Community Connection - April 29 2026 - Tina Cosby w James Patterson Denise Paul Hatch and Rev David Greene - Community Connection With Tina Cosby

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Opportunity and well being for children on Praise AM thirteen
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And good afternoon, and welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosby.
Today is Wednesday, April the twenty ninth, as always lost
to get to on the show today, Eric Garnes, you
know it's Wednesday. What do they call it? Hump Day?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, that's it hump day. Remember the camel used to be.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
No, what was that? Was that a cigarette commercial?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, it was a camel that was used actually in
an insurance commercial, ah at one time. And uh, I
have to remember that.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I usually remember all the.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Camel walked into the office or and I guess it
worked in the office, got on the nerves of people
that work there. It's like here he is again with
that hump day. Stop.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
You just said you said something brought back a memory
though that I did remember. The camel walked, the camel walk.
The camel walked, Yes, celebrities and everybody else alike. All
everybody was doing the camel walk at some point. Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
More anyway on this hump day camel anyway, one hump

(01:15):
two hump cammel. Okay, I'll check it out. We're continuing
our countdown to next week's primary election less than a
week away. We got candidates who are asking for your
votes with us today is going to be Reverend David Green,
senior pastor at Purpose of Life Ministries and a candidate

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for Indiana State Senate District twenty nine. Reverend Green is
going to join us in our second hour and coming
up at the bottom of this hour around one thirty.
Former Center Township Yes, former Center Township Constable Denise Paul
Hatch is running for Indiana seventh US Congressional District. She'll

(01:59):
be into talk with us about her campaign right now.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Though.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Let's bring in our contributing analyst, James Patterson. James, how
are you.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, I'm good to be with you. I'm fine. How
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Pretty good? Pretty good? Pretty good? I think lovely day,
I would say, or is it? I don't know? Yeah, yeah,
go straight to the weather with you.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Huh oh, yeah, I guess you could. That's that's fine. Yeah,
I'll go ahead and do that. It is going to
be a lovely day. In fact, if you like a
little bit cooler weather, because that's what we're heading into
as of today. A little bit of a cooler period
for the rest of the week and weekend after today.

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We don't expect temperatures to reach, in fact, in the
sixties for the rest of the week. As a matter
of fact, I was looking out there and I'm looking
at the radar Indiana radar, Midwest radar on the screen,
and there is sunshine, but it's cloudy, but there's breaks

(03:03):
in the cloud and I do expect that we'll have
more of a clearing the later we go in the day.
Just looking at this satellite weather map and radar, and
it looks like, you know, the sunshine will kind of
went out, but there's plenty of clouds around, so you
may see some of those too. But we expect plenty

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of sunshine this afternoon with a very small chance for rain,
if none. There may be a pop up shower, particularly
north of the metropolitan area, but for the most part,
people will be dry. And I'm really confident in saying
that we don't have the fuel that we had the
last time I was here, that being the heat of

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the day and the heat in the atmosphere, the abnormal temperatures.
We've had a string of eighties. We've had seventies, and
when it gets that warm and that cool air tries
to crash in. Anything can happen. So it was sixty
degrees if we came on the air today, and we
expect temperatures to rise only a couple more degrees into

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the low sixties. So a bit of a cool pattern
coming our way over the next few days. But just
hang in there, maze right around the corner. In fact,
it's two days away and we'll have warmer temperatures dominating
after a while.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, let's hope. So okay, again, it is the spring,
and so we'll take that. You know, we'll take it.
We'll take it. We'll take it. Eric, Are you good
with the.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, I guess I am. I got to say this.
The lawn looks good.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Did you manure it yesterday? No?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
No, it's been raining, so it's nice and it's high
like it, like it, So it'll be what it's time
to mo it'll.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Be like yeah, especially if you get that fertilizer down.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
That's true, you're right, it'll be go ahead. I was
just I'm sorry, go ahead, James.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well it's expensive. Oh yeah. The war, the war, the war,
that's why it's so expensive fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's gone up.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
I usually get a big bag of the fertilizer that
I get. I won't call the name. I haven't heard
any commercials and I hear from them, so I won't
call the name. But it's a it's a well known company,
and it cost me in years past a big bag
which is huge. I can't tell you the size of it.

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About at the top, about sixty dollars. That was top.
Now it's ninety nine dollars.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Eric, Really I have not really yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, for that big old bag. That big old bag
will primarily get front and back for me behind the
place we have, but front and back. But even the
small bag that I used to get a couple of them.
If I didn't have enough to get a big bag,
I get a couple of small bags. Even that's going
up to like forty two dollars when it used to

(06:05):
be like thirty. So I mean it's it's got to
be impacting. That straight of horn meuse closing.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, no, no, go ahead, the straight of horm moves
I know, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Was done, I was done. Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
But here's my question is is the closing and actual
impact that we feel daily or is it an anticipated
impact that's coming, because I find it hard to believe
that those who are in the fertilizer industry live hand
to mouth, that they don't have, you know, supply stocked

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up or what have you, that they don't you know
that that if you cut it off one week, then
the prices have to jump thirty, forty to fifty percent.
I don't get that. I agree, so that that's all
I'm saying. That's ridiculous. How in the world can you
calculate that it has to go from sixty to ninety
dollars because the straits have been closed for one or

(06:59):
two weeks. Now, maybe it's a future's calculation. I get that,
but but certainly that's not I call it greed. I agree,
And yeah, Chunging, I think.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, I would agree with you that they jumped the
prices whenever there's an opportunity. Yeah. And the fact that
you're saying looking forward a lot of times I would
say not. I would say distributors who take the products
from producers to sell, they got a plan ahead, like

(07:36):
three or four months exactly, and there's an opportunity. And
you know, back when we were in the midst of
COVID in twenty twenty, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty
twenty two. They saw an opportunity, you know that traffic
was going to be down because things were closed and

(07:57):
jack up the prices, so, you know, an opportunity. Never
did a salesperson myth when they had their tents.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, because I'm thinking that this might be a need
to recoup you know, some of the prices maybe six seven,
eight months, maybe ten months down the road, but not
in less than a week, because that just doesn't it
doesn't hold water with me for I mean, I'm just
not I don't get it. You mean, one shipment a

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fertilizer is going to have you you have to no,
like you said, that just further the futures.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
You're further out and then they're they're jacking it up.
Twenty percent of the world's oil supply goes through that straight.
Also you've got natural gas and you have a fertilizer.
They say, like as many as ninety to one hundred

(08:54):
freight and oiler ships, freight and oilers were going through
their day ninety two one hundred, So that's a lot
of cargo, not all of it's coming to the United States.
But again we're in They're connected when stuff goes to Argentina,
you know, to help grow whatever they sell us. You know,
I don't know, just you know, whatever Argentina's agricultural products

(09:19):
are and they have to pay more for it than
that price they pass on to the buyers, and you
know we're one. If we're one of their buyers, which
we are, Let's say, you know, coffee or whatever it is,
then the price goes up. It's it's just all interconnected.
So we've got all these troops and these ships sitting
out there doing nothing except blockading their their ports, and

(09:43):
we hey, what, what's what's the purpose of it? You know,
I mean, what what how are we gaining? You're you're
waiting for them to capitulate. They're they're just as entrenched
in their ideology as we are in ours. And you know,
they'll just figure way around it that you think, oh,
they're in shambles. They've got two hundred percent inflation, they're

(10:05):
gonna No, they killed like thirty thousand of their own people.
They ain't gonna capitulate to nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
In my no, and the bluff and the bluster and
all that stuff, you know, the threats and the pictures
and the childish memes and cartoons there. They simply are
not moved by any of that. No, no, probably mock it,
but they're not moved. That's not how they do business.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
No, no, But we're talking about the weather stance. You know,
kind of got off on that, but uh, yeah, the
weather's going to be cooler over the next few days,
but just hang in there and it should boost something.
But yeah, the straight of horn meuse, Yeah, they're going
to take advantage immediately, and you know, we're going to
get to some other stuff which I think. You know,

(10:52):
we just as people, we just continue need to continue
to be able to grow and to think about as
other people think about and think about long term and
how things impact us. And that goes for voting and
everything else. It's just we have to participate. This is
a democracy. If we don't, people just run right all
over us.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
It's not perfect, but for now, in terms of getting
we have the majority. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
And.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, you know that. Yeah. I don't know if I
mistakenly said this or not. I think I did. But
when we were talking speaking of voting and elections, having
consequences and what have you. And early voting is now
underway at a number of satellite sites. Pike. The Pike
Township Library is open, is reopened. But the library on

