September 17, 2024 • 38 mins
John Deaton, a former U.S. Marine, and personal injury lawyer with a background in crypto, won the MA U.S. Senate Republican primary and is now going head-to-head with incumbent Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. John Deaton joined us to discuss his campaign, the issues, and took listeners' calls!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w Beazy Constance
New Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All Right, welcome back, everyone, and I'm delighted to int
to you, or to reintroduce to you the Republican candidate
for US Senate here in Massachusetts, John Daton. He has survived.
He won the Republican primary over two other challenges, and
now it will be a match between John Deaton the
Republican and Elizabeth Warren the Democrats. And this is the
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first time I've had John Daton on since the primary
results of early this month. So congratulations John on your victory,
and let's spend some time reintroducing you to the public
because I think people are going to start to focus
on this race here in Massachusetts as well. How are
you doing tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm doing great, Dan, Thank you. It is an absolute
honor and pleasure to be back on the show, and
I'm looking forward to talking to you about this race.
I can't tell you how excited I am. The primary
was a great result and I appreciate everyone that voted
for me. But now the reason I got in this
race is why it is now front and center. It's
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me versus Elizabeth Warren. Extremism versus common sense, and I'm
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
By the way, I know what side of the fence
you find yourself on. Just so that the audience realizes
we have repeatedly over the years, not so much recently,
because Elizabeth Warren has never appeared on this program. She's
the only major politician I can thank God that has
never appeared on this program, and that's her choice. We
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did send a email to her last Friday, my producer,
I just want to read what we sent. We said,
we'd like to extend an invitation to Senator Warren to
join us on our program next Tuesday evening the seventeenth
at nine oh five for a telephone discussion slash debate
with political opponent and challenge of Republican John Deeton ahead
of the November election. We want to discuss the issues
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at hand for those in Massachusetts and welcome both candidates
to the program to have a spirit and fear debate
slash discussion. Well, the response came on Monday, and to
the surprise of no one, Hi, Marita. Marita is my producer. Unfortunately,
the Senator isn't available to join you due to scheduling conflicts,
but thanks for reaching out signed her preceptory, Yelle Scheinfeld,
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So let me ask you this first of all. One
of the great traditions in this country is to have
debates between candidates. Have you scheduled any debates or have
any debates been scheduled or agreed to this?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, that's a great question. Yeah, it's a great question.
And I got to tell you that her response to
your producer is no surprise because she's apparently having lots
of scheduling problems. I challenged Senator Warren, you know when
she was a challenger, when we go back to when
she twelve years ago faced Scott Brown, Scott Brown combent
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agreed to four debates for Senator Warren as the challenger.
I asked for five because you know, we have many
different issues that existed that't that didn't exist back then.
Five single issue debates. Senator Warren has agreed to two.
I was hoping that I would get a third debate
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from Senator Warren. I even challenged her, you know, on
her core issues, or at least her alleged core issues,
dan income, inequality, women's rights. But Senator Warren just won't
agree to it. But we are going to have two debates,
I believe, and I'll make sure I let you and
your audience know when it's confirmed, but I believe it's
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going to be around October fifteenth, and the second debate
would be shortly thereafter. But we're going to have all of.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Course, that is a tactic that incumbents use, and that
is they push the debates as late as they can
because if you have a debate, it doesn't give the
voters much time. And also, I think early voting starts
in Massachusets. I'm not sure you probably know this better
than I. When can people, well, people can begin to
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early vote in Massachusetts at what time?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I believe it's a few days before the first debate,
which was disappointing for me, and it shows you you're
right on point as usual about sort of the incumbent
friendly system. I really was hoping that Senator Warren would
agree to, you know, the first debate before the end
of this month, but she won't. She hasn't. It's probably
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smart political moves, you know. I'm disappointed because I definitely
got in the race and to retire Senator Warren because
she's part of the broken system of the dysfunction the
division that is known as Washington DC. And I really
want to go, you know, doing the job for the people,
something I passionately feel about. She wants to keep the job.
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I want to go do the job. But the second
thing was I really did want to raise the level
of political discourse in this country. We got some serious
issues that require serious adult discussions. You know, whether it's
illegal immigration, or whether it's the debt crisis, or whether
it's inflation and cost of living or foreign wars. You know,
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there's so many real issues. I mean, your earlier guest,
you know, confirmed everything that I'm learning out in the
field talking to voters. Then that that the cost of
living in Massachusetts is literally keeping people up that night.
And and I thought that, you know, Senator Warren, at
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least I was hopeful would engage in lengthy debates about
these issues. And let's give the voters a real look
at us in a real comparison. Okay, I think you
know she's going to know that. Go ahead, Look, I.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Want to I want voters to learn about you. We're
going to go to phone calls and we have got
a lot of line lines filled up, which is great,
and well, people stay there will take him in priority
your background, John, One of the criticisms I'm sure that
you're going to face is the well, the guy he's
only been in Massachusetts a year or so or whatever.
But you're in New England and you have Massachusetts roots,
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so let's emphasize those a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What's your best sure Listen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I went to law school in nineteen ninety two New
England School of Law, and between my second and third year,
day and I realized that I was going to achieve
the American dream from dirt poverty, a single mother on
welfare and food stamps, so high school dropout for the
first three months of high school due to drug and
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gun violence, and I was going to be a licensed
attorney in Massachusetts. And I knew that I would eventually
make money. So I joined the Marine Corps and something
I'm very proud about, I was chosen by the Marine
Corps to represent the entire common Wealth for the nineteen
ninety four Judge Advocate Law contract and I beat out
Harvard Law and all the other law schools, So that
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was a big honor of mine. And after I served
my country for seven years of active duty, I've been
a lawyer here in Massachusetts for twenty two years, representing
working families against major corporations and insurance companies, people who
are dying from asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. And
so I've literally been at the kitchen table of workers,
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you know, plumbers and school teachers and bus drivers, auto
mechanics all across the Commonwealth. And so I have deep
routes here in Massachusetts where I achieved the American dream.
And it'll be an honor to represent the Commonwealth in
the Senate like I did when I wore a Marine
Corps uniform.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But one of the things that they threw at you,
I want you to address it, because you know I'm fair.
Is that for a while you were living in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, for prior to moving to Swansea. Now I've lived
in Bolton. I did live on the border of Barrington,
Rhode Island and Seaconk for the even before I moved here.
Though if you caught me shopping, it was on Highland
Avalue Sea Conk at the Best Buy or the Target
or the Walmart. When I took my daughters to the movies,
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we went to the Showcase Cinema in SEACONK and so
I did live on the border, but my business here
in Massachusetts. You know, my clients don't come to me
because they're on chemotherapy where they're going through clinical trials.
So I always visited them, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Just wanted John in all honesty, you know me, I'm
a straight shooter. Put it out there, give you a
chance to respond to it. So if any of that
stuff is thrown out, you got to look at the
person's entire the entirety of their background. One final question
before we go to break. One of the things that
and I watch the commercials that you produced, which do
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show a real contrast between you and Senator Warren. I'm
sure that they're going to a lot of people who
are going to say, well, he's a Republican, he must
be a Trumper. You're not a Trumper.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
No, you know I And just for the record, you know,
I want people to know this that from the beginning,
I let people know that I don't support President Trump.
