November 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Jon recaps a Supreme Court decision and Sam is going recognize Veteran's Day in a unique way. Jon looks at the left's latest attempt at gun control. U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schwarze joins in studio to discuss his platform, his military service, and what compelled him to run for public office.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Pour two for a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Twin Cities news talk.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I am eleven thirty one O three five FM John Justice,
along with Sam and the Master Control Booth broadcasting from
the six five to one carpet plus Next Day Install studios.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Put up the Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, let me make sure I add the proper context. Sure,
I got the Christmas tree out from the shed, brought
it into the house, stood it up, and then I
walked away.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Melinda handles everything else.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, by definition, that's putting up the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I know, but I think people could sometimes miscuns thru
that as Wow. John did all the decorating and put
all the lights on and arranged it into this beautiful,
wondrous holiday creation.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's like, no, I'm not a part of that. I
just I just put it up.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did the manual labor, and now Wenda gets to
do the pretty much design. Pretty much got it pretty much.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Even then I didn't have it up. I didn't have
all the pieces right in place. I didn't notice it
was a little bit crooked. She had to go, and
she had to go and fix it. So yeah, well,
I'm getting all.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm getting in early.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I hate the fact that the holiday season seems like
it's been shorter depending on when Thanksgiving ends up occurring.
Like last year, it was like hearing gone and I
got sucked. Yep, when it takes place, because I think this,
I think this year we're okay on that, right, Thanksgivings
on the twenty seventh. Yeah see that's yeah, that's so,
that's we're past it. And then we're into December and
(01:42):
then we're only just a few Yeah, so I'm getting
I'm getting. Oh see, I'm taking care of that right now.
I'm putting my foot down. I'm getting my Christmas on early.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
John just is taking a stand here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm acting. I'm acting like our sister stations. Just getting
right in on the Christmas action. That's quick as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Speaking of getting in on the action, the Supreme Court
to edited there yesterday did agree to decide whether states
can continue to count late arriving male ballots, which have
been the target of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Again, it's an AP story.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I just there was a point in time when the
AP delivered non biased, legitimate news everything that when they
talk about Trump is just framed in the negative. The
Justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel
of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the
fifth that US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year
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the state law allowing ballots that arrived shortly after election
day to be counted violated federal law. So Mississippi is
among eighteen states and DC that have accepted male ballots
received after election day as long as they were postmarked
on or before that date. Now the list also includes
This is where it's more concerning swing states such as Nevada,
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States as Colorado, Oregon, and Utah that rely heavily on
mail in voting. Additionally, fourteen states allowing counting of late
arriving ballots from some eligible voters, including overseas US service
members and their families. According to the filing from Democrat
led states that urged the Justices to reverse the appellate ruling,
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the case will be argued in late winter or early
spring next year. The final ruling will almost certainly come
by late June and early enough to govern the counting
of ballots in the twenty twenty six midterm congressional elections.
So while we didn't go and ditch the filibuster and
move forward on election integrity, that could end up playing
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a pretty big role in next year's midterms.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This certainly would have.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If the Supreme Courts didn't decide to, Eh, we're good,
we're going to pass. Supreme Court rejects a call to
overturn the decision legalizing same sex marriage in the US.
So the appeal was from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky
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court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same
sex couples after the Scootis ruling in twenty fifteen. According
to the AP, Davis attempted to get the Supreme Court
to overturn the lower court order for her to pay
three hundred and sixty thousand dollars in damages and lawyer's
fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The AP reported that Justice Clarence Thomas was among the
four dissenting justices in twenty fifteen. That would be Oberger
Fell versus Hodges. Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito are
among other dissenters who are on the court today. Hey
Davis had gained a national attention in Eastern Kentucky's Rowand
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County when she snubbed the same sex couples, claiming that
her faith prevented her from complying with the Supreme Court ruling.
So ultimately what would have happened here is that this
would have been.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Kicked back to the states.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, Dems are none too happy about that fact, by
the way, they're going to put on a different fronts
in the media, which is what Governor Tim Walls did.
But make no mistake, there were plenty of Democrats that
were really really hoping the Supreme Court took this up
and knocked this issue back to the States so they
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could go and run on it the same way they
did abortion.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Quote tweeted the story regarding the Supreme Court decision to
not re examine gay marriage.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And this is what he wrote on x.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The bar is in hell. But this is a win
for decency and compassion.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
He is so annoyingly crass. The bar is in.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hell, grinchy harton or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just as a side note, this has nothing to do
with decency and compassion relating to this particular issue. It's
just about the law, that's all that it is. And again,
just like abortion, it just would have knocked the issue
back to the states to decide for themselves because elections
have consequences where it should be decided. Supreme courtse not
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taking it up. It's not going to be much of
an issue moving forward. Make no mistake though. Again Will
Walls will go and post that online. He's bummed the
Supreme Court is not going and taking the issue up.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I'm ready to get beat.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I want to talk about the latest regarding the attempts
to continue to strip away your right to keep in
bear arms. It's all for show though. There's a lot
of political theater going on. There was another town hall
that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
One moderate doing.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Nothing with my fingers sent it to dfller. Judy Seberger
has now hopped on board with Governor Tim Walls on
his town halls because she knows full well there's not
going to be a special session called. She may have
an opportunity next year during a special session to go
and vote on this. If the Democrats are brave enough
to put this forward and also put their own members
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of the legislature in the spotlight. That would not sign
off on these issues. The City of Dnah was the
latest to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls as
they move forward with another ordinance relating to firearms, which
of course has no legal standing whatsoever. And I'll share
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with you the details on this here in just a moment,
but I want to go here briefly before we talk
about that. Speaking of city Zoe Wrang Mom Donnie of
course winning the mayor's race in New York City, it's
going to be highly entertaining to watch, especially since Governor
Kathy Hochel, while she did endorse Mom Donnie, made it
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clear yesterday that she is not all in on his
progressive policy proposals.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes, I'm from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We don't put up with a lot of crap.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
So I just want to set the stage that, you know,
you look at the history of people who've run multi
billion dollar ad campaigns to try and get me to
change my position.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I don't change my position.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
So I just want to put it out there. I
respect people's opinions, I respect proper place to convey them,
and so I've said I hear you and that it's important,
but also there is a time and place, and so
that's all on that. No, I've had conversations on this trip,
but many conversations i'd say over the summer in the
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fall that were important that led to understanding of what's
in the realm of possibility, shared ambitions.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
But what is doable is the question.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And so now we're aligned on so many of these issues.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
You know, I've made it clear where I.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Have strong disagreements with issues that really do not pertain
to you know, the governance of New York City, and
of course said you need to get a police commissioner
that people trust, who has a record of accomplishment to
keep the trajectory that we're on right now, which is
crime is going down, crime is going down significantly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
She goes on for another minute or so, but basically
what was asked at the beginning of that word salad
was whether or not she was on board with Mom
Donnie's free bust plan and has taxed the rich plan,
of which she said no.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That she wasn't. And this goes back to what I
said earlier.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
When Mom Donnie won the election, he made a lot
of promises He's not going to be able to keep.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Don't misunderstand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
She starts talking about safety and security and law enforcement
in New York City, and he'll be able to put
forward policy that'll have disastrous effects, and certainly when it
comes to seizing buildings, making it difficult for landlords to
go and continue to rent, whether it's freezing the rents
for these buildings, taking away the ability of landlords to
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go and make money by being landlords, increasing fines, putting
landlords in a position where they won't be able to
afford to make repairs, and when they don't, finding them
even further eventually, when they can't pay those fines, watch
Mam Donnie will move in to go and seize those properties,
turn him into subsidized housing with the hope that the
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individuals that would live in that government subsidized housing in
New York City will continue to vote for socialists Like
Mom Donnie. Again, it's going to be really interesting to watch,
and it's going to be an abject failure.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
The question is how.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Quickly is it going to fail and how quickly are
a large group of individuals going to learn just the
devastating impact of socialist policies moving forward?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again, the City of Dyna move forward on a proposed
firearm ordinance, which they cannot do because of preemption here
in Minnesota. And we'll give you details a couple of
different news stories we'll share with you regarding this weekend's
most recent gun at town hall by Governor Tim Walls.
