November 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Jon shares his opinion on the "international law" comments by NYC mayor-elect Mamdani and tackles rising healthcare costs. Jon is joined in studio by Lt. Gov. candidate Ryan Wilson to share his platform and the glaring issues facing Minnesota now.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Is this the last Christmas for New York City? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Said Power two on Twin Cities News Talking Am eleven
thirty and one three five f M from the sixty
five to one Carpet plus Next Day Install Studios. My
name is John Justice, Master Control Booth. We have Sam
and with the election of socialist Muslims Zohoran mom Donnie
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as New York City's new mayor, this Christmas could mark
the last normal one in New York City for a while.
The Daily wire Piece says, instead of pushing New Yorkers
to strive toward the entrepreneurial spirit that's always been associated
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with the Big Apple, Mom Donnie wants to create government
and run grocery stores and make transportation completely free. Nothing
says Christmas like taking a free, crowded bus to a
government run grocery store. Take a stand into breadline. Of course,
Christmas will always survive because a holiday is based on
the birth of our eternal Savior. But some traditions we
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love about Christmas in New York City could be threatened
if Zohoron and his socialist coalition get their way. And
you have Robin Wansley and the Democrats socialists on the
Minneapolis City Council also wanting free grocery stores as well.
None of this should come as a surprise. It is interesting, though,
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to see what happens next year around Christmas time, to
see what Zohoron does or doesn't. Speaking of which, a
lot of individuals are saying that Mom Donnie is completely
out of his league. We've highlighted on the show the
fact that a lot of what he ran on he
simply cannot move forward and do it is beyond the
(02:02):
power of the Mayor's office in New York City. Then
comes this clip here, and I have a couple of
different clips from Mom Donnie. We have Peggy flan Again,
Kelly Morrison. All of these are good examples of how
democrats thrive off of lies and manipulation regarding their policies.
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In this one of the more insane things that I've
heard of politicians say, next to the ridiculousness of Peggy
Flan again.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We'll so'll share here in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But in an interview recently with a New York City
news outlet, Mom Donnie declared that New York is a
city of international law.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You said you would arrest Benjamin Attyahoo based on THEOS
twenty twenty four International Court arrest warrant. Next you and
General Assembly as mayor, would you do that?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So I've said time and again that I believe this
is a city of international law, and being a city
of law means looking to uphold international law, and that
means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether
they're for Benjamin Niaw or Vladimir Putin. I think that
that's critically important to showcase our values. And unlike Donald Trump,
I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of
the laws that we have, so I will look to
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exhaust every legal possibility, not to create my own laws
to do so.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
On the other hand, this is also a world event.
Does that not count a little bit?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think we are a global city. But I also
think what New Yorkers are looking for is consistency in
the way in which we talk about our values and
follow through on them. And that's why I think these
warrants from the International Criminal Court they are worth fully
exploring every legal possibility to actually follow through on.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And again it's another good example of how this is
just pure fantasy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
New York is.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Of course under you United States law, you can't just
selectively pick what enforcement that you want to use.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, Democrats try.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But this international law take by Mam Donnie.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's a distraction. It's a cover.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
For his desire to continue to defund police, dismantle law enforcement,
embrace sanctuary policies, getting people to believe that there is
some sort of international law that New York can follow
that goes and justifies the extreme socialist policy ideas that
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Mam Donnie has. Unfortunately, he's working with a base of
voters that are susceptible to this type of word manipulation.
Speaking of word manipulation, this one just made me laugh.
Peggy Flanagan posted this online yesterday, and I'm not surprised
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this she would go and post a commentary like this.
I just I wish that it were done in a
public forum where she could be questioned on her commentary
here and what it ultimately says and how it really
does run completely contrary to a lot of Democrat policies
and beliefs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So just listen to what Peggy Finagin has to say.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Here are four moms in the Senate with children under
the age of eighteen four, Like no wonder, we haven't
made right like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or
passing paid family a medical leave, or increasing the minimum
wage right which has been seventy dollars and twenty five
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cents at the federal level and hasn't gone up in
you know, sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
This this matters.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So this simpleton argument would lead one to believe that
because in Peggy flannagain mine, there are only four moms
with kids under the age of eighteen in the Senate,
that they can't possibly go and pass those and aren't
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moms or have children. The men who have children apparently
don't matter, and therefore it's not a surprise that all
of these different items that are what gender exclusive cannot
be passed because there aren't more moms with kids to
go and relate to it. So what is it so,
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Peggy Flanagan does she own a firearm? If she doesn't
own a firearm, then under her mentality, how can she
possibly go and speak to issues relating to the Second Amendment?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Are four moms in a Senate with children under the
age of eighteen four? Like no wonder, we haven't made
right like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or passing
paid family and medical leave, or increasing the minimum wage
right which has been seventy dollars and twenty five cents
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at the federal level and hasn't gone up in you know,
sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
This this matters.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So here's a question.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Are those that are serving an office, I mean, are
they competent? Are they reading the bills? They were elected
by their constituents, right? I mean this idea that if
you don't have kids, therefore you can't go and possibly
have an opinion or support policies relating to kids if
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you don't have any imagine thinking essentially only moms and
only those currently with kids under eighteen can understand any
particular issue. Is She posted that like it's a good thing,
But it speaks too what the Democrats do right now.
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They manipulate, they lie, They present these ridiculous arguments. They
don't bother to go and back them up. They're rarely
challenged on them. And thankfully, there was a lot of
people that were course correcting Peggy Flanagan's comments in that clip, but.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There were also almost an equal number of individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That were like, yeah, that's right, Peggy got them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We need more women with children.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
His representation not to mention the fact that doesn't this
completely run contrary to the democrats beliefs regarding gender identity.
Coming from the woman who wore they protect trans kids
a black T shirt adorned with a knife on it.
I know I say it a lot, but it's appropriate,
Like make it make sense. Got a couple of comments
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that came in regarding mom Donnie and his international law
in New York City.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Comment, Hey, John, I don't know the international law on
man's a US slash New York law sounds a little
insurrection to me.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now insurrection, I like that.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Yeah, Mom Donnie's position that New York is an international
city governed by international law is more than just fantasy.
It's active sedition.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Literally, that's what that is.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
It's active sedition saying we don't we're not subject to
the law of the United States or an independent city,
and we're governed by international law and not United States. Sow,
that's sedition.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Hi, John Dave from elk River about the Peggy Flanagan comments,
if they would get rid of people being able to
stay in power for centuries, we might have some younger
people in office. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's a really, really good point. All right, we'll get
back to more of your comments coming up in just
a moment. We'll keep with the theme another equally ridiculous
audio clip Representative Kelly Morrison, who was absolutely insufferable.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
On x.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
She took to the platform to complain regarding a what
apparently is a real SOB story of a constituent concerned
about rising healthcare premium costs. But again it's completely void
of the truth and the actual context of what is
taking place regarding the issue of which apparently Representative Kelly
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Morrison is fighting for. Once I give you details on
that one expensive Minnesota, Minnesotan's facing an extra one to
billion in property taxes next year, and we have Ryan Wilson,
Lieutenant Governor candidate, joining us in studio, plus more of
your comments from the iHeartRadio app. It's all coming up
on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and one
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oh three five FM. I have a lot of great
talkbacks that have come into the iHeartRadio app regarding the
clip that I played from candidate Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan
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lamenting that there are four moms with kids under eighteen
in the US Senate. It's no wonder that all of
these specific items relating to things that only apparently in
Peggy Flannagan's mind women with children can relate to, haven't
been passed. Seems incredibly shortsighted. We'll get to your comments
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here in just a moment, but I want to keep
with the theme because I have another clip and you
can put it right in the same category as zohoron
mom Donnie his international law in New York City, ridiculous commentary,
Peggy Flannagan's assumptions of gender and what people are more
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knowledgegible in Before I Play You Representative Kelly Morrison. Let
me just set the table news this morning, looking at
a version here from Fox nine. You Care is shutting
down next year, and Medica will take control of its
existing health plans in the Medicaid family and individual markets.
