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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think this evening is going to be a perfect
night to be out of the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, Well, I'm going to go and I'm going
to take my dogs because it's doggy night.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I hope your dogs can stay cool.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh they will. We'll be fine.
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do you think the wager was? You remember we had
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Somebody said that the keyword was not correct, but I'm
checking in our system that it is, so that might
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It is correct, and that is the correct keyword, yes, sir, okay,
So you were talking about the wager. We had the wager.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, the wager, remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I don't remember what we put on the line, anything
on the line.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It was friendly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I know we were both way off, did you So?
The question was what's the turnout going to be?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The other question was what was going to be the result?
We were away off on the result you and I
that we were. John Ewing defeats Gene Stothart and is
going to be the new mayor in less than a month.
He'll be sworn in, making national headlines, first African American
to be the mayor of Omaha, and many considering this
an upset over the considering this an upset over the
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incumbent Mayor Stothert, who. I don't know how you can
look at Mayor Stotht's time as the mayor of Omaha
and not feel like a lot was accomplished. There certainly
was a lot that was accomplished. But I think it's
pretty interesting how I mean, it wasn't close.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Did you see this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Forty eight, six hundred ninety three people voted for John
Ewing at least that's the number now. Jeene stother got
thirty seven, seven hundred and fifty eight John Ewing fifty
six point three to two percent of the vote. Jane
stopped at forty three point six eight percent of the vote. Wow,
it took me by surprise.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What do you think the big takeaways are a lot
of people motivated and mobilized between the primary and the
major election, is what it would seem. Am I off there?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nope, guess the turnout number? I texted our friend Brian Cruz,
who's the Douglas County election commissioner. He will be on
the show tomorrow at two o'clock too.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But two hundred and ten thousand registered or something like that?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
All right? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well either way, I felt like you said that number
when you were doing the math yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, I was saying in that precinct one precinct, that
person was doing like the math on what the turnout was,
and we thought it was going to be like low
base on the number he gave. But we had seventy
five thousand people in the entire city vote in the primary,
which was roughly twenty five percent of the voter of
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the people who are registered voters.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And this one got what about close to eighty seven thousand?
Am I doing that math right? Eighty six ish?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay? I think let me think.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Wait, stop holding stop pointing at me.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Nobody's pointing.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Take time to four the thirties.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Use your fingers if you have to. Yeah, you're right.
It is eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That was right, eighty seven, eighty seven is eighty five,
eighty five, eighty six somewhere in there. And so the
percentage would be I'm not gonna be able to nail this.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But if it was twenty five last time at seventy
five thousand, yep, so it's in the would it be
in the upper thirties.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Lower thirties, lower thirties, close to thirty two percent? Oh,
thirty two he said thirty one and a half to
thirty two in that window.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So I said twenty eight and you said thirty and
a half. I did, so you were close, but we
both undershot it, and you never want to undershoot it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's like it's like weist. I'm based on everything we
were hearing. It just didn't seem like there was a
lot of mobilization. And I think that's the takeaway, Matt Way.
More people were mobilized here, and we had anticipated that is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The takeaway because what is the predominant affiliation of the
people listening to this station. They weren't as mobilized were they.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Doesn't sound like it now, Jim Pillen, he went out
of his way to say that he didn't get that
the Republicans didn't get the vote out and West Omaha
needs to look in the mirror. He specifically said that,
how about we talk about council members. City council members
talk about these districts. Right, District one and forty nine,
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people seventy point four percent of the vote voted for
Pete Festerson you had. In District two, LAVONYA. Goodwin defeated
Ben Gray fifty nine to forty one percent. Council District three,
Danny Begley sixty four point eight percent defeated his opponent,
Michael Pilipitis.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think I'm saying that correctly.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
District by the way, that's tough for Michael.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
That's tough.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know, last name like that is tough to people
can't easily say your name Pilopitis.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Did he win? No, I see it. Yeah, that was
the name I was hoping to be able to say
a lot.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Nope, Danny Bagley it is.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ron Hugg defeated Andrew Adams in District four sixty four
to thirty nine percent or so. Sixty one point four
to thirty eight point five. Some of these districts, like
District four there, I mean like seven thousand people were
in it. District five and six didn't have competitive races.
Amy Milton defeats Tim Carter fifty five to forty five
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percent in District seven.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't know if we get too much. Am I
crazy for thinking that? There's quite a bit that you
can take away from the fact that the Republicans got
beat this badly in a race that they had the
incumbent and no real issues, right? What issue was holding
back Mayor Stoutthard. I had people emailing me as this
was coming out, and they were saying the street car
cost did it?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It seems likely it's definitely a part of the pie.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But how how is the street car that big of
a deal? Law?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's not to you, clearly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, it's not. It's already done. Ewing's doing the same thing. Okay,
this is a thing that is allegedly right. According to
all the other cities like the size of Omah or larger,
who have a similar thing, it has been a very
fruitful investment in their infrastructure. I understand that maybe some
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people in Omaha do not understand that. But it's crazy
to me that that's the thing. You're gonna not show
up and vote for the Republican because of a streetcar
project that the other candidate also will complete. What are
we talking about here?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know a lot of people are talking about roads,
and people are talking about the police department, all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I just I'm surprised in general that John Ewing somehow
was able not just to get more people out to vote,
but man, he greatly increased the amount of people voting
for him. And where was the twenty percent of Mike
McDonald's voters? Did they really just sit this one out?
What does that tell you about the process that we have?
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And we need to do better?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I talked to my wife about this yesterday because
she's just like, there's a lot of people that still
just don't know that this is happening, and I'm just like,
how how are you just not looking for it now?
I did have another person to email in and said,
if this was happening in November of last year, or
it was happening in November of twenty six, like the
proposed bill in the unicameral would make city elections take
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place in November. The number of turnout would go up,
and Mayor Stott that probably is still going to be
the mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But is that how we want it to be. We
can't independently enough think about this race.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm a little heated about the whole thing. Not because
of the result itself, but I just feel like people
take this stuff for granted way too much, way too much.
