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February 10, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm Steve K. Finn, Congress turns up the heat on key immigration officials for the first time since the administration's deadly crackdown in Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_10]: The officials defended President Trump's immigration crackdown and declared the nation's border security as stronger than ever, ice-acting director Todd Lyon's urge lawmakers to tone down the rhetoric against his agents.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The number of Americans who expect they will have, quote, high quality life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the years ahead, has dropped to a two-decade low, according to a new Gallup poll.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 6 and 10 people surveyed, said they expected their lives would be significantly better in the future than today.
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[SPEAKER_21]: No research finds about 1 in 5 children ages 2 to 19 are classified as OB, so most 2 in 5 adolescents over weight or obese.
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[SPEAKER_33]: Great Davis has become a TikTok sensation for his iguanat tacos.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I removed all the iguana meat from the bone, added in my favorite seasonings, and tossed it into the frying pan so that it could get nice and crispy.
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[SPEAKER_21]: President Trump has threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River.
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[SPEAKER_17]: The Hotline with Jeff Graham is here, good afternoon to your one-and-a-all, and what kind of a day are we having?
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[SPEAKER_17]: A little bit nicer, a little bit of moderation in temperatures, it's 31 degrees right now in water.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Tell me, I expected to click up a couple more before the day's done.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Not a great day, but it's a tad above normal.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And we haven't been above normal in a long, long time.
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[SPEAKER_17]: temperatures over the next 10 days or so appear to be at least anywhere from 20s to 30s and so we're hopefully we can gradually start to eat some of this uh... ice and don't forget and i know you know a lot of you know but as things melt there's a ton of ice on your eaves that's the edge of your roof and icicles
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[SPEAKER_17]: on the edge of the house and it's going to come crashing down.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So kids, pets, vehicles, keep them away from there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Wicked dangerous, okay?
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[SPEAKER_17]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: What's he telling us at?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Or are we already new?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, I'm just doing it in the public service, okay?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Now, thanks going on, Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado has ended his bid for Governor, making it even more certain now, that Kathy Hockel wins another term.
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[SPEAKER_17]: She will win.
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[SPEAKER_17]: There was no Democratic primary now with Mr. Delgado out.
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[SPEAKER_17]: He's done.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, he did some bad things.
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[SPEAKER_17]: They already took away his cell phone, his security detail, everything, but he gets still gets 180,000 years, so that's great.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And then, over on the Republican side, Bruce Blakeman picked a sheriff from Fulton County, and that person took the job for Nutanic Governor and then turned it down, then he tried to get well-barkly, if Assemblywoman, no, another Assemblywoman, no.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And finally got a sheriff from Madison County to accept his lieutenant governor not.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Even Republicans from up here didn't bother to go to the convention in Long Island.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's just what looked to be such a promising year with least a fine act and maybe take on at least give Kathy a local run for her money and now it's a disaster.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_19]: Mayor on the local side.
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[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, did you see the council meeting last night?
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[SPEAKER_17]: I didn't watch it.
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[SPEAKER_19]: I said I have the heck with it, so you're not concerned about a 30% high-contact No Well, well, I'm more concerned about utility rates at the moment, but we're not the tax increase in the city
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[SPEAKER_17]: three and a half may have more than a total city budget than a mystery dead statement or well I read a story I read a statement in channel seven story about it's spending supposed to grow up five million dollars but then they said city officials said to take these numbers with a grain of salt so I don't know what they mean but yeah possible employee 75% of the city budget is employee salaries benefits well yeah but that's true of more
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[SPEAKER_20]: Oh yeah, well look at how can wages be higher than the total city budget.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Maybe I misread it Although not higher than the budget there They represent 75% of the budget Wow, so we're gonna have to cut a jobs.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I'm sorry everybody There's no guarantee you've got to job for life if you work for the city water town and another thing on that mayor most cities people don't live in water town Yeah, the people that came to the council meeting to support the city manager
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[UNKNOWN]: to these people don't live here.
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[SPEAKER_20]: If you want our money, we live here, please.
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[SPEAKER_20]: 35% of this property stack is up because we got a non-profit, a levy street corner.
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[SPEAKER_20]: How can you balance a bunch with 30% of the property stack?
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[SPEAKER_20]: We've got a city manager, he's just going to pay raise, mayor.
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[SPEAKER_20]: living in the city.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I got a bunch of BS.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I never got a straight answer.
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[SPEAKER_20]: He signed a contract.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Everybody wants a city manager in the city.
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[SPEAKER_20]: We never had that before.
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[UNKNOWN]: And then I know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't want a city manager at all.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I just soon get rid of that form of government.
