Milwaukee Storms & Political Drama: Michelle Bryant Explores

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome back to the show. It is Michelle Bryan here, WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real and real talk. We weren't on the air yesterday.

Let me say good morning to the bruds in the studio so y'all can explain to the people what happened. What up Rod out? How you doing this morning? What's going on? Bruh, I heard we didn't get back on the air to like noon yesterday. Yeah, yeah. It was, it was an outage and it's still outage in some places. Some people are still without power.

But on Tuesday, it's because I heard power went down like Sunday for a lot of folks. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, like Sunday morning about about five something in the morning or Monday morning. Yeah, well Monday morning. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's just it's crazy, you know, no power and it was hot too. So and and

The sky got so black, it was black in the media yesterday. And that's hard. We're not doing color reasons. That's a hard question. We're not doing color reasons. We're not doing that today. If you wouldn't see how dark it was, you could have sworn it was night. And what time during the day was it dark like that? Why about one o'clock? Yeah, like no one o'clock. One o'clock. Yeah, now that storm that came through Appleton,

it had to have been a tornado because then trees was uprooted and poles was flying all in the video. It looked like it was going to be one hit. Yeah man, something, something happened in Appleton and whatever the other small towns are. It was chaos. You know, we was just talking, we laughed before we left town. We was like, okay, let's leave town and nothing happened while we gone.

every time we leave town. Stop leaving. We came back last year. The floods happened while we was gone last year. You know, but it goes back to us. Remember when the Seville Smith stuff happened? Oh, yeah. You know, people was calling us saying about Milwaukee on fire. But it just never fails. Like, man, we can't go nowhere without y'all showing our fan. Well, listen, hold up. Thank you, Margaret. How you doing? You ever heard that saying, there's a dark cloud over the city? Yes.

That's what it was just day. It was that bad. I'm telling you, it was so dark, it was, it was scared me. I didn't even have no tornado. Yeah. It was, it was just. And speaking of flood, it was three feet of water out here. From the radio station again. Yeah, it was three feet of water. Listen, I drove by and I could have sworn when I saw

Noah and the Ark just ride right by me. Like waving at me. I was waving at chickens and I'm like, you got two of those in there? So wait, had y'all come to the station already when all this water is out there? You got the way through the water to get into the station. I was in it. I drove by and kept doing it. I said, I said, damn that.

So wait, you tell me you just kept going. Hey, so I put garbage bags on my legs and came into the studio. That was my level of dedication. And I got those pictures too, by the way. No, I do. Send them to you. I took pictures of you and you drove by.

Yeah, listen, somebody got to live to tell the testimony. So it might as well be me. You know what? I mean, can't nobody tell it like I can tell it. I can tell how good y'all been. Can't nobody tell it like me. This is the saddest mess I have ever heard. Oh my God. Can't nobody tell the testimony like me. Oh, I remember that.

I'm gonna remember that what I mean to uh not participate I'm telling hey listen somebody got to live to tell a testimony but not just live to tell a testimony you can't tell it like more no you can't see it's hard to live to tell a testimony uh but not like me you gotta have an interpretive imaginative that's it

Oh, but me, I can tell the story. No, we know details now. Clark Kent. What? Man. And then we glad I'm not with y'all because the weather on the vineyard has been fabulous. Oh, you want to tell me like that? Right. I'm not going to do a bunch of bragging or any of that. I'm not going to be respectful of what y'all are going through.

Is it somebody that the guy was so black even the shadow needed to needed a flashlight It was it was scary, you know, I actually went in my basement for the first time in a long time and stayed down there for me It was cutting up out there Hey, I didn't know and I won't go peak so

All you had to do was get under the kitchen table to put a book over your head like we used to do back in the day in school. My mama never told me when we was little, go in the basement. Remember when the textbook was going to keep you safe? Yeah, like hold the book over your head. Mike Mendo, you getting hit by the whole ceiling. I never understood that. The whole ceiling tearing you up and you got to look.

He just crouched down and put that book over your head and you was you was good. He was gonna be back in the game. So I'm just saying. Well, Clark, you straight. How you doing, man?

I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I was, you know, yesterday I was helping Deebo out with the funeral stuff because, you know, they didn't have no power at the funeral home. They had no power at the church. They had no power at nowhere else. So what happens when you don't have power at the funeral? Wait, because it was a, his family member passed. Yep. Right. Power out of everywhere. So it was supposed to be a funeral yesterday. Yeah. It was, she tried to, but the power was out. Yeah. She tried to move it to the church. She went to the church. Her power was out.

Hey, so, so, I told Clark, I said, uh, see, I don't even want to know what you said. What'd you say to me? I said, man, I want to just roll him up outside and just go and get it out the way. Just have it outside and roll him on to the thing. But that's crazy though. So.

Like the so he deferred the funeral was originally supposed to be at a what? Oh And that ended up having that Russell church demand. Oh, that's where Russell came by he let them open open up his church to them. Oh, that's man. They had it right there indeed

Yeah, if it was me, I'd have had it in the gas station parking lot. Everybody pull up. So, you know what? And that's why I wasn't you. Everybody pull up. We're going to put the body underneath the thing. And that's why it wasn't me. Let me just want to be thankful for the family that it wasn't you. But that's OK. But we don't remember that in the event that something happened to you. I didn't say me. I said.

if I was in charge. No, we're going to just let you be rolled. Let's see. We're going to just let you be rolled down the street. That's what I'm saying. We're going to show that same level of respect. Hey, we're going to put on Lake W and a little float. I feel like it's the right thing to do. I just listen to you. Since you know, that's the level of care you got. Just put them outside. Y'all try to put me.

Underneath I'm gonna be here for the ratchet. So You probably don't bring your rapture hang on one second Atlas Atlas don't turn the TV on grandma's on the radio Okay, thank you

He just woke up and came downstairs. We're about to relax and turn the TV on, play video games. Like, hold on, Spider-Man, I need you to hold on to the radio this morning. So look, for folks that are paying attention and a lot of listeners hit me up yesterday, I love our radio family. Folks hit me up yesterday, like, what's going on at NOV? I'm telling y'all,

Black people, unfortunately, have been so traumatized by Rachel that the least little, like, hey, are they cancel? What's going on? And then people, bless you, man, and then people who, you know, for whatever reason, think I'm a little reckless sometimes with my language. They're like, does she get put off the air? I mean, it is so funny.

how nervous our folks get. We definitely got PTSD when it comes to radio. And so I got a lot of text messages yesterday like, what's going on? You good? First, some people's like, is the station good? The other people's asking me personally, you good? Did they let you go? Like y'all crazy? So I just want to say for everybody that checked in yesterday, thank you so much for hanging in there with us while

you know, the station was trying to get back online. We appreciate you and appreciate the concern. Deion said, yeah, 702 on the dot baby. I had checked in and was looking for y'all. What was going on? Let me take a moment and just say happy birthday. My boy hit me up. Today is his wife's birthday. Hey, Tiffany Higgins. Happy birthday to you sis. Hopefully he about to shower you with some gifts. So I'm gonna have that additional pressure. Shower.

We're going to do some special stuff to celebrate Tiffany Higgins turning. What does it take another lap around the sun? So congratulations to you this morning, family. A number of things to get to. One of the first things, bless you, you just sneezing down over here. One of the things to get to is that

We know today starts early voting in the city of Milwaukee and if you are someone that did not absentee vote You can go vote before election day, which is actually bless you bless you August 11th, so you have the ability to vote today through August 9th. Michelle's birthday But it's something interesting though when I looked at the early vote schedule that kind of threw me so today

You can early vote at, I think it's like five locations, six, Good Hope Library, Midtown Voting Center, Tippecanoe Library, Washington Park Senior Center, Zavlaki Library, and Xylem Municipal Building. But this was the thing that got me. You can vote at Good Hope Library from 12.30 to 7.30 p.m. You can vote at Tippecanoe Library from 12.30 to 7.30 p.m.

You can vote as a blocky library. So all the libraries you can vote from 12 30 to 7 30 p.m. Today at the municipal building you can vote from 9 a.m. To 6 p.m. Okay at the Washington Park Senior Center I guess you know traditionally closes kind of early you can vote 9 a.m. To 4 p.m. Tell me why at the Midtown Center

you can only vote from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Why? That is the busiest voting location in the city. Please tell me, Election Commission officials, whoever set this up, how do you have the busiest facility for early voting in the city closing

the earliest with the exception of Washington Park Senior Center. They're most likely, I'm hoping, is a good explanation, but I want to hear it. I want to hear it. I want to hear it. I want to hear it because none of these other places do the numbers in a lot of situations that are done at Midtown.

Now, we have some years when it's close, particularly depending on a presidential, and you'll see those in-person early voting numbers, you know, the South Side, they're in competition with Midtown, Zeigler can, you know, come close. But without fail, Midtown is the busiest.

early voting, in-person early voting location in the city of Milwaukee. Why is it the one that closes the earliest except for Washington Park Senior Center? Somebody just said, that's by design. They don't want Crowley to get ahead. And Barrett endorsed the white guy. That's what somebody literally just texted me. Black folks, city of Milwaukee residents, white folks in Milwaukee, everybody in Milwaukee,

We should be asking this question. I'm gonna see if I can reach out to the election commission and see if somebody can give me an answer. Terrell Martin, supervisor Martin's husband, if you listening, you over at the Wisconsin Election Commission, can y'all answer this question for me? Most popular early voting location closes earlier than all the other locations except Clinton rose.

except the senior center. Make it make sense y'all. And I said, Clinton Rose, I meant Washington Park Senior Center. Make it make sense. What's the rationale? Because a lot of the people that's going to go to Midtown, these are folks that work. A lot of them work eight to five. A lot of them going to be getting off. Got to go pick up the kids from summer camp. Whatever they got to do. Why is this closing so early?

