May 7, 2026 • 40 mins
For Hour 3 of the show Jon is joined by Andy Manske who is running for Governor in Wisconsin, to talk about his campaign. Then Jon talks about Drinko de Mayo, HOAs, and home made bombs.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi, John, say, did Blaine pass that ruling to prevent
public nudity or so that they didn't have to fly
the new Minnesota state flag.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't have a good answer for that, although I
don't think you were looking for one hour three here
on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one
three five FM. Glad you're with the show this morning.
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the show. Of course, your talk back of the day
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News Talk coming up just after at eight thirty this morning.
His website is Andy Manski the number four governor dot com.
Andy Manski for governor dot com running in Wisconsin as
a gubernatorial candidate, and he joins the now on the show.
Good morning, Andy, Thank you so much for coming on.
(01:02):
How are we doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
A little horse and sciences whatever, Maybe a little cost here,
but I actually believe that no matter how you are,
if you can talk to the people and you can
talk about policy, show up be there.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know. Well, thank you so much for joining us
this morning. And even if you're dealing with a little
bit being under the weather. So for those that may
not have heard of you, and I know you're a
newer candidate, so a lot of people might not be
familiar with your Wisconsin gubernatorial run. Let the audience know
a little bit about who Andy Mansky is and specifically
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why you decided to go and run for governor.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Sure married three years ago. Everybody knows that the buzzword
here is affordability. Inflation was a big reason part of
why I'm running. I come from a religious family, so
I have a lot of compassion and a lot of
deep feelings for my community. I work in the medical field,
so those feelings are amplified when I were in the city,
the suburbs, rural areas. I'm across southeast Wisconsin, me and
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this team I work with, and I see if people
who are just not doing well and are in a really,
really bad spot. So at the end of the day,
I have two younger sisters. Someday I plan to have children.
You know, we hope, we pray on it, we hope
for good things in the future. But at the end
of the day, I mean I looked at the field
at the time, you know, there was a lot of
youth perspective, and I said, there's a lot of reasons
for a young person to run and just advocate for
a better world, a better world further generation and for
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future generations. So my whole platform is basically, you know,
reforming things, you know, maybe adjusting colleges so the states
more money, and ending various tax issues that are like
we're are taxing people, for example, on various factors so
they have more money in their pockets. Just kind of
building the future, if you will. My platform. I am
running against another individual, but my platform is unique in
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the sense that I come from both a Republican and
Democrat family, and so I have found success reaching across
the island talking to them and finding just common sense
things to just get things done. A lot of people
are just tired of the gridlock. So what I'm offering
is just saying, hey, let's get a future where you know,
everything's cheaper, we get rid of the gas tech, we
can build the future here, we can do this, we
can do that. It's that kind of youthful energy, is like, hey,
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we got to have a better future. We got to
get something done, you know, no more of the same.
Let's get something done.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know, we've been talking quite a bit about the
younger generations this week on the show as we talk
with gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, Andy Manski. You're twenty six
years old, medical service technician, and earlier in the week, Andy,
we were discussing how you know there is you know,
gen Z has this lack of faith within our politicians,
and I'm convinced that this lack of faith that people
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have is across the board. We know that people don't
have trust in the media, they don't have trust in
the government, and this is extending into you know, not
even just politics, but pop culture as well. I'm just
I'm curious from your perspective talking with other young people.
You being twenty six years old and running for for
a governor, you know, what kind of perspective can you
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add to that for an individual, you know, like my
I'm fifty three years old. I have two young boys,
a twenty three and a nineteen year old. But I'd
love to get your perspective on those that are engaged
politically at a young age and their perception of politics
right now. And you're what you are doing within your
campaign to address those concerns.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure, so I mean, at the end of the day,
gen Z is very frustrated with a lot of elements.
I guess other elements other generations don't really deal with, right,
So this is something you may or me and I
have heard about before. Ghost jobs. They exist, They're basically there.
Just studies twenty five percent of all Internet jobs are
ghost jobs. So what that means is you can finally
get a job and it's not a real job. They're
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actually are just collecting your information and they're able to
just kind of keep it in their system for a
rainy day if they want it, or they can sell
it online, which again, obviously people should care about their privacy.
We have other elements too. I went me and my wife,
we went in to look at housing. They kind of
like lap this off. They're like, you know, what's your
wife's job. She doesn't have a job right now, and
you're trying to do this with one income. I mean,
I want to you know, see what at do you
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have three hundred thousand for Milwaukee and the surrounding counties. No, Well,
that's like the starting point. That's where everything's at right now.
That's like the average. You mean, or you want do
you have twenty percent to put down for a down payment. No,
and they're guy just kind of looking at me like
why are you even here? You know, it's like, well,
I want to have a home someday too.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
At the end of the day, I mean, gas has
gone up, who has gone up. Every element of our
life has just gone up and up and up, like
by the say, probably thirty forty percent almost in the
last eight years. And it's a real pain point, especially
for younger folk, because we're already being squeezed in various
different means, and we don't have the jobs. The jobs
are gone overseas, you know, no longer here, and the
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jobs that are here we fight with each other over it,
or we fight with people who aren't even from this country.
Not that there's anything to be said against that. It's
just at the end of the day, you know, it
does the press wages. You know, we also have that
dealing with where if somebody's going to come over and
do a job for fifty thousand dollars, then an American
will do for sixty thousand dollars. You know, the company
will take the guy who they just do the paperwork,
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and I'll do fifty thousand dollars. Why because it's money
for the company. It's better deal, right, not a good
deal so much for a regular Wisconsin guy is trying
to build a future, get a family, you name it. So,
I mean there's other elements too, But I mean we're
very frustrated with both parties. I mean, all we ever
hear is talk, nothing really gets done. I mean we're
very frustrated with the system. Some people have gotten to
some very far extremes. I mean, I don't want to
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talk about the guy, but you know, Luigi, that guy
is basically some people think of him as like a
hero because he's taking on big people who have kind
of taken on the system.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So at the end of the day, we want the
system to work for us. We want something to get done.
We do not trust politicians on either side of the aisle
because at this point it jolves back and forth and
every single one seems to have, you know, made life
worse in some way or another, and it makes me
very it makes us very sad. So I mean, in
that regard, we're looking at this election, gen Z, not
just myself, having talked with people and some of us
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are just some people want to burn it down, and
I know it's a scary thought for the people who
are older, but we aren't tell loowed to how homing.
You know, housing at normal prices, we can't really even
get started. It's almost like a failure to launch. Nowadays.
It's very common for Gen Z and other generations. Now
they're younger, but people younger to be in their homes
their parents till twenty five to thirty because housing is
just not affordable. We just can't get started right. And
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I mean there's different avenues and policies we can take.
Having talked with them, some of them are interested in changing,
for example, the investor laws. Right now we're getting signatures
to be on the ballot, and I talk with young
people and they're like, yeah, we changed the investor laws.
I mean, you don't have to remove them entirely, but
they're not so profitable. Some of those homes could come
on the market. They want something like that. Well, you know,
politicians will talk about bill housing, change zewing laws, change regulation,
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but that's very localized, very specific, and it can help
for sure. At the end of the day, somebody can
keep collecting homes. We're not stupid we can recognize that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Talking with Andy Manski again, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate his website
to Andy Manski the number four governor dot com, how
do you counter as somebody who may say, because of
your on your young age, that you're not qualified enough
to be in that position. I'm sure you've faced that.
How do you encounter that argument? Andy?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes, if they stick a few times, I'll be honest.
In that regard, I always advocate for more choice and ballasts.
I always advocate for new ideas because I think generally
every regular person has a good idea. I think that
the governor's mansion in every state should be essentially a
conduit for the people to get things done and to
be directly engaged with their government, right, which is sort
of lacking here in Wisconsin in another areas as well.
