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Good morning.
Welcome to the program.
Today is Tuesday, September 15th, 2026.
Congratulations Milwaukee.
You had a banner day yesterday.
In fact, we had such an incredible day yesterday.
We titled the program a $2 million day.
Typically that would be very good news because two million dollars.
Well, that's nothing to shake a stick at that would move the needle a little bit But this two million dollar distinction That we received yesterday was not money That is going into our pockets This is money that is leaving and money that we will likely never see again and money that will continue to have
A cost, even after the two million dollars that we technically don't even have, has been exhausted.
Yesterday I took my sweet time in illustrating the real cost of violence in our community.
There are so many hidden costs that most of us don't see, and I believe that some of those hidden costs that have never really been explained or demystified to us are the reason why I believe there, amongst some people,
There is a far too high misery index in the city of Milwaukee.
This is not a miserable city, but there's an index of misery that exists amongst far too many people.
And you can get little hints and little sprinkles of it when you hear people saying negative things about the town and when they're highlighting the violence and when they're waxing nostalgic about how things used to be back in the old days.
The shootings the fatal and the non fatal type have a tremendous cost Including the crime scene costs where the police have to show up and EMTs have to do their job There's hospital and medical costs is every single shooting Then there's the criminal justice costs.
You got to get a prosecutor.
You probably have to get a public defender Judges court commissioners
jurors and their lost time from work and productivity and then of course assuming that these cases are resolved and it leads to someone's incarceration that's a very heavy cost as well.
What about the victims?
Victims are going to need restitution.
Victims are going to need services and this is every single violent incident that takes place in the city.
We were able to put a number
on the cost of these incidents.
A fatal shooting costs taxpayers and Milwaukee residents $2,054,000 per fatal shooting.
Do the math.
Non-fatal shootings cost $644,491.
Yesterday, we had three of them.
So add it up.
Add up the tally.
I'm going to continue to talk about this because once I make these costs real and then we see all of the things that we are not getting all the amenities because I listen to my colleagues programs and also listen to you all when you chime in.
Maybe you chime in via the YouTube chat, which is at one on one seven, the truth on YouTube.
If you're not subscribed by all means.
And you wish that we had these services or we need to build this or we need to reconstruct that or this needs Rehabilitation and all of those things that we need I don't disagree with not man one of us We do need some of those things because whenever the public has a desire for something well the public should get it But we don't have the money Also want to and think I did a little bit of it yesterday counter
The notion that we spend so much money downtown and if you look at downtown and where it has moved and evolved and all the things and the amenities that we have Including the buildings and a relatively new Milwaukee Bucks arena and the whole dear district Yes, we have put a sizable amount of investment downtown, but that investment pays off So the more money that we put the more investment that we put in places that are likely to appreciate with value one number two that are likely to bring more people
bring more travelers, bring more tourists and bring their sweet wallets.
Those are worthwhile investments.
I'm very happy that we made the 300, 400, maybe 500 million dollar investment in the Baird Center because we get so many conventions.
Don't we?
We get all sorts of convention and I'm not just talking about anime conventions and other conventions.
We had the Jehovah's here.
That was so lovely.
They were nice.
I guess they didn't shoot anybody.
which is good.
The Jehovah's had their convention here in 2020.
The Democrats had their presidential nominating convention here.
Nobody showed up because it was COVID.
2024.
The Republicans had their convention here.
Nearby, also in 2024, the Kamala Harris and Democrats
They did their convention in Chicago, but Kamala did something very special.
I don't want us to forget this because when we have this misery index that I'm again going to measure today and I'm going to quantify it in a much different way.
I'm going to show you exactly all the things that we are not getting, all the things that we are missing, all the things that I know we should have to be a successful and productive city because that's my goal.
I want this to be a successful and productive city because
Damn it.
I'm not leaving.
I can't leave.
I'm too old to leave.
And my house is almost paid for.
Never thought I'd see the day.
Boy, when I got that stack of mortgage papers, when I first signed my mortgage, I'm like, I'm going to die first.
Because the year of my mortgage payoff was so in the future, I was like, I don't even know what a 2030 looks like.
Now I can smell 2030.
I smell it.
And you know what it smells like?
Almost said something I shouldn't have, but boy, it's the sweetest smell a growing boy knows.
Oh, Sierra's in the producer's studio.
I better keep it clean.
The fact that Kamala Harris left Chicago to come to Milwaukee to the Pfizer Forum to accept her nomination showed us more love than the city in which she was holding her nominating convention.
She got on the highway.
She drove up through Kenosha and through.
even through racing don't know how she made it.
But came here and accepted her nomination in person in Milwaukee while the people in Chicago had to watch it on the screen.
That was a very proud moment because she showed us a tremendous amount of love.
And so there are some things about this city that that are worth holding on to.
We're a diamond, a dirty, unpolished, jagged.
Yet to be refined diamond.
I Hope that we can get there.
I want to set a goal for this town to get us closer to our our brilliance that I know that we can Ultimately showcase to the world But we are not going to be able to do it unless we can some kind of way get our hands around some of these social issues and plagues that are
Damning this city from realizing its full potential and also harming another generation I want to speak to that just for a second that I'm gonna get into some nitty gritty and some details including the three non fatal shootings that took place yesterday each with a cost of six hundred forty four thousand four hundred ninety one dollars so roughly about two million dollars just yesterday We cannot continue
On this pace and here's what I believe that we are fighting against because yesterday.
I don't know.
I went back and listened to Yesterday's program and some of the calls.
Holy smokes.
You guys are murderous.
I was kind of blown away by that when I asked Well, what should we do?
What should we do about these people that are causing the problems that are costing us so much money?
We have this thing in Milwaukee.
It's called the VIC the Vic
a violence industrial complex because there are so many organizations there are so many agencies there's so much law enforcement there's so many prosecutors there's so many courts there's so much department of corrections there's so much incarceration that each crime that is committed particularly the violent ones and especially the worst of the violent ones which is homicide it starts this chain reaction of spending and it's an entire industry
We have nonprofits that are dedicated to fighting the violence and victim services.
And of course, we have the nonprofit agencies that work with the youth in hopes that the youth have more alternatives and diversion programs.
It's a multi-million, almost billion, in some case, exceeds one billion dollars that we spend on that.
If we could just prevent 10 percent.
of the homicides in this city.
I don't know how we do it because right now we're not doing a good job of it.
If we can prevent 10% every single year, we'll be saving and could reinvest something like 20 to 25 million dollars that we didn't have before.
We could invest it out on no job training programs.
We can give homeowners grants so they can fix up their houses.
So many things we can do with the money.
And so that's where I think our focus should be.
Now I don't have the solution I think a lot of folks may listen to talk radio and think like oh, we have it figured out Clearly we don't because we're sitting here if I had the solutions I would be out solutioning instead I'm trying to engage and in cases in rage and Spark something in someone who may be listening for the first time
or a long time to think about things a little bit differently and to look at their lives and see what they can do and what they can shift and what they can adjust to make this town just a little bit better.
So we're going to dig in a little bit today.
I'm going to talk about some things and of course your commentary always welcome.
We love to hear from you and we keep it relatively open so I could be talking about who knows what.
But you might want to call and tell us that you're getting an ice cream cone from McDonald's at 9 o'clock in the morning We just entertain all callers just because why wouldn't you?
I'm gonna talk about some things Including where I believe our focus should be in moving forward But also there's a I don't even know how many people it is.
It's enough maybe even too many that
Have normalized Some of the behaviors That end up causing the crime that are the crime and then bring the ire of the community To such a level that you all were suggesting the death penalty yesterday We got several people saying well, we just got to get rid of these people We we got to get rid of them like that sounds
Really fatalistic and then I asked the question of well, where are we gonna send them?
I don't know we should kill some of them and then send them away Where are we gonna send them?
Who's gonna take them?
Who's gonna pay for their relocation?
So that's ridiculous, but the problem that we have and let's not focus on Holocausting our own people Too many people think that the violence in this city is normal
that the bad behaviors are normal, that the destruction of private property is normal.
Stealing cars, driving recklessly, fighting every time you have any kind of a disagreement with anyone, but fighting on site.
Not, let's go to the back of the schoolyard and fight.
I'll meet you by the bleachers.
They fight anywhere.
That's normal to them.
That is what we are up against.
They have just normalized these behaviors.
In fact, not only is it normal, I think for some of them it's fun.
It's
not
fun because it costs us too much money.
Speaking of money, NPS is already warning us.
They're gonna ask you for another three hundred and fifty five million dollars And so we have a YouTube poll because you know, I'm curious about this one now We've given them a couple of referendums in the past now.
We just gave them two hundred and fifty two million When was that twenty twenty three twenty twenty four?
I Don't know what they did with that They got a billion dollars worth of COVID money don't know what they did with that probably cocaine not sure don't know it's gone
Could have upgraded the air conditioners didn't do that so they had to take the second day of school all first day of school.
Yay second day of school Everybody can stay at home because it's hot outside.
How come we don't have air conditioners?
I don't know we spent the money Then we gave them 87 million back in 2020 April of 2020 and now they say they need an additional 355 million dollars get this you ready for this To build new schools.
No, you're not.
No, you're not
You know how many empty schools we have right now, you know how much MPS surplus property we have so many empty school bills The district is a shell of its former self the district probably used to hold better than a hundred thousand kids went to MPS now It's like sixty thousand and they want to build new schools.
No you ain't
Bet now you better turn some of them schools into apartment complexes You better sell some of that surplus property to other high-performing schools that don't have the money to build a building We're as taxpayers.
I'm just gonna share this with you.
I got to take a break We're gonna talk about a lot of stuff today It costs us between 600,000 and a million dollars every single year just to maintain MPS buildings that are empty a million bucks every single year
Those buildings could be sold those buildings could be Repurposed or repackaged into something that could be generating more tax revenue because the district doesn't want other types of schools that may outperform MPS To be in the same ecosystem as them because then more parents will choose those other schools and they are literally holding us hostage at the same time they're asking us
for $355 million to build new schools.
You better not.
Who is NPS's mama?
Because they wouldn't raise right.
We're going to talk about that today too.
You ain't getting a nana penny from me the way my property taxes went up.
I ain't having it.
Got that letter in the mail hi sure when your property taxes are a little short We gonna have to you got to pay more every month cuz of the property taxes And of course I did what everybody else did when I got the letter I used a lot
of
four letter words my neighbors almost called the police Sure when why are you cussing so much did you check the mail yet?
Don't go check your mail and see how much the property taxes Y'all trying to prevent me from paying off my house that oh, that's what it is You can't keep a good brother down
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We have a YouTube poll up Would you give what I say how to phrase it Xavier I sent this to you.
I don't know half hour ago Would you support another NPS referendum and some of you would
The question is, would you support another NPS referendum?
Oh, there you go.
I know my answer.
What do they think this?
Didn't I say a couple of weeks ago to expect it?
I didn't think it was going to be this soon.
I was like, oh, probably about 2028.
They're starting to get ready to ask now.
Now, I don't.
I don't think it'll pass.
Because the last one narrowly passed and it was a pretty major political effort.
And so whenever there is a referendum, it does turn political because voters have to decide.
MPS has got to spend money on the political campaign to convince people to support the referendum.
I often wonder where does that money come from?
Are we funding their political campaign to convince just enough voters?
to vote for the referendum, so we're getting it at both ends.
It is a district that has not upgraded and updated itself for the times.
It hasn't, and they're trying new things.
They have a new curriculum.
They're trying, this year I believe, a reading curriculum with high school students.
Some time ago when the district was successful, it was better matched with the employment.
Needs of the city of Milwaukee like you could learn a trade in the district now if you want that same trade You've got to go elsewhere, and you have to pay tuition.
I Think that was a tremendous loss for us when the trades came out of the school and some of it was You know federal legislation focusing on testing etc.
But it seems that the district has lost its way, but then I think that there's something Underneath that that the district is as you know
majority minority, and the plurality race are black children.
And if you believe that racism is ever a thing that it's ever existed, then always look at that, because it's always undergirding.
It's very foundational in America.
It's institutional and it's structural.
So if you believe in institutional racism, that there are certain institutions that were designed for other people for their success and not ours, then the district fits right into that.
What interests do Majority white women who are unionized so they're political because teachers are They're members of unions.
What interests do they have?
In educating black children when they have children of their own that they know that they will never send to NPS That is something that evades us We believe that because certain people have particular professions that they must have some deep personal emotional connection and affection for our children
They don't.
Black people don't have any allies.
I don't know why that we think that we do.
We don't have any.
We used to.
Then they decided they wanted to try other things and leave us in the lurch.
We really don't have any allies.
We also are the only group of people.
Now, we don't have a lot of choice in this matter.
We have some choice.
I want more choice called school choice.
But we send our kids.
To the same people that we work with and our colleagues with that we can't stand but we're sending our kids to them to be educated They would never send their kids to us.
You know that show me in America where there's a black school majority black teachers principles and administrators with a majority white student body that shut that school down Something else that we miss in the entire discussion of education because it goes very very deep When the schools were integrated
And depends on when you want to count it I would argue that the schools are now segregated again and so are our neighborhoods integration was just like a flash and then we went back to Water flowing downhill and people wanted to live and be in places and spaces in which they have racial and cultural and even ethnic familiarity But when they integrated the schools and some of you are familiar with the chapter 220 program where
kids who lived in central city neighborhoods north or south were bused out to surrounding suburban schools because those schools obviously were racially homogeneous and so they burdened black children by shipping them out so you name it Franklin Oak Creek, Germantown, Monomony Falls, etc.
without the corresponding white kids coming to the city of Milwaukee to integrate some of our majority black schools.
They built Vincent's maybe in the 1970s to try and
encourage kids who lived in rural areas because Vincent is an agricultural specialty.
And so they wanted to encourage young people who lived in outlying areas who were interested in farming to go to Vincent.
That didn't work out so well.
So Vincent was built to better integrate or to bring white kids in from the suburbs and ex-burbs and outlying areas to the city of Milwaukee to go to school.
Maybe that worked up until 1985, but then after that.
I think you know who the majority student body is advancing.
But when we tried to integrate the schools with the busing program, the Chapter 220 program, which was way expensive.
It was hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Our black teachers didn't get job opportunities in those suburban schools.
So they took black children from central city, north side neighborhoods and bused them to suburban schools, but did not offer teaching and administrator opportunities.
to our black teachers.
And here's what happened since 1970.
The African American community, our teachers and our administrators, highly skilled educators that know how to teach and instruct black children because we didn't have literacy problems like that when our schools were segregated.
We didn't.
Black kids could read.
Okay.
We lost $2 billion worth of teacher income alone since 1970.
That's a lot of money.
And that's not adjusted for inflation.
We lost $2 billion in teacher income in 1970 dollars.
And then what happened?
A lot of these teachers had to find other work.
And then what happens after that?
In the neighborhood, in the community growing up, you see less black teachers that live down the street and next door and on the other block.
And if we don't see it, if children don't see it in their developmental environment, then they think they can't be it.
That's another problem.
We need more of y'all to be teachers.
We need more teachers We take a break come back Grab a telephone call on the other side our telephone number is a 3 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 7 8 3 3 2 12 10 17 also have a question via our YouTube channel was you support another NPS referendum because one is Coming to the tune of 355
Million dollars they didn't even Did they spend the last I Think your PSS a drug problem, and I'm not talking about the kids.
I don't know what's happening Anybody seen Jill underly remember her when she was running around here with her bad haircut
Running for the state superintendent of Department of Public Instruction.
She does all but disappear and I don't maybe she's at the hair salon that no that's not nice Don't talk about a person's hair Xavier She can't help it don't talk Okay, I'm gonna take a break because that's rude But I mean she could talk about my hair all she wants.
I wouldn't mind you don't have any hair exactly The truth with shirt when he was a be right back
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Another way to visualize the violence industrial complex that we have here in Milwaukee is the entire financial ecosystem and the response to violence and violence prevention and incarceration and all the services and medical services, EMT services, when there is a fatal shooting of some other major act of violence.
Here's another way to break it down.
It's about a billion dollars a year that has 83,300,000 dollars per month that we are spending of money that we don't have.
These dollars that disappear adds to the misery index and why I believe people are leaving the city of Milwaukee.
Sometimes you can't really put your finger on it.
If you can't put your finger on why something doesn't feel good, it doesn't feel right, it feels bad.
A lot of times it's money and money that's missing, money that we cannot invest in other things.
It is nineteen million two hundred thousand dollars per week that we are spending when there's an incident of violence in this city that is two million seven hundred forty thousand dollars per twenty four hours that is one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars per hour every hour that is one thousand nine hundred dollars every minute during my three hour radio program the city of Milwaukee would have spent three hundred and forty two thousand dollars
Pro-rated for all of the violence and the responses to it in the city of Milwaukee.
Let's talk to Linda.
You're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
It's a good day in Milwaukee.
How are you doing sharing
doing all right?
Yeah, I Wanted to you know touch on this because we are
studying these different failed programs in my class.
And we have got to, I think that it is time for Milwaukee to seize this moment and really address this monster called MPS because we know that the crime is equivalent to poor education.
So now it's time to seize this moment and for us to kick back at the poor and failed policies that is pushing out these kids like this.
And I think how can we get rid of the school board for one and put term limits on them like we do?
you know like we're trying to do with the uh Supreme Court we need to put term limits because the old has has come come full stop to dead on arrival and uh we for real because we got we like you said what we have what it takes to work there's no need to
to initiate another $350 million referendum and put that burden on other people.
Because we've been ignoring this problem for so long that now it's infiltrating in our own personal lifestyles and it's causing us problems.
And so now this is the time for all Milwaukee to kick back, investigate, reevaluate,
what the school board and these policies is doing and really get rid of them.
For real, for real, for real, we need to evaluate these positions and the people who are driving these policies because they are failing.
They are DOA.
And they're starting with the superintendent all the way down, for real, of DPI.
We need to reevaluate because they are pushing out, poor,
production and the children.
I'll say this is what we got because of poor schooling policies, failed policies, mandated policies that do not really they do not fulfill what these children need for real.
I'm telling you, the class that I'm in right now, we are evaluating all of these failed programs since 1957.
And now they are introducing better strategies that incorporate the whole community, students, diversity, cultures, and reform policies that engage meaningful, hello, meaningful strategies and curriculum that will.
It has positive results is what I'm saying.
I'm just really just mixed up all over everywhere because we have the general on Tuesday and I'm just really still going through those emotions.
It's different when the waters are muddy and you have a dysfunctional family trying to process emotions.
We really need to reevaluate who we are as a black people and break through the oppressive mindset.
of, you know, this lame mentality, crab mentality that is destroying the fabric of the unity of Black family.
That's what I have to
say.
Thank
you.
Thank you, Linda.
Our prayers were with you and your family.
I'm not a term limits person.
Let me tell you why.
Term limits serve a function when you cannot trust voters.
to make better decisions and or if you do not have Qualified enough people to run for office.
I think that there are some legislators and executives that should stay there forever because they have formed relationships and they understand the science and humanity behind policies and they are very very rare people and when you get a rare one
I don't think that rare one should be forced to leave because they have been term limited out.
And also because you have term limits doesn't mean that the next person you get is going to be better.
School board elections are some of the absolute lowest voter turnout contest that you will see in the city of Milwaukee.
School board meeting attendance where they literally are deciding on the curriculum how to fund it the future of different MPS building structures and strategies are some of the lowest attended public meetings that you will see in the city of Milwaukee So I personally don't believe the term limits are going to do anything because the people that have a tremendous amount of influence on the school board they wouldn't mind term limits because once one crop of Union
Sink a fence terms out then the union will just invest in their next crop But it's this cycle We don't like the people that are in office We're very angry about it.
We say we're gonna do something But then when you try and talk to people like real people, they don't even know what a school board is
They don't know who their representatives are.
They don't even know what kind of legislation they take up.
They have no idea and it's very, very difficult to get someone who doesn't even know what the position is to vote for or against a political agenda.
Very difficult.
So that, again, it's an education piece.
I can only do so much.
I need a lot of help.
A lot of you that listen to this program, very well informed about how these things work.
You have to go and have conversations with your friends and your family.
And then don't let them talk you out of, well, I don't, I don't really get into politics.
You better than I tell you what, if you don't get into politics, give your paycheck to me.
Give me all of your money and let me spend it for you.
Because if you don't know and pay attention to politics and where your money is going, it's not any good in your pocket.
It's better off in somebody else's.
Now, this issue is obviously bigger than the district.
We have some cultural problems.
We have some behavioral problems and I'm not going to blame the district for that because the district is trying its damnedest by Suspending and expelling as many kids as possible.
I wish it didn't have to come to that but also when I look at the The disparities between how white children in the district are treated when they have a disciplined infraction and when how black children are treated Some of those black kids deserve to be suspended and expelled because we see how they act when they're outside of school and their behaviors may not change because for so many of them it's normal
Think it's also too easy to blame the parents because that's just it's easy There was this The story that they did on NPR so I have a radio in my shower and the radio was tuned to to NPR or WUWM like the real super liberal stuff That's the only time I really have time to stomach the super liberal stuff is when I'm in the shower and they did this whole segment on
Parents have less control and influence on their children's behavior than we once thought Children are 46 chromosomes 23 from the mother 23 from the father and we sometimes have no idea of these 400 plus different expressions and personality types of these children now you can take
Whatever your child's genetic component is between the mother and the father and maybe modify it or encourage some things when you see a child is Particularly skilled at this or has aptitude there, but you have no idea some parents believe that they can actually Control their children's behavior to an extent you can for the most part you cannot and Think about this when two bad people with really bad genes
Have a kid what the hell do you expect and sometimes that happens because won't we hear the lady say oh?
I had to get rid of the father cuz he was a bad man them bad genetics is in that child But here's the thing she ain't gonna get rid of that child.
She can get rid of the man She can get rid of the genetics that created that child, but she can't get rid of what is in that baby unless you're Lindsay Clancy then Like ah to hell with them
So it's too easy just to blame the parents because there's some parents They don't tell you they've done everything they could Kids still a juvenile delinquent got in trouble with the cops when they were nine when they were ten stealing cars getting guns selling dope And you can't always necessarily blame the friend sometimes it sometimes it's just evil children How do I know that because there's evil adults?
So we got to take that into consideration, too, because we always want to place the blame somewhere.
But back to what Linda was saying about the school board, Ayesha Carr recognized some of those forces on the school board that were, let's just say, let me be diplomatic when I say, counterproductive to what an agenda would be or an education paradigm that would be productive for black students.
