Primary / Israeli Hero / EPA

Today's show features the six Omaha city charter amendments (especially the 4th one), Israeli Lt. Ido Ofri describing his heroics on Oct. 7th, America's Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth on the EPA's latest attempt at overreach, and more.

Episode Transcript

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Driving in this morning, Lucy withmy fourteen year old punk who I uh
to take to school, and Isaid, are you voting today? Huh?
You had to take an ear buttout what I had to look at
me from underneath a giant pile ofhair in front of his eyes. Huh.

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It's a primary election day. Isaid, who should I vote for?
Son? Should I vote for DonBacon or should I vote for Dan
Frye? And he said, let'smix it up and vote for Don fry
So he put a lot of thoughtinto it. I got a mailer here
from a group called Nebraska's Embracing LifeAction says vote for life. Here are

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all the candidates who are one hundredpercent pro life candidates across Nebraska. A
number of people for legislature, Boardof Education, Omaha Metro Transit because a
lot of people don't realize just theinfluence that the city bus system has on
whether you're pro life or pro choice. Now you don't. Why are you

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shaking your head at me? You'relooking at it the wrong way. I
am, yes, because virtually everypolitician starts at a lower level. Okay,
that's fine, but if you're runningfor and actually get a spot on
the Omaha Metro Transit Board. Whatin the world does that have to do

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with the issue of abortion? Nothing? Right now? All right? So
you're saying, before someone gets afoothold into some governmental position, if you
don't want to vote for someone who'seither stridently pro one side or the other,
this gives you the opportunity to stopthat before it gets any further.

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We can. I can understand that. The short answer is yes. But
I have a bit of disdain forpeople who are one issue voters because that
kind of gets us into trouble.Yeah, but I mean there are some
people who are one issue voters whenit comes to and we actually have this

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party here in Nebraska legalize marijuana Now. Oh, that explains everything. So
it's its own party, it is. It's its own party. Oh okay,
because I looked at a sample ballotand I couldn't see that on mine.
Legalize Well, I think you haveto. Can you be registered as
a member of the Legalized Marijuana NowParty? Now? So there are some

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people or perhaps one issue voters onthat front. When it comes to the
issue of life, they are unapologeticallyone issue voters. Yeah, and I
think that you'll find that on bothsides of that issue. I just thought
that was funny. But specifically,I look here at US Congress and in
District two, according to this organization, the only one pro life candidate in

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Nebraska's second district race is Dan Frye. Don Bacon's name is not on this
list. And in District three theysay John Walls or Robert mc kusten.
Adrian Smith's name is not on thislist. They didn't even put down a
candidate for Nebraska District one, soMike Flood's name is not on this list.

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Are you sure this is that list? The list you're looking at,
not the ballot, No, no, they're on the ballot. This is
this is a postcard. This isa postcard went out from an organization I've
never heard of. But that doesn'tmean that they're not a fine organization.
It looks though that it is anI looked at their website and you can

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take a look at it too,n EL Nebraskan's Embracing Life n elaction dot
org and it has one link upthere that says Democrats and Republicans, and
it was stuff like demo if youvote for Democrats, and it was just
a tirade of things that are soanti liberal, which again I got a

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kick out of. And then Republicansare smaller government, you know, that
kind of thing, and it wasvery pro So it is an unapologetically partisan
site. And you might say,well, I would say Nebraskans for Life
and perhaps some of these other organizationsmight be as well, might be,
but they tend to, I think, be a bit more specific when it

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comes to the issue of abortion,whereas this organization seems to be very,
very very which again not that there'sanything wrong with that. See remember we
used to use that term thirty yearsago for someone being gay. I think

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that guy is gay, not thatthere's anything wrong with that. Thank you,
Jerry Seinfeld. Right now that yougot to you gotta say that about
MAGA. You know, I thinkthat that guy over there is pretty maga.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you'll have more people probably
arguing that there is. Yeah,maybe on both. Anyway, I just
thought that was interesting. A littlepostcard comes out here on primary election day

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saying here are your pro life candidates, Not Don Bacon, who, by
the way, has bragged several timesthat he has the endorsement of Nebraskans for
life. Before we get too faroff of this subject, I want to
be subject of abortion and one onone issue voters, thank you. I

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think I want to back that offa little bit. I think it was
a little too harsh for the world. I think this disdain was a little
too harsh for that. I don'thave disdain for people who have who vote
one issue, but I think thatthere are things you have to compromise.
I'm not saying abortion is it,but I think there are some issues you

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have to compromise to get somebody inthere that might do what they're supposed to
do when they're in there. That'sfine. You're a you're a fine broadcaster.
Why don't you back that thing up? I backed it up. Yeah,
Lucy's saying she doesn't have disdain foryour one issue issue voter. She
just thinks you're scum of the earth. And that's not what I said.

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Need to be hit with several rocks. Do you know we also here in
the city of Omaha have six charteramendments on which to vote up or down
today. Tell me where, becauseI cannot find that. I want to
read this ballot. I want toknow exactly what I'm doing when I get
in there. Are you Have youbeen annexed yet? You have? Haven't

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you you're a city dweller, yes, because we have the city trash pickup
now, and when we moved inwe did not. Okay, okay,
six amendments. It's the fourth onethat I'm going to have the most fun
with. In two minutes, ScottVoices, News Radio eleven ten, Kfaby,

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did you hear that the other daythe Vice president dropping some filthy language?
I did not, but I justsaw it on Twitter just a few
minutes ago. You want to hearit? Yeah, this is the vice
president. I think that this isthe version of it that is bleeped.
We'll see. We'll find out together. Hey, if she can say it,

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how come kfab can't say the VicePresident Kamala Harris, who is speaking
to a group of young people bythe way Asian American, Native, Hawaiian
and Pacific Islander audience, and she'stalking about how you at the Congressional Studies

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Legislative Leadership Summit, talking about howyou can't let people get in your way.
Sometimes people will open the door foryou and leave it open. Sometimes
they won't and then you need tokick that door down, use my language.