And I'm congratulations to John Ewing. He's a very nice man.
We tried to get a hold of him to be
a part of our show in the last week leading
up to the election. We did not get confirmation that
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he would or would not do that. His people have
not reached out to us. Hey, Matt, are we are
We reached back out to congratulate matt or John Ewing, Yes,
and so we'll see if he has time.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm sure he's a busy guy today.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, yeah, we don't need him today, but it'd be
nice to talk to the new mayor of Oma sometime
in the next few days, you know, all off.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
For the next few days. I did in my text
I mentioned today, so I'll send one to get a
response not as of right now, okay, but maybe Matt
didn't send it until like one thirty. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So send the person that we've been told to communicate with,
send them another text and say anytime the rest of
this week. We would love to have John Ewing on
and we hope that he will have time for hours.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Say lit again. I'll just turn on myware and it'll
just do talk to text quick.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's two nineteen. All right, what do you think about it?
I want to hear from you, and I hope to
get some calls or emails about this because it's a
big deal for us in Omaha. I hope people are
thinking about this. I hope this is something that people
have an opinion on. If you do call us four
oh two five five eight eleven ten four h two
five five eight eleven ten, thanks for listening to news
Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Emery sung on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How the incumbent Gene Stouthard was defeated pretty soundly by
John Ewing. John Ewing becomes the first African American to
become not governor the mayor in the history of the
city of Omaha, and he won fifty six to forty
four percent, and I'm rounding there a pretty stunning result,
not just the fact that he won, but he won
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by I'm close to, at least the way it sits
right now, eleven thousand votes, so it really wasn't that close.
We'll get your phone phone call here at four oh two,
five eleven ten, and Merle is on the line. Merle,
you'll start us off today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hey, Emriie, how are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Not too bad, man? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I'm thanks for taking my call. I'm a ride share
driver here in Omaha with twenty I'm about one hundred
rides short of twenty six thousand rides in seven years.
And I talk to people and people talk to me.
It's almost like tactic cab confession, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Just today I've given about fifteen rides, and only three
people knew that we had.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A new mayor, three of fifteen.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
It is amazing three that we had a new mayor,
three of fifteen.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So people aren't aware. They've got a busy life. They've
got busy lives, and they just it's just a back
burner thing to them. I think they a lot of
people don't do their homework on stuff because I I'll
constantly bring up different subjects and Bill talk and people
are happy, people are kind, nicest people. I mean, we laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Sure, I love this.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I don't absolute do this. I want to do this.
People just not, I don't know, it's not a priority
for them.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
And that's sad.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, And I'm with you, Merle, big deal.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, And that's what I'm saying is in I don't
know how much day to day a lot of these
people even notice that their lives are any different. But
at the same time, there's going to be there's going
to be something that they're going to notice that's different,
or they're going to want to complain or get answers
about something that the city is doing differently, or some
deal that's been made with the city and somebody else
that they're just not understanding. And they weren't paying attention
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when we were having these elections, So I don't. I mean,
I feel like we're doing the best that we can
with the you know, blowtorch that we have here, but
that doesn't make me feel you know, great about you
know the fact that I mean, I'm happier that we
got close to thirty two percent. Uh, that's much better
than twenty five percent, but it still is half, not
even half of what you would see in a November
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election when the president is on the line. So we
got work to do, Merle, but I appreciate the insight.
Thanks so much for sharing that today.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Let's go to Best on the line at four h two.
How you doing today, Best, I'm doing okay.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
I haven't talked here for a while. I think that
I know, I get my information from other disources. I
don't get in the radio and the TV and everything,
so I do my own so I have a different
viewpoint on things, so you know, and I will just
you know, I like you guys sometimes when I listen
to but sometimes I don't. But I will say that,
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you know, you tend to lean more, and I'm not
saying you should lean left. I'm not saying that The
type of programming I really like to listen to is
something that is more just actual middle of the road,
doesn't have too much leanings one way or the others.
Because I can make up my own mind. So I
think the independent voter that actually went out there, whether
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they are a Republican or Democrat, and that what I'm
talking is independent minded. You can register anything, but how
you vote, and you're you're not always voting or something
you might be voting against it. Sometimes people have different
reasons why they think that they need to do a
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term limit on somebody. The thing with this thing is
that I think that they thought it was going to win.
So probably some Republicans didn't even turn out because they
just assumed that could be the issue too. But there's
also people that just are tired of the political system
and the way it runs. If you look at the
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ads that were on television, most people's lives don't revolve
around law and order to a certain degree, and so
when you're selling somebody something and you're trying to push
it really hard, it kind of doesn't work for people.
Because everybody has their own way of looking at the
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politicians and political systems. And I think a lot of
people who are independent that could maybe go out there
and vote on them, they they're tired of seeing the
same people in there. I mean, we have people that
are very old that are still and and they just
live off of the situation. And I don't think that
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one person, you know, it's good to have different people
in there because they're they're the chess and so and so,
and you guys, I think you tend to lean towards
the Republican because you have all these people that you say,
listen to you, but that are Republicans. And it's like,
but I don't think that all these guys are so much.
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They're not all that great either. But I'm not saying
the Democrats know but.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Bett Smeth, I'm hearing what you're saying, Beth, and I
do appreciate all all of your points here. I don't
disagree that I think people like new, fresh people from
time to time, but it just it doesn't quite line
up with the results of the city council, you know,
because almost all of the same uh we're going to
have basically almost the entire city council is going to
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look the same. So I bet that I gotta move on.
Running out of time here. I appreciate the call, but
I try And this is just me not defending the
show or how I do things. I talk about things
in a conservative mind because that's kind of where I land.
I like to think that we're pretty fair and we're
pretty balanced on this show. I felt, yeah, a little
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stood up a bit that John Ewing and his campaign.