Anybody that go to Good Hope Library, you know how congested that little parking lot is in front of Good Hope Library. It's ridiculous. Cars are parked and lined all up and down the street over there, trying to vote. So I'm just asking the question because it doesn't make any sense to me that I'm gonna say one more time for the people in the back. The busiest early voting

early voting location in the city of Milwaukee closes the earliest except for Washington Park Senior Center. Milwaukee Election Commission make that makes sense to me and more importantly to this community. So with that being said, tonight there is going to be a televised debate.

The five gubernatorial candidates that are still in the race will be on channel 12. Uh, Gary and, uh, and Matt over at channel 12, they will be moderating. It will be broadcast around the state. People around the state will have the opportunity to be able to see this. And it is the only televised debate with all of these.

I'm sorry, with all of these candidates leading up to August 11th. Okay. So this is it. You either see him tonight and it, you know, some people like, well, I've been to the forums. I've heard people's positions on this, that and the other, you know, but it's a, it's a new dynamic, a different feeling about what we're getting ready to experience with this, this, this round. David Crawley's reemergence into the campaign, a return.

has sparked a particular kind of interest that I didn't even see the first time in terms of some grassroots folks. Like I said, people love a comeback kid. They love an underdog story. So you got that element going on. And then when you look at the polling that's out, Francesca Hong has been consistently leading in the polls.

consistently. There are folks that are like, no, no, no, no. We can't have a woman run for governor. Wisconsin won't go for that. We definitely can't have an Asian or personal color run for governor. Wisconsin won't go for that. But I'm telling you, she'd be consistently leaning in the polls. Mandela Barnes in the top three, you know, in polling.

There's a new market poll scheduled to come out tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'll go back and look at the data from the most recent market poll. I think what she was like the 22nd of July, it was before David Clark got back in, I mean, David Clark, Jesus, David Crawley got back in the race. And I need to go figure out what those dates were. At that time, 50% of Democratic voters had not decided

who they were going to support. And this is with Sarah Rodriguez in and David Crawley out. That was the last poll that Marquette had done. This is a Democratic primary forum tonight, debate tonight. Some people will say, well, why isn't Tom Tiffany going to be included? Because it just got real dark in here. OK, thank you all. Because Tom Tiffany has one opponent.

who's only been polling at about 2%. Tom Tiffany is definitely going to be the Republican candidate. So this is about helping people make choices to whittle down this Democratic primary on the primary and Democrat side.

So let me do this. I got to take my first break of the morning. But when we come back, I want to hit on a couple of things that happened while I was gone. You guys have probably flushed all these stories out. I haven't had an opportunity to weigh in on them. But whether we're talking about the text, I'm sorry, the social media post that surfaced regarding David Crawley, whether we're talking about the use of money by Mandela Barnes and his political action committee, money that barely is reaching

the people that supposedly we were hoping to see help by this political action committee. There are certain things and we still have a few days left. This is not over. The leakage of information, the gotcha moments, it's not over. It's not over, it's not over. So we will talk about that. So let me take my first break of the morning. Y'all.

Thank you for being here. You listened to Michelle Bryant, WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM. Jay, I'm ready to go to break. Let's get it. I'll be right back family.

We get Hang on one second. I got my screen change. All right. Well Welcome back everybody. I mean, why y'all keep playing with my light man? Who's what's going on? So we're about to find out No, say yeah Clark Clark Come on. Good. No, I think I think you have to be reset from the storm yesterday

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm doing that. So they gotta be reset. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, we're gonna try to make work. Um, because yeah, when I open my curtains, it just, it's so bright. It doesn't, it doesn't look good. So I'll leave it. Uh, Mr. Right out. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, somebody takes me

And I just want folks to know my phone service been so janky since I've been on the island. It's been crazy this time. I don't know what's going on, but somebody texted me. They wanted to know what time was the um debate happening tomorrow. I'm sorry tonight on channel 12. So it starts at 7 p.m. It's supposed to run from 7 to 8 and again it's on channel 12.

I'm not sure if they have a streaming where, oh, yep, it will live stream. WISN.com is free. So you'll be able to see it if you need to look at it that way as well. And again, Jiren Jordan and Matt Smith will be moderating. So that is at seven o'clock tonight for the folks who wanted to know what time was the debate. Now, I said before I went to the break that I wanted to take a second to talk about

You know, two of the, it really has been to read, because I think something else like dropped on Francesca Hong, I got to go back and look. But one of the things a number of people saw and reached out was like, hey, what's up with Mandela and this whole situation with this PAC political action committee that he has?

If you read the story in the journal Sentinel, they took a look at the actual giving habits or patterns of the political action committee. And this was something that was started in 2022 after his failed run for the US Senate. And it was, I think the package called something like the long run. And it was intended to help minority candidates, LGBTQ candidates,

working class folks who, you know, it's hard to raise money to run for these political offices. So that was the intent. That was what it was supposed to do. And somebody went back and looked in these finance reports, all the stuff is available for people to review. And they found that less than 15% of the money. And I think we're talking about somewhere in the ballpark of about a million, two, a million, 300,000, something like that.

Less than 15% of that actually went to the campaign contributions of candidates. Okay Less than 15% So it outlines that the organization spent the bulk of their money on salaries Mandela's current campaign manager

Darby, not sure what Darby's last name is, but like they cite that he was making like $102,000. He had also, you know, been a part of previous political endeavors with Mandela. And it's not uncommon for people to bring over campaign staff if they lose a race and they start a political action committee because they try to make sure you got somewhere to land because had they won, you would have most likely been a chief of staff.

been on their campaign, I mean, been in their official office structure. So it's a lot of jockeying that's done to help people who have helped you, basically. And, you know, so then they mentioned the other people, Corey Kozlowski. He was somebody that actually used to be Lena's chief of staff. Back in the day, he was on Mandela's US Senate race. So, you know, a comms person.

So there have been these people that have benefited, you know, and then whatever they did towards fundraising to be able to operate the PAC. But the sad thing, the sad thing, just in addition to the fact that people give money thinking, oh, Mandela and his group are going to use this to make sure candidates of color

get access to some additional resources. And when you, you know, the truth is told, you only got a few dollars going that way. Nothing substantive, just a few dollars going that way. The thing though, that when I read the story that made me smile was in typical Mandela fashion, it wasn't to try to say, yeah, we need to do better.

because this organization been around since 2022. So we're going into the fourth year. We need to do better. We've set a benchmark goal of getting 40% of that money out to candidates ideally. Instead of having a proactive, responsible response, Mandela said, yeah, I'm doing that, but so is everybody else. In fact, I'm probably doing a little bit better than everybody else.

just because everybody else's raggedy does not mean I say, yeah, I'm doing it because everybody else raggedy. So we are raggedy together. And what do I mean by that? Sarah got loose key has a women's pack. And in the article, they indicate that Sarah got loose key in her pack. I think they said she was given. Let me see if I can find it real quick.

Hang on because there's all the numbers about who got paid Sarah got loose key. Oh, here it is. So She gave 13.3% of the money she had raised in her Women win Wisconsin pack. Okay, and it went to, you know, those candidates Congresswoman Gwen Moore of her pack

less than 10% of her money goes to support candidates, 9.3%. I don't know. Oh yeah. And then they even looked at someone in Michigan and what she was doing, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 7.6% of her money, fight like hail pack actually went to candidates. And so number one,

That was one of the things that, you know, I was just like, it's, it's typical, it's typical man. Leadership. I keep looking for examples of leadership. Don't tell me everybody else is raggedy. And so my raggedy shouldn't seem that bad. Cause that, that's, that's the equivalent of what was being said. Gwen raggedy, cause she only given 9%.

Uh, Sarah raggedy, cause she only give it 13% and I'm just using these terms to make a point. Uh, don't let it show up in a commercial, but that's the, that's the idea. That's the concept. You know, y'all know that Congress, one more.

for her less than 10% you know that you know uh uh secretary of uh what is serigaluski the treasure uh but you know that serigaluski uh for her 13% so why are we talking about me leadership says leadership says you know what um we're aware uh we have a lot of initial startup costs we have all these things going on but we have a goal

And even if you didn't have it before, now that somebody done publicly out at you about how little money actually goes to the candidate, we're instituting a goal of reducing overhead so that 40% of this money at least can get into the hands of candidates. That's leadership. Not, I'm doing it, but so is everybody else. That's not leadership.

That's not what you say when somebody tell you that folks have been giving you money and 85% of the money is not going to the folks it was intended to help. I gotta take a break. This is not hard y'all. Y'all make it harder than it has to be. Let me go to break. Michelle Barnes of the NOV, 860 AM on a 6.5 FM. I'll be right back.

