And with me, is our first district, Alder, Malik Frazier's here. So you're not up for
election, you're in the odd numbers. I am in the odd numbers. So next time it's you.
Next time it's me. Every two years, same thing with Congress in the United States, every
two years, they're always running for election. Yeah. It never stops. Never. At least
the senators six years after you win, you can take some time to take graph now, bribery.
They'll forget about it in six years. They won't. They won't remember. But you guys two years.
So yesterday, quick story before we talk about you. We'll talk about me. So yesterday,
I tell my wife, I'll pick you up. We've got the primary voting today. So I pick her up.
We go to Red Apple School. I don't see any vote signs outside. I just want to try the
door. Maybe they didn't put them out. And so it's still early. Put them out. So she tries it
as they're locked. So I call the city. So the city clerk, I said, this is primary day today.
She could, yeah, I said my Red Apple School, the door's locked. She goes, huh? Well, it's at the,
I think she had the Bryant Center for the second district. I said, what about the fourth district?
Yeah. No, no, primary day. I said, yeah, Dave Mac is running for Alder. And I know Melissa
Capprillian's running for county board supervisor. She goes, no. I said, yes, they are running.
I know they're running. She goes, well, they're not a primary today today. How come there was no
primary for those people? They didn't have more than two people running. Is that what it was?
You have no competition. So second district had had four people running. And it has to be
narrowed down to two. I found out something. My neighbor was over yesterday. And he said, I found
out something very interesting when the Melissa Capprillian was in our county board supervisor
that to be a right in candidate, you have to be registered. In other words, if you just write like
my name in, that won't count. Yeah. Even if I get more votes than candidate on the ballot, it
won't matter. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. I didn't know that. Hey, not that I plan on, you know,
I mean, we can, we can, we can write in David Rosen. Yeah. Well, writing down Rosen because that's
not about David Rosen. All right. So Malik Frazier is here a scandal. I looked you up online.
And there was an interview with this big giant well-known sports celebrity down south,
Malik Frazier. Obviously not you. No. Because he was a lot heavier than you. You said you're a runner.
I have it runner. Yes. Oh, man. At least if he did it in the front, you know, one big line.
You'd be going somewhere, but to go around the, you know, in circles and stuff. I want to do that.
I want to walk. We bought, um, went to the, uh, we're seeing zoo and we bought the passes because
it's 0.6 miles around the zoo on the inside. And my wife and I did it. Then it got really cold. Yeah.
And if mine is 14, I wasn't going to, if the animals were laughing at me for being on good for your
lungs. That's what they say. Well, as effective this morning, I'm 33 pounds down. If I walk a little
more, it'd be better. So be like you. Okay. Let's talk about some of the things on your list here.
First of all, let's get to your background. You work for the police department sheriff's office
sheriff's department. Sheriff's office. A deputy sheriff. Yes. Okay. That's good. How long have you been
doing that? Uh, six years. Oh, wow. Okay. So you're going to be running for sheriff soon?
Not at all. I wouldn't want to be. Okay. You're also in the reserves. Army reserves. Yes.
Okay. How long have you been over that? Fourteen years. Whoa. Yeah.
And so you have to go for what? How many weeks a year do they call you? Um, two weeks were
required to go up north for or wherever they tell us for training. So what are you guys?
Fish on the lake there for two weeks. How does that work? Yeah. Fish on the lake. Go campfires. Yeah.
You know, more on fires. We prefer to eat, eat luxury foods. I thought that'll stay. Yeah. Yeah.
That's a nice spam. Oh, yeah. I like spam, but it's got to be burnt. I like it.
It has to be crisp. You know, it has to be crisps like that dogs on the grill. You know, people have
to have that charred tool. Yeah. But if people eat raw spam, I can't do that. And, um,
and how long you've been in the altar for? A year. Okay. One year. Is it a, is it interesting?
It is. It is. Really? People complaining about you. They'll see you in the supermarket. They say,
hey, come here. You don't mind. I'll get over here. I got to the market gas station. Do they really
come up to you? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, you know, if I'm in a business, they,
they see me, hey, you look familiar. Oh, I know where you're from. Yeah. I'm going to get over here
and fix this problem. Yeah. It's been giving me over the shovel. Take me outside and then they
give me their, their spiel and, yeah. Well, you know, what? That's why I don't have a job where I have
to deal directly face to face with the public. Yeah. I don't want to do that. Okay. Let's talk about,
a couple of things here. Before we do the city development, let's talk about your town hall meeting.