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But in that regard, while say to them is listen,
you're right, I don't have fifty years. I don't I'm
not corrupted, I'm not in the system. I didn't go
through building this resume. But honestly, I'm worried if our
countries even going to look like in ten years. They
talk about social Security being gone in what seven years?
Every time? Right, I mean, we're constantly going more and
more in debt. It seems like everything is getting worse
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and worse and worse. Some of our old economic models
just aren't working. Sometimes it's okay to get fresh ideas.
I mean, it shouldn't be scary to have young people
having the voice at the table saying hey, I have
a lot more time on this earth than I want
to be here, and I want to advocate and I
want things to get done. I always want to be
able to be heard. So in that regard, I mean,
I'm just running my campaign older voters, young voters, whoever
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is willing to listen, I'll talk with you, you know,
and that's most people an helpment. But if you look
down on somebody for being young, I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Think that's a bit sad.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, I look down on people for being young.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well, and you Mansky listen. Hat tip to you for
getting engaged in this. We need more young people that
are willing to go and get engaged and step up
when they want to go and make a change. Again,
I encourage everybody if they want to find out more
about you, I assume to go to your website. Andy
Mansky for Governor Dot com. Is that the best place
to best resource to find out more about your campaign?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean you can follow me on like social
media's I got like three and there's like a million
social media that these days. But I'm using ex er
Twitter or whatever you call it, right, I have a Facebook.
I don't really believe in ole you should always follow
people at poltice and pages. I actually just say this
is my page, this is who I am. Deal with
it otherwise. I mean, I got a look at TikTok.
Not that as I know, it's unusually a lot of
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young people love TikTok me. I was kind of a
naturally against it because I worry about my privacy and
that stuff. But you know, sometimes you sacrifice your privacy
to run for bettering your state, bettering our country.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, thank you so much again, Andy Mansky for governor
as the number four governor dot com. I hope you
feel better. Thank you for the time this morning and
continued good luck in your gubernatorial campaign efforts in Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Thank you very much for having me. God bless you, Babie.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Coming up Minneapolis man Baby may or mom Jeans Jacob
Fry to make announcement on police chief Brian O'Hara this
morning at eight thirty. We'll bring that to you when
we find out whatever that announcement is. A lot of
rumors are flying. Drinco Demayo University of Minnesota frat party
gets hit with a bias report. Details and we will
dive into the new Minnesota hoa bill of rights rules
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limiting fees, banning retaliation. We'll do that probably right around
at eight thirty this morning here on Twin City's News
Talk at AM eleven thirty and one O three five FM.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
One thing I think mister Manski is indicative of is
and it's really frustrating, is that the liberal doom and
gloom message out there resonates with younger people far too well,
and that the GOP is doing a really crappy job
of reaching those people and giving them them hope and.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
A party that will meet their needs. It's really sad.
Thank you for the top back, Sean. I appreciate it.
The GOP has certainly done a better job than they
have in the past, and it's actually young people within
the GOP that are doing a better job than the
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older establishment types. And you are seeing a renewed focus
from those older generations on that, but there's going to
be an age gap there. But the good news is,
as I mentioned that there's a lot of younger conservatives
out there that are they're doing the work and they're
putting themselves in the crosshairs. When you look at individuals
like Savannah Hernandez from Turning Point, USA, I mean Nick Shirley.
(12:16):
When you the Freedom Friday guests that we have, you know,
we look at Grace and Catherine from you know, American Experiment. Yeah,
they're a part of center, the American Experiment, and this
is their job, but they're putting out their content part
of that younger generation. Grace will be back in tomorrow
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for our Freedom Friday along with ak Kamara and Representative
Max Reimer looking forward to to that. We're a few
minutes away from this announcement. Minneapolis man maybe me or
Mom Jean's Jacob Fry making this announcement. The specifics of
the announcement regarding Minneapolis Police Chief and the focus of
the announcement have not been shared. Now there were a
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couple of subsequent stories is saying that this would be
the Minneapolis mayor nominating Brian O'Hara for another four years.
There's other you know, speculation out there that he doesn't
have much support from the city council, that he could
be on his way out. By the way, anyone else
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chosen by the doing nothing with my fingers leadership of
the electivists on the Minneapolis City Council would certainly be worse.
And I'm no fan of Brian O'Hara. He's one of those,
you know, kind of like the Minneapolis mayor broken clock
is right twice a day, but he's not been great.
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But trust me, anybody else that they would bring in
would be absolutely worse. All right from Alpinus, let's go here.
Speaking of Minneapolis and Minnesota, someone reported a University of
Minnesota fraternity to the Campus Bias Response and Referral Network
or a sign that said drinko demayo drinco isn't a thing.
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It's just a play on words. But organizations need to
have these types of controversies in order to exist. The
unidentified person turned in the report. According to a newly
obtained Bias Response Team document, the College Fix acquired more
than one hundred reports submitted between July of twenty four
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and March of twenty six. The documents don't list the
resolution of the complaint, and the College Fix was unable
to locate in further information about the controversy. However, the
complaint said the sign perpetuated anti Mexican hate. No, no,
it doesn't. It's a play on words, and I would
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think that individuals who would like to see the culture
celebrated would understand that this is a way that people
that aren't of Mexican descent celebrate the culture. The drinko
is just the wordplay. Drinko again, isn't in a thing.
If somebody had said that Mexican people are just a
bunch of drinkos and they turned it into some sort
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of pejorative, I would give it to you. But that's
not what happens here. Sinko to myo. Festivities meant to
celebrate Mexico's victory over the French back in eighteen sixty two.
In twenty thirteen, Mexican student leaders at Northwestern complained drinking
tequila shots, eating tacos, and wearing sombreros do not commemorate
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Mexican culture. On the contrary, that offends who That offends,
marginalizes and isolates many of our friends, classmates, and community
members and casts our entire community in a poor light. No,
it's the individuals pushing back against it that do that,
because the people that are drinking tequila shots, eating tacos
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and wearing sombreros, they are happy and enjoying it and
aren't doing it and never do it in a mocking way.
But you can't expect it to be able to reason
with individuals like this when they have a specific agenda,
and that is to grow their ranks and legitimize the
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whole reason why they exist, so they manufacture crisis. In
twenty fourteen, the University of California Davis also protested a
Sinco de Drinco campus party, leading to its cancelation. Maybe
they just have a problem with drinko and it isn't
a word. Go that route. Stop saying drinko. That's it's
not a word. Me and the buddies are not going
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to the bar for drinkos. Drinkos, great alcoholic cereal. It's
got all kinds of great ideas this morning. In May
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twenty seven teen, a party hosted by the University of
Chicago fraternity had nothing to do with Cinco Demayo, was
meant to riff on the two years of construction on
the frat house. Because they were wearing costume outfits around
May fifth and they were being drawn, they were accusations
of racism at the time. Again, it's just they're individuals
that are going in searching for a searching for a problem. Yeah,
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so here's this story, speaking of drinking. I'll give with you.
I'll give you the full details coming up in just
a moment. But a break in at a Minneapolis brewery,
the brew Haven, resulted in the theft of something that
clearly the thieves were not expecting. So you had a
group of individuals that broke into the brew Haven Brewery
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in Minneapolis, and they ended up stealing what was a
large toolbox, clearly expecting that they were going to be
tools in the toolbox. I am sure that when they
actually op the toolbox they all got a very disappointed surprise.
I'll tell you what was actually in the toolbox, because
it was not tools. We'll get to your talkback of
the day and we'll talk a little hoa bull of
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rights as well in the final segment of the show.
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Made me laugh this morning with this one. We were
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Speaker 4 (19:24):
You know, Neil de.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Grass Tyson's always been a buzzkill, you know now with
his alien stuff, but used to be with every movie.
