November 6, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of the show begins with Jon talking about some of the election results, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Look span Berger and Cheryl Ran.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, what appears to be a moderate campaign, which is
the you know, they used the old Democrat playbook they
used to work, which is run as a moderate you know,
don't be extreme during during the campaign, and then once
you get into office, then you know, you can play
cape to your left, you know, the woke policies, just
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like Obama did.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But that's how they won. Yeah, no, you are absolutely correct,
And thank you Sean for pointing that out, because it
happens all the time. This was one of the highlights
from the Precarious State documentary and why it was such
a great companion as if it was the sequel to
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the Fall of Minneapolis, where in the Fall of Minneapolis,
Liz and her book They're Lying both set up what
transpired and what you weren't told about the death of
George Floyd, and then a Precarious State ends up covering
the fallout because of that, and in it they talked
about how those DSA candidates would say one thing when
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they're out on the campaign trail, and then they would
act differently when they get back in office, and then
it doesn't matter because the media goes it doesn't matter.
From the standpoint of what you should be able to
go and hold that against him afterwards, Right, Nope, because
the media goes and covers up all the stuff that
they said before, the voters go and forget about it,
and then when they have to go and run for
re election again, they just go and change their tune.
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I've seen companion videos this morning of zohoron Mom Donnie,
the radical activist that he was screaming at the top
of his lungs at borders are Homan. But as he
started a gay momentum during his campaign, he like a
chameleon like Governor Tim Walls and so many other Democrats,
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shifted his tone, pulled back on their rhetoric a bit,
made it a more palatable. This is all gonna be great,
it's gonna be wonderful. We'll have these free grocery stores
run by the government and free bus rides, and none
of which he's going to be able to accomplish. He
can't raise taxes on his own. That's up to the governor.
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And I don't think that Kathy Holkkel is going to
have the stomach in the middle of her fighting for
re election as well, especially with Mom Donnie being the
mayor of New York City, she's gonna have much of
a willingness of raising the taxes of New Yorkers. The
policies that Mom Donnie will be able to move forward
with are ones wherein they'll prove to be quickly disastrous
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from the standpoint of you can bet that if he
makes move relating to security and the safety of the
community and law enforcement, they'll see similar results to what
we saw here in Minneapolis. He's a snake oil salesman,
as a matter of fact. Listen to this video where
he's already going and asking for money from his voters.
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Good morning, New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Last night we made history, and today we begin the
work of making a new administration.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Welcome to the transition.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
This is the period over the next few months rebuild
a city Hall that delivers on the promises of our
campaign to make New York City affordable and to make
government accountable to the people it serves. As we've prepare
to govern, we'll start announcing the leaders will help implement
our attective people like deputy mayors who oversee entire areas
of government, and the commissioners who carry out the critical
work of city agencies.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, let me stop it real quick here, because there's
an interesting juxtaposition between this and something that I'll share
with you coming up this hour from the new mayor
elect in Saint Paul Kahouli her because she said similar
comments in this interview that she does with a reporter
from the Pioneer Press, just about establishing the people that'll
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be working in her office and what they're going to
be doing. Like, there's no substance at all to what
mom Donnie is saying in this video. You're fascinating to
talk to none whatsoever until you get to the end
when he starts asking for money.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
These appoyments will be driven by excellence, integrity, and hunger
to solve old problems with new solutions. Talking to organizers
on the front lines of the fight to improve our
city government, veterans with proven track records, policy experts from
around the country and the world, and working people know
better than anyone what our neighborhoods deserve. And this will
be a period like the campaign we ran in the
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City Hall to come, defined by transparency because New Yorkers
deserve a government they can trust. On January first, I
will be your mayor, New Year's Day and a new
era for this city.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh and one more thing.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Remember how I told you a few months ago to
stop sending us money.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You can start again.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
This transition requires staff, research, and an infrastructure that can
meet this moment, and it will be made possible by
the people who've built and believe in this mostness. So
I hope we'll make a donation of Transition twenty twenty
five dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now let's get to work. What why you're in the
position now? You have taxpayer dollars that should be able
to go and fund all of that. There's no need
for you to be requesting any more money except for
the fact that he wants to make sure that he
continues to keep people accustomed to this whole idea of socialism.
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And when he gave his acceptance speech, even the most
prominent leftists in your legacy media we're calling it out going. Yeah,
that really was the complete opposite of what he ran
on once he began to gain momentum in the mayor's race.
He's a chameleon. As I mentioned last hour, mom, Donnie
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is really like if rage against the machine got elected
a bunch of young, wealthy whiny, godless radical socialists pretending
as if they are byproducts of oppression and the dangers
of socialism. Communism should never be taken lightly. Mom Donniana's
voters shouldn't be mocked relentlessly. The majority of them ignorantly
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supported him because he's just simply anti Trump. He's the
anti Trump, So I'm going to vote for him. He
cannot deliver, as I mentioned, on the vast majority of
what he ran on. Most of that would require raising taxes,
which he cannot do. Think about how virtually powerless Minneapolis
man Baby may or Mom Jeans Jacob Frye has been.
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The policies he can enact will be one just like
fry and they'll see the fastest negative consequence is attached
to that policing policy unrelated to taxes, but still burdensome
on businesses. Tourism is going to plummet. The only people
that are benefiting now in terms of business in New
York City are apparently U haul rental companies. I had
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a friend of the show share with me a screen
grab of all the U U hauls that are sold
out in New York City. Now, maybe that's a typical
thing that takes place, but one cat help will wonder.
There's a lot of individuals who were simply waiting to
see how this mayoral race played out before they decided
to play. You know what, I think I'm gonna move
out state. The good news is much like people who
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were suggesting it would be better for Fote to win
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
As a part of yesterday's commentary as well, we now
get to watch the rant the radical anti American socialist
policies fail in New York City as they always do.
But speaking to the point of mom Donnie and what
he plans to do. John Solomon, political commentator was on
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Real America's Voice and he said they're one of his
associates quietly attended a Democrat Socialist of America a strategy meeting.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You see in very subtle ways the extremists that he
really is. That he tried to paint down a little
bit in the last few weeks of the election. But
I think the most important story for everybody to read
today is up on justinews dot com. It was written
by my extraordinary colleague Jerry Dunley, be great investigative reporter.
