May 5, 2026 • 39 mins
Jon covers an HHS resignation and slams a proposal for new taxes on services like gym memberships. Jon looks at a bill in the MN legislature banning assault weapons and explains why the original intent is being forgotten. Jon revisits the story of State legislators that got in hot water.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Our three Twin Cities News talking Am eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM. Sharen Gandhi out as the
Minnesota Human Services Commissioner, working off the version here from
care eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
She was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In front of a hearing today in Saint Paul for
confirmation to remove the temporary status, but on the eve
of her becoming the full commissioner, she steps down. Now
we have another interim commissioner taking over who will not
be confirmed today, who has gone and appointed her as
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the deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Who's on first. I don't know third base.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
This missioner game that they're playing is sort of like
that ball under the cups thing. You keep moving the
ball around so nobody can actually find where it's at.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, this is ridiculous. She shouldn't have been in this
position in the first place.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
John. We all know that the people who run these
organizations right now, the commissioners and their lackeys, are going
to be gone if a Republican governor gets elected. The
message should be to the people who've been there for
fifteen or twenty years that if they can get started now,
they can make some huge inroads and by the time
the Republican governor gets started, they'll be able to keep
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their jobs.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So Representative of Christa Knutsen posted yesterday online Governor Tim
Wallas's promotion of failed chief compliance officer to commissioner and
now she's gone. She breaks down in this audio exactly
what's transpired with all of this.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
A minison a state representative to knduts and so breaking
news Sharene Gandhi is going to be out as the
Commissioner of DHS. I've done many videos about Sharen Gandhi
in the past. She was the Chief Compliance Officer at
the Department of Human Services starting in twenty seventeen all
through the fraud, then was named temporary Commissioner to the
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Department of Human Services by Governor Walls last year and
then recently this year was named the commissioner. Prior to
last February when you were promoted to temporary interim commissioner,
what was your role at DHS, what was your title?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Prissure Gandhi Chair Schumacher Representative, Deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And prior to that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Commissioner Gandhi Chair Shumacher Representative, it was Assistant commissioner and
before that chief Compliance Officer.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Correct, Thank you, Chair Chief Compliance Officer. For the years
that this report was done, you were chief compliance Officer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This fraud happened when.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You were a chief compliance officer, and then you were promoted,
and now you've been promoted again. How do the people,
how do the taxpayers? How do you expect the taxpayers
of Minnesota to trust your leadership now when you couldn't
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get a handle on this as Chief Compliance officer? How
how it's ridiculous that anybody in this state would think
that now under a new title, you're gonna start to
be tough on front.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I am a pault. We are talking about.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Billions of dollars throughout all these programs, billions of dollars
that could have helped actual Minnesotans, and now we're supposed
to just all of a sudden, forget.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Chief Compliance Officer.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
This fraud has run rampant, and you've been there the
whole time. However, she didn't have the votes in the
Democrat held Senate to get confirmation as the commissioner of
Department Feed the Services. So sure, Gandhi's out. I don't
know who's coming next, but she's gone.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
By the way, what happened expect for the next eleven
months for me to ride you like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It was a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's all a lie coming from walls. But it's a
lie coming from all these fools. Do you really think
when if I'll say, if my apologies, if Amy klobishar,
would you become governor of Minnesota? Anything of what she
said in that press conference on Sunday is going to happen,
a full forensic audit of the state government, upgrading our
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technology systems. But only if you go and elect me.
Of course not. It's all just lip service.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The question is whether or not anything any of this
matters anymore. In the first hour of the show, I
was laying out how you've had Louisiana and Tennessee already summoning.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The summoning has begun.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They've summoned the legislators back into session in those states
so they can start redrawing the district lines via the
Supreme Court order to remove the gerrymandering the Democrats have done.
And I laid out how in a perfect world where
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there's not a bunch of frivolous challenges lawsuits, district courts,
lower courts going and blocking the effort frivolously, only to
have them spun back up to upper courts that hold
them in place, judges based off of whatever political affiliation
they have making the decisions. If these just moved through,
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the districting took place, and the elections happened, Republicans would
win in a landslide based on the number of districts
and seats they can gain. Okay, which is still possible,
But you and I both know it's not the real world.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
There's going to be challenges.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I bring all this up because if the majority of
people in Minnesota were aware of all of this ridiculous nonsense,
would it matter or have the Democrats because I don't
even know if they can answer this question. I mean, anecdotally,
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we've heard as much. But the Democrats have done such
a good job of just vilifying and demonizing the left.
I mean, they've convinced individuals to be their dutiful law
breaking insurrectionist foot soldiers when law enforcement agents go and
arrest criminal illegal aliens, murderers, rapists, thieves.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Maybe the murderers traders and thieves you call friend.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So even if they were aware of all of this,
because it's all one big game to them. The talkback
was absolutely accurate. It's it's a shell game. If they
were aware of just of just how complicit the Democrats
weren't all this, would it matter or have they done
such a good job of spreading their propaganda that it's
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kind of irrelevant at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't have any I don't have an answer.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
To that, just as more as a hypothetical, I don't
think anybody does. I don't think the Democrats know, and
we're not going to be able to find out because
you're not going to have the majority of the media
here in Minnesota doing its due diligence.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They're doing a better job, I will say this much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll give some credit where credit is due, especially if
a few of the news outlets that are now sort
of getting up to speed on how important it is
to put up social media videos and personal.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Videos to reach an audience.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's no longer just people tuning in to the nightly newscasts.
I get all that, But if they were really comprehensively
covering all of these shenanigans, would it be enough to matter?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I just I just don't. I just don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Good Morning, John, So I'm seeing a pattern here in
the Walls administration regarding fraud, Tim Walls is I'm going
to run for governor like you've never seen anybody run
for a third term. And then he steps back and
he decides to dont go for reelection, but remains governor.
Dreen Gandhi running at DHS and then the day before confirmation,
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hearing I'm just gonna answer questions, steps back but remains
in the department. They don't step down, and they.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Step Good morning John rich here. So the Waltz administration,
in Deg's oppice Keith Felonson seemed to be like a
bunch of cats in the litter box. And what a
cat's do in a litter box? Well they covered up. Well,
looks like JD. Vance and the Republicans are come to town,
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and what are they going to do? They're gonna shake
that litter box. So you shake that litter box? What
comes to the top.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
So Amy clobashh the Senator of small things, who hasn't
done anything substantial in her career as a senator and
a failed presidency, will become the governor of some renown
in Minnesota. I mean talk about settle for the bottom
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of the Barrel, I mean talk about low expectations. Amy
clobashh yeah, John Jeremy down in alco say, I tell
you what you need to take the Tim Waltz quote
about the next eleven months.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I'm going to ride you, and you need to splice
it with like a buffalo fluffalo.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride
you like you've never been written buffalo fluffalo.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Music, radio and podcasts.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Twenty twenty six is setting up to be an interesting
year in Minnesota politics.
