Got one of those you got one of those primary things tomorrow, yippip yep,
yeah, Super Tuesday, all that good stuff. So not just North
Carolina, but that's when that's when we'll be digging into this thing. And
Lord knows, from a primary perspective, we have some races that obviously it'll
be interesting to see how they pan out. We have some others that is
kind of a foregone conclusion. I guess that if you win the primary,
you win whatever the seed is. I mean, in some cases probably,
but you know, who knows we got We've already got AI or quasi or
things described as AI up in up in the race. We have pretty nasty
primary campaigns. And then you wonder does that hold over to the general election.
I don't know. And we have some races that may or may not
be I guess it will depend on what voters choose to do with the information,
but may or may not be changed. Following kind of some last minute
stuff going on that we'll get into. I see the folks over at McClatchy
decided that they wanted to I want to write himselves a big story on bo
Hines on Friday. Will that impact the race? With Walker and Castelli and
others. I don't know, but I do know this, Ros and I
have developed a brilliant system over the years to really streamline all of the insanity
that are elections, specifically primary and general elections at federal levels, wide level,
and yes, even at a state level where we cover so many different
counties and congressional districts and everything, rather than going through the tedious process of
lining every single candidate up, many of which who don't understand how Equal Time
works and talk radio stations, but doing that because that's the way the stations
have always done it. Nah, we reward people who listen, even though
it is running for office. So here's the way we do this. Tomorrow
obviously, Super Tuesday, we have we have candidates run the gamut. I
know it's primary obviously, and it's another two hundred and sixty some days to
the general. But we want to provide an opportunity for those who are in
fact on the ballot, yeah, the opportunity to say, hey, and
so here's how we give you this up today. We will if you are
on a state wide race or a federal office race. Okay, so congress
resident for that matter, Senate, which isn't a thing here, but you
know, just for clerical purposes, one of the Council of States offices,
you know, governor labor, whatever it is. If that is you and
you want to call into the show today at some point and say hello,
just talk for a few minutes. I don't care what letter follows your name,
just that you are among those on that ballot. And then tomorrow we
will InCor or create state and local races. Okay, So that's how it
works. Ross has his own unique vetting system to make sure it's not just
some psycho calling in going hey it's then you know it's Mark Robinson and it's
clearly not. We will do some behind the scenes vetting, but yeah,
we throw it out there. And then thus, by making this offer to
everyone in the same way, in the same place, I have achieved the
spirit of equal time, even though it's not the thing you think it is.
Candidates who send me emails on this stuff, okay, all right,
very good? Or Ross, you want to take two days off? This
sounds amazing. I mean, like, I mean a little less than two
days, like two days minus one segment, he stayed. I mean,
I mean, yeah, we had to put in the effort and come in.
But is that an option. I would like it to be, because
I will check that box. Okay, I don't think it's an option,
but that's how we do it. So that is I just wanted to give
you all the explanation. That's how it works. Our phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Here's what that does not mean.
Do not call Ross or email or any form of communication either Ross or
me and go, hey, I'm so and so for candidate so and so.
How about we schedule a time and then insert whatever it is. Nope,
Nope, going to be on the show, call, tell them who
you are, rousseill figured out and then we'll do it. And then that's
just kind of you know, it's a window dressing for the rest of the
show. That's how that's how we do things. So you know, make
the effort, stop kissing the baby, whatever it is. And if you
are with somebody's candidacy and you hear this and you want to reach out to
them, then by all means, but that's how that goes. So anyway,
let's listen to the president, the former president of the United States make
a really really funny adult joke. Shall we How many of you went and
saw him in Greensboro? By the way, curious how that was? All
right, let's get to it. I was indicted by Fanny in Georgia.
Fady, how did that work out? By the way, it's Fannie,
sir, it's Fani. I too thought it was the other thing, but
I was told it's the other thing and her lover Nathan Wade, and they
hired him for almost a million dollars because of his great, great experience.
Of course, he didn't have any experience. He had experienced in something else.
You know that a lot of experience. Come on, that's funny,
that's funny. And at that I'm quite sure he was very good. Based
on the fact that she called him two thousand times, I didn't know the
gentleman. I didn't know. Oh, you have two thousand phone calls,
thousand, five hundred text messages. How is it possible? In a short
I know a lot of people, we like a lot of people. I
happen to have a very good relationship with a woman called Millennia. But I
would venture to say, in all the years that I've known her, I
might not have called her two thousand, five hundred times. That's a I
know I didn't send three thousand, five hundred text messages. All right,
let's uh, I gotta let's talk about that. The text message just comes
down to if you text a lot, right, Some couples text a lot.
Some roster you and you and the wife text a lot. Because you're
not a text say, yes, we do. But I know you guys
do because I twenty five hundred, you guys have probably texted twenty five hundred
easily easily. Now the calling, man, I don't know. I guess
that the calling maybe maybe like maybe one actual colleague per month. Yeah,
And don't get me started on FaceTime because oh it just that became an issue
because you and I just had a meeting we had to do last week where
it was FaceTime, right and you had to like literally down, I had
to re download the app and that comes on most phones, right, come
standard, And I can't say it FaceTime. Yeah, I hate it.
Like if you FaceTime me, I'm just gonna like take my phone and face
it down to the counter and I will use it like a phone, Like
it'll just be audio. That's what it is. It's from a meeting perspective,
like, unless you're showing charts and graphs like phones, phone's gonna make
this happen. But yeah, yeah, I have it's on my phone.
I don't know where I buried it in one of the folders though, I
just know occasionally some weirdo tries to FaceTime me and then I just don't accept
it unless literally, like the boss just said, Hey, this is what
we're doing. But yeah, so anyway, I thought that was a good
line. He kind of he paused for one of the laughs and then didn't
pause for what I think should have been the bigger But you know, he
does a lot more public speaking than me, so maybe it works out.
Anyway, six seventeen. Now you know the rules on the kandidacy stuff,
and we will we won't make that a part of the show. But in
the interim I got a lot of stuff. In fact, I'll give you
a rundown coming up next here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Yeah,
topic kind of got beat to death, especially around COVID with squatters. Although
California has been I mean, some of the squatting stories there are absolutely legendary.
New York kind of ran into it. During COVID, because when they
passed laws, people did things like they went on like the RBO or Airbnb,
and then they would rent a you know, like a Berkshires I am
I saying that, right, the the Berkshires whatever, or a house on
Long Island, right, and some beach house and they'd rent it for some
stupid amount for like a few days, and then they'd go all right,
not leaving. And you literally had people out in in some of the wealthiest
parts of America that were living in these mansions, mansions out on Long Island
who basically wrote out COVID. There some crazy stories, however, man,
this one, this one I was reading, this one is a doovie doozy.
And yes it is Long Island, although it is not out in more
the beechy ritzy areas. But still still absolute no accountability for judges, the
audacity obviously of the folks involved. You hear the whole backstory here, and
you realize why people, whether it is business people talking about what happened with
Trump, right, and this whole Letitia James prosecution and he said his assets
were worth this and then the bank just agreed after doing due diligence and then
they did alone and he paid it back and literally nobody was upset and the
bigger issue that was talked about. I saw one of the dudes from Shark
Tank goes at Kevin O'Leary, who was talking about this and other saying,
you don't think that that has an impact because in your fervor to go after
your political opponent, you never ask yourself, well, what are the long
term consequences here? Oh, and the other example I thought was in Delaware
with Elon Musk's pay package. Right, it feels so good in the moment,
right to go ahead and do this thing, and then you celebrated on
social media. But the reality is people, especially when you're talking about the
kind of money you're talking about for the deals like the one Trump was being
played for, you realize people with money, they tend to calculate risks and
things that could come up. And you've just added a new or at the
very least an expanded possibility tab. Right. So, if you're doing a
deal or incorporating a company or whatever it may be, and there's hundreds of
millions or perhaps even billions on the line, you got to sit there and
look at the state of New York and go, yeah, I don't know,
because like what happens, and then maybe you look at your past political
donations, right because people love to dig into that. Remember you had you
had the Mozilla dude, Remember the guy from Mozilla who made a contribution to
a pack that was I want to say it was a definition of marriage Act
or whatever it may have been, right, and in their personal stead donated
I don't remember what it was like ten thousand dollars or something, which you
know, if you're a big silicon guy, that's not much money, but
made that donation. And they didn't just screw things up for Mozilla. They
got investors to run that dude, and that's where they went. So if
if you're a if you're a guy who's brokering a big deal in New York,
that's another thing you look at. In this case, if you're somebody
who was I don't know, going to invest in property or have a situation
in a particular municipality that might be avoided in another we're looking at that,
whether it's vacation homes or in this case, just the ability of taking basic
information into a court of law and having at the very least in the interim,
the preponderance of evidence kind of be the default position, and all of
that is not at play here. But I'll tell you the whole sordid tale
because absolutely it's fear inducing. I can't even imagine. And the part that
irritates me so much about this story is you had people that likely could have
benefited from the investment in this case that was made by their parents during the
very waning years of their life and idiot judges man and laws for that matter,
but also, as you'll come to find out, idiot A judges just
don't give a crap. And like, I couldn't fathom this. I'm not
gonna lie. They're gonna kill one of these wrestlers. Man. I don't
know if you saw a video over the weekend of sting At what was it?
