November 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Jon has scathing opinions on a city ordinance and questions a retailer's new employee directive. Wisconsin's U.S. Rep Tom Tiffany joins to share his thoughts on the government shutdown, differences between MN, IL, and WI, and his belief on how the GOP can win midterms next year. Chicago's mayor reaches out to an unlikely source to combat ICE.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Bony John Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I served from seventy four to seventy eight, and on
this Veterans Day, I thank God for Trump and for
our men and women that are still willing to go
into the service. And there's a huge uptick in patriotism,
which I really really love. You joined the military, and
you join a brotherhood that you really can't describe. You
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have friends for life, stories for life, a lot of laughs,
a lot of hard work.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But God, it so Godzo ran at a time.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm gonna afford him the opportunity to finish his comment.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Sorry, John Gonzo, just to finish it off. God, it
was a great experience.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And uh, nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Told me my oath was descended when I left the
military and it will never die until I pass away.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Have a good day, Happy Vecon's Day to all the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Brothers and sisters that are in the military.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I am so glad to see so many vets that
are running for office in the state. That is the
only way you're going to turn this state around. Instead
of electing socialist democrats that can't even run their own
life and family, let alone a state or a country.
We do need proven people that have defended this country
and know what the country's all about, rather than turning
it over to a third world country.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Thank you for the top backs from the iHeartRadio app
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News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three five
FM from the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day
install studios. Speaking of radical socialists, the city of Dynah
the latest to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls
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and his anti firearm agenda as they seek to join
the Twin Cities in passing a meaningless and potentially law
breaking ordinance. So again, while Democrats constantly accused Trump of
being an authoritarian king, these democrat run cities willfully ignore
the rule of law for the sake of peddling the
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leftist agenda.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Rob Dorr at the Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus posted this yesterday,
responding to a DYNA letter to the Dynasity Council on
their proposed firearm ordinance. Clouncil, my word the loss clear,
and so's a message. Adyna's proposed firearm ordinance raises serious
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legal concerns, as any such measure violates Minnesota's preemption statute.
Any ordinance in conflict with that statute is void, even
if the city attempts at gimmicks such as a deferred
enforcement scheme. Your city's residents deserve confidence that their leaders
act within lawful bounds.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, not like kings just want to lawless.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Act of defiance to state law only weakens public confidence
in sound civic governance. You can avoid that mistake by
respecting preemption's statewide safeguard. Needlessly provoking litigation serves no one.
A drainstax bayer resources diverts energy from legitimate civic priorities.
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History has proven that point, as every court that entered
excuse me that encountered similar local preemption violations has reached
the same conclusion. When duly elected state law occupies the
field of policy, municipal governments must yield. Any cities that
defined preemption have met the same fate in court, those
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cities may test their reach. The judiciary has spoken with clarity,
preemption simply leaves no tolerance for local intervention. The Minnesota
Court of Appeals Jennison versus Bloomington echoed that intent. When
state law occupies the fields that he simply cannot intervene.
Now he Dyna stands at the same crossroads, warned by
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subtled precedent and guided by clear language. The only obligation
to comply. Only the Minnesota legislature may regulate this domain,
and courts will defend that boundary without hesitation. It's not
about optics, but the rule of law, obedience to statute.
Nothing would better serve e Dinah than ending this unlawful
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pursuit today. Listen, Rob Dorr is right when he talks
about the optics. That's all what's going on here. It's
all about the optics, including Governor Tim Walls and his
continued town halls now dragging State Senator Judy Seberger on board,
a Democrat and a gun owner, working off the story
from Fox nine, says she doesn't know if any Republicans
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would vote for an assault weapons ban.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I love this quote, by the way, in my opinion,
says see Burger.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Everything's on the table, and anything that comes to me
that has the support and will save lives, I will
be a yes on. So anything that comes to her
has support and will save lives, she will be a
yes on.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
It doesn't have to make sense though. Walls doesn't have
to make sense. These town halls don't have to make sense.
They only make sense when you look at it through
the lens of it's not about saving lives, like she says.
And so let's just take this, let me break this
down just briefly. So if the legislature moves forward right
with a full gun band in Minnesota, right, so she'll
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be in support of that all of a sudden, even
though she says that she's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A gun owner.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I'm just wondering anything that comes to me that has
support and will save lives. I mean, like you left
yourself so many outs there, you'd have to be just
blindly following along to not understand that it is again
just this is just a word salad with no substance,
and the same thing rings sure when it comes to
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these town halls. Governor Tim Walls knows that having a
special session would be a disaster. It wouldn't yield what
he needs in terms of running for a reelection, it
wouldn't benefit Democrats heading into next year. And I'm sure
that we'll approach this when we get into the regular session,
but who knows what will happen between now and heading
into the beginning of next year. Here's more of the
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story that I was just sharing with you from Fox
nine regarding the latest town hall with Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Following the assassinations of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark,
and the deadly mass shootings and Annunciation Catholic Church. She
would support full bands on assault style weapons and high
capacity magazines pushed by Governor Walls.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
In my opinion, everything's on the table, and anything that
comes to me that has the support and will save lives,
I will.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Be a yes son.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Sieberger says voters have told her they want more legislation
around preventing gun violence, but they may not feel comfortable
airing their views in her split district. She says it's
up to lawmakers to find solutions, like more funding for
mental health services that both sides can agree on.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Everybody is frustrated.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Most people are scared, and I think we all deserve
to feel safe in our community, and I'm trying to
do something about that now.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
We did reach out to get a Republican perspective for
our story, but we didn't hear back. However, House Republicans
did release a plan that includes more money for school security,
school resource officers, and mental health treatment bets.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, that's the story from Fox nine. If people are scared,
that's on them, That's on Democrats that continue to fear
monger over this issue. They're not looking to solve anything.
They know they're not going to solve anything. There is
no law that you can pass that's guaranteed it's going
to go and save lives. Those are hollow statements, borderline propaganda,
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probably propaganda to many of you. I didn't even realize
that Walls was even having this next town hall. That's
how little attention that they're getting right now, we hear
about it after the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm glad that the Walls.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Continues to perpetuate this idea that his hands are tied,
because I don't think the majority of individuals, even on
the left or even buying it. They may not care,
don't misunderstand, they may be on board with it, but
they also right don't care that Walls is just using
this to push an agenda. But I think most people
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are realizing that's what's going on right now. It's really
not all that unlike what's taking place with this shutdown.
