My mom's been leaving me longer and longer messages.
I don't know what is about the mom message, a lot of detail.
The mom message.
She's like, hi, it's your mother.
It's 7.34.
And Tuesday,
oops, 7.35, the clock just turned 7.35.
It must have been at the end of the four when I said 7.34.
Because now it says 7.35.
I just sit with my finger on the erase button,
but you can't hit it.
In case the end of the message is like, I'm being attacked.
She has to sit like, oh my God, hurry up.
You can feel myself getting older.
That's about it.
I get back at her though.
I treat her like she's seen Isle in public.
That makes her crazy.
Although, don't put that in your mouth.
That doesn't belong in your mouth mother, right?
She's like, stop it, Kyle.
My name's not Kyle, it's Peter.
I'm your son, Peter.
Remember?
Get me a beat!
I told ya, you're always on the run now.
You're rolling up to somebody.
You gotta get in somehow.
I think you'd have to slow down before you start to blow it.
I think you're headed for a breakdown.
So careful not to show it.
You really don't remember, was it something that you said?
All the voices in your head, calling for it.
At 7.08 at WRJN Radio, I'm Don Rosen.
Thanks for joining us here at Civic Media Station.
Don't town radio, or refresh.
We have a primary coming up.
I think on February 20th, I meant to look it up.
Yesterday, I forgot.
That comes with age two, forgetting.
And we have four candidates running for them in the primary.
And our third candidate we're talking to today is Jordan J. Lawrence.
He is running for the fourth automatic district.
And thank you for joining us today.
Do a pre-shoot getting up.
Well, you're actually you're up all the time.
I was up since Paul won I am.
Thank you for having me before I say anything else.
Thank you for inviting me for giving me the chance to be here.
I'll replace you.
It's a dream come true.
Listen to this WRJN for years.
So thank you.
And they get to see it.
And I get to see it finally.
I was still people you shouldn't really see radio stations
because people have images in their head
of what radio stations look like.
And they come in and say, huh.
And this place is pretty good because I've worked at stations
where he was scary coming in.
Even in Milwaukee, some of these little tiny stations.
It's a big number one.
But still the studios were just awful looking.
It's everything I thought.
That's beautiful.
I don't know if that's good or bad.
It's good.
It's good.
OK, so you're running for the fourth automatic district.
You're running against them.
Some pretty two seasoned people plus
another person who's doing it for the first time.
Here's the experience.
And I always ask this question.
Anybody involved in any office whatsoever?
Why do you want to do it?
I'm 33.
I'm a lifelong president of the fourth district.
And in my time, I've seen the fourth district
where just that neighborhood Easter scene, I call it,
just slowly become blighted and just slowly ignored by the city.
And I think that with me running and not necessarily me,
but just someone new, that there could be a change made,
there could be some good positive things for the community.
What positive things?
Well, first of all, what do you think is blighted?
Well, there's three liquor stores and a four blocker radius.
Then you go around the corner and there's another liquor store.
There's about 18 or 19 bars in the neighborhood.
And that's about it.
There's no real thriving food industry.
It's all convenience stores, which is basically sugar
and cigarettes and beer.
There's not much to do as a child there growing up myself.
There used to be Lakeview Community Center,
which was a community outreach program for children.
They turned it into a senior center when I was about,
I think, 12 in 2002 or around that time.
And they told us that we weren't welcome there anymore.
So they kind of kicked us out and said,
you're pretty much on your own.
And other than that, I mean,
Flatiron Village Mall is boarded up.
Half of high streets boarded up.
It's empty.
I think high street could be the gateway to the lake
where it's safe.
Like I just feel like the city should back up.
The businesses that are there, like Rhino Bar has the last two
Kenneke bowling lanes in the nation, I think.
And I just feel like maybe the city should advertise them
or just help out the stuff that's there.
But I would like to see high streets sort of turn into
like the gateway to the lake.
Like you know the history of Chubby's?
Like he wandered off from North Beach.
My picture is hanging on the wall in Chubby's.
I've seen it, I know.
I've seen it.
I was in a hamburger eating contest.
Do you win?
Yes, and the only reason I won was because the other guy
loaded up with a bunch of stuff on a hamburger
and said, give it to me plain.
It's right.
Those are big burgers.
But he loaded up with tomatoes, lettuce,
and all these things that, which filled them up.
That's too much.
Yeah, and I won't.
It's way too much.
I know, I just can give records like seven patties right now
or something, and like 10 minutes or something.
We did it right here in the station.
Did you?
Well, the history is he wandered it off North Beach
and he found his way to high street,
which with the high street stairs being there.
I mean, it's all sort of connected.
So I would like to see high street sort of turning.
