S*#t You Need To Know: Political Ads And Stolen Signs

It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.

Time for some sh** you need to know.

Well, we'll start with this.

The Dane County Board of Supervisors this month voted to purchase about 165 acres of land for $6.4 million with the intention of donating it to the Ho-Chunk Nation.

The property near the Yihara River just southeast of Madison includes archaeological sites, culturally significant to the tribe.

The property also includes ecological resources in its mud lake basin that county officials want to protect so they're planning to place a conservation easement

on the site to protect it from development.

The site includes six recorded archaeological sites and 22 ancient burial mound groupings.

It includes the third largest remaining mound group in the country.

Wisconsin once had tens of thousands of these ancient indigenous burial mounds, but they were destroyed by development the past 200 years.

The Ho-Chunk Nation has been at the forefront in protecting remaining mounds in the state.

That's fascinating that Wisconsin led the nation in

that.

Absolutely.

We have so much history here.

I think it's really cool, especially when you start dealing with the Ho-Chunk Nation around the state.

It is really, it's cool.

It's very cool.

In other stories that you need to know this morning, an independent candidate for governor is now filming himself going to Milwaukee neighborhoods and stealing campaign yard signs for Francesca Hong and Ryan Clancy, which is a violation of state law.

Probably not

good to

record it Carlos Lamar Dixon posted a video on Facebook on May 27th showing himself taking a yard out of the yard sign taking Taking yard signs out of the ground.

I'll get the words out this morning

and then loading

them into his car He filmed a similar video on May 28th.

He's now criticizing a Democratic Socialist candidates based on the Democratic Socialists of America's original ties to Zionism which the DSA has since

state law says that no person can deface, destroy, or remove any legally placed election campaign advertising poster with penalties up to $100 fine.

Now local police say that the action can fall under theft and damage to property, which can bring the fines, can bring higher fines or jail time.

No, here's the thing.

Don't do this first and foremost because it's illegal, but then don't be

stupid enough to record yourself doing it and put it on social media.

Well, that's why he's an independent candidate for Governor Francesca Hong's response was funny though.

She just said, I don't care that you steal them, they're just so expensive.

So now she's got to replace them and they cost a lot of money.

They do.

All right, leaving Wisconsin for a moment.

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled for a black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him by a five, four vote.

The justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was sentenced to death for his role in the killing of a grocery store owner.

In this case, whether due to confusion, oversight and overly hurried jury selection process or some other cause, things broke down.

That was Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

writing for the court.

Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's three liberal justices joined with Kavanaugh in this.

There were 11 white jurors and one black juror in a trial with similarities to that of another black man on Mississippi's death row, whose conviction the High Court overturned seven years ago.

See, another reason you can't have AI, we talked about this yesterday, AI juries.

I don't want AI juries, but they'd be colorblind.

No, all they see is machine.

I don't know what color that is, but I don't want that.

I

don't want that.

And finally, in stuff you need to know, Claude

Lemieux.

I put this in for Frank, by the

way.

Okay, all right.

I think he just joined back in here to the stream.

But Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion, who's ferocious, hard-hitting style of play, angered opponents, and sometimes overshadowed his skills and ability to deliver in the biggest games, has actually died after taking his own life.

According to authorities, he was 60 years old.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said yesterday,

that deputies responded just after 3 a.m.

to the scene of an apparent suicide at a furniture store showroom in Lake Park, Florida.

The sheriff's office said that the victim was believed to be Lemieux.

Just three days ago, he was the Montreal Canadian's torch bearer prior to game three of the Eastern Conference final at Bell Center.

And as a player, he was a mix of talent.

He was a little abrasive and he wasn't afraid to cross the line in the name of competition.

He actually won the cons.

Smith, is it Smith?

Okay, thank you.

Trophy as playoff MVP, I'll defer to the actual sports people after scoring 13 goals in 20 games for the New Jersey Devils to help them win their first championship in 1995.

Comments, Frank?

Yeah, real quick.

A couple of things.

One, I was watching the game live where he

was the torch bearer for the Canadians game.

So I just saw him on my TV days ago and then I saw this news pop up yesterday.

I was beyond shocked like everybody else.

One real quick thing also about him, if you like hockey, if you are starting to get into hockey,

and you want to go look at like real fun stuff like ferocious fights and whatnot.

Look up Claude Lemieux, Avalanche vs. Red Wings in the 1990s.

You know, during COVID, I watched like old games that were on YouTube that I didn't watch because I was too young.

Sure.

It's a blast.

Go have fun.

He was a great player.

He was, you know what?

Mostly painted as a villain on the ice.

Sure.

Which is kind of what we need.

Like in sports, it makes the story more fun.

He was one of those lovable villains.

You'd love to have him on your team, one of those guys you hated to play against, but apparently just the nicest guy in the world.

So just all around really sad.

You're talking about

villains in sports, and we, you know, we're up in arms over a crotch chop by Uribe on the Brewers.

But you know, hey, whatever.

I see him by the crotch chop.

I love it.

Whatever.

Chop that crotch, brother.

I'm all in.

All right.