You know, walls, dfllers attempting to go and shape this
argument in this art as if it's Republicans that won't
go and vote on this preventing him from doing the
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special session, when we all know that that's not true,
even those on the left.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
No, it's not true.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And it's the same thing that happened with the government
shutdown that may be coming to an end, as Democrats
tried to frame this as being the Republican shutdown and
it just never ever stuck.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Target has issued a new directive to its workers that
I'm assuming most people saw this and had the same
reaction that I did over this new Target directive, and
that reaction would be you weren't doing this already.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'll share with you the details of.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
This coming up, and we will talk with Representative in
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, traveling here too Minneapolis for
an event relating to his Wisconsin run for governor. Will
get his thoughts on the shutdown coming to an end
an update on his race as well. He'll be joining
us at a thirty here on his news talk AM
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eleven thirty and one three five FM.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
Thanks for keeping America and Americans safe, because that's what
you did.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Good morning, guys. I just want to have a shout
out to Jerry. Spent the weekend deer hunting with him.
He's a Vietnam Vet. Happy Veterans Day, Jerry. Thank you
for serving our country. God bless.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
I'd like to give a shout out to the two
moss I love the most, and that's the medics.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And the cooks.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
They're kind of young sung heroes, but being eleven, Bravo
one Papa, they have a very special place in our hearts.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Good morning, John Rick and Virginia.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
As you know, I've called several times and been critical
of Phil, your friend Phil. I think his idea is
there out there. They don't make any sense. He doesn't
make any sense to me, ever, but I see we
recall that Phil as a veteran.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
So Phil, this is for you.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
I do thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
As a fellow veteran.
Speaker 12 (11:09):
I can appreciate the training you went through, and no
matter where you served or what you did, I do
appreciate your service to our country. You helped keep us
safe and all of us, including me, thank you for.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It, and I do too, despite the ridiculous things that
you say on the talkbacks Twin Cities News Talk from
the six to five to one carpet, Next Day Install Studios.
Glad you're with the show this morning. Congressman Tom Tiffany
joining us in just a few minutes here on Twin
Cities News Talk. Now, this came in based off of
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my teas of a new target directive.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I did not say what the target directive was.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
There is nothing new about the target policies that they're saying.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've worked for.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Targets for ten years and they had that policy ten
years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Nothing new.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, okay, well, I guess I don't need to do
this story. Then you got anything in there to talk about, Sam.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Because this is what I was going to talk about.
But you know, according to according to Eric, there's no there's.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No there's no news. There's no news here.
Speaker 13 (12:11):
So why now you mean you both have me curious?
What's the directive you're referencing?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So from Fox nine?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Okay, target isition a new directive according to Fox nine,
contrary to what Eric says, mandating that workers smile at
customers as part of a plan to boost sales, heading
into the holiday. I actually hope that Eric's right. I
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hope this is not a new I mean this, this
is not a new directive. That being said, Look, you know,
I know Sam knows, you know, the quality when it
comes to your shopping experience, you know, has diminished greatly
over over the years. Customer service is just pretty much
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non existent. Like if I were running a business, that
would be the number one thing that I.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Would be focusing on.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I was having a Melinna and I were having a
lengthy conversation just about Disneyland specifically, just because we both,
you know, love the parks and you know, I was
born and raised in southern California and I would go
there a couple of.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Times a week during the during the nineties.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And the quality relating to the cast members and the
customer service they deliver, it's just it's diminished unfortunately, you know.
And so this doesn't surprise me if it is indeed new.
The newly initiative, they say, is called the ten four program.
According to Bloomberg, Under the program, workers are required to smile,
make eye contact, or wave and wave or greet a shopper.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Who comes within ten feet of them. Within ten feet Wow,
I'm trying to think of that.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
We have like a we have like a reverse of
the social distancing, like a like a new version. I
haven't quite worked out. It just came to me.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
You and I are about ten feet apart. Should i'd
be waving at you every time you look at.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Me, just.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Because it sounds fun?
Speaker 13 (14:09):
Yep, Hi John.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
If they are closer, Oh there's more. If they are
closer within four feet, the worker is required to ask
them if they need help or how their day is going.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, I want to test this.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
I'm not coming within four feet eet.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So is there going to be training on like how
far you know four feet actually is? For example, a
moment ago you said we're about ten feet apart from
each other.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I think we're more like twenty. Yeah, you know, I
mean there's a wall and two panes of glass between us.
But it sucked.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I think, you know, maybe if you'll both split the difference,
maybe fifteen. I wonder if most people even realize how
far you know four feet is? That makes that makes
me laugh. Though we have the technology, this is real.
This is a real simple fix they need. You need
to just wear a device. You get a little headphone
little headphone in right, bluetooth just blue tooth headphone with
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the device and therefore it beeps depending on how cloaks
you are to a customer to keep the employees in compliance.
Why did I hold up on the story until now?
But again, according to Eric, this is nothing. This is
nothing new at all. So the Bloomberg article where it's
stemmed from draws parallels to a long standing rule for
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Walmart workers which carries the same ten foot smiling requirement.
Oh that certainly has not been implemented or policy does
not follow. I couldn't tell you the last time a
Walmart employee ever smiled at me. As a matter of fact,
I couldn't tell you when we go to Walmart a lot.
I could not tell you any time easy in the
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past nine years when.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I ever had a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Employee come up to me and engage me in any way,
shape or form. It is always me having to go
and seek them out. And it happens a lot because
I need to go and get refills on my printer,
inc So I have to go into the electronics section,
and then I gotta go and track somebody down, and
that person doesn't have a key, and they got to track.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Somebody down, and they're never happy there. There's never any
which always blows my mind. It's like, you're there, you
are on the clock, You're there to work. What else
better do you have to do?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
This is what you're here for.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
I guess Target needs to hire at the old mister
book so bad to Sea Island.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
As he used to say at the start of.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
The Chips Smiles, if you got to.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Smiles, instantly age yourself with that, with a reference, and
I give you that talk back because I know exactly
what you're talking about as well.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
Hey, John, I work inside of a Target, and I
have been noticing that the employees have been much more
friendly over the last six months or so, and I
was wondering that myself if there was a new policy change.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I think the most practical thing is to issue everyone
a precalibrated hula hoof with a radius and four feet.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I'm not sure how practical that would be.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
What are the repercussions from Target if the employee does
not greet you with a.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh sorry, you just got cut off. I'm sorry.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
What are the repercussions from Target if the employee does
not greet you with a hello, and asking how your
day is.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Apparently there's in the I think it's in the automotive section.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
There's going to be a guillotine. I don't think that's
true at all.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right, talk Back of the Day on the way,
hotline stringing, which means our next es is going to
be joining us here in just a moment. Representative in
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, and again more of your
comments from the iHeartRadio app talkbacks brought to you by
Lyndahl Realty.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Next on Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We had a lot of comments that rolled in on
the new target directive as I waive it, Sam and
the Master Control booth next door here on Twin City's
News Talk from the sixty five one carpet Next Day
Install Studios, we'll get back to those. You're talk Back
of the Day on the way as well, brought to
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you by Minnie Leaf. Right now, I want to welcome
to the show actually traveling through the state currently Congressman
and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate to Tom and Tiffany. Good morning, Tom,
thank you so much for joining the show this morning,
and where are you currently?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
John yesterday, represent Stauburn and I did the commemoration of
the Edmund Fitzgerald fifty year anniversary. And you know, both
of our districts were affected greatly by that superior and
to lose to twin ports. And so we did a
commemoration yesterday and I made my way down I thirty five,
headed for headed for the airport to go to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So let's talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Now heading back to d C, we have the Senate
moving forward finally to end the shutdown. It's now going
to go back to the House. How keem Jeffries though
signal that perhaps Democrats won't be on board with this
when it gets.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Back into the House.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
What's your expectation on how much longer all of this
is going to last? And we can put this a
shutdown in the rear view mirror. Congressman Tom Tiffany, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Suspect Jefferies is going to have to put up a
bold front for the base that is outraged by what
they have seen here, the leftist base that is, and
I mean it's all performative art. They put party before people.