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Yeah, And then a guy chimedin says, we need to put
that on T shirts. Yeah,that's what we need. We need more
people with foul language on T shirts, bumper stickers emanating from loud speakers coming
from their cars in the school parkinglot. That we need more of that.
Emory Songer in his Friday four lastweek here weekday afternoons two to six
on news Radio eleven to en Kfabevery Friday, Emory is he puts forth

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like the mount rushmore of whatever topic. And last week it was things that
have gone by the wayside that youmiss, Like these things are gone,
they ain't never coming back. AndI had a chance to jump in on
the show on Friday, said whatare your for? And I said,
well, this is the big one, and that is being able to be
out in public and not here justhorror like out in public with your family

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and just hear horrible language coming fromeverywhere. Well stop taking your kids to
the strip club? Uh, wellwhere else are they going to see their
mom? So no, I'm justtalking about it. Like you're out,
you're at a restaurant, you're atan amusement park, you're at a pumpkin
patch, you're out at the parkand it's just you know, bad langue

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and and here's the other part.You know, occasionally you'd hear, you
know, word pop out and youkind of look over and the guy like,
oh, I'm sorry. You know, I didn't see that. You
were kids around here, and nowit's just like, what you got a
problem? You're looking at me andlike, do I have to fight this
guy? That's the thing I miss, And you know I can. I
can mix it up verbally with thebest one. When it comes to some

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phil Florin Florin philth I've never heardyou swear ever that I know of.
I obviously done in the air,but never have I heard you swear yeah,
you're good. The more that anyradio person says, oh, I've
never done, the more that it'sabout to happen. So I uh,
I would tell you in my whatyear is this almost thirty years of radio,

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There was one I cut off midstream, and there was one that I
didn't know the microphone was on,but there was other audio on the air
and you didn't hear it, andwhat word it was like, darn it
dag nab it fiddlesticks, you know, so it was that. But oh
that's when you were working in theAmish country. No, but I that's

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right. I would never They didn'thear it. It was well, we
had a series of tin cans andtwine. It was I I would never
dream of like people I just metjust letting loose with a bunch of blue
language and so forth like this.That's why it's called locker room talk.
Now you get me in the lockerroom, people are covering their ears and

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crying and running out like grown menare Like, I didn't know you could
use those words in that way.It's terrible, you know, Yeah,
that's me. It's horrible. Butnow like I'm out of mat McDonald's with
my family and there's just some clownover there, you know, custing.
I'm like, Ronald, please.There are six charter amendments on your ballot

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in the City of Omaha today.I think five of them are pretty mundane.
The number four I'm gonna enjoy here, So let's see. According to
k E TV News Watch seven,these are all amendments that have been approved
by the city council. It's like, all right, we already said this

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is fine. The mayor has noobjections. All we need is for you
people out there, you pleabs,you unwashed, sweaty masses, just go
out there and let us do whatwe're gonna do. All right, here,
here's what the amendments are. Fourof them are pretty mundane. One's

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kind of fun, and then thenthere's another one that's like, well,
I don't know if people are gonnago for this, So first they got
to hit you at the mundane stuff. You're like, well, whatever you
guys need, whatever you guys need. Charter Amendment number one, A vote
yes, removes existing language that describesthe process for granting, extending, changing,

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or modifying the terms of franchises withinthe City of Omaha to conform with
an updated state statute. Huh fine, two, you vote yes on this
one. We will amend the CityCharter to add storm water management to the
list of functions and programs assigned toOmaha Public Works, which already does storm

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water management. So they're saying they'retaking it away from No, they already
do it, it's just not inthe charter. We got to have it
in the charter. Well, arethey doing a good job? Well,
do you have any storm water thatneeds to be managed down here on on
Underwood? If it rains, you'redriving through a lake. Those giant grates

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down there get so plugged with debris. So were that that's what they're supposed
to do. Then they're supposed togo out and unplug that debris. Yeah,
and you know what, I neversee them out there in a thunderstorm
actively doing it. Get on thestick. No, I vote no,
all right, So who's going todo it? I don't know, all
right, Lucy's you kind of voteknowing all this stuff. Number three,

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how do we choose the city treasurer? I don't care better than we have.
All right, you vote yes.You correct the charter to note that
the Omaha City Treasurer is a classifiedposition subject to the competitive testing process,
and it'll put them in charge ofthe city's surplus property and determining if it's

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disposed of or retained for future use. And it puts this responsibility within the
Purchasing Division. People are like,I'm not voting on any of this stuff.
I don't even know what you're talkingabout. We'll skip. Number four.
Amendment five requires a comprehensive citizen ledreview to meet at least every ten

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years. Fifteen members, eight chosenby the mayor, seven chose by city
council, chosen by city council members. And they discuss these amendment recommendations.
You're like, all right, weget chants, talk about the street car
and chess, talk about what's goingon with the wastewater. Nope, just
for amendments. Yeah, these areamendments put forth by the public that come

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out here and go, well,what about the the city treasurer. Is
the city treasurer responsible within the purchasingdivision? Who doing this? You're like,
why do we put this guy onhere? All right, ed,
We'll put it on the amendment.So that's five. We got to put
together a citizen led review. Iwant to be on that. Of our
charters, vote me, pick me, pick me. Mayor gets eight,

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mayor gets eight, City council getseight. No seven seven charter Amendment six,
and this will be the one peopleread and go wait what wait?
I have to go back and readall the rest of these because this one
seems important. This would change themaximum contract amount that needs city council approval

