Hour 3: Election Day!

Jon wraps the show with a deep dive into some local races on election day.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Our three.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
On your election day Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven
thirty one oh three five FM from the six five
to one carpet Next Day Install Studios the Innoka, hennepenn
School District. I've seen a rise in school board race spending.
They're not the only one. I'll bring you the story
here in just a moment from Fox nine. We have

(00:31):
highly contested school board races taking place one in Prior Lake.
A clear distinction between the two candidates. You have Dustin
Smith endorsed by the school Board Integrity Project, and then
you have John Conlin endorsed by the Minnesota Parents' Alliance.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
You can tell by my inflection which one that I
rolled with, right?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
That wasn't obvious at Students' first plsa as dot Com
Students first pl sas dot com, a local parent had
put together their local voter decoder. You can see the
clear difference between the candidates there. Minnesota Parents Alliance, if

(01:12):
you do a Google search on them, will provide you
a lot of information as as well. You see John
Conlin has stated that he supports, for example, protecting girls
in girls sports. Dustin Smith has stated that telling a
student they do not belong in a space that gives
them joy is fundamentally wrong. If that's the way that
Dustin Smith worded it, that is a very clever way

(01:34):
to dance around the issue in and of itself. I
think John Conlin, in my opinion, would be the preferred
candidate and also endorsed by Minnesota Parents. Alliance goes a
long way. Now we'll talk with Matt Addett running in
the Anoka hand It Been School District race is coming
up just after eight fifteen this morning. Right now, I
want to welcome to the show Justin middaw. Justin Middaugh
running for school Board ISD six twenty two Maplewood, Oakdale

(01:58):
north of Saint Paul, a little bit of Woodbury as well.
Thank you so much for coming on the show this morning.
Justin is great to speak with you.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Great thanks for having me for those.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
That again we're talking about these local races. Give us
a little bit of your background. I know it goes
beyond you running for school board. You've been involved in
politics for a while. Give us a little bit of
your story.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Justin mitte Yeah, I mean I'm a small business owner
and you know, like a lot of us here, you know,
I'm like, I'm small business owner like AKA, of course,
and you know we're we're you know, we're out here
watching everything that's been going on in Minnesota. Of course,
So I got involved. Probably I've been involved in in
legislate it stuff before with some problems the right stuff

(02:41):
back in the day, but recently, probably about three four
years ago, I started getting really involved to find out
what is going on with our children? Why are they
Why are first of all, why is there's such a
high mental health uh situation going on with our children?
They keep telling us about mental health, We need more
mental services. And I'm more like, let's find out why

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why are our children having such couple times and having
a hard time in this day and age. So I
just started running in twenty twenty four. I ran last
year and it was my first time.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Running for anything, and I thought, hey, school board, you know,
it's nonpartisan, it's pretty probably pretty simple, it's very local.
I'll be able to get out met parents and teachers
and get out my community and you know, just try
to figure out how we can fix some of these
things in our schools. And I was also helping out
a legislative of a candidate as well last year, and

(03:37):
I found out that hers was way less political than mine.
My school board race was so political is unbelievable. So
I started to realize that what comes to today, which
really is the biggest thing that we need to talk about,
is I see people say, well, vote for my opponent
because the teachers are backing him, and he's supported by

(03:59):
the teachers. And my question is are they really supported
by the teachers, because when I talk to teachers, they
tell me ninety percent of what they do is controlling
class and ten percent of teaching. So I've been getting
to the I'm like digging into what the actual problems are,
and I'm trying to figure out how we have solutions

(04:19):
to fix those, such as maybe having consequences for troubled students. Again,
we need to get the academics up those types of things.
But what I'm finding is the unions don't want that.
They don't want change. They want everything the same. They're
the steamrolling the head with the same programs, the same ideologies,

(04:39):
the same political agendas. And when you meet with the unions,
and I want to make this clear of people, they
think that the teachers, like we meet in front of
hundreds and hundreds of teachers and they vote for us. Right,
That's not how this works. So when someone says the
teachers support this individual, what they mean is about twelve
people from all the unions, the leaders support that person.

