Restoring Housing For Our Vets with Brittany Carloni (Hour 1)

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Todd Albaugh along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer is now six minutes past the hour of.

Two o'clock here on a Tuesday, October 7th, 2025.

It's a great day to be Wisconsinite.

Glad to have you along.

The old world headquarters, downtown Madison at the intersection of state and fairchild.

An absolutely gorgeous day, although I pulled the blinds, but just because it was getting hot in here, I have my brewer for those watching on the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, the like.

I am my three-quarter zip, BrewCruiser.

Brewers, huge win.

Once again.

Last night over the Cubs at Ampham Field, they're one win away.

They have three opportunities to do so in the National League Divisional Series, and then they'll be on to the Championship Series against, let's look in like the Dodgers or maybe the Phillies could come back.

We'll see Dodgers lead two to nothing over the Philadelphia Phillies in that one.

But what a game last night for the crew.

We're going to be talking about it here in just a little bit.

And also at the bottom of the hour, because I want to stick around, brand new Wisconsin political reporter at Wisconsin Watch is going to be here.

She's going to be here in studio and talking about a story on, it affects the Chippewa Valley area, especially our listeners at WCFW, the TAP and that area, but it really transcends to an issue that I know we've talked about and our friends, Gene Mattner and Greg Bach have talked about.

homeless veterans in this state.

And the state budget, let's just put it down there where the chickens can get at it.

The state budget, the bipartisan state budget, screwed some veterans over.

And both sides, Republicans and Democrats knew this, and yet, you know, the good of the many outweighed the need of the few or the one to put it in Star Trek lingo.

But it's very unfortunate as very real consequences.

And now there is a bill trying to repair this damage that was done, particularly to a closing of a veteran's shelter in the Chippewa Valley area.

So we'll hear from Wisconsin watch at the bottom of the hour of the chances of this being passed, signed into law, and what it could mean for perhaps not just veterans in the Chippewa Valley area, but all across the state.

So we'll be talking about that.

It's also Aaron Zommer's Taco Tuesday, National Taco Tuesday day.

How about that?

I look forward to acquiring some tacos later.

I was going to bring some in, but it's been a very busy day, you understand.

There's a lot going on.

We don't have tacos here in the studio, but what's worse today?

Having to do with tacos.

So I'll stick around for that in hour two as well.

Also, I'm going to talk a little bit about politics today.

This morning kind of break it across some of the wires attorney general for Wisconsin Josh Call Announced he will not run for governor of Wisconsin, but rather he will run for reelection to the attorney general's office So gonna have some domino effects

People on both sides were kind of eyeing waiting for whether Josh call would run for reelection for Attorney General and would they then hop into that potentially open seat?

Well, it won't be Josh call is in for another term at least to run for another term and that may have repercussions on the Democratic side the race for governor We're now perhaps former lieutenant governor former US Senate candidate Mandela Barnes

may now get into that race.

We shall see.

Gonna talk, and also Dan Bice with some more titillating news.

Not nearly as titillating as Bill Barion.

Yeah, I don't think this is a campaign ending.

He's a very titillating guy, I understand.

But, but this one, our, our, I was going to say old friend jokingly, but no, he's not really a Tom Tiffany, Congressman Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor of the Republican side.

Apparently he's done some housekeeping and Dan Byte's little investigation will tell you about it.

And yes, it's not salacious info, but it's very notable why Tom Tiffany is cleaning things up.

On his campaign website, I'll tell you why I think that's important and how it could have ramifications on both sides of the governor's race.

And in particular, I believe it puts Democrats in a hole.

How does Tom Tiffany cleaning up his website put Democrats in a hole?

Politically.

I'll give you my thoughts on that in a little while as well on your phone calls eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five two four eight four two But Aaron Zommerz.

Did you watch the game last night?

I sure did and So my roommate Elliot who I've talked about before big Cubs fan from Illinois We had another one of our friends who's super into baseball over and so Elliot's wearing his cubs hat

And this other friend is wearing her Brewer's hat and jacket and everything.