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currently. Let's say you're the mayorand you want to engage in a contract
city contract with someone and it's aa twenty thousand dollars contract. You're like,
you know what, it seems likewe can we can get this done
for the price of nineteenth, ninehundred and ninety nine dollars because that doesn't
need city council approval. And peopleare like, I don't know if I

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well, this would raise it tofifty thousand dollars. Do you have an
example meaning the city of No,meaning the city of Omaha could enter into
contracts up to forty nine ninety ninedollars ninety nine cents before the city council
would get a chance to say boo. Now see this needs some examples,
some more explanation. I don't wantto just blanketly say no when this could

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be legit looking at this what youjust said, right, No, Yeah,
but it's the kind of thing thatpeople look at and go, oh,
what the heck? Now the mayoris just gonna be handing out city
contracts like and you get fifty thousanddollars and you get fIF as shot as
you think she is Oprah Winfrey,by the way, Omaha meristoutor does think
she's Oprah Winfrey. I don't knowif people know that, but yeah,

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to look at that and go way, this seems shady. Why do you
think the mayor is shady? No, but the next mayor might be shady.
What happens if certain incarcerated former citycouncil person runs? Yeah, Hey,
this kind of stuff happens, right, Yeah, and this kind of
stuff happens, all right, thendon't vote for it. I don't know

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that Mayor Stothart is asking for Andby the way, this wouldn't even be
something to where she couldn't the Cityof Omaha couldn't engage in these contracts.
It just gets over a certain dollaramount, the city council is like,
all right, what are you spendingmoney on? And then they'd have to
approve it. So I don't knowthat she's asking for this approval, but

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it's here as one of the amendments, and then there's charter amendment for I'll
tell you about this one after aFox News update next. Scot Lucy,
I don't know if you heard thereare six amendments to the Omaha City Charter.
I've heard that someplace people are gonnahave to vote up or down on
today in the primary election. Fourof them are pretty mundane, right,

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Yes. One of them allows thecity, like the mayor, start handing
out contracts to anyone. Right now, it's up to twenty thousand dollars before
it needs council approval. This wouldchange it up to fifty thousand dollars before
the council would need to sign off. Curious as to whether people are like,
I don't know if I like thesound of that. I trust Mayristoth,

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but I don't know about who mightbe the mayor next. Not to
say she won't win reelection in ayear. Hey, you never know,
right, you never know. Andthen there's this one Amendment number four.
This is the worst case scenario possibilitynow spelled out in the charter, and

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it has to do with I thinkthat some four year old kid probably put
this one forth. I don't knowif you're familiar Lucy with four year old
kids, and they're now here's thepart of the show where Lucy says she's
glad she doesn't have kids. Yeah, I don't like them. They have
propensity to ask a lot of questions, and the last sixteen questions are just

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why why? Why? So Iimagine some four year old kids said,
you know, it's probably to themayor. If you die, who becomes
mayor? Is it the vice mayor? We don't have a vice mayor.
Who becomes mayor? Well, itwould then go to the president of the

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Omaha City Council. What happens ifthe president of the Omaha City Council dies,
Well, then would go to thelongest tay And so it just why,
well, what about what? Sofinally they got to a point where
they said, let's say the mayorand every member of the Omaha City Council

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is in a convertible and Mayris Dodthersays, here we go everybody, and
they Thelma and Louise themselves. Sothen what I haven't seen that movie?
What happens? They ride off intothe sunset and they live happily ever after.
Actually I've never seen that movie either, But it's one of those movies

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where you already you've you've just heardabout it so many times that I know
exactly what happens. Do I needto see Thelma and Louise? Or can
I see Thelma or Louise? Idon't think they come singly. You have
to take them as a pair OK, so this would spell out what happens

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if the mayor and every single memberof the city council all suddenly well,
you know, this is a worstcase in there they were all attacked by
bears. How horrible could happen?I understand we have porcupines in Nebraska.
I listened to Emery yesterday and Garyand Jim this morning. So now they're

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being attacked by porcupines? What dothey at the circus? It could be
porcupines. The cicadas are now loose. Have you seen the videos of that?
By the way, Oh so gross. They're already out. Yeah,
it's so gross. Not here,Yeah, no, the video that Emory
showed me the other day was fromSaint Louis area. Oh, they're getting
close. Yeah, it's like theseventeen year brood and the thirteen year year

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brood. They finally have like theythey're in alignment and it happens once every
hundred and whatever forty some years,and so yeah, that's all out.
And you can't walk in some areaswithout stepping on a million cicadas. Just

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gross. So the mayor and thecouncil are all eaten by cicadas, then
what well if you vote yes onOmaha Charter Amendment four. This would mean,
let's just say the mayor and somemembers of the city council parish eton.

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So then the remaining city council memberswould appoint a new mayor and new
council members. What if there's justone council member left, they're all gone
and all this left is Amy Melton. Is she allowed to appoint herself mayor?
I hope not. I'm kidding.So what happens if they're all gone?

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Though, Well, the charter doesnot have language. Oh pardon me,
the current charter says, back upa little bit. We're back that
thing up again. The current chartersaid, if the mayor and some council
members are they get COVID twenty fourand they're all gone, then the remaining

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members appoint a new mayor and newcouncil members. But then probably some kids
say, what if they all die? Amendment four would change the Omaha City
Charter to decide who would run thecity if the mayor and all council members
died. So you vote yes forthis. It would give the longest tenured

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cabinet member who meets Omaha residency requirementsthe title of a mayor until the next
City of Omaha election, meaning thiscould be five months after the election.
They all get wiped out by acomet. They're all out there looking at

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it. I understand. If yougo out tonight, you can see a
comment, Well, that's that's reallybig. I think it's coming this way.
Ah. And they're all dead.That's because it sound. That's the
sound I would make. Bunk.And they're all dead. And then the
longest tenured cabinet member suddenly becomes mayorand then gets to fill out the rest

