Show Rewind 04-24-2025

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Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM. W VOC.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, good morning to you at this sixteen minutes past
the hour of six, getting up, getting going here on
a Thursday morning. It's good to have you with us.
It's April twenty fourth. This month is about a week
away from me and done. I guess a little less.
So it's thirty this month, right, just thirty, you were correct. Yeah.
We had that story a week or two back about
the guy Lexington County who got busted for insurance fraud

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because he said his claim was medical bill he fabricated.
Said it was April thirty first, which doesn't exist, you
know it does not. Well, good morning, it's wonderful to
have you with us. I'm Gary, He's Christopher. Good morning
to you, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
The end of the month is next Wednesday. Next Wednesday,
a week from yesterday, which puts it. Then we hit
the end of the month and you got a week
left to get your real id. Boy, everybody's talking about
the real id huh, what's about time? I mean they've
been talking about it for Yeah. I mean this goes
back to Mark Sandford, right, well.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, and on a national level, I mean this goes
back to what nine to eleven, post nine to eleven. Yeah,
this has been going on forever here. So unless you've
got a passport, you're not gonna get on a domestic
flight come May eighth. Right, I think that's correct.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay, unless there are some kind of last minute emergency
proposals put up by individual states.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You wouldn't be shocked to hear that that happens. But no, no,
all right, Well, time is just flying on. But I
don't know, you know, I'm gonna be I'm I'm a
little over a month away from being sixty six years old.
Can you believe that? Wow? I thought I thought of
this time in my life things would start to slow
down a little bit. But I think it's heading in
the opposite direction, do you have Yeah, I think everybody's

(02:06):
feeling that way these days. Yeah. Wow, Okay, all right, well,
we got things to talk about today, Needless to say,
the rundown of the big stories, the hot topics you
heard mentioned in the update that Alan Wilson is demanding
the City of Columbia repeal that ordinance that goes back
to twenty twenty one that banned conversion therapy on LGBTQ
plus youth. Again. You know parents, you know that they

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feel like this is best for their child. City Columbia
says you can't do it. Well, the state Senate has
adopted an amendment as well that would cut off state
funding for local officials who don't comply with the age's order.
So this is a ramping up in a hurry right here.
The Senate also debating the budget and well income tax cuts,

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as we talked about yesterday. They had a presentation given
to them from the Financial Department over the state well
a couple of different options that might be a little
more palatable than the original flat tax proposal. Quite honestly,
of the three they gave him, only one was a
little more palatable, but even that would have raised the

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taxes on a number of South carol Indians. So they're
kicking that can around over there, and there's one. Now
we're down to I guess County. Today's seven days left
in this session to see if they can get they're
also busy well, talking about legalized gambling. There are three
different bills, three different bills right now that are being
debated over the state House. When it comes to a

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legalized gambling in our state, Richland, two parents and well,
now you have to be a parent. You just have
to live in that district. You may see your taxes rising.
The school district has voted four to three in favor
of property tax increase. They've got a close to seven
million dollar budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year. They

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need more money. You don't get to say in this
of course, they just say we need more. We're going
to vote ourselves more and there you go. So look
for a tax increase heading your way. Nancy Mace did
a town hall, well kind of. It was behind a
gated community. In the public wasn't really invited. I think

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that's an easy one to do, right, yeah, uh, okay,
this is a private gated community. They were protesters outside
of it, but yeah, this is this is one where
you invite, you know, people you want to be there
to be there. And that was pretty much that. But
she can say she did a town hall.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
I guess did she get in a fight with anybody.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
We're the videos, Well, we don't have any videos yet
as far as we know, there were no no fisticuffs,
no screaming, no four letter words, no f bombs.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well, my guess is she won't do many of those.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Probably not. That's that's a little boring for her. Yeah, yeah, right.
It's hard to make headlines like that, isn't it? Uh
sources telling fits News this is something we been talking
about for a while now that the current head of
the state Department of Corrections, Brian Sterling, will be appointed
as our state's next top federal prosecutor. Well deserved for

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this guy, But who's going to pick up the slack
once he leaves? And who's going to carry on the
fight up on Capitol Hill to get cell phones banned
in prisons. I don't have to fall to somebody. I guess.
How weird is this? The guy who just left the
Alvin Esland Attention Center, Craven Harvey, after serving a couple
of years as the director, bailed out and he lands

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as the new director of the Kershaw County Jail. Now, ironically,
wasn't it the Kershaw County Jail where the prior or
was it the prior to prior director of the alven
Zsklind Attention Center came from only to find out there
were issues in Kershaw County with his time on the
job there. As I recall correctly, that's the way it was.

