September 29, 2024 • 45 mins
What does it take to navigate the intricate maze of local politics and legislative processes? Representative Danny Nadeau from District 34A joins us to share his journey through the challenges of redistricting and the complexities of his re-election campaign. Learn how he balances power in Minnesota by focusing on common sense policies and bipartisan cooperation. This episode promises to offer valuable insights into the nuances of political strategy and the importance of collaboration in a divided landscape.
We explore the profound impact of urban and rural perspectives on governance, diving into the necessity of compromise and authentic engagement. Danny and I discuss the rising polarization in politics and how it affects trust-building and effective representation. Hear firsthand accounts of how listening and engaging with constituents beyond party lines can lead to more informed decisions that benefit the broader community.
Our conversation also delves into the critical importance of upholding one's oath of office and representing constituents effectively. Danny shares candid moments from his campaign trail, emphasizing the role of political donations, community engagement, and the importance of open communication channels. With fascinating stories and practical advice, this episode highlights the essence of democratic integrity and the shared values that unite us beyond political affiliations. Tune in to gain a comprehensive understanding of the democratic process and the qualities of effective political leadership.
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Welcome to HUTCAST 9-29-2024.
And I have in my studio, inreal flesh and blood,
representative Danny Nadeau.
Danny Nadeau representsDistrict 34A and he is here.
Are you here, danny?
I am Well.
Thanks for taking your Sundayafternoon and coming out and
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visiting HuttCast.
I'm going to have some commentsafter pre-roll here.
We're going to have some Q&A.
You okay with that?
Yeah, it's going to be great.
Thanks for having me.
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HuttCast (02:11):
Welcome back to the podcast.
So Danny's in the studio todaywith us and if you listened to
last week's episode, we had PaulGazelka on showing his new book
.
And I'll tell you what we'regetting more and more into these
guys and the more we listen,the more we learn.
And Danny teach us somethingtonight.
(02:32):
How are you doing?
DAnny (02:35):
I am so good.
I'm so good.
I'm just running forre-election for the first time.
I was elected first back in2022.
And it's a brand new district.
You know, it was right afterredistricting.
Rogers and Dayton used to becombined with the city of Maple
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Grove, and that was representedby Kristen Robbins, and Champlin
was part of Coon Rapids andBrooklyn Park, and it was
represented by Zach Stevenson.
And after redistricting,neither of those incumbents
lived in the district, and so Idecided to run, and it's been a
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whirlwind ever since.
HuttCast (03:20):
I bet it has, especially after redistricting.
That was kind of a crap show,wasn't it it?
DAnny (03:26):
was.
You know redistricting is oneof those issues that a lot of
people have strong feelingsabout, and you know the
legislature is involved in allredistricting and it happens
every 10 years after the census.
So you know, the importantthing for people to know is that
each district needs to haveequal population so that you
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don't have one representativerepresenting 60,000 people and
another one representing 30,000.
It wants to be balanced, and soevery 10 years redistricting
comes along and whoever's inpower in the legislature has the
ability to set those maps.
Minnesota has not been verysuccessful in doing that.
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For the last number of years Ican't remember how long it's got
to be at least the last two orthree cycles, so 20 or 30 years
it goes to the Minnesota SupremeCourt because we can't agree
the Democrats and theRepublicans can't agree on what
the map should look like, and soit goes to the Supreme Court
and then the Supreme Court doesthe maps and ultimately what we
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have today is we've got a lot ofvery safe seats.
We've got safe seats in greaterMinnesota that benefit
Republicans.
We've got a lot of safe seatsthat benefit Democrats in the
metro, and then we've got somevery, very competitive seats in
the suburbs that go all the wayaround, and I happen to be in
one of those.
HuttCast (04:49):
Wow, there's a lot going on and you out there
listening.
That's more of a local matter.
So, the guys across the pond,the guys in Africa and all of my
long-term listeners and way outthere, this is going to be more
of a local show.
So if you don't want to engage,this is how it works for us,
and if you don't want to engage,I get it.
But, danny, this is a heck of athing we got going on in our
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world today, don't?
DAnny (05:11):
we.
There's so much going on at somany different levels.
There's so much at stake andyou can't write this.
HuttCast (05:18):
This is stuff that happens.
DAnny (05:20):
Yeah, absolutely.
HuttCast (05:23):
I don't want to make this a show of hey, this is
Danny.
I want to lower the taxes.
I want to do this, I want toknow what people.
I want people to know you.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of howyou know.
If they get to know you, thenthey're going to say, hey, like
this makes sense.
I mean the guy's making sense.
You got your policies.
Everybody can find your moneyrecord.
It's not an issue there.
Yeah, you're conservative.
You have common sense.
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You want to work both sides ofthe aisle because you know
that's how you get stuff done.
Like every good politician,regardless of your designated
letter, I would agree.
DAnny (05:55):
Tell me when I'm wrong.
HuttCast (05:56):
No.
DAnny (05:57):
I would agree.
You know, politics today isreally driven by, you know, the
extremes of each side and it'sgrowing worse.
And it doesn't matter if it'sat the national level or, you
know, at the state level, andsometimes even it it has a
tendency to transcend into localgov and and into school board
races.
Um, it's, but it's hard, youknow it's.
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It's really hard to be gracefultoday.
Um, it's hard to.
It's really hard to be gracefultoday.
It's hard to compromise,because people aren't rewarded
for compromise in politics wherewe used to.
I mean and a lot of it has todo with, you know, campaign
finance laws, I mean some of thechanges that were made years
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ago where you know, you hearabout those stories where you
know people in Congress or inthe US Senate would, you know,
argue all day but at night theywould get together and they'd
have dinner and they would go tothese common fundraisers and
that you know campaign financelaws have changed and that's far
less.
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we're far less able to do thattoday.
HuttCast (07:03):
For the new listeners, my young listeners, brief
summary on what does the Housedo, because you're in the House.
What do they do to get readyfor the Senate?
I see HF bills all the time.
You write bills.
Work through that for them.
DAnny (07:20):
So when you craft a bill, in order to get it for the
governor to sign it, there hasto be a House bill and there has
to be a corresponding Senatebill.
And let's just say that you'regoing to have a bill and you
want to increase health care fora particular population, and so
the House you know the authorin the House is going to draft
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that bill.
It's going to go to thecommittees and they're going to
mark that bill up.
There's going to be amendments,they're going to change it.
It's going to go to the Housefloor, it's going to be further
amended.
The same thing has to happen inthe Senate.
And so at the end of the day,if those two bills don't match,
then it's going to go to aconference committee where the
Speaker in the Minnesota Housewill appoint members from the
House to conference that bill,and the president of the Senate
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does the same thing, and thenthose people get together and
they hammer out thosedifferences, and then that
becomes a conference committeereport, and then it goes back to
the respective bodies as now aunified single bill, and then it
has to be passed once and yetagain and then it can be sent to
the governor's desk.
So there's a lot, especiallywhen you talk about split
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government.
When you have Republicans,theoretically that would hold
let's just say, the Senate andDemocrats hold the House.
It's really different.
It's really difficult to, youknow, get everyone together and
that's where the compromise isso important.
In Minnesota, the last twoyears, the Democrats have run
all levels.
They've had the House majority,they've had the Senate majority
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and they have the governor'soffice.
So, being a Republican, it waseven more difficult to be able
to contribute to the process.
HuttCast (09:00):
But when you say Democrat, I think we can agree
that there is more than oneDemocrat party.
We have the JFK old schoolDemocrats which today are new
Republicans, but they just don'tknow the party left them.
I mean, I feel that way, yeah,and you get the socialist
Democrats that are communistsocialists and they just want to
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be this so far extreme.
They want to jump up and down,they want to.
You know, just like we have onthe right side.
Everybody's got their peoplebut, like you said, they scream
the loudest.
We have to listen to that.
DAnny (09:32):
Yeah, yeah.
And you've got those.
Extremes are kind of pushingreally hard.
They're loud, they push hard.
No-transcript me, but we're aminority.
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Yes, absolutely.
HuttCast (10:17):
And how do you find more of?
DAnny (10:18):
you.
I think you have to createspace for it.
I think we have to live thatlife.
We have to have that, thatauthenticity.
You have to build that trust.
You know that's part of theproblem today is that
politicians don't trust eachother.
We're, you know we come.
We come to office with, withbias, we come to office with
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history and you know, oftentimesit's you know, it's lived and
we think it's the most importantthing.
And I'll just use the forgetabout Republican versus Democrat
.
Just look at the differencesbetween living in a Metro versus
greater Minnesota.
Not that people people aren'tthat that different, except
they're.
They're how they look at lifeis a little bit different and
what they think government, therole of government, should be,
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is a little bit different.
And getting people in greaterMinnesota to think about those
more urban-centric ideologiesthey oftentimes look at this and
go what is going on?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
And vice versa.
DAnny (11:21):
We expect more in the metro, we expect more from
government to ensure thatsuffering, for example, is
eliminated or at least reduced.
So it's finding that balance,having that grace, extending
that platform.
I used to say we used to talkabout inviting people to our
table.