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So when we meet with the union numbers, there's like
twelve of them. There's like a few of the union heads,
then a few of the stewards from the schools, you know,
so there are few teachers there. And they called me
back last year and they said, hey, you did a
great job. You said some things that were spot on.
It was a really tough decision this year, but we

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decided to go with the other people. We had four
running or six running for six or four seats, six
running for four seats. So this year it was just
me and another opponent. And he said, again, you did
better than last year. You were spot on. Everything you
said was spot on. But we're going to still well
for your opponents. So my point is that teachers don't

(05:45):
really endorse the candidates. It's the unions. And then you
start looking at the money. We started following the money,
and my question is why is Education MINNESDA spending thousands
of dollars? They're a Saint Paul organization. They're not a
local organization, right, They're not a local union. But Darian,
they got their hands in every single race in the

(06:07):
whole Twin city and the state. So I'll stop there.
I just kind of wanted to make people realize that
when they say the teachers' unions are endorsing these folks,
it's not really the teachers. I would actually love to
be in front of the teachers and have them vote.
And so that's what I'm finding. Well, we're goingning tons

(06:27):
of money to beat anyone that's just a normal guy,
a normal person, a regular person that wants to serve
their community, you know, and I don't have time to
campaign like the rest of them, because again, I got
a business to run. So but yeah, what's your questions
for me?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, no, with with that again, talking with justin mid
we're going to be getting into the funding and how
much money is being spent on these school board races.
Got another candidate joining us here and in a few minutes.
I appreciate you taking time out this morning to join us.
And for those that are in the area where they
can vote for you. You're running for school board ISD six

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twenty two, and just give a little bit of where
that is for the listener that may be heading out
to go and vote today, justin yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
That'd be good. I really need your vote so that
we can show these unions that money doesn't actually buy
the board numbers, because if they're buying the board numbers,
they're literally buying the board numbers that are going to
negotiate their future contracts. So think about that. They're buying
exactly who they want in the board, so if they
can get the contracts that they want. So I want

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to get in there for a year. It's the year term.
I want to go through the budget. They don't sew
us the budget, they just sew us a little pie charts.
I want to see what we could possibly cut. We
have a huge lovey that they want to go from
two hundred to twelve hundred dollars per student operating costs
and that's going to cost a home of three hundred
grand about three to four hundred dollars a year in taxes,

(07:55):
and that's also going to adjustin in place. And so
they're the big money grab or two. They really need
money and that's all they're talking about. And so if
you want to We really need your help. I could
use your vote. You can vote for me if you're
in Maplewood, nor Saint Paul, Oakdale, and there's a little
spot in Woodbury there that you guys know who you are.
So I thank you all for your vote.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
In your time justin Midde.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thank you so much for your support of the show
and for calling in this morning. Good luck in your race,
and today, thank you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thank you. John sare coming up.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
A handful of school board races on the ballot this
year in Minnesota, Kerry growing concerns about big spending in
races that are supposed to be officially non partisan. Fox
and nine took a look at this. We'll share with
you a bit of the story, but listen, the big
reason why there's a lot of spending on these races,
schools especially, is because it's crucial for Democrats right now

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to indoctor nate the children as young as possible for
Democrats to increase the possibility of election victories in the future.
This is why they're putting so much attention on that.
To the point, and we'll get to this before the
end of the show, you had a Minnesota school Board
Group saying that being neutral is harmful in the classroom.