The ends justify the means. They wanted to ensure victory
in New Jersey, and Virginia last week. And you know,
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to a certain extent, it's mission accomplished by them. But
now they've got everybody gimmed up to such an extent
on there in their base that boy, we cannot uh
make any changes to Obamacare though it's failing the country
and failing to provide affordable healthcare for the American people.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Let's move over to your to your race. You're run
for governor in Wisconsin. How has the race been going.
What have you been hearing from the constituents as well?
And I'm always interested in that because you know, a
lot of times, you know, doing the show, I cover
what gets talked about within the media, but sometimes, uh,
there's a different view coming from those individuals who you know,
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don't call into the show. And I'm curious to your
perspective of where the concerns rest for the people in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
So six weeks in and it's going very well. We've
got broad support across the state and we're taking the message,
which is the buzzworth these days, affordability to the people
of the state of Wisconsin. Let's lower increase property taxes.
We're in the bottom ten for business startups entrepreneurial activity
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in the United States. Let's change that. Let's make sure
that we're If we're gonna put more money into education,
let's make sure it is done in a way that
it benefits, paying good teachers more money and following the
students and their families. We have among the highest utility
rates now in the Midwest. We used to be among
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the lowest. And so there's a whole bunch of stuff
that people are focused on. But I do think it
is that affordability question. But the other thing is, you know,
the people that live within the shadow of the Twin
Cities over in Saint Croix done, you know, Polk, excuse me,
Pierce County, you know, they see what's happening in Minnesota,
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and I emphasize we do not want to end up
like Minnesota and what has happened over in this great
state where people are clean, and people are going to
make a choice here, John in twenty twenty six, do
you want to be among the Wolkenbrooke like Minnesota and Illinois,
or do you want to be one of the prosperous
states of America. That's a choice that's going to be made.
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States are diverging at this point, they're either choosing to
be a blue state, which they're headed down the tubes basically,
or those states that really want to be prosperous Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio.
Which state are we going to be in Wisconsin? That's
the question, and that's the message that I'm delivering to people,
and that's what I'm hearing about people. We can do
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better in Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, you know, I've been questioning, talking with Tom Tiffany,
you know, I've been questioning how much the issues when
we get into next year, how much they're.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Even going to matter.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I mean, of course they matter to individuals like yourself, matter,
they matter to me. But the way in which the
Democrats are conducting their campaigns, their commentary, you know, it's
less and less about the issues, and it's more and
more just simply focused on vilifying and demonizing Republicans every
single step of the way, in which case it just
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ends up becoming a who can get.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The vote out more?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
You know, you know, from either side, I'm curious your
perspective on that, because it doesn't seem like the Democrats
really while they talk about the issues. I think you
and I both know that they spend the majority of
time just trying to tear down Republicans.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That seems to be their only platform right now.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, they'll make Donald Trump the number one issue in
the campaign. It'll be all personality driven, not policy driven.
But they're going to have a harder time vilifying me.
I grew up on a dairy farm just over the
border in western Wisconsin with my seven brothers and sisters.
I mean, we've figured out what hard work was early
in life, common sense, how to make ends meet. And
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I've been a lifelong Wisconsin that has raised a family here.
I mean, we've been able to live the American dream.
And that's the message I'm going to take to the
people who state of Wisconsin, and I think we can
get that message to people. Now. Our challenge, John is
going to be those people who don't always come out
and vote every election. We have to motivate them, and
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we have to do that with bold colors, clear contrasts.
You have to have that clear contrast with the other side.
The other side. Are they talking about policy as you're
alluding to, of course not. It is all personality driven.
We need to talk about policy and talk about how
men and girls' sports, sanctuary cities in the state of Wisconsin.
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We're going to have safe streets. We're going to emphasize
those issues that are pre eminent for the people to
state of Wisconsin. Lower property taxes and then freeze them.
We're going to do things that are going to benefit
everyone in the state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, last thing before I let you go this morning
again talking with Resent in Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, the.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Issue of immigration.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know, it's not talked about as much apart from
the situations relating to immigrations and customs enforcement. You know,
you don't see Democrats talking about the dramatic reduction in
individuals coming into the country, especially and more specifically comparatively
speaking to the years that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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we were in office.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'm curious your perspective right now.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean, the majority of the conversations we've had over
the past few years have been regarding immigration in the
run up to last year's election.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Where is your.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Head at right now relating to that particular issue. Apart
from the controversies that Democrats bring up, relating to what
immigrations and customs enforcement is currently doing in deporting criminals
that are here in the country illegally.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Yeah, you know, I think it's come down from one
either number one or number two in terms of issues,
because you have a president that's resolved the issue. The
border is now secure, he showed how it could be done.
But we're still seeing the residual effects, including in Wisconsin
where we have people that are here illegally committing crimes,
oftentimes repeated crimes. And then you have those same people,
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the leftist Democrats, who will defend them to keep them
in this country though they're repeat offenders. So the issue
still is out there, but it's not as prominent as
it once was because it's been solved them. It's much
like the price of eggs. Remember that was the first
thing they attacked the president. I'm back on January twentieth,
price of eggs go down. Never mind.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Congresvan Tom Tiffany again running for governor in Wisconsin. Thank
you for the time this morning, Safe travels to you,
and I look forward to the next time you and
I have.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The opportunity to talk.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Good to talk to you, John.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Speaking of illegal immigration, I wanted to share this with
you and illegal alien from Mexico has been arrested after
Bard Patrol agents were shot at on Saturday in Chicago.
This was according to the Department of Homeland Security. The
man had been convicted of an aggravated unlawful use of
a weapon, felony possession of a weapon, and illegal entry.
