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Jean's First Day! · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: You can send your emails to comment at kfab dot
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  Speaker 1: com Crystal emails. And I don't know if she means
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  Speaker 1: this in a good way or a bad way. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: she says, Gene, why are you doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Why am I doing a good question? Why am I
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  Speaker 2: doing this?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: You know, because I feel like if that I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot about Omaha, and I know a lot about
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  Speaker 2: the state of Nebraska, and I should I was mayor
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  Speaker 2: for twelve years. If you want to ask me questions
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  Speaker 2: about the budget, about Texas, about economic development, about union contracts,
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  Speaker 2: about roads and potholes and sinkholes. I have a good
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  Speaker 2: background and I'm very knowledgeable on it, and I just
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  Speaker 2: think that this will be this will be fun for
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  Speaker 2: me because there isn't any question that would surprise me.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: As mayor, I love the interaction with people. I loved
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  Speaker 2: having town halls, which are pretty risky anymore. I had
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  Speaker 2: over seventy town hall meetings as mayor, and I never
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  Speaker 2: screened the questions. I just took them as they came,
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  Speaker 2: and I would give provide people answers. If I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know the answers, I would let you know and I
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  Speaker 2: would try to find out the answer for you. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think this just gives people the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: ask me questions and for me to be able to
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  Speaker 2: answer them and still continue to communicate with people.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's not just though asking you questions and either
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  Speaker 1: giving you praise or asking you to defend your time
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  Speaker 1: as mayor of Omaha. If it's possible that some people
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  Speaker 1: don't know who you are twelve years in Omaha as
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  Speaker 1: mayor several years before that in city council Millard's school board. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you've been around quite a bit, which is amazing since
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  Speaker 1: you're only in your early twenties according to the picture
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  Speaker 1: we posted on Facebook. And so it's not just that though.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we do here on Kofabey's talking about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and if you've got something that you just
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  Speaker 1: want to tell people about or comment on, this is
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  Speaker 1: your opportunity to do that as well. But I think
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  Speaker 1: some people know you from a political standpoint, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: not from a personal standpoint. There are even more people
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  Speaker 1: because I've reading the hundreds and hundreds of comments on
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  Speaker 1: social media. I bet who say, is she gonna do
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  Speaker 1: this every day? From Saint Louis Ah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was almost gonna say a live from Saint Louis today
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  Speaker 2: just to get it going.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite you are, I am looking at you, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not via teleputation screen. Your right. I am in Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: I am here. And you know, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: ask me the most annoying thing that happened in the
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  Speaker 2: last twelve years as mayor, it would be that. And
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  Speaker 2: it's just it started out on social media. It's totally false.
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  Speaker 2: People started saying I didn't live here. Now, come on,
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  Speaker 2: you know I live. I moved here in nineteen ninety three.
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  Speaker 2: I've been here thirty three years, same house, same street,
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  Speaker 2: and they keep on saying I lived in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I wasn't even born in Saint Louis. I
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  Speaker 2: was born in Alton, Illinois. I grew up in Wood River, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: It's close to Saint Louis, but it's on the east side.
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  Speaker 2: I lived in Saint Louis for a while, but I
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  Speaker 2: haven't lived there since the nineteen eighties. And people got
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  Speaker 2: this going that I live in Saint Louis. And I
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  Speaker 2: could give you the background on it because I know
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  Speaker 2: the background, and they I couldn't get rid of it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's so easy to prove wrong. Also,
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  Speaker 2: it's all public record. You could look at how long
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  Speaker 2: I've lived here. You could look I don't own property
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. I haven't been there. And then they
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  Speaker 2: started saying, well, I know for sure it's her husband.
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  Speaker 2: I've been married almost four years now to Kevin, that
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  Speaker 2: he's from Saint Louis and he lives there, and I've
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  Speaker 2: heard things like he has children in Saint Louis, he
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  Speaker 2: has a house in Saint Louis. Number one, Kevin's never
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  Speaker 2: been married before. I'm his first marriage. Number two, he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have kids, and he hasn't been in Saint Louis
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  Speaker 2: since the nineteen seventies nineteen seventies, and he's never owned
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  Speaker 2: property there either. He was in med school and he
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  Speaker 2: lived in an apartment. So that rumor just got going
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  Speaker 2: and I couldn't ditch it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think there's some members of the city council
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  Speaker 1: and Democratic opposition and maybe even Republican. Alleged Republican opposition
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  Speaker 1: said pointed out, anytime you were out of town than
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  Speaker 1: the president of the county counsel kind of assumes the
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  Speaker 1: role of mayor, and you were out of town a
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  Speaker 1: lot there, but for familial reason absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, if you look at my first term,
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  Speaker 2: my first four years that started in twenty thirteen, I
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  Speaker 2: never left. I hardly ever left. I hardly ever even
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  Speaker 2: went to meetings because of what you just said, because
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want the president of the city Council to
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  Speaker 2: be the acting mayor.