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I said it so many times on the show. It
used to be arguments over what is and is not
in doctrination, but the general idea was indoctrination was bad.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now it's reached a.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Level where you have founders and executive directors of school
board Integrity Projects school board Group saying that being neutral
is actually harmful.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
You must in doctrinate.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'll give you details on that, we'll get you up
to speed with the money being spent, and we'll also
talk with another school board candidate, Matt Audette, running in
a very hotly contested race in an Oka, Hennepin school districts.
We'll speak to him next on Twinsday's News Talk AM
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Poite five and KTLKA eleven thirty Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Saint Paul.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
From the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day Install
Studios Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty one oh
three five FM talking about the highly contested and very
important school board races. We have the race we were
talking about a moment ago in prior Lake you had
two different candidates and Dustin Smith endorsed by the school

(10:26):
Board Integrity Project and John Conlin endorsed by the Minnesota
Parents Alliance.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
John wants to protect girls in girls sports.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Dustin stated that telling a student they do not belong
in a space that gives them joy is fundamentally wrong.
Before we talk with our next guests, I want to
get to a talkback regarding that particular statement from the
iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndall Realty.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
John John just addressing the quote that I think is
from a school board candidate as far as wrong to
tell someone they don't belong somewhere that provides them joy.

Speaker 7 (11:05):
Where does that end?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
And how about the joy of all the others being
taken away for the discomfort and not feeling safe in
their own space. You're sacrificing everyone else's, Joren.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
It doesn't matter for the sake of the agenda. I
know you know that we had another comment that rolled in.
I'll just give you because I was thinking along the
same lines. I mean, that whole idea of you know,
preventing a student from being in a space that brings
them joy, Well, you know what a lot of guys
would you know, love to be in the locker room,

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especially ones that are predominantly occupied by girls, and that
would bring them joy. So I guess we shouldn't be
denying that either. But I say that and then you
quickly realize, yeah, that's kind of already going on. Or
one more and we'll get to our guest, because I
want to get to Matt's thoughts on this.

Speaker 8 (11:57):
Is anybody else confused about why these schools are putting
up these huge school levies, I mean across the state,
well especially in the metro area. But didn't Tim Walls
tell us the reason the nineteen billion surplus was gone
was because, well one of the benefits was, for the
first time ever, Minnesota public education is fully funded. So

(12:19):
then why all these levees. My guess is they spent
COVID money for things other than COVID and now they
need to fill the gap.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, let's see what I know hennepin a school district
more candidates has to say running in area three. Matt
Audette joins the show. Thank you so much for coming
on this morning, Matt, I greatly appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
How we doing this morning, I'm doing great.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
And thanks for having me on on the day that
I've had circled on my calendar for a long time.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I bet I had this similar conversation. I was on
the American Experiment podcast with a Grace and Catherine and
we were talking about just the number of different districts
that are asking for more money to go into the
into the district and you had the talk back there
mentioning the same thing. I'm curious, Matt, to get your

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perspective of what you know, where has the money gone?
Why are these districts continuing to ask for so much
more when it was said over and over again that
education was fully funded, especially during the time of the
DFL trifecta.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Matt, Yeah, well, if you if you go according to
what the DFL says, we can't ever really fully fund education.
But there was a lot of money that was directed
into schools, but it didn't all go into places where
schools could use it for their general operating funds. So
you know, for example, we now pay for free lunch

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for for everybody, and the state also paid passed a
lot of mandate into school districts that they didn't fully fund.

Speaker 9 (13:55):
So.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
There were there were a lot of complexities there probably
The biggest thing that they did is they advertised to
everybody that there was more funding than they'd ever given.

Speaker 10 (14:05):
And when all of the various contract groups came in
to negotiate their new contracts, they had they had the
I guess I'm gonna call it the tail window that
behind them, and they demanded, you know, very large increases,
and I think.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
School districts all over felt forced to basically comply with
the demand.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Talking with Matt Audette and again running a larger school
district in the state, and okahennapan Area four much like
the other districts that we've been talking about. I mean,
there's been a ton of focus on these these races.
I know that you know that you were no stranger.
You are no stranger to that whatso whatsoever. These are
supposed to be nonpartisan races, but anybody who's been following

