I went to my nephew's high school graduation.
I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in the human species in my life.
I'm in the stands.
This woman gets on the microphone.
She tried.
She tried so hard.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful day here with all these graduates.
We're going to ask you in advance to please not applaud or cheer when your individual
child or friend is called because we have way too many graduates and it would not be fair to the people at the end of the alphabet.
We're going to give everybody an opportunity at the end of the ceremony to give a big simultaneous round of applause for everyone, but please when your individual child or family member is called, please don't applaud at that time.
Okay, thank you in advance for understanding.
Okay, here we go.
Let's get started with our first graduate, Aaron Anderson.
Yeah!
Are we the smartest species?
We're top of the food chain?
I so wish while he was yelling that a clamp would have descended from the darkness of the ceiling, like one of those claw games, just right above him and then just clamped onto his ribs and just pulled him up, a whooping and a hollering, a legs a flailing, just pulled him up into the darkness.
I don't want him to die.
I just never want to see him again.
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I'm Don Rosen.
I want to thank you for joining us here on a Wednesday morning, March 13th.
Wow, spring is just a week away.
I think it's the 20th, isn't it?
Something like that, spring.
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Sun is coming up over the lake 45 degrees and in
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Is your candidate for the second older district?
I said it, I said it right, older district.
Tyler Townsend is here.
Thank you very much for stopping by, I appreciate it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you for having me
on.
Oh, by all means.
Want to find out who's going to run our town?
And we have two candidates.
We have Molly Jones.
Right, you said Molly Jones?
Yeah.
Molly Jones.
She is the incumbent and you are the challenger.
I am.
Sounds like a game show.
Yeah.
Bringing our challenger.
Yeah.
So I asked everybody who runs for office his first question.
Why do you want to do this?
Um, honestly, this is going to be kind of an out there response, but there's a little part of me.
I don't want to necessarily be a politician or something like that.
What I want to do is try to make a difference.
Um, what really
put me into the run was in December there is the apartment fire on Washington and I went home and I posted on Facebook just asking a few friends like hey does anybody have donations and I've always paid attention to politics but more so at the higher level and I've started paying more attention to the local politics recently and as I was trying to put together donations it
Turned into a huge drive like people from all over the city were reaching out to me and a conversation I had with a lot of people was you know You seem like you really care about people do you have have you ever wanted to run for office?
And I was like it took me a second I kind of thought about it a little bit and then I just decided to go for it um I eventually I would like to try to keep climbing
But as Alder, that's where I can get my foot in the door, and I can make great connections with people like I have so far knocking on doors and stuff, and yeah.
Good for you, you said Alder.
Yeah.
I still can't get used to just saying Alder.
It sounds like I'm missing half the word.
Like, he forgot.
He forgot the rest of the word.
It's Alderman.
Yeah, it's kind of like a muscle memory thing.
Yeah,
I'll get it eventually.
I mean, when I'm about 90 years old, I might remember it.
Okay, so you don't want to be a politician per se, but you want to do good.
Yeah, I want to, I think that there's a lot of people in politics, especially at the higher level that kind of are just in it for a job and kind of lost sight of the original goal of being an elected official.
So you don't mind going to a restaurant and have people come up to you and say, hey, Mr. Townsend, I got a pothole in front of my house and I need it filled right away.
Mr. Townsend, there's cars parked on my street and they've been there for a long time What can we do to get rid of it?
So here are trying to enjoy life and I've spoken to many alder Not older people alder I've spoken to many of them and they say that they're in a supermarket people come up them start complaining they have no private life in the Republic because they're so recognizable some of them and That wouldn't bother you
Um,
no, um, it would be a little bit of a transition, you know, because right now, like before all that my network has grown so much in the past few months that even now, like when I'm out knocking on doors and stuff, I have people stop me, but in a more positive sense, like, hey, Tyler, how's it going?
How's the campaign going?
Um, I think that it won't bother me though, because my goal is to be that representative that listens, that makes you feel heard.
and that actually does something with that conversation.
So hopefully we have that conversation once, unless last time we have to have it, you know?