(11:45):
Michigan Road Indianapolis Public Library of Michigan, it's not the
Pike Township it's just a Michigan Road Library, Michigan Road branch.
That's correct, even though it is in Piketown. So if
I did yeah, if I did say that mistakenly, it
is even though it's in Pike Township. It is called
the Michigan Road Branch.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
So that's correct.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, breaking story. You may already have this. Former FBI
director James Comy has surrendered. It's a law enforcement in
federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. According to
the first and familiar, as he surrenders, he will be
placed under arrest ahead of his first appearance in court.
Hearing begin at one o'clock.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Okay, well, yeah, it's after one, so I assume it's
going to be all in one motion. He'll surrender, then
they'll go in the court, he'll make a plea, and
then he'll be released. And I'm no fan of James
Comy and I don't think Tina is either. He really
was a person responsible for Hillary Clinton losing to Donald

(12:50):
Trump in twenty sixteen. I mean, he was really the
most responsible. I am not a fan of his, nor
do I you know, follow him at all or or
listen to what he says. But on the other end,
he is being made a scapegoat, as are others that
the Trump administration has retaliated against for political reasons, only

(13:15):
only because they spoke up against him or or they
oppose him, and that includes journalists. I saw a story
I don't know if you all saw this where Trump
wants Jimmy Kimmel the night Yeah, yeah, fired, and the SEC,
which is under the president's control. This is First Amendment

(13:37):
now free speech. The SEC has begun the classes of
challenging the licenses licenses of all of Disney. Disney is
a parent company over ABC, of all of their at
least many some of their affiliates, their ABC affiliates. I
wonder Indianapolis Channel six is going to be among those,

(13:57):
but they begun to challenge those. I mean, it's it's
not going to go anywhere because it's based on poo poo,
you know, I mean, it's based on nothing. But it's
just the thing that they're making people go through all
of these hoops and attacking people. Even call me his indictment,
Eric is it's a bunch of junk. It's he put
I mean, he put out a symbol on a beach

(14:19):
and took a picture of it and posted it. And
the symbol is what something to do with eighty six?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know, eighty six means you know, you means, yeah,
I've known eighty six to mean like pick up a
gun and shoot or kill or right, No, eighty six
just means get rid of that, you know, just dish it,
put it in file through to whatever.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Eighty six that's a stretch And like one analys said,
the dumbest lawsuit I've ever seen filed anywhere. I mean,
it's going nowhere. But you know, I mean, he needs
to change the narrative. He's really doing badly and I
don't see where he's going at all.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Really well, he's making it worse on himself because that's
the last thing you want to do. And realistically, he
should be licking Komy's boots because had it not been
for Komy, he wouldn't have gotten in the first time.
Just like you said, James, So, I don't understand why
he keeps going out. Well, I do understand. It was

(15:20):
the Russia, the Russia investigation over which he, you know,
he was in charge of. But still, I mean, he
should have gratitude. He should be swinging from the rafters
with gratitude for James Comy and looking to help him
in any way he can, rather than you know, trying
to keep him in jail or inded him or what
have you. It's it's just it's insanity, it's ludicrous. It's

(15:44):
just it's deranged. It's it's all those things. But be
that as it may. That's what's going on.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
That's what's going on. And you know, I just I
just think we we people. I mean, there was a
Supreme Court that came out today against well we'll get
into that, but we just you know, look, this country
has been against us, that's fact, since the beginning, against

(16:12):
our growth, against our education, against our prosperity, since the beginning.
I'm not trying to play the victim. I never would
do that, but the truth is the truth. I've read
enough books to know what happened, and I've lived a
life to know what happened. So you know, you can't
just race the history of this country. And we're not

(16:37):
trying to lean on a crutch, but what we're saying
is we have to help ourselves because if we don't,
history has shown no one is going to help us
except God. That's it, and that's the best one to
have on our side.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
But that Supreme Court hearing today, hearing, I'm sorry, decision
that was handed down today, a lot of people fear,
even though they went right up to the line, they
fear it's another hammer and chip away at the Voting
Rights Act, specifically Article two or Section two, the Voting

(17:14):
Rights Act of nineteen sixty five, which is a protection mechanism.
It's not a preference mechanism. It's protection mechanism to even
the playing field, to balance the scales. And how it
has been just twisted and misrepresented and turned around and

(17:35):
interpreted by this body of juris is insane. Is insane, James.
But anyway, so go ahead. You were talking about an
example this morning, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, the hearing this morning, the hearing this morning with.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Defense Secretary at the Supreme Court decision. Yeah, I mean
that's another well, you know, I mean.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
He's in that same group who claim that, you know,
black people have an advantage, you know, they.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
They discriminated against white people. Yeah, you know we have
an unfair advantage.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
In the trade trade places with us, you know, living
our living, our shoes and in our skin. For just
just let an hour see how see how? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
See how it feels? Why I'll go with you on
a week? Give him a week? A week? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Week?

Speaker 4 (18:39):
And you know, I mean I saw something that that
went viral. I you know, I don't unless social media
somebody sends me something. I don't really spend a whole
lot of because you can heal your whole life on it.
But I I saw something about that police officer Gonzales
uh in Houston, who Hispanic female police officer who went

(19:03):
on this racially charged rant and she it cost her
her job. Her the post came out, I think, yes
week and it cross their job job and just literally
using the in words. And I heard a lot of

(19:24):
the people who commented on it, mostly Hispanics, the Hispanic comments,
and they were like, yeah, right, this is how some
of them feel, and it's because of the way history
has been shaped to make them think that's That's the
reason why I heck sat is in the position he's
in is because he thinks that black people have got
an advantage over him arbitrarily or you know, just manufactured,

(19:49):
or just because of the law they applied. But I
just want to read this for people to follow to
know what we're talking about. It's an Associated Press story.
That's a pret Court on Wednesday weakened a landmark civil
rights era law. That this is the Associated Press saying this.
This is fast that has increased minority representation in Congress

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and elsewhere, striking down a majority black congressional district in
Louisiana and opening the door for more redistricting across the
country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House.
Now I don't agree with that. I think they're done.
But in a six to three ruling, the Court's conservative
majority found that Louisiana district represented by Democratic Democrat Cleo

(20:36):
excuse me, Fields, relied too heavily on race. Chief Justice
John Roberts had described the sixth Congressional district as a
snake that stretches more than two hundred miles three hundred
and twenty kilometers to link parts of shreport Alexandria, Lafayette
and Baton Rouge. When thirty percent one third of the

(20:58):
voters in Louisiana are black African American minority and they
they have one out of six seats, Now, how is
that fair? Tell me? How is that fair? And so
they were trying to I mean, even the legislature, before
the legislature stepped in, I mean, even the uh the

(21:20):
state government said that it was was was fair and
then they changed their minds. But the they initially a
judge ruled it was fair to create another district, and
then a two three judge panel ruled against them, and
then after that Tina it went to the Supreme Court.
They challenged it and the Supreme Court said six three, No,

(21:41):
you cannot based on race, but they can. They can
do it based on political and in effect that turns
out to be race. In effect, that turns out to
be race when they do it on political parties, because
the Republican Party is mostly non minority period.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
YEP. Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Amazing? The lens through which they see things and how
they rationalize, yeah, is just wow, absolutely crazy, absolutely crazy.
So I don't know, but so anyway. I don't know, James.
Where There's so much work to do in so many

(22:25):
different areas. But one of the things that we cannot
leave out, that we cannot, cannot cannot rest on, is voting. Again,
voting is not going to take care of everything, because
that's crazy. Nothing takes care of everything if you think
about it. But it's so crucial and so essential to
this battle that we're in that we just can't sleep

(22:47):
on it. You know.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, the Republicans don't believe they build prisons, you know,
based upon the number of minority, black and brown babies
that are gonna be born. I do say black and brown,
because you've got prison that's heavily populated by blacks and Hispanics,

(23:09):
and they built schools, they do planning based upon the population.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
So in.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Essence, they're saying, they don't believe you will vote. They
don't believe black people will vote. They don't believe it.
They don't believe that you will stand up for yourself
and vote.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Nope, there you go.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
They don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
They don't believe it. Three one, seven, eight, zero, thirteen ten. Jeff,
go ahead, how.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
Are you hey, Jinna? James?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Eric, how you guys doing doing good.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Happy hump day, m Yeah yeah, Wednesday midweek, Well, you know,
and kind of figure out what James told I just
former police officer, want to emphasize former please Ashley Gonzales.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
Well, remember Jame, I know there's a big contingent between me.
They overwhelmingly votedfort that punk in the White House. It
is because they thought by bodie petrol, they will give
them some delusional proximity to whiteness.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, literally, see let titles have rejected their indigenous beautiful
mother for that conquistador who murdered and raped and enslaved them.
They who installed a colorist society based on skin color.
The darker you are, the inferior you are.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
All right, Well, yeah, I mean that that's that's that's
what many of them say. And and I you know,
they they have met. I mean I was listening to
social media streaming and they they say, this is this
is this is an issue in our community. This is
a problem in our community that we believe. You know,
like even when they have base when they have baby chefs,