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any of these closely, you know, we know that they're not,
and they haven't been for you for a long long time.
For those unfamiliar with you, Matt, give us a little
bit of your background, your history with an Oka Hennapen
and what's at stake today with these school board races,
especially in this district.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Thanks. Well, as far as who I am, I'm a
in the Anokahnipen district. I'm a lifelong resident of andover
where I represent, so I have the honor of representing
my own hometown. And I got interested in this as
a father. It all came through during the pandemic. My
kids were in distance learning, and along with many parents

(15:29):
in our community, we were frustrated. We went into our
school board. We wanted our kids back in school. They
wouldn't do it, and in the end it led to
me running for my first term. So I've served on
our school board currently for four years and finishing my
fourth year now, and I chose to run for reelection

(15:50):
for a lot of reasons. So there's a lot of
unfinished work. But beyond that, our school board right now
is split. It's a six person board and we're ideologically
split three three. We we won two additional seats in
the in the previous election. So what hangs in the

(16:10):
balance here now is the opportunity to break that ideological divide.
So the question is will it will it you know,
lean more conservative or lean more liberal, and uh, there's
there's a lot that comes with that, but you know,
it's a pretty important election here.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I mean, why why is there so much focus
in in your mind?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
I mean, I I have my own views.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I've shared it on the on the show sort of
the larger issue of what democrats agendas are relating to
the to the children. I'm just curious to get your
on the ground perspective as to why so much money
and there's so much importance a place to on these
school board elections.

Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, in our in our district in particular, being the
largest school district in Minnesota, it's it shouldn't be a
surprise that lots of attention goes here, and the Teachers'
Union in particular is paying attention to this race. I
think that they feel very desperate if they were to
lose control of this board, which they've had for years,

(17:11):
I think for them it would be a pretty devastating glow.
And and you know, parents around I think on the
reverse side, parents around the whole state, and maybe even
beyond that, I can look at this election as an
opportunity to really restore some order to the to the
way the system should work, which is that parents certainly

(17:32):
should have a say in play in the affairs of
their school district, and so I think that everything that
surrounds that makes this a pretty high profile race.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
How are you feeling about things today?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm feeling good. You know.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
I've had a lot of support. I had great support
the first time I ran. I feel I've had very
similar support this time. And I have the benefit of
of running with two other outstates and in Canada, to
have worked incredibly hard through most of this entire year.
And I think we're I think we're in a really
good position. People to vote.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, get those give those other candidates a bit of
a bit of a shout out.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Sure. So we've got Tiffany Strabolo, who's who's running in
Southern and Over in a large part of kun Rapids,
and then we've got Lorraine Cohen who is running in
the Champlain Dayton in a small part of kun Rapids area.
Both outstanding candidates, people that I've known for a long
time and people that parents can definitely trust, who shares

(18:37):
similar values to myself.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, if you're in any of these areas the Anoka Hennepin,
make sure to get out and vote today. Matt, thank
you so much for joining us this morning. Have you
gone to to vote yet or is that still on
on today's agenda.

Speaker 7 (18:52):
I actually voted early and I was the I was
told when I did it that I was the first
voter in Anoka County.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, I hope that's a I hope that's a that's
a harbinger of good things to come. And again, thank
you so much for joining the show this morning. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Thanks a lot.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Have a good day.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I want to get to a few of your your
top backs. We'll get to that Fox nine story coming
up in a bit. Share with you in Okahannepen districts,
she's a rise in the school board race spending in
your further thoughts from the iHeartRadio app this morning here
on Twin Cities News Talk.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
I just wanted to say that on my ballot, I
chose no for the school funding and put a sticky
note next to it to say, ask Tim Walls for
that money out of the eighteen billion dollars serplus. Oh
hell yeah, I'm sure it's still there. How could you

(19:45):
just disappear eighteen billion dollars?