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  Speaker 1: No offense, Pete, no offense.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't want that to happen. And then you
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  Speaker 2: know what actually happened to me. It was in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty and twenty twenty one. I was dealing with two
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  Speaker 2: personal issues. Number one, my husband that I was married
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  Speaker 2: to was suffering from a mental illness that he was
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  Speaker 2: going downhill quickly. And number two, my ninety five year
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  Speaker 2: old mom who still lived in the house. I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in Wood River, Illinois, not Saint Louis. My sister
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  Speaker 2: and I. My sister lives in Saint Louis. We were
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  Speaker 2: trying to get her out of her house into assisted living.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't out on a cruise or in a spa
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  Speaker 2: or something. I was going to help to get my
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  Speaker 2: mom out of the house I grew up in and
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  Speaker 2: assisted living. One of our local TV stations took a
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  Speaker 2: little snapshot in time of about four or five six
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  Speaker 2: months I think it was, and looked at those times
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  Speaker 2: I was going back and forth to help my mom
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  Speaker 2: and to deal with what was going on with my
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  Speaker 2: husband at the time. That's what I was doing. But
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  Speaker 2: they took this little snapshot in time, and they did
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  Speaker 2: this big thing on TV and put the pictures up
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  Speaker 2: on the wall, and she was gone here and here
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  Speaker 2: and here. But they never looked at the total body
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  Speaker 2: of the work that I did in the time that
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  Speaker 2: I was here. Now, even the first term, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even go on sister city trips. Mayor Subtle, did Mayor
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  Speaker 2: Dob did mayor Fayhi did. Nobody questioned when the guys
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  Speaker 2: were out of town on sister city trips or business.
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  Speaker 2: But they did question me. Now, let me bring up
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  Speaker 2: one other thing, because this is what the city charter says.
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  Speaker 2: The city charter was written and approved in nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 2: eight by a vote of the people. The city charter
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  Speaker 2: is like the constitution on for the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: There's only two charter cities in the state of Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: Omaha and Lincoln. If you change the city charter, it
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  Speaker 2: has to go to a vote of the people. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is important part of this. So when I became
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  Speaker 2: mayor in twenty thirteen, you are required by the city
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  Speaker 2: charter to do a charter convention, and you appoint a
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  Speaker 2: big committee and you get a lot of input and
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  Speaker 2: you go through the entire city charter. You are required
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  Speaker 2: a mayor to have won at least once every ten
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  Speaker 2: years in an year that ends in three. Where that
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  Speaker 2: came from, I don't know, but it was. So I
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  Speaker 2: became mayor in twenty thirteen, I had to get a
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  Speaker 2: charter convention together by the end of that year. So
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  Speaker 2: we put the charter team together, we gave him the
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  Speaker 2: city Charter, we had attorneys assigned to it. And one
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  Speaker 2: thing that kept on popping up was that we needed
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  Speaker 2: to change the portion in the city Charter that says
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  Speaker 2: when the may is out of town, the city Council
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  Speaker 2: President becomes the acting mayor. That is in the charter.
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  Speaker 2: Now that means when the mayor goes to Lincoln, or
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  Speaker 2: if the mayor goes to Gretna, or if the mayor
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  Speaker 2: goes over to Council Bluffs, you are not the acting
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  Speaker 2: You are not the mayor anymore. There is no other
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  Speaker 2: elected position in the state of Nebraska that has that,
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  Speaker 2: not our state senators, not the governor, not the city council.
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  Speaker 1: President goes down to play golf in mar A Lago,
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  Speaker 1: is still the president the White House.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't the mayor any.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to go play golf at mar A Lago
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  Speaker 1: and still be mayor of.
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  Speaker 2: Homo, absolutely, or go to Lincoln to a meeting. So
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  Speaker 2: we talked about that in twenty thirteen, but because we
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  Speaker 2: had to get that charter in by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year that convention, which takes months, we didn't get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to address that. So I brought it back
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  Speaker 2: for the next charter convention, which was due in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, a year that instant three. But I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do it early to get everything done. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get done, so we had it in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I brought that question into the discussion for the Charter
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  Speaker 2: committee to discuss to see if they wanted to put
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  Speaker 2: it on the ballot, because that was the same time
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  Speaker 2: I was going back to help my mom. And then
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  Speaker 2: I put that on the ballot. People put that together
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  Speaker 2: and said, oh, she doesn't want to live here.
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  Speaker 1: That's it so a long answer. You do live in Omaha, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, I think, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: have a winning show here, I think more conversation about
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  Speaker 1: the city charter is probably a bang up idea.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's important because the city charter gives the mayor
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  Speaker 2: and the council their authority.