So like a tourism area for locals and tourists alike,
where that would be the go-to after a day at the beach,
you could say.
All right, you mentioned Lakeview Park.
It's the right opposite to the zoo,
in case people don't know where that is.
It's right on the Lakefront, but opposite to the zoo.
And I heard that they just sighted the parking lots.
They can't even park there.
They sighted it as all blocked off right now
for environmental studies.
And you know what it is?
I used to walk the dog, my dog.
When I had chesteries to walk them all the time there,
up and down.
And when Chester passed away back a year ago,
I haven't walked in that area since,
and that's probably when they sighted it over.
But people used to park there to go to the zoo.
Yeah.
And it's gone in the building burned.
Yeah, 2019, I think it burned down.
Right, so what would you want to do with that area?
I would like to build another community center,
open all ages.
I would like to maybe make like the type
we were seeing garden club and redo the park completely
and turn it into like a Victorian style walking garden.
Or maybe like the kids from like high schools
could take an elective class there or something,
like give back to the community.
And then like when the zoo has like the weary lights set up,
maybe add on to that.
So like the whole entire area could be like a walk through
with like an outdoor,
what do they call like pop up beer garden or something?
Same that they used to have in the back before it burned down.
So that's what I would like another community center there.
But like a restructure, the whole park updated.
Maybe eliminate like the softball field.
I don't know.
I haven't seen any place softball there.
And what can a score say too?
They have tennis courts.
Maybe you add a pickleball court because it's popular.
And what is pickleball?
It's like life size ping pong kind of, I think.
Is that what it is?
I played it at horror, like what it's been 20 years.
I never I heard of it.
I just I never knew what it was.
It's like life size ping pong balls like this big and use
like bigger paddles and you go from there.
It's fun.
It's just tennis.
Same thing as tennis.
It's fun though.
Sounds very athletic.
And I'm not I think I think one of the main like world
champions lives in one point or he's from one.
There's a world champion trip for pickleball.
There's world change.
It's huge right now.
That's very popular.
It's huge.
You know flag football is coming to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles.
Flag.
Remember flag football?
I used to play it in high school because they didn't want
people tackling each other.
So he used to be a little velcro flag on your side.
One on the left and one of your right side instead of tackling
that yank the flag.
It's not as easy as it sounds.
It's not.
It sounds easy, but it's not that it's the first the first year
it's going to the Olympics.
This is the first year in 2028 in Los Angeles.
Is bowling still in it?
Flag football.
Which one?
Bowling's out of the Olympics now, isn't it?
What is bowling?
Yeah.
Don't know about bowling.
I think they took it out.
I was a I was a when I was 10 years old.
I was in the police boys club league and I was a championship.
I had a 140 average and for a nine year old ten year old.
That was pretty good.
It's insane.
That's good.
That's good.
I don't like trouble picking up the ball.
I understand.
I used to belong.
So I heard my back too.
Okay.
So and I know what you mean by pop up beer gardens because they actually have them at petrified
springs in Kenosha where we get our water.
You know, they have those aquifer water things set up there that the dog walk and they have
beer gardens.
They're all summer.
They pop them up and all of a sudden you can't get a parking spot because everybody's
in can beer.
So that's the lake view.
What about the lake front?
Big big area.
It's it's a it's a gem or we're seen to have top 10 beaches.
It's the nation.
Yeah.
And it's one of those things that a lot of cities don't have access to they and boy did we
get lucky with that we've got extremely lucky with it.
So what we have the oasis there and one quick thing.
My wife and I are reading a book now.
We didn't realize it was from the 1940s but I realized it later on but they used to have
a crab shack there.
These are a whole bunch of things going on on North Beach that are not there anymore.
What would you do?
What would you want changed?
I would love to see like a boardwalk added on to it maybe with like just anything like
I mean we live in a lakeside community and there's not even like a swimsuit store or anything
like there's nothing like I know you can rent a jet ski like I think it's called a little
pew marina but it's just more like beach centered family orientated like activities like swimsuit
stores like put arcade there like pretty much it's like mimic like Coney Island type thing
I would like to see like an entire boardwalk built along the bike path.
Now my dad grew up in Coney Island but surf have surf have a new Coney Island right next
to the amusement park and it still is an amusement park and they built a stadium and that's
where the farm league for the New York Mets play at the Keystone Park which is right there
on the beach to giant stadium they built for the farm league for the New York Mets.
So want to build a stadium there?
No we don't.
They tried once downtown didn't they arena?
Right.
Yeah.
It's apartments now.
Where's that?
It's supposed to be right.
We're a part of the called the breakwater apartments are being built right now.
That was going to build a stadium?
Yeah.
It's supposed to be an arena.
That's right.
It did.
It fell through five years ago.
I did.