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He is currently marked as a violator of the Lake
and Riley Act pending charges relating to assaulting officers. The
Border Patrol agents were attacked around nine thirty am Saturday
in the city's Little Village neighborhood while conducting immigration enforcements operations.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
DHS said this in a press release.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Agents were boxed into a narrow street and an alley
when a man driving a black Jeep Wrangler open fire.
He fled as bricks and paint cans were hurled from
nearby rooftops. The barage damaged vehicles as Chicago police helped
extract the federal agents from the ambush. Moments later, the
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same Border Patrol convoy encountered a vehicle that tried to
ram its cars. The violence continued when the convoy reached
the FBI office, where rioters attempted to breach security protesters
through objects, prompting crowd control measures. Before agents moved to
the Sam's Club parking lot, a federal vehicle was rammed.
Three people were arrested on assault charges. As a convoy
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tried to leave, another vehicle rammed into it, shattered windows
and forcing agents to pursue the driver, who escaped. In total,
atus citizens and an illegal alien were arrested. I was
watching a video that went viral overnight and it wasn't
anything that I could play on the air, But there
was a woman I believe in Portland, Oregon. She was
blocking ICE enforcement officers and then she took off when ICE.
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After visually and hand mocking the ICE agents, she then
took off down the road and tried to escape, and
when ICE agents went and pulled her over, she ended up.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Crying, mom, Mom, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
In the law enforcement officer ended up actually letting her go.
It was pretty pretty pathetic. Speaking of pathetic, Chica Mayor
Brandon Johnson has reached out to a very unlikely source
in the again in the wake of this illegal alien
interested border agents attacked in Chicago, and you have the
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Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson asking a rather unique entity to
help intervene and stop ICE.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Here is the story from Fox News.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Mayor Brandon Johnson is asking the United Nations to intervene
to stop your operations.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Here is what he said before the UN Human Rights Council,
listen to this.
Speaker 16 (29:36):
The federal government's immigration enforcement has been marked by violence
and an assault on the dignity of all Chicagoans.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I call on this Council.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
To hold the Federal government of the United States to
the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world.
No country should be above international law. That urge the
Human Rights Council to consider additional measures of accountability, including
a special session to examine the worsening human rights crisis
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh, we have further audio. It got clipped there.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
What he means is old Testament, mister Mayor, real wrath
of God type stocks, fire and brimstone coming down from
the skies.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Rivers and seas boiling, forty.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the bed rising.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
From the greed, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, massistaria.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
What does he want?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Does he want UN troops on the streets of Chicago
battling ice. I'm afraid that if he was asked that question,
he would say, Yes, it's time to get to your
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I was sharing with you a story from Fox nine.
Target issued a new directive mandating that workers smile at
customers as part of a plan to sales headed into
the holidays. Here is your talkback of the day.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Good morning, happy veterans today from another army that's sixty
eight whiskey. But I also spent fifteen years in retail management,
and there's definitely some common practices that are just not
happening today. You can go into these big box stores
and employees don't even acknowledge you. In fact, you come
off as a burden to them, and they can be
pushing off supply cart and they will push right in
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front of you as you're walking and not give you
the right away. Simple things like giving customers the right
away and saying.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hi, yeah, now, you're absolutely right. This wasn't a customer.
I had a woman that cut me off last time
I was at Walmart, and she said excuse me as
if it was my fault. That is your talk back
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program requires their employees to smile and make eye contact
and wave or greet a shopper who comes within ten
feet of them. If they are closer within four feet,
the worker is required to ask them if they need
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help or how their day is going. Okay, assuming this
story here from Foxy and the details are correct, what
a sad commentary that they had to get to this
level of specificity in order to train their employees in
customer service like that should be a given. But I
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can only imagine the gen zers when they're being told, hey,
you know you need to go and you know, wave
at a customer or smile at them and ask them
if they need help? Well, how far away do they
need to be?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
How close do they have to be before I before
I do what it is that you told me I
need to do?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Where you're in an average individual of average intelligence should
be able to figure out the appropriate level. No, they
have to get to ten feet eye contact wave four feet,
ask if they need help.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Good morning John. My name is Mike. I'm from Saint Paul.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I've worked for Minards for twenty years, and that is
their number one policies to greet every guest and say hi.
Unfortunately not one hundred percent, but yeah, it's a long
standing policy.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I've heard you can say big money at Minards.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
Eleven percent off.
Speaker 17 (33:40):
Having worked in retail for many years, I can tell
you unequivocally that most retail workers do not want to
do this and won't do this. And also, as a customer,
I don't want to be bothered every ten seconds by
someone asking me whether I need any help. If I
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need help, I'll ask.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Well, you've been given the guidelines. Just stay ten feet
away from the employees and you'll be fine. You're not
going to be bothered.
Speaker 13 (34:09):
I was just going to say, if I was an employee,
do I just keep myself ten feet away from the customers.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm sorry, boss, I was fifteen feet.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I measured it. I'm fine.
Speaker 13 (34:20):
I saw John walking towards me. I just kept walking
away from moments, so I wasn't within four feet.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Unequivocally, most retailers would not want to do this.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Why would most retailers not want to?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I mean, the story in and of itself would push
back on that particular comment.
Speaker 18 (34:34):
John, I actually have to push back a little bit
on your comment about Walmart employees. Several times at the
Walmart in Apple Valley, I have been asked by employees
are you finding everything today? I've actually had people walk
up and just start a conversation about how busy it
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is whatever. So maybe you gotta try Apple Valley Walmart.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Well, that would be that wouldn't be very cost effector
for me to drive all the way from Blaine down
to Apple Valley. You're not really pushing back. You just
had a better experience than I do over in Blaine.
Not a comforting site. When I visit my Blaine Walmart,
and every time I go through the parking lot, there
is a Blaine patrol officer that's.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Going through the parking lot. That's never. That's never. That's
not reassuring at all.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
Yeah, John, and I had an old video of me
and my friends going into a wal Mart and this
was back in the nineties.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
I showed my son and the first thing he said
to me was, how come everybody was so nice?
Speaker 13 (35:41):
Days?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
We used to have customer surevisue, people asked you if
you needed help.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You got to hide hims off the top show.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
For you, we're not even happen to be as.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Thanks for having out on the show today.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You missed any portion for sure to check out the podcast.
It's available up on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you too,
Sam for putting those up. Tomorrow on the show, Liz
calling from Alpha News will be joining us right around
eight thirty. We'll get your thoughts on whether or not
Trump should take some of that tariff money and start
giving it out in two thousand dollars stimulus checks.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
We'll cover that on tomorrow's show.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Have yourself a fantastic Tuesday when we are back at
it tomorrow just after six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Have a great one.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Thanks guys, Bye, You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Good morning, and I love your show.