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  Speaker 1: That was sarcastic, I.
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  Speaker 3: Do.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing of it is is when I moved
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  Speaker 2: to Omaha, Scott, here we go. This is even better.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't move here from Saint Louis. I was living
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  Speaker 2: in Texas for the last time nine years before I
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  Speaker 2: moved here. Both of my kids easily proven they're Texans.
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  Speaker 2: They were born in Galveston. Don't hold that against them.
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  Speaker 2: They're Longhorns, both of my kids, but they were born
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  Speaker 2: in Texas. So I was I moved here from Texas,
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  Speaker 2: not Saint Louis. But you know, I have had people,
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  Speaker 2: business leaders, people that you know and respect in Omaha
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  Speaker 2: come up to me since I have not been mayor anymore,
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  Speaker 2: and said, well, you're going to move back to Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, how can we get rid of this?
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  Speaker 2: So we talk about it today media, Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I will probably bring it up maybe every
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  Speaker 2: day in the next two years, but hopefully we will
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  Speaker 2: get it across to people. I live in Omaha and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not planning on leaving. I love Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: You're hearing here, Jean Stouth, host of the KFAB comment
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  Speaker 1: line on news radio eleven ten KFAB. I am Scott Vorhees,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to open up the phones yet
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  Speaker 1: this hour. A couple more things that have kind of
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  Speaker 1: been asked about, whether it's social media, post or emails,
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  Speaker 1: and that is is Jean starther going to come on
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  Speaker 1: the radio on KFAB and just tell people how wrong
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  Speaker 1: they were that she didn't that they didn't vote for
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  Speaker 1: her to serve another term as mayor in Omaha. Is
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  Speaker 1: it weird to drive around Omaha, live here in Omaha,
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  Speaker 1: not be mayor of Omaha after doing that for twelve years?
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  Speaker 1: Are you bitter?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not bitter at all. In fact, and I've
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  Speaker 2: said this a gazillion times, I loved being mayor. I
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  Speaker 2: really did, and I hope it showed. I love to
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  Speaker 2: go to work every day. Every director, with the exception
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  Speaker 2: of Bob Stuby, who was hired in two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 2: Public Works and Todd Schmater was hired by Jim Subtle.
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  Speaker 2: I hired every director, I hired every person in the
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  Speaker 2: Mayor's office, who, by the way, is still there. I
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  Speaker 2: love going to work, I love those people I worked with.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like we were making progress. I just loved it,
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  Speaker 2: and I could have so easily served another four years.
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  Speaker 2: I served twelve. I could have easily done it because
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  Speaker 2: I was so used to it. But now that I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: and I have no regrets. But when I reflect back,
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  Speaker 2: I think twelve years is a long time to be mayor,
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  Speaker 2: especially since I was on city council four years before that,
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  Speaker 2: and I was on the Miller school Board eleven years
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  Speaker 2: before that. So I've been in an elected position for
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven years. And you know, I loved it, but
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  Speaker 2: it was time and I am. I tell people, retirement's
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  Speaker 2: the best job I've ever had. I loved what I did,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not bitter at all.
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  Speaker 1: Take it off. As mayor, you wear certain hats are
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  Speaker 1: in the case of mayor, you ing a superman outfit
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  Speaker 1: is so take off your mayor Superman outfit here. Because
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  Speaker 1: we were talking yesterday and you said, I think only
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  Speaker 1: people in this town know me as just being mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Omaha, and I'm so much more than that. Are you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think who are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Who is the world? I think you are?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well you know what I mean. I started out
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  Speaker 2: with being a critical care nurse, and I loved that.
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  Speaker 2: I've loved everything I've done, really and I love being
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  Speaker 2: a critical care nurse. And I will tell nurses that
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  Speaker 2: I talked to. I just talked to a group at
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  Speaker 2: Creighton the other day. Once your nurse, you're always a nurse.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like it. And so I have a great
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  Speaker 2: background in healthcare. You know, I was married for forty
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  Speaker 2: one years to a physician. He passed away. I got
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  Speaker 2: remarried to another physician, which I'd love to tell you
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  Speaker 2: our story there because we dated forty five years ago.