Okay. That's coming up when that is Friday, um, February 20th. And that's going to be where?
It's going to be at the main project cafe. The address is, uh, 10, 14 state street. Yeah.
I think we get 630 p.m. 630 p.m. Yep. And you expect trouble? People standing up and saying,
I want this and then. Yeah. I mean, but that they can handle it. That's what it's for.
You can handle it. Yeah. All right. You're a chef. Yeah. Sure. Sure. If you can handle that
stuff. No, we'll have, we'll have police there. Yeah, but I'm just not going to get that bad.
No, no, no. What are the, what are the things people, is this your first town hall meeting?
Technically, yes. Technically, it is what I'm hosting. What do you expect questions about?
Public safety, um, probably taxes, um, city development. Let's talk about city development.
Now in your district, you're by Hamilton all the way down to 11th, you said? Yes. And that includes
the former YMCA building, which is now gone, just flat grassland.
Grassland. Yeah. Now you got that great view with the lake when you're coming down, uh,
coming down the street. What's going to be with it? That's a, that's prime real estate.
It is. And where we have to be, um, very, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?
It's very, it's prime real estate. And so there are many options. I know people, you know,
they, they either want like a green space or, you know, I was talking to somebody yesterday,
and they wanted a flat top basketball court. Um, but because of the, the state of our finances,
with the city, we have to be very, um, purposeful on what we put there.
Well, if you sell it to somebody, that's a lot of money coming into the city. That's prime,
that's going to, that's prime stuff there. Yes. And what I have, what I have learned
on most short time on the council is that is a, a, an arduous process.
It's all cleaned up. Is there anything this got to be this? Well, see, there's no oil tanks
or anything like that. Very there. No. No. Uh, but to my knowledge, we're still trying to get
with the DNR to make sure to see how far out we can build. Um, the last time I inquired about
that piece of land. Yeah. I used to work out there with that Y. Oh, that was my first job.
Yeah. And my wife used to work there too. She was a swimming instructor at the YMCA there.
Yeah. That was my first job. Learn to swim, learn to play basketball, learn to work out of
think, everything. Do you know there was, there were rock concerts held there. I did not know that.
Yes. Where some of the biggest, there was, uh, in the Y, I don't know the name of the theater
they had in there. Some of the biggest rock groups really got here. We'll, we'll talk about that
in just a moment. Is he even know that you come here and get educated? Give me a history lesson.
Yeah. We'll talk about that coming up at a moment. First district alter,
Malik Frazier is here. We're talking about the former YMCA. Yeah.
To call the former YMCA and some of the big groups that appeared there was called the
seller or the sound there, little venue there at the Y. The yard birds with Jimmy Pades before
he went to Led Zeppelin Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young, the association Tommy James
of the Chandels, the Buckingham's ball beer and the Raiders, Herman's Hermits, new colony six
and a whole bunch of other groups all appeared there. Wow. You ever hear of these groups? No.
Really? Oh, you're a baby. These are some of the biggest groups of all time.
Yeah. Herman's Hermits, Mrs. Brown, you got a lovely daughter.
Oh, man, you never heard of them. No. Okay. Well, they'll take my word for it there. No, I take
your word. There's some of the biggest rock groups of the 1960s. Oh, they all appeared at the YMCA.
Yeah. I don't know. It was my mom alive. She might have been 1960s. Yeah. She might have been.
Yeah. She was a baby. Wow. She still is. To make him really feel old. No. Okay. So the YMCA,
we don't know what's going to happen there yet. No. When are we expected to know what's
going to happen now? I mean, there's not really no timetable. So the idea when it comes to
city development, at least within my district, is we are acquiring lands. So we've acquired
a few different lands within my district. We're fixing them up and then making them pretty much
moving ready for any developer. That process can take a short amount of time. That process
can take a long amount of time. We just, we just don't know. But then beat, like I said,
because of our financial standing, we have to be very intentional about what we put there.
Now, boys and girls club, you have a proposal for that, the boys and girls club.
Now, they've been around for a long time, the boys and girls clubs. Yeah. Let's hear what your
proposal is. So this is not my proposal. This is a, this is an initiative that one of my good
friends, and I'm going to put her name out there. Now, I'm a quarter. What she put out there. So
she works for the boys and girls club of Milwaukee. And she realized between working in Milwaukee
and going down to Kenosha, that Racine does not have one. And there is a need.