He got inside the DSA New York, the group which
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is the group that mom Donnie belonged to before he
started to distance himself, and they had a meeting this
weekend that they allowed Jerry to attend, and you can
see what they talked about. They are going to force
the City of New York to divest and from anything
that is Jewish. They're going to stop the New York
Police Department from training and getting certain capabilities that they
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don't like. They're going to regulate land sales. You may
not be able to sell your piece of land in
the future to who you want if the mayor doesn't
like that. And then there is a lot of other
agendas that are all in there. The purpose of this
meeting is to make sure that the group that helped
elect Mandami in the primary and last night will have
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a seat at the table and will pressure Mamdanni until
he delivers what he told them privately he would deliver.
The wish list looks like something from a Soviet republic,
not something from an American capitalist city like New York City.
That is the Mamdani you're going to see from this
point forward, not the jovial, cool looking kid from New
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York that talked a good game. This is a guy
that is beholden to the socialist who got him in office,
and their values are very different from those that built
the Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I hope that they do move forward with everything they
possibly can do because they are going because they are
going to be limited. People need to see the real
world example of what these policies can actually do. And
what I don't want to see happen is sort of
a tinkering around the edges of their core beliefs to
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try to shore up any sort of level of positivity
that they can spew and try to convince the public
of what they're doing. Because the policies that we already have,
and especially in New York City to what John Solomon
was saying, they are very pro capitalism, and so there's
a lot of safeguards just built into the system that
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prevent individuals like Mom Donnie from going one hundred percent
forward with their socialist ideals. And with that they get
a bit of a bit of cover. They can continue
to talk about their rhetoric and what they want to do,
but then they can still complain, well, we can't do this,
and it's a system. We got to tear it down.
You got to keep voting for me so we can
get rid of it. No, I hope they go all
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in on everything they possibly can, because that is the
surest way that we can see just what an abject
failure their policies are going to be, because they always are.
Socialism never works. The only reason why it's grabbed hold
now is is because we have a failed education system
here in the United States run by Democrats who have
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made sure to ignore history relating to how damaging these
far leftist policies are, how many millions of people have
died throughout history because of these policies, And now you
have individuals running and winning elections because the ignorant masses
just fall for it. The interviews with the young people
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in New York City, women out there. I did a
video yesterday, this group of women cheering for the policies
of Mamdani, wanting to see a caliphate in New York City,
saying they want to see sharia law in New York City.
Just you sit back and you go. Is anybody going
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to tell them what that would actually mean for them
if it was ever adopted? But they don't know. They're ignorant.
To it. They have done their own due diligence. They
bought into the lies that they've been told by politicians,
and the education system has absolutely failed them. Saint Paul
Mayor elect Cahuli her on how she won and what
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she plans to do.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Next.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We'll share with you some points from this article, plus
we have some audio from the mayor elect, and we
will return to a story I brought to you at
the end of yesterday's show regarding a potential emerging fraud
scandal relating to Snap benefits here in Minnesota on Twin
Cities News Talk d All studios. You are listening to
iHeartRadio AM eleven thirty and FM one O three point five.
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This is the Twin Cities News talk station. Yeah, you
just had a guide stay here and lit'st off right.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Ten policies that all.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Sound extremely communists to me.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
But you still keep calling this guy a socialist just
like he wants.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You to do.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Why we just continue to dumb down society and then
wonder why it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This is what we call splitting hairs. I've had a
lot of people that have left this comment. I completely
understand what it is that you're saying for the sake
of generalization and just commentary, yes, you're right. I could
go down and label it communism. He claims in his
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own words, he's a Democrat socialist. That's who he belongs to. Ultimately,
they're both bad. We're talking about the policies and often
I just defer to the baseline, surface level of what
it is that these individuals are claiming to be. I'll
go down the road on occasion and call them what
they are truly in all of this and play a
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comment like yours. But it also invites pushback in commentary
from individuals that want to go and argue the point
and ends up just becoming unnecessary. It's a long way
to say that, you know, we generalize in radio. I
get what it is. If you pay attention to the stuff,
you understand it. If you think you're going to end
up changing hearts and minds on the left by simply
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switching up the terminology, I'm going to argue that it
doesn't matter for a lot of individuals. To the individuals
that you want to reach, everybody else, they already know
what's going on. So thank you for the comment though.
From the iHeartRadio app, I appreciate it. Kahuli hur wants
her term as Saint Paul mayor to me different, maybe
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not ideologically apart from the outgoing may or, Melvin Carter.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune article in my Hands,
but more connected, more in the community, more curious about
what's happening and what people are saying. In an interview
with the Star Tribune, she talked about how entering into
the mayoral race just three months before elect day, how
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she followed a data informed plan that gave her confidence.
That plan was inspired by her friend, the late DFL
House speaker Melissa Hortman, who told her that often politicians
had to earn their seats the blueprint for the blueprint
for winning races, lots of conversations. You know, Yeah, that's
good advice. Personal connections matter, She said. Her campaign knocked
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on some forty thousand doors in Saint Paul, and by
late October, her yellow and purple lawn signs had popped
up all over the city. There is a conversation to
be had, not this morning, but there is a conversation
to be had at some point that if you had,
for the sake of argument, somewhat unlimited resources, unlimited campaign resources.
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More specifically, you could put a conservative into power in
either of the twin cities. It's not happening anytime in
the future, which is why there's no need to have
this conversation right now. It would be a difficult road
and task. That being said, if you had the right
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financial backing and the ability to have somebody out there
who could do the legwork, you could end up winning
elections in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. It may take a
cycle or two, and it may take a lot of
money to go and do so, but it's not inevitable
that a Democrat is always going to win. And again,
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a conversation for another day, But that point in here
about how she launched this campaign three months before election day.
It also speaks to voter turnout and the lack thereof
and what I keep saying on the show about what
Republicans need to do heading into next year. Unless we're
you know, worry less about reaching republicans. Republicans need to
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worry less about whether or not their candidate ends up
getting the nomination at the top of the ticket and
make sure that regardless, we don't beat each other up
during primary season and we support whoever that nominee is.
Her said that she wants to smooth out the city
and the way that they deal with the process of
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issues Department of Public Works, Department of Safety Inspections, planning.
If we want to build a city that has an
abundant and affordable housing, if we want to grow retail
and commercial business, those three departments are key departments in
doing that. The article goes on to say it might
sound dull compared to big cities Carter brought, excuse me,
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big big ideas that Carter brought to the beginning of
his tenure. Her said, but she thinks the city needs
to nail down the basic processes. I know that people
are saying, well, she doesn't have a huge, big policy ideas,
so like, what is she putting in front of us?
