Election Day Special

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Welcome to the program.

Looks like you've made it to yet another election day.

Today is Tuesday, August 11, 2026, and we are going to unpack all the events transpiring in all 72 counties in the state of Wisconsin, where I believe the eyes of the nation are keeping a focus on the results of our.

midterm gubernatorial primary election.

This has been a most unusual set of contests with people in the race and getting out of the race and back in the race and some unusual suspects making last minute endorsements and the influx of money and outside spending has just created an absolute frenzy to try and catch the person who has been the leading.

Candidate Francesca Hong.

So we're going to give you the details.

And of course, if you need information on how to vote and where to vote, we can provide that to you as well.

But we have been talking about this selection so much and so frequently.

I am just ready to get this contest over with so we can see where all the pieces have scattered once the votes are counted and we can start looking toward November.

Now.

Depending upon how today goes and not just who comes out on top But how well they did in specific areas were there any surprises?

Did one candidate do better or worse in areas in which they should have over or underperformed all of that is going to be necessary and Also, what is voter turnout going to be?

I'm curious because you know

We have inquisitive temperaments around here.

And I propose the question on my Facebook page asking folks what they thought that the voter turnout would be for this election.

Of course, people are chiming in because oh, there's so much excitement and oh, it's going to be very, very high.

No, it's not.

No, it isn't insiders, partisans.

Maybe younger voters who are voting for the first time that are very much moved by Francesca Hong, who if I'm not mistaken is the youngest candidate on the ballot.

You have to think of just that as its own singularity.

She's the youngest candidate on the ballot and can speak better to the youth that we want to engage in political contests.

There has been a decidedly

Agest ageism sentiment in our politics fair enough.

We don't like the old people We don't like the boomers.

All right, so if you have a younger candidate they can speak I believe with more credibility to a younger cohort of voters, but with all of that said The voter participation

In this election, it's reflective of one thing and one thing only.

I know a lot of people are thinking that because there's been so much talk and really some controversy.

There's been a lot of tweets.

There's been a lot of tweeting.

The tweet election.

Dirt McGirtz, he started it.

Then Franny Pan, she's got some tweets too.

She doesn't like the Thanksgiving.

Then she liked it.

With a lot of tweeting going on and because there's just been so much talk about it But also I think us here including you all that listened to us here on one on one seven this week And thank you so very much for choosing to spend at least a part of your day with us We have been overexposed to all of this because this is all we've been talking about.

I want to talk about other stuff I want to talk about relationships.

I want to talk about love.

I want to talk about all the passionate things, but no

You got to make sure when talk about this damn election.

Voter turnout is going to be low.

Now I don't have a lot of information just yet, but a couple of few people that have voted already have sent me a, what voter number they were.

These are from the South side.

So near South side wards are averaging.

Are you ready?

Are you ready for this?

I need you to be seated.

I want you to sit down.

In fact, you know what?

Let me grab my coffee.

Averaging five.

Voters per hour.

It's early, but you have three waves of voters.

The morning time before the work voter, if you work at the nine o'clock, maybe you leave a little bit early and you go and you cast your vote.

There's not going to be a line.

I can assure you that I don't care where you voting that you're going to get in quick.

So the first is the early morning voters.

I'm sometimes an early morning voter.

I got up pretty early this morning.

I'm like, you know what?

I just make my little coffee get your shot.

Just go vote real quick at seven o'clock It can wait Then you have the lunchtime voters people that Use their lunch break you also can get I think Wisconsin employers have to allow you an hour or two hours to go and vote So that's the next wave of voters Then you start to get a better picture of what turnout is going to be and then of course there is the largest cohort

cohort and contingent of voters that vote after work.

So starting after five PM until the polls close.

And I'm mandated to say this next part, even though in this election it's not going to apply.

If you're in line at eight o'clock, they have to let you vote.

It's not going to be a line at eight o'clock.

Primary election turnout and how low it is.

There's I got some lists right here.

There's only five states.

So, so far this year, and we're kind of late with our primary in the Wisconsin, 32 states have had midterm election primaries so far, with the last of them being last month.

No, I think that Michigan was last week, right?

So, we'd be the 33rd state to have a primary election in this midterm that we are in currently.

Only five states have exceeded 30%.

So for you folks saying, oh, it's going to be really, really high, it's going to be less than 35%, probably going to be less than 30%, I'm thinking somewhere around 27%.

But primary election voter turn on is based on essentially one thing, how smart your voters are, how engaged, and how much they understand the issues.

So Wisconsin with 30% or lower primary election voter turnout means that this is probably using some a little bit of an estimate here.

But the more highly engaged and intelligent the voter is, the higher the primary voter turnout.

Really super engaged voters are going to vote in a higher number in a primary.

We don't have that here.

We don't.

Oh, look how we're starting the show today.

This will be great.

Hello, Alan.

How are you?

I just voted.

Guess what?

I was number five over here on 21 and 22 by Haven was we got a vote at now, you know So I was number five and then

when I

was coming out a couple other people walking in

wait, but you're number five at nine o'clock

Yeah, it's unreal and nobody's there.

It's crazy So I'll just give you an update and then later on I'll tell you when I go get pie

She's given us it's poor and all, you know, that's why I went early.

I just told her one of us has to vote at the very least.

And if we get that storm, she's not going to want to get out of the car and get all wet, you know.

So I voted, you know, I did.

Everybody's going home.

He's going to nail it, I think.

I like to see her on the ballot yesterday.

They came back.

I got my sign for Tom Tiffany.

They came and delivered it themselves.

It was pretty nice for them.

Did you vote for Republican

primary?

You don't really have

many

choices.

No, it's open.

I didn't have to, which I'll say.

I brought it for one person, Democrat Hong.

All

right.

I want her in the bed.

That's the strategy.

That's what they do to us.

And we're finally using strategy here to conservatives.

I don't understand why they gave it to her, man.

You can't walk that stuff back.

I remember if the Brown do Brown do a Walmart, I gotta go up there and try to find a sugar free coffee creamer for my wife.

