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Right here in the Civic Media Radio Network better while Maggie welcome.

How you doing?

I'm good.

I'm glad to be back.

I had a little time away.

It was really good to be away.

But I'm excited for today.

I'm excited for election day.

I really want us to send a message that Wisconsin's not, can't be bought by Elon Musk.

We're not selling out, Maggie.

We're buying in.

Yes.

Double down, go all in, whatever it is.

Just get out and vote.

Vote for Susan Crawford, the one who's not been bought by Elon Musk.

Vote for the one that's not BS.

We're going to get into all of that.

Also want to get your legal mind, your opinion on the efforts of Attorney General Josh Call to go after and stop Musk from doing this.

Now Musk put some X's out.

We'll talk about that as well.

Also want to get your sense on the money here on the election.

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Uh,

Megadon, good to, good to see you again.

Uh, good to have you back on the show.

I was wondering, like I wanted to talk to you about this because the efforts of Attorney General Josh Collin, it seemed like kind of far-fetched.

Apparently Musk had sent out on a, he was going to give this money out in appreciation for you taking your time to vote.

Now Musk deleted that, but he ended up coming to Wisconsin anyway and having

this rally.

He deleted it because that's actually

illegal.

But

is

it, I mean,

he's

still sad,

still out there.

If you can't give, if there is a court ruling and the Wisconsin Election Commission is like,

You can't offer someone a bottle of water to vote while in line.

You certainly can't offer him maybe a million bucks for taking the time to vote.

That was clearly illegal.

That's why he deleted it.

It became the sign the petition thing and maybe you'll get a million dollars.

I guess that's a thing.

Oh, by the way, need I remind everyone?

Elon Musk has so much money that if he spent ten million dollars a day every single day for a hundred years he would still have enough billions left over to buy Twitter again.

I just want everybody to absorb that.

If he spent ten million dollars a day every day without missing a day for a hundred years he would still have enough billions of dollars left to buy Twitter again.

That's how much money this guy has left.

So yeah, giving away a million bucks here or there

That's, that is literally a rounding error to Elon Musk.

He is trying to buy Wisconsin.

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Appreciate it.

So here's the thing, call.

He put this out there and the appeals court rejected it.

Now, when the appeals court rejected calls efforts, they said,

according to the Milwaukee General Sentinel, called head not filed or supported his request properly, which forced them to deny the request.

Now, I'm not an attorney, Megadon, but to me, it sounds like he didn't dot his eyes and cross his T's, maybe wasn't properly spaced, used the wrong letterhead.

I don't know, what does that mean to you when you hear that?

So with the caveat that I intentionally did not expend my time looking at the lawsuit because as soon as I saw that it was filed after I read

what Elon Musk had said and the conditions for the giveaway, knowing that we went through this before actually back in the presidential race, I was like, oh, this isn't going anywhere.

So I'm not going to spend any of my precious resource

of

time reading about the particulars here.

But that specific line from the appeals court rejection, which was effectively upheld unanimously by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Unanimously.

So apparently all those crazy liberals on the court were like no AG call.

you can actually go kick rocks.

What it sounds like to me is that there were potentially insufficient factual allegations or affidavits supporting the complaint.

Complaints are generally viewed when you face a motion to dismiss.

You take all of the factual allegations as if they were true and you interpret them or you make inferences based.

Or in favor of the non-moving party so to the advantage of the plaintiff Apparently what the appeals court and the Supreme Court said was even if we did that you don't have enough here to To provide the basis for the particular claims that he was bringing it sounds sloppy and frankly it read a little bit to me like a political stunt again Elon Musk deleted the offending comments that were clearly against

the law.

So what are you doing?

Is it just performative?

And by the way, was this actually going to impact the election?

It was sort of like doubling down

on

the whole musk thing.

It's like they curate who they give this money to.

It's a publicity stunt.

And you make it worse by giving a more publicity about the thing.

If you get what I'm saying.

Right.

But

the other side is you gotta try to do something if you can.

So I at least

appreciate the effort.

Yeah, I'd be calling for, hey, legislators.

You don't think this is a good, what if it was George Soros, would everybody be like, yep, that's just totally fine.

How about we legislate this?

Let me ask you a little procedural thing.

So

the

appeals court said, he didn't doubt his eyes and crosses his teeth, my words.

Is that very same document that the appeals court rejected, sent up then to the Supreme Court for consideration, or does Call have the opportunity to go back and re-edit?

No, he could have filed an amended complaint, but not in the Supreme Court.

He would have had to try to amend the...

or supplement the factual allegations or affidavits related there, too.

And the trial court.

But from the appeals court to the Supreme Court, you can't change

it.

So he

couldn't correct his mistakes.

Excellent.

Okay, there we go.

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Real quick, the tweet, the X message, and then the deletion.

Was a crime, not a crime.

admit and say, Hey, we're going to pay you for appreciation for taking your time to vote.

And that's not allowed by law.

