Omaha Election / Judge Lucy / Trump Sucks Up to Saudis

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgiez can't wait to see what happens in these
city elections today, especially since things have taken a very
interesting turn in a city mayor election that usually has
to do with roads public safety. Do people generally have
a good vibe about what's happening in Omaha? What's President

(00:25):
Trump doing with tariff? And what gender is going to
be in what bathroom? Now? See, the last two generally
don't have an impact in city elections. We talked a
lot yesterday about the Political Action Committee mailing that has
shown up in people's mailboxes showing the challenger John Ewings

(00:47):
surrounded by five guys not with burghers and fries. These
are five guys in various stages of the trans movement,
everything from the transvestite no, no, I'm a very manly man.
I just happened to wear a pink tou tou to

(01:07):
the transgender which might be more I am not a man,
I am a woman and how dare you sir? And
they all seem to be surrounding John Ewing is can't
wait to vote for our good friend John Ewing. You
know this radical agenda where John Ewing's gonna have the

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potholes filled, the City of Omaha police department fully staffed,
a chicken in every pot, and a transgender in every
living room. At least that's what the mailing seems to
suggest the part of where this is going. So it
was interesting, as Gary noted this morning. And I'll say this,

(01:52):
Like Gary said, I've known John Ewing for the better
part of the last twenty five years. Not real, real, Well,
we're not hanging out having coffee all the time or
anything like that, but I know and respect John Ewing.
I think he's done a really, really good job at
the Douglas County Treasurer's office. And I think that he's

(02:14):
fallen into the same trap that some people do and
suddenly they get into a position where all right, hey,
this is the big time we're running from mayor. I
think he's surrounded himself with people who don't have his
best interest at heart. I think he surrounded himself with
people to say, look, if we can get him in
the door, then the floodgates are open. And what do

(02:37):
the floodgates look like? Some of these supporters of the
Ewing campaign, these are the type of people who hate cops.
These are the type of the people who want to
shut down roads to protest about Israel's right to defend itself.
These are the type of protesters who want to hold

(02:57):
up work at the Nebraska Unicon. Em to say, no, absolutely,
if a girl, if that's what this individual decides, that's
what's going on today. Wants to play in girls' sports,
are going to girls' locker rooms. That is a girl's
right to choose. But that's not a girl, it's a guy.

(03:18):
How dare you? I think they're absolutely factions within that
Blue Dot that want John Ewing to make it to
the mayor's office so they can just try and run
rough shot over him. Now, I don't think that he's
the kind of guy who would just lay down and

(03:38):
take it. Hey, whatever you guys want to do, that's fine.
I'm a nice guy. I don't think he's that kind
of guy. But I wasn't. I was surprised over the
last few days when Emery last week, I think Gary
last week, me yesterday. We've all reached out either to
the Ewing campaign or to John Ewing specifically and said,

(04:03):
we've got how many live hours of programming do we
have on this radio station? We're live every day from
technically five thirty am to six pm save Clay and
Buck the national show, but we're live and local for
the rest of those hours. It's a lot of hours
of radio and anytime you might have a few minutes. Well,

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he never got back to me, He never got back
to Gary. As I understand it, they thought that it
was going to work out for Emery show yesterday and
then the communication stopped. And in my experience, that's not
John Ewing's style. But in my experience, that is absolutely
the style of those who want to surround a candidate

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and say no, no, we'll just keep you quiet. Don't
say anything. You've got a good shot to win this,
say anything. And I'm not saying it's the worst strategy.
I don't know that it's the Omaha way to just
play duck and cover and see if you can get
in there, But this seems to be the strategy, like, look,

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let's get you in there. We don't want you answering
questions about what you think the city or the county
law enforcement role should be working with immigration and customs enforcement.
We certainly don't want you talking about who should be
in what bathroom or girls' sports team or all the
rest of this stuff. But k ETV did catch up

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with them yesterday. Ewing was out hustling votes yesterday and
they tracked him down and they said, well, there's a
mailing here. It's got you surrounded by a bunch of
guys in drag and they said, this is your supporter's
radical agenda. And Mayor Stothard has said that the mayor

(05:57):
is involved with public restroms in public spaces. These are
community centers, golf courses, parks, day camps and the rest
of it. So what do you think And he said, well,
no one's ever brought that question up. He said, I
believe it's a made up issue by Jean Stothard and

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the Republican Party. So k ETV News Watch seven pressed
him on it, saying, well, do you have an answer
to this question? And he said he wouldn't answer a
hypothetical question. It's not a hypothetical question any longer. It

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speaks to potential city ordnance. It also speaks to your
thoughts on a hot button political issue of the day.
It speaks to hey, this is a tough question, Mayor.

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You're going to have to answer tough questions. Do you
have an answer for this, and he completely dodged it.
Now I don't think and and I don't think that
he did himself, and he favors on that with a
lot of the people inclined to vote for him today.

