are you
25:47
Speaker 1: going to do to make my life better? How are
25:49
Speaker 1: you going to improve my life? That's what they want
25:52
Speaker 1: to hear. That's what they want to know. And you know,
25:55
Speaker 1: if they don't get out there and learn about the candidates.
25:58
Speaker 1: This is what could be a real issue because this
26:01
Speaker 1: negative campaigning that Denise is really into. And again I
26:06
Speaker 1: will invite her anytime to be on this show to
26:08
Speaker 1: defend what she's doing. But do you know why people
26:11
Speaker 1: You know this, Mary, but why do people do negative campaigning?
26:14
Speaker 1: Because it works because people hear these lies, and they
26:18
Speaker 1: hear these things over and over and over again onto
26:22
Speaker 1: TV and in the newspaper and then the radio, and
26:25
Speaker 1: they think, well, maybe that's true, maybe I shouldn't vote
26:28
Speaker 1: for this person. But you got to really get in
26:30
Speaker 1: there and learn what they stand for and what they
26:33
Speaker 1: are going to do to help you and your life
26:35
Speaker 1: and your life get better.
26:37
Speaker 3: Well, and it's not about you know, abortion is always
26:39
Speaker 3: going to be an issue. Yes, you know, it's always
26:41
Speaker 3: going to be a hot button because there's so much
26:43
Speaker 3: money on both sides of the issue, so it's always.
26:46
Speaker 2: Going to come into play in elections.
26:47
Speaker 1: Let it go.
26:49
Speaker 3: I mean, if you spend all of your time talking
26:51
Speaker 3: about that, you're losing more than half the population.
26:55
Speaker 1: It's true, and I think you know it's It is
26:57
Speaker 1: very it's controversial, but people generally feel one way or another.
27:02
Speaker 1: They are either pro choice or they are pro life.
27:05
Speaker 1: There's not a lot in between. And so whatever people feel,
27:09
Speaker 1: that is your feeling. You know, I may not agree
27:12
Speaker 1: with it, but that is your feeling. But there's a
27:14
Speaker 1: lot more to these candidates and for the reason that
27:18
Speaker 1: you are electing them than just one issue. Now, a
27:21
Speaker 1: lot of voters are one issue people. Yep, oh yeah,
27:24
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And you know, in Nebraska,
27:27
Speaker 1: the number one issue in the state, the number one
27:30
Speaker 1: issue in the city of Omaha, the number one issue
27:32
Speaker 1: in Douglas County is property taxes. What is Denise Palell
27:38
Speaker 1: going to do about taxes? What is Brinker Harding going
27:41
Speaker 1: to do about I mean, we need to know these things,
27:43
Speaker 1: That's what we need to know.
27:45
Speaker 3: And I think that and I think the newspaper and
27:47
Speaker 3: I think that we have a we have to make
27:51
Speaker 3: sure that people know. So however that is if it's
27:54
Speaker 3: by newspaper or if it's by TV, but we have
27:57
Speaker 3: to let people know. You're like Metro Community College sends
27:59
Speaker 3: out a a little ten page deal about their classes.
28:03
Speaker 3: Why are we not doing that about elections? I understand
28:05
Speaker 3: the Women's assist or Women's.
28:06
Speaker 1: League Legal Women voters used to put out something they.
28:09
Speaker 3: Put out something, but you have, but if you didn't
28:13
Speaker 3: do it exactly right, if you didn't put in your
28:15
Speaker 3: middle initial, or if you didn't get anything, then it
28:17
Speaker 3: never got into the newspaper. So I think what they
28:19
Speaker 3: need to do is we need to figure out a
28:21
Speaker 3: way that we can do that and we can send
28:22
Speaker 3: out that you know that brochure again that says this
28:26
Speaker 3: is how they stand factual no bs.