It wasn't him personally, because we're supposed to talk to
his person but they're just not communicated with us, so
they I mean, I asked to have him on the show.
He had been on the show before the primary, he'd
been on the show right after the primary. After that,
I had no luck when I returned from vacation getting
him on the last week before the election. That's the
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only thing that frustrated me, and that I thought was
a pretty big indictment that John Ewing and his campaign
didn't think it was important enough to be on our
show or the station.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I wouldn't take it so personally, it's not personal. It's
not personal.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's the fact, though, Matt, that we have an outlet
to reach people in Omaha, a really large audience. We
are the largest radio station that talks about this stuff
in the entire city. We talk about stuff and it
reaches people in a way that other things cannot. So
I do feel like there is something strategic that was
done to not want to be a part of this.
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So why was that and how was that still a
winning formula? Was it just an immobilization situation, and the
Republicans took it for granted that they thought that, oh, well,
Mayor South, there's no way that she's going to lose.
Or how many people just didn't think about going and
voting for one reason or another. And what does that
say about the issues of the day, right Like, there
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didn't seem to be an obvious, glaring issue that we
had here, So I don't know, it is interesting. Michael, Vicki, Dan,
and Tom. I'm going to get to your call when
we come back. If you want to call in four
h two five five eight eleven ten talk about the
mayoral results. Would love to chat with you on this
on News Radio eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Ten KFA Emri Sunger.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
The phones itself are absolutely full, so if you're trying
to get in, be patient. We'll get through some of
these calls and that will open up some lines with
The number is four h two five five eight eleven ten.
Michael will start us here in this segment. Michael, welcome
to the show. What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Thank you, Embery. I just think it's it's very unfortunate
for Omaha regarding the lack of Republican Party turnout and
the reason I say that is almost without regard to
whom Mayor Stothard was running against. I believe that she
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is a once in a generation candidate. And I'll tell
you why. Listening to any interview that she did does
I just am struck by the degree of detail with
which she answers every question. Yeah, her mastery of city
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policy and the energy that she presents to and gives
to the city. And I think she's going to be sorely,
sorely missed.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, Michael, I think that her legacy is going to
live within the infrastructure of a lot of the improvements
that have been made to places like downtown, the development
stuff that has been pledged and built in the downtown area.
But the opposition is going to say she didn't think
beyond downtown enough. She didn't get to North Omaha, South
Omaha in the same way that maybe a Democratic candidate
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that spoke to those people, like say John Ewing, was
able to mobilize. And I don't like the governor. Governor
Pillen blames West Omaha with Republicans for not turning out
for the vote and why this race ended up in
the hands pretty lopsided by the way to John Ewing,
But I'm with you on the detail. She definitely cares
about the service that she gave, and there's a lot
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more detail in what she gives than almost any other
politician that I've ever had a chance to talk to.
But for whatever reason, Michael, people wanted to change, and
for whatever reason that would like, do you just they
didn't care about the details anymore.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I guess I don't know, yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
And I guess one thing I always I've always found
also sad, is that that when people say, well it's
it's just time for a change for the sake of change,
that makes no sense to me. I believe if something
if something is going is going well, then I'd say
go with it. Yeah, be glad that you have it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's no doubt that a lot of people know how
it felt that way, and apparently it just didn't mobilize
in the vote. Michael, appreciate the call man, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Right and thanks, thanks for your great show.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Thank you appreciate, really appreciate that Vicky is on our line. Vicky,
welcome to the show on Levington kfa B. I understand
that you live in an s I d yes, I do, Okay,
So did you get you didn't get a chance to
vote yesterday for the mayor?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Did you well this time?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
And I'm just saying I lived in Dudgess County from
nineteen to twenty eleven, never ever ever got to vote
for a mayor. So we move out to another Sharpeye
County SID, and again I cannot vote for mayor. So
my question is in the Douglas County race, has anyone
ever taken a percentage of how many registered voters are
in the sids that would make a difference either way.
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I'm of course Republican, but I would just want to
know there's a lot of us out here. I went
out and did a lot of walking for Trump on
this last election, and everybody I knocked on and lived
in a SID. So any of those people, whether it's
in Douglas or Sarpie Piotball vote, you know. So that's
frustrating to us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
No, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And we talked about this on Monday ahead of the
actual vote itself, or was it yesterday, I can't remember,
but either way, it was one of those things where
I like, it's such a new concept to me that
there are people that are in areas that were theoretically
annexed by Omaha, their city no longer kind of exists.
In the same way, the sids themselves are kind of
independent on the way that the city views them based
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on debt and all that stuff. They don't want to
an x something or keep something or put something into
Omaha that has too much debt or whatever. It's a
very complex situation. But I just couldn't believe that there
were that many people in those that many areas around
Omaha that just don't have a voice in Omaha City
elections while also not having their own city government that
they can rely on.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I have no idea that thank you. Yeah, I have
no idea what needs to happen to fix that problem.
But it's a problem I think for sure. Vicky appreciate
the call. I call yeah, no problem. Dan is on
our phone line at four oh two, five five eight
to eleven ten here on eleven ton KFA B Dan,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Well, you know, I stopped buying the way home from
work last night and voted, and and I voted for
Gene Stoutht. You know that on some level that seemed
like just a smaller stick to get beat with, you know,
in some way times they're voting.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That way, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
And there's there's some things I really liked about Gene
stouther Uh, you know, as mayor. I think the way
she lets you smarter. We're just kind of roll, you know,
and get things done. And we didn't have riots here
when a lot of people did, you know, if it
was it was very small scale. I just and you know,
I wasn't big on youing you got a good show.
I can't believe you didn't come on it. But my
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point with Jeane Stouthard, she lost a lot of conservative votes.
Do you remember immediately after Nebraska it became Nebraska law
that if you could pass a background check and acquire
a handgun, you could legally carry it to the state
of Nebraska. And immediately Jean Stothard came up with she
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sent an order out making it illegal to carry a
firearm on any city property. Now totally get libraries, courthouses.