Ayesha Carr, who was a school board member, created a recall.
of several of the worst school board members.
When I say worst, those were that are and were antithetical to the progress of black children.
Aisha Carr is now a felon.
She never can run for office ever again.
So she did shoot for the king.
She missed.
And now she's she's a felon.
So there's that.
Take a break.
Come back.
Talk about our two million dollar day we had yesterday in the city of Milwaukee.
And also, I'll give you some details on where we are with the poll that is up on our YouTube.
Question is, would you support another NPS referendum?
Holy smokes, it's worse than I thought.
We'll talk about that on the other side.
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Question is, would you support another NPS referendum?
92% of you say no.
8% of you say yes.
I don't think it would be quite that skewed.
That's pretty significant.
They think that we are an unlimited source of money.
And so as time goes on, ladies and gentlemen, here's what I really want to illustrate.
If the money that we have given them in the past has not if those investments have not panned out and we have not seen a return.
On our investment if reading scores are not going up in the last they've had six years to show us something if they haven't gone up at the same time they're asking for more money so they can do things like improving reading scores and math scores and proficiency on grade level.
And if we are not receiving that because that's a real low bar.
We're not asking for a hell of a lot.
A couple of percentage points every single year I think would satisfy most people because this is not.
You can't reinvent the wheel here.
But the fact that we aren't getting that and they're still asking for more money is insane.
People are not dumb.
You also got to keep in mind, if you live in the city of Milwaukee, our sales taxes increased by almost 3%.
We're paying almost 8% in sales taxes.
So people, even if you make more money, which most people are not, inflation is still not where we want it to be.
Costs are going up.
Cost of fuel is going up.
We're going to pay a lot more to heat our homes this winter.
Groceries are going up.
Diesel fuel had crossed $6 a gallon, I think, for the first time in history.
So everything that we purchased that has shipped, that is all going to get more expensive.
And you add on top of the fact that the most regressive of all taxes, the sales tax, because everybody pays a sales tax.
Some people can better afford an almost 8% sales tax.
Some people can't.
That means their purchasing power is reduced by 3% and inflation is going to be better than 3%.
So every single year, your purchasing power is losing.
It's getting less by $6 for every $100 that you spend.
Ladies and gentlemen, that adds up.
And then when the district asks for more money, people, they don't have it.
They don't have it.
Now, there was going to be some costs associated with raising the sales tax.
And the cost was people are just going to have less disposable income.
Can't go out as much can't go out to eat as much can't afford necessities as much and then the district whether they recognize that or not Asking for money.
It's just really bad timing now There's some things that the district can do but here's the thing they don't want to do them They don't want to sell their surplus properties to other schools that we know can demonstrate higher performance But guess what you're gonna have to
You're not just going to continue to hang on to empty buildings because you don't want a better type of school to go in those buildings because then what's going to happen?
The district is going to bleed more students because parents might do a real crazy thing.
You know, these parents are crazy.
They may just want to put their children in a school where the kids are actually learning how to read on grade level.
And if NPS isn't doing it, why should a child, why should a parent, a family be stuck to that school?
Because everybody else can exercise school choice.
You mean to tell me that in...
Germantown or Menominee Falls or Oak Creek if those public schools in those places Didn't have a curriculum that could get their kids to read or do math that those parents would just say oh well I guess I'm just gonna keep my kid in Germantown and just they're not gonna be able to read but I'm committed to the Germantown high school system No, they wouldn't they'd homeschool their kids first
Why why is the NPS curriculum the way it is now like from what I've
talk to people that work there and stuff like that.
It seems completely backwards.
The foundation of the district was to stress the things that you need to work on a factory.
Shut up, be quiet, do what you're told, be on time, not creativity, not flexibility, not entrepreneurship.
One of the differences was even how I went to school and not that I want to use.
My educational environment is any kind of an example.
We could move about.
We could roam about.
We even had open campus lunch.
You can move freely.
Schools that have that, those students are much more likely to be creative and entrepreneurs.
Students that are told up, the door's gonna be locked if you're not here at 801.
You gotta be in your seats, you gotta sit down, you gotta shut up.
That stresses the need to have an obedient factory worker because Milwaukee used to be a factory town and when you work in a factory you work on an assembly line It's not about having opinions not about being able to roam around freely You sit there at your station You sit there at your post and you watch every damn bottle of beer put a cap on and you don't move and you stay focused and you don't get distracted
That is the foundation of the district and for a while it worked very very well because when we wax nostalgic about when Milwaukee was better And there's more money and more jobs is because we had that factory employment Now what they don't tell you is that that factory work that wrote rehearsal just boring sitting on the assembly line destroyed people mentally But at least you got a pension 30 years later.
I would go nuts if I sat on an assembly line I'm like y'all gonna lose a couple of these bottles of beer cuz I'm a drink a couple of these
Have me sitting here for an eight-hour shift is watching the bottle and the bottle and another bottle and another bottle and another bottle and some point I'm Give me one of these bottles sure when we notice from your station.
There's about four beers Missing every 30 minutes.
Can you can you account for that?
Why the beers are missing from my my station
Sherwin, are you okay?
What?
I'm all right.
I gotta lay down.
I pass out.
Yeah, it's one.
Also, there's I think it's complicated, but you're also asking the wrong one.
I had the superintendent Brenda Casselius in studio with me.
I don't know.
That
was
April.
Were you here for that?
Yep.
I was kind of in a box though.
I couldn't freestyle because I wanted to Let her because she was relatively new I Wanted to let her talk about what her ideas were and what her agenda was I wasn't I wasn't in the position to press and also I wanted to maintain Some good graces with her because one thing about this line of work if somebody comes
to sit down with me and if they don't have a grand old time and if they don't feel safe and comfortable, they will never come back.
So I don't want to press her too much.
But I don't know if she would come back now.
It doesn't matter.
Because she's just going to tell us she's going to justify why the district needs more money.
And then I'm going to be on the other side of that.
Justifying why the taxpayers don't have any money for the district.
We just it's not there.
Trying to get blood out of a turnip here.
It's not possible Now what I will require and we'll request and we'll continue to have these conversations is That the district work on what we call right sizing and being much more efficient if you have buildings that are empty But we are maintaining the electricity in those buildings.
We are maintaining the heat in those buildings It's gonna get cold this winter.
We can't have these old empty MPS buildings
With no heat because then the pipes will freeze then we'll have even a bigger financial burden They're still landscaping and cutting the grass and they're still doing building maintenance for a structure in which there are no children so many years ago is probably 2012 or 13 we had a major cold snap.
It was like below zero for a week or more at a time
And I remember hearing these stories of homeless people that were being found in the city of Milwaukee frozen to death outside of a goddamn MPS school that was empty in 72 degrees.
At least open up the damn school so people don't freeze to death, but they won't even do that.
I'm going to take a break.
Come back.
Continue talking about the $2 million dollar day we had yesterday in the city of Milwaukee.
And no, we did not win a citywide lottery.
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.
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75 people have voted thus far and 88% of you would not Support another NPS referendum while 12% of you would
Lucretia wants to know what kind of educational background do you need to have a position in let's say government to run for office none I Come to find out you won't even got to be a lawyer to run for judge now if you want to get hired By a current elected official by an executive to be like a policy director you might need a degree in political science or some other related field
But to run for office, almost none.
Other than president, that's got some requirements where you got to be a born American citizen in the age of 35.
But there's no educational requirement.
You can't tell the creature.
You can't tell you don't need no educational requirement to be the president of the United States.
Donald Trump, Trump, honestly, and you can ask him and he probably would tell you because he's so dumb, he don't even know how to lie about certain things.
He don't even understand what the Constitution is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what the Department of Justice is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what Congress is and how they work.
No concept of it whatsoever.
And dude won two of the three elections in which he ran.
You don't need no educational requirement.
I would argue that the lesser the education you have, the more relatable you are to people that also have a lesser education.
Because there used to be a time when we wanted people representing us that were way smarter than us, the new stuff that we didn't know, and they would just take care of all that complicated stuff for us.
We wanted elected officials that lived off of the fine print.
They lived and they read the fine print where us as society, we didn't have to worry about the fine print because we would hire people and elect people that were read it for us and would take care of us, making sure that fine print wasn't taken advantage of us.
Now,
now, can't nobody read nothing?
People don't want somebody smarter than them.
Who do you think you are, you liberal elite?
You're you're too smart.
I don't like that person They know a bunch of stuff that I don't know which makes me look and feel stupid I don't want to vote for somebody that makes me look and feel stupid I want to vote for somebody that makes me look smart George Bush wasn't no damn rocket scientist either now.
He wasn't Let's talk to the town you're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
Are you doing sir?
I'm doing good.
What's on your
mind?
couple questions and a comment.
The first question is the this violence, industrial complex,
yes,
that you that you were hearing to this means you're talking about.
And in here, who gets to who gets that?
All right, where does the money that she was out of that?
That's so there is no, there's no winning.
This is just what the cost is because of the incidence of violence.
So it maintains
the police.
It maintains the EMTs and the
doctors and the prosecutors in the court system.
That's where the money is going when there's a single shooting or a single incidence of violence.
Now, if we lessen the shootings and the homicides, then that money wouldn't be spent and it could be allocated to other places and I have a list of other places it could be allocated to.
All right, my second my second question is like I I'm on the on the polls I said, yeah, like yeah, I'm on my spending some more money on NPS because look at the state of some of these schools that with when it's in like they don't have AC You know the books are messed up or whatever like that.
That's why I believe that's why I believe we should pay NPS more for my question
is even if you knew
that none of those things are going to get remitted, even if you knew they're not going to get better textbooks, even if you knew that they don't have enough money for air conditioning, even if you knew that the schools that need the money most are going to get the least.
So even if you knew that, because that's what the truth is, would you still vote for
it?
I mean, nobody would, obviously.
But my question about that is, where is all that money coming from?
Like, why are we in a hole so much with NPS?
When our taxes when our taxes is so much in the state and in the city
Because the district is losing students when the district is losing students so each student is about 18 thousand dollars per year that the district gets but if parents are saying you know what I'm gonna send my child to a school outside the district or I'm gonna move away.
I'm gonna put my kid
in Whitefish Bay or I'm putting my kid in a charter school.
That's less revenue that the district has, but the district is not laying off teachers, not laying off principals, not laying off administrators.
The district isn't even selling buildings that are empty because they don't want higher performing schools to operate in those buildings that are empty.
So as time goes on and more and more people are sending their kids elsewhere and there's people are having less children.
We need more money from taxpayers to maintain the district even though it is emptying out because its performance is so low And so the money is gonna come from you and so you you may not mind giving the district more money But there's a whole bunch of people in this city.
They can't get enough.
They can't squeeze another penny They can't afford it.
They can't afford life.
They can't afford groceries They can't afford what it's gonna cost to heat their home.
And so this referendum is gonna put even more people over the edge
The way I feel about it is though
Like, we're not gonna beat the crime in a violence problem unless we pour in the money into our kids, you know?
And if we keep on arguing about, like, if we're gonna pay the kids or not, pay for the kids' education properly, well, we can't be surprised when, you know, the kids do bad things or whatever like that.
Well,
the parents gotta have some role, though, because we can't expect other people.
They also gotta keep in mind, brother, at the end of it.
What NPS is and what it's made up of is a bunch of people that do not want black children to be smarter than theirs.
We got to keep that in mind.
There's no interest for them to educate our kids.
If you're a white woman who lives in West Bend, do you honestly think that you're going to go to work every single day in North Division High School and make sure that those kids can read better than your own?
You will do no such thing.
I think that we forget that.
There is no incentive nor interest for them to educate our kids because guess what?
A teacher can be in the classroom for only two years and they can apply to get out of it.
Classroom to them is like serving a sentence.
They serve their sentence with our kids in the classroom.
They immediately want to get out and want to be an administrator and reply to be your principal.
And
gives the majority of the money to the schools that don't need it That's the part the people don't get I can show you 130 schools that need more resources better books smaller class sizes Tutors reading specialists and after-school programs They're not gonna get it cuz schools like King that don't need additional resources because they're performing Well, it's gonna get the majority of the money and I'm gonna let you figure out when teachers send their kids to public schools Which ones do you think they send their public schools to?
Obviously, the higher performing ones, that's where the referendum money is going to go.
But what they do is they trick folks like you and others.
They say, well, we need money because these schools aren't doing well.
We got to invest in the kids.
As long as you keep and maintain a crop of undereducated kids, the district can always ask folks like you for more money.
And most of y'all will say yes.
I feel I feel like, OK, you see, it's like it's a it's a there's some good schools and NPS.
Now this sounds like a real neophyte question, so forgive me.
But why can't MPS make the bad schools like the good schools?
I will pay for that.
If you can make Custer like King, I will pay that money for that.
Your guess is as good as mine.
I mean,
you know what
I'm saying?
There's no incentive to do that.
Because you got to have your flagship premier schools.
The district is not striving to be the best.
It really is not.
It's just striving to maintain and get from one budget year to the next budget year.
There's no real motivation.
So that's why parents need to exercise school choice because everybody else does.
If the district is not meeting the needs of the parents and the kids, then people should put their kids somewhere else.
And some people are like taking their kids out of school altogether and they're homeschooling their kids.
But to think that the district is going to solve all of our problems, it's not.
It's much more likely to suspend and expel black kids.
then it is to educate them.
And I get where you're coming from because you're also addressing your your sentiments as well.
I feel like I feel like when it comes to this, when it comes to bureaucracy and policy and money and taxes, don't nobody care how anybody feels, especially black people.
Literally, no one cares how we feel.
They're going to ask us for more money.
They're going to lie to us and tell us where it's going to go.
We're going to give it to them and they're going to call us suckers and ask for more money two years later.
If Crowley if Crowley wins.
Can't.
We have enough power
to make some change in that.
I don't want to put all that on him because there's a whole legislature that we have to be accountable for as well.
It's not just him.
Don't expect dude to be able to turn water into wine now.
He's going
to
have to deal with a racist Republican legislature that's mad that their Republican candidate lost and is mad that he is going to put them on the hot seat because they're going to be in the minority.
So let's not put it all on him now.
Oh,
I feel y'all feel, and my last thing to say, man, do not believe dude in that, in that plane crash.
He all right.
He all, that white man, he all right.
I mean, God bless him.
I'm glad he, he all right or whatever like that.
But you know, they'll be messing with Trump.
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
He, he, he, he cool with the FFC files being hidden or whatever like that, man.
Don't mess with Tom Tiffany, dawgs.
He, he bogus.
He bogus man bed on black man.
That's my time.
That was a good campaign commercial for Crowley.
Tom Symphony got 12 stitches above his eye.
Okay.
Both of his right eye.
12 stitches in the pilot got four stitches at 16 stitches between the two of them.
That's an average of eight stitches each.
And the plane is in the water.
And they got they got 16 stitches.
That's all they got.
That's an average of eight stitches a person.
No, I don't know what I'm just saying I wouldn't there there is some footage though there I saw it on Twitter of Of the plane you can kind of see it a little bit in the distance you can more hear the plane Going down in the distance then actually see it because that's one of the things that I was Calling for yesterday when we were talking about the time Tiffany water landing
Like where's the surveillance footage everybody got cameras people got the ring cameras in the home surveillance cameras And you got the flock cameras, and you got the walka-flockas and all the other cameras and mini cameras And so it's a real grainy Black and white video you can just see like the flashing of the of the airplane lines way off in a distance But you can hear and here's what you hear in a distance.
I'm gonna do my best impression of what it what you can hear from that somebody's home
Surveillance camera you hear
all you hear you can hear it you can't really see nothing that's going on but you hear And that's probably the plane
think that's what it is because when they released the video they said that's the plane and it's not very clear it's in the distance it's And then the plane is in the water The billion dollar violence industrial complex in Milwaukee If we didn't have to spend this billion dollars on all the associated services that are associated with fatal
non-fatal shootings, we could give $25,000 to Milwaukee homeowners to do whatever they want with the money.
Landscape, fix up their properties, replace their roofs.
Do you know how many property owners we could give that $25,000 grant to if we didn't have a billion dollars going out the door to pay for violence?
$40,000.
We could give 20,000 entrepreneurs $50,000 grants free money to start and support their ongoing business endeavors We could give 10,000 Milwaukee based businesses $100,000 each for everything new equipment new technology to make payroll to buy a new building or to expand We could give
50,000 people in the city of Milwaukee, $20,000 skilled trade scholarships, which would damn near meet and exceed the demand that we have for skilled trade workers right now.
I'm not done.
We could give $10,000 college scholarships to 100,000 students.
MPS only got 67,000 students.
We could give $10,000 to every single child in MPS and still have 33,000 grants left over.
We could give youth.
This is ridiculous right here.
We could have, we could give teenagers, we could have 200,000 jobs, internships for kids at $5,000 each.
We won't even have 200,000 kids in this city.
We could give four thousand homes that are dilapidated Two hundred and fifty thousand dollar rehabilitation.
That's too much.
You can damn near build a new house for two hundred fifty thousand dollars Well, these are just some of the things that we can do with that money We could build I know this will be a favorite of ours five thousand affordable housing units at two hundred thousand dollars a piece
These are just some of the things that we could do if we weren't spending a billion dollars on people shooting each other in the face and in the neck and in the butt cheeks.
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.
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Not really a city girl wants to know
How are sunburn schools receiving more of our referendum money?
Who decides that?
How is it possible that all of our public schools needs aren't taken care of first because these schools are prioritized?
You have to maintain the high standards, right?
And those high standards are very expensive.
And listen, there's no majority white MP at school.
I mean, maybe one of those like elementary schools on the east side, maybe, maybe a Montessori school here or there.
But the highest performing school, well, obviously.
That's where the teachers and administrators send their kids.
But the school board decides all that, but most people have never been to a school board meeting in their entire life, unless something is dire.
So I want to give you guys a little perspective on what this next referendum is.
And it's
not giving money to the schools that need it.
They want to build new buildings for a district that's losing students.
Make that make sense.
It's a waste of money.
Here's the thing.
They know that if we maintain
A really high number of children that are not on grade level in reading and math and a lot of these schools are poorly performing, they always have a reason and excuse to ask y'all for money.
and somebody is going to vote for the referendum.
You know who the people are that vote for the referendum?
More often than not, white folks and liberals that live on the east side to think that that's their contribution to you, poor n-words.
Like, oh my god, the little black kids can't read.
I'll vote for the referendum.
I live on the east side.
I live on Lake Drive.
I can afford it.
I don't want to deal with black people.
I don't really like black people, but I'll give them a little bit more of my property tax money.
What they don't realize is that everybody is going to have to pay for that referendum they vote for.
And of course, all of the teachers are going to vote for it, and there's still a large number of teachers that live in the city of Milwaukee.
And they're going to vote for it because they know that they're going to be resourcing the places in which they work and are ultimately going to retire.
And so that's what we're competing against.
But they want to build new buildings and put what in them.
You got buildings right now that are empty and that are vacant.
So forget those.
And they're also going to just hold on to those.
Those buildings should be sold.
And somebody had asked the question.
Well, why can't we make, you know, Custer more like Rufus King?
We can, but it won't be administered by NPS.
There are some schools like Milwaukee College Prep that would probably love to be able to purchase one of these vacant NPS buildings so they can expand their curriculum.
I probably can name a dozen other schools that are not NPS schools that are charter schools that are outperforming the district that would love to be able to expand.
And there are NPS buildings that are literally vacant, but the district does not want to authorize the sale of those buildings because the last thing that they want is to sell their building.
to a charter school that is better performing than NPS.
What's going to happen the next year?
More children are going to leave the district.
More parents are going to exercise school choice and send their kids to schools where they can actually learn how to read and maybe even graduate from high school.
And the district can't risk that.
So as long as you can maintain poor performing schools, they always can ask you for more money.
And if a lot of you are like the town that just called in, he's like, I feel like I'm a vote because I feel like I feel this has nothing to do with your feelings.
This is your money.
This is your policy.
This is somebody else's political agenda.
Here's what they want.
They want to capture your feelings.
They want you to have a deep sense of empathy and sympathy so that you vote for the referendum so they can build a new building.
I'm gonna give you the details of it in a second.
But first, let's talk to Al.
You're on 1017.
The truth.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Happy Tuesday.
I know you said somebody went down and the planning got 16 stitches.
I don't care if he got 16 stitches in his ass and it was two centimeters from his g-spot.
I'm still not voting for one.
Number two, they're nickel and diamond.
The people in Milwaukee, like they some junkies, where the LSD have it.
Let them close the schools down.
I mean, you ain't doing right by the money the first time you ain't doing right by the money the second time.
So out of here, we should give you some more money.
It's like you keep giving money to a junkie who didn't got saved and they got they got dunked under up out of that dirty water.
And then after they dry off, they take the money from the offering, go get high again and still be walking the streets at three, four o'clock in the morning searching for crack and dope and LSD.
I'm pretty sure Angel Ducks is going to make a comeback.
Let them close them down.
Also, I want to say, you broke up black politicians.
They're not looking for black politicians to come out with broken bronze sticks, belts, and heavy tree branches.
They're looking for them to open their goddamn mouth.
See, here's the thing, Mr. Hughes.
They know how to open their mouth when mama couldn't pay her rent and she got evicted when her seven years.
They know how to open their mouth when they said mama and daddy was a junkie and they did dumb down dope.
They knew how to open their mouth when they got on TV and said, we're suing Kia, because their cars is easy to be stolen, like Kia makes DNA and XY chromosome.
They matter of fact, the vehicle, the mother and father makes the child, okay?
Now, I'm not a fan of Donovan, but here's an example.
They was going to spray paint buildings on the south side.
Donovan said, you're not spray paint nothing.
Go to Detroit.
daughter Chicago daughter Minnesota but for some reason these black politicians don't say nothing but when you want to push like Nana grew up in five three two zero six we don't give a home depot bucket I said bucket where you grew up what can you do see they want to hear their thoughts
I mean, what they got to lose, they already got your vote and said, if you're in B, but now you don't know how to talk.
But I say this again, let the North side be 75% of white.
Those same black politicians gonna be on these issues like nose on good cocaine and ain't nothing left on that silver mirror.
Nothing.
You know how they take that long trigger finger and they go across that mirror and get the residue off and then put it in the back of their mouth.
That's how these black politicians going to be on it.
See, black people want to hear that base in their voice.