It was a few years ago and Mason became mayor.
Yeah.
I forgot about that.
All right.
So that's the beach.
So you want to bring more activity more businesses to the beach?
I would like to.
Okay.
What about the oasis?
Is it good the way it is?
I would keep the oasis the way it is.
There's a way to change anything.
There's a way to change anything.
I just add on to it.
We have it.
Why not capitalize on it is how I feel.
You know, you know what I like?
I used to walk the dog.
They have down by, let me see where it is there, by the kitty, kids cove, pirates cove.
Pirates cove.
Yes.
Kids go whatever pirates go.
And they have like a boardwalk type of walk going on.
I used to love walking the dog back there and it was just so much fun.
That's nice.
And I think the city did a good job with that.
Also, I like the fact that during the summer, they put these pads to go out to the beach
for people with wheelchairs.
They used to have a beach accessible wheelchair at the oasis.
Back when I think his name was Paul Kurt and he used to run it.
It was like a big, big blue wheels and you used to be able to push on the sand.
I'm not sure if they have them anymore though.
Well, I took my mother used to love the beach and she was in a wheelchair.
One day I said, I'm not going to take in a wheelchair at this.
And we walked and we parked our butts on a blanket I brought with us.
And then she said, I can't walk back.
So what am I going to do now?
I can't leave you here to live at the beach.
I can't leave you on the sand.
She said, well, I just will stay here for a little while.
Maybe I'll end that half hour later.
I still can't walk back.
I had to go get the wheelchair through the sand and get her back.
They they they we we weren't in an area where that path was, you know, for the thing.
We're talking to Jordan J Lawrence.
He's running for your fourth alderman.
He's a fourth alderman district candidate and the primaries coming up on the 20th.
February, right?
20th?
20th?
I get only dates screwed up here.
And he wants to be your candidate.
So stay tuned.
I'm over Jordan J Lawrence coming up at just a moment.
718 at WRGN Radio of a civic media station.
All town radio refreshed on your Thursday morning.
We'll be waiting, waiting here, so far, but we can not think, nothing could go wrong.
Oh, now I know she has a building to build a team to begin with, she sees, and now it seems
I'm falling, falling for her, she sees the head, is it about the top of the shed?
She meets you, she's in, but it's about holding her, she sees the head, is it about the
top of the shed?
It is controlled, so it tells you, but I don't really know her, I only know her name.
But she comes under your skin, you never know why I say, and now I know she's got something
to do, and now it seems I'm falling, falling for her, she sees the head, is it about the
top of the shed?
It's 721 at WRGN Radio.
Thanks for joining us on a Thursday morning, Jordan J Lawrence is here.
He wants to be your worth district aldermen, his primary is coming up on February 20th.
Tell us a little about your background, Jordan, about your life and how you were born.
I was born at St. Luke's in your scene, like everyone else here.
Just assume you were born, okay.
I'm 33.
I'm a lifelong resident in the fourth district.
I grew up on Yalt Street and Carter, a black way from O and H on Douglas.
I have a two-year-old son that I'm raising in the city.
I'm a 10-year teamster, and I'm also a teamster at Union Steward.
I have an associate's degree in criminal justice that I receive from Gateway Techno College in 2012.
I'm new to politics.
This is my first run at a municipal government position, and I just want to make better change.
I feel like the city's not done enough to help us or take care of my investment in our neighborhoods,
and I think that under my leadership and guidance, that we can make some big changes in my district
to my area.
My family's been in their scene since 1841, so we have a long, long, rich history year.
My grandfather, Fredrick O. Lawrence, was all the minute of the fourth ward in 1970,
the same district that I'm running for now.
I just would like to continue to tradition.
So you're a newcomer in 1840?
1841, my family's been in it.
1841, a newcomer.
You know, my wife took this book out of the library, and it was the history of her scene.
It was a reference book, but now it's not anywhere you can take it home with you,
and it's held together by Scotch Tape in a Prayer.
But we looked up, and although I live in Racine now, I didn't it this time.
My house wasn't in Racine.
Racine crept out slowly from the downtown area, and they kept adding more blocks to it every time.
But like, high on Main Street, North Main Street was not part of Racine at one time.
And it's amazing how it grew and you have the added couple of blocks in this direction.
Step at a time.
Yeah, they just get the adding to it.
So all this house on Main Street is a, I live it.
I live on Main and y'all right now.
But like three houses down, I think it was built like 1885.
I think it's the older one.
House next door to me is built in the 1800s.
It's a cream break house.
1800s.
Mine was built in the early 1900s.
It was built by Michigan Lake Michigan Sea captain.
There's a book at the library.
You can go into the reference room.
We have to wear the white gloves.
Look at the books, the phone books, or whatever they wore back then, directories.
