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Good morning.
It's 7.06.
Nice to have you here up north on this Thursday morning, July 3rd, 2025.
Parker Olsen's down in Madison at Studio A2.
And coming up this hour, we will review, of course, all the goings-on overnight where the state budget was passed by the Senate.
then passed by the Assembly early this morning and then signed into law by Governor Evers at 1.30 this morning.
Why the race?
Because the federal budget that Donald Trump wants is going to do tremendous damage or would have done more damage had the state budget not passed first.
That federal budget, it hasn't passed the House yet.
But overnight, all of the House Republicans who said they were going to stand up to the president all took a knee.
by the time all was said and done and they all voted for a rule that allows it to come up for a final vote.
That should be happening anytime now in the House of Representatives and then Donald Trump will get his Fourth of July ceremony for a bill that is going to do generational harm to the country.
But he gets the photo up and
will kick into place an immense transfer of wealth from the middle class to the upper class and rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans.
So mission accomplished.
Along with the budget matters, we're also going to talk about the landmark ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday that invalidates the 1849 law that was purportedly an abortion ban, though I never believed it was based on the actual interpretation of it.
But regardless,
The ruling and reaction to it has provided to us an early window into the 2026 campaign for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat with challenger Chris Taylor saying that right-wing Justice Rebecca Bradley's dissent in the case was an unhinged political rant devoid of reasoned legal analysis.
And that's putting it kindly, though it's par for the course for Justice Rebecca Bradley, whose
term will be up next spring.
And if she chooses to run for reelection, and it looks like she will, she'll be challenged by Dane County Judge or Appeals Court Judge, Chris Taylor.
So we'll review some of what the justices had to say on both sides of this landmark case.
And a little bit later on, Todd Alba will get us ready for this Fourth of July weekend.
Find out what he's got going on for plans.
And then of course, next week, he'll be appearing in Chippewa Falls for the Northern Wisconsin State Fair.
No, Brittany Merleau this week.
We'll hope to get her back next week to give us weather updates Obviously you can get updates throughout the course of the day on your local Civic media station from Rob and Tigerton.
Let's see it.
There it is.
Happy birthday, Pat I hope you have an awesome day.
It's sunny and 63 in Tigerton We had six tenths of an inch of rain with quarter inch hail
Wow, he says there was storm damage in the Pike Lake area, in the Hatley area, in southeastern Marathon County.
Says he got his Wittenberg mowing jobs yesterday before the storms came in, and he's got three yards to mow today.
He did mention that his grandma, Greep and Trog, who...
passed away in 2010, shares this birthday with me, and in our discussion about lasagna awareness month, he mentions that he loves crockpot lasagna, the best lasagna dish around.
I don't know if I've, Parker, have you had crockpot lasagna?
I don't even know if I've heard of that, no.
Well, I'm intrigued.
I've heard of it.
Now I'm aware of it.
It is
And again, I'm tuning my own horn here, but it was a happy accident.
I just happened to have found a lasagna recipe.
My lasagna is amazing if I do say so myself.
And I would love to take that skill and turn it into like a ragu, a short rib ragu at some point.
I've tried that once or twice.
I haven't quite perfected that recipe yet.
Apparently there is an Italian chef somewhere inside of me dying to get out.
He's just
workshopping it.
I'm workshopping it for retirement from Michael and Tosa.
Happy birthday, Pat.
I did not have lasagna last night, but it's cousin Cavatini.
Ooh, that's always nice too.
From Scott and Madison on the text line, just a thought, but probably the best way to get a single payer program is to let the Republicans absolutely destroy our healthcare system.
Maybe.
I would not like us to go to that extreme to get there, but that too is on the comment line, and you can put your comments up on Facebook or YouTube as well.
If you're listening on the radio and going, what do these guys look like?
Well, if you want to scare the villagers that way, turn on your computer, and you'll find us over on Facebook or YouTube, the Up North News Facebook and YouTube pages, or the Civic Media.