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So Medica's acquisition of you Care's health plans was announced
yesterday in a joint press conference. You Care itself was
created more than forty years ago, primarily to offer healthcare
coverage to low income policy holders, but you Care has
recently struggled to navigate the turbulent healthcare markets. It was
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announcder earlier this year, plans to cut the Medicaid coverage
and exit the Medicare advantage market altogether. Monday's announcement punctuates
a dramatic fall for you Care in recent years. They
reported a half billion dollar loss. The HMO tried to
engage in a turnaround plan with the state of Minnesota
after reporting a net income loss of five hundred million
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last year. The significant drop in revenue came just two
years after u Care reported a net income surplus of
three hundred and twenty five million. It is a broken
record relating to COVID or relief funds from so many
different entities here in the state.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Where they're trucking along.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Fine, they get this influx of COVID money, the revenue balloons,
and then suddenly it's all good. You Care acknowledge the
surplus was likely an outlier because of the unique circumstances
attributed by the pandemic. Oh, that's an interesting way to
word it. Instead the company's losses we're piling up. You
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Care failed a financial trend test earlier this year, triggering
a turnaround plan with the state. So how much of
this was misappropriation of COVID relief funds that led to
the downfall of you Care. So Kelly Morrison representative post
this online telling a what I'm sure to be an
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incredibly real SOB story. Right, I'm sure she didn't make
up this story of a constituent concerned about rising healthcare
premium costs. What's interesting about this, though, is in the
clip you see Representative Kelly Morrison speaking to the camera,
but then she overlays some text from stories on top
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of it, and one of the stories that she puts
is you Care prior to this announcement of their shutting
down to Medica taking over, with concerns over getting cuts
from you Care, which apparently has nothing to do with
the complaints that Kelly Morrison is putting forward regarding Republicans,
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which is the point that she tries to make in
this clip.
Speaker 11 (15:08):
I just got a message from a constituent whose health
insurance is about to increase by twelve hundred dollars a month.
She's a teacher, she just retired from a long career,
more than thirty five years of teaching. She's scared she
may lose her health insurance because she can't afford it.
I mean, who could twelve hundred dollars more a month
and unexpected additional health costs is insane. No one should
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have to live with that stress, that financial burden, that uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
By the way, there is no evidence based off of
one that this story that she's presenting the alleged constituent
worried about her rising health care costs and whether or
not those concerns were even legitimate. There are so many
Democrats out there that have been duped by the elected
officials that they voted for into believing that what the
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Trump administration is doing or wholesale cuts to Medicaid, when
in actuality, as we have talked about on the show
and demonstrated, no, it's about just like snap, getting rid
of the waste and the fraud and the abuse in
the program. If you are eligible for these funds, you're
probably still going to be able to get it, except
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in this case, she takes it a step further points
to the you Care concerns, which aren't even a part
of this argument, because you Care was dealing with their
own problems.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
Just to be able to get the basic care they
need to be healthy and live their life. I've been
getting so many messages like this, every member of Congress
HUDs because tens of millions of Americans are seeing their
health insurance premiums double or triple. Millions will lose their
health insurance because they simply cannot afford it. It's heartbreaking
and it's shocking that the Republican majority in Congress is
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hearing these same pleas from scared Americans, from the people
who won't be able to afford health insurance, and yet
absolutely refuses to address it. This fight is far from over,
and we're never going to give up. I'm here and
I'm going to keep working every day. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's heartbreaking is what Democrats refuse to address, and that
is the lies and the lack of context and the
propaganda that they spew when they want to perpetuate this
idea that millions are going to lose their healthcare coverage
when really what we're talking about are individuals that should
never have had access to that healthcare coverage in the
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first place, who were committing acts of fraud. And again
it's lies and manipulation coming from mom Donnie and his
comments about international law only to go and convince individuals
in New York City that when he moves forward to
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dismantle and defund law enforcement when he looks to go
and prosecute to individuals beyond his purview as mayor. He's
now got this argument enough, Well, we're just looking at
international law when it comes to Peggy Flanagan and her
ridiculous assertion that unless you're a woman with kids, you
can't possibly know or be knowledgeable about particular issues.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Are four moms in the Senate with children under the
age of eighteen four? Like, no, wonder we haven't made right,
like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or passing paid
family and medical leave, or increasing the minimum wage right
which has been seventy dollars and twenty five cents at
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the federal level and hasn't gone up in you know,
sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This this matters.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
One in John Mark from New Hope here. I am
so tired of this minimum wage hasn't gone up in
sixteen years argument. My three daughters, who are twenty two, twenty,
and seventeen, all started working at the age of fourteen,
and none of them starting at seven twenty five an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
In fact, I think the.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Lowest wage any one of them started at was ten
dollars an hour, and it's usually much higher than that.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
My home is now under international law, and I am
not going to pay any more increases in my property taxes.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
Minnesota is taking people out of their homes because of
what they're doing to their property taxes. So let's just
go by that international law bs and.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Not pay them.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And I'm going to sit back and patiently wait for
Representative Kelly Morrison to put up another insufferable video.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Where she laments.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The property owners here in Minnesota facing one billion dollars
in property tax hikes next year, the fear that that's
putting in to the homeowners here in the state, the
concern that they had of the rising costs of their
property taxes. I'll just sit back and wait for her
to post that video with all the reasons why that
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is taking place under Governor Tim Walls and his one
expensive Minnesota.
Speaker 12 (20:11):
Did Peggy Flanagan just admit that the congress people only
vote for things that benefit them.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Certainly sounded like it all right.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Coming up candidate for Lieutenant governor running on the ticket
with Lisa Damuth's running for governor, Ryan Wilson. I'll join
me in studio next here on Twinsday's News Talk Am
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
I just got a message from a constituent whose health
insurance is about to increase by twelve hundred dollars a month.
She's a teacher, she just retired from a long career,
more than thirty five.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Years of teaching.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
She's scared she may lose her health insurance because she
can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Representative Kelly Morrison got a couple of comments based off
of that clip here on Twinsday News Talk from the
sixty five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios.
Speaker 14 (21:03):
As to Kelly Morrison, stop talking, you don't know what
you're talking about. How about we have incentives and cost
reductions for those individuals that actually preventively keep themselves in
shape through exercise, diet, they don't smoke, No, of course
not that would be punishing those poor people that sit
on their dufts, motionism, medicine, plain and simple. Start taking
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care of your bodies and healthcare.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Costs will fall.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
A friend of the show, Scott is certainly the example
of maintaining your fitness, because that guy has more energy
than certainly that I have, even with the good night's
sleep from my night gummies from Many Leaf here on
Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 15 (21:45):
Good morning John, for all these knuckleheads who believe people
like Kelly Morrison is my representative. By the way, sorry,
help they're paying attention because why is that a school
district is only a special election next to April? Half
of billion dollars they want for the school district here,
that's already the majority of my property taxes. I don't
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know who's still voting for these Democrats and stop, stop, stop,
we don't have any more money. Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, And the talkback makes a great point.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
As a matter of fact, I have that story in
my stack, Judy regarding why Zetta board approving the special
election for four hundred and ninety six million dollars to
cover the new facilities. And when you look at the
fact that the property taxes are going up in Minnesota,
they talk about inflation and also rising operational costs for
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local governments and also school district levies as well. There's
a lot of different reasons. And joining me in studio
this morning to help sort this out and talk about
a host.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Of other issues.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Fresh off of the announcement that he has joined Lisa
Damith and her gubernatorial campaign running as lieutenant governor. Ryan
Wilson joins us in studio. Good morning, Ryan, good morning.
I was great to be in studio with you. Thanks
so much for for coming on and congrats on the
on the announcement. What has a response been so far
since you've been added to the Lisa Damuth.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Ticket and talk a little bit about how that came about. Yeah,
you know, it's been great.
Speaker 16 (23:11):
You know, I campaign obviously four years ago for state auditor,
got to travel the state and it's good being back
to meet people. You know, we're going to BPOU meetings
and we're going around the state talking to different areas.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And just just love talking to people.
Speaker 16 (23:21):
I love getting out there, getting on the trail and
it's always tough being away from home. I got five
kids and they all got hockey now and all that stuff,
but it's fun and their support of this, and you know,
I just get love meeting the people and hearing their concerns.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And this is one of the things that came up
last night.
Speaker 16 (23:35):
You know, there's billion dollars in you know, an increased
property taxes and you know it's people.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Don't see it's a billion dollars for them.
Speaker 16 (23:40):
It's a thousand dollars for them, right, it's budget, it's
stuff out of their budget.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That they didn't plan for.
