1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,479 your support. Let's talk about the election. It's coming up 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:38,840 in about three weeks. It's only the Charlotte City Council election. Well, 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,840 it's the primary, but it's kind of the election because 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,840 we are a Democrat controlled city and so whoever wins 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,799 the Democrat primary is going to be the winner in 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,640 the general election in November. So the Charlotte primary is 15 00:00:55,679 --> 00:01:00,399 September ninth. Okay, I will tell you that I have 16 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:03,479 a Charlotte address. I do not actually live inside Charlotte 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,079 City limits. Funny story. In fact, let me tell it. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,519 I wasn't gonna tell I'm gonna tell it. I'm gonna 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,359 tell this story because I'm sure there are other parts 20 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,359 of Mecklenburg County and maybe even some other parts around 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:23,120 the state that are suffering under this same unintended consequence. 22 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,920 So you got to go back to prior to twenty ten, 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,239 when the state was controlled by Democrats, which it had 24 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,719 been for like a century and a half since they 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,680 engaged in a violent coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, the 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,719 rise of the Klan and the Red Shirts and all 27 00:01:43,719 --> 00:01:50,280 of that. So they ran this state with a Democrat machine. 28 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,560 So that meant they controlled the General Assembly, and they 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:01,760 controlled the rules that the cities could grow under. And 30 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,680 they did a thing called involuntary annexation, which was the 31 00:02:08,719 --> 00:02:11,800 city wanting to grow, and they would run some water 32 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:14,280 and sewer lines out to your neighborhood or something, and 33 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,039 then they would say, now we're going to annxu in. 34 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:18,199 We're like, well, wait, we didn't want to be annexed in, 35 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,360 or even better, they wouldn't even run the stuff out 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,879 to you yet. They would just say we're going to 37 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,479 annexu and then we'll get around to giving you the service. 38 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:29,240 But even if the residents in the county did not 39 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:31,759 want to be part of the city of Charlotte, it 40 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:39,800 didn't matter. It was involuntary annexation. So this problem grew 41 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:45,240 and grew, especially after cities were given the power called 42 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:53,599 ETJ extra territorial jurisdiction ETJ. And what this meant was 43 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,000 that the city knew it was going to gobble you 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,360 up at some point. And in Becklelberg County, for example, 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,439 the city was growing so fast they were annexing everything 46 00:03:03,719 --> 00:03:06,520 in the site. And so they were like, look, we're 47 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,439 going to annex you in at some point anyway, so 48 00:03:10,479 --> 00:03:12,719 why don't we just go ahead and make you abide 49 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:16,800 by our zoning laws. So this way, when we do 50 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:21,240 gobble you up, you'll be in compliance with our zoning laws. 51 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,680 And the areas that are outside the city limits in 52 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:32,759 the unincorporated area, those are called the ETJ. So Charlotte 53 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,439 has an ETJ, and Charlotte got together with all of 54 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:38,000 the small towns quote unquote, and they all carved up 55 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,919 their own etjs. So all of Mecklinberg County will eventually 56 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,280 be annexed into the seven cities in Mecklinberg County. That 57 00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:50,719 was the idea. And so when now you've got the 58 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:56,520 city of Charlotte making zoning decisions for county residents, and 59 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:02,360 there's a problem here because the county resident cannot vote 60 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:07,759 in the Charlotte City council races. So you have people 61 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,919 that are not my representative. In my case, it's the 62 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,199 federally indicted Tijuana Brown. She does not represent me. I 63 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:19,399 cannot vote for her or against her. I would not 64 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,920 vote for her, but like, I like that's but she 65 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,120 gets to make decisions and be sort of the de 66 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,120 facto council representative even though nobody can vote in the 67 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,279 city council races. So they make all of these all 68 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:37,319 of these zoning decisions at the city level, and I 69 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:43,199 can't vote in those races. Why not? Well, when the 70 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,120 Republicans finally wrestle control away from the Democrats in twenty ten, 71 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,279 one of the very first things they did was to 72 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:58,279 ban involuntary annexations. So now if the city wants to grow, 73 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:00,759 you have to get a major already of the people 74 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,680 living in the area to vote to become annexed into 75 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:07,920 the city. So it's very difficult now because most people 76 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:09,720 