Speaker 12 (10:29):
John Justice hasn't covered every morning on Twins City's News.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Talk Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Hey, I'm eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
So what can we expect if we were to, I
hate to say it, have a governor? Amy klobashar, Well,
I think you can expect a combination of things. First,
she's the Senator of small things, and even though she's
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trying to talk tough regarding all the different agenda items
that she would execute were she to become governor, again,
why aren't we doing all of these things? Now, I'll
play it one more time since we have it. I
was just reminded of this bit from the office when
they were looking for a new office manager on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Yes, In fact, I actually have a three step plan
that I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Really yeah, what is it?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Nice, Joy?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'm sorry, what is your three step plan? Well, I
mean I can't just hand you my plan. I mean,
if you guys give me the job, then you look.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
At the plant.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Don't get a combination of Wall's two point zero, although
a much quieter version in my opinion, because again she
doesn't like to raise attention, because she's kind of anxious.
She's not a very likable person. But I can also
expect that you'll get this very moderate tone, much in
the same way that Virginia Governor Abigail Spaanburger ran, and
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then when she gets in office, she'll just continue with
the same far left policies of the Democrat Party. Speaking
of the Virginia Governor, Spamburger would not rule out supporting
multiple new taxes, including taxes on gym memberships, streaming services,
and dry cleaning. Earlier this year, Virginia Democrats introduced to
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bills to expand the state sales tax coverage to various
services storage facility, pet use as I had the list here,
so gym membership, storage, facility use, dog walking, dog grooming, counseling,
vehicle repair, home repair, dry cleaning, cosmetic services, software application services,
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computer related services, website hosting and design, data storage, and
digital subscription services. You know what's gross about so many
of these is that while there are particular ones that
aren't taxed, there's usually within those various services taxes that
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will be paid on different aspects equipment needed to do
these various things, parts needed. But leave it to Democrats
to basically just come up with any excuse under the
sun to tax whatever they feel like. It's also a
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similar technique with what they're trying to do with this
Minnesota assault weapons band that we'll talk about just after
the bottom of the hour. So Abigail was interviewed recently
regarding this potential tax on various services. Here's what she
had to say.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
You've been a target of the president on social media
over some tax proposals that were introduced in the General Assembly.
I want to be clear, they did not get through
the General Assembly. They never got to your desk. Specifically,
a bill that would have created a new tax on
streaming services, dry cleaning, and some other things. Just to
be clear, if that bill does get to your desk
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in future or as his governor, is that something you
would veto or would you sign it into law?
Speaker 14 (14:27):
Well, I appreciate you, Claric, let me stop here, just
really quick.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You can't trust anything that she says. You can't trust
anything the Democrats has at this point in time, Any
promises made by anybody on the left right now, either
wanting a position of power or in a position of power,
it's not worth anything. They don't care about lying. The
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flip flop, I mean, flip flop isn't even an issue anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It used to be all a flip flopped on that
it was a big deal and people would get upset.
Now it's almost a prerequisite to flip flop, like you're
expected on the left say whatever it is you need
to say to get elected, because don't worry, you can
always just go back on it once you're in office.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
Ye, that those bills never even got through the General Assembly,
and the array of taxes that the President asserts move
forward in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Is sort of ludicrous.
Speaker 14 (15:30):
But I also want to recognize that many of the
patrons who brought forth different ideas about how they bring
out revenue.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's necessary.
Speaker 14 (15:40):
I think that the every idea, as long as it's reasonable,
it makes some amount of sense, should be entertained and
should be discussed. And so, as you mentioned the one
on streaming services. You know, you used to buy a DVD,
there'd be a sales tax.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Streaming is different.
Speaker 14 (15:54):
And so I recognize that there's value in having these conversations.
But whether I would ever sign a bill as wholly
dependent on I think as evidence from my recent actions,
holy is wholly predicated on what is actually in the
bill and how it is outlined.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But I think there are worthy.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
Conversations to be had about what does revenue generation look
like into the future as our economy changes in so
many ways.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
This is just a word salad with no substance. She
doesn't fan for anything.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Apart from whatever is most politically expedient.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's it. Just as a quick note on this.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
By the way, almost every single state has taxes when
purchasing a streaming subscription. But the devil is in the details.
Like her whole point there about well, when you bought
an individual DVD, you had to pay a tax on it. Well, yeah,
and people would purchase multiple DVDs or Blu rays. I
still do because I like physical media. See the complaint
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on the Democrat side is if you pay for a
subscription service and you're getting taxed on it, it would
only be like once a year when you go have
to go and re up that subscription service. Wherein they
brought in a lot more money when we had physical
media and you had to buy copies of everything. Just
as one example, So just a little bit of a
snapshot of what you would potentially get under a Clobashar
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governorship here in Minnesota. Coming up, the Minnesota Senate did
pass a gun safety bill banning assault weapons, ghost guns,
binary triggers, following pressure from families impacted by the Annunciation shooting,
all of which none of this bill would have had
any impact on what took place on that horrible day.
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The bill also allocates funds for school safety and mental
health support. That's good, they should have done that separately.
Though Now, despite its success, the bill does face an
uncertain future in the House. No, it's going to go
and die. It needs to be killed, and it more
than likely will be killed. Ou door for the Minnesota
gun Owner's Caucus posted online, and I'll share with you
some audio from Senator Michael Holstrom coming up as well.
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They're just making stuff up. I'll tell you what it
is they're making up in this bill next and we'll
get to your talkback of the day, brought to you
by Mini Leaf here on Twin City's News Talk. Minnesota
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assault weapons ban passes Senate after annunciation shooting. That's the
headline from Fox nine. Gop in the House say it
has no chance because it shouldn't. I'll give you the
details on this and just a moment here on Twin
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Congratulations to fill up this morning.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Morning, John Phil from Jordan. I heard your statement about
liking ketchup but not liking tomatoes. I am in the
same boat. I can tolerate salsa, but that's about it. Otherwise,
straight up tomatoes. No way, man, no way. It's like
a rotten apple biting into it. However, I have met
people that don't like ketchup and that just seems unnatural
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to me. Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What is that a ranking board? But I thought you
said we all got a's. Oh you did, but some
of you got better a's than others. But we all
still love a's, of course. So what does being number
one get you? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Just the knowledge that you are number one or that
you are not number one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Congratulations to Phil in Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He is your talkback of the day, brought to you
by MINILEAF and minileaf dot com. So the Minnesota Senate
passed a sweeping gun safety bill banning assault weapons and
high capacity magazines. GOP leaders say the proposal is unlikely
to pass the Minnesota House. The bill does provide twenty
million for school safety, allocates additional funds for mental health support.
