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Speaker 1: I think they've made it clear that all the bad

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ideas come out of the labs. The labs like the

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separate country of Washington State. The latest bad idea is

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full on near happening. It's a destruction of the constitutional

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sheriff position. And it's being called the get Keith Swank Bill.

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So guess who's going to join us sheriff Keith Swank,

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one of those constitutional sheriffs after whom this bill is

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apparently named. You need to understand this is headed to you.

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They tried it in this in Idaho. They tried it

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in North Idaho, one of the most conservative parts of

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North Idaho. So no matter where you live, this is

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headed your direction courtesy of the liberal leftist lab in

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the separate country Washington State will get started with the

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help of God Almighty.

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Speaker 2: But Todd Herman show is one percent disapproved by big

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pharma technocrats in Tyron. Severan whare from the hind mountains

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of Free America. Here's the Emerald City Exci Todd to Herman.

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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these

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are the times to which God has decided we shall live.

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So good to see a friendly face from back in

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the day Keith Swanks, sheriff of Pierce County, is just

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say we go way back, Keith Sheriff, Welcome out to

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the Todd Hermit Show. It's a pleasure to have you here.

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I'm sorry it took so long.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. It's my honor to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very very much. You gave quite a statement

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in Olympia as they were examining and pretending to think

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about getting rid of the constitutional sheriff position, and you

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laid it out to them very very clearly. These people

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are not friends of the voters and they're not friends

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of America. So bring people up to date on what

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they're doing in trying to ridge Washington State of ability

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to elect their own sheriffs.

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Speaker 3: Yes. Well, this attack on the sheriff started about four

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years ago, and part of it was this bill, Senate

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Bill fifty nine to seventy four. They labeled the Qualifications

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Bill qualifications for sheriffs and police chiefs and marshals, and

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but really what it is is a way for them

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to remove sheriffs from office. Part of this bill says

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of the qualifications that you'll be reviewed by the Criminal

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Justice Training Commission. If they decertify you then you will

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be automatically removed from office, and they can decertify you

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at the Criminal Justice Training Commission, which has been weaponized

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by the Democrats against people like me. They can decertify

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you for speech. So we are in George Orwell nineteen

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eighty four with the speech stuff going on. And as

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a matter of fact, Todd, I know you know this

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and your listeners probably do also that they tried doing

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the ministry of truth here in Washington State a couple

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of years ago, where they would Attorney General's office would

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determine if you were lying and they would charge you

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with a crime because you didn't agree that men are

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men and women women.

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Speaker 1: Right right, And if you stated that men or men

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are women or women, or you disagree that so trans

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women are women, which they're not. People have no idea, Keith,

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how far down the nineteen eighty four hole they've fallen

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in the separate country of Washington State. There's a bill

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being considered along with this Constitutional Sheriff bill to attack

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and basically remove the constitutional sheriff because that's what they're

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going to do with it. They've also they've also signed

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a bill that's not signed up, but it's moving forward.

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That gives the Attorney General the right to come to

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your property, your house and say, I want to look

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at your documents. Do you have a probable cause? You

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have a warrant? No, don't need one. What am I

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being charged with? I don't know. I'm gonna look at

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your documents and I'm going to decide. I mean, that's

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people need to understand how far down your state has fallen.

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And you, guys, sheriffs, you are the last line of

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defense constitutionally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're standing in the bach. You're right, the Attorney

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General are going to give him the power to search

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your records without a warrant. Imagine that. I mean how

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serious that is. Next thing, you know, they'll just come

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into your house without a warrant. They're governing that power,

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and this really is going to be used to go

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after people. And I won't be surprised if I'm getting

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audited before too long. They're coming after me to see

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about anything I've done, my PDC filings and all of that,

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to scrutinize them to try to charge me with a crime.

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of Washington State because they're after me like that. You know,

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trying to come after me in charges. I have eight

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current investigations at the Criminal Justice Training Commission for my speech,

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for your speech, for my speech, nothing else other than

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what I've said, and they're hoping that I'll be decertified

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and removed from office. But I don't think they understand

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how the people of Pierce County are going to push

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and understand something as well about the Separate Country

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of Washington States. They made an attempt to put you

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in prison as an officeholder if you criticize the election results.

