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Welcome to Bibb's View.

Day one is in the books, and this is day two.

And this Tuesday, today, what is this?

October 13th, we are exactly three weeks from the November 3rd general election.

And even more importantly, tomorrow, October 14th.

is the deadline for online and mail voter registration in Wisconsin.

But of course, also in Wisconsin, you can register at the polls on election day.

So that's a good thing for Wisconsin.

But I say that because voting is very important to me.

And so on these Tuesdays leading up to the midterm, we are doing a countdown to the midterms.

If you listened yesterday, I mentioned it, that we would be doing that.

And I mentioned that we would have my good friend, Michelle Bryant, to join us from WNOV, but also she's a rock star political strategist.

She'll talk to us about, you know, what we need to know, what we're voting on.

She'll do that each Tuesday up until...

election day.

So we're doing a countdown to the midterms.

We're also going to have some guests later on to talk about, you know, what we need to do and what's at stake and why we don't vote.

We're going to have Christopher Bogan on.

He is an assistant for Tammy Baldwin.

Annunciate Baldwin and then he also will be joined by John Dickard who's the former mayor of Racine They've worked together and I think John Dickard is a good friend of our former president my forever president Barack Obama So we'll talk to them about The importance of voting

Especially in this year's election and and really talk about the economics of the United States because you know gas is high groceries are high I'm curbing where I go because of all of that So we'll talk about the economies We'll also talk about how you can be an election observer And you know we need some people making sure that

The elections are running smoothly and that we are not being taken advantage of I'm also going to talk about you know, there's some you know aside from the governor's race We which is of course our major race here We are you know, there are some referenda on the ballot and the thing about the referenda They were written

by Republicans and So sometimes they can be really confusing.

We're gonna talk about that I'm gonna ask Michelle to kind of break that down.

I know she's been She's been working on that not only in her business, but also In our sorority we are full disclosure.

We are both members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority incorporated

But this is something that's being worked on not just with our sorority, but other divine nine groups, other organizations, the League of Women Voters, souls to the polls.

We're going to hear from them next week.

So just look for on Tuesdays as we count down to the midterms, you're going to learn a lot of different things and hear a lot of different things.

Here are some of the reasons why.

we need to vote.

Now I know there are some of you out there who maybe haven't voted in a while, maybe haven't voted ever.

Maybe you think that your vote doesn't count.

It's my view that we need to participate.

If we are

complaining about what's going on.

We need to have a stake in what's going on.

And we can say, yeah, we voted for whatever, even if we did not vote for the person in charge.

We still live in the community.

We still live in the state.

We still live in the country.

And so we need to be heard because we are here.

Maybe you don't agree with me a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 I'll be asking you to call in and and give me your view Because I want to hear it, but I want to talk about these the questions on the ballot for instance They're always worded so crazily sometimes And and it takes a minute, you know, you think you need

like a doctorate to understand it and sometimes even with that, I don't have a doctorate, but even with that, you know, they're trying to confuse you.

And so, you know, there are three questions on the ballot.

One is partial veto.

And it reads shall section 10, one C of article five.

of the Constitution be amended to prohibit the governor in exercising his or her partial veto authority from creating or increasing or Authorizing the creation or increase of any tax or fee So what this does is it prevents the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee The key concern about that and I'm reading this from I got this this

It's a I'm gonna show it.

It's a It's a form and it's 2026 November election your voice matters three amendments big impacts know the facts and I'll tell you State Senator Dora Drake Came to our church on Sunday.

I go to Christ the King Baptist Church.

I understand that there were other people who were

going to different churches as well, talking about this particular, well, the particular referendum.

And so she was kind of explaining it and sharing that in our interest, we should vote no on each of them.

So the key concern is that permanently weakens executive checks, shifts power to the legislature for partisan reasons.

And so if the governor is elected by the people, and they brought this one to the forefront, and of course, they did this because they were challenging governor evers.

The key support, it limits the governor's ability to raise taxes on their own and gives the legislature greater control over tax and fee increases.

And so, you know, right now,

Milwaukee usually gets the raw end of the deal on on taxes and shared revenue and and all of that because we are a blue county and Anything in my estimation that comes out of this Republican legislature Is not necessarily and I will let's just say I I look

sideways at it and have to look twice at it and make sure, okay, what's really going on and what really do they want to do and how will this really impact us?

Question two is, freedom to gather in places of worship during an emergency shall section 18 of article one of the Constitution, which deals with religious liberty, be amended to prohibit the state or a political subdivision.

of the state from ordering the closure of or forbidding gatherings in places of worship in response to a state of emergency, including a public health emergency.

So what this does is it bans government from closing places of worship during any state of emergency, including pandemics.

The key concern, it removes essential public health tools.

It could cost lives and future disease outbreaks.

So banning the closing of your places of worship the key support it protects the freedom to worship and ensures government cannot shut down churches during emergencies So question three governmental entity discrimination

prohibited shall section 27 of article one of the constitution be created to prohibit governmental entities in the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group or the basis on the basis rather of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, public education, public contracting or public administration.

