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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
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.
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
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
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 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
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,
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
damn
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.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
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
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
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
Yeah, right on.
He appreciate that, man.
Absolutely not on our side.
And to your point, I would imagine Republicans consider this, you know, this amount of money spent a windfall success.
This is what they wanted, man.
You want they wanted, you know, the billionaires to be able to come in and influence by the elections to this degree, man.
That's what they wanted, but only their
Billionaires.
Yeah, well, what about George Soros?
Hillary's emails!
You know what I'm saying?
Come on, Republicans, you know that this is corrupting.
Corrupting.
It is corrupting.
No way about it.
No way about it.
You can't deny it.
It is obscene.
It is obscene.
It should not be allowed, man.
Not like this, to this degree.
I mean...
They'll just start forking out money just buy it like this.
That's what you're doing.
What's no just open up the flood again Yeah, you got 10,000 people pay him all 10,000 bucks I mean these these elections come down like 20,000 right, right?
It's a bit there but Wisconsin's very close So, you know just 10,000 people 10,000 bucks each We really appreciate you
What do you got for us?
by, um, mail-in ballot.
And, um, I made sure that everybody I know, um, knew what was going on in the election, who, who was doing what and made sure my children and grandchildren, um, all knew, um, the importance of voting.
And I,
may have kept on nagging and nagging,
but
Granny's got a getter point of
Ollie.
There.
And I don't want Elon Musk and his money here buying the state of Wisconsin.
I believe Wisconsin belongs to Weezer people, and Weezer people have the power to stop this.
What is the deal with these Republicans bragging about how mean they are?
I mean, what the heck could an eight-year-old girl do that was so bad that it required that kind of smackdown?
Brad Schimel had to give her.
I mean, for God's sakes, it could have waited till he got home.
And who the hell remembers?
Tell us this kind of story and brag about things.
It's like, it's a good thing.
It's like Kristi Noem shooting her dog.
God's sake.
I
mean, it speaks
I mean, it does.
I mean, look, come on, Brad Schimel, you know, got into his daughter's eight year old daughter's head and got her to confess to a lie.
I mean, it's not like shooting a dog.
I mean, I don't think, I think that's worse.
Maybe, I don't know.
But he certainly didn't, you know, harm his dog.
I mean,
on the
We got just a little bit of that.
Plus we're gonna get into the deportation of a Maryland man.
Accidentally, but you know, too bad.
So sad.
My bad.
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rebrand the show.
It's a lot.
Um, and, and, you know, I've known over the years, you know, not to like pound on a topic too long, but it is election day and they just keep coming.
Yeah.
And if, if, if you need any motivation to go out and vote for Susan, Susan Crawford will let me give you just one more.
20 minutes ago listen to this crap The political action committee funded by Elon Musk is promising that he will pay people $50 if they take photos of themselves outside of their polling place in Wisconsin after voting quote
You will now earn $50 for every picture with a Wisconsin resident outside of a voting location.
They'll get $50 to the pack wrote on X. First, snap a picture outside of a voting location with a Wisconsin resident holding a photo of Super Judge BS.
They're calling Super Judge.
Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, commented as such, it's illegal in Wisconsin to engage in electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place.
Another quote, Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Christ, this is so blatantly illegal.
If Musk isn't prosecuted for this, we might as well throw out democracy and turn it over to our billionaire lords and landed gentry.
It's over.
The Waukesha County news site, the Freeman posted a report of a quote man with a sign outside of Waukesha City Hall that reads $300 from Elon Musk.
Other reports on Tuesday with the profanity yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
So.
there you go man they're still trying they're still trying to influence still trying to
You know, it's our own damn fault.
Let's just be honest about it, because we motivated ourselves and got up and we the people over, you know, the many over the money, we could do something about this, but every day is an opportunity.
Every minute, every second, every day is an opportunity.
Do it now.
This is our opportunity right now.
Go out and vote for Susan Crawford.
Polls are open until 8 p.m.
Don't let these billionaires give you the 50 bucks.
It doesn't matter to them.
No.
Don't sell out so cheap.
You're worth more.
You're worth more.
You are.
You are worth more.
Dammit, people like you.
eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five civic LA Tom, you are next.
Welcome Tom.
What do you got for us?
Well, first off, Tom, uh, we, the people ultimately are the government and, um, I hope they show, I hope, uh, Wisconsin, they show that today and remember it's, uh, same day registration and same day voting.
Also, if Republicans and powers doing it, you can bet that they're doing it.
And, um, let me just ask you that.
You know, we got Mr. Waste, Broad and Abuse himself, Elon, who I call Smelly Musk, spending over $100 million on a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
I can't think of anything that's more wasteful and what $100 million could do to help somebody than spending money on a political race.
So I would say that if you want more money in politics, go ahead and vote for BS.
But if you want to get money out of politics, vote for Susan Crawford to get money out of politics, because this is the only way our democracy is actually going to survive.
If we get money out of politics completely, move to a campaign system of public financing campaigns, each put $5 on your tax returns, and you'll still have a very, very expensive race, but at least it'll be done by we the people and the corporations can stay out of it completely.
Republicans and Democrats in power must get money out of politics.
us and conservative Supreme Court.
It's your sandbox box.
We are unfortunately are having to play in it.
A lot.
Like a majority, not a majority of 25%, plurality, plurality.
Sir, we'll take that.
We will take that.
And now they continue to, you know, play these games, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five.
Civic Mike from Cedarburg.
You're next.
Welcome, Mike.
What do you got for us?
Well, for years, I've known that the mega Trumpers were worse.
We're not a distributor taking the money.
One day I'll say, you know, I've had a medical condition recently, but I haven't been in a coma.
When did Congress declare
invasion.
Yeah.
And only Congress should allocate funds for things as well.