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They wanted to criminalize that. And then the guy who's

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now the governor, who was really actually a dictator as

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Insley was, he committed I think three and maybe even

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five PDC election felonies. And our friend Glenn Morgan, I'm

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sure you know Glenn. We thegovernment dot Com and Washington's

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or Citizens Alliance for Property Rights. I think one of

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the best activists there. I think the best active is

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actually conservaive activists. He got permissioned to sue Bob Ferguson

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on behalf of the Separate Country of Washington State. Literally

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as a prosecutor working for the state, he couldn't get

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a lawyer to take the case because Ferguson is so

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mobbed up and so so geared towards revenge that lawyers

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were afraid to take the case. And it was the

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Public Disclosure Commission who actually had to say, yeah, in

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all likelihood, Ferguson committed these felonies and that there's eight

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investigations on you. And I want to talk about some

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of the dynamics here. What is at risk, because it's

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not just your career. I don't think you're saying your

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career is the most important thing, but let's dig into

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this in just a second. Some things that are truly

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truly at risk. I'm near sixty guys, and I'm at

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risk as something. I found out a few years ago

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that I was pre diabetic, which is insane to me

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because I'm so mechanical about what I eat. I count

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on my macros, I work out probably more than most

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people would ever want to work out, and I learned

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about this, so I used a compound called Berberine, and

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that really just turned it around. That was fairly simple.

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But there's something lurking in the background. And this is

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what I'm using Renewed Healthcare for to understand my epigenetic aging,

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my aging arc AM I speeding downhill towards seventy, AM

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I crawling towards seventy and can I reverse that? So

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when I go down New Mexico, they'll have the results

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of these tests and then we're going to spend about

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a week down there on a Mayo clinic level analysis

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and treatment of my bodies. I don't know what they're

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going to do because they don't know what the test

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is going to show, but they're going to help reverse

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the aging process. And then there to give me three

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to five areas I'm to focus on for my health

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so I live well. I've got great mobility, great activity,

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and these will be my focus areas. For any doctors

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I work with, I will come back CEO of my health.

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You could do the same thing. Go talk to them

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about the anti aging protocol renew it's our e n

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ue dot Healthcare and see how you can reverse aging.

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Renew r e nu dot Healthcare Telling me are part

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of the Todd Herman Show Family. Sheriff Keith Swanke joins me.

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Let's for people who don't know. Talk first of all

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about Pierce County. There's there's kind of two Pierce Counties.

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There's Tacoma and then there's Pierce County, right.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, there's two Pierce Counties, just like there's two

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King counties.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: So the Pierce County Sheriff's Office police is all the

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unincorporated area of Pierce County and we also have a

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contract with Edgewood and University place. But everybody in the

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county gets to vote for the sheriff, including Tacoma, which

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has their own police department. And as you know, Tacoma

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is a lot like Seattle, so they're very far left,

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and those are the people that are coming after the

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office of sheriff right here in the county. They want

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to make the sheriff an appointed position. They want the

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executive because Democrats have control now. They wouldn't have wanted

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it when the executive was a Republican last time around.

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But they are doing that. And we're going through a

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charter review commission right now, and it's very very pertinent

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to what's going on in the state and in the county.

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Speaker 1: And Pierce County is a huge county. I mean, this

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is not a small You're a sheriff over a really

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large area of the state.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and the fifty ninth largest sheriff office in

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America of over three four hundred sheriff office. And I'm

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not trying to brag, but we're a member of the

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major county sheriffs of America, like with La County. You know,

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we are a big county. Twelve percent of the population

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of Washington almost a million people. There's a lot of

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responsibility for this ere counting, right.

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Speaker 1: And you're directed directly elected to go out and carry

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out some important tasks. This is, guys, my analysis. Why

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do they want to get rid of this. It's because

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everything has to be politicized. Everybody has to march with

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the lgb Q so called T flag. Everybody has to

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use the pronouns. Everybody has to be okay with homeless

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encampments or a sheriff. You know, Scheff Swikee knows this.

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Those homeless encampments are places for sex trafficking, human trafficking,

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for labor, fentanyl sales. Murders happen there, Rapes happen there.

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Everybody knows this. Little kids are are exploited and neglected there.

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Everybody knows this. This is not controversial, but you have

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to be okay with this. You have to be okay

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with public urination. You have to be okay with people

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vandalizing properties because they're sad or they're drug addicted. You

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have to be okay allowing cartel members to run wild.

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And Keith, you know more about this than I do

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that I think the elected sheriff position is a threat

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because it's one office that is assigned a task of

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keeping people safe, arresting criminals, investiating crime, preventing things, or

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presenting great cases of prosecutors. But you said something else.

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It's not just the pro crime pro perversion stats that

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they're pushing or positions they're pushing. It's also coming to

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get people's guns for real.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for real. They passed on unconstitutional and Second Amendment

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laws here in Washington State. So I'd been ruled I

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could ruined decision and other decisions by the US Supreme Court,

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but they don't care. They want ahead and pass it

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anyhow because they believe I will have to be challenging

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the courts. It will take years to go through the

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court system, through the Ninth Circuit Court, the hallway to

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the US Supreme Court, and in the meantime, the laws

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they passed were laws that help shut down mom and

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pop gun shops. Laws to keep people from being able

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to defend themselves. You won't be able to get a

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gun unless you go a really long waiting period. They

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say ten days, is thirty days, sometimes it's sixty days

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or more. And people can't protect themselves, and they want

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cops to enforce those laws that are unconstitutional. And the

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pier's kind of sheriff officer isn't going to enforce unconstitutional laws,

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and they hate that.