(24:56):
they hope that the baby is of the Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah, and uh, you know I hate to break to
you Latinos. Black people are the original, the original human
beings look like me, James, Eric and Tina.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
We look like us.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
So you know, you listened to that conquistador who murdered
you all enslavedy a rape ya and y'all worshiping you
guys had the most great civilizations on the planet, incase
the Aztecs, and you rejected that for that conquista door.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
But thosen't know what conquisador is. That's a Spanish murderer.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
Cortes and Bizarre and all these guys that murdered the
rape their way throughout Mexico and Central America and to
buy you know, enslave.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
Damn they were enslaved too.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
But you know what, much of you guys want proximity
to whiteness.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
You will always be the other.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Wanted to be white is not the same as being white.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
You will always the other.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Well, I think I can jeff many of them, not many,
but a lot of them realize that. I mean, now
you got to you gotta really put them in different camps,
because there are some. But I will tell you this.
Also many of them, and particularly some of the older generations,
they vote for Republicans because of the moral so called

(26:20):
moral issues, the same sex relationships and also abortion. That's
why they do it. And that's why they did it
for Trump, not that they like him, but when he
got in there, he had lied to them. They see
what he's done now by carrying apart families, by putting
kids in cages, by putting people away in uh these

(26:43):
detention centers that you know for months that you know,
their families can't even contact them, so they you know,
I mean, you can't really put them all in the
same bucket, because that's why they did. But they see
now even though they voted for what they believe was
a moral a stance on a moral stance is because uh,
you know, of their religious views that they see now

(27:05):
that that did not work for them. So you know,
because there are there are Republicans who vote Republicans all
day long who are involved in same sex relationships. There
are Republicans who vote Republicans all day long who are
who believe in was it a woman's right to choose?

(27:27):
I mean lots of them. So you know, it's for me,
it comes down to how do you treat your fellow
man and how we've been treated for four hundred years
now going on, and it's it's going to stop. I
tell you, yep, just still there. He's gone.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, he's gone, he's gone. But yeah, you know, we're
getting we're getting close to the We just went real
quick through that thirty minutes to week. Yeah we did,
we did. But got another candidate here with us. And
so she is Denise Paul Hatch and we're gonna meet her.

(28:04):
She's asking for your vote. We're gonna meet her right
after this break. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
And we're back with Community Connection. And before we move on, Eric,
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Speaker 2 (29:05):
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(29:25):
So James and Eric, as we were saying, for the
last several days, we've been talking to candidates for the
primary who are talking to us and talking to our
listeners out there asking for their vote. We have with
us right now here in studio, Denise Paul Hatch. She's
a candidate for Indiana's seventh congressional district seat currently held

(29:48):
by Andre Carson. And welcome, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
How are you doing, Thank you, thank you for having me,
appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, so yeah, and so quick question, just right off
the bat, why are you running for your Democrat? It's
a crowded field for the seventh US Congressional district seat
currently held by Congressman Carson, So why are you running.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
I'm running because I recognized that there's a void in leadership.
Within the last year, we've had a lot of situations
that really impact people, but there's no leader stepping up
to see a little more older people who are left

(30:37):
in the dock. I spoke to one gentleman. He was
just about to get his disability status. They turned his
lights off, so he's living with a friend because he
has an enormous bill and that he cannot pay, and
no one is investigating. I know there's supposed to be
a state commission, but I believe that's just a board

(30:59):
to people, and you know, I don't think they have
any teat in that in that board. So I would
like to investigate a yes and and give some refunds.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Okay, so do you think that that's not being done
by the current administration. If you think it's as your
candidacy is an indicator that things are not being done,
or that you just want to add to it that
they're fighting, let's put it.

Speaker 9 (31:25):
This way, right, I have Maybe your listeners can tell me,
but I have not heard of any investigation directed by
the president administration. A matter of fact, the people did
not want the Data Center they're connected the data center
in their communities, and all the leaders agree to it.
Go ahead, put it over there, you know, in an area.

(31:48):
You know, put it in guys. People put it in guys.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
But then that's not on the congressional level.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
Everything is on a congressional level. Everything is on congressional
level in what way, in what we because Congress is
at the federal and some things you can bring down
to the state. There's money is going back and taxes
and all these different things happening. So the congress person
does not just do things with Washington. They have to

(32:18):
pay attention to what's being done on the ground. And
you have a situation where your constituents have been ripped
off royally, where it's the investigators. Congress can decide to
do any investigation they want to.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
You have to have the willow you last sell the
elective office in twenty twenty four center township constable and
in battled time there to say the least marked by arrest, stints,
in jail, plea bargains, all kinds of you know, later
a felony conviction and things of that nature. So how

(32:58):
do you look to overcome that, to get the trust
of the voters to put you in that seat.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
First of all, I've never lost the trust of the voters.
They I have not had one person say hey, Denise,
why do you steal that broccoli? They looked at the
same video that the prosecutor looked at and they said,
no way. You know what I mean, There wasn't It
wasn't an investigation. It started when I helped a black

(33:25):
woman with four children who was actually illegally being evicted
by this imp the officer he actually pushed me off
a concrete ledge. Yeah, and a little girl was there,
a little maybe a year and a half. But the
news media was, hey, this constable was cursing. Yeah, if

(33:47):
you try to kill me, I'm gonna curse you again
and again and again. No charges was done to this man.
Zero charges. That's assault. Yeah, you know, so they started
investigating me. The IMPDSIU unit trained by the FBI, paid
with our tax money, wasted a whole other time. And

(34:08):
let me tell it what.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
It charged me with.

Speaker 9 (34:11):
Three dollars worth a broccoli from the grocery store that
I supposedly stole. That was a felony. Wearing a gun
while in uniform, touching a blaze car and raising my
hand in a meeting and asking why have I not
been paid in a year? They sent the township judge.

(34:33):
She wrote an illegal order taking my papers away and
giving it to the men around me. Totally illegal. Okay,
So this is what it was to get Denise out
of office. She must have a felony, so we do
anything to try to get a fella that. Your audience

(34:53):
don't know that. But I spent ninety days in solitary
confinement when murderers, rapists were running around Indy, you know.
So I'm not sure what's going on, but they wanted
me out of office. But I've become my own attorney.
I have really dived into the law books, and I'm

(35:15):
going to be constable again before my term is up
in December. I'm fighting really hard.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
So oh, you you think you want to go back
to becoming Yes, wait a minute, so you be constable again?
And then no, no, no.

Speaker 9 (35:27):
The law. The law is the minute you plead guilty
or have a charge that's been prosecuted, you instantly lose
your power to be constable. Yes, but if it's vacated,
you instantly get it back. So you vacated so once
once the plea is vacated. Once the plea is vacated. Yeah,

(35:50):
the last week, I was arrested on Tuesday, and the
next Tuesday, I took a plea. There was no phone
cause they isolated me. I was already in isolate, allies
in isolation. But it also took the phones off. Yeah,
and my lawyer coerce me coerce my family.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
Okay, yep, it's all on the record, So I'm not
saying anything that not on the record. But you know
this is about the people.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, and so so how
does all this connect with being a servant of the people,
a public servant because I am an in Washington, d C.

Speaker 9 (36:25):
I have been a servant before I was ever constable.
People know me. They would come and ask for help.
There was a young lady even before I was constable.
Her mom come, I said, sixty five. You know there
was a she got pulled over drugs, heavy drugs, cocaine
and stuff like that. She didn't know anything about it.
She allowed the police to search her car, and the

(36:48):
judge up there in order closer and Illinois said, well,
you drug dealers, you know you've got plenty of money,
So I'm not going to award you an attorney. So
her mother came and her mom was crying, and I said, Okay,
I'm going to try. I said, I'm not a public official.
I'm going to try to help you. I went to
there was a church over there by twenty fifth Street.
There was a pastor there, his pastor on since and

(37:11):
I can't remember his name right, but he he. I
went to him and I begged him. I also called
Carson's office, Carson's officer, that's a state matter. We don't
get involved in state matters. You know, Julia Carson would
never said that the one a constituent, which the girl
was totally innocent, totally innocent. Uh, the pastor, the pastor

(37:32):
found someone to help her, an attorney that owed him
a favor, and she was able to, you know, end
that situation, not be able to be you know, go
to jail because she was seriously going to prison. So yeah,
you know, yeah, I've always been serving, and I'm going
to continue to serve.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Okay, James, by all means going.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, comfortable, Denise Paul Hatch, I was looking at you, James.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
She is not She does not hit Okay, all right now.
She's got her headphone. You got your headphones. That's okay.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah, can you hear me now? Comfortable? Yes, I was
looking at it. I was looking at your web page,
and I was intrigued by all of it. Really, and
I want to answer you a question about one of
the passages, humane immigration reform, because this is a hot issue.
I mean, we were even talking about this earlier before

(38:26):
you came on to show immigration. The issue of immigration.
Your page says America needs immigration policies that respect human
dignity and in abuse of enforcement practices by US Immigration
and Customs enforcement. How do you come to that position?