Speaker 16 (23:44):
And you take us, you know, senior citizen on a
fixed budget, you know, how are they gonna make? How
are they going to stay in their house when they
know that property tax is coming? And so people are
worried in their concern and they see the recklessness that's
happened under Tim Walls and what they want change.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And I guess that would be the first question that
I would have is and we can get into we'll
get into some more of the the details regarding these
property tax increases, because this is going to be different
depending on the county that you that you live in,
and these are happening at that level. They're having at
the county at the county level. But the question I
wanted to start off with was, you know, how much
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of this is because of just how expensive the state
of Minnesota has become under Governor Tim Walls and DFL policies.
I mean, I guess you can you can also add
to that, you know, is this more aligned with sort
of classic you know, classic tax and spend liberal policies,
But how much onus would you put on the walls
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of administration when you look at this massive property tax
increase here in Minnesota next year.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I mean, here's the absurdity of it.
Speaker 16 (24:46):
So during you know, was it the twenty two to
twenty three sessions when when Democrats had one party control,
they had the host the Senate, they could pass whatever
they wanted.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They blew through that eighteen billion.
Speaker 16 (24:56):
Dollar surplus that they had, and they added I think
what was a ten billion dollars in new taxes on
top of that, So you had all that together, you know,
it's it's spending us off the rails. And on top
of that, we're seeing now that there are additional policies
that pushed more spending to the county. So not only
are they you know, spending more money at the state level,
you know, they're draining, they're putting more mandates on counties,
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on schools, on things that require property tax increases.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So it's a double whammy. So people are just starting.
Speaker 16 (25:22):
To see some you know, the tip of the iceberg
in terms of what that one party Democrat control brought us,
and it's only going to keep getting worse.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What can be done about it? How do we go
and address this? I mean again, these are head this
is happening at the at the county level.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What can be what can be done? Can anything be done?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You know at you know, at the top, you know,
by the governor's office, by the lieutenant governor's office.
Speaker 16 (25:45):
Well, sure, with the leadership change, a lot could be done.
You know, what we saw a last session is you know,
we're you know, they spent through the Democrats spent through
the eighteen billion dollars start plus added ten billion dollars
in more taxes because that wasn't enough, and uh, that
put us towards a fiscal cliff. And so we're already
starting to see you know, deficits on the horizon. Republicans
are having to step in and solve some of these problems.
The Dame with Wilson ticket knows that when we win,
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we're going to have a problem that's going to have
to be solved. You know, there's a five billion dollar
plus deficit coming down the pipe here and it's gonna
you know, it's going to require good, responsible people to
fix that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And so what did we see last session?
Speaker 16 (26:19):
We were the Republicans were able to get the largest
reduction in spending in state history.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I think it's about five billion.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Dollars, pairing it back from record setting levels from the Democrats,
and that was with one half of one house, you know,
of all all the state government, and you give Republicans
more power, you're going to see more good things. They're
going to see more budget reduction. You're going to see
more relief on counties. At the same time, we need
counties and also be more responsible to the right.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
See a lot of pet projects.
Speaker 16 (26:46):
You know, I think we don't remember a couple of
weeks ago, we saw that project up in a Nooko
where they wanted to do the what was it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The surfboard park on the right river.
Speaker 16 (26:54):
And so you know there's gonna be things like that
that you know, people it's local control.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They decided how they want to spend their money.
Speaker 16 (27:00):
If they don't want property texts, they're going to have
to hold their counties a little bit more accountable as well.
But it starts with you know, Wallas has a had
a fundamental proposition that he wanted to spend more at
the state level, and one way to do that is
shifting some of those burdens down the counties. So we
have to take some of that back. We have to
make sure that we're not over burdening counties.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Looking at the situation and just as an example in Wysetta,
So their proposal almost five hundred million dollars includes building
a new elementary and middle school, adding to the Wysetta
High School, upgrading classrooms, upgrading kitchens and cafeterias, building a
new eight lane pool at Wisetta High School. So the
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question about the pool is contingent upon whether the voters
go and approve that four hundred and sixty five million
dollar bond. So the voters are going to be asked
during a special election they'll mole weather using an existing
multi million dollar technology levee should be extended. They'll also
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be asked whether the district should issue the four hundred
and sixty five million general obligation bonds to fund new
buildings and various upgrades. And then the third question would
be whether the district should issue thirty one million in
general obligation bonds that would include the construction of the
pool that I mentioned. The question about the pool is
contingent on the voters improving that that have four hundred
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and sixty five million. So, by example, for a home
value at six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, approval of
the questions would add three hundred and ninety six dollars
per year on property taxes. Let me ask a larger
sort of you know, thirty thousand foot view question. And
a lot of people bring this up, and I brought
it up. Now here you have another circumstance of a
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school and we saw these referendums and other districts pass
where these school boards are asking for all this money
and yet the Walls administration and the DFL at the
time of the trifecta, you know, we were all told
they were fully funding education. So what's been going on here?
Where did all that money go that went to the schools?
And why did they need to do so continue to
request these special funds.
Speaker 16 (29:03):
You know, I think that's the big charade of what
happened under the one party Democrat control is we were
told all these great utopian solutions happened, and now that
we're starting to peel back the onion, we're seeing you
know that now they're not quite what was promised and
not even close to what was promised. Right, So you know,
the second they said schools were fully funded, what do
we see school saying you don't have enough money?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Right?
Speaker 16 (29:23):
Too many mandates, too much And they're right about that.
There were too many mandates put on schools and schools
need relief from those mandates. And so you know where
did the money go. It's going to special interests. It's
going to bureaucrats, right. You know one of the things
we talked about this, We talked about this during the
auditor's race, and it's just as true now. We need
to make sure that money is making it to the classrooms,
to the students, so the kids can learn, so they
can recover from you know, Tim Walls is you know
COVID learning loss that they have and that it can rebound,
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and so instead it's going to bureaucrats and special projects
and things that don't help kids learn.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Good morning, John Dustin from Zimmerman.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I just wanted to let you know kind of that
I got my proposed pri pretty tax statement and it's only.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Going up about twelve bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So if it's obviously based on county, but for me
at least nothing much.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
Really there have a go on.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So all seven counties in the Twin Cities metro area
are proposing higher property tax levies, so you looking at
ten percent in Ramsey, Dakota, Scott and Anoka counties. On
top of that, many cities levees are jumping by four
to eighteen percent across the state. City officials say they're
contending with inflation, higher insurance costs, wage increases, and requests
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to fund long term projects. The tax levies are still preliminary.
Counties and cities will finalize them in December after homeowners
share their opinions of public hearings. And that's the other
part that I wanted to mention too, is that if
you're unhappy with your property tax notice, you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Can contest that.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
At the beginning of twenty twenty five when assessed and
some valuations were conducted. However, the cycle is about to
restart for those that are wishing to appeal. Homeowners can
actually go and dispute the properties value or classification, potentially
reducing their property taxes if successful, and I imagine a
lot of people are probably going to move forward to
to do that. This does seem like it's going to
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require a long term solution in order to fix this
problem that people are going to be faced with next year.
It is going to vary based off of the county
that year in but this is also something that people
are going to have to live with for quite a
while until we can, you know, hopefully get some new
leadership and get things under control, right.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right, and Wilson, well you get the nail on the
head there. I think you know what's going to change.
Speaker 16 (31:40):
This is leadership, right, Damth Wilson ticket is going to
put a priority on making sure money stays in people's
pockets as opposed to the government taking it going through
ten different agencies, getting spent on NGO's at the county level.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Right.
Speaker 16 (31:51):
This needs to be built from the bottom up. We
can't just look at increases on the increases in the budget.
You know, we need to go to the bottom look
at where all the money is going. You know, all
the sixty plus billion dollars in spending is happening, so
that you know, we can be good stewards. You know,
we're looking at a billion dollars in potential property text increases, right.
You know what else is a billion plus dollars the
amount of fraud in Minnesota. Right, And so you know,
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one of the things that Republicans invested in and fought
for during during this last budget negotiation was helping counties
upgrade their IT systems, for example, so they could do
things like catch fraud. Right that shouldn't have been a
contentious issue, but ended up being negotiating item.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Democrats fraud.
Speaker 16 (32:25):
If you feel like it feels like there's a theme
every time there's this idea of what's root out a
little fraud or let's maybe you know, make sure that
the tax dollars are going where they're supposed to go.
You get pushed back, you know, from from the DFL
and things that shouldn't be controversial, but yeah, they end
up but they but they end up being controversial. Let's
get back to a few of your comments from the
iHeartRadio app again running for Lieutenant governor with Lisa Damuth.