When the primary, where there were four people running in the park, how'd you feel when you found out you were one of the final two?
I was pretty excited, but I also, I expected there to be like a wave of like,
Oh, this is this is cool of like excitement, but it honestly just transitioned straight into our Oscar tape or like I was already getting ready for the next leg of the campaign
right enough with the happiness.
Let's move on the We're from originally Racine.
Ah, you're a local yokel.
Yeah, so where'd you go to school park park high school
graduated class of 17
So, you know the area.
Yeah,
you grew up here.
Yep Did you go to further education after college after high school?
I did not actually after high school.
I started working on overhead cranes And what's that?
In like factories and steel foundries and
stuff like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, that sounds dangerous Yeah, it was an interesting job for sure But I learned a lot so I'm incredibly thankful for I learned all of my electrical troubleshooting skills and stuff like that from that So
is it was at your dream job?
No, I was honestly when I first started I was I wasn't even over my fear of heights yet.
Oh, that was a trial by fire thing
There's no way you'd get me involved in that kind of stuff.
I'm very nervous about walking downstairs Yeah, I don't want it.
I don't want to do that.
So what is your dream job someday?
Um my dream job someday I would say a really
really like like investigative journalism and stuff like that like having just being able to dive into something and just and I don't Right now I do maintenance at a hotel in downtown Kenosha.
I'm a
chief engineer at the Stella Hotel And I just don't think maintenance is something I want to do forever because I feel like I don't make enough of a difference in people's lives like
I don't know, that sounds weird, but I feel
like it doesn't sound weird at all.
Yeah.
I just feel like there's things I could be doing that would, that would actually help people who are in need.
And that's my goal more than fixing an outlet.
All right.
So let's say you won the older district and you are now the new older, the second district.
What do you want to do for the people?
So, I want to try to find creative solutions to bring in affordable, fresh foods right now.
Our district doesn't have a lot of access to that.
You mean like a market?
Yeah.
I also want to...
find like work with the Department of Public Works because a lot of our district right now is kind of like a drag strip.
Like it's one of the most common complaints I get when I knock on doors and stuff is there's people flying down our street.
I live on North Main.
Yeah, and that's probably
the... And I heard it last night when I'm sleeping.
It sounded like a drag strip out there.
Yeah.
You know, just by the sound of the muffler, it sounded like they were zooming past my house at about 60 miles an hour.
Now, maybe not that fast because, you know, the sound makes it sound worse than it is.
But I got to tell you something.
I, they're zooming past my house at night.
Even when I come in to work in the morning, a matter of fact, I think it's in the second district.
16th Street is in the second district.
When I come in, it's 30 miles an hour on 16th Street.
And people are flying by me.
They're on my tail, blinking their headlights for me to go faster because they're late for work.
They didn't plan out their morning like I planned out my morning to be at work a half hour early.
And they're zooming by me.
And when they try to pass on the riker, people parked in that lane.
So they got to zoom up and cut me off as fast as they can to get by me.
And I'm not going to put on my brakes to let them in.
And
then why should I stop my car?
to let them in because they're late for work.
So yeah, that's a big problem.
How do you fight something like that?
Yeah, so I think that we are, the Racine Police Department right now is currently slightly understaffed.
So I think that if we could, I feel like we have to get creative with that because we have to find ways to make the police more present so that people know that they're out and about.
But I also know that the resources are stretched kind of thin right now.
From the neighborhood watch meetings I've been to and stuff they say that what you can at least for like our side streets like Wisconsin and stuff like that Not really side street, Wisconsin's kind of like a main street at this point But you can contact the Department of Public Works.
So do a traffic study in those areas and then
They come up with ideas from there, whether it be stop signs or something, but that doesn't really help us on 16th Street.
That's where we need something like the present.
They have one of those signs on 16th Street.
You know those digital signs that tell you how fast you're going?
And mine's always yellow.
It's traveling 30 miles an hour.
But they cut it past me.
It goes blank in red, 45.
They don't care.
It's just, people lose speed and cut into traffic.
They don't care because they're late to where they're going.
and they'll risk everybody else's lives.