28:29
Speaker 1: On all of these questions. Give everybody the same question
28:32
Speaker 1: and let them answer them. You know what, the legal
28:34
Speaker 1: women voters, they're very, very particular about the number of
28:38
Speaker 1: words and if you go over, they'll just cut you
28:40
Speaker 1: off in mid sentence. Yeah, so you can't even get
28:44
Speaker 1: like you got this thing you're trying to talk about
28:46
Speaker 1: or explain, and then it's just like right mid sentence,
28:48
Speaker 1: it's done. And so we need more of that. But
28:52
Speaker 1: I guess I just need to continue to stress it's
28:55
Speaker 1: so important that people familiarize yourself with who the candidates are,
29:00
Speaker 1: understand what they stand for, and don't listen to a
29:04
Speaker 1: lot of this bologney out there. The thing when you
29:07
Speaker 1: talk about dark money coming in, that just irritates the
29:11
Speaker 1: heck out of me because I think why do we
29:13
Speaker 1: need people in other states, in in other countries telling
29:18
Speaker 1: us in Nebraska how to vote.
29:20
Speaker 2: Well, Douglas County is not for sale.
29:21
Speaker 3: CD two is not for sale, and I think we
29:24
Speaker 3: need to make that known. You know, you're not going
29:27
Speaker 3: to win because you had Peep Budo Judge come in,
29:30
Speaker 3: or because you had you know, Hakeem Jeffries come in,
29:32
Speaker 3: or whoever it is. That's not going to make you win.
29:35
Speaker 3: And everyone has to realize we each have one vote.
29:39
Speaker 2: That's it. You got one vote.
29:41
Speaker 3: So you can have five hundred people per thing, and
29:44
Speaker 3: you'll probably get maybe a quarter of those people are
29:47
Speaker 3: going to vote for you that are coming to things,
29:50
Speaker 3: you know, and a lot of people just go because
29:51
Speaker 3: a it's free food. You know, it's somewhere for you
29:55
Speaker 3: to go, you know, if you don't have anything else
29:58
Speaker 3: to do.
29:58
Speaker 2: I mean, and that's just kind of how it is.
30:00
Speaker 3: It's filled with a lot of volunteers, and a lot
30:03
Speaker 3: of these volunteers now are switching over and getting paid
30:06
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars to go and walk. You know these
30:08
Speaker 3: I work for MERV, repeat, do work for MERV repeat,
30:11
Speaker 3: greatest guy ever, but I do.
30:13
Speaker 2: Work for MERV and Merv's out walking here every day.
30:15
Speaker 1: He is my representative, and he's out.
30:18
Speaker 2: It's a million degrees and there's.
30:19
Speaker 1: Mur's District twelve right right, yep.
30:21
Speaker 2: He's LD twelve, and he is. He walks and he
30:24
Speaker 2: goes to all the doors.
30:25
Speaker 3: But MERV does all Democratic doors, all Republican doors, all
30:28
Speaker 3: independent doors. He doesn't just work on just his people,
30:32
Speaker 3: and he gets to tell his story, you.
30:34
Speaker 2: Know, which was really important.
30:35
Speaker 3: And then you have someone run against you that all
30:37
Speaker 3: they want to do is talk about all the negative
30:40
Speaker 3: far left stuff, and that's not what people want to
30:42
Speaker 3: hear at the door.
30:43
Speaker 2: You know.
30:43
Speaker 1: I used to when I was walking and knocking, walking
30:46
Speaker 1: to knocking, I would go to Democrats, Independents and Republicans too.
30:51
Speaker 1: I just wanted to go to more frequent voters. Yeah,
30:53
Speaker 1: that's what I's And it didn't make any difference what
30:56
Speaker 1: political party they were in. And I always played this game.
30:59
Speaker 1: If they had my opponent sign in their yard, my
31:01
Speaker 1: campaign would say, don't even bother and I go, Nope,
31:03
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that too, because maybe if I
31:05
Speaker 1: knock on the door, maybe I'll get their vote. Who knows.
31:09
Speaker 1: And you know, Mary, you just brought up a minute
31:10
Speaker 1: ago you said it is one vote. You have one vote.