They don't want to sit there and everybody looking quiet like somebody's father and then they said, they said, not excuse me.
But then they want to get on TV.
We're going to rename this street after Dr. Kim.
So what?
Every streetie named after Dr. Ting.
Oh, well, we're going to do a 10-0-lily-lily-more day.
So what?
What you got to say for the people?
Oh, well, we don't got nothing to say.
That's what black people want to hear.
They ain't looking for you to come outside with a belt and a 2-by-4.
They want to hear you care, just like y'all do when it comes to section 8 in the mental health badge.
Because everybody dashes in that booth.
Let's not forget the food pantry.
Let's not forget we only push poverty and destitution when it comes to black folks.
Now everybody know how to talk.
But when it comes to some real issues, we won't say no, but we'll put up a banner right across three with the house, no windows with all the junkies and derelicts hanging outside.
OK, I got to go.
Bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
There was a story.
that I wanted to share before alcohol.
Al always mentions a particular alcoholic beverage that I have heard of, that I have seen, but I have never tried.
And they're called buzz balls.
I guess they come in a multitude of flavors.
And I've heard that buzz balls are very potent.
So there's a story.
Where the buzz ball is the star of the show and it was something that happened not too far away in a county just ever so slightly to the northwest of Milwaukee and if you listen to this show with great Frequency, I don't really speak much about things That are happening elsewhere because I don't care what's happening elsewhere unless it has a direct impact
on what we care about and what affects us here right now.
And my producer, God bless him.
He keeps his finger on all the world affairs.
Apparently, the Russians just did something in Poland.
I don't care what white people are doing each other in Europe.
Couldn't care less.
Couldn't not going to lose a wink of sleep unless they coming over here with them drones, unless they drone in the north side of the city of Milwaukee.
Couldn't care less.
I'm not worried about international affairs because what we have to deal with here.
Far more severe and far more pressing.
I want to be concerned about what I see when I look out my window, not when I read news sources that are from somewhere else.
Well, maybe there's some reason to give, you know, some kind of attention to things that are happening elsewhere, but not if black kids can't read.
So I'm going to be kind of stuck focused on this stuff because I can't ignore what I'm seeing directly in front of us.
But here's the buzz ball story.
Are you ready?
You're going to love this.
And it's political too.
And it involves either the Crowley campaign.
Or the Tiffany campaign and buzz balls are involved now.
Here's the thing Let me get to the story in just a couple little seconds right here.
Both campaigns are denying the incident if somebody's campaign was on them buzz balls From Jackson in Wisconsin a man from Texas who told police he was in town asking voters questions for the Wisconsin governor's race is now in the Ozarkie County Jail accused of hitting a bicyclist
while driving drunk and leading police on a chase.
Prosecutors charged Duane Maiden II with hit and run, great bodily harm and intoxicated use of a vehicle, bodily harm.
In Washington County, in Ozaki County, he faces fleeing or attempted to elude an officer and resisting and obstructing arrest.
On September 3rd, a criminal complaint says Maiden blew through a stop sign and hit a bicyclist at the intersection of Division Road and Western Avenue near the town of Jackson.
The bicyclist had a compound leg fracture and fractures to his pelvis, spine, and neck, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors say Maiden had a passenger and continued east on Western Avenue before the passenger got out and called 911.
The information we got from the passenger, he was telling him that you hit the person and we need to stop and the driver said, we're not stopping, we're going.
That's what Captain Tim Kemp's Washington County Sheriff said.
It's hard to believe that someone could do that to another human being.
The passenger told Maiden they need to stop and call the police according to the complaint, quote, the defendant said, no man, and that he's okay.
The defendant then continued driving from the scene approximately 30 to 40 miles an hour, the complaint states.
While interviewing the passenger about 10 minutes northeast of the crash site, the complaint says Maiden drove by and the passenger told police that's him.
Deputies say Maiden sped off, going approximately 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone, weaving within his lane and crossing the center line on at least.
two occasions.
Deputies say Maiden pulled over.
Video 12 news investigates obtained, shows deputies pointing rifles at Maiden and then ultimately arresting him.
Maiden, who was from Arlington, Texas, according to the criminal complaint, was in town canvassing for the governor's race.
Quote, the defendant stated that he works for a company that canvases neighborhoods for the upcoming governor's race.
The complaint states the defendant stated that he arrived in Wisconsin last Friday around August 28th.
The defendant said for the past three days, he and other coworkers, eight of them.
We're staying in an Airbnb in Milwaukee.
Campaigns for both David Crowley and Tom Tiffany said that he did not work for either.
We do not know this individual and he does not and has never been employed by our campaign.
Our prayers are with the bicyclist and their family, said a spokesperson from the Tiffany campaign in an email.
He's not a member of our staff, said Philip Shuleman, Communications Director for Crowley, Fort Wisconsin.
It's unclear exactly who Maiden was working for, though his co-worker told deputies they likely would be in Wisconsin for a couple of months and then move to New York, Florida, or some other state to do campaign work there, according to the complaint.
Maiden and his passenger told police the pair were in between jobs for the day when Maiden purchased a bottle of vodka and then Maiden took a sip of vodka, complaint states.
The defendant went to the store and bought four buzz balls, which he believed have about 15% alcohol by volume.
The defendant admitted to consuming all four buzz balls and did it outside of the witness of witness number four.
Later made and told deputies that he considered himself inebriated while driving the car according to the complaint the defendant did state that he felt Terrible and he knew if he knew he hit someone he would have stopped a preliminary breath test showed a result of Point two six eight, which is more than three times the legal limit damn it those buzz balls.
I wonder what what campaign was he working for?
I have a feeling, but I'm not going to say it on there.
I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our conversation.
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The truth Song is so peaceful It's called Mary's theme by Stelvio Sipriani All right, what are we talking about buzz balls?
People getting drunk working for different political campaigns is probably one of these outside groups
That is aligned with either I Don't know they're in they're in Jackson though So I don't with the Crowley with with an organ is in maybe no, but he was black you wouldn't put It's hard to tell it could be somebody with a Tiffany campaign because I know that there's a lot of outside groups that have an interest in either Tom Tiffany getting elected governor or David Crowley and these outside groups that are not affiliated with either campaign raised their own money
And they hire their own staff to knock on doors and distribute information and literature to places all throughout Wisconsin.
And if chances are, if you get your door knocked on at some point before November 3rd, we're like 48, 49 days from the election, by the way.
It might be from one of these outside groups, not necessarily someone who is directly employed by the campaign.
But this guy was named Dwayne Jawan, whatever his name was.
They got a picture of him.
He's wearing a do rag.
He looks the part.
He might have just been the driver because it seems like the person, his passenger.
Now, I don't have any.
You know, evidence of this, but I think his passenger was white because the passenger was like, no, you got to stop you hit somebody.
And then the passenger was the one that told the police all the information.
So who knows?
Let me give you guys some details on this referendum because please don't go into this thinking.
that the next NPS referendum, and we don't have a date yet, don't think it's going to give money to underfunded schools.
Even if they said they needed money for underfunded schools, that's not where the majority of the money would go.
But this one is specifically for building new buildings.
Milwaukee Public Schools officials revealed...
A facility master roadmap outlining a potential $355 million investment over the next decade.
The plan aims to build new schools, modernize existing buildings, and address a massive deferred maintenance backlog.
While Superintendent Brenda Coselius indicated a desire for state-level funding or interest-free loans, she noted,
that the district may have to consider school closures or going to voters for another capital referendum if state assistance is not secured.
Assuming that the Democrats get control of the state legislature and David Crowley wins his race for governor, it's not going to fall on him and them and it shouldn't.
The district has surplus property that it needs to sell because we are paying to maintain buildings that are empty.
Allow for some of the higher performing charter schools to purchase those buildings and they'll purchase the building at market rate.
Sell them the building for five million.
Sell it for six.
Sell it for whatever the real estate costs.
The proposed breakdown of the $55 million referendum plan is as follows.
If funded, the district's 10-year roadmap outlines the following target allocations.
New school construction $150 million to build three new schools.
Y'all are on dope.
Deferred maintenance, $86 million to address roughly one-fifth of the district's immediate maintenance needs.
School modernization, $50 million to renovate and update 20 existing schools.
HVAC, there's your air conditioning, and air quality.
$30 million for specialized upgrades to ventilation, heating, cooling, and air quality systems.
I want $30 million.
That ain't gonna scratch the surface.
The estimates are put air conditioning in all the schools is a billion dollars.
See, they're over here playing.
I have a feeling I know where that $30 million is going to go and what schools are going to get the air conditioning.
Career and technical education, $17 million, one of the lowest amounts, for facility renovations aimed at supporting specialized trade and tech programs.
Athletics and playgrounds, $17 million for updates to pools, athletic fields.
and NPS Playgrounds, sustainability in kitchens, $5 million for quote, green schools, environmental initiatives, and another $5 million for a centralized production kitchen.
You better not spend the hell you need $5 million for a centralized, you better use one.
Don't somebody use...
What do they call it in places them shared network and offices don't they goddamn kitchens don't disturb in Phoenix use the kitchen Better use one of these kitchens in the market hall Five million doubt let me hold on let me let me I'll build a kitchen Let's spend no five million dollars building no centralized production kitchen.
What is y'all going to cook?
What do you?
The schools got the kitchens in them because that's where the schools make the school lunches question for those who may know the answer Is NPS still?
Do they still serve the pizza?
Does it taste like it did in the 80s?
Does the school pizza or have they upgraded to like Pizza Hut?
I Don't know what it is about them soggy crusted rectangular the cheese was extra cheese.
You know what cheese they use they use government cheese.
Well, of course, it's NPS
My school lunch was 75 cents That's the what I remember it.
Well, I think when I by the time I got to be a senior it might have been a dollar but for the majority of mine It might have been less than that and if you want an extra milk it costs 25 cents By the time we got to high school we could have chocolate milk every day when we were in Middle school and elementary school with chocolate milk was only on certain days
That was like a party Somebody would get the the lunch menu because we had a calendar y'all remember did y'all have a calendar of what the lunch menu was for the month of October But a month of September they come up with a calendar so then you could plan but some kids Brought cold lunch.
I was a hot lunch kid Because I remember one time I wanted to be like the cold lunch kids
I said mom I want a cold lunch.
She's I make you little sandwiches throw you a little some stuff in the little brown bag You can be a cold lunch kid, but here's what's that what happened?
That was the day we had pizza so I didn't even eat my cold lunch I just let it sit in my locker till it rotted so that wasn't smart of me Pizza still School pizza or maybe we were just real hungry I Can ask you should ask ask one of your teacher friends
So all we had, so NPS had mock chicken legs.
To this day, I'm 51 years old.
I've never had a mock chicken leg in my entire life.
Just give a real chicken.
Mock chicken.
What is it?
You only got a mock chicken.
Just get a real, real chicken.
So here's what I remember.
We had hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken patties, baked chicken, Salisbury steak, pizza.
We didn't even have lasagna we'd have that was it that was a whole menu from Essentially kindergarten till I graduated from high school, but then by the time I got the ice-cream you get a la carte you get like a BLT Sandwich you get an order of french fries You get you some tater tots to this day.
I love a tater top love a tater top crispy crunchy tater top better than a french fry love it Gotta douse them holes and ketchup.
I want them drowning.
I want my tater tots
in the catch-up like Tom Tiffany and Lake Warsaw.
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Reginald Jones says, what's the price for a half pint of MPS milk these days?
Used to be three cents for regular and five to seven cents for chocolate.
Reggie, you went to school during Jim Crow.
Y'all just went and just milked the cow.
Come here, boy.
You want milk?
Grab a udder.
Dude Reggie bro.
He said did they still put a scoop of cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce with peaches?
Do that if that ain't a world war two ration snack Well, see we don't have any regular food because we have to give it all to the gi's that are fighting for our freedom.
It's victory time Here you go.
Feed this to the students Because that's how everybody talked back then.
Yeah, see
We're fighting for victory.
Gotta kill those Japs, indeed.
Don't have regular lunches for the kids.
Got these canned peaches, we do.
Dole or Del Monte, that's right.
Here, kids.
Have an after lunch cigar.
I was back when the kids were smoking at five.
Kids being a smoking lounge.
So, Sally, what do you think about that arithmetic homework?
Yeah, I swear.
It was the bee's knees, the cat's meow.
Best thing since sliced bread, indeed it was.
And then they do that dance where you put your hands on your knees and you move your knees side to side.
Can't wait to see you in the square dancing class.
We're gonna cut a rug.
Thinking about asking Bobby Sue to the sock hop.
I hope she wears that pink poodle skirt.
No saddle shoes.
Damn Reggie.
Shout out to Reggie, man.
Well, come on guys, they still serve kind of cheese and peaches Dairy's a part of the food pyramid at the top of the food pyramid you have Buffalo.
We'd love to eat bison What's for lunch wild boar pork chops, okay, that's enough would you guys relax?
Geez guys are insane Got a billion dollar
Violence industrial complex in the city if we spent that money elsewhere.
This is on shootings Fatal and non fatal shootings the total cost a billion dollars that we don't have We could give 40,000 households 25 thousand dollars for Homeownership assistance with that billion dollars.
We give 20,000 businesses 50 thousand dollar
grants they never had to pay back.
We could give 10,000 businesses $100,000 investments.
We could give 50,000 people $20,000 skilled trade scholarships.
We could give 100,000 Milwaukee students $10,000 training scholarships.
We could employ 200,000 youth over the summer and pay them $5,000.
We could give 4,000 homes a quarter of a million dollars for total rehabilitations and we could build 5,000 brand-new affordable housing units with a cost of up to $200,000 each.
We also could replace 116,000 lead water laterals in the city of Milwaukee.
that is actually money to replace all of the lead water laterals, plus an additional 36,000 lead water laterals.
They are roughly $8,611 each.
That billion dollars that we spend on violence and anti-violence and violence programs and incarceration in the courts.
medical care and police services and EMTs associated with violent crime and homicide could replace 116,000 lead water laterals.
The entire city budget is just over $2 billion.
The violence industrial complex is economically equivalent to roughly half of everything the city of Milwaukee government spends in a year.
The $1 billion that we spend on violence and violence related activities just in the city of Milwaukee, not the county, is equivalent to three years of Milwaukee bucks revenue.
The latest Milwaukee Business Journal ranking estimates Milwaukee Tool at approximately $9 billion in total revenue, and they have 4,700 employees.
Therefore, the Milwaukee Violence burden is $1 billion.
Milwaukee Tools annual revenue was $9 billion.
The Violence burden is roughly $0.11 for every dollar of Milwaukee Tools worldwide annual revenue.
Another way to visualize the $1 billion that we spend on violence in the city of Milwaukee is $83.3 million every month.
We spend nineteen point two million dollars every seven days We spend two million seven hundred forty thousand dollars every twenty four hours on violence prevention services and the results of violent crimes in fact we had a two million dollar day yesterday because there were three non fatal shootings to the tune and total cost of six hundred and forty four thousand dollars each
The City of Milwaukee spends $114,000 per hour on violence and violence-related services.
The City of Milwaukee spends $1,900 every single minute of every single day due to the violence in our communities and our neighborhoods.
My program is almost over today.
Got about a minute left and the lunch break will take over.
During this radio program today in which I am thankful that all of you tuned in, the city of Milwaukee spent $342,000 in the last three hours of this radio program on violence and violence prevention services, just during my program.
We cannot just outsource the solutions to other agencies, to other nonprofits, to just the police, to just the common counsel and just the mayor.
We can't just rely on the office of community wellness and safety.
These are more reactive and responsive organizations that do provide a lot of opportunity and resource for victim services.
The last piece of the puzzle is us.
We have outsourced as much as we possibly could to the tune of a billion dollars a year and 342 thousand dollars every three hour program that I do.
And I would argue that for that billion dollars that we are spending, we are barely managing the program.
So it is up to us to figure out how we can reduce those costs and then maybe just maybe and hopefully optimistically.
reinvest those violence industrial complex dollars somewhere else where they could be and should be more productive and hopefully reducing the misery index that exists for far too many people in the city.
Thank you for listening.
I'll see you next time.
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Welcome to hour two of The Truth with Sherwin Hughes.
Three people were injured in three separate shootings in Milwaukee on Monday, September 14.
29th in Velitz, according to the Milwaukee Police Department at about 3.50 p.m.
and 18-year-old was shot.
The shooting victim went to a hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries.
8th and Keith just after 5 p.m.
a 38 year old was shot during a fight and was transported to a hospital for treatment of non fatal injuries and 11th and capital just after 6 30 p.m a 37 year old was shot and taken to a local hospital for treatment of non fatal injuries
Milwaukee police are investigating the shootings and looking for those responsible.
As stated earlier, each shooting costs in total in aggregate $644,000.
Just yesterday cost the city about $2 million that we don't have.
If violence in Milwaukee were a corporation, it would represent roughly a one billion dollar a year enterprise.
That's almost three times Milwaukee Bucks organization worth of annual revenue.
It's equivalent to about one-fifth of everything Harley Davidson takes in worldwide in a year.
The difference is Harley Davidson and the Bucks create economic value.
Violence consumes it.
The most useful way to make the estimated one billion dollar annual societal burden in Milwaukee concrete is to treat it as an opportunity cost thought experiment not the Milwaukee City Hall literally has one billion dollars sitting in an account that could be redirected but that violence consumes or destroys resources that otherwise could support productive investment and because this violence is consuming and I'm not telling you that I know the answers to this
I just want to present the information as it exists and let people stew, let it incubate a little bit.
And then maybe we can look at violence a little bit differently.
I know that the City of Milwaukee Health Department and the Medical College of Wisconsin, they've decided to look at violence as a public health problem.
Good, good, because that opens us up for opportunities to receive grants, to attack a public health problem, opens us up to receive grants from the federal government, because whenever you have a...
public health issue than the Department of Health and Human Services can issue grants because that's really all that department does.
It was created by Congress to address
Issues of public health nationwide in cities and in states.
What's not helping though when it comes to public health on a side note is that people don't believe in vaccines and the damn measles epidemic is coming back.
Here's the problem with that.
That means that we're going to have to focus more of our federal dollars on people with damn measles than we are on potentially treating violence as a public health hazard.
But what we are doing here is we are looking at the overall opportunity cost, which adds to.
the misery index in this city.
It's a violence industrial complex if you think of all of the organizations and all of the nonprofits and some of them are really good and they hire really good people that are very dedicated to this type of social service and community work but the returns are diminished.
Great organizations but also keep in mind these are nonprofits and so when these nonprofits expand and they get some real estate, they get a building, they get an office.
or they can bring everyone and everything in house and they've got an office manager and they've got an executive director and they've got support staff and they might even have people that go out in the streets and do violence interruption and they offer all sorts of programs so that building that they have which we would say oh this is great you can bring all these anti-violence services under one roof here's the problem the footprint of that building is not bringing in any property tax revenue in fact it's exempt
So if there was a private corporation or a private business or someone's entrepreneurial endeavor occupying that same space, the city of Milwaukee would be collecting money.
But when you have a non-profit occupying that space, there is no money being collected.
So that even worsens and exacerbates.
this one billion dollar a year violence industrial complex in Milwaukee that adds ever so slightly to the misery index, which is why I believe people are simply moving away because there are places, believe it or not, where a billion dollars of lost opportunity is not going out the door and that billion dollars can be reinvested into those cities and those towns and those counties and they are flourishing.
I think a great investment would have been.
For an intermodal system of public transportation because buses ain't it I shout out to the people that ride the bus so many clearly needs to ride them But I just I don't think that they work and plus they've been cutting bus routes for a very long time And that was on purpose when Scott Walker was county executive He knew that jobs and jobs of the future will be created in the office parks of Exurban and suburban neighborhoods But what he made sure to do by saying well, we can't spend all of your taxpayer money.
We're gonna cut your taxes
by cutting bus routes so people that don't have transportation or simply can't afford it or people that should not and cannot be driving could not take a bus to go to the places where the jobs were being created.
That was very much on purpose and that is an extension of the segregation that we know so well here in southeastern Wisconsin.
We segregate people from going to where the jobs and opportunities are.
But people need jobs, right?
So what do they do?
They drive illegally, and now you get pulled over, and now your car gets impounded, and now you're in the system.
Let's talk to Al from Sherman Park.
You're on one-on-one, seven-the-truth.
How are you?
Hey, I'm doing well.
How about yourself, Sherwin?
Doing OK.
What's on your mind?
On my mind is the expert in political class.
At what point?
Do we realize that the experts are experts?
Say more about that.
Let's talk about the school board.
Don't we vote those people in because we think they're experts in education, especially those sponsored by the teachers union?
Not necessarily.
We vote them in because they're the only ones running.
And we don't produce the kind of people that reflect our sentiment to run for the school board because nobody wants to do it.
That's that's part of it.
But let's not let's not call them experts.
Those are the people that want to do it and agree to do it.
And a lot of times, yes, you are right.
They are led by somebody else's agenda.
But let's also not pretend like we're producing a tremendous amount of candidates to run for the school board because those folks are rarely primary.
So some of this falls on us too.
So I had a friend.
She's a nurse.
God bless their heart.
You know, she's compassionate and everything.
When this last referendum came up on the school board, she kept saying,
the vote for her because it's for children.
I said, the children aren't going to see that money.
You think after all these years, these people have been running this institution and keep coming back to us for money, that this money is going to make it to the kids?
They're going to be back around asking us for more money in just a couple of years.
And guess what?
Get ready, folks, because they're going to ask us for some more money.
And I hope we say no.
The other thing is,
Doesn't the city own the building?
So why is the school board telling the city they can't sell the building and who is in cahoots on the city side with the school board listening to them and not selling the buildings that we have to maintain?
You so you are correct the Milwaukee Common Council does have It's like a collaboration the city of me wants the building is vacant MPS building is vacant
the city of Milwaukee has some flexibility and receivership of that building, but at the bequest of the school board and the district.
So the common council can be like, hey, let's shed some of this surplus property in the district and not so fast.
So we have to separate the district's hand and involvement in buildings they are no longer using.
Because I think the Common Council is funding the maintenance of the building.
Or basically we
are.
I text dollars and then also we also got a school district assessment too.
Yeah, so the experts kind of drive me nuts because one of the things, example, these people look out for one another, the Department of Violence or whatever they're called now, how many people they've gone through, they're supposed to be experts in violence, I guess.
We had gotten rid of Willie Hines off of the city council.
Whose bright idea was it to put him in charge of hood?