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They want to hear a guy stand up there and
say no, a man is a man and a woman
is a woman, and they and this can be as
fluid as the water running through the creek beds. This
is this is not a big deal and uh transris
or human rights and they want to hear him say
this stuff. And the fact that he didn't might lead

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his potential supporting base to believe that he's squishy on
that issue. And I believe he is squishy on that issue.
You know, take away what Republicans and Democrats say that

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they have to be about one hundred percent of the time.
Today you go into a lot of families of a
certain age and especially and I don't know exactly how
John Ewing grew up, but I don't think it's too
out of bounds for me to say, because if anyone
knows about the black experience in this country, it's me,

(08:31):
a pasty, translucent, cave newt looking white guy who has
never been confused with are you biracial? No, I'm pretty
much one hundred percent Dutch, and my grandmother was a
cave Newt. That's why I have this translucent appearance. I
glow in the dark. So I think if anyone knows

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about the black experience in this country, it's me. So
many black fansies grew up with a very keen sense
of right and wrong, of religion, of traditional values, and
to go back to these families and say, all right, now,

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you guys have also been labor supporters and Democrat supporters
and all the rest of it. Well, here's what the
Democrat Party believes today, and it's full on abortions up
to nine months, and it's transgender surgeries for miners if
that's what that ten year old wants to do. And
you got a lot of especially older black people going this.

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You know, it used to be about getting jobs for people,
standing enough for labor, standing enough for what we feel
is right and wrong when it comes to some of
these issues related to civil rights, public safety, the role
of law enforcement. Not sure how we long jumped up
to this area. Well, do you think the Republicans are
any better for you? You know, they want to put you

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back in chains. That's what Joe Biden said. If you
ain't voting for Joe Biden's party, then you ain't black.
That's what Joe Biden said. You know, when Ewing is asked, hey,
do you think that miners should have transgender surgeries and
people going into bathroom they want, and he's like, you know,
I think the people of Omaha want to see a

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good leader with Well, that's a made up issue and
I'm not going to answer a hypothetical. I don't think
anything about how he or his family, or his friends,
his neighbor's growing up. I don't think there's anything about
how he was raised that has prepared him to answer
that question to the satisfaction of a growing number of

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bluedouters in this community. So are they more or less
inclined to vote for him because he dodged this issue,
which honestly doesn't have much to do with the City
of Omaha mayoral election. We just had elections six weeks ago, right,

(11:03):
we had a primary election six weeks ago. We saw
how many votes Ewing got, We saw how many votes
stother got, and the other candidates as well. And Ewing
is very quick to point out, well, look how many
votes just stoth didn't get in that election a month
and a half ago. Yeah about that? What does that
have to do with today's election? As you know, Mayor

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Stothard has run for election or re election twenty seven times,
it seems like here in the city of Omaha. So
how has she fared in recent primary versus general elections?
I'll tell you next.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
We had an election about six weeks ago, the April
first primary election. It wasn't an April fool's joke. It
actually happened. That's how we got these two narrowed down
candidates from mayor of Omaha. Now, there were a lot
of people thought, well, this mayrill race is going to
be between the incumbent Jeene Stothard and this challenger, the Demo, No,

(12:10):
the Republican, the Democrat, the Mike McDonald guy. He's been
a Republican, he's been a Democrat, he's been both. He's
whatever he is now and he had a lot of
support and money behind him, but he didn't make it
through the primary. He was too conservative for Democrats to
get behind him. He was too liberal for Republicans to

(12:32):
get behind him, which then begs the question, those voters
may very well be the ones who tip it one
way or the other in today's general election for either
Mayor Stothard or Challenger Douglas County Treasurer Ewing. Maybe remember

(12:54):
the Mike McDonald voters were not real thrilled with Jeene Stothard.
Whatever reason. Let me list you all the reasons why
people don't like Gene no, I, uh, for whatever reason.
And I think a lot of it has to do
with this this Omaha thought of I'm tired of that person.

(13:14):
Get someone else in there. We need change. But then
anytime someone like Jeene Stouthard says, hey, we're gonna change downtown.
We're gonna put this, uh this headquarters down there, we're
gonna change the mall area. We're gonna pop up an
alla new businesses along, and we're gonna have a street car.
How about that. Ah, I don't like it. It's too

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much change. Like but you said you like change. Yeah,
we're gonna change you. You know, Omaha voters or we're special,
We're a special lot. So the McDonald voters probably aren't
inclined to go vote for Gene Stothard because it was

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her three terms thus far as mayor that had them
to the point where they were disillusioned enough with her
to go and support and vote for this other candidate
in the primary. So are they all going to vote
for John Ewing because he's not Jane Stothard. I don't
see that either, because, like I said, McDonald was the

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kind of candidate who was too conservative for the Liberals
to get behind him. You know, first responder, he's in
with the police at some of the Blue Daughters they
don't like police very much. He is pro life some
of the Blue Daughters. Many of the Blue Daughters, they
don't like the pro lifers too much. He just decided

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he wanted to be a Republican. A lot of Blue
Daughters didn't like that. So, I mean, how many true
Blue Dots voted for McDonald anyway based on that? The
pro life the recent change to the Republican Party. Yeah,
he didn't support that taking the Blue Dot away from

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Nebraska with the winner take All bill and the legislature
when he was there. But I think that the true
Blue Dot vote in Omaha was split between Ewing and
Jasmine Harris, who was the other Democrat on that primary vote.
I don't think a lot of McDonald voters go and

(15:26):
vote for Ewing today just because he's not Gene Stothard.
I don't know what those voters might do. If I
had to venture, I guess i'd say they probably stay
home more than anything. I don't see a lot of
those McDonald votes, though. I think they're conservative enough voters

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that they're like, yeah, I don't know about turning over
the city here to a mindset that likes to block
traffic and champion this particular surgery for kids, you know,
all the rest. So I don't think the McDonald vote
is likely to swing towards Youing. We do have some

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track record though, when it comes to the primary election
to the general election, because Ewing likes to say, yeah,
I got two six hundred sum votes fewer than the
incumbent mayor. But during the primary, sixty three point eight

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percent of the vote voted for a candidate that was
not Jean Stothard, which is a lot. I mean, you think, like,
all right, well, if everyone just goes out and votes
the same, Stothard loses in a landslide. What if that
number was sixty seven point nine percent. That's even more.