Her said she wants to run an administration that listens
to Saint Paul residence. But she said building consensus does
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not mean compromising her values. During her campaign, her drew
criticism from Saint Paul environmentalists and bike advocates, who saw
her questions about the proposed reconstruction of say Summit Avenue
as evidence that she was more conservative than Carter. And she,
of course pushed back on that idea. I am no
more conservative than Melvin Carter. Her said, if people just
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look at my negative history, I excuse me my legislative history.
I was a slip. There wasn't it. My legislative history.
I have been a progressive.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I've received several talkbacks along this issue. Let me go
ahead and play this one from a friend of the show.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Hey, good morning, John Bruce and Shockby. You know, I
have a question about that Kohouly her. Now, she claimed
that she was a non citizen, and I haven't really
checked into it, but can she legally hold office in
Minnesota if she's not a citizen.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't think she can.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
At the federal level, but I think she should be investigated.
Maybe I should be talking to her too. I can't
believe it hasn't happened already.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Have a good day. My understanding on that, and I
welcome anybody who has further information. But my understanding on
that was when she made that comment, and we talked
about it here on the show, when it happened about
how she was illegal and she said these statements in
front of the House of Representatives. She was exaggerating on
her own personal situation because it was beneficial in the
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moment for her argument to try to go and reach
and draw some sympathy from individuals over the issue of
illegal immigration by stating that she was illegal. My understanding
is that she is absolutely able to go and hold
the office, and her labeling of herself being an illegal
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was not accurate in the way that would have prevented
her from holding office. But again, I go and invite
anybody that has further clarification on that. That was my understanding,
going back to initially when we covered that issue, when
people were saying exactly the same things that Bruce and
others have asked me on the talkbacks this morning, we
will get to your talkback of the day, and I
do want to play you a portion of this interview
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that Couleiher did with the Pioneer Presses they were walking
the streets of Saint Paul. There's some interesting commentary to
get to on that. Plus USDA Secretary of Brook Rawlins
talking about snap benefits, the states that did hand over
their information regarding snap benefits the data to the federal
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government and those that didn't and what they discovered and
whether or not Minneapolis and specifically the state of Minnesota
is on the verge of another fraud controversy relating to
Snap benefits. We'll get to this coming up next here
on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one
on three five FM tomorrow on a Freedom Friday. Hey,
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first November Freedom Friday. Not that it matters, ay k Kamar.
We'll be joining us in the studio and we'll have
both Gracea Keating and Catherine Johnson from the American Experiment podcast.
I was a special guest on their one hundredth episode,
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and truth be told, they said I can only be
the one hundredth guest if they were both allowed to
go ahead and come in on Friday. So I had
to boot Max Rhymer. That's a total lie. That didn't
happen at all. Max can't make it in on Friday.
So both Catherine and Grace will be joining us in
the studio. All right, before we play you a quick
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interview here with Kohuli, her mayor electing Saint Paul talking
with the Pioneer Press. Let's get to you your talk
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Speaker 7 (22:08):
And John Russ. Here, we're reflecting past couple of days,
especially with the Democrat wins and everything. You know, we've
been winning a lot. Trump has been straight up taking
it to his agenda and just knocking things out, and yeah,
eventually you're going to lose some and so at the
end of the day, it's gotta keep trucking along. Trump's
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not even been in the office for one year yet
He's still got a lot of time and things continue
to happen. It's right, stay rossy, my friends.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, I like it, Russ, And that's why you're the
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Speaker 4 (22:44):
After the last night's results, the decision facing.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
All Americans could not be more clear.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
We have a choice between communism and common sense.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Does that make sense to you? Common sense? It's common
sense or communism. So I mentioned how you know, with
unlimited campaign resources and maybe election cycle or two, you
could get good people elected to city councils to the
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mayor's office in both Minneapolis and Saint Paul. And I
know that sounds really simple, but it's like Ahulia Her
said in this interview with the Star Tribune, and you know,
going off of advice from late House Speaker Melissa Hortman,
the blueprint to winning races, lots of conversations, those personal
connections matter. I say that. Listen to this, you know,
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in light of this interview. So this was a reporter
over at the Pioneer Press, Frederick Mellow, talking with her
in the wake of her winning the election, and they
were talking they were walking on the streets of Saint Paul's.
So the audio is a little wonky here, So you
got to forgive me. And I did some editing because
there was a lot of needing to stop and avoid
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people and that kind of stuff. But I wanted to
give you just a snapshot of newly elected mayor in
Saint Paul Khully her and her mentality after winning the office.
You're thinking of new department leaders.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
New cabinet, new staff, kind of be a pretty big
change over.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Yeah, well, I would say that it's not necessarily that
I'm looking at you know new it's that I need
to do an evaluation. We really have to if we
want to move our city into focusing on the core
city services, then we need to make sure that we
have the right people in the right place.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And it just require us to do an assessment.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Yeah, there's big things that Carter set in motion, like
a four part gun restrictions, you know, for do you
think you continue that work or do I think you
had called some of it performative in a debate?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I think I have to figure out.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
And this is the part I don't know is like
where is it? Is it already? Has it already been
proposed to city council?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Has it not?
Speaker 10 (24:56):
Is it has it already been been put forward pasthic?
I don't really Because my work is at the legislature,
I have not really been digging into the detailed progress
of that, and so I just I need to take
a look at where that is. But like, if it's
already done and the momentum is already you know, it
has already moved forward with that, like, I don't see
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a reason to undo that work.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That is incredible to me, and it speaks to what
I was talking about. If you had somebody with resources
and a ground game that could just go out and
reach to the community, you would have a possibility of
putting in again, better quality candidates. Go Holly hr One
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in large part because she reached out to the Mung
community and they absolutely supported her in doing so. She's
right when she says, I'm going to be listening to people.
She made contact. You had Carter and office with these
big ideas, but probably was very disconnected from the community.
But to the point, as long there's any substance going
on here, she's not even aware of the movement for
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the ordinance that would limit your ability to keep in
bare arms within Saint Paul, the movement, the movement towards
these policies, that's complete and totally frivolous. Because we have
the preemption law that Mayor Carter's been pushing forward and
the council's been talking about the past few weeks. You
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would think that this would have been a part of
her campaign. You would think that this would have been
something that would be asked. And she's like, I don't
even know what's going on with it, almost as if
to say she has no idea about the gun control ordinances.
That the city Council and the Mayor's office were proposing.