do not want to go into the city and pay 77 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,160 higher taxes. Right, So that's where things have been now 78 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:18,839 since twenty ten. Well, the neighborhood I live in was 79 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,120 rezoned in two thousand and five and they're still not 80 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:27,439 done building it. It's been like twenty years, and so 81 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,519 you had a rezoning that was done. Oh and I 82 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:33,240 also found out that the city doesn't keep the original 83 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,879 site plans after like six years or so. It's apparently 84 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,079 it's a state law. So we can't even get original 85 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:40,560 site plans for our original neighborhood to find out what 86 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:47,120 the builder was supposed to build. So when involuntary annexations 87 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,639 go away, now you have these areas that are in 88 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:58,800 a permanent state of etj constantly and forever ruled by 89 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,480 city councils zoning edicts and permits and the like, yet 90 00:06:05,519 --> 00:06:11,079 no ability to seek redress from an elected representative. I mean, 91 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,160 I can go to Vill Malik and ask her to 92 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:15,160 throw some weight around or something, but she's not on 93 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:18,279 city council. She's a county commissioner. And I don't think 94 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,040 I would actually go to Vill Malik, but you know, 95 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,720 maybe I've heard she's good with certain constituent services. So like, 96 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:28,639 this is a this is a problem, and we're not 97 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,800 the only neighborhood. And by the way, like our development's 98 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,680 got like over a thousand homes, it's a pretty big 99 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,879 areas that cannot be annexed in because here's the other kicker. 100 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,600 We're not contiguous, we're not adjacent to city limits. We're 101 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,800 too far away, so they can't. They can't annex us 102 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:53,839 in even if we wanted to, even if we voted to. So, yeah, 103 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,600 it's a problem. I might be a little salty about 104 00:06:56,639 --> 00:06:58,959 it at this point. Yes, well, you should have looked 105 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,839 at that before you bought your house. Yeah, now, but 106 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,560 I did not look at it. I did not check 107 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,000 to see if I was in the ETG. I saw 108 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:10,720 Charlotte address, just assumed that we had been gobbled up 109 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,959 already by the city. And then it turned out, oh no, 110 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,839 we're not because we had a Charlotte address. So I 111 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:20,600 won't get to vote in this election. But you can 112 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,720 if you are a registered Democrat. I believe if you 113 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:29,360 are unaffiliated, you too can vote in the Democrat primary. 114 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:32,959 So you can vote if you are inside city limits 115 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:36,439 and you are not part of this ETJ okay, So 116 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,759 if you're actually in the city district or a city district, 117 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:44,399 you can vote in this election. And the primary election 118 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:50,519 is September ninth. You got several mayoral candidates. Obviously, the 119 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,439 incumbent Vy Lyles. She's running for reelection. She is being 120 00:07:55,519 --> 00:08:00,920 challenged in the Democrat primary by Delta Kenny Gwynn the 121 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:11,040 third Jaron Gemini Boyd and Brendan McGinnis and Tigris Sidney 122 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:21,639 Acute McDaniel. I'm just reading the name Tigris Sidney acute McDaniel, 123 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:27,600 or maybe it's acutee. I don't know. I'm thinking VI's 124 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:32,679 got that, thinking she's pretty sure she's gonna win that, 125 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,679 but who knows. You never know. So then you've got 126 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,799 the at large seats. There are four at large seats 127 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,320 and the top four don't you say vote getters, that 128 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:51,879 is a banned word here, The top four, that's right, votainers. 129 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,559 The top four votainers they go on to the general 130 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,000 election from each of the party primaries. Now, the Republicans, 131 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:02,759 at least they're fielding a couple this time around. In 132 00:09:02,879 --> 00:09:04,960 years past they haven't even been able to field a 133 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:08,000 single candidate for the at large seats. I mean, not 134 00:09:08,039 --> 00:09:11,399 that they're going to win one, but they at least 135 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:16,440 they've got two. They've got Missoon Kim and Edwin Peacock. 136 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,399 So they are running for the at large seats. They 137 00:09:19,399 --> 00:09:21,159 will not have a primary, there's only two of them. 138 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:23,480 Top four votainers go to the general, so they were 139 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,600 already into the general. Congratulations. By the way. Over on 140 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:31,840 the Democrat side, you got ten. There are ten running 141 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:36,399 for the four seats dimple Edjmeira incumbent, James smug g 142 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:42,480 Mitchell incumbent, Lwana Mayfield incumbent, Victoria Watlington incumbent. They've got 143 00:09:42,519 --> 00:09:48,039 six challengers Matt Britt, Roderick Davis, will Holly, J. G. Lockhart, 144 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:54,919 Emerson Stolt, and Namrata yadav Okay. So top four votainers 145 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:57,039 from there will go to the general. 