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And it's not that, it's.
How do you get invited to otherpeople's table?
Know, and it's not that it's,it's how do you, how do you get
invited to other people's table?
Right, you know, it's, it'sthat.
How do you become that, thatingrained in the system where
you say you know where theyinvite you?
Um, so that you can learn andthat's.
HuttCast (11:59):
That's a pretty big thing.
It's, it's really hard.
So it's like when Trumpconstantly pounds his chest to
his voter group and it's notlike, dude, you don't get it,
you don't need to sell yourgroup, you need to sell their
group.
Right, and even if it doesn'talign with you, sometimes they
can make sense of it and say,okay, maybe I should just pay
attention this time.
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But he's got everybody sopolarized Well, everybody's so
polarized and they're at thathate level.
DAnny (12:25):
Yeah, and that's I mean, that's, that's the worst thing
that I think we have, that'sthat's the most challenging
thing.
And I hear that I, I, I knockon thousands of doors.
I bet you do.
You're everywhere, man, I am,and you know, to the, I want to
engage.
I, I, I've I've had the honorof working with a lot of leaders
in my career.
Good leaders these are peoplethat they listen, they engage,
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they show up without, yeah, theyhave an agenda, but they don't
have a.
You know, they're not going topush their solution.
They're going to listen toindustry, they're going to
listen to nonprofits, they'regoing to listen to those people
that are experts in their fieldand then they're going to make
that hard decision that keepsthe world moving forward.
And we need more of thosepeople.
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We need more people that don'tcare about getting credit.
HuttCast (13:17):
No glory months.
DAnny (13:18):
You know, egos are a big thing.
When you run for office, youhave to have an ego, because
it's hard, it's really reallyhard.
People will identify you basedon your party, based on what
they perceive your party to begood or bad.
Most of us aren't exactly whatour party, what that perception
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may be.
HuttCast (13:44):
Yeah, isn't that crazy .
DAnny (13:45):
It really is, so go ahead .
No, I was yeah, no it just itis crazy.
I mean, people aren't.
You know.
People are busy today, busierthan I think they've ever been,
oh for sure.
And we have a very you know, wehave a very informed electorate
.
I would say we need to increasethe education for the
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electorate Right.
And how do we do that?
And you know, I have 44,000people that I try to represent.
Half of them are Democrats,half of them are Republicans
roughly, and it's how do you?
But all of them are people.
All of them are people.
Yeah, and that's maybe what theparties need to start with.
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I mean, I say this all the timeto my own caucus, and it's you
know.
First, I'm a human being.
That's number one.
Second, I'm a son, I'm a father,I have a strong faith.
That's second.
And number three, I represent adistrict that has very, very
differing, you know.
It's equally separate betweenDemocrats and Republicans.
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And number four, I'm aRepublican.
The parties want us to beRepublican, democrat first and
support that system.
But that's the system that Ithink is making it difficult for
us to find that common groundand build relationships and
trust with one another.
HuttCast (15:05):
Then you become jaded, you do and you become again
that polarized and if you thinkabout it, all of Minnesota, no
matter how many reds or whateveryou want to think, you're going
to vote if you don't haveDistrict 5, you're going nowhere
.
The 5th Congressional District,yeah yeah, ilhan's District.
You'll never change this stateif you don't flip that center.
DAnny (15:26):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't need to be flipped, but you know
, if you can't lose it, you knowyou can't lose it with 70% of
the vote.
I mean if you could pick up 5%in that district, you know now
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you could start making somechanges.
But yeah, I mean it's the valuesystem in the, in the, in the
Metro, is different from thesuburbs, you know, and which is
different from greater Minnesota.
So how do you find that personthat has the ability to
transcend, you know, acrossthose things?
HuttCast (15:59):
I would think our current candidate doesn't have
that ability.
Which one District, five stateor federal level?
Ilhan?
DAnny (16:05):
No, um, no, I mean it's it's easy to rest on your
laurels and I'm not Districtfive, state or federal level,
ilhan, no, no, I mean it's easyto rest on your laurels, and I
mean no disrespect to thecongresswoman.
But when you believe that theminority in your district is
only 20 or 27 percent orwhatever it is, it's easy not to
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represent that.
And the same thing is true ifyou're in greater Minnesota and
80% of your voters areRepublican and you're Republican
, it's easy to dismiss the 20%.
But I think it's incumbent uponall of us that, especially if
you're elected, to do your verybest to represent all of the
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people in your district.
And we can use Governor Walz,for example.
I was on NewsHour not too longago and the governor ran on a
big, wide, very inspirationalmessage of one Minnesota.
Well, if you look at whathappened over the past two years
, if you're 48% of theRepublican Party the 48% that
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doesn't believe in the expansionof government at a rate that
we've expanded it, you don'tfeel like you're part of one
Minnesota.
I think the governor's got somework to do to rebuild trust
here.
HuttCast (17:29):
Absolutely.
And after the last session Iwas just in recording Paul
Gazoka I absolutely have beenopened my eyes to a couple of
things and he did that.
So, yeah, I'm on that page withyou.
Yeah, all right.
So let's switch up to a littlebit of national.
Yeah, camilla's in thespotlight, tim Waltz is in the
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spotlight.
We have a democratic process andeverybody who is in this game,
whether you're at local orfederal or anything, state the
process is your oath to office.
That would be kind of the holygrail, would you not agree with
that?
Absolutely.
That's why we're there.
And if you had that office andyou held that and you said, hey,
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I'm going to, with my oath,you're going to raise that right
hand, I think that we got kindof shortchanged here.
What do you mean?
I don't think Mr Waltz, waltz,waltz has come to his you know
what would you say?
His fruition of representingeverybody.
(18:34):
Yeah, absolutely, he's all oneside, he's all one party.
Yeah, and I don't get it.
I mean, so where I'm going withthis is no matter what you do.
Your oath is what you say, it'swhat you do, it's what you do,
it's what you raise your righthand to correct.
Yes, and nobody should be ableto change that.
I mean, that's the point ofbeing this.
DAnny (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the governor.
It's interesting.
You know he represented thefirst congressional district for
a number of years in Congress,southern, the first
congressional district for anumber of years in Congress.
And you know, and maybe, if wecan give the governor some, you
know, some latitude, and youknow, he was endorsed by the NRA
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.
He was, you know, he was allabout small businesses.
He was about, you know, makingsure that, you know, people down
there had the ability to exceland thrive.
And you know, then all of asudden he decides to run for
governor and he really didn'tspend a lot of time outside of
the of the metro area and, and Ithink it's important for people
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to, you know, recognize that,you know 50% of Minnesota's
population is in the five Countymetro, with a little finger
down into Goodhue County.
You know so if you know, ifyou're going to run statewide,
you need to do well in that area.
But I also think that part ofbeing an elected official is
educating.
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Yes, our job is to representthe people that are in our
district, be it statewide, andthat's obviously more difficult
than it is for me to try torepresent Rogers, dayton and
Champlin.
But the values and thedifferences are similar and I
think it's incumbent upon us notonly to try to represent those
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interests but also go back toour districts, to go back to the
state and say I did this forthis reason.
You might disagree, and that'sfine, and we need to disagree
respectfully and we need to stopthis battering of one another
because of who we voted for inthe last election for president,
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for example.
That is not serving us at all.
And you know, just because wedon't agree on one issue doesn't
necessarily, you know, meanthat we're not going to find
other issues to work on together.
And but if we burn the bridge,Yep, it doesn't matter, it's
automatically burned.
HuttCast (20:59):
Yeah, right.
DAnny (20:59):
You can't cross it, and so it doesn't matter if you're
the governor or you're aMinnesota state rep, like I am,
it doesn't matter.
We still have to have thosehard conversations and demand
that we respectfully disagreewhere we do, but also where we
can find compromise, we worktogether, and that's what's not
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really happening today.
That I see as much as it should.
It happens in some cases not asmuch as it should.
It happens in some cases not asmuch as it should now that I
brought you down this rabbithole.
HuttCast (21:31):
Yeah, here's where I'm going with this.
You so you're.
You agree that the democraticprocess is the process.
So that's what you holdeverything to your body yep
camilla comes in last, 11th yeahbut you know where I'm going
with this now, right I do and do.
And she's automatically magictrick.
Here we're going to say theworst candidate is now your pick
(21:55):
of choice.
Yeah, circumventing thecomplete process in which their
DNC had in their primaries,right Zero votes in a primary
and she's thrust into theposition.
That should upset everybody itshould.
DAnny (22:10):
I mean, look at our friend Dean Phillips.
You know that guy, six monthsago, was running for president,
yes, and he was saying exactlywhat occurred ultimately and he
got canceled.
He got canceled by the DemocratParty.
He got you know, and he's a.
I think he's a good, I think heis a good person and that guy
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should have had a chance to beto run for president.
He should have had that chance.
He earned it, like everyonedoes.
But no, just having anautomatic coronation Right.
HuttCast (22:49):
Because, all of a sudden, you know joe is tired
right, you can't compose asentence and all of a sudden oh
well, I guess you're next whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right
hold on here.