What it does prohibits all government DEI programs and consideration of race, sex, or ethnicity in public employment, education, and contracting.

It dismantles equity programs, eliminates accountability for discrimination.

That's the key concern.

And the key support promotes equal treatment for all and ensures government decisions are based on merit, not race, sex, or ethnicity.

So all of these seem to be targeting the black community.

And that's my concern about it.

And I'm sure that's why State Senator Dora Drake was coming to our church and others were going to various churches.

And we're going to talk about it later on.

I'm going to give you the number again.

If you want to call in, we're going to have Michelle Bryant coming in.

Oh, she's on hold.

So we'll be able to talk to her when we come back from this break because Zach is telling me break, break, break.

So we'll be right back.

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Schedule change, running late Got my people asking questions They say, hey You ain't been on top of your game And I've been in my age

And that's my boy, Eric Benay Milwaukee native You know, Zach plays these songs and gets me all off track

Why everybody play me?

Like, y'all don't give us a list of artists and songs and... okay

I'll take the blame.

Okay, even though I want to hear that song, we have some more important things to do right now.

You're

right.

We got to talk to Miss Michelle Bryant.

We have to talk to Miss Michelle Bryant because we are counting down to the midterms and Michelle has agreed to call in today and then join us the next few weeks, couple weeks to talk about this election in the midterms.

And you guys, you guys know Michelle.

She's the host of Say Something Real with Michelle Bryant.

which is a Morning Drive political talk program on WNOV at 860 AM, 106.5 FM.

She's a political strategist.

She's the president of CMB Consulting and Associates, a weekly columnist for the Milwaukee Korean newspaper, former chief of staff of State Legislature, Wisconsin State Legislature, where she also served as a budget and policy director.

and clerk for the Senate Committee in Judiciary and Public Safety, Senator Lena Taylor, so she knows her stuff.

Michelle, and plus, I have to say, Michelle, are you there?

Yes, I am.

And you know what, Michelle?

Yesterday was, I started in war.

pink because of breast cancer awareness month and you know sorrows were like

uh

why you got all pink at first I was like why you got all pink and I was like so I wore red today and I have an elephant on my shirt so that uh you know that red is really my favorite color I also have my David Crowley button on anyway because I want you to know who I'm supporting

You are

outfitted.

I

hear

you.

I hear

you.

So first of all, thank you so much for joining us today.

I know you have a lot going on.

I do want the audience to know what you're doing.

You would be in here with me today, but I know you are busy because you're working on a report.

So can you even share about that?

Yes.

Yes.

So one of the things, and first of all, before I do any of that, let me say congratulations to you.

on your new show.

I am ecstatic to have another sister's voice at the table in terms of discussing, you know, the issues of the day, current affairs, and given, you know, your story background in media, it is just fitting.

So wishing you nothing but absolute success on the new show.

And again, anytime we can get more assistance to the table, I am always ecstatic.

I'm so glad for you.

And you know what?

You really gave me the confidence that I could do this radio thing, because I don't know if I shared this with you.

The day that I called you to ask if I could promote something that I was working on,

You said, well, do you want to guest host?

And that's that day is when Cherie Harris called me and said, we are looking for a new host for a two hour show.

And I was like, well, let me think about it.

And then I called you and you offered me that guest host position.

And I was just like, oh, can I do two hours?

And so because you left me with your main ride out, I got the two hours.

And so I was like, OK, if I have somebody who's pushing the buttons, I can get through it.

Yeah, I mean, what a way to cut your teeth with, you know, Jermaine Rideout, Laura, have mercy.

But no, I got, you know, phenomenal reviews after you filled in for me.

And I just believe that you create opportunities.

Like I said, there is a lack of female voices in this arena.

And but when I look around the country, so many women that I know that do talk radio

are

actually members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

So I just got.

Got to start that out.

Cleopatra, one of my favorites over in Chicago on VON is a sororore.

I

mean, we are everywhere.

So look, welcome to the club.

And I know you'll represent well.

But yes, I am out here in my capacity.

As a business owner, I had been involved in civic engagement, voter registration efforts.

And we have reached a point in the program

where there is no longer going to be the ability after tomorrow to register people online or via mail in the state of Wisconsin.

That access will close and then folks will have to shift to in-person registration, which they can do either at one of their early polling locations, which starts on October 20th.

and once through October 30th, or they can do it on Election Day on November 3rd at their polling site.

But, so, yeah, it is one of those things we have come to a crunch in another hat that I wear as social co-chair of social action for the sorority.

We have worked with the League of Women Voters and been going to high schools, and it is nothing short of

Amazing to see 10 kids getting registered at this school.

Seven kids over here, five over here.

And to see the young people asking questions.

I was at Nova High School the other day and a young man said, so we're a blue state, right?

And so, yeah, I wasn't expecting that.

