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 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio and 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 I Daily Show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpeatclendarshow dot com, make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,000 your support. So what else is going on up in Raleigh? Well, 10 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:37,759 a lot they are, you know, they're they're looking towards 11 00:00:37,759 --> 00:00:40,920 a three I think it's a three week break. So 12 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:45,560 it's just been a mad dash. You got legislators and 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,079 all of their aids and assistants and all the staff 14 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:53,000 just you know, working round the clock trying to get 15 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,200 all the legislation through that they can, and you know, 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,079 and all of the negotiating that that entails. And so 17 00:01:01,479 --> 00:01:03,799 there's a lot of stuff, a flurry of activity occurring, 18 00:01:04,719 --> 00:01:06,719 and so it's kind of difficult to keep track of 19 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:08,879 all the pieces of legislation. But as I said, they'll 20 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:10,799 be on vacation for three weeks and so we'll have 21 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:12,760 a lot of time to hash out all of the 22 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,920 stuff that they did do while they're gone over the 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,120 next three weeks. But here are a couple of things 24 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:24,040 that moved. This is according to Brionna Kramer's piece at 25 00:01:24,079 --> 00:01:29,280 the Carolina Journal Carolina Journal dot com. House Bill sixty 26 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:34,760 seven that passed unanimously. The bill combined healthcare provisions from 27 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:37,920 about ten different bills put it all together. The bill 28 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:44,560 tackles various healthcare issues, including updating the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, 29 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,400 preventing surgical smoke exposure for workers. I guess they're finally 30 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:51,920 going to ban smoking in the operating room, I guess, 31 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:59,200 and developing a healthcare workforce enhancement program in community colleges. 32 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:03,000 So sports fans, you may be interested in this one. 33 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:09,439 House Bill three seventy eight passed one hundred eleven to one. 34 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:16,439 This bill updates education laws, boosts protections for education savings accounts, 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,000 and also allows Name, Image and Likeness Agency contracts for 36 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,240 student athletes or the NA Image and Likeness or NIL. 37 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,960 This is the way that student athletes get to reap 38 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,280 some of the financial benefits of becoming household names because 39 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,039 they're very good at their sports right Instead of the 40 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,400 colleges controlling the NIL. This gives the athletes the individual 41 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:54,280 control to monetize their athletic abilities. And it also and 42 00:02:54,319 --> 00:02:58,360 so this would allow for agency contracts. I don't know 43 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,400 what all that means, but if it's anything like the 44 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:04,840 world I work in, I assume it would mean like 45 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:07,400 you could have an agency that signs a bunch of 46 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:12,039 the student athletes rather than just like individual attorneys. You 47 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:17,520 could have agents and stuff. You could create a boiler 48 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:23,479 plate contract essentially. And maybe this works like a school 49 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:25,319 could have an agency. I don't know, Maybe a school 50 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,360 contracts with an agency and they deal with all of 51 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,120 the NIL stuff for the students. I don't know, but 52 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:36,919 that that passed and it exempts NIL deals from public records, 53 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,599 so we will not know how much the kids are 54 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:43,879 making with their NIL deal. And it's a contract, so 55 00:03:44,319 --> 00:03:48,240 contracts are usually private as well. So but on the 56 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:50,759 other hand, I can see an argument that if it's 57 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,639 a public university, we should probably know what the terms 58 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:57,199 of the contracts are so they're not just like wasting 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:05,159 taxpayer money. So yeah, unintended consequences. As the economist Thomas 60 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:10,479 Sole said, there are no solutions. There are only trade offs. 61 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,400 Next up, House Bill five thirty seven passed one oh 62 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:17,399 eight to zero. The first part of the bill aims 63 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:25,800 to expedite death declarations for missing disaster victims. So this 64 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:30,759 enables families to legally declared loved one dead sooner if 65 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:36,560 they are declared missing after a natural disaster. The second 66 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,360 part deals with streamlining administrative processes vital records, allowing the 67 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,120 adoption of birth certificates to come back to the local 68 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:49,279 Register of deeds in order to be distributed. Next up, 69 00:04:50,879 --> 00:04:52,319 I'm just giving you a couple of the ones that 70 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,720 I think are probably the most important EMS personnel provisions. 