Speaker 11 (19:49):
Good morning, John, encourageable here. I know for a fact
that at least in Saint Paul, the Levy was put
on the ballot. Please to force all another strike from
the union to appease them, as they've already negotiated an
increase in.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Salaries.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
It's important to know that this is all done simply
to continue to drift money into the union.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Hard Radio, a national organization focused on training and electing
Minnesota school board candidates, is against neutrality in the classroom.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, I can believe it.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Twin Cities News Talk from the six five to one
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Speaker 1 (20:43):
My name is John Justice.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Thank you so much for being with the show this
morning on this election day. As I mentioned, expect your
social media feeds if you dare to dive into the algorithm,
to show you an abundance of nonsense. It is a
sesspool of propaganda on election day. Working off of an

(21:07):
article from Katrin Wigfall centered The American Experiment, founder and
executive director Kristen shut shootee of the school Board Integrity
Project stated on Sunday this was during the Political Sunday
Take Show that school board candidates and leaders focused on

(21:27):
taking politics out of school or being neutral is harmful
and an issue. Doing that thing with my fingers and
what we've seen on the ground in these conversations and
with candidates running for school boards is that they don't
have a solution.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
They want to talk about how.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
We need to take politics out of school or be neutral,
but at the end of the day, that actually isn't
a reality we're looking at and being neutral is harmful.
Now the actually pushed back on shoot might be mighte

(22:06):
be schweat, I don't know s c h.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
U e t t E shoot pee shoot Britt want
to give it a stab there, Brett, No, I don't
think I can do much better. Okay.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
So, when challenged, Kristen Again, founder executive director of the
school Board Integrity Project, double Down says, I didn't say
the teaching civics is harmful.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's not what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm saying is that when you have leaders on a
school board who are neutral.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
We have an issue.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
She goes on to say, because for instant look look.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
At Anoka Hennipen. We were just talking about an okah Henapin.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
I was actually one of the student plaintiffs against the
nude trality policy at Anoka Hennepin in twenty ten when
we lost nine students to suicide over the course of
the year, and the name of neutrality, does she provide
any context to that. What it be neutral have to
do with those students taking their own lives. Now she

(23:04):
goes and makes a correlation. She says, in that situation,
it made it so teachers and educators could not intervene
in any anti gay bullying, and it created a situation
where it was harmful for LGBT students. And that is
the reality, whether we want to admit it or not.
And so it's not about being neutral when you're teaching civics.

(23:25):
It doesn't make any sense. But to her example, I
don't buy that for a second. Schools have always had
guidance counselors to deal with issues that students deal with
all students. You can serve the student and their individual
situation's difficulties, bullying, you name it, without taking a political stance,

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without focusing on identity.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
But this is a perfect example of where we landed.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Wherein if you are against the indoctrination, and you are
the horrible person, you're the bigot, you're the homophob homophobic individual.
Toward the end of the interview, she rails against national
groups that spend on local board races, rites Katrin Wigfall,

(24:18):
which as a national organization is exactly what the school
Board Integrity Project does with funding from Education Minnesota's Pack
and other progressive DFL aligned packs. You see, but when
the left does, it is perfectly acceptable. Kristen Shut attempts
to justify her outside spending by arguing that it is
modest compared to the amounts spent by other groups. The

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Midwest Values Pack, whose mission is to support progressive Democrats,
contributed forty thousand dollars to the school Board Integrity Packed
from twenty four to twenty five. Other contributions came in
from the Minnesota DFL Senate Central Committee, the left Landing
Majority Rules organization. Also consider that there's dollars the funders

(25:03):
of the school Board Integrity Project spend. In fact, Education
Minnesota's Pack admitted in July to taking over one hundred
thousand dollars from both their national affiliates, the National Education
Association the NEA and the AFT the American Federation of
Teachers to influence school board elections. Candidates affiliated with the

(25:24):
school Board Integrity Project include Abby Payer, who was running
against incumbent Matt Audit, who we just had on She
recently posted a YouTube video titled our schools are not
for Sale, stating that enormous amounts of money are being
poured into our local school board elections, but is silent
on the dollars spent on school board races by the
organization she has aligned with and its political affiliates. For example,