So I had to sit down and, you know, talk about NASA and in fact, we purple, you know, and explain what that meant.

So, yeah, there you go.

There you go.

So it has been extremely rewarding, but we are in crunch time.

And I'm so glad I heard while I was on hold, you walking through the referendums because we have folks that

Even the people that vote every election four times a year religiously, some of those folks were surprised when they saw those questions at the bottom of the ballot and honestly had no idea which way to vote.

So I was thrilled to hear you walking through them when I got on hold.

And so because I walked through them, I was saying how Senator Doris Drake came to our church on Sunday and I know

people went to other churches to explain this.

And so she walked through everyone and she said, we really should vote no.

Although some of it reads like, oh, you know, that's not such a bad thing.

How do we come up with those wordings or that wording?

And I'm sure it's to trick people.

So let me just say this.

First of all, I'm glad to hear that Senator Drake was out.

at a church giving this information, but I'm gonna be candid.

Many of the black legislators are a day late and a dollar short because we have known since February that this was going to be on the ballot.

And so the lack of community engagement on this issue, the lack of information, I haven't had anyone, not a single legislator, call my show and ask if they could talk about what folks should expect in terms of these referendums.

That is one of the reasons we started going out because we didn't see anyone else really out talking about this with our community.

So better late than never, but we got to do better.

And the thing is, is that they know their Republican counterparts will use a crafty language, you know, hey, we're here to prevent discrimination.

But that assumes that we're already at a level playing field, which we are not.

And

then the other thing, when you talk about, and this one that I'm referring to at this moment, is question number three on the ballot.

It literally would dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

This is Donald Trump's attack on DEI that he started in his first term, and it has spread to the state.

And we have Republicans, all three of those referendum questions on that ballot were introduced by Republicans.

None of them have Democrat support.

And so the question number three, direct attacks, minority student loan programs, minority apprenticeship programs, black different mortality studies, anything that the state does, either at the university level or in state agencies, state hiring, that took race or sex into consideration.

What did I say about you joining the ranks of talk show hosts?

We don't have a ton of females.

So people would make a deliberate effort.

How do we get more women engaged?

We would now see our state say we're going to change our Constitution to say if we see Roy, we don't do anything about them.

So there's not enough women in the industry.

We do nothing about it.

There's not enough people of color or black people or, you know, lung or Hispanic or whatever.

We do nothing about it.

All of that is this is an extension of Donald Trump's attack on diversity, equity and inclusion, and it has been in play for a while.

And the thing is, you know, people.

But as you know, I mean, I've covered many elections and the primaries and off general election day election days are the turnout is dismal and more people vote in a general election.

Usually, you know, of course, gubernatorial or presidential, but they they forget that that these things.

Can happen throughout our city and community and state and they don't I don't understand why people don't pay attention and and try to make sure they know the issues because You know Delta Sigma theta we have adopted a polling site and so we work a polling site, you know each election day How many people come in and say oh, I'm gonna vote for one person but don't vote for the rest of the

the things that are on the ballot.

And so especially when they get to the referendum, we're not supposed to tell them exactly what it is.

We can repeat it, but our rules are, we can't help them in that way.

And so they don't know about those things.

And so we don't get enough people voting on these referenda if they don't understand it.

I mean, even if you don't even have to be that complicated, I know in the spring election, which is typically a nonpartisan election, meaning you don't vote.

you know democrat or republican you just vote you know the candidates so that would be an example of the supreme court race that we had because back in the spring because those are supposed to be non-partisan seats even though we know we

have

justices that lean conservative lean um liberal but i you know i was at the polling site when you know people said i don't know these people which one is the democrat and which one is the republican and you know so they literally came in

Unaware of who any candidate was and what they needed to do.

So that was heartbreaking.

But yes, we have, uh, I think it's a, it's a responsibility on everybody's part.

It's a responsibility on the voters part to be better engaged, to understand the issues.

Everything, if you got most cell phones, the information is at your fingertips.

You can Google these people, find out who's running, go to myvote.wi.gov, get information that way.

But to the point that I made earlier, we have people, community leaders, elected officials,

who need to do a better job of educating the constituents, their district, you know, about what is going on, what's on the ballot.

Because, I mean, I would encourage anybody to call and say how many times they've heard an elected official in their area discuss these ballot initiatives and literally, you know, come into the community to educate people.

And we already know.

Folks got a lot on their plate.

I'm trying to feed these kids.

I'm trying to get school going.

I mean, you got all these.

I'm taking care of an elderly parent.

And so they don't always get it.

And even when they do read it, as in the case of these questions that are on the ballot right now.

They are written intentionally to confuse

people.

They are written intentionally.

I always think about proposition eight out in California and how many people voted for that particular law only to find out that it did the exact opposite of what it thought that it was going to do.

So what you're doing in terms of this lead up to the election is so critical.

I'm going to encourage you to beat that drum every day because people need to be able to tell their family, friends.

Um, these young 18 year olds, we just registered at the poll.