(05:57):
That was what Tyrell Kate I think. Oh, anyway, what
a weird circle, right, Yes.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh, that's not a good sign for Richland County that
the Kershaw County job is more attractive at this point.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's a very good point. I mean you could say
that's not even a lateral move, right, Wow, the deported
Maryland man. Uh yeah, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Well, now we're
getting a little more detail. There was a story floating
around that he had been pulled over in Tennessee Highway

(06:32):
Patrol had pulled him over, they had contacted the FBI.
There were those rumors that maybe he was involved in
human trafficking. Well, now we know a little bit more
about this that uh he was driving a car belonging
to a confessed human smuggler. Uh yeah. Now it doesn't

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say that a Brego Garcia is necessarily a human smuggler,
but he was driving a car owned and registered to
a confessed human smuggler. Okay, you know, you put two
and two together and there you go. Now, Democrats are
starting to break ranks on whether or not they want
to keep talking about this guy. More and more Democrats
are saying, ay, maybe it's time to move on. Henry Quaar,

(07:18):
the Democrat Republic Democrat representative that is from Texas who's
a moderate who has been very vocal on immigration issues,
is saying, I don't know if this is the right
issue for our party to be focusing on. Meantime, the
FBI out with a scary report saying that the Venezuelan
government is actually using Trenda Argua's proxies to undermine public

(07:38):
safety in the US and shocking numbers of how many
of these gang members have infiltrated our country under Joe
Biden's watch, yeah, Trump signing executive orders, He signed a
bunch of them. Latest on school discipline and education reform
you may or may not recall, but under Joe Biden,

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the liberals decided that, well, you know, if you weren't
from a privileged class, then you shouldn't be treated as
harshly when it came to school discipline. That didn't work
out well and Trump is reversing all of that with
his latest executive orders. Dick Durbin saying he's going to

(08:20):
call to day the sentence. Number two Democrat will not
be seeking reelection. He made that announcement yesterday. He has
been in Congress since nineteen eighty two. This is probably
good news for people like David Hogg, right, vice chair
of the DNC, who wants basically any buddy over forty.
I suppose it's a Democrat to be out of office.

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The DNC, by the way, now fighting back on that,
apparently given Hog an ultimatum. You can't pick favorites in
these primaries. And we got some new polling data to
talk about as well when it comes to how unpatriotic
young Democrats are these days. That and more coming up
on this. It is the Thursday edition of Columbia's Morning

(09:03):
News and it is great to have you with us
every day, every hour real I'd like to stay inform.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Everything you need to stay informed. One O three point
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Speaker 3 (09:29):
Time now six forty one. Good morning, and good to
have you on board. We appreciate that it is Thursday,
April twenty fourth. Listen, we have survived a lot of
climate to change wackiness over the years. I mean, we
made it through Al Gore, who's not done yet. By
the way, we mentioned yesterday he was at some climate
conference and took the opportunity to say that when it

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came to the climate, the administration, the Trump administration, was
a lot like Nazi Germany. You all need to come
over the better, a better analogy here, Come on, that's tired.
Well anyway, there's a story out of the UK now
that's in my humble opinion, humble be it. It's pretty

(10:16):
scary because, I mean, what could what could possibly go wrong? Right?
The UK government is expected to give approval to solar
geo engineering experiments, the attempt to block sunlight to curb
climate change. The Telegraph reporting that these experiments aimed at

(10:47):
combating climate change are set to be carried out by
the Advanced Research and Invention Agency and we'll be announced
in the coming weeks. They announced the creation of this
agency back in two twenty twenty one as a self
described independent research body to fund high risk, high reward
scientific research. The uc gavernment promising about a billion dollars

(11:15):
in funding for inventors to turn their ideas into new technologies.
So how would this work. These experiments would include solar
g engineer geoengineering, where particles are injected into the air
to deflect some of the Sun's radiation back into space,

(11:37):
the goal to reduce our surface temperature. Okay, what could
possibly go wrong? You know, there's there's a reason why,
you know, God set things up the way he did.
The program director of this outfit, it says, the looming

