1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,280 your support. We want to welcome back to the program, 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,280 AP Dylan. She is a reporter at the North State Journal. 11 00:00:34,359 --> 00:00:38,520 You could read that website nsjonline dot com. She's also 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,880 the publisher of the substack newsletter called more to the Story, AP, 13 00:00:43,119 --> 00:00:43,960 How are you today? 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,079 Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, Pete. I'm a little bit full 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,000 from turkey days. 16 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:51,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, the trip to fan is receding. Actually i've heard 17 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:53,200 that's that doesn't even that's not a. 18 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:54,479 Speaker 3: Thing like that. 19 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 20 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: I think it's just the over eating. Yeah, yeah, it's 21 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,479 just the overeating that makes you tired. It's not the 22 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,799 turkey specifically, it's everything together, I think. 23 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 5: So. 24 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: Anyway, so you had a good Thanksgiving yep? 25 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 4: Good? 26 00:01:09,719 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: Okay, So let's see here let's go awhere to start. 27 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,480 Let's start because I've been covering the Mechlamburg County commissioners 28 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:23,719 are very very concerned about the increased costs of complying 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,519 with Arena's law that took effect today. They had a 30 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:29,400 big meeting and they're like, oh my gosh, we don't 31 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,319 have any money and all this. And so when one 32 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:34,719 of the things that our sheriff, Gary not my fault 33 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:39,640 McFadden was lamenting was that, hey, if this immigration bill 34 00:01:40,239 --> 00:01:43,280 gets overridden, then there's going to be even more pressure 35 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,120 on the jail with even more people having to be held. 36 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,519 But one would think that there might be some examples 37 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,400 of why our sheriff should be forced to cooperate with 38 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,599 immigration and Customs enforcement when you know, violent people end 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,120 up in jail. And there is actually a pretty recent 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:11,800 case of this that you covered. Jordan Renato Castillo Chavez. Yes, yeah, 41 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,680 arrested by So I guess this guy was caught up 42 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:19,039 in the Customs and Border Patrol Charlotte's web operation the 43 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:19,520 other day. 44 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,719 Speaker 2: He was not only because he wasn't in jail already. 45 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:28,319 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, well so that's so had So Okay, 46 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,080 let me see if I can connect these dots. Had 47 00:02:31,479 --> 00:02:36,240 McFadden not released him, then Border Patrol would not have 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,039 needed to come to town to pick him up. 49 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 2: They still would have had to come pick him up, 50 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,520 but he wouldn't have been an active target for Charlotte's 51 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,240 webs out and about right. 52 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: He wouldn't be driving around maybe using his vehicle as 53 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,719 a weapon against law enforcement, not that he's charged with 54 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:52,520 doing that, but. 55 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 2: Well, the victim's mother he had a he was He 56 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:03,400 was arrested for sexual assault of a minor, first degree 57 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:08,319 sexual exploitational minor association of a child by computer and 58 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,960 his victim was thirteen year old, and the mother of 59 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,759 that thirteen year old asked the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's office 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,879 about his release, and they said that they let him 61 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,919 go because they were quote not legally required to detain him, 62 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:29,120 so she was pretty upset about that. He was booked 63 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,280 into jail earlier this year on May seventh, given a 64 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,919 fifty thousand dollars bond, which he apparently posted because he 65 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,159 was out and about, and the e court system showed 66 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,680 him that he was indicted on those charges on May nineteenth, 67 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:46,840 and an affidavit filed in the case and the victim 68 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:50,080 had a brief hospital stay due to sexual assault with 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,879 no injuries. So you know, he was fingerprinted, he gave 70 00:03:55,879 --> 00:03:58,719 his DNA sample, he had to surrender his passport, and 71 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,960 he'd remove all kinds of apps from his phone and 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,800 have no contact with the victim. But he was allowed 73 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,800 to just you know, go. 74 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: Free to go right on a fifty thousand dollars bound. 75 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,319 Do you know if that was secured or unsecured. 