All right, that's the that's the update up there in the north side.

Nobody's voted yet, man.

All right, thank you for your call.

Yep.

Thank God bless you, buddy.

Later.

All

right then, Alan.

So the information I got earlier was five people were voting per hour He was at Haven Woods and five people have voted so this is probably gonna be par for the course another thing that we have to consider is a lot of people voted early They voted by mail and the Democrats the Wisconsin Democratic Party tried to sue to allow people to spoil their ballots because if you voted for any Number of candidates that have soon have recently dropped out of the race soon dropped out after you voted I should say

then people should get a do over because if you actually go to a polling location, if you make a mistake on your ballot, they will actually give you another one, let's you vote again.

But a court rule that those votes that had already been cast cannot be spoiled.

And if you voted already by mail, you will not get another chance to change your ballot.

I want you to be mindful of that fact because that part that a lot of us are probably forgotten about because it was a big enough deal for the Democrats to want to sue.

to allow people to spoil their balance.

Think about where David Crowley was.

Think about where Joe Brennan.

Well, Joe Brennan has just been him.

Him and 2% has been in love.

Joe Brennan is like milk.

2% Keldor Royce.

Number two pencil.

You got to have a number two pencil for the scantron.

So Keldor Royce is a scantron and Joe Brennan is milk.

They had been stuck at 2%.

Then you had Sarah Rodriguez, then you had Mandela Barnes, okay So if David Crowley was that he was in single digits back then when those male Ballots went out so I wouldn't expect David Crowley to have overperformed Whatever he was polling at when people sent in their mail-in ballots So a disproportionate number of those mail-in ballots might even go to candidates that are no longer in the race

That's going to play a factor.

I'm thinking the turn out's going to be somewhere around 27%.

This is just my approximation in my math.

In order for David Crowley to be successful, that turnout would have to be closer to 39 or 40%.

The lower the turnout is, the more it favors Francesca because where she's from, Madison will probably have 40% turnout for some reason.

We here in the city of Milwaukee cannot exceed the voter turnout percentages that Madison does so even if it's low everywhere else it will be highest where she is from JD I'm gonna take a break.

I'm gonna come back and talk to you So we're gonna talk to JD on the other side and we're going to be speaking with candidate for lieutenant governor

Sarah Godlowski, she's going to be calling in at 9 30.

You may remember her from a 2022 brief run for the US Senate.

She also served as Wisconsin Secretary of State, so she's going to call in and.

give her perspective as a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, but she has no primary.

She doesn't have anybody running against her, so she's just been traveling around the state just absorbing all of the madness because she didn't have to involve herself or engage in any attacks or any bickering, but she's just been chilling.

I want to give a shout out to my boy.

Gotta give a shout out when a shout out is due, you know what I'm saying?

I'm shouting out Yi Zhang, Yi Ling Zhang.

That's my boy.

I never met him.

The Asians is doing their thing in this election.

Shout out.

Shout out to Yi Ling Zhang.

Oh, you don't know who that is?

He's the candidate for Wisconsin State Treasurer.

Oh, you don't know what a Wisconsin State Treasurer is?

I don't matter.

Something, something, something money.

The money in the state and the money and something, money, money.

Something something whatever.

This is an Asian fellow.

He single-handedly Has supported and spent more money Supporting black media during this election cycle than all the other candidates combined shout out to my shot out to the Asian I Can't wait to go vote for him.

I'm actually excited to cast my vote for the Asian man me too His commercials been playing crazy

I love it.

He got good commercials, too.

If his like his style of ad, if that style of ad was running for any of these other candidates, I think that the campaigns would get a lot more attention.

They'd be a lot more exciting.

He make you feel like the treasurer is going to save the day.

Yeah, he came here escaping communism.

Oh, well, I'll be there.

He came here escaping communism.

Just so that we here in Wisconsin can nominate one I'm gonna take a break come back talk to JD on the other side You are listening to I suppose we'll call this an Election Day special here on the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.

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the line is the official poet laureate of 1017 the truth JD the poet

JD, how are you?

I'm well.

I was a voter number 10, a little after eight at Ward 170.

What location is that?

What geographic area is that in the city?

I'm in King Park, a little bit west of Marquette.

It's like on 18th or 19th and Juneau inside of an elderly building for the old

folks.

It was some AKAs in there running.

I went in there and said, Ski Wee, and told them that I came to vote.

Yeah, we made it happen.

That guy that you were talking about, Chee Lee, I voted for him.

I liked his ads, but

The state treasurer really don't do nothing.

But what he can do, people have unclaimed property.

And that's something that he mentions in his ads.

A lot of us have friends and family that have died that didn't have anyone close.

And we can get that or parents and sometimes their old money.

And that's one of his responsibilities.

And he does fiscal oversight.

So a lot of people don't know what the treasure does, but that's something that they are responsible for a lot of the.

actual financial responsibilities and the fiduciary responsibilities have been transferred to other departments.

But that's something that we need to know as civically minded people because we can't just be having people in office and not understand what they do.

Otherwise, we're lost in the sauce.

Voting is like paying your bills.

It's something you have to do.

And if you don't, you get lost in the sauce.

And that's what happens.

And that's why our communities are lacking.

And we say, why are the streets so bad in Milwaukee and not in Brookfield?

Because in Brookfield, they vote.

They know who their alderman is.

They be on his ass.

And they say, this needs to be fixed.

And the streets are very smooth in Brookfield.

And they still have trucks that roll over them.

They still have salt.

But it's not like in Milwaukee because they have a civic responsibility that they adhere to.

And until we do that in the city, we're going to continue to have the same problems that we continue to have.

And we're going to go through the same things in the same rigmarole.

And that's what I have for you today.

And I appreciate you, Sherwin.

And you have a great one.

Thank you.

You too, JD.

All right, then.

You probably won't hear Yee Ling Jing's name again after today.

Yee Ling Zhong.

You got to get it right.

Very Asian name.

It's got a lot of consonants and it's got a lot of X's and stuff in it.

I assure you The 99% of the people that are listening to me right now You don't have any unclaimed property.