And you know a lot of people thought that that
would disqualify me in a Republican primary, and I still
got sixty five percent of the vote, and even though
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three people were on the ballot, and I think it's
because people genuinely know that I'm sincere when I say
that my loyalty is to Massachusetts, where I achieved the
American dream, and to my country that I served for
seven years of active duty. And when that's your your
sole loyalty test doesn't matter who the president is, doesn't
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matter the agenda or the party. Your loyalty to your
state in your country will guide you. And I think
that resonated with voters. They could tell that I'm sincere
about that. And the final comment is, you know, Senator Warren,
you know she last time ran against President Trump. In fact,
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when I announced dan that my candidacy, she misled the
public and called me a maga extremist Republican, knowing that
that wasn't true. And she's now out there struggling. When
they asked her on public radio this last week, what's
wrong with Deton's policies now that you can't say that
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he's a Trump guy, she couldn't come up with an answer.
She said, well, the crypto people like him, and the
host said, well, Senator, other than that, what's wrong with
Deton's policies? And then she went on to say, well,
she didn't want the Senate to lose power. The Democrats
shouldn't lose power in the Senate. The point being is
she couldn't come up with one criticism of my political
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stances on policies, and that Dan is because it's difficult
to argue against common sense.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
My guest is, John Dane needs the Republican nominee, Republican
candidate on the ballot this November November fifth, up against
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is now running for her third
term in office. And we'll go to phone calls and
you can ask whatever questions you want, be as straightforward
as you want. I have a good audience, a good
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political audience, and we will have John Deaton, Republican candidate
for US Senate with us until ten o'clock. After ten
o'clock we will change topics. So if the lines are
full right now, but when they when they loosen up
six one seven two ten thirty six one seven nine
three one ten thirty. I got to tell you this, John,
one area on just your personality. You come across as
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a likable guy and somebody who's not only likable but intelligent.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I've always found that Senator Warren's demeanor where she
was sort of like that school marm of many years ago,
the person who wanted to point their fingers at you.
And I think that a lot of people in Massachusetts
may may have grown tired of that, and at least
there may be a hidden don't point your finger at
me movement circulating here in Massachusetts. We'll be back with
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John Deaton and your phone calls right after this.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
John, Dan, we got full line. So I think what
I want to do is go to callers and those
of you who may have questions on issues feel free.
How would you describe yourself? John? Okay, very quickly, in
like fifteen seconds or less, if someone said, Okay, what
type of Republican are you?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Common sense, centrist, non partisan person? That's exactly who I am?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And on issues financial issues, do you can sell kidding yourself?
A fiscal conservative? Where do you start? Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm sorry, I am socially obviously moderate, believed in gay
right marriage, pro choice, for example, But fisically I'm a
conservative and I'm someone who believes that you know, we
have serious debt problem in this country. You know, we're
paying three billion dollars a day in interest a loan
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and we knew.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Million dollars right now. I think is the is the
federal death.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, I mean thirty five point five trillion for the
government one point one four trillion, and credit card debt
one point seven trillion, a student loans, and it's we
don't have any serious leadership Dan in Washington, that is
tackling it. I mean, they don't talk about you know,
no politician is talking about balanced budgets. I mean, when's
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the last time you ever heard of balanced budget ever
come up in discussion with these people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Think Ronald Reagan occasionally talked about that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, we're going back to eighties. My friend, I know,
I know, I was there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's my favorite Republican of all time. Let's go to
the phone. It's going to go to Bob and hang him. Bob,
welcome you here first tonight with John Deeton, Republican candidate
for the United States Senate Senate here in Massachusetts, hoping
to unseat Elizabeth Warren. Go right ahead, what's your comment
of question, Bob?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, first, I want to say setified to uh, the
United States Marine. I appreciate your service to our country.
And my question is this coming from the poor background,
what do you see is the biggest challenge that our
poor people trying to face the American dream today.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, listen, that's one of the reasons I'm so bob.
Thank you for that question. It's really the core at
why I got in this race. When you learn my story,
I really am the walking, living, breathing embodiment of the
American dream. And I got in the race because I
see that dream dying and I fear could a kid
do what I did? You know back when I was
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growing up and as a teenager today, and I question it?
You know, have they been priced out of the economy?
And so you know, inflation doesn't hurt billionaires, it doesn't
hurt the super wealthy. Inflation destroys the dreams of poor people,
and it crushes working families, and so you know, I'm
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looking for one of the issues I challenge Senator Warren
Aunt for a single issue debate was income inequality, because
it's not a political slogan for me, like lives in
my heart and I genuinely want to lift poor people
out of poverty. Like I lifted myself, very emotional subject
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for me. And we have to educate poor people on assets.
If you look at the people that have benefited for
the last thirty years, it's people had access to appreciable assets,
whether it be real estate or stocks or anything that
appreciates some value. And so it's giving them access to that.
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And Senator Warren believes in policies that actually hurt the poor.
And I'm going to Washington, DC to make sure that
I'm not one of the last poor people in this
country to make it out of the ghettle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Great question, Bob, appreciate it very much. Great answer, Thanks Bob,
Thank you it was Bob. Thank you very welcome. I'm
going to ask you an easy question. I think it's
an easy question. Okay. I don't know if you've ever
been asked this question before, but I have a firm
answer in my mind. Let's go to the twentieth century.
In your opinion, who was the greatest president in the
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United States in the first half of the twentieth century
and who was the greatest president in the second half
of the twentieth century. There are two names that leap
out at me off the roles of history.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Who would it be, Well, listen, I mean I think
the first part is going to be, you know, as
a George Washington or is Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No, we're talking twentieth century. Just twentieth century, the nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Twenty cent I'm sorry, yeah, I thought you were going
all the way back now.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, a century that
many of my listeners, you know, spent some time in,
including myself and including you.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah. Well you brought up one of the obviously the
starts of the concerns at least. I don't know what
he would be considered today, but it would be Ronald Reagan,
someone that when I was in college that I certainly
looked up to.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh yeah, he defeated Without Reagan, maybe communism is never defeated.
What about the first half of the twentieth century? I
think it's an obvious answer there, and it's a bipartisan answer.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Would it be JFK No, no.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, because he's in the second half Franklin Rose. Franklin Rose, Oh,
I'm sorry. He brought us through the Depression, and brought
us through World War Two and fought oversaw the defeat
of Nazism and fascism and Reagan is sort of the
bookend to that in the twentieth century. And I think
that that's how I view that that area of history,
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and I think it's it's a question that most Americans
can relate to that. And I think if you have,
if I gave you a couple more minutes, I would
also say JFK, I want to find the next JFK
and the Democratic Party, so I will join you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, the question, the real question is, though Dan, is
that would JFK be considered a Democrat by the Democratic
Party today?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Probably not in my opinion, although somebody say that, you know,
some would disagree with us in that, but he wouldn't.