Aw Revolution? I believe was the event name. Anyway, this dude's
eligible for Social Security and they're slamming him through tables. So yeah, but
he's an amazing shape like he is though, like he's he's gonna be retiring,
So that's why it was like a big right, right, I know,
but he's sixty four. He is something about throwing a sixty four year
old dude through a table or tables, I should say, kind of crazy.
So you're denying any of the supernatural things behind the character. You don't
think that's the thing. He's not powered by a different force than you and
I, Well, you're operating under the assumption that that force, whatever it
may be, automatically grant some sort of longevity bonus, right, or immortality.
But that's not always the case. So admittedly I don't know the totality
of the lore there, but I thought it was kind of open for debate.
Do you know who came up with his gimmick? Because I remember he
wasn't always like Crowsting, Yeah, no, with with the Crows, Dad,
I do not know Scott Hall. Yeah, and believe and like when
he did it, he had never seen the Crow before, like he was
unaware that that was actually part of the movie. He thought it was like
a completely original Scott Hall idea. It's a good gimmick, is yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah, And it's a it's an absolute crime that Sting never
fought the Undertaker. That is such a missed opportunity there that really never happened.
It never happened, should have happened. You have the forces of hell
I mean, or I mean, let's see, let's see who struck the
better bargain kind of thing. But you suplexin a dude through panes of glass
and a table. He's sixty four. I don't know, man, it
was. It was incredibly popular. If you take the social media, it's
damn near the only thing. Just say it's the only thing, but it's
it's definitely the top thing people are talking about. But I don't know,
man, I cringe, cringe a little when I watch it. Although I
have to be honest, if somebody hadn't told me he was sixty four,
I guess I wouldn't have known. You'd have no idea. And the thing
is like when you realize how long his career has been, Like you see
like WCW Wrestling was a game on the NES the original Nintendo. Yeah,
so he was like old and pixelated way before Crowsting. And now he's in
like the recent games as the icon. And you see like the evolution of
when he first showed up in a video game to now, and you're like,
that dude has been around forever. I'm trying to think, think when
did he first come in I don't have it here in f I I'm not
gonna look it up. But to your point, yeah, no, he's
been around forever. This was obviously this was a retirement, This was a
send off. So they're going to go all out for it. But still
after who who was it? Who was it? To damn near got tombstone
to death trying to think who that was? That was over in Saudi Arabia
too, wasn't it? Where was this one? Or maybe this one was
in London? I knew it was somewhere. Well anyway, now watch out
for that. Uh, here we go. How many of you hate going
to the government office whatever it is dm V got to go pull a permit?
Maybe that's uh, you know, part of your part of your job
there. Yeah, you probably don't want to do it, and who not,
you know, maybe you're you're friendly with the employees that you deal with
if you got to do it on the regular there. But I have a
feeling in Union County maybe some folks didn't mind it as much. Here we
go. Deputies say that a twenty one year old is what is her title?
Even let's see here works for the Union County government. Eligibility technician.
That's that's her gig, the twenty one year old. Oh, by the
way, the gig. According to NC State's description here, the role typically
helps those who are applying for government benefits or healthcare program programs. All right,
so why was she suspended? Well, according to authorities, just wasn't
making ends meet with the with the county gig down in Union County, so
to supplement the income she was hooking on the side allegedly. Yeah, authorities
say that. Following the rest Friday and a charge with ten counts of misdemeanor
solicitation of prostitution. I wonder, I wonder if somebody got had beef with
her and reported her, because it doesn't really say how she was caught.
They do reference some ads, I guess, so maybe it was part of
a bigger Yeah, says it was part of a bigger ongoing. So it's
part of one of those much bigger Many Many police hours investigation like they do
with strip clubs, in this case with prostitution ads. Let's see. According
to authorities process released Friday afternoon, here's this statement from the county manager.
We've taken immediate action to suspend Kendall Griffin's employment with Union County without pay.
We're fully committed to supporting the Sheriff's office hold employees to start, so standard
stuff you would expect there. Yeah, I wonder, I wonder if there's
some people who came back to uh get processed several times. I'm curious if
it was part of the open investigation or somebody just somebody was just salty.
Man. Hey, I mean, that's that's the reality here. How do
you think, how do you think the how do you think the the the
teachers with the only fans get busted? Right? Remember that woman in California
or Sacramento with the two kids who was doing like the she had like the
mom gimmick because since reason that term. Remember the story there was like all
the dads knew, and then uh, some guy I guess must have told
his wife, but nobody was saying nothing for a while because again the dads
knew. But as soon as the mom found out, all of a sudden,
the whole story unraveled. I'm sure that wasn't a happy coincidence. So
yeah, anyway, and then they have they say they have a process,
they're going to let her go. Obviously she's only charged, so there is
that. But anyway, what if any appointments got canceled? Just wondering six
forty two k Cooday Radio program. Well, I want to get into the
squatters thing. I'm gonna need a whole segment to do that, so we'll
get to that here. Ian, Well, let's do this. We'll go
ahead and hit our break. Just a remind her it is the Monday before
the Tuesday, which is the primary, and so we are doing our little
candidate roundup thing today just to kind of split this up. We are statewide
races and federal races, so Council of State Governors obviously we're talking primaries,
congressional seats, any of those candidates, if you're on the ballot, a
few minutes on the air, we provide the opportunity today and then tomorrow will
roll in local local candidates, you know, say, House primaries, whatever
it may be. And that's you know, that's how we accomplish that.
Round these parts phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
back in just a few Icky Haley's campaign is a quote reinvigorated following her primary
when over Trump over the weekend in Washington, DC, so in the which,
by the way, what is what is the actual I know what the
registration breaks down to, but I know what the voting pattern does. So
that's like what eight percent of the population when you're talking Republican primary is probably
less than that, right, because I don't know fully what the independent window
is or indeed, be honest, in DC, can you vote across primary?
I don't know. But anyway, Yeah, so she got the she
got the the DC victory over the weekend, and I mean, I guess
from from a publicity standpoint, you got to go out and you got to
treat it as a mandate because that's what candidates do. But some would argue
that that actually reflects worse just considering even the Republicans in DC are kind of
kind of different. Man. But yeah, and obviously we're getting into ours
coming up on Tuesday, and that meant that meant you had you had a
lot of folks sniffing around North Carolina, including Haley and Trump, who both
had events here is so we went into the weekend. Anybody go to the
Trump event and if our tryad oh, I guess basically anyone from the state
could have driven over there. How was that, and especially how was that
event if you had been to another one during the twenty twenty cycle or even
the twenty sixteen because I went to one in twenty sixteen, I went to
two, actually kind of spied on one, but physically went to two,
and also went to one in twenty twenty, and I didn't notice a lot
of remarkable differences. But the media has run a bunch of stories saying,
oh, he's losing his step all that, and some would say that that
might be a little bit of deflecting for another candidate. But I will entertain
those spy reports, but do so with a smile, because as candidates are
running around asking for your vote. Coming up on Tuesday, the folks up
in Washington, d C harder work over at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Who wants you to know that they are changing their recommendations for quarantine
from COVID nineteen. So I know that all of you who follow all recommendations
from the CDC, you probably have been doing ten days. Right, That's
where we kind of left this. Remember it was twenty one days, and
then it was two weeks, and then that was how many days we're going
to solve the whole thing a couple of weeks, and then obviously it went
into what it is well now, these Centers for Disease Control says the long
standing guidance needs adjusted, saying that people can return to work or regular activity
if their symptoms are mild and improving and it's been one day since they've had
a fever, but five days since the initial onset, during which five days
you should be uh completely isolated still, But it had been ten days.