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I'll do the math for the recent OPS graduates or
the next week OPS graduates. Sixty seven point nine percent
is more than sixty three point eight percent. In the
primary election of twenty thirteen, sixty seven point nine percent
of the voters voted for someone not named Jeene Stouth

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and she won. In twenty seventeen, it was also about
sixty about sixty six ish percent, sixty five some percent

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of voters voted for someone other than Jeene stoth and
she won. And four years ago she actually got a
majority of the primary vote. The Democrat in that race
really didn't put up much of a fight. I think

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that's more of an outlier from four years ago. COVID
also tamped down a lot of the potential turnout, but
she got the majority of the primary vote and then
went on and won in an absolute landslide. Four years ago,
but before that it was about the same as this
primary election. About sixty some percent of the voters said

(18:26):
no to Jean Stothard in the primary. But then it
came to general election and it's Dothred against other candidate
Jim Suttle, Heath Mellow, and she won pretty handily in
those races. Looking at the primary election results, as Johnny

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Wing is and saying, well, look, sixty percent of the
people in the primary didn't vote for her, I think
that we've got that is not a guarantee. The past
performance is no guarantee of future results when it comes
to the elect from six weeks before to the general election.

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Does that mean start or Wednesday again? I don't know,
no idea, but that's what history suggests. Now. A friend
of mine asked me last night, who should I vote
for this? Who should I vote for for that? And
what about this special amendment on the ballot. I don't

(19:30):
tell people for whom or for what to vote, but
a lot of people are going to go and vote today,
or maybe you already have and go. I didn't know
there was a special amendment on this ballot. What is this?
I'll tell you after a Fox News update.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Next.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Scott voices we might not know tonight who the next
mayor of Omaha is going to be. If you caught
Brian Cruz or Douglas County election commissioner on with Gary
Sadlemeyer and Jim Rose on kfab's Morning News, he said, well,
we're already counting up all the early ballots. We'll have
all those, and then by this time tonight we'll count

(20:05):
up the morning ballots cast today and then it'll be
a little bit later we'll count up the afternoon and
there's a lot of people who took ballots away and
they're like, oh, yeah, I forgot to mail it in,
so I got to bring it to you. And there's
thousands of those that usually show up, so we've got
to count all those. And if it's really close tonight,
after the final tally provided after about ten forty five,

(20:30):
there's still a lot of other outstanding ballots that might
still come in through the mail or have yet to
be counted, and we'll get back to doing that on tomorrow.
No Thursday, no Friday. Yeah, but why.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Does it take so long?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
But why? Yeah? I have the utmost respect for Brian
Cruz that said, what the hell, bro, are you guys
working tomorrow? Well, it's gonna be a late night. Yeah,
I know, take the morning off, come back in the afternoon,
start counting those ballots some more. Why do we have

(21:15):
to wait till Friday? Unless I misunderstood what he said.
What I heard this morning on Kfab's morning news is
we count up all the ballots until late tonight, and
then there are a few more other ballots that would
come in. Maybe he's talking about the mail in ballots,

(21:37):
and it usually like if you mailed okay, I'll give
him a little bit of credit on this one if
you drop it in the mail and it's postmarked. And
I think, I don't know how the city elections work
when it comes to what has to be postmarked. I
thought it had to be in today, but who knows
what's changed in the last few years. Perhaps we wait

(21:57):
for those outstanding ballots to come in via mail and
we figure that Friday. By the end of the day Thursday,
certainly we have them, so we count them all up
on Friday. That way, we're not doing a piece mail
approach to a little bit here and a little bit there,
and thet's still more out there, and then we're teasing
people with here we're a little bit closer, a little
bit closer. Now. It could be if if one candidate

(22:21):
seems to have it in the bag tonight, he or
she will declare victory. You might even get a concession.
That could certainly happen tonight. I don't know how close
this is going to be. We will be watching. It's
not just the mayor's race that's on the ballot today,
nor the city council race. There is a ballot initiative,

(22:46):
an amendment that's on there today. And even though his
name isn't on the city election ballot today, the specter
of Vinnie Palermo is looming large in today's city elections
because the special amendment on today's Omaha ballot has this

(23:12):
let's call it a hypothetical situation. Let's say a council
member misses a series of city council meetings for any reason.
Could be that he forgot He's like, wait, are those
on Tuesdays? I had him on Wednesdays? But where have
you been for the last seven weeks? I said, I've

(23:32):
been wondering. I've been showing up every Wednesday night. You
guys aren't here like we're here on Tuesdays. It's in
the news. Ah, my bad. I mean that could happen.
Could be that he went on a vacation. You ever
go on a vacation and your vacation gets extended because
you're sitting there and you're seeing the plane, you're seeing

(23:53):
your playing out there in the Timac and there are
people walking around looking at the underside of it, and
then they have to bring out guys with tool belts
to look at the underside of the plane. And you think,
I don't think we're leaving our vacation today. This is
the last flight out today. You're already booking a hotel

