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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome ahead, Well, we are strapped in for another one
in a beautiful day. So far, the sun is shining.
I don't know if it's stay like this, so may
get some clowns later on. I think the rain may
be done, but it is certainly cooled off. Hasn't it
fall in full force? We'll talk about that, plus the
(00:54):
latest with sanctions in Russia, ump and smoke. Another one
invites to We'll tell you about that one and another
illegal immigrant trucker and you can imagine how this one
ended in tragedy. The stories on.
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We are talking about what matters most in West Michigan
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(02:07):
head seth announcing the latest strike. It's up in smoke.
Another one bites the dust. Another drug boat headed from Venezuela.
United States Military Forces intercepting and striking in another vessel
belief to originate from Venezuela reportedly used by drug traffickers
in international waters off the Caribbean coast. Their officials said
(02:28):
the boat carrying cargo bound for the US calls the
operation part of an expanding campaign to target narco trafficking
and narco terracet networks. Not only do these folks feed
and fund with the money from the drug sales some
really horrible things, but the drug sells themselves obviously leading
(02:50):
to overdoses. And Trump said, every boat we take out,
say it's twenty five thousand lives. Now, I've seen people
try to fact check this and the data. I think
it would be impossible to prove or disprove. What I'll
just say is this, and it's pretty simple. It's pretty clear.
They are saving lives. They are absolutely saving lives. Every
(03:10):
one of us know somebody who has lost somewhat to
some sort of horrific overdose, and thank god they're doing
something about They've order have been open for way too long.
In fact, we'll talk more about those consequences in this
find Out era. On the way. Speaking of finding out,
Trump is hitting Russian oil companies with sanctions. The Trump
(03:32):
administration slapping tough news sanctions on major Russian oil firms.
Over Moscow's ongoing aggression in Ukraine. They're still fighting. They
say they want to deal, but their actions don't really
match up. The move jaulting global energy markets, prices jumping
Indian officials expressing concern over supply. The Kremlin called it
economic warfare, but Trump says it's time to choke the
(03:56):
war machine. I'm enough to remember. I don't know about you,
but I'm all enough to remember when we were buying
from them too, at one point under the Biden administration,
funding both sides of that war. Can you remember that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Interesting, interesting times. I speaking of interesting, this is horrifying
yet another one illegal alien killing again behind the wheel
of a big rig truck.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
You have Democrats in New York City, for example, encouraging
the rioters who are assaulting ICE officers removing criminal aliens
from their communities.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You have Democrats trying.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
To create tracking apps to tell the criminals, the fugitives,
the rapists, the killers, the cartel members, where and when
ICE is going to be. You have Governor Pritzker trying
to get ICE out of his city to protect illegal
alien monsters who are committing crimes against children, against women,
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instead of protecting American citizens. This is a party that
has embraced full scale insurrection.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Against the laws of the United States.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You look at that arrest in Canal Street, for example,
those nine individuals, all the illegal immigrants from Africa, almost
all of whom were released into the country.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
By the body of the administration.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You have among them dozens of arrests forgery, counterfeiting, drug dealing,
narcotics trafficking, assault, battery, theft, domestic violence.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And Democrats are saying, these.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Are legal aliens caught and released by the body of Administration,
not only should stand in our country, but they'll violently
attack and a federal officer who tries to remove them.
And then more breaking news reported that by Fox's own
Bill and Illusion, three people just died in California, killed
by an illegal alien on the road driving a semi
truck that was allowed into the country, caught and released
(05:53):
by Joe Biden and put on the road by Gavin Newsom.
How much more blood has to be spilled by Democrats,
Sean before this madness stops.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's a fair point, great question from Steven Miller last
night on a Hannity program on Fox News. And as
you just heard, the details twenty one years old. He
was high at the time, probably be distracted in a
major way. The video who the video of the dash cam,
(06:26):
it's it's uh, well, the whole thing is hard to
pay attention to, hard to watch, but I'm gonna get
to that coming up. Hang on. We continued a conversation
with you on the phone coming up as well in
just moments.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
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Speaker 3 (06:56):
On the screen of the individual, twenty one year old
Indian national Josh and Prett Singh, who entered in twenty
twenty two illegally. The interesting part is he was caught
and released at the California border by the Biden administration,
So they're fully single handedly responsibly for what happened here.
(07:18):
Not only that, but the horrific policies in California, where
I guess Governor k Newsom, who wants to be president,
would completely not just carry on with Biden policies, but
he doubled down and say, wait a minute, hold my beer.
Let me get behind the wheel of the semi truck
called the United States of America and run it completely
off the road. That's what he wants to do. Oh,
(07:40):
you may say that's hyperbole, Now it's illustration. It is
exactly what they want to do. These people are drunk, intoxicated,
with power behind the wheel. They want to do whatever
it is that they want to do to hang on
to their power. They don't care how many people die.
Just another example here, this man tracked with US vehicle
(08:01):
vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after a semi truck plowing into
slow moving traffic. When you see the video, by the way,
he never never hits the brakes. When you see the video,
you'll be atonished, astonished by what you because it's a
(08:24):
there's no there's no thinking, there's and this could take
out anyone. I think about my kids and my wife
shriving down the road on the way to school or
whatever it might be. It could be. They could be anywhere,
These people could be anywhere. We've seen story after story.
You can't even pass any English, don't know any English,
(08:48):
can't write or read it. The street signs we've heard
the horrific things that have been and look, and you
know these truck companies ought to be held responsible as well.
Whoever put them on the road criminal and civilly responsible,
every single one of these people. I mean, I say,
(09:09):
I really say it. I think about this down a fry.
I mean, it's there is no excuse to this. They
knew what they were doing and something as dangerous and
something as obvious as this, you just don't give people
carte blanche to be running on the road rough shot
and in have these things happen. We're seeing the chickens
come home the roost is, We're seeing it. It's a
(09:32):
find out era. In some ways you cannot escape consequences.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Look at this is exclusive at dash Can video that
is now the subject of several law enforcement investigations shows
the moment a red semi truck plowed into a number
of vehicles on the westbound Test in Ontario just after
one pm yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thepo so it hits three cars, a small red sort
of compact car in between, well I say three cars.
One car looks like a pickup truck type of vehicle,
and then a small it was a minivan first then
a truck like a pickup truck, then a small red
compact car that was sandwiched in between the truck, the
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pickup truck, and then the semi truck that was sitting
in front of him.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Lay times.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
The driver of this big rig is a twenty one
year old man who is now under arrest on suspicion
of driving under the influence of drugs. A total of
four semis were involved in also four passenger vehicles, one
of them exploding in flames. Three people were killed and
four others were taken to local hospitals.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh, look at the charred that's that little red car.
