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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome TOIME

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<v Speaker 1>now for our early burned version of the Community Connection

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<v Speaker 1>on K one, the one you Trust. It is now

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<v Speaker 1>eight twenty three. Julie Daniels is in with us. By

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<v Speaker 1>the way, congratulations on your election. It's final.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you very much, Tom, and thank you to the

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<v Speaker 2>voters and Senate District twenty nine for allowing me to

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<v Speaker 2>serve a final four year term as your senator.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh well, congratulations. We got a lot to do today

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<v Speaker 1>because other things are still up in the air and

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<v Speaker 1>up for consideration on the ballot, and some people are

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<v Speaker 1>getting two pages, are getting three today, but you're here

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about one that's on the.

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<v Speaker 2>Main ballot, right and before we get to that, if

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<v Speaker 2>you do want to know about your sample ballot, where

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<v Speaker 2>your precinct is all that, you can go to Oklahoma

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<v Speaker 2>State Election Board. You can go elections dot ok dot

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<v Speaker 2>gov and click on the voter portal. You put in

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<v Speaker 2>your name and your date of birth, and you pop

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<v Speaker 2>up and it will tell you where you vote, and

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<v Speaker 2>it will tell you exactly what you're voting on. For instance,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in Jim Kurd City Council Board and he didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have an opponent, so I won't be voting for city council.

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<v Speaker 2>Other people will, so you'll know before you go to

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<v Speaker 2>the polls. These are the things I'm voting on. And

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<v Speaker 2>remember that the ballots are front and back, so remember

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<v Speaker 2>to fill out the backside. Oh and there's the county

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<v Speaker 2>question about alcohol sales. Somebody asked me about this. So

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<v Speaker 2>since the eighties in Washington County, we have not allowed

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<v Speaker 2>alcohol to be only to be sold from noon until

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<v Speaker 2>midnight I think it is. And when New Year's hits

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<v Speaker 2>on a Sunday, it really cut back on the revenue

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<v Speaker 2>from different and other counties have it as early as

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<v Speaker 2>eight until two in the morning. So this is what

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<v Speaker 2>we're asking people to consider. Do you want to expand

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<v Speaker 2>the hours of alcohol sales? And that's why the county

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<v Speaker 2>put that on, But it's just to put us in

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<v Speaker 2>line with other counties if you think that that would

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<v Speaker 2>be a good idea. So I want to come here

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<v Speaker 2>and talk about voting for the judges. There's a whole

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<v Speaker 2>slew of them. There are a Court of Criminal Appeals,

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<v Speaker 2>Court of Civil Appeals, and then we have three Supreme

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<v Speaker 2>Court justices on the ballot. Now sixty years ago, the

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<v Speaker 2>people voted on two state questions. One was, we want

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<v Speaker 2>to continue to elect our justice's non partisan, we'll take

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<v Speaker 2>the party affiliation, we want to continue to elect them.

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<v Speaker 2>And the other one was we're going to let a

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<v Speaker 2>non elected group of people make a list of three

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<v Speaker 2>names and give it to a governor, and the governor,

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<v Speaker 2>who's elected by all the people, will choose from that list.

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<v Speaker 2>Both of these state questions got a majority of the vote,

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<v Speaker 2>and the one to continue to elect justices got the

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<v Speaker 2>most votes. But the folks who wanted to put in

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<v Speaker 2>the system where the bar Association would have undue control

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<v Speaker 2>over the process because of the composition of this unelected committee,

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<v Speaker 2>they put in language that said, even if the other

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<v Speaker 2>one gets more votes, we still win. So for sixty

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<v Speaker 2>years we've had a scheme in place that really didn't

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<v Speaker 2>reflect the will of the people at that time. But

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<v Speaker 2>they threw a bone to the people. They said, but

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to have a retention ballot, so every six

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<v Speaker 2>years you can decide whether or not to keep the

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<v Speaker 2>justices that we put in place, without your governor getting

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<v Speaker 2>to choose from anybody in the state, just getting to

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<v Speaker 2>choose from this list. But they never thought anybody would

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<v Speaker 2>ever actually act on that, because we've never unretained a justice.

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<v Speaker 2>But when we finally did shift the politics of this

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<v Speaker 2>state after one hundred years and Republicans did take control

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<v Speaker 2>of the government, which you know back and forth, that's

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<v Speaker 2>good for the republic. The last vestige of being able

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<v Speaker 2>to hold on to some of the Democrat control was

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<v Speaker 2>through the courts, and that is what we face today

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<v Speaker 2>since I was elected. Sixteen of the twenty cases that

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<v Speaker 2>have been assessed on oklajudges dot com ok l a

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<v Speaker 2>j u DGEs dot com have been decided since I

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<v Speaker 2>took office in twenty sixteen, and they are all rolling

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<v Speaker 2>back what the majority party passed. We're the legislatures. The

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<v Speaker 2>governor signs the stuff that we or doesn't signs the

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<v Speaker 2>stuff that we pass. But in the constitution we do

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<v Speaker 2>the policy. That's the role of the legislature. And when

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<v Speaker 2>they haven't been comfortable with what we've done, they've gone

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<v Speaker 2>to the courts. And we have Supreme Court justices who

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<v Speaker 2>are willing to say, well, we'll just be legislators with

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<v Speaker 2>black robes. We'll find a way to get the result

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<v Speaker 2>we want because we don't like the policy, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is what has happened over and over again, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is why I'm recommending that we vote no on these

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<v Speaker 2>three justices and show for the first time in sixty

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<v Speaker 2>years that the voters are paying attention. If you vote

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<v Speaker 2>for a certain party in hopes that they can put

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<v Speaker 2>their policies in place, then you should also want a judicial,

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<v Speaker 2>a judiciary that also stays in their lane. So you

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<v Speaker 2>can vote for a particular person for Senate or House

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<v Speaker 2>or governor.