(12:02):
thread of climate change was a strong reason to look
at doing this. But as you might imagine, there are
those who are not real enamored with this. There are
risks and they are immense. This Guardian article now we're

(12:26):
reporting that these experiments, again as I mentioned, include blocking
sunlight reaching the surface by launching clouds of reflective particles
into the atmosphere or using seawater sprays to make clouds brighter.
They could include injecting aerosols like sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.
And I could go on and on with the nerdy
stuff of this, but I won't. But again, what happens

(12:56):
when you start playing around with the natural order of
things here. A study was released last December found that
these types of experiments could cause more pollution, could damage
the ozone layer. Oh wait, wait a minute, Hang on
a second. I mean for years we heard from the
climate change alarmists that there were holes in the ozone right,

(13:16):
the ozone layer, that all this pollution was wreaking havoc
on our planet. We had to stop using hairspring right, Yeah,
but now they want to do experiments that could do
just that damage the ozone layer. Listen, you know I'm
those scientists, but I know enough to know that. Okay, yes,

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if you start messing around the ozone layer, if you
mess things up there, we got bigger problems in climate
change on our hand. Friends, You damage the ozone layer,
if nothing else, that would lead to an increase in
mortality from skin cancers. Columbia University's Climate School and an

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April twenty twenty four study noted that studies show that
the stratospheric aerosol injection could weaken the ozone layer, alter
precipitation patterns, affect agriculture, ecosystem services, marine life, and air quality.
Other than that. Other than that, it's all good. Another

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report from the United Nations came out in February of
twenty twenty three, again regarding the potential risks and impacts
of solar radiation modification. This one, though, included nefarious motives
by a rogue state. Yeah, you let some rogue state
get a hold of this sort of thing figure this out. Oh,
they could bring the world to its knees. Yeah, it

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looks like the UK government's going to move ahead with
these experiments. You know, the planet, it's been around for
a long time. And I find it ironic that the
same people who have been screaming at the top of
their lungs about we're destroying the planet. We're destroying the planet,

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the sky is falling, are are now part of something
that might actually make that happen. Kind of crazy, if
you ask me. These experiments could start no sometime soon,

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And as far as I know, I have seen no
reports about this in any mainstream media outlet, And guess what,
we probably won't. Who Al Gore thinks about this?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Fifteen after seven and good morning to you. Appreciate you
being long for Thursday, April twenty fourth. I am Gary,
he is Christopher. This is Columbia's morning. Is good warning
to you, my friend. So we found out yesterday. I
don't think we actually talked about it yesterday, but Alan
Wilson has a fire offul letter to the City of
Columbia telling the city this ban on conversion therapy for

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minors that the city council passed back in twenty twenty one,
that it's unconstitutional and they need to get rid of
this thing. The AG's argument is that the ordinance violates
a state law called the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act,
which was passed a year later in twenty twenty two.

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What does that law say, Well, it tells municipalities that
they cannot have laws that restrict, limit, or otherwise control
medical care provided by a medical practitioner. And I'd go
a step further. You know that a municipality doesn't have

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any constitutional right to tell a parent what they think
is best for their minor child. Now, and I've heard
the arguments on both sides of this thing. But but
for me, this is like, you know, again, another extreme
example of the nanny state. Right. What gives any city,
city of Columbia, or anybody else the right to take

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control away from a parent? Now, okay, if a parent
is abusing a child, that's one thing. I don't see
this as the same way. Now. Now the critics will
say that the advocates of these sorts of laws would say, well,
that's exactly what the parents are doing. You're talking about
a minor child now, a minor.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
O.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
The State Senate is weighing in as well on this
and jumping on board.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Is that why we're talking about it now, because we
haven't talked about it since Colombia passed this span.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Is no's been a long time ago when the passed it. Yeah,
you're right, we haven't brought this up in a long
long time.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Is Alan Wilson worried that Nancy Mace or Pamela Evitt
or somebody would was going to call him out on it,
so we decided to be proactive. Well, this is it
because the state of what the State Senate's doing, and
he feels like, well, not everybody's on the same page.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, it could be. We'll be some of both, right. Yeah,
the Senate has adopted an amendment, and this happened the
same day this letter came out that would withhold state
funding to the city of Colombia if they do not
comply with this order. This is kind of rare, isn't it.