That's what that's got to be, that little there's there's
a charred. Oh, that's exactly what it was. Whether it
(11:02):
is story of Ruby Garcia right here in our own
backyard Lake and Riley, those horrific deaths, or whether it's
stories like this where people are on the road, stopped
in traffic thinking there's what could go wrong here? Story
(11:25):
after story, it is unthinkable. It's unbearable, and I can't.
I know that they're trying to do everything they can
they get some of these folks off the road, but
I can't. I just can't imagine you get in that
dash cam video.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Take a look at This is exclusive dash cam video
that is now the subject of several law enforcement investigations,
shows the moment a red Semi truck plowed into a
number of vehicles on the West con ten Freeway in
Ontario just after one pm yesterday.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The CHP told the La Times.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
The driver of this big rig is a twenty one
year old man who is now under arrest on suspicion
of driving under the influence of drugs. A total of
four Semis were involved in also four passenger vehicles, one
of them exploding in flames. Three people were killed and
four others were taken to local hospitals. This horrific crash
(12:20):
happened just east of the fifteenth Freeway and shut down
all westbound lanes for more than twelve hours. Thousands of
drivers were tracking the gridlock just as the evening commute
was getting underway. It also happened near the Ontario airports.
To the crash likely delay people that were trying to
get to their flights.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
That's Ontario, California, by the way, and this is part
of the scam. They'd come across the border in Commifornia.
They would give them drivers CDLs. You think these people
weren't voting other places? You think people, I mean, these
are just the people in the trucks. But they would
give them licen CDLs against CDLs, and then they could
(12:58):
go drive. Not just in California for you, they drove
all throughout the country. I just this is absolutely the
worst part about it. And this is the thing that
probably why I'm so upset about it. The worst part
about this is that this should never, never, in a
million years, never never have happened. It was completely avoidable.
(13:33):
Yank come all off the road. That's that's what I
would do right now. I mean, I want a massive enforcement.
Yank come all off the road. If you can't speak English,
you can't pass a test, simple test. That's that's it.
You're done. Question in the chat is this reason? I know,
(13:59):
it's hard to imagine because it's happening so much now. Yes,
this was October twenty first, according to the dashcam footage,
just two days ago in Ontario, California. Back in just moments,
we'll get the latest Biden newsom all the rest of
(14:21):
them blood on their hands. Informative engageing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f as.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Thursday, October
twenty third. I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story. More bad economic news here in Michigan. As
a direct result of Governor Whitmer and Auburn Hills EV
supplier Data Thermal Products is closing and laying off two
hundred workers despite four million dollars allocated to this company
(16:05):
in the form of taxpayer funded subsidies by the governor.
This situation the direct result of lower demand for evs.
The Michigan Senate votes to make hunting more expensive here
in Michigan. Speaker Hall says the bills are dead on
arrival in the House and that we are never going
to have increases in our hunting and fishing fees as
long as he is Speaker and President Trump blaming Democrats
(16:27):
for keeping the government shut down.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
It's too bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be and it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate a deal that they had negotiated.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
For these stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
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we as I mentioned, I mind mentioned, we've we've got
guests coming up. We'll get to them coming up in
just a minute. Got a couple of things they want
to continue this whole well, the White House construction story
continues to build on the sheer just outrage of the
(18:37):
left there just they can't they're beside themselves. They can't
imagine that anyone would touch that, touch touch the White House.
The history, the history, Oh my gosh, how dare it?
By the way, we talked about it yesterday in the
after show. The little portion that they had started their
construction on to build the ballroom. Their just losing their
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ever loving mind aout it today. They can't help themselves.
And the big, beautiful ballroom. It will be big, it
will be beautiful, will be the best bowroom in the history
of ballrooms. But I do think again, it's something that
President Trump is doing for himself. He paid for it
with private money. The flagpoles put up at the White House,
(19:19):
beautiful flagpoles paid for with his money. Taxpayer money not
involved in this at all. And they said they need this,
especially the same with the Rose Garden as well. They've
had to do these things. It will help them in
the long run host people and have better presentation and
effect at the way. And again it's for the people.
(19:42):
He sounded like Obama who built a basketball court? Was
it Nixon who did the bowling alley? We were going
through the list yesterday. It's just odd. But to me,
the most odd thing about it all from the hypocrites
on the left. They're just astonished that Trump would tear
down history. Come from the party that's been tearing down
statues for years. At a talkback feature on the MKD
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here and some good ones flying in. We'll get to
yours coming up this morning, but first let's talk to
(20:33):
Mike Marky, who's running for Senate here in Michigan State
Senate District thirty one on the website Disruptor, father, entrepreneur.
You know him because he ran for governor in twenty
twenty two. He's been on this show before. No stranger
to the program. Mike, thank you so much for taking
the time to be here with us today, be.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
With you justin and you know, thanks for having us on.
I mean, you're such a great resource to you listeners
and the community, keeping everybody informed.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate that we've got a lot
of big problems in not just nationwide, but we got
a lot here in Michigan. I got sort of my
thoughts on what I think those are. But you know
what I'd like to hear is from from you. What
you're hearing from people when you're out talking to folks,
(21:25):
you know, pressing the flesh. I'm sure you get an
ear for what are what are people most focused on
right now?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh, you're absolutely right. We have a lot of problems
here at home. I mean, we're the second slowest growing
state in the last ten last twenty years. We've gone
from middle of a Pact of education to you know,
we're fighting to be dead last in third grade reading.
We went from middle in math to fighting to be
dead last for eighth grade math. We've got an affordability
(21:54):
issue with housing, we've got jobs that are leaving. We're
the you know, I guess at least we climbed a
little bit out of the cellar. We were second in
the country on unemployment and we've squeaked to now just
being third. You know, so the third worst state in
the country for unemployment. So the big issues that we
have here is education. We all know that we've got
to you know, we've got to not only improve our
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education and give our kids the ability to dream again,
because kids who can't read don't have the same bright
future and aspirations that you know, our generation had because
we could read and write, we could do arithmetic. We've
got another problem with big business. We've got to not
only bring business back here to Michigan, but we've got
to stop trying to lure them in with hundreds of millions,
if not billions of dollars in some cases, because that
(22:38):
just simply doesn't work. What we have to have is
a thriving small business community. You know, Democrats yell about
big business greed and they want to rein them in
by having a big government. Well that doesn't work. So
the way the way we fix that is we have
the strongest small business environment in the country and we've
got to bring back manufacturing. It can be done. It
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is being done. There was a story the other day
of a Michigan manufacturer and steel that's coming back. But
you know, the US led the world in manufacturing here
about fifty sixty years ago, and it was Michigan that
led the world, or a Michigan that led the country.