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See, because our neighborhood built to the 174 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,840 city code, which we had to by law, you see, 175 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:36,279 because we were under their ETJ, so we had to 176 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:39,799 build the roads based on the city codes. And the 177 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:43,279 city code says you have to plant trees between the sidewalks. 178 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,279 You have to have sidewalks too, between the sidewalk and 179 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:48,799 the road, so you got to plant all these trees. Well, 180 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,080 then the law changed and now we're not going to 181 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,480 get annexed into the city. So that means who takes 182 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:57,879 our roads? Well, we're going to have to maybe turn 183 00:11:57,919 --> 00:12:03,279 them over to the NCDT. Well, the NCDOT has you 184 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:12,080 guessed it different standards and they don't allow trees. Oh 185 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,399 and we're under the city tree law, so we can't. 186 00:12:15,879 --> 00:12:19,720 We can't chop them down either. So yeah, thanks a lot, guys, 187 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:24,559 appreciate that. It's been fantastic. Anyway, I got another message 188 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,360 here from Russ fun annexation story. One of the things 189 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,279 we liked about our first house was it wasn't in 190 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,440 the city. We were on city water and sewer, but 191 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,519 private trash pickup. After fourteen months we got annexed. The 192 00:12:38,519 --> 00:12:42,600 only thing we gained was city trash service. And well 193 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:46,639 you also got police service, but you're paying for that separately. 194 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:50,279 In these they set up in the county, in the 195 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,200 ETJ and in the county like you were paying for 196 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,720 the police service. So it shouldn't have been an additional cost. 197 00:12:56,759 --> 00:12:59,320 But right now you're in Yeah, the only main thing 198 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,519 is you get the roadtenans and you get trash collection 199 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:04,159 with the bulky item pickup, which is helpful because a 200 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,759 lot of your private contractors won't pick up large items 201 00:13:06,799 --> 00:13:10,879 like that. So we were on city water and sewer. 202 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:16,000 Private trash pickup got annexed, and all we gained was 203 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:19,840 city trash service. For an additional eight hundred dollars a 204 00:13:19,919 --> 00:13:22,200 year in property taxes. We were able to replace our 205 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:27,120 thirty dollars per quarter private service that would actually roll 206 00:13:27,159 --> 00:13:30,759 the can to the curb and put it back for us. Well, Russ, 207 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:33,240 I think you're overlooking the fact that you also get 208 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:39,519 to pay higher sales taxes, right, and you get to 209 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:43,080 help support all of the big shiny projects in uptown. 210 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,519 I mean, come on, can you really put a price 211 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,720 on that? Yes, actually you can. It's the eight hundred 212 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,000 dollars extra in Yeah, city property taxes you were paying. 213 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:57,960 So yeah, So the city council primary election. By the way, 214 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,919 this is weird the way Charlotte does its elections. And 215 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,919 I'm not look, I'm not going to make any accusations 216 00:14:05,919 --> 00:14:09,399 as to why you would construct a primary to be 217 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,919 held on September ninth, when there's nobody else holding elections, 218 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:18,879 Like I would never say that. The reason you would 219 00:14:18,919 --> 00:14:21,559 do that is because you're you're wanting there to be 220 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,399 low voter turnout, because voter turnout is lower in any 221 00:14:27,559 --> 00:14:33,600 non presidential or federal election cycle like the even numbered years. 222 00:14:34,159 --> 00:14:39,960 You have your state legislative races, governors races every four years, right, 223 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,840 you have your judicial races. All that happens every two 224 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:48,159 or four years on the even numbered years. You have 225 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,159 the presidential race, US Senate Congress, you have federal races, right, 226 00:14:53,399 --> 00:14:57,639 But the municipals they run in the odd years, which 227 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,600 keeps the turnout very low. And then they'll say, well, 228 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,600 that's because we don't want to have to compete with 229 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,320 all of the money that is used for political advertising 230 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,399 in the even numbered years. It's just so hard to 231 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,879 get our message out, right, so they hold them in 232 00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:19,720 the off year, the odd years. I don't know why 233 00:15:19,759 --> 00:15:24,000 you do a September ninth primary, because now you're lowering 234 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:29,799 the turnout number even lower, right than you would get 235 00:15:29,799 --> 00:15:34,200 in a general November off your election too. And what 236 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,360 happens the practical impact of that is that you end 237 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,120 up with political parties putting forth candidates that get more 238 00:15:42,159 --> 00:15:47,480 and more extreme because they are speaking to the most 239 00:15:47,559 --> 00:15:52,679 activated portions of their base right. And in the Democrat 240 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:57,159 Party that means the leftists and communists, the radicals. And 241 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,679 so as a city like Charlotte becomes more and more Democrat, 242 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:06,360 it gets pulled. The party keeps getting pulled more and 243 00:16:06,399 --> 00:16:10,759 more and more to the left. Now, is there some 244 00:16:10,799 --> 00:16:14,080 sort of a course correction that might occur in the general. Sure, 245 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,159 if you've got some Democrats that are willing to forego 246 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:22,799 the radical lefties that make it through the primaries. Look 247 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:30,559 at Zoron Mamdani, right, same dynamic, low turnout, and primary 248 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:33,080 is dictating then who's going to be in the general. 