(18:58):
They're working in lockstep on this one. Very interesting and
just for the record, Colombia is the only city in
the state that has banned conversion therapy.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
It was odd when it passed, and if you'll remember,
both the last mayor, Steve Benjamin and the current mayor,
Daniel Rickman, both voted against it. Yeah, and it's still passed.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
But city council, in their inherent wisdom, thought it was
a good idea. So Wilson says it's unconstitutional, it violates
state law. The state Senate says, get rid of it,
or we're going to withhold funding. Yeah, is it the

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political The mayor Rickman says, it's well, it's just political season,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
He probably was hoping everybody had forgotten about it, and
probably if it came up before the council again today,
it probably wouldn't pass.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
You think not.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
I well, I given the political makeup of the council,
right now, that's true.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Maybe not.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
It is quite a bit different than it was. Yeah,
back in twenty twenty one, it would have a tougher time.
Let's put it that way, right And again, you know,
it's it's almost like a solution in search of a
problem because we haven't talked about it since. I assume
nobody's nobody's come up against this band and said, oh

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my gosh, you know, how can Columbia do this? But
they haven't been challenged in court?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
So no, U Tamika Isaac Divine back in twenty twenty
one was the main sponsor of this thing.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yes, she was on counsel and now she's in the
state House.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yes, and she says the ordinance was never about politics.
It was about protecting vulnerable children in our community from
a harmful, discredited practice that has no place in a society.
That that is mental health, dignity, and human rights.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Okay, any of those children, I mean, what have those
children done since? Are Are they happy in thriving because
all because Columbia passed this band?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah? Probably not. Again, this is the this is a municipality.
These are politicians who think that they know better how
kids should be raised in the kid's own parents, and
I just have a me and a lot of other
people have a real fundamental problem with that as well.

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We should. Now is it just again? Is it? It's
widely expected that that Wilson will will run for governor.
So since we're on the topic of that, I'm not
sure if it's still widely expected or not that Nancy
Mays is going to run for governor. To tell you
the truth of I don't know. She's well, I don't

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know she gave it. She did. She finded it in
a town hall in the Buford County kind of kind
of right. It was a town hall in a private,
gated community. There are about two hundred people there. This

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was the last night.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Sounds more like a political fundraiser if you're doing it
for a select audience.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well doesn't it though? Right? And I don't know if
many money changed hands or not. But yeah, this is
again and Mace is not the only Republican who's being
criticized around holding town halls, and Republicans will tell you, well, yeah,
this goes back to this organized effort by Democrats to
infiltrate our town halls and try to make us look bad.

(22:56):
And of course this on the heels of this dust
up for lack of a better word, with that man
at the beauty store in Mount Pleasant a couple of
days ago, with that video that went viral, and that
was the original question, when are you gonna hold a
town hall? Well, okay, so now she can say she

(23:17):
held a town hall, but did she really? Was that
really a town hall? You had to be able to
get through the gates in order to get in. She
addressed one town. Uh, well, not even a whole town,

(23:38):
just a she had a gated community hall, I guess,
is what you could call it. And yes, all the
questions were pre screened there. That was actually there was
a small group of folks who did walk out after
a mace talked about Jewish college students being mistreated by
campus protesters. Okay, that's that's her role of, you know,

(24:03):
a member of a House of Representatives, not as you know,
gubernatorial wanna be necessarily, But you did talk to some
length about that that situation. I agree with her on
that certainly. Okay. It's uh, I don't know if it's
it's maybe not political season yet, it's it's certainly a
silly season. It's heating up. But yeah, we're getting closer
and closer and closer to that. Don't forget. I mean

(24:25):
that the Republican primary is is just a little over
a year away. So moves are setting getting set to
be made here keeping the commitment. I love you, guys, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Twenty four to seven.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Listen to you every day half for years.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
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Speaker 3 (24:56):
Seven forty two and is Thursday, April twenty fourth. Appreciate
you being along. I think we can all agree to this.
The sentiment that we in this country are a long
way removed from what's been called the Greatest Generation. Gosh,
that's been what now eighty years ago. Not just long

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removed in the sense of time, but in the sense
of the feeling and certainly the patriotic feeling of this country.
It's a new Harvard poll just released when it comes
to young Americans, and I wrot the Greatest Generation mainly
focused on what were the most part young Americans, young

