I don't like staying at people's houses on the road, don't like other people's
showers. I can never adjust the temperature right. I don't know the ratios on
the dials, you know, sometimes a 16th of an inch is a thousand degrees.
There's always that little hair stuck on the wall if somebody else is
shower and you want to get rid of it but you don't want to touch it. I don't know
how I get up that high in the first place. We have to fight these battles, we're
all alone in the bathroom. Whenever it goes wrong you have to handle it.
If you go to a big party, go in the bathroom, flush your toilet and the
water starts coming up. This is the most frightening moment in the life of a human
being. You will do anything to stop this. You'll lose your mind. Start talking to
the toilet. No, please don't do this to me. Come on. You know this is not my fault.
I'll get you the blue thing, the man in the boat. Just let me off the hook this one time.
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radio. I would be right now is our fourth and final candidate with the fourth
automatic district in Racine. She is running for older person. I'm so lost on
this. It was an alderman, older woman, older person, just older. People tell
me it's just older now. Jacqueline, the Schrader is here. Hi, Jacqueline. Good morning.
Good morning. And I want you to relax. We got a lot to talk about here today.
And we just want to get to know you because, you know, some of the people who
running for office have done it before and people kind of know their names, but you're
kind of a new name to us. And we want to get to know you. And tell us a little bit
about you. Where are you from originally? Well, I was born in Illinois, but
this is actually the eight state I've lived in, but I've been here for five years now.
Where have you lived? Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Minnesota,
and Wisconsin. You know, I'm the run from the FBI. Are you? Not as far as I know.
Sounds like you're on the run. Go from state to state. Well, that's kind of
interesting. A lot of people don't get to do that. They they born in one place and
they kind of stay there in their entire lives. That's interesting. When you're a
kid, you can't really don't have too much control over that. So. Oh, so your parents
didn't give you say in that when you were a kid, huh? Okay. Wasn't a family vote? No. Okay.
So how long you've been living in Racine? Five years. Five years now. Got a family?
Oh, yeah. I'm married and have two kids. I met one of your kids. Yeah. We saw
us the other day when we were walking down Main Street. You see the youngest or
the oldest? He's the oldest. He likes to go down Main Street because he gets to see
buses and trucks and whatnot. Oh, wow. Yes. Go live on Main Street. You get to see
everything you're driving by fast cars, speeding. He I'm a younger one still
just like she's only one. So. Well, that's good. That's good to have a nice
family like that. Two kids. It's just a typical American dream. Okay. So you live
in the fourth automatic district and I have to ask every candidate this only because
I don't know why people want to run for any kind of office whatsoever. Why do
you want to be an older? Well, because I just don't really like the things
the way things are run. And I don't know. I guess I guess I thought I would just
try it myself. If you don't like what's out there, sometimes you got to be the
change you want to see in the world, you know? Put your money way your mouth is.
Yeah. Something like that. I wouldn't have had the self confidence to do it
before, honestly, but I kind of feel like I want to say you've got to push
yourself sometimes, you know? So is this the first time you've ever run for a
public office or any office whatsoever? Yes. Okay. What made you do it?
Other than that somebody tell you if you don't like it, fix it yourself.
Well, I heard the seat was going to be open. So I kind of thought like why not?
I mean, I'm just I thought I'm as good as anybody else. So why not try it?
That's good. What? How many signatures did you need to get going to your
remember? To have 20 to 40. That's it. Yes. You know 40 people.
You can get them to sign. That was easy, right? I do now. Yeah. I don't know if I know 40
people in Racine who would want to see me do anything. I'm trying to think about that.
How is that with something I liked about collecting signatures? Is it kind of
gave me a reason to go out and meet neighbors and stuff? That's nice. You know,
I occasionally I'd not this alder addict season, but in the past, other people
knock on my door and have me sign something so they can run it. I'm for
everybody running. So I'll sign anything. I actually had someone come to my
door to run for the school board. I was like, well, I also I'm for you.