So we've been there before. We can do it again.
But we have to have the right leadership. So we've
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got to stop saying things like, let's become better in education,
let's you know, become top ten. I think we need
leadership that says, let's make Michigan number one. We should
be number one in third grade reading. We should be
number one in eighth grade math. We should be number
one in small business development. We put out a plan
that will increase the ability for small businesses to utilize
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ten ninety nine relationships. So it gives the upper hand
a small business and allows entrepreneurs to be able to
create a business easier and faster, and to be able
to employ more people. So, you know, there's a lot
of work to do, but it can be done. We
just have to have the right leadership. I mean, you
look at Speaker Halls doing a fantastic job in the House,
but he's got to get the support from the Senate
and he doesn't have that right now. So we're the only,
(24:01):
as most of your listeners know, we're the only legislative
branch to or chamber to flip last November and a
year from now, we're going to do that in the Senate.
We have to do it because we have to get
Michigan back on track.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So let's paint the landscape of the district there where
you're at. Can you explain for folks who are listening,
maybe they might even be in your district, what that covers.
I know it's kind of some of these districts are
cut up a kind of funny here in Michigan. But
can you give us an example what that represents there?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Well, you know, as everyone knows, we got rid of
quote unquote jerry mandering in Michigan by jerry mandering. So
what our district looks like. It's about three quarters of
Adowa County, so break it up into equal quarters. We
are missing the northern eastern quadrant, so we're kind of
like a big l and then we've got a little
(24:52):
sliver of Alligant, so most of Ottawa a little bit
of Alegant. I mean, but this is the heart of
the state. It's the heart of the country. That's why
I love being here and so blessed to have found
this area here twenty years ago, met my wife here,
We've started business and raised our kids here. I mean,
she's been here her whole life and family and you
know that. But Ottawa County, I think is one of
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the most important counties for the November election a year
from now. We saw that we had a little bit
less voter turnout in twenty twenty four for Republicans than
we did twenty twenty and it's going to be imperative
we win these statewide races for governor, secretary of State,
attorney General, US Senate. You know, the Michigan is turning.
(25:33):
We are a I always tell people, when I'm talking
to people out of the state, they say Michigan is
a purple state. I say, no, no, no, We're not a
purple state. We're a giant red state with two really
big blue dots called Grand Rapids and Detroit. But you know,
President Trump did a lot in Detroit and was able
to start bringing the auto workers back over to us
(25:54):
and made a lot of gains in metro Detroit. And
you know, we're going to do our best to be
a leader here in Audio so we can start putting
pressure on Grand Rapids because we've got to take Grand Rapids.
Background Rapids is really you know, it doesn't make sense
for Grand Rapids to be blue. I've always told people,
it's not really blue, it's millennial. And it's time we
start expanding this party, bringing millennials under our tent because
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you know, they're they're going to be that next voting block.
And you know, they certainly agree with our policies a
lot more than they disagree and and Frankly, that's I
think why we've gotten the support we have in this race.
So as you mentioned, like we we ran for US
Congress here a couple of years ago, we were the
grassroots candidate, which I was very proud to be. But
(26:35):
you know, we weren't aligned, I guess, or we didn't
have the support of the establishment. And I don't mean
any disrespect by those two terms. But in this race,
and we've gotten both. We've continued to maintain the grassroots
support like people like Kristin, Megan Kelly, Doc Sherry, you know.
And of course I'm gonna miss some people, and I
don't mean any you know, disrespect by that, but we
(26:57):
brought on the establishment too, like former Governor Engler's gotten
behind us, Brian postumus gotten behind us, Charlie Sekia and
Tom Leonard and so uniform of Speaker of the House.
So we've brought together one of the largest coalitions here
that you'll ever see in Ottawa. And as Governor Ingley
said when he endorsed this, he said, you know, Michae,
(27:17):
if you can get every Republican in Ottawa growing in
the same direction, we will be the strongest Republican county
in the state. And that's what we're going to do.
We're going to make Audawa the strongest Republican county in
the state. We're going to keep Ottawa red, and we're
going to have Ottawa deliver victories a year from now
for our state wide electeds. And hopefully you as Senate, we.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Be talking with Mike Mark you right now running for
state Senate is District thirty one. And as we take
a look at some of the big stories, one of
them is, as you just mentioned, Governor Whimer. This just
came the other day, but to me, I asked these
questions of the folks running for governor and I'll even
(27:59):
you know, I'll plus this to you as as well.
But you know, one of the things I'm really I'm
focused on right now is that particularly President Trump pushing
all this investment back in the United States, make America
great again, make it in America again. Love to see
it made in Michigan again. My question is, you know,
(28:21):
from obviously from a Senate Senate standpoint, what can be
done and and what are we what are we able
to do to make sure that we we sort of
get out of the way. Unfortunately, here's another story, Whitmer's
Michigan Auburn Hills ev supplier closes lays off two hundred
despite four million dollars in Big Gretz corporate welfare. So
(28:43):
in some ways some of that stuff we want to
see go, but also we want to see the really
the playing field cleared so that this investment that does
come into the United States doesn't go into places like
Indiana instead of Michigan, for example.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Well, I mean leveling the playing field isn't just corporate
welfare a lot of times, it's having the friendly regulatory environment,
which we don't have here in Michigan. We have the
a gotcha regulatory environment, whereas the government is just trying
to find ways that you've messed up and screwed up
and trying to find you. We saw that right here
in Ottawa County with you know, restaurants Marlena's, you know,
(29:18):
the government trying to shut them down. So you ask,
how can a state Senate, Well, we can fix this
by having both chambers. So we've got the House, it's
imperative that we take back the state Senate so we
can simplify our regulatory rules. We want to make this
a business friendly state and business friendly means not changing
the rules every couple of years. Business friendly means bringing
(29:41):
back right to work, getting rid of the prevailing wage,
bringing a lansing body that is encouraging development. It also
means being number one, like I said earlier, in education,
because when you don't have a qualified talent pool and
you've got to try to lure people to move in,
which obviously has a worked here in the last twenty years,
because people aren't moving into Michigan, they're moving out, and
(30:04):
so when you've got to try to convince somebody to
move in, it's harder and you've got to pay more money.
And then even worse is any given year we've got four,
if not five, of the most deadly cities in the country. Clearly,
you know, Mayor Dougan wants to brag how he's fixed Detroit,
but it was just named as one of the fourth
most violent cities in the country. They only grew by
six thousand people a year ago, and they're bragging about
(30:26):
Detroit is building. I mean outa a county here, I
think we grow by more than six thousand people every
six months. So we're doing things far more, you know,
far better. Over here on this side of the state,
and I think we can use Ottawa County as a
gem and as a representative on how you build this
state and fix the state. And so, what has Ottawa
County done well. We've had regulators get out of the way.