31:13
Speaker 1: But you know what, every vote does matter. And I'm
31:17
Speaker 1: going to give you an example of old Jean Stothard again,
31:19
Speaker 1: and that's in two thousand and six, I lost a
31:22
Speaker 1: legislative race for District twelve against Steve Lathrop by fourteen
31:27
Speaker 1: votes on a recount. Fourteen votes is what I lost
31:30
Speaker 1: that and it was on a provisional ballot count. It
31:33
Speaker 1: was like ten days after the election. So yes, every vote,
31:37
Speaker 1: absolutely yes, every vote counts.
31:38
Speaker 2: And if you don't, if you don't vote, you know.
31:41
Speaker 3: We had a woman who came into Bacon's office one time,
31:43
Speaker 3: to the campaign office, and she was asking me a
31:46
Speaker 3: million questions and I said, well, first let me ask you.
31:48
Speaker 3: You're registered to vote, aren't you. Well, I'll register if
31:50
Speaker 3: I decide I want to register. Oh so I said, well,
31:53
Speaker 3: we can go next door where they're registering people will vote.
31:55
Speaker 3: I'd love to have you come over there, and I said, well,
31:57
Speaker 3: go do that. Then she said you're having a bad day.
32:00
Speaker 3: I said, no, I'm not.
32:01
Speaker 2: Having a bad day. You just have to register to vote.
32:03
Speaker 1: You can vote, right.
32:05
Speaker 3: Well, she was beside herself, and of course came back
32:07
Speaker 3: in a half hour, lady to bring me a bouquet
32:09
Speaker 3: of flowers.
32:10
Speaker 2: You know, are you'll have a better day. Oh, I said,
32:13
Speaker 2: vote registered to vote.
32:15
Speaker 1: I don't need flowers. I need you to vote. You know,
32:18
Speaker 1: when my kids turned eighteen, that's the first thing I
32:20
Speaker 1: did on their birthday, as I marched them down to
32:22
Speaker 1: the to the DMV at the time and had them
32:26
Speaker 1: registered to vote. Yeah, we all registered to vote. That
32:28
Speaker 1: was no, There was never a question and I never
32:31
Speaker 1: want to miss either. And you know, we could talk
32:32
Speaker 1: about so many things, talking about voting and mail and
32:35
Speaker 1: ballots and things like that, but we're going to run
32:37
Speaker 1: out of time. Mary Barrett's been with us today. We
32:40
Speaker 1: always have a lot to talk about about campaigns. But
32:44
Speaker 1: I think Mary, your your story is particularly interesting because
32:47
Speaker 1: you have your family lifelong democrats got frustrated basically with
32:52
Speaker 1: the system. You're an independent now and I would say
32:56
Speaker 1: you are very open minded. I mean, you're with both parties,
33:00
Speaker 1: but you want to stress how important it is that
33:04
Speaker 1: we familiarize with these candidates and we understand what they
33:08
Speaker 1: are saying to us, and what some of these are
33:10
Speaker 1: saying just to get a vote that isn't true and
33:13
Speaker 1: That's what really bothers me.
33:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just have to you have to be consistent.
33:17
Speaker 3: You have to look at how both people are, what
33:19
Speaker 3: they're saying, and what they're doing. I mean, you can
33:22
Speaker 3: say a lot of things, but if you're doing something different,
33:25
Speaker 3: you know. But you know, Brad Asher, we thought he
33:27
Speaker 3: went to Washington saying I'd get twenty five. I want
33:30
Speaker 3: to have twenty five friends on the Republican side, you know.
33:33
Speaker 3: And when Don Bacon went there and won against Brad,
33:36
Speaker 3: Don went there and he has made more friends. It's
33:40
Speaker 3: amazing the amount of people and the bills that he
33:42
Speaker 3: gets on. And he's doing the right thing.
33:44
Speaker 1: For Nebraska, right.
33:46
Speaker 4: You know.