Because they actually have to have way more and for the county board, they have
100. So you said there were things you didn't like. What didn't you like that you
want to improve upon? I just don't feel like the city's being run as well as
it could be. It's not being I don't think it's being run very efficiently. I feel
like parts of the city are being ignored. Like what? Give me an example of
something you don't you think could be better. Western part of district four out
by Douglas and stuff. It doesn't seem like any any attention at all is given
out there. It's all down. It's all a lot of the energy seems to be focused on
like downtown and which is fine. But like there's a whole other city here,
you know? So what would you do differently there? What would you do if I said
today? Okay. You won the race. I'm giving you the money. What do you need to do
in on Douglas Western part of Douglas Avenue? I have a big problem with
boy. And so that needs to be improved a lot. That's it. Well, like there's a
boy. Oh, across most of the city and boy attracts other problems like crime.
It depresses property values. And it just like sort of demoralizes people to
see that. So we got a whole bunch of times to talk about here. You mentioned
blights. Let's talk about what improvements you would make to the city. Do we
have good garbage collection? Obviously that's not I got no problem with the way
the city services are. And to be honest, most of the city employees I've met have
been pretty friendly. So it's just kind of unfortunate that it seems like the
top part of the leadership is not as good as it could be. Like the mayor?
Mostly the city council. City council. Okay. Just kind of find out. Okay. So
so services are good. You don't have about the police. I have nothing with a
prop. No problem with the police. Like they've been friendly when I'm encountered
them. What if they want more money? Well, I mean, they are I suppose I
would want to see a breakdown of that because they actually them and the fire
actually get more than half of our budget already. So if it's if it's an issue
where it's there's certain areas that are not being able to be policed
enough. Like they need more officers and stuff. Then yeah, but I'd want to
know like what exactly they are needing. The people who live on Main Street,
their biggest complaint is the speeding. Yeah. Because it's a 30 mile an hour
zone where I live and cars are going a lot faster than 30 miles an hour. I
know that for a fact is when I'm traveling at 30, they're passing me by at
least 15 miles an hour. What would you do about that? I know it's that you can't
dictate morality to people. I'm aware of that. Would you have more you'd ask for
more police on Main Street? Do you want them hiding out more on the side streets
to catch the street? Actually, I actually do see the police on Main Street
sometimes, but I don't I don't know how often that but I probably help
because people do tend to slow down when they see police officers. You know
what they've done in the past? They've put empty police cars. Yeah, I've heard
about that tactic to because you're not going to know until you drive past
them that they're empty. Oh, yeah. You just see the car and over. You
didn't. By the way, it's not even a police car anymore. They're police SUVs.
Cruisers. Yeah, I haven't seen a police car in I can't run. I think on
Mandy Griffith's show and Mayberry's the last time I saw a police car. They don't
have them anymore. I mean, you can see that effect like all the time when you
drive on the freeway. If if people see a cop on the side of the road, they
all like it's like the train that the chain of everybody slowing down. The
brake lights all coming. It's not a bad idea to put a just put a police car
there somewhere on Main Street and you know, have people slow down.
Let's talk about homelessness and that's something that every city in
America has probably got a problem with and we have a problem here. As a matter
of fact, I was told whether it's true or not. I don't know but we lost a
dewey's on Main Street because of some of the homeless problem in the area.
That's what I was told. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what I was told.
So that wouldn't be the fourth-old romantic district, but what do you do about
homelessness? People some people don't have a place to go. I mean, you can't have
them. He can't shoot them away to another place. Well, Dewey's came to the city
council and said that the homelessness was driving way their business, but then
on their own page, they said they were just retiring. So not even sure what the real
story with that is unless he retired. Just he said, I'm not going to deal with this
anymore. It's just going to retire. But then you have other businesses
downtown that like participated recently in a fundraiser for the
hospitality center and stuff. So I mean, it's clearly like they have multi-faceted
opinions on this topic. Now the hospitality center is right there.
It's just just immediately south of the downtown area. Yeah.
It's right there on Main Street and there are some homeless people that hang out there.
But people have to be somewhere. Yeah, and that's why
recently our city council put out a letter saying like, oh, the
hospitality center needs to be moved. To where? No, no location given. No
suggestions about how to alleviate the problem just to move it somewhere.