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Speaker 1: So when you tell them i am a county wide

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elected official, fifty ninth largest county in these major counties,

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I'm on a peer level with like the LA Sheriff's Department.

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You say, guys, this is against the Second Amendment. The

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Supreme Court has stood and said it's against the Second Amendment.

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I will not enforce this stuff. What do they say

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to you in the in the closed rooms and behind

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the doors rather than in public. Do you mean the tepician, Yeah,

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the politicians, the Democrats? What are the threats closed doors?

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Speaker 3: But they don't talk to me behind closed doors. They

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won't have anything thinks. They just come out and say

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that I'm a rogue sheriff, and then I'm violating the law.

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You know, Todd, do you remember this. We voted three

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times about tabs right, forty della tabs right, And so

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people are having protests, they're not buying their tabs right.

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And so now the state Democrats they want to enforce

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tabs now right and make it critinal and put people

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in jail. And I'd say the same thing that people

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have spoken three times. I'm not stopping my deputies from

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doing it, but I'm encouraging them to not give tickets

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to people. And I say this is civil disobedience, and

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I stand by it. Right, I understand that we've voted

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against that. So these are the things that the Democrats

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don't want, don't like, and they need to have the

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control over me, and that's why they're passing legislation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And so for people who don't live in the state,

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you might call these in Washington State licensed tabs. So

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this is the fee you pay to have license plates

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and you put a sticker on them. They're called other

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things in different states. And the history here is three

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separate times Washington State residents said we want our tabs

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stopped at thirty bucks. We want a ceiling on this.

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The last time mutual friend of ours, Tim Iman, help

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get this pass. This went to the supreme courts. I

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mean it wasn't close, Keith. As I recall, it was

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like eighty percent of people voted for this, even in

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with Seattle and everything there, and it went to the

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Supreme court. Supreme Court overruled this vote of the people

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and said that people were confused, they didn't know. And

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they also said that this would affect city budgets, therefore

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it can't be used. Right, Well, everything affects a budget,

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so they took this away. So when you're talking about

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civil disobedience, your position is you're telling your deputies. Hey,

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I'm not telling you to not write tickets, to not

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do stops. You can do that. I'm asking you to

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consider viewing this as civil disobedience. And you know how

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many of your deputies, what percentage of your deputies are

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doing that?

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Speaker 3: You think, well, I'm not known for sure, but I

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have citizens coming to me and saying I was stopped

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for you know, speeding or whatever, and my tabs our

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expired or registration has expired on my vehicle, and your

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deputy didn't give me a ticket. And I say, well,

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that's great. I appreciate that. I want them to have

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discussion like that right to We're here to protect the

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rights of the people. The people voted for that right.

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So I want to support the people of Pierce County

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and their rights, and I want to stand up for

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them and say, the people have spoken, and we need

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to listen to what they say.

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Speaker 1: Keith. When I was living there, I had a phone

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conversation with a woman who'd sent me videos and pictures

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of property. She lives in rural Person County, and she

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had I delineate the difference between people who are homeless

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for a while and or like that phrase, Okay, experiencing

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homelessness fair enough. I experienced that. I couchsurfed, I slept

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in my car. I wasn't homeless, I was experiencing it.

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It was a week. I hated it, and I went

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and got home and worked and got an apartment. There

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are people who go through that. Then there are people

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who become street people, and Keith, they like this way

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of living. And in Seattle and Tacoma, you could do

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fine doing this. The drugs are free. Like you know,

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if you're not the sheriff. The cops there told to

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let this go anyway, she sent me footage of about

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fifteen people who'd moved on to her land. They built

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a structure, they stole cable TV from her, they stole

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power from her. They were living there, and her husband

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went to go try to kick them off. They came

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out with machetes and guns. And when we were talking

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about this, I said, look, I want to get some

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guys to go down and help with this. I had

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Special Forces guys who live down there call in and say, hey, Todd,

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don't we're going to work with the sheriff. You don't

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understand how dangerous these people are. And in fact, one

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of your predecessor sheriffs got in touch with me said

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don't do this. We're sending a swat team. He goes Todd,

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I would have even let my deputies go in without

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swat backup. So that's the sort of anarchy I was seeing.