So you gotta unmute your mic So you gotta unmute your mic you gotta unmute your mic, sir Oh So y'all to hear me threaten y'all about my life I saw your hand moving like smoke So we're good good the Lord the Lord

Because I was here talking to my son because he walking all around in his pajamas getting bananas, you know, just just being a minister society So first the grandson come down and my son come down see the apple fall far from the tree but So back to this whole piece on Mandela real quick was talking about that before I went to the break that the story comes out, you know about the political action committee and

there is questions about, you know, how this money has been spent. And so as I open up talking about the fact that number one, the lack of leadership and acknowledging that the intended purpose of the PAC is not being served well, when you can only give 15% of your money,

because you paying $102,000 to your boys, you know, a hundred and some thousand here and the consultants getting 60, 70,000. Like that's the thing that irritates people. That's the thing that absolutely irritates people is that you spend that kind of money folks donating. That would be like me talking about the stuff that I do. And then when, you know, the truth got told, I only gave 15%.

of the $50 that somebody gave me to help a child or to help, you know, help somebody. It's just madness to me. But then there's another side, and I see we got a call, a call, I'll be right there, but there's another aspect to the story, the Milwaukee Courier newspaper and for transparency, the courier and the radio station, WNOV, you know, we, we, we,

the same entities in terms of family, connection, separate business, but, you know, it's not like we're not related, we're related. The Courier does a deeper dive than even what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did. The Courier starts to talk about potential campaign law violations. And now,

you know the questions get even deeper because an attorney representing someone out of Madison is now involved and it's an attorney that has a whole bunch of experience with election law and it's an attorney that even though Mandela Barnes's campaign is saying we feel confident that we didn't do anything wrong and we're going to be good uh i'm looking at some of the stuff that the uh

attorney is alleging and I'm like, hey, hey. You might wanna, whoever you paying $102,000 to, you might wanna make sure all this is zipped up and neatly wound so that you don't have legal problems. Because one of the things that the attorney is questioning is a poll that Mandela's campaign paid for back in October,

of 2025 spent $62,000 trying to figure out I'm assuming whether or not he should get in the race and run for governor and there are some guidelines about when you can start spending money when you need to register you know with the Wisconsin Election Commission some of those steps may have been missed or maybe there's been some misunderstanding about when and what you could do.

So other questions get raised. I'm looking for this other one. When they start making disbursements, state law says that every PAC that makes or accepts contributions makes disbursements or incurs obligation in excess of 2,500 must register with the state no later than the 10th business day commencing after the receipt of the first contribution and before making any disbursements and before incurring obligations. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying. They got to hear that the PAC contributed $50,000 to Barnes's campaign. The attorney's arguing, the polling expenses contribution wasn't kind. The person that works for Mandela says, no, it wasn't in kind. In kind is a contribution. If it's determined, if it's determined to be an in-kind contribution, that's like getting money.

But in lieu of money, you get a service, you get a good, you get something that you can use for your campaign. So we will see where all of this goes, but yeah. Now, the folks at the courier are reporting, the Journal of Sentinel just touched one aspect of this. We gotta talk about what state law also says about

the way the pack has been operating leading up to this point. Is my caller still on hold? Yes, ma'am. Let's grab him. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hello? Hey, sister, Debra, no V, wait a minute, my kiss is in the high. You don't know, Ray, how you doing this morning, bro? Hey, man, I'm just shitting, you know what I'm saying? Me, I just came from the 270 Union Center. It was beautiful, exquisite, with no fight, with no kill.

Hey, I think this will really increase the peace. I think God is really poor to work for the brothers and sisters because one day we all go come together. We're going to be free one day from all that destruction, self-destruction. Hey, brothers and sisters, we're going to work it out. Brothers and sisters, we're going to work it out!

I'm telling you, it's going to come inside when brothers are going to respect their sisters, sisters are going to respect their man, and the kids are going to respect the best, and this is going to be a beautiful world to live in, and it's ready, Marcus, and I'll have it. I appreciate you, Ray. I'm waiting on the beautiful world. Bring it on, bro. Bring it on. In the meantime.

dealing with the fuses that we have going on in the meantime. Let me just say this, hang on one second, stop. Okay. I'm sorry, I was looking for something, but let me hit the, I mean, the David Crawley piece. So a lot of folks also paying attention

to, you know, a story that comes out that says David Crawley linked to a, I think it was like 14 year old social media page in which some unsavory things were said. Okay. I got touch screens. I'm trying not to use my touchscreen while I'm on the air. But

controversial comments and oh 16 years old if I'm not mistaken now. So some of the things that were on the air personal, you know, a little graphic, questionable and I don't have everything in front of me. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a break real quick and I am going to pull that up so I can

Kind of say some of the stuff that was said some of it I just don't think is necessary because if people want to talk about their personal life I mean, that's your business and what was said was not Outrageous But the things that folks took offense at let me let me go pull those real quick. So let me go to break. She'll run WNOV a 60 a.m. One of 6.5 FM. I'll be right back y'all

All right, family, welcome back to the show. Clark, go in and correct, uh, the census suffrage. It should be, um, S-U-F-F-R-H-E. Stuffage. Stuffage. Stuffafage. I just noticed it when I looked down. I was like, oh yeah. Stop.

We want to catch that. We want to make sure we catch that. I had to look at it like, did I spell that wrong? So yeah, so I just wanted to flag that for you, Clark. So before I went to break and welcome back, you listened to Michelle Brown here at WNOV A68, you're 106.5 FM from Martha's Vineyard. Hey, vacation happening. Yes, Lord.

I wanted to follow up on what I was saying before I went to the break, because there are these things they're called October surprises and politics. This is not anything unusual. Folks will begin. They will have had teams doing some opposition work on candidates to try to figure out if there's a gotcha moment, a zinger, something controversial they can say to weaken.

their opponents. So we know that somebody did a story on Mandela Barnes, his political action committee, which I just want to be clear. And everybody that they listed, you know, I'm just appalled that more money is not reaching the people that folks are actually donating the money to help. I just, that's just, it just irks my soul. But anyway, so David Crawley.

You know, I think his was the first to break before the Mandela situation. They talked about a social media account. That we now know. It's said to have belonged to like 12 people that might have been registered under one person's name, but 12 people had access to post on this account. It was supposedly going to be used to help promote parties and events.

A lot of young cats back in the day were event promoters. And so this is what this was supposed to be. One of the things though that whoever did the research on the site, they said, yeah, we never saw a single posting about an event. So that's one. The way some of the stuff was characterized is that some of the stuff was racist, sexist or homophobic. So I went to go pull the story that I saw.

And I looked at some of the comments that they highlighted. And this was actually first reported on NBC News. It's like actually reported nationally, which was like, whoa. But one point, one post, and this was on a Twitter account, okay, under the name Dirk McGurk. And so one post, it's DC, AKA David, better known, BKA, better known as dirty or black.

ASS dude. Um, and it posted in 2010 and it said hashtag confession. I've never, uh, a term for sex, uh, a white woman is that bad? So I'm like, say, say what? Uh, so I was trying to make sure that all of that was one post.

the way it was written and they're saying that it was uh so or you know it implies that it was so I was like okay the other posts that they list are not anything that you can directly attribute to David Crawley um it'll just say you know one post said I need all the sexy ladies to DM me and um

something else that says something was nasty. Something else talked about having sex with somebody. I wouldn't do it. There was a reference actually to the police. Someone said, I don't even call the police pigs. I call them cow. It's a beef thing. And so you can't specifically say, yes, those were David Crawley's posts. Again, considering that they say 10 to 12 people had access to this account.

One of the guys we know Ray nitty out here in the community He must have been one of the cats that also had access to the cow and you know David Crawley says hey, I would never say these things That you know don't have any name assigned to him It's not anybody knows me. It's not what I do Ray nitty, you know is interviewed for one of these stories and he says this is not Something that

I do. So, someone though said, which, you know, we young, God knows, well, I say this, but I'm meaning kind of tongue in cheek. Everything I did when I was in my 20s, you know, like, man, if I had to stand up for that today, most of it I could stand up to.

You know, I can't I can't imagine like I definitely never broken a law other than like traffic tickets. But I could stand up, you know, I could stand on my own. And I know one thing that I've always been conscientious of is I try not to put myself in situations where I got to explain some stuff like this. So one of the things I saw posted on social media, well, OK, if you didn't, you know, you didn't condone it.

Why was you connected to it? Peer pressure is something else Not wanting to call your boys out Yeah, I know what I said in it, so I'm cool Somebody told me they said, you know Michelle I remember one of the first things you said to me is go back and scrub your social media account Go look to see if there's anything that can be connected to you out here

that you may have said that was on toward, that was jacked up, that was racist, sexist or homophobic, you know, because we've evolved over the years. The way I thought about something when I was 20, it's not the same way I saw that 40. It's not the same way I see it at 60. You're supposed to do that. You're supposed to grow. There's supposed to be a period of immaturity. The one thing that overwhelmingly came through in the David Crawley situation is

There were people already like kind of like standing out on limb like that's not who this dude is but And I'm trying to go back and remember what his comments were to like, you know, like I take responsibility for whatever I said I'm not the same, you know cat that was back then Because again, I'm always still looking for the leadership

in the way these things are discussed. Mistakes are going to happen. You're going to say bad things. You're going to wish you could take back things that you did. That's life. None of us can say that we've gone completely through life and never had to apologize, never had to sit back and be like, I mean, I could have did that so much better or I could have did that differently or flat out. I was wrong for that because I've had to call people back and say, you know what? I've had time to kind of play that over in my mind.

And it might be five years later, but I was wrong for that. I was wrong about the way I saw it. I was wrong about the way I approached it. And I was wrong about the way I got at you about it. We do that. This comes with growth and maturity. So the DC situation, when you looked at it on social media, people didn't care. The majority overwhelmingly, the majority of comments, it did not move people.

Nobody saw like the racism. Even if DC did say I never saw the white girl. That's not racist. That's not racist to say that. So I kept looking for the racism because that was real interesting to me. I didn't see the racism. But here is a lesson for everybody that's running for office. Now some people already got, you know,

Screenshots of the stuff you all said and did and so even if you try to screw up your page, they gon' find it. You know, they got it. It's been locked and loaded and waiting to shoot you down the road. People just save stuff for when they need it. Politics is dirty. I say that, I will say that over and over again. It's not the arena to play in.

you can't stand on whatever you've done, explain whatever you've done, or be able to convince people, I did that, but I'm not that same person anymore. If you can do that, this is not the arena.