This is what these ballot initiatives do.

And we need to be able to, you know, if that's too hard, we need to vote now.

And that's Michelle Biden speaking, not any hat that I wear connected to any of the organizations I'm in, but it's no, no, no, no, no.

We've been doing that and singing that over here, you know, for a week.

We need to get

that, we need to get that music.

It would be God awful if you realized that you went in and you did something to hurt your own people.

But that's what they will literally be setting us up to do.

And there will be, and I had, I've been to these churches, we've been going to churches for over two months now.

And so we literally had people come up and tell us, baby, I voted the wrong way.

Right.

After hearing a second point, they said, baby, I voted the wrong way.

I believed that, you know, nobody should be discriminated against.

I didn't understand.

And, you know, you just, your heart just breaks.

And because we are only what minorities, all minorities make up like less than 13% of the state's population.

So you already had a disadvantage if you don't have allies.

to, you know, vote with you on these referendums.

So it's easy for us to lose this fight anyway, but I can't help you.

I can't help you take me out the game.

And that's what we're trying to get people to understand.

Y'all, we got to, we got to educate our community.

So again, kudos to having another voice.

Thank you so much.

How close are we to a break sack?

OK, Michelle, can you stick around for one more segment and then I'll let you go?

Yes, ma'am.

I can do that.

OK.

Well, we'll be right back on Countdown to the Midterms on Viv's View.

Viv's View with Vivian King will be right back.

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song.

You know, I'm an Earthwind of Fire fan.

Earthwind of Fire is really my favorite group of all time.

And Prince is one of my favorite artists of all time.

And Stevie Wonder.

And I, of course, like all kind of other things.

But anyway, I could get lost in the music, but we need to pay attention to this election.

We're still here on Viv's view.

Countdown to the midterms.

And we are so glad that

Michelle Bryant is here with us.

She is just a political genius and guru.

And so we were just talking about making sure that we know to vote no, no, no, no, no, no on the referendum.

I'm going to use that now from now on.

And I am disheartened by the fact that we haven't really heard a lot of people

legislators coming out and making sure that we are educated by this, which makes me think, okay, all the more reason we should think about that in the future when we vote for them, but also we need to do our own homework.

And so we can't necessarily rely on them until we can change

it.

Yeah, other groups have to pick up the slack.

You know, you got the NAACP.

That could have been a whole lot more vocal on some of these issues.

The League of Women Voters has done a great job.

Most of the people who are passing out literature, it's the literature created by the League of Women

Voters.

You know, and that's kind of frustrating to me because we have some historic organizations that could, you know, easily be in this fight in terms of the education piece as well.

But most people that I see, the information that they hand out, we created a piece of lit in Delta that we have been using in partnership with some of the Denon organizations and that's members of Black fraternities and sororities.

But yeah, we all have a responsibility.

Nobody gets a pass in terms of making sure this community has what they need.

Nobody gets a pass.

And why do you think?

Why?

Why don't we vote?

And I want some people to call in because I know, like I was telling them that, you know, my parents, when I was a little girl.

They would take me with them to vote and you know, we we operate a polling site And so I see you know a lot of times I hate I'm handing out the stickers after they put their ballots in the machine and we give an I voted sticker to the little kids and so as a kid I would be getting these I voted stickers, you know, of course, this was years ago and so that trained me

to know that my voice counts and I can exercise my voice through the vote.

And so I was telling somebody today that I have voted in every election in every city that I have lived since I was 18.

I think I may have missed one and I had forgotten to do absentee because I forgot I was out of town.

But other than that, I have voted.

like I grew up knowing that our vote matters.

And so why is it, how can we get others to understand that they need to exercise their vote?

I mean, they just feel disenfranchised.

So I think that, you know, on one level, it is exactly what you talked about, which is being trained to vote, you know, being given that example.

So whether your parents literally said, this is why we vote, explain the whole process, or they just had you be there to witness it all, to hand out those stickers to understand that this was routine, this was expected, this was a part of being, you know, they always talk about voting is one of the prices that you pay for being

uh rent for being a citizen in this world for being you know on you know able to stay in a community um and so we don't have enough people that are making that example known i you know i used to love when in the schools they would do my collection so that uh you know kids were voting for president at the same time adults were voting for president so we definitely

that civic education piece has got to be more relevant.

I know that there has been legislation that was passed to require civic engagement in order to graduate from high school.

And if I'm not mistaken, I think it's like a hundred questions that kids have to answer as a part of one of their requirements to be able to get that diploma.

But the other side, and so, and let me be clear, there

a couple of baskets that this can fall into.

Because another basket, another area we can look at is that folks don't see the results.

We show up, we put people in office, but nothing really changed for me.

And being able to educate people, like folks were saying, even if you are successful in this midterm season of getting Democrats to

to win the Senate.

If they don't win the House, they just win the Senate and they're able to kind of stop Trump and some of the things that he's doing.

It will take years to undo some of the damage.

More than 350,000 black women have lost their jobs.