33:46
Speaker 1: I have to bring up one other thing. I remembered
33:49
Speaker 1: something that was said by by Brad Ashred's son about Brad,
33:54
Speaker 1: and it was actually at Brad's funeral, And do you
33:57
Speaker 1: remember what he said? He said, my dad is like
33:59
Speaker 1: the Northwest Freeway. Sometimes he goes to the right, sometimes
34:03
Speaker 1: he goes to the left, and sometimes he goes right
34:05
Speaker 1: down the middle. But he gets things done. And I
34:07
Speaker 1: really like that he said that, and he made everybody
34:10
Speaker 1: laugh because that is so like Brad Asker.
34:13
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
34:14
Speaker 1: One thing real quick.
34:15
Speaker 2: I was working for Al.
34:16
Speaker 3: Gore and I was down in Oklahoma, and I was
34:20
Speaker 3: staying at this home with Governor Walters, who was out
34:22
Speaker 3: of office by then, but I was staying at his house.
34:24
Speaker 3: And so he had a guy come over, old Jean Stipe,
34:27
Speaker 3: and he was a million years over and all hunched over.
34:29
Speaker 3: And we were there one time and Gore had come
34:33
Speaker 3: and he says, well. One of the other senators said, well,
34:37
Speaker 3: what do you think about this to this old guy,
34:40
Speaker 3: and he said, well, I'm kind of in the middle
34:41
Speaker 3: of the road. And then this other guy, who was
34:44
Speaker 3: another eighty year old, said, listen, get your He said,
34:48
Speaker 3: there's nothing in the middle of the road but dead
34:50
Speaker 3: armadillas and yellow lines. You get your ass on the right,
34:55
Speaker 3: or you get your ass on the left. And I
34:58
Speaker 3: was like, oh, Jean Stipe, I love you.
35:00
Speaker 1: Mary Barrett, thanks so much for being with us today.
35:03
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it.
35:04
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: You've You're just an absolute delight and you've become such
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Speaker 3: a wonderful friend.
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Speaker 2: And I think I just appreciate everything you do.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, and I appreciate everything you and your family
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Speaker 1: have done. So thank you so much for being with
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Speaker 1: us today.
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Speaker 6: Thanks so much here on a Tuesday morning on the
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Speaker 6: KFAB comment line. Your host Jean Stouth. My name is
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Speaker 6: Peyton Hilock. Thank you so much for Mary Barrett for
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Speaker 6: joining the show this morning. It's always a blast to
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Speaker 6: have her on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a feisty one. And if anyone in Omaha
35:33
Speaker 1: hasn't been to Barrett's Barleycorn down there on Levenworth, you
35:35
Speaker 1: need to go to because you know LSU during the
35:38
Speaker 1: College World Series, that is their favorite place. Really, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and they have LSCU. Surprised they have the LSU signs
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Speaker 1: all over in there. But the Barretts are great fan.
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Speaker 1: She's amazing.
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Speaker 2: She's the perfect mix of sweet and spicy.
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Speaker 1: Yes she is, She definitely is. But you know what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to bring up. Number one, Mary Ewing is
35:55
Speaker 1: presenting the twenty twenty seven budget today at two pm,
35:58
Speaker 1: so we'll have that to talk about tomorrow. But the
36:03
Speaker 1: news today was that Mayor Ewing did a press conference
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Speaker 1: to talk about the new police fire headquarters that is
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Speaker 1: eyed near the Crossroad site. Now that depends on a
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Speaker 1: voter approved bond issue, but I just wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: up we started looking at a new combined fire police
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Speaker 1: headquarters ten years ago. At least ten years ago. We
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Speaker 1: did hire Leo Daily which is the architect at that time.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning, we were looking at just renovating the
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Speaker 1: current headquarter police headquarter downtown and that was for about
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Speaker 1: sixty eight million dollars. Then we decided it might be
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Speaker 1: more efficient, It would be more efficient if we could
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Speaker 1: combine police and fire headquarters and put them together. We
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Speaker 1: had about two sites identified downtown and the design depended
36:56
Speaker 1: on the site. Because one of the sites was really
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Speaker 1: pretty small. Also, it would have to go up, it'd
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Speaker 1: have to go vertical, it would have to have underground parking.
