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your support. Closer to home, the Charlotte City Council. The

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new council got sworn in last night. We got some

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new members, Joy Mayo, who I feel the need to

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support just because of my you know, years long defense

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of Mayo as the superior condiment. She's over in District three.

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Then there is JD. Masuerrarias from Charlotte's District five, over

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on the east side. He's the one I covered this

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a couple of I believe I did this on the

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show a couple of weeks ago, that the timeline is

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not lining up. He's give well, okay, So he is

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now the secondly second openly gay person, okay, And like

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I don't care about that. It's like the least interesting

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thing about a person to me, I don't want to

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know who you're sleeping with. I don't I don't care

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about what you do in your bedroom and all that.

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The other one's uh Lawana Slack Mayfield, So she already

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has the you know, historical person elected. She's already got that,

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uh title. But I guess he's the first openly gay

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Hispanic for and former illegal alien, which is the timeline

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that I'm actually talking about, is the illegal alien thing.

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He was brought here by his parents. Don't know if

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they got naturalized or not, but he says he got citizenship.

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He says, though, that he married his best friend when

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they were eighteen years old, right out of high school,

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a female, and then as they were married, he came

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to realize that he's gay, and she came to realize

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she's a lesbian, and he has confessed. So he's given

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these sort of well, so that was one story he

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gave in a record, and he did this at an

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event I think it was like a candidate forum or something.

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He tells his story, his truth, and he tells that story.

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But there was another event where they were praising somebody

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in the LGBTQ plus two IA community, and he was

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giving praise to this person because this person was the

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first one who affirmed him as gay when his family

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was not happy with him coming out as gay when

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he was fifteen years old. So there's a bit of

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a timeline problem there, right. Did you know you were

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gay when you came out at fifteen or did you

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know you were gay when you after you got married?

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Like which was it? And then you would also have

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to take into account with that timeline when he got citizenship,

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when did he become naturalized? As I understand it, he

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has claimed that this occurred in twenty twenty one. Was

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that because you were married to a US citizen who

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then realized she was a lesbian, just as you realized

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you were gay, which you had realized three years prior,

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or five years prior, or whatever it was when you

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were fifteen. See what I mean? There might be a

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case for immigration fraud. Now. I have asked him on

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the Twitter machine if he could clarify the timeline for me,

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and he has so far ignored my entreaties. Maybe I'll

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go down to a city council meeting. No, because you're

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not allowed. The rules say you're not allowed to address

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a specific council member. And then there's Kimberly Owens. She's

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from District six in Charlotte, so that's the district that

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tark Bookari held that Democrats last time they redrew the maps,

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did their best to try to make it as difficult

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as possible for a Republican to hold onto that seat,

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and they were successful. It took an extra election cycle

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or two, but they did finally swing that seat. So

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now there is only a single Republican representative on the

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Charlotte City Council. Now let me quickly divert here to

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the very end of the piece here at the Charlotte Observer,

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written by Nick Sullivan, who quotes Owens in her speech

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last night after being sworn in. She said, quote to

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District six Republicans, you have not lost your voice. I

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offer you a seat at the table for real collaboration.

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Simply put, as I said on the trail, I want

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to bore you, to bore you with acts of governmental competence. Boom.

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Well we'll see, right, we'll see. We'll see how many

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Republicans she nominates to various city boards and commissions and such,

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because that's how Republicans get to actually participate in their

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government when you don't have any actual elected representation. When

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you have one at Driggs from District seven, you got

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one Republican on the council, you can't win any votes.

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You can't really advance any kind of measures unless you

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get a whole bunch of Democrats on board. So good

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luck with that. So the only real quote collaboration that

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Republicans in District six are going to be able to

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muster is if they get appointed to a board or commission.

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Will that happen? We'll see, you know, will she actually

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walk the walk? The new members took their oath of

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office yesterday, and then they always vote on the mayor

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pro tem position. The mayor pro tem position is basically ceremonial. Okay,

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you're there, You're you're there in case the mayor gets sick. Okay,

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Like if Mayor viy Lyles cannot attend to ribbon cutting,

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you know, or maybe she has left her overly ridiculous

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sized scissors at home for the ribbon cutting and she

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has to you know, she can't go. She's got to

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go back and get them or something. You're like, you

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have to have a backup, ridiculously oversized pair of scissors

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in your trunk at all times so you can cut

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that ribbon. Ok So that's basically it. And if the

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mayor can't be at a city council meeting to run

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the meeting, then you run the meeting. Okay. So that's

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what the mayor pro tem position has historically been. It's

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very weak, but it is seen. It has been seen

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as sort of a launching pad to run for mayor,

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although honestly that hasn't really happened. It really hasn't. A

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lot of people become mayor pro tem and then nothing.