Facebook and YouTube pages or on my own Facebook page, which is facebook.com slash mornings with Pat quite low and you can put comments in there.
Let's see.
Yeah, I think that's all the comments I've got here that I wanted to put up.
Let's tell you about the brewers real quick before we get into some of the news because the brewers split a double header.
Yesterday a day night double header in the day game.
They they looked awesome beating the Mets seven to two Joey Ortiz had a grand slam Freddie Peralta Did a fine job there on the mound in game one and then I mean we all thought game two was kind of in the bag right because Jacob Mizorowski was gonna be pitching and we know what his first three Starts have been like Parker.
So I mean we all kind of counted our chickens on that one, didn't we?
A little bit.
I had a little bit higher hopes for that game.
Yeah, but instead he served a back-to-back homers, the first of them a grand slam, and only lasted three and two-thirds innings, giving up five runs, five hits, and three walks in a seven-to-three loss to the New York Mets.
So, you know, this is the guy that started his career with 11 hitless innings.
over his first couple of starts.
I suppose he has to flatten out a little, yeah.
Yeah, well, yes, I would hope so.
And so anyway, and look, it wasn't all him.
There was there was like a really lucky infield hit that set the scene for the Grand Slam.
And Mizorowski, again, who seems to be a little wiser than his age, certainly his skills are above as well.
I liked his quote afterwards.
He said, it's done.
Use the old Tiger Woods approach and move on to the next hit.
Move on to the next pitch.
It is what it is.
I got a loss, but oh, well, it's frustrating.
But at the same time, you know, a young career, it's good figuring it out, not when we're in the playoffs, when it matters most.
So I like that attitude.
Yeah, smart guy.
Yeah, exactly.
So and, uh, Alicia, you radio guys aren't ugly.
Well, see, we got we got that going for us.
I guess
I was told I had my
face for radio, though.
I know it's something had to get us in here all this time.
But so thanks to everybody for that.
Now, the Brewers, meanwhile, they they go on to play one more game against the Mets in Queens at City Field.
I finally learned to say City Field and stop wanting to say Shea Stadium because, again,
showing off my age.
Brewers and Mets, the pregame coverage begins at 535 on stations in Richland Center, Oshkosh.
We're seeing Kenosha, Park Falls and Hayward head over to civicmedia.us to learn more.
All right, we will come back to the state budget and it being passed and quickly signed into law a little later as well as the federal budget plan of Donald Trump's that is
coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives anytime now.
But let's take a second to talk about the big news from yesterday out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where the court essentially, well, didn't essentially, they did.
They just threw out that 1849 law that was purported to be an abortion ban.
saying in in in essence that there have been so many other abortion related laws since that time regulating the procedure that the original that 1849 law has been superseded that there are plenty of statutes that criminalize abortions you know only after a fetus cannot survive outside the womb this was not a surprise
Okay, when the court flipped to progressive control with the election of Janet Protasewicz, Janet Protasewicz had made clear where she stood on women having the right to determine their own health care and their own bodies.
This whole thing came up, of course, because three years ago, the so-called Dobbs decision allowed some extremist justices on the U.S.
Supreme Court to repeal Roe v. Wade and the protections that had been there for nearly 50 years prior.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Chief Strategy Officer Michelle Velazquez called the ruling a victory for patience and for basic human dignity, though she also expressed disappointment because the court also dismissed a second case.
It was a Planned Parenthood lawsuit seeking a declaration that Wisconsinites have a constitutional right to an abortion.
She said, at a time when politicians are doing everything in their power to strip away rights,
Congress is voting literally right now to defund Planned Parenthood and block millions of people from the care we rely on.
In one of the concurring opinions, Chief Justice Jill Karofsky shared the stories of four different women who lost their lives because they lived in states with abortion bans.
And she included in that list her great grandmother, who in 1929 tried to end a pregnancy and bled to death.