You know, there's places you don't bring a gun, you know,
and smart people know that. But we couldn't carry one
on the sidewalk. I can't go for a run, you
know and carry a you know and carry a pistol.
There's parks way on the edge of town, you know.
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You I mean, she made this illegal and took a
way a constitutional right with a stroke of a pin.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So what you're saying, Dan and Dan is just like
little things like that kind of piled up and people
were just like they weren't crazy about her as as
a candidate for another four years, is what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Well, And and she re didn't rescind the order after
a lot of pressure, and we had to sue her
to get our rights back and to get a stay
against that order. You know, we had to sue her
to get our right back. She rescinded it later, but
very quietly because she still wanted to look cool as
a Dundee dinner parties, you know. So you can't make
everybody happy on this. If you're a conservative, be a conservative.
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But there's guys, I know, women I know that didn't
go to the polls because they couldn't pick John Ewing,
But they couldn't pick her either, because she sold them out.
And she never if she had publicly came out and
said she made a mistake and rescinded it like she
did quietly. I think she would have been in a
better place, but that was one of the things that
piled up. The bucket got too heavy to carry.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's good at perspective. I'm glad you brought that up
to our attention today. Thank you so much for it.
Let's go to Tom before I hit a break here. Tom,
thanks for holding and being on the show on ten
or eleven KFAB that's the radio station I'm on.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What's on your mind memory?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
I voted for Jean Stothard all four times that she ran.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
The first time I.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Voted for was because she campaigned on a promise to
get rid of what's called a restaurant tax that pre
dates you coming to town. I voted for her three
additional times, but that has always stuck in my craw
that she did not do what she said she would do.
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And I think she has just done a marvelous job
as mirror. But character matters. I don't have any large complaints.
I have met John Ewing and I find him to.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Be a very fine man, and he's run.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
A good Treasurer's office. I think there's reason for optimism
for any buddy that's distressed over election results, but I
trust the people and the people voted and I was
not surprised. So that's that's the points.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I was going to make.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Hey, Tom, I appreciate that perspective today. Thanks for calling
our show.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Enjoy the show, Bye bye, Thank.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You, John, Mary and other people are calling in right now.
We will get to your calls momentarily. Love to get
your perspective on the mayor results. John Ewing is the
new mayor. He will be sworn in a few weeks.
Jeane Stothard after twelve years of service as the mayor,
she is no longer the mayor after losing last night's election.
If you want to call in four h two five five,
eight eleven ten on News Radio eleven ten Kfab Emery
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Sung on this segment, John, Welcome into the show today
on eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
How's it going.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's going well. I voted for Stothard, but I'll I'll
just speculate on maybe why people didn't vote for her
as much as things a couple points of one. I'm
just wondering. I'm just speculating if people didn't want to
vote for anybody for a fourth term and just kind
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of leave it at that. The second thing that I'll
talk about is, even though I voted for a stopic
and she's very detail oriented, I thought concerning the road
conditions and the potholes and stuff, I thought she was
kind of stone. Excuse me to tone death on road conditions,
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and I'll go into a little detail. When people complained
about the roads, she would always come back and say, well,
we've got this twenty year plan and everything. Yes, and
I understand that, but people don't want to wait twenty
years for their roads to get fixed. And I understand
that we all have pothole problems in the winter months
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and the freezing and thawing those, but when you still
see potholes that haven't been fixed in you know, in March,
still still there in May and June and the summer
months that people noticed that. Yeah, and I and roads
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were bad. We had a right twenty ten before Stothor
was mayor roads, we had really bad winter and roads
were really bad. So this but now she's been there
for twelve years. Yeah, and the roads didn't seem to
get better and people don't want to wait twenty years
for that. But it seemed like she didn't take criticism. Oh,
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I mean right, she seems like she got defensive on
right when she was criticized, she got defensive, and I
think people got that got under her craw and I
got under our cross. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I appreciate the call, John.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I want to get to another call here real quick,
but just to like reiterate what John just said that
you can get a vibe from people and just like, hey,
you know what, just trust the plan, trust the process.
We have this under control, we have it figured out.
There are some people that you know, have kind of
a different perspective when they when somebody brings up some
concerns and they then can kind of like think or adjust.
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And I'm not saying she couldn't do that, but when
talking to her, she would regularly go right back to
where the plan was.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And if things.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Weren't just working, weren't working for people out of that plan,
I can understand how that could be a problem for
a voter who wants to go and trust her. Mary's
on our line. Will wrap up this hour with Mary.
Hey Mary, what do you think today?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (28:31):
Hi, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, a couple of
things earlier you said, you know, I guess people just
wanted to change. I don't think that's at all a
dad said at all, because if people want to change,
they would have gotten out and voted. And then had
people voted, I mean, isn't Omaha mostly Republicans. I really
believe she would have won. But there I think I
think the reason why. I don't think we're going to
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find any one reason or two reasons why she didn't win.
I think there's a bunch of them, and they are
all a bunch of small things that don't make sense
that added up. I mean, Warren Beaffett came out and
said that the street car idea is going to go
bankrupt within ten years. And I've heard people complain that
she has been present since she married her new husband
that lives in Saint Louis, and she goes there a lot. Yeah,
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I think with young people there's an attitude that my
vote doesn't matter, especially coming up off of a national election.
I just think it's a ton of then what other
people have mentioned too, I think it's just a ton
of things.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, Oh, Mary, I appreciate the thought process on that today,
and thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I just say, in twenty one, virtually the exact same
turnout as this year thirty two point seven percent turnout
in twenty one versus twenty five. I just wanted to
throw that stat out there for the General. For the
general in twenty one, it was thirty two point seven percent,
all right, Yeah, so I mean virtually it's not that
far off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We can deep dive into this and try to figure
out district by district exactly maybe where things may have
been different, but there's no doubt that things were different
this time around. We'll talk more about this call Us
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Somebody said that the keyword was not correct, but I'm
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, the wager, remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I don't remember what we put on the line, anything
on the line.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It was friendly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I know we were both way off, did you So?
