November 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Jon recaps a Supreme Court decision and Sam is going recognize Veteran's Day in a unique way. Jon looks at the left's latest attempt at gun control. U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schwarze joins in studio to discuss his platform, his military service, and what compelled him to run for public office.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Pour two for a Tuesday Twin Cities news talking Am
eleven thirty one oh three five FM John Justice, along
with Sam and the Master Control Booth broadcasting from the
six five to one carpet plus Next Day Install studios.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Put up the Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, let me make sure I add the proper context. Sure,
I got the Christmas tree out from the shed, brought
it into the house, stood it up, and then I
walked away.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Melinda handles everything else.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, by definition, that's putting up the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I know, but I think people could sometimes miscuns through
that as Wow. John did all the decorating, you can,
put all the lights on and arranged it into this beautiful,
wondrous holiday creation.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's like, no, I'm not a part of that. I
just I just put it up.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did the manual labor, and now Wenda gets to
do the pretty much design. Pretty much got it pretty much.
Even then I didn't have it up. I didn't have
all the pieces right in place. I didn't notice it
was a little bit crooked. She had to go and
she had to go and fix it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So yeah, or I'm getting all I'm getting in early.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I hate the fact that the holiday season seems like
it's been shorter depending on when Thanksgiving ends up occurring.
Like last year, it was like hearing gone and I
got sucked. Yep, when it takes place, because I think this,
I think this year we're okay on that, right, Thanksgivings
on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah see that's.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, that's so, that's we're past it. And then we're
into December and then we're only just a few Yeah,
so I'm getting I'm getting. Oh see, I'm taking care
of that right now. I'm putting my foot down. I'm
getting my Christmas on early.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
John just has taking a stand here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm acting.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm acting like our sister stations.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just getting right in on the Christmas action. That's quickly
as possible, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Speaking of getting in on the action, the Supreme Court
to edited there yesterday did agree to decide whether states
can continue to count late arriving male ballots, which have
been the target of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Again, it's an AP story. I just there was a
point in time when the AP.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Delivered non biased, legitimate news just everything that when they
talk about Trump is just framed in the negative. The
Justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel
of three judges nominated by the Republican President on the
fifth that US Circuit Court of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Appeals ruled last year the state.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Law allowing ballots that arrived shortly after election day to
be counted violated federal law. So Mississippi is among eighteen
states and DC that have accepted mayle ballots received after
election day as long as they were postmarked on or
before that date. Now the list also includes This is
where it's more concerning swing states such as Nevada, States
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as Colorado, Oregon, and Utah that rely heavily on mail
in voting. Additionally, fourteen states allowing counting of late arriving
ballots from some eligible voters, including overseas US service members
and their families. According to the filing from Democrat led
states that urged the Justices to reverse the appellate ruling,
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the case will be argued in late winter or early
spring next year. The final ruling will almost certainly come
by late June and early enough to govern the counting
of ballots in the twenty twenty six midterm congressional elections.
So while we didn't go and ditch the filibuster, remove
forward on election integrity, that could end up playing a
(03:49):
pretty big role in next year's midterms.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This certainly would have.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If the Supreme Courts didn't decide to, Eh, we're good,
we're going to pass. Supreme Court rejects a call to
overturn the decision legalizing same sex marriage in the US.
So the appeal was from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky
(04:19):
court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same
sex couples after the Scootis ruling in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
According to the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
AP, Davis attempted to get the Supreme Court to overturn
the lower court order for her to pay three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars in damages and lawyer's fees to
a couple denied a marriage license.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The AP reported that Justice Clarence Thomas was among the
four dissenting justices in twenty fifteen. That would be Oberger
Fell versus Hodges. Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito are
among other dissenters who are on the court today. Davis
had gained a national attention in Eastern Kentucky's Rowand County
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when she snubbed the same sex couples, claiming that her
faith prevented her from complying with the Supreme Court ruling.
So ultimately what would have happened here is that this
would have been kicked back to the to the states. Okay,
Dems are none too happy about that fact, by the way,
they're going to put on a different fronts in the media,
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which is what Governor Tim Walls did. But make no mistake,
there were plenty of Democrats that were really really hoping
the Supreme Court took this up and knocked this issue
back to the states so they could go and run
on it the same way they did abortion. Governor Tim
Walls quote tweeted the story regarding the Supreme Court decision
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to not re examine gay marriage.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And this is what he wrote on X The bar
is in hell. But this is a win for decency
and compassion. He is so annoyingly crass. The bar is in.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hell, grinchy hart or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just as a side note, this has nothing to do
with decency and compassion relating to this particular issue. It's
just about the law, that's all that it is. And again,
just like abortion, it just would have knocked the issue
back to the states to decide for themselves because elections
have consequences where it should be decided. Supreme Court not
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taking it up, it's not going to be much of
an issue moving forward.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Make no mistake though.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Again, while Walls will go and post that online he's
bummed the Supreme Court is not going and taking the
issue up.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I'm ready to get beat.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I want to talk about the latest regarding the attempts
to continue to strip away your right to get, keep
and bear arms. It's all for show though there's a
lot of political theater going on. There was another town
hall that took place over the weekend. One moderate doing
nothing with my fingers. Senate to Dfller Judy Seberger has
now hopped on board with Governor Tim Walls on his
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town halls because she knows full well there's not going
to be a special session called. She may have an
opportunity next year during a special session to go and
vote on this. If the Democrats are brave enough to
put this forward and also put their own members of
the legislature in the spotlight. That would not sign off
on these issues. The City of Dnah was the latest
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to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls as they
move forward with another ordinance relating to firearms, which of
course has no legal standing whatsoever. And I'll share with
you the details on this here in just a moment,
but I want to go here briefly before we talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Speaking of cities, ze wrong, Mom Donnie. Of course, winning.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The mayor's race in New York City, it's going to
be highly entertaining to watch, especially since Governor Kathy Hochel,
while she did endorse Mom Donnie, made it clear yesterday
that she is not all in on his progressive policy proposals.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, I'm from Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
We don't put up with a lot of crap.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So I just want to set the stage that, you know,
you look at the history of people who run multi
billion dollar ad campaigns to try and get me to
change my position.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I don't change my position.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I just want to put it out there.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I respect people's opinions, I respect proper place to convey them,
and so I've said I hear you, and that was important.
But also there is a time and place, and so
that's all on that. No, I've had conversations on this trip,
but many conversations i'd say over the summer in the
fall that were important that led to an understanding of
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what's in the realm of possibility, shared ambitions, but what
is doable is the question. And so you know, we're
aligned on so many of these issues. You know, I've
made it clear where I have strong disagreements with issues
that really do not pertain to you know, the governance
of New York City, and of course said you need
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to get a.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Police commissioner that people.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Trust who has a brecklet of accomplishment to keep the
trad directory that we're on right now, which is crime
is going down, crime is going down significantly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
She goes on for another minute or so, but basically
what was asked at the beginning of that word salad
was whether or not she was on board with Mom
Donnie's free bust plan and has taxed the rich plan,
of which she said no, that she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And this goes back to what I said earlier.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
When Mom Donnie won the election, he made a lot
of promises He's not going.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
To be able to keep. Don't misunderstand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
When you start talking about safety and security and law
enforcement in New York City, and he'll be able to
put forward policy that'll have disastrous effects. And certainly when
it comes to seizing buildings, making it difficult for landlords
to go and continue to rent, whether it's freezing the
rents for these buildings, taking away the ability of landlords
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to go and make money by being landlords, increasing fines,
putting landlords in a position where they won't be able
to afford to make repairs, and when they don't, finding
them even further eventually, when they can't pay those fines,
watch Mam Donnie will move in to go and seize
those properties, turn him into subsidized housing with the hope
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that the individuals that would live in that government subsidized
housing in New York City will continue to vote for
socialists like Mom Donnie. Again, it's going to be really
interesting to watch, and it's going to be an abject failure.