76 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 2: I think it was secured. Usually when it's that high, 77 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:12,879 it's secured. 78 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, So he posted the secured bond. And I'm assuming 79 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,959 because he had a passport, is he is he I 80 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:23,079 legal or illegal? Actually? I don't even know, because I 81 00:04:23,079 --> 00:04:25,319 guess he could have surrendered his foreign passport. 82 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 3: He could have. 83 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 2: It wasn't It wasn't clear in the documents if it 84 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,000 was a US passport or if it was a foreign passport. 85 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: But he wasn't illegal. Had a passport of some kind, right, 86 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:40,480 and so he was, but he was an illegal alien. 87 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,160 Otherwise Customs and Border custom and Border patrol. 88 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 2: Would not have Yeah, target think it was I'm thinking 89 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:48,279 it was a foreign passport. Yeah, unless he had you know, 90 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,839 forged documents for you know, an American passport, which. 91 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: That never happened. 92 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: Really actually hard to do. 93 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:57,079 Speaker 1: Yeah no, and they would never have any kind of 94 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:58,360 you know, fake identification. 95 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,199 Speaker 2: Yeah sure. So yeah, this guy was out there rolling 96 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:04,519 around in DHS. They put up a press release that 97 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:06,720 during Charlotte's Web that he was one of six that 98 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,240 they picked up who had been released because authorities didn't 99 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:12,399 honor the ICE detainers. 100 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,759 Speaker 1: Right, And this is what I said the entire week 101 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,000 when CBP was operating here, is that this is the 102 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:22,920 reason CBP is here is because the local authorities, specifically 103 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,279 our sheriff, not my fault, McFadden, where nothing is ever 104 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:27,720 his fault. That's why I call him that. But that's 105 00:05:27,959 --> 00:05:32,959 that like his policies and his refusal to cooperate with ICE, 106 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,360 his refusal to pick up the phone and call them, 107 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:41,279 and his refusal to hold these these illegal aliens on 108 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,800 these detained ICE detainer requests, that's the reason why CBP 109 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,480 is here is because we know that he keeps turning 110 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,959 these people loose from the jail, So they know CBP 111 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,319 knows like, if we come to town, we're going to 112 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,120 be able to scoop up a bunch of people that 113 00:05:56,199 --> 00:05:58,519 are illegal aliens. That have been arrested because we know 114 00:05:58,560 --> 00:05:59,480 he turns them out. 115 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:03,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's you know, the number that was released, 116 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,959 and it was picked up when they had finished the 117 00:06:05,959 --> 00:06:07,920 first couple of portions, the first couple of days, it 118 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:10,160 was already into the two hundred range, and by the 119 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,720 time they got to Raleigh, I think like the final 120 00:06:11,759 --> 00:06:15,000 account was over three hundred and seventy. So clearly there 121 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,560 are folks out there that had part of I'm sure 122 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,920 some of them have been released and not had the 123 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,720 detainer honored. However, the Wait County sheriff issued a statement. 124 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:28,480 I think it was over the weekend. There was a 125 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:33,879 rumor that Ice was coming to Raleigh today and tomorrow, 126 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:38,720 spread by the activist group Las ci Umbre, but no 127 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:41,319 one could confirm that that actually was going on, and 128 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:43,680 Sheriff Willy Rogue here in Wake County said that he 129 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,519 didn't have any heads up that that was going on, 130 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,920 So that tells me it was smoke and he said, yeah, no, 131 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,519 nothing's going on here. But he encouraged people to let 132 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,480 them do their job and stay out of the way. 133 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:02,439 So that was different from his predecessor. Yeah, I'm definitely 134 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:04,959 different from jeff My Fat and over there. 135 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 5: Yes. 136 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: Absolutely. He actually put out another statement. I'll read that 137 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:10,879 after we let you go, which is it. It's in 138 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,680 line exactly with what you would expect, but let me 139 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,439 shift gears. The North Carolina State Auditor, Dave Bollock took 140 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,399 a look at the COVID funds and that were that 141 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:25,399 were part of the ARPA passed in twenty twenty one, 142 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,639 the American Rescue Plan Act. And this was supposed to 143 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,519 be for like COVID recovery, and so they sent a 144 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,319 lot of money out the door of the helicopter, just 145 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:39,199 dumping it on everybody in all these cities and counties 146 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,399 and whatnot. And what did he discover, Well. 147 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,959 Speaker 2: He found two point ninety five billion and undistributed funds. 