The question was what's the turnout going to be?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The other question was what was going to be the result?
We were away off on the result you and I
that we were. John Ewing defeats Gene Stothart and is
going to be the new mayor in less than a month.
He'll be sworn in, making national headlines, first African American
to be the mayor of Omaha, and many considering this
an upset over the considering this an upset over the
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incumbent Mayor Stothert, who. I don't know how you can
look at Mayor Stotht's time as the mayor of Omaha
and not feel like a lot was accomplished. There certainly
was a lot that was accomplished. But I think it's
pretty interesting how I mean, it wasn't close.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Did you see this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Forty eight, six hundred ninety three people voted for John
Ewing at least that's the number now. Jeene stother got
thirty seven, seven hundred and fifty eight John Ewing fifty
six point three to two percent of the vote. Jane
stopped at forty three point six eight percent of the vote. Wow,
it took me by surprise.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What do you think the big takeaways are a lot
of people motivated and mobilized between the primary and the
major election, is what it would seem. Am I off there?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nope, guess the turnout number? I texted our friend Brian Cruz,
who's the Douglas County election commissioner. He will be on
the show tomorrow at two o'clock too.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But two hundred and ten thousand registered or something like that?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
All right? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well either way, I felt like you said that number
when you were doing the math yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, I was saying in that precinct one precinct, that
person was doing like the math on what the turnout was,
and we thought it was going to be like low
base on the number he gave. But we had seventy
five thousand people in the entire city vote in the primary,
which was roughly twenty five percent of the voter of
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the people who are registered voters.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And this one got what about close to eighty seven thousand?
Am I doing that math right? Eighty six ish?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay? I think let me think.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Wait, stop holding stop pointing at me.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Nobody's pointing.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Take time to four the thirties.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Use your fingers if you have to. Yeah, you're right.
It is eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That was right, eighty seven, eighty seven is eighty five,
eighty five, eighty six somewhere in there. And so the
percentage would be I'm not gonna be able to nail this.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
But if it was twenty five last time at seventy
five thousand, yep, so it's in the would it be
in the upper thirties.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Lower thirties, lower thirties, close to thirty two percent? Oh,
thirty two he said thirty one and a half to
thirty two in that window.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So I said twenty eight and you said thirty and
a half. I did, so you were close, but we
both undershot it, and you never want to undershoot it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's like it's like weist. I'm based on everything we
were hearing. It just didn't seem like there was a
lot of mobilization. And I think that's the takeaway, Matt Way.
More people were mobilized here, and we had anticipated that is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The takeaway because what is the predominant affiliation of the
people listening to this station. They weren't as mobilized were they.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Doesn't sound like it now, Jim Pillen, he went out
of his way to say that he didn't get that
the Republicans didn't get the vote out and West Omaha
needs to look in the mirror. He specifically said that,
how about we talk about council members. City council members
talk about these districts. Right, District one and forty nine,
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people seventy point four percent of the vote voted for
Pete Festerson you had. In District two, LAVONYA. Goodwin defeated
Ben Gray fifty nine to forty one percent. Council District three,
Danny Begley sixty four point eight percent defeated his opponent,
Michael Pilipitis.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think I'm saying that correctly.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
District by the way, that's tough for Michael.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
That's tough.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know, last name like that is tough to people
can't easily say your name Pilopitis.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Did he win? No, I see it. Yeah, that was
the name I was hoping to be able to say
a lot.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Nope, Danny Bagley it is.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ron Hugg defeated Andrew Adams in District four sixty four
to thirty nine percent or so. Sixty one point four
to thirty eight point five. Some of these districts, like
District four there, I mean like seven thousand people were
in it. District five and six didn't have competitive races.
Amy Milton defeats Tim Carter fifty five to forty five
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percent in District seven.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't know if we get too much. Am I
crazy for thinking that? There's quite a bit that you
can take away from the fact that the Republicans got
beat this badly in a race that they had the
incumbent and no real issues, right? What issue was holding
back Mayor Stoutthard. I had people emailing me as this
was coming out, and they were saying the street car
cost did it?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It seems likely it's definitely a part of the pie.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But how how is the street car that big of
a deal? Law?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's not to you, clearly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, it's not. It's already done. Ewing's doing the same thing. Okay,
this is a thing that is allegedly right. According to
all the other cities like the size of Omah or larger,
who have a similar thing, it has been a very
fruitful investment in their infrastructure. I understand that maybe some
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people in Omaha do not understand that. But it's crazy
to me that that's the thing. You're gonna not show
up and vote for the Republican because of a streetcar
project that the other candidate also will complete. What are
we talking about here?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know a lot of people are talking about roads,
and people are talking about the police department, all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I just I'm surprised in general that John Ewing somehow
was able not just to get more people out to vote,
but man, he greatly increased the amount of people voting
for him. And where was the twenty percent of Mike
McDonald's voters? Did they really just sit this one out?
What does that tell you about the process that we have?
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And we need to do better?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I talked to my wife about this yesterday because
she's just like, there's a lot of people that still
just don't know that this is happening, and I'm just like,
how how are you just not looking for it now?
I did have another person to email in and said,
if this was happening in November of last year, or
it was happening in November of twenty six, like the
proposed bill in the unicameral would make city elections take
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place in November. The number of turnout would go up,
and Mayor Stott that probably is still going to be
the mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But is that how we want it to be. We
can't independently enough think about this race.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm a little heated about the whole thing. Not because
of the result itself, but I just feel like people
take this stuff for granted way too much, way too much.
And I'm congratulations to John Ewing. He's a very nice man.