71 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,839 This was interesting. House Bill nine seventy five also passed unanimously. 72 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,560 It would allow EMS workers to carry pepper spray on 73 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,560 duty and allow them to give emergency care to injured 74 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:16,839 police or rescue dogs without needing a veterinary license. Once again, 75 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:18,720 I'm amazed that we have to pass a law in 76 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,519 order to do this. You're an EMT, You show up 77 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,959 on a scene and there's a police canine that's injured 78 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,759 on the ground, and you want to be able to 79 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,519 try to help it, And like, it's not like there's 80 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:33,759 an emergency vet that's going to be responding with blue 81 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,560 lights or something. So, yeah, if the EMT is there 82 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,680 and you can try to help out, try to help out. 83 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:40,839 But no, no, we couldn't do that because I don't 84 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:44,959 have a veterinary license. So now they'll be able to 85 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:47,920 administer AID. Now, if it's not a police if it's 86 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,399 not a law enforcement dog, then your dog is going 87 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,199 to die. AMT won't be able to help your dog, 88 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,199 but they will be able to help a police dog. 89 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:04,040 So then there's this. A bill to expand the investigative 90 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:08,160 powers of the State Auditor is headed to the Governor's desk. 91 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:14,560 This according to wral Paul spect the Reporter, state law 92 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:19,319 already empowers the auditor to investigate state and local government agencies. 93 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,040 The House voted to approve Housepill five forty nine, which 94 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,639 allows the state auditor to investigate any entity that receives 95 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:35,199 state funding. Why would Democrats oppose this except for what 96 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:38,439 that the auditor is a Republican or maybe is it 97 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:42,759 because now some of your nonprofits quote unquote are going 98 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:44,279 to be subject to inspection. 99 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:49,519 Speaker 2: This was. 100 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,079 Speaker 1: Housepill five forty nine that that passed. Allows the auditor 101 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,600 to dig into records of state agencies and groups using 102 00:06:58,639 --> 00:07:02,800 state or federal money in order to search for fraud, waste, 103 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:07,480 or mismanagement. There's another bill known as the Dave Act. 104 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,120 And by the way, the auditor's name is Dave Bullock, 105 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:16,160 so it's like Doge, but it's Dave. It would encourage 106 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,600 Dave Bullock the auditor to suggest slashing state government jobs 107 00:07:21,079 --> 00:07:26,879 and spending, similar to the Doge efforts. Right, So I 108 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:31,279 think this is a completely valuable piece off of a legislation. 109 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,560 It's a good idea to be on the hunt for 110 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:41,759 ways to cut waste, look for spending that can be cut. Look, 111 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:45,399 if we started from a zero based budget, all of 112 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:49,439 this would be different. But they start with continuation budgets, right, 113 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:52,800 they say, what did you get last year, that's the baseline. 114 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:56,560 We continue that over to this year. And if we 115 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,879 start from zero, okay, well, now let's put stuff in 116 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:04,399 come and make your budget requests. Like I want to 117 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:07,399 see what you're spending your money on, what are your 118 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:10,600 programs and all of that. But we're not on a 119 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,759 zero based budget system. We are in a continuation budget system. 120 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:17,399 And so therefore it's helpful to have somebody dedicated or 121 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,920 an office in this case dedicated to looking for ways 122 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:29,199 to cut government spending Senate Bill four seventy four. This 123 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,959 would instruct the auditor to produce a report by the 124 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,960 end of the year identifying which state agencies and state 125 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,879 positions can be dissolved. The program would create the State 126 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,279 Division of Accountability, Value and Deficiency or DAVE. The DAVE 127 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,679 similar to the DOGE. That bill, which the Senate passed 128 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,559 back in April, just came up for a vote in 129 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,320 the House. Proposals from the DAVE Act are now incorporated 130 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,440 into another House bill, which is a smaller budget proposal 131 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,000 that seeks to fund various state operations while they hammer 132 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:05,000 out the budget, which actually passed. I think it was 133 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:07,840 like five billion dollars or something, just in the sort 134 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,480 of like an interim budget deal. So so there's that 135 00:09:12,759 --> 00:09:18,320 state auditor. Oh, also state election Board. 