He wasn't. I mean, you know, when he ran against
Richard Nixon in nineteen sixty, one of the big issues
was whether or not China then we called it Red
China was going to control these two islands off the
coast of China, Quamoy and matt Su. You take Pomoy
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and Mattsou and you push them aside. Now the question
is what do they do about Taiwan if they decide
to invade there, so you know they're still there. You know,
look who was the last Democrat. What Democrat today would
echo the words of John Kennedy's in Argyll address, ask
not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do for your country.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, I can't think of one. I don't know if
you have one in mind that you're between.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I think people like you and also someone like a
Seth Moulton, who's a who's Who's I think a Democrat
who served like you did. I think we need more
people in the House and Senate who have some military experience.
You know, after World War Two, the House and Senate
was dominated by me by men and women who had
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fought volunteered during World War Two. And as that legion
of people have retired and died off, we have now
were dominated by by people who have no military background.
And I think that's that's a problem we need. We
need veterans on both sides of the isle.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Democrats, well, you know, I think you're I think you're
on point, Dan, because you know you brought up Senator
Warren in the finger pointing thing, and that's part of
the problem we have the leaders today that all they
do is point the finger at the other side and
blame the other side. You know, when you go to
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the military, when you're faced with a mission, when you're
faced with a problem, you don't assess over who caused it.
You may debrief that afterwards, but it's all about, Okay,
we have this problem, we have this mission. How do
we accomplish it. Let's accomplish it. Once we've accomplished it,
then let's figure out how we can avoid making the
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same mistake again. And you don't have that, you just
have this fingerpointing politics and what I call Senator Warren's
politics of destruction, politics of division, and it's got to end.
And it's to me, it's one of the biggest threats
to this country. In my announcement video, I talked about it.
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I said, the division in this country, it's destroying us
from inside. I think Senator Warren is part of that problem.
And you know, Dan, I give Senator Warren, You're never
gonna never gonna hear me like name call or any
of that kind of stuff. I actually give her, you know,
the benefit of the doubt. And I think that when
she went to Washington twelve thirteen years ago, she probably
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had good intentions, but she fell into that Washington, you know,
problem of becoming part of the broken system. You know,
she promised, for example, to hold the bankers accountable. Well,
the bankers write her bills now, and that's the problem.
And so I believe in term limits, and I think
the country's ready for change. I really do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Have you committed to a certain number of terms in office?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
If you guess my first bill once I win, my
first bill will be for term limits. A FEWUS senator
gets two terms twelve years, a congress person will get
six two year terms as twelve years. But if I'm
unsuccessful in implementing and passing that type of legislation or amendment,
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then then I've already stated publicly I will not run
for a third term because, you know, Dan, I think
that if you stay in Washington, d C. As a career,
at some point, you got to sell out. My daughters
told me I wasn't meant for politics because I'm too
honest and I'm incapable of selling out. And so that's
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why I've already imposed a two term limit on myself,
because I refuse to become part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
By the way, the only politician who I know who
actually ever imposed that limit was a fellow from New Hampshire,
a Republican named Gordon Humphrey who was elected in the
late seventies and he served two limits and that was it.
He was an airline pilot and he made that commitment
and he lived by it. So we're going to take
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a break. My guest is John Deaton, Republican running for
US Senate. It's running against the Elizabeth Warren. We'll get
to call us. I'll try to pick the pace up
a little bit, and I'd love to know what you
think about John Deaton and whatever question of comments you'd
like to make. We got to take a quick news
break back right after that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Night side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZY Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
John Deeton is my guest, Republican candidate for US Senate
here in Massachusetts. John, We've got a bunch of folks waiting.
I'm going to try to move people a little bit
more quickly. I'm going to try to step out of
the way and let them talk to you directly. Let
me go to Greg and Newton. Greg, you're home with
John Deeton. Growight ahead.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hey, John, I'm sorry that you were planning to write
in Charlie Baker for president. Our former Governor. So I
was just wondering why you think a politician like Charlie Baker,
who did a great job in the state, would be
the best leader for America right now. I'm just curious
if you think you have any similarities with them.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, you know, people have, and thank you, Greg. People
have asked me what Hanry Republican and Charlie Baker Republican
or Donald Trump Republican? And I sam with John Republican
first and foremost. There's no one that has my life experience.
But certainly I admire Governor Baker because he had a
bi parisan approach. He was obviously similar to me, socially moderate,
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fiscally conservative, and you have to be able to reach
across the aisle to get things done. And right now
we live in this hyper partisan world where people like
Senator Warren just want to divide us. And you know, Greg,
I'll point out to you to answer your question, Senator
Warren is actually making the case to vote for me,
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and she doesn't realize it. She says, in a fifty
to fifty Senate, you shouldn't elect me because the Democrats
would lose control. Well, i'd actually give a voice to
Massachusetts for the first time because I don't have a
loyalty to a party or a person or an agenda.
Senator Warren does. And so Senator Warren is just another
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partisan person from the other side. I'd give a real
voice in the US Senate. And so we need someone
like that in office who only has one test. Is
it good for Massachusetts in America. If it is, you
should be all for it and fight for it. And
if it's not, it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Great. Appreciate your question. Great question, Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Thank you. Trying to get as many folks in as
we can here. You all seem to be interested in
talking to John Dayton. John is in Rockland. John in Rockland,
Say hi to John Daton.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Hi John, Hey John.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
My question tonight is about the I have two questions really.
One is homeless veterans living in the streets and in
the state parks of our commonwealth here and migrants living
in the hotel in the town that I'm in. And
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I can't believe that Senator war voted against the bipodtisant
bill that would have stemmed would stem the flow of
the migrants coming up to Massachusetts. But I understand, I
would like you to explain to me what you would
have voted for that you was mentioned that you voted
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you she voted against it, and you would have voted
for it. Is that true?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And thanks John Listen. I actually have been to the
hotel that you're talking about in Rockland, and I went
to the border when because I wanted to really see
how bad it was, and it was shocking. One hundred
and seventeen countries have passed the twelve million people when
you count getaways, fifty percent of the sentinel coming into
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Massachusetts from the Uma crossing alone, and they're giving undocumented
unknown migrants asylum court dates eight nine years from now,
which you know they're never going to go to. And
so in fifteen of that said seventeen countries, fifteen are
from countries that sponsored terrorism against the United States. And
so when you see that, of course you have to
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stop the bleeding. That bill wasn't perfect, but I certainly
would have voted for it because we would have stopped
the immediate info to the point that we're at now
and we be able to reinstitute the policy in Mexico
in catching release. It would have improved so many things
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that's bankrupting this country and the state, and so yes,
I would have voted for And Senator Warren not only
does she vote against it, she objected to President Biden's
twenty five hundred per day cap. She basically supports complete
open borders and she's not here in Massachusetts enough to
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see the damage that it's inflicted.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Great question, appreciate it. Thank you, John, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Okay, thank you, right, thank you a great night.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Go take a quick break back with a concluding segment
with John Dean. He's a Republican candidate running against you,
Elizabeth Warren, but he's really running for a Senate seat that,
as Scott Brown reminded us at one point, is a
Senate seat that is not a seat that is owned
by the incumbent, but it's a seat that is owned
by the people of Massachusetts. A very famous line from
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Scott Brown's first campaign, successful campaign when he ran against
Martha Cochley in twenty ten. Back with John Deaton, more
phone calls, more questions, more comments. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Now, Baptist Dan Ray live from the Window World, Nice
Sight Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I'm going to try to get four people in at
the end. Here, John, get a lot of phone calls.