No, you don't because you'd know nobody left you anything just saying

But no, that is the responsibility of the state treasurer.

And I guess they do provide some kind of fiscal oversight, even though the legislature controls the budget and all of the spending.

It's a great position.

Whatever.

I'm overemphasizing.

Yi Ling Jing, because he spent money here and advertised with us and promoted his campaign.

David Crowley didn't mostly because Kyle Wallace has just been mean to David Crowley.

Kyle just been.

Kyle just been ranting on and which that's fine.

I don't even know why I'm.

Even bringing that up, but Kyle has just been getting more angry and angry talking about David Crowley talking about David Crowley said being called establishment is a slur and it depends on who's saying I think some people can use it Innocently and there are some people that use it as a dog whistle because it's coated They're making it seem like the insiders in the Democratic Party or bad people or whatever

But whatever David said, oh, no, I take it as a slur.

I'm not an establishment person Gwen Moore even pushed back on the establishment moniker at a rally they had yesterday for Milwaukee County executive David Crowley at the Coop Ridge.

In fact, the Coop Ridge was the last candidate forum that I attended in person.

That was last fall.

And after I attended that.

I said to myself and I was a man of my word that I would not attend another candidate form because there was too many candidates in the race and they were not differentiating themselves from one another.

They weren't talking about how they had unique experiences and different perspectives.

You know what they were doing?

They were agreeing with one another on every single question.

It has been the stupidest campaign cycle I have ever seen.

I don't know.

what it is about these Democrats or you know what I what it really is it's these are the people that are willing to take the risk to run for higher public office governor in particular because you don't always get the best people the most qualified people the most intelligent people are the most innovative people

You get the people that first want to do it, that want to take the risk, that believe that they have the campaign strategy, that believe that they can raise the money, that believe that they have the grassroots support and believe that there is a section of voters for them.

That's a very, very narrow strip of human beings.

So what JD said, he said that the streets in Brookfield are smooth as glass because people vote.

That's not why.

If you compare the city of Milwaukee, which probably has, I don't know, we probably got 3000 miles worth of roads here.

The workforce that we would need to keep all of our streets perfectly paved and pothole free exceeds the number of people that even want to work for Milwaukee Public Works.

That's that's number one.

Number two in Brookfield, if you look at the value of properties in Brookfield, they're probably considerably higher.

The average home price in Brookfield.

Probably higher than in the city of Milwaukee.

And because the home values are higher, the assessed values are higher, they've got a larger dollar amount of property taxes they can use to pave their roads in which they have dramatically less of them.

There's less roads.

If you only got 37 miles worth of road, it's easy to make sure all the streets are paved and all the potholes are filled.

Voting is not oftentimes a direct change of your circumstance.

It sets a policy tone, or it can create an atmosphere where certain policies are much more likely to get the light of day than others, where certain constituencies are pedestalized versus others.

It does not change things right away.

And I think I have been guilty of spreading that misinformation, like, oh, if you want everything to change, then you go and vote.

I assure you, if you go and vote today, you're going to wake up tomorrow.

Some of you are going to be very disappointed.

But your life is still going to be, for the most part, the same.

And also, I would even say this.

If you look at where you are right now, whatever your circumstance is, like your financial circumstance, your job situation, I guess, look at your bank account like, how are you doing?

And just make an assessment.

So Trump is president.

He's been president for a little less than two years now.

He's not good.

Okay, we know that he's very bad.

Very bad.

He's got a lot of holes.

He's he's old and he poops on himself.

He's this whole is terrible.

He weren't a war very bad.

But is the sky falling?

You know what I mean?

We can make it more dramatic than it is.

I'm trying to make sure that people are grounded in reality here because some folks

We'll get so angry and upset emotional over the results of an election.

I'm just trying to tell folk don't worry There's gonna be another election coming up if you don't like what happened this time Don't worry get your life together and start organizing and start talking to people There'll be another election.

Well, you'll have another shot at it Take a break come back.

We are expecting to hear from candidate for lieutenant governor Sarah Godloose.

Is this her already?

Well, she's calling early

We can take her now.

Do you want some time when put the picture up Xavier?

Okay, tell her that All right,

tell

her we're gonna go a little quick break and we'll come back talk to her a couple few minutes candidate for lieutenant governor who has no primary so it's just her so when you go and vote for Yee-ling Jong You might as well go vote for Sarah Godlowski too because Yee-ling Jong has been supporting one-on-one seven the truth Kelda has it old 2% milk Joel has it

Franny pants hasn't David Crowley hasn't but Yee Ling Zhong that's our dude.

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On the line Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Sarah Godlowski.

Hey Sarah.

How are you

today?

Good morning, Sherwin, and happy election day.

I'm great.

It's finally here, you know?

Finally here.

Boy, oh boy, has this been an election cycle for the ages.

This is why I wanted to talk to you, Sarah, because you don't have a primary opponent.

So you've been able to essentially travel the state and talk to people that already know you very well because you've been Secretary of State of Wisconsin before.

What is your assessment of?

the situation that we are in right now with this very unusual and still very crowded Democratic primary for governor.

Yeah, no, Sherwin, it's a really good question.

And I think there's no doubt about it.

Wisconsin and this election has been a bit of a reality TV show, Sherwin.

And then today we get to find out who the winner of that show is going to be.

But.

My conversations across the state is that look I think regardless of who makes it out of this primary whether it is David Crowley or Francesca Hong or Kelda Roy's or Jill Brennan that any one of them would be better than Tom Tiffany who is running unopposed and the Republican gubernatorial primary I mean he's a guy sure when that when you look at it.

He's being funded by the

wealthiest Wisconsinites.

And what does he do with that power?

He gives them the largest tax breaks in the entire history of this country.

Because he's not working for us.

He's cutting our health care or food share.

And so if you think about what he has done and how that could transition to what he could do to Wisconsin, it's pretty scary.