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Well, here, hang 163 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,120 on a second, I'll give you the actual name of it, 164 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:01,440 the actual name of the bill, which we spent the 165 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,519 first two hours going over and playing ridiculous audio from Democrats. 166 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,600 An act to officially recognize two sexes in North Carolina, 167 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:14,000 to prevent the sexual exploitation of women and miners. To 168 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,519 limit the use of state funding. To modify the law 169 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,279 related to birth certificates, to modify the law related to 170 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:22,559 civil remedies for gender transition procedures on non miners. To 171 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:25,600 allow students with religious objections to be excused from certain 172 00:11:25,639 --> 00:11:29,840 classroom discussions or activities, and to allow parent access to 173 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,759 library books. And to provide for restrictions on school sleeping quarters. 174 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:41,000 And this is anti trans according to the Democrats. So 175 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,559 I do in fact, you know what, I'll just read 176 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:47,279 the messages that I got on that. Now, it's all 177 00:11:47,279 --> 00:11:49,840 a distraction. In a PEAT tweet says kids are going 178 00:11:49,879 --> 00:11:52,000 to learn that druggies exist, but they don't need the 179 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,120 K twelve schools encouraging and teaching them to become one. Right, 180 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,360 that was the argument one of the Democrats made, Like 181 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,480 they're going to find out that there are gay people anyway. Yeah, 182 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:09,399 so once again it's about age appropriateness. And Seth points 183 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,200 this out in an email. Why do we have explicit 184 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:16,879 ratings for music and movies but nothing for books? 185 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:17,759 Speaker 2: Right? 186 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: And when you read the writings and the interviews and 187 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,440 podcasts performances from the people who are leading the American 188 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:32,480 Librarians Association, you realize that these are gender queer activists. 189 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,279 That's what they are. They are left wing activists. And again, 190 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,600 always remember the issue is never the issue. It's not 191 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:46,159 about LGBT. The issue is never the issue. The issue 192 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,240 is always the revolution. And what is the revolution in 193 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:57,080 leftist ideology, you know, in the Marxist religion, what is it? 194 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,399 What is the revolution? It is the tearing down of 195 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:05,759 the structures, the institutions that Western civilization has built, specifically 196 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,159 around God, the family, governance. You rip all of that away, 197 00:13:10,919 --> 00:13:13,480 you pit people against themselves, and you rip it away 198 00:13:14,159 --> 00:13:18,799 in order to create a more perfected society. You keep 199 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,679 only the perfected elements of the society. You rip everything 200 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,519 else down, you start over build a new and Marxist 201 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:29,279 Marxism coming from the Hegelian school of thought that the 202 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,960 state was the highest power. That's it. So everything is 203 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,000 about how do you get there. And there are people 204 00:13:38,039 --> 00:13:40,679 that are inside these movements, these activists, and they are 205 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,360 unaware of this. They are unaware of the animating philosophies 206 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:52,759 underneath that's driving whatever project they're working on. But make 207 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:55,840 no mistake, that ideology is there and the people who 208 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,679 do know it are using you to drive it. And 209 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:05,799 they are capitalizing on your suicidal empathy, right, your politeness, 210 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,279 your niceness, your kindness. They weaponize that in order to 211 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,600 advance their project. So there was that. I mentioned the 212 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,720 changes to the name, image and likeness deals, and I 213 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:24,759 did get a message on that that this is from 214 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,360 Andy who says, I don't think NIL contracts or the 215 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:33,480 money is allowed to be funded with taxpayer money. Athletic 216 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:37,120 departments get most money from boosters and ticket sales. All right, 217 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:38,759 well that's good to know, so the auditor will be 218 00:14:38,799 --> 00:14:43,799 able to Yeah, so its like, okay, well maybe the 219 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,080 auditor needs to look into that stuff whatever, but they're 220 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,840 going to be the NIL deals are exempt from public records. 