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Its passage wasn't made possible by Democrats from swing districts,
including Senator Grant Hosschild, who pretty much doomed any reelection
chances that he might have had. And I think he
knows that he has a personal connection to the Annunciation community.
His cousin's children attend the school and were at the
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mass when more than twenty people were injured. Hoschild said,
how do you have that conversation with your kid? It's
not the way the world should be, but it's the
reality that we live in. And I refuse to have
another conversation with my kids if I don't do something more.
But you're more isn't going to do anything. And make
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no mistake, this whole thing is. First off, the Senate
knows an hostile knows this. They know with the split
the triority, if you will in the House, it's not
going to pass. And then the Democrats are going to
have the opportunity just wait for it to say, oh,
why did Republicans go and shoot down funds for school
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safety and mental health support? It's all it just it
goes earlier the performative theater. It's just more of it.
Supporters in the Senate Chamber, including Harper. Moyeski's parents, see
the measure as a potential lifesaver. One doctor Rachel Whitegart,
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a pediatric er doctor a children's Minnesota, describe the impact
of the bullets used in the shooting, saying that when
this type of bullet strikes tissue, it begins to topple
end over end and create a significant internal defect, almost
the size of the torso of a young child. Those
bullets poured into the Annunciation Church that morning for a
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full two minutes. It's all just performative theater. Is she accurate, probably,
But it's just designed to draw out emotion. It's not
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designed to look at exactly what transpired, what motivated the shooter,
the mental illness that they were dealing with. None of
this is going to keep that from happening. Some Republican
senators argued the bill could violate the Constitution and make
schools more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Senator state excuse me.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Senator Steve Draskowski said, there's still bad people honary schools.
We need a different approach. We need a good guy
with a gun to protect people. Absolutely. The bill supporters
were somewhat surprised by its success in the Senate given
the contentious debate and political divisions, and again a hostile
just essentially nuked his future. Despite the Senate victory, as
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we mentioned, House GOP leader leadership has made it clear
that the ban on assault weapons is unlikely to pass
the House, installed in the committee on a party line votes,
so as Rob Dorf from the Minnesota Gun Owners Cock
has posted online with a clip from State Senator Michael
Holstrom which will play for you just a second. He says,
they're just making stuff up. Section seven of the bill
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requires a fee for each a certification, and the certification
is specific to each device. They can charge you whatever
fee they want and apply it to each device that
you register.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
Final question to clarify here, So with the fee structure,
I want to know if the certification for ownership is
required for each individual magazine and each individual firearm or
if it is a totally engrossing certification. So if I
own five prohibited firearms and fifteen prohibited magazines, do I
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need twenty certificates and then twenty fees on each certificate
or would this be one fee to cover all of it?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Center Holmes from you, asking Sinet Muhammad to yield.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
She will she will yield, Cinnea.
Speaker 16 (24:30):
Mohammad give me one minute, no problem, thank you, Senator,
mister President and Senator Holstrom.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Ciner Mohammad. So in the way that the bill.
Speaker 16 (24:45):
Is written, and obviously this isn't a system that's set
up by the BC Justice, so we might have to
come back for clarifications, but it is that it is
sort of the individual goals and certifies the amount of.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
H guns that they have.
Speaker 16 (25:01):
It's not based on individual magazine or individual guns on
it's one time that you go and certify it as
a whole.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Two things. My both action hunting rifle will definitely do
the same thing to a child's torso wasn't designed for that. Also,
bombs are illegal, and those can kill dozens, hundreds, thousands
of people at a time.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Huh, good morning. So the second Amendment, a prime example
was the way the founding fathers wrote it is what's
happening that I ran. Forty thousand people already have been
killed that protests. Those people are unarmed and they can't
go up against a tyrannical government, and that's what they
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want to build. In Minnesota, we learned that under Tim Waltz,
under COVID.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, and to that point, many of you are making
very similar comments and you're absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yeah, curtain Stowwater, I'm pretty sure the Iranian population wishes
they had a second Amendment right now. One was even
dangerous scary looking guns.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Those bullets do the same amount of damage when fired
from a pump.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Or a bolt action rifle. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Friend of the Show to luth Guy Online rights the
grant hostchild, he says will be Cloba Star's running mate.
He totally would have voted no on that bill and
has no chance of that has no chance of becoming law,
and pretended to be a moderate. He couldn't care less
about the school shootings. And this is the only thing
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that makes sense. Yeah, that's interesting take. I could see
that happening. Then the frustrating part about it is or
really not doing anything to address what happened. I mean,
that's what this whole thing is supposed to be about, right,
preventing that next thing from happening.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
First off, you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
When somebody decides that they no longer had the respect
for someone else's life and included in that is their own,
and they've decided to go and commit an act like this.
Most of the time people aren't aware. Warning signs get ignored.