And then you go back and delete that.

Uh, does that make it go away?

I mean,

I don't know.

We're in this weird, never, never land of like, gosh, never been here before.

Oh, this is quote, unprecedented, the word that I never want to hear

again.

My point being is if you go to the extreme, say, hey, someone, you'll call for the murder of somebody on Twitter.

I'm gonna murder this person.

You know, something terrible and violent like that.

And then deletes it.

Is it still, you know, if it's out there once, doesn't it always stay

out

there, even if you delete it?

This is where, again, I did not read the complaint.

But what I am guessing is that the causal nexus between the Musk tweet or what he said he was doing and then it got deleted and the parameters changed that they can't prove that it actually provided an incentive to anyone to go vote.

And that is likely, in my opinion, what they may have been or what the court was sort

of.

No.

putting its hat on that you would need to at least allege in the complaint that it did actually impact voters.

Again,

I think it did impact voters.

I think a lot of voters are not really happy about it too.

You

know, maybe in the opposite direction.

Again, I think Elon Musk, you know, he's he's like the friend that always brings the good weed to the party.

That's a real drag.

I mean,

not to torture a metaphor here but like yeah it's like oh yeah it's Elon everybody can't stand the guy but at least he brought the top shelf liquor he's that guy nobody wants him at the party

But everyone wants the party 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2 Speaking of the party one of the winners of that million dollars was the Wisconsin College Republican chair,

huh?

Apparently that dude You know deleted or made private his Twitter account after that happened everybody's you know I was was beer money from this cat

now

He's now, he's, he's, he's the Elon at whatever college he was the head of the Republican party.

And it's like, Oh, it's Jerry again,

but now he's got a million bucks.

Oh, Jerry, come on, man.

Let's get a three pack.

Let's go.

For the top shelf, Jerry.

Oh, maybe if, um, for the next time, Elon's going to do one of these giveaways.

If I like very publicly renounce all my prior political beliefs

and

like, Hey,

Can I, can I get a mill too?

I don't think he'd buy it.

Well, you never know until you try.

This

is

true.

But there is the argument, you know, I mean, and again, you know, this, this, this money is like a drug, right?

And everyone wants a little bit and they're willing to give everything away for just a little bit more.

But there's the, the, the adage, well, at least I could do something good with it.

I'll take that money.

I'll do something good with it.

And then just yesterday brings up like the Ring of Power.

That's it over buddy.

Don't do it, Dom.

Don't do it.

That's what everybody said in the Lord of the Rings too.

I'll be

benign.

Precious.

That's

right.

That's if you look generally.

at what has happened to people whom in the past I would have considered to be very principled conservatives.

I disagreed with a lot of their policy prerogatives.

But hey, these are the values that I stand for.

This is the platform.

These are the candidates that I support.

Donald Trump is not a conservative.

Full stop.

He is not a conservative.

He's not a Republican.

He's MAGA.

He's Donald Trump.

It is a party of one in service of one and by extension in service of billionaires.

They might as well call it the billionaire boys club.

That's what it is, the manosphere, whatever the heck.

This isn't about, again, a group of principled policy positions.

This is venality.

This is the transactional nature of what has gripped what used to be the Republican Party and most of my conservative friends.

If I'm speaking with them privately, we'll say that very plainly.

I call on you to be a person of your convictions, of your values, stand up and vote against a tyrannical billionaire overlord whom no one voted for last I checked.

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It's voting day today folks get out and vote Susan Crawford not the BS Let's go to Brian from Milwaukee.

You will be first you're on with Maggie Brian.

Welcome.

What do you got?

Hey, yeah, I know a friend that did sign that petition

And he did then a screenshot of his checking account that stated from the American PHC that he did get $100 for signing the petition.

And then he got $100 another hundred for a referral.

Today he posted a photo on Facebook of himself with a sticker saying I voted and you know, you know, push and everyone to vote for Crawford.

And I know for months he's been on our side and.

He also then stated today that he's still waiting for about $400 in referrals from us to be paid out that he has yet to receive.

Oh, okay.

So hang on here.

I want to make sure I understand the story here.

Brian, your buddy did sign the petition, got some money, got some referral money, went and voted for Crawford, but he's still waiting for some other referral money.

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He only got, he got paid for his initial signing the petition.

He got paid once for a referral.

But he's still waiting for about $400 to

come

to the

bus.

Did your friend indicate what he's going to do with that money, Brian?

Oh, I don't know.

Hopefully buying you some beers, man.

Thanks for sharing.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.

You know I debated, Maggie.

Should I sign this thing?

Take the money and run.

You don't have some fun with it.

But I'm like, nah, nah.

I don't need the hundred bucks that bad.

I don't want to sign up with this cat.

I think everybody should sign the petition, get your hundred bucks, and then go vote for Susan Crawford.

Thank you.

You want cha-ching?

Oh,

you always give a little something away.

Little something in your soul perhaps.