The city housing authority, you know what I'm saying?
So
well, he's not there anymore.
That's for sure.
But also, let's not overstate the office of community wellness and safety, which used to be the office of violence prevention.
A goddamn office can't prevent violence.
What that?
agency does is it distributes money and resources to victims and does like preventative education.
So they're not going to stop somebody from punching their wife in the face.
But when the wife gets punched in the face, they'll have like a band-aid for
her.
But we got to start or stop listening to the excuses and taking them at face value.
We got to do some deep diving.
Like when the teachers told you they're going to get rid of phonics because it was boring to kids.
Well,
Kids are going to be bored at some point in school, but they still got to learn.
God darn it, phonics worked, right?
And we're going to get rid of cursive.
How's that working out?
You know what I'm saying?
These ideas that these people that are supposed to be experts in education are coming up with aren't helping our children and aren't producing the good product.
So at some point we have to question the experts with our own common sense.
And one more piece I wanted to add on to your violence.
The other thing you don't realize, unless you've been through it, that when someone gets killed on your property, you're responsible for the death scene cleanup.
And that's expensive.
You can try to bill it to your insurance company.
They might help you out with that.
That's another cost that people don't realize.
And on the back end in the medical field, I do see people that have to come in who survived shootings and the rapes and other violent situations.
They have to come in for multiple surgeries and therapies.
And that's another cost that people don't see.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
OK.
You too.
Hang on a second.
Wait a minute.
Yep.
The property owner or person controlling the premises is Legally responsible for arranging and managing death scene cleanup once authority is released the scene
well that
makes sense though if You're an absentee landlord in Texas and you rented to someone who committed a murder Golly that's How do you advertise that vacancy
Apartment for rents freshly renovated slightly haunted
You believe in ghosts Mm-hmm, I do
what the hell you're still doing for I thought we was done with you Look you asked me if I believed in ghostly he answered I thought he hung up.
Oh lord.
What's happening?
I believe that some spirits don't rest
I don't I've never been Afraid of a ghost though.
I've probably Experienced some things that any other person would Would probably call a ghost or a spirit.
You know how when you're here's an example When you're alone at home or wherever You just I don't know you're chilling landing on the couch Watching TV and you you feel like somebody walked in the room like the hair on the back your neck stands up That's somebody coming to visit you
I've literally
had a ghost experience
Yeah,
only at one person's house.
It was uh, oh my gosh.
Well, it was a friend of a friend this female and The house is literally on What's that Holton and north it's off of Holton and north and it's like an old house from like the I guess it's almost over over a hundred years old but
literally like they're they're warning us before it came out like oh we had ghosts and stuff like that don't be like weirded out or anything like that and like literally like I'm like chilling watching TV and then I see the cabinet open up in their in their kitchen and it closes by itself and then literally like the whole time I'm over there I'm like seeing like shadow people out the side of my eye that's the only time I've ever had a ghost experience in
Felt real as hell and then I heard someone there.
We heard somebody walking upstairs and no one was upstairs
Did you go back over to the house after you had that ghost experience?
Well, it was like it says a friend of a friend.
So I had no reason to go back over there.
I Never have nothing like that.
No, yeah, I was literally seeing shadow people out.
Were you
sober?
Yeah, I was sober You know, I don't drink and smoke
Hold on man.
You ain't gotta drink and smoke to be under the influence
Oh,
I wasn't under the influence of any poutine or anything like that.
And nobody say none about no damn poutine.
I'm over
here trying to keep the show between the ditches on the road straight and narrow.
And here you go.
I'm just talking about ghosts.
All right.
Yeah, I've never had an experience like that.
But I believe there's some supernatural phenomenon that may take place.
In fact, in the city of Milwaukee, we got all sorts of supernatural phenomenon that take place.
I'm gonna take a break and when I come back, I'm gonna give you a more tangible explanation of what we are not getting, what we are missing.
Services that are not being delivered because of the exorbitant costs of violence.
Number one, number two, NPS referenda work in a very particular way.
So you've got 100 and I don't know, let me use a round number, 150 schools.
in the district total.
Elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, learning centers, whatever.
I would say 20 of those schools, whether it be elementary, middle or high schools, doing okay, performing okay.
Kids are on grade level, reading and math.
High schools have high graduation rate.
Maybe even high, either employment rate after high school or a relatively high.
College enrollment rate, okay, so maybe maybe 20 schools, okay?
When the district receives a referendum of the 150 schools The 20 schools that are performing the best that need the resources the least Get the majority of the money so they maintain their high performance I need you to understand that so when there is a referendum what they're going to do is they're going to tell us about the 130 schools that are underperforming that need the money
but the schools that are already high performing and have AP classes and the high schools that have a high graduation rate, a high college application rate are going to get the majority of the money leaving 130 schools that are in desperate need of the resources to split the money that's left over.
You have to, as a part of the structure,
Maintain a number of schools that are underperforming so you always can use them as a piggy bank because you tell the public well These schools are underperforming and if we get more money we can help them Do you know how many separate?
Referenda it will take to get the funding and the resources to the underperforming schools because the high performing schools I'm gonna let you guess where teachers and administrators send their kids to school.
I'm gonna let you guess I Think you figured it out
It ain't the lowest performing schools the high performing schools get the money first and get the majority of it leaving the majority of the underperforming schools Still starving so they can come back at you two years later two and a half years later to look at all these schools that are underperforming We need three hundred and fifty five million dollars.
Y'all got a sucker one last time.
That's it.
You ain't suckering us no more
We'll talk more about it as time goes on.
They're gonna be over here trying to make the case, but we're gonna see right through it.
The truth with Sherwin
Hughes will be right back.
For
scale Milwaukee's entire 2026 city budget is a little over $2 billion.
So a one billion dollar violence industrial complex burden is economically equivalent to Roughly half of everything the city of Milwaukee government spends in a calendar year Now if we could reduce that violence industrial complex so the violence industrial complex is the cost associated with violent crime in the city of Milwaukee
Non-fatal shooting costs six hundred forty four thousand dollars a fatal shooting costs about one point two when you look at police investigators EMTs Hospital services the court system incarceration etc etc etc.
This is per Incident this doesn't even include all of the other incidences of violence that need to be investigated this other crime like misdemeanors not included traffic not included
But violent crime, the kind that I believe is whether it's preventable or not, it can be reduced.
So to give more, I guess, detail of how we can conceptualize a billion dollars, what we could get that we are not getting in terms of service delivery, and when services are not delivered to people who are paying more and more, and it seems like the share of taxes we are paying, not only is it going up,
but people have less money because everything else that we need to survive is getting much more expensive.
Inflation is still a thing.
Groceries are expensive.
Fuel is expensive.
We're going to pay more to heat our homes.
Our sales taxes went up, so that's taken an additional 3%, and that's a tax that everybody pays.
And if your wages and salaries are not going up, you're being hit really, really hard.
And so the demand on government services actually goes up.
There were a few people that called yesterday that said, oh, well, we need to get rid of
Section 8 because we don't like some of the people and their behaviors those that are receiving it I think that would make the problem a lot worse because we also don't want a homelessness problem for a couple of reasons and when you think about homelessness first of all 40% of the people that are homeless in the United States are black men you really don't want to increase that number for a number of reasons but homeless people contrary to popular belief are not always the ones stealing and causing
Crime they're more likely to be victims so the more homeless people we have The more victims we are and the more people they can be taken advantage of and manipulate imagine a mother of four kids out there on the street She is just ripe for the picking and so are her children so having unhoused people That's a problem, but I have a solution for that, but it's going to take a tremendous amount of work It's going to take some policy adjustments.
It's also going to take
much more informed public because I think that we have simply resigned to the fact and just left everything up to fate and chance and maybe you vote maybe you don't and we just trust this crop of elected officials to fix all the stuff right now they are just managing this one billion dollar violence industrial complex
They're not chipping away at it.
They're not really reducing it.
They have to manage it because the city of Milwaukee certainly rolls up its sleeves and does this level best.
You got Chief Norman.
He's trying to do stuff.
You have some of his rank and file officers.
They're trying to do stuff.
You have city funded agencies.
They're trying to do stuff.
And I just don't know if it's working to the level in which it should.
The last component in all of this is us.
We want outsource everything.
We do.
We'd rather somebody else take care of the problem.
Not gonna go and talk to my neighbor and tell them to turn their music down I'm gonna call the goddamn police to the tune of what two or three four hundred dollars per call for service You know what I mean it's stuff like that What does one billion dollars actually buy You guys remember we were all mad and complaining about the lead pipes remember that everybody's like oh we have lead water Pipes and the kids got the lead poison some adults got it too
Kind of stopped talking about that.
I received a letter We all got that letter probably 2015 or so 2014 2015 if your house was built before 1950 Which is a lot of the housing stock in the city of Milwaukee.
You received a very nice letter very nice neatly worded Hi, you may live in a house that has lead water service lines just to let you know you should get a water filter If you don't have a water filter
The city of Milwaukee will provide them for you at a couple of different scattered sites Throughout the city.
I remember the city had 3,000 water filters, but 70,000 homes With lead service lines, right?
Oh, I remember like it was yesterday.
So I got the letter and I was back when I was On a little more feisty, I guess I'm feisty now in a different way.
I redirected my feisty So I was
Still close with the mayor.
So I said, Tom, I need you to join me on air because I got this letter.
And a lot of people in the city of Milwaukee that listened to my radio program, this is back when I was on WNF.
They received that letter as well.
I said, Tom, you need to come explain this, dawg.
He said, I'll come sure when I was going to hold his feet to the fire.
Like, man, the city in which you are the executive, 70,000 homes, a lot of these homes, people are renting them.
A lot of folks.
Don't have a lot of money, a lot of poverty, a lot of working class folks.
They don't have the money to replace their lead service line.
So I wanted the mayor to at least give us a semblance of a plan because prior to that, we didn't start replacing the, I think we started with NPS.
We, we replaced, like, you know, the bubblers in the damn schools had lead water pipes.
So if a child wanted to get a drink of water in the school, they were getting water from a, from lead water pipes.
So they prioritized removing the lead laterals from public schools.
Don't know if they finished or not.
But I know that's what the priority was, but that didn't start for years later.
There was a program that was designed where we would train Milwaukee residents, people recently released that didn't have a skill because we needed a tremendous amount of labor to replace these underground led service lines, right?
So you have the main water main.
that goes underneath the street.
You know when a water main breaks, you guys are familiar with that because it floods and they always break in the winter time and then everything ice is over?
Well, our water mains, some of them go back to 1870.
They're really, really old.
But the lead water lateral is what brings your water from that pipe underneath the street, the water main, into your house, you see.
And there was a video that I recorded where I gave like a tutorial.
I wonder if I can find that video.
It's several years old.
Where you can test to see if you have a lead water lateral coming into your house.
So there's going to be a pipe in the lowest level of your house, usually in a basement somewhere in the corner, where you're going to see this little collection of this like little tubes and pipes, metal pipes.
And what you do is you grab a coin.
Coin of your choice could be a dime, a penny, a quarter.
And you find these pipes, these tubes.
And you take that coin, and you scratch that tube or that pipe.
And when you scratch it, if it reveals a shine, then that's lead.
And so once I found out how to test to see if I had lead pipes in my house, I brought my little cell phone camera with me and said, all right, let's find the pipe.
I found it.
My basement against the back wall that's closest to the street.
Had my little coin in my hand, and I had my light on on my camera.
I was, all right, let me.
scrape a little bit of this pot.
Man, it's shine like a damn diamond.
I was like, uh-oh.
But of course I have water filters in my home.
But that just proved the point that I live in a house.
My house was built in 1926.
So they were using lead for everything back in the day.
Oh, lead is the wonder metal.
Oh, asbestos, asbestos is the chemical of the future.
Boy, oh boy, if we knew now, we knew then.
Or knew then when we know now, whatever.
Everything was made out of asbestos, sealing tiles, brake pads, probably your grandmother's hat.
I wonder why your grandmother had head cancer right around where her hat was at our head.
She had a little ring of cancer.
Not funny.
But we learned a lot about some of the toxic chemicals that we use.
So I invited the mayor on the show and I was going to hold his feet to the fire because then the plan was put together because we needed these 70,000
Lead water laterals replaced because it is a public health risk.
It's a public health hazard There's no amount of lead that is safe in the human body and it can have an impact on adults It really has an impact on children in fact when children have high levels of lead in their blood.
Guess what?
They have learning disabilities They have behavior problems a whole host of really terrible things some of which we can identify pretty readily I bet if we tested the children in the juvenile justice system right now probably 50% or more of them would test
Exorbitantly high for levels of lead, but that's another conversation.
That's a That's the health problem that we would have to solve So I bring the mayor on on the radio.
Okay.
Oh, I can't wait.
I'm gonna go after him.
You know what he did you like Sure when I understand that many people Receive the letter in the mail that their home may have a lead service line going to their house and it's a very serious problem.
I was like
Yeah, what are you going to do about it?
You know what he did?
He reached in his goddamn pocket and he pulled out the letter.
He said, sure, when I got the same letter, we in the same boat.
I was like, damn.
He's like, I'm the mayor of the city.
I said, yeah, but you have the money to replace yours.
He was like, my kids are mostly grown.
He diminished the problem.
And I sat there dumbfounded here.
I am thinking that the mayor is going to present a plan to the people in this city who have led water laterals.
And he did not.
He showed me his letter.
If we weren't spending a billion dollars on the violence industrial complex, we could replace 116,000 lead water laterals in the city.
Let me be clear.
We only have 70 of them.
So the money that we are spending on violence could replace the damn lead water laterals.
And then somehow we could replace all of ours and Walker Charles.
If we spent less money on violence, I'm going to take a break.
Come back.
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Reginald says most of the Milwaukee housing stock has been built before 1915
Once you start most of those those houses unless they were maintained are gone They've been torn down near north side near south side.
Ah, maybe but once you start getting like north of capital drive those areas are new That's like the 1960s.
Look at all the housing projects.
Most of those were built just after World War two So we do have a sizable number of houses that were built after 1950 but yeah near north side near south side probably but then once you start moving especially toward the
Far north west at the area of like Vincent High School.
Oh, that stuff is the 70s.
So that's considerably newer.
Donald says that school water was good, especially when it was cold.
Maybe it was the lead that made it so cold.
Oh, Jesus.
I think you were just very thirsty.
There's no thirst.
Like little kid playing outside in the hot summer Sun thirst when we used to drink out of the water hole That was some of the best most delicious slightly plasticky very metal tasting water.
I ever had Xavier you don't know nothing about that you drink bottled water your whole goddamn life You don't know about what it's like being from the trenches.
I There was we had water hoses outside
of
my house.
Oh, you did.
Yeah, but it
was
Here, the gardener churned the holes off he poured it in a crystal glass with some ice cubes in it.
I wish I was that rich.
All
right.
But no, the water was nasty.
I was thirsty enough.
I drink it.
I'm
not
going to say, oh, kids don't.
Oh, this water is not meeting my taste.
If you're thirsty, you going, we drank water out of goddamn squirt guns.
Remember that plastic ass water?
Oh, I'm thirsty.
Let me open up my squirt gun.
That's insane
tasted like microplastics.
We didn't know no better back then We just had an assumption that the world was safe, but it was so different.
We were different as kids These young people now and I don't I'm not trying to compare because their whole universe is different It has been artificially sculpted by virtual reality ours was shaped by actual reality Living in the actual world we actually had consequences to what we did
Now consequences like I can invent an entire person or personality online Be a bully be mean to people and then turn my device off and don't have any accountability for it back in the day If you were mean or disrespectful to somebody you were dealt with We also bullied a lot a Lot a lot it wasn't like we didn't kill anybody But you know everybody got it though
It wasn't just, I mean, some kids probably got it more than others, but what I learned about that, because I actually had to, like, reassess some of the bullying that took place, whether I did it or I was a victim of it.
And as bad as it got, and some of it was, there were some kids that, once that recess bell rang, we just, we chased them until we caught them.
What's the statutory limit on a hate crime?
I
don't know.
Hate crime is a whole separate category than bullying.
OK, I'll be
quiet then.
There's one incident that.
That I really, really regret.
I was in seventh grade and I was real mean to this kid.
And as I look back on what I said to this kid.
I'm thinking of myself.
Oh, yeah, he's going to come and kill me.
Like if he finds me, I think that if he is affected because I was it was not nice.
I was like, Dan, that was so mean of me to do that.
And when you're in seventh grade, you do some bad things.
I did some bad things at football practice.
Yeah.
But some kids are resilient and they can get over it.
And they just charge it to the game.
And she's like, oh, yeah, it is what it is.
But then some kids are messed up by his name was Lon Skattaboo.
No, no, that was his name.
You know what I mean?
Like you got a name like Lon Skattaboo.
You're already in a little bit of trouble, you know I'm saying and I just I wasn't very nice to the kids a line if you listen and I'm sorry, brother I was a kid.
You know, I mean don't hold me responsible Must be affecting you still to this day.
I just it was stupid, you know, but here's what I was gonna say Regardless of how bad the bullying was Nothing compared to the adult world
Nothing compared to real life where no one outside of your family cares about you Everybody's trying to get you everybody's trying to compete with you.
Everybody's trying to diminish your success It was it I think it prepared us my generation is incredibly resilient We also grew up with both of our parents in the workforce and grew up mostly unsupervised.
We took care of ourselves We were the latchkey kids.
We figured the world out.
We were cooking at eight nine ten years old We were taking care of ourselves.
If you had younger siblings, you were taking care of them.
So we were forced
Interresponsibility because the economy changed to where now Women were almost universally in the workforce because the economy changed so much it took two Incomes to survive and we think that interest rates to say on the 30-year fix are high right now back in the 80s when my parents bought their house that interest rate was probably 15% that's insane
Nobody would buy a house if interest rates were at 15% right now.
If you bought a car, you bought a used car, you're paying 20% interest.
That's just what it was back then.
That Reagan economy was nasty.
So there was a lot of resilience that came out of that era.
And then now you got this world where everybody is in the opposite direction.
They're overly sad, overly soft, overly sensitive.
People got to take mental health days.
And I'm not saying you don't need to take a mental health day.
But there was a resilience that was built into us to where if we, my generation needed a mental health day, it's because the damn world was ending.
It had to be calamity.
It had to be disaster for us to take a mental health day.
And we still went to work.
We're just a little mentally messed up.
That's all Oh Sally you look a little sad today.
What's wrong?
Yeah, my house is burned down this morning, but I was able to get out by 7 o'clock and be here on time I'll deal with that when I When I get home to the ashes Just a tough group of people But then also my generation raised a bunch of punks
Because maybe just maybe they don't want their kids to have to experience Some of the isolation and the loneliness and the lack of supervision But you can give kids too much supervision and they never learn you got to tell these little bastards know sometime The world is gonna tell them no all the time the world is gonna tell kids No with a smile on their face and some of these kids aren't gonna be able to they can't cope they can't hack it What do you mean?
No, what do you mean?
I can't do that.
What do you mean?
I can't make my own rules.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
My parents love telling me no my parents will sometimes tell me no before I even asked if I had
a
look on my face Sure, whatever you know Eugene the boy got a look on his face like he might ask for something you heard your mama no But I didn't know no Mm-hmm Go go over there.
They always just point in a just a random direction go.
Hey come here what?
Go over there.
But I was already over there.
I don't care.
When I say, come here, you come here and then go to a place that I don't see you.
Go outside.
I've been kicked out of your own house.
Just go out.
Don't you got to go play?
I think I might have known when my parents wanted to do when they sent me outside.
You know what I'm saying?
And then I got a little brother out the deal.
So I guess it was just different back then as well.
Take a break come back.
What else is this billion dollars?
Get us a whole bunch of things Talk more about that on the other side.
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Linda says, if we had a democratic control legislature in Wisconsin, can the people of Milwaukee get them to change current order of operations with the legislature, DPI, NPS and students?
No.
Changing that order of operations is like going to work before you wake up and get out of bed.
No.
We don't need the order of operations change.
We need more informed voters.
One, because we're not even asking appropriate questions of candidates that do run, because if we question them, if we press them, like, hey, if you want our vote, here's what you got to answer, here's what you got to provide, we don't do that.
We also don't show up once they get elected.
Hey, we're having a budget hearing, nobody goes.
Hey, we're having a school board meeting determining if we're going to give you guys, you know, better options for your kids, if we're going to close buildings, build new buildings, or do another referendum, nobody shows up.
So that's.
That's part of it.
We also need people and this is the tough part They want to run for office that are good.
Nobody wants to do it.
Nobody wants to represent us Who do you think wants to quit their damn job where they're doing okay?
Maybe they're living comfortable Because they're accomplished right they're smart.
They're intelligent.
They know how things work.
They'll be really good elected officials We have to convince them to leave the private sector Maybe make an a quarter million dollars a year or more to be on a goddamn school board for $18,000 a year.
How you gonna do that?
The people that have the best solutions and the best answers do not want to run for office because look at what they would have to manage Look at the behavior of people look at the crime look at the homicides Nobody wants to do that would you do it and I love how we say oh we we need to find better people You're the better person, but you don't want to do it
But we think that there's like this magical group of people that are just destined to be elected officials.
The magical group of people are those that are frustrated with the current system.
And there will always be people that will pop up that are frustrated with the current system.
I'd imagine Donald Trump was very frustrated with the current system.
And then he found a group of people that were also frustrated.
But look at what he used, though, to galvanize the frustration he used.
Race but he wasn't happy with the current system now was he?
We got to change this we got to send these immigrants the hell out of here We're gonna take away the affirmative action in the DEI and the cancer research because we come to find out that when the federal government invests in cancer research Black people actually live longer Donald Trump literally called that DEI Can't invest all this money in cancer research the blacks are living
Nobody wants to do it Read the news every article every local news I live for a whole week and then tell me do you want to be in a position where some of that stuff is going to be You're gonna be blamed for some of that where that stuff falls on you
Even the stuff that's out of your control because the public is going to blame elected officials for everything and black elected officials.
They have it even worse because black people and black voters think that when we send somebody to public office, they become higher than Jesus.
We think that if a black elected official is occupying a position that racism no longer affects them, I would argue it affects them more.
Donald says.
See, that's the problem I have with Crowley.
Spelled wrong.
When the city needs money, he's not a creative thinker.
He falls on the same old thing that isn't working, raising taxes, work with Jess.
Get the rich.
There's a lot to unpack there, sir.
If you're a sir.