That's move it somewhere else. And the funny thing is nobody's going to want it
in their area. Nobody wants a homeless problem in their area. Although
I mean, that's one reason it bothered me because it's like you're just going to
you can't just shove it somewhere else. And especially when homelessness is
literally a record levels all across the US rents are a record high
levels like it came across as super out of touching
cows to just say, well, we don't like looking at them. So we got to push it
somewhere else. We got to come up with like real solutions and you got to
address the causes. And that's what happened at the border in this in this
country right now. People are coming over with families. I got to go somewhere
and I know one of the states down there is just shipping them all over the place. But
I mean homeless people. I mean, they got to go somewhere. These are families.
I mean, they have children with them. They got to go somewhere. Same thing here.
I mean, I know I've seen them in some of the homeless people hang out in the areas
yelling and screaming. Some people might have some mental problems. I don't know.
But yeah, that's a major problem that's got to be dealt with. But hold on a second.
I'm going to check on straighters here. She's running for fourth automatic
and wants to be your older. So keep it right here at WRJ and
hometown rating over fresh to civic media station. More coming up just a moment.
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Back in straighters here. She's running for the fourth automatic district.
And she wants to be your older.
I'm still lost on that.
Is it older, older person, older men, older woman?
I don't know what it is. What do you think it is?
Honestly, a legit doesn't matter to me.
I know. It's just that people I speak to say now the word is older.
They got rid of the older men. Some people say it's so older.
I don't know. I just, I want everybody to be happy with what I say.
And so I want to get it right.
But you don't care.
Well, I mean, I've heard older men, older person.
I don't care. It doesn't matter to me.
If somebody called me an older woman, I think I would bother me because I just don't.
So older men, my bother ladies, I don't know.
Anyway, we call it older for now.
It's without the homeless problem.
We've got, we've talked a little bit about services, but the big one is crime.
And you're never going to get rid of it.
And I always tell people if there was a place on this planet where there was absolutely no crime,
everybody would go there, including the crooks.
They would go there.
So there's not going to be any place on the planet where you can get rid of all the crime.
But you want to do your best to limit it.
So what do we do? We have crime.
We have people stealing packages off porches.
We have people getting shot.
We have people, you know, car jacking, breaking into homes.
What do you do about that?
I mean, there's one thing to have more police, but it's very hard to be all around everywhere all the time.
Well, different kind of crimes have different causes, like with the porch parts you mentioned.
I've noticed a lot of people in the area have like those ring cameras now.
That doesn't stop it.
No, but I think over time that could have a mitigating effect if they know it's because, you know, that's a crime of opportunity.
So if they know the chances of them getting caught is super high.
They're less likely to pursue that way of doing things.
You know, I wish the people who make these deliveries would not leave the package on the step.
I see that a lot when I'm walking around.
The package is a left on the, if it's a porch on the front, on the step where it's, you know, they don't want to go up and put it by the door.
Where it might be a little harder for someone to get because now they got to walk up on the porch instead of just going up to the step.
But I know on Amazon, you can request where you want your package put.
And we have done that in the past. They'll put it wherever you want.
But you got to request it on the site.
So that would be one thing to stop those porch pirates or at least limit them a little bit.
I guess it depends on the driver.
If they want to go all the way up a porch, not because...
Well, if you put on the Amazon, they pretty much have to because they take a picture of the package where they leave it and they send it to you.
That's what they're supposed to do anyway.
I don't know if you can completely stop porch pirates because one town I lived in, for instance, they were very dedicated.
They would actually follow the delivery trucks like to trail them a bit and then immediately go...
So even if you're at home, literally waiting, they could still get it before you can get to it.
I've seen those videos when they show people just, you know, following the trucks around and they grab the packages.
I like when the owner of the house comes out and chases them.
I love to see those videos.
It's tough. And what about breaking in of cars? I see this all the time around the city.
People post these ring videos.
People just breaking into their cars, trying to steal them or get whatever they can out of it.
I mean, what do you tell the people that you're seeing? You're just going to have to live with it?
No, I would say that's one where more patrolling could probably help stop that because that's also falls into like crime of opportunity.