It's not the arena to play in. So I just wanted to acknowledge that. And as I said before I went to break, there was something on Francesca Hong, but I can't remember it right now. But I'll find it. I'll look forward to the break because I could have swore I saw something that has come out since I've been here that they might have said regarding Francesca Hong. For some reason, Kelly Roy's not getting these looks. Joe Brennan.

Not really getting these looks. I don't know if it's because, you know, Joe Brennan is a choir boy or his polling numbers are so low that people have decided this dude is not really a factor and we not paying attention. So I don't know. I don't know, but we'll see. But let me do this. While I am here in Martha's Vineyard, this is what is known as HBCU Weekend. Okay. No, wait, before I do that, before I do that.

Let me back up for a second. I read the story in the Journal Sentinel about the 99-year-old woman, Milwaukee Southside, who called the police after she was attacked in her home. Wait, I'm saying it wrong. Let me say it correctly. A 99-year-old woman was attacked in her home.

Let me pull a story up. That's even better. Hang on. Let me call her real quick. Okay. 99 year old woman is attacked in her home and her medic alert bracelet is activated and they call the police on her behalf. Hang on. Where'd the story go?

All right, let me go this way and just go pull it up fresh because I want to make sure I got all these details right Because the story was just unsettling to me the breakdown and communication to figure out what you know all the Involved players are going to do to make sure that something like this never happens again So where is she? 99 year old woman, okay

Of course, it won't come out now that I'm looking Okay here 99 year old woman Okay, here we go, so This woman Was beaten in her home stranger came into her house on July 27th, all right

During the attack, the woman activated her personal medical alert system and the alert company called Milwaukee's 9-1-1 Center around 5 a.m. somewhere near. Medical responders and the police were not sent to the woman's Southside home, though, after the medical respond alert company called.

The woman had to end up calling the police herself Just before 8 a.m. Now remember medical alert company calls around 5 a.m. And When they call it's not just that we think we may have a medical emergency They actually say in the call and I'm looking for it real quick in the story

In the first call around 515 a.m. The medical alert company described the incident as quote was sounded like a physical fight going on This is in the records. The call was categorized as a welfare check and given a level three priority Typically a battery would be classified as a level two requiring more urgent response. So The medical alert call a dispatcher and say hey

It's not like there's a fight going on in his house. And instead of, you know, saying that there is a battery, it's a welfare check, which is not the same level of urgency of a response. One of the things I didn't know is that in Milwaukee, 911 calls are prioritized or categorized in different ways on a scale from zero to seven.

The lower the number, the more serious the crime is considered and the more urgent the response will be. So again, they call the medical representative told 911 that he quote, believed he heard a man say to a female that he was going to physically harm her. The call is upgraded to a threat. And the records note that the suspect is on the scene. So.

The medical or company says to the dispatcher, the man is there. And he's telling the woman he's going to hurt her. Two and a half hours later, no police have still come. The man has finally left this woman's house. The woman calls around eight o'clock herself. But the other thing, let me not forget this, four minutes later,

A caller joined the call and a male subject heard making threats to physically assault an elderly subject. So that's also a part of it. So somebody else heard this in addition to what the dispatcher, I mean, the medical person was selling a dispatcher. The dispatch record showed no action was taken after that. No action.

They can't tell you we sent the call you know to the department in the area the district that you know the woman lived in Nothing they can't tell you nothing But in the so the woman has to call herself So when she calls The dispatcher states that the woman was on the floor was serious bleeding and having trouble breathing

She told the dispatcher, but this was a thing. In the journal Sentinel article, they included, and who wrote this story? Let me go back and get them by why. Story is written by David Clary and John Dietrich. John is a friend of the show. We've done a lot of work with John. I'm wondering why these reporters made the decision

to put this in the actual printed story. The woman told the dispatcher where she hides her house keys so officers and paramedics can enter. Anybody that's in their neighborhood, they know that 99 year old woman, because people know who this woman is that live in that area. So now we also know the woman hide her keys outside.

I just don't know that that that detail needed to have been included in the actual story. I just don't know. You know, we could have said the officers were able to gain entry and kept it moving because folks who hadn't thought about folks, you know, and we know people keep, you know, keys outside under a fake looking rock under this under that, but I just judgment.

Why did you include that detail? Because I'm assuming this woman is 99 and going to continue to live by herself for a while, maybe. So now we know the lady keep the key outside. I just didn't understand. And when somebody else heard the story, they said the same thing to me. We didn't even talk about it. And they said, why do you include that detail? The police were able to gain entry to the house. That's all I needed to be saying. But that's just me.

That's just me. That's just me. So now there is one last piece of the story that stood out for me. So at 802, the woman told the dispatcher she cannot hold the phone anymore. This woman is on the floor bleeding. She's gone through this traumatic situation. She's fragile. She's like, I just, I can't hold the phone no more. The paramedics arrived at the house.

and I think 807 is what it said in the article, something like that. Nope, I'm wrong. They arrived at the house at 757, okay? But they were outside when the woman was saying she couldn't hold on anymore. Woman is saying at 802, I can't hold on anymore. 757, the paramedics is outside, but because of the way the policies are, the police gotta come to make sure that it's safe for the paramedics

to go into the house to treat the woman. Because we don't want the paramedics to open the door. It's an active shooter in there or a situation going on. Paramedics end up getting killed. Then they can't help nobody. So, paramedics is out there at 7.57. The police come 26 minutes later. They didn't do what they got to do at the scene.

which takes another six minutes. So at 829, the woman is finally able to get medical care. By 833, she's being taken to the hospital. So I don't know how busy stuff is. I don't know everything that's going on, but that's a lot of time.

on one hand, if you going through it, depending on the activity in the community, that's the best time they could do. I don't know. But the fact that this nearly 100 year old woman who placed this medical or places his call on her behalf and three hours later, nobody had came is seriously disturbing. I am

looking forward to hearing from the department, the dispatch service, all involved players. Where was the breakdown in communication and what is going to be done to fix this? Because that could have been any one of us. Yet alone, somebody that's almost 100 years old. Where is the breakdown in communication and how do we fix this?

Let me take my break. Michelle Bryant WNOV, 860 AM 106.5 FM, family, I'll be right back. Tell your mic on, Chef. My bad, I was looking for a story. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you, thank you everybody for coming back. Michelle Bryant WNOV, 860 AM 106.5 FM, sitting here in the beautiful Martha's Vineyard.

taking it all in. And I said before I went to the break, I had started a story that's framed out the idea about that this is HBCU Weekend, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Weekend, here on the venue. And so there are events every night. Howard University hosted an event one night with Carolina A&T.

John Wesley college, like you name it, HBCUs are represented well here on the island. And there is a panel discussion. In fact, that my son is attending tomorrow in which they will be talking about HBCU.

collegiate athletes, athletic programs, the NIL agreements. So Michael Vick is on the panel, the president of Alabama State, which is my son's alma mater. He's on the panel. Some other folks that will be coming in just talking about the future of HBCUs in terms of a lot of things that's going on with college athletics.

There's also a lot of conversation happening on the island around a bunch of stories that have been posted out of Howard University in which a number of students have been upset and complaining that I think it's up to as many as 500 students have been told by Howard that their registrations basically

have been canceled. They've been unenrolled because students have not made payments that were due before they were supposed to get back to school. I found this post that the sister posted that I thought was interesting about this whole situation and I wanted to share it with you guys because it's some inside information that I don't think a lot of us are aware of. We know historically black colleges and universities are under attack and you can hear that.

in every pocket of every room as we are on this island, talking to people, engaging people, everybody, cause like people repping their schools. I'm from Fisk. I'm from, you know, Tulane. I'm from, I mean, not Tulane, but I'm from here. I'm from here. You hear it everywhere. There's people are being very intentional about that pride in attending in HBCU. So this post that was put up by a sister from

Howard University, she's an alumni, I wanted to share this with you. And the post which was done on Facebook on July 23rd, this is what it says. So my beloved undergrad alma mater, Howard University is trending again. There's a lot of misinformation spreading surrounding the unenrollment crisis for the incoming freshman class. Therefore, I want to share some clarification. One, with the newly federally approved budget

From Congress, this fiscal year, Howard University, seated in our nation's capital, lost $64 million in allocations. I want to say that again. Howard University lost $64 million in allocations in one year. That's a lot of money.

This means that unlike the days past, the university cannot keep students on their enrol lists, allow them to attend, get to campus and just figure it out. Many alumni are recounting stories about not having funding and talking to someone in financial aid who helped them out. Newsflash, that's no longer allowed.

There is no extra money. You can't just go talk to Ms. Pat in the back office and she clear your balance. There are maximum borrowing limits on both students and parents. Project 2025 specifically outlined how college was not for everyone. This is systemic and purposeful to make higher ed inaccessible to those who do not have the independent wealth

Trust me, though my child is a D1 athlete, I am leaning on the everlasting arm to pay for her last two years at her PWI as I am getting zero dollars in FAFSA or people know that that's financial aid. She goes on to say number two, Howard has been warning the incoming students about their outstanding balances because it is an HBCU parents and other family members

who went there with balances, et cetera, have been ignoring the warnings. Unfortunately, it was not a game. Three, let's say that the university allowed all the future baby bisons to attend without adequate funding. They would have to unenroll, drop before midterms if funding is not secured. Hundreds of 18, 19 year olds will be kicked out of the school and dorms en masse. At least right now, they are still at home.