I have a question was there anyone doing ten days still? And more importantly,
was there an expectation by employers that ten days was fine? Right?
I know that they they kind of have to, but I don't know a
lot of employers have been down with ten days, especially if you're feeling better.
And even even though you could point at the CDC recommendations, that's just
like I've had COVID since then. I know people have had COVID and the
you know, I missed maybe a few days obviously, but nah, they
just came back. The change comes at a time with COVID nineteen is no
longer the public health menace. It was, well, I'm sorry, Well,
what's changed about it? I mean the way that you associated press by
the way wrote this story, is the threat that different? Because it's my
understanding reading these weepy posts about people are like I vaccinated six times and my
partner came down with it. Why God, why? Right? You know,
posts like that like that's still a thing. Every time I've flown,
even since they didn't require to the airlines anymore, I'd say a third of
the aircraft is still in masks, which by you know, that's fine,
dude, which you know you do you. I also had the incident where
I flew and the woman had the mass with the face shield and was trying
to drink with not really removing stuff but kind of like working a straw under
there, and then sitting next to me who's not wearing a mask, looking
at me like I'm you know, I came here to kill kid or something.
So I suspect those, you know, those people who are the lockdown
me daddy kind of attitude. They're probably pretty sad about this for a new
Mandy Cohen remember her yip yip yep. She says, our goal here is
to continue to protect those at risk for severe illness, while also reassuring folks
that there are recommendations which are simple, clear and easy to understand that can
be followed. And remember, during her time as the the top health official
here in North Carolina, we have the amazing video where she's standing off to
the stage, off to the side, you know, getting ready to come
on stage, and the camera is just panned out enough so you can see
her over there, and what does she do. She sticks a mask on
almost mid stride, then proceeds to get up on the podium while taking the
mask down like she's don't worry. I've been I've been following all the rules
in the back, but now I'm on stage by myself, so I can
take it down. This is what you know, This is what our recommendation
says. And then you point it out and they're just like all of a
sudden, the video that some of the news agencies were running, they just
kind of clipped off that front part, which is obviously something that none of
them would have done. If it was the other way around. That'd still
be a damn meme. Man. However, even with the recommendation, some
experts worry that the change may increase the risk of infection for older people and
others who are more vulnerable to getting seriously ill. Well, then I would
go back to the playe thing. Right, here's the deal. Other than
me wondering aloud why you're wearing a face shield with a mask but also drinking
under there and you keep putting your hands at your mouth like I may wonder
your logic, I'm not gonna say anything. Do what you want. And
yes, even though you're giving me stink eye, she didn't say anything,
so we're fine. She'd have said some bigger you know, and then it's
another issue. So what that is is that somebody I don't know medically if
she needs that, but if that's what makes her feel comfortable, or she
is an increased risk, or she is around older people even as somebody who
might appear to be healthy, and she just you know, wants to make
sure that she doesn't go back and give it to somebody Like I totally respect
that. Do your thing whatever. Cacoda Radio program, Glad to have you
along. This is rich dude. I am just during the break there,
I was reading this report. I'm telling you, man, I'm in the
wrong gig. The give you know, government money for useless, worthless studies
to tell you everything that she already knew that is a lucrative business. All
right, everybody sitting down. I don't want to catch anyone off guard on
this Monday morning. But it appears now that the numbers are in that crime
in New York in twenty twenty three increased in a lot of areas, and
especially in the areas that you know are noticeable to people. And it appears
that they've come up with some unique reasons why they think that may be.
Now critics, critics of the governor and the mayor of New York and others
would point to things like justice reforms, right, cashless bail, basically being
a turnstile. If you get arrested one in the morning, you can go
out do something in the afternoon and probably still be home for dinner, even
if you get caught both times. But they really dance around that issue in
this thing, noting that there is seemingly there seems to be a connection because
it appears that people who may be charged for a crime have an increase probability.
This is the part you need to be sitting down for of being charged
with another crime within the same calendar year. So somebody is I don't know
let's say the carjackings their thing. Everybody's got a different hustle. If you
look at the stats here, what you see is that if somebody is arrested,
say, let's say you were arrested for let's say Ross tried to carjack
somebody leaving the studio today, all right, for whatever reason. I don't
know what prompted it. He's just say I need that car and I'm making
mind. And let's say he was arrested for it. There is, according
totistics here, a higher probability that Ross may attempt to carjack somebody else even
following an arrest, because ultimately, if they're immediately back on the streets or
at the very least, it seems like prosecutors aren't taking this stuff seriously.
Why the hell would you stop? DC ran into it, and so they
put these numbers out and they're like, well, I mean, some people
would speculate that just because people who commit crime or have committed crimes have a
higher probability of committing crimes again, that those two things are necessarily linked,
and they go through painstaking efforts to go, well, look, you can't,
you can't think one thing is necessarily connected to the other We're probably going
to need another study on this, but I've seen everything I need. Study
shows that repeat crime, again, this is about repeat crime, and specifically
repeat criminals increased in New York. So it's breaking down even the statistic of
just occurrences of the crime. So the deeper layer on that study, which
then purports not to be able to make a clear connection, sees that crime
committed by an individual multiple times within a year is increased and has been on
the increase in New York for a couple of years, but last year was
really the peak of seeing those numbers. Because the crazy person who goes sound
to the subway, takes his sports car out and you sings Dixie while screaming
at people or whatever his freak is in the Elmo costume, but just the
top half, you know, for the bottom half to be free. That
if that psychopath is just told, all right, someday maybe we'll do some
about this, but not now, he's going to be down there the next
day, sports car in hand, singing his butt off man. And the
irony, of course, is the study was actually something that the state wanted
to do and the city partnered on along with John Jay College and the Criminal
Justice Data Collaborative Effort, which had a lot of facts. Sixty six percent
of people released under the bail reform so cashless bail who had a recent prior
arrest were rearrested within two years, the majority within one year, and more
than half the time for the very same crime. Because while bail reforms for
somebody who is a first timer is the narrative that is generally put out there,
right, they're like, you know this is and I understand, right,
because you get arrested, you're charged with a crime. It's not necessarily
a speedy process. And I'm not saying that everyone has to be remanded.
But if you're a repeat criminal dirt bag, chances are whatever you're good at,
you're going to keep doing. Looking at you drug dealing or smashing grabs
or going into stores and grabbing whatever you want or carjacking like the example I
used earlier. And if it doesn't feel like it could cost you or could
cost you any time, so why would you stop you? Obviously you're dealing
with people with impulse control problems anyway. The study also showed the sixty seven
percent of defendants who had a recent prior felony arrest in the past year were
re arrested within a year. So now when you get into the stuff that
really is in your face, you know, like the guy walking down the
street just punching people. Guy in Chicago, I know we're talking about New
York. A guy in Chicago. What was this like as three hundred arrest
or something for doing one of those Hey, I'm walking down the street and
I see a random I think it was an Asian woman. Let me just
punch somebody's, you know, frail Asian grandma because I'm having a bad day.
And then you look at the rap sheet on guys like that, and
then you do this study which literally shows you that even though the narrative you
want to talk about is the Hey, this first time the guy was arrested
is not who they're dealing with is part of it. And even if you
wanted bail reform based on first time, a lot of times that was built.
That was kind of baked into the cake when you're arguing for bail.