(30:49):
We've created that level playing field for small business and
big business. We encourage small business development. We've got good schools,
we've got safe streets. Amazing, it's not that hard create
account If you break the rules, there's accountability. If you
don't do well in school, there's accountability. If you don't
do well in business, there's accountability. It's called you go
out of business. So that's what we have to do
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in the rest of state. Let's take the formula that
we have right here in Outawa County apply it to
the rest of the state and what you'll see is
the state will start growing. You will have economic activity,
will have business opportunities. Then I also think it's hard
to have big business without small business. You know, you
think about where Ford started. Ford didn't move here as
a big business. It grew here. It started here. So
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you know, myself, one of the things I realized is
that being in the financial services industry I was able
to bring on a lot of people to work in
our organization is ten ninety nine, which meant I didn't
have to which actually meant I could afford to pay
them a lot more. But I didn't have a guaranteed
wage for him. It was basically a meritocracy. And so,
as a lot of your listeners know, a couple of
(31:56):
years ago, this out of state money came into Michigan
trying to push on a rect restaurants this, you know,
getting rid of the tipped wage credit and increasing the
minimum wage. So we came out with an idea that's
going to allow restaurants to have a sub license. They'll
be able to add their tipped workers to their own license,
which will recognize their tipped workers as their own small business,
which allows them to work in a ten ninety nine relationship.
(32:18):
And what's cool about that is now it's a work
around around that getting rid of the tipped wage. It
continues to give them the tax free tips. And the
best part is it's going to allow them to then
take advantage of President Trump's Small Business income tax deduction
and their qualified income deduction and not pay tax in
the first twenty percent of their.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Revenues, Michael market, It's got lots of ideas and of
course looking to have conversations. I'm sure with you as well.
Where can folks find you either out and about having
those conversations, pressing the flesh there or even online.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Well, the easiest place is online is right there under
my name Michaelmarki Junior dot com. It's Michael mrk ey Jr.
Dot com. And I guess one of the things favors
I'm going to ask everyone is, you know, we really
need your support. We need your we need your time
and your dollars. Whether it's five dollars or ten dollars,
it does make a difference. But we want those small
(33:15):
dollar donations. We want that support. We want to be
able to show everyone that there's a groundswell of support
here in Ottawa County because you know, a lot of
people talk about and I saw in the comments on
this morning about Democrats trying to destroy the conservative base
in Ottawa County, and of course they're trying to. Democrats
would love to be able to say they're making gains
in the most red county in the state. So the
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way that we counter that as we get involved and
we just need your help, and so we want to
show that. You know, we've got hundreds of donors. We'd
like to grow that into thousands of donors. I don't
care if it's a dollar, two dollars, ten dollars, it's
all going to make a difference. But then we show
them that Autawa's not for sale and you're not going
to be able to gain those gains in Ottawa because
we are going to keep Autawa red and we're going
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to be that vash and that example, that shining star
for the rest of the state. And we start to
show a formula the rest of the state ken. So
Michael Marky Junior dot com. You can find us on
Twitter or x you can find us on Facebook, you know,
give us a like, give us a follow. All of
that helps with the formulas and the algorithms as they
call it. So you know, we're the only one right now.
(34:20):
I guess there's a college kid, but really in this race,
we're going to keep it that way. But we just
need your guys to support. So thank you to everyone
who's helped us get where we are. And you know,
thank you to you justin for having a song on
your listeners because it's a it's a great show, and
it's a great asset for the community.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
It's always a pleasure. That's Michael Marky Junior dot com.
If you want to find out more and maybe get
out there as he's out and about, ask questions too.
In such a pivotal year, it is, I think as
important as it was for the nation in twenty twenty four,
that's what we're going to see in twenty twenty six
for for our state in here in Michigan. Michael, thank
(34:57):
you so much for taking the time to be here
with us, Sir, appreciate.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
You, Thank you, God bless you got it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
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A f am, here are your headlines from the Midwestern
or this Thursday, October twenty third. I'm Robin Poffman. It's
a Midwesterner dot News original story. The Michigan Senate votes
to make hunting more expensive here in Michigan. But Speaker
Hall says the bills are dead on arrival in the
House and that we're never going to have increases in
our hunting and fishing fees here in Michigan as long as.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
He is Speaker.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Some negative economic news to report as a direct result
of Governor Whitmer and her policies on Auburn Hills EV
supplier Data Thermal Products closing and laying off two hundred
workers despite four million dollars allocated to this company in
the form of taxpayer funded subsidy by the governor. This
situation the direct result of low demand for evs and
(36:05):
the Schumer shutdown rolls on President Trump telling reporters at
the White House.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
It's too bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be and it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate the deal that they had negotiated.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
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Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Warning if you were thinking, yeah, I don't know the
tour can they're they're they're connected here, but I just
saw this. Don't need to be the bear of bad news.
But the national dat just hit thirty eight trillion. Oh
boy uh. And at the same time, Magamillian's jackpot at
(36:43):
six hundred and eighty million. Like I said, I don't
think i'll there's any connection there. President Trump over the shutdown.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
Well, I think it's a shame that has shut down
because we have the greatest economy. As you were saying before,
we have the greatest economy in the world world right
now by far, the United States.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
We have almost.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Eighteen now, it was seventeen. Now it's eighteen trillion dollars
being poured into our country.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
And it's no time for shutdowns.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
I don't think it's affecting what we're doing, but it's
it's too.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be And it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate the deal that they had negotiated.
They want one point five trillion dollars given to illegal
immigrants who came into the country, and it's going to
hurt the healthcare of citizens of our country that have
been paying into us.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Speaking of debt too, I mean thirty eight don't mean
to cut him off, but were out of time for
the show today speaking of that thirty eight trillion, and
they just they're handing out one point four trillion like
it's like it's Halloween candy folks, Fastest Sarah Radios. Uh oh,
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I don't know if it's stay like this, so may
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ended in tragedy. The stories on.
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head seth announcing the latest strike. It's up in smoke.
Another one bites the dust. Another drug boat headed from Venezuela.
United States Military Forces intercepting and striking in another vessel
belief to originate from Venezuela reportedly used by drug traffickers
in international waters off the Caribbean coast. Their officials said
(02:28):
the boat carrying cargo bound for the US calls the
operation part of an expanding campaign to target narco trafficking
and narco terracet networks. Not only do these folks feed
and fund with the money from the drug sales some
really horrible things, but the drug sells themselves obviously leading
(02:50):
to overdoses. And Trump said, every boat we take out,
say it's twenty five thousand lives. Now, I've seen people
try to fact check this and the data. I think
it would be impossible to prove or disprove. What I'll
just say is this, and it's pretty simple. It's pretty clear.