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  Speaker 2: But then, you know, I had children. I have two kids,
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth and Andrew. Elizabeth is here in Omaha. Andrews and Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: both very successful. Each have two little grandsons that I have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just I loved everything I've done. I
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  Speaker 2: love being on the Millard school Board. I thought being
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  Speaker 2: on the school boards was one of the most important
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  Speaker 2: things anybody could volunteer to do because you know it's
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  Speaker 2: a non paying job, but who cares. I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: the money. I wanted to do what I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I needed to do in Omaha. I had not lived
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  Speaker 2: here that long when I first ran for the Millard
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  Speaker 2: school Board and then in two thousand and six, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to remind a few people that they I would
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  Speaker 2: like to forget it myself. But I ran for the
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska Legislature against Steve Lathrop. He was my neighbor. He
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  Speaker 2: lived five houses down from me when we ran against
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  Speaker 2: each other, and I lost that race on a recount
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  Speaker 2: by fourteen points. So I learned a lot about a
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  Speaker 2: defeat too, and I just felt like there was something
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  Speaker 2: else calling my name, and so then I decided to
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  Speaker 2: run for city council. That was very difficult too, because
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  Speaker 2: there had not been a woman on city council for
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  Speaker 2: over a decade. Brenda Council was a last woman and
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  Speaker 2: that was hard. I mean, people were telling me all along,
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  Speaker 2: you know, honey, go back and be on the school board.
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  Speaker 2: That's what girls do. I was told that.
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  Speaker 1: Who told you that? Many people? You tell Hal Dobb
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  Speaker 1: to stop saying that I did.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't how oh and I've got a good story
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  Speaker 2: about that too. But you know, I love being on
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  Speaker 2: the city council. I really did. I loved all those
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  Speaker 2: different things because I think even as in high school,
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  Speaker 2: I always my mom and dad instilled this in me.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like we all have the job to give
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  Speaker 2: back to our community, and we all needed to do
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  Speaker 2: that in some way or another. I was going to
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  Speaker 2: do it no matter what form. When I was on
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  Speaker 2: city council I loved, but I really didn't like how
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  Speaker 2: the mayor was running the city, and that was Jim Subtle.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought I had two choices. I could run
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  Speaker 2: for city council again enjoy it, or I could do
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  Speaker 2: the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and
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  Speaker 2: run for mayor. And I decided to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Did you win?
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  Speaker 2: I did win that one. That was in twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: and that one I won. That one I won twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: I won twenty seventeen. That was Heath Mellow, who he
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  Speaker 2: and I are good friends now. I love Heath Mellow.
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  Speaker 1: That was Amberg.
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  Speaker 2: That was a tough, tough race. He was young, savvy,
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  Speaker 2: great guy.
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  Speaker 1: Love him.
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  Speaker 2: I work with him a lot now. And then in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, it was R. Jane Eery and I
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  Speaker 2: won that one by sixty eight percent.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Rj sweet guy. He was the only person in political
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  Speaker 1: history to call and concede the race the night before
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  Speaker 1: the election. It was really really n I think to
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  Speaker 1: get a little more glimpse into who you are, let's
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  Speaker 1: go back here to comment at kfab dot com. Emails
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  Speaker 1: coming in, this one from William who says, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: KFAB Mayor. A gun or guns do you have and
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  Speaker 1: how often do you shoot?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's an interesting one. And you know I
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  Speaker 2: remembered when I got my concealed carry that was right
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  Speaker 2: in the very beginning, and I remember you. Scott Vorhees
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  Speaker 2: had a picture of me on on kfab calling me
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  Speaker 2: Calamity Jean with a gun and holster. I look kind
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  Speaker 2: of like Christy Nome. But you know, you know I
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  Speaker 2: have I have quite a few, I really do, and
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  Speaker 2: of course I know how to use them. When I
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  Speaker 2: was the mayor, I had the great opportunity to go
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  Speaker 2: out to the training center at Rainwood where the police
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  Speaker 2: do practice and learn how to shoot in the in
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  Speaker 2: the inside range that they have there. And I was
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  Speaker 2: always with a trainer and he was the and he's
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  Speaker 2: still one of the trainers out there. Dave Statswoodz is
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  Speaker 2: his name. And he was so good. Yeah, he's great.