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[SPEAKER_20]: You've had a gold little mayor form of government.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_20]: You know, city manager has to live even Danny French is a grief for me.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Any agrees you have to have the city manager to head cheese here, living in the city limits.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So what was said at the council meeting, did the council... Mr. Schultz said we're looking at 30% tax increase, thank God we're frank with these stuff.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Ah!
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[SPEAKER_20]: These will I see.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Maybe.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Maybe Mr. Schoen's looking at that?
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[SPEAKER_20]: I mean... Yeah, 30% mayor.
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[SPEAKER_20]: and they just check my taxes on the county bill, Bobby Furse's on Glenshow, he's given me a bunch of BS garbage.
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[SPEAKER_20]: They raised a tax rate, Bobby.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I got my bill, my bill went up from last year.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Okay.
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[UNKNOWN]: I got a hundred million in a damn reserve fund, it's totally ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_20]: And you got the electric bill going up.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_20]: The cable bill, 15 bucks more a month from a box city,
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[SPEAKER_16]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_20]: $7,000 more more, come on!
12:52
[SPEAKER_20]: I call them up, cut me down the basic cable, fell up with you, people.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I don't believe you, but... You got these people running these damn companies, making more bonus money in the year than I may in a lifetime.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_20]: You're matching the money that National Green CEO gets, you're not even in this country, mayor.
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[SPEAKER_20]: uh... you're correct on that one fifty percent higher look at those in this area then the whole camp concrete and they're gonna get higher and you're gonna pay more and uh... and uh... and they don't want to hear any ways but i thought we're looking at thirty percent though doing the bobby coming down the
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[SPEAKER_20]: 15 or something, it tells it to us a favor.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I told the same manager, cut the 100,000 to the zoo.
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[UNKNOWN]: They just got a 100,000 donation.
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[UNKNOWN]: We don't know the way the money went.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, they aren't going to do that.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Who's a former city manager, Mayor?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Ten micks.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Ten micks.
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[UNKNOWN]: Watch Mr. Schoen, the sign and not the exposure, be it.
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[UNKNOWN]: It becomes a zoo consumer.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, I did.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I hear we go again.
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[SPEAKER_20]: We're not going to have any idea when this taxpayer money is going.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Looks like you're going to be there for that.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, yeah, me.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_20]: More or less to mix once.
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[UNKNOWN]: This is the same thing we got screwed on the golf course.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And I've disposed your agreements.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_20]: You're reaching in the mic pocket.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I don't know where the hell the money is going.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't blame you.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
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[UNKNOWN]: What do you mean?
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[UNKNOWN]: You're the next mayor.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, yeah, but they started without public hearing on block grants.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I didn't want to listen through that and I was tired.
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[UNKNOWN]: What if he just started?
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[UNKNOWN]: I grew with you there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Now, what did they say?
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[SPEAKER_17]: What did the council members?
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[SPEAKER_17]: The two newbies.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Let's talk about them.
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[SPEAKER_17]: The old ones, they're gone.
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[SPEAKER_17]: But the two new ones.
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[SPEAKER_17]: What did they say?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Nobody used.
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[SPEAKER_20]: way to off this all of it did wait to see let's be honest here and you're talking 25 30 people you'd have to do to get rid of that tax increase we're up to some of the four fighters live outside watercolumn probably at least four out of five I'd say yeah no problem anybody fire chief live in the city now lives in the fire drill there's a police chief live in the city
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[UNKNOWN]: have to have the part-me-head in the city limits.
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[SPEAKER_20]: It's just, it's not even worth arguing about, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_20]: It's just common sense.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It seems that way, but they don't look at it.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Yeah, they can't get good people, they don't, if they live on the city, but only, you know, live in the city, or you don't take the damn job.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Mr. Wagner signed a contract he has to move in the city and it was swept under the road.
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[SPEAKER_20]: He's qualified for the job.
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[SPEAKER_20]: I'm not arguing that.
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[SPEAKER_20]: All of a lot smarter than I am.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Absolutely no reason for the city manager to live in Chumal.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, listen, I mean, everybody just keeps always saying, and I'm not saying he isn't smarter than you are or smarter than I am, but
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[SPEAKER_17]: You know, just to come out and say you're going to get a 30% tax increase if that's what that doesn't sound smart to me.
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[UNKNOWN]: Mr. Schultz and Mr. Mills.
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[UNKNOWN]: Mr. Mills said it.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Oh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the health care, the wages and telling us in the pocketbook.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Don't know where you can even as out of the past, this city is tax exempt.
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[UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.
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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know what you can do.
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[SPEAKER_17]: No way everybody's afraid of nonprofits.