And they just take turns for the first inning.

They

take

turns yelling and cheering and standing up.

And then for the rest of the game, it was just one of them doing that.

It was very amusing.

When you're in a mixed crowd like that, meaning mixed sports teams, yeah, that could, right?

That could be interesting.

Now, was there a lot of alcohol and vibe?

No, it was a fairly sober event.

Each

had a beer.

All right, so nothing out of control.

Because I think that's where things get sideways, is that people get a little too intoxicated, and then they get a little too

hyper.

No, this was all just good natured fun, you know, ribbing each other.

Alright, very good.

Uh, let's, uh, let's play a couple of cuts here regarding last night's game.

Now here's the deal.

The Brewers got, uh, down into a hole early on as the Cubs in the first inning put up three runs on the Brewers.

And it, it, you thought, oh geez, here they come.

Here they come.

But no, no, no.

Little woodpecker baseball is Pat Murphy likes to call it.

Got a couple of guys on base and then this is the call I believe on TBS.

Last night on television, Andrew Vaughn, who of course came over from the Chicago White Sox, timely indeed, as Mike Lucas likes to say, trade for the brew crew.

Andrew Vaughn steps to the plate.

Here was the call on TBS last night.

And Aga has struggled in the regular season in the first inning.

Another payoff.

And it's a high fly ball to left field.

Cap underneath it in front of the wall.

This ball's gone!

Andrew Vaughn

ties the game with one swing.

He's done it again.

This ballpark has always been a good hitters ballpark and it had enough to produce his three runs.

How about that?

Andrew Vaughn courtesy of TBS last night.

That was a very fun tying home run to watch because the ball went so high we were all sure it was going to come back down short.

Yeah.

But no, I mean, hi out there, gone.

As I just said, a clip from the Brewer's Radio Network call.

Let me know when that's queued up because Jackson Cheerio, it's kind of like when Jonathan Taylor played for the Wisconsin Badgers and they, you know, he was a phenom and all the national guys kept saying, you know, he's only 17 and he was.

And last night.

A lot of the national call guys were saying, you know, Jackson Churio just 21 years old.

And there was some concern because he talked about Churio kind of re-aggravating that hamstring that kept him out for about a month, sidelined him.

But no, he was in the starting lineup.

He was in the leadoff position.

And this, from the Brewers radio network,

which you heard last night on several of these stations on the Civic Media radio network.

This is three run blast.

As the Brewers take a commanding lead, here is Lane Grindel's call on the Brewers radio

network.

The lights are never too bright for the 21-year-old Jackson Churio.

A

three-run blast.

How about that?

I mean, that guy, and Murph said it, other people said it last night, this is what makes Jackson Churio a star, a superstar, because when the lights are brightest, he meets the call.

It's not just that he's good.

It's when the pressure's on, he meets the call.

Abner Uribe was the closer last night.

By the way, the Miz was fantastic.

Jacob Mizorowski came in, was it three and Inzi pitched or four?

I think it was one of those.

Three and a half, something like that.

Two thirds.

But but the Miz came 104 mile per hour fastball.

We'll get to that in a minute But it was Abner Uribe coming on here is how it does a the final call last night I believe by Lane Grindel on the call here for the Milwaukee Brewers radio network as the Brewers closed it out and famed last

night

have a 2-0 lead in the division

series.

Apologies, Jeff Levering.

How could I get those two mixed up?

Jeff Levering on the call there.

You heard it on several of our Milwaukee Brewer radio networks stations last night.

I mean, really exciting.

And I mean, I just hung on every pitch.

Underrated was the defensive play by both, uh, uh, Cheerio, who, who went up against the wall at one point, and then, uh, Sal Freelick, who ended up hopping up on top of a wall to make another catch, would have been foul balls, but they ended up being out.

Wonderful defense.

Uh, a Terrang had some nice plays, uh, Ortiz had some nice plays.