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Then are you dealing with stuff like that still, where

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people go steal people's land and live on it and

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try to effectively become I don't know, part owners of it.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the issue with that. If somebody lives on

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your property and they said up a structure like that,

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you have to actually by the law, go through the

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court system and have them evicted off your land. That's

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that's what's going on. That's how bad it's gotten here.

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And if you let somebody stay with you because they're

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down and out and unlucky, lost their job or whatever,

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you have to be careful. If when you say okay, Keith,

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is time to go, and I say I'm not leaving,

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you can't throw me out of your property and I

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have to stay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you can take a year. Well, people

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are cooking meth a year or two years cooking meth

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and exploiting kids on your property. And you know, if

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they cause a fire and it burned down to other

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people's houses, their insurance companies are coming at you.

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Speaker 3: Even worse than that. If they make the soil bad

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there and the EPA is called, you have to pay

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for it to get it cleaned up for real, for real.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me about and talk to others, because I've

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been in them, I've seen them, these camps that exist.

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You are being told, I'm sure you're not going to

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sweep homeless camps. Your deputies are not going to get

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people out of these dangerous situations with kids, etc. Talk

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about what you've seen and your deputies have seen within

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these they call them encampments. They're just anarchy zones. Like,

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what are some of the things that go on there

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that I'm sure you're being told to ignore?

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Speaker 3: Well, people can tell me to ignore it, but we're

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not ignoring it. We're cleaning them up. I'm the sheriff.

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That's the reason why the sheriff needs to be stayed

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independently elected. If I was appointed by the executive and

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the council, they would tell me to leave alone and

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I'd have to do their bidding if I wanted to

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keep my job right. That's why it's so important to

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keep the sheriff elected. But I have a team, a

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sergeant and several deputies that go around to these homeless encampments. Now, listen,

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we don't just throw people out. We try to get

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them help. But as you know and your listeners know,

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most people who are homeless have a drug or alcohol

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addiction and or mental health issues brought on by one

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or the other. Right, they either had mental health and

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they drug for it or whatever. But anyhow, we are

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very compassionate. We try to get them help. But I

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being a cop for thirty four years, plus understand that

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you can't just put somebody in a house or give

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them a garden shed to live in and think it's okay.

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We have to get them in treatment. And that's where

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the rub is there is because I believe in treatment first,

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or treatment in housing whenever. The people who are against

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me believe in housing first. They want to have what

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they call wet houses like in Seattle, where you can

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still drink and drug and that is not a way

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to do it. To help beat these people out.

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Speaker 1: And in these camps, to these homeless encampments, your deputies

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have to be completely alert at all times because what

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do you find in these camps.

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Speaker 3: Well, you find all kinds of weapons. You find where

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they're making drugs, so you have those precursor chemicals that

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are deadly. You have people that are wanted for serious crimes,

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like you said, human trafficking going on in there. All that.

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We are saving lives all the time going in there,

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and it is a very dangerous situation. And we have

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to have specially trained deputies that go in there that

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know what to do with this encampment after we remove

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the people, especially with all the disease and disasters griding

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them with it.

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Speaker 1: So if the elected sheriff position is killed by the Democrats,

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or they succeed in using the get casewank bill to

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decertify you, even as a cop, with all these years

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of decades of experience as a cop, they decertify you,

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they appoint someone to replace you. Now, these camps are

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going to be just like it is in Seattle. Everybody

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knows their hands off. Everybody knows this is a city,

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and they take ballots out there and drop them off.

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And they actually let these people make so called campaign

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donations in Seattle, truly with tax dollars. They get vouchers

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to make donations that it's actually your money, but they're

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the ones quote making the donations. People who don't live out,

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people who live outside the state have no idea how

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bad that is. But that would be one of the results,

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right that you wouldn't be able to go any longer

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to these.

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Speaker 3: Camps, right, yeah, and it would. I mean in Tacoma,

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they have all these encampments around, they don't do anything

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with them. And that's and if you go through Tacoma

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now you'll see graffiti everywhere, trash everywhere. This you know,

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and it's coming out into the unincorporated areas of Pierce

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kind the place that we please and and you know,

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graffiti and trend litter, and that's all quality of life stuff,

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todd where if you don't let your keep your communities clean,

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anything is going to happen. Is more crimes coming in

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the area. I mean, I have it going on it

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right in the neighborhood I live in, which is a

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nice neighborhood. And we'll push you back against that and

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trying to make our society sybyl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to talk as well now into

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the areas around cartels and human trafficking and drugs, because

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I'm sure that you're willing to interact with ICE to

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help federal agents do their job. But this is be

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I think one of the things that would be at

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risk here. So we'll continue to talk with Caro Chef

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Truck twenty six Dash four seven Keith swankes with us

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so Scheff. You also live in a state that was

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one of the very first official sanctuary states. It was

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in King County where a very corrupt prosecutor of Dan Saderberg,

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who are called Heroin Dan Saderberg, a name he earned

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by the way he made it known he would not

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prosecute illegal immigrants for drunk driving. He let them go

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because they can end up in jail or prison and

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ICE DHS could come and get them. That stands now

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with the current process that's not changed. Are you interacting

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with ICE and helping them go meet and find criminal

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legal immigrants and are you under pressure to stop doing that?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not working with ICE because the Attorney General,

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the bully that he is, his name is Nick Brown.