The question is how quickly is it going to fail
and how quickly are a large group of individuals going
to learn just the devastating impact of socialist policies moving forward.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again the city of Dyna move forward on a proposed
firearm or ordinance, which they cannot do because of preemption
here in Minnesota. And we'll give you details a couple
of different news stories we'll share with you regarding this
weekend's most recent gun at town hall by Governor Tim Walls.
And we'll get to more of your talkbacks from the
iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Realty.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Next on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Good Morning, John, I think I beat you to the
punch on that. One Sunday during the Vikings game, I
took out all the bags of Christmas lights I had
plugged them in once at a time, tested them, replaced
all the bulbs that didn't work, and made my list
for a trip to pick up four new sets of lights.
So I'm ready for this year. Time to prep. Have
(12:00):
a great day.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Got in thirty and one oh three point five FM.
Good morning John and Sam, friends and phos of the shows,
all listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Happy Veterans Day. It's all the veterans out there.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
I just got my free coffee and breakfast sandwich.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That quick trip.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Shout out to missus Dawson, the principal of Saint Vincent's Bahal.
My kids school will have a nice Veterans Day event
onnor Veterans have a great day.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Speaking of veterans, we're going to be joined in studio
coming up in the next segment running for Senate Adam
Schwarze will be joining us twenty one years as a
Marine and Navy sealm on this Veterans Day and Sam
here on Twin City's News Talk from the sixty five
to one Carpet Next Day install Studios. I know there
is something you wanted to mention on this Veterans Day
as well, right.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, thanks John. So today is well. I'm a member
of the CrossFit community. I do cross Bit a few
times a week, and today is what's called the Hero
Workout Day. Today is either called the Chad one thousand
X or the Chad Workout. It's essentially here. I'll just
read it from the CrossFit website. Chat one thousand X
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is a CrossFit Hero workout written in honor of Navy
Seal Senior Chief Chad Wilkinson, who died by suicide on
October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, as a result of several
traumatic brain injuries, blast wave injuries and PTSD stemming from
many deployments across more than two decades of service. The
article here goes on to say that the CrossFit community
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joins together annually on Veterans Day and the thousands of
CrossFit affiliates and garage gums around the world to tackle
this workout in Chad's memory, raising funds to support veterans'
mental health initiatives through the Step Up Foundation, and it
goes on from there. So a couple of things. If
you're doing the chat workout today, good luck, it's going
to be a hard one. The chat workout itself is
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you need a twenty inch box, a forty five pound
rucksack or a weighted vest or thirty five pounds for women,
and then you're doing one thousand step ups. That's the workout.
So it's it's a good run. But you know, if you're.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Sure, adam handle it.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
But I'm good if you're you know, crossfitters have been
working for a few weeks to build up to this workout,
so you can't just go into a cold But that
being said, there are scaling options, So if you're not
in that community but you still want to try it,
look at doing some scaling options. You don't need to
use a box. You can just put a couple of
plates on the ground. All that to say, though, there
are you know, there's a lot of resources out there,
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a lot of nonprofits that are doing things for veterans,
and really I just want to mention to the Crisis
Hotline nine eight eight. If anybody needs any type of
emergency assistance, whether it's suicide prevention or just a crisis
that you're going through, you can always reach out. There's
plenty of mental health options out there too, so you're
not alone. There's there's resources out there to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, thank you for that, Sam, and certainly dispels that
ridiculous notion that can CrossFit people we're a little off
their rocker because you're as.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Straight as they come. So that was like a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I remember, wasn't there a thing for a while where
people would always go and they would always the stereotype
around CrossFit trainers like they're a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, you only know me here, John, That's.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The thing that's true.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That is a very good that is a very good
point across the community is very welcoming. It's a really great,
great environment. So yeah, do what you can. If you're
not able to do the chad, try to scale it.
But it's a good way to now, we think our veterans.
But to pay your respects, we will.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We'll revisit this a bit. Coming up in the next
hour as well. At eight thirty this morning, we have
a Congressman Tom Tiffany. He's actually in Minnesota running four
governor Wisconsin, but he's here for a couple of events.
He'll be joining us at eight thirty and we'll talk
further about this latest town hall. I do want to
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get you up to speed. First story here from Channel five.
Walls keeps pushing for special session on gun violence, but
he's not Walls can call a special session. He's the
only one that can. There was another town hall over
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the weekend. Governor Tim Walls brought along Senate Dfller Judy C.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Berger.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Considered moderate, she apparently has hopped on board with the
potential of an assault weapons ban and high capacity magazines,
although in her words she said that she's down with
anything that would save lives and has approval which is
incredibly sort of open ended. Let me share with you
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a bit, however, and again we'll get back into more
of this coming up next hour after our conversation with
Adam Swarzy. This is a bit of the story here
from Channel Channel five.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Let me stop here real quick. That was Judy Sieberger.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Why does it require Republicans to join you? You have
control of the Senate, the House is divided fifty to fifty.
You only need Republicans to join you if you don't
have the votes on your end, which again is why
and you know this, We've talked about it, which is
why Governor Tim Walls has not called for a special
session because he knows this. This is not about policy,
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This is not about saving lives.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is all about narratives.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
This is all about Governor Tim Walls running for reelection
and trying to gain and get as much momentum behind
these issues which they won't end up addressing and if
they do next to session, they're going to fail, but
trying to come up with enough that he can use
to push back and dfllers can use to push back
during next year's elections.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you expect that to happen?
Speaker 11 (18:04):
Probably not, Seaberger, Senate colleague on the other side of
the aisle, Andrew Lang, doesn't expect much progress this session,
especially surrounding a weapons ban.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Some of our or most moderate members are a hard.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No against anything like that because they know it probably
is not going to make a difference in the long run.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Republicans have focused on strengthening schools safety and investing in
mental health measures. But Senator Lang also points out this
is a bonding year with a lot more on the
table than the gun debate.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
We're trying to pay for water towers.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We're trying to pray for roads and bridges, and water
treatment facilities and sewet treatment facilities.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That is got to be number one in our list.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Through recent KCP Survey USA polling, we found that more
than fifty percent supported in assault style weapons ban, and
in that same poll would ask what the most important
issue alt makers should address in a special session, they
said mental health, followed by guns five at the Capitol
Ben Henry five O witness.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
New and again a story there from Channel five.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus responded to Sieburger and said
that State Senator Judy Sieberger says she will back more
restrictions on assault style weapons, a significant shift from the
previously undecided swing district democrat who could help decide the
fate of gun control measures next session. The dfler from
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Afton was one of several moderate legislators who did not
publicly say how they would vote on gun control proposals
post by Walls after the shooting at the Catholic church.
Sieburger has since resolved to support whatever it takes doing
that thing with my fingers to make Minnesota safer. The
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus goes on to say, I'll be
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a yes on anything and everything that comes through that
will make a difference to reduce gun violence here in
the state of Minnesota. She said in a recent interview,
that will really make a difference. Just pulling from her quote,
it's an unanswerable question, and she knows that, and Governor
Tim Walls knows that. As a matter of fact, They
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asked Walls, why doesn't he call a special debate or
a special session without a pre agreement to at least
force a debate over the debate, and Wall said, well,
the debate wouldn't happen. The floor would then be controlled
by Republicans who have made it clear they don't want
to have this discussion. The debate would happen, though they
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would be forced to. You would call a special session.
You guys would go and talk about it again. It's
just another meaningless word salad from Governor Tim Walls, instead
of him being open and honest and upfront and saying
I'm not calling a special session because they're members of
my own party that will not sign off on this
and therefore it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Would be a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Coming up next SENEC candidates on Veterans Day, twenty one
years as a Marine and Navy seal, very pleased to
welcome to the studio Adam Swarze and he'll join us
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one O three five FM.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Bob from Lake Glmo, Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans. Enjoyed the day as far as Senator Seberger.
She uses the word moderate that votes every single time
with her radical left. Fellow Democrats comment she's my senator.