(24:14):
on tomorrow's flight and going I think I know where
this is going. So it could be that a council
member goes on a three hour tour and it could
be years before we see them again. I mean, this
kind of thing happens. There was a documentary about it.
I watched it when I was a kid in syndication.
I'm not that old. Or hypothetically speaking, it could be

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that a council member is in jail for a many
many moons, and if you miss so many council meetings
after so many moons, you're removed from the city council.
No moons for you. You still have moons, but you
don't have these moons as a city council member, and

(24:59):
the moons and are very different. You don't want or
maybe you do. You know what that's up to you?
I don't know, So just on the hypothetically speaking, council
member gets elected, ends up going to into federal custody

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and then the federal penitentiary for several months. After so
many months of that, you are removed from the city council,
after you miss three consecutive months of city council meetings,
you are therefore removed. And as you may or may
not know, that happened with District four Representative Vinnie Palermo.

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Remember that it was just a couple of years ago,
so his name's not on the ballot, he's not running
for election. And District four that's between the incumbent, Ron
Hug and a challenger named Andrew Adams. So Hug got
on there because the city council members put him there.

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The way it works is if a council member is removed,
then the city council votes on a replacement. Which is
a little interesting because I mean, as of right now,
on the council, if you remove well, if you remove
any Palermo, you had a three to three split between

(26:33):
conservative and more liberal council members. How do you find
someone that a majority of the council members agrees on.
You have to find someone who's incredibly bland, no offense Ron.
So that's how we got Ron Hugg. He was not
radical enough for the Liberals to fully, all right, he's fine.

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The Conservatives are like, a, he's not that bad, and
he got in there because he is not that bad.
There are worse ways to assume office or get a job.
I suppose, Well.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
He seems like he's doing a pretty fair job.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, I've got no problem with Ron Hugg. But let's
not misunderstand it. He had to be just boring enough
for the Conservatives to say, yeah, he's not a lunatic,
and the Liberals are like, we're kind of hoping for
a lunatic. Well, we still got it. Well I need
a anyway. So the way that this ballot amendment would

(27:34):
work now, it would change how city council vacancies are filled.
When you win the election of the city council is
for a four year term. If for some reason, any reason,
you end up missing three consecutive months of city council
meetings during the first half of your term the first
two years, then there's a special election and the people
from your district get to vote on your replacement. If

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it happens during the back half of your term, last
two years of your four year term. Then it would
be exactly the way it is now, where the council
would vote on it. Because we're so close to the
next round of city elections. I mean, it takes time
even if you were to Is this true, even if
you were to pass away in office, do we still

(28:19):
have to wait for that person to meet to miss
three consecutive months of meetings.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
It doesn't say that, does it.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I think, well as I understand it, if there's if
a council member, it doesn't say I don't know, if
there's an extenuating circumstance. I think we have to wait, like, hey,
you never know, Jesus did it that wasn't after three months?
Well it could have been. Maybe this particular council member

(28:50):
is christ like. I'm sure many of them think that
they are as they look in the mirror. But I
think we have to wait three months. You never know
he could show up with If he shows up, it's
gonna be head shots because that person has a zombie.

(29:11):
Can you imagine which part a council member dies and
there's a funeral, But then two months later the door
opens up and here comes the animated carcass of said,
I really want to put a name to this, but

(29:34):
I'm not gonna say brinker Harding. So here comes the
zombie of brinker Harding coming in there. He starts eating
Amy Melton's brains. He goes hungry, so he moves on
to see. Why do I say the I'm kissing? These
are jokes. These are just jokes. They're just jokes.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
I just saw an episode of Andy Griffith with similar
similar traits.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Really, yeah, the Andy Griffith where they were may Berry
was overrun by zombies.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
The one you saw similar.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, the guy was dead gone and then he showed
up in Andy's office is Sheriff's.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Office to see a zombie.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
No, they were similar. You were watching he wasn't dead.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
You were watching Weekend at Bernie's. A lot of people confuse, Yeah,
they so, I think we still have to wait three
consecutive months of missed meetings before you replace that person.
Where was I going with all that? Let's see, a
council member was eating the brains the fellow council members. Yeah,

(30:33):
it just it takes a long time. As what I
was saying, That's why in the in the second half,
of the term, you got to wait the three months.
Then you got to put a date on the calendar
for a special election. You got to give candidates an
opportunity to get into the race and campaign. By the
time all that happens were within a year or so
of the next election. Anyway, just let the council replace

(30:55):
the person, just as we do now, which would how
that would work. So again, if you're yet to vote
today in the city of Omahah, and you're gonna go vote,
and you look at that special amendment and going what
it means if a council member is gone for any
reason in the first two years of the four year term,
special election for the people to vote for that replacement

(31:16):
in the second two years. It's exactly the way it
is now. The council then finds the least crappy selection
that the Republicans and Democrats can agree on, and that
person ends up being a council representative.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
But you can go in to the voting booth and
just vote for mayor and leave.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
You can technically you can go in there, sign your name,
provide your ID, your real ID, and not vote for anyone.
You can just look at the ballot and go I
think I'm in the wrong city, and then you just
turn it back in without voting. You can do that
if you want. The world is your burrito.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Scott Fortes, News Radio elevenfab.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
I think that is my dream job. I want to
be a county election commissioner. You work every couple of
years for an election. You know when the election is
going to be, either the federal or the city elections,
and you just work for a few days. Hey, everything
we did last election, we'll do for this next one.
Everyone good with that? Isn't that like the easiest job ever?