I don't, you know, I had a boss once when I was a janitor at this radio station.
And I said, these people are slobs.
These people are pigs.
They just, they're just slobs.
I clean up after them.
It's like cleaning up in a zoo.
And he said, I'll tell you this and this will serve you for life.
You can't dictate morality to people.
Either they are good or they are bad.
Either they're going to break the rules, or they're not going to break the rules, and you dictating to them, isn't going to change anything.
He told me that back in 1972, and I never forgot that.
You can't dictate morality to people.
So if people are going to do rotten things, they're going to do rotten things no matter whether you tell them not to or to tell them.
So where is the actual borderline now?
Second district is south of downtown, right?
It's not part of downtown.
Yeah, so it's just south of downtown.
It's a staggered border on 11th Avenue for our northern border or southern border goes down to around the waste management plant and then our Western border is it's kind of staggered, but it's just on the other side of Racine Street for the most part.
Okay, so I know where it is.
Yeah.
All right
Tyler Townsend is here.
He's going for the second Alder seat and stuff for grabs on April 1st Tuesday in April.
What is it April April 2nd April 2nd and we'll talk more to Tyler get his
Get his views on homelessness, crime, things like that.
If you had a pet project, what would you do with your district if I gave you all the money?
And there was no limit to how much you can spend.
What would you do with that money?
We'll find out.
It's coming up here.
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He's running for the second all their seats in, uh, in Racine and he's got some ideas on how to run things.
The election will be on April 2th and that is coming up first Tuesday in April.
I wonder if any other elections that they have to check it out.
I know we have the, the fourth Aldermanic seat.
That's when I'm in and, um, Jacqueline Schrader and, uh, Dave Mack are buying for that seat.
And I think these are the only two seats that have.
Contested races.
I don't think any there any of the others
for the Aldermanic district.
Yeah, I think that's it just you everybody else Be all the incumbents in and nobody wanted to run against them or their seats not up for grabs yet.
Okay, let's talk about some of the issues and The biggest issue in any city in America right now two biggest issues crime and homelessness.
Let's talk about crime I See on my phone with the ring system every single day and night heard shots
There's a big police presence.
I lost my dog.
I lost my cat.
What's going on?
Cops everywhere.
What's going on?
I'm hearing gunshots.
Again, you can't dictate morality to people.
But what do you do to the people who are victims of crime?
How do you help them and say, listen, we're here to protect you?
What I would really like to do is I'd like to work
especially with our youth and things like diversion programs, and try to make them more forward thinking instead of short-term thinking.
So it might stop them from having an impulsive reaction that will start that snowball effect.
As far as it goes for older people, I think a lot of things play into crime.
I think it's economic development.
I think it's relative poverty.
I think that we have to work on trying to make our neighborhoods feel like communities again so that you actually have a sense of belonging and a sense of ownership and you feel like people care and stuff like that.
I think a lot of people right now are just kind of cold because they've been struggling.
It's all they've known is struggling and they're not thinking about 10 years from now when they're...
You know, and we, I know you heard me talk about the Royal Family Kids Camp.
This is set up by Deputy Chief Rick Teller and his wife.
It's out in Lake Geneva taking foster kids, kids that came from abused homes or broken homes.
I mean, they were taken away from their family because things were so bad that they had to be put in someone else's family temporarily because foster parents are not permanent parents.
Just what the name implies.
and they give him one week to be kids again.
I think this is where we've gotta catch these people before they go bad.
You gotta give them a good family, somebody who cares about them.
I mean, my dad and my mother, I always tell people I came from a leave it to beaver house, my dad never laid a hand on me in my entire life, but the threat was there.
I mean, he used to look at my brother and I and fireballs came out of his eyes, I swear they were fireballs.
And he said, you two want to see blood?
You're going to see blood if this happens again.
Oh, it never happened again.
But he never laid a hand on it.
But my brother and I always thought, there's going to come a time when he's going to crack.
So we always stayed on the straight and narrow because the threat was there.
My father was the scary guy.
My mother did the discipline.