(21:36):
I have contacted her several times. Just give me one
vote and you can claim to be a moderate.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you, Bob for the talk back on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2 (21:53):
My name is John Justice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I am very pleased on this Veterans Day running for
Senate to Welcome to the show, Adam Schwarze. Good morning, Adam,
Thank you so much for coming in this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Hey, good Morten, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's awesome to be here, especially after the beloved day
of our Marine Corps yesterday two hundred fifty years Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You you attended a ball over the weekend in honor
of that, correct.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Yeah, my alma mater, the University of Minnesota, about the
thirty some midshipman future Marine Corps, future Navy officers, and
the future is bright. I was really excited to see
look in the face at those young future warriors, and
I was really excited what I saw.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm truly excited for the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We haven't talked about it on the show, but I
know that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, friend of the show,
you know, had mentioned. I think it was a couple
of weeks back, just the meeting of the recruitment goals
across the board for our military. I mean, just fantastic news. Certainly,
you know, a part of Trump getting re elected to
his non you know, consecutive a second term, but you know,
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just sort of dovetailing off of what you mentioned. It's
fantastic to see so many of you know, of our
brave Americans stepping up and wanting to serve this great nation.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
It was actually to contrast between the end of the
previous administration and this one, before Secretary Hegseth was even confirmed,
just knowing that Trump had put his name forward to
be an agent of changing, specifically cultural change within the
Department Defense. We went from a historic low morale across
the forces, which also then indicated a low recruiting essentially
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for the last four years on the bite administration, we're
lowering the standards to recruit and still failing to meet
those recruitment standards. Additionally, we just could not retain forces.
We were short in all the critical components, largely due
to the follow up from forcing members out from the
COVID vaccinations. And within the month of December alone, again
before Hegsaths even confirmed, we had over three hundred people
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per day enlisting to the United States Army. That's a
historic hi, That's never happened before in the history of country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm reminded last week on Friday, and this was
ahead of the different events to honor the Marines two
hundred and fiftieth. But we had a gold Star father
on Darren Hoover, whose son Taylor had was killed at Abbey. Yeah,
and he also, I think, much like you had joined
had joined up the military in the wake of nine
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to eleven.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Correct, Yes you did, and you did as.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Well, Yes, sir, nine to eleven happy During my senior
of high school, so I watched the Twin Towers fall
live in real time in my senior English class and
the funny stories I went to go. I was in
the process of trying to listen to the Navy already
after that, so I was kind of sleeping at the
Valley Westerner in Bloomington, trying to really get in the fight.
At that point, the neighbor were office stayed closed, and
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all of a sudden, this giant horse of a man
in a band costume walked by me one morning.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
He's like, what are you doing? Hood rat?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Like you sleeping outside the recruiting offices? What are you doing, sir?
I'm trying to and listen in the navy. He said, well,
what are you trying to do? Well, I've always wanted
to be a seal, he said, well, ever thought about
the Marines?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
What the Marine? I had no idea.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
It turns out that horse in the bank costume was
actually a marine recruiter. Oh, just a giant specimen of
a man. He's like six foot five to just like
how you think of on a marine. That's what this
guy will looked like. And as one of the sayings,
go first to contact, first to contract.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Within about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You give me the pitch about Marines being first to fight,
and he did not lie. I enlisted on my eighteenth birthday.
About three weeks later, raised my right hand went Marine
Corps Infantry and the same year I graduate high school,
I was on the yellow Foot Prince at Marine Corps
Cruit Depot San Diego and then honestly in my first
gunfight and firefight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That same year I graduate high.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
School, talking with Adam Schwarzi again running for Senate for
the open seat with Tina Smith retiring. Before we get
into that, I certainly want to talk about that. I
am curious twenty one years of serving and first off,
thank you for your service. But with that, you come
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out of the Marines, you decide you're going to run
for office. I want to back up further, though, can
you talk a little bit about the change that it
made in you from your time serving from I mean you,
you know, you told the story now of how you actually,
you know, entered into the Marine Corps, but I'm very
curious to know what you were, you know, how you
viewed yourself as a person when you entered and the
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person that you were coming outside of, you know, coming
out of your time serving.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, thanks for the question, John.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I was just a Midwest kid who grew up on
blue collar values, played hockey like most of Minnesotans do,
but really nothing special or you know, particularly unique about
my upbringing other than it just people who come from
Minnesota are just a heartier people. You know, we're generally
a blue cap class and we're tough individuals from this
part of the country. And so I had that kind
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of just work ethic that took me to the Marine Corps,
and then the Marine Corps really is what set me
up for the for success the rest.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Of my life.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Taking that work that that can teach me on or
teaching me courage, teaching me commitment, teaching me about team building.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Those value then was I had phenomenal.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Mentors and leaders as a young Marine who saw potential
in me, but took the time to mentor that, to
foster that. And that's something that's kind of unique I
found out since I've left the military since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just don't get that in the civilian side.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You don't get such interpersonal mentors that around you in
your personal zone for twenty four hours a day and
they are able to truly see that your soul but
then provide mentorship. There's no job in the civilian sector
where you just get that twenty four hour a day
mentorship and That's what yielded me to be a good
marine and later on to become a commissioned officer and
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then eventually achieved my dream become the United States and.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Navyc Talking with Adam Schwarzi, do you think it helped?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Did it?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Do you think it helped that you weren't aware of
the Marine Corps in terms of what you were getting into.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Do you think it helped that you were kind of
you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Want to say ignorant, but you know, not knowing what
you were, what you were diving in at the time
when you when you entered into into the Marine Corps.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
I just think it was good that I was hungry
and I was impassioned to be to serve my country,
especially after watching the Twin Towers fall.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I wanted to serve.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I was hard in the pathway to serve that further
and bolted my passion to serve my country. And it
was you know, I'm thankful that I went to Marine
Corps entry. I'm thankful later on that I got to
select to be a seal. But I think, honestly, if
I was like cooking in the mess hall or driving
a truck, or I think I would have been so
excited to do whatever.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
My country asked me to do.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
It just so happens that I got asked to, you know,
be a good entry unit leader and then a good
Navy seal.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You know, it's interesting to me working I was working
in radio at the time of nine to eleven, and
so I was actually on the air that morning working
for an alternative rock station when everything transpired, a much
different dynamic obviously than working in in news talk. I'm
the first part of my career, although I think everybody
sort of ended up handling in that day the same
way as we watched everything happen. But you know, since then,
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it's been this idea of and never forget, but holy cow,
of a lot of people either well maybe not have forgotten,
but certainly a lot of people have not been educated
into what you know, what it meant for America to
be attacked that day and you know, inspired individuals like
yourself and others.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
To go in and join.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that continues to be just an ongoing battle to
make sure that people are aware of those those enemies
that still exist because you know, a lot of our
young people just simply have not been educated over that.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Yeah, it is sad that it takes a huge, gross
national level incident to cause what's called the rally run
the Flag theory, where people all of a sudden, now
of a sudden, are uber patriotic and care about the flag,
care about the country above all else. And there's some
there's some second order effects of that that are not
good holistically, first in policies, like some of the things
from that came out of the nine to eleven Xoor
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that were overreaches. But certainly it's sad that people just
take things for granted until there's a tragedy.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Yeah, and are just But.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
If you look at the good news, if you look
at the Minnesota political landscape right now, you have a
bunch of veterans who are running for governor, there's a
great veteran running for the attorney general, and now you
have me running.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
For the US Senate.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
So there's people that are still called to serve and
see that sometimes the real threats are not from foreign shores,
but just from the effects of bad policies within their
own government.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Talking with Adam Schwarzy running for Senate, when did you
decide that you wanted to serve in office?
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
So it is kind of a long, longer answer.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
So in total, I did nine employments to over seventy
five countries, and I'm from Bloomington, Minnesota. Every time I
would come back home from doing these deployments, my home city,
Bloomington was a little worse off every time. It was
just incrementally worse off to now the city holistically, I
don't even recognize it from the one I grew up in.