(32:24):
I want to be a county election commissioner. No offense
to Brian Cruse. He's a good man, but what does
he do the rest of the year? Hey, Brian, how's
that election commissioner job coming?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Great?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
We're going to have an election. We may or may
not know who the next mayor of Omaha is going
to be after tonight's counting. If it's real close, could
push into Friday. And I think that that is too late. Lucy,
that's Lucy Chapman. I'm Scott Vorhees because in looking at
what these two candidates are saying about each other, Mayri
stother says that Treasurer Ewing doesn't have a plan. Treasurer

(33:01):
Ewing says that under Mayor stothert, we have chaos in
the city of Omaha. This is our on the street
microphone at any intersection in Omaha. It sounds fine to me.
I mean this is how I usually hear it. I
grew up here, So you go anywhere from one hundred

(33:24):
and eighth and Q to ninetieth and forty anywhere around
town sounds fine. John Ewing says, we're in chaos here
in Omaha. Does that sound like chaos to you?

Speaker 3 (33:38):
May be a little.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
He said, Let's say no to the chaos an elect
a mayor who will actually get stuff done. Mayor's doutor responds,
the city is not in Chaos's listen to the city streets.
It's fine. There's no chaos us.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
I don't know what he's talking about, but if we
have to push until Friday, there might be chaos. You
might hear the sound of chirping birds over the din,
of people yelling and screaming and running for their lives.
We do have some criminals around town. I mean that's
you get a town with more than one person in it.

(34:23):
You're probably gonna have some crime. Omaha and Lincoln have
some crime. I've got three stories here for Judge Lucy
to determine. Of these three stories, which criminal or criminals
are is the dumbst Are you ready? Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
I am so ready for this.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
You got your robe on? Yep, your judge's robe. Yep,
a pink like, all soft and fluffy. That's a bathrobe.
That's not a judge's rope. Oh you know what, we'll
we'll allow it.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Can you allow it today?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:07):
That's fine. You got your gavel, I do, thank you.
That's a good sounding gavel.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I've got it over here.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know that the sound of your gavel is this sound?
That's you doing that, not me.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Because you need control, don't you know?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's a bit Just go with it, all right. Story
number one, this is I think the most well, it's definitely,
based on what happened, is the most serious of the criminals.
But am I heard about this shooting here in Omaha

(35:48):
over the weekend. What I didn't know until this morning
was wait, it happened inside of a church. This is
not news to you. I didn't know this. I didn't
know that this happened in a church. I heard that
there was a gathering. I guess I didn't dig any
deeper to find out what happened.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
I don't know if they were related to the church,
or if they were members or anything.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
They might have just rented in the well.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
There was, you know, Scott kind of there was a
It says here that there were two things going on
there at Divine Shepherd Lutheran Church and Millard and it
happened in the gym, which I don't know if that's
in the basement or not, but it said there were
a lot of people gathered at the church that day

(36:32):
for two things going on. Number one, according to k
e TV News Watch seven, there was a celebration. It says,
and I quote the pastor, Brent Smith told k E
TV's Waverley Monroe, who I just met for the first
time last week. She's lovely.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I like her.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, the pastor said the celebration was quote for both
a five year old's birthday and a gender reveal unquote.
And of course I don't they know by now kids.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Five, But again, where have you been last years?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Some people go well into their fifties before and that
is I think probably this next round of parties, any
excuse for a party. I think if someone at the
age of forty three wants to have a gender reveal party, like, hey, guys,
I finally figured it out. We're having a gender reveal party.
I'm like, I'm in, let's see where this goes.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
That's not the worst idea of ever.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I'm in. I would love for one of my one
of my friends who is one of those rare CIS
gender males that means you were born as a male.
Some know nothing doctor who's not a biologist determined you
were a male. Congratulation mom. It's a boy. And the
kid was a boy his entire life and now he's
forty seven years old and he said, hey, guys, come

(37:51):
on by the house this week and we're going to
have a gender reveal party. Like I didn't know you
were having another kid. No, no, no, my gender. I finally
figured it out. And you show up there and you
have some drinks and you're hanging out like, all right,
here's a big moment, and you cut into the cake.
It's a boy. Yeah, I thought so, but didn't know
took it, took a test and I'm a boy. And

(38:16):
then we just keep drinking. You know what, that's a
fun idea for a party. It's even more fun if
your buddy you grew up with and you've known for
most of your life says, I'm a girl.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
What's going to.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Happen if you don't it doesn't go the way you expected.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I could tell you what happened if if I hosted
that party and we cut into the cake and it's
pink and it's like, oh, Scott's a girl. My friends
would be like, we've been telling you this and telling
you this for years. Haven't you ever noticed how much
further we hit a golf ball than you. It's when
you started skipping, that's when we knew. So I think

(38:56):
this was to those different parties. I think you had
a birthday party for a five year old, and within
the same party there was also someone else having a baby,
perhaps the parents of the five year old, and it
was also you know, what better way to crap all
over the kid's birthday party, Like, hey, take the attention
off of this kid for a second and put it
on the unborn child here and Diane, you know, and

(39:17):
then we have a gender reveal party and everyone's real exciting.
The five year old's like I thought it was my birthday,
I thought, and then no one cares about the kid anymore.
You know, someone's gonna get shot under these scenarios. You
got a kid's birthday party and a gender reveal party.
How do you not bring a gun? Right?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
You know what? Anything could happen.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
It's in it's Millard, these factors. You're at a you're
at a church in Millard, and you got both the
birthday party for a kid and a gender reveal party.
How are you not packing? Am I right? I'm right?
I'm always right. So the thirty, according to court records,
thirty three year old general named Bismela. No, we will

(40:05):
not let him go. Let him go, say the authorities,
who kind of sound like queen. Is this guy's name Bismela?
That's from Bohemian Rhapsody. That's what they're saying during that bridge.
It's Bismela, Yeah, Bismela, Bismela, Bismela. But this seems to
be if it's not the name, it's only one vowel off.