Uh, and Pat Murphy, manager for the Brewers.

How about that?

It was a bullpen game.

On the other side, Craig Council, former Milwaukee Brewer, after the game was asked, our own Mike Clemens was there, a great sports reporter.

Nobody does it better Clemens in the room when Craig Council was asked, how did it feel

blowing the lead?

After, after getting off to a great start, um, you know, those mistakes for two, three round homers is going to be.

You're not going to win playoff games given up 2-3 on homers.

That was just too much to overcome.

Craig Council,

too much

to overcome was ripe.

On the other side of the clubhouse walls, Pat Murphy for the Brewers asked about the performance of Andrew

Vaughn.

He's in triple A and he's struggling in triple A and the game humbled and it just goes to show you how mental this game is and then all of a sudden he gets his opportunity, doesn't say a word, keeps his head down.

It's been a joy to be around him.

I mean, I don't know how many games he's been here, but yeah, and the team trusts them.

They just trust them.

They certainly do trust

him.

And what a performance last night.

Do we have time for the William Contreras one summer?

So should you do that?

We come back.

All right.

So William Contreras got a big homer.

We played it there earlier and we didn't play the William one, did we?

On the William Contreras home run?

Not yet.

Anyway, Contreras also getting a danger.

And after he did he picked he made a hand his right hand like he was talking on the phone and then hung it up as if to say that was Craig council's call to the bullpen the press asked him Who are you?

Who are you?

Who are you calling there last night or after during the game

contraris?

We want the best on the plate.

I don't want to be the best catcher, but I want to be the one like they have to look control how play I want to bring the energy through for the team.

I think they're going to be good for the future.

They're going to be sick for the players.

And now it's show time.

There's William Contreras, who answered all the questions in his first language Spanish, except that one.

And with a smile on his face and a wink at the nod, he said, oh, I was just called the Brewer's fans.

Yeah, I'm ready.

It's showtime.

It's showtime indeed.

One more cut.

How about that Mizorowski 104-mile-prower fastball?

Did Vaughn call it?

Well, hear it in his own words after this on the Civic Media.

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All the sympathy ready now.

Oops, let's play a little bit.

It'll unwind your mind, you can let it all go.

It's the long radio.

Nicely done.

Baseball on the radio, where it's meant to be.

23 past the hour of two o'clock.

Zommer's tell us that it was sent by our friend, our colleague, the award-winning Terry Barr.

See, Terry Barr is always on top of the best music, local music here in Wisconsin.

That is written and performed by Terry's friends, Willie Porter and Dave Adler, based over in southeast Wisconsin.

And it is called, as you might expect, baseball and the radio.

Nicely done.

Yeah, we'll hear a little bit more of that as the Brewers progress here.

Hopefully several games left in the postseason for the crew.

Thank you, Terry, for alerting us to that.

Thank you, guys, for letting us play a little bit of.

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All right.

Talking a little bit more about the Brewers wrapping this up.

After the game, after the crew had beaten, the Cubs had gone up to a commanding 2-0 lead in a best of five game series.

Move, by the way, no game tonight.

Next game tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock.

So yes, most of our show will be an extended Brewer's pregame show tomorrow.

And then as soon as we're off the air.

Yes,

yes.

Well, the pregame for some of our stations, they'll be leaving this, I think, at 335 ish for the pregame show.

Well, I just mean both of us are going to

be busy the second the show

is over.

Yes, yes, absolutely.

So after the game of the Miz Tech, it was a bullpen game, meaning that several guys came in for one or two innings.

But the Miz, Jacob Mizorowski, got the win.

He was the longest person on the mound and had a couple of just crazy pitches, but most of it was centered.

They were, I can't remember how many balls thrown over 100 miles per hour.

One of them, a 104 mile per hour fastball.

After the game, Andrew Vaughn and the Miz in the presser room where Mike Clemens, our sports reporter was, was asked about that 104 mile power pitch.