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[SPEAKER_17]: you're going to get ripped yeah I got you there well you're upset and I don't blame you okay well wait to hear from thank you right now it's the angry man right here on the hotline and you listen to the media he went to the meeting um yeah I don't know
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[SPEAKER_17]: uh... let's see somebody texted in the department has live outside the city and we have to pay for their transportation to that's true in any cases uh... i don't know you know you bring this that topic up and immediately said what do you got to get some is a nice guy yeah we can't find anybody else and don't have anybody else
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[SPEAKER_17]: I hear a lot of people talking about somebody the other day said they live on tonight street and they got a grid bill for 1,400.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You're getting four figure utility bills now and now you say, well you should just be able to pay it and if you can't manage your finances, I've heard those things but there's a lot of people who are hurting.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And just a blifely come out and say you're going to get a 30% tax increase.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I am.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Good afternoon you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_17]: There is a woman that doesn't care about taxes.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well, it's funny I keep getting these messages on my phone that they've found to me and then come text, stimulus check, and a lot of a lot of a lot of, but I've never deposited to my account.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't think there is such a thing, don't, don't fall for anything now.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Right, I'm on social security, I don't, I'm not responsible for taxes, am I?
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[SPEAKER_17]: No.
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[SPEAKER_09]: right you don't have to you don't have to pay anything well i did um do you know what i bought yesterday and three set at that coin store that across from the dollar general uh... um... pride bill pickle i don't like pickles but a lot of people do i understand a lot of people love pickles but i can't stand them
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's not really good, but I try them.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And they have good sandwiches there and they have a lot of nice things, but they do accept, you know, EBT.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Listen.
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[SPEAKER_17]: We're all going to need an EBT card pretty soon.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I think, you know, I think it should be allowed.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I think everyone should get at least a minimum of $100, because really,
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[SPEAKER_09]: prices are ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I'm all for that, EBG cards for all of us.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, that way people won't have anything illegal or wrong with them or, you know, yeah, okay.
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[SPEAKER_09]: They feel pressured, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I guess so.
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[SPEAKER_17]: All right, well thank you.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, there's a, if she's so calming
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[SPEAKER_17]: Samantha calls in from the bay and she's so calming, it's just incredible.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You just feel better about life after you hear her kiss.
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[SPEAKER_17]: She has the care in the world, she's not worried about grid bills and tax bills, price of gas and anything else.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Whatever.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Hey, we'll take time out for messages, be right back.
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[SPEAKER_30]: Now he's running as the Republican nominee for New York's 21st Congressional District, fighting for economic growth, strong national security, and practical leadership that actually works.
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[SPEAKER_30]: The Democrats want Trump out.
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[SPEAKER_29]: Are you interesting talk around the clock?
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[SPEAKER_17]: That's a well-written commercial.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I, you know, and I don't just say that because they're buying it here, you know I didn't think it was good.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I just wouldn't say anything, but that's well written.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I wonder if Roger wrote that Boy if he did, Roger did a great job there did a great job.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You know that constant teen-o
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[SPEAKER_17]: I think you'll win the Republican primary because I don't know, you'd have to be a real whatever to pick a small and over Anthony there, but I don't even know what a small one is.
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[SPEAKER_17]: But in any event, well, but the problem isn't primary, that's part of the problem.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's a general election, they say, well, it's a Republican district, it is Republican
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[SPEAKER_17]: up through Lewis County, Herkamer County, parts of Jefferson County.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, there's a lot of Republican areas, but if it had been a least of fun at the top of the check-in, I'd say no problem, but with the Republicans on a pathway to disaster at the top of the check-in, Blake Minton, some sheriff from Matt Madison County,
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[SPEAKER_17]: used to be on the Syracuse police force from a nice guy but what's he know about being governor what's he bring to the ticket but you see Blake and couldn't find anybody he went through uh... four different people but by time he got to this guy yeah you won't hear it on your local news but you'll hear it listen uh... remember that thing uh... where there was the big flap about
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[SPEAKER_17]: members of Congress Democrats saying we fuse what they call illegal orders urging the military.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well there is a billboard and this is breaking news out on root three near Black River and we want to thank one of our uh beloved listeners and she's a a bull of the listener.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I might say that.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Uh it says there's a big American eagle on a very attractive thing in the way blue
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[SPEAKER_17]: says active duty and national guard you have a duty to refuse illegal orders paid for my veterans for peace.org.
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[SPEAKER_17]: This is a billboard located right outside Fort Drum right here in Jefferson County.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know if that's local news but boy, I think it is.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I think it is.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I'm cleaners disclosing I've signed them well, they had that window blow out Does anybody, I try cleaners use much anymore?