So if they feel like they're not being watched or nothing's going to happen, they're more likely to try to do that.
So more ring camera, do you think?
But also, if they know that area is being patrolled by police, they're not going to be as likely to try that.
Also, if the areas are well lit, pretty much if they know there's a high chance they're going to get caught, they're less likely to try to do things like that.
But about the budget, you don't want to raise taxes, property taxes if you don't have to.
And people, the one thing they hate the most is having to pay more taxes.
I mean, that's number one. I don't blame them. My property taxes have skyrocketed. They really have.
Because I notice it now more that my mortgage is paid off because now I got to write the check every year rather than the escrow account check coming in, which fell a lot more painless.
So do you think we should cut the budget, increase it?
Because if people want more services, you got to get it from somewhere.
That means more money has to be spent. Or do we reduce services to get the budget down? What do we do?
What are you defining as services here?
Well, anything the city provides, whether it be police, garbage collection, even the parks department, anything to do with services.
I mean, we have a parks department. I mean, do we cut back on cultural things? What do we need more cultural things in the city?
We've got a zoo, which gets money. We've got a band community band that gets some money.
We've got parks departments, which need money to run. What do we do?
I would say this is one of those we've kind of go through the budget in a more detailed way.
And pretty much like, this is what we're spending on this right now. Are we happy with this level?
Do we need to raise this level? Can we cut back this level?
So I know that, for instance, they just gave a lot of funding back to the police.
So people are probably not going to want to see that change for a while.
It's like, we would need to keep track of the money flow.
What exactly is this money for this thing going to?
Is it going to actual thing like money for services? Is it going to an actual service?
Or is it going to like some person who's just sitting there collecting a paycheck, not doing anything?
The people I see work hard, I mean, I see the garbage collectors and...
Oh, no, no. I think the average city people are all working hard.
Right. And there's not enough money in the world to get me to do what they do.
I mean, it's a very hard job, the snow, the rain, they're out there all the time, the heat.
You couldn't give me enough money to be a police officer.
I just wouldn't want to deal with human beings being nasty out there on the street all the time.
I mean, I wouldn't know where to cut. That's why I'm not running for older person.
So I wouldn't know where to cut.
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Go to the movies a lot, Jacqueline.
What?
You go to the movies a lot?
No.
Okay.
Just our good movie.
The boys in the boat the other day trying to find another human being that's seen the movie.
Right now I can't.
I thought it was a great movie.
It's a true story about the the rolling team for Washington State back of the 1930s
that went to the Olympics.
Hitler's Olympics in Germany in Berlin, Germany in 1939.
And beat the Germans in the Olympics.
And the guy who played Adolf Hitler was great.
It looked just like him.
I mean, it looked like a documentary.
It was a very good movie.
Boys in the boat.
And we said dial in from murder this weekend.
That they were seeing theater guild.
Have you ever been there?
No, I've not yet.
Oh, you got to go there.
Dial in from murder.
What a great mystery.
And the actors on stage were just magnificent.
Then my wife and I watched the DVD last night, the Hitchcock movie.
Dial in from murder, which was great.
So what are you doing?
You're free time.
Jack, by the way, Jacqueline Schrader is here.
Jacqueline is the fourth candidate we've had in here.
Fourth and final candidate to.
She's running for the fourth automatic district once a year or all the person.
And we're finally got more about her today.
So what are you doing?
You're free time.
What do you do for fun?
Well, I'm a state home mom side mostly with my kids.
Oh, that's fun.
Well, not so much in the winners.
But when the weather is a bit nice, we like to go for walks.
We like to go to the parks.
A bit down to the beach.
That was great.
You know, my mom was a state home mom most of her life.
And then when we became my brother was going to high school and I became a teenager.
She went to work for the Department of Consumer Affairs in New York and became a go-getter.
She's a legendary in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
But she was a state home mom with us and did a ton of stuff with us.
We always went to the beach and I mean, just it was a great time.
I had great memories growing up and I'm glad my mom was very into what we did.
So that was, that was good.
Glad to stay at home mom.