Jacob, for those of us who are unacquainted with the feeling, could you describe what throwing over 104 feels like?

I mean, I honestly don't know.

I wasn't really feeling anything.

There was so much adrenaline and, you know, it was really wasn't feeling anything.

I was just kind of doing it.

Jacob, I was curious if you, if you knew it was one on four, did you peak and I guess Andrew as a first baseman, do you ever peak and did you turn around and see what the gun said?

Um, when he was warming up, actually, um, I was talking to our infielders and I go, he's going to throw 104 right here and he did.

So it was kind of funny.

Um, but yeah, I definitely took a peek up at the big board.

How about that?

Vaughn, Vaughn predicts it, calls it.

All right.

One more.

So this is pretty funny.

Because at one point, I think it was the last out that the Miz had, he, whenever he was facing for the Cubs, hit kind of a grounder, infield grounder that Miz picked up.

And, you know, he could have easily tossed it to Vaughn at first base to get the out.

But the Miz just kind of keeps it and says, I gotta and just run and outruns the Cubs batter to hit first base first for the out.

And it was kind of weird.

It's like, why didn't Miz just throw it to Vaughn?

Why didn't he keep it?

They asked him in the press conference.

Walk me through that thought process and you get the one hopper from Kelly.

You're walking over to first, you signal, I got this to Vaughn and then you stepped on.

Is there a little communication between you two in the head like, I got this one?

I was honestly scared to, you know, over throw a ball out and do something stupid.

So it was more of a, I didn't want to mess something up and it was more just the drill was pumping and hands kind of locked up and I was like, okay, I can beat him, let's just take it.

How is that for an honest answer?

I love that.

Just think I was scared that I'd mess it up I just thought it's in my hands.

I can outrun the guy You know, I'm not gonna mess it up and he was right a bad underhand throw and you know It's

also kind of funny to watch the video of that because when he says I'm not gonna mess it up There's a little pause.

He starts to form the letter F

He kept it clean for

I don't know where this is all going to end.

Nobody does.

But if you are not on the Brewer's bandwagon yet, there's plenty of room for you and get on because it is so fun watching and listening to these young guys who truly seem to care about one another.

The salty old manager, Pat Murphy, who you can tell just loves the guys, but is old school.

This is just the right mix of people.

in my opinion.

And they have so much fun playing this game.

And there's nobody making godzillions of dollars on this team.

I mean, Yellow's just probably the top person and comparatively speaking to a lot of the players today, you know, he's probably in the top tier, but not, you know, in the superstar category in terms of money.

But boy, are these guys play their hearts out.

No game, as we said today.

We grab my slips here that I normally should have in front of me as I was, but I forgot.

Hang on.

They're there.

I'm sure they have

your the correct times for the games.

Well, they're there.

I thought they were in here.

Yeah, they're in here.

They're not in here.

It doesn't

matter.

The Brewers play tomorrow, as we said, a pregame show right around the 3 30 mark and then the the first pitch will get underway just after four o'clock on many of our fine stations, including W R C E and Richland Center W I S S and Oshkosh Park Falls W C Q M and W B Z H the buzz of the north in Hayward over the air on terrestrial radio.

So tune in.

for the great call on the Brewer's radio network.

If you want to watch them as well, they're back on the TBS network of stations.

I don't know how to say this.

There's TNN, TNT, TBS.

It's mainly TBS, I think.

All right, we're going to come back to talk about Wisconsin veterans after this.

Not going to want to miss it, but stay tuned now for the Wisconsin Farm Midwest Farm Report with Pam Yankee and her crew.

We haven't even talked about the fact that Taylor Swift has a new album out.

No, we have not.

Or her new concert movie.

I've heard mixed reviews

on that.

Well, we'll get to Swifty News maybe a little bit later on this week here.

probably more important news wise.

That's your fun wise, but news wise, always great to have our friends at Wisconsin watch here, a great online publication.