Four, if the students did come, struggled through the first semester and could not matriculate for a second, the university's attrition rate was skyrocket. When uploaded to iPads, this statistic would trigger the Congressional Budget Committee during a funding hearing and more money would be cut for fiscal year 2728. Every damn thing is political in this country.

This is the Sister Talking. Shame on you if you were one of the 83 million U.S. citizens who stayed home in 2024 and did not exercise your right to vote, especially if you're black. The Heritage Foundation that funded Project 2025 was very clear in its mission. This didn't have to happen. And I can unequivocally say that if Kamala Harris was president,

She would have definitely protected the federal allocation for Howard University. Or for Howard. But the country didn't want a black woman to be in charge. So here we are. Elections have consequences. In truth and service, Dr. Tabitha Bellamy McKinley, HU class of 99. What did she say? 88 million people didn't vote.

Some of the ones that voted couldn't see a woman as president. Definitely didn't want to see a black woman as president. Folks had all kinds of excuses. Project 2025 begins to set up a framework about who should and should not be allowed to go to college. Period. That's what we're seeing.

So I appreciated what the sister said when she talked about, this ain't like it used to be back in the day, y'all. There are warnings flashing all around us and many of us are looking the other way, thinking we got time, not taking it serious. But these people are systematically trying to change the way we function right now as a society.

to change our role in society, to change the distribution of wealth, who gets what, who has access. Donald Trump is sitting up like judge, jury, and Jesus talking about which career is professional and therefore entitled to more money in terms of student loan and helping to fund an education. We have now moved, you know, they figured out that they couldn't just

dismantle, I'm sorry, close the Department of Education at the federal level. So what have they done? They've begun to dismantle it, pulling pieces out and throwing them in other agencies that are inappropriate places for these aspects of the Department of Education to be housed. This is a systematic attempt. I'm going to give you another example of that when we come back from the break. Michelle Bryant WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM.

Family, I'll be right back.

All right, family, welcome to these last few minutes of the show. So before I went to break, I was talking about this whole idea that some of us are still asleep at the wheel.

And we think that what happened in the past will continue to happen, not appreciating that the players have changed, that their access to power is different, that what they have coalesced around power in terms of the Supreme Court, the members of Congress, the U.S. Senate, local law enforcement, or federal law enforcement agencies.

There is a shift and many of us are not lost on that whole Make America Great Again concept that for a lot of black people, a lot of people of color, it feels like a lot of women, it feels like Make America 1935 again, in which a whole bunch of folks didn't have rights, didn't have access. I mean, the videos that are coming out in which people are recording themselves being called the N-word openly by folks moving

you know, in their presence. You mad at the convenience store. You in the restaurant ordering fast food. And now, you know, white folks just feeling emboldened to call black people niggas on the spot, just on GP. And you're like, wait a minute. But there are other things systemically under foot. So one of the things that stood out for me was an article that I read about the founder of what I think is a founder, co-founder, CEO.

of an organization that many people have utilized their services, Shopify. Shopify. So the CEO over at Shopify, Tobias, and I'm not sure, I think it's Letky, this man's company, Garn is about $154 billion, okay, annually.

I don't know if that's annually, but I know capitalization is about $154 billion. That's what I should say. So he gets into an online back and forth last week and he is commenting on who should be able to vote in this country. Okay? This is not a new discussion.

in America. In fact, voting used to be tied to wealth and property ownership. Remember, had to have land to be able to vote. So there are a bunch of these rich people who have access to Trump, got the ear to president, that are weighing in on civic issues and what should be happening. And so

We're beginning to hear more wealthy people talk about if you don't pay income taxes or you pay a very low, low amount of income taxes, you either should have no representation in terms of voting, picking candidates, or it should be a weighted system in which the example that was given

in this discussion online, if you pay anywhere from a dollar to a hundred thousand dollars in some form of taxes, then you get one vote. If you pay a hundred thousand and one dollars up to, I don't know, five hundred thousand dollars, you get two votes.

And it goes on up to a tiered system where some of the wealthiest people in our country would be eligible to get five votes. But if you're retired and you're no longer contributing in terms of actual paid income taxes, then you would get no vote. You low income. You don't make a ton of money. So you end up usually getting a refund every year. You would get no vote.

And the thing about that, that's interesting because we got corporations who don't pay their fair share of money, who end up, you know, not only the federal government of Don, who right now corporations seem to have more power than actual human beings and people. But the idea that we are back here again, where folks are starting to suggest publicly, loudly in formats that, yeah,

everybody actually shouldn't have a right to vote in this country. In 2026, this is the conversation that everybody does not or should not have the right to vote, that we can disenfranchise people from having a say in how this government functions, a say in how this country, you know, works and what services go to who, when, where and how, based on what you bring to the table.

Not every man, you know, one woman, one vote, one person, one vote, however the language should have actually accurately been written. But the idea that we're going to tie your ability to cast a, this is happening. You got some of the richest people in the world living in America right now who are having these conversations saying that this should happen. I got to take a break. I got to take a break. I'm going to come back and end the show.

We'll get the fall asleep at the wheel. I'll be right back So it's no break till we go out. Oh we go out it says break now That's why I was wondering break at 49. Who said break at 49? Our Clark said that was earlier Okay

All right. Well, then that's the show. And it's a good place to end because the signs are everywhere around us. How we're going to galvanize and respond to these things is what's going to make the difference between survival and losing.

just about everything we have worked for over the last 50, 60, 70, 80 years to bring some type of equity and parity to the way we function as people of color, black folks in particular in this country. But that people are publicly talking about going back to a system that says you can only vote if you have a certain amount of wealth or you pay a certain amount of money into the system.

the majority of people in this country would be left out of voting. The overwhelming majority of people that would remain would not on a tiered system have enough wealth to garner two, three, five votes. You would be outnumbered by the wealthiest people in this world or in this country every time. Keep playing.

Keep playing and thinking we don't need to get serious about how we're moving in this country and how we as people of color, how we as people of marginalized groups, how we gonna have to do things differently. Keep playing, keep playing. They will be coming for rights that you have that you don't think is on the chopping block real soon. That is the show today.

Thank you all everyone for tuning in to the bros in the studio. I appreciate you family. I will be back tomorrow from Martha's Vineyard. Thanks bros. Appreciate y'all.

Good morning.

Good morning.

What's happening family?

Welcome back to the show.

It is Michelle Bryan here, WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM.

You are listening to say something real and real talk.

We weren't on the air yesterday.

Let me say good morning to the bruds in the studio so y'all can explain to the people what happened.

What up, Rod out?

How you doing this morning?

What's going

on?

Bruh, I heard we didn't get back on the air to like noon yesterday.

Yeah, yeah.

It was, it was an audience and it's still out in some places.

Some people are still without power.

But on

Tuesday, because I heard power went down like Sunday for a lot of

folks.

Yeah, it was crazy.

Sunday

morning about five something in the morning.

Or Monday morning.

Yeah, well Monday morning.

Monday morning.

Monday

morning.

Yeah, so it's just, it's crazy.

It's crazy.

No power.

And it was hot too, so.

And.

And.

The sky got so black, it was black in the media yesterday.

And that's hard.

We're not doing color reasons.

That's a hard question.

We're not doing color reasons.

We're not doing that today.

If you wouldn't see how dark it was, you could have sworn it was

night.

And

what

time during the day was it dark

like that?

Why about one o'clock?

Yeah, like no one

o'clock.

One

o'clock.

Yeah, now that storm that came through Appleton,

it had to have been a tornado because then trees was uprooted and poles was flying all in the video.

It looked

like it was going to be one hit.

Yeah man, something, something happened in Appleton and whatever the other small towns are.

It was chaos.

You know, we was just talking, we laughed before we left town.

We was like, okay, let's leave town and nothing happened while we gone.

every time we leave town.

Stop leaving.

We came back last year.

The floods happened while we was gone last year.

You know, but it goes back to us.

Remember when the Seville Smith stuff happened?

Oh, yeah.

You know, people was calling us saying about Milwaukee on fire.

But it just never fails.

Like, man, we can't go nowhere without y'all showing our fan.

Well,

listen, hold up.

Thank you,

Margaret.

How you doing?

You ever heard that saying, there's a dark cloud over the city?

Yes.

That's what it was just day.

It was

that bad.

I'm telling you, it was so dark, it was really, it was scared me.

I didn't even have no tornado.

Yeah.

It was, it was just.

And

speaking of flood, it was three feet of water out here.

From the radio station again.

Yeah,

it was three feet of water.

Listen, I drove by and I could have sworn when I saw

Noah and the Ark just ride right

by me.

Like

waving at me.

I was waving at chickens and I'm like, you got two of those in there?

So

wait, had y'all come to the station already when all this water is out there?

You got the way through the water to get into the station.

I was in it.

I

drove by and kept doing it.

I

said, I said, damn that.

So wait, you tell me you just kept going.

Hey,

so I put garbage bags on my legs to my waist and came into the studio.

That was my level of dedication.

And I got those pictures too, by

the

way.

No, I do send them to you.

I took pictures of you and you drove by.

Yeah, listen, somebody got to live to tell the testimony.

So it might as well be me.

You know what?

I mean, can't nobody tell it like I can tell it.

I can tell how good y'all been.

Can't nobody tell it like me.

This is the saddest mess I have ever heard.

Oh my God.

Can't nobody tell the testimony like me.

Oh, I remember that.