I just I was stunned, stunned by that.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
You're not going to get rid of the fifteen dollars
minimum wage or anything like that. You've worked closely on that, right, absolutely,
But how about the college accounts for newborns?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You know, I don't have any plans to be getting
rid of things. I am somebody who I like to
be really thorough and detailed, which means that assessments really matter.
So I do really need to come in and take
a look at where we are and how sustainable the
program is in order before I can make any kind
of decision about what's going to happen with some of
these things.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
During debates, you said, re evaluate it, don't necessarily end
it for the Summit Avenue bike trail or the Mississippi
River Corridor promenade.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Yeah, somebody actually say to me, now that the election's over,
how do you really feel about it now? I feel
the same way that it is so important for us.
I think that when people come in and they think
they know everything, or they have all the ideas, or
they have the right answers, is when you usually go wrong.
And so it's important for us to make sure that
I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Everything right, and so I have to come in and
be diligent and then review and make good decisions based
on what I'm finding. And so that really is always
the foundation of when I look at something, if I'm going.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
To do it or not audible.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Okay, just last question, I mean, what can people expect?
It's just, uh, do you have any any surprises you
want to spring on people?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now?
Speaker 9 (28:04):
So it's uh, it buffers the impact on Janior first.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
So I think that there's a lot of work to
be done. And if I you know, I don't make promises,
I can't keep it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My promise to the.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
People was that I would work on the nuts and
bolts of the city. I would do core city services,
and that's what I planned to do. And so that's
that's my plan.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
Nothing to spring on people for first Asian American mayor,
first female mayor in female mayor in.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The history of in the history of.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Saint Paul, Yes, and first Mung mayor. Are you the
third Mung mayor in the nation. I think I found
two others.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
I only know Shan Tao, but I don't know who
is no longer a mayor in England.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
But I don't know the other one. Oh, there was
another one I found and I don't know. It's someone
in California, but small town. I think it could be. Yeah,
it could be. Okay, I'll look it up.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Thank you, thank you, congrats.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's listen. It is so ridiculously typical. Like the most
substance of that entire piece was the end when they
were just talking about her background and identity. There was
nothing I'm really going to change anything. I don't really
know about the gun control ordinance. Yeah, you know about
the funds for babies and all that. I don't know.
I'll look at that later. Like what does she even
(29:12):
run on. I mean, clearly Mayor Carter wasn't doing a
good job. People wanted to change. But really it just
seems as if they just gender swapped the mayor's office.
I don't know what she's going to be doing any
differently beyond listening to people moret so. Opportunities are available,
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but it takes the resources to do so. And I
understand the arguments of you know that Republicans don't have
a finite amount of money to go and work from
and needs to be placed in areas where you can
make the most benefit. And when it comes to mayor
races in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, I understand they would
rather place that money elsewhere, but it does serve as
an example of these elections could be won if there
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were unlimited resources and it was thought that this would
be beneficial.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
This new mayor of Saint Paul kind of gives me
Amy klobash Ar vibes. You know, I think she's going
to be the mayor of small things, which may not
be a bad thing.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
You are waking up today and you're gonna see me
on your Twitter account because I made it here at
one fifteen am through the snow. Donald Trump Wins called
me snow woman for a reason. Nothing will stop me,
So I hope nothing stopped you from coming to our
events in Conquered and Milford and Portsmith.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
See you there, Hello, America. I'm Amy Klobashar, and I
will beat Donald Trump. So apparently I'm pronouncing her name wrong.
It's na Kahuli, It's Cully. I don't I okay, not
the first time that I've gone pronounced individuals names on
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the show.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Morning John, Great Show. Connie here, Kahuli Her has no plan.
Melviyn was asleep, figured he'd get elected again because well whatever,
So that's her plan. There isn't a plan. Have a
great day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You really like that, Connie. I just I almost want
to get that drop.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Morning John, Great Show. Connie here, Kahuli her has no plan.
Melvin was asleep, figured he'd get elected again because well whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You're absolutely right. That is not a dig on you,
by the way, I just found that really really entertaining.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I wish the new mayor of Saint Paul would talk
about property taxes and taxes in general and what she
can do to lower those, because they are going nowhere
but up, up, up, and with that school referendum up
up up even more.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Leave it. So let's spend some time. I closed the
show out with a little bit of this yesterday, but
We've got some time to get into it further, and
I'm waiting to see what else emerges from this potential scandal.
We'll start off with USDA Secretary brook Rawlins. On her
first day, they told every state to send their snap
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data so that they could make sure illegal immigrants weren't
getting benefits meant for American families. Twenty nine states stepped up,
twenty one Blue states refused, and two sued the federal
government for even asking. Here's a bit of Secretary USDA
Secretary Brook Rawlins on Fox News Day.
Speaker 13 (32:42):
Day one of USDA February thirteenth, is we sent letters
to every governor in America being very clear that no
illegal aliens can use.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
SNAP zero zero zero.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
We asked every state for the first time in history,
and this was in February, to send us their data
and let us with Doge and a war room, actually
start going through this data to better understand how this
explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased
almost forty percent on this program in just a couple
of years under the Biden administration. Of course, we know
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they were trying to buy the election, but that's a
conversation for another time. And since we have asked for
that data, twenty nine states have complied. Complied of course
almost all the Red states, a couple of the you know,
the couple of Blue states too.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
But in that.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
Data, and I haven't talked about this yet publicly, in
that data, we have found we've studied about one hundred
billion dollars in spend. We have found thousands and thousands
of illegal use of the EBT card. We have been
moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost seven hundred
thousand people. I think we've moved off just since the
President took office. We've arrested about one hundred and eighteen people.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
So this has been ongoing.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
But Rachel, to your point, what this conversation has allowed
is a national spotlight on a broken and corrupt program.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
We found one guy.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
In six different states getting a benefit. We found about
five thousand people that are dead who are still getting benefits.