And then every time again I came home to Minnesota,
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I went to the University of Minnesota, I got my
undergrad here, I bought property in downtown Minneapolis. I saw
it was on a negative glide slope. And then during COVID,
I saw the execut a branch overstep. I saw how
we were treating our military members and the Biden administration,
and that was kind of my truly.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
My wake up.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Two politics were all sort of kind of connected the
dots for me in that Holy Cow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But it wasn't until.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
George Floyd, right after the beginning of COVID that excuse me,
when Tim Walls allowed Minneapolis to be burned to the ground.
One of my biological sisters lives three blocks away from
the target in Minneapolis, that burned the ground. And so
when that specific event happened, it was kind of a
tripwire for me, and I decided that it didn't matter
how many amazing, super sexy, important strategic Navy Seal missions
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I was doing.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Nothing mattered if our country was going to fail, if
Minnesota was going to fail, if my city was going
to go away. At that point, I decided to put
down the sword, pick up the pen, and like six
other sorry, seven other Navy seals who are now in
federal office, this is the greatest way I can actually
impact my country.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You have Tina Smith retiring, you have a couple of
candidates on the on the Democrat side that are running.
Interesting polling data came out a few weeks ago showing
a hypothetical right, not even pointing to a specific candidate
of Republican, just in a hypothetical matchup, and I think
a lot of people were surprised to see that it
was a lot closer than what people expected. What is
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how are you approaching the campaign? Obviously you need to
continue to raise awareness and let people know that you
know your name ID being a newcomer, But when you
look ahead of the campaign and the battle between Craig
and Flannagain, I'm really interested to sort of get your
perspective and lay of the land of where you think
this race is going and how you fit into it.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, so let's first talk about that polling specifically it
was leaked pulling from Peggy flannagainst team, and how polling
works generally, as the Democrats will do polling that makes
their candidate look really good because it helps with their fundraising,
just like at some point I'll do polling. It's going
to maximize my own candidacy and campaign that I'll send
out do fundraising. So the polling that was leased by
the Flanagan campaign, it makes her look as good as possible. Okay,
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And so she's up two points over as you aptly said,
a no name generic Republican candidate. That is a striking
poll already because it's already been two points very close.
What that poll also says by not saying it is
it's two points versus a generic Republican candidate. So what's
awesome about that is the best metric for future success
is past performance.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
So I was talking.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
About earlier the seven other Navy seals who are in
federal office ninety three percent of incumbents they win reelection
every single time. I don't have to face that in
this selection because Tina Smith is stepping down, But ninety
three percent of the time if I were to go
up against the incumbent, they come at wins.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Navy Seals.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
This weird small bastion of Americans. Seven out of seven,
we're seven for seven and flipping federal seats.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
We have not failed.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Most recently, you actually have another Minnesota Navy Seal and
Tim Shey who's only thirty eight year old, who click
flipped out a three term incumbent, a fifth generation rancher
in John Tester in Montana. So the national donor scene recognizes, now,
holy cow, the Seals for forever reason, we're a winning brand.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
We're a great investment, and so they quantify that.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Now for my race in minnesotare's an entity called side
Cards and other like independent nonpartisan polling thing that quantified
what the Navy Seal bump is in Minnesota. So you
take the regular generic Republican, the Navy Seal Republican now
gets six point eight. So if you take Flann against Pole,
who's up to and then you take the Navy seal
bump six point eight.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I'm up four point eight.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And then you also have a situation with this within
the Democrat Party itself, of the Democrat Party trying to
decide which candidate that they want to roll with between
Angie Craig and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flannagan. You've got a
lot of endorsements rolling in for Peggy flanagain, but you
also have an individual in Angie Craig who's been around
for a while and has her own deep roots within
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DC already.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yes, so you have essentially Angie Craig who's fighting for
Washington in Minnesota, and then you have me who's fighting
for Minnesota and Washington. That's the best way I can
contrast myself to Angie Craig. I think two thirds of
her money comes from the Beltway, from Washington packs and
insider and all that stuff. The interesting thing that you
highlight is the two factions on the Democrat Party. Well,
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first off, on their Republican side. I'm the only candidate
going for the endorsement at this point, so that's really great.
It's likely I'll get the endorsement some time, the only
one committed to that process. But you would have expected
a reasonable and irrational person would have expected after the
Shellaki and the Democrats took during this last presidential election
that they'd kind of try to rebrand their party and
actually maybe earn some the support of the farmers, the laborers,
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the blue collar people that they've holistically turned their back on,
specifically in Greater Minnesota that used to be all blue land,
now it's all red. They have not done that. They've
doubled down on the radicalism. If you look at New
York now the world's financial capitals now buy an open socialist,
an open socialist Marxist Omar Fatagat within striking distance of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They have not rebranded.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
They are doubling down on the DEI, the political identity,
the wokeism, and yeah, Bernie Sanders, Keith Elis and Julia Blaha,
Steve Simon, Elizabeth Warren and over half of the Minnesota
legislature have all gotten behind Flanagan in her race. And
so I think it's very likely that not only does
she get the endorsement, she wins the primary. And that's
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I love that, because then I get to talk about
just all of her fate when I talk about the
best metric to future success, it's past performance. Well, Flanagan's
performance for Minnesota has been abysmal. You know the eight
billion dollars in fraud. It came out three days ago.
She spent three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on
her government credit card. Can you I don't think most
of Minisotans can even fathom taking a business card and
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racking up three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on it.
So I'm going to take her to task on just
her record. We don't need to get personal. We don't
talk about social issues. We can talk about her record
and her failure as a leader in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What is it talking with again? Adam Swarzey running for Senate?
Where's your focus right now? Are you now just focused
on leading into the endorsement and heading into next year?
Or are you already sort of looking You've laid out
your expectation in terms of Flannagan, But how much focus
are you put in on her right now?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Where is your focus right now? Overall?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Well, as a military guy, if everything is a priority,
then nothing is truly a priority. So my priorities are
the endorsement, raising money, for the endorsement and building a
war chest for the general. And it is a unique
opportunity that we have a twenty year opportunity that it's
truly it's a vacancy. So I'm not fighting thecumbent, and
it's a thirty year opportunity that there's really not an
off ramp for Peggy Flannagan nor Angie Craig. They're gonna
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have a head on, bloody collision in their primary and
that's usually the Republicans do that, especially in Minnesota, and
we're kind of doing that. For the governor's race. We
have I think nine candidates in I know there's gonna
be a thing two more, so we're gonna have eleven
candidates all you know, blood letting each other for that primary. Well,
Wallace just walks away, you know, twenty million dollars by
next August, we're gonna have eleven candidates bleeding all.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Their bank accounts dry.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
The good news for the US Senate it's the opposite.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I'm just going to continue to make money, build my brand,
run I'm running the general election right now. Common sense policies,
building back the middle class, getting government out of the way,
making adoptions more affordable, easier, so we can you know,
truly embrace life, getting parents back control of the driver's
seat of their families. Again, these are things I'm trying
to positively impact people's lives and really sprunting a positive
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campaign right now.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Adam Swarze again running for Senate, thank you so much
for joining us on this Veteran's Day. For people that
want to find out more about your campaign and potentially
want to support you, where would you like them to go?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Schwarzefor Senate dot com, s C h W A r
Z for Senate dot com. If you reach out to
us and we will get back to you, or I
will personally get back to How.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Are you going to be spending the rest of your
veterance day?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I have a couple of events planned.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I'm very excited to break by with my brothers and
sisters that I've served with and looking forward to meet
some Minnesota veterans as well.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
We had a and I'll be sharing these coming up
in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We had several talkbacks that rolled in along those same lines,
other veterans wishing you a great day as well. I
wanted to pass that along and again we'll play those
coming up in Adam Swarzy, Thank you so much for
your time this morning. We'll continue to watch your campaign
with a lot of enthusiasm and I look forward to
the next time you can join us in the show.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Thank you appreciate being here. Kyle Blessed.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
We'll get to those talkbacks coming up again. Congressman Tom
Tiffany will be joining us at eight thirty this morning.
We'll revisit as well, Minnesota senator weighing in on gun
control next legislative session. Another Governor Tim Walls town hall
from over the weekend, and this ridiculous ordinance now being
attempted in DNA relating to firearms. All coming up on
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Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM.