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  Speaker 2: He taught me really everything that I need to know.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, I got to tell you, I
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  Speaker 2: am a pretty good shot and we we would. He
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: would help me a lot. I think the last gun
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I bought was a was a glock. Uh, just the
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: the bigger one. Gosh, it's it a sixteen. I have
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: to stop and think the same size as the Service
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: revolvers were. But I have I have quite a lot.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I have a Kimber I have that's a real little
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: one that I like. I thought it would be good
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: for concealed Carrie, but it's so little, and I have
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: big hands. I don't like how it shoots big hands.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I do, I do. He's looking at my hands.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: You do have a big hands?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Not a good visual?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hold it really close to the microphone. People see
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: your hands. I've never known it. Now that you said that,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I can unsee it.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: The big like they're like Catcher's mitz.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Do you know.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I'll tell I got to tell you this story when
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I was on the city council. This is a good one.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: This shows you how much I struggled with about my
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: gender when I was first on city council.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of people do that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it. I was, you know, I was
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the first woman. And when you pass an ordinance, which
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: is a law, there's three separate readings on three separate days,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: and the first reading is publication, it's on the agenda.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: The second public hearing, and the third is the city
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: council votes. So during the public hearing when I was
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: first on the council, we'd have all of these man
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: developers come down and they would address us as they
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: would say, councilman. And I think that's fine, that's gender neutral,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: call me counselman. I don't care. And one day a
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: guy came down and he goes councilman, and he looked
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: at me and he goes, oh, and you too, honey,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: in this day and age, and I but going along
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: with that. When I was first on the council, I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: had so much email that my colleagues on the council,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: the other six men, because there's seven of us, never
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: got And one was about my hands, which made me think,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: what you're talking about my hands now? And one guy,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: because as you could see, nobody can see in your audience.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: But I talk with my hands a lot, and some
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: guy wrote me this long email one day and said,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: you have the ugliest man hands I've ever seen.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: At least that doesn't stick with you wrote that to.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Me, and I thought, well, buddy, you just wasted ten
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: seconds of your life you'll never get back.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: But I do have big There is a lot of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: opportunity coming up here next for you to be a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: part of kfab's comment line with Jeane Stuth, because that's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: what the show is. Yes, it's a little bit country,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit rock and roll. We're going to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: have fun doing it to everyone. You know. Tie down, Grandma,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Matt. You're on news radio eleven ten
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: KFAB with Jean Stothard.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Hey, oh sorry, go ahead, Gene.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Ever going to run for senator or governor of Nebraska.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: That's an easy answer, and the answer is no. You
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: know what I like I said earlier, I have been
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: an elected office twenty seven years now. I've loved it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but my days of running for a political office are over.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I just I want to do other things right now,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and I don't want to run I don't want to
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: run for another political office. I said, I don't want
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: to knock on another door or ask anybody for another dime.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I want to help other candidates and I will do that,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and I am doing that. We've got a lot of
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: good elected officials in Nebraska and I know all of them,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: enjoy working with them, and I'll do whatever I can.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: But I do not want to run for a political
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: office again. Honestly, several years ago, I considered governor for
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: about ten minutes and then I decided, no, that's nothing
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I want to do. I enjoyed being mayor too much,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: so my days of running for political office are over.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And you could you could take that one to the bank.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much for that call. Matt.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: We go next to As I told you, it would
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: not be too long before this issue came up. Our
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: next call is from Nick. Nick. You're on news radio
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: eleven ten kfab. It's the comment line with Jeans Dot
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: There go ahead.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Yes, hello, Jene hi Hi. I own a business and
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: I owned the property on the new streetcar line. Yes,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: and I don't really understand the TITH financing or where
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: the money's coming from. Is it on just new businesses
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: opening up on the streetcar line or is it on
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: existing businesses also?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: You know it. There are several basically buckets of money
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: for the construction of the streetcar. And when I left office,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: we had over a billion new projects approved. We had
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: about another two hundred million in the process, and about
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: another three hundred million in the pipeline, and that was
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: a total of about one point five billion dollars worth
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: of new projects. Any new project along the streetcar line,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and that is within three blocks of the streetcar is
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: given twenty five percent of their tiff and there are
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: only certain tiff eligible expenses to the streetcar because they
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: are going to benefit the most. And then there is
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: what we called an area influence, which is the next
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: three blocks on either side of the rail, so that
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: goes out to six blocks, and they give ten percent
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: of their tith to the streetcar. So that is it
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is projected based on that number and from other parts
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of existing existing commercial and multifamily projects, that the finances
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: in the streetcar area of influence and in the quarter
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: is going to be about three point nine billion over
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the next fifteen years. That is more than enough that
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: will generate more than enough revenue to pay for the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: streetcar itself. Remember, the street car is going to be
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: around four hundred million, so that is going to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: that's going to generate at least nine hundred million dollars