Bony John Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I served from seventy four to seventy eight, and on
this Veterans Day, I thank God for Trump and for
our men and women that are still willing to go
into the service. And there's a huge uptick in patriotism,
which I really really love. You joined the military, and
you join a brotherhood that you really can't describe. You
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have friends for life, stories for life, a lot of laughs,
a lot of hard work.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But God, it so Godzo ran at a time.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm gonna afford him the opportunity to finish his comment.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Sorry, John Gonzo, just to finish it off. God, it
was a great experience.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And uh, nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Told me my oath was descended when I left the
military and it will never die until I pass away.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Have a good day, Happy Vecon's Day to all the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Brothers and sisters that are in the military.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I am so glad to see so many vets that
are running for office in the state. That is the
only way you're going to turn this state around. Instead
of electing socialist democrats that can't even run their own
life and family, let alone a state or a country.
We do need proven people that have defended this country
and know what the country's all about, rather than turning
it over to a third world country.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Thank you for the top backs from the iHeartRadio app
brought to you by Lyndahl Realty here on Twin Cities
News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three five
FM from the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day
install studios. Speaking of radical socialists, the city of Dynah
the latest to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls
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and his anti firearm agenda as they seek to join
the Twin Cities in passing a meaningless and potentially law
breaking ordinance. So again, while Democrats constantly accused Trump of
being an authoritarian king, these democrat run cities willfully ignore
the rule of law for the sake of peddling the
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leftist agenda.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Rob Dorr at the Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus posted this yesterday,
responding to a DYNA letter to the Dynasity Council on
their proposed firearm ordinance. Clouncil, my word the loss clear,
and so's a message. Adyna's proposed firearm ordinance raises serious
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legal concerns, as any such measure violates Minnesota's preemption statute.
Any ordinance in conflict with that statute is void, even
if the city attempts at gimmicks such as a deferred
enforcement scheme. Your city's residents deserve confidence that their leaders
act within lawful bounds.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, not like kings just want to lawless.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Act of defiance to state law only weakens public confidence
in sound civic governance. You can avoid that mistake by
respecting preemption's statewide safeguard. Needlessly provoking litigation serves no one.
A drainstax bayer resources diverts energy from legitimate civic priorities.
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History has proven that point, as every court that entered
excuse me that encountered similar local preemption violations has reached
the same conclusion. When duly elected state law occupies the
field of policy, municipal governments must yield. Any cities that
defined preemption have met the same fate in court, those
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cities may test their reach. The judiciary has spoken with clarity,
preemption simply leaves no tolerance for local intervention. The Minnesota
Court of Appeals Jennison versus Bloomington echoed that intent. When
state law occupies the fields that he simply cannot intervene.
Now he Dyna stands at the same crossroads, warned by
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subtled precedent and guided by clear language. The only obligation
to comply. Only the Minnesota legislature may regulate this domain,
and courts will defend that boundary without hesitation. It's not
about optics, but the rule of law, obedience to statute.
Nothing would better serve e Dinah than ending this unlawful
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pursuit today. Listen, Rob Dorr is right when he talks
about the optics. That's all what's going on here. It's
all about the optics, including Governor Tim Walls and his
continued town halls now dragging State Senator Judy Seberger on board,
a Democrat and a gun owner, working off the story
from Fox nine, says she doesn't know if any Republicans
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would vote for an assault weapons ban.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I love this quote, by the way, in my opinion,
says see Burger.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Everything's on the table, and anything that comes to me
that has the support and will save lives, I will
be a yes on. So anything that comes to her
has support and will save lives, she will be a
yes on.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
It doesn't have to make sense though. Walls doesn't have
to make sense. These town halls don't have to make sense.
They only make sense when you look at it through
the lens of it's not about saving lives, like she says.
And so let's just take this, let me break this
down just briefly. So if the legislature moves forward right
with a full gun band in Minnesota, right, so she'll
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be in support of that all of a sudden, even
though she says that she's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A gun owner.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I'm just wondering anything that comes to me that has
support and will save lives. I mean, like you left
yourself so many outs there, you'd have to be just
blindly following along to not understand that it is again
just this is just a word salad with no substance,
and the same thing rings sure when it comes to
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these town halls. Governor Tim Walls knows that having a
special session would be a disaster. It wouldn't yield what
he needs in terms of running for a reelection, it
wouldn't benefit Democrats heading into next year. And I'm sure
that we'll approach this when we get into the regular session,
but who knows what will happen between now and heading
into the beginning of next year. Here's more of the
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story that I was just sharing with you from Fox
nine regarding the latest town hall with Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Following the assassinations of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark,
and the deadly mass shootings and Annunciation Catholic Church. She
would support full bands on assault style weapons and high
capacity magazines pushed by Governor Walls.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
In my opinion, everything's on the table, and anything that
comes to me that has the support and will save lives,
I will.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Be a yes son.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Sieberger says voters have told her they want more legislation
around preventing gun violence, but they may not feel comfortable
airing their views in her split district. She says it's
up to lawmakers to find solutions, like more funding for
mental health services that both sides can agree on.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Everybody is frustrated.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Most people are scared, and I think we all deserve
to feel safe in our community, and I'm trying to
do something about that now.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
We did reach out to get a Republican perspective for
our story, but we didn't hear back. However, House Republicans
did release a plan that includes more money for school security,
school resource officers, and mental health treatment bets.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, that's the story from Fox nine. If people are scared,
that's on them, That's on Democrats that continue to fear
monger over this issue. They're not looking to solve anything.
They know they're not going to solve anything. There is
no law that you can pass that's guaranteed it's going
to go and save lives. Those are hollow statements, borderline propaganda,
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probably propaganda to many of you. I didn't even realize
that Walls was even having this next town hall. That's
how little attention that they're getting right now, we hear
about it after the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm glad that the Walls.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Continues to perpetuate this idea that his hands are tied,
because I don't think the majority of individuals, even on
the left or even buying it. They may not care,
don't misunderstand, they may be on board with it, but
they also right don't care that Walls is just using
this to push an agenda. But I think most people
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are realizing that's what's going on right now. It's really
not all that unlike what's taking place with this shutdown.
You know, walls, dfllers attempting to go and shape this
argument in this art as if it's Republicans that won't
go and vote on this preventing him from doing the
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special session, when we all know that that's not true,
even those on the left.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
No, it's not true.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And it's the same thing that happened with the government
shutdown that may be coming to an end, as Democrats
tried to frame this as being the Republican shutdown and
it just never ever stuck.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Target has issued a new directive to its workers that
I'm assuming most people saw this and had the same
reaction that I did over this new Target directive, and
that reaction would be you weren't doing this already.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'll share with you the details of.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
This coming up, and we will talk with Representative in
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, traveling here too Minneapolis for
an event relating to his Wisconsin run for governor. Will
get his thoughts on the shutdown coming to an end
an update on his race as well. He'll be joining
us at a thirty here on his news talk AM
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eleven thirty and one three five FM.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
Thanks for keeping America and Americans safe, because that's what
you did.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Good morning, guys. I just want to have a shout
out to Jerry. Spent the weekend deer hunting with him.