Trump had to go through itright.
And what's the automatic passhere?
Because you're sleepy?
Joe's second command no, everEver, should that have ever
happened.
And everybody just kind of goesoh yeah, she's the pick.
DAnny (23:12):
Right, and everyone should be upset about that,
especially if you're you know,if you happen to be on the left
side of the aisle, any side ofthis aisle.
I can't imagine how this wouldhappen if, all of a sudden, it
was Republican.
I mean, we would go ballistic.
HuttCast (23:26):
Yeah, special accounts , special this.
We're going to call God uphimself and say you need to fix
this.
Oh, dude, right, next levelstupidness.
And that's what makes me mad,because we had some pretty good
talent on the DNC side.
One thing I have learned overthe years and I've interviewed a
lot of people is that we're allsaying the same thing.
Is that we're all saying thesame thing?
We just say it different?
(23:47):
Yeah, until it comes to the wayleft and way right.
DAnny (23:51):
I mean I agree, I think you know, I mean I think
literally I don't know what thenumber is, but I always say you
know it's 80 to 85% of theissues that you know that we're
facing as a state, as a country,as a nation.
You know most people agree onit the speed in which we get
there.
We might disagree on the.
You know how much it's going tocost, how much we're willing to
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modify our economy to get there, but I mean truly we.
There's far, far more that weagree on than we disagree on,
but the focus is always on thedisagreements and I think that
just I mean that feeds politicsbut it hurts people.
Yeah, how do we fix it?
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Those people that I believe aretrustworthy and you try to
build relationships with them.
They're not just one issuepeople and there's a lot of
those that get elected to officetoday, be it at local gov or
even at the state level.
There's people that the onlything they care about is climate
resilience Great, but there'sso much more that we do.
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There's so many more votes thatwe take than just climate
resilience, for example, butidentifying those people that
are thoughtful, that are willingto listen and we have to listen
harder.
I mean, I don't remember whosomebody just mentioned this to
me the other day.
I mean, it's the reason Godgave us two ears and one mouth
(25:37):
we're supposed to listen twiceas much as we do speak.
Wasn't that me and you?
Maybe it could have been Two ofthese, one of these, yeah, and
so it's.
But that's where we're and ouregos have a tendency to get in
the way.
It's interesting being, youknow, being an elected official.
You know people will sometimesrecognize you and I'm always
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taken aback by it.
But, um, you know it's, it's it, it feeds, it feeds our ego and
it's that's fun.
But you have to manage it.
And because we're not, we'renot that important, we're not
any more important than anyoneelse, and but we have to find
those people that are willing toset those things aside and say
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what is our focus, what's thepurpose?
We very seldom fight about thepurpose of something.
We fight about the provision,be it education.
We want them to be in sports,we want them to ride the bus, we
don't want them to be hungry.
But how much are we willing tospend?
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How much time are we willing toinvest?
How much out of the way are wewilling to be when it comes to
what school districts areputting in their curriculum and
how involved should we be inthose things as well.
But it's finding those peoplethat are willing to work on the
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purpose of what it is that we'reshooting for, and then we can.
You know, when you build thattrust and you build that
relationship, it's a lot easierto you know, move down the road.
Are we going to solve theproblem immediately?
No, but are we going to movethe ball in the right direction?
And I think the answer is yes.
HuttCast (27:18):
Okay, best thing you like about hitting the street
and talking to people.
What do you like?
Oh, my gosh, just meetingpeople.
DAnny (27:27):
You know, some people are funny.
You know, I have to be honest,most people don't want me.
They don't want to see meknocking on their door.
You know it's uncomfortable.
I always put people on theirdoor, um, you know it's
uncomfortable, I always putpeople on the spot, um, but I
it's those times when you youget to connect with people, um,
and they really start talking toyou.
(27:48):
I had a.
I'm not I'm going to try tomake this story short, but
there's one guy that that reallysticks out this, you know, this
year he was a younger, youngerguy and and, uh, he was, and he
was actually running a platecompactor in his driveway out of
gravel.
He had a little gravelextension.
And I walk up and he shuts itoff and he's sweating, it's hot.
And he says what do you want?
(28:10):
And I handed him this littlebrochure and I introduced myself
and we just started talking alittle bit and he said you know,
I'm an engineer.
He said my wife works inhealthcare.
He said we make $206,000 a year.
And he said you know, one day Ijust couldn't figure out why I
didn't have more money.
And he said I'm an engineer, soI decided to make spreadsheet,
(28:32):
I decided to figure out.
You know what it was.
Where am I spending my money?
Why don't I have more of this?
And ultimately he got to the.
And this guy, he was aself-proclaimed Democrat and
again I didn't see thespreadsheet, so it's hearsay.
But he said I'm spending 52% ofall of our net income goes to
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taxes, taxes and fees.
And he said that seems to betoo much.
And we had this longconversation about what do we do
to try to make life moreaffordable.
And it's not just about onething.
It's never about one thing whenit comes to government, but
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it's two people coming togethersaying you know what?
There's a problem when we'repaying 52% of our income or 40,
whatever.
It's going to be different fordifferent people, but government
right now is taking a lot frompeople and our job, I think, at
the legislature is to try tofind that balance between
safeguarding taxpayers andmaking sure that people suffer
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less.
Are we serving people in a goodway?
Are the interventions thatwe're spending money on, are
they actually changing people'slives?
And far too often we're notevaluating those things because
once again, it's the extremes ofthe parties are driving these
agendas and they don't carewhether or not, people are
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served or not.
They care about power, theycare about winning elections,
and that's where we have to findthe relationships with people.
To set those aside, okay, fine,we can do that during a
campaign cycle, but once thatcampaign cycle's over, we need
to put our shoulders togetherand we need to keep our legs
moving, we need to keep ourheads in and we need to work
together, and that's where Ithink that we can start solving
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some of these problems today.
HuttCast (30:25):
All right.
What's the worst interactionthat you've been on yet?
DAnny (30:29):
Oh, I don't know if there's.
You know, I think the worst forme and it's not one it's this
ideology that I'll knock on adoor and somebody will ask, are
you a Democrat or Republican?
And I'll say I'm a Republicanand they'll say, get off my
porch or they'll throw the cardback.
And that's just disheartening.
(30:52):
You know, just because there'speople that align with one part
and it would be the same if Iwere a Democrat and I heard that
from a Republican People can bemean and there's no reason for
that and I don't care what sideof the aisle that you're on and
you're out there knocking ondoors.
You know, I may disagree withwhat some of my friends on the
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other side do, but you know what?
I honor the fact that they'reout there.
They're trying to serve thepublic, they're trying to do it
the best they can and theyshouldn't.
You know, no one should have tobe kicked off their front porch
because, you know, simplybecause they have an R or a D
behind their name.
That's just unfortunate on bothsides.
HuttCast (31:36):
That is disheartening.
Yeah, I ran into that when Iran for mayor.
You're an R or D.
I says how about I'm an R or D?
They look at you like what?
Yeah, I know what you stand for.
Okay, then we're going to havea conversation.
Or you want me to move along,right, and sometimes it gets
naughty and sometimes they'llsay move, you know whatever.
But Sometimes it gets naughtyand sometimes they'll say you
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know whatever, but you're thereand you got to remind them that
I'm there to do your work, right, not my work.
This has nothing to do with me,it's to do with you.
So if you want to kick me up, Iget it Right.
But remember you know you'renot going to have a voice if you
do that, right.
You need that voice, no matterwhat side of the fence Right and
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people.
DAnny (32:20):
I mean, I had one particular instance where I
walked up to a door and it was alady that answered.
And she looked at me and shesaid I know you and I know your
politics.
And she started kind of yellingat me a little bit.
She was it doesn't matter whatshe was and you know.
(32:41):
And I looked at her.
I said you know, you don't knowmy politics, because if you did
know my politics you wouldnever treat me in this way.
And it was fine.
You know you don't have to votefor me and I tell people that
all the time but you also don'thave to be mean, right, but you
also don't have to be mean Right, so that's Be a little human
here, right, right, I mean.
Everybody's out there is doingthe best they can.
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Is it all perfect?
No, but it's not bad.
HuttCast (33:07):
Yeah, now I understand .
Brian Raines is your opponent.
Yes, how do you feel he's doing?
Do you think he's?
DAnny (33:14):
got some traction.
You know, I don't really Idon't really pay attention to
what.
You know, what he's doing.
I don't run into him.
Um, you know, I don't, I don'treally know.
I, I, I and I'm being honest, I, I, I've met him a couple of
times I, I, I think he's a very,I think he's a nice guy.
HuttCast (33:32):
Um, I just think I'm better.
DAnny (33:34):
And um, yeah, I just he's .
Yeah, I don't really payattention to what he's doing.
This is the third time he's run.
He ran against Kristen Robbinsprior to redistricting and then
I ran against.
We ran against each other inthe open seat two years ago and
now he's he's filed run againstme again.
HuttCast (33:59):
Yeah, I spent a little bit of time talking to him, but
I didn't really engage him toomuch, because you know I.
I understand his politics, yeah.