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of the council and everything else.I guess. So now the question is,
who the heck is that? Anyway, I've seen this John Goodman movie.
Who Which cabinet members? I mean, which? What are we talking
here now? The person I don'tI don't know. I mean, longest

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tenured cabinet member who meets City ofOmaha. What positions are in her cabinet?
UH? Planning Board, Parks andrec, police and fire are those
cabinet member positions? Urban planning?Uh? Streetcar authority. I don't think
street car authority yet, not yet. So here I'm looking over the list

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and I I don't know what doyou have to be the longest tenured cabinet
member in one position or longest tenuredin a department in various positions. Does
it have to be consecutive or becauseI'm looking at Steve Jensen. Steve Jensen
started in the Omaha Planning Department innineteen seventy two, wow, and at

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some point worked his way up toPlanning Director. He was Planning director for
just a few years. He retiredfrom Planning Director in two thousand and nine,
but years later he was hired backas a consultant to the Planning department,
so he's still working with the Planningdepartment. So as far as I

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can tell, he's been in theOmaha Planning Department most of the time for
the last fifty plus years. It'sgot to be him, right, It's
got to be Steve. I wonderwhose idea it was to decide if anything
should happen to the mayor and allthe council members, it's the longest tenured

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cabinet member who gets to become mayor. Someone take a look at Steve Jensen's
hands and knuckles, because if he'sbeen doing that evil that that evil guy
thing where he's just rubbing his handstogether. Going, well, rubbing his

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hands together, he's gonna the knucklesand the fingers, they're all gonna be
like worn down a little bit.So someone take a look at Steve's hands
and let me know. Does SteveJensen have an evil laugh when he starts
laughing? Does it start off witha ha ha? Or does it start
off with a Because it could bethat this is all part of a fifty

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plan for Steve Jensen to become mayorof Omaha. Did Steve Jensen bring porcupines
in Nebraska? I'm just asking.I'm just asking. So that's what happens
with Amendment four decides I've got I'vehad some great things I'm doing. I'm

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saying over here, and I keeprealizing my mic is off. He did
bring him here, but only forthe quills. See now loses something because
he need to go back for itnow. Robbiemails Scott at kfab dot com
and he says, the public Worksdirector Bob Stuby is the longest serving at
this time. Wait a minute,does he do anything with stormwater? Perhaps

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denied? I can't imagine that thedirector of public Works is like and I
also want to be mayor now,but you never know. You never know.
Now if you're looking at these charterissues, going, where do we
get a chance to vote on thestreetcar which, by the way, does

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you know Bob Stuby Maybe he doeswant to be in charge, because Bob
is also vice chair of the Omahastreet Car Authority Board and talked a little
bit with the media after yesterday's voteas yesterday's approved. Wait we voted yesterday.
Well look everyone, calm down,it's the streetcar. You don't get

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to vote on it. I'll tellyou what they did. Next, your
next crack at one thousand bucks toten oh five, and a fascinating conversation
coming up here in the next hourwith a soldier who was in Israel on
October seventh. You will hear hisstory coming up here next. I'm Scott

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Vorhees, There's Lucy Chapman. Thisis News Radio eleven to ten kfab.
We now have questions as to whetherthe city public Works Director lives in the
City of Omaha. And now Igot an update here that potentially if Charter
Amendment four passes in today's primary election, which would then mean if the mayor

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and every member of the city Council. We're all wiped out by rabid porcupines.
Then it would fall on the longesttenured cabinet member in the City of
Omaha who lives in Omaha to beMayor of Omaha, and I have it
here on authority that that would beOmaha City Attorney Matt Kusey. So this

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is all his plan. Now,in case you're wondering, do any of
these amendments have anything to do withthe streetcar. No, again, you
don't get to vote on the streetcar. The Omaha street Car Authority gets to
on the street car, and theydid. They established a contract. It's
not a lot of money. Andlike the one of these charter amendments says

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that right now you can go upto twenty thousand dollars before council approval,
this Charter Amendment number six would raisethat from twenty to fifty thousand dollars without
council approval. What about forty onemillion dollars because that contract went to the
only bidder for Omaha street cars,which is a company in Kansas City or

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a company I don't know if they'rein Kansas City. They're a company who
make streetcars. And made the onesif you've seen them in Kansas City.
So we've approved funding for six streetcarsforty one million dollars to this bidder.

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Another six and a half million dollarswas approved for spare parts and special tools,
and a half million dollars for spareparts and special tools. If you,
let's see you do six cars forforty one million dollars, that's how
much is that? That's about sixpoint eight million dollars per street car.

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So you approved six and a halfmillion dollars for spare parts and tools.
You could just buy a new streetcarfor that. I think some of the
people involved with these decisions are specialtools, and they approve buying some materials
so that when construction comes things cango faster, so they don't have to

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wait for these materials. Yeah,the design is ninety percent complete. This
all in the story here from KMTVthree News. Now there's the latest on
our street cars again. I hopethat they're great. I hope that they
work because we're getting them. Foxand kfab the news updates next, and
then a fascinating conversation with a soldierwho was in Israel on October seventh.

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That's next on News Radio eleven tenkfab. Everything that we've discussed here on
this radio station since October, somuch of it has to do with what
the Jewish people in Israel faced onthat Saturday in October October seventh, twenty
twenty three, where people were livingtheir lives. Some were at work,

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some were in public transportation to themarket, some were at a concert,
some were in their homes, somewere treated to panic rooms, and the
atrocities of that day were rained downupon not just Jewish people, but Muslim
people in this area of Israel aswell. Since then, Israel has fought
back and it's certainly led to protestsaround the world in college campus's interesting decisions

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by political leaders. But we're goingto take you back to that day here,
at least the first part of thisconversation. When that attack started,
Lieutenant edo Afree was there in Israel, and for the next couple of days
he's here in Omaha. Lieutenant,thank you very much for being here with
us, and welcome to Omaha,Nebraska. Thank you, thank you for

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inviting me. Anything special about thatday October seventh, that Saturday before suddenly
things started happening, and there's nonothing special. It was the holidays.
And in the holidays always we havesomething of pressure from the from the from

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the North Fays and the South Faystbecause of the pressure of the holidays,
of hours of the Jewish. It'susually every year, nothing different, but
this time was a very silent holiday. And the surprise at the end.
Yeah, so you weren't You weren'tstationed anywhere you were in you were civilian.