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[SPEAKER_17]: I'm not sure they are as much anymore.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I know I should get older and you don't wear suits and things.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You don't have to go to the driveway.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And, oh, I get a real team effort thing.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I went out to
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[SPEAKER_17]: get some coffee and I noticed that the water comes out of one of the five gallon bottles and it was empty.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Somebody used the last of the water and then didn't change.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Isn't that you ever been in an office?
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's like on the current coffee maker.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You know, not taking the little cup out after your cup is made.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I hate those people.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, anyway, that was there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So everybody was in a meeting.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So I said, well, I'm going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So I went out in the other room and
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[SPEAKER_17]: hoisted one off the rack and put it on a chair and I rolled it out to the kitchen area and I was able to always the down to the thing and uh... yeah i just thought i didn't want to be a slacker i didn't want to be one of those people who just says well the next guy i'll get it even though it was you know difficult to do well you can say that's uh... and besides if you're going to have conversations around the water cooler you got to have some water in it
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[SPEAKER_17]: Got to have some water at it.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Somebody just said text and jammy from familiar with what's I got to do.
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[SPEAKER_17]: If she wants to call she can.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Somebody texting, can anyone explain exactly what the illegal orders are?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Didn't think so.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know either.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I'm just pointing it out that right here in our North country, this stuff's coming.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Something we saw.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I've seen on TV with that crazy senator from Arizona.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But after noon around the air uh... gonna have to knew Jeff Mr. Batista how are you good and plant their brought up the budget elected elected keep on the local news okay go ahead as it's it's a 64 amount approximately a 64 million dollar budget is up five million from last year we spent over a half a million dollars legal fees oh 75% of the budget is uh...
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[SPEAKER_14]: as far as the hit goes towards retirement, health insurance, and it goes on, all right.
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[SPEAKER_14]: For the last three years, the city residents allowed this council to raise property taxes, okay.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I want to every meeting, and I told them, point blank, I got up there, so I was blown the face, you need the control spending, the spending is out of control in this city.
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[SPEAKER_14]: larger than watercolon population wise that the stream liner services cut jobs and the majority on council looked at me like I was crazy and said we have a city to run it's just the way it is and I point blanked on my said don't that's not the way it is I asked them to have a higher in freeze why are we still higher in people beat me city residents are being choked grocery bills
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[SPEAKER_14]: A national grid builds a double sense last year.
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[SPEAKER_14]: My house is insulated and the bills are choke at me, okay?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Choke at me, and with the rest of the city, too.
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[SPEAKER_14]: And finally, we've come to the point where we got to say, enough is enough.
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[SPEAKER_14]: This is the year we're gonna do something, okay?
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[SPEAKER_14]: We're gonna make cuts.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry that's just the way it is.
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[SPEAKER_14]: So many needs to come up there and tell them,
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, yeah, but cuts are easy to say, but who you're going to have to listen.
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[SPEAKER_14]: You're going to, the way I look at you're going to have to cut 25 positions.
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[SPEAKER_17]: At least.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He's just there talking.
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[SPEAKER_14]: And they're saying, well, and anybody who wants to come up with it, we can cut services.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's fine.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Conservices, but we don't receive any services.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It's fine to me what services I receive for the taxes I pay.
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[SPEAKER_14]: What services?
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[SPEAKER_15]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_14]: pay for that, it's a service, we have leaves in brush, and that, but they cut that service and it'll be well over $100,000.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But I mean that you're going to get some, you might get a little push back on that, but why should we take the hit, though, really?
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[SPEAKER_17]: When they should have been doing their job, streamline in this city.
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[SPEAKER_14]: and it's true everywhere it's not just here but compared to when i was in there i mean you've got everybody's making six figures now no i know the world why are why do we continue on this path of higher people year after year when you knew you know that this city was facing hard times they just they just want to make the car but but let me ask you you're a man of the world who do you get rid of
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[SPEAKER_14]: I told them, by God, when you cut positions and you're going to have to cut positions, don't get the kind of fixes the street, okay?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Don't go on the low end of the pay scale, you have to start at the top of the tree, okay?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Where the pay is.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, that would be like department heads and deputy department heads and all that.
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[UNKNOWN]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's just the way it is, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_14]: When you weren't from municipal pellet, that's the way it is.
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[UNKNOWN]: Nobody's job is secured today.
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[UNKNOWN]: Nobody's all right.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Mm-hmm.
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[UNKNOWN]: in their, you can look out for it in the face.
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[SPEAKER_14]: There's no appetite to cut jobs in this city.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But by God, they'll look you in the face and tell you, you're going to have to pay tax increases year after year after year.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They have no problem looking me in the face of the council meeting.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's telling me my taxes are going to go on.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, I'll tell you something.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's not just those taxes, but you look at your utility bills.