It's a petition to a poet.

What's the wording?

It's something like active You mean like activist judges on the Supreme Court that are like presidents are kings for the first time in our 250 year history Women don't have the right to control their bodies for the first time in 50 years.

Ta-da.

You mean like those activist judges.

I don't I'm not a fan of activist judges that remake

to serve a predetermined politicized outcome.

Those are the activist judges that I oppose.

I'll happily sign a petition that says that and check whatever size check Elon Musk wants to cut me for that very principled position.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2-8-5-5-7-5, Civic Richard from Awakasha.

You're up.

Welcome, Richard.

What do you got for us?

Hi, Maggie.

I got a question for you.

Do you remember way back when the media gave all kinds of time to the bailout and they called General Motors, Government Motors?

I remember the bailout, yep.

Yeah, and they didn't want to give money, loans to General Motors, but they wanted Wall Street and the banks to get it all.

Anyway,

Did you ever hear anything in by the media control of them paying the loans back?

You know occupying the media with that as much as you know all of the bad talk about government motors

I guess are you talking about the fact that in when we talk about many of these bailouts and I would I would lump in the like 30 plus billion that Trump gave to farmers after that wasn't a bailout wasn't it came but here's how we like the definition here becomes really important right bailout in my language the way that I would define the term is taking taxpayer money to shore up an industry and providing payments that

that industry would not otherwise receive.

TARP, following the 2008 financial crisis, right?

Like this has happened repeatedly in U.S.

modern economic history.

We can talk about the financial crisis, right?

We can talk about, again, the financial crisis coming out of the mortgage lending crisis when banks and the farmers, the auto bailout, et cetera, et cetera.

The auto

bailout, those primarily got paid back.

I mean, these were monies that were given, certainly, taxpayer dollars, but those were paid back.

The farmers, that was never

paid back.

That was just a giveaway.

So again, the terminology

matters.

What would you call the auto loan?

If it's a loan, because it's actually paid back, it's a loan.

It's not a bailout.

Bailout, by the way, that I would define it, is that which is not paid back, which is a direct subsidy, which is, here's a word for it, welfare.

People like what do you mean when you use the word welfare?

We have gotten so sucked in to largely much more effectively done on the MAGA far, far right.

The rebranding of things, right?

That we don't, the meaning of words has been stripped in many ways.

A death tax.

Oh, well, we're all going to die.

I hate those.

An estate tax.

I'm probably for that because I don't have an estate, right?

Like this, the rebranding of things is what to be suspicious of simply because someone calls something a bailout does not make it so.

Right.

Yes.

We did effectively bail out the financial sector.

Right.

Like that's what happened.

And there's a really interesting almost like minute by minute blow of the weekend where Bear Stearns was blowing up.

I think it's in the New York Times that came out this morning or yesterday.

And it's the interplay between the people from Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase.

the Fed and the Treasury trying to figure out how to shore up the entire financial system.

And that included some bailout money.

That it's part of what happened then.

Again, that was not paid back.

Yeah, welfare.

Yeah.

Well fair and I'm not going to say they shouldn't have done that the the impacts of the financial system Entirely collapse to

get paid back though.

I

mean come on money

free money to

go loan

money out on that they make free rent interest on Yeah,

make it

on

Can I just say one more thing?

Don't forget that BS, the shameless Shillbred Schimmel, when asked if he would have defended the ban on interracial marriage was basically like, yeah, that's my job.

I have to.

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Last to get to it.

It's election day.

Go out and vote for Susan Crawford.

Lots of reasons why.

Oh, yeah.

But apparently we have some more reasons.

We

have some more reasons, certainly to not vote for BS.

Yeah.

They just pile on top of each other, just one more, two more, five more, mountain more.

Yeah, so this was some audio that was brought to my attention.

I was played

earlier in the day on the Todd Alba show.

This is Brad Schimmel recounting an experience that he had of psychologically beating the daylights out of his eight-year-old daughter.

Why?

Let's take a listen.

And she reminded me of a story that I cannot deny.

We had picked up our oldest Mackenzie at a friend's house and there'd been a fib.

I don't know what the fib was anymore,

but she told a

fib about something and she was denying that she had fibbed.

So this car ride home, I'm gonna get her on the witness stand.

So she's in the back seat.

I adjusted the mirror.

So I'm looking right at her.

And she's looking right at me.

And every time she looks away, I said, look at me.

And I don't think I looked at the road the whole way.

Dangerous.

And I got her back there.

And I'm grilling her about this.

And I'm rebutting every fib she piles on the fib.

And I got a Perry Mason moment right there in my car.

She broke down.

I did it.

I did it.

I did it.

I won my trial.

She is a next witness.

You know, rest my case.

Well, she's in the backseat.

She is just crying.

Yeah, I bet.

My wife's looking at me like I'm a monster.

And I was proud of myself.

Wow.

Wow, dude.

You were proud.

He was proud of himself.

Proud of Daddy that day.