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men who went overseas to fight the Nazis, young women
and women of all ages who entered.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
The workforce, took care of the family.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Took care of the family, did it all? Yeah, I
mean a lot of those people of the members of
the Greatest Generation were people of the age group of
eighteen to twenty nine. So today, you know, some eighty
years later, how far removed are we from that? Well,

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when it comes to young Democrats, the divide couldn't be
any any starker. This Harvard pole shows national pride among
young Democrats. Just twenty four percent say they express pride
in being an American.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Now, is that just because of who's in the White House?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
You know, that's a good question.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Or is it that that shouldn't impact the pride you
feel any kind.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Of shouldn't I would argue that this is more of
these These are kids who have been who were who
were you know, coming up, were raised and if they
were at all politically aware, they were listening to Democrat
leaders denigrate this country's greatness.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
The Obama apology tours started with Obama, it it continued
with Biden.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
We had a little respite in there for four years
with Donald Trump. But yeah, these are people that were raised.
This is a generation that was raised listening to the
Democrat leaders run down this country, tell us how bad
we were, how we weren't a world leader, how we
didn't deserve to be. Well, all you have to do

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is look around. Yeah, I mean, some people can't take
the blinders off tof you know. Well, I get it.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
But again, that shouldn't be who wins the White House
every four years. Shouldn't impact you know, your thoughts about
you know, what a great country we live in, you know.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
And I don't. I don't. I don't think that's the case.
I don't think that's the reason. And okay, let's let's
say that these these are not people who who last
December or or last October before the election, had great
pride in America and all of a sudden because Donald
Trump on the White House, now they don't. You're your

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your your sense of patriotism cannot change that that quickly,
not if you're telling the truth. I do I really
believe this is this is these young liberals were brought
up hearing what all was wrong with this country? And
if you're hammered with that over and over and over again,
and they only to hear from Democrat leaders. They probably

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heard it from their from their parents too, who harbored
these same sentiments. When that's the way you're brought up
thinking and feeling, because it's been hammered into you from
day one, I don't think it matters who's in the
White House. You were just raised to believe that America
was not a good place to be. Seventy six percent

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of young Republicans do express pride in being an American.
I'm not sure what the other twenty four percent of
them with, but still.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
And again, that shouldn't be impacted that greatly by who's
in the White House.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
It should not be. But now these folks that these
youngsters grew up listening to from the political spectrum are
no longer happy with those leaders. The same poll showed
that Congressional Democrats approval ratings among young voters has gone
down by nineteen points since twenty seventeen. The approval of

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again Americans aged eighteen to twenty nine when it comes
to Democrats Democrat approval Congressional Democrats down to just twenty
three percent. It was forty two percent the spring of
twenty seventeen Congressional Republican's approval ratings in twenty seventeen or
twenty eight percent, they've actually notched up one point to

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twenty nine percent. Huh okay, pretty interesting stuff there. So,
on the one hand, we've got young Democrats who aren't
proud to be Americans. They're also not proud of their
congressional leaders either.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I think Congress traditionally gets Democrats or Republicans gets the
lowest ratings among any politician.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
But to go from forty two percent eight years ago
to twenty three percent now for Congressional Democrats in the
eyes of young folks, oh, I guess you could probably
make the case that for young folks like this, I mean, hey,
eight years ago, some of these people in this poll
are ten years old, you know. Okay, well now they're

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the new generation coming up, and maybe just across the board,
they just don't like politics period.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Maybe or maybe they see too much of the old
generation still hanging around.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Inner David Hog huh yeah, yeah, yeah, the vice chair
of the DNC. Yeah, let's get rid of all the
old people. He probably he probably had a big party
last night. We heard Dick Durbin was going to retire. Oh,
probably did. But in the meantime, the DNC is starting
to rain that dude in a little bit. Apparently they're
looking to pass, uh pass an ordinance so to speak,

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at their next set of meetings that says that no
member of the DNC can actively root for any primary candidate,
because remember, it's Hog who wants to to primary older
Democrats in safe districts and put some of this new
young blood in there, no doubt, more squad types. Fascinating

