October 27, 2025 • 33 mins
Tune in here to this Monday's edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett dives into the upcoming municipal elections across the Charlotte region, focusing particularly on the mayoral race in Concord.
Jensen is joined by Steve Morris to discuss his campaign for mayor of Concord and the key issues shaping the upcoming election. Morris, who previously served as chairman of the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, emphasizes his deep commitment to the community and outlines his priorities if elected - managing growth responsibly, protecting infrastructure, and keeping Concord’s elections nonpartisan. He warns that turning city races into partisan contests would divide residents and disenfranchise unaffiliated voters, who make up the largest voter bloc in the city.
Brett then discusses the early voting turnout that is already ahead of the pace seen two years ago, with more than 17,000 votes cast at key locations like SouthPark Library, Hal Marshall Center, and Cornelius Town Hall. Jensen notes that both Republicans and Democrats are participating, with Republicans following the push started in 2024 to vote early to avoid Election Day obstacle
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hi, oh, let's go oh, let's go oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh, Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Nine to nine three WBT Brett Jensen here with you
on this miserable Monday night edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen.
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all the letters and breaking news in and around the
Charlotte area. I hope everyone had as good of a
weekend as I did, as I took Isaac to the
woodshed and a round of golf out there at Cleveland
Country Club over there in Shelby. Uh, I just figured
I treat Isaac too around the golf and then just
proceeded to take up my frustrations on them and beat
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them by ten strokes.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So there's always that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So we got a lot we're going to get into tonight,
and we're gonna start looking at some of the municipal elections.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Outside of Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I spent a lot of time on Charlotte, and we're
gonna take some looks, you know, at Huntersville and Matthews
and you know some of the areas surrounding our area.
You know, Cornelius was going on in the mayor's right,
somethingre in Cornelius, you know, I mean that's it was
extremely tight a couple.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Of years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Is it is it going to be tied again? Is
it gonna be a wider margin of victory? Is there
gonna be a flip flop? And the results like we're
gonna see. So we'll get into a lot of different
things going around because not everyone here lives in Charlotte.
And there's a high probability, if you're listening to my
voice right now, you don't live in Charlotte. There's a
high probability maybe Gaston County, York County again, Airidal County,
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Cabarras Union and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So I want to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Look at Cabreras County because you guys know my affinity
for Caberras County and all things that are cameras. So
there's a mayor race going on up there, and they
do not have primaries up there, so you could have
five Republicans and one Democrat run.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
For mayor, just like it's just like school board.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Or Huntersville or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So the race happens to have Lori Clay, who I
had on my show a couple months ago, right after
she filed.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I guess back in July, So I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Three months ago.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Maybe Lori Clay, Alice Williams, and Steven Morse. Okay, Bill
Dush he's been in office since twenty seventeen, the current mayor.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
He is not seeking re election.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But the problem is there's a lot of things coming
coming out about Lori Clay, like a lot a lot
of things are posted online social media and things that
are written about in the old Shott Observer. And I've
been seeing these things online for quite a while. But
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I'm waiting until we get like the week before the election.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
We're in the middle of early voting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Election Day is a week from tomorrow, by the way.
We will be doing election coverage that night, and I
will be located somewhere with some candidates someplace somewhere, seeing
how they do, getting reaction and going over the.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Results and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But Lori Clay and I'm just going to read this paragraph.
Public records show that Lori Clay has been involved in
a series of misdemeanor, civil, and traffic cases over the
past two decades, all of which were eventually resolved.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The most substantial filings.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Came from the IRS, which placed three federal tax liens
against her between twenty fifteen and twenty nineteen, totally more
than sixty thousand dollars in unpaid income taxes for tax
years two thousand and seven through twenty sixteen. All these
liens were later released after the debts were paid, with
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the most reason cleared in twenty twelve. You're running for
mayor and you went nine Well, I want to just
make sure I get this right. You went nine years
without paying taxes and you owed sixty K and you're
running for mayor. This isn't like Mark Robinson twenty five
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years ago. This isn't something like that happened in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Like I don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But up until twenty sixteen, okay, nine years, so excuse me,
twenty fifteen, and these leans, by the way, were placed
against her up until twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
That's kind of recently.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And you're running for mayor and you can't pay your taxes.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's always a good look. That's who you want representing
your city. Someone who can't or won't.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Or refuses to pay their taxes. Okay, got it, got it,
got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So in two thousand and six, she was charged with
misdemeanor assault and battery in Cabarra's County. The case was
mediated and later dismissed mediated commit to various things. Do
you agree to that she'll pay you and you won't
file charges or dropped it?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Do you agree that she will do community service or
pay restitution or do this or do that?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes? There you go. Case was media. That's what that means.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Earlier, Clay played pleaded guilty to two worthless check charges,
one in two thousand and two involving a Concord Walmart
and another in two thousand and four at a local
nail salon. Court records show she paid restitution in both
cases totally four hundred and forty five dollars. Now you're writing.
Now you're writing worthless checks and you're running for mayor.
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Clay also appeared in two small acclaim cases tied to
unpaid bills. One from a utility company in two thousand
and five that was voluntarily dismissed.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They utility companies don't deal with that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
They're just like, yeah, whatever, especially if it's like one
hundred dollars, one hundred fifty dollars, two hundred dollars, they're
not it's not worth their time and money to try
and take that to court. And then there was another
one from twenty ten that was denied by a magistrate
according to Kamaras County Court records.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
This is all again in the Observer.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Recorded a minor play has a record of a minor
traffic violations, including expired registration, citations, driving without a license,
and a few speeding tickets. Nobody cares about the speeding tickets.