Do you think that the Democrats in the state of Wisconsin are going through some kind of Ideological crisis because I come to find out something in this election cycle And maybe you heard this new buzzword as well that apparently I'm establishment There's a whole bunch of establishment people in the establishment is looked at as something negative and it's coming from from our own party Your assessment of that and where the ideology of the Democratic Party is in this midterm election

Yeah, I mean, I think that part of the never ending excitement, Sherwin, in this primary is because it's the people who are driving what is happening.

And that sometimes can be messy.

And so when folks talk about the establishment, my kind of response is, well, I'd like to know who that is.

because when you look at the candidates that are currently in this election, it's candidates that people have propped up, that people have voted for because that's how democracy works.

And as they are introducing themselves to people in our state, they get to figure out who they want to represent us.

And I'll tell you, Sherwin, I'm excited to figure out who the people are gonna vote for because they're gonna, at the end of the day, be my work spouse, as I like to say.

Um, and so, uh, yeah, like to me, um, this, this process has been exactly what people have, you know, has really been driving forward.

We are speaking to Sarah Godlowski.

She is a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

You do not have a primary.

So even though the polls have only been open for two and a half hours, I think it's fairly safe for me to congratulate you a little early and being

the

Democratic.

candidate elect for lieutenant governor.

Sarah, there's going to be a situation we're going to have to deal with and it's literally going to start tomorrow morning when we wake up.

I'm assuming we're going to know all the full election results.

How do Democrats come back together because there have been some interesting things said about the candidates and we know at the end of the day it's about beating Tom Tiffany.

Do you think it will be difficult to get

The Democrats to come back together and unite behind one candidate because people are they're pretty committed to their current candidates.

They're supporting How do we get everybody back together on the same page?

To me how we get everybody back on the same page and unite together is because the risk is too great for us not to and We have 84 days Sherwin between the primary ending and the general election on November 3rd

to talk to every Wisconsinite about the risk if we vote for a Tom Tiffany administration.

I mean, Tom Tiffany is the guy that called affordability a buzzword, Sherwin.

I mean, tell that to the family that I just recently talked to that their healthcare premium went from $700 a month for a family of four to $2,700 a month.

Like that's insane.

And Tom Tiffany and what he did in Washington is what caused that to happen.

You know, Tom Tiffany is the guy that has said, I want people to have affordable homes.

Well,

yet in Washington, he is the guy that refused and didn't cast a vote for a bipartisan bill that would stop Wall Street from buying homes, which is stopping from making home ownership affordable.

And so I think to me, when we look at the risks, it's really great.

And the other thing is, let's talk about Tom Tiffany, and when you're governor, you're responsible for certifying the election.

That's part of your role.

And this is a guy in 2020, as a member of Congress, refused to recognize that Joe Biden won the election and put his personal preference

above the will of the people.

I mean, he said he would have overturned the Wisconsin election.

That to me is horrifying to think about what Tom Tiffany would be doing if he was our next governor.

Sir, you've had this incredible luxury of not having a primary, so you can absolutely be the best surrogate.

for the Democrats all across the state have you enjoyed that luxury of not having to beat up another Democrat like you can just go into any county any county party meeting and just say hey we're the Democrats here's what we're going to do and here's how I'm going to work with the legislature etc etc so have you enjoyed that freedom

oh my gosh you know Sherwin I think some people are

like

What is with that Sarah?

I will tell you my happy place is on the campaign trail.

You know, I think it is a real honor to be able to come into people's businesses or homes or for them to share their stories with me.

Um, and so I, I absolutely love it.

And I, um, never take that.

time on the campaign trail for granted and so it's it's been fun not as I like to say sure when fighting in the family and just being able to actually talk about what we want to do for Wisconsinite it's like making life more affordable roaring costs and you know funding our public schools and so uh yeah it's it's been it's been it's been it's been great um but I can't wait to now roll up my sleeves and and get to work and really start

Talking to people about who Tom Tiffany truly is because I think when you look at his TV ads sure when he looks like he's this aw shucks Nice guy in a flannel, but we can't let that flannel fool us

Before I let you go, how do we begin to prepare Wisconsin voters for the absolute onslaught?

conservative Republican Donald Trump and maybe even Donald Trump himself all of the the visits and and the spending that they are going to absolutely bombard Wisconsin with it has been relatively timid so far but it's going to get so much worse how do we prepare Wisconsin voters for this negative onslaught that's going to start quite honestly probably tomorrow

Yeah, no, I think you're you're you're spot on I mean my parents would say well that spending by Donald Trump and his mega wealthy donors is exactly why I don't want to vote for Tom Tiffany because He's 100% of the time voted with Donald Trump and in his you know, he's a lap dog to that guy

And so they just turned the television off.

But I think what Wisconsinites need to be aware of is the stakes couldn't be any higher.

I mean, we are electing the chief executive office for the state of Wisconsin.

And as governor, one of the things that Tony Evers did as an example is when Donald Trump tried to take away millions of dollars for food share, which helps make sure families in our state can afford food.

Tony Evers immediately put food share money on people's food share card.

So when the Trump administration tried to take that back, they couldn't do that.

I mean, the chief executive officer of the state is basically a check and balance on the Trump administration.

So if you don't like what's happening with the Trump administration, if you're frustrated because you're seeing your prices increase because of Donald Trump, you need to vote for the Democrat running because they can be that check and balance.

And I would say bring what we all want, which is an affordable cost of life where we can raise our families and not worried about bills that are keeping us up at night.

Sarah Godlowski, candidate, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Thank you so much for your perspective and spending a little time with us on Election Day.

Yeah, and if I can just add, in my day job, like today is election day and we do have same day registration.

So even if you are not registered to vote and you're like, I've had enough, I wanna make sure my voice is heard, you can go to your polling place and register.

So you just have to visit myvote.wi.gov.

Again, that's myvote.wi.gov and they have where you can vote, what you need to bring.

because we need everybody to participate in this election.

Your voice really does matter.

Amen to that.

Thank you, Sarah.

We'll talk to you soon.

Okay.