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: worth of revenue. So there is you know, it's it's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the new construction. There is existing commercial and multifamily properties,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: but there are no single family, are no duplexes that
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: are going to have to do anything as far as
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: is the revenue going to the streetcar itself. So but
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: in those developments that are on the streetcar route are
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: are We're way ahead of where we need to be actually,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and so that I think that we're head of the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: game of the what the projected total will be. And
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: so I think the streetcar is moving along like like
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it should as far as what we projected how to
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: pay for the street car. The taxpayers are not going
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to be paying for the street car out of out
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: of their tax.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: All right, back to back streetcar calls, Nick, thank you
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: very much for that one. Ruby, real quick here with
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Jean Stuth. You're on the KFAB comment line on news
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: radio eleven ten. KFAB. Go ahead, Ruby, good.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Morning, I live along the streetcar route, and I think
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: that this is a good idea. However, the residents and
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: businesses are suffering due to the parking issue, and I
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: was wondering if she, as mayor Jean had any kind
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: of input on what kind of relief we may be
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: able to get. I have received several tickets in the
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: amounts of forty dollars a piece parking along the route
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: just because the parking box was not working, and it's
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: becoming a hardship for residents who live here and need
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: to park their car for one reason or another, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: I was wondering what her input on that would be.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the question too, And you know, I
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: don't have a lot of input anymore. But when I
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: was mayor and we were first talking about developing the streetcar,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that issue came out loud and clear about what about
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the businesses that would be and the people, the residents
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: that live there along the streetcar route during construction. And
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: you know that I know the current Mary Mary Ewing
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: has talked about some relief funds through the chamber that
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: was already set up and discussed and planned when I
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was still mayor. Now here's the real issue. Though when
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: we first started planning the streetcar, I realized that there
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was going to be disruption along the route because there's
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: really two phases. Number one was doing the infrastructure under
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: the ground that disrupt the businesses and the traffic in
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the area. And then two, they're going to come back
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and put the rails in, so there's a second disruption again.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: But when we were first planning the streetcar, if you
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: can remember, the streetcar was supposed to be completed in
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, so it wasn't there was a period
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: of disruption. I wanted to make sure that we had
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: a fund created that we could help the businesses out
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: that were suffering from the hardships of the construction and
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: people having to park in other areas and not get
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in park in front of the businesses directly, et cetera.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: And we set that up while I was still mayor.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: But however, now the street car projected final finished date
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: is twenty twenty eight, so now there's two more years
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: added on. That wasn't that way when I was still mayor,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and that does concern me. And most of that is
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: because of the infrastructure work that MUD is doing. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I could talk about that for hours. But because of that,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the businesses and the people that live along the route
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: are going to have hardship for a lot longer than
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: originally we thought there would be.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Ruby, thank you very much for that phone call. The
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: streetcar is the biggest issue for our town here over
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the next couple of years.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Absolutely is.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I also am serving here as producer and rodeo clown
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to make sure it's not just streetcar streetcar streetcar, or
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you defending your position as mayor or getting praised for it,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people listening to us,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: not just around the region, but anywhere you are with
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: our free iHeartRadio app. In fact, you can send us
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a message via the talkback mike. That's a little microphone
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: icon on your screen on iHeartRadio, and you can send
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: us a message as Scott has done here from Wyoming.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Or one retired nurse to another.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: It's great to hear you on the radio.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Maybe you should go as a former nurse or retired nurse.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I'll do I like that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: No such thing as a former nurse.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I know, once a nurse, always a nurse.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Well hang on, it's a.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Great airy on the radio. Thank you and greetings from Miaomi.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: See that's recorded there with the message there. He's he's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: not live for you to talk to. But our next
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: caller is he goes by? Is it Donald Donald bacone,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: congressman from Nebraska's second district. Well, you're all with Mayor Stothard.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I got a tough question for the mayor. Does she
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: like crispy bacon, butter, Canadian bacon, turkey bacon, BEEFA what's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: your favorite bacon?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Hi?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Don Bacon? I okay, you should know this because we've
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: had breakfast together. I like crispy bacon. But do you
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: know where? Do you know where I first met you?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, Don Bacon?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: It was the it was the Porter Pig.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: It was it was at bacon It was at bacon Fest,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Bacon Fat. It was at bacon Fest. That's where we met.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And you had a T shirt with a strip of
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: bacon on. I remember that. I do like Christy Bacon.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you and thank you for this morning. Thank you
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: for all your service.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Always good to hear from Congressman Don Bacon here on
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: eleven ten kfab. You can be a part of the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: kfab comment line as well. Four oh two, five, five
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: eight eleven ten. That's four oh two five five eight
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: eleven ten. Or you can email comment at kfab dot
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: com and you'll have to excuse me when I refer
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to you as mayor. Sometimes once you have the title,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you always have the title. I'm going to see, Uh,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Mayor's Subtle and Fayhee and I think Dobb tonight, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: they all are also referred to as mayor.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: You earn that. It's like the president. When you're a mayor,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: you earn that title for your life. I still when