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times politically speaking.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
And we thank you for doing just that. Good Morning.
Ticket's Thursday, April twenty fourth time now, eight fifteen. One
of the things that the Democrat Party has always had
on their side was the media. But it's getting harder
and harder right now for the media to ignore what
maybe the real story about. Yeah, the guy we've been
talking incessantly about now for a couple of weeks, it

(32:19):
seems the Maryland man, it's us A Van Holland referred
to him as Kilmar Abrigo Garcia, which is actually the
El Salvadorian man living illegally in Maryland would be a
better way to phrase it. So this is the guy
that Van Holland, you know, went down to El Salvador

(32:42):
trying to secure his release unsuccessfully. So although he didnt
get him in a better facility, at least I guess
it sounds like. And then he was joined afterwards by
a couple of other Democrats in Congress that taxpayer expense
making a trip down to Central America, demand that he'd
be returned to the US. Okay, now we have told

(33:03):
you there was his story floating around out there about
him getting pulled over in Tennessee and the Tennessee High
Patrol thought this guy might be a human smuggler. They
got in touch with the FBI and they were told, yeah, na,
the big deal. I don't know how much the FBI

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actually looked into it, but keeping in mind this was
Joe Biden's FBI. Maybe what doesn't surprise you, but we've
got a little more detail about that incident. When he
was pulled over by a Tennessee High Patrol officer, he
was driving a car that belonged to a confessed human smuggler.

(33:47):
This has been confirmed now by multiple DHS sources to
Fox News Digital, the sources confirming documents reported by Just
the News that Abrigo Garcia was in fact driving an SUV,
a SUV belonging to Jose Ramon Hernandos Res, another illegal

(34:07):
who in twenty twelve confessed to human smuggling across the border.
H Okay, this stop happened when a trooper observed him
speeding and unable to stay in his lane. The trooper
noticing eight individuals in the car with Abrigo Garcia. We've

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been driving from Houston to Maryland to perform construction work.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
How many people in eight? Eight people in the car. Okay,
So now you're you're you're you're Tennessee High Patrol trooper. Right,
you pull over this car. There are eight people inside.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
The car. You run a check on it belongs to
a confessed human smuggler. What do you to think? Well,
just what the trooper thought, right, yep. Absolutely. But as
far as to the FBI saying, hey, yeah, let him go,
don't I don't understand that. When speaking to the trooper,

(35:14):
Brego Garcia allegedly pretended to speak less English than he
was capable of that attempted to put the officer off
track by responding to questions with questions. Okay, Now there
are documents that further reveal that this suburban he was

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driving that he said, belonged to his boss. And remember
boss is a confessed human smuggler. Okay, this story gets
worse and worse for Democrats all the time, now, doesn't it.

(35:58):
Now is he an MS thirteen member, But that's alleged,
We don't know. But a federal immigration court in Baltimore,
this goes back a couple of years, determined that he
was not eligible for release when he was once arrested
in Marylands, is back in twenty nineteen. At that point,

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he was identified by the Prince George's County Police Gang
Union as in fact a member of MS thirteen, and
an immigration court said he was not eligible for release
because he failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that
his release from custody he would not pose a danger
to others, the court saying, as the evidence shows he

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is a verified member of MS thirteen. So here's a
you know, a sizable contention of the Democrat Party going
to bat for a guy who at best case scenario
is not a good dude. Then the worst case scenario, well,

(37:06):
it could be a whole lot worse than just that. Now,
there is some blowback amongst the Democrat party. Now we
talked about this the other day, and most recently, Henry Quaar,
the Texas Democrat who's moderate and been very outspoken against
Democrat policies when it comes to illegal immigration, in an

(37:28):
interview yesterday, acknowledging, yeah, there are due process questions, but
he says there are more pressing issues that constituents want
our party to focus on. I don't know if that's
the right issue, he says. Now, since we're on the subject,

(37:51):
the FBI now assessing that some Venezuelan government officials likely
facilitate the migration of members of Trendar from Venezuela to
the US in order to advance Maduro's objective of undermining
public safety here. That would make perfect sense, now, wouldn't it,

(38:15):
a senior Administration official telling Fox News Digital yesterday. Unclassified
portions of the FBI's classified intelligence assessment on the government
of Venezuela and their relationship with the TDA shows that
this is in fact the case. The FBI assessing that

(38:37):
in the next six to eighteen months, Venezuelan government officials
likely will attempt to leverage these gang members in the
US as proxy actors to threaten, abduct, and kill members
of the well anti Maduro regime Venezuelans that are living
here in this country, and they expect similar activities throughout