Driving without a license and you get in a wreck,
that's a big, big, big big deal, big deal, really
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big deal. The expired registration not a big fan. But
driving without a license, that's a really really big deal.
And then let's get to Alice Williams. Alice Williams, by
the way, has a series of civil and traffic violations
of filings over the past two decades, most of which
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were dismissed at result. Williams has twice name was twice
named in a two thousand and eight Homers Association Leans
filed by the Highland Creek Community Association over unpaid assessments
totally less than one thousand dollars. Both judgments were canceled
later that year after payment, according to Airs County records.
So you don't want to pay, you don't want to pay,
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you don't want to pay. Now we got Leans on you. Well,
damn it. Now, I guess I gotta pay. Okay, And
they're running.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
For mayor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Purposely possibly.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Willfully withholding taxes, possibly potentially willfully writing back checks.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The same association initiate three foreclosure proceedings on the property
between two thousand and eight twenty twelve. Each case was
voluntarily dismissed or closed without sale, including one in twenty
twelve that was later dismissed for failure to prosecute.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Okay, okay. And then Steve Morris, well, bray, you're not
being fair. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Morris was previously named as a defendant and at a
lawsuit filed in November against the Cabari's County Board of Commissioners,
which he chaired for more than a decade. The complaint,
followed by Resident James Campbell, alleged you that the board
violated the First Amendment when Morris ordered Campbell removed from
a meeting and barred him from attending future meetings for
ninety days after he named county officials during public comment.
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Lawsuit challenged the board's policy that bars residents from naming
our personally criticizing individual board members or county employees during
public comment, arguing that it restricted free speech. Morris was
named to the suit in his official capacity as a
board chairman, not personally, So there's a big, big difference,
big difference between being named personally. Now it's not cool
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what he did, but that's uh. But again there's a
big difference between personally. The case was dismissed with prejudice
last week. Actress settlement was reached.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So again this is a.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Only there's I'm gonna make sure I get this and
there I don't want to be accused of being unfair.
His only local court citation for an expired registration tag
was dismissed in nineteen ninety eight, which means more likely
he said, oh, your tag has been expired a month,
two months. You got a ticket and then you went
and got your registration and then they dismissed it. That's
exactly how it works. That's exactly how it works. Full disclosure.
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Same thing happened to me once, like god, fifteen twenty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So anyways, but how about we talked to Steve Morris
when we returned Welcome back to breaking with Brad Jensen.
(10:56):
All right, so there are some things that you do
need to know about this and Steve Morris, so I
do want to make sure that you understand what's going
on with the last two mayors, Steve Paget and Bill
push excuse me, Bill Dush. They are the last two
mayors and they have been the mayor a total of
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twenty four years. Well they've both endorsed Steve Morris. So
twenty four years worth of mayor candidates have endorsed Steve
Steve Morris. So with that being said, we want to
bring on Steve Morris. So, Steve, first of all, thanks
for joining us tonight, and second of all, tell me
and the listeners why you actually decided to run for
mayor of Concord Well.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I have obviously been involved in local government for the
past twelve years here in Cabaris County. Our current mayor
spoke with me and indicated that he did not plan
to run for reelection and encouraged me to do so.
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After looking at the other folks that at the time
that I was aware were interested in running, I sort
of felt the call to do that, and so I
care very deeply about the city. I think we've been
moving in a positive direction and I would like to
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see that continue.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Speak with Steve Morries, who's running for mayor of Concords.
So you talk about going forward in a positive direction.
What are some of your policies that you want to
try and get enabled during your tenure if you are elected.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Well one, I mean certainly, growth is a tremendous issue
here and for all the reasons that I love the
city and love to live here as well as our
other citizens, that's why other people want to move here,
you know. So that's a blessing and a curse. You know,
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We've got a a very welcoming, safe community, so it's
a very desirable people place for people to move to.
We have to pay very careful attentions of how that
impacts our infrastructure, certainly our water and sewer resources, and
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our city council, along with the mayor, are going to
have to make some very serious decisions over the next
year as to how much growth we want to provide
for through our wastewater treatment facility, and what that's going
to cost, and how we're going to finance that to
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make sure that it doesn't negatively impact our current residents.
So that is a really big issue. We've got some
folks that say, Okay, we've grown enough, we want you
to shut it down, just completely stop.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And if we try to do that, then then we
end up in a court and we have a judge
making those decisions for us as to how we're going
to move forward.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
And so I think it's it's much much better if
we've got serious elected officials that will sit down at
the negotiating table and come up with the best deal
for the citizens of Concord. And then another top issue
for me is there has been a movement over the
past year or so to make our city elections partisan.
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Currently they're non partisan. I think that that would be
a very negative thing for our city. Most of the
issues that are addressed at the city level are not
partisan issues, and to create a system that would would
divide people as opposed to unifying people, I think is
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a negative thing. And most importantly, if we were to
make those city elections partisan, then we would exclude our
largest registered voting group in the City of Concord, which
is unaffiliated voters, and the only way that they would
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be able to serve on city Council would be to
get thousands of names on a petition. So I think
that's a negative thing. And both of my opponents have
indicated that they would support partisan elections for the city,
so that's pretty important to me as well.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Speak with Steve Morris, who's running from mayor of Concord,
So I'm glad you brought up your opponents.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So when I say the name Lori Clay, what comes
to your mind?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well, you know, my position throughout this race has been that,
you know, I want to answer the questions. I want
to talk about the things that are important to me.
I want to let you know the things that I
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think are important. And I've not spent any time on
my opponents, with the exception perhaps of the of the
partisan election issues. But you know, I'm certainly aware of
some of the publicity that has occurred recently. You know,
the first thing, first thing I did when I saw
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that was to go to that state website to look
up my own name to see see what they had
on me, because because they didn't didn't list too much
in the article. But I was I was pleased to
see that there there wasn't wasn't too much there. But
you know, that's that's not something that I've been involved
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in and not interested in drawing in the additional attention to.