(38:46):
What is your position on immigration? And can you tell
us why you've taken the position you have.

Speaker 9 (38:54):
Actually, I came to this country when I was twelve
years old, so I know what it is to be
an immigrant. I'm a citizen by choice. I love this country.
I would guarantee to say most immigrants love this country.
They come here for different reasons, Some because of an
economics situation, some because of a political situation, like in

(39:18):
first and there are some countries in Africa where being
gay is a They will terminate you. They literally kill,
legally kill gay people. So if you're sending back a
man who is gay or a woman who's gay, that's
a death sentence for them. So there's a program now
actually that people don't know about. It's a six month

(39:41):
six month program. You get six months work, you go back,
six months, come back, you know, back and forth. This
is where you know who's in the country because you
know who's here and you know. But there's a humane way.
I mean just grabbing people off the street. And I
believe they're grabbing people who they think are immigrants now,

(40:04):
but it's coming people. I'm telling every person they're going
to start doing it to black folks because if you
have no rights, once they arrest you, once they get you,
how do you prove that you're an American? Because the
same people who are holding you have the documentation, the
proof who you are. You might end up in Uganda.

(40:26):
And I don't know why I want to investigate that.
Why are we sending human beings to Uganda when they
belong in South America? Something is really off with that?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Or how how would your representation in Congress change it?

Speaker 9 (40:42):
Because I'm going to be a lobbyist because you know
how bills get passed. It takes one individual to really
feel deeply about the issue. Let's talk about the marijuana
issue for instance. Right, Okay, I'm going to be a
lobbyist for the people, black people especially, but that's.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
What the representatives are.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
But they're not doing no, no, no, they're not doing it.
I am the only person who ever put the marijuana
leaf on her flyer and said, as a matter of fact,
I'm the one who helped Marion County decriminalized marijuana. All
the attorneys told me it couldn't be done, couldn't be done.
But under ounce it's decriminalized in Marion County. So when

(41:25):
you go to Congress, you know what I mean, you
will lobby the other representatives to make it, to make
it into the committee. You know, we have we have
elected Democrats for so many years. This issue really affects
many people. And it's not just young people. You wouldn't

(41:47):
believe that. The older people that spoke to me and said,
this is a pain reliever for me. This I have, ahdad,
this is a relief for me. And of course the
tax money, the tax money would be great. I don't
only want to legalize, I want to expunge. Okay, Canada
did it. You know, that's that's you know.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I'm sorry, James, I didn't mean.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
To you know, if you've got questions, I just wanted
to ask her about public public safety since she was
as our public safety officer. Well, let me put it
this way. Do you think that that the public uh,

(42:34):
the law enforcement that we live under today is non biased,
is fair for all citizens? And if so? Why? If not? Why?

Speaker 9 (42:47):
No? I don't believe the present administration. I m p
d Uh they are extremely biased, extremely biased. I'm hearing
from people. Uh, this lady, she was her son would
end up having to do a high misdemeanor. He was
surrounded by a bunch of people who were going to

(43:08):
beat him up, and he took his gun out. He's white,
he's black, they're white, and he gets charged. Okay, there's
a man in prison right now. That's innocent. I read
the affort. David. His attorney continued his case for seven months.
But innocent person, this is what they do. They arrest

(43:30):
you and b as chargers from the IMPD and then
they'll let you. They put you in jail, and then
your public defender denies you to write a speedy trial
by continuing your case, and when you're there for six months,
eighth by night, but you're worn down and you'll plead
guilty for something that you didn't even do. We really

(43:51):
have to improve this. But what I'm saying is I
would like I would like IMPD to represent our community. Yeah,
most of the offices I speak to do not even
live in Marion County. That needs to change.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah, So what about the we have one Canada on here,
Denise Paul Hatch? What about this, Paul Hatch? The you
remember when the two departments were separate, it was ibd
Uneapolpolitan Department and the Marion County Sheriff's Office who patrolled
the outer parts of the county. How would you approach that?

(44:32):
Would you have some sort of street patrol role for
the Sheriff's department again, which a lot of people favored,
some didn't. But what is your view on that, Denise
Paul Hatch?

Speaker 9 (44:48):
Actually, when I was Constable Hatch, I am the only
constable who actually we did public service, protect, assist and
serve all of my deputies, I had approximately sixty. When
you have someone in uniform, crime is decreased. We all

(45:10):
know this. We all know this, and my deputies, and
I are not paid by the taxpayers. We're not a burden.
They pay for their own clothes, their own shoes, their
own gun, their own cars. A lot of people are
not aware of this, okay. And my theory is when
I would we can augment IMPD we can help them

(45:35):
because when people recognize who you are and you're part
of the community, they will talk to you when something happens.
This is why we have so many unsolved murders. Folks
don't trust the police department. When you call for a
simple matter, they pull your ide and they start looking
to see if you're on a warrant list. So people
not giving you any information. Cool, you know, But I

(45:58):
believe in public service and I've been leave and the
officers should look like the community.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
We have a caller that has a question for you, voter.
I'm sure, thank you, Reverend Phillips. Go ahead, how are you.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
Just now?

Speaker 5 (46:14):
How are you doing?

Speaker 10 (46:18):
Uh Jill? Uh yeah? And uh so to Diane the
Dane Denise Patrick.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
No, it's it's yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (46:39):
My question is to her, if you got elected, what
were you.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
One of thing when you get elected?

Speaker 4 (46:54):
What were your probly to do in that office?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
So you're saying, what would her first priority be if
she gets selected?

Speaker 9 (47:05):
Okay, my first priority, I.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Go, okay, thank you, reveryth Yes, we got that.

Speaker 9 (47:12):
My main priority is to get President Trump out of office.
The man is out of control in so many ways.
I can't list them all in this shoe. He's out
of control. He's getting he got us into a war now,
and he's acting our children. I have a twenty five
years old on Friday to go to fight for a war,

(47:35):
you know, and his child is not going. His child
is not going to go. He needs to be reined
in through the impis.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
The Democrats are doing that now given the fact that
they are in the minority.

Speaker 9 (47:47):
They're not going to be a minority for long.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
No, they won't.

Speaker 9 (47:50):
And they have a good possibility of getting the Senate.
And the only reason that he's still in office is
because we didn't have the Senate at the time. If
you have the Senate and you have the House and
the story, because let me tell you, this man is dangerous,
extremely dangerous. So that's be my priority.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
What is it that you think you can bring to
that argument or to that that that situation. What can
you do?

Speaker 9 (48:18):
I can be present. You know, I can be present,
I can listen. The issue is leadership. You have to
be You have to press flash with the people. They
have to see you, they have to touch you. You
have to listen to them. You have to have tongue
hall meetings. You have to pick up your phone. If
they say I really want to talk to the congresswoman,

(48:39):
pick up your phone and talk to them. Your great,
the assistance are great, but you know you have to
bring your own energy, you know, for the people. Like
I tell people, I'm not running against Andrew Carson. He's
a friend. I like the guy, but he has strayed
from his from his original direction from Julia Conston. Because

(49:03):
that woman I heard a lot about them. She'd grab
her pocketbook and she'd go with you. She fights with you,
and that's why everybody loved her.

Speaker 11 (49:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yeah, go ahead, James.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
No, I was just chuckling because I remember Julia, and yes,
she would. I remember my one of my colleagues, Kim Hooper,
would tell me about She told me about her encounter,
her first encounter with Julia Carson, former senator and former congresswoman,
and she was feisty that she was I was just
chuckling by last question from well, not last question, but
here's the question from me. You also talk about and

(49:41):
this is something that I can identify with lowering utility
bills on the local level. You talked about the AS
corporation you know, uh pending sale or you know their
proposed sale. Ms. Paul Hatch, What how could how can

(50:02):
we help keep these rates down?

Speaker 11 (50:05):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Do you have any plans for that?

Speaker 2 (50:07):
What would the plan be?

Speaker 9 (50:09):
First of all, when we was that what I wanted
to say, But we made privatized. Yes, Once we privatized
the utilities, that's when the problem started. Okay, and yes,
and the commissioners set up and you know, uh, the

(50:31):
governor can do certain things that maybe the lowering the
taxes and the utilities. But I did not like. I
was particularly angered by this corporation that ripped people off.
And in order to get any kind of justice you
had to go in line and tell them how much

(50:51):
money you'll make and go to the trustee and beg
it should have been across the board. I actually received
a bill an empty house for fifteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
So what's the plan? You know what I mean, what's
the plan to realderment. What is your plan?