So okay now, what did we misshere?
I'm gonna check my list.
And what do you want people toknow?
What's their takeaway?
Because you're gonna have oneshot at these guys.
You can use this link anywhereyou want to.
You're hoping they're going tolisten to the whole thing.
(34:21):
We're at 32.3 minutes.
And you want that to say.
This is who I am to you.
DAnny (34:26):
Yeah, well, hopefully that's been integrated in this
conversation.
You know, I grew up in Medina.
My dad was a lineman, my momwas a stay-at-home mom.
I learned a lot about characterfrom both my parents.
And first half of my career,until I was 35, I ran a
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construction company.
I started it when I was in highschool and I wanted to go to
college.
That's that's why I did it.
I didn't, I didn't know anyother way.
Um, and then, you know, then Igot into, then I kind of got
into government because I wasfrustrated with the system and I
wanted to make change.
Um, so I I was a city, I was atownship administrator for a few
(35:10):
years.
I went to the department ofcommerce.
I worked on the in the state,in the state energy office, for
a few years.
I went to the Department ofCommerce.
I worked in the state energyoffice for a while, and I've
been at Hennepin County for thepast, well, since 2010.
And I was chief of staff to aHennepin County commissioner for
10 of those years and sincethat time I've negotiated
contracts and so, part of thereason that I ran in an open
(35:34):
seat, I've had the opportunityto run for office numerous times
and I've never said yes, it'snot something that I, in an open
seat.
I've had the opportunity to runfor office numerous times and
I've never said yes, it's notsomething that I.
You know it wasn't not my bucketlist thing.
You know I can be just aseffective, you know, outside of
having an election certificateas I can with it, and you know I
decided to run because I'm aRepublican and I've spent my
(35:55):
career working with andalongside people who don't vote
for the same president that I do, for example, and we can get
along again as we, you know, aswe.
I'm a critical thinker and Ibring that.
I bring that to the work that Ido and I challenge people to be
better and I build thoseplatforms for people to build
(36:18):
trust and have relationships.
And it doesn't matter what ourpolitical leanings are.
What matters in government isthat we work together to ensure
that we're serving people.
And we're going to fight abouthow much we should spend, how
quick we should raise it, whoshould pay Absolutely, and those
are good fights to have.
But at the end of the day, mostpeople want that pragmatic,
(36:46):
centrist person who isreasonable, who is not an
extremist, who focuses on thosecommon sense solutions.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
And sense there you go.
DAnny (36:58):
And that's what people want.
I mean, you can be a commonsense Republican, you can be a
common sense Democrat,absolutely but the parties will
drive you towards the edges, andthat's what we all need to push
back on.
I think that that's my takeawayKnow who you're voting for, get
to know them.
It doesn't matter what side ofthe aisle people are on, you
know.
Reach out away, know who you'revoting for, get to know them.
(37:19):
It doesn't matter what side ofthe aisle people are on.
Reach out to them, send them anemail, call them, open the door
when they knock.
Just get to know them a littlebit.
You don't have to vote for them, but just get to know them.
Spend five minutes with them,spend three minutes, with them
Three minutes Okay.
We're good at getting right tothe heart of of it and ask them
(37:39):
questions.
Tell them what's important toyou.
If you don't, you know who doesis the activists.
So, that's what they're going tobe focused on.
So you know, we all want astable business community.
We want, you know, we want tolive a have a nice work-life
balance.
We want to trust the fact thatwe're going to when we drop our
(38:03):
kids off at school, they'regoing to be safe and they're
going to learn, and those arethe things that you should be
talking about to yourrepresentatives, regardless of
where you're from.
HuttCast (38:08):
Excellent statement.
Let's shift to gear hereDonations.
You got a great donation on theway to this episode.
Yeah, I did.
That's incredible.
People are so good to me.
That's incredible.
I'm just like how awesome isthat?
And if someone wanted to donate, how would you do that?
What does that?
DAnny (38:24):
look like.
You know there's a lot ofdifferent ways we can do it.
In Minnesota, we have what'scalled a PCR program.
It's a political contributionrefund.
It's actually it will refund ifyou donate.
If you're an individual, youcan donate $75 to a candidate
and that candidate will send youa receipt and a form and you
(38:44):
fill it out, you send it intothe Department of Revenue and
within four to six weeks youactually get that $75 back, and
it's $75 per person, $150 percouple.
The limit that you can evercontribute to a candidate
doesn't matter.
Well, a host candidate,different races have different
caps, but the max I can take is$1,000 per person.
(39:08):
So that means that I've got toreach out to a lot of people and
get a lot of people to donateto my campaign and, honestly,
people are so good to me.
My signs are all over andpeople are standing up and
saying we really appreciate yourhonesty, you're an authentic
person and we may not agreepolitically, but I still believe
(39:30):
in you and I still believe thatyou want to represent the
interests of this district.
So then, the way to do it, ofcourse, either send me an email
or go to my website.
There's donate buttons on there, candidates are always looking
for money, and if it's not meand you have another favorite
candidate, you know go look forthem.
You know, send them a note,tell them you're going to send
them a few bucks and justencourage them to keep going,
(39:53):
regardless of the site, whichside of the aisle you're on.
HuttCast (39:56):
How to contact.
All right.
So if they want to get a holdof you, how do we get a hold of
you?
Website, Facebook, email.
DAnny (40:02):
Yep Twitter DannyNadeaucom.
It's D-A-N-N-Y-N-A-D-E-A-Ucom.
HuttCast (40:09):
And that is your direct website.
Yeah, do you have a Facebook?
DAnny (40:13):
I do, yeah, I do yeah.
It's just Danny Nadeau, I think.
And do you have a Twitter?
I think that one's Nadeau Danny.
HuttCast (40:21):
Okay, yeah, okay.
So we got Facebook.
So all your social medias arekind of like name-based.
DAnny (40:26):
Yep, it's all me.
My brand is me, okay.
HuttCast (40:30):
What am I missing?
I got all my boxes checked onmy list.
DAnny (40:39):
Well, why don't you tell me what's important to you?
I mean, that's my job.
I'm supposed to be listening topeople in my district.
So you tell me, in 30 secondsor less, the most important
thing that you want yourrepresentatives to know and work
on.
HuttCast (40:55):
You've done a Kaiser Soze.
I think the most importantthing is to be heard, to be
heard and have actions on mywords.
In a nutshell, because I cansit upstairs in my undisclosed
bunker location and watch StarTrek all day.
(41:15):
I don't need to be working atbusting my behind to not be
listened and heard.
Bunker location and watch StarTrek all day.
I don't need to be working atbusting my behind to not be
listened and heard.
I think that's my biggest thingand again I get it.
You're, when we're in theminority of a situation, the
majority rules, but man beingheard is taxation with
representation.
DAnny (41:33):
Yeah, and I think you hit .
I mean I think you hit the nailon the head.
I mean I think you hit the nailon the head.
I mean I I hear this at I meanI've knocked down five, over
5,000 doors this, this cycle.
And that's people, people, thepeople that are willing to
engage.
They do want to be heard, andmy job is to listen and try to,
you know, try to move forward,move forward, um, and I think
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that we're, I think that oursystem today is failing people
in that regard.
We're not, we're notrepresenting, I don't think that
we're we're doing as good a jobas we could in representing the
interests of our communities,because the parties are pushing
too far on the, on the edges, um, and I, I think, if we can, can
, if we can continue, as electedofficials, to push back on that
as, and we as a community cancome together, I think we will
(42:25):
be able to, I'll be able to be abetter listener and you'll
hopefully be better heard overthe pond listeners.
HuttCast (42:35):
It might not mean nothing to you over there, but
this is kind of a thing here inmy home state.
If you can apply this to whatyou do in your elections or your
cycles or whatever it is you doin your country slash, city,
slash whatever it is maybe youcan apply some of it.
And if you can learn from this,good for you.
Let's see.
Last week my biggest listenerswere in Madagascar.
(42:57):
Shout out to you, guys.
You were 22% of my downloadslast week.
I hope we're making a bell.
I don't know exactly whatlanguage you're speaking in
Madagascar, but hey, if it'sgetting translated and it works
for you.
Thanks for listening.
Australia's kind of dropped off.
Come on, guys, you've got tomake sure and spin that up a
little bit more for me.
(43:17):
I'm watching all the downloadsand Ukraine's been actually been
picking up too, so I thinkthey're just kind of bored with
what they're doing.
I mean, they're in a crap show.
So, danny, I appreciate youcoming in and volunteering your
Sunday time and in thisundisclosed, I and in this
undisclosed, remember you'resworn to secrecy where the
bunker is.
(43:37):
That's how we do this.
DAnny (43:39):
I don't even know where I am.
HuttCast (43:41):
We can take the blindfold off now.
I hope so.
Have our secret service takeyou back to the surface.
DAnny (43:46):
Yes, hey, we could do that.
I mean, I don't even know howmany floors down I am, how many
fathoms.
It's a long way.
Yeah, your ears pop like twice,right Twice.
So that's like three fathoms.
HuttCast (43:58):
It is.