You point out, well, scientifically, that's not what shut up, dude,
Let us have our whimsy. Also, you're talking and saying
that they wouldn't look exactly like us. That kind of
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in his own image, maybe he would create elliots in
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I got a host of stories to get to. I
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want to do that here in just a moment. I
do have some more comments that rolled in, however, and
I want to work through some of these talkbacks over
some of the stories that we've been talking about. We
had at the top of the hour, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate
twenty six year old Andy Mansky was on talking about
reaching the younger voters. Had this comment that came into
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the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Hey John, According to college aged person, I know, part
of the reason why younger people are going liberal is
the moms are doing it. Therefore their daughter's college age
are doing it, and the guys that are college age
want to get with the girls that are doing it,
and it just makes primal sense.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, yeah, now that makes all the sense in the world.
Thank you. Regarding the controversy on the University of Minnesota
and the Drinco de Mayo Drinco de Mayo racehorse name
or band name. Wow, that's tough because you know, if
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you had a band name Drinko Demil, you could do
like Menudo covers. It's being so stereotypical right now. I'm
gonna go racehorse just to avoid controversy. I think that's
probably the best route.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Hi John, I saw a post on x I believe
it was the other day that Republicans don't deserve to
go out and eat at Mexican restaurants and Cinco de Mayo,
so don't even think about it. And all I could
hear in the back of my mind was any restaurant
owner going, no, we want you just these people are deranged.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you for the talkbacks on the iHeart Radio app.
Before we talk a and wrap up the show, I
do want to go here. A break in in a
Minneapolis brewery, brew Haven, ended up stealing the thieves did
a large toolbox. According to a Facebook post from brew Haven,
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this is the suspect who broke into the brewery after
hours seemingly thought they were going to score tools in
the toolbox. Instead, he got or they got maps, minifigures, tablecloths,
and other supplies that are invaluable to the tabletop of
gaming community of Dungeons and Dragons fans. That's right, a
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popular Dungeons and Dragons event series held at Minnesota Breweries
is rebuilding now and even expanding across the country after
suffering this major loss from the recent break in. So
these events are called Dragons, Dungeons and Drinks, and for
a moment I thought, well it should be Dungeons and
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Dragons and Drinks, but I get why they changed it.
So good job in the name change, because Dragons, Dungeons
and Drinks flows a lot better than going the other way.
Just working with a lot of wordplay. This morning on
the show, as we finally landed on dim dos.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This started three years ago. Momentum recently took a hit
though after this break in at Brewhaven. The losses include
over five hundred hand laminated character sheets, game master binders, tokens,
and stickers. So the thieves clearly thought they were going
to be getting tools, and the fact that they got
a bunch of D and D gear, you know, try
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to make a swap. Say listen, we just really want
you can have the tools. We really just want to
dungeons and dragon stuff back. Can we leave it like
at a you know, undisclosed location. We'll just leave them
there and can come grab. Thousands of dollars, hundreds of
hours of work of mind, and countless other volunteers gone
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in seconds, said Renee Devereaux, the event's co founder, on
a GoFundMe, describing the feeling of wave after wave of
grief since the break in. Yeah, man, that sucks. It's
not the cost of what was taken, she says, but
because I watched our volunteers to sit around tables, laminating
and binding those sheets at Devereux shared they gave their time,
they gave their care, their Saturday afternoons to make sure
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a stranger walking into their first D and D night
would have something beautiful to hold. Dragons, Dungeons and Drinks
began with a single event back in May of twenty
twenty three on Facebook. Three years later, has grown to
over twenty five hundred members and more than one hundred
and fifty game masters running adventures in Minnesota. Funds are
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needed to replace everything that was stolen. Approximately fifteen hundred
dollars was raised already in a GoFundMe in less than
an hour, with now three eight hundred and thirty dollars
raised towards a ten thousand dollars five goal. The fundraising
details how the d D and D will use community
donations to rebuild and expand outside of Minnesota. Here's something
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that will probably shock a lot of individuals. Never played
Dungeons and Dragons, not a not a once? Do you
ever play Dungeons and Dragons? Devin never? Never? Yeah, I
don't know why I never. I think it was probably
just the friends that I ran with. I think it's
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what it came down to. They never played it, so
I never played it. Oh, I have an update on something.
By the way, Earlier in the show, we were talking
about the DFL and how they ended up voting down
the requiring the Secretary of State here in Minnesota to
do a yearly check on voter ID to make sure
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everybody who was voting was legal. I shared with you
a story of how Ice had gone and arrested it
coupled it with the vote story. I shared with you
a story about how you had Ice went on to
a Disney cruise ship and arrested some of their cruise
members because they were illegal aliens, and in it I
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expressed my frustration that it was one of those stories
where they ended up getting an actuality from somebody there
a family who saw one of these arrests taking place,
and now they said that they were shocked by what
they saw on it. I always think it's ridiculous. People
see individuals getting arrested all the time, and mostly when
you have these types of stories, those little actualities are
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just included to make it seem like in this case,
Ice was being cruel and mean. Well, I have a
follow up more arrests made on a Disney cruise line,
or should I say more specifically the background on the
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individuals that were arrested on that Disney cruise line. So
I'm looking at a story from the New York Post
because the previous story that I got left this little
detail out Disney grew a cruise ship staffers among the
twenty eight arrested in massive child porn operation. You know
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what's not in this New York Post story or any
actualities from those on board the ship talking about how
shocked and sadened they were that the individuals were being
arrested in front of them. Now, that it's been revealed
that some of these people arrested were part of a
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child pornography operation. You just couldn't had no idea that
it was going to go and take a turn that way.
So just a bit of a bit of an update
for you, John. I play Dungeons and Dragons once in
high school. Back in the nineties. Dungeon Master opened ust
in this field with a cave. He said it was
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dangerous inside.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
What do you want to do?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So we're like, we poke our sword in the cave
and he's like, oh, you killed the most important character
in the whole game.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Never played again after that. I think one of the
stumbling blocks for me, this is probably is gonna sound
so late, one of the stumbling blocks for me and
Dungeons and Dragons. It just seems so labor intensive. It
seems like it was a lot. It seems like it's
a lot of work. I don't like board games in general, though,
so that's also probably my version for this morning's episode,
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Hour three, Dungeons, Dragons and dim Doze. Okay, thank you, Rooster,
always in for the joke. All right, here's a flashback
for you before we talk hoas Minnesota lawmakers passed a
new bill allowing seniors and assistant living in nursing homes
a chance to enjoy happy hour.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
The new law allows senior and assisted living living homes
to serve alcohol to residents and their guests during organized
events and facilities. This goes back to April thirtieth. Nursing
homes would have to get a liquor license in order
to be able to offer the happy hour. This is
according to Senator Jordan Rasmusen, Republican out of Fergus Falls.
(29:24):
So I'm glad that we're able to get this bill
pass so that those residents can enjoy happy hour.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's nice. I know not everybody was on board with this,
but I personally don't see any problem with it. Sophia Spaith. Spaith,
Senior Living Director at Lyndon at Eventide, said the law
is about more than just happy hour. The biggest thing
for us is that these residents are adults and they
love the socialize. We are independent and assisted living, so
(29:51):
it's really important that they can all come together as
a group at a pub, socialize and have a drink
with one another. Senator A rob A Kupek dfl Out
of more Head said moving into assisted living and senior
living doesn't mean residents still can't do things that they
enjoyed space, that happy hours is something that residents look
forward to every month. Okay, So I bring this to
(30:11):
your attention because I found this story. Maybe we moved
too soon. This individual was living in a subsidized senior
housing complex, a Missouri man. He's been charged earlier this
week with a handful of felonies after he was accused.
(30:33):
Unfortunately for him, he ended up being accused of making
homemade bombs. I don't know. I guess you're a senior citizen.
You got time on your hands. Police responded, unfortunately, to
an explosion at an apartment in this subsidized senior housing
(30:55):
complex in Odessa, Missouri. The explosion blew out the windows
twenty three feet away. Probable Cause document detailed refrigerator doors
were blown off and a collapse part of the ceiling,
causing thousands of dollars in damage. Apparently at the scene
(31:16):
of the explosion, it was said that a little home
lab was found where this individual made improvised explosive devices
by watching online tutorials. Since he was fourteen years old.