And we'll get to more of your talkbacks from the
iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. Next on
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Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Good Morning, John, I think I beat you to the
punch on that one Sunday during the Vikings game, I
took out all the bags of Christmas lights I had
plugged them in once at a time, tested them, replaced
all the bulbs that didn't work, and made my list
for a trip to pick up four new sets of lights.
So I'm ready for this year. Time to prep. I
(12:00):
have a great day.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
In thirty and one oh three point five FM.
Speaker 11 (12:07):
Good morning John and Sam, friends and ploes of the shows,
all listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Happy Veterans Day. It's all the veterans out there.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
I just got my free coffee and Correctmas sandwich.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
That quick trip.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Shout out to missus Dawson, the principal of Saint Vincent's
Beahal my kid's school. They have a nice Veterans Day
event honor veterans.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Have a great day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Speaking of veterans, we're going to be joined in studio
coming up in the next segment running for Senate Adam
Schwarze will be joining us twenty one years as a
Marine and Navy Sealm on this Veterans Day and Sam
here on Twin City's News Talk from the sixty five
to one carpet Next Day install Studios. I know there
is something you wanted to mention on this Veterans Day
as well.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Right, Yeah, thanks John. So today is well, I'm a
member of the cross of the community. I do cross
a bit a few times a week, and today is
what's called the Hero Workout Day. Today is either called
the Chad one thousand X or the chadwork Out. It's
essentially I'll just read it from the CrossFit website. Chat
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one thousand X is a CrossFit Hero workout written in
honor of Navy Seal Senior Chief Chad Wilkinson, who died
by suicide on October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, as a
result of several traumatic brain injuries, blast wave injuries and
PTSD stemming from many deployments across more than two decades
of service. The article here goes on to say that
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the crosswit community joins together annually on Veterans' Day and
thousands of CrossFit affiliates and garageiums around the world to
tackle this workout in Chad's memory, raising funds to support veterans'
mental health initiatives through the step of foundation and it
goes on from there.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
If you're doing the chat workout today, good luck, it's
going to be a hard one. The chat workout itself
is you need a twenty inch box, a forty five
pound rucksack or a weighted vests or thirty five pounds
for women, and then you're doing one thousand step ups.
That's the workout. So it's it's a good run. But
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you know, if you're sure, handle it. But I'm good
if you're you know, Crossfitters have been working for a
few weeks to build up to this workout, so you
can't just go into a cold But that being said,
there are scaling options, So if you're not in that
community but you still want to try it, look at
doing some scaling options. You don't need to use a box.
You can just put a couple of plates on the ground.
All that to say, though, there are you know, there's
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a lot of resources out there, a lot of nonprofits
that are doing things for veterans, and really I just
want to mention to the Crisis.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Hotline nine eight eight.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
If anybody needs any type of emergency assistance, whether it's
suicide prevention or just a crisis that you're going through,
you can always reach out. There's plenty of mental health
options out there too, so you're not alone. There's there's
resources out there to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, thank you for that, Sam, and certainly dispels that
ridiculous notion that can CrossFit people we're little off their
rocker because you're as straight as they come.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
So that was like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I remember, wasn't there a thing for a while where
people would always go and they would always the stereotype
around CrossFit trainers like they're a little crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Well, you only know me here, John, that's the thing
that's true. That is a very good that is a
very good point across the community is very welcoming. It's
a really great, great environment. So Yeah, do what you can.
If you're not able to do the chad, try to
scale it. But it's a good way to now, we
think our veterans. But to pay your respects, we will.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We'll revisit this a bit. Coming up in the next
hour as well. At eight thirty this morning, we have
a Congressman Tom Tiffany. He's actually in Minnesota running four
governor Wisconsin, but he's here for a couple of events.
He'll be joining us at at eight thirty and we'll
talk further about this latest town hall. I do want
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to get you up to speed. First story here from
Channel five. Walls keeps pushing four special session on gun violence,
but he's not Walls can call a special session. He's
the only one that can. There was another town hall
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over the weekend. Governor Tim Walls brought along Senate Dfller
Judy C.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Berger.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Considered moderate, she apparently has hopped on board with the
potential of an assault weapons ban and high capacity magazines,
although in her words she said that she's down with
anything that would save lives and has approval which is
incredibly sort of open ended. Let me share with you
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a bit, however, and again we'll get back into more
of this coming up next hour after our conversation with
Adam Swarzy. This is a bit of the story here
from Channel Channel five.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I encourage each and every one of them to
do so.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Let me stop here real quick. That was Judy Sieberger.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Why does it require Republicans to join you? You have
control of the Senate, the House is divided fifty to fifty.
You only need Republicans to join you if you don't
have the votes on your end, which again is why
and you know this, We've talked about it, which is
why Governor Tim Walls has not called for a special
session because he knows this. This is not about policy,
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This is not about saving lives. This is all about narratives.
This is all about Governor Tim Walls running for reelection
and trying to gain and get as much momentum behind
these issues which they won't end up addressing and if
they do next to session, they're going to fail, but
trying to come up with enough that he can use
to push back and dfllers can use to push back
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during next year's elections.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you expect that to happen?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Probably not, Seaburger.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Senate colleague on the other side of the aisle, Andrew Lang,
doesn't expect much progress this session, especially surrounding a weapons ban.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Some of our more most moderate members are a hard
no against anything like that because they know it probably
is not going to make a difference in the long run.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Republicans have focused on strengthening schools safety and investing in
mental health measures. But Senator Lang also points out this
is a bonding year with a lot more on the
table than the gun debate.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
We're trying to pay for water towers.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
We're trying to pray for roads and bridges, and water
treatment facilities and sewet treatment facilities.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
That is got to be number one on our list.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Through recent KCP Survey USA polling, we found that more
than fifty percent supported in assault style weapons ban, and
in that same poll would ask what the most important
issue lawmakers should address in a special session, they said
mental health, followed by guns five at the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Ben Henry five O witness new.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And again that story there from Channel five.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus responded to Sieburger and said
that State Senator Judy Sieberger says she will back more
restrictions on assault style weapons, a significant shift from the
previously undecided swing district democrat who could help decide the
fate of gun control measures next session. The dfler from
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Afton was one of several moderate legislators who did not
publicly say how they would vote on gun control proposals
pushed by Walls after the shooting at the Catholic church.
Sieburger has since resolved to support whatever it takes doing
that thing with my fingers to make Minnesota safer. The
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus goes on to say, I'll be
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a yes on anything and everything that comes through that
will make a difference to reduce gun violence here in
the state Minnesota. She said in a recent interview, that
will really make a difference. Just pulling from her quote,
it's an unanswerable question, and she knows that, and Governor
Tim Walls knows that. As a matter of fact, they
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asked Walls, why doesn't he call a special debate or
a special session without a pre agreement to at least
force a debate over the debate, and Wall said, well,
the debate wouldn't happen. The floor would then be controlled
by Republicans who have made it clear they don't want
to have this discussion. The debate would happen, though they
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would be forced to. You would call a special session.
You guys would go and talk about it again. It's
just another meaningless word salad from Governor Tim Walls instead
of him being open and honest and upfront and saying
I'm not calling a special session because they're members of
my own party that will not sign off on this
and therefore it would.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Be a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Coming up next SENE candidates on a veta date twenty
one years as a Marine and Navy seal. Very pleased
to welcome to studio Adam Schwarze and he'll join us
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one O three five FM.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Bob from Lake Gelmo, Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans. Enjoyed the day as far as Senator Sieberger.
She uses the word moderate but votes every single time
with her radical left. Fellow Democrats comment she's my senator.
(21:36):
I have contacted her several times. Just give me one
vote and you can claim to be a moderate.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you, Bob for the talk back on the iHeartRadio
apples are brought to you by Lyndahl Realty from.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
The sixty five to one Carpet plus.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Next Day Install Studios, Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven
thirty and one O three five FM. My name is
John Justice. I am very pleased on this Veterans Day
running for Senate to Welcome to the show, Adam Schwarze.