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But the key here is that council Member dimple Mra

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is not the mayor pro tem. That's really the key here, Okay.

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Dimple Jmera has been the voteainer in now I think

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three or four straight elections. She has won more votes

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in the at large races than any other Democrat. She's

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a Democrat, and she has won. She's come out as

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the top votainer every single time, and they never make

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her mayor pro tem. And that's what they always used

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to do if you were the mayor prote or, if

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you were the votainer in the at large races. That

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means you got more votes than any of the other

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four at large members that won. That would indicate the

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will of the public is for you to be in

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a leadership position because most of the people voted for you,

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you had more the votes than anybody else. You're the votainer,

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not the vote getter. We don't use that word here

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except to disparage it. Okay, And yes, I did hear

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somebody did mention it on the morning show today. So

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it's day two. I got two mentions of votainer. I'm

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on a streak now. Yesterday was Tom Tillis and I

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believe today it was Bo Thompson. So that being said,

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Dippile Jhemira has constantly repeatedly been denied the mayor pro

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tem post. They do not want her to be mayor

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pro tem and as far as I can tell, and

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the reports that I have heard, is that her colleagues

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don't like her. We don't like her, and so we're

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not going to make her mayor ProTem. No historic first here,

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she's the first Indian American to win the city council

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races and such, she would be the first Indian American

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as mayor pro tem. But that historical first apparently not

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a big deal for Democrats. They're going to keep denying

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dimple that position. All right. If you're listening to this show,

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Charlotte Observer reporting that the Charlotte City Council elected or

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swore in their new members last night, and then they

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elected their mayor pro tem. Again, this is a ceremonial position,

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and historically it was always whoever got the most votes

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among the at large contenders, whoever the voteainer was, they

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became air. Now. I do remember years ago, twenty years ago,

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the first time that they broke with that norm, and

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it was when Democrats finally won control of the city

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Council from Republicans. The top voteiner was I believe Pat Mumford,

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a Republican. So Pat Mumford finished first among the four

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at large city council members and Democrats controlled the majority

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of council, and so they broke with the norm and

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they did not make him mayor pro tem. I believe

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they made Pat Cannon the mayor pro tem. Pat Cannon

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who would later go on to run for mayor and

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win and then be ousted from office on federal bribery

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charges and conviction. So that's the kind of judgment that

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we're dealing with. So they so they have broken with

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this norm before, and then it seemed like it kind

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of went back to the norm after Democrats had won control,

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sort of permanently after that, and then they would put

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you know, whoever was the votainer in I believe. But

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then all of this fell apart probably about now, what's

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six years ago, when dimple Ajmira won number one slot

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the votainer in the at large race. And they don't

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her colleagues or fellow Democrats don't like her very much

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for whatever reason, I don't know. They don't tell me

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these things. I do not hang out at the cocktail

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parties with the with the local Democrat elected officials. They

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just don't. It's not that I wouldn't it. They don't

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ever invite me for some reason. So they have blocked

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her repeatedly from being mayor pro tem and last night

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was no different. She got nominated. She was nominated by

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I think it was Arias who nominated her. M Yes

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Masuera Arias he made a motion to elect Asmira as

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mayor pro tem. She then seconded the motion, which then

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failed seven to four. She won support from Joy Mayo

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and Renee Perkins Johnson. Johnson is like I viewed Renee

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Johnson as sort of whoever is voting with her on

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an issue means that like, this seems to be like

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a voting block that's not under the control of viol

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isles the mayor. That's what this seems like to me.

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Whenever I see Renee Johnson with you know, three four

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other council members, it's like, Okay, this is the block

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that's voting against the mayor. But the mayor has now

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a seven to four block of voters obviously secured for

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for herself. She doesn't vote on these things, but she

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has gotten you know, seven of the eleven members apparently

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that are in line with her, So she's controlling the council.