Like it is time to drastically reform this program so
that we can make sure that those who are truly needy,
truly vulnerable, are getting what they need and the rest
of the corruption goes away and we can serve the
American taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It was ak Kamara putting up a post online that
brought this to my attention and what he was responding
to in writing. Under the Walls administration, SNAP issuances increased
by one hundred and seventy four percent, while total recipients
only increased by twenty one percent, But the state's population
(34:47):
increased by one point eight percent. So Ak asked the question,
how much of it is fraudulent, given that we've become
the fraud capital of the US, nearing an estimated six
billion dollars in fraud, And what he was referring to
was Representative Pam Altendorf had written, why is Minnesota refusing
(35:08):
to give the federal government our SNAP records? I think
I found what the Minnesota DFL is hiding. And what
she showed on X was the chart showing that Minnesota
has a one hundred and seventy four percent increase in
SNAP issuances. No other state even came close over the
(35:28):
course of a few years. And what have we seen
throughout the examples of the fraud that's been exposed to
just this year alone. It's its exact same thing, a sudden,
massive increase in the amount of money going to these benefits,
and yet not seeing the example of the individuals that
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are supposed to be receiving it, whether it's feeding our future,
whether it's the housing and stabilization services with there it
is the autism centers, and here you have SNAP benefits.
It's almost as if the Democrats may have gone and
(36:10):
exposed something that has been taking place unintentionally with their
continued desire to keep the government shut down. One more
quick talkback relating to the new mayor elected in Saint Paul.
I wanted to share with you before we wrap things
up this morning.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 14 (36:30):
Now, she has a plan to make a plan, to
make a plan, to make a plan, and that's how
for yours will pass by and then having the great
support of her community will help her. Again, those are
hard working individuals the among community. Unfortunately they chose an
individual without any perspective on their lives. Sorry for them
(36:53):
and for Saint Paul.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
You have a great day, buye. Thank you for the
talk back, and thank you for your time this morning
listening to the show. Of course, if you missed any
portion of it all you want to share it with
friends and family. Check out the podcast that'll be available
on the iHeartRadio app and the Master Control booth. This morning.
Is Devin, Good to see him. He'll have those podcasts
up shortly tomorrow. Another Freedom Friday. Get your talkbacks in
(37:17):
early on and off topic comments all morning long. We'll
have Catherine Johnson and Grace keating from Center of the
American experiment in ak Kamara live in studio. Have a
great Thursday. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning. Bye.
Look span Berger and Cheryl Ran.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, what appears to be a moderate campaign, which is
the you know, they used the old Democrat playbook they
used to work, which is run as a moderate you know,
don't be extreme during during the campaign, and then once
you get into office, then you know, you can play
cape to your left, you know, the woke policies, just
(00:36):
like Obama did.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But that's how they won. Yeah, no, you are absolutely correct,
And thank you Sean for pointing that out, because it
happens all the time. This was one of the highlights
from the Precarious State documentary and why it was such
a great companion as if it was the sequel to
(01:01):
the Fall of Minneapolis, where in the Fall of Minneapolis,
Liz and her book They're Lying both set up what
transpired and what you weren't told about the death of
George Floyd, and then a Precarious State ends up covering
the fallout because of that, and in it they talked
about how those DSA candidates would say one thing when
(01:23):
they're out on the campaign trail, and then they would
act differently when they get back in office, and then
it doesn't matter because the media goes it doesn't matter.
From the standpoint of what you should be able to
go and hold that against him afterwards, Right, Nope, because
the media goes and covers up all the stuff that
they said before, the voters go and forget about it,
and then when they have to go and run for
re election again, they just go and change their tune.
(01:47):
I've seen companion videos this morning of zohoron Mom Donnie,
the radical activist that he was screaming at the top
of his lungs at borders are Homan. But as he
started a gay momentum during his campaign, he like a
chameleon like Governor Tim Walls and so many other Democrats,
(02:10):
shifted his tone, pulled back on their rhetoric a bit,
made it a more palatable. This is all gonna be great,
it's gonna be wonderful. We'll have these free grocery stores
run by the government and free bus rides, and none
of which he's going to be able to accomplish. He
can't raise taxes on his own. That's up to the governor.
(02:32):
And I don't think that Kathy Holkkel is going to
have the stomach in the middle of her fighting for
re election as well, especially with Mom Donnie being the
mayor of New York City, she's gonna have much of
a willingness of raising the taxes of New Yorkers. The
policies that Mom Donnie will be able to move forward
with are ones wherein they'll prove to be quickly disastrous
(02:57):
from the standpoint of you can bet that if he
makes move relating to security and the safety of the
community and law enforcement, they'll see similar results to what
we saw here in Minneapolis. He's a snake oil salesman,
as a matter of fact. Listen to this video where
he's already going and asking for money from his voters.
(03:17):
Good morning, New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Last night we made history, and today we begin the
work of making a new administration.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Welcome to the transition.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
This is the period over the next few months rebuild
a city Hall that delivers on the promises of our
campaign to make New York City affordable and to make
government accountable to the people it serves. As we've prepare
to govern, we'll start announcing the leaders will help implement
our attective people like deputy mayors who oversee entire areas
of government, and the commissioners who carry out the critical
work of city agencies.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, let me stop it real quick here, because there's
an interesting juxtaposition between this and something that I'll share
with you coming up this hour from the new mayor
elect in Saint Paul Kahouli her because she said similar
comments in this interview that she does with a reporter
from the Pioneer Press, just about establishing the people that'll
(04:06):
be working in her office and what they're going to
be doing. Like, there's no substance at all to what
mom Donnie is saying in this video. You're fascinating to
talk to none whatsoever until you get to the end
when he starts asking for money.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
These appoyments will be driven by excellence, integrity, and hunger
to solve old problems with new solutions. Talking to organizers
on the front lines of the fight to improve our
city government, veterans with proven track records, policy experts from
around the country and the world, and working people know
better than anyone what our neighborhoods deserve. And this will
be a period like the campaign we ran in the
(04:38):
City Hall to come, defined by transparency because New Yorkers
deserve a government they can trust. On January first, I
will be your mayor, New Year's Day and a new
era for this city.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh and one more thing.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Remember how I told you a few months ago to
stop sending us money.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You can start again.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
This transition requires staff, research, and an infrastructure that can
meet this moment, and it will be made possible by
the people who've built and believe in this mostness. So
I hope we'll make a donation of Transition twenty twenty
five dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now let's get to work. What why you're in the
position now? You have taxpayer dollars that should be able
to go and fund all of that. There's no need
for you to be requesting any more money except for
the fact that he wants to make sure that he
continues to keep people accustomed to this whole idea of socialism.
(05:29):
And when he gave his acceptance speech, even the most
prominent leftists in your legacy media we're calling it out going. Yeah,
that really was the complete opposite of what he ran
on once he began to gain momentum in the mayor's race.