And that's, I think, what some of these kids need.
They need to be frightened into being good.
I mean, don't hit them.
Don't lay a hand on them.
I don't think that's the way to go.
But you've got to make it so they don't want to do bad things.
I feel terrible when I see these police videos and these cop shows on TV, and they're arresting these kids at a 13, 14 years old.
And it all just snowballs from there too.
I mean, it usually doesn't stop once they have that first run in.
It's almost, your rates of...
Running it again with them sooner.
It's almost guaranteed to happen.
So how do we get more money for the police?
I think that with that we need to be creative in looking at where we're spending other things, you know I'm not trying I'm not gonna act like I fully understand it But like the speed trailers for example those cost around $15,000 a piece
with what are those all those are those things I was talking about.
Yeah
Let's go with speed trailers.
Yeah, the little ones that they tell when they set it up on the side of the road and it flashes
I didn't know it had a name now.
I know
yeah
Well,
I saw it in the city in the budget and that's speed trailers.
Yeah, I like that name.
That's what it is It's a speed trailer.
Yep.
So like those How much they cost 15,000 a piece.
Yeah, whoa From from what I could tell in the budget.
Yeah So I think it's you know, what kind of data do those draw?
Compared to what an officer costs or another officer would cost, you know I Just I don't I don't know anybody who slows down when they see those I told you
I see 45 miles an hour on that thing as he as he cuts me off It's like they're trying to set high scores or something It does work with me when I see it because sometimes it'll say
You're going 32 in a 30 zone as whoa, slow down.
Cause that stuff bothers me.
I'm a big go to the speed limit guy.
And they made the speed limit for a reason.
And the reason is because it's a area where people run out into the street, kids run out.
You got to slow down a little
bit.
So those cost 50.
So you want to cut back maybe on those and put the money toward human beings in the police department.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, and I, of course, you'd have to talk to Chief Ramirez and everything and figure out what kind of data they get from them.
But I think that it's going to require getting kind of creative with it.
And we're also going to have to find ways to work with a lot of our
entrepreneurs that are within Racine.
We have a lot of people with micro businesses who sell on Etsy and stuff like that.
We have a lot of people who want to open stores, but they don't know where to start.
They don't know where to get the resources.
And I'm not saying we have to hand them a check, but we can at least say, hey, absolutely, because right now a lot of our talent pool is pouring out of Racine, especially Wisconsin.
They're going other places where they think there's more money to be made and more opportunities.
So I think if we can find ways
to really kind of nurture them and help them achieve their dreams and goals.
We're going to have more successful businesses here because we're going to have a more robust talent pool that's going to attract larger corporations to them.
So then that's going to be more tax revenue coming in that we could use for.
We're talking to Tyler Townsend.
He's wants your vote on April 2nd for the older job in the second district.
More Tyler Townsend coming up at just a moment, 729 at WRJN Radio.
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Good morning.
I'm Don Rose and thanks for joining us on this Wednesday morning.
Father Townsend is here looking for your vote to be our second district alder in Racine.
It still doesn't sound right saying that.
I want to say alderman.
Alder person doesn't sound right.
Alder.
It sounds like I should be saying another syllable afterwards.
All right.
We talked about a little bit about crime and so forth homelessness.
That's a major problem.
And there was a store in Racine downtown
And I think they closed up.
I was told now whether it's true or not.
I don't know because they couldn't deal with the homelessness right a half a block away coming in front of their building.
And this would be your district or close to it.
And there are people that don't have homes.
What are you going to do?
I mean, it's it's a fact of life.
Not everybody's got a nice cushy house to go to at night.
Some people just live on the streets.
What do you do about these people?
I mean, you can't let them live on the streets.
First of all,
I hate to say this, but it annoys the people who aren't homeless because they got to deal with it and they come up to people panhandling and Bothering them.
I mean, what do you do with homeless people?
There's homeless people in every city in America.
It's not just here.
What do you do with them?
What do you do with that problem?