They are saving lives. They are absolutely saving lives. Every
(03:10):
one of us know somebody who has lost somewhat to
some sort of horrific overdose, and thank god they're doing
something about They've order have been open for way too long.
In fact, we'll talk more about those consequences in this
find Out era. On the way. Speaking of finding out,
Trump is hitting Russian oil companies with sanctions. The Trump
(03:32):
administration slapping tough news sanctions on major Russian oil firms.
Over Moscow's ongoing aggression in Ukraine. They're still fighting. They
say they want to deal, but their actions don't really
match up. The move jaulting global energy markets, prices jumping
Indian officials expressing concern over supply. The Kremlin called it
economic warfare, but Trump says it's time to choke the
(03:56):
war machine. I'm enough to remember. I don't know about you,
but I'm all enough to remember when we were buying
from them too, at one point under the Biden administration,
funding both sides of that war. Can you remember that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Interesting, interesting times. I speaking of interesting, this is horrifying
yet another one illegal alien killing again behind the wheel
of a big rig truck.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
You have Democrats in New York City, for example, encouraging
the rioters who are assaulting ICE officers removing criminal aliens
from their communities.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You have Democrats trying.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
To create tracking apps to tell the criminals, the fugitives,
the rapists, the killers, the cartel members, where and when
ICE is going to be. You have Governor Pritzker trying
to get ICE out of his city to protect illegal
alien monsters who are committing crimes against children, against women,
(04:59):
instead of protecting American citizens. This is a party that
has embraced full scale insurrection.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Against the laws of the United States.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You look at that arrest in Canal Street, for example,
those nine individuals, all the illegal immigrants from Africa, almost
all of whom were released into the country.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
By the body of the administration.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You have among them dozens of arrests forgery, counterfeiting, drug dealing,
narcotics trafficking, assault, battery, theft, domestic violence.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And Democrats are saying, these.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Are legal aliens caught and released by the body of Administration,
not only should stand in our country, but they'll violently
attack and a federal officer who tries to remove them.
And then more breaking news reported that by Fox's own
Bill and Illusion, three people just died in California, killed
by an illegal alien on the road driving a semi
truck that was allowed into the country, caught and released
(05:53):
by Joe Biden and put on the road by Gavin Newsom.
How much more blood has to be spilled by Democrats,
Sean before this madness stops.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's a fair point, great question from Steven Miller last
night on a Hannity program on Fox News. And as
you just heard, the details twenty one years old. He
was high at the time, probably be distracted in a
major way. The video who the video of the dash cam,
(06:26):
it's it's uh, well, the whole thing is hard to
pay attention to, hard to watch, but I'm gonna get
to that coming up. Hang on. We continued a conversation
with you on the phone coming up as well in
just moments.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
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Speaker 3 (06:56):
On the screen of the individual, twenty one year old
Indian national Josh and Prett Singh, who entered in twenty
twenty two illegally. The interesting part is he was caught
and released at the California border by the Biden administration,
So they're fully single handedly responsibly for what happened here.
(07:18):
Not only that, but the horrific policies in California, where
I guess Governor k Newsom, who wants to be president,
would completely not just carry on with Biden policies, but
he doubled down and say, wait a minute, hold my beer.
Let me get behind the wheel of the semi truck
called the United States of America and run it completely
off the road. That's what he wants to do. Oh,
(07:40):
you may say that's hyperbole, Now it's illustration. It is
exactly what they want to do. These people are drunk, intoxicated,
with power behind the wheel. They want to do whatever
it is that they want to do to hang on
to their power. They don't care how many people die.
Just another example here, this man tracked with US vehicle
(08:01):
vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after a semi truck plowing into
slow moving traffic. When you see the video, by the way,
he never never hits the brakes. When you see the video,
you'll be atonished, astonished by what you because it's a
(08:24):
there's no there's no thinking, there's and this could take
out anyone. I think about my kids and my wife
shriving down the road on the way to school or
whatever it might be. It could be. They could be anywhere,
These people could be anywhere. We've seen story after story.
You can't even pass any English, don't know any English,
(08:48):
can't write or read it. The street signs we've heard
the horrific things that have been and look, and you
know these truck companies ought to be held responsible as well.
Whoever put them on the road criminal and civilly responsible,
every single one of these people. I mean, I say,
(09:09):
I really say it. I think about this down a fry.
I mean, it's there is no excuse to this. They
knew what they were doing and something as dangerous and
something as obvious as this, you just don't give people
carte blanche to be running on the road rough shot
and in have these things happen. We're seeing the chickens
come home the roost is, We're seeing it. It's a
(09:32):
find out era. In some ways you cannot escape consequences.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Look at this is exclusive at dash Can video that
is now the subject of several law enforcement investigations shows
the moment a red semi truck plowed into a number
of vehicles on the westbound Test in Ontario just after
one pm yesterday.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Thepo so it hits three cars, a small red sort
of compact car in between, well I say three cars.
One car looks like a pickup truck type of vehicle,
and then a small it was a minivan first then
a truck like a pickup truck, then a small red
compact car that was sandwiched in between the truck, the
(10:17):
pickup truck, and then the semi truck that was sitting
in front of him.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Lay times.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
The driver of this big rig is a twenty one
year old man who is now under arrest on suspicion
of driving under the influence of drugs. A total of
four semis were involved in also four passenger vehicles, one
of them exploding in flames. Three people were killed and
four others were taken to local hospitals.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh, look at the charred that's that little red car.
That's what that's got to be, that little there's there's
a charred. Oh, that's exactly what it was. Whether it
(11:02):
is story of Ruby Garcia right here in our own
backyard Lake and Riley, those horrific deaths, or whether it's
stories like this where people are on the road, stopped
in traffic thinking there's what could go wrong here? Story
(11:25):
after story, it is unthinkable. It's unbearable, and I can't.
I know that they're trying to do everything they can
they get some of these folks off the road, but
I can't. I just can't imagine you get in that
dash cam video.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Take a look at This is exclusive dash cam video
that is now the subject of several law enforcement investigations,
shows the moment a red Semi truck plowed into a
number of vehicles on the West con ten Freeway in
Ontario just after one pm yesterday.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The CHP told the La Times.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
The driver of this big rig is a twenty one
year old man who is now under arrest on suspicion
of driving under the influence of drugs. A total of
four Semis were involved in also four passenger vehicles, one
of them exploding in flames. Three people were killed and
four others were taken to local hospitals. This horrific crash
(12:20):
happened just east of the fifteenth Freeway and shut down
all westbound lanes for more than twelve hours. Thousands of
drivers were tracking the gridlock just as the evening commute
was getting underway. It also happened near the Ontario airports.