You can find all of the work at Wisconsin spelled out, Wisconsin watch dot O R G. And joining us here, someone who has a little Taylor on her.

playlist or Spotify playlist.

Brittany Carloni, the new state government and politics reporter at Wisconsin Watch.

Brittany, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

It's a pleasure to have you here.

So you're a Swifty.

Yes, not as intense as some of my friends are I have a friend who's getting married at the end of October and the album on Friday was like The best thing that's happened to her probably until she gets married

And you know there's gonna be Taylor Swift music the receptioner

absolutely I it would be a surprise if it wasn't

Well a Pleasure to have you here before we get into this great story important story as we do with everyone new here on the show Tell us a little bit about yourself Brittany where you

grew up and how you got into the journalism field.

Yeah.

So I'm originally from the Milwaukee area.

Um, my parents still live in Greendale, went to Greendale high school, suburban, um, growing up for me.

Uh, I went to Marquette for journalism school, had some really wonderful opportunities specifically with the Milwaukee name for her new service and the Milwaukee journal Sentinel.

And I thought I was going to be in Milwaukee my entire life, but an opportunity came up to go work in Florida once I grabbed.

And so I spent about four and a half years at the Naples Daily News in Southwest Florida.

It's where I really kind of cut my teeth in local government reporting.

But the pandemic hit and I said, I don't want to be near the beach anymore.

I need to see the trees change colors.

And then

I

moved to Indiana and spent the last four and a half years at the Indianapolis Star covering local state and federal government there.

And then I said, Hey, I don't want to be in Indiana anymore.

And this opportunity at Wisconsin Watch came up and I was like, this is my chance to come home and to really do work that.

can help people in the state that is my home and that I grew up in.

So that's

awesome.

Here I

am.

That's fantastic.

An example of Star, great publication, did a lot of great work over the years, and a conversation for another day.

But for about eight months, I lived on Marko Island and worked in Naples.

Are you serious?

That's one of my favorite places.

Yes, we'll have to talk

about that.

You ever go to the Snook In on Marko for lunch?

No, but

there are so many people who,

that's just a regular.

The Snook In.

If you're ever down at Marko Island, go to the Snook In.

All right, well, as they say, that's not why you're called.

It's great that you have this opportunity to come home.

Great that you've, I always think it's good when people have gone away and done some things and it gives you a different perspective on your hometown, your home state.

You bring a different lens, I think, to it.

So I think that's fantastic as well.

Yes, absolutely.

And I really think this is a chance for me to come home to do...

work that I'm excited about the work that my colleagues have done at Wisconsin Watch and only being a month in, I'm really, really excited about what I can do over at the Capitol.

There's a lot, a lot for me to catch up on and already starting

to dive

into things.

There's no, there's no want of news stories in the state Capitol, right?

Well, you have this very important story.

People can find it again at WisconsinWatch.org headline.

Can Wisconsin's split government

pass a bill to support homeless veterans.

Governor Tony Evers says he supports a Republican bill that would restore funding for Wisconsin's veterans homes that closed in September, but the bill's prospects in the assembly remain unclear.

I think this is such important reporting.

Let's set it up a little bit.

Tell us the background that we're speaking with Brittany Carlawney, the state of government and political reporter at WisconsinWatch.org.

What led us to this point?

Why were these veterans of facilities closed?

And why wasn't this a part of the state budget for

us?

So I want to make sure I credit before we even get into this one of the Wisconsin Watch interns over the summer.

I believe she's still a student at Northwestern wrote a very compelling, very great piece of journalism about the initial impacts of the.

the money for these veterans homes not being included in the state budget agreement that was eventually signed by the governor.

That is also on Wisconsin Watch's website and it's linked in my story.

So people

find it, it's linked in that story.

She talked to veterans who spent time in these homes in Chippewa Falls in Green Bay that closed in September.

And it's really...

These homes provided resources for people who were really struggling, whether it was homelessness, recovery efforts for maybe like drug addictions and things like that.