But if you want to make that part of the discussion, fine, But
the problem is you created a system for a guy who he might have stole
three cars that morning and this is the round of it, and prosecutors go,
well, my hands are tied. I can't do anything. Just to
be clear, the John Jay College, this is not This is not some
conservative think tank, right. These are moonbats. These are moonbats who crunched
the numbers, came to this conclusion published it actually did a previous one in
August of twenty twenty two showing that there was a quick spike in the rearrest
rates for people with prior records following the initial implementing of the bail reforms.
And this is where we find ourselves. So all the data is there,
the stats are there. You paid for the study. The question will be
do you do anything or you just ignore it? And, judging by the
quotes on the record, probably just going to ignore it. But that's New
York Man. How do I know? All I have to do is look
at this crazy Long Island squatter story, which I'll share with you coming up.
Hang on one other caveat on that study I mentioned, Here we go,
and this is an important one. The recidivism is undercounted. And what
I mean by that is going back to the example that I gave of,
Well, it doesn't have to be ross. But somebody who carjacks somebody in
January and then basically gets all right, we'll see you in maybe September for
a court hearing, but for now, cashless bail back you go. And
then if they carjack another car in May, now they've officially been counted as
recidivism. However, after that, they could carjack a car every single day,
right, and it's still only counted as somebody who is a recidivist offender.
Right, So it doesn't one time versus five times doesn't matter for the
purpose of the numbers. So they're already kind of tweaking. It is simply
asked, dody go out and commit the same crime within a calendar period.
It doesn't matter how many times, And it expressly says when you look at
the totals, it is it is only balancing for the act of recidivism,
not the numbers. So yeah, it's actually worse. And so I guess
when they ignored it'll be a bigger deal. All right, What the hell
is going on in Georgia? Man? So over the weekend, officers were
called to the Six Flags park there, which I've never been to the Six
Flags in Georgia. I don't even know what part of Atlanta you'd seeing says
it's in suburban Atlanta. Let's see where is this Austelle? Is that that's
north of Atlanta? Okay, you're a cop county. Yeah, anyway,
police receive reports of an unruly crowd. What did it say at the report
of six hundred people? Six hundred individuals, according to park authorities, were
engaged in a just like a rolling fistfight, and in fact, a fifteen
year old was shot and wounded. I guess technically that was just outside of
the park's gates on the service road where the shooting took place. So now
whether that firearm was in the park or not, I don't know. But
when police showed up, sure enough, they said they estimate five to six
hundred people were running through the park fighting. And when I say running through,
the video is mayhem. So you don't just have like a group who's
near the you know, maybe they're they're trying to get in or out,
and people are grouped together and people are talking and things start, and then
it just it went from there. You literally had people that were running to
different parts of the park and different attractions and literally fighting there and then filming
it, just upload and film it. There's so much stuff on on Twitter
and I'm sure several of the other other ones, but Twitter, I saw
a just a parade of these videos this morning, which, by the way,
I guess if you had to pick where the where is the peak location
to have a throwdown inside an amusement park, like doesn't have to be this
one. Let's say you're at Disney, where would you most want to be
involved in a melee? Where would you least want to be involved? Maybe
these are things to start thinking of should you find yourself the opportunity. The
crowd which consisted, primarily, according to police, of high schoolers and then
young adults college age. Let's see where this started about six fifteen in the
in the evening Saturday, so just as things are winding down kicking into that
you know, nice, it's nice. It was a little early in the
year, but that's a nice time to be at a fair amusement park.
Some along those lines, and I suspect it's probably a pop popular alternative for
kids who would normally go to a mall and just be burdens on society there,
so they can go to the amusement park and look, I was a
burden on society back in the day. But I can't I can't even imagine
just getting into a full scale melee and filming all of it. And I
don't know. I see people saying, well, this is you know,
it's because it's six flags. Does that make a difference. I don't know.
Does Disney or Universal do a better job of policing there, because we've
seen videos of people going full throttle in the Disney. The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation, which is leading an investigation, said that the preliminary information showed that
officers responding to assist with crowd controlled near the park's entrance at the time.
Eight different fights have been documented. That's an understatement. If you look at
the video there, at some point multiple people began shooting. So this is
after police arrived, so they got called pre shooting and as people were running
officers heard the shooting. One of the rounds struck a patrol car. Actually,
as officers identify where the shots were coming from, they ran after people
would run into the woods. During the incident, one officer fired his weapon,
hitting one minor. They would teenager taking a Grady Hospital in Atlanta,
but he was in a critical condition on Sunday. The teenager's name not released.
So this is why I'm telling you this, because obviously there's going to
be more to this story. As the the police did not were not the
ones who initially discharged their weapon, but some series of something happened when they
were pursuing those who they thought were discharging a weapon. And I guess I'll
be very interested to see if the family holds a press conference or if frankly,
the officer shot the wrong person or the correct person or somebody who brandished
a gun or whatever it was. I don't think it was well received on
the videos. It was an absolutely chaotic situation. Park officials also pointed out
that the actual shooting occurred on Self Service Road, which is not a part
of six Flegs, right, But it's clear from the videos that this emanated
from inside this Long Island. Specifically, it is a new high park.
I guess for people I know, we got I know we have our fair
share of former New Yorkers listening. So and a single family home there well
that is where a let's see Denton Gale and Margaret Grover. Okay, all
right, so that is the names are two individuals who have told a judge
along with a document that, once you learn the facts, is clearly a
forgery. But they have a document saying that they rented a place and it
just so happened that they were able to rent the place, this home,
very nice home, for just fifteen dollars a month, which, judging by
the way that I just presented that to you, is far in a way
less than anything you're going to be renting in that area, especially for a
full home. But armed with that information and what they claim is a two
year lease agreement signed by the home's former owner, and I say former that
would be Edward Iacono, they claimed, hey, this is this is fine
now. The neighbors and the former owner's family, the former owner is dead,
by the way, claim that no, they are in fact squatters.
The couple who actually have a they have a baby and a pitbull for you
know, to squat with, said that they have since they've taken ownership or
possession, I should say, following this lease agreement that they say they struck
with Edward Iacono, who died in twenty sixteen. The house had been empt
and it had been empty because the owner had fallen ill. In fact,
I believe the house entered foreclosure about that time. However, he soon passed
away and the ownership of the home, even though it was in the process
of foreclosure, then fell to his offspring, and even though the home was
transferred, they obviously did something to stop the foreclosure process. They then found
out, well, these people are inside, and it turned into a whole
thing. The couple who has been in the home despite it having no heat,
electricity, hot water, or working bathrooms, so you can just imagine
the damage that is being done, told police they had signed the agreement when
initially the homeowners had called and the police said, it's out of our hands.
There's nothing we could do. They appear to have a lease. The
officers are told, well, they couldn't have a lease because the person who
reportedly signed the lease is dead and has been dead long before the date on
there. The property, which is valued at nearly a million dollars, so
yeah, fifteen dollars rent please, eventually fell to the possession of his wife
and their two sons. However, they all died before they were ever able
to take ownership of the property. Because these dirtbags who, by the way,
drive a Porsche on My dad said, nah, this is our place.
There's nothing you can do about it. In fact, it then gets
worse. Le we play a little audio from this insanity though. Okay,
you're not mister Gail. Can I leave you a message and get it to
him? Clearly is mister Gale there? They're saying Edingale broke into a dead
man's home for said dead man's name on a rent to ole and duped the
Nassau Housing court. Okay, so you're not mister Gale. Oh, I'm
a reporter with the New York Post. This is your property. It's not
out of Aakano's property. He's dead. He went to the bank, all
right, So we got mister Legally's there. Now he didn't he didn't pull
out the I'm a traveler thing, but apparently there are some vibes of that
with other interactions with police officers. Every member of the family that has owned
it has died now again unable to ever realize, including this guy's wife.
Now granted, the wife, it appears, was in an assisted living facility,
but the sons who then took possession stopped the foreclosure process. Were never
able to sell or occupy the home. They have been in a legal nightmare
for years. And you know, I always see these stories and they go,
well, you know, they'll get it, they'll get it cleared up
pretty quick. Well obviously not. In fact, even after police have been
brought in through this whole process again going back now years and the individual who
is said to be squatting, who has arrested see twice for unlicensed operation.