148 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:52,480 Now they were allocated, these funds had been you know, 149 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:54,560 earmarked for this, that and the other thing. But two 150 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:57,759 point ninety five billion, or more than half of the 151 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,160 funds were undistributed. 152 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: So this is money that's what sitting in North Carolina 153 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,680 State agency bank accounts. 154 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,959 Speaker 2: Uh yeah. Apparently he listed out a couple of examples 155 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:15,279 in there. One was the Department of Environmental Equality who 156 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:18,319 had one point nine billion in allocations and had not 157 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:22,120 requested eighty nine percent of their funds or one point 158 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:23,079 seven billion. 159 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,079 Speaker 1: So that's like most of it. 160 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, the office is let's see the Office of Information Technology, 161 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:35,559 they requested six hundred and eighty seven million or they 162 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,240 had not requested six hundred and eighty seven million, or 163 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,240 ninety four percent of the seven hundred and thirty four 164 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,399 million that they had allocated. That included broadband funds of 165 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:50,080 one hundred and twenty six million. Department of Health and 166 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:53,759 Human Services had forty percent or two hundred and one 167 00:08:53,799 --> 00:08:57,360 million that were not yet requested out of the five million, 168 00:08:57,399 --> 00:09:00,840 five hundred and three million that were allocated to them, 169 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:03,759 and one hundred and twenty million of that was remaining 170 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:08,600 funds for leading asbestos remediation and schools and childcare facilities, 171 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,559 so that hasn't been done. 172 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,279 Speaker 1: That was the big deal they were talking to, like, well, 173 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,919 we need to upfit all of the schools and we 174 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,279 need to get better HVAC systems and make them safer 175 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,679 for kids to be in so it's not spreading respiratory 176 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:25,000 viruses and all of this stuff. And they've got all 177 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:27,240 of this money and they haven't spent it. They haven't even. 178 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 3: Asked for it. 179 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:30,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it just goes on and on. There 180 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,600 was another one for the Department of Commerce. They'd requested 181 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,840 or they got one hundred and twenty six million that 182 00:09:34,879 --> 00:09:37,600 were allocated and fifty four million or forty three percent 183 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:41,399 of that was not yet requested, and thirty nine million 184 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,720 in remaining funds were related to a rural downtown transformation grant. 185 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,639 Speaker 1: So so, all right, do you remember, because I do not, 186 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,879 Do you remember, like, how did how did the federal 187 00:09:53,919 --> 00:09:57,720 government come up with these funding numbers for each of 188 00:09:57,759 --> 00:09:59,799 these agents? 189 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,159 Speaker 2: I think they were in part population based, okay, population 190 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,480 and tax spaces and that sort of thing we're used 191 00:10:06,519 --> 00:10:09,639 in a formula. I tried to understand at one point 192 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:12,559 when it came to the school of formula funding. But 193 00:10:12,639 --> 00:10:15,919 it had to do with also an apportionment or a 194 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,720 percentage of the federal dollars that they typically get for 195 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,200 certain programs that was also factored in there. I mean, 196 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,559 it's it's definitely you need an advocus and a space 197 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,240 age calculator and everything to figure it out. 198 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: But right, because why it's like, how did the Department 199 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:37,759 of Information Technology get like seven hundred and thirty four 200 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,840 million dollars and four years later they still haven't asked 201 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:45,960 for ninety four percent of that money, Like what are 202 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,919 we doing? Like because I have some ideas of where 203 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:50,279 the money could go, Like didn't we hear about massive 204 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:53,440 cost overruns with like the E filing system in the 205 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,440 courts and that sort of thing, Like they're obviously the 206 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,440 federal broadband money, Like that's been a that's been a 207 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:06,080 campaign promise from Republicans and Democrats for years. So yeah, 208 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:07,200 why isn't that money. 