It's really helping these people who served our country and who have hit very vulnerable parts in their lives.

But to go back to what's going on in the Capitol right now, Governor Evers during the budget, his original budget proposal, he put about $1.9 million in his proposal to continue funding these.

homes because the costs to do so are really just escalating.

And during the budget process, the Republican led budget writing committee took that out.

And that final agreement didn't include those funds.

And so the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs had went forward with closing the homes in Green Bay and Chippewa Falls, because that money to make sure those homes weren't that those homes continued to be funded wasn't there.

So

I believe it was mid-September that both Green Bay and Chippewa Falls, the last veterans, left those homes.

But this bill that's currently going through the legislative process, Senator Andre Jacques, who's a Republican, and I believe he represented a district that's near Endor County.

Correct.

He has a bill that has several pieces to it that would be helping veterans, including restoring that funding.

But the question is, and it's still this political fight over what happened over the summer, is Governor Evers saying that this funding was there.

We're going through this process, but this funding was there.

We didn't have to do this.

And Republicans are saying the same thing.

And this bill actually did pass out of committee today.

But the question is, does it get through the rest of the Senate?

Does it get through the Assembly?

And that's

It should an issue like veterans, like helping homeless veterans.

You wouldn't think that would be a no brainer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You would think that'd be a no brainer.

We're speaking with Brittany Carlodi, the state government and political reporter at WisconsinWatch.org.

You can find this and many other stories at WisconsinWatch.org.

Reading the story, I think you laid out well in that too often, I think to put it in layman's terms, it's just politics, right?

Because as you said, the governor had these monies in.

Mm-hmm

Republicans consciously left it out in the joint finance committee Then it the ball gets it back on the other side of the political court Governor Evers is part of the negotiating process act We asked to say okay the name of getting a budget deal done

If this is what you guys want to do,

then

fine, I'll do it.

And I'm putting it down in very

simplistic

terms, but fine, we'll do it, but this is your choice.

And now the Republicans are coming back and saying, well, it wasn't in the budget.

So, and it just seems to your point, do you see a path forward where people can lay down their political partisan arms on both sides and just say to put it in Tony Everspeak, get the damn bill passed?

I mean, that's a great question.

And me being new to the way the Wisconsin Capitol works, I'm very curious to how that how that works here in Indiana.

It would maybe be one of those things where Republican like a Republican proposal, you don't hear anything from Democrats.

You don't hear like just because Republicans control the entire the entire statehouse there.

But here, just the the fact that Governor Evers said he would.

A spokesperson for his office told me he would sign Senator Jock's bill and Jock is a Republican.

So- And

pretty conservative

one.

Yeah.

So it'll be interesting to see, especially as this bill, if it goes through the Senate and it heads the assembly, it'll be really interesting to see what Republicans over there think about what needs to go forward because this bill doesn't just have the- This bill just doesn't just have the-

housing aspects of it.

There's a property tax credit for disabled veterans or they're surviving spouses and there is a requirement to fund a missing in action veterans program at the University of Wisconsin.

So do people care about these other pieces?

Are they worried about that?

Does that affect how this bill goes forward?

It's a really good question.

So the bill is passed out of Senate committee today.

So that's new reporting.

That's great to pass on.

And it included all those provisions or just the one?

It included all those provisions.

All right.

So that's good news.

Let's focus on that for a second.

A little bit of good news here.

It passes out of the Senate committee.

You know, there was a bipartisan vote or

it was a bipartisan vote.

Yeah.

So that's good.

It was the one the one vote against it was a Republican.

And I don't believe he was concerned about the housing program.

It was I think he was concerned about the property tax credits.

All right.

So at least at least we've passed out of committee on bipartisan bill.

Any word and maybe this is too soon to know, but I'll ask it.

Yeah.

Any sense of a Senate Majority Leader, Devin Lummi, Hugh and President Mary Fliske.

who don't always get along behind closed doors from reporting I've heard, are they going to allow this bill to go to the full floor of the Senate or is it too soon to know

that?