So I'm not totally clear when you say unlicensed operation? Was he renting it?
Was he conducting business? And there whis crazy? Is is it to
charge you catch? And a homeowner could catch for doing something that they're not
zoned to be able doing out of their house, And the government was willing
to come in and arrest this dude and cite him for stuff for using this
home to conduct some sort of business that he's not supposed to, but wouldn't
handle the part where the home is only in his possession illegally. They wouldn't
do anything. So after everything had gone down, video from nearby residents showing
this guy literally running towards them, screaming, banging on their door, yelling
racial slurs, challenging trying to get folks to come out inside and fight him,
screaming cracker at everybody, turning the pit bull loose on people who got
too closed or might have creeped into the yard. Then they go to court,
right, and finally the now third generation, the former owner of this
says, all right, we're going to court. Now's our day. We're
finally going to get these people kicked out. Obviously this is theft. And
these idiots show up for court with the same bogus legal document, and when
it's pointed out, well, actually that person's dead, their lawyer's argument is,
well, maybe it wasn't that person who signed the lease, maybe it
was somebody pretending to be that person. And yeah, don't get me wrong,
there are people, you know, you see these scams on Craigslist and
other places with rental properties. Right, they get some pictures of a home
that's for seal on another website like Zillow, and then they put an ad
and they try to get people to send them deposits without looking at the place.
That's how that scam works. In this case, they're saying, well,
that might be who he got duped by, but in reality it's the
same documents. So they show up and the judge goes, I have no
choice but to allow them to stay. So yes, even though even though
it is nobody debates that it wasn't the homeowner who signed this, they still
decided, well, there's nothing we can do because we don't want to risk
people being unhoused. So now it's back in limbo. And by the way,
the couple also was arrested again, this time for acting in a manner
injurious to a child, as well as I think one of them kind of
rest for resisting when they actually showed up. So the government's getting theirs,
they're charging with all those crimes, and they're doing nothing for these homeowners who
have been basically unable to use their property for five years, had to make
big payments, and probably are going to be on the hook for some sort
of substantial renovation project if they've been occupying literally for years without electricity or running
water. God only knows what's up there. After nearly fifty neighbors showed up
to court, also to city council meetings, and even wrote letters on behalf
of the homeowners explaining what's going on. The judge has decided, well,
in this case, I got a air on the side of making sure these
folks stay in the house. So back to square one. Have fun with
that and drive it a Porsche the whole time must be nice. Seven forty
five. Who we got not Ray stage today? Ken Moon in today?
Because Ray is off every other week on this sweet schedule. So oh man,
what's going on? Sir? Did he leave you an easy one?
I guess is the question. It's not too bad. We do have some
showers and storms to deal with as we head through midweek, but temperatures are
pretty warm here as we start off the business week, maybe not quite as
warm as yesterday, where temperatures got towards the mid seventies. I think we'll
be right around the seventy degree mark today. A little more cloudiness out there
today, just a slight chance to see some late day showers. Fifty Tonight,
sunny skies, a few clouds and low seventies Tomorrow, and then Tuesday
night Wednesday, that's our best chance to see some showers and storms here as
we head through the week. High temperatures on Wednesday middle sixties, mix the
clouds in sunshine. Thursday high's near seventy, partly sunny Friday, mid sixties
and then another chance of rain Friday night into Saturday. Okay, all right,
we'll rinse a repeating an hour. Thank you, sir, appreciate it,
all right, And when we come back, we've got a little follow
up on a climate change story, the CNN story. Look, I mean
networks and media outlets are going to speculate on their competition, but there's a
lot of a lot of receipts in this CNN article, and I would hate
to think that they could be bankrupt by the end of the year. But
we'll explore, let you know what it says, and get to all the
rest coming up. Casey O Day Radio program. Wow, this is this
story is a doozy. This is Missouri or Missouri or Misery, depending on
how you pronounce it. A one of the folks who wanted in on the
Republican primary for governor. What is this guy's name, Darryl mclann in the
third Darryl Leon mclan in the third. Anyway, he filed for governor as
a Republican. However, the Republican Party they eighty six that, so he's
been officially booted by the GOP in Missouri as vying for the gubernatorial seat.
Doesn't mean he can't run, but the Republican Party says it will not give
him his denomination. The objection, apparently this dude is it's no secret he's
got some clan affiliation. There is some debate as to how much. However,
photos and even a video emerged showing him throwing Nazi salutes and thumbs up
in front of a burning cross at some sort of event. There's just a
whole lot of stuff, and during some initial discussions he didn't deny it.
However, this is where things get weird, because let's see here, mcclann
and one of eight people fillowed a petition this week to run for in the
Republican primary. I had these photos were common knowledge. The Republican Party said,
we condemn any association with hay groups, taking immediate action. There you
go, it's the explanation that's got me. The candidate who had run previously
described himself as a pro white man horseman political prisoner activists dedicated to conservative values.
Has been photographed with multiple KKK leaders, as well as the infamous cross
burning photos, which show him doing either a and he's not in any regalia.
People around him are, but he's just he's in you know, standard
close and uh. In one picture he's doing a sig hole saloot, and
then another one he's doing like the buddy Jesus pose. However, a person
close to the candidate said that at that particular incident, he had shown up
to the event but didn't know there was a cross burning. Okay, Ross,
Let's say let's say that you had let's see, we had an event
you needed to go to, right, a remote visit. Yeah, okay,
so let's broadcast, right, pack av let's get going. You got
the van, you got all the gear, you gonna there's gonna be a
fun two hours. And you roll out there and there's a bunch of dudes
in full clamor gellia burning across. Are you doing a thumbs up buddy Jesus
pose in front of that thing even though you didn't know what was part of
the program. So what I'm probably doing is taking a photo. You are
taking the photo, well, just so I can send it to man and
be like this, no, no, no, just so I can you
know, take a photo and send it to management and be like, hey,
this is why we did not do the broadcast? Are you doing it?
We're doing duck lips. I am not in front of the camera.
Well, oh well I want to be a job number one. You're not
in front of the camera, correct, all right, you're not just rolling
with it. It's my point that I'm making. And I mean, if
I was pushed in front of the camera, like forcefully, like you need
to take a photo here, I believe the look on my face would be
of a disgust and terror. It wouldn't be like hey, yeah, yeah,
you'd be like, and this is my this is my end story right
here, this is this is it? Yeah, he went he went a
different route after let's see and and oh, by the way, I'm sorry.
It's two things. One the photos. Whoops, that's the thing.
However, he also accepted an honorary membership at the same event. So at
what a fake degrees? You know, these fake degrees that they give people
right Well, you know we're gonna say, I'm sorry, no, I'm
just saying so like they gave him like a hey, we're gonna give you
this this reward for being here. Well, it's an honorary membership. Man
on the member he doesn't have to pay probably, so he's saving money there.
Yeah, yeah, no, how's this like, you know what's uh?
You know what's that? Idiot? Oh? Who am I thinking of
the Is it Kendy Ebrahim Kenny X Right? That guy's got more honorary degrees
in more things, but not actual degrees on all of these topics. He
was bragging he's got like ten of them. I got honorary degrees from all
these Yeah. Yeah, it's just like that, but it's not a real
degree. I guess it's the argument the campaign would make kind of a special
Monday, at least from a calendar standpoint. Tomorrow is the primary in North
Carolina and apparently Constructions and directly adjacent to me, so god knows what's happening
over there. But hey, that's how we started Monday. Ross said the
log was also a little jack so everyone's getting it, but it is in
these lead up days or in the day before, in the day of.
One of the things that we do around these parts is if somebody is running
for office, we make available the airwaves to chat for a few minutes.
And the way we kind of divvy it up is today statewide races and federal
races, so you know, the congressional seats primarily, and then obviously governor,
Council of State and that, and then tomorrow will roll in candidates for
you know, House, Senate seats things like that, as well as local
offices. So if you are a candidate and you want to chit chat for
a few minutes, say hello, let me ask you obnoxious questions. Call
in rossill VETU. We're not scheduled times. You call in, you get
but on hold like the people you want to represent, and then we do
this thing. So that's how we do it, phone number eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four and Roussell Ross will go through vetting because
I'm assuming you as a candidate don't want some call someone calling in and pretending
to be you and being like I love and then insert something. It'll be
at an ad so he'll handle that and then we'll get to it. So,
speaking of Council of State, we do have a couple of folks holding.