It's every three.
Yeah, it's got to be, but forHuttCast, I appreciate everybody
tuning in and we'll catch younext time.
Danny, good luck in yourelection.
I think you've got a good headon your shoulders, and anybody
who wouldn't vote for you, nomatter what side, should really
evaluate why they're voting.
DAnny (44:16):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I appreciate the time.
I appreciate the effort and theinvestment in time that you've
made in me as well.
So thank you, okay.
HuttCast (44:25):
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the button, so be well, people,and we'll catch you next time.
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Welcome to HUTCAST 9-29-2024.
And I have in my studio, inreal flesh and blood,
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Danny Nadeau representsDistrict 34A and he is here.
Are you here, danny?
I am Well.
Thanks for taking your Sundayafternoon and coming out and
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Yeah, it's going to be great.
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HuttCast (02:11):
Welcome back to the podcast.
So Danny's in the studio todaywith us and if you listened to
last week's episode, we had PaulGazelka on showing his new book
.
And I'll tell you what we'regetting more and more into these
guys and the more we listen,the more we learn.
And Danny teach us somethingtonight.
(02:32):
How are you doing?
DAnny (02:35):
I am so good.
I'm so good.
I'm just running forre-election for the first time.
I was elected first back in2022.
And it's a brand new district.
You know, it was right afterredistricting.
Rogers and Dayton used to becombined with the city of Maple
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Grove, and that was representedby Kristen Robbins, and Champlin
was part of Coon Rapids andBrooklyn Park, and it was
represented by Zach Stevenson.
And after redistricting,neither of those incumbents
lived in the district, and so Idecided to run, and it's been a
(03:18):
whirlwind ever since.
HuttCast (03:20):
I bet it has, especially after redistricting.
That was kind of a crap show,wasn't it it?
DAnny (03:26):
was.
You know redistricting is oneof those issues that a lot of
people have strong feelingsabout, and you know the
legislature is involved in allredistricting and it happens
every 10 years after the census.
So you know, the importantthing for people to know is that
each district needs to haveequal population so that you
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don't have one representativerepresenting 60,000 people and
another one representing 30,000.
It wants to be balanced, and soevery 10 years redistricting
comes along and whoever's inpower in the legislature has the
ability to set those maps.
Minnesota has not been verysuccessful in doing that.
(04:07):
For the last number of years Ican't remember how long it's got
to be at least the last two orthree cycles, so 20 or 30 years
it goes to the Minnesota SupremeCourt because we can't agree
the Democrats and theRepublicans can't agree on what
the map should look like, and soit goes to the Supreme Court
and then the Supreme Court doesthe maps and ultimately what we
(04:29):
have today is we've got a lot ofvery safe seats.
We've got safe seats in greaterMinnesota that benefit
Republicans.
We've got a lot of safe seatsthat benefit Democrats in the
metro, and then we've got somevery, very competitive seats in
the suburbs that go all the wayaround, and I happen to be in
one of those.
HuttCast (04:49):
Wow, there's a lot going on and you out there
listening.
That's more of a local matter.
So, the guys across the pond,the guys in Africa and all of my
long-term listeners and way outthere, this is going to be more
of a local show.
So if you don't want to engage,this is how it works for us,
and if you don't want to engage,I get it.
But, danny, this is a heck of athing we got going on in our
(05:10):
world today, don't?
DAnny (05:11):
we.
There's so much going on at somany different levels.
There's so much at stake andyou can't write this.
HuttCast (05:18):
This is stuff that happens.
DAnny (05:20):
Yeah, absolutely.
HuttCast (05:23):
I don't want to make this a show of hey, this is
Danny.
I want to lower the taxes.
I want to do this, I want toknow what people.
I want people to know you.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of howyou know.
If they get to know you, thenthey're going to say, hey, like
this makes sense.
I mean the guy's making sense.
You got your policies.
Everybody can find your moneyrecord.
It's not an issue there.
Yeah, you're conservative.
You have common sense.
(05:44):
You want to work both sides ofthe aisle because you know
that's how you get stuff done.
Like every good politician,regardless of your designated
letter, I would agree.
DAnny (05:55):
Tell me when I'm wrong.
HuttCast (05:56):
No.
DAnny (05:57):
I would agree.
You know, politics today isreally driven by, you know, the
extremes of each side and it'sgrowing worse.
And it doesn't matter if it'sat the national level or, you
know, at the state level, andsometimes even it it has a
tendency to transcend into localgov and and into school board
races.
Um, it's, but it's hard, youknow it's.
(06:20):
It's really hard to be gracefultoday.
Um, it's hard to.
It's really hard to be gracefultoday.
It's hard to compromise,because people aren't rewarded
for compromise in politics wherewe used to.
I mean and a lot of it has todo with, you know, campaign
finance laws, I mean some of thechanges that were made years
(06:40):
ago where you know, you hearabout those stories where you
know people in Congress or inthe US Senate would, you know,
argue all day but at night theywould get together and they'd
have dinner and they would go tothese common fundraisers and
that you know campaign financelaws have changed and that's far
less.
(07:00):
we're far less able to do thattoday.
HuttCast (07:03):
For the new listeners, my young listeners, brief
summary on what does the Housedo, because you're in the House.
What do they do to get readyfor the Senate?
I see HF bills all the time.
You write bills.
Work through that for them.
DAnny (07:20):
So when you craft a bill, in order to get it for the
governor to sign it, there hasto be a House bill and there has
to be a corresponding Senatebill.
And let's just say that you'regoing to have a bill and you
want to increase health care fora particular population, and so
the House you know the authorin the House is going to draft
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that bill.
It's going to go to thecommittees and they're going to
mark that bill up.
There's going to be amendments,they're going to change it.
It's going to go to the Housefloor, it's going to be further
amended.
The same thing has to happen inthe Senate.
And so at the end of the day,if those two bills don't match,
then it's going to go to aconference committee where the
Speaker in the Minnesota Housewill appoint members from the
House to conference that bill,and the president of the Senate
(08:04):
does the same thing, and thenthose people get together and
they hammer out thosedifferences, and then that
becomes a conference committeereport, and then it goes back to
the respective bodies as now aunified single bill, and then it
has to be passed once and yetagain and then it can be sent to
the governor's desk.
So there's a lot, especiallywhen you talk about split
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government.
When you have Republicans,theoretically that would hold
let's just say, the Senate andDemocrats hold the House.
It's really different.
It's really difficult to, youknow, get everyone together and
that's where the compromise isso important.
In Minnesota, the last twoyears, the Democrats have run
all levels.
They've had the House majority,they've had the Senate majority
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and they have the governor'soffice.
So, being a Republican, it waseven more difficult to be able
to contribute to the process.
HuttCast (09:00):
But when you say Democrat, I think we can agree
that there is more than oneDemocrat party.
We have the JFK old schoolDemocrats which today are new
Republicans, but they just don'tknow the party left them.
I mean, I feel that way, yeah,and you get the socialist
Democrats that are communistsocialists and they just want to
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be this so far extreme.
They want to jump up and down,they want to.
You know, just like we have onthe right side.
Everybody's got their peoplebut, like you said, they scream
the loudest.
We have to listen to that.
DAnny (09:32):
Yeah, yeah.
And you've got those.
Extremes are kind of pushingreally hard.
They're loud, they push hard.
No-transcript me, but we're aminority.
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Yes, absolutely.
HuttCast (10:17):
And how do you find more of?
DAnny (10:18):
you.
I think you have to createspace for it.
I think we have to live thatlife.
We have to have that, thatauthenticity.
You have to build that trust.
You know that's part of theproblem today is that
politicians don't trust eachother.
We're, you know we come.
We come to office with, withbias, we come to office with
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history and you know, oftentimesit's you know, it's lived and
we think it's the most importantthing.
And I'll just use the forgetabout Republican versus Democrat
.
Just look at the differencesbetween living in a Metro versus
greater Minnesota.
Not that people people aren'tthat that different, except
they're.
They're how they look at lifeis a little bit different and
what they think government, therole of government, should be,
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is a little bit different.
And getting people in greaterMinnesota to think about those
more urban-centric ideologiesthey oftentimes look at this and
go what is going on?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
And vice versa.
DAnny (11:21):
We expect more in the metro, we expect more from
government to ensure thatsuffering, for example, is
eliminated or at least reduced.
So it's finding that balance,having that grace, extending
that platform.
I used to say we used to talkabout inviting people to our
table.
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And it's not that, it's.
How do you get invited to otherpeople's table?
Know, and it's not that it's,it's how do you, how do you get
invited to other people's table?
Right, you know, it's, it'sthat.
How do you become that, thatingrained in the system where
you say you know where theyinvite you?
Um, so that you can learn andthat's.
HuttCast (11:59):
That's a pretty big thing.
It's, it's really hard.
So it's like when Trumpconstantly pounds his chest to
his voter group and it's notlike, dude, you don't get it,
you don't need to sell yourgroup, you need to sell their
group.
Right, and even if it doesn'talign with you, sometimes they
can make sense of it and say,okay, maybe I should just pay
attention this time.