She noted in Dobbs that in sending the impact back to the legislature, sending abortion back to the legislature in the Dobbs decision, Karofsky writes, the impact was cataclysmic.
Among the sobering post-Dobbs statistics, I point to just one Karofsky writes, during the two-year period after the Dobbs decision, in the 14 states with abortion restrictions, it has been estimated that rapists
have caused 65,000 pregnancies.
And because only five of those 14 abortion ban states have exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape, it has been further estimated that almost 59,000 of the individuals impregnated by rape could not receive abortion-related care in the state.
She's simply affirming what we've been talking about for three years that we've gone from what people considered to be abortion on demand, which was never the case, but to essentially impregnation on demand.
If you want to rape somebody and get them pregnant, it's easier now than it ever has been because of politicians that want to control your bodies.
Well, Justice Rebecca...
Bradley, who's up next year, had a lot to say about it.
And in typical Rebecca Bradley fashion, it was personal with a lot of invectives and a lot of political language that was in there, personally directed at the progressive justices.
And thankfully, somebody's now standing up to that.
And that would be Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor.
who released a statement saying that throughout her career as an attorney, legislator, and judge, I've been committed to ensuring that everyone has access to justice and our courts protect the fundamental rights of all Wisconsinites.
Today's decision by a majority of justices correctly renders the 1849 law unenforceable, protecting an individual's right to make their most personal, private decisions about their bodies and their lives.
In contrast to the majority opinion, Chris Taylor writes,
Justice Rebecca Bradley's dissent constitutes an unhinged political rant devoid of reasoned legal analysis.
Using politically charged language unsuited for any judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice.
Justice Rebecca Bradley continues to be more concerned with forcing her own right-wing agenda onto the people of our state than protecting our most basic constitutional rights and freedoms.
And if you happen to hear what sounded like applause at some point yesterday, it was probably me first reading this and applauding because I have been watching or reading Rebecca Bradley's dissents over the past couple of years and her decisions over the past decade.
And it is far past time, far past time that somebody finally stand up to them and call them out for the unhinged political rants that they are.
A local update is next for some of you, and then we'll cover more of the day's news when we're all back together in about 15 minutes.
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I can't think of a bigger irony for a birthday when a big, beautiful bill passes that has neither common sense nor anything for the common good.
Many more birthdays to come.
Pat from Jim and Brookfield.
Thank you, Jim, very much for the sentiments.
I appreciate that.
And you can text us too as well.
Get on that Civic Media app and send us a text or a voice note.
See, here's the thing.
I wish we had like a prize closet where we could
Giveaway stuff like just kind of on demand because here's the voice note feature that I'm gonna talk about on the civic media app where you could record us a little message and How shameless would it be to just say the first one that uses the voice note to sing happy birthday?
We'll get prize X, you know, here's your
civic media
cozy here's your civic media cozy sure something like that But I don't have one of those things.
I don't have one of those prices.
I don't I've been saying for
couple of years now, I need to start a new line of Up North News coffee mugs.
And I still just haven't gotten around to it yet.
In part because I haven't found the right little, you know, pithy saying or slogan or something that would go along with it, you know, I want to do something with woke.
And mornings, because obviously the show is now called Mornings with Pac Whitelaw, but something about woke and mornings that kind of tweaks at the, I mean, again, you know my definition of woke, don't be a bigot or a racist or a misogynist or a jerk.
Should be, really.
But I, so I got to find a way to get, you know, that woke is really about mornings, et cetera.
But I'm not that creative.
Anyway, you could, you could share with us your suggestion through a voice note.
Just use the Civic Media app and send us your thoughts on that as well.
All right.
I know what some of you were thinking from the last segment.
Well, you only read Chris Taylor's statement that said that Rebecca Bradley was providing this unhinged political rant.
And what did she actually write?
And yes, I should have, I should have shared that first and I did not.