Do you think the David Crowley can just go get money?
All he can do is sign stuff, brother or sister.
The county legislature creates the budget and where do you think the money?
Where's it gonna come from?
It's not coming from property values I think the county taxes our property at a way lesser amount than the city does and also he the city of Milwaukee has his own form of government So if you want more money for the city Crowley ain't your dude Crowley has 19 cities that he is executive over but there's a county board that creates the budget He can't just go find money and let's say he does he gets creative as you suggest.
He should be D Donald the legislature be like nope
The county board don't go for it.
David Carly can't do anything.
So it's not just him.
Executives don't have as much power as you think.
Now, when he becomes governor, different story.
Line item veto can spend money from the federal government directly on things that he wants to spend money on.
Absolutely.
A little different when he becomes governor.
Let's talk to Sandra here on one on one seven.
The truth.
How are you?
Hi Sharon when I'm fine.
How are you doing today?
Good.
What's on your mind?
I was listening to you giving us a bunch of Education and homework to do and and it gives me more to look up, but I look at stuff anyway But yesterday when I called I was telling you about back in the good old days how we came up and which was I wasn't saying that we're going back
What I'm saying is, I don't speak it directly, but now I am.
We have a fight on our hands.
Like they say, you have to fight for democracy.
So we have a fight because everything we have fought for is getting taken away.
And so now you see, like you say, you talk about the area, and especially crime.
When they say crime, that means blackface.
To me, anytime you say crime, because Milwaukee, that's all they say we do is crime, shootings, and this and that.
Then you got advertising that you advertised about the children, what to do with guns.
Now you need to advertise the grown-ups what to do with guns, because like I had been reading a lot about that LaPierre, him and his wife over there shooting elephants in the face.
So what do you think they think about us?
If they could shoot an elephant in the face, LaPierre couldn't kill the elephant, shot him five times in the face.
So that's the way they think about us.
And so I look at all of this stuff and I put it together.
So now we have to fight.
We have to somehow get behind the iron curtain like that.
We had you think they came here to apply to 225?
We had lawyers going back, back, way back, and finding out, going into our colleges, learning how we operate and all that stuff.
What we do, if our guys wear the pants down, oh, wow, I'm surprised that ain't against the law.
But number one, they need to put something about these guns for the adults, and maybe they'll stop whatever they're doing.
And they need to stop making Milwaukee be the worst place in Wisconsin because there's other places.
The suburbs get newsletters, so you don't hear a lot about them.
But they have crime and stuff, too.
And I get so sick of that.
I get so sick of that that it blows your head up.
And I'm not my husband was political.
He was political and I wish I had been on the real boat with him and which I was because we thought we might we did all of that stuff.
These people don't do nothing.
They don't pull the plugs out of unions.
They're going up to school with that actin and that Scottie Walker way over there in Washington D.C.
helping Trump win and Sheriff Clark over there.
Ex-Chief Clark.
He's over there.
Paul Ryan.
All of them over there trying to
downgrade Milwaukee and then they make you say these empty buildings.
How come they're growing up in schools over there?
How come the manufacturers are lepimenti?
How come they haven't, you know, started working on those?
And so it's a lot of estimations to be said, but I'm not going to hold you.
But like I said, I'm trying to get into this hard because I just think of black people being blamed for everything and that's what they used.
Okay.
Thank you,
Sandra.
Okay,
bye.
Bye-bye.
Valid Yeah, the suburbs have crime, but it doesn't cost them as much And I'm not gonna sit here and do one of those oh, they're doing it out there I don't give a rat's fat ass what anybody else is doing anywhere else and say well look at them.
No, thank you.
Let's look at us Us give it I don't care about them
us.
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Lucretia wants to know what kind of educational background do you need to have a position in let's say government to run for office none I Come to find out you won't even got to be a lawyer to run for judge now if you want to get hired By a current elected official by an executive to be like a policy director you might need a degree in political science or some other related field
But to run for office, almost none.
Other than president, that's got some requirements where you got to be a born American citizen in the age of 35.
But there's no educational requirement.
You can't tell the creature.
You can't tell you don't need no educational requirement to be the president of the United States.
Donald Trump, Trump, honestly, and you can ask him and he probably would tell you because he's so dumb, he don't even know how to lie about certain things.
He don't even understand what the Constitution is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what the Department of Justice is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what Congress is and how they work.
No concept of it whatsoever.
And dude won two of the three elections in which he ran.
You don't need no educational requirement.
I would argue that the lesser the education you have, the more relatable you are to people that also have a lesser education.
Because there used to be a time when we wanted people representing us that were way smarter than us, the new stuff that we didn't know, and they would just take care of all that complicated stuff for us.
We wanted elected officials that lived off of the fine print.
They lived and they read the fine print where us as society, we didn't have to worry about the fine print because we would hire people and elect people that were read it for us and would take care of us, making sure that fine print wasn't taken advantage of us.
Now,
now, can't nobody read nothing?
People don't want somebody smarter than them.
Who do you think you are, you liberal elite?
You're you're too smart.
I don't like that person They know a bunch of stuff that I don't know which makes me look and feel stupid I don't want to vote for somebody that makes me look and feel stupid I want to vote for somebody that makes me look smart George Bush wasn't no damn rocket scientist either now.
He wasn't Let's talk to the town you're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
Are you doing sir?
I'm doing good.
What's on your
mind?
couple questions and a comment.
The first question is the this violence, industrial complex,
yes,
that you that you were hearing to this means you're talking about.
And in here, who gets to who gets that?
All right, where does the money that she was out of that?
That's so there is no, there's no winning.
This is just what the cost is because of the incidence of violence.
So it maintains
the police.
It maintains the EMTs and the
doctors and the prosecutors in the court system.
That's where the money is going when there's a single shooting or a single incidence of violence.
Now, if we lessen the shootings and the homicides, then that money wouldn't be spent and it could be allocated to other places and I have a list of other places it could be allocated to.
All right, my second my second question is like I I'm on the on the polls I said, yeah, like yeah, I'm on my spending some more money on NPS because look at the state of some of these schools that with when it's in like they don't have AC You know the books are messed up or whatever like that.
That's why I believe that's why I believe we should pay NPS more for my question
is even if you knew
that none of those things are going to get remitted, even if you knew they're not going to get better textbooks, even if you knew that they don't have enough money for air conditioning, even if you knew that the schools that need the money most are going to get the least.
So even if you knew that, because that's what the truth is, would you still vote for
it?
I mean, nobody would, obviously.
But my question about that is, where is all that money coming from?
Like, why are we in a hole so much with NPS?
When our taxes when our taxes is so much in the state and in the city
Because the district is losing students when the district is losing students so each student is about 18 thousand dollars per year that the district gets but if parents are saying you know what I'm gonna send my child to a school outside the district or I'm gonna move away.
I'm gonna put my kid
in Whitefish Bay or I'm putting my kid in a charter school.
That's less revenue that the district has, but the district is not laying off teachers, not laying off principals, not laying off administrators.
The district isn't even selling buildings that are empty because they don't want higher performing schools to operate in those buildings that are empty.
So as time goes on and more and more people are sending their kids elsewhere and there's people are having less children.
We need more money from taxpayers to maintain the district even though it is emptying out because its performance is so low And so the money is gonna come from you and so you you may not mind giving the district more money But there's a whole bunch of people in this city.
They can't get enough.
They can't squeeze another penny They can't afford it.
They can't afford life.
They can't afford groceries They can't afford what it's gonna cost to heat their home.
And so this referendum is gonna put even more people over the edge
The way I feel about it is though
Like, we're not gonna beat the crime in a violence problem unless we pour in the money into our kids, you know?
And if we keep on arguing about, like, if we're gonna pay the kids or not, pay for the kids' education properly, well, we can't be surprised when, you know, the kids do bad things or whatever like that.
Well,
the parents gotta have some role, though, because we can't expect other people.
They also gotta keep in mind, brother, at the end of it.
What NPS is and what it's made up of is a bunch of people that do not want black children to be smarter than theirs.
We got to keep that in mind.
There's no interest for them to educate our kids.
If you're a white woman who lives in West Bend, do you honestly think that you're going to go to work every single day in North Division High School and make sure that those kids can read better than your own?
You will do no such thing.
I think that we forget that.
There is no incentive nor interest for them to educate our kids because guess what?
A teacher can be in the classroom for only two years and they can apply to get out of it.
Classroom to them is like serving a sentence.
They serve their sentence with our kids in the classroom.
They immediately want to get out and want to be an administrator and reply to be your principal.
And
gives the majority of the money to the schools that don't need it That's the part the people don't get I can show you 130 schools that need more resources better books smaller class sizes Tutors reading specialists and after-school programs They're not gonna get it cuz schools like King that don't need additional resources because they're performing Well, it's gonna get the majority of the money and I'm gonna let you figure out when teachers send their kids to public schools Which ones do you think they send their public schools to?
Obviously, the higher performing ones, that's where the referendum money is going to go.
But what they do is they trick folks like you and others.
They say, well, we need money because these schools aren't doing well.
We got to invest in the kids.
As long as you keep and maintain a crop of undereducated kids, the district can always ask folks like you for more money.
And most of y'all will say yes.
I feel I feel like, OK, you see, it's like it's a it's a there's some good schools and NPS.
Now this sounds like a real neophyte question, so forgive me.
But why can't MPS make the bad schools like the good schools?
I will pay for that.
If you can make Custer like King, I will pay that money for that.
Your guess is as good as mine.
I mean,
you know what
I'm saying?
There's no incentive to do that.
Because you got to have your flagship premier schools.
The district is not striving to be the best.
It really is not.
It's just striving to maintain and get from one budget year to the next budget year.
There's no real motivation.
So that's why parents need to exercise school choice because everybody else does.
If the district is not meeting the needs of the parents and the kids, then people should put their kids somewhere else.
And some people are like taking their kids out of school altogether and they're homeschooling their kids.
But to think that the district is going to solve all of our problems, it's not.
It's much more likely to suspend and expel black kids.
then it is to educate them.
And I get where you're coming from because you're also addressing your your sentiments as well.
I feel like I feel like when it comes to this, when it comes to bureaucracy and policy and money and taxes, don't nobody care how anybody feels, especially black people.
Literally, no one cares how we feel.
They're going to ask us for more money.
They're going to lie to us and tell us where it's going to go.
We're going to give it to them and they're going to call us suckers and ask for more money two years later.
If Crowley if Crowley wins.
Can't.
We have enough power
to make some change in that.
I don't want to put all that on him because there's a whole legislature that we have to be accountable for as well.
It's not just him.
Don't expect dude to be able to turn water into wine now.
He's going
to
have to deal with a racist Republican legislature that's mad that their Republican candidate lost and is mad that he is going to put them on the hot seat because they're going to be in the minority.
So let's not put it all on him now.
Oh,
I feel y'all feel, and my last thing to say, man, do not believe dude in that, in that plane crash.
He all right.
He all, that white man, he all right.
I mean, God bless him.
I'm glad he, he all right or whatever like that.
But you know, they'll be messing with Trump.
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
He, he, he, he cool with the FFC files being hidden or whatever like that, man.
Don't mess with Tom Tiffany, dawgs.
He, he bogus.
He bogus man bed on black man.
That's my time.
That was a good campaign commercial for Crowley.
Tom Symphony got 12 stitches above his eye.
Okay.
Both of his right eye.
12 stitches in the pilot got four stitches at 16 stitches between the two of them.
That's an average of eight stitches each.
And the plane is in the water.
And they got they got 16 stitches.
That's all they got.
That's an average of eight stitches a person.
No, I don't know what I'm just saying I wouldn't there there is some footage though there I saw it on Twitter of Of the plane you can kind of see it a little bit in the distance you can more hear the plane Going down in the distance then actually see it because that's one of the things that I was Calling for yesterday when we were talking about the time Tiffany water landing
Like where's the surveillance footage everybody got cameras people got the ring cameras in the home surveillance cameras And you got the flock cameras, and you got the walka-flockas and all the other cameras and mini cameras And so it's a real grainy Black and white video you can just see like the flashing of the of the airplane lines way off in a distance But you can hear and here's what you hear in a distance.
I'm gonna do my best impression of what it what you can hear from that somebody's home
Surveillance camera you hear
all you hear you can hear it you can't really see nothing that's going on but you hear And that's probably the plane
think that's what it is because when they released the video they said that's the plane and it's not very clear it's in the distance it's And then the plane is in the water The billion dollar violence industrial complex in Milwaukee If we didn't have to spend this billion dollars on all the associated services that are associated with fatal
non-fatal shootings, we could give $25,000 to Milwaukee homeowners to do whatever they want with the money.
Landscape, fix up their properties, replace their roofs.
Do you know how many property owners we could give that $25,000 grant to if we didn't have a billion dollars going out the door to pay for violence?
$40,000.
We could give 20,000 entrepreneurs $50,000 grants free money to start and support their ongoing business endeavors We could give 10,000 Milwaukee based businesses $100,000 each for everything new equipment new technology to make payroll to buy a new building or to expand We could give
50,000 people in the city of Milwaukee, $20,000 skilled trade scholarships, which would damn near meet and exceed the demand that we have for skilled trade workers right now.
I'm not done.
We could give $10,000 college scholarships to 100,000 students.
MPS only got 67,000 students.
We could give $10,000 to every single child in MPS and still have 33,000 grants left over.
We could give youth.
This is ridiculous right here.
We could have, we could give teenagers, we could have 200,000 jobs, internships for kids at $5,000 each.
We won't even have 200,000 kids in this city.
We could give four thousand homes that are dilapidated Two hundred and fifty thousand dollar rehabilitation.
That's too much.
You can damn near build a new house for two hundred fifty thousand dollars Well, these are just some of the things that we can do with that money We could build I know this will be a favorite of ours five thousand affordable housing units at two hundred thousand dollars a piece
These are just some of the things that we could do if we weren't spending a billion dollars on people shooting each other in the face and in the neck and in the butt cheeks.
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.
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Not really a city girl wants to know
How are sunburn schools receiving more of our referendum money?
Who decides that?
How is it possible that all of our public schools needs aren't taken care of first because these schools are prioritized?
You have to maintain the high standards, right?
And those high standards are very expensive.
And listen, there's no majority white MP at school.
I mean, maybe one of those like elementary schools on the east side, maybe, maybe a Montessori school here or there.
But the highest performing school, well, obviously.
That's where the teachers and administrators send their kids.
But the school board decides all that, but most people have never been to a school board meeting in their entire life, unless something is dire.
So I want to give you guys a little perspective on what this next referendum is.
And it's
not giving money to the schools that need it.
They want to build new buildings for a district that's losing students.
Make that make sense.
It's a waste of money.
Here's the thing.
They know that if we maintain
A really high number of children that are not on grade level in reading and math and a lot of these schools are poorly performing, they always have a reason and excuse to ask y'all for money.
and somebody is going to vote for the referendum.
You know who the people are that vote for the referendum?
More often than not, white folks and liberals that live on the east side to think that that's their contribution to you, poor n-words.
Like, oh my god, the little black kids can't read.
I'll vote for the referendum.
I live on the east side.
I live on Lake Drive.
I can afford it.
I don't want to deal with black people.
I don't really like black people, but I'll give them a little bit more of my property tax money.
What they don't realize is that everybody is going to have to pay for that referendum they vote for.
And of course, all of the teachers are going to vote for it, and there's still a large number of teachers that live in the city of Milwaukee.
And they're going to vote for it because they know that they're going to be resourcing the places in which they work and are ultimately going to retire.
And so that's what we're competing against.
But they want to build new buildings and put what in them.
You got buildings right now that are empty and that are vacant.
So forget those.
And they're also going to just hold on to those.
Those buildings should be sold.
And somebody had asked the question.
Well, why can't we make, you know, Custer more like Rufus King?
We can, but it won't be administered by NPS.
There are some schools like Milwaukee College Prep that would probably love to be able to purchase one of these vacant NPS buildings so they can expand their curriculum.
I probably can name a dozen other schools that are not NPS schools that are charter schools that are outperforming the district that would love to be able to expand.
And there are NPS buildings that are literally vacant, but the district does not want to authorize the sale of those buildings because the last thing that they want is to sell their building.
to a charter school that is better performing than NPS.
What's going to happen the next year?
More children are going to leave the district.
More parents are going to exercise school choice and send their kids to schools where they can actually learn how to read and maybe even graduate from high school.
And the district can't risk that.
So as long as you can maintain poor performing schools, they always can ask you for more money.
And if a lot of you are like the town that just called in, he's like, I feel like I'm a vote because I feel like I feel this has nothing to do with your feelings.
This is your money.
This is your policy.
This is somebody else's political agenda.
Here's what they want.
They want to capture your feelings.
They want you to have a deep sense of empathy and sympathy so that you vote for the referendum so they can build a new building.
I'm gonna give you the details of it in a second.
But first, let's talk to Al.
You're on 1017.
The truth.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Happy Tuesday.
I know you said somebody went down and the planning got 16 stitches.
I don't care if he got 16 stitches in his ass and it was two centimeters from his g-spot.
I'm still not voting for one.
Number two, they're nickel and diamond.
The people in Milwaukee, like they some junkies, where the LSD have it.
Let them close the schools down.
I mean, you ain't doing right by the money the first time you ain't doing right by the money the second time.
So out of here, we should give you some more money.
It's like you keep giving money to a junkie who didn't got saved and they got they got dunked under up out of that dirty water.
And then after they dry off, they take the money from the offering, go get high again and still be walking the streets at three, four o'clock in the morning searching for crack and dope and LSD.
I'm pretty sure Angel Ducks is going to make a comeback.
Let them close them down.
Also, I want to say, you broke up black politicians.
They're not looking for black politicians to come out with broken bronze sticks, belts, and heavy tree branches.
They're looking for them to open their goddamn mouth.
See, here's the thing, Mr. Hughes.
They know how to open their mouth when mama couldn't pay her rent and she got evicted when her seven years.
They know how to open their mouth when they said mama and daddy was a junkie and they did dumb down dope.
They knew how to open their mouth when they got on TV and said, we're suing Kia, because their cars is easy to be stolen, like Kia makes DNA and XY chromosome.
They matter of fact, the vehicle, the mother and father makes the child, okay?
Now, I'm not a fan of Donovan, but here's an example.
They was going to spray paint buildings on the south side.
Donovan said, you're not spray paint nothing.
Go to Detroit.
daughter Chicago daughter Minnesota but for some reason these black politicians don't say nothing but when you want to push like Nana grew up in five three two zero six we don't give a home depot bucket I said bucket where you grew up what can you do see they want to hear their thoughts
I mean, what they got to lose, they already got your vote and said, if you're in B, but now you don't know how to talk.
But I say this again, let the North side be 75% of white.
Those same black politicians gonna be on these issues like nose on good cocaine and ain't nothing left on that silver mirror.
Nothing.
You know how they take that long trigger finger and they go across that mirror and get the residue off and then put it in the back of their mouth.
That's how these black politicians going to be on it.
See, black people want to hear that base in their voice.
They don't want to sit there and everybody looking quiet like somebody's father and then they said, they said, not excuse me.
But then they want to get on TV.
We're going to rename this street after Dr. Kim.
So what?
Every streetie named after Dr. Ting.
Oh, well, we're going to do a 10-0-lily-lily-more day.
So what?
What you got to say for the people?
Oh, well, we don't got nothing to say.
That's what black people want to hear.
They ain't looking for you to come outside with a belt and a 2-by-4.
They want to hear you care, just like y'all do when it comes to section 8 in the mental health badge.
Because everybody dashes in that booth.
Let's not forget the food pantry.
Let's not forget we only push poverty and destitution when it comes to black folks.
Now everybody know how to talk.
But when it comes to some real issues, we won't say no, but we'll put up a banner right across three with the house, no windows with all the junkies and derelicts hanging outside.
OK, I got to go.
Bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
There was a story.
that I wanted to share before alcohol.
Al always mentions a particular alcoholic beverage that I have heard of, that I have seen, but I have never tried.
And they're called buzz balls.
I guess they come in a multitude of flavors.
And I've heard that buzz balls are very potent.
So there's a story.
Where the buzz ball is the star of the show and it was something that happened not too far away in a county just ever so slightly to the northwest of Milwaukee and if you listen to this show with great Frequency, I don't really speak much about things That are happening elsewhere because I don't care what's happening elsewhere unless it has a direct impact
on what we care about and what affects us here right now.
And my producer, God bless him.
He keeps his finger on all the world affairs.
Apparently, the Russians just did something in Poland.
I don't care what white people are doing each other in Europe.
Couldn't care less.
Couldn't not going to lose a wink of sleep unless they coming over here with them drones, unless they drone in the north side of the city of Milwaukee.
Couldn't care less.
I'm not worried about international affairs because what we have to deal with here.
Far more severe and far more pressing.
I want to be concerned about what I see when I look out my window, not when I read news sources that are from somewhere else.
Well, maybe there's some reason to give, you know, some kind of attention to things that are happening elsewhere, but not if black kids can't read.
So I'm going to be kind of stuck focused on this stuff because I can't ignore what I'm seeing directly in front of us.
But here's the buzz ball story.
Are you ready?
You're going to love this.
And it's political too.
And it involves either the Crowley campaign.
Or the Tiffany campaign and buzz balls are involved now.
Here's the thing Let me get to the story in just a couple little seconds right here.
Both campaigns are denying the incident if somebody's campaign was on them buzz balls From Jackson in Wisconsin a man from Texas who told police he was in town asking voters questions for the Wisconsin governor's race is now in the Ozarkie County Jail accused of hitting a bicyclist
while driving drunk and leading police on a chase.
Prosecutors charged Duane Maiden II with hit and run, great bodily harm and intoxicated use of a vehicle, bodily harm.
In Washington County, in Ozaki County, he faces fleeing or attempted to elude an officer and resisting and obstructing arrest.
On September 3rd, a criminal complaint says Maiden blew through a stop sign and hit a bicyclist at the intersection of Division Road and Western Avenue near the town of Jackson.
The bicyclist had a compound leg fracture and fractures to his pelvis, spine, and neck, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors say Maiden had a passenger and continued east on Western Avenue before the passenger got out and called 911.
The information we got from the passenger, he was telling him that you hit the person and we need to stop and the driver said, we're not stopping, we're going.
That's what Captain Tim Kemp's Washington County Sheriff said.
It's hard to believe that someone could do that to another human being.
The passenger told Maiden they need to stop and call the police according to the complaint, quote, the defendant said, no man, and that he's okay.