209 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: I know, the money's still sitting there and they, I 210 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:13,080 mean maybe it's sitting there because they have until December 211 00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:16,679 thirty first of next year to spend the actually spend 212 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,240 the money. Otherwise it goes back to the US Treasury 213 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,120 unless they get some sort of extension, which. 214 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm okay with it going back to the US Treasury. 215 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:27,039 I'm okay with that as well, because I mean, I 216 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,639 know it's only what total, just under three billion dollars, 217 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,720 But you know, if every state keeps three billion dollars 218 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,360 that they should in otherwise that they're not using, then 219 00:11:36,399 --> 00:11:37,960 it tells me we didn't need the money and it 220 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 should go back and maybe reduce our federal spending, which 221 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:41,360 is just. 222 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,799 Speaker 2: You know, well, in a lot of these things. Also, 223 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,320 you know, they were helpful for a certain period of time, 224 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,200 but then you know clearly they're not being used any further. 225 00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:53,519 So the urgency's gone. And hi inflation, right, you know 226 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,639 when we're sending out that kind of amount of money 227 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,159 to the states and it's just sitting out there, right, 228 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:01,720 you know that that's doing stuff to the dollar exactly. 229 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's devaluing it. Yeah, you're exactly right. You 230 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,519 can read the report by ap Dylan at North State 231 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,840 Journal nsjonline dot com. Also subscribe to her newsletter, it's 232 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,679 called More to the Story over at substack. Ap. 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Multiply that by a bunch of other states 262 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,399 with the same thing. Yeah, is that we're just we 263 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:54,080 got three billion dollars in state agency accounts, that's just 264 00:13:54,240 --> 00:14:00,559 parked drawing interest. Is that? Is that the play? Is 265 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,559 that the intent? Let's head over to the phone lines 266 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,320 and chat with Nicole. Hello, Nicole, Welcome to the show. 267 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 5: Hey, Pete, I got I think I've got a solution 268 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,519 for the funding. 269 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: Great. Well, you know me, Nicole, I am all about solutions. 270 00:14:19,639 --> 00:14:22,159 Speaker 5: Well, you know, and I almost thought, as I believe 271 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,240 with mister Brown, who's running Gonna brunt for the federal position. 272 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,480 You know, all the money that Mecklenburg County gives to 273 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:36,000 the illegal immigrants, space, all the cash in hand, the 274 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:43,960 EBT cards, free housing, all the free medical, free you know, 275 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,200 stuff that they don't give us actual citizens of Mecklenburg. 276 00:14:49,519 --> 00:14:54,519 They if they were to even take some of that back, 277 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,120 it could easily fund the for the the jail and 278 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,759 even police. I mean, they're giving Nexemberg County taxpayers. They're 279 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:10,200 giving millions of dollars of free money to illegal ailien 280 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,960 But you know, say, if you're a citizen, you have 281 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:15,360 to work three times, it's hard to get anything. 282 00:15:15,879 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: So part of the part of it is that the 283 00:15:17,759 --> 00:15:21,120 money is uh, it's it is sent out in the 284 00:15:21,159 --> 00:15:26,120 form of grants to these nonprofit organizations under you know, 285 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:32,240 innocuous headings of uh, you know, community outreach or you know, 286 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,799 improving health outcomes, stuff like that, and so they fund 287 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,320 these third party NGOs essentially nonprofits. 288 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 5: And that's what the n g os are, right. 289 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: Right, they're passed their Yeah, they're passed through organizations to 290 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:47,799 take the tax grant money and use it to then 291 00:15:47,879 --> 00:15:51,440 fund things that the local government doesn't want to fund 292 00:15:51,919 --> 00:15:55,080 and have you know, and have that publicized, or they 293 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,440 don't know it's being funded. Either way, the result is 294 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,080 the same, Nicole. I appreciate the call. And that does 295 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,919 not count. By the way, the price of educating kids, 296 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,399 building new schools to house more of the kids because 297 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:11,840 of the Pliler v. Doo ruling years ago, that we 298 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:14,120 have to anybody, you know, any kid that shows up 299 00:16:14,399 --> 00:16:17,360 gets a seat in the classroom kind of a thing. So, yeah, 300 00:16:17,399 --> 00:16:20,000 there's a lot, there's a there is a cost. There 301 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,639 is a large cost. And by the way, here's one 302 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:26,200 of the other things. If you remove the illegal alien population, 303 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,240 then you don't have the same cost burden to provide 304 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,639 all of these services that that goes away as well. 305 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,679 So I mentioned that our sheriff Gary not my fault. 