Pour two for a Tuesday Twin Cities news talking Am
eleven thirty one oh three five FM John Justice, along
with Sam and the Master Control Booth broadcasting from the
six five to one carpet plus Next Day Install studios.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Put up the Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, let me make sure I add the proper context. Sure,
I got the Christmas tree out from the shed, brought
it into the house, stood it up, and then I
walked away.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Melinda handles everything else.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, by definition, that's putting up the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I know, but I think people could sometimes miscuns through
that as Wow. John did all the decorating, you can,
put all the lights on and arranged it into this beautiful,
wondrous holiday creation.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's like, no, I'm not a part of that. I
just I just put it up.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did the manual labor, and now Wenda gets to
do the pretty much design. Pretty much got it pretty much.
Even then I didn't have it up. I didn't have
all the pieces right in place. I didn't notice it
was a little bit crooked. She had to go and
she had to go and fix it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So yeah, or I'm getting all I'm getting in early.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I hate the fact that the holiday season seems like
it's been shorter depending on when Thanksgiving ends up occurring.
Like last year, it was like hearing gone and I
got sucked. Yep, when it takes place, because I think this,
I think this year we're okay on that, right, Thanksgivings
on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah see that's.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, that's so, that's we're past it. And then we're
into December and then we're only just a few Yeah,
so I'm getting I'm getting. Oh see, I'm taking care
of that right now. I'm putting my foot down. I'm
getting my Christmas on early.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
John just has taking a stand here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm acting.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm acting like our sister stations.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just getting right in on the Christmas action. That's quickly
as possible, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Speaking of getting in on the action, the Supreme Court
to edited there yesterday did agree to decide whether states
can continue to count late arriving male ballots, which have
been the target of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Again, it's an AP story. I just there was a
point in time when the AP.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Delivered non biased, legitimate news just everything that when they
talk about Trump is just framed in the negative. The
Justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel
of three judges nominated by the Republican President on the
fifth that US Circuit Court of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Appeals ruled last year the state.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Law allowing ballots that arrived shortly after election day to
be counted violated federal law. So Mississippi is among eighteen
states and DC that have accepted mayle ballots received after
election day as long as they were postmarked on or
before that date. Now the list also includes This is
where it's more concerning swing states such as Nevada, States
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as Colorado, Oregon, and Utah that rely heavily on mail
in voting. Additionally, fourteen states allowing counting of late arriving
ballots from some eligible voters, including overseas US service members
and their families. According to the filing from Democrat led
states that urged the Justices to reverse the appellate ruling,
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the case will be argued in late winter or early
spring next year. The final ruling will almost certainly come
by late June and early enough to govern the counting
of ballots in the twenty twenty six midterm congressional elections.
So while we didn't go and ditch the filibuster, remove
forward on election integrity, that could end up playing a
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pretty big role in next year's midterms.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This certainly would have.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
If the Supreme Courts didn't decide to, Eh, we're good,
we're going to pass. Supreme Court rejects a call to
overturn the decision legalizing same sex marriage in the US.
So the appeal was from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky
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court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same
sex couples after the Scootis ruling in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
According to the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
AP, Davis attempted to get the Supreme Court to overturn
the lower court order for her to pay three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars in damages and lawyer's fees to
a couple denied a marriage license.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The AP reported that Justice Clarence Thomas was among the
four dissenting justices in twenty fifteen. That would be Oberger
Fell versus Hodges. Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito are
among other dissenters who are on the court today. Davis
had gained a national attention in Eastern Kentucky's Rowand County
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when she snubbed the same sex couples, claiming that her
faith prevented her from complying with the Supreme Court ruling.
So ultimately what would have happened here is that this
would have been kicked back to the to the states. Okay,
Dems are none too happy about that fact, by the way,
they're going to put on a different fronts in the media,
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which is what Governor Tim Walls did. But make no mistake,
there were plenty of Democrats that were really really hoping
the Supreme Court took this up and knocked this issue
back to the states so they could go and run
on it the same way they did abortion. Governor Tim
Walls quote tweeted the story regarding the Supreme Court decision
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to not re examine gay marriage.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And this is what he wrote on X The bar
is in hell. But this is a win for decency
and compassion. He is so annoyingly crass. The bar is in.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hell, grinchy hart or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just as a side note, this has nothing to do
with decency and compassion relating to this particular issue. It's
just about the law, that's all that it is. And again,
just like abortion, it just would have knocked the issue
back to the states to decide for themselves because elections
have consequences where it should be decided. Supreme Court not
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taking it up, it's not going to be much of
an issue moving forward.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Make no mistake though.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Again, while Walls will go and post that online he's
bummed the Supreme Court is not going and taking the
issue up.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I'm ready to get beat.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I want to talk about the latest regarding the attempts
to continue to strip away your right to get, keep
and bear arms. It's all for show though there's a
lot of political theater going on. There was another town
hall that took place over the weekend. One moderate doing
nothing with my fingers. Senate to Dfller Judy Seberger has
now hopped on board with Governor Tim Walls on his
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town halls because she knows full well there's not going
to be a special session called. She may have an
opportunity next year during a special session to go and
vote on this. If the Democrats are brave enough to
put this forward and also put their own members of
the legislature in the spotlight. That would not sign off
on these issues. The City of Dnah was the latest
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to provide symbolic assistance to Governor Tim Walls as they
move forward with another ordinance relating to firearms, which of
course has no legal standing whatsoever. And I'll share with
you the details on this here in just a moment,
but I want to go here briefly before we talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Speaking of cities, ze wrong, Mom Donnie. Of course, winning.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The mayor's race in New York City, it's going to
be highly entertaining to watch, especially since Governor Kathy Hochel,
while she did endorse Mom Donnie, made it clear yesterday
that she is not all in on his progressive policy proposals.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, I'm from Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
We don't put up with a lot of crap.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So I just want to set the stage that, you know,
you look at the history of people who run multi
billion dollar ad campaigns to try and get me to
change my position.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I don't change my position.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I just want to put it out there.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I respect people's opinions, I respect proper place to convey them,
and so I've said I hear you, and that was important.
But also there is a time and place, and so
that's all on that. No, I've had conversations on this trip,
but many conversations i'd say over the summer in the
fall that were important that led to an understanding of
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what's in the realm of possibility, shared ambitions, but what
is doable is the question. And so you know, we're
aligned on so many of these issues. You know, I've
made it clear where I have strong disagreements with issues
that really do not pertain to you know, the governance
of New York City, and of course said you need
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to get a.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Police commissioner that people.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Trust who has a brecklet of accomplishment to keep the
trad directory that we're on right now, which is crime
is going down, crime is going down significantly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
She goes on for another minute or so, but basically
what was asked at the beginning of that word salad
was whether or not she was on board with Mom
Donnie's free bust plan and has taxed the rich plan,
of which she said no, that she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And this goes back to what I said earlier.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
When Mom Donnie won the election, he made a lot
of promises He's not going.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
To be able to keep. Don't misunderstand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
When you start talking about safety and security and law
enforcement in New York City, and he'll be able to
put forward policy that'll have disastrous effects. And certainly when
it comes to seizing buildings, making it difficult for landlords
to go and continue to rent, whether it's freezing the
rents for these buildings, taking away the ability of landlords
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to go and make money by being landlords, increasing fines,
putting landlords in a position where they won't be able
to afford to make repairs, and when they don't, finding
them even further eventually, when they can't pay those fines,
watch Mam Donnie will move in to go and seize
those properties, turn him into subsidized housing with the hope
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that the individuals that would live in that government subsidized
housing in New York City will continue to vote for
socialists like Mom Donnie. Again, it's going to be really
interesting to watch, and it's going to be an abject failure.
The question is how quickly is it going to fail
and how quickly are a large group of individuals going
to learn just the devastating impact of socialist policies moving forward.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Speaking of which.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again the city of Dyna move forward on a proposed
firearm or ordinance, which they cannot do because of preemption
here in Minnesota. And we'll give you details a couple
of different news stories we'll share with you regarding this
weekend's most recent gun at town hall by Governor Tim Walls.