(32:45):
We have Ryan Wilson in stud You have you any
questions for him, you can put those into the iHeartRadio
app talkbacks brought to you by Lyndall Realty.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hi John.
Speaker 17 (32:55):
The Democrats knew what they were doing when they had
a tra EFFECTA and they knew that they were going
to everything through that they could, and they weren't concerned
about losing the next elections because they knew that the
Republicans were going to have to try and fix everything,
and then public would get mad at the Republicans because
they're taking away all their benefits the evil Plan, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You mentioned the fraud this broke as well overnight. Looking
at a version here from Channel five. The Minnesota Legislative
Audit Commission picked four new state programs for the Legislative
Auditor to focus on next year. They range from autism
programs and schools, to mendots, handling of private contractors, to
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regulation of the state nursing home care. The list also
includes a scrutiny of how the Department of Human Services
Office of Inspector General does its job. I guess I'm
kind of scratching my head going First off, we already
know that there's fraud in a number of these of
these programs. I guess, why weren't we already looking at this?
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And it seems like it's a lot of I mean,
I hope that they end up finding this fraud, but
if something tells me they already know it's there and
they're just trying to catch you up to the fact
that fraud has become such a huge issue in the state,
and the burden can't be on.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
The Office of Legislative Auditor to be able to ferret
this all out. I mean, there's only so much scope
that they have, only so much that they can do,
and it's a bit of whack a mole, right, They're
able to look at a couple of programs here and
then another one pops up that's fraudul than what we need.
And this again gets back to you'll see a common
theme new leadership that from the top down make sure
that all of the agencies have a culture of not
wanting to waste taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
And that's where again I'm.
Speaker 16 (34:38):
I'm gonna go push the dame with Wilson ticket too,
have you, But I think we have sure very specific
policies they're going to go and be able to root
out some of this fraud.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It gets back to culture and leadership.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
You know, as a microcosm of this, we saw an
audit of Tim Wallas's Governor's office, right what was it
a week ago, and you know, there were payrolls being
approved without any oversights, credit cards being used, you know,
outside of.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Policies, and so his own office failed.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
I think it was what nine ten to eleven findings
that they failed to pass, right, And so you can't
keep your own house in order, how are you going
to manage all of the government, all these agencies and
the billions of dollars in spending. And it just got
back to an apathy. It's a lack of caring that
somebody had to work hard for that. So I'm gonna
get too philosophically here, But when somebody goes and they
do their job and they're working hard, that's time away
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from their family. That's time away from something else that
could be doing in life. That's time they'll never get back.
And so when that money is stolen or wasted by
our government, you're stealing somebody's time.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You're stealing somebody.
Speaker 16 (35:31):
You know, that's an hour somebody could have had with
their kids playing catch or watching a hockey game or
doing something else. Right, And so what we need is
leadership that cares more about people, about people's time, and
not this kind of folk caring that we see, this
fate caring that we see, you know from the current administration.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Talking with Lieutenant governor candidates Ryan Wilson and Studio let's
get back to some of your comments from the iHeartRadio
app to.
Speaker 18 (35:55):
The talk packer that called in and said his taxes
were only going up about twelve bucks a month. That's
not the point, and I appreciate your comment, But twelve
bucks a months times twelve months is one hundred and
forty four dollars. And then they come back again and
ask for it next year. Do the path one hundred
and forty four dollars if your property taxes or anything
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other than one thousand dollars, that's like a three percent,
four percent increase.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
John Drew from West Central say, farmland out in the
western part of the county went up last year. I
had a parcel went up sixty six percent. This year
it's only going up six percent, but if you look
over the last number of years gone, it's doubled. And
the problem that we seem to face is that banks,
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local governments, real estate do not want properties values to decrease.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Well, that's something that has to has to change as well.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'm curious in since you've been attached to Lisa Damouth's
ticket and you've had the opportunity to begin the campaign,
have you noticed any differences this time around as opposed
to when you ran for for auditor. You know, I've
certainly been talking a lot on the show just of
how the dynamics have changed, especially in the way the
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Democrats have been operating in opposition to Republicans.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
It's gotten much more extreme.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I'm just curious to get your thoughts if you've already
noticed a difference yet, or if you still think you're
going to need some more time as the campaign continues.
Speaker 16 (37:32):
You know, one of the things I've noticed is I
think that the case is going to be much clearer
to make, especially you know, running running at the top
of the ticket. When I ran around the state four
years ago talking about fraud. Back then, it was with
someone somebody say, what quaint quarter billion dollars. Right now
we're up to two billion dollars plus in pushing this,
and so you know, the Democrats are making the case
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for us as to why we need you know, the
adult to get back in the room, why we need
you know, new leadership, and so you know the again,
the Democrats are writing the writing the talking points for us.
It's their own policies are failing and crashing down around us,
and Minnesotas are starting to see that, you know, we
need new leadership. It can be it can be good
in Minnesota, right, things can be better. Things weren't great
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pre COVID. Right, there's a lot of stuff that you
know needed to change. But that budget seemed to be
working just fine, that budget level. And so where are
we going up? You know, twenty thirty billion dollars since
I think a sixty seven percent increase in the in
the state budget. And so even if we're just looking
back a couple of years, that's attainable, that's reachable, and
that's where we can start to get some of this
stuff like property tax relief. We can stop overburdening counties.
We can stop putting it. At the end of the day,
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it's taxpayers money. They don't care if it's coming from
income tax, sales tax, property tax.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
It's all money out of our pockets.
Speaker 16 (38:43):
Right, And so this idea, you know, we look at
some of the governor walls to him, it's a shell game. Well,
I can spend more at the state level, and you know,
I'll just push that on the county and hopefully, hopefully
the voters aren't smart enough to figure out, right, and
that's what he's that's what he's presumably thinking here. And
and uh, I mean people are figuring it out. They're
seeing these tax bills right in from one of them
in the realizing what one party, Democrat control, gave.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Them to that point, Let's go here to the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 19 (39:05):
App Tim walls crowning achievement went from an eight billion
dollar surplus to a five billion dollar deficit and he's
running again. Does he have any shame?
Speaker 13 (39:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 18 (39:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I wanted to mention this just briefly before before we
wrap up this morning. But we talked about this yesterday.
Governor Tim Walls was in Texas and talking to them
about education, which just seemed bizarre to me. But during
the middle of that discussion, he was talking about things
that Minnesota has done to improve the education to students.
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Of course, he touts the graduation rates. We've talked about
lowering the standards. That has increased the graduation rates, but
we know the proficiency in math and reading is nowhere
near where it should be. But then he went so
far as to say that we have universal pre k
here in the state, and we and we don't. And
it's another one of those circumstances, where as a Minnesota
reformer you know, says he kind of misspoke is another
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way to look at it, and it's kind of a lie.
And I don't understand why he feels the need to
do that, but I wanted to give you an opportunity
to respond.
Speaker 16 (40:16):
To what Walls had to say. I think this year
is Governor Walls are just too detached from Minnesota. Whether
it's worry about running for vice president and his failed
presidential bid you know last year, or now it's you know,
trying to run for president in a couple of years here,
He's just not connected to Minnesota. He doesn't know what's
happening on the ground here. He doesn't know the issues
that people are facing. And what's particularly agree just about
that statement about the pre K is we have one
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of the most expensive childcare systems here in Minnesota. Not
only were not a Universus PreK, we have one of them,
you know, one of the most least affordable. And that
just gets to the broader theme of what's happening in Minnesota.
What I'm hearing is I travel on the state, is
people are burdened by all of this. It's all of
it together. It's the property taxes, it's the childcare, it's
the high cost of everything, you know, taxes, and people
want solutions where they can live their lives and things
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can be more affordable. And I think that's what you're
going to see rolled out from the dam with Wilson
ticket is a real plan for affordability. The Democrats plan
for affordability is government run grocery stores, readlines, these sort
of things. The Republican plan is how do we give
relieve How do we give families the breathing room that
they need so that they can plan their own lives,
whether it be saving for college for their kids, whether
it be saving for retirement, whether it be buying that
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new house.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Right.
Speaker 16 (41:20):
And so we have to have against solutions that are
going to help people live their lives, not have the
government tell them how to live their lives.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Where can people find out more about the Damouth and
Wilson ticket.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Lisa four m N. It's Lisa fo RMN dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
As always, Ryan Wilson, great talking with you this morning,
Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Good luck out on the campaign trail. As things start
to get cold and slushy, out does it start snowing it.