(40:29):
I'll allow it, all right, Bisa, we will not let
you go. Let him go.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
I can hear it, I can hear it in my head.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Kind of Well, that's the that's the line for the song.
Can you hit the high note at the end of that? No,
bees has a devil put aside for me, for me,
for me?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
So you think you can stone me and spin in
my you think you can love me and leave me
to die?

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Oh baby in the basement of a church.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Can't do this to me. Baby. He's got to get out,
He's got to get right out of here. So thirty
three year old Bissmela was attending the celebration at this church.
This happened on Saturday night. In the court report here,
he admitted to using the firearm to intentionally shoot his cousin.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Well what did the cousin do?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I'm going to tell you, all right, he told investigators
and my cousin and me, we have a long history
of conflict and bad blood, bad blood. You want to
go Taylor Swift on this one, or wasn't that Neil Sadaka.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Bad bad blood blood?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Neil Sadaka and El John.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
It's taking me full ride. I think.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Do the part where he says the bee word, he
says a curse word in that because he and Holland
Oates in the seventies in the seventies, you could turn
on the radio and Neil Sadaka and halland Oates are
thrown around the B word and now like Cardi b
does and everyone's like, that's filthy. I want to listen
to some yacht rock. But on that Neil Sadaka track,

(42:20):
it's jare trust me. He said, my cousin and I
have beef. We have bad blood. And he says, and
I'm quoting from the story from k E TV News
watch seven quote, when he saw his cousin staring at him,
it caused him to lose control unquote, and that's when

(42:46):
he started shooting. Bis Mahla allegedly shot twice. The bullets
grazed one person on the hand and then the other
did hit his cousin in the arm. I think the
cousin is going to be okay. I don't know if
he's pitching at the softball tournament this weekend, but I
think he's gonna be okay, right, I hope. So I

(43:08):
was a private event, had about one hundred people there,
and suddenly it was like miss Milla, stop that.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
And the police said, no, we will not let you go.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, I already did that joke.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Whatever. So I was just you know, for people just joining.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
So, yes, thank you for so. We have three stories
of crime here in our neighborhoods. We're trying to determine
which criminal is the dumbest. We've only gotten through one story.
The other two I think are a little bit faster
to go through, and we'll get through both of them,
which happened to both be in Lincoln, and we'll do
that next. Scott, that's Lucy Chapman, who in this segment

(43:44):
is Judge Lucy. I have three stories here. We've gotten
through one, and Judge Lucy, I'm Scott Vorhees. By the way,
this is News Radio eleven ten kfabe, so glad you're here.
The way this game is played. As I tell you
three stories, can you tell me which of these criminals
is or are the dumb best?

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Okay, like you said, we've got through one.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yep, story number one up here a cousin who brought
a gun to a party that was both a five
year old's birthday party and a gender reveal party presumably
for a kid who was not born. But I don't
know that you can make that presumption anymore. So this
guy decided, well, I'm not going to this kid's birthday
party without packing, so he brought his gun. He says,

(44:28):
I saw my cousin staring at me, and that caused
me to lose control. His cousin was probably given him
the Randy macho man savage stare. How do you not
start shooting? After all, you're in a church at a
kid's birthday party. What did you think was going to happen?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
That stare alone comparalyzing?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Right, So, thankfully everyone's alive on that one. It's going
to be a weird next family gathering. But so that's
story number one. Story number two a freshman at the
University of Nebraska Lincoln, highly touted wrestling, a member of
the Nebraska wrestling team recruited out of the Kansas City

(45:10):
area who did okay for the Huskers this last season.
It was only two and six. But he's a freshman,
you know, he's got to grow into the role. I mean,
he could go on to do great things. He could
go in the Olympics, you never know. But right now
he's going to have to do it through a different realm,
as he has been removed from the wrestling team and

(45:34):
booked into Lancaster County Department of Corrections as the eighteen
year old is now facing charge of first degree arson.
In court yesterday he pled not guilty. Here's what authorities
say happened. There was, by the way, do you have

(45:55):
a fan going directly into your microphone?