Let's start with Anthony Street, who is running for a state auditor.
Good morning to you, sir, How are you doing? Good morning?
How are you? I'm pretty good? All right, So you want Beth
Wood's old job. You ever monster truck to state car, sir. No,
sir. I've been asked questions add all over the state, and I
always say I'm not a drinking man, but if I was, I'd call
the uber, okay, in monster truck the uber or just have them drive.
I got to follow up your politicians, Okay, let's have them all
right, with that out of the way, State, I think most people
don't even know what the state auditor does. I'm gonna be honest with you,
or maybe they should be doing, and then they don't do. And
I think really only thought about the position because all the shenanigans around that story.
But state auditor has a lot of important roles. Let's talk about why.
I guess now in an uncontested race, whoever is in there is going
to be able to really shape the office for what they want it to be.
And why you think that should be you well, As a physical concervative,
I will always been concerned about waste will spending in government at all levels,
not just at our federal level, but also at our state got down
to our municipalities and school boards and kind of commissioner of boards, and so
I have always been interested in the career in the field of public service,
have a master's career of public administration, and I just feel less the office
rocket best serve the citizens of tax payers in North Carolina. Okay, well,
then how how does the auditor do that? So if you're sitting around
your office and there's something going on and I'm trying to think of incidents where
the state's coming, well, like Princeville, I guess was an occasion where
as a local municipality of the state coming and do stuff. What do you
see as the auditor's role in in doing that and how do you accomplish it?
Well, he is she is charged by the constitutions will being responsible for
review and how of all the public spending in the state. And the person
that says that office has a great amount of power and that they can subtain
the documents from from from any agency in the state government agency and review where
your tax dollars are being spent and then report to the state legislature and the
tax payers on lo here she finds out and empower and uh, an in
formed electric is an empowered electure. So I see it as as a as
an appicite needs to be in constitute unication with the tax players to let them
know where their dollars are going so they can call up the people they vote
for him and raise king until thanks get straightened out. Oh well, and
I'm with that. What about the idea of whoever's elected, maybe you or
whomever it is, going through and figuring out all the COVID money went.
But that seems like a pretty good, pretty good job. Is that something
that you think that you, as a state auditor or be interested in doing?
And legally, is that something you can review even though it was,
you know, during an emergency declaration? Well, there's something I would would
be interested in doing, because I was always very skeptical of the narrative that
we were so dear in the COVID COVID pandemic, Right, So I mean
is that? But is that? I guess my quiet? My last question
to you, is that something that you think is within the purview of the
Auditor's office to be able to do. I think that all sure would have
the legal authority to sign out a great deal of that. Yeah, somebody
needs to is is my point. You got a website, sir, it's
down at the monument, But we'd have to have it back up. Okay,
all right, well I appreciate the call, Anthony Street calling in.
Uh, and we'll talk. Well, we'll see how tomorrow goes and go
from there. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, thank you for
tom Yeah, absolutely all right, And then I clicked the right thing there
can I actually put fine on hold? Hey, look at me? All
right? Yeah, yeah, let's get more one more in here. Seth
Woodall's running for lieutenant governor, another race where there's not going to be an
incumbent, and uh, it'll be very very interesting in North Carolina to see
how the statewide races pan out. So I can then listen to people say
that they were gerrymandered, because they'll understand what the word means. So,
uh, let's chat with Seth here real quick, Seth, how are you
doing this morning? I'm good, Casey, how are you? I'm good.
Let me ask you the question I think a lot of people ask when
they hear about lieutenant governor's job, The hell does lieutenant governor do? I
have done this before and mark this, so I would hope somebody coming in
has pretty clear a vision of what they think the office is. So tell
me what yours is there for sure. So there's fourteen statutory duties. I
can go through those if you want me to, or I can just just
leave it at Yeah, I mean put your vision for for what do you
think the rule is? Like, I understand the Board of Education all that
stuff, but you've got to have something that's in your craw that makes you
want to do this. So what is that? Well, basically, basically,
the Lieutenant governor is going to act as a liaison between the governor and
the General Assembly. So that's that's kind of what the obligations are going to
be. So it's going to be a lot of negotiating, a lot of
convincing, but working directly with our governor, who I am certain is going
to be Mark Robinson. But we gotta gotta dispense with all of the liberal
politicians we have starting at the time and get people in like Mark, and
thankfully we have a super majority in the uh Journal Assembly, so you know,
work directly with all of those fine politicians to make sure that we can
advance our conservative causes. Okay, and uh, I guess the one.
The follow up is what if it's not Mark? Because if there's one thing
I've noticed it's that nobody wants to work with anybody unless they're literally forced to,
and even in the case of people within the same party. And yeah,
well that's you know, so what do you do with the Josh Stein
in there? Because Ray Cooper ain't talking to the Republican Council of State people
does whatever he wants, and that's that's unfortunate, that's unfortunate. But that's
not going to keep me from stopping. So they're going to hear from me
on a daily basis, regularly, and they're just going to have to tell
me no, okay, but yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry. They
it's it's a shame that partisan politics is developed to where it is today.
Uh. And I think that's what you know, separates me from a lot
of the others. I'm not a politician. We need to we need uh.
Mark Robinson said it Winny patriots, not politicians. And so they're gonna
hear from me on a regular basis and they can tell me no as much
as they want. But with that being said, fully convinced Mark Robinson,
we'll be our next governor. What's your back at your lawyer? Right?
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna party trade. Yeah, I don't hang out around
your day. You're from Eden, just for in case folks wondering. So
I you know, the cliche is you look at politicians, half of them
are lawyers. But it does provide a little bit of upside. So let's
talk about especially the Lieutenant Governor's office when you're talking about liaising, so much
of that is politicking and and uh and just trying to wrangle folks. Uh.
You feel you feel your background sets you apart because you're not the only
one on the ballot obviously, so yeah, there's there's several others. But
yeah, I mean I think that sets me apart. You know, I've
been doing this since two thousand and six, and I've been quite successful at
it and will continue to negotiate and whatever means I have to. So I
do believe that my experience since two thousand and six has basically given me the
ability to negotiate with whoever. I mean, honestly, I've negotiate with some
of the or I get some of the largest companies in the country against other
attorneys, and so, you know, I think that if you ask anybody
who's ever been represented by me, they would tell you that I've got a
true gift in that. Well, we're in an era of law. Fair
right to use the term that a lot of people are seeing show up now,
But basically it's the suit of your blue where you have judges. If
you just find the right judge, you can get stuff done. And I
never felt the Republican Party had a good answer for that. Hell, it
took outsiders to come in and slap Josh Stein's hand down over him trying to
sit there with Mark Ellias and do whatever he wants. But ultimately, lawsuits
are the name of the game. So how do Republicans start to counteract that,
you know, if you're part of the Council of State, Because they
don't seem to be doing a good job. So well, we've got to
stand up to it and be bold and fight back. I mean, so
if there's going to be lawsuits filed by people like Josh Stin, you know
we're just going to have to defend those vigorously on behalf of the Republican Party.
I mean, that is the only answer is to fight back. You've
got to fight fire with fire. Okay, So should they be filing lawsuits?
I mean they file a lot of motions and response, but they don't
file their own lawsuits very well. I'm not saying that we need to jump
on board with the liberal idea to sue every time that you're just dissatisfied with
the result. But there's certainly circumstances that were justify and if the statute and
law you know, allows and it should be litigated, we feel strongly about
then we should file. But I am again, I'm not one of the
attorneys who are running around filing lawsuits for the sake of filing lawsuits. I
think a lot of a lot of what's going on with the Democratic Party filing
lawsuits over voter ride d and they're just trying to muddy the waters to get
their way. So again, I'm not at all supporting the idea that more
lawsuits need to be filed, but we've got to defend them vigorously, and
if necessary, we do need to file lawsuits. Got a website, Seth
Yeah, sethwall dot com. All right, that's Wood, like you know
wood and then all a LFO. All right, well, good luck to
you, sir, and we'll see how it goes tomorrow. Okay, all
right, thanks Kasey, all right, thank you, kc O Day Radio
program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Like
I said, we're doing the the candidate thing, and oh look at that.