Yeah, so I think that it requires pretty creative solutions I think you need to look at what other places are doing but I think that it and incorporate that here, but I think you also have to
It's a multifaceted approach, you know, you have to look at the economic development, you have to look at our housing situation, you have to look at, you know, these people who are homeless, they're still people.
They're just
under rougher
circumstances than us, you know.
And I understand that there's people out there who say, oh, well, they do it to themselves and that, no, they don't stop and ask yourself the question behind the question, you know.
Sure, we can put them in a house, but we have to work with them to solve what got them there to begin with.
Was it drug use?
Was it just falling on hard times fiscally?
You know, I think it's important that we
It's not a one-size-fits-all situation for those people, so I think that it's important that we, you know, every person is going to require a different approach.
I'm a coordinator with the Youth Volunteer Corps, and we're at the Hospitality Center often, and the staff there is incredible, the people there are incredible.
And I think, you know, there's been, what set off a lot of people was there was talks of possibly moving the hospitality center.
Now that's the one on Main Street?
Yes.
And that's right at what, 11th and Main or somewhere around there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, and I think that if, I think it's important that if we do decide to move them, that it's near other resources still, like, um.
It sounds like we're housing these people.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry for interrupting.
No, you're yeah, um and you know the Hospitality Center doesn't provide shelter, but it provides a meal it provides clothes it provides haircuts and you know resources that Really help people you know if you you get a good haircut you feel good you have clean clothes you feel a lot better um and I think that
if we just need to continue to make sure that they have the resources that they need and that instead of just looking at people who are homeless and just kind of scoffing at them or something like that, just stop and take a step back and, you know, ask yourself, what can you do?
Or what, you know, instead of just everybody being mad about it, I think it takes a collaborative solution, you know, like we're going to have to get creative with it.
I don't think there's any city out there that should snap their fingers and, oh look it, there's no homeless people anymore.
You know?
But until we answer the underlying problems, I think it's gonna continue to affect us.
You know, and that's a good point.
I do see some of the men hanging around the hospitality center when I travel downtown.
I see them out there.
And my first thought is, isn't there anywhere you can go
other than just hanging around, sitting there, talking to other people who are in the same predicament you're in.
Maybe you should talk to people who aren't in your predicament or got out of your predicament so you can learn how to do it.
So where do homeless people sleep at night in Racine?
I know the Hospitality Center just does what you say.
They're hospitality.
I understand that.
But where do they go?
I mean, where do they live?
If you're homeless, that's the definition of the word you don't have a home to go to.
It's scary sometimes.
It absolutely is, and Halo is another great resource that our city has.
We do have other organizations, local organizations that try to work with them and help them as well, but I mean, it's exactly that.
A lot of these people don't have anywhere to
sleep if
they're not at Halo.
I mean, I couldn't... You know, it's nice out now, but...
When it's 20 degrees outside, when I walk to my car and I stop and I'm like, whoa, it's cold.
The first thing that pops into my head is, could you imagine sleeping outside in that?
Yeah, and I hear these stories occasionally about women living with their children in their car, because they have nowhere to go.
They're parking in a parking lot at night to live there.
My heart breaks, not only for the, so much more for women, I don't know why, but women and children living in a car because you have nowhere to go.
I mean, I just, I get want to cry when you hear something like that.
Yeah.
And especially for the children, I mean, kids shouldn't have to focus on anything more than setting a new high score or hanging out with their friends or this or that.
And so it is, it's sad.
You know, when I worked downtown Milwaukee at seven in Wisconsin, that was where the radio station was.
And every day I saw this old man in tattered clothes with a shopping cart.
pushing his stuff around the street.
I saw him every day for years and I talked to the mailman one day and he said, that guy is a very wealthy man.
He's got a lot of money.
He's got a mail drop at the Army Navy store for his mail, but he lives on the street.
I said, you mean a lot of money.
He says, I'll bet you he's got close to a million dollars.
I said, why is he living on the street?
He said his son was killed in Vietnam and he gave up on life and now he just lives on the street.
And that's where he wants to be and he just put his money away does my name do with it and just So everybody's got a story on those streets.