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I see Hal Dobb or Mike Faye, I still call
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: him mayor. I mean it's it's out of respect.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He thinks he's still the mayor, though, well don't it
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: could be.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But you know what, I've had so many people after
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I have not been in office, say what do we
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: call you now? And I'll say, Gene works.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: It's fine, but we as you mentioned here earlier this hour,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I did give you the nickname Calamity Gene. You did,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you were the root and Tutinus mayor in the West. Uh,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: my friends, several emailers are using a different nickname. How
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do you Jeene's author feel about the nickname?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Mean, Jean, I knew you were going to say that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I knew it, but you know what, I will wear
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: that with pride. You know that that started out like
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: like golly, probably in twenty thirteen with my first term.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: But as many of your listeners know, being a woman
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: in an elected office and being a woman with some
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: power and authority, you got to play that very very carefully.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And you don't want well, you want to be strong,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you want to be a leader, you want to be decisive.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: You want to show people that you have the capability
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: of doing the job like everyone else. But you got
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to be careful with coming off to a gruff. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: people nickname me mean Jean, and I said, you know what,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I've been called a lot worse. So I will wear
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that with mean gene is fine. I think if they
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: think it means I'm decisive or I'm a decision maker, fine,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that's fine. So you can call me mean Gene if
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you want to, but I'm really not mean.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Jean Stothard he the host of the KFAB Comment Line.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Our next call here at four oh two five five
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: eight eleven ten comes from David. Hello, David, you're live
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Jane, It's good to be able to
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: talk to you, Thankes, caulations on your new show.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's gonna be fun, and I really I
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: think I'm going to really enjoy this, especially with Scott
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Vorhees sitting across the table from me right now. But
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: this will be fun.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: You guys are going to do great. Listen. I'm good
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: friends with Hel Dobb and his wife was very good
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: friends of my mother. They were in some women's sorority
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Little Old Ladies, Peo or whatever, so I know how
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: real well, and I thought he was the best ever
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: until you came into being as being our mayor. And
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: you're the best. You're awesome. I love you, and what
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do I'll keep you short.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering as your show progresses here, will you eventually
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: want to get a guest on the show, so you
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: could be like Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello whatever
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: else I want. Somebody's a straight man, somebody's funny. Would
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you once a month bring Gary Sadelmayer back in.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: You know, I've I've actually talked to Gary and asked
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: him if he would come on, you know, if he
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: would be willing to come on. Sure, Gary's retired now
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and he's loving life, and I'm not sure he.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Must commit to anything, but I think it could be
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: so much fun. I think he so much fun the
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: two of you and he's I think that'd be great.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: He's a good he's a good friend.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: And free car I want to talk about having fun
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: on this show. I think you guys would be great together.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm up for talking about just about anything.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: And what you said about Hal is right to I
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: love Hal Dobb. He's great and he is like the
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: ever ready bunny. He has got so much energy and
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I've used him as a mentor and so I really
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: enjoyed working with him, and I still will. I'll have
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: him on the show too.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just glad he takes your calls. He won't talk
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to me. Actually, I had talked to Gary yesterday. I said,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: would you ever host the KFABE comment line when Jean
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Stothard is gone? And he said, maybe.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: That'd be so much fun.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. Yeah. Hello there, Dave number two here
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: on news radio eleven to ten KFAB with the host
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of the comment line, Jean Stothard.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Uh terrific it's Dave Winger aka Wingy Wingy. Yeah, Jeane
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and Scott. I don't take Scott's calls either. Congratulations. This
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: is monumental for Omaha Radio. What a brilliant idea to
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: put you on the area. One of my favorite favorite people,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: let alone conversational is and I will be tuning in regularly.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: I just called to congratulate you well, Wingie.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: If people aren't familiar with your name, I'm sure they are,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: but with Boomer Radio and you know, you have asked
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: me to be on your show a lot, and you
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: want to be there at some god awful six thirty
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: or seven in the morning, and I do it. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: do it every time. It was so much fun being
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: in your studio and being on the air with you,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: and I know we would always play songs and sing
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: songs together, and I enjoyed working with you too. So
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: thanks for the call.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Oh honey, you know you're talking about being a nurse.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I always think of you as a care giver. You've
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: got such a big heart, and I just think there's
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: a perfect format. What a wonderful ideam. I'm glad you
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: said yes.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks so much for the call.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Thanks Dave, and the happy birthday, my friend, Happy birthday.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Wingy here on news radio eleven ten KFAB and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, radio one oh two. Never you can never
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  Speaker 1: mention any other radio stations. They don't exist. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: break that rule all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Did I make my first mistake?
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  Speaker 1: No, I have friends all every station, all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Is just one of those radio things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, wing he's a good guy. Though he's a hoot.
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  Speaker 2: He's not.
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  Speaker 1: But we love Dave. It's a chance for you to
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  Speaker 1: speak up, sound off, and we've got Chris on the
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  Speaker 1: line at four oh two, five five eight eleven ten. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: You're on news radio eleven ten kfa B with the
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  Speaker 1: host of the comment line, Jeans Author.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, great, Hey, Hi you here, Jean.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, thanks for calling you, bet Hey.