My mom, and I mentioned this on the year before when I was a little kid, she signed my brother
that I have for the police boys club. This is back in New York. They keep kids out of trouble.
And they had all these different activities, parents, fathers were involved, police were involved,
police boys club. And it's similar to the boys club, boys and girls clubs. And it was great.
Every week we were doing stuff together. I was nine years old until I was about 13 and you
kind of age out of it. But it was great for me. I made lifelong friends from the police boys club.
And it keeps you out of trouble. Yeah. I mean, and essentially, that's what we want for
the boys and girls club. We save space where our kids can go on a consistent basis and don't
have to compete with different programming or different organizations like our community centers.
We don't have a dedicated space for them. Since, you know, we were just talking about the YMCA.
Since the YMCA has left the downtown area, which is why, you know, this initiative has been started.
Will you expect to see anything more like in the next decade, maybe?
For the boys and girls club. Yeah. Yes. Good for you. Very confident. Yes.
Do you ever belong to anything like that growing up? Yeah. What was it? Do you remember?
Uh, it was back in the early 2000s. I was living in Kenosha. You make it back.
It was. Yeah. You know, that's 20 years ago. I just know what you're making. It's a
back way back in the early 2000s. Yeah, little little rambunctious Malik Frazier running
around. I belong to the boys and girls club of Kenosha. Oh, you did. They have one though, I do.
Okay. Well, was there ever anyone here? No, there's never been one in recent.
Nobody had decided to. I believe, um, uh, gentlemen by the name of Kurt, I can't, I'm blanking on
his last name. I don't want to get it wrong. Um, he started it and then it gained traction. And
then I don't, I don't know what happened. And since then, Nala, you know, her and I have been talking
since last August about this. Well, good for you. Yeah. Good for you. Military training. Now,
you're in, we, you're in the reserves. You go up and, you know, camp out fish and, you know,
little sorts of things, bonfires, relics, fires, roast, we need zombie fire marshmallows and
healthy sports. Okay. Let's talk about the military training. Okay. Um, so the, the last year,
I attended officer candidate school and that was a kind of spur of the moment of training.
So I had applied for officer candidate school three years prior and got a call back. Um, and,
like three days prior to my start date, I was told that I was going. Um, so officer candidate
school is two phases. So the first phase is essentially basic training. It's what people, um,
what they imagine the army is like where the sergeants are yelling in your face, telling you to drop
down and give me 20. Get over here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so, so when you join the army,
you have to go through basic training and that's what that is. And then if you want to earn your
commission and be a commission officer where you're a commander, you're more, more so a manager
versus a door, um, you have to go through officer candidate school. So I went through basic
training and then I went through officer candidate school and now I have my job training.
Well, so you get officer candidate school. That's good. So the officer candidate school is,
but that would be full time when you, if you ever got that, right? Or no, you still be in the
reserves. That being a reserve. Okay. So I went from being a sergeant to a lieutenant, but in order
to make that jump and rank, you have to go through officer candidate school. That's the prerequisite.
So what are you now? I'm a lieutenant. Oh, you are a lieutenant. Yeah. So thank you.
When I graduated last, last July, July 24th, I pinned, um, and went from sergeant
Frazier to lieutenant Frazier. Oh, look at you. Boston people around. You know, I mean,
no, I'm a collaborative person to make teamwork makes the dream work. Oh, let me write that down.
Teamwork makes the dream work. Just come up with that. Yeah. Yeah.
It's doing my new campaign phrase. Oh, that's good. I love it. I was just watching
Forest Gump the other day with my wife. I love that movie. Yeah. It's classic.
And Forest is in the military and the drill sergeant is screaming at him. And he says,
what are you here for? And he says anything you tell me to do, sir. And that's exactly what it is.
That's the answer. You're going to make general. Yeah. That's exactly what I follow the orders
that I'm giving anything you tell me to do, sir. Yeah. Love that answer. I got to remember that
I'm not that I'm going to be in the military, but I mean, you can. I was in now.
I told you I hold a hand. I was in the drafter in the Vietnam war. And I got my draft card. Yeah.