Good morning, Adam, Thank you so much for coming in
this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Hey, good Martin, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's awesome to be here, especially after the beloved day
of our Marine Corps yesterday two hundred and fifty years Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I was going to ask you about that. You you
attended a ball over the weekend in honor of that, correct.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, my alma mater at the University of Minnesota about
the thirty some midshipman future Marine Corps, future Navy officers,
and the future is bright. I was really excited to
see look in the face at those young future warriors,
and I was really excited what I saw.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm truly excited for the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We haven't talked about it on the show, but I
know that the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, friend of
the show, you know, had mentioned I think it was
a couple of weeks back, just the meeting of the
recruitment goals across the board for our military.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I mean, just fantastic news.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Certainly, you know, a part of Trump getting re elected
to his non you know, consecutive as second term, but
you know, just sort of dovetailing off of what you mentioned.
It's fantastic to see so many of you know, of
our brave Americans stepping up and wanting to serve this
great nation.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
It was actually to contrast between the end of the
previous administration and this one, before Secretary Hegseth was even confirmed,
just knowing that Trump had put his name forward to
be an agent of changing, specifically cultural change within the
Department Defense. We went from a historic low morale across
the forces, which also then indicated a low recruiting essentially for.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
The last four years.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
On the bite administration, we're lowering the standards to recruit
and still failing to meet those recruitment standards.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Additionally, we just could not retain forces.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
We were short in all the critical components, largely due
to the follow up from forcing members out from the
COVID vaccinations. And within the month of December alone, again
before hegsaths even confirmed, we had over three hundred people
per day enlisting to the United States Army. That's a
historic hi That's never happened before in the history of
the country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm reminded last week on Friday, and this was
ahead of the the different events to.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Honor the Marines two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
But we had a gold Star father on Darren Hoover,
whose son Taylor was killed at Abbey. Yeah, and he also,
I think, much like you had joined had joined up
the military in the wake of nine to eleven.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Correct, Yes you did, and you did as well, Yes, sir,
nine to eleven happy During my senior of high school,
so I watched the Twin Towers fall live in real
time in my senior English class and the funny Stories
I went to go. I was in the process of
trying to listen to the navy already after that, so
I was kind of sleeping at the Valley Westerner in Bloomington,
trying to really get in the fight. At that point,
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the neighbor were office stayed closed, and all of a sudden,
this giant horse of a man in a band costume
walked by me one morning.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
He's like, what are you doing? Hood rat?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Like you sleeping outside the recruiting offices. What are you doing, sir?
I'm trying to and listen in the navy. He said, well,
what are you trying to do? Well, I've always wanted
to be a seal, he said, well, ever thought about
the Marines? What the Marine? I literally had no idea.
It turns out that horse in the bank costume was
actually a marine recruiter.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, just a.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Giant specimen of a man who's like six foot five
to just like how you think of a marine.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
That's what this guy looked like.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
And as one of the sayings, go first to contact,
first to contract. Within about fifteen minutes, you give me
the pitch about Marines being first to fight, and he
did not lie. I enlisted on my eighteenth birthday, about
three weeks later. Raised my right hand, went Marine Corps
infantry and the same year I graduated high school, I
was on the Yellow Foot Princes at Marine Corps Cruit
Depot San Diego and then honestly in my first gunfight
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and firefight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That same year I graduate high.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
School talking with Adam Schwarzi again running for Senate for
the open seat with Tina Smith retiring. Before we get
into that, I certainly want to talk about that. I
am curious twenty one years of serving and first off,
thank you for your service. But with that, you come
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out of the Marines, you decide you're going to run
for office. I want to back up further, though, can
you talk a little bit about the change that it
made in you from your time serving from I mean you,
you know, you told the story now of how you actually,
you know, entered into the Marine Corps, but I'm very
curious to know what you were, you know, how you
viewed yourself as a person when you entered and the
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person that you were coming outside of, you know, coming
out of your time serving.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, thanks for the question, John.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I was just a Midwest kid who grew up on
blue collar values, played hockey like most of Minnesotans do.
But really nothing special or you know, particularly unique about
my upbringing other than it just people who come from
Minnesota are just a heartier people. You know, we're generally
a blue cap class and we're tough individuals from this
part of the country. And so I had that kind
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of just work ethic that took me to the Marine Corps,
and then the Marine Corps really is what set me
up for the for success the rest of my life.
Taking that work that that can teach me honor, teaching
me courage, teaching me commitment, teaching me about team building
those values. Then was I had phenomenal mentors and leaders
as a young Marine who saw potential in me, but
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took the time to mentor that, to foster that. And
that's something that's kind of unique I found out since
I've left the military since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just don't get that in the civilian side.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You don't get such interpersonal mentors that around you in
your personal zone for twenty four hours a day and
they are able to truly see that your soul but
then provide mentorship. There's no job in the civilian sector
where you just get that twenty four hour a day mentorship,
and that's what yielded me to be a good marine
and later on to become a commissioned officer and then
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eventually achieved my dream becoming United States Navy.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
C Talking with Adam Schwarzy, do you think it helped it?
Do you think it helped that you weren't aware of
the Marine Corps in terms of what you were getting into.
Do you think it helped that you were kind of
you know, I don't want to say ignorant, but you know,
not knowing what you were, what you were diving into
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at the time when you when you entered into into
the Marine Corps.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
I just think it was good that I was hungry
and I was impassioned to be to serve my country,
especially after watching the Twin Towers fall.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I wanted to serve.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I was hard in the pathway to serve that further
and bolted my passion to serve my country. And it
was you know, I'm thankful that I went to Marine
Corps entry. I'm thankful later on that I got to
select to be a seal. But I think, honestly, if
I was like cooking in the mess hall or driving
a truck or I think I would have been so excited.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
To do whatever my country asked me to do.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
It just so happens that I got asked to, you know,
be a good entry unit leader and then a good
Navy seal.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You know, it's interesting to me working I was working
in radio at the time of nine to eleven, and
so I was actually on the air that morning working
for an alternative rock station when everything transpired. A much
different dynamic obviously than working in in news talk and
the first part of my of my career, although I
think everybody sort of ended up handling in that day
the same way as we watched everything happen. But you know,
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since then, it's been this idea of never forget, but
holy cow, of a lot of people either well maybe
not have forgotten, but certainly a lot of people have
not been educated into what you know, what it meant
for America to be attacked to that day and you know,
inspired individuals like yourself and others to.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Go in and join.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that continues to be just an ongoing battle to
make sure that people are aware of those those enemies
that still exist because you know, a lot of our
young people just simply have not been educated over that.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yeah, it is sad that it takes a huge, gross
national level incident to cause what's called the rally run
the Flag theory, where people all of a sudden, now
of a sudden, are uber patriotic and care about the flag,
care about the country above all else. And there's some
there's some second order effects of that that are not
good holistically, first in policies, like some of the things
from that came out of the nine to eleven exoor
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that were overreaches. But certainly it's sad that people just
take things for granted until.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
There's a tragedy.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Yeah, and are just But if you look at the
good news, if you look at the Minnesota pult cool
landscape right now, you have a bunch of veterans who
are running for governor, there's a great veteran running for
the attorney general.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
And now you have me running for the US Senate.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
So there's people that are still called to serve and
see that sometimes the real threats are not from foreign shores,
but just from the effects of bad policies with their
own government.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Talking with Adam Schwarzy running for Senate, when did you
decide that you wanted to serve in office.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Yeah, so it is kind of a long, longer answer.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
So in total, I did nine employments to over seventy
five countries, and I'm from Bloomington, Minnesota. Every time I
would come back home from doing these deployments, my home city,
Bloomington was a little worse off every time.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
It was just incrementally worse.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Off to now the city holistically, I don't even recognize
it from the one I grew up in. And then
every time again I came home to Minnesota, I went
to the University Minnesota, I got my undergrad here, I
bought property in downtown Minneapolis. I saw it was on
a negative glide slope. And then during COVID, I saw
the executive branch overstep. I saw how we were treating
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our military members in the Biden administration, and that was
truly my wake up.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Two.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Politics were all sort of kind of connected the dots
for me in that Holy Cow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But it wasn't until.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
George Floyd, right after the beginning of COVID that excuse me,
when Tim Walls allowed Minneapolis to be burned to the ground.