Thanks, Sherwin.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

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Oh my goodness, I'm glad it's over Xavier was just telling me that Congresswoman Gwen Morris a nice lady and X you were there at the Cooperage last night at the Crowley rally and you got some footage that you're gonna upload to your YouTube channel.

Is that correct?

Yep.

It's currently uploading right now.

It'll be premiering at 2 30.

All right.

We might in fact, I know we will.

Dr. Can and I will probably play

Little bit of that during our election night broadcast this evening that starts at 7 p.m Central Standard Time via the Hughes views 414 YouTube channel and the Democrats David Crowley you said committed and congresswoman Gwen Moore committed to help Whoever the Democratic nominee is Tony Evers also said something similar Tony Evers said he'll be helpful.

He got a pause a little bit

He said, no, no, whoever it is will be helpful.

Then he said, that's not going to happen because this guy right here, as he pointed to David Crowley, is going to be the nominee.

There's a pathway for David.

And it lies within a very consistent part of the Wisconsin electorate.

I just don't know how many of them statewide may have voted early because the older the voter, the higher the participation in any election, general election.

primary election, midterm, etc.

So the older you are, the more likely you are to vote in every single election.

And also the older you are, the more likely you are to receive your ballot by mail and return it also by mail or take it to a Dropbox.

Keep in mind, some people have voted in this contest back in like June, July, they've already voted.

It's a very different contest today on Tuesday, August 11th than it was say right around the fourth of July before you had people in the race and they're not in the race and then there's the whole Mandela effect.

Mandela is going to get an awful lot of votes.

You mark my words.

In fact, Mandela is going to overperform for someone who dropped out of the race.

So if I'm looking at what the mathematic possibility for David Crowley is because you know, we're here in Milwaukee This is where we are broadcasting from we're very familiar with David Crowley.

I don't like his campaign I think his campaign was run very very poorly.

I think they missed an awful lot of opportunities I think that he needed to do better in setting himself apart and Defining himself before they could label him as establishment that stuff only sticks when you're not defining who you are the other part I'm coming to find out about this election cycle.

Nobody cares.

He's kind of executive.

Nobody cares.

They don't care

They don't care about all the things that he's done.

People that know him and like him, like they care about what he's done because, you know, David Crowley is a great guy and they love his success.

But if you don't know who he is...

Then his accomplishments and maybe like 10 or 15% of your decision, how does he make you feel?

How does he come across?

Is he exciting?

Is he innovating?

Is he the kind of candidate that you believe can lead this state for a long time?

Because typically Wisconsin governors are here for a very long time.

Can you make that kind of commitment still on the campaign trail?

It's like you're on Tinder.

We got a bunch of matches going.

We got Kelda.

She ain't really getting a lot of inboxes.

You got Joel Brennan, Mr. 2%.

Oh, Joel, I'm just kidding.

I know Joel is at home right now.

He's chilling.

He's probably listening to us as we speak.

I mean, what else is he going to be doing?

Is that 2%?

You don't need to be out there campaigning.

Just relax, Joel.

You're fine.

You got Franny Pants.

David Crawley.

They're out there pressing the flesh.

So I may have disclosed last night.

Some information that was a little bit premature.

So I was going back and forth with David Crowley's press media communications person.

His name is Jonathan.

I've known Jonathan for a while.

Jonathan got an attitude.

He don't know what I'm just saying.

Jonathan, you get a little spicy sometimes, okay?

So they wanted to bring David on today on my program.

as a last minute push.

And I originally agreed.

But then I was like, oh, wait, wait, wait.

Management recently raised issue with how I bring guests onto my program.

And also know that there are some people here in management that probably are David Crowley supporters and probably would not mind him being on the program and maybe would have thought it was a net positive.

Had he come on the show today on election day for a last-minute push but also that same management said sure when we need 24 hours before you can have the guest on so I told Jonathan nope we can't have them on because management said I need to dip 24 hours also just full disclosure you don't always get 24 hours with a guest I know there's always gonna be some exceptions but I'm trying to I'm trying to follow the rules here

One on one seven the truth.

I don't want to be a rule breaker.

I'm a rule follower I'm just a humble servant of the management So if they say that I got to give them 24 hours notice before I can have a guest on sorry So any of you that want to be a guest on my show by tomorrow at 950 you better let me know right now You better get your request in because I got to give 24 hours But I don't even know what I could have asked David that we haven't asked him already.

What can he possibly say?

He hasn't said already that you haven't heard him say he's gonna tell you that he he's been fiscally responsible in leading Wisconsin's largest county he can talk about his time in the Wisconsin State Legislature he can talk about how they've reduced overdose deaths and how they've made a dent in homelessness here in Milwaukee County and he can we're just gonna hear the same thing over and over again and you know how hard it is because there's a game within the game here really what primaries are

Is they are a game within a game because you are going to decide who was going to represent the party in November.

That's what this is.

This is an insider election.

And to interview him or really anybody else.

And have them not want to invest in keeping this radio station solvent is painful for me.

You know what it's like?

It's like having a very popular.

Restaurant.

Look at 101.7 The Truth as a great restaurant with many different offerings.

We have good salads.

We have fantastic burgers.

And for you blacks, we have chicken wings, fried hard, flat, only extra lemon pepper.

Right?

We have so many offerings.

We've got delicious libations, both alcoholic and mocktail.

We have a nice atmosphere.

We've got a patio.

We even have live music.

Imagine 101.7 The Truth is just an incredible restaurant that offers so many things to so many people.

And then these candidates, who we obviously know here at the restaurant of 101.7 The Truth, because we offer a buffet for y'all.

Depends on when you listen you got Homer and Bailey and then you got the Sherwin Hughes and then you got Ray and Shannon Then you got my non severe then you got Jazzy Jazzy Jazzy Tyler.

That's a buffet.

Am I missing one?

Is that everybody?

That's everybody But then all of our friends want to come all the candidates because we know all of the candidates but they don't want to pay they want to eat for free They want to eat they want to come to the nice one on one seven shoot the restaurant.

They want to hang out

They want to mix and they want to mingle.

They want to get drunk.