To the crash likely delay people that were trying to
get to their flights.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
That's Ontario, California, by the way, and this is part
of the scam. They'd come across the border in Commifornia.
They would give them drivers CDLs. You think these people
weren't voting other places? You think people, I mean, these
are just the people in the trucks. But they would
give them licen CDLs against CDLs, and then they could
(12:58):
go drive. Not just in California for you, they drove
all throughout the country. I just this is absolutely the
worst part about it. And this is the thing that
probably why I'm so upset about it. The worst part
about this is that this should never, never, in a
million years, never never have happened. It was completely avoidable.
(13:33):
Yank come all off the road. That's that's what I
would do right now. I mean, I want a massive enforcement.
Yank come all off the road. If you can't speak English,
you can't pass a test, simple test. That's that's it.
You're done. Question in the chat is this reason? I know,
(13:59):
it's hard to imagine because it's happening so much now. Yes,
this was October twenty first, according to the dashcam footage,
just two days ago in Ontario, California. Back in just moments,
we'll get the latest Biden newsom all the rest of
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them blood on their hands. Informative engageing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f as.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Thursday, October
twenty third. I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story. More bad economic news here in Michigan. As
a direct result of Governor Whitmer and Auburn Hills EV
supplier Data Thermal Products is closing and laying off two
hundred workers despite four million dollars allocated to this company
(16:05):
in the form of taxpayer funded subsidies by the governor.
This situation the direct result of lower demand for evs.
The Michigan Senate votes to make hunting more expensive here
in Michigan. Speaker Hall says the bills are dead on
arrival in the House and that we are never going
to have increases in our hunting and fishing fees as
long as he is Speaker and President Trump blaming Democrats
(16:27):
for keeping the government shut down.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
It's too bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be and it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate a deal that they had negotiated.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
For these stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Whether you're running, you're walking, you're just trying to get
back to where you need to be. You know, obviously
it is a it's an interesting it's an interesting time,
that's for sure. This time of year, you're kind of
making the switch from summer in the fall and you
want to make sure you get to do all the things.
And if you missed out in summer, maybe you have
foot pain, back pain, that sort of thing. Look, it's time.
(17:08):
It's time to make sure that you don't miss out
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difference in your life. Foot paying, back pain, all of it,
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They help in the support. They do great things for
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of the proceeds from their pink os one I think
it is OS first. OS one socks is what you
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got inside the store as well. They got all kinds
of great goodies there. Chances are you'll be able to
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find something that will help you. And those folks are
just they can just go above and beyond there on
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do it today at the good Feed Store. I'm gonna
tell you you're gonna be raving about them, just just
just like me. Okay, So now let's get rolling as
(18:15):
we as I mentioned, I mind mentioned, we've we've got
guests coming up. We'll get to them coming up in
just a minute. Got a couple of things they want
to continue this whole well, the White House construction story
continues to build on the sheer just outrage of the
(18:37):
left there just they can't they're beside themselves. They can't
imagine that anyone would touch that, touch touch the White House.
The history, the history, Oh my gosh, how dare it?
By the way, we talked about it yesterday in the
after show. The little portion that they had started their
construction on to build the ballroom. Their just losing their
(18:58):
ever loving mind aout it today. They can't help themselves.
And the big, beautiful ballroom. It will be big, it
will be beautiful, will be the best bowroom in the history
of ballrooms. But I do think again, it's something that
President Trump is doing for himself. He paid for it
with private money. The flagpoles put up at the White House,
(19:19):
beautiful flagpoles paid for with his money. Taxpayer money not
involved in this at all. And they said they need this,
especially the same with the Rose Garden as well. They've
had to do these things. It will help them in
the long run host people and have better presentation and
effect at the way. And again it's for the people.
(19:42):
He sounded like Obama who built a basketball court? Was
it Nixon who did the bowling alley? We were going
through the list yesterday. It's just odd. But to me,
the most odd thing about it all from the hypocrites
on the left. They're just astonished that Trump would tear
down history. Come from the party that's been tearing down
statues for years. At a talkback feature on the MKD
(20:09):
Funeral Homes, portion of the iHeartRadio app. All you have
to do is hit that microphone button right next to
the play button and you can rant rave ask a
question courtesy of those folks. So always appreciate the support
here and some good ones flying in. We'll get to
yours coming up this morning, but first let's talk to
(20:33):
Mike Marky, who's running for Senate here in Michigan State
Senate District thirty one on the website Disruptor, father, entrepreneur.
You know him because he ran for governor in twenty
twenty two. He's been on this show before. No stranger
to the program. Mike, thank you so much for taking
the time to be here with us today, be.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
With you justin and you know, thanks for having us on.
I mean, you're such a great resource to you listeners
and the community, keeping everybody informed.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate that we've got a lot
of big problems in not just nationwide, but we got
a lot here in Michigan. I got sort of my
thoughts on what I think those are. But you know
what I'd like to hear is from from you. What
you're hearing from people when you're out talking to folks,
(21:25):
you know, pressing the flesh. I'm sure you get an
ear for what are what are people most focused on
right now?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh, you're absolutely right. We have a lot of problems
here at home. I mean, we're the second slowest growing
state in the last ten last twenty years. We've gone
from middle of a Pact of education to you know,
we're fighting to be dead last in third grade reading.
We went from middle in math to fighting to be
dead last for eighth grade math. We've got an affordability
(21:54):
issue with housing, we've got jobs that are leaving. We're
the you know, I guess at least we climbed a
little bit out of the cellar. We were second in
the country on unemployment and we've squeaked to now just
being third. You know, so the third worst state in
the country for unemployment. So the big issues that we
have here is education. We all know that we've got
to you know, we've got to not only improve our
(22:16):
education and give our kids the ability to dream again,
because kids who can't read don't have the same bright
future and aspirations that you know, our generation had because
we could read and write, we could do arithmetic. We've
got another problem with big business. We've got to not
only bring business back here to Michigan, but we've got
to stop trying to lure them in with hundreds of millions,
if not billions of dollars in some cases, because that
(22:38):
just simply doesn't work. What we have to have is
a thriving small business community. You know, Democrats yell about
big business greed and they want to rein them in
by having a big government. Well that doesn't work. So
the way the way we fix that is we have
the strongest small business environment in the country and we've
got to bring back manufacturing. It can be done. It
(22:58):
is being done. There was a story the other day
of a Michigan manufacturer and steel that's coming back. But
you know, the US led the world in manufacturing here
about fifty sixty years ago, and it was Michigan that
led the world, or a Michigan that led the country.