So my understanding is there is a Senate floor session next Tuesday on the 14th, and I have yet to hear anything about a calendar out for that, so that's what I'm looking for.

Does this head to the Senate floor next week?

And if that's the case, if it's scheduled for that, what will that look like?

And for those that might not be, and good gosh, I would not blame you for this, but

for those

that aren't as political nerds as I am, and that Brittany are, the way it happens to your point, Brittany, in the state Senate is that...

a bill comes out of committee is the executive, it's a very small group of people that decide what goes to the floor.

And it's essentially the majority leader, the assistant majority leader and the president of the Senate.

Those three people have to, and then there are two Democrats, the minority and the assistant minority leader on that committee.

That's the committee that decides what goes to the floor of the state Senate.

And I've never known a time when...

It took one, one Democratic vote to get something to the floor of the Senate or vice versa.

It's always the majority party.

And at the end of the day, it's usually just the majority leader and or the Senate.

It's going to be very interesting.

Now that we know that there is bad political blood between Lemmichew and of Luskowski, you know, what's holding this up?

So I, you know, I know you're

a

real journalist.

I'm just a, I'm just a talk show.

I would, I would encourage all the audience, if this is important to you,

call your state senator, or call your state senator, and then you know what?

I don't often say this, but call the Majority Leader at the President's office as well and tell them to schedule this bill, because, Brittany, I feel like this is going to be a public pressure thing to get this on the

floor.

this is one of the things I really love about political journalism and writing about what happens in government offices because somebody out in the out across the state they might know who their state senator is they might know who their state representative is but having a better understanding of like who these other players are at the Capitol like who does make the decisions about what gets to the floor who does decide maybe what gets a committee hearing like there are some

There are some people in that building who may be decision makers about issues that somebody out in Wisconsin cares about and

it would

be, I like making sure that people know what those players are and what they do and what they can do or not do when it comes to issues across the state.

Yeah, absolutely.

I've got time to stick around one more segment here.

All right, very good.

Now we're going to take a little your little business as they say when we come back with Brittany Carloni, the state government and political reporter at WisconsinWatch.org.

What else is happening?

A block from where we sit right now in terms of bills that may get passed here in the fall session.

Well, since we talk political things as well, what are you hearing about this, the governor's race?

You got Josh Call.

He's out.

He's going to run for his attorney general seat.

And now it looks like Mandela Barnes is hinting he might be in.

We'll discuss all that more with Brittany Carlawney from Wisconsin.

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Welcome back to the town hall ball show in the civic media radio network glad to have you along eight minutes now before the hour of three o'clock at the top of the hour ABC or CBS News depending upon which for great stations you'll listen to whether update Mike Clemens great sports reporter with a sports update than hour two of the show including what's worse it's national taco day hard sell shell or soft shell that is the impending question could be up at hour two along with some more

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Right now we're being joined at the desk here live in studio at the World Headquarters of Madison by the brand new sports or sports.

I got sports in my mind.

Are you a Brewer's fan?

Oh, absolutely.

Did you watch the game last night?

I didn't end up watching the game last night, but I really enjoyed.

There's this one photo on the Brewer's Instagram of like all of the lights and I think like the closing picture coming out.

That's

great.

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cool.

Brittany Corloni, who is the state government and political politics reporter at WisconsinWatch.org.

That's Wisconsin spelled out watch.

RG talking about reporting on this bill Senate bill 411 Senate bill 411 I I can't speak for Brittany, but I would encourage you to call your legislator and tell them to particularly your state senator and Get this bill on the Senate floor because it would it would fix what I think is a travesty which is putting our veteran our Wisconsin veterans who I think are heroes who are the most vulnerable

And this ridiculous politics of the state budget closed these facilities for the unhours for veterans.

And this Brittany would at least go a good way to helping reopen those facilities.

Correct?

Yes.