I think it's coming later on today. So great seeing you.
Thank you so much for coming in this morning.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
We'll get some more of your comments from the iHeartRadio
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Is this the last Christmas for New York City? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Said Power two on Twin Cities News Talking Am eleven
thirty and one three five f M from the sixty
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name is John Justice, Master Control Booth. We have Sam
and with the election of socialist Muslims Zohoran mom Donnie
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as New York City's new mayor, this Christmas could mark
the last normal one in New York City for a while.
The Daily wire Piece says, instead of pushing New Yorkers
to strive toward the entrepreneurial spirit that's always been associated
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with the Big Apple, Mom Donnie wants to create government
and run grocery stores and make transportation completely free. Nothing
says Christmas like taking a free, crowded bus to a
government run grocery store. Take a stand into breadline. Of course,
Christmas will always survive because a holiday is based on
the birth of our eternal Savior. But some traditions we
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love about Christmas in New York City could be threatened
if Zohoron and his socialist coalition get their way. And
you have Robin Wansley and the Democrats socialists on the
Minneapolis City Council also wanting free grocery stores as well.
None of this should come as a surprise. It is interesting, though,
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to see what happens next year around Christmas time, to
see what Zohoron does or doesn't. Speaking of which, a
lot of individuals are saying that Mom Donnie is completely
out of his league. We've highlighted on the show the
fact that a lot of what he ran on he
simply cannot move forward and do it is beyond the
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power of the Mayor's office in New York City. Then
comes this clip here, and I have a couple of
different clips from Mom Donnie. We have Peggy flan Again,
Kelly Morrison. All of these are good examples of how
democrats thrive off of lies and manipulation regarding their policies.
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In this one of the more insane things that I've
heard of politicians say, next to the ridiculousness of Peggy
Flan again.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We'll so'll share here in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But in an interview recently with a New York City
news outlet, Mom Donnie declared that New York is a
city of international law.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You said you would arrest Benjamin Attyahoo based on THEOS
twenty twenty four International Court arrest warrant. Next you and
General Assembly as mayor, would you do that?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So I've said time and again that I believe this
is a city of international law, and being a city
of law means looking to uphold international law, and that
means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether
they're for Benjamin Niaw or Vladimir Putin. I think that
that's critically important to showcase our values. And unlike Donald Trump,
I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of
the laws that we have, so I will look to
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exhaust every legal possibility, not to create my own laws
to do so.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
On the other hand, this is also a world event.
Does that not count a little bit?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think we are a global city. But I also
think what New Yorkers are looking for is consistency in
the way in which we talk about our values and
follow through on them. And that's why I think these
warrants from the International Criminal Court they are worth fully
exploring every legal possibility to actually follow through on.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And again it's another good example of how this is
just pure fantasy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
New York is.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Of course under you United States law, you can't just
selectively pick what enforcement that you want to use.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, Democrats try.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But this international law take by Mam Donnie.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's a distraction. It's a cover.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
For his desire to continue to defund police, dismantle law enforcement,
embrace sanctuary policies, getting people to believe that there is
some sort of international law that New York can follow
that goes and justifies the extreme socialist policy ideas that
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Mam Donnie has. Unfortunately, he's working with a base of
voters that are susceptible to this type of word manipulation.
Speaking of word manipulation, this one just made me laugh.
Peggy Flanagan posted this online yesterday, and I'm not surprised
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this she would go and post a commentary like this.
I just I wish that it were done in a
public forum where she could be questioned on her commentary
here and what it ultimately says and how it really
does run completely contrary to a lot of Democrat policies
and beliefs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So just listen to what Peggy Finagin has to say.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Here are four moms in the Senate with children under
the age of eighteen four, Like no wonder, we haven't
made right like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or
passing paid family a medical leave, or increasing the minimum
wage right which has been seventy dollars and twenty five
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cents at the federal level and hasn't gone up in
you know, sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
This this matters.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So this simpleton argument would lead one to believe that
because in Peggy flannagain mine, there are only four moms
with kids under the age of eighteen in the Senate,
that they can't possibly go and pass those and aren't
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moms or have children. The men who have children apparently
don't matter, and therefore it's not a surprise that all
of these different items that are what gender exclusive cannot
be passed because there aren't more moms with kids to
go and relate to it. So what is it so,
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Peggy Flanagan does she own a firearm? If she doesn't
own a firearm, then under her mentality, how can she
possibly go and speak to issues relating to the Second Amendment?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Are four moms in a Senate with children under the
age of eighteen four? Like no wonder, we haven't made
right like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or passing
paid family and medical leave, or increasing the minimum wage
right which has been seventy dollars and twenty five cents
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at the federal level and hasn't gone up in you know,
sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
This this matters.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So here's a question.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Are those that are serving an office, I mean, are
they competent? Are they reading the bills? They were elected
by their constituents, right? I mean this idea that if
you don't have kids, therefore you can't go and possibly
have an opinion or support policies relating to kids if
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you don't have any imagine thinking essentially only moms and
only those currently with kids under eighteen can understand any
particular issue. Is She posted that like it's a good thing,
But it speaks too what the Democrats do right now.
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They manipulate, they lie, They present these ridiculous arguments. They
don't bother to go and back them up. They're rarely
challenged on them. And thankfully, there was a lot of
people that were course correcting Peggy Flanagan's comments in that clip, but.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There were also almost an equal number of individuals.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That were like, yeah, that's right, Peggy got them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We need more women with children.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
His representation not to mention the fact that doesn't this
completely run contrary to the democrats beliefs regarding gender identity.
Coming from the woman who wore they protect trans kids
a black T shirt adorned with a knife on it.
I know I say it a lot, but it's appropriate,
Like make it make sense. Got a couple of comments
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that came in regarding mom Donnie and his international law
in New York City.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Comment, Hey, John, I don't know the international law on
man's a US slash New York law sounds a little
insurrection to me.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now insurrection, I like that.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Yeah, Mom Donnie's position that New York is an international
city governed by international law is more than just fantasy.
It's active sedition.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Literally, that's what that is.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
It's active sedition saying we don't we're not subject to
the law of the United States or an independent city,
and we're governed by international law and not United States. Sow,
that's sedition.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Hi, John Dave from elk River about the Peggy Flanagan comments,
if they would get rid of people being able to
stay in power for centuries, we might have some younger
people in office. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's a really, really good point. All right, we'll get
back to more of your comments coming up in just
a moment. We'll keep with the theme another equally ridiculous
audio clip Representative Kelly Morrison, who was absolutely insufferable.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
On x.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
She took to the platform to complain regarding a what
apparently is a real SOB story of a constituent concerned
about rising healthcare premium costs. But again it's completely void
of the truth and the actual context of what is
taking place regarding the issue of which apparently Representative Kelly
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Morrison is fighting for. Once I give you details on
that one expensive Minnesota, Minnesotan's facing an extra one to
billion in property taxes next year, and we have Ryan Wilson,
Lieutenant Governor candidate, joining us in studio, plus more of
your comments from the iHeartRadio app. It's all coming up
on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and one
(10:53):
oh three five FM. I have a lot of great
talkbacks that have come into the iHeartRadio app regarding the
clip that I played from candidate Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan
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lamenting that there are four moms with kids under eighteen
in the US Senate. It's no wonder that all of
these specific items relating to things that only apparently in
Peggy Flannagan's mind women with children can relate to, haven't
been passed. Seems incredibly shortsighted. We'll get to your comments
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here in just a moment, but I want to keep
with the theme because I have another clip and you
can put it right in the same category as zohoron
mom Donnie his international law in New York City, ridiculous commentary,
Peggy Flannagan's assumptions of gender and what people are more
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knowledgegible in Before I Play You Representative Kelly Morrison. Let
me just set the table news this morning, looking at
a version here from Fox nine. You Care is shutting
down next year, and Medica will take control of its
existing health plans in the Medicaid family and individual markets.