Speaker 4 (45:58):
There is no air conditioning on in here, and it
is it is sweltering over here.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Sorry, can you can.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
You can somebody point the wrong that's much better, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Sorry it was I didn't realize it was picking it
up there.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Oh yeah, all right. I want you to get the
airflow you need, but not directly into the microphone. If
anyone's going to start blowing out of their microphone, it
would be me, all right. Authority say a victim was
in her dorm room when she smelled smoke. She's like, well,

(46:30):
that's weird. Usually there's not a lot of smoke here
about midnight on a Saturday night in a dorm room
at Smith Hall.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
And it wasn't a demon.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
It wasn't a demon. She smelled smoke and she opened
the door and the guy ran away. According to security
camera footage and what people near the scene said, it
seems as this, uh, this suspect identified as this eighteen

(47:02):
year old member of the now former member of the
Braska wrestling team was trying to burn her door. He
was trying to set her dorm door on fire. I
don't remember if I've ever been in Smith Hall. The
doors are wooden, right, it'd be kind of dumb if
they are metal doors. I presume they're all some sort

(47:22):
of wood. So he was trying to set her door
on fire. He is in custody, and he has been
dismissed from the wrestling program.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
This was This has been established. They can look at
the evidence and say, somebody tried to set this door
on fire. Is that the.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
The authorities showed this young man the security camera footage
to him and said, well, we have you running away
doing this.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
They have him doing it.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, well they they should owed him in the area,
running away and all that. But he's he admitted according
to the authorities, yeah, I was trying to burn her
dorm door.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
I see.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
I don't know why. And what's what's not here in
the story? I mean, I presume that there's some sort
of link between the two. If so, there's nothing in
the story, just a random like all right, this one,
I'm gonna burn. I'm gonna burn this door. Not a
real smart thing to do.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Seems like this sage group have a lot of tendencies
over the last couple of years to just do.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Can I just really bizarre things?

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Because no one ever before this particular crop of eighteen
year old all right, but let me tell you about this,
all right. Third one, also Lincoln, Nebraska, the Florida the
Florida of Nebraska. A bridge in Lancaster County that has
been under construction near First and Old Cheney Road, which

(49:06):
is down the road from New Cheney Road, which is
down the road from Lawn Cheney Road, which is down
the road from Don Cheney Road, First Street and Old
Cheney Road. Nine thirty pm on Friday, three vehicles disregarded
road closed signs and decided to drive onto the bridge anyway.

(49:31):
The bridge had uncured cement. The first vehicle, driven by
a fifteen year old girl with no one else in
the car, continued onto the bridge and stopped when the
driver noticed, Oh, I don't think I can go any further,
there's construction equipment. The second vehicle, an eighteen year old boy,

(49:52):
was driving. This one avoided a collision with the first
vehicle The third driver of the third vehicle was before,
sorry behind the second one, and this person was unable
to stop in time crashed into vehicle number two.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
All in wet concrete, all.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
In uncured concrete, so it could have.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Been sort of stable, but it was.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
They were still charging it right.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
All had disregarded several construction signs saying things like road closed,
bridge out.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
But was there a barrier?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Well, they were able to get around it at some point,
but they was they had to, Yeah, they had to
drive around the road closed signs. The fifteen year old
should not have been driving, only a school learner's permit,
and you're not allowed to do the driving that this
person was doing. So this girl has got own problem,

(50:52):
But all of them have some issue because they drove
on to this bridge they weren't supposed to drive on.
They've damaged the concrete on the bridge. They disregarded road signs,
and they were suspected to have between one hundred and
two hundred thousand dollars in damage that they now have
to pay for for disregarding the construction signs and damaging

(51:15):
this bridge. What was so important? Were they street racing?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
No trying to get away from Were they killer in
the woods?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Were they trying to get away from us? I was
thinking too, Were they trying to get away from a
killer in the road in the woods? No?

Speaker 3 (51:28):
A bear.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
They all knew each other, and they were all driving
following one another because they were trying to get over
to Scooters to get some coffee.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Wait, and they were all coming from the same place
and going to the same place. And they were in
three different cars. See what I mean about kids today.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I hadn't thought about that one. Thankfully, no one was
injured in the crash. All three teams received several traffic
related citations. But yeah, I think that they were all
I think they were all working together somewhere and all
got in their different vehicles, probably probably at scoot. I
mean they weren't working at Scooters. In fact, scooters still

(52:07):
open at nine thirty pm some idea, some probably are.
So they all decided we're gonna go get coffee. They
all knew each other. They admitted to disregarding the construction
signs and drove on to a bridge that the signs
said don't drive on this bridge. They did anyway, they

(52:30):
got into a car accident, and now they have to
pay for the damage to the bridge, which also then
for the people of Lincoln going Wait a second, that
bridge into downtown Lincoln off First and Old Cheney Road.
I've been waiting for that bridge to reopen because that's
how I get.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
To work, and you're still gonna wait.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Or to get Scooter's coffee or whatever. The bridge repairs
were scheduled to be completed in a couple of weeks
from now, maybe two three weeks. It's it's unclear yet
whether or not those plans have changed.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Because they might have to tear all the concrete out
and start over. Perhaps I think they should just fill
the holes.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Perhaps they'll do that. So Lucy, I present to you
these three stories. Criminal number one. Guy takes a gun
to a kid's birthday party at a church, shoots his
cousin because he didn't like that his cousin was looking
at him. Story number two, kid bounced off the wrestling
team for allegedly trying to set a dorm room door

(53:35):
on fire. It's unclear if he even knew who was
in there. Story number three. Three teenagers disregard the signs
that say road closed, don't go on this bridge. They're like,
but I want coffee. They went on there, got into
an accident and damaged the bridge. Which of these three
stories features the dumbest criminals?