306 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:46,039 McFadden put out a statement the other day, or I think, well, 307 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,039 this may have been today, and I know this is 308 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,480 I know this is picky, it's petty, but I say 309 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:58,679 it every time because it's a waste of resources, my resources. 310 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:05,000 When I print out his press releases, I waste probably 311 00:17:05,039 --> 00:17:09,720 about twenty percent of the page on green and gold ink. 312 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:15,400 I waste another thirty percent of the page on a 313 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,319 big photo of him and Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary L. 314 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,519 McFadden working to influence change by being dot dot dot 315 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:31,960 quote the difference end quote, working to influence change by 316 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,440 being the difference. Like did Chad GPT give you that line? 317 00:17:38,519 --> 00:17:41,920 That is a that's just a silly slogan, but anyway, 318 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:47,079 And then there's a logo from the Sheriff's office. Literally 319 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:51,720 half the page is a waste of ink and a 320 00:17:51,759 --> 00:17:58,400 third of the page is him anyway, and it's a PDF, 321 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,319 so you can't even do anything with it. Annoying, All right, 322 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:07,599 here's the statement headline, CBP leaves Charlotte tangled in web 323 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:13,640 of confusion, bitten with mistrust, filled with venomous fear. They're 324 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,599 just really leaning into the whole spider thing. 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So 352 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,480 the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, Gary not my Fault McFadden, 353 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:10,359 put out the press release now that the Charlotte's Web 354 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:16,519 operation by Customs and Border Patrol has left town, and 355 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:19,839 the basic gist of it is, don't blame me. It's 356 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:23,680 not my fault, which is very on brand for Gary 357 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,559 Not my fault McFadden, he says in this press release. 358 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:32,839 But let me be perfectly clear, the Mecklenberg County Sheriff's 359 00:20:32,839 --> 00:20:38,920 office played no role in causing that confusion, which he 360 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,920 says was caused by CBP, which it actually wasn't. It 361 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,039 was in fact caused by him. The fact that he 362 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,039 ran on a platform back in twenty eighteen of refusing 363 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:56,079 to cooperate with ICE, promising to scrap the two eighty 364 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:01,440 seven G program, which is the program that allows local 365 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:07,440 Sheriff's office detention officers to essentially get access to the 366 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,240 ICE database. They're like, they become like they take a 367 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:13,759 training class and stuff, and they become sort of a 368 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:18,400 sworn official that has access then to the ICE database, 369 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,359 and they can when somebody comes into the jail, they 370 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,000 can identify that person based on the ICE database, and 371 00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:27,680 they can find out if the person is here illegally. 372 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,359 ICE is then alerted and ICE can deport them. They 373 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,839 can also find out if the person is wanted on 374 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:38,400 like serious charges and such, right, which might actually play 375 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,599 a role, and whether or not you release the person 376 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,440 back out into the community. You know, somebody who's here 377 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,920 illegally and you don't bother to confirm their actual identity. 378 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,559 They give you some fake documents, you book them in 379 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,759 under one name, and then you find out, oh, that's 380 00:21:55,799 --> 00:22:00,559 actually a sacario from a cartel. But you'ready let them 381 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:05,000 go because you didn't know that, right, So it is 382 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:08,400 actually his fault. He ran on the platform to scrap 383 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,400 the two eighty seven G cooperation, and the first day 384 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,480 when he won, he celebrated the scrapping of the two 385 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,200 eighty seven G program with a cake that said two 386 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:21,039 eighty seven G with a big red circle around it 387 00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:23,920 and a diagonal line through the word two eighty seven G. 388 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,480 And then he cut the cake right through the two 389 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:31,960 eighty seven G frosting. Okay, so this is what he 390 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:37,160 ran on. And so this is a lie. The confusion 391 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:39,680 and the fear and the mistrust and all of that, 392 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:43,680 it is a direct result of you, sheriff. You you 393 00:22:43,799 --> 00:22:48,680 did this because had we not scrapped our compliance and 394 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:53,160 cooperation with two eighty seven G, had we continued what 395 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,000 your three Democrat predecessor sheriffs had done, had you just 396 00:22:57,079 --> 00:22:59,720 continued to do that, CBP would probably not have come 397 00:22:59,759 --> 00:23:05,279 to ten. CBP's operation is a result of your actions. 