That's a busy job too.
It's like 24 hours a day.
So at five o'clock, the whistleblows you're not done.
You keep going.
Doesn't stop being a mom, right?
All the time.
Just keeps going.
Let's talk.
You meant to go into the lake front and so forth.
Let's talk about the lake front.
It's one of the wonders of the world here in Racine.
We have such a beautiful lakefront north beach, the Oasis area.
It's a place to go in the summertime.
Even a nice and the wintertime take walks around the lakefront, which I do.
Is a good the way it is.
We need improvements.
We need to bring more activities there.
I know we have the, was it the world volleyball championship or something like some volleyball championship?
We have there every year.
Yeah, like August I think.
Yeah, we have the cat.
Do we still have the Ironman races going through there?
That's what you do bicycling, walking, swimming.
What if we do all that stuff?
I haven't checked on that in a while.
So what do you think about our lakefront?
Do you want to make improvements to it?
Do we need more services down there?
More like we have the Oasis, but do we need more than just that?
Well, the lakefront is definitely like a huge asset to our city.
Most cities don't have anything like that or you have to pay if you want to get that close to the water.
I would say it has the potential to be turned into a really attractive area.
But I mean, of course, it also depends on what people in the area also want, like if they're...
You shouldn't bring in something that all the locals are like opposed to with that kind of thing.
But I think we could definitely have more down there in the summer other than the Oasis, maybe a few more attractions.
What about kids call the playground area?
I bring my kids down there sometimes.
It's like one of the only...
It's like the biggest playground sort of in our part of the city.
I got some good rides there.
I mean, you got the slides, you got the swings.
I mean, don't be like rollercoaster right.
I mean, like, activities to do.
There's a lot of fun places down there.
When I used to walk my dog on the little boardwalk path around the place.
Oh, yeah, the little boardwalks real nice.
We like to take walks back there, too.
Yeah, I used to watch the kids playing.
It looked like a lot of fun.
You know, it's all free.
Just pull over there and enjoy it.
So is that good the way it is?
Do you want to add more to it, expand it?
Do you like it like the way it is?
Maybe it'd be upgraded a little bit.
Yeah.
But I think generally it's all right.
Yeah, it looks like the parents are there watching their kids.
Well, they always have a good time.
I got attacked by a bird there.
There was a bird on top of the light post.
I was walking my dog and took him out to the car
after I walked in that boardwalk area.
And he swooped down.
I got a video of it.
He swooped down at me.
He tried to attack me.
Now, I don't know if she had a nest somewhere nearby or she didn't like my face.
There were a lot of people like my face.
But I took a video for swooping down at me and attacking me.
And this went on for a while.
A seagull?
No, I wasn't a seagull.
I'll show you there in the break.
I'll show you the video.
Oh, okay.
Just by my swing.
This went right down at me.
So I don't know what that was all about.
It was kind of scary.
I just had a nest somewhere and he just accidentally stumbled on it.
Yeah, but there were other people walking around.
This didn't like you.
I don't know.
That happens a lot people don't like me.
All right, so we talked about the homeless issue.
We talked about crime.
We talked about improvements to the lakefront.
Now, Lakeview Park, that's another sticking point with a lot of people running for
all during this town.
Yeah.
Lakeview Park, the building burned down.
Yes.
The parking lot, which I didn't know this till the other day, has been sotted over.
Oh, yeah.
That was back in like August or so.
I know, but since I don't walk my...
This is my dog passed away.
I don't walk down that way.
More than I...
You know, I used to walk down there a lot.
And so I haven't seen it.
But is it like gone totally now, the whole...
Yeah.
They've pretty much covered the entire thing over.
And right now it's like fenced off because I guess they're doing us.
Doyle studies before they do anything farther with that spot of that.
So what do you want to do with that area?
I think it could be nice to put up like some kind of like little garden or pathways or something.
Like maybe use incorporating natural plants that grow in this area.
Maybe doing something kind of educational.
With the park in general, I'd probably...
It very least upgrade the playground probably expand it to.
Because it's sort of out of date.
Just it's kind of like the equipment's old and it's like a really small...