(25:49):
the innok Hennepin Education political Fund spent over twelve thousand
dollars just on postcards for Matt Addebt's challenger. The school
Board Integrity Project's recent stance on neutrality in the classroom
and from school board members raises serious questions. If neutrality
is dismissed as impossible or undesirable, what replaces it and

(26:14):
who gets to decide That.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Catherine's absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
With organizations and groups on both ends of the political spectrum,
either directly or indirectly spending to influence outcomes, communities face
a dilemma. Some argue that since politics has entered the arena,
all sides should have equal freedom to organize, spend money,
campaign openly under partisan banners. Others contend that introducing limits
on spending and partisan activity is the only way to

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restore the original nonpartisan spirit of school board elections. Ultimately,
communities must decide whether to embrace the new reality or
regulate it fairly, or to take other deliberate steps to
isolate education from partisanship.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
All together. It's all become political.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's all become political, and the Democrats have been incredibly
effective of pushing back on individuals that want to remove
the politics from it by making anything that you wouldn't
remove suddenly now turn you into the horrible, awful person.
So they don't frame the LGBTQ issues, what they put

(27:24):
up on the walls in the classroom, what they teach,
the focus on identity, because they don't see anything wrong
with it. They don't see that it's politicized. And if
you go and push back against it, well, then again
you are the homophobic bigot. Now regarding the money that's
been rolling in, Fox nine has a piece this morning
a handful of school board races, growing concerns about big

(27:47):
spending in races that are officially supposed to be nonpartisans
we've been talking about. Here's a bit of the story
from Fox nine.

Speaker 12 (27:54):
Teachers' union president in the state's largest school district says
the amount of money flooding into the Anoka hand of
been school board race is concerning.

Speaker 13 (28:03):
For Union has often spent money on elections in the past,
but ultimately we are the teachers of the district and
are locally based. This election, one thing that's really different
is we're seeing lots of money coming from across the
state and even outside of the states into this race.

Speaker 12 (28:17):
Let's see what's happening in this odd year election. Twenty
one of the three hundred and thirty one school districts
are holding regular elections. We took a look at campaign
finance records. Recent reports show that Excellence Minnesota, associated at
the same Wyzetta address as Minnesota Parents Alliance that backs
more conservative leaning candidates, has spent over one hundred thousand

(28:42):
dollars in various school board races across the state. According
to their website, they prioritize student achievement and excellence above
politics and bureaucracy. Leonoka hadn't been school board race has
been a focused for donors. The six member school board
has been split on hot button issues, and this selection
could shift that balance as candidates face off over three of.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
The six seats.

Speaker 12 (29:08):
The executive director of Minnesota school Boards Association, A nonprofit
that represents all the school districts in the state says
they've seen heightened interest in school board races coming out
of the pandemic. Their advice for voters is to do
their research before heading to the polls.

Speaker 14 (29:25):
I think it's very important not only to understand the
issues on which the candidates are running, but also the
complete package. Know what the candidates are bringing with them,
perhaps as well as the issues that they're either supporting
or opposing.

Speaker 12 (29:46):
And we've reached out to Minnesota Parents Alliance for comment
on the matter and have not heard back yet. Polls
close at eight pm tomorrow, reporting in studios, So Young
Kim Fox nine.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Again Fox nine with the story regarding the funding and
there's a broader comment Terry. And it's a nice bookend
to the show today as we get ready to wrap
things up here on Twin City's News Talk and It's
where the Democrat Party is. We played you the audio earlier.
Here's just a snippet from CNN.

Speaker 15 (30:17):
Democrats at this point are historically divided. It is a
complete and utter mess. It is messier than a hoard's basement.
What are we talking about here? The national early poll
leader twenty five percent plus. Normally that's where Democrats are.
Biden was twenty five percent plus in twenty twenty. Hillary
Clinton was at eight and sixteen or was in to
o four. At this particular point, there is no one,

(30:39):
no one in the Democratic race for president who's polling
at twenty five percent plus.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
The water is quite warm.