398 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,519 He goes on to say, the only communication that the 399 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:13,079 sheriff's office received regarding this activity was a brief heads 400 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,440 up from federal officials that personnel would arrive on Saturday, 401 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,880 November sixteenth. Our agency received a follow up message five 402 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,480 days later that they would depart on Thursday the twentieth. 403 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:28,920 Any other news that would be reported thereafter is false. 404 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:35,519 So I'm assuming McFadden always with the thin skin. I'm 405 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:41,599 assuming that he has gotten word from people, the community 406 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,799 activists or something, that he's gotten word that he is 407 00:23:46,839 --> 00:23:52,079 somehow to blame, or he's implicated for cooperating with Ice 408 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,839 or something, and so he wants to put that to rest. 409 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,400 I had nothing to do with this. I support your 410 00:23:58,599 --> 00:24:03,799 right to break the law, is what he's saying. Don't 411 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:07,000 look at me. I wasn't trying to round up illegal 412 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:10,240 aliens in Mecklenburg County. I was opposed to the rounding 413 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:15,559 up of criminal illegal aliens. Immigration, he says, didn't suddenly 414 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:19,000 become an issue when CBP arrived in Charlotte. Our community 415 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:22,319 has been grappling with immigration challenges since the day I 416 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,279 took office in December twenty eighteen. Yet in the last 417 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:31,480 several days, many people, including elected officials, advocates, and organizations, 418 00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:34,680 have shown more urgency than they have in the last 419 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,400 several years. For those of us who have been continually 420 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,119 fighting this fight, the struggle is not new. What's he 421 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:42,920 talking about here? 422 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:44,279 Speaker 6: Now? 423 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: When you first hear this, when I first read it, 424 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,839 you might have concluded what I initially did was that 425 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:55,240 he's talking about fighting illegal immigration. But he's not. He's 426 00:24:55,279 --> 00:25:01,960 talking about fighting immigration enforcement. That's what he's talking about. 427 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,559 For those of us who have been fighting this fight, 428 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:06,519 the struggle is not new. And to those who are 429 00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:10,400 just now realizing the weight of these issues, I welcome 430 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,720 you to the conversation. Seekaus again. Always the hero or 431 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:17,759 the victim, never the villain. He is the hero. He's 432 00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:23,400 been fighting this alone for so long, and now, thank goodness, 433 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,759 people have finally woken up in there. They're harassing Customs 434 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:31,039 and Border patrol officers who are doing their operation. They're 435 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,640 they're swarming their facility, they're blocking them in traffic, they're 436 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,960 videotaping their faces and doxing them online. Thank goodness, we 437 00:25:39,079 --> 00:25:44,119 now have fellow foot soldiers in the nullification insurrection, because 438 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:50,720 that's what this is. It's nullification. It is local elected 439 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:56,119 government officials who are trying to nullify and not enforce, 440 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:04,160 not allowed to be enforced federal law. Nullification crisis, he says. 441 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,519 And to those who are just now real I welcome 442 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:08,799 you to the conversation. I welcome you to the fight. 443 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,359 If this recent experience opened some eyes, then I hope 444 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,559 you are fully aware now and woke to what our 445 00:26:16,599 --> 00:26:22,160 community has been facing all along. And he puts the 446 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:28,279 word woke in quotes because ever the thin skin, he's 447 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,759 very sensitive to being labeled as one of the woke sheriffs. 448 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:37,640 He along with Quentin Miller up in Bunkhom County, I 449 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,599 forget the other fellow's name out of Durham, another one 450 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,359 in Wake County, and they all rode this. They rode 451 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,279 this wave into office in twenty eighteen, this promise not 452 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:53,559 to cooperate with ICE, and they got labeled the woke 453 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,599 sheriffs because there's like four or five of them in 454 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,359 the state and we got one hundred sheriffs. So this 455 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,640 is what he's talking about, Like, this is not this 456 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,839 struggle is not about illegal immigration enforcement. It's about enforcing 457 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,400 our immigration laws. All right, if you're listening to this show, 458 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,000 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 459 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,039 of current events, and I know you do too, And 460 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,920 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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I'll let you 482 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,079 know what that's about in a minute. First, let me 483 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,480 get over to Joseph. Hello, Joseph, welcome to the show. 484 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:28,519 Speaker 7: Hey, how you doing. Hey, I'm good taking my call. 485 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,119 I'm a retired police officer, and it is not uncommon 486 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,400 for local police officers and deputies to work with federal 487 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,920 agencies on a limited basis. I worked with Homeland Security. 