For the number of kids that go there, it's a really small space.
What about the tennis courts?
I pass by and they see them.
I don't know what kind of shape they're in.
I don't see them, I mean, you super often.
I don't use them myself.
But I guess it would depend on feedback from people who do use them.
Like, what do you want to do with this?
Like, do we want to convert a tennis court into something else?
It sounds like a lot of work to play tennis.
It just sounds like a lot of exercise.
I see people do it.
And I see physically fit people.
And they're exhausted by the time they're done.
That's why pickleball became a thing apparently.
Because it's like half the size of a tennis court.
So it's like easier.
And what is that?
I hear everybody talking about pickleball.
I asked somebody the other day.
They kind of described it to me.
But I've never seen it, but I've heard about it before.
I don't know what it is.
I'm not the person.
I've never...
I'm not 100% sure how it works either.
I've just read about it.
I literally never even heard about it till I came to Wisconsin.
I think it only became a really big thing in the last few years or so.
But I just know it's apparently super, super popular right now.
I have to Google that.
I had some random person.
One time when we went to the park had some random person walk...
Some old people walk up to me asking where the pickleball courts are.
And I'm like, I don't even know what that looks.
Yeah.
It looks like.
Now, you're not running for school board or anything like that.
But you've got young kids who will be going to school real soon.
Yeah.
What do you think about the schools in routine?
Are they up to something?
No, I know you're not running for school board.
But what do you think about them?
Are the schools okay?
Are you happy to bring your kids to the schools around here?
I mean, I don't want to have a problem with giving the schools a chance.
I think that actually the quality of your public schools is a really important factor
for wanting to have future growth because that's one of the big things
that younger people look at when they pick an area to live.
Like people who got kids or want to have kids,
they look at school districts when they decide where they're going to move.
Because for most people like having to go to a private school or whatever
is a pretty big burden.
The only experience has been from my brother's going to public, the racing schools.
But I have no problem with putting my kids at least to start out with
and then going from there.
I was very lucky.
I went to very good schools growing up.
I mean, there were wonderful schools.
My high school is not there anymore.
It's gone.
But my middle school is not there anymore either.
My grammar school is still around.
And I had a great time.
I'm glad my parents picked out the schools.
My brother went to schools and the school in the Bronx.
And I don't think my parents wanted it.
We have to grow up going there to school so they moved this out to one island.
But I see the schools around here.
They look okay.
My wife teaches piano to a 10-year-old girl who goes to school here.
And she excels in everything.
She's a brilliant middle girl.
She plays two instruments.
She's 10 years old.
She plays the piano in the viola.
I'm what I am and I can't play anything.
This is 10-year-old.
I said, how do you know all that?
How do you keep it in your head?
I mean, but she's learning the viola in school.
So they have a good musical program.
I learned musical in school too.
What are you playing?
Anything?
Trumpet.
You play the trumpet?
I did, but I'm a little bit out of touch or out of practice.
You ever think of joining the Racine Concert Band?
I mean, I look at up one time to start.
Curiosity.
Because when you're younger, most of your opportunity
to play comes from being in a school.
So I didn't know what there was for adults.
Oh, I am in with the Concert Band.
I can get you an audition with Mark Eichman.
I would definitely have to get back up to snuff again.
It's been 15 years.
Now, I tried playing the trumpet in grammar school.
And I said, well, I'll play the trumpet.
They wanted me to play the trombone because I had a long arm reach.
And they said, well, you didn't play the trombone, right?
Well, I sister played the trombone.
No, I didn't want to play trombone.
I was playing the trumpet.
So anyway, I rented a trumpet.
My mother rented it for me before she could invest in and buying it.
I couldn't get the air thing down.
I couldn't hold the air inside of me for the trumpet.
And it was like, I was running out of air.
And plus, I couldn't get that because you don't blow into a trumpet.
You kind of like, I don't want to see spit into it.
But yeah, if I had the little mouthpiece.
Yeah, the mouthpiece.
Yeah, I could demonstrate.
You don't blow into it.
You don't blow into a trumpet.
That's not the way it works.
So I tried and I wasn't good at it.