He's a Vietnam Vet. Happy Veterans Day, Jerry. Thank you
for serving our country. God bless.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
I'd like to give a shout out to the two
moss I love the most, and that's the medics.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And the cooks.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
They're kind of young sung heroes, but being eleven, Bravo
one Papa, they have a very special place in our hearts.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Good morning, John Rick and Virginia.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
As you know, I've called several times and been critical
of Phil, your friend Phil. I think his idea is
there out there. They don't make any sense. He doesn't
make any sense to me, ever, but I see we
recall that Phil as a veteran.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
So Phil, this is for you.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
I do thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
As a fellow veteran.
Speaker 12 (11:09):
I can appreciate the training you went through, and no
matter where you served or what you did, I do
appreciate your service to our country. You helped keep us
safe and all of us, including me, thank you for.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It, and I do too, despite the ridiculous things that
you say on the talkbacks Twin Cities News Talk from
the six to five to one carpet, Next Day Install Studios.
Glad you're with the show this morning. Congressman Tom Tiffany
joining us in just a few minutes here on Twin
Cities News Talk. Now, this came in based off of
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my teas of a new target directive.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I did not say what the target directive was.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
There is nothing new about the target policies that they're saying.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've worked for.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Targets for ten years and they had that policy ten
years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Nothing new.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, okay, well, I guess I don't need to do
this story. Then you got anything in there to talk about, Sam.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Because this is what I was going to talk about.
But you know, according to according to Eric, there's no there's.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No there's no news. There's no news here.
Speaker 13 (12:11):
So why now you mean you both have me curious?
What's the directive you're referencing?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So from Fox nine?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Okay, target isition a new directive according to Fox nine,
contrary to what Eric says, mandating that workers smile at
customers as part of a plan to boost sales, heading
into the holiday. I actually hope that Eric's right. I
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hope this is not a new I mean this, this
is not a new directive. That being said, Look, you know,
I know Sam knows, you know, the quality when it
comes to your shopping experience, you know, has diminished greatly
over over the years. Customer service is just pretty much
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non existent. Like if I were running a business, that
would be the number one thing that I.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Would be focusing on.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I was having a Melinna and I were having a
lengthy conversation just about Disneyland specifically, just because we both,
you know, love the parks and you know, I was
born and raised in southern California and I would go
there a couple of.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Times a week during the during the nineties.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And the quality relating to the cast members and the
customer service they deliver, it's just it's diminished unfortunately, you know.
And so this doesn't surprise me if it is indeed new.
The newly initiative, they say, is called the ten four program.
According to Bloomberg, Under the program, workers are required to smile,
make eye contact, or wave and wave or greet a shopper.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Who comes within ten feet of them. Within ten feet Wow,
I'm trying to think of that.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
We have like a we have like a reverse of
the social distancing, like a like a new version. I
haven't quite worked out. It just came to me.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
You and I are about ten feet apart. Should i'd
be waving at you every time you look at.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Me, just.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Because it sounds fun?
Speaker 13 (14:09):
Yep, Hi John.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
If they are closer, Oh there's more. If they are
closer within four feet, the worker is required to ask
them if they need help or how their day is going.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, I want to test this.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
I'm not coming within four feet eet.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So is there going to be training on like how
far you know four feet actually is? For example, a
moment ago you said we're about ten feet apart from
each other.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I think we're more like twenty. Yeah, you know, I
mean there's a wall and two panes of glass between us.
But it sucked.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I think, you know, maybe if you'll both split the difference,
maybe fifteen. I wonder if most people even realize how
far you know four feet is? That makes that makes
me laugh. Though we have the technology, this is real.
This is a real simple fix they need. You need
to just wear a device. You get a little headphone
little headphone in right, bluetooth just blue tooth headphone with
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the device and therefore it beeps depending on how cloaks
you are to a customer to keep the employees in compliance.
Why did I hold up on the story until now?
But again, according to Eric, this is nothing. This is
nothing new at all. So the Bloomberg article where it's
stemmed from draws parallels to a long standing rule for
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Walmart workers which carries the same ten foot smiling requirement.
Oh that certainly has not been implemented or policy does
not follow. I couldn't tell you the last time a
Walmart employee ever smiled at me. As a matter of fact,
I couldn't tell you when we go to Walmart a lot.
I could not tell you any time easy in the
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past nine years when.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I ever had a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Employee come up to me and engage me in any way,
shape or form. It is always me having to go
and seek them out. And it happens a lot because
I need to go and get refills on my printer,
inc So I have to go into the electronics section,
and then I gotta go and track somebody down, and
that person doesn't have a key, and they got to track.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Somebody down, and they're never happy there. There's never any
which always blows my mind. It's like, you're there, you
are on the clock, You're there to work. What else
better do you have to do?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
This is what you're here for.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
I guess Target needs to hire at the old mister
book so bad to Sea Island.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
As he used to say at the start of.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
The Chips Smiles, if you got to.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Smiles, instantly age yourself with that, with a reference, and
I give you that talk back because I know exactly
what you're talking about as well.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
Hey, John, I work inside of a Target, and I
have been noticing that the employees have been much more
friendly over the last six months or so, and I
was wondering that myself if there was a new policy change.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I think the most practical thing is to issue everyone
a precalibrated hula hoof with a radius and four feet.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I'm not sure how practical that would be.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
What are the repercussions from Target if the employee does
not greet you with a.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh sorry, you just got cut off. I'm sorry.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
What are the repercussions from Target if the employee does
not greet you with a hello, and asking how your
day is.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Apparently there's in the I think it's in the automotive section.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
There's going to be a guillotine. I don't think that's
true at all.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right, talk Back of the Day on the way,
hotline stringing, which means our next es is going to
be joining us here in just a moment. Representative in
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, and again more of your
comments from the iHeartRadio app talkbacks brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (18:11):
Next on Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We had a lot of comments that rolled in on
the new target directive as I waive it, Sam and
the Master Control booth next door here on Twin City's
News Talk from the sixty five one carpet Next Day
Install Studios, we'll get back to those. You're talk Back
of the Day on the way as well, brought to
(18:37):
you by Minnie Leaf. Right now, I want to welcome
to the show actually traveling through the state currently Congressman
and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate to Tom and Tiffany. Good morning, Tom,
thank you so much for joining the show this morning,
and where are you currently?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
John yesterday, represent Stauburn and I did the commemoration of
the Edmund Fitzgerald fifty year anniversary. And you know, both
of our districts were affected greatly by that superior and
to lose to twin ports. And so we did a
commemoration yesterday and I made my way down I thirty five,
headed for headed for the airport to go to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So let's talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Now heading back to d C, we have the Senate
moving forward finally to end the shutdown. It's now going
to go back to the House. How keem Jeffries though
signal that perhaps Democrats won't be on board with this
when it gets.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Back into the House.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
What's your expectation on how much longer all of this
is going to last? And we can put this a
shutdown in the rear view mirror. Congressman Tom Tiffany, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Suspect Jefferies is going to have to put up a
bold front for the base that is outraged by what
they have seen here, the leftist base that is, and
I mean it's all performative art. They put party before people.