488 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,839 I had two weeks of extra training, was sworn in, 489 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,680 and I was human trafficking drugs and things like that. 490 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:54,920 But US marshals have local officers that do it. The 491 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,200 even so Secret Service we work with them on occasion 492 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:02,160 during campaigns and so forth. Even on the local level, 493 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,359 the ABC officers for North Carolina have local officers that 494 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,799 work with them. So the thing that's happening with the 495 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:13,119 sheriff's department is not that unusual. They're trained. It's been 496 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:15,279 but it's been politicized, right. 497 00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, this was the law I was on the 498 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:23,480 books for decades. And the former Democrat Mecklemberg sheriff Jim Penograph, 499 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:26,799 he went to some sheriff conference or something years ago 500 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,359 and was talking with some sheriff out of like Texas 501 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,240 or something, and he told him about this two eighty 502 00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:34,880 seven G program. And when Penograph found out about it, 503 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,279 he instituted it here and then was hired on by 504 00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:42,480 the Bush administration to travel the country and help other 505 00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:45,880 jurisdictions set up their own two eighty seven G programs. 506 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,759 Speaker 7: And it works well. And as far as us assisting 507 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,240 the FED, which is ridiculous, I'd be like saying if 508 00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:54,359 a bank rob if a bank gets robbed and as 509 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,519 a local police officer, I don't go because it's a 510 00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,599 federal crime. So you enforced the law. 511 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:02,279 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, the bank robbery one is a perfect example 512 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:04,960 because they're federal laws. But it's not like CMPD doesn't 513 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,599 go and assist it's a bank robbery, Yeah, exactly. 514 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 7: So it's no different with the sheriff's office. 515 00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, Joseph, I appreciate the call, sir. Thank you for 516 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,480 your service too. I appreciate it. Thank you all right, 517 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:22,039 take care, yes, sir. From McFadden's press release, the way 518 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:28,319 CBP conducted the operation highlights a critical truth that both 519 00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:34,079 local and federal law enforcement agencies cannot operate in silos. 520 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,240 This is coming from the guy that created the silo. 521 00:30:39,519 --> 00:30:43,720 This is gaslighting. Don't whiz on my boots and tell 522 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:49,279 me it's raining. You created the silo. You want them 523 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:51,640 to give you all this information about their operations that 524 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,400 they're going to be running. But you're the one that 525 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,880 created the distance. You walled yourself off from ICE. You 526 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,400 did that when you campaigned against cooperating with ICE, and 527 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,079 then you dismantled the two eighty seven G program. In 528 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:09,119 your jail, you refuse to pick up the phone and 529 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,240 call ICE to let them know that you're about to 530 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,400 release somebody. You force the state lawmakers to pass multiple 531 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,279 bills to try to force you to drag you, kicking 532 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:27,559 and screaming to a cooperative posture. You created the silo. Oh, 533 00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:32,440 it's just so annoying. Hate being gaslet, But I am 534 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,720 too bright for it. By the way, New York Times 535 00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:39,799 in a story today, mister Biden allowed many migrants to 536 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,160 enter the country temporarily as a way to incentivize them 537 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,279 to avoid crossing the border illegally. Those people became eligible 538 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:50,279 to work in the United States, receive Social Security numbers, 539 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:56,519 and in some cases receive federal benefits. Just the casual 540 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:02,039 acknowledgment of the very thing that we have been saying 541 00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:05,440 for the last six years, now, five years, that the 542 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,359 New York Times now just admits it as like this 543 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:17,519 is a huge scandal. They did it on purpose, all right. 