The Missouri Highway Patrol bomb squad found two completed homemade
(31:38):
bombs in the apartment, along with chemicals materials to make
even more a Stanley box. The individual's name related to
investigators that he was making a big firework and that
he had two completed devices for his daughter. According to
court documents, oh they also found an AR fifteen rifle
with no serial number hidden in a false bottom of
a hope chest, along with Maggazin's ammunition, a duty belt
(32:01):
in a plate carrier. They located a twelve gage, a
shotgun under the coffee table, meth and fhetamine, and discovered
in multiple locations as well two glass pipes weighable amounts
of a crystal substance. Court records has stated that the
Stanley is a convicted felon for weapon law violations, making
(32:22):
this possession of firearms and ammunition illegal. So I bet
he's a blast at some of those social drinking circles
within the senior citizen living facilities. All right, There has
been some progress made at the legislative level, in this
case Minnesota lawmakers approving a new HOA Bill of Rights.
(32:43):
Here's some of the story courtesy of Fox nine homeowners and.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Rogers faced sixteen thousand dollars bills from their HOA for
roof repairs, whether or not theirs were damaged a forest lake,
a simple parking dispute with a new HOA board nearly
cost the family their homes three alarmed fire across the state.
Disputes with homeowners associations can cause people a lot all
the way up to losing their home because an HOA
(33:09):
can foreclose for any unpaid dues, fines or fees, and
there are concerns about how those decisions are made.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And who's affected.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
A large percentage of those clients that we have our
senior citizens whose mortgages have long been paid off but
court facing the loss of their units as a result
of the HIA for closing on leans that they have.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
The legislature set up a bipartisan task force to look
into the problems and look for solutions, and it's led
to a few bills now up for consideration. Potential changes
include protecting homeowners from foreclosure for fees and fines. Rules
to maintain the esthetics of a community could not lead
to foreclosure, and they'd be limited on parts of the
property only the homeowner can access, and property managers might
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have to get licenses and would have to abide by
conflict of interest standards among those. They could not force
homeowners to use a specific vendor for repairs, and decisions
like foreclosure would have to be very transparent.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Although explicit racial covenants were out load in nineteen forty eight,
modern hs often maintain exclusivity through more subtle means, such
as excessive fees and fines and selectively enforced and often
legally dubious rules.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
And that task force actually had forty one total recommendations.
Almost every single one of them has made its way
into a bill, and most of those bills are getting
their first committee hearings this week Live at the Capital,
Klorin Harker, Fox nine Again that story from courtesy of
Fox nine leave it to.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Something that typically is as controversial as Ahoa's to be
one of the few things that can bring Republicans and
Democrats together in a bipartisan fashion at the state capitol.
This doesn't surprise me in the Although frequent guests on
the show have varying opinions over Hoa's My happiness lives
(35:06):
in an Hoa run by a fascist speaking of which
I've been wanting to share this story with you. It's
one of the reasons why I've mentioned to Hoa's when
it comes to getting as many people to vote as
possible starting with Hoa's because if you start with a
focus at the ground level right and directly impacting you
in your home, if you live in an HOA, then
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that can easily go and dovetail and apply to your
local school board races, your local city council races, and
then ride on up all the way to the presidency.
And another reason why it's important to focus on Hoa's.
This says fraud is also taking place in hoas from
the Independent of former homeowners association president and her husband
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have admitted to stealing upwards of eleven million from thousands
of residents in a Miami County Mark Lee Diego. Mark
Lee Diego, forty four years old, pleaded guilty to racketeering
and grand theft charges for siphoning millions from the monthly
(36:10):
maintenance fees of one of Florida's largest homeowners' associations. Diego,
who led the Hammocks Community Association, was described as the
mastermind behind the sprawling scheme. Miami Dade State Attorney Catherine
Fernandez Rundel described it as doing that thing with my fingers.
One of the largest homeowner association frauds in US history,
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which swindled more than eighteen thousand residents out of upwards
of eleven million dollars. According to CBS News, Diego was
sentenced to seven years in prison, followed by seven years
of probation. In a Miami Dade courtroom, Gonzalez was sentenced
to seven years probation in order to pay fifty thousand
(36:56):
dollars in restitution and forfeit a one point two million
dollar home. An investigation into the HOA was launched back
in twenty twenty two after residents raise concerns about the
decline in the association's reserve funds, excessive expenditures, and other
undocumented spending. Court documents obtained by the Miami Herald showed,
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according to the prosecutors, Diego and her co conspirators created
shell companies to funnel HOA funds to themselves under the
guise of vendor payments for services they weren't actually being provided.
Prosecutors said, boy, doesn't this all sound again just familiar.
One of the companies under the Gonzales name netted more
(37:39):
than one point four million between twenty seventeen and twenty two.
The fraud probe led to a ferocious and immediate legislative response,
with new laws punishing HOA election fraud, prohibiting co mingling
of association funds, and promoting greater transparency for residents to
access the HOA records. You know, if that bill, I
(38:01):
know they're working looking through for passage on the homeowner's
Bill of Rights. Maybe we should include some fraud in
that based off of what we're finding on in this story.
Last week, prosecutors revealed new details from the investigation, which
included the discovery of HOA records hidden at a storefront
disguised as a spa inside an empty building at a
(38:24):
strip mall in Broward County. Prosecutors said the evidence exposed
a years long operation in which HOA funds were routinely
misused for personal gain. She intentionally targeted them at this
particular homeowners association because she purchased one percent share of
the condominium in order to be eligible to run for
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a position on the board. According to the Miami Dade Attorney,
this way, she was able to successfully infiltrate the HOA board,
which became her cash cow in her diabolical scheme. It's
one of the things that always sticks out for in
stories like this to me, is the amount of effort
(39:05):
that you put in to conduct your fraud. Now, granted,
it's a lot more lucrative than getting a regular nine
to five job, but if you just applied yourself in
any other way, or just decided to go legitimately, go
legitimate and be an entrepreneur, you'll probably be really successful.
Diego is accused of using HOA resources and monies to
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go after rival association members, which included ordering the community's
security to harass them. Police say she also used HOA
credit cards for personal purchases at fast food restaurants Panera, Bread,
Poio Tropical, and Little Caesars, as well as for gracery shopping.
The probe did lead to arrests of other board members,
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as well as the couple's cousin. Many residents of the
community were not happy with the ultimate outcome. A lot
of people lost their homes. It's eleven million dollars and
it's seven years in jail versus eleven million. Where's the
money are all the people that lost their home going
(40:09):
to recover their homeboy. It sounds like the complaints that
we hear here in Minnesota from those of us that
have had to live through the billions of dollars in fraud.
If you missed any portion of today's show, be sure
to check out the podcast that'll be available soon up
on the iHeartRadio app Tomorrow What's the Freedom Friday? Grace
Keeping from American Experiment along with Representative Max Reimer, RNC
(40:32):
Committeeman Ak Kamara, and You're on and off topic comments
all morning long. Talk to you guys tomorrow morning. Have
a great Thursday.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Thanks everybody. You guys are the best.
Hi, John, say, did Blaine pass that ruling to prevent
public nudity or so that they didn't have to fly
the new Minnesota state flag.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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the show. Of course, your talk back of the day
brought to you by Minnie Leaf here on Twin City's
News Talk coming up just after at eight thirty this morning.
His website is Andy Manski the number four governor dot com.
Andy Manski for governor dot com running in Wisconsin as
a gubernatorial candidate, and he joins the now on the show.
Good morning, Andy, Thank you so much for coming on.