When Doge, Elon Musk goes through and just, just guts the federal government.

Right.

Prince George's County in Maryland.

is the wealthiest black county in the entire nation.

The wealthiest people, black folks, live in Prince George's County.

But many of those people work for the federal government.

So these are people who had been there 20, 30 years, gotten over 100,000 or 150,000, whatever their salary.

I have family and friends who live in Prince George's County.

Yeah, you know, so that that's an issue.

The other thing that is, you know, an issue is.

People being able to connect it to their daily

life,

you know, and why this is important and why we gotta show up.

So, and there are other baskets that I easily could refer to, but I think, you know, those are some of the biggest.

I don't see the immediate connection, but we also cannot rule out or dismiss the fact that there are people that don't want us to vote.

So a

lot

of disinformation is put out there to keep us disengaged because if you're not at the table, I can put you on the menu and I can do things to you and not for you.

And I

cannot have to serve you.

And the resources that would have gone your

way, I keep them.

Absolutely.

And I would always say, you know, they're trying to disenfranchise you.

They're going after your vote.

Why do you think they're doing it?

Because they know it's important.

We say it all the time.

If it wasn't important,

they wouldn't work so hard to take it from

you.

Exactly.

I got to tell you, Michelle, that Anita Nicole has said, hey, Michelle B, my granddaughter loves listening to Michelle.

She's eight and has been listening to her for years in her car.

She makes me drive by capital drive so she can see Michelle in the window.

Oh, my God.

That's super cool.

That is

super cool.

So you are rock

star baby.

I said hey look we just and that's the thing to that that piece about training them because I tell people the number of young people I have a school bus full of kids that stop and wave every day when I'm on my way in the building and yell out the window hey miss Michelle.

That's probably because the school bus driver is listening to the show.

Right.

You know, so they're paying attention and they want information.

We just got to put it in front of them.

Absolutely.

Kids are always watching.

And if you are.

doing something negative, there's an impact with that.

But when you're doing something positive, there's an impact with that.

Thank you so much, Michelle, for joining.

I know you got to get back to your

work.

I appreciate you taking time out.

And we'll see you next Tuesday when you come back for us for counting down to the midterms.

Thanks, Michelle.

Perfect.

Talk to you soon.

All right.

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Right now, we're talking about our power in voting.

And, you know, we need you to vote so that we can exercise our power.

I am thanking everyone who's chiming in on YouTube.

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Queen V.

Queen V. Yes.

I thought it was Queen B for a second.

I was like, ooh, they about to come swatting.

No, Queen V. Queen V. All right.

Yeah.

I guess that makes more sense.

I like that too.

I'm

sure we can use that one.

We can use that one.

Jasmine Jazz West says, I definitely remember you as a kiddo Vivian.

Great to see you.

I'm voting.

Good, Jasmine.

I'm so glad.

And since you call me a kiddo, I'm wondering.

I don't know.

I may be older than you think.

And then I already read to you what.

The eight year olds who loves Michelle.

I see Demetra Scott forty seven forty two black people think their votes don't matter and the system is rigged for a certain outcome.

And I don't think I don't think that's the case.

You know, I mean, I know there's some conspiracy theorists that you know, I might be one because you know that last election I was like are you sure Elon Musk didn't do something with the voting machines

Right.

He said yeah, he was complaining or I guess gloating about all the lasers he had in space

exactly and so, you know Exactly, you know, I I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but I think by and large

You know, he can't control every state, so I'm hoping that that's not the case.

That's the thing, he didn't need to control every state.

That's why it made it easier for him to do what he did, allegedly.

Yeah, allegedly.

We'll try to get to the bottom of that.

I think one day, you know how, you know, we haven't had like the reporting, remember when...

Well, maybe people out there don't.

This will show my age.

Remember, and I was a kid, know that I was a kid when, when Nixon resigned and he was forced to resign.

Somebody needs to do some reporting like that to get us out of this situation today.

Surely there is enough out there to get the government changed,

hopefully.

Must not be enough information.

No, they're keeping it close.

Thank you, Robert Lance.

He says, great show yesterday.

I'm enjoying today already as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Anita Nicole says, great show.

Thank you.

And Charles Green said, hi.

Hi.

So, you know, Michelle was talking about.

you know, training up a child.

And, you know, we heard about the eight-year-old who drives by and likes to see Michelle through the window.

And, you know, she talked about the school bus, and I talked about my parents taking me to vote.

And she talked about the elections, too, that you would have at schools.

And, Zach, you talked about an election that you had in school, which kind of gave you a mini-lesson on differences.

You want to

share?

Yeah, I remember being in fifth grade and doing a little mock lesson and mock election, I would say for the presidential election.

And it was it was crazy because the whole class, we voted for Obama, except for one girl.

And we all know what she was.

The Y. Yes.

Shout out to Caitlyn.

She she voted for John McCain at the time.

So R.P.

to John McCain.