Let's go to Michael and Kingston. Michael, you're next on
night side.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, hey John, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Man?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Vin Supporter? Read your book everything? Man, I'm just really
happy we probably have somebody here in Massachusetts like a
two prospects for the people's.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Amazing, dude, thank you?
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Is the Stewart Healthcare will collapse like I guess it,
or closure at the Carney Hospital in Dorchester and the
Nashville Valid Med Center. Why was it warn able to
secure those fundings, you know for that point. But she
was able to get the other six hospitals. But why
would you give to secure that funding?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, listen, Senator Warren is always what I call reactionary, right,
she waits until there is a crisis or a disaster,
and then she gets engages in the finger pointing. Actually,
if you look back, she I believe there was a
deal where United Health was trying to purchase the hospitals
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and Sanator Warren was like, oh no, that can't happen,
sort of like she did with the Amazon Eye robot
merger that literally cost people their jobs and now it
costs people hospitals. I mean the show By Hospital actually
I live in Bolton, you know, would be one of
the hospitals that if I face an emergency that my
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family might use and it's literally devastated people, and and
so Senator Warren is always there after the fact, and
we need legislators and leaders who are going to you know,
be preventive not reactionary.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well said Michael. Appreciate you calling. I got to keep
you off the speakerphone next time. Okay, thanks Michael.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
I'm not a problem, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let me go quickly, very quickly to Danielle in Worcester. Danielle,
you got to be quick for me. I got two
more behind you. Go ahead, Danielle.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Hi, John, how are you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm great. How are you big supporter out here in Worcester.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
So I saw a question about the I think you've
touched on immigration a little bit, but more more about
the opiate epidemic and how you feel about handling that.
Do you believe in these injection sites that they want
to put up, that people can go shoot up and
be supervised? Do you believe in these places like Spectrum
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Health that we're jumping millions into her methadone with no
end in sight. There's no care plan, there's no hey,
you can have this, but this is your date. So
I mean, and you know, where are you at with that?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And in my book I talked about you know, I
was injured in the Marine Corps, not in combat, but
in training, and I was given OxyContin pills, you know,
and told that they weren't addictive, and I learned that
they were. And so no, I don't support those sites
that you're talking about. One thing that we have to do.
I learned by going to the border of fifty percent
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of the fit no entering. You know, the United States,
at mean, Massachusetts comes from the humor crossing loans. So
we have to secure the border. We have to have
a real policy about stopping the drug epidemic that's taking
our country, you know, over and you go to these
small towns and it's almost like a ghost town.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
And so.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The first thing we have to do is secure the border.
But no, I don't support creating more addiction and dependency.
But I do believe in smart tailor treatment. You know,
what you described is not the solution. That's more part
of the problem.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Dan thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I appreciate your time. Great to meet you.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Thank you, Dan, all right, thank you, uh too.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Quickly, you're going to get Jim and Marble, and then
Steven came. But Jim and Marble go right ahead. You've
got to be quick for us.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hey, John, you called Elizabeth Warren the most advices figure
in Washington, DC, and she responded by saying she has
no idea what you're talking about. Why is your approach
to being a Summons it better than hers?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well? Sure, my approach is about uplifting people, not dividing people.
Giving an example, she's great at fighting against things and issues.
She fights against the wealthy and the rich. That's not
the same as fighting for the poor in the middle class.
I believe we can uplift people without dividing or tearing
other people down. You don't have to pit American versus American.
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And you know she lied about who I am from
the very beginning. That's what I mean by divisiveness.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well said, Well said Jim. Great question, great answer. I
appreciate it. I'm going to wrap it up with Steven Camp.
But Steve, welcome next on Nice.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
I you're on, John, What is the one thing other
than you're not supporting Donald Trump. That would make Republicans
in Massachusetts not want to vote for you. And how
would you answer them on that issue?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
How they not want to vote for me?
Speaker 10 (33:44):
Yes, because Republicans are very stiff necked and they always
find a reason not to vote for somebody and let
someone else in. Is there something in your background other
than not voting for Trump that Republicans will not like
here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I don't believe so, but I just want you to
know too that I want the voters to know that
I have the most devout Trump supporters knocking on doors
for me, and I have people who are voting for
Vice President Harris who are supporting me. Mine is a
common sense approach, and I think that that's going to
resonate with people. And so I really am very pleased
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by the fact that even though I didn't support or
don't support President Trump, I was still able to secure
sixty five percent of the vote. And I think that
sends a big message to Senator Warren that my campaign
and Mike Cancy is about uniting people. And I think
I can convince Republicans to answer your question directly to
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focus on you. The seventy five or eighty percent that
I do give them and not the twenty or twenty
five percent that they disagree with me. We got to
get back to vote for the best candidate, regardless of party.
And I think here to the serator Warren, I'm the
best candidate.
Speaker 10 (35:02):
Well, you certainly got my vote. Thank you, John, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks very much. Today. Appreciate it. John finished up almost
right on time.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Let me give you an opportunity to make a thirty
second elevator pitch, and let's talk about how folks can
get in touch with you or your campaign.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Sure, listen, I meant what I said to everyone that's
out there. I'm a non partisan person who loves this country.
I really am the embodiment of the American dream. And
I think people are ready for someone who rejects the
division and rejects the negativity, who truly wants to uplift people.
And if you believe in a common sense approach to
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the problems we have, you can go to johndeatonforsenate dot
com and you can donate if you can afford to
donate even five dollars, or you can volunteer and knock
on doors and make phone calls, and I believe I
can win this election. I believe people are ready for
the kind of change that I want to bring.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
John Deeton again, thank you very much the easiest give
that website one more time for people who might have
missed it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Sure it's John Beaton for Senate dot com and my
last name is d E A T O M. John Daton,
and I would love for them to get out and
give me the honor of their vote come November fifth.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
John, I appreciate you taking the time tonight, and I
assure you if Senator Warren would love to be on
the show with you, we will invite you back. I
assume for you. The response to that would be anytime,
any place.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
On Absolutely, I'll do it anytime she wants to, and
I will be civil and respectful and have a real
substance of conversation about the problems we face today.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
The funny thing about it is I would always be
civil and respectful. I have a lot of Democrats who
come on this program, elected Democratic officials. She is the
one Democrat that I can think of who has never
been on this program. Jim McGovern from Worcester's been on Mark.
Healey's been on Senator Mark. He's been on I had
oppressed that I.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Think Senator Warren has taken Massachusetts for granted. I think
she's taken even her own Democratic Party for granted. And
that's why I think a lot of Democrats, Dan are saying,
you know what, I can live with John Deeton. I
think John Deaton can actually make a difference, and they're
open to my candidacy. And though they're lifelong Democrats, Senator
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Warren should really worry about this election and I'm gonna win. Dan.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
John Deeton, thanks very much. We'll have you back. Best
of lucky you, John Deaton, Republican candidate for Senator here
in Massachusetts. And we come back and talk about a
subject that I think should concern all of us, and
that is a suicide and an increase in suicide here
in America. Last year, fifty thousand Americans chose to take
their lives. You're going to talk with in September's National
(37:52):
Suicide Prevention Month, are going to talk with Nazai Yashim,
founder of a holistic mental health center and app called Soul,
about the importance of mental health and how to tackle
this crisis,
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w Beazy Constance
New Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All Right, welcome back, everyone, and I'm delighted to int
to you, or to reintroduce to you the Republican candidate
for US Senate here in Massachusetts, John Daton. He has survived.