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But he's got everybody sopolarized Well, everybody's so
polarized and they're at thathate level.
DAnny (12:25):
Yeah, and that's I mean, that's, that's the worst thing
that I think we have, that'sthat's the most challenging
thing.
And I hear that I, I, I knockon thousands of doors.
I bet you do.
You're everywhere, man, I am,and you know, to the, I want to
engage.
I, I, I've I've had the honorof working with a lot of leaders
in my career.
Good leaders these are peoplethat they listen, they engage,
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they show up without, yeah, theyhave an agenda, but they don't
have a.
You know, they're not going topush their solution.
They're going to listen toindustry, they're going to
listen to nonprofits, they'regoing to listen to those people
that are experts in their fieldand then they're going to make
that hard decision that keepsthe world moving forward.
And we need more of thosepeople.
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We need more people that don'tcare about getting credit.
HuttCast (13:17):
No glory months.
DAnny (13:18):
You know, egos are a big thing.
When you run for office, youhave to have an ego, because
it's hard, it's really reallyhard.
People will identify you basedon your party, based on what
they perceive your party to begood or bad.
Most of us aren't exactly whatour party, what that perception
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may be.
HuttCast (13:44):
Yeah, isn't that crazy .
DAnny (13:45):
It really is, so go ahead .
No, I was yeah, no it just itis crazy.
I mean, people aren't.
You know.
People are busy today, busierthan I think they've ever been,
oh for sure.
And we have a very you know, wehave a very informed electorate
.
I would say we need to increasethe education for the
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electorate Right.
And how do we do that?
And you know, I have 44,000people that I try to represent.
Half of them are Democrats,half of them are Republicans
roughly, and it's how do you?
But all of them are people.
All of them are people.
Yeah, and that's maybe what theparties need to start with.
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I mean, I say this all the timeto my own caucus, and it's you
know.
First, I'm a human being.
That's number one.
Second, I'm a son, I'm a father,I have a strong faith.
That's second.
And number three, I represent adistrict that has very, very
differing, you know.
It's equally separate betweenDemocrats and Republicans.
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And number four, I'm aRepublican.
The parties want us to beRepublican, democrat first and
support that system.
But that's the system that Ithink is making it difficult for
us to find that common groundand build relationships and
trust with one another.
HuttCast (15:05):
Then you become jaded, you do and you become again
that polarized and if you thinkabout it, all of Minnesota, no
matter how many reds or whateveryou want to think, you're going
to vote if you don't haveDistrict 5, you're going nowhere
.
The 5th Congressional District,yeah yeah, ilhan's District.
You'll never change this stateif you don't flip that center.
DAnny (15:26):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't need to be flipped, but you know
, if you can't lose it, you knowyou can't lose it with 70% of
the vote.
I mean if you could pick up 5%in that district, you know now
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you could start making somechanges.
But yeah, I mean it's the valuesystem in the, in the, in the
Metro, is different from thesuburbs, you know, and which is
different from greater Minnesota.
So how do you find that personthat has the ability to
transcend, you know, acrossthose things?
HuttCast (15:59):
I would think our current candidate doesn't have
that ability.
Which one District, five stateor federal level?
Ilhan?
DAnny (16:05):
No, um, no, I mean it's it's easy to rest on your
laurels and I'm not Districtfive, state or federal level,
ilhan, no, no, I mean it's easyto rest on your laurels, and I
mean no disrespect to thecongresswoman.
But when you believe that theminority in your district is
only 20 or 27 percent orwhatever it is, it's easy not to
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represent that.
And the same thing is true ifyou're in greater Minnesota and
80% of your voters areRepublican and you're Republican
, it's easy to dismiss the 20%.
But I think it's incumbent uponall of us that, especially if
you're elected, to do your verybest to represent all of the
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people in your district.
And we can use Governor Walz,for example.
I was on NewsHour not too longago and the governor ran on a
big, wide, very inspirationalmessage of one Minnesota.
Well, if you look at whathappened over the past two years
, if you're 48% of theRepublican Party the 48% that
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doesn't believe in the expansionof government at a rate that
we've expanded it, you don'tfeel like you're part of one
Minnesota.
I think the governor's got somework to do to rebuild trust
here.
HuttCast (17:29):
Absolutely.
And after the last session Iwas just in recording Paul
Gazoka I absolutely have beenopened my eyes to a couple of
things and he did that.
So, yeah, I'm on that page withyou.
Yeah, all right.
So let's switch up to a littlebit of national.
Yeah, camilla's in thespotlight, tim Waltz is in the
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spotlight.
We have a democratic process andeverybody who is in this game,
whether you're at local orfederal or anything, state the
process is your oath to office.
That would be kind of the holygrail, would you not agree with
that?
Absolutely.
That's why we're there.
And if you had that office andyou held that and you said, hey,
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I'm going to, with my oath,you're going to raise that right
hand, I think that we got kindof shortchanged here.
What do you mean?
I don't think Mr Waltz, waltz,waltz has come to his you know
what would you say?
His fruition of representingeverybody.
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Yeah, absolutely, he's all oneside, he's all one party.
Yeah, and I don't get it.
I mean, so where I'm going withthis is no matter what you do.
Your oath is what you say, it'swhat you do, it's what you do,
it's what you raise your righthand to correct.
Yes, and nobody should be ableto change that.
I mean, that's the point ofbeing this.
DAnny (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the governor.
It's interesting.
You know he represented thefirst congressional district for
a number of years in Congress,southern, the first
congressional district for anumber of years in Congress.
And you know, and maybe, if wecan give the governor some, you
know, some latitude, and youknow, he was endorsed by the NRA
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.
He was, you know, he was allabout small businesses.
He was about, you know, makingsure that, you know, people down
there had the ability to exceland thrive.
And you know, then all of asudden he decides to run for
governor and he really didn'tspend a lot of time outside of
the of the metro area and, and Ithink it's important for people
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to, you know, recognize that,you know 50% of Minnesota's
population is in the five Countymetro, with a little finger
down into Goodhue County.
You know so if you know, ifyou're going to run statewide,
you need to do well in that area.
But I also think that part ofbeing an elected official is
educating.
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Yes, our job is to representthe people that are in our
district, be it statewide, andthat's obviously more difficult
than it is for me to try torepresent Rogers, dayton and
Champlin.
But the values and thedifferences are similar and I
think it's incumbent upon us notonly to try to represent those
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interests but also go back toour districts, to go back to the
state and say I did this forthis reason.
You might disagree, and that'sfine, and we need to disagree
respectfully and we need to stopthis battering of one another
because of who we voted for inthe last election for president,
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for example.
That is not serving us at all.
And you know, just because wedon't agree on one issue doesn't
necessarily, you know, meanthat we're not going to find
other issues to work on together.
And but if we burn the bridge,Yep, it doesn't matter, it's
automatically burned.
HuttCast (20:59):
Yeah, right.
DAnny (20:59):
You can't cross it, and so it doesn't matter if you're
the governor or you're aMinnesota state rep, like I am,
it doesn't matter.
We still have to have thosehard conversations and demand
that we respectfully disagreewhere we do, but also where we
can find compromise, we worktogether, and that's what's not
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really happening today.
That I see as much as it should.
It happens in some cases not asmuch as it should.
It happens in some cases not asmuch as it should now that I
brought you down this rabbithole.
HuttCast (21:31):
Yeah, here's where I'm going with this.
You so you're.
You agree that the democraticprocess is the process.
So that's what you holdeverything to your body yep
camilla comes in last, 11th yeahbut you know where I'm going
with this now, right I do and do.
And she's automatically magictrick.
Here we're going to say theworst candidate is now your pick
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of choice.
Yeah, circumventing thecomplete process in which their
DNC had in their primaries,right Zero votes in a primary
and she's thrust into theposition.
That should upset everybody itshould.
DAnny (22:10):
I mean, look at our friend Dean Phillips.
You know that guy, six monthsago, was running for president,
yes, and he was saying exactlywhat occurred ultimately and he
got canceled.
He got canceled by the DemocratParty.
He got you know, and he's a.
I think he's a good, I think heis a good person and that guy
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should have had a chance to beto run for president.
He should have had that chance.
He earned it, like everyonedoes.
But no, just having anautomatic coronation Right.
HuttCast (22:49):
Because, all of a sudden, you know joe is tired
right, you can't compose asentence and all of a sudden oh
well, I guess you're next whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right
hold on here.
Trump had to go through itright.
And what's the automatic passhere?
Because you're sleepy?
Joe's second command no, everEver, should that have ever
happened.
And everybody just kind of goesoh yeah, she's the pick.
DAnny (23:12):
Right, and everyone should be upset about that,
especially if you're you know,if you happen to be on the left
side of the aisle, any side ofthis aisle.
I can't imagine how this wouldhappen if, all of a sudden, it
was Republican.
I mean, we would go ballistic.
HuttCast (23:26):
Yeah, special accounts , special this.
We're going to call God uphimself and say you need to fix
this.
Oh, dude, right, next levelstupidness.
And that's what makes me mad,because we had some pretty good
talent on the DNC side.