(38:59):
South America. Now, remember, how did these people get here?
Who let these people in the back door? Who didn't
enforce the laws that were on the books, who kept saying, hey,
you know what, it's up to Congress to take care
of this, not me. Well, I don't know we know
exactly who that was. Was that Joe Biden? Was that

(39:20):
somebody else? Not real sure, but a scary assessment from
this FBI under Donald Trump about the infiltration into this country.
I mean, you go back a couple of years, nobody
never heard of this gang, right right, You never heard
of them, and now suddenly they seem to be everywhere,
including by the way, here in South Carolina down in

(39:44):
the Low Country. Who got that report out of the
Charleston area a couple of weeks ago, Yeah, who let
them in? Huh oh? By the way, Just as an aside,
since we're we're talking about the mar Gland man. The
Baltimore County Public School system has apparently suspended a high

(40:06):
school student after he pushed his school to hang American
flags and two classrooms that didn't have them displayed, as
required by state law. State law in Maryland says you've
got to have the American flag in a classroom. Well
two didn't have it. This eighteen year old, who by
the way, is a Marine Corps enlistee, raised a rucus

(40:29):
about it. Good for him, and then was suspended for
his efforts. Well that's good too. That will get his
efforts even more attention. This is a guy, an eighteen
year old who was just looking to finish out his
last year of high school and head off to Paris Island,
serve his country, serve his country. Did the patriotic thing

(40:50):
and said, wait a minute, you know where the flags?
You can go home? Young man? How dare you question us? Well,
he sued, and I don't see how the school district
has a leg to stand on. It's state law.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
I won't live up the ship talking about what matters.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
This country is too great to throw over to communism.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
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Speaker 3 (41:29):
Time for our final thoughts here on a Thursday morning,
let's start here where Earlier this week, not one, not two,
but three different bills were being debated over the State House,
all having to do with gambling. Of course, one of
those was the proposal to build a casino. Gop megadowner

(41:58):
Wallace Chiefs and his plans to try to construct a
casino overall fin ninety five and Santi and at om
all over there. Remember that's without any kind of state help,
no incentives. He wants to do it on his own.
He says he'll bring a lot of money to the area,
and now others counter, well, yeah, you'll bring a lot
of other stuff to that we don't want. Well, that

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was one of the bills that got debated. The other
two were one measure that aimed to clarify language on
skill based games as non gambling, and one to legalize
and regulate sports wagering. Okay, what I found most interesting
though about this article in the Post and courier was
this we're an A Wilder, who wrote the piece says

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this in the second paragraph of the article. Three bills
to legalize gambling received hearing Xapril twenty second and a
major shift for the gaming industries and one of the
first signs of life for a vice that has long
faced headwinds of the socially conservative Southeast. The biggest reason
for the push, she writes, Well, one was, of course
she mentioned the push by chiefs as a gup megadnor.

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But the other I hadn't even thought of a need
for cash to make up for income tax cuts.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Uh, that's part of their tax plan. Well, we know this.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
If you ever with its flat tax proposal, if it
makes it through in this session, and it doesn't look
like it's going to, if you ever hope to get
it down to two point four nine percent, so it's
palatable for the rest of us, you know, the middle
class workers of the state. You're going to need to

(43:49):
keep that income revenue stream coming in. And so is
this part of the plan legalized casino gambling in other
forms of ambling to bring in more revenue to the
state to make up for that tax cut.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Wow, I know a lot of conservatives who want our
taxes to come down. I mean, that's part of their
basic philosophy. But they'd rather pay higher taxes than let
gambling into the state.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
There are a lot that would I would agree with
that sentiment. Yes, interesting to what I hadn't thought of before. Wow. Okay,
all right, let's keep an eye on.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
That, and keep an eye on how many legislators try
and paint the argument that way. Well, you want your taxes,
here's the way to get your taxes cut. We've got
to do this in order to cut your taxes. Yep,
which is not true.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Expect that argument, though, you're right. The word is is
that And we've been hearing this now for a little while,
but that. In fact, Donald Trump is just about set
to pick Brian Sterling to be the next US Attorney
for South Carolina, the long time director of the prominent
Corrections here. Moving on up, and I'm gonna leave big