249 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,200 And then you get people that walk in and they 250 00:16:35,279 --> 00:16:37,960 just pull the lever for the guy with the D 251 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,559 next to his name. And it doesn't matter because, as 252 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:46,480 Dennis Praeger says, conservatives vote their principles, Progressives or leftists 253 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:50,879 vote their principles, but liberals do not. Liberals will vote 254 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:55,360 for the radicals over the conservatives because they are cowards. 255 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,039 They do not want to acknowledge that they actually are 256 00:16:58,039 --> 00:17:01,759 closer to the conservatives. Many of their core beliefs than 257 00:17:01,799 --> 00:17:05,839 they want to acknowledge, so they will keep going lefter 258 00:17:06,039 --> 00:17:09,279 and lefter and lefter, which is now a word. I've 259 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,000 just made it up. Here's a great idea. How about 260 00:17:12,039 --> 00:17:15,279 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 261 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:17,720 in western North Carolina. 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Email is Pete at vpteclenarshow 282 00:18:27,279 --> 00:18:30,720 dot com and I have a message in the inbox 283 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:36,079 from John. It's a Pete mail. John says elections across 284 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,440 the states should be standardized, even if it is an 285 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,480 odd year election. Every race should be partisan as well. 286 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,160 Right now, some municipality races are and others are not. 287 00:18:49,079 --> 00:18:53,079 Some school boards are and others are not. Make them 288 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,839 partisan and have a primary election if necessary instead of 289 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,640 having four or five people running for mayor what I 290 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:05,160 have found in a lot of cities like Huntersville. This 291 00:19:05,319 --> 00:19:08,160 is like the most obvious recent example and it's about 292 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,000 to happen again. There will be multiple Republicans running against 293 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,319 one Democrat, and the Democrat will win with less than 294 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:21,039 fifty percent of the vote because the Republicans split the vote. Right, 295 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,640 That's how the Huntersville mayor right now has her job 296 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,680 as mayor. What's her name, Chrissy Christy Clark, I think right, 297 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,880 she was the one that was mortified that she what 298 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,920 was it? She saw some was it Duck Dynasty merchandise 299 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,279 at Cabela's or something? What was that? Oh? No, it 300 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,200 was like a Second Amendment something. It was like coozies. 301 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:47,839 Remember she saw some coozies in like a Dick's Sporting 302 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:52,880 Goods or one of the outdoor stores or something Bass 303 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,960 maybe it was Bass pro Shop. And she posted up 304 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,720 on Twitter is like, I'm offended. I can't believe a 305 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,799 I have to see a koozi with some Second Amendment 306 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:07,880 message or something on it. And they caved to her. 307 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,799 She was a state lawmaker. Former state lawmaker got drawn 308 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:12,680 out of her seat, so she ran for mayor. And 309 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,400 the only reason she won was because memory serves correctly, 310 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,400 is because there were multiple Republicans running for the seat 311 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:25,279 in Huntersville, which generally I think elects Republicans. So and 312 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:27,720 the same thing was going to happen this time because 313 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,119 one of the guys who ran and lost last time. Oh, 314 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,079 it was a Harris Teeter, thank you. It was a 315 00:20:33,079 --> 00:20:38,519 Harris Teeter. Thank you, Bernie. Yeah, so Harris Teeter caved 316 00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:42,200 on that. And so last time, I think there was 317 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,720 a guy he ran for mayor and he lost, and 318 00:20:44,759 --> 00:20:47,960 so now he threw his name in the ring again 319 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,400 this time around after another Republican I think a town 320 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:58,920 board member or something. I forget. Brett Jensen had the 321 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,480 story a couple of weeks ago go and yeah, like, 322 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,039 that's the way you split your vote, and then you 323 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,880 allow the opponent to get more votes than your two splits, 324 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:13,559 and now they're in the office, even though they didn't 325 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:18,640 even clear fifty percent. So yeah, there is some merit 326 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:25,319 to this idea. In the Charlotte primary on September ninth, 327 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:29,599 you've got a bunch of district reps that are running 328 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:33,599 for reelection that some of them have challengers in the primary. 