221 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:54,200 They're not public records. And I said, on the one hand, okay, 222 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,440 their contracts, so I could see why that would be 223 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,720 not a public record. But on the other hand, if 224 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,000 it is using any kind of taxpayer funds, then we 225 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,399 probably should have somebody monitoring that stuff. But if they 226 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:08,919 are not to be funded with taxpayer money, then okay, 227 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:15,320 boost away boosters, do your thing. Also, the state Board 228 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:20,440 of Elections unanimously approved a three part plan to collect 229 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:26,360 missing identification numbers from one hundred and ninety five thousand 230 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:32,159 voters that are on the state's voter rolls. A piece 231 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,879 by Teresa Opeka at Carolina Journal dot com, the executive 232 00:15:36,919 --> 00:15:41,559 director Sam Hayes of the Board of Elections said he 233 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,799 came up with a plan that would work to obtain 234 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,320 driver's license numbers or the last four digits of social 235 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:53,000 Security numbers for registered state voters who lack either number 236 00:15:53,159 --> 00:15:55,720 in their voter records. You're supposed to have one of 237 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:59,320 those two numbers in your voter file, and we have 238 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,399 one hundred nine voters that are missing either of those numbers. 239 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:11,240 The missing information has been a requirement of the Help 240 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:18,200 America Vote Act or have A which took effect twenty 241 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:23,120 one years ago, which apparently is just not enough time 242 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:27,120 for the state Board of Elections under Democrat control to 243 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,399 have fixed this problem. 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A lot is happening in Raleigh at the 266 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:42,480 state legislature this week, they're getting ready to go on break, 267 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,799 so they're just trying to plow through as many pieces 268 00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:49,000 of legislation as possible before the break so they can 269 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,880 wrap it up as well, wrap up as much as 270 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,559 they can. They still got the budget to hammer out 271 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:57,279 as well. So one of the things the State Board 272 00:17:57,319 --> 00:18:00,759 of Elections came up with is this three part plan, 273 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,559 and the purpose of the plan is to finally get 274 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:13,039 into compliance with federal law passed twenty years ago to 275 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:17,559 get identification numbers for all voters. One hundred and ninety 276 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:19,759 five thousand voters in our state do not have the 277 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:22,599 numbers either a driver's license number or the last four 278 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:28,559 digits of your Social Security number the choice. Again. This 279 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,920 is from Teresa Opeka her article at carolinajournal dot com. 280 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,359 The choice to provide either form of identification was marked 281 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:42,720 as optional on our state's voter registration form until Carol 282 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,200 Snow filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections 283 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:51,160 in twenty twenty three. The registration application was then corrected 284 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,640 about two months later, so we had an improper form, 285 00:18:56,039 --> 00:18:59,440 I guess for twenty years. The US Department of Justice 286 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,799 filed the law lawsuit against the state and the Board 287 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:06,759 of Elections last month over this missing information. State election 288 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:10,440 officials hope that this plan will resolve the lawsuit and 289 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:14,440 others and then bring the state into compliance with a 290 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,799 recent North Carolina Court of Appeals order. So first part 291 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,680 of the plan, they're going to send out a bunch 292 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,279 of mailings, first wave in July to ninety eight thousand 293 00:19:25,319 --> 00:19:32,319 registered voters who registered after the HAVA the HAVEA Help 294 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,720 America Vote Act became effective in two thousand and four 295 00:19:36,039 --> 00:19:39,119 who apparently lack a driver's license number or social Security 296 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,000 number and who have not otherwise complied with HAVEA. Those 297 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:49,160 voters will vote provisionally until they provide the information. Then 298 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,240 they'll do a second mailing over the summer to ninety 299 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,119 seven thousand voters who have complied with have but for 300 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,440 whom they don't have the numbers. Second part of the 301 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:04,359 plan review slash