Maybe your wife's instincts were right.

Just in case you needed another reason to vote for a candidate who has shown that she has the judicial temperament to handle difficult cases, to approach people as humans, vote Crawford.

Wow.

So apparently BS has a big problem with fibbing.

That's a lie.

That's a lie.

That's a lie.

So there's no lying.

No lying

in, in the shimmel household.

Otherwise judge Dredg Shremel, judge BS, he'll roll down on you, man.

He'll, he'll, he'll, he'll stare at you till you, till you break

in

spite of the force of his gaze.

You know, I did pass the BS bus last weekend when I was going a couple of weekends ago when I was going to my mother's and they were going 70 and a 55.

I'm just saying, and I know because I was passing though.

So Brad Schimmel emotionally working over his eight year old daughter is

eight

year old daughter.

Way to go, man.

That was probably the last time he won.

You know, by the time she

turned

nine, she pretty much met his mental capabilities.

But it's interesting that Brad Schimmel has a big problem with lying in the household, but he has no problem.

lying to you and lying to me.

Now he's either lying to us or he's ignorant.

You know, could be both.

Or both will have that conversation.

And what do I mean?

What do I mean?

Well, we've just heard Bradshaw a big problem with lying, but what did he lie about?

Just we have that sound, right?

Oh, yeah.

Today's election day, man.

Today's election day.

There's going to be some vote counting going on in Milwaukee.

And you know what time it starts?

When?

8

p.m.

Why?

because that's when the polls closed, Dom.

And that's when they start counting those other votes.

That's right.

Hmm.

Let's hear what Brad Schimmel had to say about this.

What is the lie?

Let's hear it.

Get our votes banked.

Make this too big to rig.

So we don't have to worry that at 1130 in Milwaukee, they're going to find bags of ballots that they forgot to put into the machines like they did in 2018 or in 2024 when Eric Covey.

You know, was ahead all night and then all of a sudden Milwaukee County changed that.

I don't know what happened.

I don't know if there was fraud there.

There's no way for me to know that.

There's no way for me to know that.

You don't know what happened.

You name all this stuff.

And, and, and let me again refer to you.

We talked about this a couple of weeks ago.

Let's do it again.

So we've just found out that Brad Shim has a huge problem with lying.

Alison

Der reported March 19th, two weeks before Wisconsin Supreme Court election as today, folks, BS raises Milwaukee counting trope.

Oh, yes, he did.

You just heard it.

Now here is what the reporting has to say about this.

And then I gotta find it see that's what I get The the Republicans had an opportunity and even they they passed I believe in the house through the assembly

was dead in the Senate.

They didn't take it up.

They could have changed it

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More than six years after the scuffle over the 2018 absentee ballots, it is widespread knowledge BS.

Mr. Gonna break my daughter mentally because she fibbed.

It is widespread knowledge that the state's most populous city consistently reports its absentee ballots all at once early in the morning after a major election.

Well, why Allison Durf from the Milwaukee General Sentinel?

Why don't you tell us in case Brad Shimmel decides to pick up a newspaper and edify himself?

That's because of the sheer number of absentee ballots cast by the city's voters in major elections coupled with the state law prohibiting clerks from processing absentee ballots before 7 a.m.

on Election Day.

The Republican-controlled Senate last year let a bipartisan bill die that would have made it possible for clerks to start processing and finish counting the absentee ballots earlier.

They can't start them before 7 a.m.

On election day by law They could have changed it it got through bosses assembly and the bipartisan bipartisan bill and the Republican-controlled Senate let it die

and let's just be clear on this they can start counting then however While they're counting they still need to be running the polling place

the people that are coming in live at the time in person correct

means that functionally

They don't actually start counting until the polls close.

Especially in a busy and on-demand election cycle.

I mean, like perhaps like this one.

Like this one, we're getting

texts in who are saying that they were thousands in line early in the morning.

We're getting reports of long lines.

This is a busy election.

People are engaged.

They're civically engaged.

That's fantastic.

And it means election workers are busy.

Our pal Tom Kertcher over at Wisconsin watch.

Hey, well, he edifies us.

Once again, this is from March 28th.

No, Mr. Shim on case you don't believe Allison Durr from the Milwaukee Journal.

So that no, I don't know why, but here's Tom telling you the same thing.

Didn't walk the election officials at the end of ballot counting.

Find bags of ballots that they forgot.

Short answer.

No.

City of Milwaukee election officials process absentee ballots at one location on election day, which sometimes mean ballots are still being fed into tabulators late that night or early the next morning.

Results are reported once processing finishes.

Again, we heard, we heard the sound state law prohibits municipalities from preparing absentee ballots before election day.

A bill that would allow an earlier start stalled.

It stalled.

Yeah.

The Republican Senate.

Yeah.

They could change it.

So, Mr. Schimel, BS, man.

You're so proud of standing up for whatever the right was, the fib that your daughter told, that you stared her down, her eight-year-old daughter, until she broke under the pressure.