(01:02):
How are we doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
A little horse and sciences whatever, Maybe a little cost here,
but I actually believe that no matter how you are,
if you can talk to the people and you can
talk about policy, show up be there.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know. Well, thank you so much for joining us
this morning. And even if you're dealing with a little
bit being under the weather. So for those that may
not have heard of you, and I know you're a
newer candidate, so a lot of people might not be
familiar with your Wisconsin gubernatorial run. Let the audience know
a little bit about who Andy Mansky is and specifically
(01:38):
why you decided to go and run for governor.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Sure married three years ago. Everybody knows that the buzzword
here is affordability. Inflation was a big reason part of
why I'm running. I come from a religious family, so
I have a lot of compassion and a lot of
deep feelings for my community. I work in the medical field,
so those feelings are amplified when I were in the city,
the suburbs, rural areas. I'm across southeast Wisconsin, me and
(02:03):
this team I work with, and I see if people
who are just not doing well and are in a really,
really bad spot. So at the end of the day,
I have two younger sisters. Someday I plan to have children.
You know, we hope, we pray on it, we hope
for good things in the future. But at the end
of the day, I mean I looked at the field
at the time, you know, there was a lot of
youth perspective, and I said, there's a lot of reasons
for a young person to run and just advocate for
a better world, a better world further generation and for
(02:26):
future generations. So my whole platform is basically, you know,
reforming things, you know, maybe adjusting colleges so the states
more money, and ending various tax issues that are like
we're are taxing people, for example, on various factors so
they have more money in their pockets. Just kind of
building the future, if you will. My platform. I am
running against another individual, but my platform is unique in
(02:48):
the sense that I come from both a Republican and
Democrat family, and so I have found success reaching across
the island talking to them and finding just common sense
things to just get things done. A lot of people
are just tired of the gridlock. So what I'm offering
is just saying, hey, let's get a future where you know,
everything's cheaper, we get rid of the gas tech, we
can build the future here, we can do this, we
can do that. It's that kind of youthful energy, is like, hey,
(03:08):
we got to have a better future. We got to
get something done, you know, no more of the same.
Let's get something done.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know, we've been talking quite a bit about the
younger generations this week on the show as we talk
with gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, Andy Manski. You're twenty six
years old, medical service technician, and earlier in the week, Andy,
we were discussing how you know there is you know,
gen Z has this lack of faith within our politicians,
and I'm convinced that this lack of faith that people
(03:35):
have is across the board. We know that people don't
have trust in the media, they don't have trust in
the government, and this is extending into you know, not
even just politics, but pop culture as well. I'm just
I'm curious from your perspective talking with other young people.
You being twenty six years old and running for for
a governor, you know, what kind of perspective can you
(03:56):
add to that for an individual, you know, like my
I'm fifty three years old. I have two young boys,
a twenty three and a nineteen year old. But I'd
love to get your perspective on those that are engaged
politically at a young age and their perception of politics
right now. And you're what you are doing within your
campaign to address those concerns.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Sure, so I mean, at the end of the day,
gen Z is very frustrated with a lot of elements.
I guess other elements other generations don't really deal with, right,
So this is something you may or me and I
have heard about before. Ghost jobs. They exist, They're basically there.
Just studies twenty five percent of all Internet jobs are
ghost jobs. So what that means is you can finally
get a job and it's not a real job. They're
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actually are just collecting your information and they're able to
just kind of keep it in their system for a
rainy day if they want it, or they can sell
it online, which again, obviously people should care about their privacy.
We have other elements too. I went me and my wife,
we went in to look at housing. They kind of
like lap this off. They're like, you know, what's your
wife's job. She doesn't have a job right now, and
you're trying to do this with one income. I mean,
I want to you know, see what at do you
(05:00):
have three hundred thousand for Milwaukee and the surrounding counties. No, Well,
that's like the starting point. That's where everything's at right now.
That's like the average. You mean, or you want do
you have twenty percent to put down for a down payment. No,
and they're guy just kind of looking at me like
why are you even here? You know, it's like, well,
I want to have a home someday too.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
At the end of the day, I mean, gas has
gone up, who has gone up. Every element of our
life has just gone up and up and up, like
by the say, probably thirty forty percent almost in the
last eight years. And it's a real pain point, especially
for younger folk, because we're already being squeezed in various
different means, and we don't have the jobs. The jobs
are gone overseas, you know, no longer here, and the
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jobs that are here we fight with each other over it,
or we fight with people who aren't even from this country.
Not that there's anything to be said against that. It's
just at the end of the day, you know, it
does the press wages. You know, we also have that
dealing with where if somebody's going to come over and
do a job for fifty thousand dollars, then an American
will do for sixty thousand dollars. You know, the company
will take the guy who they just do the paperwork,
(05:57):
and I'll do fifty thousand dollars. Why because it's money
for the company. It's better deal, right, not a good
deal so much for a regular Wisconsin guy is trying
to build a future, get a family, you name it. So,
I mean there's other elements too, But I mean we're
very frustrated with both parties. I mean, all we ever
hear is talk, nothing really gets done. I mean we're
very frustrated with the system. Some people have gotten to
some very far extremes. I mean, I don't want to
(06:20):
talk about the guy, but you know, Luigi, that guy
is basically some people think of him as like a
hero because he's taking on big people who have kind
of taken on the system.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So at the end of the day, we want the
system to work for us. We want something to get done.
We do not trust politicians on either side of the aisle
because at this point it jolves back and forth and
every single one seems to have, you know, made life
worse in some way or another, and it makes me
very it makes us very sad. So I mean, in
that regard, we're looking at this election, gen Z, not
just myself, having talked with people and some of us
(06:51):
are just some people want to burn it down, and
I know it's a scary thought for the people who
are older, but we aren't tell loowed to how homing.
You know, housing at normal prices, we can't really even
get started. It's almost like a failure to launch. Nowadays.
It's very common for Gen Z and other generations. Now
they're younger, but people younger to be in their homes
their parents till twenty five to thirty because housing is
just not affordable. We just can't get started right. And
(07:12):
I mean there's different avenues and policies we can take.
Having talked with them, some of them are interested in changing,
for example, the investor laws. Right now we're getting signatures
to be on the ballot, and I talk with young
people and they're like, yeah, we changed the investor laws.
I mean, you don't have to remove them entirely, but
they're not so profitable. Some of those homes could come
on the market. They want something like that. Well, you know,
politicians will talk about bill housing, change zewing laws, change regulation,
(07:35):
but that's very localized, very specific, and it can help
for sure. At the end of the day, somebody can
keep collecting homes. We're not stupid we can recognize that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Talking with Andy Manski again, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate his website
to Andy Manski the number four governor dot com, how
do you counter as somebody who may say, because of
your on your young age, that you're not qualified enough
to be in that position. I'm sure you've faced that.
How do you encounter that argument? Andy?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes, if they stick a few times, I'll be honest.
In that regard, I always advocate for more choice and ballasts.
I always advocate for new ideas because I think generally
every regular person has a good idea. I think that
the governor's mansion in every state should be essentially a
conduit for the people to get things done and to
be directly engaged with their government, right, which is sort
of lacking here in Wisconsin in another areas as well.
(08:29):
But in that regard, while say to them is listen,
you're right, I don't have fifty years. I don't I'm
not corrupted, I'm not in the system. I didn't go
through building this resume. But honestly, I'm worried if our
countries even going to look like in ten years. They
talk about social Security being gone in what seven years?
Every time? Right, I mean, we're constantly going more and
more in debt. It seems like everything is getting worse
(08:50):
and worse and worse. Some of our old economic models
just aren't working. Sometimes it's okay to get fresh ideas.