correction by county boards of Elections. So 302 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,400 starting now through August, all county boards of elections in 303 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,799 every county, all one hundred county boards will review records 304 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:15,160 in the voter registration database for active voters who may 305 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,359 have missing ID numbers and correct records where the voter 306 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,000 provided the info but it somehow didn't get entered at 307 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,000 the county board level. Okay, so you may be getting 308 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:30,359 contacted by the local board if you don't have the numbers, 309 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,680 but you are an active voter. County boards will also 310 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:37,160 correct records where the voter registered before have it took effect. 311 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:39,759 So if you were registered prior to two thousand and four, 312 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:44,680 but for some reason the database shows the wrong registration date. Okay. 313 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,720 That's part two. Part three Provisional voting for voters who 314 00:20:49,759 --> 00:20:53,519 don't have the numbers. So going forward, then in future 315 00:20:53,519 --> 00:20:58,720 elections in person, voters who do not have the ID 316 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:03,279 number are going to have to vote with a provisional ballot, 317 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:06,640 which will count only as long as the voter provides 318 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,400 the required information. So you fill out a provisional ballot, 319 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,279 you give it at the time that you're voting, but 320 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:14,119 then you have a certain amount of time to go 321 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,599 in there and cure the deficiency. You've got to go 322 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,920 back to the Board of Elections, show them your idea 323 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,119 or something. The state board is going to create sort 324 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,480 of a flag to appear on the records in their 325 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,640 electronic or paper polling books. The poll books, so you 326 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,799 will be flagged if you do not have this data. 327 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:40,559 And then that will allow the Board of Elections people 328 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,359 to say you got to vote provisional and you've got 329 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,599 to come back in and give us your numbers. So 330 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,640 it's a three part plan and they hope that this 331 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:53,000 will you get the FEDS off their back. What else? 332 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,279 What else? Oh, we're going to get to vote on 333 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,200 more trains. Everybody, well, end roads too, but we're going 334 00:21:59,279 --> 00:22:03,640 to get devoted more trains here in Mecklinberg County. Joe 335 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,240 Bruno at WSOC reporting that Mecklenburg County's transit plan bill 336 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,400 was approved. It is now headed to Governor Josh Stein. 337 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,640 Both the House and the Senate gave final approval. I 338 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,119 expect Josh Stein will vote to approve this today. Now 339 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,640 there is a there's an interesting tidbit in all of 340 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,200 this because this thing almost got derailed. No pun intended, 341 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:29,559 but it almost got derailed. And if you read the 342 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,519 Charlotte Observer story you would not know this. This is 343 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,920 why I always say get your news from multiple sources. 344 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,400 I highly recommend you sign up for Business NC Business 345 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,559 NC dot com. They have a thing called the Daily 346 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,400 Digest and they say it comes right to your inbox 347 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,079 and so I get this daily digest, this rite up 348 00:22:50,079 --> 00:22:56,000 by Ray Gronberg. Senators voted Wednesday in favor of this 349 00:22:56,079 --> 00:23:00,640 bill that would give Mecklenburgers permission to vote on referendum 350 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,359 for a one cent sales tax surcharge to pay for 351 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,319 transit and road projects. Okay, so keep in mind there 352 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,039 was a road funding component in it, and this is 353 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:12,319 the interesting tidbit. It has to do with the road 354 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:17,799 funding to pass before the General Assembly is upcoming summer break, 355 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,160 it had to undergo a third reading in the Senate House. 