But I do think you know that the voters when
you run for office, you you expose yourself out there
and and so you're pretty much fair game. So people
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need to know something about the history and and and
the character and the of people that they're at being
asked to vote for.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't mean to beat a dead horse on this, Steve,
but we're talking about someone that had I R S
tax leans against them and other charges against them, and
you know, had to appear in court a lot of
different times, and then on top of that, allegedly didn't
you know, according to social media and against social media,
but didn't vote for I don't know what A generation
at least just didn't vote in local races.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So in your mind does that mean she's not qualified
to be.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Mayor Well, of course, you know, I'll go back to
my standard answer vote for me and we won't have
to be concerned about any of that. But you know,
the voting record is something that would be a concern
to me as a voter, because you know, even though
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you know, serving on city council for about eighteen months,
you know, having served in my previous role as a
county commissioner for twelve years, I know just how that
learning curve works, and it takes quite a bit of
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time to gain the knowledge and experience about such a
diverse list of issues in the community. And so you
would expect that someone that was serious about doing that
would be extremely engaged in the civic process. Uh And
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and regular engagement and voting as an important important part
of that. And obviously, from from the reports I've seen
on social media media, that has not not been the
case with with my opponents, Steve.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Moore, So, are there any final thoughts that you'd like
to say to the audience.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, you know, I think that that some of the
detractors continue to try to find some way to impugne
my record, and uh, I think one of the the
most tragic things that that I have experienced in my
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political career was just a blatant misuse of of media.
That includes you, although you weren't involved in in this one,
but you know, we had just a totally bogus SBI
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investigation that was initiated against me by some of my
political adversaries, that that went on for sixteen months and
ended with a conclusion of we couldn't find anything wrong.
There's nothing to be concerned about here. And so it's
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just really disturbing to me that that that that folks
will just fabricate an issue and use it for political
gain and then and used the media. I mean, obviously
it's your job to report on things, and I understand that. Uh,
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and then once the findings come back, you know there's
there's nothing here. You know, we found nothing illegal, no problems,
and so yet there's still still still posting on social
media and still still putting out literature advertising that. So
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I think just that basic lack of integrity is something
that I find extremely disturbing.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Steve Morris is running for mayor in Concord. I appreciate
your time tonight. You are absolutely well, all right, So
again Steve Morris running for mayor in Concord. The last
two mayors that served a total of twenty four years.
The two previous mayors have both endorsed him, and I
guess the positive is he actually has voted.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And in local elections and.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
He hasn't had any irs text leans against him or
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It seems kind of like a positive.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't know why I had to actually say that,
but okay, apparently you have to today. Welcome back to
Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Monday night seven oh
four or five, seven h eleven ten. As always, that
is a telephone number as well as the WBT text line.
And here's the thing. Early voting, as we know, is
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underway all in our area and it's actually doing well.
Early voting is it's ahead. It's ahead pace wise of
it was two years ago.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That may be because in twenty twenty four there was
a big, big, big push by Republican leadership at the
federal level and even at the state level to go like, look,
you need to get out and vote early. Don't don't
be someone who only votes on election day. I know,
you know, we've had many discussions about this with bo
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on his show, and I think last year he voted early.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
There's a big push.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Vote early if you're a Republican, because what happens if
next Tuesday, on election Day, the weather's like this, or
you get a flat tire, or your kids sick and
you can't get away because you know you got to
stay at home and watch them, or you.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Don't feel well or whatever. Right, well, there is a
lot of early voting going on.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
So is that because more and more Republicans are voting
or is it because the Democrats and the unaffiliateds are
out in force?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Like, there's a big question.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
South Park Library, which is right near the South Park Newsroom,
it is by far and away the leader for having
gained the most votes eight and twenty seven just in
a few days. And then the how Marshall Center, which
has been open for like it feels like eighteen weeks,
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has thirteen hundred and thirty volks yeap, no excuse me
has fourteen hundred and forty eight votes. But also right
there near there's the South Canon Library right there on
Ray Road that's done very well. The University City Library
has done very well in terms of votes, and the
Cornelias Town Hall has done very well in terms of
people showing up to vote. So again, seventeen one hundred
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and fifty six people had voted through yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Okay, now what does that mean.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It doesn't necessarily mean that it's a heavy, heavy turnout
by Democrats, because that's what it always used to mean.
This could mean, okay, Republicans are doing exactly like they
did in twenty twenty four, where they broke their all
time records for everything by voting early.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I actually voted early.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But real quick, here's the news, A quick report from
Queen City News about all of that that's going on
with early voting, Well.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Early voting turnout now surging in Mecklemburg County. It's up
nearly fifty percent compared to the last municipal election that
happened two years ago. So this is according to a
guy who's Board of Elections, so once behind this boost.