One of my biological sisters lives three blocks away from
the target in Minneapolis that burned to the ground, and
so when that specific event happened, it was kind of
a tripwire for me, and I decided that it didn't
matter how many amazing, super sexy, important strategic Navy Seal
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missions I was doing behind the scenes. Nothing mattered if
our country was going to fail, if Minnesota was going
to fail, if my city was going to go away.
At that point, I decided to put down the sword,
pick up the pen, and like six other sorry, seven
other Navy seals who are now in federal office, this
is the greatest way I can actually impact my country.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You have Tina Smith retiring, you have a couple of
candidates on the Democrat side that are running. Interesting polling
data came out a few weeks ago showing a hypothetical
right not even pointing to a specific candidate of Republican,
just in a hypothetical matchup, and I think a lot
of people were surprised to see that it was a
lot closer than what people expected. What is how are
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you approaching the campaign? Obviously you need to continue to
raise awareness and let people know that you know your name,
ID be being a newcomer. But when you look ahead
of the campaign and the battle between Craig and Flannagain,
I'm really interested to sort of get your perspective and
lay of the land of where you think this race
is going and how you fit into it.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, so let's first talk about that polling specifically it
was leaked pulling from Peggy flannagainst team, And how polling
works generally is the Democrats will do polling that makes
their candidate look really good because it helps with their fundraising,
just like at some point I'll do polling. It's going
to maximize my own candidacy and campaign that.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I'll send out and do fundraising.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
So the polling that was leased by the Flannagan campaign,
it makes her look as good as possible, Okay, And
so she's up two points over as you aptly said,
a no name generic Republican candidate. That is a striking
poll already because it's already been two points very close.
What that poll also says by not saying it, it's
two points versus a generic Republican candidate. So what's awesome
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about that is the best metric for future success is
past performance. So I was talking about earlier the seven
other Navy seals who are in federal office. Ninety three
percent of incumbents they win reelection every single time. I
don't have to face that in this selection because Tina
Smith is stepping down, But ninety three percent of the
time if I were to go up against an incumbent,
they come at wins. Navy Seals this weird small bastion
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of Americans. Seven out of seven, we're seven for seven
and flipping federal seats.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
We have not failed.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Most recently, you actually have another Minnesota Navy Seal and
Tim Shey who's only thirty eight year old, who flipped
out a three term incumbent and a fifth generation rancher
in John Tester in Montana. So the national donor scene recognizes, now,
holy cow, the Seals for forever reason, we're a winning brand,
We're a great investment, and so they count that. Now
for my race in Minnesota, there's an entity called side
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Cards and other like independent nonpartisan polling thing that quantified
what the Navy Seal bump is in Minnesota. So you
take the regular generic Republican, the Navy Seal Republican now
gets six point eight. So if you take Flanna against Pole,
who's up to and then you take the Navy seal
bump six point eight.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I'm up four point eight.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And then you also have a situation with this within
the Democrat Party itself, of the Democrat Party trying to
decide which candidate that they want to roll with between
Angie Craig and and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flannagain. You've got
a lot of endorsements rolling in for Peggy Flann again,
but you also have an individual in Angie Craig who's
been around for a while and has her own deep
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roots within DC already.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yes, so you have essentially Angie Craig who's fighting for
Washington in Minnesota, and then you have me who's fighting
for Minnesota and Washington. That's the best way I can
contrast myself to Angie Craig. I think two thirds of
her money comes from the Beltway, from Washington packs and
insider and all that stuff. The interesting thing that you've
highlight is the two factions on the Democrat Party. Well,
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first off, on the Republican side, I'm the only candidate
going for the endorsement at this point, so that's really great.
It's likely I'll get the endorsement since I'm the only
one committed.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
To that process.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
But you would have expected a reasonable and irrational person
would have expected after the Shellaki and the Democrats took
during this last presidential election that they'd kind of try
to rebrand their party and actually maybe earn some of
the support of the farmers, the laborers, the blue collar
people that they've holistically turned their back on, specifically in
greater Minnesota that used to be all blue land, now
it's all red.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
They have not done that. They've doubled down on the radicalism.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
If you look at New York now the capital the
world's financial capitals, now by an open socialist, an open
socialist Marxist olmar Fatag got within striking distance of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They have not rebranded.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
They are doubling down on the DEI, the political identity,
the wokeism, and yeah, Bernie Sanders, Keith Elis and Julia Blaha,
Steve Simon, Elizabeth Warren and over half of the Minnesota
legislature have all gotten behind Flanagan in her race. And
so I think it's very likely that not only does
she get the endorsement, she wins the primary. And that's
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I love that because then I get to talk about
just all of her faith When I talk about the
best metric to future success, it's past performance. Well, Flanagan's
performance for Minnesota has been abysmal. You know the eight
billion dollars in fraud. It came out three days ago.
She spent three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on
her government credit card. I don't think most of Missortians
can even fathom taking a business card and racking up
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three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on it. So
I'm going to take her to task on just her record.
We don't need to get personal. We don't talk about
social issues. We can talk about her record and her
failure as a leader in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What is it talking with again? Adam Swarzy running for Senate?
Where's your focus right now? Are you now just focused
on leading into the endorsement and heading into next year
or are you already sort of looking You've laid out
your expectation in terms of flanningg in, But how much
focus are you putting on her right now? Where is
your focus right now?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Overall?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Well, as a military guy, if everything is a priority,
then nothing is truly a priority. So my priorities are
the endorsement, raising money for the endorsement, and building a
war chest for the general. And it is a unique
opportunity that we have a twenty year opportunity that it's
truly to vacancy. So I'm not fighting thecumbent, and it's
a thirty year opportunity that there's really not an off
ramp for Peggy Flannagan nor Angie Craig. They're gonna have
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a head on, bloody collision in their primary, and that's
usually the Republicans do that, especially.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
In Minnesota, and we're kind of doing that. For the
governor's race.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
We have I think nine candidates in I know there's
gonna be a thing two more. So we're gonna have
eleven candidates all you know, blood letting each other for
that primary. Well, Wallace just walks away, you know, twenty
million dollars by next August, we're gonna have eleven candidates
bleeding all their bank accounts dry.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
Well.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
The good news for the US Senate, it's the opposite.
I'm just going to continue to make money, build my brand,
run I'm running the general election right now. Common sense policies,
building back the middle class, getting government out of the way,
making adoptions more affordable and easier so we can truly
embrace life, getting parents back control of the driver's seat
of their families again. These are things I'm trying to
positively impact people's lives and really burning a positive campaign
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right now.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Adam Swarze again running for Senate, thank you so much
for joining us on this Veteran's Day. For people that
want to find out more about your campaign and potentially
want to support you, where would you like them to go?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Schwarzefor Senate dot com, s C h W A r
Z for Senate dot Com. If you reach out to
us and we will get back to you, or I
will personally get.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Back to How are you going to be spending the
rest of your veterance Day?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I have a couple of events planned.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I'm very excited to break brot with my brothers and
sisters that I've served with and looking forward to meet
some Minnesota veterans as well.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We had a and I'll be sharing these coming up
in just a moment. We had several talkbacks that rolled
in along those same lines, other veterans wishing you a
great day as well. I wanted to pass that along
and again we'll play those coming up in Adam Swarzy,
thank you so much for your time this morning. We'll
continue to watch your campaign with a lot of enthusiasm.
I look forward to the next time you can join
us in the show.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Thank you appreciate it being here. Cop Bleuss Show.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
We'll get to those talkbacks coming up again. Congressman Tom
Tiffany will be joining us at eight thirty this morning.