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As Mira pointed out that she was the highest votainer

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in both the primary and the general, but her fellow

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Democrats still stuck a tour. Who did they pick? They

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picked James Smudgie Mitchell, who has been on council for

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thirteen terms, not all consecutive. He did take a break

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when there was that whole conflict of interest thing when

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he was working for a company that had contracts with

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the city, and so he stepped down off the council

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and all that He also, as the Observer, did the

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big report a while ago about who is not showing

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up to the meetings and he had like the worst

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attendance record. So but he was battling. He was battling

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bladder cancer, which now is in remission, he says, So

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I'm happy to hear that. And James Smudge has always

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been nice to me. You know, I have never had

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any personal problems with with James Mitchell. His uncle Norman Mitchell,

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never had any problems with them. I disagree with them

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on politics, but they were always nice to me and

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vice versa. But he's now the mayor pro tem, so

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why pick a district representative or an at large representative?

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So Lawana Mayfield, she was a district rep. She's has

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been now an at large rep. And she says that

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she wanted somebody who's at large who represents the whole city.

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That's why she did it. And but they've had district

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reps as mayor pro ten before. So whatever Malcolm Graham, though,

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he says at large or district, it doesn't matter. What

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matters is the ability to lead. Listen to this quote.

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This community is dying, starving, begging for leadership from the

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city council. So Mitchell will be the one to do that.

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Smudgie shall lead us. He will ensure that council's voices

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are strong in city decisions and don't get drowned out

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by the mayor's office or city manager. Now, what did

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I just tell you about the voting blocks. Yeah, again,

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maybe I'm wrong on this, and like the blocks are

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gonna are gonna shift around and stuff's gonna, you know,

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resort itself. I don't know, but when I see Renee

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Johnson throwing her vote to dimple Edgemera, that it seems

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like that's the that's the block that that Viyliles is

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trying to suppress. So I'm not really sure if Smudgie

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is going to be the voice that's going to prevent

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the council's voice from being drowned out by the mayor's

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office or the city manager. And by the way, there's

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only really one way for your voice as counsel to

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be drowned out by the manager, and that's if you

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let him. He works for you, Okay, he works at

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I want to welcome to the studio John Hancock, the

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legendary WBT host here for what like half a century

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almost or something.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I love what you've done with the place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks the same, doesn't.

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Speaker 3: It looks it looks look the same place I spent

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I think twenty two thousand hours.

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Speaker 2: I figured out one time.

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Speaker 1: Why would you even do that math?

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Speaker 3: Well, I was retiring, so I was trying to figure

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out whether Grady had spent more time in here than

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I have. And as the answer is no, I'm probably

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second place.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's surprising.

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Speaker 2: But Bo's coming up fast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, one's gonna catch him.

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Speaker 2: So and you'll be You'll get to that point too. Well.

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Speaker 1: I the first decade I was here, I was a reporter,

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so I wasn't really in the building for most of

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my shifts. But I've got from what nineteen ninety nine

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through two thousand and eleven and then twenty one through now,

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so fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: Someday they will raise this building and I want to

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see it for two reasons. One, I've watched them string

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wire through here for you know, three decades, so it's

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going to be like trying to, you know, take spaghetti

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apart when But two, I know I'll just sit up

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there on the side of the hill and cry because

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it's got so much history to it, and this building

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and people that have been in this building, and you

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know Sinatra and Hope and Mickey Rooney.

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Speaker 2: I knocked Mickey Rooney down one time. Nice. So it's anyway,

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I've always.

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Speaker 3: Been glad by my career ended here rather than moved

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to some add aseptic building.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think of the resale value on the copper

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from the wires.

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Speaker 3: I've always thought about putting townhouses down. Knock all those

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trees down with us. You'd have a downtown view and

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building like townhouses that are a two million apiece.

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Speaker 2: Do you'd sell them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And no grocery store within a mile. So yeah, that's

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all of the benefits of living over here. I looked

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over here when I first came back to town. I

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looked over here, and I was like, I can't afford

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any place near the studio, which is crazy because ten

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years ago.

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Speaker 2: They'd have given it to you. Absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so all right, Well, the reason why we got

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you in here today is to not just reminisce about

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WBT in the building, but also about the bike drive.

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This is now the thirty second annual Hancocks Bikes for Kids.