The defendant then continued driving from the scene approximately 30 to 40 miles an hour, the complaint states.
While interviewing the passenger about 10 minutes northeast of the crash site, the complaint says Maiden drove by and the passenger told police that's him.
Deputies say Maiden sped off, going approximately 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone, weaving within his lane and crossing the center line on at least.
two occasions.
Deputies say Maiden pulled over.
Video 12 news investigates obtained, shows deputies pointing rifles at Maiden and then ultimately arresting him.
Maiden, who was from Arlington, Texas, according to the criminal complaint, was in town canvassing for the governor's race.
Quote, the defendant stated that he works for a company that canvases neighborhoods for the upcoming governor's race.
The complaint states the defendant stated that he arrived in Wisconsin last Friday around August 28th.
The defendant said for the past three days, he and other coworkers, eight of them.
We're staying in an Airbnb in Milwaukee.
Campaigns for both David Crowley and Tom Tiffany said that he did not work for either.
We do not know this individual and he does not and has never been employed by our campaign.
Our prayers are with the bicyclist and their family, said a spokesperson from the Tiffany campaign in an email.
He's not a member of our staff, said Philip Shuleman, Communications Director for Crowley, Fort Wisconsin.
It's unclear exactly who Maiden was working for, though his co-worker told deputies they likely would be in Wisconsin for a couple of months and then move to New York, Florida, or some other state to do campaign work there, according to the complaint.
Maiden and his passenger told police the pair were in between jobs for the day when Maiden purchased a bottle of vodka and then Maiden took a sip of vodka, complaint states.
The defendant went to the store and bought four buzz balls, which he believed have about 15% alcohol by volume.
The defendant admitted to consuming all four buzz balls and did it outside of the witness of witness number four.
Later made and told deputies that he considered himself inebriated while driving the car according to the complaint the defendant did state that he felt Terrible and he knew if he knew he hit someone he would have stopped a preliminary breath test showed a result of Point two six eight, which is more than three times the legal limit damn it those buzz balls.
I wonder what what campaign was he working for?
I have a feeling, but I'm not going to say it on there.
I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our conversation.
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The truth Song is so peaceful It's called Mary's theme by Stelvio Sipriani All right, what are we talking about buzz balls?
People getting drunk working for different political campaigns is probably one of these outside groups
That is aligned with either I Don't know they're in they're in Jackson though So I don't with the Crowley with with an organ is in maybe no, but he was black you wouldn't put It's hard to tell it could be somebody with a Tiffany campaign because I know that there's a lot of outside groups that have an interest in either Tom Tiffany getting elected governor or David Crowley and these outside groups that are not affiliated with either campaign raised their own money
And they hire their own staff to knock on doors and distribute information and literature to places all throughout Wisconsin.
And if chances are, if you get your door knocked on at some point before November 3rd, we're like 48, 49 days from the election, by the way.
It might be from one of these outside groups, not necessarily someone who is directly employed by the campaign.
But this guy was named Dwayne Jawan, whatever his name was.
They got a picture of him.
He's wearing a do rag.
He looks the part.
He might have just been the driver because it seems like the person, his passenger.
Now, I don't have any.
You know, evidence of this, but I think his passenger was white because the passenger was like, no, you got to stop you hit somebody.
And then the passenger was the one that told the police all the information.
So who knows?
Let me give you guys some details on this referendum because please don't go into this thinking.
that the next NPS referendum, and we don't have a date yet, don't think it's going to give money to underfunded schools.
Even if they said they needed money for underfunded schools, that's not where the majority of the money would go.
But this one is specifically for building new buildings.
Milwaukee Public Schools officials revealed...
A facility master roadmap outlining a potential $355 million investment over the next decade.
The plan aims to build new schools, modernize existing buildings, and address a massive deferred maintenance backlog.
While Superintendent Brenda Coselius indicated a desire for state-level funding or interest-free loans, she noted,
that the district may have to consider school closures or going to voters for another capital referendum if state assistance is not secured.
Assuming that the Democrats get control of the state legislature and David Crowley wins his race for governor, it's not going to fall on him and them and it shouldn't.
The district has surplus property that it needs to sell because we are paying to maintain buildings that are empty.
Allow for some of the higher performing charter schools to purchase those buildings and they'll purchase the building at market rate.
Sell them the building for five million.
Sell it for six.
Sell it for whatever the real estate costs.
The proposed breakdown of the $55 million referendum plan is as follows.
If funded, the district's 10-year roadmap outlines the following target allocations.
New school construction $150 million to build three new schools.
Y'all are on dope.
Deferred maintenance, $86 million to address roughly one-fifth of the district's immediate maintenance needs.
School modernization, $50 million to renovate and update 20 existing schools.
HVAC, there's your air conditioning, and air quality.
$30 million for specialized upgrades to ventilation, heating, cooling, and air quality systems.
I want $30 million.
That ain't gonna scratch the surface.
The estimates are put air conditioning in all the schools is a billion dollars.
See, they're over here playing.
I have a feeling I know where that $30 million is going to go and what schools are going to get the air conditioning.
Career and technical education, $17 million, one of the lowest amounts, for facility renovations aimed at supporting specialized trade and tech programs.
Athletics and playgrounds, $17 million for updates to pools, athletic fields.
and NPS Playgrounds, sustainability in kitchens, $5 million for quote, green schools, environmental initiatives, and another $5 million for a centralized production kitchen.
You better not spend the hell you need $5 million for a centralized, you better use one.
Don't somebody use...
What do they call it in places them shared network and offices don't they goddamn kitchens don't disturb in Phoenix use the kitchen Better use one of these kitchens in the market hall Five million doubt let me hold on let me let me I'll build a kitchen Let's spend no five million dollars building no centralized production kitchen.
What is y'all going to cook?
What do you?
The schools got the kitchens in them because that's where the schools make the school lunches question for those who may know the answer Is NPS still?
Do they still serve the pizza?
Does it taste like it did in the 80s?
Does the school pizza or have they upgraded to like Pizza Hut?
I Don't know what it is about them soggy crusted rectangular the cheese was extra cheese.
You know what cheese they use they use government cheese.
Well, of course, it's NPS
My school lunch was 75 cents That's the what I remember it.
Well, I think when I by the time I got to be a senior it might have been a dollar but for the majority of mine It might have been less than that and if you want an extra milk it costs 25 cents By the time we got to high school we could have chocolate milk every day when we were in Middle school and elementary school with chocolate milk was only on certain days
That was like a party Somebody would get the the lunch menu because we had a calendar y'all remember did y'all have a calendar of what the lunch menu was for the month of October But a month of September they come up with a calendar so then you could plan but some kids Brought cold lunch.
I was a hot lunch kid Because I remember one time I wanted to be like the cold lunch kids
I said mom I want a cold lunch.
She's I make you little sandwiches throw you a little some stuff in the little brown bag You can be a cold lunch kid, but here's what's that what happened?
That was the day we had pizza so I didn't even eat my cold lunch I just let it sit in my locker till it rotted so that wasn't smart of me Pizza still School pizza or maybe we were just real hungry I Can ask you should ask ask one of your teacher friends
So all we had, so NPS had mock chicken legs.
To this day, I'm 51 years old.
I've never had a mock chicken leg in my entire life.
Just give a real chicken.
Mock chicken.
What is it?
You only got a mock chicken.
Just get a real, real chicken.
So here's what I remember.
We had hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken patties, baked chicken, Salisbury steak, pizza.
We didn't even have lasagna we'd have that was it that was a whole menu from Essentially kindergarten till I graduated from high school, but then by the time I got the ice-cream you get a la carte you get like a BLT Sandwich you get an order of french fries You get you some tater tots to this day.
I love a tater top love a tater top crispy crunchy tater top better than a french fry love it Gotta douse them holes and ketchup.
I want them drowning.
I want my tater tots
in the catch-up like Tom Tiffany and Lake Warsaw.
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Reginald Jones says, what's the price for a half pint of MPS milk these days?
Used to be three cents for regular and five to seven cents for chocolate.
Reggie, you went to school during Jim Crow.
Y'all just went and just milked the cow.
Come here, boy.
You want milk?
Grab a udder.
Dude Reggie bro.
He said did they still put a scoop of cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce with peaches?
Do that if that ain't a world war two ration snack Well, see we don't have any regular food because we have to give it all to the gi's that are fighting for our freedom.
It's victory time Here you go.
Feed this to the students Because that's how everybody talked back then.
Yeah, see
We're fighting for victory.
Gotta kill those Japs, indeed.
Don't have regular lunches for the kids.
Got these canned peaches, we do.
Dole or Del Monte, that's right.
Here, kids.
Have an after lunch cigar.
I was back when the kids were smoking at five.
Kids being a smoking lounge.
So, Sally, what do you think about that arithmetic homework?
Yeah, I swear.
It was the bee's knees, the cat's meow.
Best thing since sliced bread, indeed it was.
And then they do that dance where you put your hands on your knees and you move your knees side to side.
Can't wait to see you in the square dancing class.
We're gonna cut a rug.
Thinking about asking Bobby Sue to the sock hop.
I hope she wears that pink poodle skirt.
No saddle shoes.
Damn Reggie.
Shout out to Reggie, man.
Well, come on guys, they still serve kind of cheese and peaches Dairy's a part of the food pyramid at the top of the food pyramid you have Buffalo.
We'd love to eat bison What's for lunch wild boar pork chops, okay, that's enough would you guys relax?
Geez guys are insane Got a billion dollar
Violence industrial complex in the city if we spent that money elsewhere.
This is on shootings Fatal and non fatal shootings the total cost a billion dollars that we don't have We could give 40,000 households 25 thousand dollars for Homeownership assistance with that billion dollars.
We give 20,000 businesses 50 thousand dollar
grants they never had to pay back.
We could give 10,000 businesses $100,000 investments.
We could give 50,000 people $20,000 skilled trade scholarships.
We could give 100,000 Milwaukee students $10,000 training scholarships.
We could employ 200,000 youth over the summer and pay them $5,000.
We could give 4,000 homes a quarter of a million dollars for total rehabilitations and we could build 5,000 brand-new affordable housing units with a cost of up to $200,000 each.
We also could replace 116,000 lead water laterals in the city of Milwaukee.
that is actually money to replace all of the lead water laterals, plus an additional 36,000 lead water laterals.
They are roughly $8,611 each.
That billion dollars that we spend on violence and anti-violence and violence programs and incarceration in the courts.
medical care and police services and EMTs associated with violent crime and homicide could replace 116,000 lead water laterals.
The entire city budget is just over $2 billion.
The violence industrial complex is economically equivalent to roughly half of everything the city of Milwaukee government spends in a year.
The $1 billion that we spend on violence and violence related activities just in the city of Milwaukee, not the county, is equivalent to three years of Milwaukee bucks revenue.
The latest Milwaukee Business Journal ranking estimates Milwaukee Tool at approximately $9 billion in total revenue, and they have 4,700 employees.
Therefore, the Milwaukee Violence burden is $1 billion.
Milwaukee Tools annual revenue was $9 billion.
The Violence burden is roughly $0.11 for every dollar of Milwaukee Tools worldwide annual revenue.
Another way to visualize the $1 billion that we spend on violence in the city of Milwaukee is $83.3 million every month.
We spend nineteen point two million dollars every seven days We spend two million seven hundred forty thousand dollars every twenty four hours on violence prevention services and the results of violent crimes in fact we had a two million dollar day yesterday because there were three non fatal shootings to the tune and total cost of six hundred and forty four thousand dollars each
The City of Milwaukee spends $114,000 per hour on violence and violence-related services.
The City of Milwaukee spends $1,900 every single minute of every single day due to the violence in our communities and our neighborhoods.
My program is almost over today.
Got about a minute left and the lunch break will take over.
During this radio program today in which I am thankful that all of you tuned in, the city of Milwaukee spent $342,000 in the last three hours of this radio program on violence and violence prevention services, just during my program.
We cannot just outsource the solutions to other agencies, to other nonprofits, to just the police, to just the common counsel and just the mayor.
We can't just rely on the office of community wellness and safety.
These are more reactive and responsive organizations that do provide a lot of opportunity and resource for victim services.
The last piece of the puzzle is us.
We have outsourced as much as we possibly could to the tune of a billion dollars a year and 342 thousand dollars every three hour program that I do.
And I would argue that for that billion dollars that we are spending, we are barely managing the program.
So it is up to us to figure out how we can reduce those costs and then maybe just maybe and hopefully optimistically.
reinvest those violence industrial complex dollars somewhere else where they could be and should be more productive and hopefully reducing the misery index that exists for far too many people in the city.
Thank you for listening.
I'll see you next time.
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The question is would you support another NPS referendum?
Oh, there you go.
I Know my answer What do they think this Didn't I say a couple of weeks ago to expect it I didn't
think it was gonna be this soon.
I was like, oh probably about 2028 They're starting to get ready to ask now and I don't I Don't think it'll pass
Because the last one narrowly passed and it was a pretty major political effort.
And so whenever there is a referendum, it does turn political because voters have to decide.
MPS has got to spend money on the political campaign to convince people to support the referendum.
I often wonder where does that money come from?
Are we funding their political campaign to convince just enough voters?
to vote for the referendum, so we're getting it at both ends.
It is a district that has not upgraded and updated itself for the times.
It hasn't, and they're trying new things.
They have a new curriculum.
They're trying this year, I believe, a reading curriculum with high school students.
Some time ago when the district was successful, it was better matched with the employment.
Needs of the city of Milwaukee like you could learn a trade in the district now if you want that same trade You've got to go elsewhere, and you have to pay tuition.
I Think that was a tremendous loss for us when the trades came out of the school and some of it was You know federal legislation focusing on testing etc.
But it seems that the district has lost its way, but then I think that there's something Underneath that that the district is as you know
majority minority, and the plurality race are black children.
And if you believe that racism is ever a thing that it's ever existed, then always look at that, because it's always undergirding.
It's very foundational in America.
It's institutional and it's structural.
So if you believe in institutional racism, that there are certain institutions that were designed for other people for their success and not ours, then the district fits right into that.
What interests do majority white women who are unionized so they're political because teachers are They're members of unions.
What interests do they have?
In educating black children when they have children of their own that they know that they will never send the NPS That is something that evades us We believe that because certain people have particular professions that they must have some deep personal emotional connection and affection for our children
They don't.
Black people don't have any allies.
I don't know why that we think that we do.
We don't have any.
We used to.
Then they decided they wanted to try other things and leave us in the lurch.
We really don't have any allies.
We also are the only group of people.
Now, we don't have a lot of choice in this matter.
We have some choice.
I want more choice called school choice.
But we send our kids.
To the same people that we work with and our colleagues with that we can't stand but we're sending our kids to them to be educated They would never send their kids to us.
You know that show me in America where there's a black school majority black teachers principles and administrators with a majority white student body that shut that school down Something else that we miss in the entire discussion of education because it goes very very deep When the schools were integrated
And depends on when you want to count it I would argue that the schools are now segregated again and so are our neighborhoods integration was just like a flash and then we went back to Water flowing downhill and people wanted to live and be in places and spaces in which they have racial and cultural and even ethnic familiarity But when they integrated the schools and some of you are familiar with the chapter 220 program where
Kids who lived in central city neighborhoods north or south were bused out to surrounding suburban schools because those schools obviously Were racially homogeneous and so they burdened black children by shipping them out so you name it Franklin Oak Creek German town Monomony Falls, etc Without the corresponding white kids coming to the city of Milwaukee to integrate some of our majority black schools They built Vincent's maybe in the 1970s to try and
encourage kids who lived in rural areas because Vincent is an agricultural specialty.
And so they wanted to encourage young people who lived in outlying areas who were interested in farming to go to Vincent.
That didn't work out so well.
So Vincent was built to better integrate or to bring white kids in from the suburbs and ex-burbs and outlying areas to the city of Milwaukee to go to school.
Maybe that worked up until 1985, but then after that.
I think you know who the majority student body is advancing.
But when we try to integrate the schools with the busing program, the Chapter 220 program, which was way expensive, it was hundreds of millions of dollars per year, our black teachers didn't get job opportunities in those suburban schools.
So they took black children from central city, north side neighborhoods and bused them to suburban schools, but did not offer teaching and administrator opportunities.
to our black teachers.
And here's what happened since 1970.
The African American community, our teachers and our administrators, highly skilled educators that know how to teach and instruct black children because we didn't have literacy problems like that when our schools were segregated.
We didn't.
Black kids could read.
Okay.
We lost $2 billion worth of teacher income alone since 1970.
That's a lot of money.
And that's not adjusted for inflation.
We lost $2 billion in teacher income in 1970 dollars.
And then what happened?
A lot of these teachers had to find other work.
And then what happens after that?
In the neighborhood, in the community growing up, you see less black teachers that live down the street and next door and on the other block.
And if we don't see it, if children don't see it in their developmental environment, then they think they can't be it.
That's another problem.
We need more of y'all to be teachers.
We need more teachers Take a break come back Grab a telephone call on the other side our telephone number is a 3 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 7 8 3 3 2 12 10 17 also have a question via our YouTube channel was you support another NPS referendum because one is Coming to the tune of 355 million dollars
They didn't even, did they spend the last, I think NPS has a drug problem and I'm not talking about the kids.
I don't know what's happening.
Anybody seen Jill Underly?
Remember her?
When she was running around here with her bad haircut,
running for the state superintendent of Department of Public Instruction.
She just all but disappeared.
I don't, maybe she's at the hair salon.
No, that's not nice.
Don't talk about a person's hair Xavier.
Can't help it don't talk Okay, I'm gonna take a break because that's rude But I mean she could talk about my hair all she wants.
I wouldn't mind you don't have any hair exactly The truth with shirt when he was a be right back Don't touch that dial the truth with sure
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Another way to visualize the violence industrial complex that we have here in Milwaukee is the entire financial ecosystem and the response to violence and violence prevention and incarceration and all the services and medical services, EMT services, when there is a fatal shooting or some other major act of violence.
Here's another way to break it down.
It's about a billion dollars a year that has 83,300,000 dollars per month that we are spending of money that we don't have.
These dollars that disappear adds to the misery index and why I believe people are leaving the city of Milwaukee.
Sometimes you can't really put your finger on it.
If you can't put your finger on why something doesn't feel good, it doesn't feel right, it feels bad.
A lot of times it's money and money that's missing, money that we cannot invest in other things.
It is $19,200,000 per week that we are spending when there's an incident of violence in this city.
That is $2,740,000 per 24 hours.
That is $114,000 per hour, every hour.
That is $1,900 every minute.
During my three hour radio program, the city of Milwaukee would have spent $342,000.
Pro-rated for all of the violence and the responses to it in the city of Milwaukee.
Let's talk to Linda.
You're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
It's a good day in Milwaukee.
How are you doing sharing
doing
all right?
Yeah, I Wanted to you know touch on this because we are
studying these different failed programs in my class.
And we have got to, I think that it is time for Milwaukee to seize this moment and really address this monster called MPS because we know that the crime is equivalent to poor education.
So now it's time to seize this moment and for us to kick back at the poor and failed policies that is pushing out these kids like this.
How can we get rid of the school board for one and put term limits on them like we do, you know, like we're trying to do with the Supreme Court?
We need to put term limits because the old has come full stop to dead on arrival.
And for real, because we got, like you said, we have what it takes to work.
There's no need to initiate another $350 million referendum and put that burden on other people.
We've been ignoring this problem for so long that now it's infiltrating in our own personal lifestyles and it's causing us problems.
And so now this is the time for all Milwaukee to kick back, investigate, reevaluate what the school board and these policies is doing and really get rid of them for real.
For real, for real, we need to evaluate these positions and the people who are driving these policies because they are failing.
They are DOA.
And they're starting with the superintendent all the way down, for real, of BPI.
We need to reevaluate because they are pushing out poor production.
And the children are saying, this is what we got.
because of poor schooling policies, failed policies, mandated policies that do not really, they do not fulfill what these children need.
For real, I'm telling you, the class that I'm in right now, we are evaluating all of these failed programs since 1957.
And now they are introducing better strategies that incorporate the whole community, students, diversity, cultures, and reform policies that engage meaningful, hello, meaningful strategies and curriculum.
that will, it has positive results is what I'm saying.
And I'm just really just mixed up all over everywhere because we had the funeral on Tuesday and I'm just really still going through those emotions.
It's different when the waters are muddy and you have a dysfunctional family trying to, you know, process emotions.
We really need to reevaluate.
who we are as a black people and break through the oppressive mindset of, you know, the slave mentality, crab mentality that is destroying the fabric of the unity of black family.
That's what I have to say.
Thank you.
Thank you, Linda.
Our prayers were with you and your family.
I'm not a term limits person.
Let me tell you why.
Term limits.
serve a function when you cannot trust voters to make better decisions and or if you do not have Qualified enough people to run for office.
I think that there are some legislators and executives that should stay there forever because they have formed relationships and they understand
the science and humanity behind policies and they are very, very rare people.
And when you get a rare one, I don't think that rare one should be forced to leave because they have been term limited out.
And also because you have term limits doesn't mean that the next person you get is going to be better.
School board elections are some of the absolute.
lowest voter turnout contest that you will see in the city of Milwaukee school board meeting attendance where they literally are deciding on the curriculum how to fund it the future of different MPS building structures and strategies are some of the lowest attended public meetings that you will see in the city of Milwaukee So I personally don't believe the term limits are going to do anything because the people that have a tremendous amount of influence
on the school board they wouldn't mind term limits because once one crop of union sycophants terms out then the union will just invest in their next crop.
But it's this cycle.
We don't like the people that are in office.
We're very angry about it.
We say we're going to do something.
But then when you try and talk to people like real people, they don't even know what a school board is.
They don't know who their representatives are.
They don't even know what kind of legislation they take up.
They have no idea.
And it's very, very difficult to get someone who doesn't even know what the position is to vote for or against a political agenda.
Very difficult.
So that, again, it's an education piece.
I can only do so much.
I need a lot of help.
A lot of you that listen to this program very well informed about how these things work You have to go and have conversations with your friends and your family and then don't let them talk you out of well I don't I don't really get into politics you better Then I tell you what if you don't get into politics give your paycheck to me Give me all of your money and let me spend it for you because if you don't know and pay attention to politics and where your money is going It's not any good in your pocket.
It's better off in somebody else's
Now this issue is obviously bigger than the district.