Speaker 9 (51:06):
My plan is to investigate, to do an investigation. Invest
so they're not just doing it in this state, they're
doing it in other stage too. Yes, and there's another
issue I want to bring up that's extremely in my
heart because I'm a mother of five. The state of
Indiana has outlawed abortions. What do you believe in it?

(51:27):
Whether you don't believe in it, that's okay. But now
what they're doing, they're putting a test, a financial test
to the medicaid program when it used to be automatic.
So now you have a pregnant girl who's never been
pregnant before, and she's having a pain and she's thinking,
I can't afford the ambulance ride. And we know our

(51:50):
sisters are dying more than anybody else in this country.
And how dare you do that then? And why aren't
you speaking of about that? Where are our leaders talking
about all of them? Yeah? Yeah, it broke my heart
to know that this is happening.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Yeah, Well, we're running, we're running a little short on time,
but I want you to be able to get your
information out there for folks to consider you to represent them.
Your website and the thirty second elevator pitch. You know
why should people vote for you?

Speaker 9 (52:22):
First, the website, it's my name, Denisepaulhatch dot com. You
can find out a lot of about me on that
web page. But the reason I feel you and I'm
gonna fight for you.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
I am.

Speaker 9 (52:37):
I am the only candidate in this race who have
actually held public office before they ran for Congress, including
Andre Carson. I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna fight, and I'm
not gonna change my mind. And I don't take money.
My family's financing my campaign.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Okay, yep, thank you, and they can find you everywhere. Yeah,
by all means you gotta encourage people to vote.

Speaker 9 (53:05):
Yeah, please vote in all the township ships now it's
eleven to six. Find the way it is in your
individual township. And I am actually I've been there all
month accent for your vot vote. It's six eight to
six downtown eleven to six.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
The satellite, the statellite side voting. And then on election
day the day before it ends at twelve o'clown, yes
it's a city county and the.

Speaker 9 (53:33):
Next day six at six to six, And I want
you to come up to a vote, Deniece, Paul Hatch
is going to dominate in this election if people who
don't normally vote here so help me, help you.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Thank you so much, alrighty, thank you, and we'll be
right back with more another candidate right after this.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
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Speaker 2 (54:20):
And we're back just after the hour of two o'clock.
Eric Garns and of course are contributing analyst James Patterson
here with us. And James, you know, you have to
be driven to be out there on the campaign trail.
Denise pau Hash is a very driven person. It was
my impression.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
She was in my impression too. Or she offer is
an alternative. I don't you know, I don't you know.
I'll keep my you know, voting personal, but I don't
because I have to. I'm a journalist. But you know,
people offer alternatives, and I think, you know, fhilver's a debate.
I don't think there's gonna be debate between them. I
think she brings some good things to the table. For

(55:00):
Congressman Carson, he does his job. Hey, you know, people
can choose, so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Hey, it's on, it's on, and somebody. You know, you've
got three candidates looking to primary one in that particular
race for Indiana seventh US Congressional district. Same holds true
for statewide office. You've got I do believe three candidates
looking to primary one. And with us now is one

(55:28):
of those candidates hoping to primary the incumbent. He is
Reverend David Green, Pastor David Green, Senior Pastor at Purpose
of Life Ministry, is also a candidate in Indiana State
Senate District twenty nine. He is hoping to unseat the
incumbent Ford. I don't want to say I keep wanting

(55:51):
to say JD. Ford, But anyway, Oh, it is JD. Ford, Okay, Yeah,
And I don't want to say like JD. Vance. You
know the Ford he's all, you know, a Democrat and
in that off So anyway, Pastor Green, welcome, glad to
have you with us. How are you doing today?

Speaker 5 (56:08):
I'm doing fine. First of all, thank you Teina and
James for allowing us to join you on today. Actually,
there is no incumbent. It's an open front.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
James, Oh that's right. Yeah, he is running. My bad,
My bad, I'm on the wrong one, running for congress
and over. So there are several seeking that open seat
because he is going to be running for congress. Let
me get to my notes, right, let me get here,
let me get here, okay. So yeah, a wide open seat,

(56:40):
a wide open opportunity. So what are your thoughts? Why
are you Why are you running?

Speaker 5 (56:46):
I'm running for a state Senate District twenty nine because
I believe our community is there's a voice that reflects
our values, fades, fairness and a future that we can
and we can all afford. I've spent my life serving people,
and now I'm just sitting forward to make sure that
the systems that impact the lives of the people we
are deserving, that there are things in place that serve

(57:09):
them as well.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah. So, how how is this going to be different
than the ministry that you lead? How would this be different?
How would it impact it if you were to be elected?

Speaker 5 (57:24):
I see it as an extension of ministry because a
lot of things and challenges that we face, you need
to address the policy. If you don't address the policy,
then things really tend to get worse rather than better.
And for example, let's use homelessness because we're active in
feeding the homeless on Sunday, but yet we had a

(57:46):
policy that just passed and goes in effects. You lie
the first, well, we criminalize homeless people. So if you're
on the street and you're having to be camping downtown,
you know, you can get up to a five hundred
dollars fine, receive a CE misdemeanor. Well, I don't feel
like we should be criminalizing the homeless. That's not uh,

(58:07):
you know, helping them in their situation. And we're not
addressing the root calls of homelessness. And I don't view
homelessness as a crime, but we're treating it as a crime.
And so if you want to impact that ultimately, you
got to impact policies. I mean, while you can, you know,
provide food, you can provide clothes, you can do a
number of things that help the homeless. But if we

(58:28):
truly want to help the homeless, a piece of that
is addressing policy and that's you know, one of the
reasons I chose to say, hey, let's go one for
office to impact policy that can really impact positively impact people.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Yeah and so yeah, Senator J. D. Ford again is
running for other offices, but there are several in the
current race in the primary. So how would you distinguish
yourself from the competition for that seat for that you know,
for the see the nomination.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
So I say, what makes me different is experience in
the community. I mean, I've been the pastor of a
Purpose of Life for thirty years, been serving as president
of Concern Clergy for ten years. So I've got proven leadership,
you know, clear on my priorities and with affordability first.

(59:22):
For me, this campaign isn't about titles. It's about trust.
And I spent decades now here in Indianapolis building that
trust in the community. I worked across a number of
coalitions and that's the thing that separates me from others
that are seeking the position.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
So, Indiana Senate District twenty nine portions of Carmel, Indianapolis,
and Zionsville, and you know, portions of Marion County communities
include portions of Pike and Wintown. So anything any particular
challenges for Senate District twenty nine that you're looking to
tackle that specific to that district.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Well, yeah, I mean clearly I want to address because
across the board, people feel like it's expensive to live.
It's gotten too expensive now they may be living in
different homes, but everybody's feeling the pressure, seniors down to
young people. Everybody feels the pressure because groceries up, gases up,

(01:00:24):
utility prices are fluctuating, So everybody's feeling a pinch and
everybody wants to live. Then the huge thing that happened
with Sea One last year in twenty twenty five, public
education is a crisis across the spectrum as well. You know,
Zionville is doing a referendum in November. You know, actually

(01:00:48):
we have a number of schools that we'll be doing
referendums this year. And most people want strong public schools.
Strong public schools drive property values and so they want
that to stay up, and they want good schools for
their children, for those who have school a children. So
that's a critical and it's something that is certainly impacting

(01:01:15):
all of the West Side and other parts. Is the
Eagle Creek thing. You maybe have seen signs Save Eagle Creek.
That's a huge topic as people are very much concerned about. Yeah,
twenty five million dollars of water that's going out, wastewater
that's coming back. That's a huge crisis. People are really

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concerned about that, whether they live on Eagle Creek or
whether they come there for their various activities.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
You've gone on record as stating that you would like
to think your predecessor or future Senator Ford for his debt,
in your words, dedicated and tireless work over the past
eight years on behalf of our district. What would you
Is there anything that you would do differently or you're
not going to compare yourself and your campaign and your

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plan service to Senator Forwards, Well, I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
I mean, I'm gonna borrow some of those things that
clearly he was doing because he was great with connecting
with the community. I want to do the same thing
now while in office inside the Capitol. I'm much more
focused on a moral lands in the sense of, you know,
when I look at a lot of these issues that
we see when we're asking public schools to do morals

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less for me, I'm looking at and that's a moral issue.
If we're willing to criminalize the homeless, that is a
moral issue. And so I'm looking at things not so
much through a political land but through a moral lens
that says, how can we really do this? We don't
need to position our seniors where they have to choose

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between medicine and meals. That's a moral issue. We can
do better because in my mind, our twenty two billion
dollar budget is a moral document. It needs to reflect
hoo's your values and a concern for who's yours twenty
two billion dollars and we have a surflug. So we

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shouldn't have working families who are trying to do all
the right things and they don't have access to CCDF bouchers.
That's a moral issue. And in the midst of this
moral issue, we can't be silent. So that's the piece
that would maybe make me a tad different from center JD.