A Queen City News reporter Jen Cardon hit the polls
to find out.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Mayor's school board reps and the tax referendum. That's what
the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections is causing a fifty
percent uptake at the polls early this election.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
You're not going to get numbers like we do in
the presidential election or midterm election. We understand that, but
these are still good numbers for municipal elections.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Two years ago, Director of Elections Michael Dickerson says about
forty thousand voters went early. He's thinking this will shape
up closer to sixty five to seventy thousand.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Makes election day easier for us.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
And voters say same for them.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I just want to get ahead of the crows, make
sure I'm casting my vote, helping to make an informed
decision about Micklinburg Downy.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
I feel like education is a topic that's just so
important and it just kind of keeps getting pushed back
and back and back.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Freedom in this country is the most important thing for me,
So no, dearymandering, none of that stuff. You got to
kind of be be straight and make sure that we
get our voices heard and not get knocked.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Down for that.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
It doesn't matter where you vote for early voting, as
long as it's a location that's open and it happens
before Saturday at three pm. I had planned to vote
in this election, but you know, voting day is in November,
so I didn't realize that I could vote early here,
and I appreciate y'all telling me there are twenty one
locations open now. Dickerson warns it'll get busier the closer
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we get to Saturday.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I don't want anybody to be discouraged. I want everybody
to have a good time with the with the voting process.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Jen Cardoon, Queen City News.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Excuse me the woman and I think it was a
woman who said democracy and blah blah blah blah blah,
no jerry mandring. Okay, if you look at her, she
looks like she drives a Subaru. True story, Like subarus
have a very certain subset of people that drive them.
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One of them is old white people and hard and
they're always liberal. Ninety nine times out of one hundred
they're liberal. But on top of that, by the way,
why is it every time someone in a super rue
if I see super U, I automatically get pissed off
because I know they're going to do something to piss
me off on the roadways. Anyways, I get you not
worried about how the county commissioners locally and Micklimborough County
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gerrymandered the elections there. Okay, you're not caring concerned about democracy.
I guess freedom of speech doesn't involve democracy because you know,
the previous administration did away with all freedom of speech
on all social media platforms YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Twitter, as well as Facebook.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
But you're not worried about that, right, Okay, Just want
to make sure, just want to make sure. Just old
white women piss me off to no end. An welcome
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by breaking with Brett Jensen. If you're more minutes here
as we go up until seven o'clock, six more minutes
to go. Okay, So Carolina Panthers, let's talk a little
bit about the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I will not judge this particular game.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Was it a destruction of all destruction? Of course it was.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You let a running back run for two hundred and
sixteen yards or whatever it was. I'm like, not even
twenty carries or like, right at twenty carries James Cook
two touchdowns. Glad it wasn't going against him in fantasy football.
But here's the thing. When you have an offense, well, Brett,
you know they gave up all those points, so it
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wouldn't have mattered if Bryce Shawn was there or not. See,
that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. Here's why
it matters a not turning the ball over, fumbling, throwing interceptions,
whatever it is that you're doing right right, that's number one.
Giving the Bills good field position like they did a
few times. And then on top of that, if you're
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able to get a first down like consecutive, string some
first downs together and keep the ball for four five
minutes at a time, you're keeping your defense off the field,
which means they're getting more and more arrested. And there's
an old saying. You know, there's two ways to say.
The best offense is a good defense. The best defense
is a good offense. What that means is the longer
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your offense is on the field, the more their offense
can't score.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Because they're on the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And but if your defense is constantly put in very
bad situations or they're constantly on the field because you
can't get as a lousy first down more than like
two times in a row, that's a problem. So look
what a bright would Bryce young have made a difference?
Maybe not, and probably not, to be honest with you,
(30:06):
I'm not like some real anyone who knows me knows
that I'm not a cheerleader for the Carolina Panthers, like
I'm a realist. And they always used to say, especially
when I was on wfn Z, like the other sports
announcers over there, the sports talk show hosts, you know,
most of them were like big, big, big Panther fans
or whatever, and they would get upset when I would
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criticize the Panthers and they would go, oh, break, your
glass is always half empty. Ours is half full. No, no, no.
I said, first of all, that's just silly. That's just silly.
But I said, it's a horrible cliche.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
But second of all, my glass isn't half empty or
half full.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's halfway, exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's halfway, not up, not down, not full, not empty,
It's halfway.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's reality. And that's all I try to do is
deal with reality.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And the reality is Karlinda Panthers probably would have lost
this weekend anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I mean three game winning streak. They're now four and four.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
As wild as it is to say, you're still right there,
you're still in second place in your division. It's not
like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a great you know,
it's not like they performed great like they won, but
it wasn't like, oh my gosh, did you say I Well, like, no,
you still got two games against the Saints and another
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game against the Falcons. So Carolina Panthers, I know they've
looked bad into a lot of games, but let's see
how they look once Bryce gets back from.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
His high ankle sprain.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And I will tell you this high ankle sprain is
one of those things they can linger the rest of
the year, like it can take like five months to
heal a high ankle sprain depending on this of it all.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Now, he likes to be mobile.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
A little bit because you have to because the pass
blocking is not that great. So sometimes he has to
run for his life. And we'll see how that high
ankle sprain impacts his mobility. But again, not trying to
get into the minutia or Bret. This isn't a sports
talk show, like I get it. I understand that, but
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the Carolina Panthers are a major part of the fabric
of our society.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
They are as well as the Hornets. And I will
say this real quick about the Hornets, and.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I probably haven't watched the Hornets game in three years
on purpose, Like.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I maybe watched like the first game.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
They'll go yo, okay, this is enough of that, and
then I don't watch them again. I will tell you this,
the first two games, the Hornets been exciting, like they
probably should have beat Philadelphia. They should be two and
oh right now like they I like the Hornets. They're exciting.
I don't know what they're gonna do record wise, but
they're exciting. They should make the playoffs. Absolutely should make
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the playoffs. All right, So there is no TJ. Ritchie
show for tonight?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Oh? Is there is there?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Eight to nine?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, my apologies, There is a TJ.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Richie show tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Eight to nine because we got the Carolina Coaches Show
from seven to eight. Okay, all right, anyone want to
put any money down on whether or not Bill Belichick
actually shows up for the live radio broadcast tonight, because
if he does speak, it'll be a pre recorded interview.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I promise you that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
It won't be where call like fans.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
The reason they do coaches show for colleges so fans
can call in and ask the coaches questions.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's go to Isaac and Rutherford. Yeah, hey, Coach Belichick.