So I'm gonna do it now.
Bradley wrote that the court's liberal majority, the four justices, that the majority not only does violence to a single statute, it defies the people's sovereignty.
The majority's decisions, she wrote, are motivated by the policy predilections of its members.
And then she names names, not content with the facing the law.
Chief Justice Jill Karofsky rewrites history, erases and insults women by referring to mothers as pregnant people, slanders proponents of the pro-life perspective and broadcasts dangerously false narratives about laws restricting abortion.
laden with emotion, steeped in myth and light on the law, the concurrence reads as a parody of progressive politics rather than the opinion of a jurist.
The people of Wisconsin have surrendered self-governance to four liberal lawyers, no one regardless of any political leanings.
should want any four lawyers to make all the important decisions for we the people.
Absent debate, discussion, or compromise.
The Constitution doesn't allow it.
In America, the law is king.
The majority of this court has deposed the law.
There is no greater affront to democracy.
There is no greater threat to our republic.
That was Justice Rebecca Bradley saying there is no greater affront to democracy There is no greater threat to our republic and when Chief Justice Jill Karofsky wrote about those women who bled out and died because of abortion bans Rebecca Bradley accuses her of rewriting history and Erasing and insulting women by simply using the term pregnant people
So now that you've heard some of that, what are your thoughts on Chris Taylor saying that Rebecca Bradley's dissent constitutes an unhinged political rant devoid of reasoned legal analysis?
Was Chris Taylor right when she said using politically charged language unsuited for any judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice?
Justice Bradley continues to be more concerned with forcing her own right-wing agenda onto the people of our state.
than protecting our most basic constitutional rights and freedoms?
Which one do you think was closer to being fact-based?
I know.
And yet for 15 years, conservative justices ruled the roost in the state Supreme Court, and now that they don't, now that the people have decided your values aren't in line with ours,
and have elevated, you know, Jill Karofsky to Chief Justice and elected Janet Protasewicz as Justice and Susan Crawford will be joining next month formally.
The couple of Arch Conservative Justices, Rebecca Bradley and Annette Ziegler are not happy and it is so reflected in their dissents and I would go get more of them but I only
had so many hours in a day, and I believe the decision and the dissenting opinions ran to something like 78 pages.
So I took some of those there that I'd noticed.
Jesse O'Poyne put some in an article in the Journal Sentinel.
Jesse O'Poyne, by the way.
Like I can't say enough good things about her for being an ace reporter but also notice that I think it was at 1 30 Well sometime after 1 30 maybe 2 in the morning, whatever it was posting up on Twitter You know a picture of the the lit up capital dome saying good night capital after the state budget was all done And if you missed it during the last hour I said, you know, there was a time when I was covering those late night sessions there was a time when I was in those late night sessions and While not everything is great about getting to be this age
part of it is no longer having to cover those sessions.
Dan Schaefer did.
Dan Schaefer stayed up late.
And so if you, I often point you over to upnorthnewswi.com, but I'm going to point you over to civicmedia.us as well.
Dan Schaefer has a really nice write-up on the state budget and what all took place late at night.
So go read Dan's stuff in there as well.
Let's see from CT about Rebecca Bradley sucks not getting your way, huh?
Yep Cassandra is up and writes OMG this decision gives more rights back to women.
She is in the cult clearly
And by the way, just for a little bounce, not everybody's happy with everything here.
Lauren writes, I hope during this hour we begin to unpack how the state budget bill is a betrayal to Wisconsin public schools, including 66% of schools will receive less aid.
Yeah, we did talk a bit about that Lauren in the last hour and we'll continue getting to it that this budget, it's signed and it's done, but it's not good.
It's not horrible, but it is not good.
More coming up in just a bit.
You're up north.
Welcome back to our mornings on Lake Wissota powered by UpNorth News here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Pat Critello.
Nice to have you along on this July 3rd and thank everybody for the greetings along the way.