All right, So we got more of those coming up, plus quite
a few stories to get into. We'll do it next thing on cac O
Day Radio program. As we sit a day ahead of of the primary in
North Carolina Super Tuesday, we're all all up in that we're doing that thing.
We normally do try to talk to candidates. We'd like to reward those
who listen to the show, so we just we provide the opportunity. Today
we're doing federal offices statewide, and then tomorrow we'll get into more of the
local races. And if you got an ear to the radio or eye to
the TV, or you drive past billboards, you're probably aware that there's a
bit of a contentious primary race in the first District and this will likely be
when you get into the general. This is likely going to be the most
competitive of the congressional races. So this is not exactly the old school division.
You know, first District going back to two cycles ago or had this
octopush from Durham over the coast, but it is a broad territory. And
one of the folks running the primary is Lori buck Out, and she joins
us, good morning to you. How you doing today? Hey, good
morning, how you doing? I'm pretty good, Lori buck Out, Yeah,
yeah, it's uh. You guys got a doozy going on over there,
easily the most the most ads I think we have running on the show.
I got to ask you just because I have you, and in fact,
I'm going to do this with audio. I want to know. Let
me flip over to my button bar. Here here we go. All right,
so this is an ad that's currently being run by a pack. Is
it the Rolling Pa? Well, we'll find hold on, I got it
in the ad here. I just want to know why you murdered all the
branch Davidians. Hang on, all right, so here we here, hold
on, here we go. All right, here is the spot. But
I no, seriously, I do want to ask about this because this is
one of the things that's out there. But here's the spot. And just
emerged about Laurie Buckout's role pushing Democrat propaganda for the Clinton White House. We
now know that liberal Laurie not only applied for the Clinton job, but the
Clinton white House betted and selected personnel very carefully. Liberal worked with the Clintons
for three years. During that time, her office was accused of covering for
the Clintons and was cited by congressional investigators for holding back information about the Monica
Lewinsky scandal and the Waco murder House. Oh that's right, you hit the
dress too, all right, So no, but but seriously, people hear
all of this stuff out there, and you know, everything is like what
when you look into it. A lot of times it's you're getting part of
the story. But it is an ad and I understand that. But the
reality is, this is what is the most common thing I hear that you
served within the Clinton White House or during the administration and as a result,
you're way too moderate and you came down here just around mind. But no,
I is there is there truth even during the I guess the time you
were working there. I mean, what's going on here? Oh? Man?
You know, first off, I want to say, that's just sick
and unhanded, and that uh the one and could not be more desperate,
And it's kind of sad when you're going after you know, frankly are going
after a decorated combat vet in the veteran but here so I'll explain the deal
on that. It is disgusting though, So by line is the military serves
a whole lot of people and you'll see them everywhere. So back in the
nineties I got selected to serve with the White House Military Office. So here's
what they do. The folks who fly Air Force one, they're all Air
Force. They work for that office. All the folks who fly the Marine
Helicopter Squadron for the President, they're all with that office. The drivers that
drive staff around are with that office. The folks who work the National Security
Council, and they're all folks in uniform and they're all a political The millaid
who carries the football, the nuclear football. I mean, you know,
there are five military aids and I was a backup to those. As a
matter of fact, of something happened, we would step up and take care
of that. But your job is to serve the commander in chief. So
it was actually like a big deal to be selected for that. And the
communications you do are telecommunications. You do phone, radio, emergency backup,
making sure that the president can access nuclear relief. If he needs to write,
we provide communications to the Secret Service. Like if you see them walking
around talking into their sleeves, we do all the radios for that to make
sure that they can talk and protect the President, the commander in chief.
So telephones, radio, I mean, all that sort of stuff. Even
drivers are provided by the military. But a couple of things. Number One,
I'm a lifelong Republican. My first vote ever was for Ronald Reagan.
Voted nothing but Republican ever since then. Number Two, you are prohibited strictly
by law from behaving in any political in any political way when you are inside
the White House working for the Command in Chief and his staff. Number Three,
I wasn't even there when Monica Lewinsky was there. I was there before
that. I don't even know what that's about. Number four, it's a
four year tour. I left a year early because I was so disgusted by
the corruption in the White House that you just see even though you're not a
part of it. So in fact, a lot of folks did. It
was a very unpopular assignment to have. We thought it was going to be
George Bush going in and you're proudly serving a good conservative commander in chief,
but we saw a lot of corruption and I hated it, so we left
a year early. So you know what, though, I don't get anyone
who's in the White House serving in that job a hard time because it's a
proud thing to do, to serve the commander in chief if he's honorable,
and you're doing a lot of stuff, you know, you know Dan Bongino,
Yeah, does that ring a bell? Yeah, make a serv of
guy. I know him as a secret service guy, but yes, yes,
so a service guy who no doubt served a bunch of Democrats and Republicans
because he had a career, right right. I saw him on Obama.
There's pictures, there's pictures of him obviously holding the car door for Obama.
So yeah, that's right, it's I mean, it's just part of the
job, you know. So do you hate him for that? Well,
but I would point out that mister Vinman, I mean, in the same
capacity, right, was serving in it well, but serving in a military
capacity, and that's you couldn't call that unpartisan. So that's why I asked
these questions. And so yeah, let me let me tell you what.
Nope, but you're right, and that Vinment is a nasty guy. Probably
might even be a member of Congress. You're pretty quick, right because he's
But all right, so the knock, the knock on the I'll get to
the positive stuff here in a moment, but the knock is that your your
short, short residency in North Carolina. I know that some people that we
have a lot of transplants. That's generally a campaign issue. I saw that
they were floating video from a traffic stop with you, So it seems like
all we've heard about is the background there. And I'll let you respond to
any of that. But I'm kind of curious whether it's you or Sandy or
whomever gets in there, what they're going to do because historically the first district
has been a ready blue check and we have a much more competitive race.
So why with all of those things that people may have questions about, do
you still feel that you're the superior candidate? Well, I feel I supirit
to candidate because all the things that are going on about me are untruth or
have truths just straight out lies from a desperate opponent. Now, I want
to tell you this is our fifth run from public office. She's currently over
four A new ad just came out from a pack called Rolling Seas, and
we found out about it because the radio station called us and said, hey,
we're fixing to run this this ad. Here's a twenty nine thousand dollars
buy. I just heard it on another radio station. It's paid for by
Democrats and it's for Sandy and against me, So have a listen for it.
At the end, it says paid for by Rolling Seas pack and they
are supporting Democrats and Don Davis, and they want him to take on Sandy
in the fall because she's lost to him. Once lost a butterfield. Before
that, she took on Tilla's, she took on Greg Greg Murphy, and
she just seems to be desperate to somehow get into office. And I think
she's going to be like the dog that caught the car if she ever does.
She has no record of success in her entire life. I served in
might you know. I served my country. I raised a healthy, happy
family, been married to my husband for twenty nine years, who's a West
Point graduate and a great guy. And I started a business that she's actually
called a more profit here, and it was a business to stop soldiers from
getting blown up by IED's we save countless lives. I will never apologize for
that, and I'll never apologize for running success business that gave over one hundred
folks great jobs. And you know, a business person, you pay yourself
last, and I did. And my friends know how we struggled those first
years of me paying myself last and making sure all my folks had a paycheck,
a good paycheck and benefits. So you know, I mean, yeah,
I'll ask your opponent. I'll ask I'll ask your opponent this as well.