You got a problem with lying, man?

So either you don't know what apparently everybody else knows, and lots of people are reporting within the last couple of weeks, Mr. Schimel.

Either you don't know that, or you're lying about it.

In either way, I believe that makes you unfit, unqualified for this office, for any office, man.

And I think, I think being in, in, in politics in the state of Wisconsin, as long as you have BS under Scott Walker and you know some BS when they're Scott Walker's crew, you know this.

I believe you know it.

And I believe, yeah, you are fibbing just like your daughter did to you.

That's what I believe.

Cause I don't think you're that dumb.

I think you

got

problems, but not So just and I had this discussion can you be a liar and ignorant?

But in general general short on this specific item Yeah, I agree with you.

He has to know he

has to

know he has to know so it's not even a fib because this isn't a little thing this is a

flat out stinking lie

flat out stinking lie Matt Smith tweeting out he's from what the ABC affiliate here channel 12 in Milwaukee 1 a.m.

Update from Milwaukee election officials city should be done counting absentee ballot sometime after midnight

yeah

sometime after midnight according to a journalist reporter Matt Smith and he puts us on and I'll retweet it about

But then you see the, the tweets underneath it.

So shimmer, does your lie?

Does it have a consequence?

Oh yeah.

Like Michelle M at vote right team.

There's the cheat.

Oh

yeah.

See

what they're doing here.

They mean four AM again, says at Bob Rob, bad Rob L. It goes on like this.

Or as soon as they know how many votes they need to find says Wisconsin AJB.

See what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Your your your continual lie gets other people fired up like oh man look at Milwaukee They're gonna come in at 1 a.m.

They're gonna find unsealed Finding all these all these votes and yeah, come on man You are purposefully lying to people to do what to gin them up to to to put doubt into our election system You are purposefully doing that you sir acting like your eight-year-old daughter

And just think of me as you staring at you, man.

I'm doing it till you break, man.

Stop this.

Admit that you know it.

Or read the freaking newspaper, man.

This is how it's done.

The Republicans in the Senate here in the state of Wisconsin could have changed this.

They declined to do so.

Well, it's such a valuable little bargaining chip.

Hovedy was using it.

a month

ago.

If you fix it, you can't complain about it, right?

And who, and certainly the, the people that are following, uh, uh, Matt Smith out there, these folks, they're all down with it, man.

They're all down.

They think that this is going to get stolen.

Wisconsin needs to do away with central counts.

There's no reason it should take that long.

This is just so they can dump fraudulent ballots.

Well, it says Rosie underscore Lisa one.

This is the problem.

This is what happens.

This is what they're saying.

Because of your continued lies, sir, that you mentally beat your child with.

Because you don't like the fibs.

Well, how about you, sir, you lead by example.

Would your daughter be proud of you?

Knowing this, you're going to go to your daughter and tell her how the votes are counted in Milwaukee.

You're going to tell her that, yeah, I don't know if there's any fraud the way they do it.

There's no way for me to.

You know exactly what's going on, man.

And they did recounts after the Trump election.

Actually, after the recount, Trump lost a few votes.

This is a shame, it's a sham, and it is disgusting.

And for a guy who claims to stand up for all these things and wants to be this consistent conservative voice on the bench, you sure got no problem lying to everybody.

Tom, it's real simple.

It's BS.

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Take a

breath.

Okay, I better not.

Folks, go out and vote for Susan Crawford, please.

I mean, come on, this guy, we need to cast this guy aside.

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I'm gonna come back with some of your calls.

And then we're gonna get into some of the national news as well.

The national security team.

Not only other signal chats, apparently.

Also some sensitive information perhaps being emailed via Gmail.

emails, but her emails.

What about his emails?

Yeah.

That's waltz.

That's the national security advisor.

Get to there as well.

And a Maryland man, apparently accidentally administratively wrong set to El Salvador, but too bad.

So sad.

Apparently top of this station is going to do anything about it.

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Lisa from Madison, Europe.

Welcome, Lisa.

What do you got today?

Hey, Dump.

I just wanted to encourage everybody who's griping about the absentee balance to actually go work an election.

Then they'll learn how this

works.

Yes.

How does it work?

I've worked.

I volunteered for the last two presidential elections in Madison and it's quite a process because you have to check the absentee ballot against the poll book, verify the signature, open it, and then run it through the tabulator.

And if you don't have a centralized

system like they do in Milwaukee, you have to kind of work the ballots in as the people are coming in.

So if it's really busy, people have to stand in line with like three or four absentee ballots, and then they have to let actual voters go in front of them so it can take forever to work through all the absentee ballots.

I think the centralized system they have in Milwaukee is great because everything's in one place.

If they just decentralized it, it's going to take longer.

Lisa, apparently the Republican Senate here in the state of Wisconsin let a bill die or didn't advance a bill that would have at least addressed this.

What are your thoughts on that?