And we'll get to more of your talkbacks from the
iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Realty.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Next on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Good Morning, John, I think I beat you to the
punch on that. One Sunday during the Vikings game, I
took out all the bags of Christmas lights I had
plugged them in once at a time, tested them, replaced
all the bulbs that didn't work, and made my list
for a trip to pick up four new sets of lights.
So I'm ready for this year. Time to prep. Have
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a great day.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Got in thirty and one oh three point five FM.
Good morning John and Sam, friends and phos of the shows,
all listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Happy Veterans Day. It's all the veterans out there.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
I just got my free coffee and breakfast sandwich.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That quick trip.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Shout out to missus Dawson, the principal of Saint Vincent's Bahal.
My kids school will have a nice Veterans Day event
onnor Veterans have a great day.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Speaking of veterans, we're going to be joined in studio
coming up in the next segment running for Senate Adam
Schwarze will be joining us twenty one years as a
Marine and Navy sealm on this Veterans Day and Sam
here on Twin City's News Talk from the sixty five
to one Carpet Next Day install Studios. I know there
is something you wanted to mention on this Veterans Day
as well, right.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, thanks John. So today is well. I'm a member
of the CrossFit community. I do cross Bit a few
times a week, and today is what's called the Hero
Workout Day. Today is either called the Chad one thousand
X or the Chad Workout. It's essentially here. I'll just
read it from the CrossFit website. Chat one thousand X
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is a CrossFit Hero workout written in honor of Navy
Seal Senior Chief Chad Wilkinson, who died by suicide on
October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, as a result of several
traumatic brain injuries, blast wave injuries and PTSD stemming from
many deployments across more than two decades of service. The
article here goes on to say that the CrossFit community
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joins together annually on Veterans Day and the thousands of
CrossFit affiliates and garage gums around the world to tackle
this workout in Chad's memory, raising funds to support veterans'
mental health initiatives through the Step Up Foundation, and it
goes on from there. So a couple of things. If
you're doing the chat workout today, good luck, it's going
to be a hard one. The chat workout itself is
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you need a twenty inch box, a forty five pound
rucksack or a weighted vest or thirty five pounds for women,
and then you're doing one thousand step ups. That's the workout.
So it's it's a good run. But you know, if you're.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Sure, adam handle it.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
But I'm good if you're you know, crossfitters have been
working for a few weeks to build up to this workout,
so you can't just go into a cold But that
being said, there are scaling options, So if you're not
in that community but you still want to try it,
look at doing some scaling options. You don't need to
use a box. You can just put a couple of
plates on the ground. All that to say, though, there
are you know, there's a lot of resources out there,
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a lot of nonprofits that are doing things for veterans,
and really I just want to mention to the Crisis
Hotline nine eight eight. If anybody needs any type of
emergency assistance, whether it's suicide prevention or just a crisis
that you're going through, you can always reach out. There's
plenty of mental health options out there too, so you're
not alone. There's there's resources out there to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, thank you for that, Sam, and certainly dispels that
ridiculous notion that can CrossFit people we're a little off
their rocker because you're as.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Straight as they come. So that was like a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I remember, wasn't there a thing for a while where
people would always go and they would always the stereotype
around CrossFit trainers like they're a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, you only know me here, John, That's.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The thing that's true.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That is a very good that is a very good
point across the community is very welcoming. It's a really great,
great environment. So yeah, do what you can. If you're
not able to do the chad, try to scale it.
But it's a good way to now, we think our veterans.
But to pay your respects, we will.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We'll revisit this a bit. Coming up in the next
hour as well. At eight thirty this morning, we have
a Congressman Tom Tiffany. He's actually in Minnesota running four
governor Wisconsin, but he's here for a couple of events.
He'll be joining us at eight thirty and we'll talk
further about this latest town hall. I do want to
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get you up to speed. First story here from Channel five.
Walls keeps pushing for special session on gun violence, but
he's not Walls can call a special session. He's the
only one that can. There was another town hall over
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the weekend. Governor Tim Walls brought along Senate Dfller Judy C.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Berger.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Considered moderate, she apparently has hopped on board with the
potential of an assault weapons ban and high capacity magazines,
although in her words she said that she's down with
anything that would save lives and has approval which is
incredibly sort of open ended. Let me share with you
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a bit, however, and again we'll get back into more
of this coming up next hour after our conversation with
Adam Swarzy. This is a bit of the story here
from Channel Channel five.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Let me stop here real quick. That was Judy Sieberger.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Why does it require Republicans to join you? You have
control of the Senate, the House is divided fifty to fifty.
You only need Republicans to join you if you don't
have the votes on your end, which again is why
and you know this, We've talked about it, which is
why Governor Tim Walls has not called for a special
session because he knows this. This is not about policy,
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This is not about saving lives.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is all about narratives.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
This is all about Governor Tim Walls running for reelection
and trying to gain and get as much momentum behind
these issues which they won't end up addressing and if
they do next to session, they're going to fail, but
trying to come up with enough that he can use
to push back and dfllers can use to push back
during next year's elections.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
With the current balance of the legislature, progress is going
to require our Republican colleagues to join us to protect
our kids, and I encourage each and every one of
them to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Do you expect that to happen?
Speaker 11 (18:04):
Probably not, Seaberger, Senate colleague on the other side of
the aisle, Andrew Lang, doesn't expect much progress this session,
especially surrounding a weapons ban.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Some of our or most moderate members are a hard.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No against anything like that because they know it probably
is not going to make a difference in the long run.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Republicans have focused on strengthening schools safety and investing in
mental health measures. But Senator Lang also points out this
is a bonding year with a lot more on the
table than the gun debate.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
We're trying to pay for water towers.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We're trying to pray for roads and bridges, and water
treatment facilities and sewet treatment facilities.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That is got to be number one in our list.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Through recent KCP Survey USA polling, we found that more
than fifty percent supported in assault style weapons ban, and
in that same poll would ask what the most important
issue alt makers should address in a special session, they
said mental health, followed by guns five at the Capitol
Ben Henry five O witness.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
New and again a story there from Channel five.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus responded to Sieburger and said
that State Senator Judy Sieberger says she will back more
restrictions on assault style weapons, a significant shift from the
previously undecided swing district democrat who could help decide the
fate of gun control measures next session. The dfler from
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Afton was one of several moderate legislators who did not
publicly say how they would vote on gun control proposals
post by Walls after the shooting at the Catholic church.
Sieburger has since resolved to support whatever it takes doing
that thing with my fingers to make Minnesota safer. The
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus goes on to say, I'll be
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a yes on anything and everything that comes through that
will make a difference to reduce gun violence here in
the state of Minnesota. She said in a recent interview,
that will really make a difference. Just pulling from her quote,
it's an unanswerable question, and she knows that, and Governor
Tim Walls knows that. As a matter of fact, They
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asked Walls, why doesn't he call a special debate or
a special session without a pre agreement to at least
force a debate over the debate, and Wall said, well,
the debate wouldn't happen. The floor would then be controlled
by Republicans who have made it clear they don't want
to have this discussion. The debate would happen, though they
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would be forced to. You would call a special session.
You guys would go and talk about it again. It's
just another meaningless word salad from Governor Tim Walls, instead
of him being open and honest and upfront and saying
I'm not calling a special session because they're members of
my own party that will not sign off on this
and therefore it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Would be a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Coming up next SENEC candidates on Veterans Day, twenty one
years as a Marine and Navy seal, very pleased to
welcome to the studio Adam Swarze and he'll join us
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one O three five FM.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Bob from Lake Glmo, Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans. Enjoyed the day as far as Senator Seberger.
She uses the word moderate that votes every single time
with her radical left. Fellow Democrats comment she's my senator.