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[SPEAKER_17]: and they're happy to see your utility bill goes up because did you know that that businesses including small businesses get charged eleven percent sales tax on your utility bill here here at the businesses are at a higher commercial rate is well it doesn't matter you can say commercial it's all it's it's all electrons but why why should it be more the fact is you're paying eleven percent sales tax so if my electric bill goes up five hundred dollars
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[SPEAKER_17]: That the locals happy she just got another fifty five dollars out of me I know but that's in New York state though other states well that's where we happen to be Yes, I know but in the New York state that's because they went crazy green too fast No, it's because you know a few years ago it was ten percent on that and I thought it was unfair then and all of a sudden one year was eleven But it was never even in the news because the news doesn't care
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[SPEAKER_17]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_17]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They're all horrors.
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[SPEAKER_14]: There's nothing changes in this city.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We're gonna have to stop this year.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I've got to tell you right now.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It's tough to get up there and say to cut jobs and do this and that.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But guess what?
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm not here to make friends.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm here to stay in my house, all right?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It weren't 40 years to be taxed to hell out of my house, all right?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Whatever you have to say, whatever you have to do, it needs to be done this year.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's all there is to it, okay?
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[SPEAKER_17]: Of course, you know, in all fairness, city taxes, you pay three different taxes, and they're all going up.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Well, I know, yeah, I'm trying.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But if I'm in the press, expect a green waste to pick an up, please.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I mean, they just gave the school superintendent a 4.2% raise.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yes, and it aspires the, why does it?
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[SPEAKER_17]: And nobody likes it.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Everybody says they don't like them, and then they give them a big raise.
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[UNKNOWN]: but got to stop taking personal vehicles home.
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[SPEAKER_17]: We just can't afford it.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Don't ask the insurance.
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[SPEAKER_17]: You know, you're taking a home, you're using it for private use.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And you're not just taking.
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[SPEAKER_17]: This is going on for years.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Right?
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[UNKNOWN]: Have you stopped that?
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[SPEAKER_17]: They're not taking them home to Sherman Street.
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[SPEAKER_17]: They're taking them to Adams and Henderson and Redwood and everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Why should I subsidize that?
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[SPEAKER_14]: And why are we subsidizing that when we're facing top economic decisions right now to make?
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[SPEAKER_17]: And I guess said they just don't they just don't want to make so who you went to the meeting last night, right?
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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, yeah, I was there.
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[UNKNOWN]: There's nobody else.
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[UNKNOWN]: I was the only one there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Okay, well, which council members actually said something?
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[SPEAKER_14]: The only one.
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[SPEAKER_14]: And you have to really stare them down and I go there to let them know.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it's a cold night.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I don't really want to go there.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm out at that night.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm going to tell you right now.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But somebody has to go.
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[SPEAKER_14]: show up at those meetings and let them know they're being watched and somebody out there cares a lot of people care but they're just fed up with it.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I look I'm staring at him and I wait for somebody to say something and call some a show and got the ball rolling.
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[SPEAKER_14]: They gradually but he let him get away with it.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He did a good job last night but he let him get away with it last
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[SPEAKER_14]: I've got to let you just get away with this year, but there's no game plan next year we're going to have to do something in the year he said, listen, I told you last year there's nothing in place where just we're just going through the motions we have the same thing every year, every year, nothing's good, there's no cuts being made, right?
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[SPEAKER_16]: Unless you make cuts, you just can't keep hiring people in water town when the population
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, I like living here.
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[UNKNOWN]: I do too.
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[UNKNOWN]: I love living a waterchomp.
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[UNKNOWN]: But you're going to drive them.
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[UNKNOWN]: You're going to drive people out of waterchomp.
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[SPEAKER_17]: If you keep raising taxes, you're empty here.
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[SPEAKER_17]: No, look at that.
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[SPEAKER_17]: There's no appetite to cut anything.
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[SPEAKER_17]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_17]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, listen, Frank.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I got to run because I got callers.
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[SPEAKER_17]: But good to hear from you.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Thanks.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I can run for a whole week about them.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I just...
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[SPEAKER_17]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_17]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Bye now.
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[SPEAKER_17]: The news in talk authority indeed.
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[SPEAKER_17]: We got lots of things going on today.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Yes, there are angry men in your last car call her for 100% right on what they say, but the city can't make themselves even think about that.
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[SPEAKER_18]: For the last 35 years, I have said, get rid of the trash department, get rid of everything, get rid of all the equipment, all the employees, and let everybody go private.
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[SPEAKER_18]: It's a hard decision, but if you have room for some of them poor, he's good.
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[SPEAKER_18]: But I am talking to city people before.
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[SPEAKER_18]: They're rental all those retirements, all the benefits, hospitalization, all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_18]: We don't need to be in the trash business.