And the district, the school district music director was there that day.
This got for all the schools in the town.
And he came there.
And I remember his name was not key.
Oh, I think what his name was.
But anyway, he was real nasty looking.
Anyway, so he got up there.
And he said, would everybody, and they just talk to do a bunch of grammar school kids.
Would you all agree that we should have a good band in a really clapped and raised their hand?
Would you agree that maybe we should have people only to know how to play instruments?
Well in this band.
Do you agree that we should get people out who don't know how to play as well?
Well, that's pretty terrible.
I know.
I know.
And then he said, here are the people I think should leave the band.
And he mentioned my name.
Oh, that's.
Oh, that would be one of those like traumatic childhood memories for me.
Do I remember it after all these years from the 1960s?
Yes.
So he always name was star something.
Star or something like that.
Anyway.
So we said, do you think that there are people holding us back?
And we should get rid of them.
There were kids.
Oh, my God.
And he said, Mr. Rosen.
And he mentioned a bunch of kids.
And that was the last time I ever sat with the band.
Now I went back to play drums, which I was okay at.
Wasn't good.
That was okay.
It was fair.
Anyway, so that was a traumatic he's been thrown out of the bed right in front of it.
Not even a private conversation where he said, you know, I think maybe you'd come back after you.
Right in front of the bed.
I think there's people holding us back, Mr. Rosen.
You're one of them.
Oh, that's a confidence killer.
I never took up the trumpet again.
But I think it was nasty to do it that way.
I thought, you know, if you're going to want to get rid of me, just, you know, I have to do it that way.
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I used to be on a rotary dial phone. You just dialed W R J N.
It was really easy. You push buttons too.
If I wrote to them, they have letters on them on my phone and cell phone.
I've never even checked. Yeah, they do.
There's a rotary dial. They're kind of.
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Oh, no. That hurts.
They had these teenagers that gave my rotary dial phone.
It's like a phone call. They couldn't do it.
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Let's talk to Jacqueline Schrader about the ice cream trucks.
They used to come by now. They only have these big trucks that come by.
They all play that annoying song from the entertainer.
I see them by the lakefront all the time when I'm down there.
And it's just annoying.
When I was a kid, we used to have the good humor man.
And there was a truck he actually physically had to get out of the truck.
He wore a white uniform with a white hat.
And he had to open up the doors, depending on what ice cream you wanted.
Mungolo Barra was the same kind.
And Mr. Softy was the third guy. That was soft serve ice cream.
And they came by at different times during the day.
You run out there and get your ice cream.
Those days are great.
Nowadays it's kind of different.
Everything changes.
So Jacqueline Schrader is running for the fourth all-demonic district.
And we talked about everything here.
So something I didn't talk about that you want to bring up.
It's one of kind of a pet project to yours.
Pet thoughts.
I know there are some things you said you think can be better run, better done.
And that's why you're running.
Give me some of them that I may have missed upon.
Can you think I see you're searching your head there for them?
Did we hit everything?
I was just thinking we have ideas that we can learn from other cities.
Like what?
Well, like I used to live in Detroit when I was in college.
So if you want to talk about crime, that influenced my perspective living there.
But actually they've been doing a big turnaround in like the last 10 years or so.
Just in the time when I first went there to go to college,
I couldn't even afford to keep their street lights on.
And it took more than an hour for a cop to get to you,
even if you were shot in bleeding out.
Now they like cut down to normal response times.
They have all their lights on.
They've been like clearing out white.
They've been like going after slum lords.
They've renovated a lot of their parks.
They've really been tackling a lot of things.
So I think that other cities like that can kind of be a...
It gives them ideas about what we can do here too in a small or city.
Well, we're not quite like the problems in Detroit.
Oh, I know.
That's what I'm saying.
Detroit can start helping itself anybody or can.
Yeah, I've never been there.
I heard things about it though.
Yeah, I'm sure.
You think Detroit.
You think crime and white.
Yeah.
But you know, I watched that show live on patrol live.
The police show that's on Friday and Saturday nights on Reels Channel.
I used to be on A&E at one time, live PD.