And also a lot of comments because there's a lot of news.
There was the state Supreme Court decision yesterday throwing out the 1849 so-called abortion ban.
So that's gone now.
You have a federal budget that's going to do tremendous harm and the House of Representatives will be voting on that shortly if it hasn't started by now.
Then you had a state budget.
that was rushed to get passed ahead of the federal budget and the damage that it would have done to helping pay for healthcare in Wisconsin.
But in rushing it through, it led to more no votes from people that said this is not right to be rushing this process when more needs to be done on the budget.
In fact, I think this is all captured really well by Cassandra on YouTube.
She writes, I have so many feelings about the state budget.
I feel like it made some improvements, but at the same time it didn't.
I think it's better than not passing a budget at all.
Tony puts on YouTube.
Let's be honest, this is powered by coffee and brought to you by Up North News.
Fair point, Tony.
But it's in the title.
It's powered by Up North News and coffee.
There's going to be a lot of time to outline the things that work in this bill.
There are tax cuts amounting to $1.3 billion.
is the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars on overdue building projects throughout our university campuses.
There is an expansion of Medicaid funding.
There is a big increase in funding for special education.
There is funding for new child care programs, but...
There's also an expansion of the second lowest tax bracket to include more filers.
It exempts some retirement income from taxation.
It eliminates the residential utilities sales tax and it creates a film tax credit of up to $5 million a year.
But it will also
cost more to get a driver's license and buy license plates and title of vehicle.
And then there are all the ways that it could have been better and the things that were missing.
And over the break, I was looking and it feels like you get a press release from every legislator and that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's very tough to pick and choose what to share here as far as especially from the legislators who voted no.
And a lot of it has to deal with education funding.
Lauren putting up, the federal government is withholding education funding from schools.
There are no real wins for schools right now.
And that is definitely reflected in the press releases that came from many of the Democrats who voted no.
For example, Assembly Assistant Democratic Leader Kaelin Haywood of Milwaukee said it is disgraceful that our state budget
has been so negatively influenced by the recklessness of federal Republicans.
The rushed process led to a budget that failed to put people first and neglect the needs of so many Wisconsinites.
He talked about the Democratic amendments that were put up that would have addressed some of these gaps, increased funding for K-12 and for mental health, expand Medicaid, provide real property tax relief, provide more resources for lead pipe remediation.
Unfortunately, he writes Republican leadership ignored these proposals.
It was, again, lacking expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage.
There's no paid family leave in there.
There are no additional school aides.
There's no funding for mentorship programs.
And that's all in the press release from Kaylin Haywood here.
Let's see, let me grab a couple of others.
We had Senator Dora Drake here, also from the Milwaukee area, saying that after months of chaos,
and years of ineffective governance.
Legislative Republicans have failed to secure votes in their own caucus and they came to us in the midnight hour for a bailout at the expense of our state losing almost a billion dollars in federal funds.
And she again cites that there are definitely some good things in the budget.
But it is the lack of general school funding for districts across Wisconsin
That means that the carousel of referendums is just going to go on and on and on, which means that property taxes are going to keep going up as the legislature controlled by Republicans continues into a 16th year of underfunding schools compared to the rate of inflation.
Now, on the other hand, and yes, I'm going to be playing this game because again, it was there are things to like, there are things to hate.
Tony's got some real perspective on this when he writes on YouTube.
Take everything that was removed from the governor's original budget and that's your platform for what you get with a Democratic majority in 2026.
Everyone can sing from the same hymnal.
He says, we got concessions with fair maps.
Now we'll get progress with a majority.
This is the best possible deal for now.
It was decided when the votes were counted last November.
And again, it's not great.
He's right, but it's not great.
You know, Lauren counters on Facebook, the Common School Fund will have a decrease of over $2 million per year.