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I have contacted her several times. Just give me one
vote and you can claim to be a moderate.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you, Bob for the talk back on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2 (21:53):
My name is John Justice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I am very pleased on this Veterans Day running for
Senate to Welcome to the show, Adam Schwarze. Good morning, Adam,
Thank you so much for coming in this morning.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Hey, good Morten, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's awesome to be here, especially after the beloved day
of our Marine Corps yesterday two hundred fifty years Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You you attended a ball over the weekend in honor
of that, correct.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Yeah, my alma mater, the University of Minnesota, about the
thirty some midshipman future Marine Corps, future Navy officers, and
the future is bright. I was really excited to see
look in the face at those young future warriors, and
I was really excited what I saw.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm truly excited for the future of our country.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We haven't talked about it on the show, but I
know that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, friend of the show,
you know, had mentioned. I think it was a couple
of weeks back, just the meeting of the recruitment goals
across the board for our military. I mean, just fantastic news. Certainly,
you know, a part of Trump getting re elected to
his non you know, consecutive a second term, but you know,
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just sort of dovetailing off of what you mentioned. It's
fantastic to see so many of you know, of our
brave Americans stepping up and wanting to serve this great nation.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
It was actually to contrast between the end of the
previous administration and this one, before Secretary Hegseth was even confirmed,
just knowing that Trump had put his name forward to
be an agent of changing, specifically cultural change within the
Department Defense. We went from a historic low morale across
the forces, which also then indicated a low recruiting essentially
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for the last four years on the bite administration, we're
lowering the standards to recruit and still failing to meet
those recruitment standards. Additionally, we just could not retain forces.
We were short in all the critical components, largely due
to the follow up from forcing members out from the
COVID vaccinations. And within the month of December alone, again
before Hegsaths even confirmed, we had over three hundred people
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per day enlisting to the United States Army. That's a
historic hi, That's never happened before in the history of country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I'm reminded last week on Friday, and this was
ahead of the different events to honor the Marines two
hundred and fiftieth. But we had a gold Star father
on Darren Hoover, whose son Taylor had was killed at Abbey. Yeah,
and he also, I think, much like you had joined
had joined up the military in the wake of nine
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to eleven.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Correct, Yes you did, and you did as.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Well, Yes, sir, nine to eleven happy During my senior
of high school, so I watched the Twin Towers fall
live in real time in my senior English class and
the funny stories I went to go. I was in
the process of trying to listen to the Navy already
after that, so I was kind of sleeping at the
Valley Westerner in Bloomington, trying to really get in the fight.
At that point, the neighbor were office stayed closed, and
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all of a sudden, this giant horse of a man
in a band costume walked by me one morning.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
He's like, what are you doing? Hood rat?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Like you sleeping outside the recruiting offices? What are you doing, sir?
I'm trying to and listen in the navy. He said, well,
what are you trying to do? Well, I've always wanted
to be a seal, he said, well, ever thought about
the Marines?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
What the Marine? I had no idea.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
It turns out that horse in the bank costume was
actually a marine recruiter. Oh, just a giant specimen of
a man. He's like six foot five to just like
how you think of on a marine. That's what this
guy will looked like. And as one of the sayings,
go first to contact, first to contract.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Within about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You give me the pitch about Marines being first to fight,
and he did not lie. I enlisted on my eighteenth birthday.
About three weeks later, raised my right hand went Marine
Corps Infantry and the same year I graduate high school,
I was on the yellow Foot Prince at Marine Corps
Cruit Depot San Diego and then honestly in my first
gunfight and firefight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
That same year I graduate high.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
School, talking with Adam Schwarzi again running for Senate for
the open seat with Tina Smith retiring. Before we get
into that, I certainly want to talk about that. I
am curious twenty one years of serving and first off,
thank you for your service. But with that, you come
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out of the Marines, you decide you're going to run
for office. I want to back up further, though, can
you talk a little bit about the change that it
made in you from your time serving from I mean you,
you know, you told the story now of how you actually,
you know, entered into the Marine Corps, but I'm very
curious to know what you were, you know, how you
viewed yourself as a person when you entered and the
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person that you were coming outside of, you know, coming
out of your time serving.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, thanks for the question, John.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
I was just a Midwest kid who grew up on
blue collar values, played hockey like most of Minnesotans do,
but really nothing special or you know, particularly unique about
my upbringing other than it just people who come from
Minnesota are just a heartier people. You know, we're generally
a blue cap class and we're tough individuals from this
part of the country. And so I had that kind
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of just work ethic that took me to the Marine Corps,
and then the Marine Corps really is what set me
up for the for success the rest.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Of my life.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Taking that work that that can teach me on or
teaching me courage, teaching me commitment, teaching me about team building.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Those value then was I had phenomenal.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Mentors and leaders as a young Marine who saw potential
in me, but took the time to mentor that, to
foster that. And that's something that's kind of unique I
found out since I've left the military since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just don't get that in the civilian side.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You don't get such interpersonal mentors that around you in
your personal zone for twenty four hours a day and
they are able to truly see that your soul but
then provide mentorship. There's no job in the civilian sector
where you just get that twenty four hour a day
mentorship and That's what yielded me to be a good
marine and later on to become a commissioned officer and
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then eventually achieved my dream become the United States and.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Navyc Talking with Adam Schwarzi, do you think it helped?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Did it?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Do you think it helped that you weren't aware of
the Marine Corps in terms of what you were getting into.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Do you think it helped that you were kind of
you know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Want to say ignorant, but you know, not knowing what
you were, what you were diving in at the time
when you when you entered into into the Marine Corps.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
I just think it was good that I was hungry
and I was impassioned to be to serve my country,
especially after watching the Twin Towers fall.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I wanted to serve.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I was hard in the pathway to serve that further
and bolted my passion to serve my country. And it
was you know, I'm thankful that I went to Marine
Corps entry. I'm thankful later on that I got to
select to be a seal. But I think, honestly, if
I was like cooking in the mess hall or driving
a truck, or I think I would have been so
excited to do whatever.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
My country asked me to do.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
It just so happens that I got asked to, you know,
be a good entry unit leader and then a good
Navy seal.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You know, it's interesting to me working I was working
in radio at the time of nine to eleven, and
so I was actually on the air that morning working
for an alternative rock station when everything transpired, a much
different dynamic obviously than working in in news talk. I'm
the first part of my career, although I think everybody
sort of ended up handling in that day the same
way as we watched everything happen. But you know, since then,
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it's been this idea of and never forget, but holy cow,
of a lot of people either well maybe not have forgotten,
but certainly a lot of people have not been educated
into what you know, what it meant for America to
be attacked that day and you know, inspired individuals like
yourself and others.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
To go in and join.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that continues to be just an ongoing battle to
make sure that people are aware of those those enemies
that still exist because you know, a lot of our
young people just simply have not been educated over that.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Yeah, it is sad that it takes a huge, gross
national level incident to cause what's called the rally run
the Flag theory, where people all of a sudden, now
of a sudden, are uber patriotic and care about the flag,
care about the country above all else. And there's some
there's some second order effects of that that are not
good holistically, first in policies, like some of the things
from that came out of the nine to eleven Xoor
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that were overreaches. But certainly it's sad that people just
take things for granted until there's a tragedy.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Yeah, and are just But.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
If you look at the good news, if you look
at the Minnesota political landscape right now, you have a
bunch of veterans who are running for governor, there's a
great veteran running for the attorney general, and now you
have me running.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
For the US Senate.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
So there's people that are still called to serve and
see that sometimes the real threats are not from foreign shores,
but just from the effects of bad policies within their
own government.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Talking with Adam Schwarzy running for Senate, when did you
decide that you wanted to serve in office?
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
So it is kind of a long, longer answer.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
So in total, I did nine employments to over seventy
five countries, and I'm from Bloomington, Minnesota. Every time I
would come back home from doing these deployments, my home city,
Bloomington was a little worse off every time. It was
just incrementally worse off to now the city holistically, I
don't even recognize it from the one I grew up in.
And then every time again I came home to Minnesota,
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I went to the University of Minnesota, I got my
undergrad here, I bought property in downtown Minneapolis. I saw
it was on a negative glide slope. And then during COVID,
I saw the execut a branch overstep. I saw how
we were treating our military members and the Biden administration,
and that was kind of my truly.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
My wake up.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Two politics were all sort of kind of connected the
dots for me in that Holy Cow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But it wasn't until.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
George Floyd, right after the beginning of COVID that excuse me,
when Tim Walls allowed Minneapolis to be burned to the ground.