So if this bill does pass the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, they have to do some grant.

and operating agreement renegotiations, but the Green Bay site, from my understanding in speaking with folks over there, that could open within a couple, reopen within a couple of months.

It would take more time for the Chippewa Falls site, but the Department of Veterans Affairs is very insistent that they need that legislative okay for that to go forward.

All right, we'll call, this is coming from Todd, not Brittany, but call your state senator.

Tell him to get off the schnide, as they say, quit horsing around.

As Pat Murphy say,

Enough of this horse crap.

Help out our veterans get this bill passed.

SB 411.

Great reporting, Brittany.

All right, the time we have left here, let's ask you this question.

We teased it here.

Lots of movement, early some movement on the Wisconsin governor's race today on the Democratic side.

Attorney General Josh Call saying he's not.

not going to run for governor.

Instead, he'll run for reelection as attorney general.

And now a great reporter, Molly Beck, tweeting out here just moments ago from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Molly Beck says, former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes tells her, quote, I'm strongly considering entering the race for governor.

I've been blown away by the number of people across the state who have reached out and asked me to run.

And I will have more to say very soon, unquote, that from Molly Beck at the Journal Sentinel.

Brittany Carloni, your report.

What are you hearing?

What's kind of the the rumor mill right now in terms is Barnes gonna get in or how does what's your Outlook on this on today's news?

I so there was a poll that I believe was published on Sunday that Even though Mandela Barnes isn't in the race yet.

He I believe it was a nonpartisan poll that came from platform communications Yeah, I think

platform

yes, but

they put him as a front runner, which... They

go

out.

That was... And obviously, there's probably more details in that poll at this point.

But that... I mean, if you're Mandela Barnes and you see things like that, and at this point with not having an incumbent in the race, it's kind of a fight to see who...

who's gonna win that name recognition at this point?

And having been in state office before, I mean, Sarah Rodriguez has that name recognition at this point.

I personally, from my reporting experiences, name recognition is a big thing,

so.

Sure, I don't disagree with that at all.

I think former Lieutenant Governor Barnes certainly has the name ID on the Democratic side.

And just this is a weird thing in the back of my head, just because I know my former party, the Republican Party, which I left in 2011.

Platform communications is is Ron and either wholly or partly owned by guy named Keith Jilks who used to be Scott Walker's chief of staff So I I take the polling over there platform with a little grain of salt It's good to take a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

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The Marquette poll will be, the last time I talked to Charles, I think there's one coming out at the end of October, so that's definitely one I'm watching for.

Me too.

Yeah.

What have I not asked you so far, Brittany Corloni, that you want to share with people, either about yourself or Wisconsin Watch, or stories you guys are working on?

I mean, I'm just thrilled to be here, and I'm thrilled to work with the team over there.

One of the things that I would encourage people to subscribe to, Wisconsin Watch has three free weekly newsletters.

The one I am obviously biased toward is Forward, which is our Monday politics newsletter, more politics-themed work in there, things that I'm doing, things that my teammates are doing, like Tom Kircher with Fact Briefs.

We

love Tom's Fact Briefs.

Yes, yes.

So we relaunched Forward on Monday, and that should be in boxes every Monday.

late morning early afternoon.

And so I would encourage people to subscribe there.

That way you can read more of the work that I'll be doing from the Capitol and the work that my colleagues are doing.

I'm just absolutely thrilled to be here.

And I look forward to coming back and talking

about more.

I can't wait.

You always have a welcome microphone and a seat at this desk.

And I'm sure your boss, Matt DeFours, is listening in.

And so Matt, I'll be excited to tell you that Brittany and I are going to be

doing a joint to WisconsinWatch.org and Civic Media political roundtable at the Snook on Markle Island in February.

So that'll be great.

Perfect weather.

There's no better time to go to a snook at Marko than on February.

I appreciate it.

Brittany Carloni of WisconsinWatch.org.

We'll see you soon.

Thank you so much.

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