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Speaker 1: So we were looking at different sites to put this,
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Speaker 1: and it looks like that they have picked the crossroad
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Speaker 1: side now. It in twenty twenty five to twenty thirty
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Speaker 1: Capital Improvement Plan. That's a six year plan that tells
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Speaker 1: about the five different types of bonds that people vote on.
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Speaker 1: Those are general obligation bonds that people have to vote for.
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Speaker 1: Those are five different types, and there's a bond issue
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Speaker 1: about every four years. Those are park bonds, public facility,
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Speaker 1: public safety, transportation which are roads, and sewer bonds. Those
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Speaker 1: are the five different types of general obligation bonds that
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Speaker 1: people have to vote on. When in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five to twenty thirty when I left office, there was
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Speaker 1: about two hundred million in the Capital Improvement Plan, is
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Speaker 1: what they said that this facility could cost. We had
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Speaker 1: identified forty million from bonds and the other one hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty million is listed as OL meaning outside local,
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Speaker 1: meaning there was no funding identified yet, so it was
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Speaker 1: supposed to come from or hopefully come from, some private money.
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Speaker 1: Now this is going to be totally paid for with
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Speaker 1: a bond issue. It's not two hundred million, it's around
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Speaker 1: one hundred eighty one million. They still have some bonding
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Speaker 1: capacity already identified, so it would be voter approval of
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five million. Now I ask where
38:31
Speaker 1: they get that authority because it comes from public facility bonds.
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Speaker 1: And just over a year ago, a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: the voters did approve one hundred million to go into
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Speaker 1: the expansion of the Arena Convention Center. So I did
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Speaker 1: ask where did that extra bonding capacity come from under
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Speaker 1: public facility bonds. Now I didn't get an answer on
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Speaker 1: that one. However, it is my thought that it would
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Speaker 1: come from that. The original debt on the Arena convention
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Speaker 1: Center should be paid off in twenty twenty seven, and
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Speaker 1: so that costs the city in debt just to the
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Speaker 1: Rena Convention Center about it's right around twenty million a
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Speaker 1: year and that should be paid off in twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: So that could probably be where that extra bonding capacity
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Speaker 1: is coming from. So a lot of more questions for
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Speaker 1: voters to need to know about this. However, if they
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Speaker 1: do build this, this is an office building at crossroads.
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Speaker 1: This is not a police where they can dispatch fire.
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Speaker 1: This is not a police precinct at all, and you
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Speaker 1: have to consider that that will also have to be built.
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Speaker 1: They should be another place downtown for fire to dispatch
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Speaker 1: downtown where they currently do it would have to be
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Speaker 1: remodeled or a new facility. And then I thought, and
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Speaker 1: I think they still feel like there needs to be
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Speaker 1: a six police precinct downtown because of all the development.
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Speaker 1: There was always four police precincts in for decades, one
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Speaker 1: in each quadron of the city. We edit a fifth
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Speaker 1: out in Elkhorn. But I do think with all the
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Speaker 1: development and all the residents that are coming into the downtown,
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Speaker 1: Midtown area. There should be another police precinct downtown and
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Speaker 1: that should probably We've got to remember that'll probably need
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Speaker 1: to happen too, But this has been in the making
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Speaker 1: for years and years and years. One thing I do
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Speaker 1: want to bring up is okay at the crossroads. That's
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Speaker 1: one thing that's good, but keep in mind that that's
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Speaker 1: not going to bring in any revenue. You want a
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Speaker 1: new development to bring in either more property tax or
40:35
Speaker 1: sales tax, in this being a city owned facility, neither
40:38
Speaker 1: will come in on that piece of property. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: we could talk about that more, and we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the budget proposal tomorrow too, but that is it for
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Speaker 1: us today, and I want to really thank you all
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Speaker 1: for spending this hour with us and listening, and we'd
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Speaker 1: love for you to join us again tomorrow. I'm Jeane
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Speaker 1: Stoutht and this is eleven ten kfab