They want to eat lemon, pepper, chicken wings, fried hard, all flat.

And then when a bill comes, they walk away.

I don't like that.

And I usually don't care, but I have an obligation and responsibility to make sure that what we do here is able to continue.

And they just been using us.

I don't like that.

I've been warned about that in the past.

Oh sure one be careful of these candidates because if you give what here's what happened We gave them too many free chicken wings in the beginning Before we launched the restaurant before we actually open we gave them plenty of chicken when we let them come on all of the time because for some hosts Interviewing someone is a way in which you can provide content

Fill time I don't really even like to interview people that much unless it is timely necessary and relevant Because mostly when you interview people it's boring.

They don't have very good radio etiquette They have no semblance of time whatsoever because I'll tell somebody because we have a conversation Before we go on there.

Let's say I bring in a guest and we bring them in and I got them all set up and they're at their

at the little chair across a little desk from me and they're at the microphone they put on their headphones and we adjust the volume and we do all of the things I point to two different clocks we got clocks in this studio I got a clock over here it's a big ass clock and I got a smaller clock right here and I tell them I was like hey this segment

It's going to be seven minutes.

So at that clock right there, or you can look at this clock over here at 9 56 and 50 seconds, we have what is called a hard out.

We have to stop and I'll say, okay, Sherwin, a hard out at 9 56 and 50 seconds.

And what does Sherwin do?

Sherwin repeats that because you got to say things a bunch of times to people before they get it.

I say, see that clock right there?

Is it, uh, see this clock right here?

I do at nine.

56 and 50 seconds we have a hard out cool boom Xavier turns on all the microphones and we get the chat blah blah blah blah chat chat chat BS BS BS chat chat chat giggle giggle giggle BS BS BS chat chat chat here we go it's 9 56 and 30 seconds remember I told them two times you got a clock over here you got a clock over here at 9 56 and 50 seconds what I say y'all we have a hard out

So now it's nine fifty six and forty five seconds.

So we got five seconds left and they're just coming to the end of their statement.

They're just finishing up and then it's nine fifty six and fifty seconds.

And you know what my guests do?

Sure.

When I've got way till I bring I got another topic.

You know when I was a child, you know back in nineteen eighty four when I was I just I hate it.

And I understand people don't.

They don't understand the radio etiquette, but it also it discourages me from having people in studio.

Now there

are other people who are fantastic.

I ask a question.

They answer it in a truncated and succinct way and then Sherwin is allowed to ask another question because sometimes when we ask you questions, not that any of you are even caring about any of this, but I need a break from talking about this damn election.

Sometimes I'll ask you a question that's just yes or no.

You don't have to go, you know, Sherwin, back in 1962, during the Civil Rights Movement, I don't need a history lesson from you.

It's 9.56 and 50 seconds, and the truth

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I know dr. Ken is supporting Tom Tiffany already know that

You

think so

are you looking surprised?

That's

a kid didn't use to produce a show.

You know what his politics is

Well, he was always afraid to admit it when I had my little conversations with them But yeah, I know where he leaned it was always we had very interesting conversations.

Oh They weren't they were terrible probably

yeah, you know I get each

other he's um He's got to be hard to produce for

Cause I've sat in a couple of times and I've witnessed how he does like he does like weird hand signals and stuff.

You ever do that with you?

Like he'll be talking.

I was going

to

do something like

this.

You know, I can't even remember.

It's been such a long time ago.

I just remember just, you know, I'm just going to keep my mouth closed.

Yeah, don't talk bad about

him.

I'm going to talk bad about him.

He's a nice guy.

If somebody is a Republican, I don't even care.

They think that we care.

Like don't be afraid of it.

Yeah, exactly.

Just admit, admit what you are.

I respect you a lot more.

And if you can give reasons as to why, because I appreciate that we all have different life experiences.

And most of the time, most of the time, our political affiliations are almost a direct reflection of our parents.

A lot of times, if you grew up in a Democratic household.

Which I did you're gonna be a Democrat too if you grew up in a Republican household Chances are now of course people can often diverge from their family sentiment Absolutely, they can't but it's a real good predictor But the best predictor is if your parents are non-voters You don't vote either.

I'm tired of telling black folks to vote.

Don't his thing don't if you don't want to or if if you're one of these people I can't stand these people

All right then, Sherwin, tell me why I'm supposed to vote.

I will do no such thing.

I'm not wasting my time.

You're 48 years old and you want me to tell you why you should do something for you?

Uh-uh.

I love the poorly educated.

Or then if they say something like that to me, Sherwin, tell me why I should vote.

I'm going to look at them square in their face and I'm going to say, tell me why I should let you keep the money in your wallet.

I'm about to snatch it from you.

Let's talk to someone who snatches more than wallets.

Hi, Al.

How are you today?

I'm doing wonderful.

I voted this morning.

I was a number four.

Let's start it off like this.

When they go low, open and welcome the devil's door.

You don't have to go to hell.

You got to go beneath hell.

And I think why the Democrats are losing.

I think it's because they have this dandelion, punk, pussy-wallow-fied, punk mentality.

They're seen as a bunch of punks.

Because when people say stuff, oh, I can't say nothing.

I got to be on my best behavior.

Republicans just going to say it.

They going to say, FUB, I'm going to give it to you wrong.

The Democrats, I...

I can't say nothing or the Republicans are saying Christianity and God and everybody.

When the thoroughbreds at the Renegade say, I don't care about Christianity and why you're getting ready to go beneath hell.

If Jesus jump in front of you, you tell Jesus, if you don't get out of my way on my beach, you'll ask from corner to corner because you don't want this smoke and Jesus is going to step aside.

You're not getting no loudmouth.

You're not getting the mountain lion from the mountains for the Democrats.

And if

you look at all the people who stood up to the Republicans, it was women, okay?

And then you have to look at the psychological warfare, especially within some of our people.

They feel like they can't talk back to whites.

They can't talk back to whites.

We gotta walk on eggshells and tippy toes for what?

But when they get in them hairpipes at a big bad mountain lion SOB, when it comes to their own, but when it comes to whites, they can't say nothing.