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He has said that they will go after my deputies

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individually civilly sue them. So here's the risk them losing

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their jobs or their livelihood be ensued personally, and the

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prosecuting attorney will say that's the law, and they won't

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defend these deputies. And the pressure to put on them

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to do that, I just can't do it. So we

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are not doing anything with ice at all because of

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these risks. Now, if I could take all the risk

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on myself and they could only come after me, my

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wife and I have discussed it. Missus sheriff is full

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on board. This is a big job that we're doing here,

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Steve our County, and we would do that. And We've

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already risked a lot of things being here. It's hurt

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my wife's business, it's you know, all this stuff. And

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I'm not doing this for the money. I was already retired.

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I only make a thousand dollars more take home pay

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than whenever I retired, So this job does not pay

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enough for that. But that's not what I'm here for

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or my wife. We're in this committment. But anyhow, if

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they could just come after us, then that would be fine.

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But they come after the men and women of the

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Sheriff's office, they'll all leave, right. How can I recruit people?

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And I can't blame them for it. It's already bad

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enough trying to get them a good, fair salary for them,

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a fair compensation package. So no, I don't work with them.

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Because of the threat that the bully Nick Browns did

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towards my deputies. So and I'm you know, I'm pushing

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back and fighting against it most I can. I tell

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people that I want to work with ice, We're just

476
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not going to do that because of the risk for

477
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them for my deputies.

478
00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:50,839
Speaker 1: Are the cartels operating up there and happily so.

479
00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:56,559
Speaker 3: They are operating up here. But you know, I don't

480
00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:58,240
want to give you all the details, but we have

481
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people who are working and we're fighting against and how

482
00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:01,720
about that. And they hadn't been doing that in first

483
00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:04,000
kindt of sheriff's office for a long time. We're bringing

484
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,599
that back and we're going after them. I want to

485
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,359
let your people know this too, that even though I

486
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:16,200
got all these people against me, you know, politically, we're

487
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,160
saving lives. We're going in these massage parlors that are

488
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,640
all over the county and you know what that is,

489
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,079
human trafficking there, right, sexual and everything like that. And

490
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,480
we're going in there and we're saving lives. And there'll

491
00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:29,119
be some more and I'm going to tell you all

492
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:30,759
about it. There'll be some work coming out about it

493
00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:32,599
later on, and I hope you all pay attention to

494
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,480
it and see what an independently elected sheriff can do.

495
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,119
And why it's so important to keep us independently elected

496
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,119
because the politicians will say, don't get involved in that.

497
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,519
We don't want you doing that, and I can tell them, no,

498
00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:48,480
I'm going to do that, and I'm independent.

499
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: Are you able to be independent in regard to the

500
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,359
insane laws that allow men to go harass Let's say

501
00:25:56,039 --> 00:25:59,319
women who run bikini waxing salons where men are going

502
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,079
to these salons and tell these women you have to

503
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,319
handle my testicles because those are lady testicles and men

504
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,920
going into they do this stuff. Keith, you know the show?

505
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,640
Are you able to be independent and go in and

506
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,279
say to those men, know you're not going to force

507
00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:15,960
these ladies to handle your genitalia.

508
00:26:16,519 --> 00:26:19,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they were to college brought to our attention,

509
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,519
we're going to go in there and rescue them too

510
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,640
from that sex crime. I mean, you know this is

511
00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:27,359
out of hand. I don't know if you heard about

512
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,519
the the wrestler from the local high school here and

513
00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:33,599
what happened to her. That's the high school that my

514
00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,400
children graduated from. All three of my children graduated from

515
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,759
that high school, and to have this going on there

516
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,160
is unacceptable. We took the report on it, and we're

517
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,519
going to follow through with that and make sure that

518
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,359
charges are filed as they should be.

519
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: Okay, And so this is the case of a male

520
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,319
wrestler from Rogers and I wasn't clear if that was

521
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,319
Rogers and Spokane because they know there's another Rogers High school.