So we've been there before. We can do it again.
But we have to have the right leadership. So we've
(23:18):
got to stop saying things like, let's become better in education,
let's you know, become top ten. I think we need
leadership that says, let's make Michigan number one. We should
be number one in third grade reading. We should be
number one in eighth grade math. We should be number
one in small business development. We put out a plan
that will increase the ability for small businesses to utilize
(23:39):
ten ninety nine relationships. So it gives the upper hand
a small business and allows entrepreneurs to be able to
create a business easier and faster, and to be able
to employ more people. So, you know, there's a lot
of work to do, but it can be done. We
just have to have the right leadership. I mean, you
look at Speaker Halls doing a fantastic job in the House,
but he's got to get the support from the Senate
and he doesn't have that right now. So we're the only,
(24:01):
as most of your listeners know, we're the only legislative
branch to or chamber to flip last November and a
year from now, we're going to do that in the Senate.
We have to do it because we have to get
Michigan back on track.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So let's paint the landscape of the district there where
you're at. Can you explain for folks who are listening,
maybe they might even be in your district, what that covers.
I know it's kind of some of these districts are
cut up a kind of funny here in Michigan. But
can you give us an example what that represents there?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Well, you know, as everyone knows, we got rid of
quote unquote jerry mandering in Michigan by jerry mandering. So
what our district looks like. It's about three quarters of
Adowa County, so break it up into equal quarters. We
are missing the northern eastern quadrant, so we're kind of
like a big l and then we've got a little
(24:52):
sliver of Alligant, so most of Ottawa a little bit
of Alegant. I mean, but this is the heart of
the state. It's the heart of the country. That's why
I love being here and so blessed to have found
this area here twenty years ago, met my wife here,
We've started business and raised our kids here. I mean,
she's been here her whole life and family and you
know that. But Ottawa County, I think is one of
(25:13):
the most important counties for the November election a year
from now. We saw that we had a little bit
less voter turnout in twenty twenty four for Republicans than
we did twenty twenty and it's going to be imperative
we win these statewide races for governor, secretary of State,
attorney General, US Senate. You know, the Michigan is turning.
(25:33):
We are a I always tell people, when I'm talking
to people out of the state, they say Michigan is
a purple state. I say, no, no, no, We're not a
purple state. We're a giant red state with two really
big blue dots called Grand Rapids and Detroit. But you know,
President Trump did a lot in Detroit and was able
to start bringing the auto workers back over to us
(25:54):
and made a lot of gains in metro Detroit. And
you know, we're going to do our best to be
a leader here in Audio so we can start putting
pressure on Grand Rapids because we've got to take Grand Rapids.
Background Rapids is really you know, it doesn't make sense
for Grand Rapids to be blue. I've always told people,
it's not really blue, it's millennial. And it's time we
start expanding this party, bringing millennials under our tent because
(26:15):
you know, they're they're going to be that next voting block.
And you know, they certainly agree with our policies a
lot more than they disagree and and Frankly, that's I
think why we've gotten the support we have in this race.
So as you mentioned, like we we ran for US
Congress here a couple of years ago, we were the
grassroots candidate, which I was very proud to be. But
(26:35):
you know, we weren't aligned, I guess, or we didn't
have the support of the establishment. And I don't mean
any disrespect by those two terms. But in this race,
and we've gotten both. We've continued to maintain the grassroots
support like people like Kristin, Megan Kelly, Doc Sherry, you know.
And of course I'm gonna miss some people, and I
don't mean any you know, disrespect by that, but we
(26:57):
brought on the establishment too, like former Governor Engler's gotten
behind us, Brian postumus gotten behind us, Charlie Sekia and
Tom Leonard and so uniform of Speaker of the House.
So we've brought together one of the largest coalitions here
that you'll ever see in Ottawa. And as Governor Ingley
said when he endorsed this, he said, you know, Michae,
(27:17):
if you can get every Republican in Ottawa growing in
the same direction, we will be the strongest Republican county
in the state. And that's what we're going to do.
We're going to make Audawa the strongest Republican county in
the state. We're going to keep Ottawa red, and we're
going to have Ottawa deliver victories a year from now
for our state wide electeds. And hopefully you as Senate, we.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Be talking with Mike Mark you right now running for
state Senate is District thirty one. And as we take
a look at some of the big stories, one of
them is, as you just mentioned, Governor Whimer. This just
came the other day, but to me, I asked these
questions of the folks running for governor and I'll even
(27:59):
you know, I'll plus this to you as as well.
But you know, one of the things I'm really I'm
focused on right now is that particularly President Trump pushing
all this investment back in the United States, make America
great again, make it in America again. Love to see
it made in Michigan again. My question is, you know,
(28:21):
from obviously from a Senate Senate standpoint, what can be
done and and what are we what are we able
to do to make sure that we we sort of
get out of the way. Unfortunately, here's another story, Whitmer's
Michigan Auburn Hills ev supplier closes lays off two hundred
despite four million dollars in Big Gretz corporate welfare. So
(28:43):
in some ways some of that stuff we want to
see go, but also we want to see the really
the playing field cleared so that this investment that does
come into the United States doesn't go into places like
Indiana instead of Michigan, for example.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Well, I mean leveling the playing field isn't just corporate
welfare a lot of times, it's having the friendly regulatory environment,
which we don't have here in Michigan. We have the
a gotcha regulatory environment, whereas the government is just trying
to find ways that you've messed up and screwed up
and trying to find you. We saw that right here
in Ottawa County with you know, restaurants Marlena's, you know,
(29:18):
the government trying to shut them down. So you ask,
how can a state Senate, Well, we can fix this
by having both chambers. So we've got the House, it's
imperative that we take back the state Senate so we
can simplify our regulatory rules. We want to make this
a business friendly state and business friendly means not changing
the rules every couple of years. Business friendly means bringing
(29:41):
back right to work, getting rid of the prevailing wage,
bringing a lansing body that is encouraging development. It also
means being number one, like I said earlier, in education,
because when you don't have a qualified talent pool and
you've got to try to lure people to move in,
which obviously has a worked here in the last twenty years,
because people aren't moving into Michigan, they're moving out, and
(30:04):
so when you've got to try to convince somebody to
move in, it's harder and you've got to pay more money.