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Easy, easy decision, Hands down, it is number three.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
The teenager who went to get some coffee. Judge Lucy
has decided. President Trump is speaking in Saudi Arabia is
welcomed like a well, he's welcomed more like a Saudi
prince than a Washington Post journalist. Over there. Let's listen
in and hear President Trump speaking live right now and

(54:19):
ri odd, the.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
Last administration are rapidly giving way to the greatest economy
in the history of the world. We are rocking. The
United States is the hottest country with the exception of
your country. I have to say, right, I won't I'm
not going to take that on. No, Mohammed, I'm not
gonna take that on. I wouldn't that be a terrible

(54:41):
thing if I've made that full statement. But I will
let do it your hotter, at least as long as
I'm up here.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
You're hot, President Trump speaking there in Saudi Arabia, is there.
We have the greatest economy in the world, and maybe
except for yours. You know, you're growing great economy going great,
not gonna Yeah, don't jamal showge me don't need all
of that. Um. Some people will say, why in the
world would President Trump, the whole Make America Great Again

(55:09):
movement leader, why would he go over there and praise
Saudi Arabia like that? Two reasons. Number one, because Trump
just secured a six hundred billion dollar investment commitment from
Saudi Arabia. It's going to work out very well for
both countries.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Did you get that in writing or is that just
a shake.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
On the hand or what doesn't matter if it's in writing,
shake on the hand, or if they etch it on
a tablet. Saudi Arabia could cancel it at any time.
The next president of the United States can cancel it
at any time. Whose word is really good? And how anymore?
What are you gonna do? Go to World Court? Hey,
they said they're gonna give me this. Ah, we lied,

(55:54):
But both the Crown Prince and the president smiling real happy.
So so why would Trump suck up to Saudi Arabia
say now, your economy is going really great, great economy,
make Saudi Arabia great again? Missaga. I don't know, I
don't know what to say these things, Why would he
suck up to them? Number one, because six hundred billion

(56:18):
dollar historic investment commitment with Saudi Arabia. Number two. This
is the man who is typically does what five Trump
rallies a day. He's used to every single other word
he says being interrupted by raucous applause. I think he
just wanted a quick applause break because it helped him

(56:40):
feel more in his element. Generally when he's speaking to
someone going we won the popular vote, we won all
the swing states, we had an historic election in November.
Usually the crowd's like, yeah, you know, he's got all
these applause lines, which is just about everything he says. Well,
the people in Saudi Arabia, they don't swing states elections.

(57:02):
What are these things? They don't know. But the President's
got a lot to tout right now. This is part
of ten trillion dollars in American investment since election day,
since Trump won. If he needs to suck up a
little bit to Saudi Arabia, I think obviously he'll do it. Hey,

(57:27):
Phil Mickelson's doing it, so why can't Donald Trump? And
then there's that plane. There are a lot of influential Republicans,
among them Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Laura Lumer, who don't
like the fact that President Trump plans to accept a

(57:50):
luxury jet from the Middle Eastern nation of Cutter or Qatar,
whichever you prefer. This is a luxury jet. It's a
gift here, mister President, thanks for stopping by the Middle East.
Here's a jet. It's a luxury jet. So Trump says,

(58:12):
we're gonna take it, and you're gonna use it as
air Force one. Won't that be great? To be beautiful
jet air Force one. After the CIA goes through there
and completely debugs the thing and make sure it's not
booby trapped or sabotage. It's gonna be a great jet
and we're gonna love this jet. There are a lot
of people saying Cutter has some pretty close ties to

(58:35):
terrorist organizations like Jamas, like the Muslim Brotherhood, like Al
Jazeera Al Jazeera. I love him, No, not, He's not
a soul singer. It's it's not a guy named al
It's well, al Jazeera is a terrorist leaning so called

(59:00):
US organization. However you look at it, these are not
individuals or groups that have America's best interest at heart.
I don't expect the Cutter has America's best interests at
heart anything they do, nor should they. They should be
mq ga make Cutter great again. I thought you said

(59:20):
cutter and that with the CS with a q qu
Now it's qat ar. You can't even use it in
scrabble because it's a proper name. Stupid name for a country.
But they don't like Israel. America has an ally in Israel.
Why in the world would we do this? As Senator

(59:41):
Ran Paul says, I don't think it looks or smells
very good. I don't know why. The gift may or
may not be constitutional, but it's not worth the appearance
of impropriety. There are those who say this is a bribe.
I don't know that Trump can be bribed with a jet.

(01:00:03):
He's Donald Trump. He doesn't he have an entire fleet.
That was my question. Does he need it of jets?
So here's a Trump allies who spoke anonymously to Politico
who said, no, no, this is not some sort of
quid pro quote or anything like that. According to this

(01:00:24):
Trump ally quote, Trump is able to compartmentalize the Cutter situation.
He looks at them and says, they're a very wealthy country.
We got a big base there. They're huge, They're investing
huge amounts in America. They seem to be well connected
to our enemies. So if we need to talk to somebody,
we talked to Cutter. They seem to like us. They

(01:00:45):
treat us nicely, they give us lots of things. So
on that level, it's all good. This is from an
anonymous Trump ally that sounds a lot like Donald J. Trump.
They treat us really, oh good. They seem to like us.
They treat us pretty well. Frankly, no one, no one
else treats us like they do. So why take this plane? Well,

(01:01:08):
all right, so if they got a link to the
Muslim brotherhood in Egypt Hamas in the Palestinian area, well,
if we need someone to tell someone to behave Cutter's like, Look,
we got a good thing going with America. We've got
a lot of investments in their country that work out
well for us, and they're making investments in our country.
And none of that is going to get destroyed because

(01:01:30):
you want to strap a suicide bomb to yourself and
blow up a bus, so stop it. Maybe Cutter can
be the one to do that. Maybe not. Either way,
we got a free plane.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
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