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Episode #53 "Election Day Results" · The Kevin Stone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Some podcasts have experts. This is not one of those podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: This is one guy, a microphone, a cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and absolutely no guarantee where any of this is going.
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  Speaker 1: From small town Arkansas to Washington, D.C. From politics and
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  Speaker 1: to get under his skin. He'll ask the questions. He'll
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  Speaker 1: he might even know what he's talking about. No fancy degree,
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  Speaker 1: no corporate talking points, just an ordinary guy trying to
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  Speaker 1: make sense of an increasingly strange world. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Kevin Stone podcast.
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  Speaker 2: All right, everybody, Kevin Stone here with you from the
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Stone podcast. We're going to go through a quick.
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  Speaker 2: election update if anybody did see our disastrous attempt last
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  Speaker 2: night at a live election coverage don't worry we won't
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  Speaker 2: be trying that again i've always said from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: i'm not a live breaking news kind of place my
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  Speaker 2: schedule just does not allow for that however the the
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  Speaker 2: elections are something that's important to me and so i
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  Speaker 2: decided to give it a whirl and trust me we
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  Speaker 2: won't be doing that again But we are going to
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  Speaker 2: take a look at quickly take a look at these
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  Speaker 2: election results that we were paying attention to last night.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to start out with the big ones. Sarah
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  Speaker 2: Huckabee Sanders will be returning as our governor for another
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  Speaker 2: term and Republican Tom Cotton. was re-elected to the U.S. Senate,
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  Speaker 2: so he will be returning to Washington to represent us there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we also had the local city elections. For the position
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  Speaker 2: of city clerk, Ashley Seward will be coming in as
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  Speaker 2: our new city clerk. The city council races. For Ward 1,
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  Speaker 2: Position 1, Ricky Yates won the election. For Ward 3,
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  Speaker 2: Position 1, Charles Meeker took the election. And both of
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  Speaker 2: our water bond issues passed, which I personally think is
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  Speaker 2: a good thing because now the work on the water
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  Speaker 2: situation can get started, on the infrastructure can get started. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our water bills are going to go up, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to go up quite as high as they
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  Speaker 2: could have if these proposals didn't pass. Now, we also
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  Speaker 2: have the mayoral race going on. Got some issues with
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  Speaker 2: this one because according to state law, here in Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: if there's more than two candidates, one of them has
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  Speaker 2: to come out with a 50% majority. And Tyler Williams
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  Speaker 2: took 45.55% of the votes. Argus Tyler took 29.84%. And
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  Speaker 2: John Charles Milam took 24.60%. So none of them crossed
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  Speaker 2: that 50% threshold. So the top two candidates are going
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  Speaker 2: to have to go through a runoff election. And that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be Tyler Williams against our guest, Hyler. And
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  Speaker 2: that runoff election is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1st, 2026.
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  Speaker 2: And then the results of that will be final. We
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  Speaker 2: will have a new mayor. So, folks, I know this
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  Speaker 2: has been a wild and crazy election season here in Ozark.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of issues on the board. We have one
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  Speaker 2: more issue to tackle before we are completely through with
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  Speaker 2: this on December 1st. We will have to have another
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  Speaker 2: mayor election, and then the results will be final. So,
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  Speaker 2: one more to go, people, and then we can actually
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  Speaker 2: start governing. Well, I'm Kevin Stone. This is the Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Stone Podcast. You can catch us on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker, iHeartRadio,
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  Speaker 2: and YouTube. So, stop in. I'm Kevin Stone, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to you again soon.