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So Medica's acquisition of you Care's health plans was announced
yesterday in a joint press conference. You Care itself was
created more than forty years ago, primarily to offer healthcare
coverage to low income policy holders, but you Care has
recently struggled to navigate the turbulent healthcare markets. It was
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announcder earlier this year, plans to cut the Medicaid coverage
and exit the Medicare advantage market altogether. Monday's announcement punctuates
a dramatic fall for you Care in recent years. They
reported a half billion dollar loss. The HMO tried to
engage in a turnaround plan with the state of Minnesota
after reporting a net income loss of five hundred million
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last year. The significant drop in revenue came just two
years after u Care reported a net income surplus of
three hundred and twenty five million. It is a broken
record relating to COVID or relief funds from so many
different entities here in the state.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Where they're trucking along.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Fine, they get this influx of COVID money, the revenue balloons,
and then suddenly it's all good. You Care acknowledge the
surplus was likely an outlier because of the unique circumstances
attributed by the pandemic. Oh, that's an interesting way to
word it. Instead the company's losses we're piling up. You
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Care failed a financial trend test earlier this year, triggering
a turnaround plan with the state. So how much of
this was misappropriation of COVID relief funds that led to
the downfall of you Care. So Kelly Morrison representative post
this online telling a what I'm sure to be an
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incredibly real SOB story. Right, I'm sure she didn't make
up this story of a constituent concerned about rising healthcare
premium costs. What's interesting about this, though, is in the
clip you see Representative Kelly Morrison speaking to the camera,
but then she overlays some text from stories on top
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of it, and one of the stories that she puts
is you Care prior to this announcement of their shutting
down to Medica taking over, with concerns over getting cuts
from you Care, which apparently has nothing to do with
the complaints that Kelly Morrison is putting forward regarding Republicans,
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which is the point that she tries to make in
this clip.
Speaker 11 (15:08):
I just got a message from a constituent whose health
insurance is about to increase by twelve hundred dollars a month.
She's a teacher, she just retired from a long career,
more than thirty five years of teaching. She's scared she
may lose her health insurance because she can't afford it.
I mean, who could twelve hundred dollars more a month
and unexpected additional health costs is insane. No one should
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have to live with that stress, that financial burden, that uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
By the way, there is no evidence based off of
one that this story that she's presenting the alleged constituent
worried about her rising health care costs and whether or
not those concerns were even legitimate. There are so many
Democrats out there that have been duped by the elected
officials that they voted for into believing that what the
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Trump administration is doing or wholesale cuts to Medicaid, when
in actuality, as we have talked about on the show
and demonstrated, no, it's about just like snap, getting rid
of the waste and the fraud and the abuse in
the program. If you are eligible for these funds, you're
probably still going to be able to get it, except
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in this case, she takes it a step further points
to the you Care concerns, which aren't even a part
of this argument, because you Care was dealing with their
own problems.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
Just to be able to get the basic care they
need to be healthy and live their life. I've been
getting so many messages like this, every member of Congress
HUDs because tens of millions of Americans are seeing their
health insurance premiums double or triple. Millions will lose their
health insurance because they simply cannot afford it. It's heartbreaking
and it's shocking that the Republican majority in Congress is
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hearing these same pleas from scared Americans, from the people
who won't be able to afford health insurance, and yet
absolutely refuses to address it. This fight is far from over,
and we're never going to give up. I'm here and
I'm going to keep working every day. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's heartbreaking is what Democrats refuse to address, and that
is the lies and the lack of context and the
propaganda that they spew when they want to perpetuate this
idea that millions are going to lose their healthcare coverage
when really what we're talking about are individuals that should
never have had access to that healthcare coverage in the
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first place, who were committing acts of fraud. And again
it's lies and manipulation coming from mom Donnie and his
comments about international law only to go and convince individuals
in New York City that when he moves forward to
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dismantle and defund law enforcement when he looks to go
and prosecute to individuals beyond his purview as mayor. He's
now got this argument enough, Well, we're just looking at
international law when it comes to Peggy Flanagan and her
ridiculous assertion that unless you're a woman with kids, you
can't possibly know or be knowledgeable about particular issues.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Are four moms in the Senate with children under the
age of eighteen four? Like, no, wonder we haven't made right,
like enough progress on making childcare affordable, or passing paid
family and medical leave, or increasing the minimum wage right
which has been seventy dollars and twenty five cents at
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the federal level and hasn't gone up in you know,
sixteen years.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This this matters.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
One in John Mark from New Hope here. I am
so tired of this minimum wage hasn't gone up in
sixteen years argument. My three daughters, who are twenty two, twenty,
and seventeen, all started working at the age of fourteen,
and none of them starting at seven twenty five an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
In fact, I think the.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Lowest wage any one of them started at was ten
dollars an hour, and it's usually much higher than that.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
My home is now under international law, and I am
not going to pay any more increases in my property taxes.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
Minnesota is taking people out of their homes because of
what they're doing to their property taxes. So let's just
go by that international law bs and.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Not pay them.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And I'm going to sit back and patiently wait for
Representative Kelly Morrison to put up another insufferable video.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Where she laments.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The property owners here in Minnesota facing one billion dollars
in property tax hikes next year, the fear that that's
putting in to the homeowners here in the state, the
concern that they had of the rising costs of their
property taxes. I'll just sit back and wait for her
to post that video with all the reasons why that
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is taking place under Governor Tim Walls and his one
expensive Minnesota.
Speaker 12 (20:11):
Did Peggy Flanagan just admit that the congress people only
vote for things that benefit them.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Certainly sounded like it all right.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Coming up candidate for Lieutenant governor running on the ticket
with Lisa Damuth's running for governor, Ryan Wilson. I'll join
me in studio next here on Twinsday's News Talk Am
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
I just got a message from a constituent whose health
insurance is about to increase by twelve hundred dollars a month.
She's a teacher, she just retired from a long career,
more than thirty five.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Years of teaching.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
She's scared she may lose her health insurance because she
can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Representative Kelly Morrison got a couple of comments based off
of that clip here on Twinsday News Talk from the
sixty five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios.
Speaker 14 (21:03):
As to Kelly Morrison, stop talking, you don't know what
you're talking about. How about we have incentives and cost
reductions for those individuals that actually preventively keep themselves in
shape through exercise, diet, they don't smoke, No, of course
not that would be punishing those poor people that sit
on their dufts, motionism, medicine, plain and simple. Start taking
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care of your bodies and healthcare.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Costs will fall.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
A friend of the show, Scott is certainly the example
of maintaining your fitness, because that guy has more energy
than certainly that I have, even with the good night's
sleep from my night gummies from Many Leaf here on
Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 15 (21:45):
Good morning John, for all these knuckleheads who believe people
like Kelly Morrison is my representative. By the way, sorry,
help they're paying attention because why is that a school
district is only a special election next to April? Half
of billion dollars they want for the school district here,
that's already the majority of my property taxes. I don't
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know who's still voting for these Democrats and stop, stop, stop,
we don't have any more money. Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, And the talkback makes a great point.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
As a matter of fact, I have that story in
my stack, Judy regarding why Zetta board approving the special
election for four hundred and ninety six million dollars to
cover the new facilities. And when you look at the
fact that the property taxes are going up in Minnesota,
they talk about inflation and also rising operational costs for
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local governments and also school district levies as well. There's
a lot of different reasons. And joining me in studio
this morning to help sort this out and talk about
a host.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Of other issues.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Fresh off of the announcement that he has joined Lisa
Damith and her gubernatorial campaign running as lieutenant governor. Ryan
Wilson joins us in studio. Good morning, Ryan, good morning.
I was great to be in studio with you. Thanks
so much for for coming on and congrats on the
on the announcement. What has a response been so far
since you've been added to the Lisa Damuth.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Ticket and talk a little bit about how that came about. Yeah,
you know, it's been great.
Speaker 16 (23:11):
You know, I campaign obviously four years ago for state auditor,
got to travel the state and it's good being back
to meet people. You know, we're going to BPOU meetings
and we're going around the state talking to different areas.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And just just love talking to people.
Speaker 16 (23:21):
I love getting out there, getting on the trail and
it's always tough being away from home. I got five
kids and they all got hockey now and all that stuff,
but it's fun and their support of this, and you know,
I just get love meeting the people and hearing their concerns.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And this is one of the things that came up
last night.
Speaker 16 (23:35):
You know, there's billion dollars in you know, an increased
property taxes and you know it's people.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Don't see it's a billion dollars for them.
Speaker 16 (23:40):
It's a thousand dollars for them, right, it's budget, it's
stuff out of their budget.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That they didn't plan for.
Speaker 16 (23:44):
And you take us, you know, senior citizen on a
fixed budget, you know, how are they gonna make? How
are they going to stay in their house when they
know that property tax is coming? And so people are
worried in their concern and they see the recklessness that's
happened under Tim Walls and what they want change.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And I guess that would be the first question that
I would have is and we can get into we'll
get into some more of the the details regarding these
property tax increases, because this is going to be different
depending on the county that you that you live in,
and these are happening at that level. They're having at
the county at the county level. But the question I
wanted to start off with was, you know, how much
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of this is because of just how expensive the state
of Minnesota has become under Governor Tim Walls and DFL policies.