Your own black politicians really don't even got the fire.

I mean, look at some of them.

When things happen, well, I don't know what to say.

I don't know what to do.

Why, why, why would people who are Democrats be like, when you're acting like a big old pussy, well, it's like, dude, we got to get you a set of bloomer pennies and some massing girl like goddamn.

Look at some of our black politicians.

They won't even go on TV and tell these parents that tearing down the neighborhood, tell them bastards, you got 50 black ass down.

We're going to get up here and moonwalk and pot-shaking, twerk around the real foundation of the problem.

But when the whites call you every inward in the books and say what they're going to do, everybody want to pay attention.

When the real whites sit here and want to call out Christianity and a Jesus that they never did a goddamn thing for you, everybody want to act like they're living in their last days in revelation.

Well, goddamn it, bring your last days.

Because people are sick of you in the American way.

But the politicians are, oh, I can't say nothing.

I don't know what to do.

And then when they come through here tearing down your neighborhood, oh, I can't even know what to do.

But then when the whites about to take over, oh, I got to show every Bojangle, Oversize, Big K9, Big Polly White, Tooverball.

That's why Democrats.

are losing.

They're coming off like pups.

I don't know if it's tough too much.

Maybe you need to pull it out.

I don't know if you wear a brief.

I don't know if you wear a boxer brief.

Maybe you need to put on some boxes and let it swing.

But that's why they're losing.

Sometimes the people you're dealing with, you got to go beneath hell.

You can't deal with them how they deal with you.

You got to deal with them.

Worse, sir.

And that's why we're not moving forward.

And you're going out your way to try to educate people.

Some still don't want to listen.

Some still ain't gonna vote.

Some gonna sit on a uncouped, unclean black ass and don't vote.

But they'll get up and run to the liquor store for that half pint.

They'll sit there and say, I don't found it.

I got Jesus.

Well, what did Jesus Christ do for your black Indian ass?

Because it ain't fixed the rebound that's coming up through to see it like an eruption.

It ain't doing nothing but you.

And if you aren't well for getting 673, you better drop her, because they're going to catch that away.

And that man that's using your vessel, he's going to leave you.

Because that toilet is not going to work no more when he sees he can't go make a baloney sandwich.

Get off your black ass and vote.

And I'll listen to your reply.

Have a great day.

Thank you.

All right, then.

How about I let Deon reply Deon you're on one on one seven the truth

Man, I almost started to hang out the register and take that but I don't know my way to go vote right now And you know I already told you I'm going to vote for So I'm about to go get ready to go vote who you

voting for tell the people

who you voting for You already know I told you I'm going to go play chestin

what

I mean because you know like David I don't know nobody else.

You know what I'm saying like

To be honest with you, you already know I just started voting.

And you know, so the only person I really been seeing is Francesca.

To me, as I told you on your podcast, Mandela, he was just too ambitious.

He ran for every political seat that it possibly is.

David dropped out, came back.

That doesn't sit well with me.

So I'm going to see what miss.

And then the guy you be talking about all the time, Joe Brennan.

I don't know anything about

him.

Don't talk about him no more.

We call him milk because he's stuck at two percent.

Okay, well.

I'm

going

to vote for what you call her for any fans.

Yeah, let

me know what number you are,

what voter number you are.

All right.

Hey, hey, what's her name today?

I ain't gonna tell you what school I'm at.

Oh, Brenda Cosilius.

She was a she no bad little woman, boy.

She's too old for you, Dion.

You

don't

make no difference.

I like them.

Oh, I'm damn near 50 myself.

You know what I'm saying?

I've been 50 make sure So,

yeah, I

said I

was looking at her She's a super intense you don't need you sweating all over breathing all heavy

I'm getting the head on the 22nd shower when I'm getting the hug.

I'm coming to the what's that choose me down there

Riverside, I'm gonna give me a hug.

Give me a hug.

All right.

Y'all can't give pictures to y'all get pictures and text messages still.

Yes.

Well,

actually, no, I

don't.

Text it to the 4143950484.

Text it to that number.

Okay.

All right then.

All

right.

Thank

you.

Bye.

Yeah, I'm definitely not going to the family fest.

Why not?

Everyone is gonna miss you.

You're super popular and cool.

That's not that's all right They can listen to me every day.

You want to see me go to YouTube?

Or come to the third tree market hall Dion said he called last week on the podcast and he was like sure when I inboxed you a location to meet me so I can get a hug.

Oh Geez, but also it makes sense why he voted for Franny pants.

Why is that?

She has an agenda for them people for men that like to hug men

You know during Tony Eva's speech yesterday When he was talking about Tom Tiffany taking away protections for people he mentioned the LGBTQ but net blacks

You know gotta mention blacks he's endorsed the only black person in the race

I'm just good with

us.

I'm just Tony is Tony we have zero complaints about Tony and black people

love to find something to complain about.

It's like, we can't like something too much.

We got to find out where it's broken, cracked, deficient, where it's not 100%.

We can't say nothing about Tony.

In fact, we don't say nothing about him.

Tony is all right in our book.

Tony endorsed David.

Tony made a lot of white people mad.

Joel Brennan said,

hell yeah, I'm mad, Sherwin.

That was when your show.

It sure was.

I was like, Joel, calm down, Mr. 2%.

Hell yeah,

that's when you were hawking them on us Brennan for the winning

I didn't work at all.

Yeah,

maybe three people like oh sure one.

Yeah That's not enough because I wanted someone to be Like a standard bear for an agenda That addresses so some things that black black people need to fix we can fix Other things we need a little policy.

We need some investment.

We need some focus

Because the state of Wisconsin has the primary responsibility of educating its public so we need Some real specific policies and different goals set when it comes the education of black children because they've been so under resourced for so long It's an urgency for us and I was hoping for somebody like that He's he's where we want him to be on education.

Joel Brennan is David is as well Francesca's not Kilda is not And so because mine

Understanding of policy is pretty rigid What I won't do is I know a lot of people will do this They will compromise their own principles and they will bend their own boundaries For for a vote I can't do that.