And so I have to sympathize or empathize with everybody who sees the good things in here, but who also knows so much more could have been done and that maybe, maybe, maybe.
a little more pressure could have been brought to bear on Republicans to put some of those things in the bill, but it had to be rushed because of the, you know, the Turkey in Washington DC that is being rushed through Congress instead.
And when I say being rushed, I mean, again, heading to DC now, those House members, those House Republicans, I'll tell you, there were, as of 3 a.m.
Eastern time,
There were still five Republicans who had voted no on what was up for consideration last night.
In fact, let me back up and explain that.
There wasn't a vote on the bill last night, the Trump big bloated boondoggle of a budget bill.
The vote was on a rule to advance the bill to a final vote.
So it's a procedural vote, but it was a big deal.
If enough Republicans, if more than three Republicans had voted for that,
for the rule, it would not have advanced to a vote.
It would have killed it without them having to vote no on the bill, but simply voting no on the rule of having to vote.
And they were adamant.
They were saying, we're sending this back.
We gave a bill to the Senate.
It was a good bill.
They ruined it.
Now it's coming back to us and they want to jam it down our throats.
We don't have to.
The Fourth of July thing is totally artificial.
The way it's supposed to work, they said,
is the House passes something, the Senate passes something, the House says, we'll take some of it, the Senate says, well, okay, we'll take some of that, and it may ping-pong back and forth, you know, four or five times before it's all said and done.
And House Republicans were right to say, why should we just let the Senate jam us simply for an artificial deadline at the 4th of July?
And so the vote was held open.
The vote was supposed to be open for something like 30 minutes.
It became 90 minutes.
It became a couple of hours.
It went into past midnight and at 3 a.m.
Five of them five of these Republicans who had voted no on the rule Four of them caved by 5 a.m.
Eastern time they had changed their votes to yes, and then the vote was taken and Republicans supporting Trump
had
the votes necessary to advance the bill
and send it to a final vote.
And that's what's going to be taking place.
But as of a couple of minutes ago, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York has been holding the floor now for at least three hours, speaking ahead of the vote.
And again, he's not going to be able to stop the vote.
But it is a way to call attention to all of the things that are in the bill that
you know, either Democrats don't like or that Republicans shouldn't like because of the increased debt.
Again, $4 trillion added to the deficit.
Congressman Seth Magziner, Democrat of Rhode Island, said, when we say the Republican Party has turned into a cult, this is what we mean.
Our Republican colleagues are pushing a bill that would throw their constituents under the bus.
A bill that flies in the face of everything they claim to stand for, all because Donald Trump wants a bill signing photo op by the 4th of July.
It does more, by the way.
The bill also supercharges ICE, Immigration's Customs Enforcement.
And so you will see, if you think you're seeing secret police kidnappings now off our streets,
Wait until there are 10,000 new ICE agents and 100,000 new detention beds.
Trump's Borders are said, you think we're arresting people now?
Wait till we get the funding.
Which leads me to this point, by the way, before they go hiring 10,000 new agents.
And forgive the sexism here, but I'm going to assume that a big chunk of those are going to be met.
And like I've said before,
In this country, a whole lot of men are approaching a fork in the road when it comes to an embrace of authoritarianism and toxic masculinity versus a modern world which does not defer to men simply because they're men.
And I just want to remind those men approaching that fork in the road of whether to be one of these secret police or to do something more useful to society, that if later on
When the tide finally turns and you say, I was just following orders or I just needed a job, that's not going to cut it when this is all said and done.
One more point about immigration from Trump.
In a Fox News interview,
Trump is again trying to have it both ways on agricultural workers and people in hotels and hospitality, but especially about farmers.
He says they're working on, quote, a temporary pass to address farmers' concerns.
He described the effort as something where, quote, people pay taxes and where the farmer can have a little control as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away.
What does he mean by the farmer has a little control?
on whether there are like immigration raids on their property or not.
Do you realize what he's describing?