The ends justify the means. They wanted to ensure victory
in New Jersey, and Virginia last week. And you know,
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to a certain extent, it's mission accomplished by them. But
now they've got everybody gimmed up to such an extent
on there in their base that boy, we cannot uh
make any changes to Obamacare though it's failing the country
and failing to provide affordable healthcare for the American people.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Let's move over to your to your race. You're run
for governor in Wisconsin. How has the race been going.
What have you been hearing from the constituents as well?
And I'm always interested in that because you know, a
lot of times, you know, doing the show, I cover
what gets talked about within the media, but sometimes, uh,
there's a different view coming from those individuals who you know,
(20:50):
don't call into the show. And I'm curious to your
perspective of where the concerns rest for the people in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
So six weeks in and it's going very well. We've
got broad support across the state and we're taking the message,
which is the buzzworth these days, affordability to the people
of the state of Wisconsin. Let's lower increase property taxes.
We're in the bottom ten for business startups entrepreneurial activity
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in the United States. Let's change that. Let's make sure
that we're If we're gonna put more money into education,
let's make sure it is done in a way that
it benefits, paying good teachers more money and following the
students and their families. We have among the highest utility
rates now in the Midwest. We used to be among
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the lowest. And so there's a whole bunch of stuff
that people are focused on. But I do think it
is that affordability question. But the other thing is, you know,
the people that live within the shadow of the Twin
Cities over in Saint Croix done, you know, Polk, excuse me,
Pierce County, you know, they see what's happening in Minnesota,
(22:02):
and I emphasize we do not want to end up
like Minnesota and what has happened over in this great
state where people are clean, and people are going to
make a choice here, John in twenty twenty six, do
you want to be among the Wolkenbrooke like Minnesota and Illinois,
or do you want to be one of the prosperous
states of America. That's a choice that's going to be made.
(22:24):
States are diverging at this point, they're either choosing to
be a blue state, which they're headed down the tubes basically,
or those states that really want to be prosperous Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio.
Which state are we going to be in Wisconsin? That's
the question, and that's the message that I'm delivering to people,
and that's what I'm hearing about people. We can do
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better in Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, you know, I've been questioning, talking with Tom Tiffany,
you know, I've been questioning how much the issues when
we get into next year, how much they're.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Even going to matter.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I mean, of course they matter to individuals like yourself, matter,
they matter to me. But the way in which the
Democrats are conducting their campaigns, their commentary, you know, it's
less and less about the issues, and it's more and
more just simply focused on vilifying and demonizing Republicans every
single step of the way, in which case it just
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ends up becoming a who can get.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The vote out more?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
You know, you know, from either side, I'm curious your
perspective on that, because it doesn't seem like the Democrats
really while they talk about the issues. I think you
and I both know that they spend the majority of
time just trying to tear down Republicans.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That seems to be their only platform right now.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, they'll make Donald Trump the number one issue in
the campaign. It'll be all personality driven, not policy driven.
But they're going to have a harder time vilifying me.
I grew up on a dairy farm just over the
border in western Wisconsin with my seven brothers and sisters.
I mean, we've figured out what hard work was early
in life, common sense, how to make ends meet. And
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I've been a lifelong Wisconsin that has raised a family here.
I mean, we've been able to live the American dream.
And that's the message I'm going to take to the
people who state of Wisconsin, and I think we can
get that message to people. Now. Our challenge, John is
going to be those people who don't always come out
and vote every election. We have to motivate them, and
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we have to do that with bold colors, clear contrasts.
You have to have that clear contrast with the other side.
The other side. Are they talking about policy as you're
alluding to, of course not. It is all personality driven.
We need to talk about policy and talk about how
men and girls' sports, sanctuary cities in the state of Wisconsin.
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We're going to have safe streets. We're going to emphasize
those issues that are pre eminent for the people to
state of Wisconsin. Lower property taxes and then freeze them.
We're going to do things that are going to benefit
everyone in the state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, last thing before I let you go this morning
again talking with Resent in Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, the.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Issue of immigration.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know, it's not talked about as much apart from
the situations relating to immigrations and customs enforcement. You know,
you don't see Democrats talking about the dramatic reduction in
individuals coming into the country, especially and more specifically comparatively
speaking to the years that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
(25:26):
we were in office.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'm curious your perspective right now.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean, the majority of the conversations we've had over
the past few years have been regarding immigration in the
run up to last year's election.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Where is your.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Head at right now relating to that particular issue. Apart
from the controversies that Democrats bring up, relating to what
immigrations and customs enforcement is currently doing in deporting criminals
that are here in the country illegally.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Yeah, you know, I think it's come down from one
either number one or number two in terms of issues,
because you have a president that's resolved the issue. The
border is now secure, he showed how it could be done.
But we're still seeing the residual effects, including in Wisconsin
where we have people that are here illegally committing crimes,
oftentimes repeated crimes. And then you have those same people,
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the leftist Democrats, who will defend them to keep them
in this country though they're repeat offenders. So the issue
still is out there, but it's not as prominent as
it once was because it's been solved them. It's much
like the price of eggs. Remember that was the first
thing they attacked the president. I'm back on January twentieth,
price of eggs go down. Never mind.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Congresvan Tom Tiffany again running for governor in Wisconsin. Thank
you for the time this morning, Safe travels to you,
and I look forward to the next time you and
I have.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The opportunity to talk.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Good to talk to you, John.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Speaking of illegal immigration, I wanted to share this with
you and illegal alien from Mexico has been arrested after
Bard Patrol agents were shot at on Saturday in Chicago.
This was according to the Department of Homeland Security. The
man had been convicted of an aggravated unlawful use of
a weapon, felony possession of a weapon, and illegal entry.