He's a chameleon. As I mentioned last hour, mom, Donnie
(05:49):
is really like if rage against the machine got elected
a bunch of young, wealthy whiny, godless radical socialists pretending
as if they are byproducts of oppression and the dangers
of socialism. Communism should never be taken lightly. Mom Donniana's
voters shouldn't be mocked relentlessly. The majority of them ignorantly
(06:13):
supported him because he's just simply anti Trump. He's the
anti Trump, So I'm going to vote for him. He
cannot deliver, as I mentioned, on the vast majority of
what he ran on. Most of that would require raising taxes,
which he cannot do. Think about how virtually powerless Minneapolis
man Baby may or Mom Jeans Jacob Frye has been.
(06:36):
The policies he can enact will be one just like
fry and they'll see the fastest negative consequence is attached
to that policing policy unrelated to taxes, but still burdensome
on businesses. Tourism is going to plummet. The only people
that are benefiting now in terms of business in New
York City are apparently U haul rental companies. I had
(06:57):
a friend of the show share with me a screen
grab of all the U U hauls that are sold
out in New York City. Now, maybe that's a typical
thing that takes place, but one cat help will wonder.
There's a lot of individuals who were simply waiting to
see how this mayoral race played out before they decided
to play. You know what, I think I'm gonna move
out state. The good news is much like people who
(07:21):
were suggesting it would be better for Fote to win
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
As a part of yesterday's commentary as well, we now
get to watch the rant the radical anti American socialist
policies fail in New York City as they always do.
But speaking to the point of mom Donnie and what
he plans to do. John Solomon, political commentator was on
(07:51):
Real America's Voice and he said they're one of his
associates quietly attended a Democrat Socialist of America a strategy meeting.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You see in very subtle ways the extremists that he
really is. That he tried to paint down a little
bit in the last few weeks of the election. But
I think the most important story for everybody to read
today is up on justinews dot com. It was written
by my extraordinary colleague Jerry Dunley, be great investigative reporter.
He got inside the DSA New York, the group which
(08:24):
is the group that mom Donnie belonged to before he
started to distance himself, and they had a meeting this
weekend that they allowed Jerry to attend, and you can
see what they talked about. They are going to force
the City of New York to divest and from anything
that is Jewish. They're going to stop the New York
Police Department from training and getting certain capabilities that they
(08:44):
don't like. They're going to regulate land sales. You may
not be able to sell your piece of land in
the future to who you want if the mayor doesn't
like that. And then there is a lot of other
agendas that are all in there. The purpose of this
meeting is to make sure that the group that helped
elect Mandami in the primary and last night will have
(09:05):
a seat at the table and will pressure Mamdanni until
he delivers what he told them privately he would deliver.
The wish list looks like something from a Soviet republic,
not something from an American capitalist city like New York City.
That is the Mamdani you're going to see from this
point forward, not the jovial, cool looking kid from New
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York that talked a good game. This is a guy
that is beholden to the socialist who got him in office,
and their values are very different from those that built
the Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I hope that they do move forward with everything they
possibly can do because they are going because they are
going to be limited. People need to see the real
world example of what these policies can actually do. And
what I don't want to see happen is sort of
a tinkering around the edges of their core beliefs to
(09:58):
try to shore up any sort of level of positivity
that they can spew and try to convince the public
of what they're doing. Because the policies that we already have,
and especially in New York City to what John Solomon
was saying, they are very pro capitalism, and so there's
a lot of safeguards just built into the system that
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prevent individuals like Mom Donnie from going one hundred percent
forward with their socialist ideals. And with that they get
a bit of a bit of cover. They can continue
to talk about their rhetoric and what they want to do,
but then they can still complain, well, we can't do this,
and it's a system. We got to tear it down.
You got to keep voting for me so we can
get rid of it. No, I hope they go all
(10:42):
in on everything they possibly can, because that is the
surest way that we can see just what an abject
failure their policies are going to be, because they always are.
Socialism never works. The only reason why it's grabbed hold
now is is because we have a failed education system
here in the United States run by Democrats who have
(11:08):
made sure to ignore history relating to how damaging these
far leftist policies are, how many millions of people have
died throughout history because of these policies, And now you
have individuals running and winning elections because the ignorant masses
just fall for it. The interviews with the young people
(11:30):
in New York City, women out there. I did a
video yesterday, this group of women cheering for the policies
of Mamdani, wanting to see a caliphate in New York City,
saying they want to see sharia law in New York City.
Just you sit back and you go. Is anybody going
(11:51):
to tell them what that would actually mean for them
if it was ever adopted? But they don't know. They're ignorant.
To it. They have done their own due diligence. They
bought into the lies that they've been told by politicians,
and the education system has absolutely failed them. Saint Paul
Mayor elect Cahuli her on how she won and what
(12:15):
she plans to do.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Next.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We'll share with you some points from this article, plus
we have some audio from the mayor elect, and we
will return to a story I brought to you at
the end of yesterday's show regarding a potential emerging fraud
scandal relating to Snap benefits here in Minnesota on Twin
Cities News Talk d All studios. You are listening to
iHeartRadio AM eleven thirty and FM one O three point five.
(12:41):
This is the Twin Cities News talk station. Yeah, you
just had a guide stay here and lit'st off right.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Ten policies that all.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Sound extremely communists to me.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
But you still keep calling this guy a socialist just
like he wants.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
You to do.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Why we just continue to dumb down society and then
wonder why it's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This is what we call splitting hairs. I've had a
lot of people that have left this comment. I completely
understand what it is that you're saying for the sake
of generalization and just commentary, yes, you're right. I could
go down and label it communism. He claims in his
(13:35):
own words, he's a Democrat socialist. That's who he belongs to. Ultimately,
they're both bad. We're talking about the policies and often
I just defer to the baseline, surface level of what
it is that these individuals are claiming to be. I'll
go down the road on occasion and call them what
they are truly in all of this and play a
(13:57):
comment like yours. But it also invites pushback in commentary
from individuals that want to go and argue the point
and ends up just becoming unnecessary. It's a long way
to say that, you know, we generalize in radio. I
get what it is. If you pay attention to the stuff,
you understand it. If you think you're going to end
up changing hearts and minds on the left by simply
(14:19):
switching up the terminology, I'm going to argue that it
doesn't matter for a lot of individuals. To the individuals
that you want to reach, everybody else, they already know
what's going on. So thank you for the comment though.
From the iHeartRadio app, I appreciate it. Kahuli hur wants
her term as Saint Paul mayor to me different, maybe
(14:39):
not ideologically apart from the outgoing may or, Melvin Carter.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune article in my Hands,
but more connected, more in the community, more curious about
what's happening and what people are saying. In an interview
with the Star Tribune, she talked about how entering into
the mayoral race just three months before elect day, how
(15:01):
she followed a data informed plan that gave her confidence.