You list the occupation of the person in your house, which is really weird.
But it's fun to go through it.
Oh, look at that.
All these people, Blacksmith.
Do you have the little like glass holes in your floor?
No.
It was for, so like on ships and they build ships.
I do like a little glass hole.
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
When a sea captain will build on, they'd have little things like that in there.
Well, we've redone the house so inside so many times.
But when we had a wall redone, I said to the guy.
I said before you fix it, I want to look inside.
That's even a gold, the balloons were hidden there treasure.
And of course, now we're in there.
But I want to put a map in there with a note saying, here's where I hid my treasure.
Put this big, you was map.
And maybe 50 years from that, when they tear it on the wall, they say, I found a treasure map from the sea captain.
I mean, it would be good to find.
And it would be happy, you know.
But I wouldn't be here to get the laugh.
No.
You laugh now.
You know, you know, it's coming.
All right.
So let's talk about some things that you would do.
We have a homeless problem like every city does.
It's not as bad as maybe some cities.
And I mentioned that deweys, which is on Main Street, just closed up.
And from what I heard, what I heard, one of the problems was some of the homeless people,
just on that block, were drifting back and forth.
When I go to the library, right there, if you know what the Racine Public Library is,
there's like steps leading up to Memorial Hall.
Right in front, yeah.
Right.
A lot of homeless people, and they're screaming, they're cursing, and they're carrying on.
They make people nervous.
And they're homeless.
That could do anything to you.
They're homeless people.
But they're just hanging out because they got in the world to go.
The hands of the word homeless.
And it makes people nervous.
And every city is going to have it.
You can't, because people have hard times or they may have a mental issue.
And you just can't ignore them.
So what would you do with the homeless people?
And the homeless problem here.
It's tough.
It is a crisis in America, the homeless issue.
I don't know how honest, I don't know where they're sleeping when this is cold outside.
I understand like shelters are overwhelmed.
But I do know that a lot of them stay out of shelters from my experience stalking them,
because there's a lot of bed bugs and a lot of pest problems inside the shelters,
so they choose to stay out and they drive their sleep on the street and deal with it.
Is it by choice that they're homeless?
They just want to be free from societies like structure?
Is it like a bad time, you think?
I do agree with what the Veterans Outreach program did on Yelp, where they built the many houses.
And I think maybe the city should step in at this time.
If businesses are closing because of the homeless problem, maybe we should take one of our many vacant lots.
We have in our city and just make an entire new type of many home.
The same for the day for the veterans.
You know, when I worked downtown Milwaukee at a station radio station there,
we worked at seven of Wisconsin.
There was a homeless guy, an old guy, and he pushed his shopping cart with his clothes in.
I was talking to the mailman one day.
It was back in the 80s.
I was talking to the mailman one day and I was talking about him.
He said, you know, that guy's a pretty wealthy man.
He's got more money probably than you and me put together.
I said, but he's a homeless guy.
He said his son was killed in Vietnam and he couldn't deal with it.
He took to the streets and he uses the Army Navy store on Wisconsin Avenue as his mail drop.
And he pays him so he can use it as a mail drop.
But he decided that's it.
I just can't deal with life.
Self-exile.
Yeah.
And he just walks the streets.
He lives on the streets.
And this guy's got more money than me and the mailman.
And he said, put together.
But he just made a choice and he just couldn't deal with the death of his son.
It sounds like a quarter man in your scene.
You know, a quarter man is in the scene like the legend you're seeing, the homeless guy.
No, he always wears a pink towel and he walks around.
Supposedly he's rich too.
But he chooses to live on the streets.
That it's like his, like, his self-in, like, self-exile.
Is it urban legend?
I mean, I've been around my whole life.
But yeah, you could say urban legend, like a local legend, you could say.
And what's he called?
Quarter man, cigarette man.
Anybody from District 4 knows who he is.
He lived over there for a long time.
I should say high street.
Wow.
I grew up there, so.
Is he, like, big foot?
There have been sightings?
It's been a few years since he's going to see him.
I'm not sure what happened to him.
I hope he's all right.
He's always polite.
He's all right with me.
But I used to spend a lot of time over there by the lake.
Well, the lake is where to go in the summer.
If you don't have anywhere to go, you can just go sleep on the lake.
I used to be a, remember the dunes they used to be there?
Yeah.
In the middle, they used to be, like, three or four tents where they would gather and sleep.
Jordan J. Lawrence is with me.
He is running for the 4th Alderman District.
It wants to be your Alderman.
Primary is coming up February 20th.
We'll talk more with Jordan coming up at just a moment.
It's 729 at WRJN Radio.
There's some farm news coming up right now.
All town radio refreshed to civic media stations.
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