One thing I have learned overthe years and I've interviewed a
lot of people is that we're allsaying the same thing.
Is that we're all saying thesame thing?
We just say it different?
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Yeah, until it comes to the wayleft and way right.
DAnny (23:51):
I mean I agree, I think you know, I mean I think
literally I don't know what thenumber is, but I always say you
know it's 80 to 85% of theissues that you know that we're
facing as a state, as a country,as a nation.
You know most people agree onit the speed in which we get
there.
We might disagree on the.
You know how much it's going tocost, how much we're willing to
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modify our economy to get there, but I mean truly we.
There's far, far more that weagree on than we disagree on,
but the focus is always on thedisagreements and I think that
just I mean that feeds politicsbut it hurts people.
Yeah, how do we fix it?
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Those people that I believe aretrustworthy and you try to
build relationships with them.
They're not just one issuepeople and there's a lot of
those that get elected to officetoday, be it at local gov or
even at the state level.
There's people that the onlything they care about is climate
resilience Great, but there'sso much more that we do.
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There's so many more votes thatwe take than just climate
resilience, for example, butidentifying those people that
are thoughtful, that are willingto listen and we have to listen
harder.
I mean, I don't remember whosomebody just mentioned this to
me the other day.
I mean, it's the reason Godgave us two ears and one mouth
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we're supposed to listen twiceas much as we do speak.
Wasn't that me and you?
Maybe it could have been Two ofthese, one of these, yeah, and
so it's.
But that's where we're and ouregos have a tendency to get in
the way.
It's interesting being, youknow, being an elected official.
You know people will sometimesrecognize you and I'm always
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taken aback by it.
But, um, you know it's, it's it, it feeds, it feeds our ego and
it's that's fun.
But you have to manage it.
And because we're not, we'renot that important, we're not
any more important than anyoneelse, and but we have to find
those people that are willing toset those things aside and say
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what is our focus, what's thepurpose?
We very seldom fight about thepurpose of something.
We fight about the provision,be it education.
We want them to be in sports,we want them to ride the bus, we
don't want them to be hungry.
But how much are we willing tospend?
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How much time are we willing toinvest?
How much out of the way are wewilling to be when it comes to
what school districts areputting in their curriculum and
how involved should we be inthose things as well.
But it's finding those peoplethat are willing to work on the
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purpose of what it is that we'reshooting for, and then we can.
You know, when you build thattrust and you build that
relationship, it's a lot easierto you know, move down the road.
Are we going to solve theproblem immediately?
No, but are we going to movethe ball in the right direction?
And I think the answer is yes.
HuttCast (27:18):
Okay, best thing you like about hitting the street
and talking to people.
What do you like?
Oh, my gosh, just meetingpeople.
DAnny (27:27):
You know, some people are funny.
You know, I have to be honest,most people don't want me.
They don't want to see meknocking on their door.
You know it's uncomfortable.
I always put people on theirdoor, um, you know it's
uncomfortable, I always putpeople on the spot, um, but I
it's those times when you youget to connect with people, um,
and they really start talking toyou.
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I had a.
I'm not I'm going to try tomake this story short, but
there's one guy that that reallysticks out this, you know, this
year he was a younger, youngerguy and and, uh, he was, and he
was actually running a platecompactor in his driveway out of
gravel.
He had a little gravelextension.
And I walk up and he shuts itoff and he's sweating, it's hot.
And he says what do you want?
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And I handed him this littlebrochure and I introduced myself
and we just started talking alittle bit and he said you know,
I'm an engineer.
He said my wife works inhealthcare.
He said we make $206,000 a year.
And he said you know, one day Ijust couldn't figure out why I
didn't have more money.
And he said I'm an engineer, soI decided to make spreadsheet,
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I decided to figure out.
You know what it was.
Where am I spending my money?
Why don't I have more of this?
And ultimately he got to the.
And this guy, he was aself-proclaimed Democrat and
again I didn't see thespreadsheet, so it's hearsay.
But he said I'm spending 52% ofall of our net income goes to
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taxes, taxes and fees.
And he said that seems to betoo much.
And we had this longconversation about what do we do
to try to make life moreaffordable.
And it's not just about onething.
It's never about one thing whenit comes to government, but
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it's two people coming togethersaying you know what?
There's a problem when we'repaying 52% of our income or 40,
whatever.
It's going to be different fordifferent people, but government
right now is taking a lot frompeople and our job, I think, at
the legislature is to try tofind that balance between
safeguarding taxpayers andmaking sure that people suffer
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less.
Are we serving people in a goodway?
Are the interventions thatwe're spending money on, are
they actually changing people'slives?
And far too often we're notevaluating those things because
once again, it's the extremes ofthe parties are driving these
agendas and they don't carewhether or not, people are
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served or not.
They care about power, theycare about winning elections,
and that's where we have to findthe relationships with people.
To set those aside, okay, fine,we can do that during a
campaign cycle, but once thatcampaign cycle's over, we need
to put our shoulders togetherand we need to keep our legs
moving, we need to keep ourheads in and we need to work
together, and that's where Ithink that we can start solving
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some of these problems today.
HuttCast (30:25):
All right.
What's the worst interactionthat you've been on yet?
DAnny (30:29):
Oh, I don't know if there's.
You know, I think the worst forme and it's not one it's this
ideology that I'll knock on adoor and somebody will ask, are
you a Democrat or Republican?
And I'll say I'm a Republicanand they'll say, get off my
porch or they'll throw the cardback.
And that's just disheartening.
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You know, just because there'speople that align with one part
and it would be the same if Iwere a Democrat and I heard that
from a Republican People can bemean and there's no reason for
that and I don't care what sideof the aisle that you're on and
you're out there knocking ondoors.
You know, I may disagree withwhat some of my friends on the
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other side do, but you know what?
I honor the fact that they'reout there.
They're trying to serve thepublic, they're trying to do it
the best they can and theyshouldn't.
You know, no one should have tobe kicked off their front porch
because, you know, simplybecause they have an R or a D
behind their name.
That's just unfortunate on bothsides.
HuttCast (31:36):
That is disheartening.
Yeah, I ran into that when Iran for mayor.
You're an R or D.
I says how about I'm an R or D?
They look at you like what?
Yeah, I know what you stand for.
Okay, then we're going to havea conversation.
Or you want me to move along,right, and sometimes it gets
naughty and sometimes they'llsay move, you know whatever.
But Sometimes it gets naughtyand sometimes they'll say you
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know whatever, but you're thereand you got to remind them that
I'm there to do your work, right, not my work.
This has nothing to do with me,it's to do with you.
So if you want to kick me up, Iget it Right.
But remember you know you'renot going to have a voice if you
do that, right.
You need that voice, no matterwhat side of the fence Right and
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people.
DAnny (32:20):
I mean, I had one particular instance where I
walked up to a door and it was alady that answered.
And she looked at me and shesaid I know you and I know your
politics.
And she started kind of yellingat me a little bit.
She was it doesn't matter whatshe was and you know.
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And I looked at her.
I said you know, you don't knowmy politics, because if you did
know my politics you wouldnever treat me in this way.
And it was fine.
You know you don't have to votefor me and I tell people that
all the time but you also don'thave to be mean, right, but you
also don't have to be mean Right, so that's Be a little human
here, right, right, I mean.
Everybody's out there is doingthe best they can.
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Is it all perfect?
No, but it's not bad.
HuttCast (33:07):
Yeah, now I understand .
Brian Raines is your opponent.
Yes, how do you feel he's doing?
Do you think he's?
DAnny (33:14):
got some traction.
You know, I don't really Idon't really pay attention to
what.
You know, what he's doing.
I don't run into him.
Um, you know, I don't, I don'treally know.
I, I, I and I'm being honest, I, I, I've met him a couple of
times I, I, I think he's a very,I think he's a nice guy.
HuttCast (33:32):
Um, I just think I'm better.
DAnny (33:34):
And um, yeah, I just he's .
Yeah, I don't really payattention to what he's doing.
This is the third time he's run.
He ran against Kristen Robbinsprior to redistricting and then
I ran against.
We ran against each other inthe open seat two years ago and
now he's he's filed run againstme again.
HuttCast (33:59):
Yeah, I spent a little bit of time talking to him, but
I didn't really engage him toomuch, because you know I.
I understand his politics, yeah.
So okay now, what did we misshere?
I'm gonna check my list.
And what do you want people toknow?
What's their takeaway?
Because you're gonna have oneshot at these guys.
You can use this link anywhereyou want to.
You're hoping they're going tolisten to the whole thing.
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We're at 32.3 minutes.
And you want that to say.
This is who I am to you.
DAnny (34:26):
Yeah, well, hopefully that's been integrated in this
conversation.
You know, I grew up in Medina.
My dad was a lineman, my momwas a stay-at-home mom.
I learned a lot about characterfrom both my parents.
And first half of my career,until I was 35, I ran a
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construction company.
I started it when I was in highschool and I wanted to go to
college.
That's that's why I did it.
I didn't, I didn't know anyother way.