He won the Republican primary over two other challenges, and
now it will be a match between John Deaton the
Republican and Elizabeth Warren the Democrats. And this is the
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first time I've had John Daton on since the primary
results of early this month. So congratulations John on your victory,
and let's spend some time reintroducing you to the public
because I think people are going to start to focus
on this race here in Massachusetts as well. How are
you doing tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm doing great, Dan, Thank you. It is an absolute
honor and pleasure to be back on the show, and
I'm looking forward to talking to you about this race.
I can't tell you how excited I am. The primary
was a great result and I appreciate everyone that voted
for me. But now the reason I got in this
race is why it is now front and center. It's
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me versus Elizabeth Warren. Extremism versus common sense, and I'm
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
By the way, I know what side of the fence
you find yourself on. Just so that the audience realizes
we have repeatedly over the years, not so much recently,
because Elizabeth Warren has never appeared on this program. She's
the only major politician I can thank God that has
never appeared on this program, and that's her choice. We
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did send a email to her last Friday, my producer,
I just want to read what we sent. We said,
we'd like to extend an invitation to Senator Warren to
join us on our program next Tuesday evening the seventeenth
at nine oh five for a telephone discussion slash debate
with political opponent and challenge of Republican John Deeton ahead
of the November election. We want to discuss the issues
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at hand for those in Massachusetts and welcome both candidates
to the program to have a spirit and fear debate
slash discussion. Well, the response came on Monday, and to
the surprise of no one, Hi, Marita. Marita is my producer. Unfortunately,
the Senator isn't available to join you due to scheduling conflicts,
but thanks for reaching out signed her preceptory, Yelle Scheinfeld,
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So let me ask you this first of all. One
of the great traditions in this country is to have
debates between candidates. Have you scheduled any debates or have
any debates been scheduled or agreed to this?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, that's a great question. Yeah, it's a great question.
And I got to tell you that her response to
your producer is no surprise because she's apparently having lots
of scheduling problems. I challenged Senator Warren, you know when
she was a challenger, when we go back to when
she twelve years ago faced Scott Brown, Scott Brown combent
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agreed to four debates for Senator Warren as the challenger.
I asked for five because you know, we have many
different issues that existed that't that didn't exist back then.
Five single issue debates. Senator Warren has agreed to two.
I was hoping that I would get a third debate
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from Senator Warren. I even challenged her, you know, on
her core issues, or at least her alleged core issues,
dan income, inequality, women's rights. But Senator Warren just won't
agree to it. But we are going to have two debates,
I believe, and I'll make sure I let you and
your audience know when it's confirmed, but I believe it's
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going to be around October fifteenth, and the second debate
would be shortly thereafter. But we're going to have all of.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Course, that is a tactic that incumbents use, and that
is they push the debates as late as they can
because if you have a debate, it doesn't give the
voters much time. And also, I think early voting starts
in Massachusets. I'm not sure you probably know this better
than I. When can people, well, people can begin to
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early vote in Massachusetts at what time?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I believe it's a few days before the first debate,
which was disappointing for me, and it shows you you're
right on point as usual about sort of the incumbent
friendly system. I really was hoping that Senator Warren would
agree to, you know, the first debate before the end
of this month, but she won't. She hasn't. It's probably
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smart political moves, you know. I'm disappointed because I definitely
got in the race and to retire Senator Warren because
she's part of the broken system of the dysfunction the
division that is known as Washington DC. And I really
want to go, you know, doing the job for the people,
something I passionately feel about. She wants to keep the job.
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I want to go do the job. But the second
thing was I really did want to raise the level
of political discourse in this country. We got some serious
issues that require serious adult discussions. You know, whether it's
illegal immigration, or whether it's the debt crisis, or whether
it's inflation and cost of living or foreign wars. You know,
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there's so many real issues. I mean, your earlier guest,
you know, confirmed everything that I'm learning out in the
field talking to voters. Then that that the cost of
living in Massachusetts is literally keeping people up that night.
And and I thought that, you know, Senator Warren, at
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least I was hopeful would engage in lengthy debates about
these issues. And let's give the voters a real look
at us in a real comparison. Okay, I think you
know she's going to know that. Go ahead, Look, I.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Want to I want voters to learn about you. We're
going to go to phone calls and we have got
a lot of line lines filled up, which is great,
and well, people stay there will take him in priority
your background, John, One of the criticisms I'm sure that
you're going to face is the well, the guy he's
only been in Massachusetts a year or so or whatever.
But you're in New England and you have Massachusetts roots,
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so let's emphasize those a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What's your best sure Listen.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I went to law school in nineteen ninety two New
England School of Law, and between my second and third year,
day and I realized that I was going to achieve
the American dream from dirt poverty, a single mother on
welfare and food stamps, so high school dropout for the
first three months of high school due to drug and
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gun violence, and I was going to be a licensed
attorney in Massachusetts. And I knew that I would eventually
make money. So I joined the Marine Corps and something
I'm very proud about, I was chosen by the Marine
Corps to represent the entire common Wealth for the nineteen
ninety four Judge Advocate Law contract and I beat out
Harvard Law and all the other law schools, So that
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was a big honor of mine. And after I served
my country for seven years of active duty, I've been
a lawyer here in Massachusetts for twenty two years, representing
working families against major corporations and insurance companies, people who
are dying from asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. And
so I've literally been at the kitchen table of workers,
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you know, plumbers and school teachers and bus drivers, auto
mechanics all across the Commonwealth. And so I have deep
routes here in Massachusetts where I achieved the American dream.
And it'll be an honor to represent the Commonwealth in
the Senate like I did when I wore a Marine
Corps uniform.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But one of the things that they threw at you,
I want you to address it, because you know I'm fair.
Is that for a while you were living in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, for prior to moving to Swansea. Now I've lived
in Bolton. I did live on the border of Barrington,
Rhode Island and Seaconk for the even before I moved here.
Though if you caught me shopping, it was on Highland
Avalue Sea Conk at the Best Buy or the Target
or the Walmart. When I took my daughters to the movies,
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we went to the Showcase Cinema in SEACONK and so
I did live on the border, but my business here
in Massachusetts. You know, my clients don't come to me
because they're on chemotherapy where they're going through clinical trials.
So I always visited them, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Just wanted John in all honesty, you know me, I'm
a straight shooter. Put it out there, give you a
chance to respond to it. So if any of that
stuff is thrown out, you got to look at the
person's entire the entirety of their background. One final question
before we go to break. One of the things that
and I watch the commercials that you produced, which do
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show a real contrast between you and Senator Warren. I'm
sure that they're going to a lot of people who
are going to say, well, he's a Republican, he must
be a Trumper. You're not a Trumper.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
No, you know I And just for the record, you know,
I want people to know this that from the beginning,
I let people know that I don't support President Trump.