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<v Speaker 3>But if what they do is then undone.

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<v Speaker 2>By justices who are, in my view, abusing their power,

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<v Speaker 2>then you don't make any progress. So one of the

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<v Speaker 2>examples I'll give, we passed lawsuit reform in two thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and nine. It was a huge fight and it was

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<v Speaker 2>a giant bill. We really rewrote the civil code for lawsuits.

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<v Speaker 2>And the Supreme Court it was in place for about

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<v Speaker 2>four years. They picked around at it, picked out around,

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<v Speaker 2>and finally the Supreme Court throughout the whole thing, saying

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<v Speaker 2>it was law, ruling that we had put too many

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<v Speaker 2>measures together in one package, and therefore because it violated

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<v Speaker 2>the single subject rule of our Constitution, they threw the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing out. Not it been in place for four years,

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<v Speaker 2>but they wanted it to go away because it did

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<v Speaker 2>make us more competitive with other states. Texas had done

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<v Speaker 2>this years before, and so my point is that was

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<v Speaker 2>not their role because in previous legislatures when the Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>were in charge, they completely rewrote the criminal Code, completely

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<v Speaker 2>rewrote it. They didn't throw that out as violating the

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<v Speaker 2>single subject law. It had many more sections than the

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<v Speaker 2>lawsuit reform had, but they didn't like the lawsuit reform,

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<v Speaker 2>and so.

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<v Speaker 3>They found a way to throw it out.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm appealing to people to think about today

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<v Speaker 2>is to put them on notice that the voters are

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<v Speaker 2>paying attention and that they truly should operate and determine

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<v Speaker 2>what the law is and not what they wanted to be.

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<v Speaker 2>They shouldn't be finding ambiguity where none exists. For instance,

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<v Speaker 2>they took a law that had been on the books

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<v Speaker 2>for decades that says you only get treble damages in

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<v Speaker 2>a car accident when there's no injury, where just the

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<v Speaker 2>car is damaged and you left the scene, we'll charge

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<v Speaker 2>you three times. Let's say you did one thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 2>worth of damage to somebody's car and you left the scene,

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<v Speaker 2>not knowing whether or not somebody had been injured or not,

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<v Speaker 2>you're going to pay three thousand dollars they could do that. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>trial lawyer came along and said, we think that ought

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<v Speaker 2>to apply when there are injuries too, But that's not

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<v Speaker 2>the way the law was written and had been on

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<v Speaker 2>the books for years. So they tied themselves in knots

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<v Speaker 2>and they actually looked at the way the law was

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<v Speaker 2>on the page and say, well, back in the eighties

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<v Speaker 2>they had this section on page two, and now they've

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<v Speaker 2>moved it to page three, and they've redone the sections.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't think they really intended only to be only.

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<v Speaker 2>They literally re wrote the law to get the result

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<v Speaker 2>they wanted. So this is what we're urging the people

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<v Speaker 2>to consider when they go to vote. It's happened over

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<v Speaker 2>and over again, and I would like us to show

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<v Speaker 2>that in the future the appellate justices do need to

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<v Speaker 2>be aware that the folks are paying attention. And so

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<v Speaker 2>that's why I'm well, I've already voted, because I voted

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<v Speaker 2>on Thursday. It's a big issue. It's a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>difficult to understand. We've asked for years for information on

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<v Speaker 2>judges and now the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs, which

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<v Speaker 2>is our conservative thing tank in Oklahoma.

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<v Speaker 3>They've done this assessment.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually worked on picking some of the cases that

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<v Speaker 2>they should look at. And when you go to Oakland

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<v Speaker 2>Judges dot com this morning, before you go to the polls,

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<v Speaker 2>call it up. Look at the three justices on the ballot.

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<v Speaker 2>There's campaign material that says they're liberal.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah they are.

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<v Speaker 2>And the anti people say they're protecting the state from

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<v Speaker 2>the extremists they mean conservatives because they don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>say the word conservative because a lot of us are conservatives,

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<v Speaker 2>so they say the word extremists. We stopped the extremists,

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<v Speaker 2>and the no side is calling them liberal and they're

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<v Speaker 2>liberal and their decisions because they're jumping outside of their lane.

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<v Speaker 2>But you can go to Oakland Judges dot com and

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<v Speaker 2>read about it make.

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<v Speaker 3>Up your own mind.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it would truly send a signal to the

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<v Speaker 2>justices that you should look very carefully before you simply

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<v Speaker 2>undo what the elected representatives of the people put in place.

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<v Speaker 2>Do we have one more minute? Okay, here's another one.

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<v Speaker 2>We changed the dui loss and we changed them so

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<v Speaker 2>that there weren't as many roles for the trial lawyers.

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<v Speaker 2>There weren't as many ways for them to sue. They

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<v Speaker 2>got all upset about this because this is the way

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<v Speaker 2>some of them make their money. They sued. None of

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<v Speaker 2>them had been charged with dui. They weren't the defendants.

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<v Speaker 2>They sued, saying it was unconstitutional because it would affect

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<v Speaker 2>their pocketbook. They wouldn't have as many d UI clients

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<v Speaker 2>in court. And our Supreme Court said, that's enough standing,

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<v Speaker 2>that's enough, that's enough injury to.

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<v Speaker 3>You to throw this dui lag. Yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>So, I mean we get creative when we want a

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<v Speaker 2>certain result, we get creative, and that, sadly is what

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<v Speaker 2>they have done over the years. Because nobody is holding

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<v Speaker 2>them to account today, I hope that we hold them

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Senator Daniels, thanks for being here with IS

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<v Speaker 1>today in the Congratulations on your victory.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you for great