That plan was inspired by her friend, the late DFL
House speaker Melissa Hortman, who told her that often politicians
had to earn their seats the blueprint for the blueprint
for winning races, lots of conversations. You know, Yeah, that's
good advice. Personal connections matter, She said. Her campaign knocked
(15:28):
on some forty thousand doors in Saint Paul, and by
late October, her yellow and purple lawn signs had popped
up all over the city. There is a conversation to
be had, not this morning, but there is a conversation
to be had at some point that if you had,
for the sake of argument, somewhat unlimited resources, unlimited campaign resources.
(15:54):
More specifically, you could put a conservative into power in
either of the twin cities. It's not happening anytime in
the future, which is why there's no need to have
this conversation right now. It would be a difficult road
and task. That being said, if you had the right
(16:15):
financial backing and the ability to have somebody out there
who could do the legwork, you could end up winning
elections in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. It may take a
cycle or two, and it may take a lot of
money to go and do so, but it's not inevitable
that a Democrat is always going to win. And again,
(16:38):
a conversation for another day, But that point in here
about how she launched this campaign three months before election day.
It also speaks to voter turnout and the lack thereof
and what I keep saying on the show about what
Republicans need to do heading into next year. Unless we're
you know, worry less about reaching republicans. Republicans need to
(16:59):
worry less about whether or not their candidate ends up
getting the nomination at the top of the ticket and
make sure that regardless, we don't beat each other up
during primary season and we support whoever that nominee is.
Her said that she wants to smooth out the city
and the way that they deal with the process of
(17:21):
issues Department of Public Works, Department of Safety Inspections, planning.
If we want to build a city that has an
abundant and affordable housing, if we want to grow retail
and commercial business, those three departments are key departments in
doing that. The article goes on to say it might
sound dull compared to big cities Carter brought, excuse me,
(17:42):
big big ideas that Carter brought to the beginning of
his tenure. Her said, but she thinks the city needs
to nail down the basic processes. I know that people
are saying, well, she doesn't have a huge, big policy ideas,
so like, what is she putting in front of us?
Her said she wants to run an administration that listens
to Saint Paul residence. But she said building consensus does
(18:05):
not mean compromising her values. During her campaign, her drew
criticism from Saint Paul environmentalists and bike advocates, who saw
her questions about the proposed reconstruction of say Summit Avenue
as evidence that she was more conservative than Carter. And she,
of course pushed back on that idea. I am no
more conservative than Melvin Carter. Her said, if people just
(18:28):
look at my negative history, I excuse me my legislative history.
I was a slip. There wasn't it. My legislative history.
I have been a progressive.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I've received several talkbacks along this issue. Let me go
ahead and play this one from a friend of the show.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Hey, good morning, John Bruce and Shockby. You know, I
have a question about that Kohouly her. Now, she claimed
that she was a non citizen, and I haven't really
checked into it, but can she legally hold office in
Minnesota if she's not a citizen.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't think she can.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
At the federal level, but I think she should be investigated.
Maybe I should be talking to her too. I can't
believe it hasn't happened already.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Have a good day. My understanding on that, and I
welcome anybody who has further information. But my understanding on
that was when she made that comment, and we talked
about it here on the show, when it happened about
how she was illegal and she said these statements in
front of the House of Representatives. She was exaggerating on
her own personal situation because it was beneficial in the
(19:35):
moment for her argument to try to go and reach
and draw some sympathy from individuals over the issue of
illegal immigration by stating that she was illegal. My understanding
is that she is absolutely able to go and hold
the office, and her labeling of herself being an illegal
(19:56):
was not accurate in the way that would have prevented
her from holding office. But again, I go and invite
anybody that has further clarification on that. That was my understanding,
going back to initially when we covered that issue, when
people were saying exactly the same things that Bruce and
others have asked me on the talkbacks this morning, we
will get to your talkback of the day, and I
do want to play you a portion of this interview
(20:19):
that Couleiher did with the Pioneer Presses they were walking
the streets of Saint Paul. There's some interesting commentary to
get to on that. Plus USDA Secretary of Brook Rawlins
talking about snap benefits, the states that did hand over
their information regarding snap benefits the data to the federal
(20:40):
government and those that didn't and what they discovered and
whether or not Minneapolis and specifically the state of Minnesota
is on the verge of another fraud controversy relating to
Snap benefits. We'll get to this coming up next here
on Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one
on three five FM tomorrow on a Freedom Friday. Hey,
(21:07):
first November Freedom Friday. Not that it matters, ay k Kamar.
We'll be joining us in the studio and we'll have
both Gracea Keating and Catherine Johnson from the American Experiment podcast.
I was a special guest on their one hundredth episode,
(21:27):
and truth be told, they said I can only be
the one hundredth guest if they were both allowed to
go ahead and come in on Friday. So I had
to boot Max Rhymer. That's a total lie. That didn't
happen at all. Max can't make it in on Friday.
So both Catherine and Grace will be joining us in
the studio. All right, before we play you a quick
(21:49):
interview here with Kohuli, her mayor electing Saint Paul talking
with the Pioneer Press. Let's get to you your talk
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Speaker 7 (22:08):
And John Russ. Here, we're reflecting past couple of days,
especially with the Democrat wins and everything. You know, we've
been winning a lot. Trump has been straight up taking
it to his agenda and just knocking things out, and yeah,
eventually you're going to lose some and so at the
end of the day, it's gotta keep trucking along. Trump's
(22:29):
not even been in the office for one year yet
He's still got a lot of time and things continue
to happen. It's right, stay rossy, my friends.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, I like it, Russ, And that's why you're the
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Speaker 4 (22:44):
After the last night's results, the decision facing.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
All Americans could not be more clear.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
We have a choice between communism and common sense.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Does that make sense to you? Common sense? It's common
sense or communism. So I mentioned how you know, with
unlimited campaign resources and maybe election cycle or two, you
could get good people elected to city councils to the
(23:14):
mayor's office in both Minneapolis and Saint Paul. And I
know that sounds really simple, but it's like Ahulia Her
said in this interview with the Star Tribune, and you know,
going off of advice from late House Speaker Melissa Hortman,
the blueprint to winning races, lots of conversations, those personal
connections matter. I say that. Listen to this, you know,
(23:38):
in light of this interview. So this was a reporter
over at the Pioneer Press, Frederick Mellow, talking with her
in the wake of her winning the election, and they
were talking they were walking on the streets of Saint Paul's.