But it was

a it

was a.

definite lesson in in different

cultures right and you know i mean john mccain is

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You heard Michelle Bryant tell us

And you heard me read these referenda.

They are crafty and they make it sound like, oh, that makes sense.

And it just pained me when she said that this woman came up to her and said, I voted the wrong way.

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But I do want to I wanted to tell you about this.

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They are having a live virtual election observer training.

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On Tuesday October 13th from 6 to 7 30 p.m.

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And if there's anything we need right now, it's making sure that our elections are running smoothly, that nothing is out of order.

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and you will receive a copy of your responses via email after you submit this online form.

So they will send that to you.

I suggest you go to the League of Women Voters Wisconsin website if you want to do that.

We need as many people as possible.

It's kind of like jury selection.

We need jurors when we are...

In court cases, you know jurors are of your peers and just like that they need election observers as well So we need to be watching what's going on For this election and we need to be voting in this election and we need to be sharing with our family and friends what's going on in this election and And let me know some people are texting, but I'm wondering what you think about

Anything that we have been talking about why don't we why don't we vote if there is somebody out there who does vote?

Would love to hear from you and to make your case I probably would agree with you and those of you who don't feel like it's It's worth it to vote.

I would love to hear from you as well Because the thing is we need to listen to each other we need to

understand each other.

We need to come together as community.

Because I'll be honest, there are some people in my family who voted for Trump.

And I was not that excited about that.

We have agreed to disagree.

I will admit they don't live here in Milwaukee, but I will admit that we have not spoken since.

He's really done so much this this last time that he's been in office I'm really I probably need to give them a call and see how you'd like him now, right?

And who are you voting for now?

They're gonna pretend that they didn't vote at all.

They're gonna be like, oh, I didn't vote.

I didn't vote for him.

Exactly.

I didn't vote that election.

I forgot

Crazy

it was only the first time that I voted.

Yeah

And even then, that was too much.

It

was way too much.

And this is a well-educated individual.

I wonder if he knows I have a radio show.

I may ask him to call in.

His ears

are ringing.

That would be interesting.

Because it's funny, I actually, he was on a show on the truth.

Then I was working for another company and, um, and he came on the truth with Dr. Ken and they really hit it off.

Maybe I'll say, hey, hey, I, hey, I got a show now too.

So anyway, but yeah.

So while we're waiting, let me tell you who's coming in and maybe you'll have some questions for

them as

well.

Um,

I mentioned Christopher Bogan, who is an assistant to Senator Tammy Baldwin, U.S.

Senator.

And then John Dickert is the former mayor of Racine.

And I think we have somebody else that is coming as well.

I'll wait to see if that person comes.

But, you know, I want to talk to them about, you know,

what they're saying on the ground.

What they have seen as far as how they feel about getting the vote out.

And I'm wondering too, I know Senator Baldwin is a U.S.

Senator, but surely she has talked to some of our state legislators.

You know, hopefully, you know, I wonder if if the people who are coming in today, you know have some thoughts on how we make sure that our electorate is is Educated about the things that show up on the ballots Oh Hey, maybe Shannon Maybe Shannon says I noticed a lot of Trump supporters have been acting like they didn't know it would be like this

Like they thought he was just joking.

Insane is and she says insane and insane is right.

And if you think about it, I mean, Kamala Harris said this is what he's going to do when he gets in the office.

He's she said exactly what he was going to do, which was a part of Project 25, which we which was out on the web, which you could read.

And that project has been around forever.

And you

need to read.

And that's another thing who likes to read and who wants to read?

People don't read.

People don't read emails, Zach.

I wasn't reading the captions.

What'd you say?

People don't read emails.

I'm people.

I

know you're like and because people don't read emails, I have tried to lessen.

the emails like the length of the emails that I send so that I can say okay and sometimes I bold the thing that they really need to see so it may be like just three lines and they'll still ask me a question that the email answered so that's why we have to tell people so that's why we're telling you now no no no no no

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Oh, you know, Parliament Funk, I feel like this is one of my favorites

too.

I forgot.

But I told you I like a lot of music, so...

They're playing all my favorites John.

I'm sorry mayor former mayor You could be my forever Racine mayor We have John Dickert here former mayor of Racine and we thought he would be good to come on just to kind of you know talk about Going into the midterms what we need to know and and why people should vote and

So many people, well, you know, especially during like the primaries, voter turnout is low.

More people vote in a general election, but they may not be as educated about some of the things that are on the ballot.

If they're busy, if they're working, if they're picking up kids, how do we you got elected?

So how do you get around that?

How do you make sure you get to the voters?

Well, I think there's a couple of things that are first difficult, which is in today's modern society, there's so many messages coming out of so many different locations.

You know, I'm a little older.

I remember the news.

I remember Walter Cronkite, if he said it, it was true.

And I remember the newspaper and WRGN radio where if

it was on the

radio, it was true.

Today, people aren't inundated.

And I have a 23 and 26 year old and they will tell you that there's too much information.