356 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:24,759 That occurred, but they had some last minute changes though, 357 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:28,480 so this was kind of in doubt. This morning. Senators 358 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:33,200 in committee and on the floor had added provisions they 359 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,960 said are designed to head off the possibility that Charlotte 360 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,119 officials would use part of the sales tax revenue to 361 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,599 reduce their general fund spending on roadwork. What does that 362 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,480 mean they would supplant the funding. Yeah, this was a 363 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,079 little bit of a loophole that was in the original 364 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,480 version of the bill, which was to say, yeah, we're 365 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,039 going to collect an extra one cent sales tax, and 366 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,519 we have to break it down like if we make 367 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:06,240 let's say we make ten million dollars annually off of 368 00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:10,559 the one cent sales tax increase, forty percent of that 369 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,640 would have to be used for roads, forty percent of 370 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:19,160 it rail projects, and twenty percent for bus service. Right, 371 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,960 that was the breakdown, and that's in the legislation, so 372 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,319 they would have to follow that. But that's see, that's 373 00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:29,640 what that's just for the one cent sales tax revenue. 374 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:33,680 So let's say so it's a ten million dollar revenue 375 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,559 from the one cent sales tax, and let's say that 376 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:41,119 forty percent, then is what four million dollars? Well, let's 377 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,720 say the city has a road budget of four million dollars. 378 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:48,599 They could just say, well, let's just swap it out. 379 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,319 Let's just take the four million from the sales tax revenue, 380 00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:55,720 and then we can take the four million that we're 381 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:59,640 already funding from our property taxes and whatever, and we'll 382 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,920 take that out and we'll just supplant it, sort of 383 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,559 like Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Arc. 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So the legislature 414 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,160 has approved this plan, this transit plan, it's going to 415 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,200 go to the governor for his signature, I suspse Beck, 416 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,640 you'll sign it, and then it'll be up to the 417 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,079 Mecklenburg County Commissioners to decide whether we all get to 418 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:11,160 vote to raise our sales tax by another penny to 419 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,240 pay for this new transit plan. And that penny, as 420 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,160 I understand it, it will not sunset. It will be 421 00:27:17,279 --> 00:27:22,200 used then to continue to fund these things. But before 422 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,599 the vote was finalized today, there was some last minute 423 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:32,680 changes made because there was this fear that the City 424 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:38,039 of Charlotte would supplant current road dollars with road dollars 425 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:44,400 that are legislatively prescribed in this bill. So whatever revenue 426 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,200 comes in from the one sent sales tax, forty percent 427 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,160 of it has to be used for Mecklenburg cities to 428 00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:56,039 use on their roads. It's Charlotte and all the six towns. 429 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,279 You got to use it for roadwork. And they changed 430 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:07,319 it today to codify that you cannot swap out any 431 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,680 existing road dollars for this new revenue. Where would they 432 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,640 have gotten this idea, the possibility? This is Ray Gronberg's 433 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,880 piece at Business nc dot com. The possibility crossed their 434 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,160 radar thanks to comments Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones made 435 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,119 to the City Council in early May. So, first off, 436 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,559 thank you City Manager Marcus Jones, thank you very much. 437 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,039 I know the city council members are going to be 438 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,799 pretty upset with you, but I a taxpayer applaud you. 439 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,799 I thank you for letting this cat out of the 440 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,519 bag before the legislature finalize the legislation so they could 441 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,640 change it and they could prevent you guys from pulling 442 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:59,880 the old switcheroo and supplanting the funding council City Council 443 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,599 minutes of their May meeting one of their meetings in 444 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:09,359 May shows that Marcus Jones told the city council that 445 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,559 the added revenue from the sales tax would quote give 446 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,799 us more capacity to take some of the property tax 447 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:23,400 and put it back into the general fund. Right, so 448 00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:27,640 we already fund road projects with property tax dollars in 449 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,000 north in Charlotte, So we're already funding that. And what 450 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:35,400 he was saying was, it's okay, we'll just take the 451 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,759 new revenue, stick it in the general fund, and we'll 452 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:44,440 reduce our road funding from the property tax revenue. That 453 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,640 would free money up to pay for salaries for police 454 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:52,200 officers and firefighters or for other uses. He