I'm gonna remember that what I mean to uh not participate

I'm

telling

hey listen somebody

gotta live to tell a testimony

but not just live to tell a testimony you can't tell it like me

oh no

you

can't

tell

a testimony but not like me you gotta have an interpretive imaginative that's it

Oh, but me, I can tell the story.

No, we know details

down.

Clark Kent.

What?

Man.

And then we glad

I'm not with y'all because the weather on the vineyard has been fabulous.

Oh, you want

to

tell me like that?

Right.

I'm not going to do a bunch of bragging or any of that.

I'm not going to be respectful of what y'all are going through.

Is it somebody that the guy was so black even the shadow needed to needed a flashlight

It was it was scary, you know, I actually went in my basement for the first time in a long time and stayed down there for me It

was

cutting up out there Hey, I didn't know and I won't go peak so

All

you had to do was

get under the kitchen table to put a book over your head like

we

used to do back in the day in school.

My mama never told me when we was little, go in the basement.

Remember when the textbook was going to keep you safe?

Yeah, like hold the book over your head.

Mike Mendo,

you're getting hit by the whole ceiling.

I never understood that.

The whole

ceiling tearing you up and you got to look.

He

just crouched down and put that book over your head and you was you was good.

He was gonna be back in the game.

So I'm just saying.

Well, Clark, you straight.

How you doing, man?

I'm doing good.

I'm doing good.

I was, you know, yesterday I was helping Deebo out with the funeral stuff because, you know, they didn't have no power at the funeral home.

They had no power at the church.

They

had

no power at nowhere

else.

So what happens when you don't have power at the funeral?

Wait, because it was a, his family member passed.

Yep.

Right.

Power was everywhere.

So it was supposed to be a funeral yesterday.

Yeah.

She tried

to, but the power was out.

Yeah.

She tried to move it to the church.

She went to the church.

Her power was out.

Hey, so, so, I told Clark, I said, uh,

see, I don't even want to know what you said.

What'd you say to me?

I said, man, I want to just roll him up outside and just go and get it out the way.

Just have it outside and roll him on to the thing.

But that's crazy though.

So.

Like the so he deferred the funeral was originally supposed to be

at a

what?

Oh

And that ended up having that Russell church demand.

Oh, that's where Russell came by he let them open open up his church to them.

Oh, that's

man.

They

had it right there indeed

Yeah, if it was me, I'd have had it in the gas station parking lot.

Everybody pull

up.

So, you know what?

And that's why I wasn't you.

Everybody pull up.

We're going to put the body underneath the thing.

And that's why it wasn't

me.

Let me just

want

to

be thankful for the family that it wasn't you.

But that's OK.

But we don't remember that in the event that something happened to you.

I didn't say me.

I

said.

if I was in charge.

No, we're going to just let you be rolled.

Let's see.

We're going to just let you be rolled down the

street.

That's

what I'm saying.

We're going to show that same level of respect.

Hey,

we're going to put on Lake W and a

little float.

I feel like it's the right thing to do.

I just listen to you.

Since you know, that's the level of care you got.

Just put them outside.

Y'all

try to put me.

Underneath I'm gonna be here for the ratchet.

So

You probably don't

bring your rapture

hang on one second Atlas Atlas don't turn the TV on grandma's on the radio Okay,

thank

you

He just woke up and came downstairs.

We're about to relax and turn

the TV on, play video games.

Like, hold on, Spider-Man, I need you

to hold on

to

the radio this

morning.

So look, for folks that are paying attention and a lot of listeners hit me up yesterday, I love our radio family.

Folks hit me up yesterday, like, what's going on at NOV?

I'm telling y'all,

Black people, unfortunately, have been so traumatized by Rachel that the least little, like, hey, are they cancel?

What's going on?

And then people, bless you, man, and then people who, you know, for whatever reason, think I'm a little reckless sometimes with my language.

They're like, does she get put off the air?

I mean, it is so funny.

how nervous our folks get.

We definitely got PTSD

when it

comes to radio.

And so I got a lot of text messages yesterday like, what's going on?

You good?

First, some people's like, is the station good?

The other people's asking me personally, you good?

Did they let you go?

Like y'all crazy?

So I just want to say for everybody that checked in yesterday, thank you so much for hanging in there with us while

you know, the station was trying to get back online.

We appreciate you and appreciate the concern.

Deion said, yeah, 702 on the dot baby.

I had checked in and was looking for y'all.

What was going on?

Let me take a moment and just say happy birthday.

My boy hit me up.

Today is his wife's birthday.

Hey, Tiffany Higgins.

Happy birthday to you sis.

Hopefully he about to shower you with some gifts.

So I'm gonna have that additional pressure.

Shower.

We're going to do some special stuff to celebrate Tiffany Higgins turning.

What is it?

Another lap around the sun.

So congratulations to you this morning, family.

A number of things to get to.

One of the first things, bless you, you just sneezing down over here.

One of the things to get to is that.

We know today starts early voting in the city of Milwaukee and if you are someone that did not absentee vote You can go vote before election day, which is actually bless you bless you August 11th, so you have the ability to vote today through August 9th.

Michelle's birthday But it's something interesting though when I looked at the early vote schedule that kind of threw me so today

You can early vote at, I think it's like five locations, six, Good Hope Library, Midtown Voting Center, Tippecanoe Library, Washington Park Senior Center, Zavlaki Library, and Xylem Municipal Building.

But this was the thing that got me.

You can vote at Good Hope Library from 12.30 to 7.30 p.m.

You can vote at Tippecanoe Library from 12.30 to 7.30 p.m.

You can vote as a blocky library.

So all the libraries you can vote from 12 30 to 7 30 p.m.

Today at the municipal building you can vote from 9 a.m.

To 6 p.m.

Okay at the Washington Park Senior Center I guess you know traditionally closes kind of early you can vote 9 a.m.

To 4 p.m.

Tell me why at the Midtown Center

You can only vote from 8.30 AM to 5.30 PM.

Why?

That is the busiest voting location in the city.

Please tell me, Election Commission officials, whoever set this up, how do you have the busiest facility for early voting in the city closing

the earliest with the exception of Washington Park Senior Center.

They're most likely, I'm hoping, is a good explanation, but I want to hear it.

I want to hear it.

I want to hear it.

I want to hear it because none of these other places do the numbers in a lot of situations that are done at Midtown.

Now, we have some years when it's close, particularly depending on a presidential, and you'll see those in-person early voting numbers, you know, the South Side, they're in competition with Midtown, Zeigler can, you know, come close.

But without fail, Midtown is the busiest.

early voting, in-person early voting location in the city of Milwaukee.

Why is it the one that closes the earliest except for Washington Park Senior Center?

Somebody just said, that's by design.

They don't want Crowley to get ahead.

And Barrett endorsed the white guy.

That's what somebody literally just texted me.

Black folks, city of Milwaukee residents, white folks in Milwaukee, everybody in Milwaukee,

We should be asking this question.

I'm gonna see if I can reach out to the election commission and see if somebody can give me an answer.

Terrell Martin, supervisor Martin's husband, if you listening, you over at the Wisconsin Election Commission, can y'all answer this question for me?

Most popular early voting location closes earlier than all the other locations except Clinton rose.

except the senior center.

Make it make sense y'all.

And I said, Clinton Rose, I meant Washington Park Senior Center.

Make it make sense.

What's the rationale?

Because a lot of the people that's going to go to Midtown, these are folks that work.

A lot of them work eight to five.

A lot of them going to be getting off.

Got to go pick up the kids from summer camp.

Whatever they got to do.

Why is this closing so early?

Anybody that go to Good Hope Library, you know how congested that little parking lot is in front of Good Hope Library.

It's ridiculous.

Cars are parked and lined all up and down the street over there, trying to vote.

So I'm just asking the question because it doesn't make any sense to me that I'm gonna say one more time for the people in the back.

The busiest early voting

early voting location in the city of Milwaukee closes the earliest except for Washington Park Senior Center.

Milwaukee Election Commission make that makes sense to me and more importantly to this community.

So with that being said, tonight there is going to be a televised debate.

The five gubernatorial candidates that are still in the race will be on channel 12.

Uh, Gary and, uh, and Matt over at channel 12, they will be moderating.

It will be broadcast around the state.

People around the state will have the opportunity to be able to see this.

And it is the only televised debate with all of these.

I'm sorry, with all of these candidates leading up to August 11th.

Okay.

So this is it.

You either see him tonight and it, you know, some people like, well, I've been to the forums.

I've heard people's positions on this, that and the other, you know, but it's a, it's a new dynamic, a different feeling about what we're getting ready to experience with this, this, this round.

David Crawley's reemergence into the campaign, a return.

has sparked a particular kind of interest that I didn't even see the first time in terms of some grassroots folks.

Like I said, people love a comeback kid.

They love an underdog story.

So you got that element going on.

And then when you look at the polling that's out, Francesca Hong has been consistently leading in the polls.

consistently.

There are folks that are like, no, no, no, no.

We can't have a woman run for governor.

Wisconsin won't go for that.

We definitely can't have an Asian or personal color run for governor.

Wisconsin won't go for that.

But I'm telling you, she'd be consistently leaning in the polls.

Mandela Barnes in the top three, you know, in polling.

There's a new market poll scheduled to come out tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

I'll go back and look at the data from the most recent market poll.

I think what she was like the 22nd of July, it was before David Clark got back in, I mean, David Clark, Jesus, David Crawley got back in the race.

And I need to go figure out what those dates were.

At that time, 50% of Democratic voters had not decided

who they were going to support.

And this is with Sarah Rodriguez in and David Crawley out.

That was the last poll that Marquette had done.