Yeah, they do I mean, you know, not everybody is there because they're drug users or their alcohol Absolutely people have a story and this guy has all the money in the world, but he can't face life anymore.
So he gave up Yeah, mailman told me this story and now when I saw him out there.
I saw a different person now
Yeah, and it's
Yeah, it's crazy, but it's just kind of those preconceived
Yeah, you think everybody's a bum and people aren't bums they just Hard times something happened in their life where they just gave up and that was it.
Let's talk about drugs It's gonna be the one of the number one problems in America, you know when I watch these cop shows on TV They're always pulling people over for like a bad license plate or their tail lights out
Invariably, they go into their car, they don't have a valid license, and they got drugs in the car.
First of all, if I'm traveling with drugs in the car, the last thing I wanted to do was speed and have a tail light out, because they're going to stop you.
So these people aren't too bright to begin with.
But I mean, everybody's got drugs.
I think I'm the last person in America who's never smoked a cigarette or took recreational drugs.
I don't get it, but people do it.
So where do you start in your district?
to kind of clean up any drug use or drug sales or that type of stuff going on.
It goes on everywhere.
Yeah.
I think that it kind of plays back to before where we need to look at other things like economic development because there's a lot of people in poverty.
Not everybody who does drugs is in poverty or anything, but a large percentage of the harder, more lethal drugs and stuff like that.
We really need to
Hope I think a lot of people I'm sorry.
I'm kind of stutter in here.
So I think
I'd rather have a well-thought-out statement than somebody just shooting something out of their mouth It's nice this refreshing to see somebody.
Let me think about that for a second.
Yeah,
um, you know, oh good No, I've got to say I would rather see people get get these kids in school and Stop them.
Yeah parents if you see your kids hanging around with the wrong element do something about it
Yeah, and when it comes to the drug use too, I think it's important, like I was saying before, to ask the question behind the question, you know, why are these people doing these drugs?
Because I think that it is somewhat an individual approach to each person.
And I've talked to a lot of homeless people.
I've talked to a lot of people who are users and not even just homeless, just people who are users are everywhere.
I mean, you never, a lot of people are going through stuff that you have no idea what they're going through.
I remember the first time I ever saw somebody use drugs.
I was in Atlanta and somebody who I worked at a radio station in Long Island with, moved to Atlanta.
And he said, why don't you come over to the house?
We're having a get together.
He said, all right.
So I got over there.
I didn't know anybody but him.
And all of a sudden he broke out the drugs and I panicked.
This was back in the seventies.
And I said, uh-oh.
What do I do?
I got to make a clean getaway and get out of this house now.
And I was just shocked to see the drugs coming out on the table because I thought this guy was a straight shooter when I worked with him.
He's a very geeky type guy and all of a sudden all this stuff comes out.
And I said, I gotta go.
I gotta get up early in the morning, which I really did.
But my wife and I left and I ran and I was scared because I don't want to get caught with these drugs.
I don't want to ruin my life.
Yeah, and that's, I mean, it's especially in like the trades and stuff too.
A lot of people don't realize it, but like, pretty much everybody's either smoking or...
And you don't know when you're walking down the street or on the lakefront and you're sitting on a bench, the guy next to you could have drugs in his pocket.
You don't know.
Yeah.
And I don't know if you're ever gonna get rid of it.
Again, it's tough to dictate morality to people.
They tried with prohibition
Back in the thirties, that didn't work.
They tried to dictate to people not to drink.
I don't think you'll ever dictate people not to use drugs.
I think what you're going to have to do eventually is stop the importation and get it at the border before it gets in.
Yeah.
Because that's where it's coming in.
It's not homegrown.
It's coming in from somewhere.
People
aren't growing fat in all their backyard there.
Yeah, growing little poppy seeds where they get cocaine from.
So they must be getting it from somewhere.
So stop them at the border.
It's getting tougher to do.
They had, um, you see in the news the other day, they got a guy, he had a pair of roller skates in his luggage and inside the wheel of the roller skates was a cocaine or heroin, heroin, whatever it was.
And it was packed into the wheels.
I mean, how do you find that stuff?
They found it.
Yeah.