544 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:21,359 Let me jump over to this audio clip. This is 545 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,039 a moment of personal privilege. If I might So this 546 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:28,359 is a clip, a mashup, a montage, if you will, 547 00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:32,480 a couple of different conversations. US Senator Tom Tillis was 548 00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:35,960 on this morning. He was in studio with the Good 549 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,759 Morning BT crew, and here's what they chatted about. 550 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 3: At one point, let's move on, guys. 551 00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 6: I mean, my gosh, we need a little bit of 552 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,720 adults in the room being a little bit more mature. 553 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,519 Speaker 3: Stop all this back and forth. 554 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 6: This sort of amateurish or childish behavior at end, either 555 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:53,920 end of the spectrum is not a vote tainer. 556 00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:54,799 Speaker 3: What are you? 557 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,359 Speaker 4: Yes, very nice? Yes, hear that big calendar. 558 00:32:59,559 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 2: Yes? 559 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,079 Speaker 3: Are you impressed? 560 00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 4: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about twenty twenty six? 561 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,759 Speaker 3: I think right now we've you know, you're you're always. 562 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 6: Going to have a challenge in the in the year, 563 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,519 the congressional elections after a new president's in place. 564 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 3: But we've got to get serious about health care. We've 565 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:21,279 got to get We've got to just calm down. I 566 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:22,680 want to be the adults in the room. 567 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 6: Let the Democrats continue to be the liberal you know, 568 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:29,920 fanatics that some of them can be. 569 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 3: But I'm watching the display up here earlier. 570 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 6: I now know how to pronounce Afton Bay and spell 571 00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:39,839 her name, because I was in Middle Tennessee all weekend 572 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,200 and there's ads running non stop. Republicans need to understand 573 00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:46,759 when you've got a district that's in play, or we 574 00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:49,319 may only win by single digits and Trump carried by 575 00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:50,039 twenty points. 576 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:52,079 Speaker 3: Pay attention, folks. You can learn from that. 577 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 4: US Centator Tome tell us the time goes fast. We 578 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,519 always appreciate you joining us. 579 00:33:57,119 --> 00:33:58,119 Speaker 3: Thank you loved it. 580 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 4: Happy Thanksgiving, and we'll be back tomorrow here on good morning. 581 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 3: I'm votainer in. 582 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, what have I talked about the preference cascade? 583 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:15,079 People slowly at first, and then very quickly because Senator 584 00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:17,320 Tillis was in the studio and he saw that I 585 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,519 had posted a sign up. 586 00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:18,679 Speaker 6: Now. 587 00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: I posted that sign up last year, and it says 588 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:24,400 new rule. Let me get my glasses on new rule. 589 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,760 The word vote getter is banned. It is a terrible 590 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,400 word that should die. Instead use the word votainer. Thank 591 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,039 you for your attention to this matter. So I posted 592 00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:39,559 that up there to try to get people to start 593 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:43,599 using the word votainer. It's been a slow slog, I 594 00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:47,840 will tell you, people, very slow. This has been like 595 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,000 a decade that I've been promoting this word, I have 596 00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:56,159 gotten a couple of converts. It's still not in widespread use, though, 597 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,119 but Senator Tillis was in here, and whatever you think 598 00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:02,320 about Senator till Us, it doesn't matter. The point is 599 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:06,199 he used the word votainer. Now the real challenge is 600 00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:08,000 going to be will he continue to use it? Will 601 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,960 he adopt it in you know, normal conversation, regular conversation, 602 00:35:12,159 --> 00:35:14,719 because that's how we win hearts and minds here. People 603 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,880 do not use the term vote getter. It's awful, it's awkward, 604 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:26,079 it sounds terrible. Votainer it's cleaner, it sounds better, makes 605 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:32,559 sense slowly at first, then very quickly. That's how it's 606 00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:33,039 going to happen. 607 00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 3: People. 608 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,079 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 609 00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:40,159 so much for listening. 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