And you know a lot of people thought that that
would disqualify me in a Republican primary, and I still
got sixty five percent of the vote, and even though
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three people were on the ballot, and I think it's
because people genuinely know that I'm sincere when I say
that my loyalty is to Massachusetts, where I achieved the
American dream, and to my country that I served for
seven years of active duty. And when that's your your
sole loyalty test doesn't matter who the president is, doesn't
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matter the agenda or the party. Your loyalty to your
state in your country will guide you. And I think
that resonated with voters. They could tell that I'm sincere
about that. And the final comment is, you know, Senator Warren,
you know she last time ran against President Trump. In fact,
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when I announced dan that my candidacy, she misled the
public and called me a maga extremist Republican, knowing that
that wasn't true. And she's now out there struggling. When
they asked her on public radio this last week, what's
wrong with Deton's policies now that you can't say that
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he's a Trump guy, she couldn't come up with an answer.
She said, well, the crypto people like him, and the
host said, well, Senator, other than that, what's wrong with
Deton's policies? And then she went on to say, well,
she didn't want the Senate to lose power. The Democrats
shouldn't lose power in the Senate. The point being is
she couldn't come up with one criticism of my political
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stances on policies, and that Dan is because it's difficult
to argue against common sense.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
My guest is, John Dane needs the Republican nominee, Republican
candidate on the ballot this November November fifth, up against
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is now running for her third
term in office. And we'll go to phone calls and
you can ask whatever questions you want, be as straightforward
as you want. I have a good audience, a good
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political audience, and we will have John Deaton, Republican candidate
for US Senate with us until ten o'clock. After ten
o'clock we will change topics. So if the lines are
full right now, but when they when they loosen up
six one seven two ten thirty six one seven nine
three one ten thirty. I got to tell you this, John,
one area on just your personality. You come across as
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a likable guy and somebody who's not only likable but intelligent.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I've always found that Senator Warren's demeanor where she
was sort of like that school marm of many years ago,
the person who wanted to point their fingers at you.
And I think that a lot of people in Massachusetts
may may have grown tired of that, and at least
there may be a hidden don't point your finger at
me movement circulating here in Massachusetts. We'll be back with
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John Deaton and your phone calls right after this.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
John, Dan, we got full line. So I think what
I want to do is go to callers and those
of you who may have questions on issues feel free.
How would you describe yourself? John? Okay, very quickly, in
like fifteen seconds or less, if someone said, Okay, what
type of Republican are you?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Common sense, centrist, non partisan person? That's exactly who I am?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And on issues financial issues, do you can sell kidding yourself?
A fiscal conservative? Where do you start? Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm sorry, I am socially obviously moderate, believed in gay
right marriage, pro choice, for example, But fisically I'm a
conservative and I'm someone who believes that you know, we
have serious debt problem in this country. You know, we're
paying three billion dollars a day in interest a loan
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and we knew.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Million dollars right now. I think is the is the
federal death.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, I mean thirty five point five trillion for the
government one point one four trillion, and credit card debt
one point seven trillion, a student loans, and it's we
don't have any serious leadership Dan in Washington, that is
tackling it. I mean, they don't talk about you know,
no politician is talking about balanced budgets. I mean, when's
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the last time you ever heard of balanced budget ever
come up in discussion with these people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Think Ronald Reagan occasionally talked about that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, we're going back to eighties. My friend, I know,
I know, I was there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's my favorite Republican of all time. Let's go to
the phone. It's going to go to Bob and hang him. Bob,
welcome you here first tonight with John Deeton, Republican candidate
for the United States Senate Senate here in Massachusetts, hoping
to unseat Elizabeth Warren. Go right ahead, what's your comment
of question, Bob?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, first, I want to say setified to uh, the
United States Marine. I appreciate your service to our country.
And my question is this coming from the poor background,
what do you see is the biggest challenge that our
poor people trying to face the American dream today.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, listen, that's one of the reasons I'm so bob.
Thank you for that question. It's really the core at
why I got in this race. When you learn my story,
I really am the walking, living, breathing embodiment of the
American dream. And I got in the race because I
see that dream dying and I fear could a kid
do what I did? You know back when I was
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growing up and as a teenager today, and I question it?
You know, have they been priced out of the economy?
And so you know, inflation doesn't hurt billionaires, it doesn't
hurt the super wealthy. Inflation destroys the dreams of poor people,
and it crushes working families, and so you know, I'm
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looking for one of the issues I challenge Senator Warren
Aunt for a single issue debate was income inequality, because
it's not a political slogan for me, like lives in
my heart and I genuinely want to lift poor people
out of poverty. Like I lifted myself, very emotional subject
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for me. And we have to educate poor people on assets.
If you look at the people that have benefited for
the last thirty years, it's people had access to appreciable assets,
whether it be real estate or stocks or anything that
appreciates some value. And so it's giving them access to that.
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And Senator Warren believes in policies that actually hurt the poor.
And I'm going to Washington, DC to make sure that
I'm not one of the last poor people in this
country to make it out of the ghettle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Great question, Bob, appreciate it very much. Great answer, Thanks Bob,
Thank you it was Bob. Thank you very welcome. I'm
going to ask you an easy question. I think it's
an easy question. Okay. I don't know if you've ever
been asked this question before, but I have a firm
answer in my mind. Let's go to the twentieth century.
In your opinion, who was the greatest president in the
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United States in the first half of the twentieth century
and who was the greatest president in the second half
of the twentieth century. There are two names that leap
out at me off the roles of history.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Who would it be, Well, listen, I mean I think
the first part is going to be, you know, as
a George Washington or is Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No, we're talking twentieth century. Just twentieth century, the nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Twenty cent I'm sorry, yeah, I thought you were going
all the way back now.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, a century that
many of my listeners, you know, spent some time in,
including myself and including you.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah. Well you brought up one of the obviously the
starts of the concerns at least. I don't know what
he would be considered today, but it would be Ronald Reagan,
someone that when I was in college that I certainly
looked up to.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh yeah, he defeated Without Reagan, maybe communism is never defeated.
What about the first half of the twentieth century? I
think it's an obvious answer there, and it's a bipartisan answer.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Would it be JFK No, no.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, because he's in the second half Franklin Rose. Franklin Rose, Oh,
I'm sorry. He brought us through the Depression, and brought
us through World War Two and fought oversaw the defeat
of Nazism and fascism and Reagan is sort of the
bookend to that in the twentieth century. And I think
that that's how I view that that area of history,
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and I think it's it's a question that most Americans
can relate to that. And I think if you have,
if I gave you a couple more minutes, I would
also say JFK, I want to find the next JFK
and the Democratic Party, so I will join you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, the question, the real question is, though Dan, is
that would JFK be considered a Democrat by the Democratic
Party today?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Probably not in my opinion, although somebody say that, you know,
some would disagree with us in that, but he wouldn't.
He wasn't. I mean, you know, when he ran against
Richard Nixon in nineteen sixty, one of the big issues
was whether or not China then we called it Red
China was going to control these two islands off the
coast of China, Quamoy and matt Su. You take Pomoy
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and Mattsou and you push them aside. Now the question
is what do they do about Taiwan if they decide
to invade there, so you know they're still there. You know,
look who was the last Democrat. What Democrat today would
echo the words of John Kennedy's in Argyll address, ask
not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do for your country.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, I can't think of one. I don't know if
you have one in mind that you're between.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I think people like you and also someone like a
Seth Moulton, who's a who's Who's I think a Democrat
who served like you did. I think we need more
people in the House and Senate who have some military experience.