You know, they use these drug sniffing dogs and you can fool an agent of the get, but you can't fool a dog.
Yeah.
Or
I've
seen two of the videos where, uh,
the TSA going through stuff and then the dog will hit an unboxing and it looks like it's just something normal like a little piece of piano or something they snap it in half and oh look at this like
you know I was on a cruise ship once and they take your luggage especially when you go to a foreign port and they take your luggage off the cruise ship and they put it in a terminal and they line it all up there then they have the dogs walking up and down the luggage and I remember the cruise director said if that dog stops at your suitcase and smiles
Your life is over.
You're a new citizen of whatever country you're stopped in.
He said, it's all over.
And we had a guy on a cruise ship.
He bought drugs in one of the islands in Jamaica, wherever it was.
And he tried to get on the ship.
And as soon as he got to that gang plank, they stopped him.
And they took him away.
His wife got on the ship, and he's probably going to be there for years stuck in that island.
because he took some pot and bought it on the island.
And you think we're tough.
Some of these islands are really tough on drugs and tolerate anything.
All right, when we get back, I want to ask you, if I gave you unlimited money, I'll give you a blank check for your district.
What would you do with all that money?
I want you to think about that for a minute.
And get the wheels to turn in.
What would I do if I got a blank check?
I would probably give it to every dog shelter in America.
That's what I would do with my money.
I do it now.
I give it to a million different dog shelters and disabled vets.
Two disabled vet organizations.
Every six months I write it.
I actually give cash.
But that's what I would do with my money.
I don't want anybody.
I love dogs.
I feel like they do so much good for us.
kind of discard them in a shelter and animals
are incredible.
I want to help people too, but I want to help dogs too.
Real quickly here, the Royal Family Kids Camp.
Four tickets to see the Bucks and the Celtics.
Played five serve four a month, April 9th.
Give you the whole VIP experience.
You'll be sitting in row two, seats one through four.
You can actually get hit with the sweat from the players.
You're so close.
That's what you want.
Go pin on these tickets.
The money will help the Royal Family Kids Camp.
These are foster kids who will get away for a summer, uh, for one week during the summer in Lake Geneva.
Let's go to WRJN.com slash bucks, WRJN.com slash bucks.
Last time I checked this Friday was $1,200.
So.
Bit higher than that.
Royal Family Kids Camp.
Go to WRJN.com slash bucks.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
Bit high a bit often.
Howard Townsend is here.
He's running for the second district dollar seat.
What's your boat?
What would he do if I gave him a blank check?
We'll find out in just a moment here.
The WRJN hometown radio request of Civic Media Station.
7.51 at WRJN Radio.
Got a few minutes left with Tyler Townsend looking for your vote.
April 2nd for the second all-your-seat in Racine.
This wasn't so terrible today, was it?
No, no.
This is my first time doing something like this.
I was a little nervous, but we're rolling through
it.
This isn't 60 minutes.
We don't grow you.
This is not to meet the press.
Now, okay, so I told you I would give you a blank check.
Hypothetically, give you a blank check.
You can fill it out to any amount.
What would you do with the money in your district?
So I would like to clean up some of the blighted houses, more community gardens, little libraries.
I'd like to especially like kind of like you mentioned before too, like make sure that the woman to resource center and places like those have all the resources that they need.
And mainly just stuff like that.
I mean, we could give some to the police if they
They can hire
some more,
get
fully staffed.
And I'd also like to build an innovation lab if we're going to do that.
Something like a maker space.
They have one up in Milwaukee where you go up there and they have everything you need for woodworking, metalworking.
electronics, pretty much anything.
And you have people who go there and this guy will be an expert at woodworking and this guy will know how to weld.
Well, now they can collaborate on this project and stuff like that.
I think there'd be a lot of value in that.
I think there's a lot of people who are actually pretty creative and would do really good at stuff like that but don't have a way to learn or a way to really practice that stuff right now.
They'd get some kind of real world experience for trades and stuff like that.
You could do classes there.
So they'd get a big grant.
Yeah.
Okay.
They have an innovation lab at the public library in Racine.