We have some cultural problems, we have some behavioral problems, and I'm not going to blame the district for that because the district is trying its damnedest by suspending and expelling as many kids as possible.
I wish it didn't have to come to that, but also when I look at the disparities between how white children in the district are treated when they have a disciplined infraction and how black children are treated, some of those black kids deserve to be suspended and expelled because we see how they act when they're outside of school.
And their behaviors may not change because for so many of them, it's normal.
I think it's also too easy to blame the parents because that's just it's easy.
There was this.
The story that they did on NPR, so I have a radio in my shower and the radio was tuned to NPR or WUWM, like the real super liberal stuff.
That's the only time I really have time to stomach.
The super liberal stuff is when I'm in the shower and they did this whole segment on parents have less control and influence on their children's behavior than we once thought.
Children are.
Forty six chromosomes, twenty three from the mother, twenty three from the father, and we sometimes have no idea of these four hundred.
plus different expressions and personality types of these children.
Now, you can take whatever your child's genetic component is between the mother and the father and maybe modify it or encourage some things when you see a child is particularly skilled at this or has aptitude there, but you have no idea.
Some parents believe that they can actually control their children's behavior to an extent you can for the most part.
You cannot.
And think about this.
When two bad people with really bad genes have a kid, what the hell do you expect?
And sometimes that happens because won't we hear the lady say, oh, I had to get rid of the father because he was a bad man.
Them bad genetics is in that child.
But here's the thing.
She ain't going to get rid of that child.
She can get rid of the man.
She can get rid of the genetics that created that child.
But she can't get rid of what is in that baby.
Unless you're Lindsay Clancy, then.
Like ah to hell with them So it's too easy just to blame the parents because there's some parents They they'll tell you they've done everything they could Kids steal a juvenile delinquent got in trouble with the cops when they were nine when they were tan stealing cars getting guns selling dope And you can't always necessarily blame the friends sometimes it sometimes it's just evil children How do I know that because there's evil adults?
So we got to take that into consideration, too, because we always want to place the blame somewhere.
But back to what Linda was saying about the school board, Ayesha Carr recognized some of those forces on the school board that were, let's just say, let me be diplomatic when I say, counterproductive to what an agenda would be or an education paradigm that would be productive for black students.
Ayesha Carr, who was a school board member, created a recall.
of several of the worst school board members.
When I say worst, those were that are and were antithetical to the progress of black children.
Aisha Carr is now a felon.
She never can run for office ever again.
So she did shoot for the king.
She missed.
And now she's she's a felon.
So there's that.
Take a break.
Come back.
Talk about our two million dollar day we had yesterday in the city of Milwaukee.
And also, I'll give you some details on where we are with the poll that is up on our YouTube.
The question is, would you support another NPS referendum?
Holy smokes, it's worse than I thought.
We'll talk about that on the other side.
We're listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes.
I'll be right
back.
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Question is...
Would you support another NPS referendum?
92% of you say no.
8% of you say yes.
I don't think it would be quite that skewed.
That's pretty significant.
They think that we are an unlimited source of money.
And so as time goes on, ladies and gentlemen, here's what I really want to illustrate.
If the money that we have given them in the past has not, if those investments have not panned out and we have not seen a return.
On our investment if reading scores are not going up in the last they've had six years to show us something if they haven't gone up at the same time They're asking for more money so they can do things like improving reading scores and math scores and proficiency on grade level And if we are not receiving that because that's a real low bar We're not asking for a hell of a lot a couple of percentage points every single year I think would satisfy most people because this is not you can't reinvent the wheel here But the fact that we aren't getting that and they're still asking for more money
Insane like people people are not dumb.
You also got to keep in mind if you live in the city of Milwaukee Our sales taxes increased by almost 3% we're paying almost 8% in sales taxes So people even if you make more money, which most people are not Inflation is still not where we want it to be costs are going up
Cost of fuel is going up.
We're going to pay a lot more to heat our homes this winter.
Groceries are going up.
Diesel fuel had crossed $6 a gallon, I think, for the first time in history.
So everything that we purchased that has shipped, that is all going to get more expensive.
And you add on top of the fact that the most regressive of all taxes, the sales tax, because everybody pays a sales tax.
Some people can better afford an almost 8% sales tax.
Some people can't.
That means their purchasing power is reduced by 3% and inflation is going to be better than 3%.
So every single year, your purchasing power is losing.
It's getting less by $6 for every $100 that you spend.
Ladies and gentlemen, that adds up.
And then when the district asks for more money, people, they don't have it.
They don't have it.
Now, there was going to be some costs associated with raising the sales tax.
And the cost was people are just going to have less disposable income.
Can't go out as much can't go out to eat as much can't afford necessities as much and then the district whether they recognize that or not Asking for money.
It's just really bad timing now There's some things that the district can do but here's the thing they don't want to do them They don't want to sell their surplus properties to other schools that we know can demonstrate higher performance But guess what you're gonna have to
You're not just going to continue to hang on to empty buildings because you don't want a better type of school to go in those buildings because then what's going to happen?
The district is going to bleed more students because parents might do a real crazy thing.
You know, these parents are crazy.
They may just want to put their children in a school where the kids are actually learning how to read on grade level.
And if NPS isn't doing it, why should a child, why should a parent, a family be stuck to that school?
Because everybody else can exercise school choice.
You mean to tell me that in...
Germantown or Menominee Falls or Oak Creek if those public schools in those places Didn't have a curriculum that could get their kids to read or do math that those parents would just say oh well I guess I'm just gonna keep my kid in Germantown and just they're not gonna be able to read but I'm committed to the Germantown high school system No, they wouldn't they'd homeschool their kids first
Why why is the NPS curriculum the way it is now like from what I've
talk to people that work there and stuff like that.
It seems completely backwards.
The foundation of the district was to stress the things that you need to work on a factory.
Shut up, be quiet, do what you're told, be on time, not creativity, not flexibility, not entrepreneurship.
One of the differences was even how I went to school and not that I want to use.
My educational environment is any kind of an example.
We could move about.
We could roam about.
We even had open campus lunch.
You can move freely.
Schools that have that, those students are much more likely to be creative and entrepreneurs.
Students that are told, up the door is going to be locked if you're not here at 801.
You got to be in your seats.
You got to sit down.
You got to shut up.
That stresses the need to have an obedient factory worker because Milwaukee used to be a factory town and when you work in a factory you work on an assembly line It's not about having opinions not about being able to roam around freely You sit there at your station You sit there at your post and you watch every damn bottle of beer put a cap on and you don't move and you stay focused and you don't get distracted
That is the foundation of the district and for a while it worked very very well because when we wax nostalgic about when Milwaukee was better and there's more money and more jobs is because we had that factory employment now what they don't tell you is that that factory work that wrote rehearsal just boring sitting on the assembly line destroyed people mentally, but at least you got a pension 30 years later I would go nuts if I sat on an assembly line I'm like y'all gonna lose a couple of these bottles of beer cuz I'm a drink a couple of these
Have me sitting here for eight hour shift is watching the bottle and the bottle and another bottle and another bottle and another bottle and some point I'm Give me one of these bottles sure when we notice from your station.
There's about four beers Missing every 30 minutes.
Can you can you account for that?
Why the beers are missing from my my station
Sherwin, are you okay?
What?
All right.
I got
to
lay down.
I pass up.
Yeah.
Well, and also there's.
I think it's complicated, but you're also asking the wrong one.
I had the superintendent Brenda Casselius in studio with me.
I don't know.
That was
April.
Were you here for that?
Yep.
I was kind of in a box though.
I couldn't freestyle because I wanted to Let her because she was relatively new I Wanted to let her talk about what her ideas were and what her agenda was I wasn't I wasn't in the position to press and also I wanted to maintain Some good graces with her because one thing about this line of work if somebody comes
to sit down with me and if they don't have a grand old time and if they don't feel safe and comfortable, they will never come back.
So I don't want to press her too much.
But I don't know if she would come back now.
It doesn't matter.
Because she's just going to tell us she's going to justify why the district needs more money.
And then I'm going to be on the other side of that.
Justifying why the taxpayers don't have any money for the district.
We just it's not there.
Trying to get blood out of a turnip here.
It's not possible Now what I will require and we'll request and we'll continue to have these conversations is That the district work on what we call right sizing and being much more efficient if you have buildings that are empty But we are maintaining the electricity in those buildings.
We are maintaining the heat in those buildings It's gonna get cold this winter.
We can't have these old empty MPS buildings
with no heat because then the pipes will freeze, then we'll have even a bigger financial burden.
They're still landscaping and cutting the grass and they're still doing building maintenance for a structure in which there are no children.
So many years ago, it was probably 2012 or 2013, we had a major cold snap.
It was like below zero for a week or more at a time.
And I remember hearing these stories of homeless people that were being found in the city of Milwaukee frozen to death outside of a goddamn MPS school that was empty and 72 degrees.
At least open up the damn school so people don't freeze to death, but they won't even do that.
I'm gonna take a break, come back.
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Welcome to hour two of The Truth with Sherwin Hughes.
Three people were injured in three separate shootings in Milwaukee on Monday, September 14.
29th in Velitz, according to the Milwaukee Police Department, at about 3.50 p.m., an 18-year-old was shot.
The shooting victim went to a hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries.
8th and Keith just after 5 p.m.
a 38 year old was shot during a fight and was transported to a hospital for treatment of non fatal injuries and 11th and capital just after 6 30 p.m a 37 year old was shot and taken to a local hospital for treatment of non fatal injuries
Milwaukee police are investigating the shootings and looking for those responsible.
As stated earlier, each shooting costs in total in aggregate $644,000.
Just yesterday cost the city about $2 million that we don't have.
If violence in Milwaukee were a corporation, it would represent roughly a one billion dollar a year enterprise.
That's almost three times Milwaukee Bucks organization worth of annual revenue.
It's equivalent to about one-fifth of everything Harley Davidson takes in worldwide in a year.
The difference is Harley Davidson and the Bucks create economic value.
Violence consumes it.
The most useful way to make the estimated one billion dollar annual societal burden in Milwaukee concrete is to treat it as an opportunity cost thought experiment not the Milwaukee City Hall literally has one billion dollars sitting in an account that could be redirected but that violence consumes or destroys resources that otherwise could support productive investment and because this violence is consuming and I'm not telling you that I know the answers to this
I just want to present the information as it exists and let people stew, let it incubate a little bit.
And then maybe we can look at violence a little bit differently.
I know that the City of Milwaukee Health Department and the Medical College of Wisconsin, they've decided to look at violence as a public health problem.
Good, good, because that opens us up for opportunities to receive grants, to attack a public health problem, opens us up to receive grants from the federal government, because whenever you have a...
public health issue than the Department of Health and Human Services can issue grants because that's really all that department does.
It was created by Congress to address
Issues of public health nationwide in cities and in states.
What's not helping though when it comes to public health on a side note is that people don't believe in vaccines and the damn measles epidemic is coming back.
Here's the problem with that.
That means that we're going to have to focus more of our federal dollars on people with damn measles than we are on potentially treating violence as a public health hazard.
But what we are doing here is we are looking at the overall opportunity cost, which adds to.
the misery index in this city.
It's a violence industrial complex if you think of all of the organizations and all of the nonprofits and some of them are really good and they hire really good people that are very dedicated to this type of social service and community work but the returns are diminished.
Great organizations but also keep in mind these are nonprofits and so when these nonprofits expand and they get some real estate, they get a building, they get an office.
or they can bring everyone and everything in house and they've got an office manager and they've got an executive director and they've got support staff and they might even have people that go out in the streets and do violence interruption and they offer all sorts of programs so that building that they have which we would say oh this is great you can bring all these anti-violence services under one roof here's the problem the footprint of that building is not bringing in any property tax revenue in fact it's exempt
So if there was a private corporation or a private business or someone's entrepreneurial endeavor occupying that same space, the city of Milwaukee would be collecting money.
But when you have a non-profit occupying that space, there is no money being collected.
So that even worsens and exacerbates.
this one billion dollar a year violence industrial complex in Milwaukee that adds ever so slightly to the misery index, which is why I believe people are simply moving away because there are places, believe it or not, where a billion dollars of lost opportunity is not going out the door and that billion dollars can be reinvested into those cities and those towns and those counties and they are flourishing.
I think a great investment would have been.
For an intermodal system of public transportation because buses ain't it I shout out to the people that ride the bus so many clearly needs to ride them But I just I don't think that they work and plus they've been cutting bus routes for a very long time And that was on purpose when Scott Walker was county executive He knew that jobs and jobs of the future will be created in the office parks of Exurban and suburban neighborhoods But what he made sure to do by saying well, we can't spend all of your taxpayer money.
We're gonna cut your taxes
by cutting bus routes so people that don't have transportation or simply can't afford it or people that should not and cannot be driving could not take a bus to go to the places where the jobs were being created.
That was very much on purpose and that is an extension of the segregation that we know so well here in southeastern Wisconsin.
We segregate people from going to where the jobs and opportunities are.
But people need jobs, right?
So what do they do?
They drive illegally, and now you get pulled over, and now your car gets impounded, and now you're in the system.
Let's talk to Al from Sherman Park.
You're on one-on-one, seven-the-truth.
How are you?
Hey, I'm doing well.
How about yourself, Sherwin?
Doing OK.
What's on your mind?
On my mind is the expert in political class.
At what point?
Do we realize that the experts are experts?
Say more about that.
Let's talk about the school board.
Don't we vote those people in because we think they're experts in education, especially those sponsored by the teachers union?
Not necessarily.
We vote them in because they're the only ones running.
And we don't produce the kind of people that reflect our sentiment to run for the school board because nobody wants to do it.
That's that's part of it.
But let's not let's not call them experts.
Those are the people that want to do it and agree to do it.
And a lot of times, yes, you are right.
They are led by somebody else's agenda.
But let's also not pretend like we're producing a tremendous amount of candidates to run for the school board because those folks are rarely primary.
So some of this falls on us too.
So I had a friend.
She's a nurse.
God bless their heart.
You know, she's compassionate.
Welcome to our three of the truth with Sherwin Hughes.
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75 people have voted thus far and 88% of you would not Support another NPS referendum while 12% of you would
Lucretia wants to know what kind of educational background do you need to have a position in let's say government to run for office none I Come to find out you won't even got to be a lawyer to run for judge now if you want to get hired By a current elected official by an executive to be like a policy director you might need a degree in political science or some other related field
But to run for office, almost none.
Other than president, that's got some requirements where you got to be a born American citizen in the age of 35.
But there's no educational requirement.
You can't tell the creature.
You can't tell you don't need no educational requirement to be the president of the United States.
Donald Trump, Trump, honestly, and you can ask him and he probably would tell you because he's so dumb, he don't even know how to lie about certain things.
He don't even understand what the Constitution is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what the Department of Justice is.
How it works.
He doesn't understand what Congress is and how they work.
No concept of it whatsoever.
And dude won two of the three elections in which he ran.
You don't need no educational requirement.
I would argue that the lesser the education you have, the more relatable you are to people that also have a lesser education.
Because there used to be a time when we wanted people representing us that were way smarter than us, the new stuff that we didn't know, and they would just take care of all that complicated stuff for us.
We wanted elected officials that lived off of the fine print.
They lived and they read the fine print where us as society, we didn't have to worry about the fine print because we would hire people and elect people that were read it for us and would take care of us, making sure that fine print wasn't taken advantage of us.
Now, now, can't nobody read nothing?
People don't want somebody smarter than them.
Who do you think you are, you liberal elite?
You're you're too smart.
I don't like that person They know a bunch of stuff that I don't know which makes me look and feel stupid I don't want to vote for somebody that makes me look and feel stupid I want to vote for somebody that makes me look smart George Bush wasn't no damn rocket scientist either now.
He wasn't Let's talk to the town you're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
Are you doing sir?
I'm doing good.
What's on your
mind?
couple questions and a comment.
The first question is the this violence, industrial complex,
yes,
that you that you were hearing to this means you're talking about.
And in here, who gets to who gets that?
All right, where does the money that she was out of that?
That's so there is no, there's no winning.
This is just what the cost is because of the incidence of violence.
So it maintains
the police.
It maintains the EMTs and the
doctors and the prosecutors in the court system.
That's where the money is going when there's a single shooting or a single incidence of violence.
Now, if we lessen the shootings and the homicides, then that money wouldn't be spent and it could be allocated to other places and I have a list of other places it could be allocated to.
All right, my second my second question is like I I'm on the on the polls I said, yeah, like yeah, I'm on my spending some more money on NPS because look at the state of some of these schools that with when it's in like they don't have AC You know the books are messed up or whatever like that.
That's why I believe that's why I believe we should pay NPS more for my question
is even if you knew that none of
those things are going to get remitted, even if you knew they're not going to get better textbooks, even if you knew that they don't have enough money for air conditioning, even if you knew that the schools that need the money most are going to get the least.
So even if you knew that, because that's what the truth is, would you still vote for
it?
I mean, nobody would, obviously.
But my question about that is, where is all that money coming from?
Like, why are we in a hole so much with NPS?
When our taxes when our taxes is so much in the state and in the city
Because the district is losing students when the district is losing students so each student is about 18 thousand dollars per year that the district gets but if parents are saying you know what I'm gonna send my child to a school outside the district or I'm gonna move away.
I'm gonna put my kid
in Whitefish Bay or I'm putting my kid in a charter school.
That's less revenue that the district has, but the district is not laying off teachers, not laying off principals, not laying off administrators.
The district isn't even selling buildings that are empty because they don't want higher performing schools to operate in those buildings that are empty.
So as time goes on and more and more people are sending their kids elsewhere and there's people are having less children.
We need more money from taxpayers to maintain the district even though it is emptying out because its performance is so low And so the money is gonna come from you and so you you may not mind giving the district more money But there's a whole bunch of people in this city.
They can't get enough.
They can't squeeze another penny They can't afford it.
They can't afford life.
They can't afford groceries They can't afford what it's gonna cost to heat their home.
And so this referendum is gonna put even more people over the edge
The way I feel about it is though
Like, we're not gonna beat the crime in a violence problem unless we pour in the money into our kids, you know?
And if we keep on arguing about, like, if we're gonna pay the kids or not, pay for the kids' education properly, well, we can't be surprised when, you know, the kids do bad things or whatever like that.
Well, the parents gotta
have some role, though, because we can't expect other people.
They also gotta keep in mind, brother, at the end of it.
What NPS is and what it's made up of is a bunch of people that do not want black children to be smarter than theirs.
We got to keep that in mind.
There's no interest for them to educate our kids.
If you're a white woman who lives in West Bend, do you honestly think that you're going to go to work every single day in North Division High School and make sure that those kids can read better than your own?
You will do no such thing.
I think that we forget that.
There is no incentive nor interest for them to educate our kids because guess what?
A teacher can be in the classroom for only two years and they can apply to get out of it.
Classroom to them is like serving a sentence.
They serve their sentence with our kids in the classroom.
They immediately want to get out and want to be an administrator and reply to be your principal.
And
giving more money to the district just
gives the majority of the money to the schools that don't need it That's the part the people don't get I can show you 130 schools that need more resources better books smaller class sizes Tutors reading specialists and after-school programs They're not gonna get it cuz schools like King that don't need additional resources because they're performing Well, it's gonna get the majority of the money and I'm gonna let you figure out when teachers send their kids to public schools Which ones do you think they send their public schools to?
Obviously, the higher performing ones, that's where the referendum money is going to go.
But what they do is they trick folks like you and others.
They say, well, we need money because these schools aren't doing well.
We got to invest in the kids.
As long as you keep and maintain a crop of undereducated kids, the district can always ask folks like you for more money.
And most of y'all will say yes.
I feel I feel like, OK, you see, it's like it's a it's a there's some good schools and NPS.
Now this sounds like a real neophyte question, so forgive me.
But why can't MPS make the bad schools like the good schools?
I will pay for that.
If you can make Custer like King, I will pay that money for that.
Your
guess is as good as mine.
I mean,
you know what I'm saying?
There's
no incentive to do that.
Because you got to have your flagship premier schools.
The district is not striving to be the best.
It really is not.
It's just striving to maintain and get from one budget year to the next budget year.
There's no real motivation.
So that's why parents need to exercise school choice because everybody else does.
If the district is not meeting the needs of the parents and the kids, then people should put their kids somewhere else.
And some people are like taking their kids out of school altogether and they're homeschooling their kids.
But to think that the district is going to solve all of our problems, it's not.
It's much more likely to suspend and expel black kids.
then it is to educate them.
And I get where you're coming from because you're also addressing your your sentiments as well.
I feel like I feel like when it comes to this, when it comes to bureaucracy and policy and money and taxes, don't nobody care how anybody feels, especially black people.
Literally, no one cares how we feel.
They're going to ask us for more money.
They're going to lie to us and tell us where it's going to go.
We're going to give it to them and they're going to call us suckers and ask for more money two years later.
If Crowley if Crowley wins.
Can't.
We have enough power to make some change
in that.
I don't want to put all that on him because there's a whole legislature that we have to be accountable for as well.
It's not just him.
Don't expect dude to be able to turn water into wine now.
He's going
to
have to deal with a racist Republican legislature that's mad that their Republican candidate lost and is mad that he is going to put them on the hot seat because they're going to be in the minority.
So let's not put it all on him now.
Oh, I feel y'all feel, and my last thing to say, man, do not believe dude in that, in that plane crash.
He all right.
He all, that white man, he all right.
I mean, God bless him.
I'm glad he, he all right or whatever like that.
But you know, they'll be messing with Trump.
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
He, he, he, he cool with the FFC files being hidden or whatever like that, man.
Don't mess with Tom Tiffany, dawgs.
He, he bogus.
He bogus man bed on black man.
That's my time.
That
was a good campaign commercial for Crowley.
Tom Symphony got 12 stitches above his eye.
Okay.
Both of his right eye.
12 stitches in the pilot got four stitches at 16 stitches between the two of them.
That's an average of eight stitches each.
And the plane is in the water.
And they got they got 16 stitches.
That's all they got.
That's an average of eight stitches a person.
No, I don't know what I'm just saying I wouldn't there there is some footage though there I saw it on Twitter of Of the plane you can kind of see it a little bit in the distance you can more hear the plane Going down in the distance then actually see it because that's one of the things that I was Calling for yesterday when we were talking about the time Tiffany water landing
Like where's the surveillance footage everybody got cameras people got the ring cameras in the home surveillance cameras And you got the flock cameras, and you got the walka-flockas and all the other cameras and mini cameras And so it's a real grainy Black and white video you can just see like the flashing of the of the airplane lines way off in a distance But you can hear and here's what you hear in a distance.