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I mean, how often has it happened where an individual
meets all the criteria for somebody that's potentially a dangerous individual,
and yet most people still go, yeah, but it probably
won't happen, and then it ends up happening. So because
of that, what can you do, Because what I'm not
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saying is I'm not saying do nothing. No, what you
need to do is make sure that these different vulnerable
places aren't vulnerable anymore, that they're not easy targets. You
put security in place, You make it difficult to get
into an area where there are an abundance of children,
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like a school. You make sure that there are people
there that can protect those students, so that the bad
guys know that they don't bother with those targets because
they're not going to be able to go and conduct
the carnage that they want to conduct. Democrats never want
to do that. Ever, They do not ever want to
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put up and agree to an argument that says that
self defense defense of a location is the solution. So instead,
this is what we end up with. The silly, stupid,
waste of time games in the legislature where ultimately nothing
gets accomplished beyond individuals, perhaps, as the post on X said,
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set themselves up to be running mates for other positions
of power, or you design bills that will fail so
you can use the argument against your political opponents. But
in the meantime, anything substantial that you could have done
doesn't happen. And this is what the Republicans put up
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in the legislature. They have put forward the very things
that I am talking about right now, and they are
shot down over and over and over again by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That to me, is the most frustrating aspect of all
of this.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's also frustrating when you have those on your side
who go and make stupid decisions.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I just want to give you a bit of an
update on this.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The Minnesota Health Ethics Committee earlier this week unanimously.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Dismissed two ethics complaints.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One complaint against the DFL Representative Alex Falconer regarding his
relationship to an environmental group, that was dismissed after he
explained his role and clarified he did not lobby during
the legislative sessions. The other complaint against Representatives Elliot Ingen
and Walter Hudson, accusing them of leaving a committee meeting
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to drink was dismissed as the committee found no probable
cause for the ethics violation. Listen, I'm not throwing the
baby out with the bathwater with these.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Two dudes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
The Ethics Committee is comprised of two voting Republican members
and two voting DFL members. Ultimately, the four lawmakers voted
unanimously and there was no probable cause for the ethics
violation in Falconer's case, and the same thing ended up
bringing true when it comes to Republicans Eliot Ingen and
Walter Hudson. You know, I've said my piece on that
when this whole thing went down. I'm glad that we
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can put this in the rear view mirror and they'll
all just be added to that unfortunately long list of
individuals who have made mistakes, and we all do but
also serve in office. You know, I don't trust that
both these dudes are going to do better as a
larger concern that's come about though, And I had some
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independent messages anonymously it is better waiter, anonymous messages that
were informing me of this. There's a piece in The
Minnesota Reformer that talks about it in detail. Representative Elliott
Ingen told members of the Minnesota Health Ethics Committee during
that hearing has happened on Friday that he's a good
legislator who doesn't like to listen to nonsensical ideals ideas
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brought forward by lefty activists, and that's why he ditched
a committee hearing in March to grab lunch at a
local bar and have a beer. Hudson also defended himself
as everyone with any proximity to the legislature well knows
members leaving hearings or floor sessions for a wide variety
of reasons, both official personal is extremely commonplace. Engen acknowledged
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that he had a beer during his lunch, and Hudson
said he had two alcoholic drinks. The duo pushed back,
accusing other lawmakers of similarly shirking their work. Hudson, who
complained that he was denied due process because he didn't
have enough time to garner witnesses, imply the drinking on
the job isn't unusual at the Capitol, and based off
of what I've been told, he's right. I would have
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had the opportunity to present witnesses who could testify to
the number of vodka shooters that they find in the
women's restroom off of the retiring room, Hudson said, which
makes you wonder whether or not it's because people didn't
want to see some of these things exposed. Further as
to why there was no further slapping of hands in
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the wake of these various poor decisions, neither the ethics
complaint nor the committee discussed Engen and Hudson's postgame advance,
which of course went sideways in the early morning hours
of March twenty seventh, and we talked about on the
show extensively. Now. On Friday, Hudson implied that the former
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staffer was actually planted at Burger Mos by the Democrat
Party to paint the duo in a bad light.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
The photo taken.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
By the former House staffer, Hudson and Engen are pictured
pictured with beers and empty tumbler glasses. Engen said they
were joined by a third person who worked at the
Capitol who left the empty glasses there. In the staffers
inflammatory social media post, and Hudson's absolutely right, it was
he deliberately framed the two members taking a lunch break
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as though they were slacking off from our jobs. At
face value, this does not appear to be neutral evidence.
It looks a lot more like a partisan opposition research.
Hudson said much of the work and the legislature is performative,
and referenced the reformer story about House members leaving the
floor and casting votes for one another. The reason why
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people are so eager to leave the House floor is
because none of it matters. Everybody knows how they're going
to vote. It's all been caucused, it's all been pre programmed.
Minneapolis attorney Chris Maddel spoke in defense of Hudson at
the hearing, noting that other DFL lawmakers have been convicted
of DWIS and faced no legislative consequences. I have a
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few minutes here of Chris Mattel during that hearing, and.
Speaker 17 (34:27):
Then we talk about the Constitution of the United States,
which yes, you're obligated to follow just like everybody else,
which provides for due process of law, and you cannot
deny any person within its jurisdiction, the equal protection.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Of the loss.
Speaker 17 (34:45):
Well, is that happening, Senator tujah d Ui two fourth
degrade driving wall impaired dui operating more vehicle alcohol concentration
point of weight within two hours, pled guilty. Nothing happened
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before this committee. He got a second one the second time,
the Star Tribute said he took office, that he's been
arrested for suspicion while driving all intoxicated. He gets charged
by criminal complaint, this time one year ago, two counts guilty.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Nothing happens.
Speaker 17 (35:25):
Dan Wolgamont twenty twenty three video of this one, same
two charges guilty. He said, I take full responsibility. DFL
State Representative Wolgamot apologizes for Dui res Now, we just
heard from Representative Long that Senator Inga never really took
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responsibility for what happened. This is his ex post that night.
My family, colleagues, and constituents. I am deeply sorry. I
strive to be a man of good character. Actions fell
short last night. I will learn from this. I will
do better. Elliott.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I don't know if it's like this in other states,
And I've worked in other states, and I don't remember
seeing the level of dysfunction that we have here in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
For a number of reason, for a number of reasons, but.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The biggest problem that we have in the state is
a problem of culture, things that have been done a
particular way for far too long that they become commonplace. Now,
this is separate from what happened with Walter and Elliott
outside of the legislature. This I'm just talking about what
was taking place inside the legislature because Walter's right, it's
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the first time that individuals have left a particular hearing
left or right ditched on, you know, on something taking
place in the legislature, because it's a foregone conclusion what's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It happens all the time. Also, hearing that just drinking during.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
The session is happening behind closed doors frequently and it's
just become commonplace. Well, you know what, that's no better
than the fraud that gets ignored. Because of the horrible
culture within the Walls administration. There needs to be a
wholesale change across the board. And yeah, I am going
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to say both left and right are responsible. But the
Democrats have done a really, really good job of continuing
to perpetuate this culture far more than Republicans have, and
they continue to diminish the importance of the way that
we conduct ourselves politically our elections. They've dumbed down our elections,
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providing IDs to individuals who didn't respect the sovereignty of
this country in attempts to go and give them.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
The opportunity to vote where they.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Have and shouldn't have any say whatsoever because of the
crime that they committed in coming into the country illegally,
not shoring up election integrity, individuals out there pushing to.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Go and vote by the phone.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
The point is everybody needs to start taking all of
their jobs more seriously and start caring more about the
very constituents that go and put them into office in
the first place. Tomorrow on the show, the federal government
is suing State Attorney General Fife Ellison over his attempted
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regulation of global greenhouse gas emissions. Also, Liz Collin from
Alpha News will be joining us. If you missed any
portion of today's broadcast, Sam will have that up available
via the podcast very shortly on the iHeartRadio app. I
hope you have yourself a fantastic rest of your Tuesday,
and I will talk to you guys tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Have a great one. Bye. Thanks everybody. You guys are
the best.