You know, after World War Two, the House and Senate
was dominated by me by men and women who had
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fought volunteered during World War Two. And as that legion
of people have retired and died off, we have now
were dominated by by people who have no military background.
And I think that's that's a problem we need. We
need veterans on both sides of the isle.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Democrats, well, you know, I think you're I think you're
on point, Dan, because you know you brought up Senator
Warren in the finger pointing thing, and that's part of
the problem we have the leaders today that all they
do is point the finger at the other side and
blame the other side. You know, when you go to
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the military, when you're faced with a mission, when you're
faced with a problem, you don't assess over who caused it.
You may debrief that afterwards, but it's all about, Okay,
we have this problem, we have this mission. How do
we accomplish it. Let's accomplish it. Once we've accomplished it,
then let's figure out how we can avoid making the
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same mistake again. And you don't have that, you just
have this fingerpointing politics and what I call Senator Warren's
politics of destruction, politics of division, and it's got to end.
And it's to me, it's one of the biggest threats
to this country. In my announcement video, I talked about it.
(20:55):
I said, the division in this country, it's destroying us
from inside. I think Senator Warren is part of that problem.
And you know, Dan, I give Senator Warren, You're never
gonna never gonna hear me like name call or any
of that kind of stuff. I actually give her, you know,
the benefit of the doubt. And I think that when
she went to Washington twelve thirteen years ago, she probably
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had good intentions, but she fell into that Washington, you know,
problem of becoming part of the broken system. You know,
she promised, for example, to hold the bankers accountable. Well,
the bankers write her bills now, and that's the problem.
And so I believe in term limits, and I think
the country's ready for change. I really do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Have you committed to a certain number of terms in office?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
If you guess my first bill once I win, my
first bill will be for term limits. A FEWUS senator
gets two terms twelve years, a congress person will get
six two year terms as twelve years. But if I'm
unsuccessful in implementing and passing that type of legislation or amendment,
(22:05):
then then I've already stated publicly I will not run
for a third term because, you know, Dan, I think
that if you stay in Washington, d C. As a career,
at some point, you got to sell out. My daughters
told me I wasn't meant for politics because I'm too
honest and I'm incapable of selling out. And so that's
(22:27):
why I've already imposed a two term limit on myself,
because I refuse to become part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
By the way, the only politician who I know who
actually ever imposed that limit was a fellow from New Hampshire,
a Republican named Gordon Humphrey who was elected in the
late seventies and he served two limits and that was it.
He was an airline pilot and he made that commitment
and he lived by it. So we're going to take
(22:54):
a break. My guest is John Deaton, Republican running for
US Senate. It's running against the Elizabeth Warren. We'll get
to call us. I'll try to pick the pace up
a little bit, and I'd love to know what you
think about John Deaton and whatever question of comments you'd
like to make. We got to take a quick news
break back right after that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Night side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZY Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
John Deeton is my guest, Republican candidate for US Senate
here in Massachusetts. John, We've got a bunch of folks waiting.
I'm going to try to move people a little bit
more quickly. I'm going to try to step out of
the way and let them talk to you directly. Let
me go to Greg and Newton. Greg, you're home with
John Deeton. Growight ahead.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hey, John, I'm sorry that you were planning to write
in Charlie Baker for president. Our former Governor. So I
was just wondering why you think a politician like Charlie Baker,
who did a great job in the state, would be
the best leader for America right now. I'm just curious
if you think you have any similarities with them.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, you know, people have, and thank you, Greg. People
have asked me what Hanry Republican and Charlie Baker Republican
or Donald Trump Republican? And I sam with John Republican
first and foremost. There's no one that has my life experience.
But certainly I admire Governor Baker because he had a
bi parisan approach. He was obviously similar to me, socially moderate,
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fiscally conservative, and you have to be able to reach
across the aisle to get things done. And right now
we live in this hyper partisan world where people like
Senator Warren just want to divide us. And you know, Greg,
I'll point out to you to answer your question, Senator
Warren is actually making the case to vote for me,
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and she doesn't realize it. She says, in a fifty
to fifty Senate, you shouldn't elect me because the Democrats
would lose control. Well, i'd actually give a voice to
Massachusetts for the first time because I don't have a
loyalty to a party or a person or an agenda.
Senator Warren does. And so Senator Warren is just another
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partisan person from the other side. I'd give a real
voice in the US Senate. And so we need someone
like that in office who only has one test. Is
it good for Massachusetts in America. If it is, you
should be all for it and fight for it. And
if it's not, it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Great. Appreciate your question. Great question, Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Thank you. Trying to get as many folks in as
we can here. You all seem to be interested in
talking to John Dayton. John is in Rockland. John in Rockland,
Say hi to John Daton.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Hi John, Hey John.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
My question tonight is about the I have two questions really.
One is homeless veterans living in the streets and in
the state parks of our commonwealth here and migrants living
in the hotel in the town that I'm in. And
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I can't believe that Senator war voted against the bipodtisant
bill that would have stemmed would stem the flow of
the migrants coming up to Massachusetts. But I understand, I
would like you to explain to me what you would
have voted for that you was mentioned that you voted
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you she voted against it, and you would have voted
for it. Is that true?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And thanks John Listen. I actually have been to the
hotel that you're talking about in Rockland, and I went
to the border when because I wanted to really see
how bad it was, and it was shocking. One hundred
and seventeen countries have passed the twelve million people when
you count getaways, fifty percent of the sentinel coming into
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Massachusetts from the Uma crossing alone, and they're giving undocumented
unknown migrants asylum court dates eight nine years from now,
which you know they're never going to go to. And
so in fifteen of that said seventeen countries, fifteen are
from countries that sponsored terrorism against the United States. And
so when you see that, of course you have to
(27:09):
stop the bleeding. That bill wasn't perfect, but I certainly
would have voted for it because we would have stopped
the immediate info to the point that we're at now
and we be able to reinstitute the policy in Mexico
in catching release. It would have improved so many things
(27:32):
that's bankrupting this country and the state, and so yes,
I would have voted for And Senator Warren not only
does she vote against it, she objected to President Biden's
twenty five hundred per day cap. She basically supports complete
open borders and she's not here in Massachusetts enough to
(27:53):
see the damage that it's inflicted.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Great question, appreciate it. Thank you, John, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Okay, thank you, right, thank you a great night.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Go take a quick break back with a concluding segment
with John Dean. He's a Republican candidate running against you,
Elizabeth Warren, but he's really running for a Senate seat that,
as Scott Brown reminded us at one point, is a
Senate seat that is not a seat that is owned
by the incumbent, but it's a seat that is owned
by the people of Massachusetts. A very famous line from
(28:25):
Scott Brown's first campaign, successful campaign when he ran against
Martha Cochley in twenty ten. Back with John Deaton, more
phone calls, more questions, more comments. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Now, Baptist Dan Ray live from the Window World, Nice
Sight Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I'm going to try to get four people in at
the end. Here, John, get a lot of phone calls.
Let's go to Michael and Kingston. Michael, you're next on
night side.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, hey John, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Man?