And they oftentimes struggle to figure out what's real.

So they tend to go to websites to figure out what's real.

So I think the first thing is your average voter doesn't really start paying attention until about 10 days out.

Or if they get their absentee ballot, right?

So that's when they really kind of hone in.

And this is a tough thing to say to voters because they're busy.

You're right.

People are struggling economically.

There's a lot of problems, a lot of issues going on right now, and a lot of things to confuse people.

But right now is the time you really got to hunker down and say, I got to start talking to people about what this means.

You see politicians out every day, right?

And they're saying things.

Some of them are just flat out lying to people.

And I've seen it, and it makes me cringe.

Because I've never been brought up that way.

So when I see people lying, I think to myself, is anybody

fact-checking any of this?

Is anybody really listening to this and saying, no, wait a minute.

You know, I haven't seen you do anything for three years and now you're telling me all of a sudden you did all this stuff?

Right.

But where is it?

So we ask the people, find somebody you trust.

Your friend, family member, whoever it is, find somebody you trust and ask them about it.

But always second guess.

Because like we right now we have I think three referendum on the ballot if you read it you think oh, that's that's great But if you dig into it in the actual language Unfortunately, it's it's not all what it's cracked up to be and that's where and this is where I think people get frustrated with politics That's where the individual gets angry because well, but the way I read it it said That's not really what it came out to be

right something you said

Struggling economically and for this referendum and for this I suppose general election We're struggling economically because of who?

Well, and that's and I will tell you the one thing that always I guess I take away from me as my dad gave me some of my best political advice And he's he actually said to me the first time I won my first seat.

I think it was 24 years old on the county board

And he said, son, I don't know anything about politics.

But he said, it doesn't matter what you say.

It matters what you do.

And always, always keep that in mind if you're in government.

So I think what happens is we got a lot of people talking.

But again, it goes back to take a look at what they're actually doing, not what they're saying during the campaign.

Because there's promises are easy to make during campaigns.

And I've always struggled with that.

Am I really going to promise something I can't do?

And one of my good friends said, you're not going to win the election doing that, telling the truth.

And I said, well, then why would I win the election?

Why would I care?

Right?

If I'm not going to tell the truth, why would I care what I'm saying then?

So again, I think we need to look into it.

We need to look and find out what people have actually done versus what they're saying because you hear it.

all day long, people are promising the world.

And we've got in this place because of the people in power.

We've created the scenario for us.

And I don't think that from what we're seeing, I don't see it getting any better soon.

So I feel bad for people because you see them struggling and they want a way out.

They're looking for some real leadership.

And I think they're struggling to find it.

We were talking to Michelle Bryant earlier and she was saying how people who have already sent in you know absentee ballots Are learning now you know that you know first of all they probably didn't think about the referendum being on the ballot and so they read what they thought it meant and voted against their interests and so Do we need to get out ahead of this?

In the in the future, you know making sure that okay Pay attention to the calendar.

These are when absentee ballots go out and maybe you know, since you're to your point that Voters don't think about the election until you know, you get closer.

I mean, I'm sure that's why they hadn't necessarily but if if if legislators had like regular town halls or whatever then They could lead us up to this point and we would

you know, perhaps be more educated once we started getting absentee ballots.

Yeah, absentees or any time if you get a referendum, it's difficult because the people that write the referendum can sway language to mean whatever they want it to mean.

And then the people find out, like you said, later, it's almost like you want, you know, we need to put it into state law or local municipal law ordinances that a third grader should write.

the referendum.

Exactly.

Right, just so that you actually know what's going on.

Right.

And oftentimes, I think that leads to, number one, it leads to an angry group of individuals that are taxpayers, right, and citizens, because they feel this is a failure of the system.

But I caution everyone, because I think what we also have to do is hold those accountable if that system changes.

So if you get new group of people into office, you have to make sure that then they're going to make those changes, right?

To make it easier for the electorate to understand what's really going on.

And I think oftentimes people get in and they get caught up and there's the power struggles and the power grabs and all that.

And then they forget why they were put in there in the first place.

I think that the American public has demonstrated over the last two years or three years.

that they are not trustworthy of the system at the federal level and oftentimes at the state level.

They don't trust what's going on.

And I think you hit the point perfectly, Vivian, is that people need

to

be out there.

You need to be in the public.

You need to be listening to the public.

Sometimes you take the hits, right?

But that's part of the deal.

Right.

If they voted for you, you are supposed to represent them and listen to them.

That's

right.

Absolutely right.

So I think that the more we get out there, and I know people are afraid to do it, but the more that you get out there and have those conversations with people, I think you gain as an elected official.

I'll just tell you a quick story.

When I was mayor, if something was going on and I didn't know anything about it, I would just go to that place and try to figure it out.

And one time I was walking the streets in one of our neighborhoods that had been hit hard with crime at about 930 at night.

So it was dark out and this gentleman comes out and he says, mayor, what are you doing out here?

And I said, well, I've been here and there's a lot of problems around here.