One of my biological sisters lives three blocks away from
the target in Minneapolis, that burned the ground. And so
when that specific event happened, it was kind of a
tripwire for me, and I decided that it didn't matter
how many amazing, super sexy, important strategic Navy Seal missions
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I was doing.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Nothing mattered if our country was going to fail, if
Minnesota was going to fail, if my city was going
to go away. At that point, I decided to put
down the sword, pick up the pen, and like six
other sorry, seven other Navy seals who are now in
federal office, this is the greatest way I can actually
impact my country.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You have Tina Smith retiring, you have a couple of
candidates on the on the Democrat side that are running.
Interesting polling data came out a few weeks ago showing
a hypothetical right, not even pointing to a specific candidate
of Republican, just in a hypothetical matchup, and I think
a lot of people were surprised to see that it
was a lot closer than what people expected. What is
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how are you approaching the campaign? Obviously you need to
continue to raise awareness and let people know that you
know your name ID being a newcomer, But when you
look ahead of the campaign and the battle between Craig
and Flannagain, I'm really interested to sort of get your
perspective and lay of the land of where you think
this race is going and how you fit into it.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, so let's first talk about that polling specifically it
was leaked pulling from Peggy flannagainst team, and how polling
works generally, as the Democrats will do polling that makes
their candidate look really good because it helps with their fundraising,
just like at some point I'll do polling. It's going
to maximize my own candidacy and campaign that I'll send
out do fundraising. So the polling that was leased by
the Flanagan campaign, it makes her look as good as possible. Okay,
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And so she's up two points over as you aptly said,
a no name generic Republican candidate. That is a striking
poll already because it's already been two points very close.
What that poll also says by not saying it is
it's two points versus a generic Republican candidate. So what's
awesome about that is the best metric for future success
is past performance.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
So I was talking.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
About earlier the seven other Navy seals who are in
federal office ninety three percent of incumbents they win reelection
every single time. I don't have to face that in
this selection because Tina Smith is stepping down, But ninety
three percent of the time if I were to go
up against the incumbent, they come at wins.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Navy Seals.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
This weird small bastion of Americans. Seven out of seven,
we're seven for seven and flipping federal seats.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
We have not failed.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Most recently, you actually have another Minnesota Navy Seal and
Tim Shey who's only thirty eight year old, who click
flipped out a three term incumbent, a fifth generation rancher
in John Tester in Montana. So the national donor scene recognizes, now,
holy cow, the Seals for forever reason, we're a winning brand.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
We're a great investment, and so they quantify that.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Now for my race in minnesotare's an entity called side
Cards and other like independent nonpartisan polling thing that quantified
what the Navy Seal bump is in Minnesota. So you
take the regular generic Republican, the Navy Seal Republican now
gets six point eight. So if you take Flann against Pole,
who's up to and then you take the Navy seal
bump six point eight.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I'm up four point eight.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And then you also have a situation with this within
the Democrat Party itself, of the Democrat Party trying to
decide which candidate that they want to roll with between
Angie Craig and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flannagan. You've got a
lot of endorsements rolling in for Peggy flanagain, but you
also have an individual in Angie Craig who's been around
for a while and has her own deep roots within
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DC already.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yes, so you have essentially Angie Craig who's fighting for
Washington in Minnesota, and then you have me who's fighting
for Minnesota and Washington. That's the best way I can
contrast myself to Angie Craig. I think two thirds of
her money comes from the Beltway, from Washington packs and
insider and all that stuff. The interesting thing that you
highlight is the two factions on the Democrat Party. Well,
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first off, on their Republican side. I'm the only candidate
going for the endorsement at this point, so that's really great.
It's likely I'll get the endorsement some time, the only
one committed to that process. But you would have expected
a reasonable and irrational person would have expected after the
Shellaki and the Democrats took during this last presidential election
that they'd kind of try to rebrand their party and
actually maybe earn some the support of the farmers, the laborers,
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the blue collar people that they've holistically turned their back on,
specifically in Greater Minnesota that used to be all blue land,
now it's all red. They have not done that. They've
doubled down on the radicalism. If you look at New
York now the world's financial capitals now buy an open socialist,
an open socialist Marxist Omar Fatagat within striking distance of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They have not rebranded.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
They are doubling down on the DEI, the political identity,
the wokeism, and yeah, Bernie Sanders, Keith Elis and Julia Blaha,
Steve Simon, Elizabeth Warren and over half of the Minnesota
legislature have all gotten behind Flanagan in her race. And
so I think it's very likely that not only does
she get the endorsement, she wins the primary. And that's
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I love that, because then I get to talk about
just all of her fate when I talk about the
best metric to future success, it's past performance. Well, Flanagan's
performance for Minnesota has been abysmal. You know the eight
billion dollars in fraud. It came out three days ago.
She spent three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on
her government credit card. Can you I don't think most
of Minisotans can even fathom taking a business card and
(36:31):
racking up three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars on it.
So I'm going to take her to task on just
her record. We don't need to get personal. We don't
talk about social issues. We can talk about her record
and her failure as a leader in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
What is it talking with again? Adam Swarzey running for Senate?
Where's your focus right now? Are you now just focused
on leading into the endorsement and heading into next year?
Or are you already sort of looking You've laid out
your expectation in terms of Flannagan, But how much focus
are you put in on her right now?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Where is your focus right now? Overall?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Well, as a military guy, if everything is a priority,
then nothing is truly a priority. So my priorities are
the endorsement, raising money, for the endorsement and building a
war chest for the general. And it is a unique
opportunity that we have a twenty year opportunity that it's
truly it's a vacancy. So I'm not fighting thecumbent, and
it's a thirty year opportunity that there's really not an
off ramp for Peggy Flannagan nor Angie Craig. They're gonna
(37:26):
have a head on, bloody collision in their primary and
that's usually the Republicans do that, especially in Minnesota, and
we're kind of doing that. For the governor's race. We
have I think nine candidates in I know there's gonna
be a thing two more, so we're gonna have eleven
candidates all you know, blood letting each other for that primary. Well,
Wallace just walks away, you know, twenty million dollars by
next August, we're gonna have eleven candidates bleeding all.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Their bank accounts dry.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
The good news for the US Senate it's the opposite.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
I'm just going to continue to make money, build my brand,
run I'm running the general election right now. Common sense policies,
building back the middle class, getting government out of the way,
making adoptions more affordable, easier, so we can you know,
truly embrace life, getting parents back control of the driver's
seat of their families. Again, these are things I'm trying
to positively impact people's lives and really sprunting a positive
(38:10):
campaign right now.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Adam Swarze again running for Senate, thank you so much
for joining us on this Veteran's Day. For people that
want to find out more about your campaign and potentially
want to support you, where would you like them to go?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Schwarzefor Senate dot com, s C h W A r
Z for Senate dot com. If you reach out to
us and we will get back to you, or I
will personally get back to How.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Are you going to be spending the rest of your
veterance day?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I have a couple of events planned.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I'm very excited to break by with my brothers and
sisters that I've served with and looking forward to meet
some Minnesota veterans as well.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
We had a and I'll be sharing these coming up
in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We had several talkbacks that rolled in along those same lines,
other veterans wishing you a great day as well. I
wanted to pass that along and again we'll play those
coming up in Adam Swarzy, Thank you so much for
your time this morning. We'll continue to watch your campaign
with a lot of enthusiasm and I look forward to
the next time you can join us in the show.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Thank you appreciate being here. Kyle Blessed.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
We'll get to those talkbacks coming up again. Congressman Tom
Tiffany will be joining us at eight thirty this morning.
We'll revisit as well, Minnesota senator weighing in on gun
control next legislative session. Another Governor Tim Walls town hall
from over the weekend, and this ridiculous ordinance now being
attempted in DNA relating to firearms. All coming up on
(39:27):
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