329 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,720 In their Democrat primary, they will not have challengers from 330 00:21:37,759 --> 00:21:44,160 the Republican side. In the general. District one, incumbent Dante Anderson, 331 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:53,119 she is challenged by Charlene Henderson, and there's no Republican 332 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:59,759 opponent in District three, the federally indicted Tijawana Brown. She's 333 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:03,079 got a couple of challengers montrevious King, but I thought 334 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:05,920 I saw him tweet yesterday that he was suspending his campaign, 335 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:11,079 so he may be out, but I guess his name 336 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:12,920 is still going to be on the ballot, so good 337 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,240 job there. Also though Joy Mayo, j O I Mayo, 338 00:22:19,079 --> 00:22:24,359 which is the superior condiment, by the way, or maybe 339 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:30,400 it's Jois jew maybe it's French. But also Warren Turner. 340 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,359 And I've known Warren Turner for years. He's a Democrat. 341 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:35,599 I have voted for Warren Turner when I lived in 342 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,599 his district. I voted for him in Democrat primaries. Because 343 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:41,640 I was in a Democrat district. I would as an 344 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,400 unaffiliated vote in the primary. So he's running for the 345 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:52,640 seat that he used to hold. Republican James Bowers is 346 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:54,960 running in that race, so there will be a general 347 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:59,880 election for the District three race. District four Renee Perkins Johnson. 348 00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:05,720 She has a challenger named Will Russell, not the basketball player, 349 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:13,759 that's Bill Russell, and then the winner faces no Republican competition. 350 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:16,839 The Charlotte Observer, by the way, there's a piece by 351 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:24,359 Abigail Pender and Josh Bergerson. District five, Marjorie Molina, Democrat incumbent. 352 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:31,000 She faces a challenge from Juan Diego Massoira or j D. Maswerra. 353 00:23:31,559 --> 00:23:36,039 That's an East Charlotte seat no Republican opponent in November 354 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:42,440 District six. The only Republican primary, Christa Bakari, spouse of 355 00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:44,680 Tark Bacari, who held the seat until he got the 356 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,160 appointment in the Trump administration, is running against Sorry Chakra 357 00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:54,640 or Sari Chakra and the winner will face the Democrat 358 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,279 Kimberly Owens in November. And that's going to be a 359 00:23:57,279 --> 00:24:00,559 tough seat because Democrats when they drew the district lines 360 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:08,440 after the tainted census, they attempted to redistrict Tarkbokari out 361 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,359 of a seat because those are fair maps, right, because 362 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,279 the city council, even though Republicans make up somewhere around 363 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,480 a third of the registered voters, maybe like twenty five percent, 364 00:24:20,799 --> 00:24:22,720 they're not allowed to have any seats on an eleven 365 00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:26,839 body board. That's just that's a fair map to Democrats, 366 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,519 don't you know, right, Because by the numbers like they 367 00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:36,680 can't win. Republicans cannot win in the at large races 368 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,599 because the nature of the at large structure, which it 369 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,160 penalizes minorities. That's what the at large seats do, and 370 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,039 that's why it was designed that way. By the way 371 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,279 low those many years ago, it was designed to keep 372 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,079 minorities at the time Blacks from being able to get 373 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:58,200 candidates elected. Now the minority is Republicans, so it's used 374 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:03,240 to keep Republicans off the Charlotte City Council. They cannot 375 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,599 get enough votes to clear a slate of four Democrats, 376 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,160 so you don't get any of those four seats, and 377 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,440 so then they tried to draw of the seven districts. 378 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,440 They tried to make sure that Republicans could not win 379 00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:19,519 more than one of the seven, so one member out 380 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:22,279 of eleven on the body. That's a fair map to 381 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,240 the Democrats. But talk Bakari ended up eking out a 382 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:33,119 victory last time by like a couple hundred votes, So yeah, 383 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,640 we'll see what happens there. Voters in the six small 384 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,200 towns will elect mayors on election day in addition to 385 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,319 members of the town boards. So there you go. 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The 411 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:24,160 investigation comes after a report published detailed allegations of school 412 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:31,759 staff members allegedly facilitating miners to get abortions without parental consent. 