Speaker 15 (30:45):
If you're a Democrat potentially thinking about running in twenty
twenty eight, jump right in because at this point there
is no front runner.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
It goes on to talk about just how out of
touch Democrats continued to be even with their own of voters.
They'll continue to have success because of what the Democrat
Party has become. They're not issues based anymore. It is
nothing but one hundred percent opposition to Republicans. Vilify and
demonize your enemy while making sure that your base is

(31:18):
scared to go and vote for anybody other than a Democrat.
And when it comes to the funding in our schools,
they need to get to the children as early as
possible and doctrinate them into the progressive policies. Strain those
children's relationships with their parents, make them angry, have them
focused on identity, turning away from God. If they were

(31:41):
even given that foundation to work from, basically making them
their own little gods, saying that this will go and
make you happy, your identity will go and make you happy.
For Dems to increase the possibility of election victories in
the future, these are the tactics that they are taking.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
They'll win, hopefully not majorities. Hopefully not when we get.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
To the larger elections again next year. But they'll have
some victories today. And again I'm not putting a lot
of stock in those victories the amount of money that's
pouring into these school districts for this very reason, because
if they end up having majorities of conservatives and what
are supposed to be nonpartisan races, they are going to
start removing the ways in which they and doctor Nath

(32:27):
the children and therefore the higher probability that they won't
win elections in the future. Before we wrap things up today,
I do need to get to our talk back of
the day.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I'm a little bit late on this.

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F dot com. Holy Cow you're fascinating to talk to.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Got tongue tied there. Let's go to your talkback of
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Speaker 4 (33:01):
Hey, good morning John Dan reporting from Liberal Lakes on
election day, where I'll be going in to vote.

Speaker 15 (33:09):
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Speaker 4 (33:15):
And hopes to keep the socialist con artists out of office.

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Good morning, Let's go.

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Speaker 2 (33:30):
Congratulations Dan, When did let's go make it a reappearance?
By the way, I've hearing that everywhere now and it
is driving me nuts. No offense to Dan, Melinda, and
I've been watching amazing race and every single time they
show any of the competitors, they are doing the let's
go Like I just it, it made a return.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I didn't know it left. Okay, maybe that's my problem,
like that let's go. Yeah, No, let's not, let's not
do that. Speaking of the mayoral race, before we wrap
things up today, Representative Tom Emmer had some spicy words
relating to Chuck Schumer Zohra Mamdani and Omar ft.

Speaker 16 (34:05):
They've shut the government down to pick a fight with
President Trump and to score points with Kami Mandami and
Omar Fada, the omar Fada wing of their party. The
Democrats have become kamikazi politicians who are so focused on
winning some kind of political game that they've justified blowing
up everything in their wake, including the livelihoods of their

(34:28):
own constituents. Democrats Senator John Fetterman said it best on
CNN yesterday. Quote, we are hurting the very people that
we fight for, and now we're getting nothing for them
if we continue to keep our government shut down.

Speaker 14 (34:44):
Quote.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
This is wrong.

Speaker 16 (34:46):
He went on to say, and he's exactly right.

Speaker 14 (34:50):
Everybody living in Annandale School District, get out and vote tonight.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
They wanted jack you taxes up again. We need for bodies.
Make sure you get out and vote that referendum.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
Dog and a big thank you to all those who
go into.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Still thank you for the talk back. Get out and
vote today tomorrow on the show. Newly announced gubernatorial candidate
Lisa Damuth will be joining me in studio at seven to.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Thirty tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Also should be talking with Liz Collin from alphanows at
A thirty plus. Whatever election results we have, I will
share those with you when the show gets underwag just
after six o'clock. If you missed any portion of today's show,
be sure to check out the podcast that's.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Available up on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
I hope you have yourself a fantastic election day again.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Get out to vote. Thank you to Brett.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I'll see you when I see you, my friend, and
I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.

Speaker 16 (35:46):
Bye.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
That's no hell yeah.