Yep.
Cause we have them in once a month and they talk about the lab they have there.
I was thought the library was a bunch of old dusty books.
Boy did I learn a lot since they've been in here.
Yeah.
That's a good place to get resources.
Absolutely.
As we actually freak, we frequent it because go there and get random books or they even, I thought this was cool.
You can get stuff.
besides books at the library now.
You get video games, you can get DVDs, you can get Blu-rays, you can rent, I think you can actually rent, I'm gonna say computers, but they accept lots of stuff you can get out of the library.
They
do.
And if they don't have it, they'll find it and get it to you.
Yeah.
It is really cool.
My girlfriend collects uranium glass and they have like the meter that you can test how radioactive it is.
That sounds dangerous.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
It's pretty cool.
It doesn't glow at night, does it?
No.
It's not that bad.
Only under a black light.
Oh man.
Okay, so in the final minutes here, I'm going to give you all the time you need here to talk to the people who have seen listening right now.
And they might be listening on the podcast, may not be listening now.
So I want you to talk to them and tell them why they should vote for you on April 2nd.
Well, I promise I'm always going to be available to listen.
I'm not going to stop listening.
I'm going to take your concerns and what you tell me, and I'm going to take it to the highest level.
I'm going to keep you updated on what's going on.
I want to promote transparency.
and the government less closed door meetings and stuff like that before the common council sessions.
And I really want to just work on making our communities more collaborative.
I know there's a lot of people in the communities that want to be a community leader in a sense.
And I just, I really want to make our community more collaborative.
so that everybody feels like they're a part of it, so that everybody feels heard, feels represented.
And yeah, I'll always be available for you to contact me as I am now.
I'm on Facebook.
If you wanted to try to reach out to me after this, Tyler Townsend Ferrisse and Second District.
Okay, say that again.
So this is a website or is this an email address?
What is that?
It's a Facebook page.
Facebook page.
And it's Tyler Townsend.
for Racine's second district.
Well, Racine's second district on Facebook.
Put Tyler Townsend, I'm sure it'll just pop up.
Yeah, and if my normal profile pops up, feel free to message me on there too.
Whatever you find first.
Okay.
So you're looking for everybody's votes.
You seem like a nice young man.
You seem like you have a lot on the ball.
Yeah,
one of my biggest struggles with it is I don't, you know, like when I'm trying to tell people why they should vote for me is I don't want to over promise.
You know, I'm trying to stay
Two cars in every garage and a chicken in every car.
I don't want to sit here like I'm gonna change the whole state like at the end of the day.
It's not Schrader, it's Schroder Center, is that the Schrader Center?
That would be in the second district,
right?
Our main building is the Dr. John Bryant Center.
Okay, but the Schrader, Schrader or Schraders, that's where that old building is where they do all the, they kind of renovated it by putting different businesses in there.
It's on 16th street.
I think that's in the second district.
That's kind of a nice addition to the area.
They were kind of took an old building and repurposed it.
And we go through there all the time.
There's a ton of business artists in there.
And you should, they have an open house coming up.
People should go through there and have a good time.
Well, good luck, my friend.
I appreciate that very much.
I'm glad you came in.
Good luck to you and, uh, Tyler Townsend wants your vote and that will be on April 2nd all day long, wherever you vote.
And, uh, good luck to you.
I appreciate that very much and thank everyone for.
Listen, and
you have a good future at it.
You got a lot on the ball.
I appreciate that very much.
Yeah, okay.
Well good for you I'm Don Rosen.
We'll do it again tomorrow morning 6 a.m.
Right and early or dark and early ever since they changed I thought I'd get more sunlight in the morning and turns out it's just the opposite
I would send them on, oh good, let's get a more sunlight.
They didn't do the math right.
It turns out it's darker in the morning and lighter in the afternoon, which is okay.
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From lovers past until a new one comes along I spoke to you in cautious tones You answered me with no pretence And still I feel I said too much My silence
is my self-defense and every time I've held the rose it seems I only felt the thorns and so it goes and so it goes and so will you soon I suppose
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