(45:07):
shoes to fill, not only in uh he you know,
one of his again, one of his pet projects for
years now has been to try to lobby the FCC
to change the rules to allow cell phone signals to
be jammed around prisons and in the meantime, he's come

(45:29):
up with other options in order to try to do that.
Let's just hope that and I think this is probably
a done deal that Stirling rises to this new position,
that somebody will will carry on that. And I don't
hope that he can do it from this new position
or not, but somebody's got to do it. Speaking of
correction officials or now that Crayman Harvey who just recently

(45:53):
departed Richland County and the Alvin Insklen Detention Center, both
he and his deputy direct they've lended new gigs here
in the Midlands. They're both heading to Kershaw County to
serve as that county's detention center director and deputy director.
You know, we mentioned this early this morning, till if

(46:16):
you raised a very good point, what does that say
about the job in Richland County and the ASG when
you leave a bigger county and a more high profile
position to go next door to Kershaw County for a
smaller job, and I don't know what it pays.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Yeah, that would be my first question, and that should
be a matter of public record. So, but I can't
imagine Kershaw County paying that much more than Richland County.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Probably it's the opposite. I would think it would be
the opposite. You'd think so.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Is he just tired of the headaches?

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I'm sure he is, right, wouldn't you be? Probably? Yeah?
And interestingly enough, in a twist of fade, remember the
guy he replaced, Tyrell Cato, took a job at the
Alvenezklend Detention Center. He left the Kershaw County Correctional Facility.
He went to Richland County and that didn't last long

(47:07):
because then it popped up the well. There was some
issues when he was in charge in Kershaw County and
Richland County did not do their due diligence before they
made that higher. Okay, there you go. If you're a
citizen inside the Richland two district footprint, expect your taxes

(47:28):
to go up the board. In the first vote this
week is voting in favor of a twelve mill property
tax increase. They got to make up for a little
bit of a shortfall to the tune of close to
seven million dollars. Okay, not everybody supported this. It was

(47:51):
four to three, Angela Nash Monica Scott, Gary Dennis voting
against it. Not wanting to put more burden on taxpayers.
But you know this is a well, they've got their
their is dotted and t's crossed, a little bit better
than a well quite a bit better actually than their
counterparts over in Regional one, but still seven million dollars shortfall.

(48:15):
And speaking of schools, Trump assigned multiple executive orders targeting
our education system. He signed these yesterday. One of them
focused on school discipline. Trump signing an order that will
undo policies from former presidents of Obama and Biden that

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we created some issues in the classroom. Remember Obama and
Biden were the opinion that, well, if you're a member
of the privileged class, you know what I mean, you
should be treated more harshly than if you're not a
member of the privileged class. Remember that which did did

(48:58):
absolutely nobody any good. I mean nobody, didn't do the
schools any good, didn't do the teachers any good, didn't
do the students who are committing infractions any good. Well,
lesson are your learning? Well, the one you're learning is
a bad one. So this new Trump order calls on
schools to discipline students based purely on their behavior, with

(49:20):
no regard to racial disparities. When it comes to disciplinary action.
It's just another common sense idea, right. Yeah. And we
mentioned earlier the eighteen year old in Maryland, the senior
who was suspended for questioning why the school he attended,
the high school didn't, as state law requires, have American

(49:42):
flags in a couple of classrooms. For his efforts, he
got suspended again. Kid just trying to finish out his
high school career. His next assignment a member of the
US Marine Corps. This ruckus with a camping world up

(50:03):
in Greenville, North Carolina. You've been following this one. No,
they hung a huge American flag. You see these around
here a few spots, and that caused quite a bit
of controversy. The flag was big, about the size of
a basketball court, and it was huge. But well, Greenville,
North Carolina told him he needed to take it down

(50:24):
or be fine. He refused, Well, he's actually shut down
his dealership there. I hope he moves it somewhere else
close by and takes the money the tax revenues. There.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
By the way, we got a quick talk back on
iHeartRadio about our earlier topic on gambling.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Yes, I believe that gambling is a tax on people
who cannot do math. That means that we take the
people that have been failed by our public education system
and tax them again, destroying families by bringing more gambling,
and we already have a lot of gambling into our state.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Dorothy, thank you very much for that talkback. The people
made that say marguming back when the lottery was being
the education was being debated. Yeah, all right, it is
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