said. This 455 00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:56,920 is not mentioned in the Charlotte Observers story. So the 456 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,240 Senate added a provision that says cities that get road 457 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:04,119 money from the sales tax surcharge have to maintain local 458 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,839 expenditures for roadway systems at a level that meets or 459 00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:13,720 exceeds the average of the last ten years of spending 460 00:30:13,759 --> 00:30:17,359 on them. So we're gonna do a ten year look back. 461 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,839 What have you been spending on roads? Take the average, 462 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:25,359 and that's what you need to maintain. You cannot swap 463 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,720 this out. No supplanting Okay, let's go over and talk 464 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,519 to John. Hello, John, welcome to the show. 465 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 2: Hey Pete, thanks for dating my call. Right it's at 466 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,400 the end of the day. Hey, I wanted to I 467 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,480 wanted to come in and I used to another chapter 468 00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:41,799 of life run a adminorist administ of city, and we 469 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:44,119 weren't rich, and we needed money for streets and for 470 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,559 a fire department. And when our city council came to 471 00:30:47,599 --> 00:30:51,079 me with that crazy idea to go out and talk 472 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:54,839 to the taxpayer, I insisted, and I made it very 473 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,960 vocal because I'm on the right side of the aisle. 474 00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:58,640 They were all on the left side of the aisle. 475 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: How'd you get that job? How did you get hired? 476 00:31:02,279 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 2: Well? It was it was interesting, Fete. It was interesting. 477 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:08,559 There was It was based on raw talent and ability. 478 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,839 There you go, I like, but they looked at me 479 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,680 like I was a horned frog. And I flied out 480 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,480 told him, and I had the newspaper there in the 481 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,200 local radio, and I told him, I said, listen, if 482 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,920 I go out and I generate this because our taxpayers, 483 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,119 these are the people that provide the money. I said, 484 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,920 you guys will not say, well, you just gave us 485 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,599 a million dollars in theory. So we're going to now 486 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,319 move from the general fund that million somewhere else. So 487 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,640 I said, you want your streets fixed, we need fire equipment, 488 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,200 then this is going to be in addition to And 489 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:43,680 I got a tape. It was I enjoyed the fights 490 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,960 I had in my political heyday. They were wonderful, and 491 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,799 I missed them dearly. But it was it was based 492 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:53,359 on principle. And that's where the reason it got etched 493 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,960 into this codified. And I love the word you used there, 494 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,200 was codified, because that's what it is. I said. The 495 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,400 reason it got caualified was because we don't trust you, 496 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,559 right because and it's all you got to do. You 497 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,480 just got to look back at how all these miscellaneous 498 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:13,480 revenues come in. The resource officers resource officers really fast. 499 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,240 That's one thing, you know. The federal government says, i'll 500 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:17,920 give you that fifty grand a year. Well, that's what 501 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,200 my officers cost back in the day. I'll give you 502 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,359 that fifty grand for three years. After that, you got 503 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:24,440 to figure it out. Well, the minute they get it 504 00:32:24,519 --> 00:32:26,440 that first year, they say, well, I can reallogate this 505 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,480 fifty from the general fund or the police fund somewhere else. No, 506 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,079 you can't. 507 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you don't get the grant next year. 508 00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, so appreciates tenchn to call. I appreciate 509 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,799 that legislature. It's a Republican legislator, a conservative legislator that 510 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,599 probably wrote that in because he sees the writing on 511 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:42,920 the wall. 512 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it was. You're right, you're absolutely right. Thanks John, 513 00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:47,160 I appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Yeah, good to 514 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,680 hear from you. Yeah, it's the sea of penny spend 515 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,160 a penny. It's why we ended up with structural deficits 516 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,200 for so long when Democrats ran the legislature. Here, that's 517 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,680 exactly what they used to do. All right, that'll do 518 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,279 it for this episode. 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