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[SPEAKER_18]: I can remember, 20 years ago when that came up.
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[SPEAKER_18]: We were offered a million dollar savings from another company and the city turned them down.
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[SPEAKER_18]: a million dollar savings.
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[SPEAKER_18]: They would take over the whole city.
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[SPEAKER_18]: And it's just not in their DNA.
43:37
[SPEAKER_18]: They will not cut back.
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[SPEAKER_18]: They will not lay off.
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[SPEAKER_18]: They will not do anything.
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[SPEAKER_18]: And you're going to pay 20 to 30 percent more this year.
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[SPEAKER_18]: And again next year, every year, when you're
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[SPEAKER_18]: something's happening, 75% of all the money that the city takes and 75% goes to employees.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And yet we had the time and effort to initiate that latest ethics thing after the election just for the hell of it and spent thousands of dollars on that and they won't tell you what was spent but it was thousands.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And that's not a lot in the scheme of things, but holy cow, when does it stop?
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[SPEAKER_18]: Um, you know, when I grew up mayor, they did the same, they did the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_18]: All the mayors and other people didn't want to raise taxes very much.
44:45
[SPEAKER_18]: They wanted to be the heroes.
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[SPEAKER_18]: And when I grew up, they had, they didn't repair anything.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Didn't repair, they didn't put any new streets and, wow, 50, 60 years later, the people that are living here are caught because everything is old, they did nothing for the last 50 years, and now this group of people that are alive are paying through the nose.
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[SPEAKER_18]: That's the same thing that I'm saying about the city, city's got to make some
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[SPEAKER_18]: Corrections, but they won't, because every time that I brought it up, they are just, oh, oh, no, we can do that.
45:32
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, but what about What about layers of department heads management?
45:39
[SPEAKER_18]: They think they've got a dig in just like anger me and sense You've got a dig in and see what what about take on cars?
45:49
[SPEAKER_18]: What about people out of their city?
45:52
[SPEAKER_18]: I don't know Where do you live?
45:54
[SPEAKER_18]: You know
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[SPEAKER_18]: I'm out.
45:57
[SPEAKER_17]: Where do you live now?
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[SPEAKER_18]: Live outside the city.
46:00
[SPEAKER_18]: I saw my house because I'm elderly and I saw the hand riding on the wall.
46:07
[SPEAKER_18]: I went with tapping my whole life I lived in the city.
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[SPEAKER_18]: It was hard to move out.
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[SPEAKER_18]: But I figured I'm my fixed income and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_18]: I want you to be able to afford to live in the city.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Right.
46:21
[SPEAKER_18]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_18]: And I'm not too far, so I still shop in this city and do all that, but I just know what was going to happen, you know, what you aren't working anymore, pay that we go very good.
46:39
[SPEAKER_18]: And like they talk about, well, you've got our social security rates there after the insurers is went up.
46:47
[SPEAKER_18]: You know what I got a week?
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[SPEAKER_18]: Not much.
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[SPEAKER_18]: $1.50 out of my race was mine.
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[SPEAKER_18]: I can't even hardly buy a loaf of bread with that.
47:03
[SPEAKER_17]: No, certainly.
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[SPEAKER_18]: But the A seems like every time you get a race, the insurance follows, Medicaid, Medicare, retirement insurance, everything follows.
47:15
[SPEAKER_16]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_18]: So they think we're really getting rich.
47:24
[SPEAKER_17]: OK, wow, we got to like going on today.
47:27
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[SPEAKER_17]: Well, here's something else in politically, and I says, an effort to try to stampede Republicans over an NY-21, but the State Conservative Party says it back, Smulling, Robert Smulling.
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[SPEAKER_17]: the guy from John's town.
50:04
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, gentlemen, he's an assemblyman from down there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: But they don't say they're giving him the Wilson for coolness.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It's a little bit vague.
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[SPEAKER_17]: So I don't know what's going to happen there.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I've got a feeling.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I've got a feeling Rogers got that under control, right?
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50:26
[SPEAKER_17]: And what else have we got here?
50:30
[SPEAKER_17]: Oh, that billboard on State Route 3 near Black River.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It is on news junkie now.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Somebody sent it to me.
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[SPEAKER_17]: A wonderful person who lives out that way.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And so I sent it to the news media.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And it says active duty and national guard, you have a duty to refuse illegal orders.
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[SPEAKER_17]: There's a huge eagle on it.
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[SPEAKER_17]: It says paid for by veteransforpeace.org.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Do you have a duty to refuse illegal orders?
51:03
[SPEAKER_17]: You know, it's kind of weird, kind of weird.