He's describing feudalism, where the people who work the land are even more under direct control of the land owners rather than the rule of law.
Now, I'm not making farmers out to be the bad guys in these.
I'm not saying that they want to be vassals in this medieval model of peasants and vassals, but Trump wouldn't mind it.
That's Trump's world.
That's what Trump wants.
I mean, what's next?
That farmers' children can avoid being sent to war in Iran if they send the children of the Mexicans working their land in their place.
And if that sounds far-fetched,
Go look at your own family tree because mine certainly has that.
The Kraitlows came to this country because four brothers, four out of five, there was a youngest one who stayed behind, but four of the five were facing the prospect of conscription because whoever it was that owned the land that the Kraitlows were farming on in Germany or the German-Polish border back in the day,
We're facing the prospect of being sent into another one of the the German Empire's wars and I want to do that and They like a lot of other Germans a lot of other Europeans saw the prospect of a better life in America
And they came here and kind of like the three little pigs, they all went their separate ways.
And it's been fascinating to follow these four different brothers and where they all settled.
One was a farmer, one was a mason, my direct, great, great, great grandfather.
Others went into other fields.
And it was all fascinating, but it was in part the result of this feudalism that Trump is exactly talking about when he says the farmer can have a little control over this.
He wants the vassals.
He wants the lords.
He wants the peasants.
It's what Donald Trump knows best.
And there's no stopping it until next year.
And you really ought to consider stopping it next year before you hear all the other campaign commercials that start running.
More after this, you're up north.
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All right, from the text line, I don't know if Kevin and Macwanago is listening or if he's listening to a local update over on WAUK right now.
But he writes on the text line.
So first the tariffs were gonna drive the economy into the ground, correct?
And then the economy was gonna fall according to you guys and now with the passage of this bill, the sky is gonna fall.
You liberals seem to be wrong about everything.
Kevin, my dude, job growth was negative last month.
And by the way, Todd Alba joins us now.
Did you happen to see the clip of Maria Bartiromo live as the job figures came in?
I did not oh, it's so good.
She she's talking and I see this all the time They're talking making small talk until the number comes up on a screen in front of them and the forecast was for Whatever it was like a 90 or 100,000 jobs gained, you know last month and she's like and we're expecting a thousand gun here comes the number now Oh, and it was a loss of 30,000 jobs And then she just went on didn't talk about it for the rest of the time pretended nothing happened, you know, it's like
Nothing to see here, just that we are not that far away from the official declaration of a recession.
So, yeah, don't talk to us about being wrong about everything.
Just, again, we tried to warn you.
Mr. Alba, how are
you?
I'm well, I'm just gonna say, you know.
Happy birthday and
thank you
Trump thought you know what what the hell let's just give quite low recession for his birthday There is something in it for you Pat there's something in it for you something to talk about no happy birthday my friend Are you gonna celebrate on a pontoon?
Okay,
my little flag out.
Yay Last year for my 60th my
wife
surprised me with cupcakes and they all had a little toothpick with a little
tiny blow up of my face ahead on a stick with a little a little birthday hat on it.
I saved one of them to occasionally dance on screen here when I want to avoid crying instead.
So yeah, happy research.
Pat on a stick.
Pat on a
stick.
Yes, right.
Yeah, and as Tony notes, that's not even without the tariffs being fully implemented.
I mean, yeah, we got so many places to go.
Anyway, thank you for the the birthday wishes on your show yesterday.
That was fun.
And we we now have next week to look forward to and the northern Wisconsin State Fair.
I cannot wait.
We're going to be up there.
I believe now it's a big two day event.
Yes, I heard.
Yeah, we can't contain you to one
day.
Oh, no, it's not that that's not it at all.
It's just there were chairs to fill this time.
Todd's a good chair filler.
All right.
But I'm happy to be up there.
Happy that you're going to be on with us as well.
Always a lot of fun.
And I think it's for our statewide listeners.