I mean, I guess you can you can also add
to that, you know, is this more aligned with sort
of classic you know, classic tax and spend liberal policies,
But how much onus would you put on the walls
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of administration when you look at this massive property tax
increase here in Minnesota next year.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I mean, here's the absurdity of it.
Speaker 16 (24:46):
So during you know, was it the twenty two to
twenty three sessions when when Democrats had one party control,
they had the host the Senate, they could pass whatever
they wanted.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They blew through that eighteen billion.
Speaker 16 (24:56):
Dollar surplus that they had, and they added I think
what was a ten billion dollars in new taxes on
top of that, So you had all that together, you know,
it's it's spending us off the rails. And on top
of that, we're seeing now that there are additional policies
that pushed more spending to the county. So not only
are they you know, spending more money at the state level,
you know, they're draining, they're putting more mandates on counties,
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on schools, on things that require property tax increases.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So it's a double whammy. So people are just starting.
Speaker 16 (25:22):
To see some you know, the tip of the iceberg
in terms of what that one party Democrat control brought us,
and it's only going to keep getting worse.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What can be done about it? How do we go
and address this? I mean again, these are head this
is happening at the at the county level.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
What can be what can be done? Can anything be done?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You know at you know, at the top, you know,
by the governor's office, by the lieutenant governor's office.
Speaker 16 (25:45):
Well, sure, with the leadership change, a lot could be done.
You know, what we saw a last session is you know,
we're you know, they spent through the Democrats spent through
the eighteen billion dollars start plus added ten billion dollars
in more taxes because that wasn't enough, and uh, that
put us towards a fiscal cliff. And so we're already
starting to see you know, deficits on the horizon. Republicans
are having to step in and solve some of these problems.
The Dame with Wilson ticket knows that when we win,
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we're going to have a problem that's going to have
to be solved. You know, there's a five billion dollar
plus deficit coming down the pipe here and it's gonna
you know, it's going to require good, responsible people to
fix that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And so what did we see last session?
Speaker 16 (26:19):
We were the Republicans were able to get the largest
reduction in spending in state history.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I think it's about five billion.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Dollars, pairing it back from record setting levels from the Democrats,
and that was with one half of one house, you know,
of all all the state government, and you give Republicans
more power, you're going to see more good things. They're
going to see more budget reduction. You're going to see
more relief on counties. At the same time, we need
counties and also be more responsible to the right.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
See a lot of pet projects.
Speaker 16 (26:46):
You know, I think we don't remember a couple of
weeks ago, we saw that project up in a Nooko
where they wanted to do the what was it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The surfboard park on the right river.
Speaker 16 (26:54):
And so you know there's gonna be things like that
that you know, people it's local control.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They decided how they want to spend their money.
Speaker 16 (27:00):
If they don't want property texts, they're going to have
to hold their counties a little bit more accountable as well.
But it starts with you know, Wallas has a had
a fundamental proposition that he wanted to spend more at
the state level, and one way to do that is
shifting some of those burdens down the counties. So we
have to take some of that back. We have to
make sure that we're not over burdening counties.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Looking at the situation and just as an example in Wysetta,
So their proposal almost five hundred million dollars includes building
a new elementary and middle school, adding to the Wysetta
High School, upgrading classrooms, upgrading kitchens and cafeterias, building a
new eight lane pool at Wisetta High School. So the
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question about the pool is contingent upon whether the voters
go and approve that four hundred and sixty five million
dollar bond. So the voters are going to be asked
during a special election they'll mole weather using an existing
multi million dollar technology levee should be extended. They'll also
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be asked whether the district should issue the four hundred
and sixty five million general obligation bonds to fund new
buildings and various upgrades. And then the third question would
be whether the district should issue thirty one million in
general obligation bonds that would include the construction of the
pool that I mentioned. The question about the pool is
contingent on the voters improving that that have four hundred
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and sixty five million. So, by example, for a home
value at six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, approval of
the questions would add three hundred and ninety six dollars
per year on property taxes. Let me ask a larger
sort of you know, thirty thousand foot view question. And
a lot of people bring this up, and I brought
it up. Now here you have another circumstance of a
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school and we saw these referendums and other districts pass
where these school boards are asking for all this money
and yet the Walls administration and the DFL at the
time of the trifecta, you know, we were all told
they were fully funding education. So what's been going on here?
Where did all that money go that went to the schools?
And why did they need to do so continue to
request these special funds.
Speaker 16 (29:03):
You know, I think that's the big charade of what
happened under the one party Democrat control is we were
told all these great utopian solutions happened, and now that
we're starting to peel back the onion, we're seeing you
know that now they're not quite what was promised and
not even close to what was promised. Right, So you know,
the second they said schools were fully funded, what do
we see school saying you don't have enough money?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Right?
Speaker 16 (29:23):
Too many mandates, too much And they're right about that.
There were too many mandates put on schools and schools
need relief from those mandates. And so you know where
did the money go. It's going to special interests. It's
going to bureaucrats, right. You know one of the things
we talked about this, We talked about this during the
auditor's race, and it's just as true now. We need
to make sure that money is making it to the classrooms,
to the students, so the kids can learn, so they
can recover from you know, Tim Walls is you know
COVID learning loss that they have and that it can rebound,
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and so instead it's going to bureaucrats and special projects
and things that don't help kids learn.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Good morning, John Dustin from Zimmerman.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I just wanted to let you know kind of that
I got my proposed pri pretty tax statement and it's only.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Going up about twelve bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So if it's obviously based on county, but for me
at least nothing much.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
Really there have a go on.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So all seven counties in the Twin Cities metro area
are proposing higher property tax levies, so you looking at
ten percent in Ramsey, Dakota, Scott and Anoka counties. On
top of that, many cities levees are jumping by four
to eighteen percent across the state. City officials say they're
contending with inflation, higher insurance costs, wage increases, and requests
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to fund long term projects. The tax levies are still preliminary.
Counties and cities will finalize them in December after homeowners
share their opinions of public hearings. And that's the other
part that I wanted to mention too, is that if
you're unhappy with your property tax notice, you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Can contest that.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
At the beginning of twenty twenty five when assessed and
some valuations were conducted. However, the cycle is about to
restart for those that are wishing to appeal. Homeowners can
actually go and dispute the properties value or classification, potentially
reducing their property taxes if successful, and I imagine a
lot of people are probably going to move forward to
to do that. This does seem like it's going to
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require a long term solution in order to fix this
problem that people are going to be faced with next year.
It is going to vary based off of the county
that year in but this is also something that people
are going to have to live with for quite a
while until we can, you know, hopefully get some new
leadership and get things under control, right.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right, and Wilson, well you get the nail on the
head there. I think you know what's going to change.
Speaker 16 (31:40):
This is leadership, right, Damth Wilson ticket is going to
put a priority on making sure money stays in people's
pockets as opposed to the government taking it going through
ten different agencies, getting spent on NGO's at the county level.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Right.
Speaker 16 (31:51):
This needs to be built from the bottom up. We
can't just look at increases on the increases in the budget.
You know, we need to go to the bottom look
at where all the money is going. You know, all
the sixty plus billion dollars in spending is happening, so
that you know, we can be good stewards. You know,
we're looking at a billion dollars in potential property text increases, right.
You know what else is a billion plus dollars the
amount of fraud in Minnesota. Right, And so you know,
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one of the things that Republicans invested in and fought
for during during this last budget negotiation was helping counties
upgrade their IT systems, for example, so they could do
things like catch fraud. Right that shouldn't have been a
contentious issue, but ended up being negotiating item.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Democrats fraud.
Speaker 16 (32:25):
If you feel like it feels like there's a theme
every time there's this idea of what's root out a
little fraud or let's maybe you know, make sure that
the tax dollars are going where they're supposed to go.
You get pushed back, you know, from from the DFL
and things that shouldn't be controversial, but yeah, they end
up but they but they end up being controversial. Let's
get back to a few of your comments from the
iHeartRadio app again running for Lieutenant governor with Lisa Damuth.
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We have Ryan Wilson in stud You have you any
questions for him, you can put those into the iHeartRadio
app talkbacks brought to you by Lyndall Realty.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hi John.