You the best that's ever lived. I got a question
about that defense. That's what always happens. Not with this guy,
No Belichick. If I'm Belichick, I'm getting nowhere near a
live telephone.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
All right, anyone that's gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
For us tonight? My name is Brett Jensen. Have a
great night, stay dry. You're listening to Breaking with Brett Jenson.
Hi, oh, let's go oh, let's go oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh, Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
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all the letters and breaking news in and around the
Charlotte area. I hope everyone had as good of a
weekend as I did, as I took Isaac to the
woodshed and a round of golf out there at Cleveland
Country Club over there in Shelby. Uh, I just figured
I treat Isaac too around the golf and then just
proceeded to take up my frustrations on them and beat
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them by ten strokes.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So there's always that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So we got a lot we're going to get into tonight,
and we're gonna start looking at some of the municipal elections.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Outside of Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I spent a lot of time on Charlotte, and we're
gonna take some looks, you know, at Huntersville and Matthews
and you know some of the areas surrounding our area.
You know, Cornelius was going on in the mayor's right,
somethingre in Cornelius, you know, I mean that's it was
extremely tight a couple.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Of years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Is it is it going to be tied again? Is
it gonna be a wider margin of victory? Is there
gonna be a flip flop? And the results like we're
gonna see. So we'll get into a lot of different
things going around because not everyone here lives in Charlotte.
And there's a high probability, if you're listening to my
voice right now, you don't live in Charlotte. There's a
high probability maybe Gaston County, York County again, Airidal County,
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Cabarras Union and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So I want to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Look at Cabreras County because you guys know my affinity
for Caberras County and all things that are cameras. So
there's a mayor race going on up there, and they
do not have primaries up there, so you could have
five Republicans and one Democrat run.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
For mayor, just like it's just like school board.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Or Huntersville or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So the race happens to have Lori Clay, who I
had on my show a couple months ago, right after
she filed.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I guess back in July, So I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Three months ago.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Maybe Lori Clay, Alice Williams, and Steven Morse. Okay, Bill
Dush he's been in office since twenty seventeen, the current mayor.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
He is not seeking re election.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But the problem is there's a lot of things coming
coming out about Lori Clay, like a lot a lot
of things are posted online social media and things that
are written about in the old Shott Observer. And I've
been seeing these things online for quite a while. But
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I'm waiting until we get like the week before the election.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
We're in the middle of early voting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Election Day is a week from tomorrow, by the way.
We will be doing election coverage that night, and I
will be located somewhere with some candidates someplace somewhere, seeing
how they do, getting reaction and going over the.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Results and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But Lori Clay and I'm just going to read this paragraph.
Public records show that Lori Clay has been involved in
a series of misdemeanor, civil, and traffic cases over the
past two decades, all of which were eventually resolved.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The most substantial filings.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Came from the IRS, which placed three federal tax liens
against her between twenty fifteen and twenty nineteen, totally more
than sixty thousand dollars in unpaid income taxes for tax
years two thousand and seven through twenty sixteen. All these
liens were later released after the debts were paid, with
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the most reason cleared in twenty twelve. You're running for
mayor and you went nine Well, I want to just
make sure I get this right. You went nine years
without paying taxes and you owed sixty K and you're
running for mayor. This isn't like Mark Robinson twenty five
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years ago. This isn't something like that happened in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Like I don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But up until twenty sixteen, okay, nine years, so excuse me,
twenty fifteen, and these leans, by the way, were placed
against her up until twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
That's kind of recently.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And you're running for mayor and you can't pay your taxes.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's always a good look. That's who you want representing
your city. Someone who can't or won't.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Or refuses to pay their taxes. Okay, got it, got it,
got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So in two thousand and six, she was charged with
misdemeanor assault and battery in Cabarra's County. The case was
mediated and later dismissed mediated commit to various things. Do
you agree to that she'll pay you and you won't
file charges or dropped it?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Do you agree that she will do community service or
pay restitution or do this or do that?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes? There you go. Case was media. That's what that means.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Earlier, Clay played pleaded guilty to two worthless check charges,
one in two thousand and two involving a Concord Walmart
and another in two thousand and four at a local
nail salon. Court records show she paid restitution in both
cases totally four hundred and forty five dollars. Now you're writing.
Now you're writing worthless checks and you're running for mayor.
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Clay also appeared in two small acclaim cases tied to
unpaid bills. One from a utility company in two thousand
and five that was voluntarily dismissed.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They utility companies don't deal with that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
They're just like, yeah, whatever, especially if it's like one
hundred dollars, one hundred fifty dollars, two hundred dollars, they're
not it's not worth their time and money to try
and take that to court. And then there was another
one from twenty ten that was denied by a magistrate
according to Kamaras County Court records.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
This is all again in the Observer.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Recorded a minor play has a record of a minor
traffic violations, including expired registration, citations, driving without a license,
and a few speeding tickets. Nobody cares about the speeding tickets.
Driving without a license and you get in a wreck,
that's a big, big, big big deal, big deal, really
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big deal. The expired registration not a big fan. But
driving without a license, that's a really really big deal.
And then let's get to Alice Williams. Alice Williams, by
the way, has a series of civil and traffic violations
of filings over the past two decades, most of which
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were dismissed at result. Williams has twice name was twice
named in a two thousand and eight Homers Association Leans
filed by the Highland Creek Community Association over unpaid assessments
totally less than one thousand dollars. Both judgments were canceled
later that year after payment, according to Airs County records.