I mean, it shouldn't be scary to have young people
having the voice at the table saying hey, I have
a lot more time on this earth than I want
to be here, and I want to advocate and I
want things to get done. I always want to be
able to be heard. So in that regard, I mean,
I'm just running my campaign older voters, young voters, whoever
(09:11):
is willing to listen, I'll talk with you, you know,
and that's most people an helpment. But if you look
down on somebody for being young, I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Think that's a bit sad.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, I look down on people for being young.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well, and you Mansky listen. Hat tip to you for
getting engaged in this. We need more young people that
are willing to go and get engaged and step up
when they want to go and make a change. Again,
I encourage everybody if they want to find out more
about you, I assume to go to your website. Andy
Mansky for Governor Dot com. Is that the best place
to best resource to find out more about your campaign?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean you can follow me on like social
media's I got like three and there's like a million
social media that these days. But I'm using ex er
Twitter or whatever you call it, right, I have a Facebook.
I don't really believe in ole you should always follow
people at poltice and pages. I actually just say this
is my page, this is who I am. Deal with
it otherwise. I mean, I got a look at TikTok.
Not that as I know, it's unusually a lot of
(10:02):
young people love TikTok me. I was kind of a
naturally against it because I worry about my privacy and
that stuff. But you know, sometimes you sacrifice your privacy
to run for bettering your state, bettering our country.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, thank you so much again, Andy Mansky for governor
as the number four governor dot com. I hope you
feel better. Thank you for the time this morning and
continued good luck in your gubernatorial campaign efforts in Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Thank you very much for having me. God bless you, Babie.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Coming up Minneapolis man Baby may or mom Jeans Jacob
Fry to make announcement on police chief Brian O'Hara this
morning at eight thirty. We'll bring that to you when
we find out whatever that announcement is. A lot of
rumors are flying. Drinco Demayo University of Minnesota frat party
gets hit with a bias report. Details and we will
dive into the new Minnesota hoa bill of rights rules
(10:52):
limiting fees, banning retaliation. We'll do that probably right around
at eight thirty this morning here on Twin City's News
Talk at AM eleven thirty and one O three five FM.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
One thing I think mister Manski is indicative of is
and it's really frustrating, is that the liberal doom and
gloom message out there resonates with younger people far too well,
and that the GOP is doing a really crappy job
of reaching those people and giving them them hope and.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
A party that will meet their needs. It's really sad.
Thank you for the top back, Sean. I appreciate it.
The GOP has certainly done a better job than they
have in the past, and it's actually young people within
the GOP that are doing a better job than the
(11:51):
older establishment types. And you are seeing a renewed focus
from those older generations on that, but there's going to
be an age gap there. But the good news is,
as I mentioned that there's a lot of younger conservatives
out there that are they're doing the work and they're
putting themselves in the crosshairs. When you look at individuals
like Savannah Hernandez from Turning Point, USA, I mean Nick Shirley.
(12:16):
When you the Freedom Friday guests that we have, you know,
we look at Grace and Catherine from you know, American Experiment. Yeah,
they're a part of center, the American Experiment, and this
is their job, but they're putting out their content part
of that younger generation. Grace will be back in tomorrow
(12:39):
for our Freedom Friday along with ak Kamara and Representative
Max Reimer looking forward to to that. We're a few
minutes away from this announcement. Minneapolis man maybe me or
Mom Jean's Jacob Fry making this announcement. The specifics of
the announcement regarding Minneapolis Police Chief and the focus of
the announcement have not been shared. Now there were a
(12:59):
couple of subsequent stories is saying that this would be
the Minneapolis mayor nominating Brian O'Hara for another four years.
There's other you know, speculation out there that he doesn't
have much support from the city council, that he could
be on his way out. By the way, anyone else
(13:21):
chosen by the doing nothing with my fingers leadership of
the electivists on the Minneapolis City Council would certainly be worse.
And I'm no fan of Brian O'Hara. He's one of those,
you know, kind of like the Minneapolis mayor broken clock
is right twice a day, but he's not been great.
(13:42):
But trust me, anybody else that they would bring in
would be absolutely worse. All right from Alpinus, let's go here.
Speaking of Minneapolis and Minnesota, someone reported a University of
Minnesota fraternity to the Campus Bias Response and Referral Network
or a sign that said drinko demayo drinco isn't a thing.
(14:06):
It's just a play on words. But organizations need to
have these types of controversies in order to exist. The
unidentified person turned in the report. According to a newly
obtained Bias Response Team document, the College Fix acquired more
than one hundred reports submitted between July of twenty four
(14:29):
and March of twenty six. The documents don't list the
resolution of the complaint, and the College Fix was unable
to locate in further information about the controversy. However, the
complaint said the sign perpetuated anti Mexican hate. No, no,
it doesn't. It's a play on words, and I would
(14:51):
think that individuals who would like to see the culture
celebrated would understand that this is a way that people
that aren't of Mexican descent celebrate the culture. The drinko
is just the wordplay. Drinko again, isn't in a thing.
If somebody had said that Mexican people are just a
bunch of drinkos and they turned it into some sort
(15:12):
of pejorative, I would give it to you. But that's
not what happens here. Sinko to myo. Festivities meant to
celebrate Mexico's victory over the French back in eighteen sixty two.
In twenty thirteen, Mexican student leaders at Northwestern complained drinking
tequila shots, eating tacos, and wearing sombreros do not commemorate
(15:34):
Mexican culture. On the contrary, that offends who That offends,
marginalizes and isolates many of our friends, classmates, and community
members and casts our entire community in a poor light. No,
it's the individuals pushing back against it that do that,
because the people that are drinking tequila shots, eating tacos
(15:55):
and wearing sombreros, they are happy and enjoying it and
aren't doing it and never do it in a mocking way.
But you can't expect it to be able to reason
with individuals like this when they have a specific agenda,
and that is to grow their ranks and legitimize the
(16:17):
whole reason why they exist, so they manufacture crisis. In
twenty fourteen, the University of California Davis also protested a
Sinco de Drinco campus party, leading to its cancelation. Maybe
they just have a problem with drinko and it isn't
a word. Go that route. Stop saying drinko. That's it's
not a word. Me and the buddies are not going
(16:39):
to the bar for drinkos. Drinkos, great alcoholic cereal. It's
got all kinds of great ideas this morning. In May
(16:59):
twenty seven teen, a party hosted by the University of
Chicago fraternity had nothing to do with Cinco Demayo, was
meant to riff on the two years of construction on
the frat house. Because they were wearing costume outfits around
May fifth and they were being drawn, they were accusations
of racism at the time. Again, it's just they're individuals
that are going in searching for a searching for a problem. Yeah,
(17:26):
so here's this story, speaking of drinking. I'll give with you.
I'll give you the full details coming up in just
a moment. But a break in at a Minneapolis brewery,
the brew Haven, resulted in the theft of something that
clearly the thieves were not expecting. So you had a
group of individuals that broke into the brew Haven Brewery
(17:49):
in Minneapolis, and they ended up stealing what was a
large toolbox, clearly expecting that they were going to be
tools in the toolbox. I am sure that when they
actually op the toolbox they all got a very disappointed surprise.
I'll tell you what was actually in the toolbox, because
it was not tools. We'll get to your talkback of
the day and we'll talk a little hoa bull of
(18:11):
rights as well in the final segment of the show.
For a Thursday here on Twin City's News Talk do
Not go Anywhere I am a pult I should be
Twin City's news Talk. John Justice, glad you're with the show.
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us a thirty second talkback Once a morning we award
we bestow the talk back of the day. It's brought
to you by Mini leafanmnileaf dot com. Congratulations to Tim.
Made me laugh this morning with this one. We were
talking about the potential release of the alien files of
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President from President Donald Trump, Neil the grass Tyson coming
out and being a buzzkill over it.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You know, Neil de.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Grass Tyson's always been a buzzkill, you know now with
his alien stuff, but used to be with every movie.
You point out, well, scientifically, that's not what shut up, dude,
Let us have our whimsy. Also, you're talking and saying
that they wouldn't look exactly like us. That kind of
go us towards people's Christian base of God created people
(19:47):
in his own image, maybe he would create elliots in
his own image.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I just liked the shut up dude, let us have
our whimsy that ended up winning YouTube the esteemed to honor.