But just with the the nature of the ads that are going back and
forth, if the if the voters tomorrow say the person we want running is
Sandy or they write somebody in, I guess, are you still going to
get out there? And because this is an important congressional seat for Republicans right
everything's razor thin right now, and the ability to potentially flip this is a
big deal. So how do we make sure that the primary doesn't kill the
ability in the general for Republicans to get that seat? Well, you know
what, I think Republicans have to come together and support the w uh Frankly,
I think my opponent has integrity challenges. It will be very hard for
me to do that, but we have to flip the seat. It's going
to be very difficult for me, frankly, because I uh, you know
what. An officer doesn't lie, toe ter, steal or tolerate those who
do, and it can be hard. Well, and and again I'll because
I'm sure we've talked to Sandy during our last run, you'll probably call in
and I'll ask her the same same question. There. What's your website,
Laurie, It's Lori buck Out l A U R I E b U c
K h O U T for congress dot com. Okay, all right,
so the h in there. I just want to remind folks they're googling it.
Yeahuse God only knows what some of the weird stuff we've seen in congressional
races and fake websites. Now, so all right, I'll also take a
look at the Rolling Seas pack, which is supporting Sandy. Okay, all
right, Well, we got it out there and I'll be listening for it
and others should as well. Lorippreciate the time this morning, Okay, thank
you, thank you, and take care, yeah you too. All right,
there you go, Lori buck Out here on the Kcoday radio program or
my whole button apparently doesn't work anymore. All right, we'll we got more
interviews coming up, but got Ken Boone from the Weather Channel. He's hanging
out and let's talk to him first. And ah, yes, I'd like
an order of summer. You could handle that, sir, I'd be great.
Well, we've got some pretty warm temperatures again. Temperatures are going to
be a good bit above average here as we head through the early part of
the business week. Slightly cooler as we get into midweek as we'll see some
showers and even storms, but still temperatures are going to remain above average.
That's a trend that'll carry us through the end of the week. So out
here today, we'll see a little sunshine mixed in with the clouds from time
to time, and then late this afternoon into this evening there is a slight
chance that we could see a few showers move through. Temperatures today upper sixties
to near seventy fifty tonight, more sunshine mixing in with the clouds tomorrow all
the way up into the low seventies, and even better chance for showers rumbles
of thunder overnight Tuesday night and through Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon load to mid sixties
and then back to sunshine Thursday with highs again in the upper sixties to near
seventy degrees. All right, Ken Moon Weather Channel, Thank you, sir.
We'll you tomorrow. Hey, I'll be back tomorrow. Right, very
good. We'll talk then and we'll come back. We've got Jeff Bellinger and
we'll grab one more quick candidate to get to know you in just a few
Hang on, Jeff Ellinger from Bloomberg News. Jeff, what's going on?
Well, Dwarring Casey, you always happy to make your mondays complete. Stocks
that started the month with a positive session on Friday. Gains for the major
averages range from a quarter percent more than one percent. Futures a little bit
lower this morning. S and P futures down ten as back futures are down
two the now futures are down one hundred and sixty eight points at the moment.
No big surprise that we're seeing some caution on Wall Street. We'll be
hearing from Fed cher Jerome Powell today and also a lot of economic indicators will
be coming up in the lead up to the Labor Department's employment report. We
get that on Friday, some quarterly results from big retailers will get attention.
This week. Target kicks things off with its report tomorrow. Jet Blue just
announced this morning the merger deal with Spirit Airlines has been terminated. Jet Blue
says the companies mutually agreed to end the pact. Until now, they had
been appealing a decision by a Boston federal judge who blocked the merger. Private
equity firms trying to buy Macy's not taking no for an answer, they've increased
their offer. Macy's rejected the original twenty one dollar a share bid from ourk
House Management and Brigade Capital, saying it lacked compelling value. So over the
weekend, the two suitors sweetened their bid to twenty four dollars to share,
hoping Macy's will find that more compelling. Half of all Americans who have applied
for a loan in the two years since the Federal Reserve started hiking interest rates
have had their applications rejected. A survey by bank Rate found that younger people
and parents with minor children were the most likely to be denied. Whole food
setting its sites on the Nation Cities. The Amazon owned grocery chain announced this
morning it plans to open you small format stores in urban areas. Whole Food's
Market Daily Shop outlets will be a fraction of the size of the chain's current
stores. They will not have buffet bars or meat counters. They'll be designed
to serve urban customers who want to get in and out quickly. And Casey,
a crafts retailer, is struggling. Sources say Joanne is considering filing for
bankruptcy and turning control of the company over to lenders. Joeanne sells fabric and
craft supplies. It has about eight hundred and fifty stores across the country.
Casey, Yeah, I know why they're hurting too. They were mean to
Ross. If you go in to buy fabric and you're a dude, all
the women customers are judging you say so, well, yeah, so don't
do that. I guess all right, Thanks, Jeff, appreciate it,
Okay, have a good day. Yeah. Was that Joe Ann's or Michaels
Ross? I can't remember. Joe it was Joe Ann's. Your wife sent
you to get there, like you're getting to give you the stink guy?
Yeah, why is there a man in here? What's going on? All
right? We had a couple of different candidates call in. I'm gonna go.
We're gonna chat real quick with one. Just reminder for the state wide
and national candidates, even though tomorrow I open it up for everybody else.
Well, you guys can still call in. So that's you know, so
market down, get ready, but don't call and try to schedule something.
You'll have to call in. All right. We chatted with well, one
of the candidates for NC State Auditor Republican nomination here is Charles Dingy. He's
another Charles. How you doing this morning? Good? Are you good?
I got to open it with the smart ask question first, Uh, pro
or against using state vehicles to monster truck other vehicles? I didn't think i'd
have to ask this. Okay, all right, that's you're against? All
right? So what do you think that maybe we should have a maybe we
should have a driving test requirement for anybody looking to run to be a statewide
official. I don't know, man, Look, if you're at a demolition
derby, I wouldn't I wouldn't make That's fine, go ahead and do that,
but downtown Raleigh not so much. And the other candidate we talked to
from was from the triad. I can't remember. I'm sorry, but let's
let's talk about you in your background, your triangle, your business owner.
What makes you qualified to be auditor? Well, I mean, first off
planet simple, I'm going to be a thorn in the side to every level
of government. That's my goal of what I plan to do with the office.
In terms of what makes me qualified is I've got management experience, I've
got a background in banking, and I'm a small business owner. You can
bind those three. That makes me uniquely qualified to be the best person to
actually lead and direct this office. And that's what it's about. Being the
state auditor does So how does the office roots teeth? The question I asked
one of your opponents. But I think a lot of people are wondering,
is I've done one hundred stories on the money having anything attached to COVID and
where it went and how you literally have trillions unaccounted for and rampant theft.
But somebody drilling down at the state level, what does that look like and
how high is that a priority for you? It's definitely high on the list.
I mean people across the state. As I've traveled over ninety counties have
come to me and said, we don't know what happened with all this COVID
money that came in, and nobody's looking. I mean, even the federal
government has admitted that they don't really know where the money went. So for
me, those are federal funds that would be under the purview of the Auditor's
office. If they came in in the form of grants, or if they
came in through the General Assembly for funding, it would be under the purview
of the state auditor. If any government entities received COVID funds, that's under
our purview. And those are the things that we're going to be looking at
to put out there in a way that's simple for anybody to understand exactly what
the government did with your mind and hold them accountable to it well. And
that is that's where people wonder if the teeth are there, because we've seen
you. You've been a part of the Republican Party. You've been very active
to kind of behind the scenes for people don't know like it. Republicans talk
a good game, but it seems like when it gets drilled drilled down to
investigations and people being held accountable. I I wonder if Republicans have the stones
for it. I mean, okay, all right, well go ahead,
No, I would agree with you one hundred percent, because half the time
they go up there, we elect these people, they say one thing and
they do it completely opposite, and it's ridiculous. I mean, we have
gotten complacent with allowing government to waste our time and money and nobody holds them
accountable. That's not what I'm gonna do, though. I'm going to be
out there to be a thorn in the side every single day, and if
I can't remove get somebody removed from office, I'm going to make sure everybody
in the news knows what's going on. I'm going to be at those local
meetings for whatever agency or entity it is, so people know these people wasted
your money and here's how you can get rid of them. I'll be at
the General Assembly lobbying day in and day out. If we find out that
people wasted your money and there's nothing I can do about it, I'm going
to be out there using this position as a bully pulpit to get rid of
these people. Because it's time that people are actually held accountable.