Speaker 17 (32:55):
The Democrats knew what they were doing when they had
a tra EFFECTA and they knew that they were going
to everything through that they could, and they weren't concerned
about losing the next elections because they knew that the
Republicans were going to have to try and fix everything,
and then public would get mad at the Republicans because
they're taking away all their benefits the evil Plan, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You mentioned the fraud this broke as well overnight. Looking
at a version here from Channel five. The Minnesota Legislative
Audit Commission picked four new state programs for the Legislative
Auditor to focus on next year. They range from autism
programs and schools, to mendots, handling of private contractors, to
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regulation of the state nursing home care. The list also
includes a scrutiny of how the Department of Human Services
Office of Inspector General does its job. I guess I'm
kind of scratching my head going First off, we already
know that there's fraud in a number of these of
these programs. I guess, why weren't we already looking at this?
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And it seems like it's a lot of I mean,
I hope that they end up finding this fraud, but
if something tells me they already know it's there and
they're just trying to catch you up to the fact
that fraud has become such a huge issue in the state,
and the burden can't be on.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
The Office of Legislative Auditor to be able to ferret
this all out. I mean, there's only so much scope
that they have, only so much that they can do,
and it's a bit of whack a mole, right, They're
able to look at a couple of programs here and
then another one pops up that's fraudul than what we need.
And this again gets back to you'll see a common
theme new leadership that from the top down make sure
that all of the agencies have a culture of not
wanting to waste taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
And that's where again I'm.
Speaker 16 (34:38):
I'm gonna go push the dame with Wilson ticket too,
have you, But I think we have sure very specific
policies they're going to go and be able to root
out some of this fraud.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It gets back to culture and leadership.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
You know, as a microcosm of this, we saw an
audit of Tim Wallas's Governor's office, right what was it
a week ago, and you know, there were payrolls being
approved without any oversights, credit cards being used, you know,
outside of.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Policies, and so his own office failed.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
I think it was what nine ten to eleven findings
that they failed to pass, right, And so you can't
keep your own house in order, how are you going
to manage all of the government, all these agencies and
the billions of dollars in spending. And it just got
back to an apathy. It's a lack of caring that
somebody had to work hard for that. So I'm gonna
get too philosophically here, But when somebody goes and they
do their job and they're working hard, that's time away
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from their family. That's time away from something else that
could be doing in life. That's time they'll never get back.
And so when that money is stolen or wasted by
our government, you're stealing somebody's time.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You're stealing somebody.
Speaker 16 (35:31):
You know, that's an hour somebody could have had with
their kids playing catch or watching a hockey game or
doing something else. Right, And so what we need is
leadership that cares more about people, about people's time, and
not this kind of folk caring that we see, this
fate caring that we see, you know from the current administration.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Talking with Lieutenant governor candidates Ryan Wilson and Studio let's
get back to some of your comments from the iHeartRadio
app to.
Speaker 18 (35:55):
The talk packer that called in and said his taxes
were only going up about twelve bucks a month. That's
not the point, and I appreciate your comment, But twelve
bucks a months times twelve months is one hundred and
forty four dollars. And then they come back again and
ask for it next year. Do the path one hundred
and forty four dollars if your property taxes or anything
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other than one thousand dollars, that's like a three percent,
four percent increase.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
John Drew from West Central say, farmland out in the
western part of the county went up last year. I
had a parcel went up sixty six percent. This year
it's only going up six percent, but if you look
over the last number of years gone, it's doubled. And
the problem that we seem to face is that banks,
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local governments, real estate do not want properties values to decrease.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Well, that's something that has to has to change as well.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'm curious in since you've been attached to Lisa Damouth's
ticket and you've had the opportunity to begin the campaign,
have you noticed any differences this time around as opposed
to when you ran for for auditor. You know, I've
certainly been talking a lot on the show just of
how the dynamics have changed, especially in the way the
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Democrats have been operating in opposition to Republicans.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
It's gotten much more extreme.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I'm just curious to get your thoughts if you've already
noticed a difference yet, or if you still think you're
going to need some more time as the campaign continues.
Speaker 16 (37:32):
You know, one of the things I've noticed is I
think that the case is going to be much clearer
to make, especially you know, running running at the top
of the ticket. When I ran around the state four
years ago talking about fraud. Back then, it was with
someone somebody say, what quaint quarter billion dollars. Right now
we're up to two billion dollars plus in pushing this,
and so you know, the Democrats are making the case
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for us as to why we need you know, the
adult to get back in the room, why we need
you know, new leadership, and so you know the again,
the Democrats are writing the writing the talking points for us.
It's their own policies are failing and crashing down around us,
and Minnesotas are starting to see that, you know, we
need new leadership. It can be it can be good
in Minnesota, right, things can be better. Things weren't great
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pre COVID. Right, there's a lot of stuff that you
know needed to change. But that budget seemed to be
working just fine, that budget level. And so where are
we going up? You know, twenty thirty billion dollars since
I think a sixty seven percent increase in the in
the state budget. And so even if we're just looking
back a couple of years, that's attainable, that's reachable, and
that's where we can start to get some of this
stuff like property tax relief. We can stop overburdening counties.
We can stop putting it. At the end of the day,
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it's taxpayers money. They don't care if it's coming from
income tax, sales tax, property tax.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
It's all money out of our pockets.
Speaker 16 (38:43):
Right, And so this idea, you know, we look at
some of the governor walls to him, it's a shell game. Well,
I can spend more at the state level, and you know,
I'll just push that on the county and hopefully, hopefully
the voters aren't smart enough to figure out, right, and
that's what he's that's what he's presumably thinking here. And
and uh, I mean people are figuring it out. They're
seeing these tax bills right in from one of them
in the realizing what one party, Democrat control, gave.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Them to that point, Let's go here to the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 19 (39:05):
App Tim walls crowning achievement went from an eight billion
dollar surplus to a five billion dollar deficit and he's
running again. Does he have any shame?
Speaker 13 (39:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 18 (39:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I wanted to mention this just briefly before before we
wrap up this morning. But we talked about this yesterday.
Governor Tim Walls was in Texas and talking to them
about education, which just seemed bizarre to me. But during
the middle of that discussion, he was talking about things
that Minnesota has done to improve the education to students.
(39:46):
Of course, he touts the graduation rates. We've talked about
lowering the standards. That has increased the graduation rates, but
we know the proficiency in math and reading is nowhere
near where it should be. But then he went so
far as to say that we have universal pre k
here in the state, and we and we don't. And
it's another one of those circumstances, where as a Minnesota
reformer you know, says he kind of misspoke is another
(40:09):
way to look at it, and it's kind of a lie.
And I don't understand why he feels the need to
do that, but I wanted to give you an opportunity
to respond.
Speaker 16 (40:16):
To what Walls had to say. I think this year
is Governor Walls are just too detached from Minnesota. Whether
it's worry about running for vice president and his failed
presidential bid you know last year, or now it's you know,
trying to run for president in a couple of years here,
He's just not connected to Minnesota. He doesn't know what's
happening on the ground here. He doesn't know the issues
that people are facing. And what's particularly agree just about
that statement about the pre K is we have one
(40:36):
of the most expensive childcare systems here in Minnesota. Not
only were not a Universus PreK, we have one of them,
you know, one of the most least affordable. And that
just gets to the broader theme of what's happening in Minnesota.
What I'm hearing is I travel on the state, is
people are burdened by all of this. It's all of
it together. It's the property taxes, it's the childcare, it's
the high cost of everything, you know, taxes, and people
want solutions where they can live their lives and things
(40:58):
can be more affordable. And I think that's what you're
going to see rolled out from the dam with Wilson
ticket is a real plan for affordability. The Democrats plan
for affordability is government run grocery stores, readlines, these sort
of things. The Republican plan is how do we give
relieve How do we give families the breathing room that
they need so that they can plan their own lives,
whether it be saving for college for their kids, whether
it be saving for retirement, whether it be buying that
(41:20):
new house.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Right.
Speaker 16 (41:20):
And so we have to have against solutions that are
going to help people live their lives, not have the
government tell them how to live their lives.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Where can people find out more about the Damouth and
Wilson ticket.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Lisa four m N. It's Lisa fo RMN dot com.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
As always, Ryan Wilson, great talking with you this morning,
Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Good luck out on the campaign trail. As things start
to get cold and slushy, out does it start snowing it.
I think it's coming later on today. So great seeing you.
Thank you so much for coming in this morning.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
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