We'll revisit as well, Minnesota senator weighing in on gun
control next legislative session. Another Governor Tim Walls town hall
from over the weekend, and this ridiculous ordinance now being
attempted in DNA relating to firearms. All coming up on
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
I am eleven thirty one O three five FM John Justice,
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Put up the Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, let me make sure I add the proper context. Sure,
I got the Christmas tree out from the shed, brought
it into the house, stood it up, and then I
walked away.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Melinda handles everything else.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, by definition, that's putting up the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I know, but I think people could sometimes miscuns thru
that as Wow. John did all the decorating and put
all the lights on and arranged it into this beautiful,
wondrous holiday creation.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's like, no, I'm not a part of that. I
just I just put it up.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did the manual labor, and now Wenda gets to
do the pretty much design. Pretty much got it pretty much.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Even then I didn't have it up. I didn't have
all the pieces right in place. I didn't notice it
was a little bit crooked. She had to go, and
she had to go and fix it. So yeah, well,
I'm getting all.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm getting in early.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I hate the fact that the holiday season seems like
it's been shorter depending on when Thanksgiving ends up occurring.
Like last year, it was like hearing gone and I
got sucked. Yep, when it takes place, because I think this,
I think this year we're okay on that, right, Thanksgivings
on the twenty seventh. Yeah see that's yeah, that's so,
that's we're past it. And then we're into December and
(01:42):
then we're only just a few Yeah, so I'm getting
I'm getting. Oh see, I'm taking care of that right now.
I'm putting my foot down. I'm getting my Christmas on early.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
John just is taking a stand here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm acting. I'm acting like our sister stations. Just getting
right in on the Christmas action. That's quick as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Speaking of getting in on the action, the Supreme Court
to edited there yesterday did agree to decide whether states
can continue to count late arriving male ballots, which have
been the target of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Again, it's an AP story.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I just there was a point in time when the
AP delivered non biased, legitimate news everything that when they
talk about Trump is just framed in the negative. The
Justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel
of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the
fifth that US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year
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the state law allowing ballots that arrived shortly after election
day to be counted violated federal law. So Mississippi is
among eighteen states and DC that have accepted male ballots
received after election day as long as they were postmarked
on or before that date. Now the list also includes
This is where it's more concerning swing states such as Nevada,
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States as Colorado, Oregon, and Utah that rely heavily on
mail in voting. Additionally, fourteen states allowing counting of late
arriving ballots from some eligible voters, including overseas US service
members and their families. According to the filing from Democrat
led states that urged the Justices to reverse the appellate ruling,
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the case will be argued in late winter or early
spring next year. The final ruling will almost certainly come
by late June and early enough to govern the counting
of ballots in the twenty twenty six midterm congressional elections.
So while we didn't go and ditch the filibuster and
move forward on election integrity, that could end up playing
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a pretty big role in next year's midterms.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This certainly would have.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If the Supreme Courts didn't decide to, Eh, we're good,
we're going to pass. Supreme Court rejects a call to
overturn the decision legalizing same sex marriage in the US.
So the appeal was from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky
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court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same
sex couples after the Scootis ruling in twenty fifteen. According
to the AP, Davis attempted to get the Supreme Court
to overturn the lower court order for her to pay
three hundred and sixty thousand dollars in damages and lawyer's
fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The AP reported that Justice Clarence Thomas was among the
four dissenting justices in twenty fifteen. That would be Oberger
Fell versus Hodges. Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito are
among other dissenters who are on the court today. Hey
Davis had gained a national attention in Eastern Kentucky's Rowand
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County when she snubbed the same sex couples, claiming that
her faith prevented her from complying with the Supreme Court ruling.
So ultimately what would have happened here is that this
would have been.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Kicked back to the states.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, Dems are none too happy about that fact, by
the way, they're going to put on a different fronts
in the media, which is what Governor Tim Walls did.
But make no mistake, there were plenty of Democrats that
were really really hoping the Supreme Court took this up
and knocked this issue back to the States so they
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could go and run on it the same way they
did abortion.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Quote tweeted the story regarding the Supreme Court decision to
not re examine gay marriage.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And this is what he wrote on x.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The bar is in hell. But this is a win
for decency and compassion.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
He is so annoyingly crass. The bar is in.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hell, grinchy harton or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just as a side note, this has nothing to do
with decency and compassion relating to this particular issue. It's
just about the law, that's all that it is. And again,
just like abortion, it just would have knocked the issue
back to the states to decide for themselves because elections
have consequences where it should be decided. Supreme courtse not
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taking it up. It's not going to be much of
an issue moving forward. Make no mistake though. Again Will
Walls will go and post that online. He's bummed the
Supreme Court is not going and taking the issue up.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I'm ready to get beat.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I want to talk about the latest regarding the attempts
to continue to strip away your right to keep in
bear arms. It's all for show though. There's a lot
of political theater going on. There was another town hall
that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
One moderate doing.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Nothing with my fingers sent it to dfller. Judy Seberger
has now hopped on board with Governor Tim Walls on
his town halls because she knows full well there's not
going to be a special session called. She may have
an opportunity next year during a special session to go
and vote on this. If the Democrats are brave enough
to put this forward and also put their own members
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of the legislature in the spotlight. That would not sign
off on these issues. The City of Dnah was the
latest to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls as
they move forward with another ordinance relating to firearms, which
of course has no legal standing whatsoever. And I'll share
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with you the details on this here in just a moment,
but I want to go here briefly before we talk
about that. Speaking of city Zoe Wrang Mom Donnie of
course winning the mayor's race in New York City, it's
going to be highly entertaining to watch, especially since Governor
Kathy Hochel, while she did endorse Mom Donnie, made it
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clear yesterday that she is not all in on his
progressive policy proposals.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes, I'm from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We don't put up with a lot of crap.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
So I just want to set the stage that, you know,
you look at the history of people who've run multi
billion dollar ad campaigns to try and get me to
change my position.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I don't change my position.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
So I just want to put it out there. I
respect people's opinions, I respect proper place to convey them,
and so I've said I hear you and that it's important,
but also there is a time and place, and so
that's all on that. No, I've had conversations on this trip,
but many conversations i'd say over the summer in the
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fall that were important that led to understanding of what's
in the realm of possibility, shared ambitions.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
But what is doable is the question.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And so now we're aligned on so many of these issues.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
You know, I've made it clear where I.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Have strong disagreements with issues that really do not pertain
to you know, the governance of New York City, and
of course said you need to get a police commissioner
that people trust, who has a record of accomplishment to
keep the trajectory that we're on right now, which is
crime is going down, crime is going down significantly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
She goes on for another minute or so, but basically
what was asked at the beginning of that word salad
was whether or not she was on board with Mom
Donnie's free bust plan and has taxed the rich plan,
of which she said no.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That she wasn't. And this goes back to what I
said earlier.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
When Mom Donnie won the election, he made a lot
of promises He's not going to be able to keep.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Don't misunderstand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
She starts talking about safety and security and law enforcement
in New York City, and he'll be able to put
forward policy that'll have disastrous effects, and certainly when it
comes to seizing buildings, making it difficult for landlords to
go and continue to rent, whether it's freezing the rents
for these buildings, taking away the ability of landlords to
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go and make money by being landlords, increasing fines, putting
landlords in a position where they won't be able to
afford to make repairs, and when they don't, finding them
even further eventually, when they can't pay those fines, watch
Mam Donnie will move in to go and seize those properties,
turn him into subsidized housing with the hope that the
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individuals that would live in that government subsidized housing in
New York City will continue to vote for socialists Like
Mom Donnie. Again, it's going to be really interesting to watch,
and it's going to be an abject failure.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
The question is how.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Quickly is it going to fail and how quickly are
a large group of individuals going to learn just the
devastating impact of socialist policies moving forward?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again, the City of Dyna move forward on a proposed
firearm ordinance, which they cannot do because of preemption here
in Minnesota. And we'll give you details a couple of
different news stories we'll share with you regarding this weekend's
most recent gun at town hall by Governor Tim Walls.