This is a Democratic primary forum tonight, debate tonight.

Some people will say, well, why isn't Tom Tiffany going to be included?

Because it just got real dark in here.

OK, thank you all.

Because Tom Tiffany has one opponent.

who's only been polling at about 2%.

Tom Tiffany is definitely going to be the Republican candidate.

So this is about helping people make choices to whittle down this Democratic primary on the primary and Democrat side.

So let me do this.

I got to take my first break of the morning.

But when we come back, I want to hit on a couple of things that happened while I was gone.

You guys have probably flushed all these stories out.

I haven't had an opportunity to weigh in on them.

But whether we're talking about the text, I'm sorry, the social media post that surfaced regarding David Crawley, whether we're talking about the use of money by Mandela Barnes and his political action committee, money that barely is reaching

the people that supposedly we were hoping to see help by this political action committee.

There are certain things, and we still have a few days left.

This is not over.

The leakage of information, the gotcha moments, it's not over.

It's not over, it's not over.

So we will talk about that.

So let me take my first break of the morning.

Y'all.

Thank you for being here.

You listened to Michelle Bryant, WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM.

Jay, I'm ready to go to break.

Let's get it.

I'll be right back, family.

We get Hang on one second.

I got my screen change.

All right.

Well Welcome back everybody.

I mean, why y'all keep playing with my light man?

Who's

what's going on?

So we're about to find out

No, say yeah Clark Clark Come

on.

Good.

No,

I

think I think you have to be reset from the storm yesterday

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That's

why

I'm

doing that.

So they gotta be reset.

Oh,

yeah.

All right.

Well, we're gonna try to make it work.

Um, because yeah, when I open my curtains, it just, it's so bright.

It doesn't, it doesn't look

good.

So I'll leave it.

Uh, Mr. Right

out.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, somebody takes me

And I just want folks to know my phone service been so janky since I've been on the island.

It's been crazy this time.

I don't know what's going on, but somebody texted me.

They wanted to know what time was the um debate happening tomorrow.

I'm sorry tonight on channel 12.

So it starts at 7 p.m.

It's supposed to run from 7 to 8 and again it's on channel 12.

I'm not sure if they have a streaming where, oh, yep, it will live stream.

WISN.com is free.

So you'll be able to see it if you need to look at it that way as well.

And again, Jiren Jordan and Matt Smith will be moderating.

So that is at seven o'clock tonight for the folks who wanted to know what time was the debate.

Now, I said before I went to the break that I wanted to take a second to talk about

You know, two of the, it really has been to read, because I think something else like dropped on Francesca Hong, I got to go back and look.

But one of the things a number of people saw and reached out was like, hey, what's up with Mandela and this whole situation with this PAC political action committee that he has?

If you read the story in the journal Sentinel, they took a look at the actual giving habits or patterns of the political action committee.

And this was something that was started in 2022 after his failed run for the US Senate.

And it was, I think the package called something like the long run.

And it was intended to help minority candidates, LGBTQ candidates,

working class folks who, you know, it's hard to raise money to run for these political offices.

So that was the intent.

That was what it was supposed to do.

And somebody went back and looked in these finance reports, all the stuff is available for people to review.

And they found that less than 15% of the money.

And I think we're talking about somewhere in the ballpark of about a million, two, a million, 300,000, something like that.

Less than 15% of that actually went to the campaign contributions of candidates.

Okay Less than 15% So it outlines that the organization spent the bulk of their money on salaries Mandela's current campaign manager

Darby, not sure what Darby's last name is, but like they cite that he was making like $102,000.

He had also been a part of previous political endeavors with Mandela.

And it's not uncommon for people to bring over campaign staff if they lose a race and they start a political action committee because they try to make sure you got somewhere to land because had they won, you would have most likely been a chief of staff.

been on their campaign, I mean, been in their official office structure.

So it's a lot of jockeying that's done to help people who have helped you, basically.

And, you know, so then they mentioned the other people, Corey Kozlowski.

He was somebody that actually used to be Lena's chief of staff.

Back in the day, he was on Mandela's US Senate race.

So, you know, a comms person.

So there have been these people that have benefited, you know, and then whatever they did towards fundraising to be able to operate the PAC.

But the sad thing, the sad thing, just in addition to the fact that people give money thinking, oh, Mandela and his group are going to use this to make sure candidates of color

get access to some additional resources.

And when you, you know, the truth is told, you only got a few dollars going that way.

Nothing substantive, just a few dollars going that way.

The thing though, that when I read the story that made me smile was in typical Mandela fashion, it wasn't to try to say, yeah, we need to do better.

Because this organization been around since 2022.

So we're going into the fourth year.

We need to do better.

We've set a benchmark goal of getting 40% of that money out to candidates, ideally.

Instead of having a proactive, responsible response, Mandela said, yeah, I'm doing that, but so is everybody else.

In fact, I'm probably doing a little bit better than everybody else.

just because everybody else's raggedy does not mean I say, yeah, I'm doing it because everybody else raggedy.

So we are raggedy together.

And what do I mean by that?

Sarah got loose key has a women's pack.

And in the article, they indicate that Sarah got loose key in her pack.

I think they said she was given.

Let me see if I can find it real quick.

Hang on, because there's all the numbers about who got paid.

Sarah got Lusky.

Oh, here it is.

So she gave 13.3% of the money she had raised in her women win Wisconsin pack.

Okay.

And it went to, you know, those candidates, Congresswoman Gwen Moore of her pack.

less than 10% of her money goes to support candidates, 9.3%.

I don't know.

Oh yeah.

And then they even looked at someone in Michigan and what she was doing, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 7.6% of her money, fight like hail pack actually went to candidates.

And so number one,

That was one of the things that, you know, I was just like, it's, it's typical, it's typical man.

Leadership.

I keep looking for examples of leadership.

Don't tell me everybody else is raggedy.

And so my raggedy shouldn't seem that bad.

Cause that, that's, that's the equivalent of what was being said.

Gwen raggedy, cause she only given 9%.

Uh, Sarah raggedy cause she only give it 13% and I'm just using these terms to make a point.

Uh, don't let it show up in a commercial, but that's the, that's the idea.

That's the concept.

You know, y'all know that Congress, one more.

for her less than 10% you know that you know uh uh secretary of uh what is Sarah Godlowski the treasure uh but you know that Sarah Godlowski uh for her 13% so why are we talking about me leadership says leadership says you know what um we're aware uh we have a lot of initial startup costs we have all these things going on but we have a goal

And even if you didn't have it before, now that somebody done publicly out at you about how little money actually goes to the candidate, we're instituting a goal of reducing overhead so that 40% of this money at least can get into the hands of candidates.

That's leadership.

Not, I'm doing it, but so is everybody else.

That's not leadership.

That's not what you say when somebody tell you that folks have been giving you money and 85% of the money is not going to the folks it was intended to help.

I gotta take a break.

This is not hard, y'all.

Y'all make it harder than it has to be.

Let me go to break.

Michelle Barnes of the NOV, 860 AM on a 6.5 FM.

I'll be right back.

So you gotta unmute your mic So you gotta unmute your mic you gotta unmute your mic, sir

Oh So y'all to hear me threaten y'all about my

life I

saw your hand moving like smoke So we're good good the Lord the Lord

Because I was here talking to my son because he walking all around in his pajamas getting bananas, you know, just just being a minister society So first the grandson come down and my son come down see the apple fall far from the tree but So back to this whole piece on Mandela real quick was talking about that before I went to the break that the story comes out, you know about the political action committee and

there is questions about, you know, how this money has been spent.

And so as I open up talking about the fact that number one, the lack of leadership and acknowledging that the intended purpose of the PAC is not being served well, when you can only give 15% of your money,

because you paying $102,000 to your boys, you know, a hundred and some thousand here and the consultants getting 60, 70,000.

Like that's the thing that irritates people.

That's the thing that absolutely irritates people is that you spend that kind of money folks donating.

That would be like me talking about the stuff that I do.

And then when, you know, the truth got told, I only gave 15%.

of the $50 that somebody gave me to help a child or to help, you know, help somebody.

It's just madness to me.

But then there's another side, and I see we got a call, a call, I'll be right there, but there's another aspect to the story, the Milwaukee Courier newspaper and for transparency, the courier and the radio station, WNOV, you know, we, we, we,

the same entities in terms of family, connection, separate business, but, you know, it's not like we're not related, we're related.

The courier does a deeper dive than even what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did.

The courier starts to talk about potential campaign law violations.

And now,

you know the questions get even deeper because an attorney representing someone out of Madison is now involved and it's an attorney that has a whole bunch of experience with election law and it's an attorney that even though Mandela Barnes's campaign is saying we feel confident that we didn't do anything wrong and we're going to be good uh i'm looking at some of the stuff that the uh

attorney is alleging and I'm like, hey, hey.

You might wanna, whoever you pay $102,000 to, you might wanna make sure all this is zipped up and neatly wound so that you don't have legal problems.

Because one of the things that the attorney is questioning is a poll that Mandela's campaign paid for back in October.

of 2025 spent $62,000 trying to figure out I'm assuming whether or not he should get in the race and run for governor and there are some guidelines about when you can start spending money when you need to register you know with the Wisconsin Election Commission some of those steps may have been missed or maybe there's been some misunderstanding about when and what you could do.

So other questions get raised.

I'm looking for this other one.

When they start making disbursements, state law says that every PAC that makes or accepts contributions makes disbursements or incurs obligation in excess of 2,500 must register with the state no later than the 10th business day commencing after the receipt of the first contribution and before making any disbursements and before incurring obligations.

I'm just saying.