Our three Twin Cities News talking Am eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM. Sharen Gandhi out as the
Minnesota Human Services Commissioner, working off the version here from
care eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
She was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In front of a hearing today in Saint Paul for
confirmation to remove the temporary status, but on the eve
of her becoming the full commissioner, she steps down. Now
we have another interim commissioner taking over who will not
be confirmed today, who has gone and appointed her as
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the deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Who's on first. I don't know third base.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
This missioner game that they're playing is sort of like
that ball under the cups thing. You keep moving the
ball around so nobody can actually find where it's at.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, this is ridiculous. She shouldn't have been in this
position in the first place.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
John. We all know that the people who run these
organizations right now, the commissioners and their lackeys, are going
to be gone if a Republican governor gets elected. The
message should be to the people who've been there for
fifteen or twenty years that if they can get started now,
they can make some huge inroads and by the time
the Republican governor gets started, they'll be able to keep
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their jobs.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So Representative of Christa Knutsen posted yesterday online Governor Tim
Wallas's promotion of failed chief compliance officer to commissioner and
now she's gone. She breaks down in this audio exactly
what's transpired with all of this.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
A minison a state representative to knduts and so breaking
news Sharene Gandhi is going to be out as the
Commissioner of DHS. I've done many videos about Sharen Gandhi
in the past. She was the Chief Compliance Officer at
the Department of Human Services starting in twenty seventeen all
through the fraud, then was named temporary Commissioner to the
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Department of Human Services by Governor Walls last year and
then recently this year was named the commissioner. Prior to
last February when you were promoted to temporary interim commissioner,
what was your role at DHS, what was your title?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Prissure Gandhi Chair Schumacher Representative, Deputy commissioner.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And prior to that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Commissioner Gandhi Chair Shumacher Representative, it was Assistant commissioner and
before that chief Compliance Officer.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Correct, Thank you, Chair Chief Compliance Officer. For the years
that this report was done, you were chief compliance Officer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This fraud happened when.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You were a chief compliance officer, and then you were promoted,
and now you've been promoted again. How do the people,
how do the taxpayers? How do you expect the taxpayers
of Minnesota to trust your leadership now when you couldn't
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get a handle on this as Chief Compliance officer? How
how it's ridiculous that anybody in this state would think
that now under a new title, you're gonna start to
be tough on front.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I am a pault. We are talking about.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Billions of dollars throughout all these programs, billions of dollars
that could have helped actual Minnesotans, and now we're supposed
to just all of a sudden, forget.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Chief Compliance Officer.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
This fraud has run rampant, and you've been there the
whole time. However, she didn't have the votes in the
Democrat held Senate to get confirmation as the commissioner of
Department Feed the Services. So sure, Gandhi's out. I don't
know who's coming next, but she's gone.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
By the way, what happened expect for the next eleven
months for me to ride you like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It was a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's all a lie coming from walls. But it's a
lie coming from all these fools. Do you really think
when if I'll say, if my apologies, if Amy klobishar,
would you become governor of Minnesota? Anything of what she
said in that press conference on Sunday is going to happen,
a full forensic audit of the state government, upgrading our
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technology systems. But only if you go and elect me.
Of course not. It's all just lip service.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The question is whether or not anything any of this
matters anymore. In the first hour of the show, I
was laying out how you've had Louisiana and Tennessee already summoning.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The summoning has begun.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They've summoned the legislators back into session in those states
so they can start redrawing the district lines via the
Supreme Court order to remove the gerrymandering the Democrats have done.
And I laid out how in a perfect world where
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there's not a bunch of frivolous challenges lawsuits, district courts,
lower courts going and blocking the effort frivolously, only to
have them spun back up to upper courts that hold
them in place, judges based off of whatever political affiliation
they have making the decisions. If these just moved through,
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the districting took place, and the elections happened, Republicans would
win in a landslide based on the number of districts
and seats they can gain. Okay, which is still possible,
But you and I both know it's not the real world.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
There's going to be challenges.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I bring all this up because if the majority of
people in Minnesota were aware of all of this ridiculous nonsense,
would it matter or have the Democrats because I don't
even know if they can answer this question. I mean, anecdotally,
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we've heard as much. But the Democrats have done such
a good job of just vilifying and demonizing the left.
I mean, they've convinced individuals to be their dutiful law
breaking insurrectionist foot soldiers when law enforcement agents go and
arrest criminal illegal aliens, murderers, rapists, thieves.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Maybe the murderers traders and thieves you call friend.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So even if they were aware of all of this,
because it's all one big game to them. The talkback
was absolutely accurate. It's it's a shell game. If they
were aware of just of just how complicit the Democrats
weren't all this, would it matter or have they done
such a good job of spreading their propaganda that it's
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kind of irrelevant at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't have any I don't have an answer.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
To that, just as more as a hypothetical, I don't
think anybody does. I don't think the Democrats know, and
we're not going to be able to find out because
you're not going to have the majority of the media
here in Minnesota doing its due diligence.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They're doing a better job, I will say this much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll give some credit where credit is due, especially if
a few of the news outlets that are now sort
of getting up to speed on how important it is
to put up social media videos and personal.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Videos to reach an audience.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's no longer just people tuning in to the nightly newscasts.
I get all that, But if they were really comprehensively
covering all of these shenanigans, would it be enough to matter?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I just I just don't. I just don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Good Morning, John, So I'm seeing a pattern here in
the Walls administration regarding fraud, Tim Walls is I'm going
to run for governor like you've never seen anybody run
for a third term. And then he steps back and
he decides to dont go for reelection, but remains governor.
Dreen Gandhi running at DHS and then the day before confirmation,
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hearing I'm just gonna answer questions, steps back but remains
in the department. They don't step down, and they.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Step Good morning John rich here. So the Waltz administration,
in Deg's oppice Keith Felonson seemed to be like a
bunch of cats in the litter box. And what a
cat's do in a litter box? Well they covered up. Well,
looks like JD. Vance and the Republicans are come to town,
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and what are they going to do? They're gonna shake
that litter box. So you shake that litter box? What
comes to the top.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
So Amy clobashh the Senator of small things, who hasn't
done anything substantial in her career as a senator and
a failed presidency, will become the governor of some renown
in Minnesota. I mean talk about settle for the bottom
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of the Barrel, I mean talk about low expectations. Amy
clobashh yeah, John Jeremy down in alco say, I tell
you what you need to take the Tim Waltz quote
about the next eleven months.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I'm going to ride you, and you need to splice
it with like a buffalo fluffalo.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride
you like you've never been written buffalo fluffalo.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Music, radio and podcasts.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Twenty twenty six is setting up to be an interesting
year in Minnesota politics.