51:08
[SPEAKER_17]: This is not a Lamar advertising, so that's the advertising company.
51:12
[SPEAKER_17]: They're going to have to, you know, I had somebody who wanted to need it a billboard was interested in that one on factory street.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I don't even know if that's a Lamar or one of theirs, but he asked me for a phone number.
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[SPEAKER_17]: I even know who to give him.
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[SPEAKER_17]: And what else?
51:30
[SPEAKER_17]: We got going on.
51:32
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, that's enough.
51:33
[SPEAKER_17]: We've had enough news on this.
51:35
[SPEAKER_17]: Oh, there's a call.
51:36
[SPEAKER_17]: But after noon, you're on the air.
51:38
[SPEAKER_13]: Good afternoon, Jeff.
51:39
[SPEAKER_13]: I thought I'd share a little bit of meteorology.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Sure.
51:43
[SPEAKER_13]: Thank you.
51:44
[SPEAKER_13]: Yesterday morning, low temperature at the water town airport minus 27.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Right now, the airport temperature is plus 31.
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[SPEAKER_13]: That's a 58 degree temperature change.
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[SPEAKER_13]: A little over 24 hours.
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[SPEAKER_13]: here in the historic water town, 68 degrees, a little piece of, well, thank you.
52:05
[SPEAKER_13]: Keep up the good work.
52:06
[SPEAKER_17]: That's fine.
52:07
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, I think the night before I hit 36 below with the airport, of course, we lose at the airport, right?
52:11
[SPEAKER_17]: But so it definitely is a change.
52:14
[SPEAKER_17]: I got mentioned Brett Bear on Fox News mentioned it.
52:17
[SPEAKER_17]: He said it was the second lowest ever recorded air temperature in New York.
52:21
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know if that's true or not.
52:22
[SPEAKER_17]: I thought the oldest temperature ever was an old forage one time.
52:29
[SPEAKER_17]: It was an old fashioned winter.
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[SPEAKER_17]: That's all they can say.
52:31
[SPEAKER_02]: But after doing it on the air Hey, good afternoon sir.
52:35
[SPEAKER_02]: What's up?
52:35
[SPEAKER_02]: A couple comments on Lyle Island It's also security as far as I'm concerned is You get you supposed to get what you put into it at you've been working since you were on the books like say working years old
52:53
[SPEAKER_02]: which I was, or maybe 12 on the books and a farm, I think it made $1 an hour or something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, that what you put into that is what you're supposed to get off.
53:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't draw so scaredy yet.
53:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, I have no idea where this EBT and all this business.
53:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to know how much he put into this so scaredy and everything in now, because that's not so scaredy, that's welfare.
53:23
[SPEAKER_17]: Well, yeah, social security.
53:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'd offer a dime and also a cab.
53:28
[SPEAKER_02]: I got you.
53:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody, you know, just, I'm just going to make a point on that one.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Okay.
53:33
[SPEAKER_17]: Thank you so much.
53:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
53:35
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, I'm not going to explain how social security.
53:37
[SPEAKER_17]: It's an insurance thing.
53:38
[SPEAKER_17]: It's not a, it's your money like in the town like an IRA.
53:43
[SPEAKER_17]: Um, you have to work with certain number quarters.
53:45
[SPEAKER_17]: I guess 40 quarters.
53:47
[SPEAKER_17]: A lot of people like to work under the table off the box, especially when they're younger.
53:50
[SPEAKER_17]: I think it's a good idea.
53:53
[SPEAKER_17]: A lot of people do and a lot of people like to pay in that way because it's the only way you can afford labor anymore.
53:59
[SPEAKER_17]: So I don't know, but it certainly is a...
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[SPEAKER_17]: I got sent from many people.
54:05
[SPEAKER_17]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
54:07
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, Jeff.
54:09
[SPEAKER_08]: I just wanted to talk about the billboard over there.
54:12
[SPEAKER_08]: You just mentioned it.
54:14
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
54:14
[SPEAKER_08]: And let me just put something out for everybody that doesn't know about the military.
54:18
[SPEAKER_08]: Every unit in the military has a lawyer.
54:22
[SPEAKER_08]: in it, their jag officer, and every order that his given is run through jag, and they all look at it, and they all decide, yeah, the legal is not legal.
54:32
[SPEAKER_08]: The veterans for peace is probably a bunch of old losers that got kicked out of the military for being lazy.
54:38
[SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, that kind of stuff is treason, isn't my opinion.
54:42
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, the military just doesn't, you know, willy-nilly come out and say, hey, round up a bunch of Jeff Gramps because we don't like Jeff Gramps.
54:51
[SPEAKER_08]: You can order from above the orders go through each layer of the lawyers at the units.