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We also want to give a shout out to Garage

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do our Doctor presenting this as well as Kids First

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of the Carolinas. And so every year you ask people

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to bring a new unwrapped bike, maybe a helmet. That's

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always a plus. Bring a bike helmet for the kids.

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And then what Kids First then distributes these bicycles throughout

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the community.

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Speaker 3: We've got some organizations we've been given them two for

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years and they've come to.

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Speaker 2: Count on us.

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Speaker 3: And I've been retired now off the air for six years.

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So that's my big fear is that out of sight,

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out of mind. I know there's a substantial amount of

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people that listen to WP that don't know John Hancock

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from John Quincy Adams. But we get these bikes and

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I'm just telling you right now, this is Christmas for

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some kids. And we've done We've asked a question whether

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or not bikes are still pertinent or not, and the

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answer is yes, absolutely, your first bike is still a

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big deal. The other question I answer every year is well,

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why won't you take a used bike? And that's a meism.

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I don't want to give a kid a used bike.

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These kids that we deal with have never had anything new.

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The clothes they wear, everything they have has been handed down.

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I want them to have something with the tags still

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on it. But we think we've impacted probably forty maybe

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a few more forty thousand kids individual kids over the years,

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and I'm pretty proud of that. But gosh, I need

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your help. And I say this every year, but obviously

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since I'm not on the air every day pounding this,

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I really hope you'll make it a point to come

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by and drive through what I call the tear Drop

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out there on the fifth of December, that's a Friday night.

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We'll be out there from five to nine o'clock and

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drop a bike off.

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Speaker 1: That's our driveway, the tear Drop. It's just a circular drive.

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It's a circular drives super easy. You just roll in,

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we say hello, you can meet everybody, we take the bikes,

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and then you just pull out.

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Speaker 2: You don't even have to get out of your car

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if you don't want.

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Speaker 3: So that's in fact in some cases if we're trying

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to get things moving and we have our busy times

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and we have our week times. But I think we

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got about eight hundred bikes last year. That was down

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a little than it was the year before, down from

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it was the year before. So I realized that as

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the years go by, the impact of what I'm trying

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to do here, what we're trying to do here maybe

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a little bit harder to relate to. But we really

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are Christmas for an awful lot of kids. And next

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time you're in a big box store or something along

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those lines, go get us a bike. Twenty inches are

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the most popular, but we still need big bikes for

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kids and trikes. Some of the trikes I see come

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through are so cute I can't stand it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we've got organizations.

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Speaker 3: We've got neighborhoods that get together now and they all

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bring bikes and put them together and then they load

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them in. I think there was one neighborhood that brought

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us like forty six bikes last year. And and we've

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got the one guys that have been helping us for

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years and years and years, and they bring us hundreds

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of bikes and a deal with Walmart that they've made.

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So those are our those are our mainstays. But we

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still are dependent on.

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Speaker 2: You, the individual one bike that we.

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Speaker 3: Pull the backs, put the bike out of your back

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seat or the the back of your truck or and

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plus it's a chance for me to see some of

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you all that I don't get to see anymore.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that is true like every year, because I'm

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out there with you every year, and like every the

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people that keep coming up to you every single year,

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and that's the time that they get to see you

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and talk with you and you know, tell you what

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you meant in their lives when you were on air,

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and that this is part of their holiday tradition. And

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how many people I've heard it, I know you have.

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How many people say this is the beginning of Christmas

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season like that the bikes drive marks.

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Speaker 3: Then we hear we hear that a lot, so it

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is about the kids. But obviously it's all about me.

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Speaker 1: Right right as always that's now I mean it. But

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it is really nice because it's it's uh, it's a tradition,

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and I think a lot of people don't have traditions,

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especially nowadays, it feels like and traditions change. Like That's

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the other thing Christy and I are dealing with. Where

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we would travel around to wherever the nieces and nephews

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were for Christmas because we don't have kids, and so

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we would just travel because we could do that, and

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we would go to their places. But now all their

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kids are getting older, going off to college and stuff,

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and so traditions are changing and that's tough. And so

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this is a tradition that you can keep doing. We're

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not going to stop doing it.

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Speaker 3: I should find out WBT has stayed with us, and uh,

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I'm forever grateful for that because we've been through a

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few ownership changes and when Urban one came in a

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few years ago, I didn't know what to expect then.