I'm gonna do my best impression of what it what you can hear from that somebody's home
Surveillance camera you hear That's all you hear you can hear it you can't really see nothing that's going on but you hear And that's probably the plane
think that's what it is because when they released the video they said that's the plane and it's not very clear it's in the distance it's And then the plane is in the water The billion-dollar violence industrial complex in Milwaukee If we didn't have to spend this billion dollars on all the associated services that are associated with fatal
non-fatal shootings, we could give $25,000 to Milwaukee homeowners to do whatever they want with the money.
Landscape, fix up their properties, replace their roofs.
Do you know how many property owners we could give that $25,000 grant to if we didn't have a billion dollars going out the door to pay for violence?
$40,000.
We could give 20,000 entrepreneurs $50,000 grants free money to start and support their ongoing business endeavors We could give 10,000 Milwaukee based businesses $100,000 each for everything new equipment new technology to make payroll to buy a new building or to expand We could give
50,000 people in the city of Milwaukee, $20,000 skilled trade scholarships, which would damn near meet and exceed the demand that we have for skilled trade workers right now.
I'm not done.
We could give $10,000 college scholarships to 100,000 students.
MPS only got 67,000 students.
We could give $10,000 to every single child in MPS and still have 33,000 grants left over.
We could give youth.
This is ridiculous right here.
We could have, we could give teenagers, we could have 200,000 jobs, internships for kids at $5,000 each.
We won't even have 200,000 kids in this city.
We could give four thousand homes that are dilapidated Two hundred and fifty thousand dollar rehabilitation.
That's too much.
You can damn near build a new house for two hundred fifty thousand dollars Well, these are just some of the things that we can do with that money We could build I know this will be a favorite of ours five thousand affordable housing units at two hundred thousand dollars a piece
These are just some of the things that we could do if we weren't spending a billion dollars on people shooting each other in the face and in the neck and in the butt cheeks.
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.
Not really a city girl wants to know.
How our sunburn schools receiving more of our referendum money who decides that I was impossible that all of our public schools needs aren't taking care of first because these schools are prioritized You have to maintain the high standards right and those high standards are very expensive and listen There's no majority white NPS school.
I mean maybe one of those like elementary schools on the east side Maybe maybe a Montessori school here or there But the highest performing school will obviously
That's where the teachers and administrators send their kids.
But the school board decides all that, but most people have never been to a school board meeting in their entire life, unless something is dire.
So I want to give you guys a little perspective on what this next referendum is.
And it's not giving money to the schools that need it.
They want to build new buildings for a district that's losing students.
Make that make sense.
It's a waste of money.
Here's the thing.
They know that if we maintain
A really high number of children that are not on grade level in reading and math and a lot of these schools are poorly performing, they always have a reason and excuse to ask y'all for money.
and somebody is going to vote for the referendum.
You know who the people are that vote for the referendum?
More often than not, white folks and liberals that live on the east side to think that that's their contribution to you, poor n-words.
Like, oh my god, the little black kids can't read.
I'll vote for the referendum.
I live on the east side.
I live on Lake Drive.
I can afford it.
I don't want to deal with black people.
I don't really like black people, but I'll give them a little bit more of my property tax money.
What they don't realize is that everybody is going to have to pay for that referendum they vote for.
And of course, all of the teachers are going to vote for it, and there's still a large number of teachers that live in the city of Milwaukee.
And they're going to vote for it because they know that they're going to be resourcing the places in which they work and are ultimately going to retire.
And so that's what we're competing against.
But they want to build new buildings and put what in them.
You got buildings right now that are empty and that are vacant.
So forget those.
And they're also going to just hold on to those.
Those buildings should be sold.
And somebody had asked the question.
Well, why can't we make, you know, Custer more like Rufus King?
We can, but it won't be administered by NPS.
There are some schools like Milwaukee College Prep that would probably love to be able to purchase one of these vacant NPS buildings so they can expand their curriculum.
I probably can name a dozen other schools that are not NPS schools that are charter schools that are outperforming the district that would love to be able to expand.
And there are NPS buildings that are literally vacant, but the district does not want to authorize the sale of those buildings because the last thing that they want is to sell their building to a charter school that is better performing than NPS.
What's going to happen the next year?
More children are going to leave the district.
More parents are going to exercise school choice and send their kids to schools where they can actually learn how to read and maybe even graduate from high school.
And the district can't risk that.
So as long as you can maintain poor performing schools, they always can ask you for more money.
And if a lot of you are like the town that just called in, he's like, I feel like I'm a vote because I feel like I feel this has nothing to do with your feelings.
This is your money.
This is your policy.
This is somebody else's political agenda.
Here's what they want.
They want to capture your feelings.
They want you to have a deep sense of empathy and sympathy so that you vote for the referendum so they can build a new building.
I'm gonna give you the details of it in a second, but first let's talk to Al You're on one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Happy Tuesday.
I know you said somebody went down in the planet got 16 stitches I don't care if he got 16 stitches in his ass and there were two centimeters from his G spot.
I'm still not voting for
Number two, they're nickel and diamond the people in Milwaukee like they some junkies where the LSD have it.
Let them close the schools down.
I mean, you ain't doing right by the money the first time.
You ain't doing right by the money the second time.
So out of here, we should give you some more money.
It's like you keep giving money to a junkie who didn't got saved.
And they got dunked under up out of that dirty water.
And then after they dry off, they take the money from the offer and go get high again and still be walking the streets at 3, 4 o'clock in the morning searching for crack and dope and LSD.
I'm pretty sure Angel Ducks is going to make a comeback.
Let them close them down.
Also, I want to say, you broke up black politicians.
They're not looking for black politicians to come out with broken bronze sticks, belts, and heavy tree branches.
They're looking for them to open a goddamn mouth.
See, here's the thing, Mr. Hughes.
They know how to open a mouth when mama couldn't pay her rent and she got evicted when her seven years.
They know how to open a mouth when they said mama and daddy was a junkie and they did dumb down dope.
They knew how to open their mouth when they got on TV and said, we're suing Kia, because their cars is easy to be stolen, like Kia makes DNA and XY chromosome.
They matter of fact, you the vehicle, the mother and father makes the child, okay?
Now, I'm not a fan of Donovan, but here's an example.
They was going to spray paint buildings on the south side.
Donovan said, you're not spray paying nothing.
Go to Detroit.
daughter Chicago daughter Minnesota but for some reason these black politicians don't say nothing but when you want to push like Nana grew up in five three two zero six we don't give a home depot bucket I said bucket where you grew up what can you do see they want to hear their thoughts
I mean, what they got to lose, they already got your vote and said, if you're in B, but now you don't know how to talk.
But I say this again, let the North side be 75% of white.
Those same black politicians gonna be on these issues like nose on good cocaine and ain't nothing left on that silver mirror.
Nothing.
You know how they take that long trigger finger and they go across that mirror and get the residue off and then put it in the back of their mouth.
That's how these black politicians going to be on it.
See, black people want to hear that base in their voice.
They don't want to sit there and everybody looking quiet like somebody's part of it.
Then they said, they said, not excuse me.
But then they want to get on TV.
We're going to rename this street after Dr. Kim.
So what?
Every street is named after Dr. Ting.
Oh, well, we're going to do a Ken O'Lally Lally more days.
So what?
What you got to say for the people?
Oh, well, we don't got nothing to say.
That's what black people want to hear.
They ain't looking for you to come outside with a belt and a two-by phone.
They want to hear you care, just like y'all do when it comes to section eight in the mental health badge.
Because everybody does it in that booth.
Let's not forget the food pantry.
Let's not forget we only push poverty and destitution when it comes to black folks.
Now everybody know how to talk.
But when it comes to some real issues, we won't say no, but we'll put up a banner right across three with the house, no windows with all the junkies and derelicts hanging outside.
OK, I got to go.
Bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
There was a story.
that I wanted to share before alcohol.
Al always mentions a particular alcoholic beverage that I have heard of, that I have seen, but I have never tried.
And they're called buzz balls.
I guess they come in a multitude of flavors.
And I've heard that buzz balls are very potent.
So there's a story.
Where the buzz ball is the star of the show and it was something that happened not too far away in a county just ever so slightly to the northwest of Milwaukee and if you listen to this show with great Frequency, I don't really speak much about things That are happening elsewhere because I don't care what's happening elsewhere unless it has a direct impact
on what we care about and what affects us here right now.
And my producer, God bless him.
He keeps his finger on all the world affairs.
Apparently, the Russians just did something in Poland.
I don't care what white people are doing each other in Europe.
Couldn't care less.
Couldn't not going to lose a wink of sleep unless they coming over here with them drones, unless they drone in the north side of the city of Milwaukee.
Couldn't care less.
I'm not worried about international affairs because what we have to deal with here.
Far more severe and far more pressing.
I want to be concerned about what I see when I look out my window, not when I read news sources that are from somewhere else.
Well, maybe there's some reason to give, you know, some kind of attention to things that are happening elsewhere, but not a black kids can't read.
So I'm going to be kind of stuck focused on this stuff because I can't ignore what I'm seeing directly in front of us.
But here's the buzz ball story.
Are you ready?
You're going to love this.
And it's political too.
And it involves either the Crowley campaign.
Or the Tiffany campaign and buzz balls are involved.
Now here's the thing Let me get to the story in just a couple little seconds right here.
Both campaigns are denying the incident if somebody's campaign was on them buzz balls From Jackson in Wisconsin a man from Texas who told police he was in town asking voters questions for the Wisconsin governor's race is now in the Ozarkie County Jail accused of hitting a bicyclist
while driving drunk and leading police on a chase.
Prosecutors charged Duane Maiden II with hit and run, great bodily harm, and intoxicated use of a vehicle, bodily harm.
In Washington County, in Ozaki County, he faces fleeing or attempted to elude an officer and resisting and obstructing arrest.
On September 3rd, a criminal complaint says Maiden blew through a stop sign and hit a bicyclist at the intersection of Division Road and Western Avenue near the town of Jackson.
The bicyclist had a compound leg fracture and fractures to his pelvis, spine, and neck, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors say Maiden had a passenger and continued east on Western Avenue before the passenger got out and called 911.
The information we got from the passenger, he was telling him that you hit the person and we need to stop and the driver said, we're not stopping, we're going.
That's what Captain Tim Kemp's Washington County Sheriff said.
It's hard to believe that someone could do that to another human being.
The passenger told Maiden they need to stop and call the police according to the complaint, quote, the defendant said, no man, and that he's okay.
The defendant then continued driving from the scene approximately 30 to 40 miles an hour, the complaint states.
While interviewing the passenger about 10 minutes northeast of the crash site, the complaint says Maiden drove by and the passenger told police that's him.
Deputies say Maiden sped off going approximately 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone, weaving within his lane and crossing the center line on at least two occasions.
Deputies say Maiden
pulled over.
Video 12 news investigates obtained shows deputies pointing rifles at Maiden and then ultimately arresting him.
Maiden, who was from Arlington, Texas, according to the criminal complaint, was in town canvassing for the governor's race.
Quote, the defendant stated that he works for a company that canvases neighborhoods for the upcoming governor's race.
The complaint states the defendant stated that he arrived in Wisconsin last Friday around August 28th.
The defendant said for the past three days, he and other co-workers, eight of them were staying in an Airbnb in Milwaukee.
Campaigns for both David Crowley and Tom Tiffany said that he did not work for either.
We do not know this individual and he does not and has never been employed by our campaign.
Our prayers are with the bicyclist and their family.
Set a spokesperson from the Tiffany campaign in an email.
He's not a member of our staff said Philip Shulman communications director for Crowley for Wisconsin It's unclear exactly who Maiden was working for though his co-worker told deputies They likely would be in Wisconsin for a couple of months and then move to New York, Florida Or some other state to do campaign work there according to the complaint Maiden and his passenger told police
The pair were in between jobs for the day when Maiden purchased a bottle of vodka and then Maiden took a sip of vodka complaint states the defendant went to the store and bought four buzz balls Which he believed have about 15% alcohol by volume the defendant admitted to consuming all four buzz balls and Did it outside of the witness of witness number four?
Later made and told deputies that he considered himself inebriated while driving the car according to the complaint the defendant did state that he felt Terrible and he knew if he knew he hit someone he would have stopped a preliminary breath test showed a result of Point two six eight, which is more than three times the legal limit damn it those buzz balls.
I wonder what what campaign was he working for?
I have a feeling, but I'm not going to say it on there.
I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our conversation.
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The truth Song is so peaceful It's called Mary's theme by Stelvio Sipriani All right, what are we talking about buzz balls People getting drunk working for different political campaigns is probably one of these outside groups
That is aligned with either I Don't know they're in they're in Jackson though So I don't with the Crowley with with an organ is in maybe no, but he was black you wouldn't put It's hard to tell it could be somebody with a Tiffany campaign because I know that there's a lot of outside groups that have an interest in either Tom Tiffany getting elected governor or David Crowley and these outside groups that are not affiliated with either campaign raised their own money
And they hire their own staff to knock on doors and distribute information and literature to places all throughout Wisconsin.
And if chances are, if you get your door knocked on at some point before November 3rd, we're like 48, 49 days from the election, by the way.
It might be from one of these outside groups, not necessarily someone who is directly employed by the campaign.
But this guy was named Dwayne Jawan, whatever his name was.
They got a picture of me.
He's wearing a do rag.
He looks the part.
He might have just been the driver because it seems like the person, his passenger, I don't have any.
You know, evidence of this, but I think his passenger was white because the pass was like, no, you got to stop you hit somebody.
And then the passenger was the one that told the police all the information.
So who knows?
Let me give you guys some details on this referendum because please don't go into this thinking.
that the next NPS referendum, and we don't have a date yet, don't think it's going to give money to underfunded schools.
Even if they said they needed money for underfunded schools, that's not where the majority of the money would go.
But this one is specifically for building new buildings.
Milwaukee Public Schools officials revealed...
A facility master roadmap outlining a potential $355 million investment over the next decade.
The plan aims to build new schools, modernize existing buildings, and address a massive deferred maintenance backlog.
While Superintendent Brenda Coselius indicated a desire for state-level funding or interest-free loans, she noted,
that the district may have to consider school closures or going to voters for another capital referendum if state assistance is not secured.
Assuming that the Democrats get control of the state legislature and David Crowley wins his race for governor, it's not going to fall on him and them and it shouldn't.
The district has surplus property that it needs to sell because we are paying to maintain buildings that are empty.
Allow for some of the higher performing charter schools to purchase those buildings and they'll purchase the building at market rate.
Sell them the building for five million.
Sell it for six.
Sell it for whatever the real estate costs.
The proposed breakdown of the $55 million referendum plan is as follows.
If funded, the district's 10-year roadmap outlines the following target allocations.
New school construction $150 million to build three new schools.
Y'all are on dope.
Deferred maintenance, $86 million to address roughly one-fifth of the district's immediate maintenance needs.
School modernization, $50 million to renovate and update 20 existing schools.
HVAC, there's your air conditioning, and air quality.
$30 million for specialized upgrades to ventilation, heating, cooling, and air quality systems.
I don't 30 million.
That ain't gonna scratch the surface.
The estimates are put air conditioning in all the schools is a billion dollars.
See, they're over here playing.
I have a feeling I know where that $30 million is going to go and what schools are going to get the air conditioning.
Career and technical education, $17 million, one of the lowest amounts, for facility renovations aimed at supporting specialized trade and tech programs.
Athletics and playgrounds, $17 million for updates to pools, athletic fields.
and NPS Playgrounds, sustainability in kitchens, $5 million for quote, green schools, environmental initiatives, and another $5 million for a centralized production kitchen.
You better not spend the hell you need $5 million for a centralized, you better use one.
Don't somebody use...
What do they call it in places them shared network and offices don't they got damn kitchens don't disturb and Phoenix use the
kitchen Better use one of these kitchens in the market hall Five million doubt let me hold on let me let me
I'll build a kitchen Let's spend no five million dollars building no centralized production kitchen.
What is y'all going to cook?
What do you?
The schools got the kitchens in them because that's where the schools make the school lunches question for those who may know the answer is NPS still They still serve the pizza does it taste like it did in the 80s?
Does the school pizza or have they upgraded to like Pizza Hut?
I Don't know what it is about them soggy Crusted rectangular the cheese was extra cheese.
You know what cheese they either use government cheese.
Well, of course, it's NPS
My school lunch was 75 cents That's the what I remember it.
Well, I think when I by the time I got to be a senior it might have been a dollar but for the majority of mine It might have been less than that and if you want an extra milk it costs 25 cents By the time we got to high school we could have chocolate milk every day when we were in Middle school and elementary school with chocolate milk was only on certain days
That was like a party Somebody would get the the lunch menu because we had a calendar y'all remember did y'all have a calendar of what the lunch menu was for the month of October or the month of September They come up with a calendar so then you could plan because some kids Brought cold lunch.
I was a hot lunch kid Because I remember one time I wanted to be like the cold lunch kids
I said mom I want a cold lunch.
She's I make you little sandwiches throw you a little some stuff in the little brown bag You'd be a cold lunch kid, but here's was that what happened?
That was the day we had pizza so I didn't even eat my cold lunch I just let it sit in my locker till it rotted so that wasn't smart of me Pizza still School pizza or maybe we were just real hungry.
I Can ask you should ask ask one of your teacher friends
So all we had, so NPS had mock chicken legs.
To this day, I'm 51 years old.
I've never had a mock chicken leg in my entire life.
Just give a real chicken.
Mock chicken.
What is it?
You only got a mock chicken.
Just get a real, real chicken.
So here's what I remember.
We had hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken patties, baked chicken, Salisbury steak, pizza.
We didn't even have to get lasagna we'd have that was it that was the whole menu from Essentially kindergarten till I graduated from high school But then by the time I got the ice-cream you get a la carte you get like a BLT sandwich you get an order of french fries You get you some tater tots to this day.
I love a tater top love a tater top crispy crunchy tater top better than a french fry love it Gotta douse them holes and ketchup.
I want them drowning.
I want my tater tots
in the catch up like Tom Tiffany and Lake Warsaw.
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Reginald Jones says, what's the price for a half pint of MPS milk these days?
Used to be three cents for regular and five to seven cents for chocolate.
Reggie, you went to school during Jim Crow.
Y'all just went and just milked the cow.
Come here, boy.
You want milk?
Grab a utter.
Dude Reggie bro.
He said did they still put a scoop of cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce with peaches?
Do that if that ain't a world war two ration snack Well, see we don't have any regular food because we have to give it all to the gi's that are fighting for our freedom.
It's victory time Here you go.
Feed this to the students Because that's how everybody talked back then.
Yeah, see
We're fighting for victory.
Gotta kill those Japs, indeed.
Don't have regular lunches for the kids.
Got these canned peaches, we do.
Dole or Del Monte, that's right.
Here, kids.
Have an after-lunch cigar.
I was back when the kids were smoking at five.
Kids being a smoking lounge.
So, Sally, what do you think about that arithmetic homework?
Yeah, I swear.
It was the bee's knees, the cat's meow.
Best thing since sliced bread, indeed it was.
And then they do that dance where you put your hands on your knees and you move your knees side to side.
Can't wait to see you in the square dancing class.
We're gonna cut a rug.
Thinking about asking Bobby Sue to the sock hop.
I hope she wears that pink poodle skirt.
No saddle shoes.
Damn Reggie.
Shout out to Reggie, man.
Well, come on guys, they still serve kind of cheese and peaches Dairy's a part of the food pyramid at the top of the food pyramid you have Buffalo.
We'd love to eat bison What's for lunch wild boar pork chops, okay, that's enough would you guys relax?
Geez guys are insane Got a billion dollar
Violence industrial complex in the city if we spent that money elsewhere.
This is on shootings Fatal and non fatal shootings the total cost a billion dollars that we don't have We could give 40,000 households $25,000 for home ownership assistance with that billion dollars We give 20,000 businesses $50,000
grants they never had to pay back.
We could give 10,000 businesses $100,000 investments.
We could give 50,000 people $20,000 skilled trade scholarships.
We could give 100,000 Milwaukee students $10,000 training scholarships.
We could employ 200,000 youth over the summer and pay them $5,000.
We could give 4,000 homes a quarter of a million dollars for total rehabilitations and we could build 5,000 brand-new affordable housing units with a cost of up to $200,000 each.
We also could replace 116,000 lead water laterals in the city of Milwaukee.
that is actually money to replace all of the lead water laterals, plus an additional 36,000 lead water laterals.
They are roughly $8,611 each.
That billion dollars do we spend on violence and anti-violence and violence programs and incarceration in the courts.
medical care and police services and EMTs associated with violent crime and homicide could replace 116,000 lead water laterals.
The entire city budget is just over $2 billion.
The violence industrial complex is economically equivalent to roughly half of everything the city of Milwaukee government spends in a year.
The $1 billion that we spend on violence and violence related activities just in the city of Milwaukee, not the county, is equivalent to three years of Milwaukee bucks revenue.
The latest Milwaukee Business Journal ranking estimates Milwaukee Tool at approximately $9 billion in total revenue, and they have 4,700 employees.
Therefore, the Milwaukee Violence burden is $1 billion.
Milwaukee Tools annual revenue was $9 billion.
The Violence burden is roughly $0.11 for every dollar of Milwaukee Tools worldwide annual revenue.
Another way to visualize the $1 billion that we spend on violence in the city of Milwaukee is $83.3 million every month.
We spend nineteen point two million dollars every seven days We spend two million seven hundred forty thousand dollars every twenty four hours on violence prevention services and the results of violent crimes in fact we had a two million dollar day yesterday because there were three non fatal shootings to the tune and total cost of six hundred and forty four thousand dollars each
The City of Milwaukee spends $114,000 per hour on violence and violence-related services.
The City of Milwaukee spends $1,900 every single minute of every single day due to the violence in our communities and our neighborhoods.
My program is almost over today.
Got about a minute left and the lunch break will take over.
During this radio program today in which I am thankful that all of you tuned in, the city of Milwaukee spent $342,000 in the last three hours of this radio program on violence and violence prevention services, just during my program.
We cannot just outsource the solutions to other agencies to other nonprofits to just the police to just the common counsel and just the mayor We can't just rely on the office of community wellness and safety.
These are more reactive and responsive organizations that do provide a lot of opportunity and