So you don't want to pay, you don't want to pay,
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you don't want to pay. Now we got Leans on you. Well,
damn it. Now, I guess I gotta pay. Okay, And
they're running.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
For mayor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Purposely possibly.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Willfully withholding taxes, possibly potentially willfully writing back checks.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The same association initiate three foreclosure proceedings on the property
between two thousand and eight twenty twelve. Each case was
voluntarily dismissed or closed without sale, including one in twenty
twelve that was later dismissed for failure to prosecute.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Okay, okay. And then Steve Morris, well, bray, you're not
being fair. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Morris was previously named as a defendant and at a
lawsuit filed in November against the Cabari's County Board of Commissioners,
which he chaired for more than a decade. The complaint,
followed by Resident James Campbell, alleged you that the board
violated the First Amendment when Morris ordered Campbell removed from
a meeting and barred him from attending future meetings for
ninety days after he named county officials during public comment.
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Lawsuit challenged the board's policy that bars residents from naming
our personally criticizing individual board members or county employees during
public comment, arguing that it restricted free speech. Morris was
named to the suit in his official capacity as a
board chairman, not personally, So there's a big, big difference,
big difference between being named personally. Now it's not cool
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what he did, but that's uh. But again there's a
big difference between personally. The case was dismissed with prejudice
last week. Actress settlement was reached.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So again this is a.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Only there's I'm gonna make sure I get this and
there I don't want to be accused of being unfair.
His only local court citation for an expired registration tag
was dismissed in nineteen ninety eight, which means more likely
he said, oh, your tag has been expired a month,
two months. You got a ticket and then you went
and got your registration and then they dismissed it. That's
exactly how it works. That's exactly how it works. Full disclosure.
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Same thing happened to me once, like god, fifteen twenty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So anyways, but how about we talked to Steve Morris
when we returned Welcome back to breaking with Brad Jensen.
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All right, so there are some things that you do
need to know about this and Steve Morris, so I
do want to make sure that you understand what's going
on with the last two mayors, Steve Paget and Bill
push excuse me, Bill Dush. They are the last two
mayors and they have been the mayor a total of
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twenty four years. Well they've both endorsed Steve Morris. So
twenty four years worth of mayor candidates have endorsed Steve
Steve Morris. So with that being said, we want to
bring on Steve Morris. So, Steve, first of all, thanks
for joining us tonight, and second of all, tell me
and the listeners why you actually decided to run for
mayor of Concord Well.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I have obviously been involved in local government for the
past twelve years here in Cabaris County. Our current mayor
spoke with me and indicated that he did not plan
to run for reelection and encouraged me to do so.
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After looking at the other folks that at the time
that I was aware were interested in running, I sort
of felt the call to do that, and so I
care very deeply about the city. I think we've been
moving in a positive direction and I would like to
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see that continue.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Speak with Steve Morries, who's running for mayor of Concords.
So you talk about going forward in a positive direction.
What are some of your policies that you want to
try and get enabled during your tenure if you are elected.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Well one, I mean certainly, growth is a tremendous issue
here and for all the reasons that I love the
city and love to live here as well as our
other citizens, that's why other people want to move here,
you know. So that's a blessing and a curse. You know,
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We've got a a very welcoming, safe community, so it's
a very desirable people place for people to move to.
We have to pay very careful attentions of how that
impacts our infrastructure, certainly our water and sewer resources, and
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our city council, along with the mayor, are going to
have to make some very serious decisions over the next
year as to how much growth we want to provide
for through our wastewater treatment facility, and what that's going
to cost, and how we're going to finance that to
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make sure that it doesn't negatively impact our current residents.
So that is a really big issue. We've got some
folks that say, Okay, we've grown enough, we want you
to shut it down, just completely stop.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And if we try to do that, then then we
end up in a court and we have a judge
making those decisions for us as to how we're going
to move forward.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
And so I think it's it's much much better if
we've got serious elected officials that will sit down at
the negotiating table and come up with the best deal
for the citizens of Concord. And then another top issue
for me is there has been a movement over the
past year or so to make our city elections partisan.
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Currently they're non partisan. I think that that would be
a very negative thing for our city. Most of the
issues that are addressed at the city level are not
partisan issues, and to create a system that would would
divide people as opposed to unifying people, I think is
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a negative thing. And most importantly, if we were to
make those city elections partisan, then we would exclude our
largest registered voting group in the City of Concord, which
is unaffiliated voters, and the only way that they would
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be able to serve on city Council would be to
get thousands of names on a petition. So I think
that's a negative thing. And both of my opponents have
indicated that they would support partisan elections for the city,
so that's pretty important to me as well.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Speak with Steve Morris, who's running from mayor of Concord,
So I'm glad you brought up your opponents.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So when I say the name Lori Clay, what comes
to your mind?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well, you know, my position throughout this race has been that,
you know, I want to answer the questions. I want
to talk about the things that are important to me.
I want to let you know the things that I
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think are important. And I've not spent any time on
my opponents, with the exception perhaps of the of the
partisan election issues. But you know, I'm certainly aware of
some of the publicity that has occurred recently. You know,
the first thing, first thing I did when I saw
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that was to go to that state website to look
up my own name to see see what they had
on me, because because they didn't didn't list too much
in the article. But I was I was pleased to
see that there there wasn't wasn't too much there. But
you know, that's that's not something that I've been involved
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in and not interested in drawing in the additional attention to.