522
00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,480
But this was at a state I think quarterfinal qualifying

523
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,079
final for the state finals, a new wrestler, and the

524
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,319
allegation is and if you watch the video, it's pretty

525
00:27:05,319 --> 00:27:10,359
clear to me this happened that this boy digitally raped

526
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,599
this girl using his fingers. And so you are pursuing charges.

527
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 3: There, Yes, we are. We know we didn't Some people say,

528
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,759
why didn't you act sooner? Well, we didn't hear about it, right,

529
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,279
so after the fact time had passed and then we

530
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:25,319
found out about it. But as soon as the Sheriff's

531
00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:30,160
office found out about it, we immediately stepped in and

532
00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:33,759
started investigating this crime. And and we're going to go

533
00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:37,799
through and present a good case the prosecuting attorney's office

534
00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:41,880
and have them file charges. If they don't, you'll hear

535
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,759
about me on the news talking about it, though, right,

536
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:45,359
we're not.

537
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,519
Speaker 1: You're not sheriff shy man, that's for sure. So let

538
00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:51,319
me ask you this question. This is I have a

539
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:53,440
friend of mine I called Kevin the Cop, and I

540
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,960
would be surprised if you haven't interacted with him. He's

541
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,200
a patrolled deputy in one of the jurisdictions up there.

542
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,680
Fantastic cop, really unbelievably good man. I got to know

543
00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:10,319
him when I lived around his jurisdiction. He identified for

544
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,200
me some of the houses that are He showed me

545
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:18,160
the hun During cartel house. Everybody knew this. He showed

546
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,119
me a Mexican cartel. He talked to me about where

547
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,319
the Russian cartel houses were located. He said, we all

548
00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:25,559
know this, all the cops know this stuff. This stuff

549
00:28:25,599 --> 00:28:30,079
is free to operate. He educated me about the fact

550
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:35,839
that the Russian Chinese un during cartels like the legalized

551
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,079
pot there because they just go rob these people, et cetera.

552
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,279
It creates this market for it. Are you under any

553
00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:46,160
pressure to ignore drug laws and to allow drug possession

554
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,200
to occur and drug dealing to occur?

555
00:28:49,799 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if I'm under any pressure, because

556
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,400
if somebody said, Tommy, I'm telling the Pound sand so

557
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,559
we're going after these drug dealers look, this is the thing.

558
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,359
There's drug addicts and there's rug dealers, right the drug

559
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,799
dealers are the people who are violent, the cartels and

560
00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:05,319
all of that, And we're going to go We're going

561
00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:08,920
after them drug addicts. We're trying to get them help.

562
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,759
So no one's going to tell us what we can

563
00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:14,440
or can't do. We're going to bring these cases forward

564
00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:17,880
and we're gonna present a good case the prosecuting Attorney's

565
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,880
office and say we need to charge these or federally

566
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:22,839
if we can. I like doing it with working with

567
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,400
our federal partners better because people actually get some time

568
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,359
then and do that. But if then, if, like I said,

569
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:31,640
if they don't hold these people accountable and they don't

570
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,079
file charges on them, then I'm going to bring it

571
00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:35,640
to the attention of the people and say this is

572
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,640
what's going on here, what do you want and have

573
00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:41,400
them blow up the phones and the emails of the

574
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,039
people and the prosecutor's office if they're not doing the

575
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:47,200
right thing. But I will say this, Chirst County Prosecuting

576
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,440
Attorney's office files and more charges does a better job

577
00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:54,319
than King County and most other counties in the future

578
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,319
sound area. So I'm pretty pleased with what they've been

579
00:29:57,359 --> 00:29:59,240
doing as far as.

580
00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: That good goods so I have I think may be

581
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,440
the toughest question for you yet. And I bring this

582
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,359
to attention in just a second. Keith Swank is with me.

583
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,720
He is the sheriff of Pierce County, Washington. He's fighting

584
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,920
a war and he's fighting on behalf of the people. Clearly,

585
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,759
you see this constitution. And my friend Tim Crookshank came

586
00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:20,480
home from war. I just saw Tim. He and I

587
00:30:20,519 --> 00:30:23,519
had lunch on Sunday, so good to see. My brother.

588
00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:26,400
Tim is also Irish and he's put together a really

589
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,559
cool blend of coffee. It's called Irish True. There's a

590
00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:31,680
Celtic cross on this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the

591
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,400
whole thing about the Celtic cross. Scary, scary, scary. It's

592
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596
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597
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605
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This blend is a limited time which is why Tim

606
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:23,359
brought some over for us. And look, I pay for

607
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,640
my coffee, but I'll admit I got a gift bag

608
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,200
of this and it weighs some twenty seven pounds and

609
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,640
happy wife, happy life. Sometimes. My wife saw that was

610
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,880
very very happy. So Keith. If they come back and

611
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:41,640
this passes and Bob Ferguson will he'll slobber all over

612
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,920
himself signing this into law. If they attempt to remove you,

613
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:51,359
and are you gonna leave or are you gonna display

614
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:54,519
your independence and make them come and get.