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I was in my home with myfamily celebrate the holiday. When did
you get the word that things werelooking very very grim in the morning,
very very very early in the morning, in the six and a half am,
the alarms and the bombs was avery very very very huge And after

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a couple of minutes I saw onmy phone I was calling TikTok and saw
a video that very popular in Israelof a pickup truck in the in the
rod city of the road of fullof terrorists. And this is the first
time I understand something is a differentdeal. And after a couple of minutes

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fall terrorist was trying to break intomy door in the morning and this is
there anything do you think specific aboutwhy they were coming for your house?
I think they just looking around.They don't the usually they eventually don't.
Didn't break in my house and thenmove on to the next houcess. But

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there's nothing I can understand. Whythey came to my house in the morning.
How many people tried to come intoyour house only this fall. After
half an hour, I got outsideand started fighting with the terrorist in the
space of the neighborhood. What didyou have at your disposal that you could
use to fight a group of terroriststrying to break into your house and who

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had infiltrated your neighborhood. I hada pistol. You had a handgun.
I had a handgun. What didthey have? They had the A K
forty five for the seven How areyou sitting here? God bless me,
protect me? But I this ismy this is my place, this is

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my home. I know everything aboutit, and the terrorists don't. So
I hide in bushes and jumped onthem and surprised them each time. And
this is what kept me safe anda lot of black I asked this question
not to highlight you know, whatit is that you had to do there,

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but to ask it in terms ofhow many lives you potentially saved,
how many how many terrorists. Wereyou able to dispatch? I succeed on
rescuing almost over two hundred people inthe Kibootz, and I killed eight terrorists.

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There's six thirty in the morning whenthis happened. Were you awake?
I was awake because of the missiles, But you mean you were you awoke
to the sound of alarms going offand explosions. Yeah, and you with
just just jumping out of bed,armed with only a handgun, suddenly got

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into action. Yeah. The firstwhen the phi Vistas was trying to break
to my house, I was withmy handgun and I the will. Because
I was in bed, I didn'texpect nothing. And when they going to
continue on the breaking to other I'mtrying to break to other houses. I

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sewed it up with my uniform andmy armor vest and then got outside talking
here Lieutenant edo O Free here,he's in Omaha. Will talk a bit
more about that in just a moment. But I want to take you back
to prior to October seventh of lastyear, because I think some people have
the idea if and I've never beento Israel, but everyone who's been there

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and everyone who I've talked to wholives there has lived there, says I
think some people have the idea thatthe Middle East is just got Israeli soldiers
and hamas or hesper lat terrorists constantlyfacing off with each other with guns.
Now, while that tension does exist, Jewish people and Muslim people and Christian

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people, they're all kind of intermingling. They live together, they work together,
and it's kind of the reality ofthat part of the world. It's
it's not people all, not allpeople looking for reasons to take up arms
and fight each other here. Soyou've had to ask the question of yourself,
why did they do that? OnOctober seventh? You have you formulated

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an answer to that question. Thisis the answer for this question is not
something we need more time to talkabout this, but it's usually the big
conflict in that region. But whythis conflict exists is because we have with
Israel is a western country in theMiddle East, and the western country doesn't

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speak in the same language as theEast, the eastern Middle East country,
all the other countries are not I'mnot speaking the same language at all.
There are dictators there and the moneygoes only for the for the riches,
and the people there live poor andthat's not not the not the not the

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the way Israel. Israel rock walks, and we are in the front lines
to the and in defending all theWestern world, and everything that happens in
our in our house will will happenin the Western world if they're not going
to to learn and support us.There are probably some people wondering, well,

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if you're a soldier in Israel andthis happened to you, and you
obviously reacted the way you did,why are you an all today and not
in Israel? As this is goingon, we'll talk about what you're doing
in Omaha as we spend another segmenthere with Lieutenant Edo Ofree, an Israeli
soldier who incredible story and we'll getmore of it coming up here in two

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minutes. Scott fordies News Radio eleventen k FA in the Zonker's custom was
inbox Scott at kfab dot com.Eric emails and says, holy cow,
Lieutenant Ofree is a real life eightiesaction hero hiding in the bushes protecting people.
I listened to his experience and think, oh my God, he saved

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countless lives that day by killing thoseterrorists. God bless him. I would
ask him what is next for him? How can he continue to help protect
his people? Thank you for havinghim on. That's from Eric, and
Eric, you're right. I thinkthat part of talking about what you're doing
here in Omaha and what's next foryou? People hear about what you did

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on October seventh to like a singleone man army. You're out there,
you're killing terrorists, you're saving lives. Uh. And I know that you
wish you could have saved more certainlythat day. But there are some people
that say, well, if you'rea soldier in the Israeli Army, I
don't know if you heard, butthey're still over there fighting Hamas terrorists.

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What are you doing in Omaha?Do we have Hamas terrorists in Omaha?
What are you doing here? Ihope so they know they don't have a
masterist in Omaha. But I amhere for a couple of reasons. The
first reason is I one of theone of the families of the Kibut have
a son here in Omaha and thecommunity, the Jewish community, and him

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invited me to tell my story andto share and to the community the Jewish
community what happened to connect them toIsrael? Even more. And I think
this is this has led led meand my family to complete full two in
the USA, and I'm going foreach each each city in the USA and
telling my story for the Jewish communityand they also who would like to know.