I mean, apparently there's a bipartisan effort in the assembly to make this happen.

Why do you think they want to leave this out there and not address this because they keep complaining about it?

Because then they won't have anything to complain

about.

Lisa, thank you for what you do.

Thank you for volunteering.

Yeah, that's a great idea.

Perhaps Brad Schimmel should go and see how it works.

There's an idea, you know, get some actual experience into how the process works.

But as Lisa said, if you, if you, if you solve the quote unquote problem, cause it's not a problem.

It's only a problem of perception.

It's only a problem.

It's only an issue.

If you're, if you're volunteering or working there and you're waiting there till one o'clock in the morning, that could, that could be problematic, certainly, but you know what you're signing up for.

If we, the people through our government have the ability to address this and fix this.

So number one, folks aren't going to stay there till three, four, five o'clock in the morning.

Number one.

And number two, so people like Brad Schimmel and Eric Havde and Scott Walker don't have the lie to lean on.

because they don't like all the black people from Milwaukee voting.

Let's just say it what it is, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, seven.

Thank you, Lisa Pam.

You are next.

Welcome Pam.

What do you got for us?

Hi there.

I wanted to share something about choosing to be involved.

Yes.

My son turned 18 in September.

And the first thing that he wanted to do was register to vote.

Nice.

So that he

would be sure to be able to vote in the fall election.

And he's a senior in high school and he also has a part-time job.

So today being election day, he actually left school during a study hall to go and vote so that he would make it to work on time after school.

That's how determined he is to be involved and to vote.

That's excellent, Pam.

So this is the first time, was he nervous at all?

I know some folks can get a little nervous going through the process.

How was your son?

He was he was he was a little nervous.

We went together and you know So he knew exactly what you know explained to him what to expect and what he would be you know would need to do and afterwards He was so incredibly proud that he had done that and I'm proud of him for taking the time I don't tell him how to vote.

I don't ask him how he votes Because I know that he has he takes the time to educate himself

And I wish that more kids at his age would do the same

more kids his age I wish the guy running for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice would actually read sometimes Hey Pam, thank you so much for sharing and and well done.

I mean, this is also a tribute to you to instill those kinds of values into your your family You did a great job as well.

Thank you eight five five seven five two four four two Let's see here, Cindy from Appleton.

You will be next.

Welcome.

What do you got for us?

Well, I just want to be careful what we wish for with the voting stuff, because if I know everybody wants to make it better, but one thing I don't ever want to see are the paper ballots go away because the paper ballots are what is basically our backup safety net.

I don't trust anybody just doing anything on over a computer because too much of that can be messed up.

So I don't ever want to lose paper ballots for a backup.

Right on.

Cindy.

Appreciate your thoughts.

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Welcome.

Brian, what do you got

for us?

Uh, I want to thank civic media for playing the, uh, group for grip for Brad Schimmel today.

If that doesn't motivate people to get out and vote for Susan Crawford, no one will.

Also, uh, I really appreciate that, uh, the Brad Schimmel group group is basically donating money to civic media.

I think that's a very, very nice

thing.

Thank you, Brian.

Appreciate it.

And as, as the announcers will tell you, you know, we got it as a radio station or FCC, you know, if they, if they want, they got to get it.

You got to play it.

But they're good.

There is that both as well, because they value your opinion out there, folks, as do I come back with this eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

I know we got some callers holding hold through the break.

We'll get to you and your thoughts as well.

And we got to move on to some of these other very important issues.

Like, you know,

renditioning, you know, plucking people up off the street because they got their head on backwards or maybe a neck tattoo or maybe, maybe it's that Air Jordan tattoo is going to get you sent off to El Salvador and good luck getting back.

Let's talk about that.

Other issues as well.

Oh my God.

Hooters file for bankruptcy.

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Happy election day to us all.

Got just PS working hard on the board.

Uh, yeah, it's election day here in the state of Wisconsin.

Go and vote for judge Susan Crawford.

Stay away from the BS.

We have a little bit more reporting on that, but I want to keep people motivated.

Polls are open until eight

PM.

stay in line.

You will be able to vote.

They have to let you vote.

Absolutely.

So get in line by eight PM.

Hopefully you can get your vote in there and vote for Susan Crawford.

There's, there's a lot going on today.

And we have some other issues to get to, but I want to, I want to kind of reiterate and another story here.

Sarah Burris reporting over at the raw story.

Three Wisconsin voters told MSNBC, they cast ballot in the state Supreme court race on Tuesday.

and weren't happy about Elon Musk's involvement in their state politics.

All right.

Musk was in Wisconsin over the weekend, the campaign for far right County judge BS who was supported by the GOP.

One woman said outside the polling place, quote, I don't think Elon changed my vote.

I was always going to vote the way I voted today but again it adds an additional layer of stakes and I hope that people see what's happening and see that they're actively trying to buy our government and I hope that motivates other people.