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
Ford.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
But in terms of his connection and being involved with
the community, I think he's done a fantastic job and
I want to just really continue a lot of the
processes he had in place.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
James interesting point about moral Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
That's an interesting point about what cana.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Oh, the moral issues that he wants to focus on
as well, not necessarily all political, but some more. If
I understood your career, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Man, that's right. I mean for me, you know, if
ice can walk into school and snatch some children out,
and we're not looking at it through a moral lens,
in the sense of the trauma that we've been posed
on children who watch this happen. I mean, I think
a lot of times people have not thought that through
to say that, if you know, fourth grade, fifth grade,

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whenever you pick up you have in mind and somebody
with a mask walks in snatch that student, matches the
student out, the mental health impact, the trauma that was
caused by somebody witnessing a mask person coming into their
school and snatching somebody out. Even for adults, it's trauma.

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So we're not thinking about what we're doing to our
old children with you know, giving people quote unquote authority
to do things like that. And I was like, wait
a minute, we need to stop us think about that.
You mean not only of the children gonna be traumatized.
I'm sure there's gonna be teachers and others that are traumatized.
So we need to think that through.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
In a way to.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Say is there a better way? And we need to
think about that because of the trauma we're creating on
children and do we really want to be doing that?
Do we really want to be traumatizing young people?

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Yeah, a good point, Pastor Green. I was just looking
at your release, you know, talking about advocating for the
constituency Senate District twenty nine, and under your priorities, it

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includes investing in high quality, well funded public education, supporting
working families and seniors, expanding access to mental health resources,
and a couple more, promoting honest, transparent and accessible government,
strengthening safe, riving neighborhoods, and a lot of this seems

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to be for working families and seniors around family centered
kind of a family centered philosophy you have. Recently the
governor came out not when he became governor, you know,
but when he first became government, but recently came out
and advocated for it. Actually he proposed and the legislature

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went along with him, a two hundred million in childcare
boost for you know, for families who were I believe
there are medicaid I might be wrong, but who who
were looking for help with childcare, which we did on
the program was a you know, a day late and

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a dollar short. But anyway, what is your feeling about
At the same time, the governor's pressure, we said that
they had they were had in their tax collections by
six hundred fifty three million dollars, and you mentioned a
twenty two billion budget. Their head already h sixteen over
our six hundred and fifty three million, you know, over

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a half a trillion dollars. So, uh, how you know,
how else can we help besides two hundred million in childcare?
How can we help that childcare deficit? And there's still
fourteen thousand children on that waiting list. How would you
help them?

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
My plan is to make sure when we get to
twenty twenty seven that childcare is a part of the budget.
We have to restore what got taken away, and that
two hundred million dollars is a long way short of
what's needed. It is you know, uh, it's way short,
and it is a one time transaction. And we've had

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over three hundred child cares across the state of Indiana
that have closed. So that's not just Marion County, it's
not in black neighborhoods, but across the state of Indiana
and the governor is supposed to be pro small business.
Most of the child cares and small businesses we've had
over three hundred and eleven that have closed. Why because

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the funding's not there. We need to send a clear
message to all of the existing ones and hopefully some
will come back to say, hey, we're committed to early
childhood education. That's the part is really of our infrastructure.
It's the building of our future. If we're going to

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have laws that say you have to pass I Read
in the third grade, and then we need to make
sure we're preparing young people so that they don't get
to kindergarten and they never had a classroom experience and
we're in ketchup modes. Then it's going to be very
difficult and a lot of kids are going to fall
through the cracks, and we know what happens if they

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don't pass and have to be with aimed into the
third grade. So we have to make a commitment to
this childcare process in the twenty twenty seven budget session
so that it's gonna be Hey, we're not just tinkering
with this, We're all in committed to it, and I
believe we can get there. Through again a broad coalition

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of people, which I believe are available now, whether that's
the chambers of the world who need a job, workforce,
whether it's women and mothers who have children, say hey,
I need this childcare voucher because people are not making
livable wages. So you can't ask somebody that's only making

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twelve dollars an now thirteen dollars an hour to pay
a childcare service of three to four hundred dollars a week.
That's not gonna work. They're gonna need a voucher. And
we need the adult working, and we need to be
educating the children, and so we have to get a
commitment of that. But I do believe that the United

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Way a number of women led organizations. I believe there
were people across the aisle that are feeling the pressure,
which is the reason why the governor put two hundred
million behind it. Remember the timing of this, this is
right before the primary. I'm sure a number of his
Republican colleagues are saying to him, we have to do something.

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So he made a one time commitment of two hundred
million dollars. That doesn't solve the problem. But if we
don't address it in twenty twenty seven. We need a
broad commitment, not just okay, we got a short you know,
short gap solution right here, and we don't have a
long term solution, which I will be advocating for. We

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need to get on path of a long term solution.
Be committed to our children, and that means early childhood
education so that we can invest in the entire education system.
If you that needs to take place, and I believe
people across both parties are going to be nodding their
heads because both parties have been impacted.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
By Yeah, just a quick follow up on the an
education question. The legislature passed a law in which they
gave the mayor of Indianapolish the power to create a

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board that basically oversees the transportation and budget of i
p S and UH you basically UH runs those functions
of i p S, which some people critics say further

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erodes public schools. You would be in the legislature where
that law was created, where you elected UH faster Green.
So what is your position on that new law creating
this board to oversee IPS's transportation and budget.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
Well, that's a great question. I would be against and
was against publicly the formation of that board because I
believe that our democracy is under attack in the sense
of I want to see the community elect the board
and that board makes the decisions. When you appoint a board,

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that then that board really just answers to the person
who appointed them, not necessarily the community. And I believe
in democracy, so I believe that the people just selectedly
want their board members to be that will guide some
of these decisions versus an appointed board is independent of

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this mayor, of any mayor any mayor in the future.
I don't believe that mayor should be picking a board
which is going to guide certain decisions that should be
left to the community. And so and I'm hoping, I mean,
I know that there was discussion, you know, South Bend
and other places tried to get that in place, and

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the community rolls up. I will be against that that
that would I wouldn't want to see that spreading to Gary,
South Bend places where there's several black people. You no
longer can select your own board. Somebody's gonna do it
for you. I tie this back to Marion County is

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one of the few counties where you don't elect your
judges to board selects the judges in Marion County. Now
a board or somebody is appointed to select the board
that's gonna run ips. We cannot can chee need you
to see the degradation of our democracy through Hey, where

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there's a lot of black people, maybe it's just a coincidence,
but where there's a lot of black people, the decision
gets taken out of the community's hands and lands in
a few people's hands who make the decision. As though
we're not capable of selecting our own judges, somebody's going
to do that before. We're not capable of making the

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right education decisions, so we're not gonna trust the people
in the board that we selected, which happened to be
you know, nine black women, and now we're going to
go with an appointed board. So that's where I'm at.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
James, Yeah, what what are you hearing? What are you
hearing pastor Green from voters as you campaign? And how
are you telling voters that you're the better choice? I mean,
what are you what are you saying to them to
convince them that you are the better choice of the
field that is out there to reap place Senator for it?

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
Well, this clear people aren't asking for miracles. They're asking
for usually relief, respect and results. They're looking saying okay.
Even people that are concerned, they want more local control,
more local voice. For example, they don't necessarily want ICE
coming into the schools or into churches. They think that

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that decision should not be manated from the top, but
it should be something that local people should be driving
that decision. They don't think that local police departments, if
you with, should be made to have to work with
ICE that's not there. They weren't hired to do that.

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I tell people that I'm the one that has experience
that's been working in terms of advocacy across the board
for some time, all the way up until the redistricting
argument that was going on just last year. And you
know for myself, whether it's been education, whether it's been
housing where it's been homelesses, whether it's been redistrictain. You

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have seen Pastor green way in at the State House,
at the city county building meetings. It's not that Pastor
green has shied away from being engaged. He has been engaged.
I have proven leadership in that area, and I've worked
across UH with various coalitions to represent people.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Thank you well if if people want to get in
touch with you, find out more, volunteer, learn, you know,
learn a little bit more about what you're about, your
your website and how can folks get ahold of.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
Yes. Uh, my website is green g R E E
N E the number four Hoosiers dot com Green for
Hoosiers dot com. I will say that this coming Sunday,
a number of our churches are doing souls to the polls.
It's gonna be uh uh fifty five passenger buses leaving

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either the Antiac Countain of Grace Baptist Church on thirty
seconds three Purpose of Life is one side east side
Baptist Saint John Missionary Baptist off of us Andrew J. Brown,
all of that Baptist church of the five churches where
we're gonna be leaving after our services. Uh. You don't
have to be a member of the church to go

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down going down to the city County building to vote.
So we're doing souls to the polls and is returning
this coming Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Pastor Green, can you make sure you or someone from
your office forwards that to my email at mine and
James and I can forward it to James, because I'd
certainly like to remind our listeners of that that's very important.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
True.