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And Channel three yep has latched on to us for

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the last few years, which is why we can use

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this property because they technically own it. But my thanks

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to Michelle and everybody, Jamie Bulls and all the crew

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over at Channel three for being loyal to us as well.

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Speaker 1: And Jamie actually unloads bikes. He's not just a pretty

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face on TV. Jamie Bow will actually get in there

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and be like hauling bikes off of trucks.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, he.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, he he worked harder at anybody else I think

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in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: He's he's a good guy. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 3: On air, I like him. You can see he puts

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a lot of work in but off air he's every

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bit what you think he is.

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Speaker 1: The thirty second annual WBT Hancocks Bikes for Kids, benefiting

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Kids first of the Carolinas, presented by Garage Door Doctor Again.

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It's on Friday, December fifth, from five until nine pm.

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All the details are at WBT dot com. Bring a new, unwrapped,

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assembled bike, drop it off, say hi and we are

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all your health and we appreciate all the work that

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you've done on this over the years.

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Speaker 3: JOm hey, and I appreciate your time on your show too,

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so thank you very much in advance. If you bring

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us a bike, thank you very much. I'll see you

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on that Friday, December fifth.

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So Tomorrow is Wednesday, and that means at some point

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I guess between like eight till nine a m. A

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bunch of the elderly leftists are going to be out

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along Park Road near Quail Hollow in South Charlotte during

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the height of morning rush hour, calling on people to

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honk their horns honk for Democracy, honk for establishing Justice United,

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We stand Heart America. These are the signs that they

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are holding. Now, it's kind of tough to disagree. I

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guess they're not blatantly partisan in nature. According to the

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very lengthy story about these organized gatherings on the sidewalks

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over at the Charlotte Observer, they're all elderly people, Okay.

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One of the organizers is seventy eight year old Jene Rittok,

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who's calling these weekly non partisan, patriotic marches, right. But

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on the other side of the posters there's like really

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partisan anti Trump language, which they didn't want the reporter

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to see. They're like, oh, sorry, no, no, no, this

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is nonpartisan, don't you see. The idea for the marches

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grew out of a grassroots community initiative co founded by

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Ritetok early this year, calling it the Citizen Project, aimed

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generally at contributing to the public good who could be

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against that right, and then it started to crystallize in

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June when the members headed into the city to join

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protesters at the No King's Rally in first Ward Park.

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Then inspired by the Democracy Versus Dictators movement and having

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determined that the best antidote to anxiety is action. They

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took their opposition to President Trump and his policies to

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the sidewalks along Park Road, just beyond the confines of Southminster,

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which is very convenient because that's where they live in

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the retirement home. This is what they're doing. They have

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a six pay or five page right up in the

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paper for it. After just a few weeks, however, they

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decided to pivot away from partisanship, at least in the

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most obvious regard. The anti Trump messages were scrubbed from

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their signs. Actually, they just turned the signs over, right,

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So what does this tell me? It tells me they're lying, right,

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They're lying. They are anti Trump. That's what's animating this.

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But they're giving you a sign that says, iHeart America.

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Honk if you love democracy, Honk if you love America.

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And then when people drive by and they honk, they're like, look,

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everybody supports our hatred of Trump. In fact, when a

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reporter spies an anti Trump message on the back of

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the Protect Medical Care sign that's hanging all the way

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from Rittok's neck down to her shins. During one of

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the marches in early October, she clutches the board closer

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to her body says, no, I don't want you to

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see it, because we don't do that now. We don't

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want to fight each other. We're for anybody that cares

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about the Constitution, which really is something you know, to

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finally hear Democrats talking about the love of the Constitution.

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Is there anything Trump can't do? To be fair, The

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reporter says, the veil is fairly thin, and that veil

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can be lifted at least a little, depending on current events.

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On the Wednesday, after the Border Patrol launched its immigration

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blitz in Charlotte, Right Talk and her cohorts drew up

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a handful of new signs alluding to the ice operation,

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with slogans like make America kind again and I like

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my ice crushed. It's very it's very subtle. She goes

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on to say, sorry, there's a Southminster resident, Ken Hungate

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who comes out semi regularly, and he says, you know,

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we feel like the other side they kind of hide

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you the flag and we're saying, no, you can't have it.

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We believe in the flag as well. Again, is there

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anything Trump can't do? All right, that'll do it? For

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this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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while I'm gone.