And we'll get to more of your talkbacks from the
iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. Next on
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Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Good Morning, John, I think I beat you to the
punch on that one Sunday during the Vikings game, I
took out all the bags of Christmas lights I had
plugged them in once at a time, tested them, replaced
all the bulbs that didn't work, and made my list
for a trip to pick up four new sets of lights.
So I'm ready for this year. Time to prep. I
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have a great day.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
In thirty and one oh three point five FM.
Speaker 11 (12:07):
Good morning John and Sam, friends and ploes of the shows,
all listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Happy Veterans Day. It's all the veterans out there.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
I just got my free coffee and Correctmas sandwich.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
That quick trip.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Shout out to missus Dawson, the principal of Saint Vincent's
Beahal my kid's school. They have a nice Veterans Day
event honor veterans.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Have a great day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Speaking of veterans, we're going to be joined in studio
coming up in the next segment running for Senate Adam
Schwarze will be joining us twenty one years as a
Marine and Navy Sealm on this Veterans Day and Sam
here on Twin City's News Talk from the sixty five
to one carpet Next Day install Studios. I know there
is something you wanted to mention on this Veterans Day
as well.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Right, Yeah, thanks John. So today is well, I'm a
member of the cross of the community. I do cross
a bit a few times a week, and today is
what's called the Hero Workout Day. Today is either called
the Chad one thousand X or the chadwork Out. It's
essentially I'll just read it from the CrossFit website. Chat
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one thousand X is a CrossFit Hero workout written in
honor of Navy Seal Senior Chief Chad Wilkinson, who died
by suicide on October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, as a
result of several traumatic brain injuries, blast wave injuries and
PTSD stemming from many deployments across more than two decades
of service. The article here goes on to say that
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the crosswit community joins together annually on Veterans' Day and
thousands of CrossFit affiliates and garageiums around the world to
tackle this workout in Chad's memory, raising funds to support veterans'
mental health initiatives through the step of foundation and it
goes on from there.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
If you're doing the chat workout today, good luck, it's
going to be a hard one. The chat workout itself
is you need a twenty inch box, a forty five
pound rucksack or a weighted vests or thirty five pounds
for women, and then you're doing one thousand step ups.
That's the workout. So it's it's a good run. But
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you know, if you're sure, handle it. But I'm good
if you're you know, Crossfitters have been working for a
few weeks to build up to this workout, so you
can't just go into a cold But that being said,
there are scaling options, So if you're not in that
community but you still want to try it, look at
doing some scaling options. You don't need to use a box.
You can just put a couple of plates on the ground.
All that to say, though, there are you know, there's
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a lot of resources out there, a lot of nonprofits
that are doing things for veterans, and really I just
want to mention to the Crisis.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Hotline nine eight eight.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
If anybody needs any type of emergency assistance, whether it's
suicide prevention or just a crisis that you're going through,
you can always reach out. There's plenty of mental health
options out there too, so you're not alone. There's there's
resources out there to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, thank you for that, Sam, and certainly dispels that
ridiculous notion that can CrossFit people we're little off their
rocker because you're as straight as they come.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
So that was like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I remember, wasn't there a thing for a while where
people would always go and they would always the stereotype
around CrossFit trainers like they're a little crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Well, you only know me here, John, that's the thing
that's true. That is a very good that is a
very good point across the community is very welcoming. It's
a really great, great environment. So Yeah, do what you can.
If you're not able to do the chad, try to
scale it. But it's a good way to now, we
think our veterans. But to pay your respects, we will.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We'll revisit this a bit. Coming up in the next
hour as well. At eight thirty this morning, we have
a Congressman Tom Tiffany. He's actually in Minnesota running four
governor Wisconsin, but he's here for a couple of events.
He'll be joining us at at eight thirty and we'll
talk further about this latest town hall. I do want
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to get you up to speed. First story here from
Channel five. Walls keeps pushing four special session on gun violence,
but he's not Walls can call a special session. He's
the only one that can. There was another town hall
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over the weekend. Governor Tim Walls brought along Senate Dfller
Judy C.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Berger.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Considered moderate, she apparently has hopped on board with the
potential of an assault weapons ban and high capacity magazines,
although in her words she said that she's down with
anything that would save lives and has approval which is
incredibly sort of open ended. Let me share with you
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a bit, however, and again we'll get back into more
of this coming up next hour after our conversation with
Adam Swarzy. This is a bit of the story here
from Channel Channel five.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I encourage each and every one of them to
do so.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Let me stop here real quick. That was Judy Sieberger.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Why does it require Republicans to join you? You have
control of the Senate, the House is divided fifty to fifty.
You only need Republicans to join you if you don't
have the votes on your end, which again is why
and you know this, We've talked about it, which is
why Governor Tim Walls has not called for a special
session because he knows this. This is not about policy,
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This is not about saving lives. This is all about narratives.
This is all about Governor Tim Walls running for reelection
and trying to gain and get as much momentum behind
these issues which they won't end up addressing and if
they do next to session, they're going to fail, but
trying to come up with enough that he can use
to push back and dfllers can use to push back
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during next year's elections.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you expect that to happen?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Probably not, Seaburger.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Senate colleague on the other side of the aisle, Andrew Lang,
doesn't expect much progress this session, especially surrounding a weapons ban.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Some of our more most moderate members are a hard
no against anything like that because they know it probably
is not going to make a difference in the long run.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Republicans have focused on strengthening schools safety and investing in
mental health measures. But Senator Lang also points out this
is a bonding year with a lot more on the
table than the gun debate.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
We're trying to pay for water towers.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
We're trying to pray for roads and bridges, and water
treatment facilities and sewet treatment facilities.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
That is got to be number one on our list.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Through recent KCP Survey USA polling, we found that more
than fifty percent supported in assault style weapons ban, and
in that same poll would ask what the most important
issue lawmakers should address in a special session, they said
mental health, followed by guns five at the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Ben Henry five O witness new.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And again that story there from Channel five.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus responded to Sieburger and said
that State Senator Judy Sieberger says she will back more
restrictions on assault style weapons, a significant shift from the
previously undecided swing district democrat who could help decide the
fate of gun control measures next session. The dfler from
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Afton was one of several moderate legislators who did not
publicly say how they would vote on gun control proposals
pushed by Walls after the shooting at the Catholic church.
Sieburger has since resolved to support whatever it takes doing
that thing with my fingers to make Minnesota safer. The
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus goes on to say, I'll be
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a yes on anything and everything that comes through that
will make a difference to reduce gun violence here in
the state Minnesota. She said in a recent interview, that
will really make a difference. Just pulling from her quote,
it's an unanswerable question, and she knows that, and Governor
Tim Walls knows that. As a matter of fact, they
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asked Walls, why doesn't he call a special debate or
a special session without a pre agreement to at least
force a debate over the debate, and Wall said, well,
the debate wouldn't happen. The floor would then be controlled
by Republicans who have made it clear they don't want
to have this discussion. The debate would happen, though they
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would be forced to. You would call a special session.
You guys would go and talk about it again. It's
just another meaningless word salad from Governor Tim Walls instead
of him being open and honest and upfront and saying
I'm not calling a special session because they're members of
my own party that will not sign off on this
and therefore it would.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Be a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Coming up next SENE candidates on a veta date twenty
one years as a Marine and Navy seal. Very pleased
to welcome to studio Adam Schwarze and he'll join us
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one O three five FM.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Bob from Lake Gelmo, Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans. Enjoyed the day as far as Senator Sieberger.
She uses the word moderate but votes every single time
with her radical left. Fellow Democrats comment she's my senator.
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I have contacted her several times. Just give me one
vote and you can claim to be a moderate.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you, Bob for the talk back on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2 (21:47):
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Speaker 1 (21:49):
Next Day Install Studios, Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven
thirty and one O three five FM. My name is
John Justice. I am very pleased on this Veterans Day
running for Senate to Welcome to the show, Adam Schwarze.