One conservative agreed saying I wasn't a fan of what Elon was doing with the money, but ultimately I still support where Brad is coming from in terms of pro-life issues.

So ultimately, that's what I was thinking about when I cast my vote here today.

Another woman explained, it's like they were trying to buy it and it was upsetting.

So I wanted to make sure that I had a little bit of a say.

The reporter asked if she meant that she usually wouldn't vote and she agreed, but Elon must got you here, question mark.

pretty much.

Yeah, really.

It ruffled some feathers.

The Wisconsin woman said, yes.

And I literally had conversations like this today, talking with a friend of mine, you know, friend of mine, friend of ours.

Let's put it that way.

You know, somebody who's kind of like, like, like minded a little over overtly political, um, but went to the poll today because she was upset or didn't like.

upset might not be the words.

She didn't like the fact that Elon Musk was trying to buy this election.

It's

not a likable

thing.

It's not.

No, no.

And so if you want to, you want to have a little influence on all the money in the world, you only get one vote.

And Elon, he can't even vote in this state.

Now he's trying to buy your votes, but he can't vote.

The money can't vote.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Um, and ironically enough, so that's, that's that.

Um, heard the story.

today.

And as she was telling me the story, she got a text from her brother, who was employed at HHS, Health and Human Services, and HHS today.

Started laying people off according to the AP the layoffs have begun at the health agencies responsible for research trekking disease and regulating food so while we were talking about the election and her motivation and this kind of thing she She finds out that her brother just got canned employees across the math massive US US Health and Human Services Department received notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people the cuts include research or scientists doctors support staff senior leaders

leaving the federal government without many of the key experts who have long guided us decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues.

Uh, they at the national institutes of health, the world's leading health and medical agency layoffs occurred as this new director began his first day of work.

Here's what health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'

's worm wrote on social media as he celebrated the swearing in of his latest hires.

Yeah.

The revolution begins

today.

Did you say that's what RFK juniors worm wrote?

The worm is fully autonomous now.

The worm controls it all.

Just behind the little steering

wheel.

That's what I'm saying.

It's like Ben and Black, you know.

The revolution.

The revolution.

Dude, you're part of the government, man.

Are you revolution-ing against yourself?

Sounds like it.

Sounds efficient.

They're so very efficient.

The revolution begins today.

The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff, 10,000 jobs through layoffs, and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers.

And surely this won't have any impact on the speed, efficiency, or quality of deliverance of services from the HHS.

I

mean, of course not.

I mean, what do you mean?

You're going to save apparently $1.8 billion annually from the department's $1.7 trillion budget, as the AP points out, most of which was spent on Medicare and Medicaid health insurance coverage for millions of

Americans.

So yeah, $1.8 billion coming out of the system.

And if you believe what the revolutionary RFK junior is saying,

Not gonna miss a not gonna miss a beat man.

Oh always all always almost two billion dollars annually just in waste Mm-hmm.

No no decline in services.

No now.

I did see some anecdotal Social media posts today people I know that are

Social security, Medicare, whatever the case may be.

And some people will say, oh, my check, my deposit didn't hit.

And then ultimately they ended up coming in and saying it.

So I don't know, you know, I'm not in that.

But

there's a delay.

You know,

at least anecdotally.

If people were concerned, it is April Fools who knows what these fools are getting into.

So I guess ultimately, you know, you go from state news here in the state of Wisconsin.

to national news.

I mean, this is everything is pointing at Wisconsin right now.

Yeah, it is all eyes on Wisconsin right now.

It's a strange time to be a to be a cheesehead.

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Craig Gilbert from the Journal of Sentinel has a nice piece in there.

We will get to that momentary.

Let's get some callers in here.

Sherry from Horecon, you are up.

Welcome.

Happy election day.

What do you got for us?

Oh, happy election day.

Oh my God.

I can't, I've been waiting for this day.

This morning I'm there.

Okay.

And I'm, I live in a little town.

So, um, number 235.

Wow.

And this is like 10 o'clock in the morning and there was a line.

It was like, Oh my God.

And so I'm surrounded by

a bunch of other old,

older

ladies.

Anyway, this lady behind me, I go, hi, and she goes, hi.

And I'm thinking, oh my god, okay, all these guys, I live in a Republican land, you know, like everywhere.

And so I'm like, okay, I'm biting my tongue and trying to be very polite.

We've got to get rid of this guy.

We can't have people buying our

left

damn

straight

Everybody looks at me like okay I want what she's having

Us old ladies are out there.

And even the older ladies are out there.

And we're going to get rid of that bed.

We're not going to get paid for.

Lotten paid for.

You know, oh my God, I'm a woman.

I bought hard for my rights.

There's no man that's ever going to take them away.

So there.

So there.

Right on, Sherry.

Thank you so much for sharing it.

I love the story.

And people should.

We don't want millionaires and billionaires, man.

They're not even like hiding it anymore.

I mean, the dude's literally handing

out checks, man.