Well, it's time now for the big story.

And if you've got a TV, you know, this ad spending has started in the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor and it is.

Outside groups.

Jamie, your favorite thing.

Outside groups and money in politics.

That's right.

You know, I love to talk about this.

But I find this fascinating because these outside groups are really in full force already.

If you've been paying attention or you've watched any of your favorite shows.

And they're all right now packs that are not anti-Tom Tiffany.

They are all packs that are basically putting in a good word for the democratic

pool of candidates.

That's essentially what these PACs are right now, but they're coming from all over to support our local candidates, which is, you know, hey, that's is where the B in my bonnet comes from.

Yeah, Wisconsin Forward Fund is one of the groups they're backing.

Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, Wisconsin Future Rising is backing David Crowley.

Both have started with six figure television ad buys in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay.

according to this story, neither group is really big.

They're not

really prominent groups.

But if they're spending six figures, that's a nice chunk of change.

And it can get it can raise somebody's profile

who

may be, you know, Sarah Rodriguez, no disrespect.

She's not pulling very well.

She kind of shot herself

in the

foot and she's she's falling off.

David Crowley.

Good guy.

He's he's also not one of

the projected front runners at this point.

So if all of a sudden if your campaign doesn't have to spend six figures.

to bolster

yourself.

Absolutely.

What I think is weird about these particular groups though, if you happen to see these commercials on your TV and I'm going to assume there's probably some digital pre-roll ads as well that are probably gonna roll out at some point because that's the world we live in.

Most of these groups that are backing some of these candidates right now are

actually registered with the state's tracking system

of

political action groups.

And the two groups you mentioned in particular backing Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez and County Executive Crawley, neither one of them actually have really great social media presence either.

In fact, what they do have was just recently launched.

So obviously they're trying to make sure that people can go check them out as well if they happen to see these ads, I guess.

That's when it starts getting a little weird for me.

Like if you're not really that established and you have to go out and establish yourself before you start running these ads, I don't know, it always leaves me with kind of a weird feeling when

I start seeing.

Who the people are behind it?

Yes, yes.

And where this money came from and yes, is it tied at?

at all to the candidates or their campaigns because we know the Democratic Party in Wisconsin is not going to spend any money till there is a winner in the primary.

And then they've got, they've got the most money.

So they'll start pumping it in once there's, there's a candidate.

But right now we don't know.

And the other thing is we saw in the polls, most voters

are

undecided for the Democrats right now.

They have no idea.

So you wonder who is

who is behind this money that's pushing to get two of the not lesser known

but underperforming at this point candidates this money to try to raise their profile.

And this is why these PACs are always interesting to me and why I wished we didn't have them because these outside groups can spend money basically on any candidate without being subject to the same sort of disclosure laws as the campaigns themselves.

So that means that you're getting potentially a powerful money boost while the small

or donors to campaigns might just be trickling in, and those are actually capped by state law.

And let's also be clear that it's also wealthier individuals who throw their weight behind a given candidate and then put them into these packs so that they can't be directly tied to the candidate.

Well, and it's also a way for the candidates then to disavow any knowledge.

And we've heard it, we've heard it million times, we've talked about it a bunch.

How do I know where the money's coming from?

It's from a pack.

I don't know who is So there's a lot of shady things happening when it comes to money in politics

there is

and it's good at 730 I just 735 we're gonna talk about strategy in general yeah from the Republican standpoint because you if you were with us yesterday and if not you can always go to Spotify and listen to the podcast of the show we talked about Tom Tiffany's latest ads

And so we're going to talk to a former Republican strategist to give us kind of the strategy, but the money part is

is different, and that's always very

shiny.

Tom Tiffany is the candidate for the Republicans endorsed by

the state

party just a couple of weeks ago, so he's already been able to raise more money without any sort of competitive primary opponent, and he actually has already started running ads.

He's been doing that since April.

He started it in

April.

Here's the thing that always bothers me about these ads too, especially in a state like Wisconsin.

How much of the advertising actually works?

Because voters are

We are so overwhelmed with elections in this state.

It feels like it's always election season.

And campaign officials will tell you that it's necessary, you've got to advertise, and I've worked on campaigns, so I understand that.

You need the name recognition, but as voters, do we actually really care?

Not as we know who we're gonna vote for if we're undecided.

Have you ever seen one of those

commercials, though, embed like, ooh, that's definitely changed my mind now.

No.

It hasn't changed my mind.

But it hasn't changed my mind, but it will give me name awareness.

Sure.

So if I'm, oh, I hadn't heard of that candidate, that's intriguing.

Then I would go and research that candidate.

So I get it, especially if you're, and those will drop off the more the closer we get to November, you drop off and after the primary, all these other ones.

It's just so exhausting

in this state.

It is exhausting.

And I hate, I hate seeing them because

I know, like a lot of people, I know who I'm voting for.

I don't need to be inundated.

At the end of the day,

pick your primary candidate and then support whoever wins, even if it's not your candidate.

That's the moral of the story.

Yeah, because I want to watch the wheel

uninterrupted.

And get money out of politics.