I've talked back of the day brought to you by
minileafanminileaf dot com here on Twin Cities News Talk at
AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. All Right,
I got a host of stories to get to. I
(20:14):
want to do that here in just a moment. I
do have some more comments that rolled in, however, and
I want to work through some of these talkbacks over
some of the stories that we've been talking about. We
had at the top of the hour, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate
twenty six year old Andy Mansky was on talking about
reaching the younger voters. Had this comment that came into
(20:36):
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Hey John, According to college aged person, I know, part
of the reason why younger people are going liberal is
the moms are doing it. Therefore their daughter's college age
are doing it, and the guys that are college age
want to get with the girls that are doing it,
and it just makes primal sense.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, yeah, now that makes all the sense in the world.
Thank you. Regarding the controversy on the University of Minnesota
and the Drinco de Mayo Drinco de Mayo racehorse name
or band name. Wow, that's tough because you know, if
(21:18):
you had a band name Drinko Demil, you could do
like Menudo covers. It's being so stereotypical right now. I'm
gonna go racehorse just to avoid controversy. I think that's
probably the best route.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Hi John, I saw a post on x I believe
it was the other day that Republicans don't deserve to
go out and eat at Mexican restaurants and Cinco de Mayo,
so don't even think about it. And all I could
hear in the back of my mind was any restaurant
owner going, no, we want you just these people are deranged.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you for the talkbacks on the iHeart Radio app.
Before we talk a and wrap up the show, I
do want to go here. A break in in a
Minneapolis brewery, brew Haven, ended up stealing the thieves did
a large toolbox. According to a Facebook post from brew Haven,
(22:17):
this is the suspect who broke into the brewery after
hours seemingly thought they were going to score tools in
the toolbox. Instead, he got or they got maps, minifigures, tablecloths,
and other supplies that are invaluable to the tabletop of
gaming community of Dungeons and Dragons fans. That's right, a
(22:40):
popular Dungeons and Dragons event series held at Minnesota Breweries
is rebuilding now and even expanding across the country after
suffering this major loss from the recent break in. So
these events are called Dragons, Dungeons and Drinks, and for
a moment I thought, well it should be Dungeons and
(23:00):
Dragons and Drinks, but I get why they changed it.
So good job in the name change, because Dragons, Dungeons
and Drinks flows a lot better than going the other way.
Just working with a lot of wordplay. This morning on
the show, as we finally landed on dim dos.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This started three years ago. Momentum recently took a hit
though after this break in at Brewhaven. The losses include
over five hundred hand laminated character sheets, game master binders, tokens,
and stickers. So the thieves clearly thought they were going
to be getting tools, and the fact that they got
a bunch of D and D gear, you know, try
(23:41):
to make a swap. Say listen, we just really want
you can have the tools. We really just want to
dungeons and dragon stuff back. Can we leave it like
at a you know, undisclosed location. We'll just leave them
there and can come grab. Thousands of dollars, hundreds of
hours of work of mind, and countless other volunteers gone
(24:04):
in seconds, said Renee Devereaux, the event's co founder, on
a GoFundMe, describing the feeling of wave after wave of
grief since the break in. Yeah, man, that sucks. It's
not the cost of what was taken, she says, but
because I watched our volunteers to sit around tables, laminating
and binding those sheets at Devereux shared they gave their time,
they gave their care, their Saturday afternoons to make sure
(24:26):
a stranger walking into their first D and D night
would have something beautiful to hold. Dragons, Dungeons and Drinks
began with a single event back in May of twenty
twenty three on Facebook. Three years later, has grown to
over twenty five hundred members and more than one hundred
and fifty game masters running adventures in Minnesota. Funds are
(24:49):
needed to replace everything that was stolen. Approximately fifteen hundred
dollars was raised already in a GoFundMe in less than
an hour, with now three eight hundred and thirty dollars
raised towards a ten thousand dollars five goal. The fundraising
details how the d D and D will use community
donations to rebuild and expand outside of Minnesota. Here's something
(25:11):
that will probably shock a lot of individuals. Never played
Dungeons and Dragons, not a not a once? Do you
ever play Dungeons and Dragons? Devin never? Never? Yeah, I
don't know why I never. I think it was probably
just the friends that I ran with. I think it's
(25:34):
what it came down to. They never played it, so
I never played it. Oh, I have an update on something.
By the way, Earlier in the show, we were talking
about the DFL and how they ended up voting down
the requiring the Secretary of State here in Minnesota to
do a yearly check on voter ID to make sure
(25:55):
everybody who was voting was legal. I shared with you
a story of how Ice had gone and arrested it
coupled it with the vote story. I shared with you
a story about how you had Ice went on to
a Disney cruise ship and arrested some of their cruise
members because they were illegal aliens, and in it I
(26:19):
expressed my frustration that it was one of those stories
where they ended up getting an actuality from somebody there
a family who saw one of these arrests taking place,
and now they said that they were shocked by what
they saw on it. I always think it's ridiculous. People
see individuals getting arrested all the time, and mostly when
you have these types of stories, those little actualities are
(26:41):
just included to make it seem like in this case,
Ice was being cruel and mean. Well, I have a
follow up more arrests made on a Disney cruise line,
or should I say more specifically the background on the
(27:01):
individuals that were arrested on that Disney cruise line. So
I'm looking at a story from the New York Post
because the previous story that I got left this little
detail out Disney grew a cruise ship staffers among the
twenty eight arrested in massive child porn operation. You know
(27:27):
what's not in this New York Post story or any
actualities from those on board the ship talking about how
shocked and sadened they were that the individuals were being
arrested in front of them. Now, that it's been revealed
that some of these people arrested were part of a
(27:48):
child pornography operation. You just couldn't had no idea that
it was going to go and take a turn that way.
So just a bit of a bit of an update
for you, John. I play Dungeons and Dragons once in
high school. Back in the nineties. Dungeon Master opened ust
in this field with a cave. He said it was
(28:08):
dangerous inside.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
What do you want to do?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So we're like, we poke our sword in the cave
and he's like, oh, you killed the most important character
in the whole game.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Never played again after that. I think one of the
stumbling blocks for me, this is probably is gonna sound
so late, one of the stumbling blocks for me and
Dungeons and Dragons. It just seems so labor intensive. It
seems like it was a lot. It seems like it's
a lot of work. I don't like board games in general, though,
so that's also probably my version for this morning's episode,
(28:43):
Hour three, Dungeons, Dragons and dim Doze. Okay, thank you, Rooster,
always in for the joke. All right, here's a flashback
for you before we talk hoas Minnesota lawmakers passed a
new bill allowing seniors and assistant living in nursing homes
a chance to enjoy happy hour.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
The new law allows senior and assisted living living homes
to serve alcohol to residents and their guests during organized
events and facilities. This goes back to April thirtieth. Nursing
homes would have to get a liquor license in order
to be able to offer the happy hour. This is
according to Senator Jordan Rasmusen, Republican out of Fergus Falls.
(29:24):
So I'm glad that we're able to get this bill
pass so that those residents can enjoy happy hour.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's nice. I know not everybody was on board with this,
but I personally don't see any problem with it. Sophia Spaith. Spaith,
Senior Living Director at Lyndon at Eventide, said the law
is about more than just happy hour. The biggest thing
for us is that these residents are adults and they
love the socialize. We are independent and assisted living, so
(29:51):
it's really important that they can all come together as
a group at a pub, socialize and have a drink
with one another. Senator A rob A Kupek dfl Out
of more Head said moving into assisted living and senior
living doesn't mean residents still can't do things that they
enjoyed space, that happy hours is something that residents look
forward to every month. Okay, So I bring this to
(30:11):
your attention because I found this story. Maybe we moved
too soon. This individual was living in a subsidized senior
housing complex, a Missouri man. He's been charged earlier this
week with a handful of felonies after he was accused.