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And I think after the four monthsof fighting in Gaza, my my
unit. Right now it's outside.We are reserved, the reserve, reserved
unit, and we're waiting for thecall to got back in, got back
inside. And in the meantime,the only thing I can do is to

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tell more and more people and theJewish around the world and people who support
Israel, and to share with themmy story and connect them even more,
to to stay connect for what whathappened that other people and the media,
fake media can can shake them awayaway. Obviously, when you're there fighting

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terrorists in Israel, not just onOctober seventh, but in the several weeks
that followed, it was a littledifferent from the perception of the world community.
Now since then, especially over theselast several months, you've got a
lot of people saying whether it's kindof trying to straddle both of these political

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lines by saying we stand with Israel, but we're not going to support this
kind of action, or you've gotsome who just say from the river to
the sea, we need to havea free Palestine, which a lot of
people say that seems like a directthreat against not just Israel, but the
Israeli people, especially Jews. You'vegot protests, You've got Jewish students fleeing

(43:37):
college campuses across the country saying thatthey don't feel safe with some of these
protests going on. When did yousense that there was a pretty strong anti
Israeli sentiment taking root or at leastcoming forth, not just around the world

(43:57):
as you've seen from Hesbullah and ofus, but also here in America.
I think there is always, alwayswas kind of anti Semitic actions and thinking
on Israelis or Jews. It dependson the time, but I think the

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social the media and the internet pushedeverything bigger, bigger, stronger, louder,
and usually in the old days youhave to tell someone and gossip and
this is the way things would move. But now you can. There's someone
with a lot of money that hateis real for the kind of reason.

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The reason usually is money. Peoplehate because the other people have money and
me and my family and my friendsand don't have money, so I will
hurt the person. This person andI think the media it's pushing anything more
more, bigger and louder, andthere's no The solution of it is very

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difficult to answer. I think weneed to there's a lot of lack of
knowledge in people. You say,from the river to the sea. I
saw the videos. I assure Ithink you used to too. People don't
know what river, what see?People think. I talked to the to

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the rabbi of the Jewish community.He told me people in America think it's
the white supremity, and they canknow they can see me in the radio.
But I'm brown and half of thepeople in Israel are brown. There's
something that called the miss Rie.This is people the Jewish that came from
the Middle East the world, fromthe countries Iraq, Yemen, Morocco,

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Tunice, all these all these placesthat Arab countries that in like eighty seventy
years ago, there was a hugeJewish community in each country and now there's
nothing, no Jewish, all killedall they moved to Israel and this has
led to a huge population of MiddleEast people that they look like me,

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but Jewish, and the people inthe US don't know it. Do you
have a sense of what should happenthere? If someone said, all right,
Lieutenant ido o free you're in charge. You get a chance to broker
peace between Israel and the Palestinian authority, set everything up to make everyone happy.

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Is there any way that you coulddo that? This is something I
basically represent myself. I can't representmy state, although I love it very
much. But this question, it'snot dependent on the Israeli side, because
we are always for peace. Andbefore before the October seventh was a ceasefire,

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that the Hamas break and killed myfriends and my family and all all
of and break to my home,and this is something that's unacceptable and we
are rooting for peace always. Butthe other side have to recognize that we
have we we are not going anywhere, and this is our home and if

(47:29):
we want to live with us,we have no problem. But we are
the we are, we are controllingthe this this area, and we welcome
to have you, but you haveto place by our rules and we not
going to harm you. And youcan have your religion and you can have
your your areas. That of thatsecret to you and and that's what that's

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all. Yeah, when people saylike, look, it's terrible what Hamas
did in October seventh, killed overtwelve hundred innocent people. But the Israeli
army, you, you and yourfellow soldiers have killed a lot more people
than that since then, you're morethan even You've gotten your revenge. Call
off the offensive here, it's over. Why do you think that Israel can't

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do that at this point? Fora couple of reasons. The one thing
that if people will, you willwill really read history and look of the
of all the twenty twenty years ofwars that the Israel had, you can
see that we never start the war. Always, always the other side start

(48:40):
the work with the war with us, and and we always we are country
that all our borders have enemies,even in Egypt and Jordan that we have
peace, there are people in thereare organizations in that country that that brings

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a weapon and brings the ammunition andthe drugs and all kind of stuff.
And from this country, we're gettinghurt. And this is something that people
in the US, Canada, Europedon't experience for many many years, and

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it's something that very important when peoplecame came to Israel. They have some
some something thinking, some idea onthis conflict, and when they can the
Israel usually they see they see thatthe the opinion is not not relevant or
all they're wrong because they see thatthe people that Arab people can can walk

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and can go everywhere. They cango to Tel Aviv and go to Kisuf,
and go to Natania and any Jewishcity. But the other side,
I can't go. If I willgo to Ramala, i will be killed.
And if I want to go tosome places of Arabs in the in

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the Israel, I would kid wouldbe kidd. Hamas has got to be
pretty impressed by what they did inOctober seventh. But since then they've seen
the allies for Israel. They've seenthat support for Israel fractured quite a bit,
and they're thinking, all right,so we can go in there,

(50:27):
we can attack them, and thenwe can gain support after a while.
Hesballah's got to be looking at thesame thing. Whuti has got to be
looking at the same thing here.I think what Israel's doing is letting these
groups know, if this is whatyou do to us, you're going to
see tenfold or more response to you. And if Israel doesn't do that,

(50:50):
then Iran other Yemen they look atthis and say, oh, we can
just go in there and get awaywith literal murder. We can do whatever
we want. We've got all thesedifferent groups out here just weighing the pounds
and destroy Israel, which begs thelast question. At some point you're going
back home to Israel? Why dopeople? Why do Jewish people live there?
When you have you're surrounded by allthese people that what you did,