54:56
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
54:56
[SPEAKER_08]: And you have to avoid everywhere with a lawyer in the unit.
55:00
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah.
55:01
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
55:02
[SPEAKER_08]: So anyway, yeah, that just makes me anxious a bunch of liberal lunatics who, for whatever reason, if we got a phone to pick with a military, and I don't know.
55:14
[SPEAKER_08]: Lamar should be, I don't know, they should be ashamed to take money to put out that
55:21
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, yeah, all right, but I feel strongly about it, but hey, that's my cake.
55:26
[SPEAKER_08]: Thanks, Jeff.
55:27
[SPEAKER_17]: There you go, thank you.
55:29
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, some people do feel strong.
55:30
[SPEAKER_17]: Will it be on the news tonight?
55:32
[SPEAKER_17]: Will it be the local news?
55:33
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
55:34
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know.
55:35
[SPEAKER_17]: Maybe not, you know.
55:38
[SPEAKER_17]: But I see where the mayor was on TV yesterday on the digital desk.
55:43
[SPEAKER_17]: She says everybody should see that body cam video of Millie.
55:49
[SPEAKER_17]: Well, it's easy for her to say that because she knows that they're never going to release it.
55:53
[SPEAKER_17]: But some people have seen the video from the business, and I haven't had a chance to see it yet, so I'm not going to comment on it, but I do know what they told me, and I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, it helped us.
56:08
[SPEAKER_17]: How much will we spend on this, getting opinions from Harris Beach and everything?
56:18
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, anyway, here we go, let's see, we've talked about the billboard, he's a head restaurant chain to raise prices, leaning in on customers or make at least a hundred thousand, yeah, maybe people who make more should pay more, yes, that would be right, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_17]: We told you earlier Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado has ended his gubernatorial bid.
56:45
[SPEAKER_17]: I mean it's Kathy Hockel has the Democratic nomination along with her running mate Adrian Adrian, I forgot her last name, I'm sorry, I know it's racist to do that but I didn't mean to.
56:59
[SPEAKER_17]: Anyway, she sounds like a very nice lady and of course on the Republican side, good God.
57:07
[SPEAKER_17]: We got to get Ross on one of these days to talk about that, he'll tell me.
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[SPEAKER_17]: Republicans privately just say they just shake their head.
57:15
[SPEAKER_17]: they just shake their head.
57:18
[SPEAKER_17]: I imagine I bet you've done crude shaking his head right now.
57:22
[SPEAKER_17]: And because they know how bad it is this year.
57:24
[SPEAKER_17]: You know, with Zeld in a couple of years ago, at least we're sort of in the hunt, but even then, I mean, they, you know, I don't know.
57:37
[SPEAKER_17]: It could have put me in as running made.
57:39
[SPEAKER_17]: I could have never left the city limits and probably done more good for the ticket than, because I don't see that Blakeman doing well up here at all.
57:47
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't know about you, but that whole thing was to find it.
57:51
[SPEAKER_17]: And yeah, it was her decision, and then whatever.
57:54
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't care.
57:55
[SPEAKER_17]: That did not leave a good taste with me about the whole thing.
58:03
[SPEAKER_17]: This didn't like it one I owed him.
58:06
[SPEAKER_17]: Oh, I don't live in the 21st district, so I don't.
58:11
[SPEAKER_17]: I'll be voting for, of course, Claudia Channey.
58:14
[SPEAKER_17]: Yes, but, you know, beyond that, I don't know.
58:19
[SPEAKER_17]: Yeah, let's see.
58:24
[SPEAKER_17]: Oh, do do do do.
58:26
[SPEAKER_17]: Is that it?
58:29
[SPEAKER_17]: There's an interesting story, 330 gallons of sulfuric acid was bought on the day Epstein Island was open as part of an FBI investigation.
58:40
[SPEAKER_17]: I guess you got to have that around there if you want to get rid of stuff.
58:47
[SPEAKER_17]: Well, a photo of the possible suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case has revealed that whole thing.
58:53
[SPEAKER_17]: I don't think it was a
58:56
[SPEAKER_17]: I got a feeling it was some kind of homicide or whether they intended to do it.
59:01
[SPEAKER_17]: I think she was dead when she left the house.
59:04
[SPEAKER_17]: Why was she dripping blood then?
59:06
[SPEAKER_17]: I'm not, you know, and I think a lot of the stuff with the ransom was just kind of made up to cover that up.
59:14
[SPEAKER_17]: But the police of the FBI has come up with somebody.
59:17
[SPEAKER_17]: I think the sheriff found the photo when he was at that Arizona State basketball game in the day.
59:26
[SPEAKER_17]: All right, well, we're going to have to see, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
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