(27:16):
He is currently marked as a violator of the Lake
and Riley Act pending charges relating to assaulting officers. The
Border Patrol agents were attacked around nine thirty am Saturday
in the city's Little Village neighborhood while conducting immigration enforcements operations.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
DHS said this in a press release.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Agents were boxed into a narrow street and an alley
when a man driving a black Jeep Wrangler open fire.
He fled as bricks and paint cans were hurled from
nearby rooftops. The barage damaged vehicles as Chicago police helped
extract the federal agents from the ambush. Moments later, the
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same Border Patrol convoy encountered a vehicle that tried to
ram its cars. The violence continued when the convoy reached
the FBI office, where rioters attempted to breach security protesters
through objects, prompting crowd control measures. Before agents moved to
the Sam's Club parking lot, a federal vehicle was rammed.
Three people were arrested on assault charges. As a convoy
(28:17):
tried to leave, another vehicle rammed into it, shattered windows
and forcing agents to pursue the driver, who escaped. In total,
atus citizens and an illegal alien were arrested. I was
watching a video that went viral overnight and it wasn't
anything that I could play on the air, But there
was a woman I believe in Portland, Oregon. She was
blocking ICE enforcement officers and then she took off when ICE.
(28:39):
After visually and hand mocking the ICE agents, she then
took off down the road and tried to escape, and
when ICE agents went and pulled her over, she ended up.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Crying, mom, Mom, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
In the law enforcement officer ended up actually letting her go.
It was pretty pretty pathetic. Speaking of pathetic, Chica Mayor
Brandon Johnson has reached out to a very unlikely source
in the again in the wake of this illegal alien
interested border agents attacked in Chicago, and you have the
(29:12):
Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson asking a rather unique entity to
help intervene and stop ICE.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Here is the story from Fox News.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Mayor Brandon Johnson is asking the United Nations to intervene
to stop your operations.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Here is what he said before the UN Human Rights Council,
listen to this.
Speaker 16 (29:36):
The federal government's immigration enforcement has been marked by violence
and an assault on the dignity of all Chicagoans.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I call on this Council.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
To hold the Federal government of the United States to
the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world.
No country should be above international law. That urge the
Human Rights Council to consider additional measures of accountability, including
a special session to examine the worsening human rights crisis
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh, we have further audio. It got clipped there.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
What he means is old Testament, mister Mayor, real wrath
of God type stocks, fire and brimstone coming down from
the skies.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Rivers and seas boiling, forty.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the bed rising.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
From the greed, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, massistaria.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
What does he want?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Does he want UN troops on the streets of Chicago
battling ice. I'm afraid that if he was asked that question,
he would say, Yes, it's time to get to your
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I was sharing with you a story from Fox nine.
Target issued a new directive mandating that workers smile at
customers as part of a plan to sales headed into
the holidays. Here is your talkback of the day.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Good morning, happy veterans today from another army that's sixty
eight whiskey. But I also spent fifteen years in retail management,
and there's definitely some common practices that are just not
happening today. You can go into these big box stores
and employees don't even acknowledge you. In fact, you come
off as a burden to them, and they can be
pushing off supply cart and they will push right in
(31:27):
front of you as you're walking and not give you
the right away. Simple things like giving customers the right
away and saying.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hi, yeah, now, you're absolutely right. This wasn't a customer.
I had a woman that cut me off last time
I was at Walmart, and she said excuse me as
if it was my fault. That is your talk back
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program requires their employees to smile and make eye contact
and wave or greet a shopper who comes within ten
feet of them. If they are closer within four feet,
the worker is required to ask them if they need
(32:17):
help or how their day is going. Okay, assuming this
story here from Foxy and the details are correct, what
a sad commentary that they had to get to this
level of specificity in order to train their employees in
customer service like that should be a given. But I
(32:39):
can only imagine the gen zers when they're being told, hey,
you know you need to go and you know, wave
at a customer or smile at them and ask them
if they need help? Well, how far away do they
need to be?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
How close do they have to be before I before
I do what it is that you told me I
need to do?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Where you're in an average individual of average intelligence should
be able to figure out the appropriate level. No, they
have to get to ten feet eye contact wave four feet,
ask if they need help.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Good morning John. My name is Mike. I'm from Saint Paul.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I've worked for Minards for twenty years, and that is
their number one policies to greet every guest and say hi.
Unfortunately not one hundred percent, but yeah, it's a long
standing policy.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I've heard you can say big money at Minards.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
Eleven percent off.
Speaker 17 (33:40):
Having worked in retail for many years, I can tell
you unequivocally that most retail workers do not want to
do this and won't do this. And also, as a customer,
I don't want to be bothered every ten seconds by
someone asking me whether I need any help. If I
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need help, I'll ask.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Well, you've been given the guidelines. Just stay ten feet
away from the employees and you'll be fine. You're not
going to be bothered.
Speaker 13 (34:09):
I was just going to say, if I was an employee,
do I just keep myself ten feet away from the customers.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm sorry, boss, I was fifteen feet.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I measured it. I'm fine.
Speaker 13 (34:20):
I saw John walking towards me. I just kept walking
away from moments, so I wasn't within four feet.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Unequivocally, most retailers would not want to do this.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Why would most retailers not want to?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I mean, the story in and of itself would push
back on that particular comment.
Speaker 18 (34:34):
John, I actually have to push back a little bit
on your comment about Walmart employees. Several times at the
Walmart in Apple Valley, I have been asked by employees
are you finding everything today? I've actually had people walk
up and just start a conversation about how busy it
(34:57):
is whatever. So maybe you gotta try Apple Valley Walmart.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Well, that would be that wouldn't be very cost effector
for me to drive all the way from Blaine down
to Apple Valley. You're not really pushing back. You just
had a better experience than I do over in Blaine.
Not a comforting site. When I visit my Blaine Walmart,
and every time I go through the parking lot, there
is a Blaine patrol officer that's.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Going through the parking lot. That's never. That's never. That's
not reassuring at all.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
Yeah, John, and I had an old video of me
and my friends going into a wal Mart and this
was back in the nineties.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
I showed my son and the first thing he said
to me was, how come everybody was so nice?
Speaker 13 (35:41):
Days?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
We used to have customer surevisue, people asked you if
you needed help.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You got to hide hims off the top show.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
For you, we're not even happen to be as.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Thanks for having out on the show today.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
You missed any portion for sure to check out the podcast.
It's available up on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you too,
Sam for putting those up. Tomorrow on the show, Liz
calling from Alpha News will be joining us right around
eight thirty. We'll get your thoughts on whether or not
Trump should take some of that tariff money and start
giving it out in two thousand dollars stimulus checks.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
We'll cover that on tomorrow's show.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Have yourself a fantastic Tuesday when we are back at
it tomorrow just after six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Have a great one.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Thanks guys, Bye, You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Good morning, and I love your show.
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