And I don't know if maybe we weren't around, but they have the drafting of the numbers
for your birthday to see who was going to be drafted. And they read them off. They were on the
radio and they would have a birth date. Yeah. And they would pick it out of a bowl. Yeah. And they'd
say, you know, February 18th, number one. So now you were number one first to go. I was in the
360s with my birthday. So they never got up to me. Yeah. The draft. My brother was number 26.
I'd be so stressed. It was it wasn't stressful for me. It was stressful for my mother.
Yes. We sat there and she had two boys in the military draft that year. And we're listening
to these numbers. And she is hold. And she heard my brother's number at 26. Yeah. She goes, oh,
now he was in ROTC in college. And he had a deferment. And he would have gotten him as a
lieutenant because while the years he was doing ROTC, but it turns out he didn't go. Yeah. But
they get I used to go to drivers head with this my friend Stephen Vancott, Stephen Kahn.
And we took drivers head a year early. So we had to go walk about three miles, four miles to
the other high school. Everyone had to go to drivers head. And we did that every morning. And then
we stopped for pizza. And then we came home every day. We did that during the summer.
A graduated high school went to Vietnam and was killed immediately. And I said, I can think
in all that time, you waited to get your driver's license and you never got a chance to use it.
You know, all that time, all those poor people who killed him Vietnam. And I have a, you know,
a couple of them I know, but I didn't hit me really hard when I found out that he was killed there.
Anyway, so you'd be sick. Well, you're not going to go in the, where was it up north?
No, I'm going to Virginia. But when you went up north, where was it? So that's Fort McCoy.
Fort McCoy, now you're going to Virginia. Well, okay. So there's two, so the two-week
training is at Fort McCoy. The training I went to last year was in Georgia. And then this training
this year is in Virginia. We're in Georgia. I lived down there. It was on the border of Alabama
to Fort Benning. Oh, yeah, Fort Benning, yeah. Yeah. Very, very, very hot.
I know. I lived, I lived just north of Atlanta in North Springs. Zero out of 10. I do not recommend.
Well, see, where you were is flat. Atlantis in the mountains. People don't realize that. And it's
all cooler when you're in Atlanta. But well, good. Thank you for your service.
Appreciate it. So which is, which is your primary focus now? Politics, police work, or the
military? It varies. So right now, since I'm a military-leave military, it's the primary focus.
Because if I don't pass, of course, then I don't come home. And I have to stay until I pass.
Otherwise, I get kicked out. So that's the primary focus. You got to stay up there,
fishing and taking care of everything up there. Well, not just training. That's training is a lot
more. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is early mornings and late nights. Do you want to continue this? Do
you have any political aspirations beside being an older? Well, see.
No, that's a very political answer. A lot of, yeah, right. It is. It is. A lot of room to go there.
And on the Sheriff's Department, your deputy sheriff. And says, a lot of room to go there to
avoid. You got a lot of, a lot of sticks in the fire. Pretty, pretty content with the sheriff's
office. Well, good for you. Good for you. Well, it's a pleasure having you in here. Anything else
in the last minute that we can bring up? No, I think that that covers it. Again,
town hall meeting this Friday, go over the stats of it there. So it will be at the main project
in cafe. The address is 1014 State Street, Racine, Wisconsin. And it will be at 630. And there's
food. Okay, man. Right there. Right. There you get every soon. And what do you say, Tano? Just
want to as soon as you say food. They're there. It's free. You know, you just come and let's talk
about the community. Not with me though. It's not Dave. The old Don used to go running for the food.
The new Don doesn't. No, no, no, no, no. You can, you can eat. And then talk about the community
at the same time. And then go back and eat. You get upset. You just take food on your way out
and you feel better. The old Don would eat, eat, eat. And the old new Don won't do that.
Because he's trying to lose weight. It's all good. Well, thank you very much for coming in.
Thank you for having me. And you're welcome here anytime. Thank you for your service. Be careful
out there. Virginia. It's a lot of big trouble out in Virginia. Yeah, yeah. And up north,
be careful. Those fish, you know, they might jump out of the water and squirrels up there.
You never know what's going to happen to you. No, no, that's later in the summer. I got to get
through this first bears and everything. You know, if you have it, the up there in the woods,
you know, watch out for those squirrels. They're dangerous. No, and I get distracted easily.
So that's not good. Oh, the first district all their Malik Frazier. Thank you again for your
service. Appreciate it. All kidding aside. Thank you very much for coming in this morning.