Speaker 12 (10:29):
John Justice hasn't covered every morning on Twins City's News.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Talk Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Hey, I'm eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
So what can we expect if we were to, I
hate to say it, have a governor? Amy klobashar, Well,
I think you can expect a combination of things. First,
she's the Senator of small things, and even though she's
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trying to talk tough regarding all the different agenda items
that she would execute were she to become governor, again,
why aren't we doing all of these things? Now, I'll
play it one more time since we have it. I
was just reminded of this bit from the office when
they were looking for a new office manager on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Yes, In fact, I actually have a three step plan
that I believe could effectively double your profits.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Really yeah, what is it?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Nice, Joy?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'm sorry, what is your three step plan? Well, I
mean I can't just hand you my plan. I mean,
if you guys give me the job, then you look.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
At the plant.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Don't get a combination of Wall's two point zero, although
a much quieter version in my opinion, because again she
doesn't like to raise attention, because she's kind of anxious.
She's not a very likable person. But I can also
expect that you'll get this very moderate tone, much in
the same way that Virginia Governor Abigail Spaanburger ran, and
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then when she gets in office, she'll just continue with
the same far left policies of the Democrat Party. Speaking
of the Virginia Governor, Spamburger would not rule out supporting
multiple new taxes, including taxes on gym memberships, streaming services,
and dry cleaning. Earlier this year, Virginia Democrats introduced to
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bills to expand the state sales tax coverage to various
services storage facility, pet use as I had the list here,
so gym membership, storage, facility use, dog walking, dog grooming, counseling,
vehicle repair, home repair, dry cleaning, cosmetic services, software application services,
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computer related services, website hosting and design, data storage, and
digital subscription services. You know what's gross about so many
of these is that while there are particular ones that
aren't taxed, there's usually within those various services taxes that
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will be paid on different aspects equipment needed to do
these various things, parts needed. But leave it to Democrats
to basically just come up with any excuse under the
sun to tax whatever they feel like. It's also a
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similar technique with what they're trying to do with this
Minnesota assault weapons band that we'll talk about just after
the bottom of the hour. So Abigail was interviewed recently
regarding this potential tax on various services. Here's what she
had to say.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
You've been a target of the president on social media
over some tax proposals that were introduced in the General Assembly.
I want to be clear, they did not get through
the General Assembly. They never got to your desk. Specifically,
a bill that would have created a new tax on
streaming services, dry cleaning, and some other things. Just to
be clear, if that bill does get to your desk
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in future or as his governor, is that something you
would veto or would you sign it into law?
Speaker 14 (14:27):
Well, I appreciate you, Claric, let me stop here, just
really quick.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You can't trust anything that she says. You can't trust
anything the Democrats has at this point in time, Any
promises made by anybody on the left right now, either
wanting a position of power or in a position of power,
it's not worth anything. They don't care about lying. The
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flip flop, I mean, flip flop isn't even an issue anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It used to be all a flip flopped on that
it was a big deal and people would get upset.
Now it's almost a prerequisite to flip flop, like you're
expected on the left say whatever it is you need
to say to get elected, because don't worry, you can
always just go back on it once you're in office.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
Ye, that those bills never even got through the General Assembly,
and the array of taxes that the President asserts move
forward in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Is sort of ludicrous.
Speaker 14 (15:30):
But I also want to recognize that many of the
patrons who brought forth different ideas about how they bring
out revenue.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's necessary.
Speaker 14 (15:40):
I think that the every idea, as long as it's reasonable,
it makes some amount of sense, should be entertained and
should be discussed. And so, as you mentioned the one
on streaming services. You know, you used to buy a DVD,
there'd be a sales tax.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Streaming is different.
Speaker 14 (15:54):
And so I recognize that there's value in having these conversations.
But whether I would ever sign a bill as wholly
dependent on I think as evidence from my recent actions,
holy is wholly predicated on what is actually in the
bill and how it is outlined.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But I think there are worthy.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
Conversations to be had about what does revenue generation look
like into the future as our economy changes in so
many ways.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
This is just a word salad with no substance. She
doesn't fan for anything.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Apart from whatever is most politically expedient.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's it. Just as a quick note on this.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
By the way, almost every single state has taxes when
purchasing a streaming subscription. But the devil is in the details.
Like her whole point there about well, when you bought
an individual DVD, you had to pay a tax on it. Well, yeah,
and people would purchase multiple DVDs or Blu rays. I
still do because I like physical media. See the complaint
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on the Democrat side is if you pay for a
subscription service and you're getting taxed on it, it would
only be like once a year when you go have
to go and re up that subscription service. Wherein they
brought in a lot more money when we had physical
media and you had to buy copies of everything. Just
as one example, So just a little bit of a
snapshot of what you would potentially get under a Clobashar
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governorship here in Minnesota. Coming up, the Minnesota Senate did
pass a gun safety bill banning assault weapons, ghost guns,
binary triggers, following pressure from families impacted by the Annunciation shooting,
all of which none of this bill would have had
any impact on what took place on that horrible day.
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The bill also allocates funds for school safety and mental
health support. That's good, they should have done that separately.
Though Now, despite its success, the bill does face an
uncertain future in the House. No, it's going to go
and die. It needs to be killed, and it more
than likely will be killed. Ou door for the Minnesota
gun Owner's Caucus posted online, and I'll share with you
some audio from Senator Michael Holstrom coming up as well.
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They're just making stuff up. I'll tell you what it
is they're making up in this bill next and we'll
get to your talkback of the day, brought to you
by Mini Leaf here on Twin City's News Talk. Minnesota
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assault weapons ban passes Senate after annunciation shooting. That's the
headline from Fox nine. Gop in the House say it
has no chance because it shouldn't. I'll give you the
details on this and just a moment here on Twin
Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three
five FM. It is time for your talk back of
the day. First though, your talk back of the day
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Congratulations to fill up this morning.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Morning, John Phil from Jordan. I heard your statement about
liking ketchup but not liking tomatoes. I am in the
same boat. I can tolerate salsa, but that's about it. Otherwise,
straight up tomatoes. No way, man, no way. It's like
a rotten apple biting into it. However, I have met
people that don't like ketchup and that just seems unnatural
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to me. Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What is that a ranking board? But I thought you
said we all got a's. Oh you did, but some
of you got better a's than others. But we all
still love a's, of course. So what does being number
one get you? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Just the knowledge that you are number one or that
you are not number one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Congratulations to Phil in Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He is your talkback of the day, brought to you
by MINILEAF and minileaf dot com. So the Minnesota Senate
passed a sweeping gun safety bill banning assault weapons and
high capacity magazines. GOP leaders say the proposal is unlikely
to pass the Minnesota House. The bill does provide twenty
million for school safety, allocates additional funds for mental health support.