413 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:36,319 You may recall Fairfax County is where a father was 414 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,240 arrested a couple of years back, dragged out of a 415 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:45,799 school board meeting because his daughter had been sexually assaulted 416 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,559 by a boy who claimed to be a girl and 417 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,960 was given access to the female safe spaces like the 418 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,640 bathroom she was assaulted. He tried to complain about it, 419 00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:01,640 he was stonewalled. They shut it down. Parents were protesting 420 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,160 over the use of those books that were basically cartoon 421 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,240 kitty porn, and then they were targeted by the school board. 422 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,440 The school board then reached out to the Department of 423 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:17,880 Justice under Merrick Garland, and Merrick Garland and the FBI 424 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:22,359 had them labeled as domestic terrorists and stuff. That's Fairfax County. 425 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:25,240 Like this is what you get when you don't pay 426 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,119 attention to who you're electing, or you got a bunch 427 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,160 of moon bat brigade leftists that keep putting these social 428 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,480 justice warriors into office or into the school district. These 429 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:40,680 are radicals. These are radicals. Think about what if this 430 00:28:40,759 --> 00:28:45,480 story is true? Right now, these are just allegations based 431 00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:49,319 on a published report, and the governor has now responded 432 00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:53,119 to that saying the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal 433 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,799 Investigation will open a full criminal investigation into the matter. 434 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:03,279 The allegation is that the some officials at the school 435 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:08,640 system arranged for minors to get abortions without parental consent 436 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:14,880 and may have used public funds to pay for them. 437 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:20,799 They're not your kids, Like, that's what a lot of 438 00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:24,319 people that work for schools think of the parents, But 439 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:29,559 in fact that is the actual truth about the school employees. 440 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,960 They're not your kids. Look, I appreciate it, and I 441 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:35,720 understand that you're, you know, doing work to educate the 442 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,559 next generation. And do I get it. I applaud the 443 00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:43,720 fact that you're you've chosen this profession. But you get 444 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,119 a whole new crop of kids next year, and yes, 445 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,599 you can form bonds with them, and yes, teachers have 446 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,160 close you know, community bonds with families and generations of 447 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,440 kids that come through and all of that. I get 448 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,960 all of that, but they're not your kids. You don't 449 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,319 get to you don't get to kill some parents grandchild 450 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:08,880 because of your political position. You don't get to do that, 451 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,799 and you darn sure don't get to do it with 452 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,720 tax payer money. Here's the thing. How many of these miners, 453 00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:16,519 if this is true, how many of those miners may 454 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:24,440 have been victims victims of sexual assault? And by doing 455 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,359 this with them and keeping it away from the parents 456 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,640 and not reporting them, I am assuming you're not reporting this. 457 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:38,799 So how many rapists? How many abusers are free now 458 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:43,440 to reoffend because you took care of the problem for them, 459 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:46,680 because that's what you did. No, I was taking care 460 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,319 of the problem aka the baby. I was taking care 461 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:54,759 of that problem for the child, for the seventeen year old. Yeah, 462 00:30:54,759 --> 00:30:57,799 but you also you also took care of the problem 463 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,480 for the abuser. The problem with these types of laws 464 00:31:01,519 --> 00:31:06,319 is it protects abusers. If this turns out to be true, 465 00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:10,359 this is people need to go to prison. You need 466 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:13,720 to go to prison. You won't be able to get 467 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,000 your blue hair dye in prison. Well maybe you probably could. Actually, 468 00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:18,720 they probably got some way. They probably mix it up 469 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:21,559 in one of the toilets, you know, just like they 470 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,160 make the gin. I would assume, I mean, it's what 471 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,839 I've heard. I don't know. I mean, I've never drank 472 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,960 toilet bowl gin. I don't think they have bathtubs in prisons. 473 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,640 Do they have bathtubs in women's prisons? I feel like 474 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,119 that could be a security threat, you know, like you 475 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:40,400 could drown somebody in the bathtub. Also, probably much harder 476 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,160 for the upkeep, you know, because you got to scrub 477 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,319 out a bathtub and all of that. People slip and 478 00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:50,640 fall in the bathtubs and whatnot. Probably showers only. Yeah, 479 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,039 what am I even talking about? I don't know. All right, 480 00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:56,440 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 481 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,519 for listening. 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