Um, and then, you know, then Igot into, then I kind of got
into government because I wasfrustrated with the system and I
wanted to make change.
Um, so I I was a city, I was atownship administrator for a few
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years.
I went to the department ofcommerce.
I worked on the in the state,in the state energy office, for
a few years.
I went to the Department ofCommerce.
I worked in the state energyoffice for a while, and I've
been at Hennepin County for thepast, well, since 2010.
And I was chief of staff to aHennepin County commissioner for
10 of those years and sincethat time I've negotiated
contracts and so, part of thereason that I ran in an open
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seat, I've had the opportunityto run for office numerous times
and I've never said yes, it'snot something that I, in an open
seat.
I've had the opportunity to runfor office numerous times and
I've never said yes, it's notsomething that I.
You know it wasn't not my bucketlist thing.
You know I can be just aseffective, you know, outside of
having an election certificateas I can with it, and you know I
decided to run because I'm aRepublican and I've spent my
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career working with andalongside people who don't vote
for the same president that I do, for example, and we can get
along again as we, you know, aswe.
I'm a critical thinker and Ibring that.
I bring that to the work that Ido and I challenge people to be
better and I build thoseplatforms for people to build
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trust and have relationships.
And it doesn't matter what ourpolitical leanings are.
What matters in government isthat we work together to ensure
that we're serving people.
And we're going to fight abouthow much we should spend, how
quick we should raise it, whoshould pay Absolutely, and those
are good fights to have.
But at the end of the day, mostpeople want that pragmatic,
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centrist person who isreasonable, who is not an
extremist, who focuses on thosecommon sense solutions.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
And sense there you go.
DAnny (36:58):
And that's what people want.
I mean, you can be a commonsense Republican, you can be a
common sense Democrat,absolutely but the parties will
drive you towards the edges, andthat's what we all need to push
back on.
I think that that's my takeawayKnow who you're voting for, get
to know them.
It doesn't matter what side ofthe aisle people are on, you
know.
Reach out away, know who you'revoting for, get to know them.
(37:19):
It doesn't matter what side ofthe aisle people are on.
Reach out to them, send them anemail, call them, open the door
when they knock.
Just get to know them a littlebit.
You don't have to vote for them, but just get to know them.
Spend five minutes with them,spend three minutes, with them
Three minutes Okay.
We're good at getting right tothe heart of of it and ask them
(37:39):
questions.
Tell them what's important toyou.
If you don't, you know who doesis the activists.
So, that's what they're going tobe focused on.
So you know, we all want astable business community.
We want, you know, we want tolive a have a nice work-life
balance.
We want to trust the fact thatwe're going to when we drop our
(38:03):
kids off at school, they'regoing to be safe and they're
going to learn, and those arethe things that you should be
talking about to yourrepresentatives, regardless of
where you're from.
HuttCast (38:08):
Excellent statement.
Let's shift to gear hereDonations.
You got a great donation on theway to this episode.
Yeah, I did.
That's incredible.
People are so good to me.
That's incredible.
I'm just like how awesome isthat?
And if someone wanted to donate, how would you do that?
What does that?
DAnny (38:24):
look like.
You know there's a lot ofdifferent ways we can do it.
In Minnesota, we have what'scalled a PCR program.
It's a political contributionrefund.
It's actually it will refund ifyou donate.
If you're an individual, youcan donate $75 to a candidate
and that candidate will send youa receipt and a form and you
(38:44):
fill it out, you send it intothe Department of Revenue and
within four to six weeks youactually get that $75 back, and
it's $75 per person, $150 percouple.
The limit that you can evercontribute to a candidate
doesn't matter.
Well, a host candidate,different races have different
caps, but the max I can take is$1,000 per person.
(39:08):
So that means that I've got toreach out to a lot of people and
get a lot of people to donateto my campaign and, honestly,
people are so good to me.
My signs are all over andpeople are standing up and
saying we really appreciate yourhonesty, you're an authentic
person and we may not agreepolitically, but I still believe
(39:30):
in you and I still believe thatyou want to represent the
interests of this district.
So then, the way to do it, ofcourse, either send me an email
or go to my website.
There's donate buttons on there, candidates are always looking
for money, and if it's not meand you have another favorite
candidate, you know go look forthem.
You know, send them a note,tell them you're going to send
them a few bucks and justencourage them to keep going,
(39:53):
regardless of the site, whichside of the aisle you're on.
HuttCast (39:56):
How to contact.
All right.
So if they want to get a holdof you, how do we get a hold of
you?
Website, Facebook, email.
DAnny (40:02):
Yep Twitter DannyNadeaucom.
It's D-A-N-N-Y-N-A-D-E-A-Ucom.
HuttCast (40:09):
And that is your direct website.
Yeah, do you have a Facebook?
DAnny (40:13):
I do, yeah, I do yeah.
It's just Danny Nadeau, I think.
And do you have a Twitter?
I think that one's Nadeau Danny.
HuttCast (40:21):
Okay, yeah, okay.
So we got Facebook.
So all your social medias arekind of like name-based.
DAnny (40:26):
Yep, it's all me.
My brand is me, okay.
HuttCast (40:30):
What am I missing?
I got all my boxes checked onmy list.
DAnny (40:39):
Well, why don't you tell me what's important to you?
I mean, that's my job.
I'm supposed to be listening topeople in my district.
So you tell me, in 30 secondsor less, the most important
thing that you want yourrepresentatives to know and work
on.
HuttCast (40:55):
You've done a Kaiser Soze.
I think the most importantthing is to be heard, to be
heard and have actions on mywords.
In a nutshell, because I cansit upstairs in my undisclosed
bunker location and watch StarTrek all day.
(41:15):
I don't need to be working atbusting my behind to not be
listened and heard.
Bunker location and watch StarTrek all day.
I don't need to be working atbusting my behind to not be
listened and heard.
I think that's my biggest thingand again I get it.
You're, when we're in theminority of a situation, the
majority rules, but man beingheard is taxation with
representation.
DAnny (41:33):
Yeah, and I think you hit .
I mean I think you hit the nailon the head.
I mean I think you hit the nailon the head.
I mean I I hear this at I meanI've knocked down five, over
5,000 doors this, this cycle.
And that's people, people, thepeople that are willing to
engage.
They do want to be heard, andmy job is to listen and try to,
you know, try to move forward,move forward, um, and I think
(42:01):
that we're, I think that oursystem today is failing people
in that regard.
We're not, we're notrepresenting, I don't think that
we're we're doing as good a jobas we could in representing the
interests of our communities,because the parties are pushing
too far on the, on the edges, um, and I, I think, if we can, can
, if we can continue, as electedofficials, to push back on that
as, and we as a community cancome together, I think we will
(42:25):
be able to, I'll be able to be abetter listener and you'll
hopefully be better heard overthe pond listeners.
HuttCast (42:35):
It might not mean nothing to you over there, but
this is kind of a thing here inmy home state.
If you can apply this to whatyou do in your elections or your
cycles or whatever it is you doin your country slash, city,
slash whatever it is maybe youcan apply some of it.
And if you can learn from this,good for you.
Let's see.
Last week my biggest listenerswere in Madagascar.
(42:57):
Shout out to you, guys.
You were 22% of my downloadslast week.
I hope we're making a bell.
I don't know exactly whatlanguage you're speaking in
Madagascar, but hey, if it'sgetting translated and it works
for you.
Thanks for listening.
Australia's kind of dropped off.
Come on, guys, you've got tomake sure and spin that up a
little bit more for me.
(43:17):
I'm watching all the downloadsand Ukraine's been actually been
picking up too, so I thinkthey're just kind of bored with
what they're doing.
I mean, they're in a crap show.
So, danny, I appreciate youcoming in and volunteering your
Sunday time and in thisundisclosed, I and in this
undisclosed, remember you'resworn to secrecy where the
bunker is.
(43:37):
That's how we do this.
DAnny (43:39):
I don't even know where I am.
HuttCast (43:41):
We can take the blindfold off now.
I hope so.
Have our secret service takeyou back to the surface.
DAnny (43:46):
Yes, hey, we could do that.
I mean, I don't even know howmany floors down I am, how many
fathoms.
It's a long way.
Yeah, your ears pop like twice,right Twice.
So that's like three fathoms.
HuttCast (43:58):
It is.
It's every three.
Yeah, it's got to be, but forHuttCast, I appreciate everybody
tuning in and we'll catch younext time.
Danny, good luck in yourelection.
I think you've got a good headon your shoulders, and anybody
who wouldn't vote for you, nomatter what side, should really
evaluate why they're voting.
DAnny (44:16):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I appreciate the time.
I appreciate the effort and theinvestment in time that you've
made in me as well.
So thank you, okay.
HuttCast (44:25):
Hot gas is going to pull up and we are 43 minutes on
the button, so be well, people,and we'll catch you next time.
Premiumbeatcom.
And that's a wrap for HuttCast.
Huttcast is again a pragmaticapproach to seeing things how
(44:47):
some people see them.
If you like our show, give us athumbs up on the Facebook site
Again for HuttCast.
Thank you again.
Have a wonderful evening.
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