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Vin Supporter? Read your book everything? Man, I'm just really
happy we probably have somebody here in Massachusetts like a
two prospects for the people's.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Amazing, dude, thank you?
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Is the Stewart Healthcare will collapse like I guess it,
or closure at the Carney Hospital in Dorchester and the
Nashville Valid Med Center. Why was it warn able to
secure those fundings, you know for that point. But she
was able to get the other six hospitals. But why
would you give to secure that funding?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, listen, Senator Warren is always what I call reactionary, right,
she waits until there is a crisis or a disaster,
and then she gets engages in the finger pointing. Actually,
if you look back, she I believe there was a
deal where United Health was trying to purchase the hospitals
(29:46):
and Sanator Warren was like, oh no, that can't happen,
sort of like she did with the Amazon Eye robot
merger that literally cost people their jobs and now it
costs people hospitals. I mean the show By Hospital actually
I live in Bolton, you know, would be one of
the hospitals that if I face an emergency that my
(30:06):
family might use and it's literally devastated people, and and
so Senator Warren is always there after the fact, and
we need legislators and leaders who are going to you know,
be preventive not reactionary.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well said Michael. Appreciate you calling. I got to keep
you off the speakerphone next time. Okay, thanks Michael.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
I'm not a problem, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let me go quickly, very quickly to Danielle in Worcester. Danielle,
you got to be quick for me. I got two
more behind you. Go ahead, Danielle.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Hi, John, how are you.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm great. How are you big supporter out here in Worcester.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
So I saw a question about the I think you've
touched on immigration a little bit, but more more about
the opiate epidemic and how you feel about handling that.
Do you believe in these injection sites that they want
to put up, that people can go shoot up and
be supervised? Do you believe in these places like Spectrum
(31:11):
Health that we're jumping millions into her methadone with no
end in sight. There's no care plan, there's no hey,
you can have this, but this is your date. So
I mean, and you know, where are you at with that?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And in my book I talked about you know, I
was injured in the Marine Corps, not in combat, but
in training, and I was given OxyContin pills, you know,
and told that they weren't addictive, and I learned that
they were. And so no, I don't support those sites
that you're talking about. One thing that we have to do.
I learned by going to the border of fifty percent
(31:46):
of the fit no entering. You know, the United States,
at mean, Massachusetts comes from the humor crossing loans. So
we have to secure the border. We have to have
a real policy about stopping the drug epidemic that's taking
our country, you know, over and you go to these
small towns and it's almost like a ghost town.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
And so.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The first thing we have to do is secure the border.
But no, I don't support creating more addiction and dependency.
But I do believe in smart tailor treatment. You know,
what you described is not the solution. That's more part
of the problem.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Dan thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I appreciate your time. Great to meet you.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Thank you, Dan, all right, thank you, uh too.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Quickly, you're going to get Jim and Marble, and then
Steven came. But Jim and Marble go right ahead. You've
got to be quick for us.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hey, John, you called Elizabeth Warren the most advices figure
in Washington, DC, and she responded by saying she has
no idea what you're talking about. Why is your approach
to being a Summons it better than hers?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well? Sure, my approach is about uplifting people, not dividing people.
Giving an example, she's great at fighting against things and issues.
She fights against the wealthy and the rich. That's not
the same as fighting for the poor in the middle class.
I believe we can uplift people without dividing or tearing
other people down. You don't have to pit American versus American.
(33:13):
And you know she lied about who I am from
the very beginning. That's what I mean by divisiveness.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well said, Well said Jim. Great question, great answer. I
appreciate it. I'm going to wrap it up with Steven Camp.
But Steve, welcome next on Nice.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
I you're on, John, What is the one thing other
than you're not supporting Donald Trump. That would make Republicans
in Massachusetts not want to vote for you. And how
would you answer them on that issue?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
How they not want to vote for me?
Speaker 10 (33:44):
Yes, because Republicans are very stiff necked and they always
find a reason not to vote for somebody and let
someone else in. Is there something in your background other
than not voting for Trump that Republicans will not like
here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I don't believe so, but I just want you to
know too that I want the voters to know that
I have the most devout Trump supporters knocking on doors
for me, and I have people who are voting for
Vice President Harris who are supporting me. Mine is a
common sense approach, and I think that that's going to
resonate with people. And so I really am very pleased
(34:27):
by the fact that even though I didn't support or
don't support President Trump, I was still able to secure
sixty five percent of the vote. And I think that
sends a big message to Senator Warren that my campaign
and Mike Cancy is about uniting people. And I think
I can convince Republicans to answer your question directly to
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focus on you. The seventy five or eighty percent that
I do give them and not the twenty or twenty
five percent that they disagree with me. We got to
get back to vote for the best candidate, regardless of party.
And I think here to the serator Warren, I'm the
best candidate.
Speaker 10 (35:02):
Well, you certainly got my vote. Thank you, John, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks very much. Today. Appreciate it. John finished up almost
right on time.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Here.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Let me give you an opportunity to make a thirty
second elevator pitch, and let's talk about how folks can
get in touch with you or your campaign.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Sure, listen, I meant what I said to everyone that's
out there. I'm a non partisan person who loves this country.
I really am the embodiment of the American dream. And
I think people are ready for someone who rejects the
division and rejects the negativity, who truly wants to uplift people.
And if you believe in a common sense approach to
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the problems we have, you can go to johndeatonforsenate dot
com and you can donate if you can afford to
donate even five dollars, or you can volunteer and knock
on doors and make phone calls, and I believe I
can win this election. I believe people are ready for
the kind of change that I want to bring.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
John Deeton again, thank you very much the easiest give
that website one more time for people who might have
missed it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Sure it's John Beaton for Senate dot com and my
last name is d E A T O M. John Daton,
and I would love for them to get out and
give me the honor of their vote come November fifth.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
John, I appreciate you taking the time tonight, and I
assure you if Senator Warren would love to be on
the show with you, we will invite you back. I
assume for you. The response to that would be anytime,
any place.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
On Absolutely, I'll do it anytime she wants to, and
I will be civil and respectful and have a real
substance of conversation about the problems we face today.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
The funny thing about it is I would always be
civil and respectful. I have a lot of Democrats who
come on this program, elected Democratic officials. She is the
one Democrat that I can think of who has never
been on this program. Jim McGovern from Worcester's been on Mark.
Healey's been on Senator Mark. He's been on I had
oppressed that I.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Think Senator Warren has taken Massachusetts for granted. I think
she's taken even her own Democratic Party for granted. And
that's why I think a lot of Democrats, Dan are saying,
you know what, I can live with John Deeton. I
think John Deaton can actually make a difference, and they're
open to my candidacy. And though they're lifelong Democrats, Senator
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Warren should really worry about this election and I'm gonna win. Dan.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
John Deeton, thanks very much. We'll have you back. Best
of lucky you, John Deaton, Republican candidate for Senator here
in Massachusetts. And we come back and talk about a
subject that I think should concern all of us, and
that is a suicide and an increase in suicide here
in America. Last year, fifty thousand Americans chose to take
their lives. You're going to talk with in September's National
(37:52):
Suicide Prevention Month, are going to talk with Nazai Yashim,
founder of a holistic mental health center and app called Soul,
about the importance of mental health and how to tackle
this crisis,
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