I can't if somebody says, okay sure well You got Tom Tiffany who and we know all the bad things he's gonna be

or

You know you want Francesca Hong if she's a nominee you out of over but all Francesca gonna do is

just a little bit of slavery She's not gonna enslave every black person just a few but it's better than Tom Tiffany like that don't work with me She wants to take away a program that our community fought for and a lot of white folks didn't even know how hard fought these battles were

to get a parental choice program.

It took a really long time.

And what we were asking for is basically the other option that everybody else has.

Everybody else can exercise school choice except poor black folks.

And we know that when black children don't get an education, they may grow up and kill you.

I want black people to kill less.

People that can read, it's crazy, actually murder less.

This knows the weirdest thing ever.

I'm not saying that very articulate and literate people don't do murdering, but their murdering is like little itty bitty murdering.

People that can't read big murder.

I want less murder.

And if you want to take away a program that's less murder, well, then that puts me and my community at risk.

And I just, I can't do that.

Now I'll support her if she moves pretty substantially on our education policy, but she won't.

I'm curious to see how she pivots back to the middle because you can't run the campaign that she ran to win a primary, to win a general election.

Not the same people, not the same voters, not the same issue.

Everything is going to be different see right now.

See this is this the playoffs the general election That's the world cup.

That's the Stanley Cup.

That's the pennant.

That's the Super Bowl That's the world series.

You can't play the same way in the playoffs You can't play the same way you did in the preseason when it comes down to the championship

Not to mention, y'all are not going to believe what you are going to see from the Trump campaign and the Tiffany campaign and all of these, I mean, dozens and dozens of outside groups with unlimited money.

You would think that this November election for governor in Wisconsin was a presidential.

You've never seen nothing like this.

Do you know the kind of stuff they're going to say about franny pants?

They're just going to make stuff up.

Because here's the thing you got to be worried about Some people are not paying any attention because it's the primary literally Even like people even in my social circle because I don't really talk politics with like my homies with my friends because I just I don't want to I want to talk about everything else not politics a Lot of them are not paying attention at all.

And so when they do start paying attention Who jumps out the gate first to define Francesca Hong to people that

are just going to start paying attention in like a couple of weeks.

Whoever gets out there first, who defines the other party or the other campaign or the other candidate first has a tremendous, tremendous advantage.

So probably starting tomorrow, the Tiffany campaign, they're going to red line that engine.

She's the communist fastest.

She's going to eat your baby.

She's an Asian.

They're all they're going to bring it

all out.

She likes the gaze.

the transgender men women they She's gonna put a they them in every spare bedroom in your house and some people are gonna say

I Don't want to they them in my spare bedroom I only have one kind of bathroom in my house

and they're going to just they're gonna Accelerate the negatives on her because she has so many and yes, they're gonna bring up her tweets just like if David

was the nominee.

Dirt McGirt would make a comeback.

And that blue face logo of David Crowley, that's going to make a comeback, too, if he becomes the nominee.

And I don't know if we're prepared for that.

More importantly, the people that are not paying attention, which is, let's be clear, 75% of Wisconsin voters are having nothing to do with this election today.

But once they do, we see who the winner is in the Democratic primary, then they're going to start paying attention and the Trumps.

and the and the Tiffany's and all the RNC money because they want this governor's office.

Oh, they want it bad.

It's like a big juicy steak and they're hungry.

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I said it in French late truth That's all the French I speak

If you're going to order wine, go with someone that's a wine expert.

What are they called?

Somalia?

Is that what a wine expert is?

I think that's what they are.

I don't drink, so I don't know.

You don't drink at all?

Yes,

you do.

Very rarely.

Alcohol needs to be associated with an occasion.

I can't just like, oh, I had a rough day.

I needed

a

drink.

I'm done at noon.

Even if it was a bad day, it's over early.

It's always a good day here.

Every day is

a

good day David Crowley.

Yep

Let's see if he keeps that same energy.

He was a nice guy when I was talking to him yesterday.

He's in good spirits I mean it was a nice rally, you know, you you'll see the I'll be posting I mean the the video will be posted at 2 30 So, you know, just go to a political voyeur and you can watch

All right That's the misconception you may not like someone's party

Or their stances on issues, but most people are actually really nice and that's the part that the public doesn't see like we gauge their whole like personality on Whatever party they're affiliated with and that's that's so stupid because I remember a time where you didn't even ask anybody with their party affiliation was because it was just it was stupid It's like just making small talk with somebody nowadays.

I mean, what kind of socks are you wearing?

You know, I don't care what kind of socks you got on

I don't know.

A lot of these Republican politicians are pretty rotten.

Ken Paxton?

In front of, but you don't know him though.

We gotta stop doing that.

Americans sometimes just make me sick because you don't know somebody.

Here's the thing that I deal with.

People don't know me.

They think that they do because they listen to me every day.

Gotta hatch people thinking I'm gay.

Yeah, I tell you what.

That's interesting.

That don't even make me mad.

It shouldn't.

No, not at all.

So here's what I would say.

And it's usually men, but here's what's crazy about men and black men in particular.

They're in my inbox more than women are.

Saying what?

They want to give you hugs?

Well, there's obviously that.

But like, oh, Sherwin, I would love to buy you dinner.

Sherwin, can we?

I'm not kidding you.

You're right.

I swear to God, my entire career, men.

Oh, Sherwin, that was so interesting what you said.

And I don't know.

Are they genuinely interested and want to know more about politics or it happens.

Women are more subtle.

They'll say something like in the like, oh, hey, sure.

You know that article you were talking about in our two.

Can you send me the link?

That's how women will approach.

And I sometimes I'll send them the link and then they if they respond like, oh, thank you for sending it.

I read the article.

I really appreciated your take.

Now I'm going in for the kill.

There you go.

But women are very, very subtle because they don't want to risk coming on too strong or looking too thirsty or also being rejected.

Because if you can reject it in somebody's inbox, I can screenshot it and embarrass the hell out of you.