We tried to get a hold of him to be
a part of our show in the last week leading
up to the election. We did not get confirmation that
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he would or would not do that. His people have
not reached out to us. Hey, Matt, are we are
We reached back out to congratulate matt or John Ewing, Yes,
and so we'll see if he has time.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm sure he's a busy guy today.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, yeah, we don't need him today, but it'd be
nice to talk to the new mayor of Oma sometime
in the next few days, you know, all off.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
For the next few days. I did in my text
I mentioned today, so I'll send one to get a
response not as of right now, okay, but maybe Matt
didn't send it until like one thirty. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So send the person that we've been told to communicate with,
send them another text and say anytime the rest of
this week. We would love to have John Ewing on
and we hope that he will have time for hours.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Say lit again. I'll just turn on myware and it'll
just do talk to text quick.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's two nineteen. All right, what do you think about it?
I want to hear from you, and I hope to
get some calls or emails about this because it's a
big deal for us in Omaha. I hope people are
thinking about this. I hope this is something that people
have an opinion on. If you do call us four
oh two five five eight eleven ten four h two
five five eight eleven ten, thanks for listening to news
Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Emery sung on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How the incumbent Gene Stouthard was defeated pretty soundly by
John Ewing. John Ewing becomes the first African American to
become not governor the mayor in the history of the
city of Omaha, and he won fifty six to forty
four percent, and I'm rounding there a pretty stunning result,
not just the fact that he won, but he won
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by I'm close to, at least the way it sits
right now, eleven thousand votes, so it really wasn't that close.
We'll get your phone phone call here at four oh two,
five eleven ten, and Merle is on the line. Merle,
you'll start us off today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hey, Emriie, how are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Not too bad, man? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I'm thanks for taking my call. I'm a ride share
driver here in Omaha with twenty I'm about one hundred
rides short of twenty six thousand rides in seven years.
And I talk to people and people talk to me.
It's almost like tactic cab confession, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Just today I've given about fifteen rides, and only three
people knew that we had.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A new mayor, three of fifteen.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
It is amazing three that we had a new mayor,
three of fifteen.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So people aren't aware. They've got a busy life. They've
got busy lives, and they just it's just a back
burner thing to them. I think they a lot of
people don't do their homework on stuff because I I'll
constantly bring up different subjects and Bill talk and people
are happy, people are kind, nicest people. I mean, we laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Sure, I love this.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I don't absolute do this. I want to do this.
People just not, I don't know, it's not a priority
for them.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
And that's sad.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, And I'm with you, Merle, big deal.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, And that's what I'm saying is in I don't
know how much day to day a lot of these
people even notice that their lives are any different. But
at the same time, there's going to be there's going
to be something that they're going to notice that's different,
or they're going to want to complain or get answers
about something that the city is doing differently, or some
deal that's been made with the city and somebody else
that they're just not understanding. And they weren't paying attention
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when we were having these elections, So I don't. I mean,
I feel like we're doing the best that we can
with the you know, blowtorch that we have here, but
that doesn't make me feel you know, great about you
know the fact that I mean, I'm happier that we
got close to thirty two percent. Uh, that's much better
than twenty five percent, but it still is half, not
even half of what you would see in a November
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election when the president is on the line. So we
got work to do, Merle, but I appreciate the insight.
Thanks so much for sharing that today.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Let's go to Best on the line at four h two.
How you doing today, Best, I'm doing okay.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
I haven't talked here for a while. I think that
I know, I get my information from other disources. I
don't get in the radio and the TV and everything,
so I do my own so I have a different
viewpoint on things, so you know, and I will just
you know, I like you guys sometimes when I listen
to but sometimes I don't. But I will say that,
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you know, you tend to lean more, and I'm not
saying you should lean left. I'm not saying that The
type of programming I really like to listen to is
something that is more just actual middle of the road,
doesn't have too much leanings one way or the others.
Because I can make up my own mind. So I
think the independent voter that actually went out there, whether
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they are a Republican or Democrat, and that what I'm
talking is independent minded. You can register anything, but how
you vote, and you're you're not always voting or something
you might be voting against it. Sometimes people have different
reasons why they think that they need to do a
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term limit on somebody. The thing with this thing is
that I think that they thought it was going to win.
So probably some Republicans didn't even turn out because they
just assumed that could be the issue too. But there's
also people that just are tired of the political system
and the way it runs. If you look at the
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ads that were on television, most people's lives don't revolve
around law and order to a certain degree, and so
when you're selling somebody something and you're trying to push
it really hard, it kind of doesn't work for people.
Because everybody has their own way of looking at the
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politicians and political systems. And I think a lot of
people who are independent that could maybe go out there
and vote on them, they they're tired of seeing the
same people in there. I mean, we have people that
are very old that are still and and they just
live off of the situation. And I don't think that
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one person, you know, it's good to have different people
in there because they're they're the chess and so and so,
and you guys, I think you tend to lean towards
the Republican because you have all these people that you say,
listen to you, but that are Republicans. And it's like,
but I don't think that all these guys are so much.
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They're not all that great either. But I'm not saying
the Democrats know but.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Bett Smeth, I'm hearing what you're saying, Beth, and I
do appreciate all all of your points here. I don't
disagree that I think people like new, fresh people from
time to time, but it just it doesn't quite line
up with the results of the city council, you know,
because almost all of the same uh we're going to
have basically almost the entire city council is going to
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look the same. So I bet that I gotta move on.
Running out of time here. I appreciate the call, but
I try And this is just me not defending the
show or how I do things. I talk about things
in a conservative mind because that's kind of where I land.
I like to think that we're pretty fair and we're
pretty balanced on this show. I felt, yeah, a little
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stood up a bit that John Ewing and his campaign.
It wasn't him personally, because we're supposed to talk to
his person but they're just not communicated with us, so
they I mean, I asked to have him on the show.