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You talked about it in the inthe beginning, even even here in the
in the in America, whereas thebest friend of Israel, there is a
lot of a lot of anathemantic againstJewish and and another one the Israeli people
are, even if you're not closein religion, there's something special about Israel

(51:37):
and it's right in it's in ourblood. I can't explain that something I
can expend. It's like you're alot to your country. I can't explain
this in worlds. But I wantedto tell you something very very very important,
even funny. I saw a coupleof a couple of videos about a

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couple of leaders in the Arab Arabboard and they I learned from them a
couple of things. The first thingis there's difference between Muslims and radical radical
Islamistic. The radical the radical Islamisticare like the like the Ramas, like

(52:23):
the Gad, like the Giad,like this is this is the type.
But Muslims like like the u A. There are people like me and you.
They want peace, they want tohave money, have family, live
life, praise the life, notthe dead, like the radically Islamic Islamistic.

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And this is the difference. Hetells, I don't know if you
know. But none of the Arabcountries also that surrounded the surrounded Israel like
like each Jordan, Lebanon, Assyria. No one wants the Palestinians, no
one's Iraq, Iran, no onewants them. They just use their name

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to justify things for themselves. Theif it's food suited for what they want.
And even the one of the leadersof the r Board told back in
twenty twenty fifteen, he told themthat the Western world thinks they know the
Palestinians and more than us, andthis is why they want wrong. We

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don't want them. And he saidin twenty fifteen that if we keep doing
it they will eat the Western worldfrom inside. And this is something that
very deep in me because we don'tlive with them. They they they their
own country. They the wrong people, and they know to do the difference

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between each other. One of thebig reasons that keeps them from doing that
is because of the support for Israel. But I think the bigger reason is
because of you and your fellow soldiersin Israel, who everyone has said is
one of the most lethal and besttrained military operations in the world. Bless
you for what you did on Octoberseventh to save lives. I'm sorry you

(54:20):
couldn't save more, and I knowyou are too, but to have you
in Omaha to share your story withus this morning is a blessing. Thank
you very much. Is there anythingthat he's doing here in Omaha the people
can come see We've got Rabbi AriDembitzer with us as well from Beth Israel.
Is there a public event that peoplecan go and meet Lieutenant Unfortunately the

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public event was last night at oursynagogue. I saw some of the video
from people who saw it and postedsome online of it. But you know,
is gonna be in the States forthe next few weeks and you know,
if need be, we'll bring himback. I mean, I think
his message is incredibly important. Andone thing that he just pointed out,
which I think I want to reiterate. Yeah, I have heard that people

(55:06):
have said that there's this white colonialismfrom Europe. He's Jews from Europe.
And you didn't say this part ofhis story, but he was at risk
of losing his life from both IDFand terrorists because they thought he was a
terrorist. And you can see him, Yeah, you can say that he
looks like he's from Gaza and notfrom Omaha or doesn't have that People in

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airports and don't let me in.I need to check ad a couple of
times. Well we almost didn't letyou in the building here, but that's
because you're with Rabbi Demonsur. Butguys, thank you very much for this
conversation. Really appreciate it. Verynice to meet you both and enjoy your
time here in America. And whenyou go back home, I know that

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there'll be a purpose for it.And good luck. Okay. That is
Lieutenant edo O free here on newsRadio eleven ten KFA Beef in the Zonker's
custom would box Brad email scottikfab dotcom and says, great interview with the
Israeli soldier. Thank you for arrangingit, very informative. Always enjoy your
show, Brad, Thank you verymuch. There was a very interesting and

(56:12):
informative conversation on kfab's Morning News justover three hours ago with Nebraska Attorney General
Mike Hilgers. He and several otherattorneys general across the country have an issue
with the Biden Administration's Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA is out with a whole
bunch of new rules, including somethingcalled the Carbon Rule. For more on

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this, we welcome the president andCEO of a group called America's Power.
Michelle Bloodworth joins us here on newsradio eleven ten KFAB. Michelle, good
morning, Good morning, and thankyou for having me on your show this
morning. Well, you're welcome.What is the Carbon Rule? Yeah,
So, EPA on April the twentyfifth, issued, as you mentioned,

(57:00):
and an unprecedented number of new rulesto regulate. One of those to regulate
carbon, which is also known asthe Clean Power Plan two point zero,
to reduce carbon emissions from coal plants. The Carbon Rule is certainly one of
the most concerning pieces of regulation fromthe EPA because it could weaken our country's

(57:24):
economy and national security in a verydangerous way. We think that the carbon
rule certainly is extreme and unlawful overreach. Again, it really endangers for every
consumer, certainly in Nebraska, Iowa, across the country, to disrupt our
supply of dependable and affordable electricity.It certainly not only America's power, but

(57:50):
there are impartial electricity experts who basicallytheir job is to keep your power on
twenty four to seven, who haveall warned that policy and regulations, especially
the Clean Power Plan, are designedbasically to force shut down UH fossil fuel
plants, primarily coal that they saycould create electric reliability crisis UH and also

(58:15):
drive up electricity costs in a periodof rising inflation UH and also cause blackout.
They say, they say, wehave to do this, though,
to fight climate change. This thisrule UH mandates unproven technology. It's certainly

(58:37):
unlawful, it's unreasonable, and thisrule is is not designed for climate climate
change. This rule is designed toshut down a political agenda to force the
retirement of plants that have a lotof years of remaining useful life with no
concern to reliability how this is goingto to impact consumers everyday life. You

(59:02):
know, you can't help but seean article, whether it's the Wall Street
Journal yesterday, the New York Times, the Hill. We have an unprecedented
rate of growth of electricity demand,you know, AI centers and data centers,
AIS and he's a lot of electricity. We're trying to electrify the economy.