615
00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: You, well, I'm not leaving. I've been elected by the people.

616
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,319
I have a urn to serve. They're going to have

617
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,039
to remove me from office. Now, you know, I'm not

618
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,480
going to be I'm not condoning violence, right, I'm stoning

619
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:13,720
people to protest, and I believe there are thousands of

620
00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:18,160
people in Pierce County throughout the state of Washington. Look, Todd,

621
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,079
I've had people from Maine get a hold of me

622
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:23,759
and say I'll come out there and I'll make sure

623
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:25,599
they don't take you out of office. I have a

624
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,319
person from Australia who says, I'm going to come up there, mate.

625
00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:31,000
You know, I'm not going to let them take you

626
00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:33,640
out because of what happened here in Australia and what

627
00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:36,039
the rights that we lost in all, you know. So

628
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,559
I'm going to stand up for the right, you know.

629
00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:42,240
And maybe this is what has to happen to bring

630
00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:44,880
attention to what's going on here with the overreach of

631
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,200
the Democrat Party in Washington State. They've been in control

632
00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:49,799
for forty years. This is what they're doing. Don't get

633
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:52,319
me wrong. If Republicans were in charge for forty years,

634
00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:54,519
they'd be over reaching their stuff too, and I'd be

635
00:32:54,519 --> 00:32:57,599
standing up against them if they're passing unconstitutional laws right

636
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,480
the same way. So it's part of Sandy because they're

637
00:33:00,519 --> 00:33:02,640
in charge. But That's not the way I'm looking at it.

638
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,000
I'm looking at it as what's right and what's wrong,

639
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,279
regardless of who's the in position there. And I think,

640
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,119
I think that they're going to push this forward, try

641
00:33:13,119 --> 00:33:16,119
to remove me from office for my speech, and it

642
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,920
will be a big deal, and I want people to

643
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,920
see about it. Like I said, I don't need to

644
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,799
have this job. I was doing fine. Retired as a

645
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,799
matter of fact, Like I said, it's a financial hit

646
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,200
from me and my wife anyhow, So I'm good with

647
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,640
it whatever comes out of it. I don't want anybody

648
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,680
to get hurt. We're going to stay on our grounds

649
00:33:35,319 --> 00:33:38,039
and say this is wrong and fight back.

650
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:40,319
Speaker 1: So what kind of speech is it that they're coming

651
00:33:40,359 --> 00:33:43,160
after you for? What are the horrible, terrible things you said.

652
00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 3: Keith, Well, my speech at the state Senate mankar Gabra,

653
00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:52,279
the senator from up around the Redmond at Washington area,

654
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:57,279
she said that my speech was threatening and insubordinate to her,

655
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:58,559
And so.

656
00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:00,279
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, wait, are you a direct reports?

657
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:04,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. I'm not subordinate to her. I'm independent, right,

658
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,759
just like she can't be insubordinate of me because she's

659
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,760
independently elected but that's what they think, right, And then

660
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,800
some of the other speech I said, I said this

661
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,679
on X and it's really really bad and it's really,

662
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,400
you know, terrible. I said transgender women are men. And

663
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,440
so that speech was sent to the Criminal Justice Training

664
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,079
Commission as hate speech and they really are investigating it

665
00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:30,960
and sent me a notification, which is really funny. They

666
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,639
send me in notifications of anybody who has these complaints.

667
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,599
They send it dear Cheff Swank, the falling person has

668
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,599
a complaint, Keith Swank. You know it's funny, and what

669
00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:42,760
are you doing about it? So, yeah, it's all about

670
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,639
speech everything. There's no mouthfeasance. I'm the most open and

671
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,719
transparent shriff they've ever had. They don't like that either.

672
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,679
Prosecuting attorney tells me all the time, you speak out

673
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,400
too much. But no, I'm being open and transparent. So

674
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,320
it's all about things I've said. And so this needs

675
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,159
to come to he do people have the right to

676
00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:04,800
say what they want to say? And do elected politicians

677
00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:06,440
have the right to see what they want to say?

678
00:35:06,639 --> 00:35:09,119
They say they all do, but the sheriff doesn't. No,

679
00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:11,119
I'm fighting back against that.

680
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,199
Speaker 1: Okay, of all the things you told me, and you've

681
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:17,559
told me a lot of things. That's the most insane.

682
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,400
I mean, I was there when they started to launch.