He had been on the show before the primary, he'd
been on the show right after the primary. After that,
I had no luck when I returned from vacation getting
him on the last week before the election. That's the
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only thing that frustrated me, and that I thought was
a pretty big indictment that John Ewing and his campaign
didn't think it was important enough to be on our
show or the station.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I wouldn't take it so personally, it's not personal. It's
not personal.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's the fact, though, Matt, that we have an outlet
to reach people in Omaha, a really large audience. We
are the largest radio station that talks about this stuff
in the entire city. We talk about stuff and it
reaches people in a way that other things cannot. So
I do feel like there is something strategic that was
done to not want to be a part of this.
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So why was that and how was that still a
winning formula? Was it just an immobilization situation, and the
Republicans took it for granted that they thought that, oh, well,
Mayor South, there's no way that she's going to lose.
Or how many people just didn't think about going and
voting for one reason or another. And what does that
say about the issues of the day, right Like, there
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didn't seem to be an obvious, glaring issue that we
had here, So I don't know, it is interesting. Michael, Vicki, Dan,
and Tom. I'm going to get to your call when
we come back. If you want to call in four
h two five five eight eleven ten talk about the
mayoral results. Would love to chat with you on this
on News Radio eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Ten KFA Emri Sunger.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
The phones itself are absolutely full, so if you're trying
to get in, be patient. We'll get through some of
these calls and that will open up some lines with
The number is four h two five five eight eleven ten.
Michael will start us here in this segment. Michael, welcome
to the show. What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Thank you, Embery. I just think it's it's very unfortunate
for Omaha regarding the lack of Republican Party turnout and
the reason I say that is almost without regard to
whom Mayor Stothard was running against. I believe that she
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is a once in a generation candidate. And I'll tell
you why. Listening to any interview that she did does
I just am struck by the degree of detail with
which she answers every question. Yeah, her mastery of city
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policy and the energy that she presents to and gives
to the city. And I think she's going to be sorely,
sorely missed.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, Michael, I think that her legacy is going to
live within the infrastructure of a lot of the improvements
that have been made to places like downtown, the development
stuff that has been pledged and built in the downtown area.
But the opposition is going to say she didn't think
beyond downtown enough. She didn't get to North Omaha, South
Omaha in the same way that maybe a Democratic candidate
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that spoke to those people, like say John Ewing, was
able to mobilize. And I don't like the governor. Governor
Pillen blames West Omaha with Republicans for not turning out
for the vote and why this race ended up in
the hands pretty lopsided by the way to John Ewing,
But I'm with you on the detail. She definitely cares
about the service that she gave, and there's a lot
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more detail in what she gives than almost any other
politician that I've ever had a chance to talk to.
But for whatever reason, Michael, people wanted to change, and
for whatever reason that would like, do you just they
didn't care about the details anymore.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I guess I don't know, yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
And I guess one thing I always I've always found
also sad, is that that when people say, well it's
it's just time for a change for the sake of change,
that makes no sense to me. I believe if something
if something is going is going well, then I'd say
go with it. Yeah, be glad that you have it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's no doubt that a lot of people know how
it felt that way, and apparently it just didn't mobilize
in the vote. Michael, appreciate the call man, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Right and thanks, thanks for your great show.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Thank you appreciate, really appreciate that Vicky is on our line. Vicky,
welcome to the show on Levington kfa B. I understand
that you live in an s I d yes, I do, Okay,
So did you get you didn't get a chance to
vote yesterday for the mayor?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Did you well this time?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
And I'm just saying I lived in Dudgess County from
nineteen to twenty eleven, never ever ever got to vote
for a mayor. So we move out to another Sharpeye
County SID, and again I cannot vote for mayor. So
my question is in the Douglas County race, has anyone
ever taken a percentage of how many registered voters are
in the sids that would make a difference either way.
(20:18):
I'm of course Republican, but I would just want to
know there's a lot of us out here. I went
out and did a lot of walking for Trump on
this last election, and everybody I knocked on and lived
in a SID. So any of those people, whether it's
in Douglas or Sarpie Piotball vote, you know. So that's
frustrating to us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
No, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And we talked about this on Monday ahead of the
actual vote itself, or was it yesterday, I can't remember,
but either way, it was one of those things where
I like, it's such a new concept to me that
there are people that are in areas that were theoretically
annexed by Omaha, their city no longer kind of exists.
In the same way, the sids themselves are kind of
independent on the way that the city views them based
(20:58):
on debt and all that stuff. They don't want to
an x something or keep something or put something into
Omaha that has too much debt or whatever. It's a
very complex situation. But I just couldn't believe that there
were that many people in those that many areas around
Omaha that just don't have a voice in Omaha City
elections while also not having their own city government that
they can rely on.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I have no idea that thank you. Yeah, I have
no idea what needs to happen to fix that problem.
But it's a problem I think for sure. Vicky appreciate
the call. I call yeah, no problem. Dan is on
our phone line at four oh two, five five eight
to eleven ten here on eleven ton KFA B Dan,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Well, you know, I stopped buying the way home from
work last night and voted, and and I voted for
Gene Stoutht. You know that on some level that seemed
like just a smaller stick to get beat with, you know,
in some way times they're voting.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That way, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
And there's there's some things I really liked about Gene
stouther Uh, you know, as mayor. I think the way
she lets you smarter. We're just kind of roll, you know,
and get things done. And we didn't have riots here
when a lot of people did, you know, if it
was it was very small scale. I just and you know,
I wasn't big on youing you got a good show.
I can't believe you didn't come on it. But my
(22:15):
point with Jeane Stouthard, she lost a lot of conservative votes.
Do you remember immediately after Nebraska it became Nebraska law
that if you could pass a background check and acquire
a handgun, you could legally carry it to the state
of Nebraska. And immediately Jean Stothard came up with she
(22:36):
sent an order out making it illegal to carry a
firearm on any city property. Now totally get libraries, courthouses.
You know, there's places you don't bring a gun, you know,
and smart people know that. But we couldn't carry one
on the sidewalk. I can't go for a run, you
know and carry a you know and carry a pistol.