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
Yeah, I'll get it right after we're done.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Oh very much.

Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
Okay, Pator Green and your you said like ministries because
you brought it up. You guys do real quick. I
think you've probably got less than thirty seconds. But what
do you do there? What kind of community work do
you do? There? A purpose of life that you guys
been doing well.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
We have an academy here that's been here since two
thousand and two. We're excited about that because we're NATY accredited.
We're fast quality for the state level four. So we've
been here plugging away in terms of education. We continue
to defeat and assist people. There's a huge needs out
here in terms of food because of grocery prices, et cetera.

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And so we're just out here doing the work in
the community, wanting to make a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
All right. At your website once again, Green g R
E E N E.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
The number four Hoosiers dot com, Greenfoosers dot com. There's
a donate button, there's a volunteer button there. However you
want to help us, we'd love to have your help
because we are in early voting from eleven to six
an election day. Ascuse because I encourage everybody. Let's make
sure we get out there and vote.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
All right, I love it, love it, love. Congratulations on
your campaign and good luck to you. I wanted to
say good luck to Denise Paul Hatch as well, we
didn't get a chance to say that on the air.
And pardon my oversight, I was going through too many,
too many notes here, but thank you so much for
coming on and sharing with us. Pastor Green, Well.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Thank you for inviting as please certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Alrighty sure, and we'll be back with more. Lines are
going to be open the rest of the way out
three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten three one
seven for eight zero thirteen ten.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Ten and we're back with community Connections. Want to do
a quick reset here because I was marble brained. So
I do know what I do know, I do know
what I'm talking about. I just get cool shape. So
with Denise Paul Hatch, she is running to unseat the
incumbent Andre Carson. She and several others are looking to

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primary him, so to speak, and she wants your vote.
We just spoke with pastor David Green. They are looking
to take a soon to be vacated seat in the
Indiana State Senate District twenty nine.

Speaker 11 (01:20:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
And there's several folks in that race as well, and
he too is asking for your vote. So jd Ford
of course moving on but not running for Congress.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
But yeah, I was saying, he's running against Victoria Sparks.
If he makes it through.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
The primary, if the primary, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
He would go. Well, he would know he would either Yeah,
he would be the primary he would replace her. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Well, no, she's a she's a she's.

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
A Republican, but she's got a primary opponent too.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Yeah, she she would. Yeah, they wouldn't be against each
other until the fall the fall. Yeah, yeah, because she's
a Republican. He's a Democrat.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
In essence, he's not running. Uh, he's not running directly
against her, but you know he's in the race against her.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, should should he prevail, they would be they would
meet it and should she prevail, they would meet each other.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Right exactly?

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
Okay, good, Yeah, it can get confusing sometimes, we got
That's why I wanted to sort it out and make
sure we're giving you good information, y'all. We are, and
we're going to give it to you as accurately as
we possibly can. And if we are ever misspoke or
miss be, we we want to get it right because
these elections are important.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
What are you saying, interrupt? I just want to I
got a note that there's a cruise coming up. Oh,
cru It's a part of the purpose. It is back,
It's bigger than ever. Ricky Smileley is going to be
on the one Voyage twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
Six crews, the Fantastic Voyage that's right, formally formally yeah,
sailing October twenty sixth through November.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
First Virgin Voyage is resilient, lady, Every moment helps keep
HBCU students in school. You can now at one Voyage
Cruise dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Indeed, indeed, and you know our good friends at our
right here, at our sister you know our station here, yes,
doctor Brown and Thomas Griffin. They are promoting and planning
a trip to Ghana. Oh are they Yes, And we're
going to have details on that for you pretty soon
as well. But I got the flyer, I left it upstairs.

(01:22:56):
But yeah, they're taking taking names and you know, it's
a trip that people can pay for along the way.
That's just something coming up. We'll get to that.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
And the cruise, Uh what is it? The the what's
it called again? I keep going to say fantastic voice.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Well, the party with the purpose is the one with
the purpose?

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
One voyage one voyage Well radio one radio get that?
You get that Radio one Voyage one? Yeah, yeah, a
lot of information comes through. Is we got a process
it out, kick it out. But yeah, that and that's
coming up in October.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Twenty six through November first.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
And there's a payment plan for that too, if y'all
want you know, was that what He'll say? I may
not have it right now, but I can put a
little something on it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
The old folks used to say layaway, or some of
them called it the hold away.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
The whole the whole.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, hold away, but yeah, the layaway or
pay it what was the other thing? They say? You
can pay it on time, you know, you can get
some time to pay it, pay it on time.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Well, at least it ain't sharecropping you guys you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Oh okay, sercropping.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
Meaning meaning you don't ever get ahead, you just keep paying. Yeah,
that's that's what the current administration wants to go back to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Sounds like the fifty year mortgage they talked about it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Yeah, oh god, yeah. Or what about a car purchase
these days? I've met one of three years and then
four years. Okay, I can do that, but five and
six and even seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Eric was just telling me that last week.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Yeah, ninety six month car payment now, yes, ninety six.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
Tell them how much the payments are.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Oh, they're like fifteen hundred for the payments it is,
and you're going to be paying that for years, and
of course the value of the car is going down.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Drive it off the lot exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
You say, fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Hundred, Yeah, fifteen hundred car payments.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
And there are some payments right now are two thousand
month that people are paying.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
People are willing to pay so they can drive off
and sheen up and down it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Look at me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
I just as soon drive a paid for two dollars, hoopedie,
two dollars paid for two hundred dollars. Hooptie, you know.
So I love my hoopties because they go forward. You know,
that's all you need.

Speaker 5 (01:25:25):
You need to just.

Speaker 4 (01:25:26):
Go forward as long as it gets there and keep.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
You a road road assistance card on you though, keep
with hoop hoop. But yeah, I had so much affection
for my hoopties. I did, I really did. I loved them.
One of them. The back seat. In the back, I
mean it was in it was fully intact, but it
was starting to rust out a little, you know, because
we talked about, uh, the salt and how that gets

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up underneath the underbody. And so what I did because
it was a car that I had access to and
I could drive because I knew how to drive a stick.
That was one of the you know how to do
that too, though, James, that's one of the requirements.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
I love my stick too. Yeah, you can't find one now.
I just you can do so many things. You could
pop the clutch, you could push it, you know, make it.
You just could do a lot of well anyway, the
floor was the floor was riding away because of the underneath.
But the car ran beautifully. So what I you know,
kind of looked like almost Fred and Barney Flintstone. You

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know they had that little.

Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
Rolling down.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
So I found some roof shingles and I put I
put them over the top over where you could see
the ground, and then I put a floor mat over
that we were rolling. I was rolling. It was like, hey,
I can go, so.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Flintstones.

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know the point is getting from
point A to point B.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
Your heater works, your wipeer.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Works, everything worked.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Radio is a luxury. Hey, but if that still works,
you know you're good. But the heater works, and you
know air condition air conditioning, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Air condition was rolling down the window. So but other
than that, because remember it's a hooftie. But other than that,
it was a really really good machine. So but we
of them all had those. But I I just you know,
you never say never, But I just can't imagine any
scenario where I would finance a car for ninety six

(01:27:32):
months at two thousand dollars a month. I can't see
that that would ever. I guess you never say never,
but boy.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
No, that's a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:27:40):
I don't want to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
They do it because are so expensive. Yeah, that one,
what's sixty seventy eighty one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
For those are small houses too, Yeah, one of those
tiny houses for less than that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
And the auto companies will say, well, it's because we've
had to, you know, agree to these astronomical labor contracts,
and you know, and you know we have to pay
not only wastes, but with insurance and the retirement and

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four one K and all that. But man, you are
raking in the dough anyway. I mean, you know, I mean,
you're you're just if you don't talk last year's profit margin,
you say it was a failed year, so you're you're
always trying to squeeze more out. So that model is
not good for the American people, remember, because more than

(01:28:43):
more than seventy percent of the economy is consumer spending,
and they've got to have money to buy these things
or else. Y'all are just sitting there with that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
I'll leave you guys alone.

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
No, no, no, don't there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Something else with the cars I've seen where dealers are
manufacturers are concerned because people can't afford to buy them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Well, that's what you know, you know, what's at a
premium and in the car buying market, I won't say
new car is used cars. They can't get enough of them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
They can't.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
They cannot because that's what the consumer that's where the
consumer market lies.