I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying.

They got to hear that the PAC contributed $50,000 to Barnes's campaign.

The attorney's arguing, the polling expenses contribution wasn't kind.

The person that works for Mandela says, no, it wasn't in kind.

In kind is a contribution.

If it's determined, if it's determined to be an in-kind contribution, that's like getting money.

But in lieu of money, you get a service, you get a good, you get something that you can use for your campaign.

So we will see where all of this goes, but yeah.

Now, the folks at the courier are reporting, the Journal of Sentinel just touched one aspect of this.

We gotta talk about what state law also says about

the way the pack has been operating leading up to this point.

Is my caller still on hold?

Yes, ma'am.

Let's grab him.

Hey, caller, what's happening?

Hello?

Hey, sister, Debra, no V, wait a minute, my kiss is in the high.

You don't know, Ray, how you doing this morning, bro?

Hey,

man, I'm just shitting, you know what I'm saying?

Me, I just came from the 270 Union Center.

It was beautiful, exquisite, with no fight, with no kill.

Hey, I think this will really increase the peace.

I think God is really poor to work for the brothers and sisters because one day we all go come together.

We're going to be free one day from all that destruction, self-destruction.

Hey,

brothers and

sisters, we're going to work it out.

Brothers and sisters, we're going to work it out!

I'm telling you, it's going to come inside when brothers are going to respect their sisters, sisters are going to respect their man, and the kids are going to respect the best, and this is going to be a beautiful world to live in, and it's ready, Marcus, and I'll have it.

I appreciate you, Ray.

I'm waiting on the beautiful world.

Bring it on, bro.

Bring it on.

In the meantime.

dealing with the fuses that we have going on in the meantime.

Let me just say this, hang on one second, stop.

Okay.

And I'm sorry, I was looking for something, but let me hit the, I mean, the David Crawley piece.

So a lot of folks also paying attention

to, you know, a story that comes out that says David Crawley linked to a, I think it was like 14 year old social media page in which some unsavory things were said.

Okay.

I got touch screens.

I'm trying not to use my touchscreen while I'm on the air.

But

controversial comments and oh 16 years old if I'm not mistaken now.

So some of the things that were on the air personal, you know, a little graphic, questionable and I don't have everything in front of me.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a break real quick and I am going to pull that up so I can

Kind of say some of the stuff that was said some of it I just don't think is necessary because if people want to talk about their personal life I mean, that's your business and what was said was not Outrageous But the things that folks took offense at let me let me go pull those real quick.

So let me go to break.

She'll run WNOV a 60 a.m.

One of 6.5 FM.

I'll be right back y'all

All right, family, welcome back to the show.

Clark, go in and correct, uh, the census suffrage.

It should be, um, S-U-F-F-R-H-E.

Stuffage.

Stuffage.

Stuffafage.

I just noticed it when I looked down.

I was like, oh yeah.

Stop.

We want to catch that.

We want to make sure we catch that.

I had to look at it like, did I spell that wrong?

So yeah, so I just wanted to flag that for you, Clark.

So before I went to break and welcome back, you listened to Michelle Brown here at WNOV A68, you're 106.5 FM from Martha's Vineyard.

Hey, vacation happening.

Yes, Lord.

I wanted to follow up on what I was saying before I went to the break, because there are these things they're called October surprises and politics.

This is not anything unusual.

Folks will begin.

They will have had teams doing some opposition work on candidates to try to figure out if there's a gotcha moment, a zinger, something controversial they can say to weaken.

their opponents.

So we know that somebody did a story on Mandela Barnes, his political action committee, which I just want to be clear.

And everybody that they listed, you know, I'm just appalled that more money is not reaching the people that folks are actually donating the money to help.

I just, that's just, it just irks my soul.

But anyway, so David Crawley.

You know, I think his was the first to break before the Mandela situation.

They talked about a social media account.

That we now know.

It's said to have belonged to like 12 people that might have been registered under one person's name, but 12 people had access to post on this account.

It was supposedly going to be used to help promote parties and events.

A lot of young cats back in the day were event promoters.

And so this is what this was supposed to be.

One of the things though that whoever did the research on the site, they said, yeah, we never saw a single posting about an event.

So that's one.

The way some of the stuff was characterized is that some of the stuff was racist, sexist or homophobic.

So I went to go pull the story that I saw.

And I looked at some of the comments that they highlighted.

And this was actually first reported on NBC News.

It's like actually reported nationally, which was like, whoa.

But one point, one post, and this was on a Twitter account, okay, under the name Dirk McGurk.

And so one post, it's DC, AKA David, better known, BKA, better known as dirty or black.

ASS dude.

Um, and it posted in 2010 and it said hashtag confession.

I've never, uh, a term for sex, uh, a white woman is that bad?

So I'm like, say, say what?

Uh, so I was trying to make sure that all of that was one post.

the way it was written and they're saying that it was uh so or you know it implies that it was so I was like okay the other posts that they list are not anything that you can directly attribute to David Crawley um it'll just say you know one post said I need all the sexy ladies to DM me and um

Something else that says something was nasty.

Something else talked about having sex with somebody.

I wouldn't do it.

There was a reference actually to the police.

Someone said, I don't even call the police pigs.

I call them cow.

It's a beef thing.

And so you can't specifically say, yes, those were David Crawley's posts.

Again, considering that they say 10 to 12 people had access to this account.

One of the guys we know Ray nitty out here in the community He must have been one of the cats that also had access to the cow and you know David Crawley says hey, I would never say these things That you know don't have any name assigned to him It's not anybody knows me.

It's not what I do Ray nitty, you know is interviewed for one of these stories and he says this is not Something that

I do.

So, someone though said, which, you know, we young, God knows, well, I say this, but I'm meaning kind of tongue in cheek.

Everything I did when I was in my 20s, you know, like, man, if I had to stand up for that today, most of it I could stand up to.

You know, I can't I can't imagine like I definitely never broken a law other than like traffic tickets.

But I could stand up, you know, I could stand on my own.

And I know one thing that I've always been conscientious of is I try not to put myself in situations where I got to explain some stuff like this.

So one of the things I saw posted on social media, well, OK, if you didn't, you know, you didn't condone it.

Why was you connected to it?

Peer pressure is something else Not wanting to call your boys out Yeah, I know what I said in it, so I'm cool Somebody told me they said, you know Michelle I remember one of the first things you said to me is go back and scrub your social media account Go look to see if there's anything that can be connected to you out here

that you may have said that was on toward, that was jacked up, that was racist, sexist or homophobic, you know, because we've evolved over the years.

The way I thought about something when I was 20, it's not the same way I saw that 40.

It's not the same way I see it at 60.

You're supposed to do that.

You're supposed to grow.

There's supposed to be a period of immaturity.

The one thing that overwhelmingly came through in the David Crawley situation is

There were people already like kind of like standing out on limb like that's not who this dude is but And I'm trying to go back and remember what his comments were to like, you know, like I take responsibility for whatever I said I'm not the same, you know cat that was back then Because again, I'm always still looking for the leadership

in the way these things are discussed.

Mistakes are going to happen.

You're going to say bad things.

You're going to wish you could take back things that you did.

That's life.

None of us can say that we've gone completely through life and never had to apologize, never had to sit back and be like, I mean, I could have did that so much better or I could have did that differently or flat out.

I was wrong for that because I've had to call people back and say, you know what?

I've had time to kind of play that over in my mind.

And it might be five years later, but I was wrong for that.

I was wrong about the way I saw it.

I was wrong about the way I approached it.

And I was wrong about the way I got at you about it.

We do that.

This comes with growth and maturity.

So the DC situation, when you looked at it on social media, people didn't care.

The majority overwhelmingly, the majority of comments, it did not move people.

Nobody saw like the racism.

Even if DC did say I never saw the white girl.

That's not racist.

That's not racist to say that.

So I kept looking for the racism because that was real interesting to me.

I didn't see the racism.

But here is a lesson for everybody that's running for office.

Now some people already got, you know,

Screenshots of the stuff you all said and did and so even if you try to screw up your page, they gon' find it.

You know, they got it.

It's been locked and loaded and waiting to shoot you down the road.

People just save stuff for when they need it.

Politics is dirty.

I say that, I will say that over and over again.

It's not the arena to play in.

you can't stand on whatever you've done, explain whatever you've done, or be able to convince people, I did that, but I'm not that same person anymore.

If you can do that, this is not the arena.

It's not the arena to play in.

So I just wanted to acknowledge that.

And as I said before I went to break, there was something on Francesca Hong, but I can't remember it right now.

But I'll find it.

I'll look forward to the break because I could have swore I saw something that has come out since I've been here that they might have said regarding Francesca Hong.

For some reason, Kelly Roy's not getting these looks.

Joe Brennan.

Not really getting these looks.

I don't know if it's because, you know, Joe Brennan is a choir boy or his polling numbers are so low that people have decided this dude is not really a factor and we not paying attention.

So I don't know.

I don't know, but we'll see.

But let me do this.

While I am here in Martha's Vineyard, this is what is known as HBCU Weekend.

Okay.

No, wait, before I do that, before I do that.

Let me back up for a second.

I read the story in the Journal Sentinel about the 99-year-old woman, Milwaukee Southside, who called the police after she was attacked in her home.

Wait, I'm saying it wrong.

Let me say it correctly.

So a 99-year-old woman was attacked in her home.

Let me pull a story up.

That's even better.

Hang on.

Let me find it real quick.

Okay.

99 year old woman is attacked in her home and her medical alert bracelet is activated and they call the police on her behalf.

Hang on.

Where'd the story go?