And I don't care what city you go to.
The police are busy for three hours a night on that show.
I mean, they're always going to calls, trouble, bars, and so forth.
That was another thing that I meant to bring up.
We have too many bars.
Do we not have enough bars?
Do you want to approve some more liquor licenses?
Or how do you feel about that and we're seeing?
Well, I'm not a drinker myself.
So I...
I guess, indifferent to the bars.
I do think it can be a problem if they're too concentrated in one area,
and not enough other things there.
Like, for instance, even in our neighborhood, we have bars.
And there's pretty much not very much else for businesses other than convenience stores.
That's not really good for a neighborhood.
You don't really have too much going on.
And downtown, I think there's a lot of restaurants and bars,
but not enough attractions and stuff to bring people,
bringing both the drinking and the non-drinking crowd down there.
Like, most of their events revolve around alcohol and stuff.
So that's like leaving out a segment of the population
where you're just not appealing to you.
So I don't think they're automatically a problem
if you have other things mitigating them.
Because the other thing is if you don't really have other things
like attracting people into the area,
those bars are also going to eat each other too.
They're feeding off the same customers.
So if we get more people coming in from...
for the zoo or more things downtown to draw people down there,
the bars will naturally benefit from that.
And we have a lot of bars in the fourth district right there on the street.
They've got, like, three or four of them I could think of on the top of my head.
But I don't notice any problems in the area with those bars.
I mean, I live near one of them.
There's no undesirables walking the street near the bar,
and it's the drunks coming out onto the street.
I haven't really noticed anything either.
It's just when there's not much else going on.
I do think we can improve in that area.
Like, there's...
Norse side is really lacking in businesses and stuff
compared to like the south or off of Green Bay Road.
Yeah.
I just haven't noticed any problems in there.
They don't allow smoking in bars.
So I notice all the people smoking outside the bars.
I notice people smoking outside their homes.
That's something you haven't seen in years.
But I notice that.
Overall, it's not a bad place to live.
Just tweak some improvements, right?
That's it.
It's got some good things going for it,
but we can definitely do a lot better.
I like the historic neighborhoods.
I've had people come out of the air from the
Racine Heritage Museum from preservation receiving we've had on the air.
And a lot of these homes are historic homes.
Do you live in a historic home?
Yeah.
Well, that's 100 years older, so.
Yeah.
I think it was from 1890.
Whoa.
So I really old one.
One of the oldest ones.
Whoa.
And then we just bought a building on Main Street too.
That was the original home of the Luke Key Brothers auto mechanics.
We're going to try to get that up too.
So we're really into the historic homes.
I think it's a real shame when you see people.
They don't care about the area.
They just want to make money.
They buy these old historic homes and just bust them up.
And let them fall into disrepair.
And eventually they have to get torn down.
I think that's a real shame on neighborhoods.
So you've got to admit or so here.
You're talking to the people who've received and you want their votes.
So talk to them because the primary is on February 20th, I think.
Yes.
The primary is coming up.
Yeah.
I've been actually been trying to spread awareness about that because you don't always have
primaries and municipal election voter turnouts are notoriously low.
Yeah.
So.
So you got a minute or so here.
Go give you a spiel to the people and tell them why they want their vote.
Okay.
It's tough asking you for a vote, isn't it?
Well, I just feel like we really need change in this neighborhood.
In this district, we're not going to get that by having the same status quo.
We need younger people.
We need new people.
And I really want to see this area get economically revitalized.
I want to see us have beautification and improve on our blight.
I want to preserve the nice spaces we do already have like the park and the beach in the zoo.
And if you want to read more about my platform, you can go to my website, which is www.jacqueliany4fauur.com.
Say that one more time.
Jacqueliany4fauur.com.
And I hope I can get your vote on February 20th.
No.
Thank you very much, Jack.
I'm Jack and Schrader.
We're asking you for your vote for the primary here in Racine for the 4th Old Atlantic District
on February 20th.
Thank you very much for coming in.
Take a good time talking to you.
Nice meeting you too.
I'm Don Rosen.
More tomorrow morning at 6am, right and early.
Stay where you are.