But I do think you know that the voters when
you run for office, you you expose yourself out there
and and so you're pretty much fair game. So people
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need to know something about the history and and and
the character and the of people that they're at being
asked to vote for.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't mean to beat a dead horse on this, Steve,
but we're talking about someone that had I R S
tax leans against them and other charges against them, and
you know, had to appear in court a lot of
different times, and then on top of that, allegedly didn't
you know, according to social media and against social media,
but didn't vote for I don't know what A generation
at least just didn't vote in local races.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So in your mind does that mean she's not qualified
to be.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Mayor Well, of course, you know, I'll go back to
my standard answer vote for me and we won't have
to be concerned about any of that. But you know,
the voting record is something that would be a concern
to me as a voter, because you know, even though
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you know, serving on city council for about eighteen months,
you know, having served in my previous role as a
county commissioner for twelve years, I know just how that
learning curve works, and it takes quite a bit of
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time to gain the knowledge and experience about such a
diverse list of issues in the community. And so you
would expect that someone that was serious about doing that
would be extremely engaged in the civic process. Uh And
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and regular engagement and voting as an important important part
of that. And obviously, from from the reports I've seen
on social media media, that has not not been the
case with with my opponents, Steve.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Moore, So, are there any final thoughts that you'd like
to say to the audience.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, you know, I think that that some of the
detractors continue to try to find some way to impugne
my record, and uh, I think one of the the
most tragic things that that I have experienced in my
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political career was just a blatant misuse of of media.
That includes you, although you weren't involved in in this one,
but you know, we had just a totally bogus SBI
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investigation that was initiated against me by some of my
political adversaries, that that went on for sixteen months and
ended with a conclusion of we couldn't find anything wrong.
There's nothing to be concerned about here. And so it's
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just really disturbing to me that that that that folks
will just fabricate an issue and use it for political
gain and then and used the media. I mean, obviously
it's your job to report on things, and I understand that. Uh,
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and then once the findings come back, you know there's
there's nothing here. You know, we found nothing illegal, no problems,
and so yet there's still still still posting on social
media and still still putting out literature advertising that. So
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I think just that basic lack of integrity is something
that I find extremely disturbing.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Steve Morris is running for mayor in Concord. I appreciate
your time tonight. You are absolutely well, all right, So
again Steve Morris running for mayor in Concord. The last
two mayors that served a total of twenty four years.
The two previous mayors have both endorsed him, and I
guess the positive is he actually has voted.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And in local elections and.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
He hasn't had any irs text leans against him or
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It seems kind of like a positive.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't know why I had to actually say that,
but okay, apparently you have to today. Welcome back to
Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Monday night seven oh
four or five, seven h eleven ten. As always, that
is a telephone number as well as the WBT text line.
And here's the thing. Early voting, as we know, is
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underway all in our area and it's actually doing well.
Early voting is it's ahead. It's ahead pace wise of
it was two years ago.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That may be because in twenty twenty four there was
a big, big, big push by Republican leadership at the
federal level and even at the state level to go like, look,
you need to get out and vote early. Don't don't
be someone who only votes on election day. I know,
you know, we've had many discussions about this with bo
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on his show, and I think last year he voted early.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
There's a big push.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Vote early if you're a Republican, because what happens if
next Tuesday, on election Day, the weather's like this, or
you get a flat tire, or your kids sick and
you can't get away because you know you got to
stay at home and watch them, or you.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Don't feel well or whatever. Right, well, there is a
lot of early voting going on.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
So is that because more and more Republicans are voting
or is it because the Democrats and the unaffiliateds are
out in force?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Like, there's a big question.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
South Park Library, which is right near the South Park Newsroom,
it is by far and away the leader for having
gained the most votes eight and twenty seven just in
a few days. And then the how Marshall Center, which
has been open for like it feels like eighteen weeks,
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has thirteen hundred and thirty volks yeap, no excuse me
has fourteen hundred and forty eight votes. But also right
there near there's the South Canon Library right there on
Ray Road that's done very well. The University City Library
has done very well in terms of votes, and the
Cornelias Town Hall has done very well in terms of
people showing up to vote. So again, seventeen one hundred
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and fifty six people had voted through yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Okay, now what does that mean.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It doesn't necessarily mean that it's a heavy, heavy turnout
by Democrats, because that's what it always used to mean.
This could mean, okay, Republicans are doing exactly like they
did in twenty twenty four, where they broke their all
time records for everything by voting early.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I actually voted early.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But real quick, here's the news, A quick report from
Queen City News about all of that that's going on
with early voting, Well.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Early voting turnout now surging in Mecklemburg County. It's up
nearly fifty percent compared to the last municipal election that
happened two years ago. So this is according to a
guy who's Board of Elections, so once behind this boost.
A Queen City News reporter Jen Cardon hit the polls
to find out.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Mayor's school board reps and the tax referendum. That's what
the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections is causing a fifty
percent uptake at the polls early this election.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
You're not going to get numbers like we do in
the presidential election or midterm election. We understand that, but
these are still good numbers for municipal elections.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Two years ago, Director of Elections Michael Dickerson says about
forty thousand voters went early. He's thinking this will shape
up closer to sixty five to seventy thousand.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Makes election day easier for us.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
And voters say same for them.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I just want to get ahead of the crows, make
sure I'm casting my vote, helping to make an informed
decision about Micklinburg Downy.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
I feel like education is a topic that's just so
important and it just kind of keeps getting pushed back
and back and back.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Freedom in this country is the most important thing for me,
So no, dearymandering, none of that stuff. You got to
kind of be be straight and make sure that we
get our voices heard and not get knocked.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Down for that.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
It doesn't matter where you vote for early voting, as
long as it's a location that's open and it happens
before Saturday at three pm. I had planned to vote
in this election, but you know, voting day is in November,
so I didn't realize that I could vote early here,
and I appreciate y'all telling me there are twenty one
locations open now. Dickerson warns it'll get busier the closer
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we get to Saturday.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
I don't want anybody to be discouraged. I want everybody
to have a good time with the with the voting process.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Jen Cardoon, Queen City News.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Excuse me the woman and I think it was a
woman who said democracy and blah blah blah blah blah,
no jerry mandring. Okay, if you look at her, she
looks like she drives a Subaru. True story, Like subarus
have a very certain subset of people that drive them.