683
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,559
It was in the Pierce County YWCA where they launched

684
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,920
the putting men into women's showers. And I was the

685
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,079
first to report that because I got a whistleblower who

686
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:35,480
was a survivor of rape who worked there. A woman

687
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:38,159
named Kayleie Thriller came to me and said, hey, you

688
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:40,039
need to know this is going on. I told her,

689
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:41,760
you need to know your careers over if you come

690
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,400
on the show, and she chose to come on the

691
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,400
show and talk about this. So that's the most insane

692
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,320
thing you are. They're trying to remove you from your

693
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:54,239
elected position overwriting the will of voters. The vast majority

694
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,519
of one million people voted for you in your counter

695
00:35:56,599 --> 00:35:59,519
of the voters that voted there. And it's because you

696
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:03,559
said men are men, because that's the truth. A transwoman

697
00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:04,039
is a man.

698
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:11,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, just that's hate speech in this to

699
00:36:11,639 --> 00:36:15,000
this woke society that we live here in the West

700
00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:18,880
side of Washington. And you know, criminal justice training commissions

701
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,480
appointed by the governor, so he's going to appoint people

702
00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:24,760
that agree with that sentiment, right. So it's going to

703
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,719
be interesting to see what happens with all of this.

704
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,519
And I'm totally prepared, Todd. I've been preparing for this

705
00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:32,519
my whole life. I've been wearing a uniform my whole

706
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:35,519
life since eighteen years old, and I've been I've been

707
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:37,400
running for office. As you knew, I ran for office

708
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,159
before and things I might not be able to win.

709
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,000
That got my name out there. And I won this

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sheriff election fair and square when the whole the whole establishment,

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including both sides, were against me. That people spoke up

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and voted for me. And I'm going to give them

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their four years that they voted.

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Speaker 1: For, Okay, and I believe that you will. And so

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for people in Washington State, they can help you all

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the see getting in touch at their electric representatives if

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it makes a difference. The woman you're mentioning there this

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second to make a difference, she's a committed partisan and

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a hack and a leftist and far far worse than that.

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How can people outside the state help you, Keith and

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support you.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me just say this. You can go for

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swankf Sheriff dot com and you can give to our campaign,

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that's the best thing to do. I'm up for reelection

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in twenty twenty eight, but in the meantime, I'm going

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to have battles to fight, probably legal battles and things

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for this office. So that would help out a lot, because,

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like I said, I took a big financial hit for

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this position. You can go there, but you know, I

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wanted to get this out and I appreciate the opportunity.

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This law I believe has already been signed by the governor,

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but if it hasn't, it'll be soon. And it takes

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effect on April thirtieth, four to thirty, so it's in

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time to affect the elections that are coming up. And

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I'm not for a up for election, but most sheriffs are.

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But on April thirtieth, and I don't have all the details,

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and I'll have it on my website, we're going to

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have an event. It's going to be called SOS and

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Save our Sheriff, because that's what this bill is about.

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And so on the day that takes effect, we're going

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to have a campaign event and I'll get more details

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together for you, and I want you all to join

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me there and show up and then show how much

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we stand up and support our elected sheriffs, and that

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will be a great thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Also, you know, I haven't been back to the separate

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country of Washington State on the West side in a

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long time. That happens to coincide with a date about

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the time that my closest male friend, who I considered

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a brother, has a medical procedure. I think this might

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be a god thing. I'm to talk to my wife,

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but it might be time for me to come visit

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and be at the save our sheriff event. Now you

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will be target number one. But I'll tell you something.

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Your so called governor, Bob Ferguson, I'm told, has a

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very special corner of hatred built up for me. So truly,

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when I go give speeches over there, this is true,

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I actually ask for polea escorts with friendly cops because

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Bob Ferguson has expressed in private that he would love

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a chance to hurt me.

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Speaker 3: So I have to have armed security now too. You know,

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people like the police chief of Seattle. He likes to

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have drivers and stuff because he thinks he's important. But

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no one cares about him, not going to harm him there,

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and we Republicans don't do that. Right, we on the right.

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I'm not on partis and I shouldn't say. But anyhow,

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I have to have that now because I have people

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from this rhetoric of people calling me an existential threat

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and whatnot. I have people saying that they want to

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eliminate me and kill me. So when I go to

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community meetings now, I have somebody watch my back to

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make sure I don't get whacked when I am there.

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So I understand it exactly what you're saying. If you

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come over here to speak, let me know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. God bless you, and may God be

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with you in your battles. And you know, he who

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dwells within us as Christians, the Holy Spirit is greater

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than he who drills without. And I would be remiss

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if I didn't point out that so much of this

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is a spiritual battle too. Keith, I mean you know that, brother,

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you know that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This is a Todd Hermit show. Please go be well,

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be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to

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walk in the light of Christ.