(20:30):
Its passage wasn't made possible by Democrats from swing districts,
including Senator Grant Hosschild, who pretty much doomed any reelection
chances that he might have had. And I think he
knows that he has a personal connection to the Annunciation community.
His cousin's children attend the school and were at the
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mass when more than twenty people were injured. Hoschild said,
how do you have that conversation with your kid? It's
not the way the world should be, but it's the
reality that we live in. And I refuse to have
another conversation with my kids if I don't do something more.
But you're more isn't going to do anything. And make
(21:13):
no mistake, this whole thing is. First off, the Senate
knows an hostile knows this. They know with the split
the triority, if you will in the House, it's not
going to pass. And then the Democrats are going to
have the opportunity just wait for it to say, oh,
why did Republicans go and shoot down funds for school
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safety and mental health support? It's all it just it
goes earlier the performative theater. It's just more of it.
Supporters in the Senate Chamber, including Harper. Moyeski's parents, see
the measure as a potential lifesaver. One doctor Rachel Whitegart,
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a pediatric er doctor a children's Minnesota, describe the impact
of the bullets used in the shooting, saying that when
this type of bullet strikes tissue, it begins to topple
end over end and create a significant internal defect, almost
the size of the torso of a young child. Those
bullets poured into the Annunciation Church that morning for a
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full two minutes. It's all just performative theater. Is she accurate, probably,
But it's just designed to draw out emotion. It's not
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designed to look at exactly what transpired, what motivated the shooter,
the mental illness that they were dealing with. None of
this is going to keep that from happening. Some Republican
senators argued the bill could violate the Constitution and make
schools more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Senator state excuse me.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Senator Steve Draskowski said, there's still bad people honary schools.
We need a different approach. We need a good guy
with a gun to protect people. Absolutely. The bill supporters
were somewhat surprised by its success in the Senate given
the contentious debate and political divisions, and again a hostile
just essentially nuked his future. Despite the Senate victory, as
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we mentioned, House GOP leader leadership has made it clear
that the ban on assault weapons is unlikely to pass
the House, installed in the committee on a party line votes,
so as Rob Dorf from the Minnesota Gun Owners Cock
has posted online with a clip from State Senator Michael
Holstrom which will play for you just a second. He says,
they're just making stuff up. Section seven of the bill
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requires a fee for each a certification, and the certification
is specific to each device. They can charge you whatever
fee they want and apply it to each device that
you register.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
Final question to clarify here, So with the fee structure,
I want to know if the certification for ownership is
required for each individual magazine and each individual firearm or
if it is a totally engrossing certification. So if I
own five prohibited firearms and fifteen prohibited magazines, do I
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need twenty certificates and then twenty fees on each certificate
or would this be one fee to cover all of it?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Center Holmes from you, asking Sinet Muhammad to yield.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
She will she will yield, Cinnea.
Speaker 16 (24:30):
Mohammad give me one minute, no problem, thank you, Senator,
mister President and Senator Holstrom.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Ciner Mohammad. So in the way that the bill.
Speaker 16 (24:45):
Is written, and obviously this isn't a system that's set
up by the BC Justice, so we might have to
come back for clarifications, but it is that it is
sort of the individual goals and certifies the amount of.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
H guns that they have.
Speaker 16 (25:01):
It's not based on individual magazine or individual guns on
it's one time that you go and certify it as
a whole.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Two things. My both action hunting rifle will definitely do
the same thing to a child's torso wasn't designed for that. Also,
bombs are illegal, and those can kill dozens, hundreds, thousands
of people at a time.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Huh, good morning. So the second Amendment, a prime example
was the way the founding fathers wrote it is what's
happening that I ran. Forty thousand people already have been
killed that protests. Those people are unarmed and they can't
go up against a tyrannical government, and that's what they
(25:51):
want to build. In Minnesota, we learned that under Tim Waltz,
under COVID.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, and to that point, many of you are making
very similar comments and you're absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yeah, curtain Stowwater, I'm pretty sure the Iranian population wishes
they had a second Amendment right now. One was even
dangerous scary looking guns.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Those bullets do the same amount of damage when fired
from a pump.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Or a bolt action rifle. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Friend of the Show to luth Guy Online rights the
grant hostchild, he says will be Cloba Star's running mate.
He totally would have voted no on that bill and
has no chance of that has no chance of becoming law,
and pretended to be a moderate. He couldn't care less
about the school shootings. And this is the only thing
(26:48):
that makes sense. Yeah, that's interesting take. I could see
that happening. Then the frustrating part about it is or
really not doing anything to address what happened. I mean,
that's what this whole thing is supposed to be about, right,
preventing that next thing from happening.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
First off, you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
When somebody decides that they no longer had the respect
for someone else's life and included in that is their own,
and they've decided to go and commit an act like this.
Most of the time people aren't aware. Warning signs get ignored.