Good morning, Adam, Thank you so much for coming in
this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Hey, good Martin, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's awesome to be here, especially after the beloved day
of our Marine Corps yesterday two hundred and fifty years Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I was going to ask you about that. You you
attended a ball over the weekend in honor of that, correct.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, my alma mater at the University of Minnesota about
the thirty some midshipman future Marine Corps, future Navy officers,
and the future is bright. I was really excited to
see look in the face at those young future warriors,
and I was really excited what I saw.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm truly excited for the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We haven't talked about it on the show, but I
know that the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, friend of
the show, you know, had mentioned I think it was
a couple of weeks back, just the meeting of the
recruitment goals across the board for our military.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I mean, just fantastic news.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Certainly, you know, a part of Trump getting re elected
to his non you know, consecutive as second term, but
you know, just sort of dovetailing off of what you mentioned.
It's fantastic to see so many of you know, of
our brave Americans stepping up and wanting to serve this
great nation.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
It was actually to contrast between the end of the
previous administration and this one, before Secretary Hegseth was even confirmed,
just knowing that Trump had put his name forward to
be an agent of changing, specifically cultural change within the
Department Defense. We went from a historic low morale across
the forces, which also then indicated a low recruiting essentially for.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
The last four years.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
On the bite administration, we're lowering the standards to recruit
and still failing to meet those recruitment standards.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Additionally, we just could not retain forces.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
We were short in all the critical components, largely due
to the follow up from forcing members out from the
COVID vaccinations. And within the month of December alone, again
before hegsaths even confirmed, we had over three hundred people
per day enlisting to the United States Army. That's a
historic hi That's never happened before in the history of
the country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm reminded last week on Friday, and this was
ahead of the the different events to.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Honor the Marines two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
But we had a gold Star father on Darren Hoover,
whose son Taylor was killed at Abbey. Yeah, and he also,
I think, much like you had joined had joined up
the military in the wake of nine to eleven.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Correct, Yes you did, and you did as well, Yes, sir,
nine to eleven happy During my senior of high school,
so I watched the Twin Towers fall live in real
time in my senior English class and the funny Stories
I went to go. I was in the process of
trying to listen to the navy already after that, so
I was kind of sleeping at the Valley Westerner in Bloomington,
trying to really get in the fight. At that point,
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the neighbor were office stayed closed, and all of a sudden,
this giant horse of a man in a band costume
walked by me one morning.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
He's like, what are you doing? Hood rat?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Like you sleeping outside the recruiting offices. What are you doing, sir?
I'm trying to and listen in the navy. He said, well,
what are you trying to do? Well, I've always wanted
to be a seal, he said, well, ever thought about
the Marines? What the Marine? I literally had no idea.
It turns out that horse in the bank costume was
actually a marine recruiter.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, just a.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Giant specimen of a man who's like six foot five
to just like how you think of a marine.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
That's what this guy looked like.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
And as one of the sayings, go first to contact,
first to contract. Within about fifteen minutes, you give me
the pitch about Marines being first to fight, and he
did not lie. I enlisted on my eighteenth birthday, about
three weeks later. Raised my right hand, went Marine Corps
infantry and the same year I graduated high school, I
was on the Yellow Foot Princes at Marine Corps Cruit
Depot San Diego and then honestly in my first gunfight
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and firefight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That same year I graduate high.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
School talking with Adam Schwarzi again running for Senate for
the open seat with Tina Smith retiring. Before we get
into that, I certainly want to talk about that. I
am curious twenty one years of serving and first off,
thank you for your service. But with that, you come
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out of the Marines, you decide you're going to run
for office. I want to back up further, though, can
you talk a little bit about the change that it
made in you from your time serving from I mean you,
you know, you told the story now of how you actually,
you know, entered into the Marine Corps, but I'm very
curious to know what you were, you know, how you
viewed yourself as a person when you entered and the
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person that you were coming outside of, you know, coming
out of your time serving.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, thanks for the question, John.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I was just a Midwest kid who grew up on
blue collar values, played hockey like most of Minnesotans do.
But really nothing special or you know, particularly unique about
my upbringing other than it just people who come from
Minnesota are just a heartier people. You know, we're generally
a blue cap class and we're tough individuals from this
part of the country. And so I had that kind
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of just work ethic that took me to the Marine Corps,
and then the Marine Corps really is what set me
up for the for success the rest of my life.
Taking that work that that can teach me honor, teaching
me courage, teaching me commitment, teaching me about team building
those values. Then was I had phenomenal mentors and leaders
as a young Marine who saw potential in me, but
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took the time to mentor that, to foster that. And
that's something that's kind of unique I found out since
I've left the military since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just don't get that in the civilian side.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You don't get such interpersonal mentors that around you in
your personal zone for twenty four hours a day and
they are able to truly see that your soul but
then provide mentorship. There's no job in the civilian sector
where you just get that twenty four hour a day mentorship,
and that's what yielded me to be a good marine
and later on to become a commissioned officer and then
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eventually achieved my dream becoming United States Navy.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
C Talking with Adam Schwarzy, do you think it helped it?
Do you think it helped that you weren't aware of
the Marine Corps in terms of what you were getting into.
Do you think it helped that you were kind of
you know, I don't want to say ignorant, but you know,
not knowing what you were, what you were diving into
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at the time when you when you entered into into
the Marine Corps.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
I just think it was good that I was hungry
and I was impassioned to be to serve my country,
especially after watching the Twin Towers fall.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I wanted to serve.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I was hard in the pathway to serve that further
and bolted my passion to serve my country. And it
was you know, I'm thankful that I went to Marine
Corps entry. I'm thankful later on that I got to
select to be a seal. But I think, honestly, if
I was like cooking in the mess hall or driving
a truck or I think I would have been so excited.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
To do whatever my country asked me to do.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
It just so happens that I got asked to, you know,
be a good entry unit leader and then a good
Navy seal.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You know, it's interesting to me working I was working
in radio at the time of nine to eleven, and
so I was actually on the air that morning working
for an alternative rock station when everything transpired. A much
different dynamic obviously than working in in news talk and
the first part of my of my career, although I
think everybody sort of ended up handling in that day
the same way as we watched everything happen. But you know,
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since then, it's been this idea of never forget, but
holy cow, of a lot of people either well maybe
not have forgotten, but certainly a lot of people have
not been educated into what you know, what it meant
for America to be attacked to that day and you know,
inspired individuals like yourself and others to.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Go in and join.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that continues to be just an ongoing battle to
make sure that people are aware of those those enemies
that still exist because you know, a lot of our
young people just simply have not been educated over that.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yeah, it is sad that it takes a huge, gross
national level incident to cause what's called the rally run
the Flag theory, where people all of a sudden, now
of a sudden, are uber patriotic and care about the flag,
care about the country above all else. And there's some
there's some second order effects of that that are not
good holistically, first in policies, like some of the things
from that came out of the nine to eleven exoor
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that were overreaches. But certainly it's sad that people just
take things for granted until.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
There's a tragedy.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Yeah, and are just But if you look at the
good news, if you look at the Minnesota pult cool
landscape right now, you have a bunch of veterans who
are running for governor, there's a great veteran running for
the attorney general.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
And now you have me running for the US Senate.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
So there's people that are still called to serve and
see that sometimes the real threats are not from foreign shores,
but just from the effects of bad policies with their
own government.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Talking with Adam Schwarzy running for Senate, when did you
decide that you wanted to serve in office.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Yeah, so it is kind of a long, longer answer.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
So in total, I did nine employments to over seventy
five countries, and I'm from Bloomington, Minnesota. Every time I
would come back home from doing these deployments, my home city,
Bloomington was a little worse off every time.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
It was just incrementally worse.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Off to now the city holistically, I don't even recognize
it from the one I grew up in. And then
every time again I came home to Minnesota, I went
to the University Minnesota, I got my undergrad here, I
bought property in downtown Minneapolis. I saw it was on
a negative glide slope. And then during COVID, I saw
the executive branch overstep. I saw how we were treating
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our military members in the Biden administration, and that was
truly my wake up.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Two.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Politics were all sort of kind of connected the dots
for me in that Holy Cow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But it wasn't until.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
George Floyd, right after the beginning of COVID that excuse me,
when Tim Walls allowed Minneapolis to be burned to the ground.