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  Speaker 7: Sure enjoyed you as a as a mayor and all
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  Speaker 7: the achievements that you go to you for for the
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  Speaker 7: citizens of Omaha. Question for you is that I don't
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  Speaker 7: think I'm the only one that has some concerns about
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  Speaker 7: the direction that the governor is taking, possibly taking our city,
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  Speaker 7: and in the direction that you have worked so hard
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  Speaker 7: for you also the current mayor are working I don't
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  Speaker 7: get a sense that this current governor has the best
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  Speaker 7: interest of Omaha and his lack of being able to
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  Speaker 7: communicate effectively to the you know, to the citizens of
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  Speaker 7: Omaha and the rest of Nebraska, should should I be
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  Speaker 7: and the rest of the people concerned on his lack
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  Speaker 7: of maybe of leadership and clarity on where he wants
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  Speaker 7: to see.
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  Speaker 3: Omaha going to continue going.
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  Speaker 7: My my fears is that we're going to start losing
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  Speaker 7: what you have worked so hard to do and what
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  Speaker 7: I think what the current mayor is wanting to do too.
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  Speaker 7: And so that's that's what I wanted to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for your call. And you know, all the
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  Speaker 2: time that I mayor, I enjoyed working with Governor Pillen,
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  Speaker 2: I really had. He would answer my questions at any time.
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  Speaker 2: If I didn't agree with him, we would talk about
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  Speaker 2: it and I would let him know how I felt,
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  Speaker 2: because I felt my job as mayor of Omaha was
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  Speaker 2: to protect Omaha. And I'm going to give you an example.
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  Speaker 2: When he was working on doing the revenue caps for
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  Speaker 2: with the legislature that would only allow us to increase
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  Speaker 2: our revenues by a certain percentage every year, we had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conversations and a lot of hard conversations
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  Speaker 2: back and forth with each other. But I have to
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  Speaker 2: I had to keep it in my mind that he
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  Speaker 2: is looking at the entire state, and although I care
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  Speaker 2: about the entire state, my first priority was the city
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  Speaker 2: of Omaha. And at the same time, the city of
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  Speaker 2: Omaha is the biggest city in the state of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we are not a little city, Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: We are the thirty ninth largest city in the country.
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  Speaker 2: We have right under five hundred thousand people. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln is the second with right under three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: then there are a lot smaller cities. So the governor
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  Speaker 2: absolutely recognizes how important Omaha is, important Omaha success is,
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  Speaker 2: and when Omaha succeeds, the rest of the state exceeds.
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  Speaker 2: So I will tell you I had no trouble with
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  Speaker 2: at all with talking to the governor, letting the governor
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  Speaker 2: know how I felt about things, and with him responding
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  Speaker 2: and answering me very very quickly. But you know, he
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  Speaker 2: has a different leadership style than I do. As he
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  Speaker 2: says many times, I'm a tough German, and he is.
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  Speaker 2: But he's very successful. He's a businessman, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: very smart. He's a veterinarian, and I think that his
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  Speaker 2: intentions are all very very good for the state of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: We are getting a lot of great questions here to
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  Speaker 1: comment at kfab dot com. Many of these will be
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  Speaker 1: held over till tomorrow. You know, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: do this again. Tomorrow. I'll be back. I got an
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  Speaker 1: email earlier this morning. I thought it's so funny that said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to listen to this every Thursday. Yes, no,
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  Speaker 1: it starts today.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: It ten yues tomorrow and then ever after until you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely sick of us. But even though I've got some
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  Speaker 1: great questions related to city and politics and all that
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  Speaker 1: stuff here, just to prove that this can be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Maybe the most important question here
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: for Gene Stoter comes from Matt sent us to comment
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  Speaker 1: at kfab dot com, says, please ask Gene stoutht why
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  Speaker 1: do hot dogs come in a ten pack package and
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  Speaker 1: buns in eight to a package? I need an answer
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  Speaker 1: to this insanity.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, what a good question. And you know I always
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  Speaker 2: say that if I don't know the answer, I will
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  Speaker 2: find out. And I don't know the answer on that one,
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  Speaker 2: But what a good question. I will ponder that the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the day.
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  Speaker 1: The hot dog dog to bun ratio from what you
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  Speaker 1: buy package to a pack of buns is one that
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  Speaker 1: is ever maddening.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it depends on the size of the
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  Speaker 2: hot dog of how many are in the package. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of which, we got people emailing and saying
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  Speaker 1: ask gans to out there boxers or briefs, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do that. Just because you email does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that your question gets read on the air. So
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we've just got a moment here to wrap up here
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  Speaker 1: at first show. How do you think you want to
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  Speaker 1: do this again tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: I do want to do it again. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: great fun and I really love giving people the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to call in to ask questions and the sound off.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we invite people to call and and anything goes. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't shy away from hard questions, as
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  Speaker 2: mayor I did over seventy town hall meetings. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: ready to take your questions. And if I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the answers, I'll find out the answers for you.
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