I know there's a lot of people who are like, there's a Northern Wisconsin State Fair.
Until last year, when you and my sister and brother-in-law were so kind enough to show me around, I was super impressed.
A lot of fun, lots of events to do.
It's a family affair, and I can't wait.
It's wonderful.
It's here in Chippewa County here in Chippewa Falls and again, it's just it's just adorable.
It's just such a cute old fair, you know, it's it's it's
It's bigger than a lot of county fairs.
It's certainly not, though, on the scale of a state fair.
And there's a whole reason why you have these regional fairs, the Central Wisconsin State Fair and things like that.
And it had a lot to do with, you know, not everybody could travel down to Milwaukee for the big state fair to show their animals and things back in the day.
And so we now have these regional fairs that are really nice.
There's going to be a lot of good acts on the stage.
I think like Flo Rida is the one that I can think of.
Hairball is going to be
I know I'm missing one or two really good ones.
So, but some good X, but now more importantly, Todd Alba for two days, which Thursday and Friday of next week, which only begs the question, what is Thursday night going to be like next week when you are overnighting in Chippewa Falls?
I don't know.
I mean, it's going to be as my former social studies teacher, Kiln Lewis once said.
Good time had by all.
That's what it's going to be.
It'll be a good time had by all.
Good time by those who will remember it.
get that going for us.
So yeah, we're gonna have to make some plans.
Yeah.
Are you gonna be able to join us on both days?
I am absolutely joining you for both days from from two to four as as you like to advertise the afternoon delight period now.
Absolutely.
Just kind of, you know, come in, chill out.
You got three hours and Tom Hartman, which is the latest international national news will sell you some crypto and put some stuff in a lockbox.
And then we come on and it's a lot of fun and just a little
a little bit of a talk time.
And for two days, talking about the northern Wisconsin State Fair on Thursday and Friday with the one, the only, the suave, the debonair, the birthday boy, Pat Crichtlow.
There you go.
It was Forner that I'd forgotten about will be on Saturday.
Werner's gonna be there?
Yup, on Saturday.
Flow right on Friday.
Hairball is Thursday and Montgomery Gentry on Wednesday.
Montgomery Gentry.
Well, with Forner being in town, better be careful with all the new funding in DC.
ICE will be on the lookout.
Some of those boys will be like, wait a minute, there's borders in town.
Let's go after them.
Oh, man.
In the short time we have left here, unprecedented way to pass a state budget to rush it through.
And for the governor to sign it at 1.30 in the morning, basically racing the acts that's coming in the federal budget that's being considered in Congress right now.
I'm not gonna ask you about, but there's not a time to cover all the good and bad about the budget.
But the process itself, I mean, unlike anything we've ever seen,
right?
Never seen anything like it as Bob Schieffer at CBS once said, I mean, truly, I mean, I was I was I dosed off and I was still up Charlie Pittman Dan Schaeffer, amongst others at Civic Media were still up.
And, and video of the governor, it was like the poor man alone in his office, there was like, it was, it was, it was very quiet.
Yeah, I never seen
Clearly this deal truly was completely cut and dried before it was passed to the Senate and the Assembly.
And Evers made a couple of small changes taking the date off of when the Green Bay Prison should be closed.
But I mean,
it was just a minor thing.
So yeah, I never say they like it.
I agree that particularly for K-12 education, not great.
And I think that's interesting coming from a guy who likes to call himself the education governor in what could keyword could be his last budget.
or the one that he's got or the one that he's got to run for reelection on and have people in his own party saying, you know, are you fighting hard enough for us?
So it's going to it has it has been a scene setter for next year.
And we will continue to talk about it as Todd will to from two to four p.m.
afternoons on civic media.
Todd, thank you.
Happy birthday
to you.
Thank you, buddy.
Happy birthday to you.
In our next hour, we'll have Chad Holmes and Sean O'Malley and Joseph Pecky.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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