One of my biological sisters lives three blocks away from
the target in Minneapolis that burned to the ground, and
so when that specific event happened, it was kind of
a tripwire for me, and I decided that it didn't
matter how many amazing, super sexy, important strategic Navy Seal
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missions I was doing behind the scenes. Nothing mattered if
our country was going to fail, if Minnesota was going
to fail, if my city was going to go away.
At that point, I decided to put down the sword,
pick up the pen, and like six other sorry, seven
other Navy seals who are now in federal office, this
is the greatest way I can actually impact my country.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You have Tina Smith retiring, you have a couple of
candidates on the Democrat side that are running. Interesting polling
data came out a few weeks ago showing a hypothetical
right not even pointing to a specific candidate of Republican,
just in a hypothetical matchup, and I think a lot
of people were surprised to see that it was a
lot closer than what people expected. What is how are
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you approaching the campaign? Obviously you need to continue to
raise awareness and let people know that you know your name,
ID be being a newcomer. But when you look ahead
of the campaign and the battle between Craig and Flannagain,
I'm really interested to sort of get your perspective and
lay of the land of where you think this race
is going and how you fit into it.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, so let's first talk about that polling specifically it
was leaked pulling from Peggy flannagainst team, And how polling
works generally is the Democrats will do polling that makes
their candidate look really good because it helps with their fundraising,
just like at some point I'll do polling. It's going
to maximize my own candidacy and campaign that.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I'll send out and do fundraising.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
So the polling that was leased by the Flannagan campaign,
it makes her look as good as possible, Okay, And
so she's up two points over as you aptly said,
a no name generic Republican candidate. That is a striking
poll already because it's already been two points very close.
What that poll also says by not saying it, it's
two points versus a generic Republican candidate. So what's awesome
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about that is the best metric for future success is
past performance. So I was talking about earlier the seven
other Navy seals who are in federal office. Ninety three
percent of incumbents they win reelection every single time. I
don't have to face that in this selection because Tina
Smith is stepping down, But ninety three percent of the
time if I were to go up against an incumbent,
they come at wins. Navy Seals this weird small bastion
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of Americans. Seven out of seven, we're seven for seven
and flipping federal seats.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
We have not failed.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Most recently, you actually have another Minnesota Navy Seal and
Tim Shey who's only thirty eight year old, who flipped
out a three term incumbent and a fifth generation rancher
in John Tester in Montana. So the national donor scene recognizes, now,
holy cow, the Seals for forever reason, we're a winning brand,
We're a great investment, and so they count that. Now
for my race in Minnesota, there's an entity called side
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Cards and other like independent nonpartisan polling thing that quantified
what the Navy Seal bump is in Minnesota. So you
take the regular generic Republican, the Navy Seal Republican now
gets six point eight. So if you take Flanna against Pole,
who's up to and then you take the Navy seal
bump six point eight.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I'm up four point eight.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And then you also have a situation with this within
the Democrat Party itself, of the Democrat Party trying to
decide which candidate that they want to roll with between
Angie Craig and and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flannagain. You've got
a lot of endorsements rolling in for Peggy Flann again,
but you also have an individual in Angie Craig who's
been around for a while and has her own deep
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roots within DC already.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yes, so you have essentially Angie Craig who's fighting for
Washington in Minnesota, and then you have me who's fighting
for Minnesota and Washington. That's the best way I can
contrast myself to Angie Craig. I think two thirds of
her money comes from the Beltway, from Washington packs and
insider and all that stuff. The interesting thing that you've
highlight is the two factions on the Democrat Party. Well,
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first off, on the Republican side, I'm the only candidate
going for the endorsement at this point, so that's really great.
It's likely I'll get the endorsement since I'm the only
one committed.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
To that process.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
But you would have expected a reasonable and irrational person
would have expected after the Shellaki and the Democrats took
during this last presidential election that they'd kind of try
to rebrand their party and actually maybe earn some of
the support of the farmers, the laborers, the blue collar
people that they've holistically turned their back on, specifically in
greater Minnesota that used to be all blue land, now
it's all red.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
They have not done that. They've doubled down on the radicalism.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
If you look at New York now the capital the
world's financial capitals, now by an open socialist, an open
socialist Marxist olmar Fatag got within striking distance of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They have not rebranded.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
They are doubling down on the DEI, the political identity,
the wokeism, and yeah, Bernie Sanders, Keith Elis and Julia Blaha,
Steve Simon, Elizabeth Warren and over half of the Minnesota
legislature have all gotten behind Flanagan in her race. And
so I think it's very likely that not only does
she get the endorsement, she wins the primary. And that's
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I love that because then I get to talk about
just all of her faith When I talk about the
best metric to future success, it's past performance. Well, Flanagan's
performance for Minnesota has been abysmal. You know the eight
billion dollars in fraud. It came out three days ago.
She spent three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on
her government credit card. I don't think most of Missortians
can even fathom taking a business card and racking up
(36:31):
three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on it. So
I'm going to take her to task on just her record.
We don't need to get personal. We don't talk about
social issues. We can talk about her record and her
failure as a leader in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What is it talking with again? Adam Swarzy running for Senate?
Where's your focus right now? Are you now just focused
on leading into the endorsement and heading into next year
or are you already sort of looking You've laid out
your expectation in terms of flanningg in, But how much
focus are you putting on her right now? Where is
your focus right now?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Overall?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Well, as a military guy, if everything is a priority,
then nothing is truly a priority. So my priorities are
the endorsement, raising money for the endorsement, and building a
war chest for the general. And it is a unique
opportunity that we have a twenty year opportunity that it's
truly to vacancy. So I'm not fighting thecumbent, and it's
a thirty year opportunity that there's really not an off
ramp for Peggy Flannagan nor Angie Craig. They're gonna have
(37:26):
a head on, bloody collision in their primary, and that's
usually the Republicans do that, especially.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
In Minnesota, and we're kind of doing that. For the
governor's race.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
We have I think nine candidates in I know there's
gonna be a thing two more. So we're gonna have
eleven candidates all you know, blood letting each other for
that primary. Well, Wallace just walks away, you know, twenty
million dollars by next August, we're gonna have eleven candidates
bleeding all their bank accounts dry.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
Well.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
The good news for the US Senate, it's the opposite.
I'm just going to continue to make money, build my brand,
run I'm running the general election right now. Common sense policies,
building back the middle class, getting government out of the way,
making adoptions more affordable and easier so we can truly
embrace life, getting parents back control of the driver's seat
of their families again. These are things I'm trying to
positively impact people's lives and really burning a positive campaign
(38:10):
right now.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Adam Swarze again running for Senate, thank you so much
for joining us on this Veteran's Day. For people that
want to find out more about your campaign and potentially
want to support you, where would you like them to go?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Schwarzefor Senate dot com, s C h W A r
Z for Senate dot Com. If you reach out to
us and we will get back to you, or I
will personally get.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Back to How are you going to be spending the
rest of your veterance Day?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I have a couple of events planned.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I'm very excited to break brot with my brothers and
sisters that I've served with and looking forward to meet
some Minnesota veterans as well.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We had a and I'll be sharing these coming up
in just a moment. We had several talkbacks that rolled
in along those same lines, other veterans wishing you a
great day as well. I wanted to pass that along
and again we'll play those coming up in Adam Swarzy,
thank you so much for your time this morning. We'll
continue to watch your campaign with a lot of enthusiasm.
I look forward to the next time you can join
us in the show.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Thank you appreciate it being here. Cop Bleuss Show.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
We'll get to those talkbacks coming up again. Congressman Tom
Tiffany will be joining us at eight thirty this morning.
We'll revisit as well, Minnesota senator weighing in on gun
control next legislative session. Another Governor Tim Walls town hall
from over the weekend, and this ridiculous ordinance now being
attempted in DNA relating to firearms. All coming up on
(39:27):
Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh
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