(27:30):
I mean, how often has it happened where an individual
meets all the criteria for somebody that's potentially a dangerous individual,
and yet most people still go, yeah, but it probably
won't happen, and then it ends up happening. So because
of that, what can you do, Because what I'm not
(27:55):
saying is I'm not saying do nothing. No, what you
need to do is make sure that these different vulnerable
places aren't vulnerable anymore, that they're not easy targets. You
put security in place, You make it difficult to get
into an area where there are an abundance of children,
(28:19):
like a school. You make sure that there are people
there that can protect those students, so that the bad
guys know that they don't bother with those targets because
they're not going to be able to go and conduct
the carnage that they want to conduct. Democrats never want
to do that. Ever, They do not ever want to
(28:40):
put up and agree to an argument that says that
self defense defense of a location is the solution. So instead,
this is what we end up with. The silly, stupid,
waste of time games in the legislature where ultimately nothing
gets accomplished beyond individuals, perhaps, as the post on X said,
(29:05):
set themselves up to be running mates for other positions
of power, or you design bills that will fail so
you can use the argument against your political opponents. But
in the meantime, anything substantial that you could have done
doesn't happen. And this is what the Republicans put up
(29:26):
in the legislature. They have put forward the very things
that I am talking about right now, and they are
shot down over and over and over again by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That to me, is the most frustrating aspect of all
of this.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's also frustrating when you have those on your side
who go and make stupid decisions.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I just want to give you a bit of an
update on this.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
The Minnesota Health Ethics Committee earlier this week unanimously.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Dismissed two ethics complaints.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One complaint against the DFL Representative Alex Falconer regarding his
relationship to an environmental group, that was dismissed after he
explained his role and clarified he did not lobby during
the legislative sessions. The other complaint against Representatives Elliot Ingen
and Walter Hudson, accusing them of leaving a committee meeting
(30:22):
to drink was dismissed as the committee found no probable
cause for the ethics violation. Listen, I'm not throwing the
baby out with the bathwater with these.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Two dudes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
The Ethics Committee is comprised of two voting Republican members
and two voting DFL members. Ultimately, the four lawmakers voted
unanimously and there was no probable cause for the ethics
violation in Falconer's case, and the same thing ended up
bringing true when it comes to Republicans Eliot Ingen and
Walter Hudson. You know, I've said my piece on that
when this whole thing went down. I'm glad that we
(30:56):
can put this in the rear view mirror and they'll
all just be added to that unfortunately long list of
individuals who have made mistakes, and we all do but
also serve in office. You know, I don't trust that
both these dudes are going to do better as a
larger concern that's come about though, And I had some
(31:18):
independent messages anonymously it is better waiter, anonymous messages that
were informing me of this. There's a piece in The
Minnesota Reformer that talks about it in detail. Representative Elliott
Ingen told members of the Minnesota Health Ethics Committee during
that hearing has happened on Friday that he's a good
legislator who doesn't like to listen to nonsensical ideals ideas
(31:41):
brought forward by lefty activists, and that's why he ditched
a committee hearing in March to grab lunch at a
local bar and have a beer. Hudson also defended himself
as everyone with any proximity to the legislature well knows
members leaving hearings or floor sessions for a wide variety
of reasons, both official personal is extremely commonplace. Engen acknowledged
(32:03):
that he had a beer during his lunch, and Hudson
said he had two alcoholic drinks. The duo pushed back,
accusing other lawmakers of similarly shirking their work. Hudson, who
complained that he was denied due process because he didn't
have enough time to garner witnesses, imply the drinking on
the job isn't unusual at the Capitol, and based off
of what I've been told, he's right. I would have
(32:27):
had the opportunity to present witnesses who could testify to
the number of vodka shooters that they find in the
women's restroom off of the retiring room, Hudson said, which
makes you wonder whether or not it's because people didn't
want to see some of these things exposed. Further as
to why there was no further slapping of hands in
(32:50):
the wake of these various poor decisions, neither the ethics
complaint nor the committee discussed Engen and Hudson's postgame advance,
which of course went sideways in the early morning hours
of March twenty seventh, and we talked about on the
show extensively. Now. On Friday, Hudson implied that the former
(33:11):
staffer was actually planted at Burger Mos by the Democrat
Party to paint the duo in a bad light.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
The photo taken.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
By the former House staffer, Hudson and Engen are pictured
pictured with beers and empty tumbler glasses. Engen said they
were joined by a third person who worked at the
Capitol who left the empty glasses there. In the staffers
inflammatory social media post, and Hudson's absolutely right, it was
he deliberately framed the two members taking a lunch break
(33:38):
as though they were slacking off from our jobs. At
face value, this does not appear to be neutral evidence.
It looks a lot more like a partisan opposition research.
Hudson said much of the work and the legislature is performative,
and referenced the reformer story about House members leaving the
floor and casting votes for one another. The reason why
(33:59):
people are so eager to leave the House floor is
because none of it matters. Everybody knows how they're going
to vote. It's all been caucused, it's all been pre programmed.
Minneapolis attorney Chris Maddel spoke in defense of Hudson at
the hearing, noting that other DFL lawmakers have been convicted
of DWIS and faced no legislative consequences. I have a
(34:23):
few minutes here of Chris Mattel during that hearing, and.
Speaker 17 (34:27):
Then we talk about the Constitution of the United States,
which yes, you're obligated to follow just like everybody else,
which provides for due process of law, and you cannot
deny any person within its jurisdiction, the equal protection.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Of the loss.
Speaker 17 (34:45):
Well, is that happening, Senator tujah d Ui two fourth
degrade driving wall impaired dui operating more vehicle alcohol concentration
point of weight within two hours, pled guilty. Nothing happened
(35:07):
before this committee. He got a second one the second time,
the Star Tribute said he took office, that he's been
arrested for suspicion while driving all intoxicated. He gets charged
by criminal complaint, this time one year ago, two counts guilty.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Nothing happens.
Speaker 17 (35:25):
Dan Wolgamont twenty twenty three video of this one, same
two charges guilty. He said, I take full responsibility. DFL
State Representative Wolgamot apologizes for Dui res Now, we just
heard from Representative Long that Senator Inga never really took
(35:47):
responsibility for what happened. This is his ex post that night.
My family, colleagues, and constituents. I am deeply sorry. I
strive to be a man of good character. Actions fell
short last night. I will learn from this. I will
do better. Elliott.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I don't know if it's like this in other states,
And I've worked in other states, and I don't remember
seeing the level of dysfunction that we have here in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
For a number of reason, for a number of reasons, but.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The biggest problem that we have in the state is
a problem of culture, things that have been done a
particular way for far too long that they become commonplace. Now,
this is separate from what happened with Walter and Elliott
outside of the legislature. This I'm just talking about what
was taking place inside the legislature because Walter's right, it's
(36:46):
the first time that individuals have left a particular hearing
left or right ditched on, you know, on something taking
place in the legislature, because it's a foregone conclusion what's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It happens all the time. Also, hearing that just drinking during.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
The session is happening behind closed doors frequently and it's
just become commonplace. Well, you know what, that's no better
than the fraud that gets ignored. Because of the horrible
culture within the Walls administration. There needs to be a
wholesale change across the board. And yeah, I am going
(37:25):
to say both left and right are responsible. But the
Democrats have done a really, really good job of continuing
to perpetuate this culture far more than Republicans have, and
they continue to diminish the importance of the way that
we conduct ourselves politically our elections. They've dumbed down our elections,
(37:50):
providing IDs to individuals who didn't respect the sovereignty of
this country in attempts to go and give them.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
The opportunity to vote where they.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Have and shouldn't have any say whatsoever because of the
crime that they committed in coming into the country illegally,
not shoring up election integrity, individuals out there pushing to.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Go and vote by the phone.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
The point is everybody needs to start taking all of
their jobs more seriously and start caring more about the
very constituents that go and put them into office in
the first place. Tomorrow on the show, the federal government
is suing State Attorney General Fife Ellison over his attempted
(38:37):
regulation of global greenhouse gas emissions. Also, Liz Collin from
Alpha News will be joining us. If you missed any
portion of today's broadcast, Sam will have that up available
via the podcast very shortly on the iHeartRadio app. I
hope you have yourself a fantastic rest of your Tuesday,
and I will talk to you guys tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Have a great one. Bye. Thanks everybody. You guys are
the best.
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