So I'm walking the streets, trying to take a look around, see what's going on.

He goes, are you crazy?

I said, no.

And I said, you're out here.

So we sat and talked for 20 minutes.

He gave me more reconnaissance on that neighborhood

than our

police force had ever gotten.

And I said, hey, thanks.

I appreciate all this.

So I'm going to start working on this, this, this.

And he said, wow, that's cool.

And I said, no, it's not.

It's your government at work.

This is what we're supposed to be doing.

This shouldn't be a surprise for you, right?

And I think people are sometimes nervous, sometimes afraid to go out and have those conversations.

But it's when you do that that you see that the result is the people on the streets

finally say Okay, now I'm being represented and I don't think they should have to wait that long to get that so Mike, you know my caution to the Legislature is don't get behind the desk and sit there all day long You need to get out you need to talk to your people because you will learn more I learned more at that night than I had heard from our guys for three to six months

so

Get out be part of this

And then you, you bring it back home again because, you know, the taxpayer doesn't have for the most part, they don't have lobbyists.

The citizens really don't have lobbyists.

You know, I hadn't even thought about that.

Right.

Right.

But just organizations, you know, trying to educate people.

But yeah, you're right.

Yeah.

So be that person for them, because that's what you're elected to do.

It sounds like you need to maybe train some of our.

Elected officials to get out there.

Well, I have a question for everybody who asks me if they say, I want to be this, I want to be that.

I say, I want to know one question that you have to answer.

It's going to determine how this conversation goes.

You want the title

or

do you want the job?

If you want the job, I'll help you out every way I can.

If you want the title, good luck.

There's too many folks out there right now that want titles.

And you know, it's not all wonderful stuff.

If you're really doing your work, you got a certain amount of people that hate you.

And

that means you're doing pretty good.

You

know, you just don't want all of them hate you.

True, true.

So we we've got to be part of that.

And I think that's the anger that we've heard from the national public is that they don't feel represented.

So they're going to go to whoever's on the opposite side of that.

And, you know, that to me, well, the black community often feels very disenfranchised.

My sorority adopts a polling site, and we have been for years, and so we did when President Barack Obama was elected, and everybody was so euphoric about that, and I know you're friends with President Obama.

And how do we get, he really got people, he made them feel included, he said $25,

donate to my campaign $5.

They're

telling me I got

to go to a break.

But let's talk about, you know, just how we make sure that the black community is represented at all times.

Absolutely.

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Mayor Dicker, thanks for joining us.

And we were talking off the air just about, you know, how important...

and how just a few votes, when you think about the entire electorate, where we're talking about how we got into this place with the person who is the president right now, and going back to his first election, and how the mayors met with Hillary Clinton, who he was running against then, and she did not come to Wisconsin.

I remember that vividly thinking, why didn't she come to Wisconsin?

And you all talked to her and told her that it's not what the polls aren't the polls.

You can't really believe the polls these days.

And the thing is that I gave them a lot of credit for asking the people that are truly on the ground, which were the mayors from all over the country to bring us together.

But the problem was they weren't listening.

And if there's a group of people that know what's going on.

it's your local elected officials,

right?

Because if they are out there, and I think that's a big part of the equation, you have to be out there and listening to people and talking to people, right?

To make sure that you do know, because if you are just staying in your office and hunkering down and doing the work, you're not getting out enough, you really don't know.

But I'd been doing, I don't know, six or seven weeks of doors, and we had seen that the feel of the electorate had changed.

And when President Trump, you know, said to the African-American community, what has the Democratic Party done for you?

I saw that at the doors, the conversation changed.

And so we went and had that conversation and said, you know, this is not, you're not in a winning space right now.

Whatever you're thinking about, polls are saying, it's not what the doors are saying.

And that gets back to, again, you know, what is this all about?

It's all about.

people getting out there people Taking the time to vote because listen, it's it's something that my father cherished.

He was a Korean War veteran That was the one mandate he had for us in life That's the only thing he mandated that we do was to vote and the way I look at communities is it doesn't matter what the community is We're all family in our communities We we have to take care of each other and we have to remind each other that we are the solution

We can't wait for somebody else to do something.

And if they don't do it, then you have to call them into account.

So it's all about us.

If you sit back and say, listen, this is all nonsense.

I'm not going to go vote.

One of my good friends, former Alderman Ray Dahan, won his seat by one vote.

My first state representative I worked for, Dale Boley, won his first seat by seven votes.

And I'm thinking of myself.

What is that other gentleman that ran against Dale?

What is his family if it's family members stayed home?

Right?

It matters

like can you go to your church and say I need seven of y'all?

You

know what I mean?

Yeah, so it's we are all family And I think that's the thing the the terror in the in the sheet right now has been that people are trying to divide and And I always remind everybody listen

We have each other's backs.

And as long as we keep doing that, we will be better.

We will be better because we protect each other.

Neighborhood, families, communities, whatever it is, we're all about family.