Speaker 4 (01:29:21):
That's very yeah, and I mean because of just what
we were saying, the expense of the new car.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Yeah, so they can they can sit on them and
eat them if they want to. Having to some they
probably will.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Can't, they can't. There are twenty twenty four's that are
still on lots that are brand well, they're not brand
new anymore. Yeah right, they're still new. They've not been
driven or yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:43):
Yeah, well let's see to talk about that childcare costs
and food costs and written you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Know, yeah, go unbelieve. Hey, well, let's try to Let's
try to go through these phone calls, because we got
several three one seven, four eight zero three team ten,
so the lines would be open and they are. So
let's go to Robert. Robert, go ahead, how are you
the second team online?

Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
Three?

Speaker 12 (01:30:09):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Okay, good doing good? How are you doing good?

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Thanks?

Speaker 10 (01:30:16):
Dame?

Speaker 8 (01:30:17):
Thanks Dave?

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Okay, David said Robert, I'm sorry, did you tell him
your name was Robert?

Speaker 8 (01:30:24):
That is my name?

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
What you just said is Dave?

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
Uh get this good bots out of you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Are you're thinking? Okay, maybe you didn't. Okay, go ahead, Robert,
please go ahead. How are you?

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
I called and he was talking about my dealing with
uh economics in our own neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Okay, well, I.

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Think I told James.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:30:57):
I was on the phone with James.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Eric is right.

Speaker 8 (01:31:02):
We just called up for the rip kids real pips
and I buy the uh something weird. Help me out?
I said, hey, may we're just come up for two

(01:31:22):
favorite tips. Come up fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
It's about right.

Speaker 11 (01:31:29):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
No, that's about right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
Because that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Yeah, some bit take out carry out for restaurants. But
uh and he ordered to orders of rib tips, and
I would think roughly, you know, fifteen to twenty dollars
per order, which is average. It's about average. And when
you go to those places fifteen to twenty dollars in order?

Speaker 4 (01:31:55):
Has that been your experience in the past?

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
Robert, Ay, wait, cher get out, I could buy if
I had two more, two more? Not about me?

Speaker 13 (01:32:08):
When you Ron, well, did you get let me ask
you this, Robert, did you buy the it was fifty dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Did you go ahead and go through with the purchase.

Speaker 8 (01:32:23):
No, I caught him Jane, and Jane was shocked at South.

Speaker 10 (01:32:28):
He said, what and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
Talk about Okay, you're talking about Eric. Okay, but anyway,
go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:32:34):
And said, I said, no, I don't want those people
to beat but the average man. I got a smoke cooker. Yeah,
over em and don okay, let's keep the big picture.

(01:32:55):
It is a big picture.

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
You are not.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
And ma'am, okay, okay, go ahead. We got some so
about that.

Speaker 8 (01:33:09):
You're not gonna get people for like a fifty dollars
for some mist that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
Folks aren't going to buy it. Okay, Okay, we got it,
we got it, We got it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
I beg to differ though, because I mean, there are
some people that will pay it. Will some will, I
mean some will and some won't. But you know, there
might business might fall off just a little, you know,
to turn some people back. But I'm sorry, there's some
folks that will because you know, when you eat out,
that's considered a treat. It's not like something you do
every day.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
So what was it coming to America? How much you're
gonna get for one rid?

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
That was I'm going to get yeah, can I have
a really just and then pulled out a lot that
would not down Chris Rockney. He made the most out
of his five minutes of things in that movie. So
let's go back to the phone lines. We got several
calls to get there. Let's see if we can get
to Laura. Go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
I'm good?

Speaker 12 (01:34:17):
I had two things. One to James, he said, sharecropper
means that you never get it paid off, you continue
to pay. Well, that's a new term for me. I've
been living like that my whole life.

Speaker 14 (01:34:31):
Okay, I want I wanted to aee you that my
two guys I called about that had never voted, the
seniors and.

Speaker 12 (01:34:43):
They got registered and the and they're not able to
go out and the mobile.

Speaker 9 (01:34:48):
I don't know what they called the.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
Mobile okay Friturday, Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:34:54):
And traveling travel Boy. The night before. They had never
seen a ballot or anything. They didn't know the ego
from the rooster and all that. So we went through.
I gave him all the information I knew about it.
We went through, We did our temporary, our paper ballot.
So they were all ready for the ladies when they
came and they are so excited that they voted the

(01:35:17):
first time ever.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Wonderful, thank you, thank you for that. Yeah, I can't
go well yeah yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:35:29):
Oh yeah. They called beforehand, they called the day before,
told that's what time they would be there. They were
there on time, and it all went well. But as
I was sitting here waiting, I'm looking at the gas
station over here, shale for fourteen and.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
Nine tims, which means four fifteen.

Speaker 12 (01:35:48):
And that, and then the it looks like regular it's
for nineteen am I in California? Is this right? I'll
believe it this yet? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
Probably?

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
I think I think the governor came announcement came out
earlier this week. Y'all correct me if I'm wrong, that
he does not intend to continue the the the tax
holiday on on on gas line.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Oh I thought I thought it was that he's not
going to to drop the X size, but he may
extend the gas uh uh not excise? What was that
other one? There was one? Anyway, wasn't that the X
sise tax?

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
Isn't that what he gave that the holiday for?

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
That was?

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
Guess?

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Okay, yeah, well, anyway, what did you hear? You heard
that he's not going to extend it's.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
Not going to do it. Correct me if I'm wrong,
but he may not going.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
To well in that night. Yeah he should. Final question, George,
we got less than a minute, go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 15 (01:36:50):
I was you know what, it's a multi layered questions.
I'm saying this the later. It's about uh taxes and
where the tax dollar is spent for of a multi
layer question. I was gonna ask for you Eric and James,
but I was gonna say I did get my early
vote in yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
Good, good, congratulations.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:37:09):
I went over to fifty sixth Street over by the
Library of Fort Harrison and everything was smooth.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
Uh, there was.

Speaker 8 (01:37:16):
Hardly anybody in the line.

Speaker 14 (01:37:18):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:37:18):
The ladies took care of me, got me in and out.
I probably wasn't even there, no more than maybe four minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
Yes, that was my experience once, you know, literally from
the time it takes to vote and to walk out
of the voting area about for less than five minutes.

Speaker 15 (01:37:32):
Yeah, yeah, and uh it was. It was pretty good.
I just don't think I'll say I didn't like is
the uh you have to pick playing with party? Gonna
pick Republican.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yeah, that's the primary own independent.

Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
I wish I wouldn't have to be independent, but you
can't do it.

Speaker 15 (01:37:47):
But uh yeah, but what I'll catch you guys maybe tomorrow.
But it's kind of a multi layer question about politicians
and where is it money laundry or misappropriation of huns
where tax dollars go to? And I also want to
get you all with perspective only because I have some
questions I needed to be maybe a different perspective on.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Okay, yeah, and that's also George. We'll have more candidates
on the rest of the week and even the first
and next week, so it might be if you know,
if you if you so desire, it might be a
good question to ask one of the candidates for office
because we're we're trying to get in as many as
we possibly can.

Speaker 15 (01:38:25):
So local politicians.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Well we had both Well, uh well I'm going to
go up and look and see who we got, so
coming up. But yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, er Tina,
thank you, you you know what.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
I know. We're rolling out of here, but I get
straight before we leave reading a w obviously story And
you were right, Tina, And I was part of my
Indiana Governor Mike Brown is unlikely to suspencate gas excise tax.
So there's two taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
Yeah, he's not going.

Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
To expend the XI tax, while possibly he may send
the suspension of the gas sales tax. That's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
Yeah, I thought i'd heard something like that straight and
you know what, Hey, this is this is why we
have time to get stuff straightened out because but no,
I had I had heard that he was thinking about
one but wasn't likely to do the other other.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Yeah, that was it. And so there's two of them,
the X size gas X side tax and the gas
sales tax.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
Well, the sales tax is less right because it's only
like seven percent. The X size I think is like
what forty three percent?

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
It is not right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:42):
I don't know he's in the forty. I think I
could again, I could be wrong there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
You take away that nine tenths while we're at it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
Yeah, you know, okay, Well, the fog will clear, believe
you me, and is something the fog is going to
clear for all of us, I promise though. We got it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
We got it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
But thanks thanks for that, James, and we'll be talking
to you again soon.

Speaker 6 (01:40:05):
Eric.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
We'll be talking to you again soon, probably just in
minutes a minute, so that's all the time we have
for right now. As always, thank you for listening, our website,
Praise Indy dot com. Williemore Jr. On the radio is
up next. Please continue to be safe, be well, and
by all means stay informed. For James, Eric and myself
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