There's parks way on the edge of town, you know.
(22:57):
You I mean, she made this illegal and took a
way a constitutional right with a stroke of a pin.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So what you're saying, Dan and Dan is just like
little things like that kind of piled up and people
were just like they weren't crazy about her as as
a candidate for another four years, is what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Well, And and she re didn't rescind the order after
a lot of pressure, and we had to sue her
to get our rights back and to get a stay
against that order. You know, we had to sue her
to get our right back. She rescinded it later, but
very quietly because she still wanted to look cool as
a Dundee dinner parties, you know. So you can't make
everybody happy on this. If you're a conservative, be a conservative.
(23:34):
But there's guys, I know, women I know that didn't
go to the polls because they couldn't pick John Ewing,
But they couldn't pick her either, because she sold them out.
And she never if she had publicly came out and
said she made a mistake and rescinded it like she
did quietly. I think she would have been in a
better place, but that was one of the things that
piled up. The bucket got too heavy to carry.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's good at perspective. I'm glad you brought that up
to our attention today. Thank you so much for it.
Let's go to Tom before I hit a break here. Tom,
thanks for holding and being on the show on ten
or eleven KFAB that's the radio station I'm on.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What's on your mind memory?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
I voted for Jean Stothard all four times that she ran.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
The first time I.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Voted for was because she campaigned on a promise to
get rid of what's called a restaurant tax that pre
dates you coming to town. I voted for her three
additional times, but that has always stuck in my craw
that she did not do what she said she would do.
(24:37):
And I think she has just done a marvelous job
as mirror. But character matters. I don't have any large complaints.
I have met John Ewing and I find him to.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Be a very fine man, and he's run.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
A good Treasurer's office. I think there's reason for optimism
for any buddy that's distressed over election results, but I
trust the people and the people voted and I was
not surprised. So that's that's the points.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I was going to make.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Hey, Tom, I appreciate that perspective today. Thanks for calling
our show.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Enjoy the show, Bye bye, Thank.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You, John, Mary and other people are calling in right now.
We will get to your calls momentarily. Love to get
your perspective on the mayor results. John Ewing is the
new mayor. He will be sworn in a few weeks.
Jeane Stothard after twelve years of service as the mayor,
she is no longer the mayor after losing last night's election.
If you want to call in four h two five five,
eight eleven ten on News Radio eleven ten Kfab Emery
(25:38):
Sung on this segment, John, Welcome into the show today
on eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
How's it going.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's going well. I voted for Stothard, but I'll I'll
just speculate on maybe why people didn't vote for her
as much as things a couple points of one. I'm
just wondering. I'm just speculating if people didn't want to
vote for anybody for a fourth term and just kind
(26:04):
of leave it at that. The second thing that I'll
talk about is, even though I voted for a stopic
and she's very detail oriented, I thought concerning the road
conditions and the potholes and stuff, I thought she was
kind of stone. Excuse me to tone death on road conditions,
(26:29):
and I'll go into a little detail. When people complained
about the roads, she would always come back and say, well,
we've got this twenty year plan and everything. Yes, and
I understand that, but people don't want to wait twenty
years for their roads to get fixed. And I understand
that we all have pothole problems in the winter months
(26:52):
and the freezing and thawing those, but when you still
see potholes that haven't been fixed in you know, in March,
still still there in May and June and the summer
months that people noticed that. Yeah, and I and roads
(27:14):
were bad. We had a right twenty ten before Stothor
was mayor roads, we had really bad winter and roads
were really bad. So this but now she's been there
for twelve years. Yeah, and the roads didn't seem to
get better and people don't want to wait twenty years
for that. But it seemed like she didn't take criticism. Oh,
(27:37):
I mean right, she seems like she got defensive on
right when she was criticized, she got defensive, and I
think people got that got under her craw and I
got under our cross. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I appreciate the call, John.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I want to get to another call here real quick,
but just to like reiterate what John just said that
you can get a vibe from people and just like, hey,
you know what, just trust the plan, trust the process.
We have this under control, we have it figured out.
There are some people that you know, have kind of
a different perspective when they when somebody brings up some
concerns and they then can kind of like think or adjust.
(28:11):
And I'm not saying she couldn't do that, but when
talking to her, she would regularly go right back to
where the plan was.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And if things.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Weren't just working, weren't working for people out of that plan,
I can understand how that could be a problem for
a voter who wants to go and trust her. Mary's
on our line. Will wrap up this hour with Mary.
Hey Mary, what do you think today?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (28:31):
Hi, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, a couple of
things earlier you said, you know, I guess people just
wanted to change. I don't think that's at all a
dad said at all, because if people want to change,
they would have gotten out and voted. And then had
people voted, I mean, isn't Omaha mostly Republicans. I really
believe she would have won. But there I think I
think the reason why. I don't think we're going to
(28:51):
find any one reason or two reasons why she didn't win.
I think there's a bunch of them, and they are
all a bunch of small things that don't make sense
that added up. I mean, Warren Beaffett came out and
said that the street car idea is going to go
bankrupt within ten years. And I've heard people complain that
she has been present since she married her new husband
that lives in Saint Louis, and she goes there a lot. Yeah,
(29:14):
I think with young people there's an attitude that my
vote doesn't matter, especially coming up off of a national election.
I just think it's a ton of then what other
people have mentioned too, I think it's just a ton
of things.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, Oh, Mary, I appreciate the thought process on that today,
and thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I just say, in twenty one, virtually the exact same
turnout as this year thirty two point seven percent turnout
in twenty one versus twenty five. I just wanted to
throw that stat out there for the General. For the
general in twenty one, it was thirty two point seven percent,
all right, Yeah, so I mean virtually it's not that
far off. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We can deep dive into this and try to figure
out district by district exactly maybe where things may have
been different, but there's no doubt that things were different
this time around. We'll talk more about this call Us
at four h two five to five, eight eleven ten
on news radio eleven ten KFAB
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