Yeah, it's not even like, I'm going to give it to the party and the party can do as they see fit.

This is directly trying to buy your votes.

Oh my goodness.

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Craig Gilbert at the General Sut.

Now, I thought this was a good piece.

I want to read a little bit of this.

I'll get back to your calls and your text.

Here's what Gilbert writes, Wisconsin is having a not very normal election today.

State of our world man, Wisconsin is not a very, not very normal state anymore.

As he writes, it is a spring election with all the trappings of a fall election.

It is a state election that feels like a national election.

It is a nonpartisan election that is unabashedly partisan.

It is a contest, Wisconsin's Supreme Court, that some people view as a referendum on the president.

It is an election for a judge that's costing more money than many races for governor.

It features two candidates most people knew little about until recently, but may draw two million Wisconsinites to the polls.

It's also to borrow a phrase, a giant political science experiment.

Yeah.

What happens when you spend far more money than anybody ever has on a judicial election?

Great, great question.

What happens?

What happens when you do it in America's most competitive state?

What happens when you do it at a moment of extreme political polarization?

What happens when the world's richest man makes the election his personal project?

I throw in their Craig personal pet project.

Mm-hmm.

What happens when voters are told that an election for Wisconsin Supreme Court is really

about Donald Trump at a time when Trump is gradually becoming more unpopular.

What happens when all this occurs in the fever pitch of the most turbulent launch of an American presidency in anyone's memory?

We'll find out if Elon Musk can practically hijack a spring judicial race, dominate the news coverage, change the financial playing field, and become an organizing force for both sides.

We'll find out.

If Musk's impact on this race was to spend enough to give conservatives a chance or propel them to victory or fuel a backlash that helps seal their fate, we'll find out if BS's remarkable decision to close his TV advertising by framing the election as a way to support President Donald Trump was brilliant, crazy, or a little bit of both.

We'll find out how powerful the issue of abortion is two years after it fueled a double-digit liberal-court victory in Wisconsin.

We'll find out.

If Republicans have figured out a formula for getting sporadic Trump voters to vote in low turnout elections, we'll find out if liberals and Democrats have carved out a structural edge in spring elections because their base consists of more reliable voters.

And most of all, we will find out which side's voters are more motivated and mobilized in a moment the president is thrilling his political base and horrifying.

A lot of people outside his base.

More on that from Craig Gilbert.

We will put it in the show notes.

Yeah.

This is a crazy political experiment.

Kind of like Frankenstein's monster going on over here.

And folks, we can have our voices be heard.

Reject the money.

Reject BS.

This is our government.

We the people.

Come back with us.

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And welcome

back to the Dom's

solve your show eight by five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five a civic election day here in the state of Wisconsin's Craig Gilbert says feels like a national election feels like a governor's

race some way

I mean what it what it what did Elon Gusk say you know EG

oh that this is a faith this is election that will determine the fate of humanity I'm not dead yet

I'm getting better

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We'll move on to topic.

Let's get some colors on this.

855-757, Keith from DeForest, you are next happy days.

Keith, welcome.

What do you got for us?

Hey, what's going on?

You know, I just wanted to point out again, I know you guys know this, but you know, for everybody from Wisconsin listening, oh my gosh, why do we have the most expensive, you know, judge race in US history?

Well, you know, long 10 years ago, Republicans changed the laws in our state to allow out of state money so that Scott Walker could get out of some campaign finance.

Right.

And I mean, you know, so there wouldn't be any George Soros money.

There wouldn't be any UI money.

There wouldn't be any Elon Musk money.

So when you're talking to your friends or Republicans are listening, you know why.

why we have this problem.

And there's only one way to fix it.

It's call your Republican state legislature and tell them to fix the problem.

Cause it's the problem starting with them and it's going to have to end with

them.

No, I appreciate that, man.

What do you think that that fix is?

I mean, do we reassess whether or not, you know, money is speech or do we do do some, some, some, some regulations of public financing of elections?

Like how do you, how do you see the fixes is coming out?

I mean, I think the law that existed beforehand, my understanding was it just limited the money to not come from outside of the state of Wisconsin.

I could be totally wrong about that, but.

that would be a good start, wouldn't it?

And I can't remember the Supreme Court decision from a decade ago, Citizens United, the said money with speech, right, that's got to go too.

But again, every single one of these bad ideas is a Republican idea that was approved by a Republican controlled US Supreme Court.

So there's a consistent line here of where all this bad stuff comes from.

And we know where it comes from.

But everybody listening needs to know that's where it comes from.

So I know we're out voting today,

and

there isn't a single Republican I'm going to vote for.

So I hope everybody else is in the same boat.

Because anybody that's going to gerry, gerrymander our votes so that our votes don't mean anything.

Tell other people what to do with their bodies.

Let billionaires buy our elections.

They're not on our side.

They haven't been on our side.

they're not going to be on our side.

So let's get with the program and get these people