(30:33):
Unfortunately for him, he ended up being accused of making
homemade bombs. I don't know. I guess you're a senior citizen.
You got time on your hands. Police responded, unfortunately, to
an explosion at an apartment in this subsidized senior housing
(30:55):
complex in Odessa, Missouri. The explosion blew out the windows
twenty three feet away. Probable Cause document detailed refrigerator doors
were blown off and a collapse part of the ceiling,
causing thousands of dollars in damage. Apparently at the scene
(31:16):
of the explosion, it was said that a little home
lab was found where this individual made improvised explosive devices
by watching online tutorials. Since he was fourteen years old.
The Missouri Highway Patrol bomb squad found two completed homemade
(31:38):
bombs in the apartment, along with chemicals materials to make
even more a Stanley box. The individual's name related to
investigators that he was making a big firework and that
he had two completed devices for his daughter. According to
court documents, oh they also found an AR fifteen rifle
with no serial number hidden in a false bottom of
a hope chest, along with Maggazin's ammunition, a duty belt
(32:01):
in a plate carrier. They located a twelve gage, a
shotgun under the coffee table, meth and fhetamine, and discovered
in multiple locations as well two glass pipes weighable amounts
of a crystal substance. Court records has stated that the
Stanley is a convicted felon for weapon law violations, making
(32:22):
this possession of firearms and ammunition illegal. So I bet
he's a blast at some of those social drinking circles
within the senior citizen living facilities. All right, There has
been some progress made at the legislative level, in this
case Minnesota lawmakers approving a new HOA Bill of Rights.
(32:43):
Here's some of the story courtesy of Fox nine homeowners and.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Rogers faced sixteen thousand dollars bills from their HOA for
roof repairs, whether or not theirs were damaged a forest lake,
a simple parking dispute with a new HOA board nearly
cost the family their homes three alarmed fire across the state.
Disputes with homeowners associations can cause people a lot all
the way up to losing their home because an HOA
(33:09):
can foreclose for any unpaid dues, fines or fees, and
there are concerns about how those decisions are made.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And who's affected.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
A large percentage of those clients that we have our
senior citizens whose mortgages have long been paid off but
court facing the loss of their units as a result
of the HIA for closing on leans that they have.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
The legislature set up a bipartisan task force to look
into the problems and look for solutions, and it's led
to a few bills now up for consideration. Potential changes
include protecting homeowners from foreclosure for fees and fines. Rules
to maintain the esthetics of a community could not lead
to foreclosure, and they'd be limited on parts of the
property only the homeowner can access, and property managers might
(33:55):
have to get licenses and would have to abide by
conflict of interest standards among those. They could not force
homeowners to use a specific vendor for repairs, and decisions
like foreclosure would have to be very transparent.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Although explicit racial covenants were out load in nineteen forty eight,
modern hs often maintain exclusivity through more subtle means, such
as excessive fees and fines and selectively enforced and often
legally dubious rules.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
And that task force actually had forty one total recommendations.
Almost every single one of them has made its way
into a bill, and most of those bills are getting
their first committee hearings this week Live at the Capital,
Klorin Harker, Fox nine Again that story from courtesy of
Fox nine leave it to.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Something that typically is as controversial as Ahoa's to be
one of the few things that can bring Republicans and
Democrats together in a bipartisan fashion at the state capitol.
This doesn't surprise me in the Although frequent guests on
the show have varying opinions over Hoa's My happiness lives
(35:06):
in an Hoa run by a fascist speaking of which
I've been wanting to share this story with you. It's
one of the reasons why I've mentioned to Hoa's when
it comes to getting as many people to vote as
possible starting with Hoa's because if you start with a
focus at the ground level right and directly impacting you
in your home, if you live in an HOA, then
(35:28):
that can easily go and dovetail and apply to your
local school board races, your local city council races, and
then ride on up all the way to the presidency.
And another reason why it's important to focus on Hoa's.
This says fraud is also taking place in hoas from
the Independent of former homeowners association president and her husband
(35:50):
have admitted to stealing upwards of eleven million from thousands
of residents in a Miami County Mark Lee Diego. Mark
Lee Diego, forty four years old, pleaded guilty to racketeering
and grand theft charges for siphoning millions from the monthly
(36:10):
maintenance fees of one of Florida's largest homeowners' associations. Diego,
who led the Hammocks Community Association, was described as the
mastermind behind the sprawling scheme. Miami Dade State Attorney Catherine
Fernandez Rundel described it as doing that thing with my fingers.
One of the largest homeowner association frauds in US history,
(36:35):
which swindled more than eighteen thousand residents out of upwards
of eleven million dollars. According to CBS News, Diego was
sentenced to seven years in prison, followed by seven years
of probation. In a Miami Dade courtroom, Gonzalez was sentenced
to seven years probation in order to pay fifty thousand
(36:56):
dollars in restitution and forfeit a one point two million
dollar home. An investigation into the HOA was launched back
in twenty twenty two after residents raise concerns about the
decline in the association's reserve funds, excessive expenditures, and other
undocumented spending. Court documents obtained by the Miami Herald showed,
(37:18):
according to the prosecutors, Diego and her co conspirators created
shell companies to funnel HOA funds to themselves under the
guise of vendor payments for services they weren't actually being provided.
Prosecutors said, boy, doesn't this all sound again just familiar.
One of the companies under the Gonzales name netted more
(37:39):
than one point four million between twenty seventeen and twenty two.
The fraud probe led to a ferocious and immediate legislative response,
with new laws punishing HOA election fraud, prohibiting co mingling
of association funds, and promoting greater transparency for residents to
access the HOA records. You know, if that bill, I
(38:01):
know they're working looking through for passage on the homeowner's
Bill of Rights. Maybe we should include some fraud in
that based off of what we're finding on in this story.
Last week, prosecutors revealed new details from the investigation, which
included the discovery of HOA records hidden at a storefront
disguised as a spa inside an empty building at a
(38:24):
strip mall in Broward County. Prosecutors said the evidence exposed
a years long operation in which HOA funds were routinely
misused for personal gain. She intentionally targeted them at this
particular homeowners association because she purchased one percent share of
the condominium in order to be eligible to run for
(38:45):
a position on the board. According to the Miami Dade Attorney,
this way, she was able to successfully infiltrate the HOA board,
which became her cash cow in her diabolical scheme. It's
one of the things that always sticks out for in
stories like this to me, is the amount of effort
(39:05):
that you put in to conduct your fraud. Now, granted,
it's a lot more lucrative than getting a regular nine
to five job, but if you just applied yourself in
any other way, or just decided to go legitimately, go
legitimate and be an entrepreneur, you'll probably be really successful.
Diego is accused of using HOA resources and monies to
(39:27):
go after rival association members, which included ordering the community's
security to harass them. Police say she also used HOA
credit cards for personal purchases at fast food restaurants Panera, Bread,
Poio Tropical, and Little Caesars, as well as for gracery shopping.
The probe did lead to arrests of other board members,
(39:49):
as well as the couple's cousin. Many residents of the
community were not happy with the ultimate outcome. A lot
of people lost their homes. It's eleven million dollars and
it's seven years in jail versus eleven million. Where's the
money are all the people that lost their home going
(40:09):
to recover their homeboy. It sounds like the complaints that
we hear here in Minnesota from those of us that
have had to live through the billions of dollars in fraud.
If you missed any portion of today's show, be sure
to check out the podcast that'll be available soon up
on the iHeartRadio app Tomorrow What's the Freedom Friday? Grace
Keeping from American Experiment along with Representative Max Reimer, RNC
(40:32):
Committeeman Ak Kamara, and You're on and off topic comments
all morning long. Talk to you guys tomorrow morning. Have
a great Thursday.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Thanks everybody. You guys are the best.
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