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One of them is old white people and hard and
they're always liberal. Ninety nine times out of one hundred
they're liberal. But on top of that, by the way,
why is it every time someone in a super rue
if I see super U, I automatically get pissed off
because I know they're going to do something to piss
me off on the roadways. Anyways, I get you not
worried about how the county commissioners locally and Micklimborough County
(27:12):
gerrymandered the elections there. Okay, you're not caring concerned about democracy.
I guess freedom of speech doesn't involve democracy because you know,
the previous administration did away with all freedom of speech
on all social media platforms YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Twitter, as well as Facebook.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
But you're not worried about that, right, Okay, Just want
to make sure, just want to make sure. Just old
white women piss me off to no end. An welcome
(27:59):
by breaking with Brett Jensen. If you're more minutes here
as we go up until seven o'clock, six more minutes
to go. Okay, So Carolina Panthers, let's talk a little
bit about the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I will not judge this particular game.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Was it a destruction of all destruction? Of course it was.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You let a running back run for two hundred and
sixteen yards or whatever it was. I'm like, not even
twenty carries or like, right at twenty carries James Cook
two touchdowns. Glad it wasn't going against him in fantasy football.
But here's the thing. When you have an offense, well, Brett,
you know they gave up all those points, so it
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wouldn't have mattered if Bryce Shawn was there or not. See,
that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong. Here's why
it matters a not turning the ball over, fumbling, throwing interceptions,
whatever it is that you're doing right right, that's number one.
Giving the Bills good field position like they did a
few times. And then on top of that, if you're
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able to get a first down like consecutive, string some
first downs together and keep the ball for four five
minutes at a time, you're keeping your defense off the field,
which means they're getting more and more arrested. And there's
an old saying. You know, there's two ways to say.
The best offense is a good defense. The best defense
is a good offense. What that means is the longer
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your offense is on the field, the more their offense
can't score.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Because they're on the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And but if your defense is constantly put in very
bad situations or they're constantly on the field because you
can't get as a lousy first down more than like
two times in a row, that's a problem. So look
what a bright would Bryce young have made a difference?
Maybe not, and probably not, to be honest with you,
(30:06):
I'm not like some real anyone who knows me knows
that I'm not a cheerleader for the Carolina Panthers, like
I'm a realist. And they always used to say, especially
when I was on wfn Z, like the other sports
announcers over there, the sports talk show hosts, you know,
most of them were like big, big, big Panther fans
or whatever, and they would get upset when I would
(30:27):
criticize the Panthers and they would go, oh, break, your
glass is always half empty. Ours is half full. No, no, no.
I said, first of all, that's just silly. That's just silly.
But I said, it's a horrible cliche.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
But second of all, my glass isn't half empty or
half full.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's halfway, exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's halfway, not up, not down, not full, not empty,
It's halfway.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's reality. And that's all I try to do is
deal with reality.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And the reality is Karlinda Panthers probably would have lost
this weekend anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I mean three game winning streak. They're now four and four.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
As wild as it is to say, you're still right there,
you're still in second place in your division. It's not
like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a great you know,
it's not like they performed great like they won, but
it wasn't like, oh my gosh, did you say I Well, like, no,
you still got two games against the Saints and another
(31:36):
game against the Falcons. So Carolina Panthers, I know they've
looked bad into a lot of games, but let's see
how they look once Bryce gets back from.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
His high ankle sprain.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And I will tell you this high ankle sprain is
one of those things they can linger the rest of
the year, like it can take like five months to
heal a high ankle sprain depending on this of it all.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Now, he likes to be mobile.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
A little bit because you have to because the pass
blocking is not that great. So sometimes he has to
run for his life. And we'll see how that high
ankle sprain impacts his mobility. But again, not trying to
get into the minutia or Bret. This isn't a sports
talk show, like I get it. I understand that, but
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the Carolina Panthers are a major part of the fabric
of our society.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
They are as well as the Hornets. And I will
say this real quick about the Hornets, and.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I probably haven't watched the Hornets game in three years
on purpose, Like.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I maybe watched like the first game.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
They'll go yo, okay, this is enough of that, and
then I don't watch them again. I will tell you this,
the first two games, the Hornets been exciting, like they
probably should have beat Philadelphia. They should be two and
oh right now like they I like the Hornets. They're exciting.
I don't know what they're gonna do record wise, but
they're exciting. They should make the playoffs. Absolutely should make
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the playoffs. All right, So there is no TJ. Ritchie
show for tonight?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Oh? Is there is there?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Eight to nine?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, my apologies, There is a TJ.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Richie show tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Eight to nine because we got the Carolina Coaches Show
from seven to eight. Okay, all right, anyone want to
put any money down on whether or not Bill Belichick
actually shows up for the live radio broadcast tonight, because
if he does speak, it'll be a pre recorded interview.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I promise you that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
It won't be where call like fans.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
The reason they do coaches show for colleges so fans
can call in and ask the coaches questions.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's go to Isaac and Rutherford. Yeah, hey, Coach Belichick.
You the best that's ever lived. I got a question
about that defense. That's what always happens. Not with this guy,
No Belichick. If I'm Belichick, I'm getting nowhere near a
live telephone.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
All right, anyone that's gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
For us tonight? My name is Brett Jensen. Have a
great night, stay dry. You're listening to Breaking with Brett Jenson.
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