And then even worse is any given year we've got four,
if not five, of the most deadly cities in the country. Clearly,
you know, Mayor Dougan wants to brag how he's fixed Detroit,
but it was just named as one of the fourth
most violent cities in the country. They only grew by
six thousand people a year ago, and they're bragging about
(30:26):
Detroit is building. I mean outa a county here, I
think we grow by more than six thousand people every
six months. So we're doing things far more, you know,
far better. Over here on this side of the state,
and I think we can use Ottawa County as a
gem and as a representative on how you build this
state and fix the state. And so, what has Ottawa
County done well. We've had regulators get out of the way.
(30:49):
We've created that level playing field for small business and
big business. We encourage small business development. We've got good schools,
we've got safe streets. Amazing, it's not that hard create
account If you break the rules, there's accountability. If you
don't do well in school, there's accountability. If you don't
do well in business, there's accountability. It's called you go
out of business. So that's what we have to do
(31:12):
in the rest of state. Let's take the formula that
we have right here in Outawa County apply it to
the rest of the state and what you'll see is
the state will start growing. You will have economic activity,
will have business opportunities. Then I also think it's hard
to have big business without small business. You know, you
think about where Ford started. Ford didn't move here as
a big business. It grew here. It started here. So
(31:34):
you know, myself, one of the things I realized is
that being in the financial services industry I was able
to bring on a lot of people to work in
our organization is ten ninety nine, which meant I didn't
have to which actually meant I could afford to pay
them a lot more. But I didn't have a guaranteed
wage for him. It was basically a meritocracy. And so,
as a lot of your listeners know, a couple of
(31:56):
years ago, this out of state money came into Michigan
trying to push on a rect restaurants this, you know,
getting rid of the tipped wage credit and increasing the
minimum wage. So we came out with an idea that's
going to allow restaurants to have a sub license. They'll
be able to add their tipped workers to their own license,
which will recognize their tipped workers as their own small business,
which allows them to work in a ten ninety nine relationship.
(32:18):
And what's cool about that is now it's a work
around around that getting rid of the tipped wage. It
continues to give them the tax free tips. And the
best part is it's going to allow them to then
take advantage of President Trump's Small Business income tax deduction
and their qualified income deduction and not pay tax in
the first twenty percent of their.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Revenues, Michael market, It's got lots of ideas and of
course looking to have conversations. I'm sure with you as well.
Where can folks find you either out and about having
those conversations, pressing the flesh there or even online.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Well, the easiest place is online is right there under
my name Michaelmarki Junior dot com. It's Michael mrk ey Jr.
Dot com. And I guess one of the things favors
I'm going to ask everyone is, you know, we really
need your support. We need your we need your time
and your dollars. Whether it's five dollars or ten dollars,
it does make a difference. But we want those small
(33:15):
dollar donations. We want that support. We want to be
able to show everyone that there's a groundswell of support
here in Ottawa County because you know, a lot of
people talk about and I saw in the comments on
this morning about Democrats trying to destroy the conservative base
in Ottawa County, and of course they're trying to. Democrats
would love to be able to say they're making gains
in the most red county in the state. So the
(33:36):
way that we counter that as we get involved and
we just need your help, and so we want to
show that. You know, we've got hundreds of donors. We'd
like to grow that into thousands of donors. I don't
care if it's a dollar, two dollars, ten dollars, it's
all going to make a difference. But then we show
them that Autawa's not for sale and you're not going
to be able to gain those gains in Ottawa because
we are going to keep Autawa red and we're going
(33:57):
to be that vash and that example, that shining star
for the rest of the state. And we start to
show a formula the rest of the state ken. So
Michael Marky Junior dot com. You can find us on
Twitter or x you can find us on Facebook, you know,
give us a like, give us a follow. All of
that helps with the formulas and the algorithms as they
call it. So you know, we're the only one right now.
(34:20):
I guess there's a college kid, but really in this race,
we're going to keep it that way. But we just
need your guys to support. So thank you to everyone
who's helped us get where we are. And you know,
thank you to you justin for having a song on
your listeners because it's a it's a great show, and
it's a great asset for the community.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
It's always a pleasure. That's Michael Marky Junior dot com.
If you want to find out more and maybe get
out there as he's out and about, ask questions too.
In such a pivotal year, it is, I think as
important as it was for the nation in twenty twenty four,
that's what we're going to see in twenty twenty six
for for our state in here in Michigan. Michael, thank
(34:57):
you so much for taking the time to be here
with us, Sir, appreciate.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
You, Thank you, God bless you got it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
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Speaker 8 (35:22):
A f am, here are your headlines from the Midwestern
or this Thursday, October twenty third. I'm Robin Poffman. It's
a Midwesterner dot News original story. The Michigan Senate votes
to make hunting more expensive here in Michigan. But Speaker
Hall says the bills are dead on arrival in the
House and that we're never going to have increases in
our hunting and fishing fees here in Michigan as long as.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
He is Speaker.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Some negative economic news to report as a direct result
of Governor Whitmer and her policies on Auburn Hills EV
supplier Data Thermal Products closing and laying off two hundred
workers despite four million dollars allocated to this company in
the form of taxpayer funded subsidy by the governor. This
situation the direct result of low demand for evs and
(36:05):
the Schumer shutdown rolls on President Trump telling reporters at
the White House.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
It's too bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be and it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate the deal that they had negotiated.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Warning if you were thinking, yeah, I don't know the
tour can they're they're they're connected here, but I just
saw this. Don't need to be the bear of bad news.
But the national dat just hit thirty eight trillion. Oh
boy uh. And at the same time, Magamillian's jackpot at
(36:43):
six hundred and eighty million. Like I said, I don't
think i'll there's any connection there. President Trump over the shutdown.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
Well, I think it's a shame that has shut down
because we have the greatest economy. As you were saying before,
we have the greatest economy in the world world right
now by far, the United States.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
We have almost.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Eighteen now, it was seventeen. Now it's eighteen trillion dollars
being poured into our country.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
And it's no time for shutdowns.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
I don't think it's affecting what we're doing, but it's
it's too.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Bad for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
We have a lot of good people that are working
right now that should be And it's because the Democrats
want to try and renegotiate the deal that they had negotiated.
They want one point five trillion dollars given to illegal
immigrants who came into the country, and it's going to
hurt the healthcare of citizens of our country that have
been paying into us.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Speaking of debt too, I mean thirty eight don't mean
to cut him off, but were out of time for
the show today speaking of that thirty eight trillion, and
they just they're handing out one point four trillion like
it's like it's Halloween candy folks, Fastest Sarah Radios. Uh oh,
it's all done, but we've got more of the after show.
(37:55):
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Glenn back programs Next Megan A great one. God bless
our fathers. I will be that name, that kingdom come,
that will be done on earth as it days to happen.
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