(59:23):
We've had a resurgent, which isa good thing in manufacturing, all
while these rules are designed to shutdown power plants that are so critical to
providing reliable and affordable electricity. Andin the longer term, you know,
you guys have talked about it.It really this rule could hurt our country's

(59:45):
ability to innovate and compete economically withadversaries like China. China is adding more
new coal fired power plants than theentire US coal fleet, which is why
we think certainly US and twenty othertwenty seven other states including Nebraska and Iowa,

(01:00:07):
certainly are going to see EPA.And also we are encouraging anyone who's
listening to the show to reach outto their congressional delegation to support a resolution
of disapproval to stop rules that arecertainly not good for your states and also

(01:00:28):
the United States of America. Ithink there are a lot of people who
say, look, I don't wantto start polluting the rivers, and I
don't want to you know, chokeout birds with the terrible polluted air and
so forth. And we got todo something about climate change. But then
on the hottest days of the summerand the coldest days of the winter,

(01:00:49):
our various electric companies, especially throughoutthe Midwest in the Southwest power pool that
we find ourselves in, we're told, you know, don't use as much
power, or maybe you don't needto have your furnace on when it's thirty
below zero, And people go awayto say, what in the world am
I paying for? This? Iswhat we need this for, and on
the days we need it most,we can't have it. What is going

(01:01:10):
on there, Michelle? Should thisjust be something we need to get used
to? Well, I definitely thinkit's not something that we need to get
used to. You know, itis certainly the job of the power sector
to make sure that you know,if you're gonna plug in your cell phone
or you're making your coffee in themorning, that you have reliable and affordable

(01:01:35):
electricity, and that's why we arecertainly proud to stand in opposition with Nebraska
and Iowa and other states. Wehave filed our own lawsuit and we'll use
every tool at our disposable to stopthese certainly very harmful regulations. You know
you mentioned as it relates to youknow, extreme weather, and it was

(01:02:00):
not for the coal fleet and certainlyother thermal sources of energy natural gas,
nuclear, they provided eighty two percentduring the last storm in January winter storm,
and many of those plants would beforced to shut down because of this
regulation. I think a lot ofpeople don't understand that the coal fleet has

(01:02:22):
spent over one hundred billion dollars onpollution control upgrades. These coal plants are
very well controlled, and these ownersand electric utilities and cooperatives and public power
entities, they've put a lot ofmoney to make those plants as efficient and
also to reduce other emissions. Socertainly we all support a clean environment.

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America's Power is a national trade organizationadvocacy group for the US coal fleet and
supply chain. Their president and CEOis Michelle Bloodworth. Michelle appreciates your time
here today. You can learn moreabout their group, america'spower dot Org.
Michelle, thank you very much,and we'll see what this lawsuit out of
Nebraska and these other states ends updoing. Okay, all right, thank

(01:03:10):
you so much. Thank you verymuch. That's Michelle Bloodworth, america'spower dot
Org. There were things a littleout of order here. Usually we would
have that sports update. We'll getto that here in just a moment.
Scotty, we talked an hour agoabout how the Omaha street Car Authority,

(01:03:30):
I'm Scott Vorhees. By the way, there's Lucy Chapman. The Omaha street
Car Authority said we got to spendforty some million dollars on six streetcars.
And there are some people that say, we don't need streetcars, So why
don't we need them? Because I'mnot going to use them. Oh so
it's just about you. Even thoughit's not any taxpayer funds that we're told
or going towards the street cars.The idea is is that it would give

(01:03:55):
people a chance to move about downtownand potential alleviate some traffic issues. Now,
the current streetcar route wouldn't include SouthOmaha like South twenty fourth Street,
but after this past weekend, maybeit should. A bunch of people had
their cars toted, and WWT sixNews went out and talked to these people

(01:04:18):
because they got a ticket for threehundred and twenty dollars to get their car
out of the impound lot. Andthe City of Omaha says, no,
that's that's excessive. Don't pay thatamount of money. So they went to
the impound guy and he's like,ey, you know, we'll make it
right, dude. So like,wait, you just charge whatever you want.
This lady got a ticket for threetwenty. She's I'm not paying that,

(01:04:40):
so she negotiated down to one hundredand eighty seven dollars. And she
says, look, I didn't evenI can't even say. I know I
was parking someplace I shouldn't have appreciatethat you're not allowed to park on top
of a fire hydrant. So Idon't know where these guys were parking.
But there were a billion people insoutheast Omaha over the weekend for the sak
Go to Mayo celebrations. And ifyou're thinking, but this past weekend wasn't

(01:05:03):
Sinco to Mayo, I know,why have the Sinko to Mayo celebration On
Sinko to Mayo. Why don't wehave the Saint Patrick's Day parade on Saint
Patrick's because it's a bad idea,that's what. No. Actually, they
don't have the Sinco to Mayo celebrationover the weekend of Sinco to Mayo because
it's the same time that the BerkshireHathaway shareholders meeting is in town, and

(01:05:28):
hotels and parking and everything else downtownhas already at a premium, so we'll
just move it a week, thanksWarren Buffett. So a bunch of people
had their cars towed. WWT sixNews reached out and they said, look,
it's like fifteen dollars a day storagefees, basic toes a couple hundred
bucks while you're charging three twenty andthey're like, eh, not for nothing,

(01:05:51):
but it will make it right.So I think the message here is
if you get like, don't parkwhere you're not supposed to, just park
a little further and walk, wearcomfortable shoes, and if you do get
your car towed, negotiate probably thebest way to do that. So primary

(01:06:15):
election today, who will emerge victoriousat least enough to get to November.
We'll find out later today keep itto KFAB News here, and certainly tune
in tomorrow morning to Gary and Jimand all of our programming beyond that.
Donald Trump joins Klay, Travis andBuck Sexton at both noon and one,
Part one, Part two just afternoon and one right here on eleven ten kfab