Hey, listen, man, Mike, thanks for always appreciate it.
These efforts by Trump and this administration, they're being challenged, right?
Lots of court cases going on.
We'll perhaps get to that.
I don't have time today.
We'll get to that tomorrow.
Hey guys.
Um, I, I don't know.
In my head, I'm thinking of the specific song by Dennis Leary.
I don't think I can
say
the name.
That's all I got.
Okay.
That's all I
Yeah.
That was SNL, right?
Yeah.
Got that.
Thank you, Ronnie.
Can't believe that one was still stuck in the head somewhere.
against my better judgment.
But you know, what the hell?
It's a celebration today.
It's election day.
It's election day.
Go out and vote polls are open till eight o'clock.
And, you know, if you're lucky, you might be able just to, to counter this guy's vote.
CJ, are you there?
CJ?
Welcome to the show.
What do you got for us?
Did you get out and vote yet?
I did from sunny Florida.
Wait,
Okay.
Okay.
It's a beautiful 85 degrees down here.
I just wanted to start out with something good on canceling your vote, Tom.
Oh,
you, man, the money, the money that's all this offering and just reported right now, another 50 bucks to get your picture, you know, get a picture of someone holding shimples, uh, pick, uh, uh, showing a picture of shimples in front of the polling place.
Do you think this is getting a lot of hand man?
Should we do something about the money in politics CJ?
Well, um, yeah, what over a hundred million dollars it is.
It's, it's sad and it's, um,
It's sad that it's gotten to this point, but the mere fact is, have you heard the name George Soros?
Well, here's a question for you though.
Do you think you should have to prove yourself to be a US citizen to vote?
Well our governor
well
here's the point what's the
you know you think it's buying votes
blatantly i thought it was buying votes when student forgiveness loans
was sold by Biden three times after it was.
Yeah.
I know you really don't like that.
And Biden got, you got pushed back from the courts on that.
No, no, no, you talk, let me get you, man.
If you're going to talk about being efficient and giving money away and influence elections, your guy spent almost $30 billion because he was losing a trade war and he had to shore up his farming support.
And he just gave away $30 billion, man.
That was your guy during the election cycle.
And he bragged about it.
What are your comments on that specifically, sir?
Well, you're down there Good try CJ appreciate it man But you know it even CJ like you know absentee voting even for a guy like CJ You know look at them all the Republicans are down with us now early vote absentee voting.
It's amazing Yeah, where's all the fraud?
That's right.
You're in sunny, Florida somewhere warm You know as a white guy not one of those black folks living in Milwaukee CJ You know what I'm saying?
It's amazing how you guys have come around
absentee voting from out of state you're not even here man and your vote counts and it should count and I encourage it but why was it okay now and it wasn't before oh that's right your guy is now promoting it see how that works eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic tell us something good one final segment and then get your ass out to vote polls are open till eight p.m.
I'm still
dom salvi show eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic tell us something good last segment of the day if you got something to say hit us up right now but the rule is you gotta start out by telling us something good that's right all right let's do it John from Columbia County you are been the most patient John welcome tell us something good buddy
Good afternoon down my great show as always and something good for me is a high voter turnout here spring election When loser draw it's great to see this many people engaged and ready to go out and vote and
Even if I lose, which would be Susan Crawford, it's still a really cool thing to have this many people.
And the last thing I want to mention is McCain, by and goal, kind of had spending under control in politics and the Supreme Court.
changed all that and it's just a sad thing.
Okay.
You guys have a great day and I enjoy listening to you.
What do you do with a really bad rainbow?
What?
Put it in a prism!
Hey, what I just heard, man, like for the first time for a few seconds, I heard you and CJ actually agree on something that we need to get money out of policy.
That's good, right?
Yeah.
I think we can all agree on that.
Okay.
My last, uh, I was canvassing and calling today and my last call was to Wayne and he told me that he voted and he voted democratic.
And then he said, and I'm a Republican,
going crazy, but they're going crazy.
He said, I said, that was a great last call.
Appreciate sharing that.
You know, I got a call today too.
And usually I don't answer the calls, but I was actually waiting for a call.
So I'm like, I'll just grab this.
And it was
Some guy, you know, hey, you know, give me, have you voted yet?
And I noticed that, you know, you vote because you have your information, you
And I told him, yeah, I haven't voted yet.
I'm going to tonight after the show.
And I thanked him for doing that, for reminding folks, you know, that that's good.
We got to do that.
And that's those are kind of efforts that it takes sometimes.
And that literally means people need to volunteer their time to go do that.
And so lots of lots of love to those that go out and volunteer to do that, make these elections work.
five seven five two four eight four two tell us something oh we lost John
I'm telling you something good my chickens are friendly they're eggs although we lost a few to some rotors
I voted today and trust me, Schimel didn't get my vote.
I want to tell you, love your show and tell me something good.
Wow.
So My Something Good, it's audio that we were going to play in.
We had a plan.
We were going to move on.
My Something Good, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has been holding the Senate floor for over 23 hours.
Wow.
This man has been standing, not allowed to sit, for over 23 hours.
hours going strong the live stream of him going strong has currently I'm gonna pull it up right now 92,000 people are watching this and seeing someone finally stand up against the nonsense and it's it's I encourage you to go onto this live stream of Senator Cory Booker and watch him stand up for democracy that is my something good down what you got
Once I get out of bed.
Folks, thank you so much for listening to the Dom Salvia show.
We appreciate every one of you and make sure you get out and go vote for Susan Crawford.
Let's push back on this and let's figure out how we come together to get this money out.
Hell, you even heard the conservatives say it.
They don't want it.
We don't want it.
Let's make this happen.
But first, I guess Susan Crawford elected the Wisconsin Supreme Court with your help.
I'm confident we can do that.
I'm going to go vote.
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