So the audio is a little wonky here, So you
got to forgive me. And I did some editing because
there was a lot of needing to stop and avoid
(24:01):
people and that kind of stuff. But I wanted to
give you just a snapshot of newly elected mayor in
Saint Paul Khully her and her mentality after winning the office.
You're thinking of new department leaders.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
New cabinet, new staff, kind of be a pretty big
change over.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Yeah, well, I would say that it's not necessarily that
I'm looking at you know new it's that I need
to do an evaluation. We really have to if we
want to move our city into focusing on the core
city services, then we need to make sure that we
have the right people in the right place.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And it just require us to do an assessment.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Yeah, there's big things that Carter set in motion, like
a four part gun restrictions, you know, for do you
think you continue that work or do I think you
had called some of it performative in a debate?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I think I have to figure out.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
And this is the part I don't know is like
where is it? Is it already? Has it already been
proposed to city council?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Has it not?
Speaker 10 (24:56):
Is it has it already been been put forward pasthic?
I don't really Because my work is at the legislature,
I have not really been digging into the detailed progress
of that, and so I just I need to take
a look at where that is. But like, if it's
already done and the momentum is already you know, it
has already moved forward with that, like, I don't see
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a reason to undo that work.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That is incredible to me, and it speaks to what
I was talking about. If you had somebody with resources
and a ground game that could just go out and
reach to the community, you would have a possibility of
putting in again, better quality candidates. Go Holly hr One
(25:43):
in large part because she reached out to the Mung
community and they absolutely supported her in doing so. She's
right when she says, I'm going to be listening to people.
She made contact. You had Carter and office with these
big ideas, but probably was very disconnected from the community.
But to the point, as long there's any substance going
on here, she's not even aware of the movement for
(26:06):
the ordinance that would limit your ability to keep in
bare arms within Saint Paul, the movement, the movement towards
these policies, that's complete and totally frivolous. Because we have
the preemption law that Mayor Carter's been pushing forward and
the council's been talking about the past few weeks. You
(26:28):
would think that this would have been a part of
her campaign. You would think that this would have been
something that would be asked. And she's like, I don't
even know what's going on with it, almost as if
to say she has no idea about the gun control ordinances.
That the city Council and the Mayor's office were proposing.
I just I was stunned, stunned by that.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
You're not going to get rid of the fifteen dollars
minimum wage or anything like that. You've worked closely on that, right, absolutely,
But how about the college accounts for newborns?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You know, I don't have any plans to be getting
rid of things. I am somebody who I like to
be really thorough and detailed, which means that assessments really matter.
So I do really need to come in and take
a look at where we are and how sustainable the
program is in order before I can make any kind
of decision about what's going to happen with some of
these things.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
During debates, you said, re evaluate it, don't necessarily end
it for the Summit Avenue bike trail or the Mississippi
River Corridor promenade.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Yeah, somebody actually say to me, now that the election's over,
how do you really feel about it now? I feel
the same way that it is so important for us.
I think that when people come in and they think
they know everything, or they have all the ideas, or
they have the right answers, is when you usually go wrong.
And so it's important for us to make sure that
I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Everything right, and so I have to come in and
be diligent and then review and make good decisions based
on what I'm finding. And so that really is always
the foundation of when I look at something, if I'm going.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
To do it or not audible.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Okay, just last question, I mean, what can people expect?
It's just, uh, do you have any any surprises you
want to spring on people?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now?
Speaker 9 (28:04):
So it's uh, it buffers the impact on Janior first.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
So I think that there's a lot of work to
be done. And if I you know, I don't make promises,
I can't keep it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My promise to the.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
People was that I would work on the nuts and
bolts of the city. I would do core city services,
and that's what I planned to do. And so that's
that's my plan.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
Nothing to spring on people for first Asian American mayor,
first female mayor in female mayor in.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The history of in the history of.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Saint Paul, Yes, and first Mung mayor. Are you the
third Mung mayor in the nation. I think I found
two others.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
I only know Shan Tao, but I don't know who
is no longer a mayor in England.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
But I don't know the other one. Oh, there was
another one I found and I don't know. It's someone
in California, but small town. I think it could be. Yeah,
it could be. Okay, I'll look it up.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Thank you, thank you, congrats.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's listen. It is so ridiculously typical. Like the most
substance of that entire piece was the end when they
were just talking about her background and identity. There was
nothing I'm really going to change anything. I don't really
know about the gun control ordinance. Yeah, you know about
the funds for babies and all that. I don't know.
I'll look at that later. Like what does she even
(29:12):
run on. I mean, clearly Mayor Carter wasn't doing a
good job. People wanted to change. But really it just
seems as if they just gender swapped the mayor's office.
I don't know what she's going to be doing any
differently beyond listening to people moret so. Opportunities are available,
(29:36):
but it takes the resources to do so. And I
understand the arguments of you know that Republicans don't have
a finite amount of money to go and work from
and needs to be placed in areas where you can
make the most benefit. And when it comes to mayor
races in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, I understand they would
rather place that money elsewhere, but it does serve as
an example of these elections could be won if there
(30:00):
were unlimited resources and it was thought that this would
be beneficial.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
This new mayor of Saint Paul kind of gives me
Amy klobash Ar vibes. You know, I think she's going
to be the mayor of small things, which may not
be a bad thing.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
You are waking up today and you're gonna see me
on your Twitter account because I made it here at
one fifteen am through the snow. Donald Trump Wins called
me snow woman for a reason. Nothing will stop me,
So I hope nothing stopped you from coming to our
events in Conquered and Milford and Portsmith.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
See you there, Hello, America. I'm Amy Klobashar, and I
will beat Donald Trump. So apparently I'm pronouncing her name wrong.
It's na Kahuli, It's Cully. I don't I okay, not
the first time that I've gone pronounced individuals names on
(31:01):
the show.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Morning John, Great Show. Connie here, Kahuli Her has no plan.
Melviyn was asleep, figured he'd get elected again because well whatever,
So that's her plan. There isn't a plan. Have a
great day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You really like that, Connie. I just I almost want
to get that drop.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Morning John, Great Show. Connie here, Kahuli her has no plan.
Melvin was asleep, figured he'd get elected again because well whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You're absolutely right. That is not a dig on you,
by the way, I just found that really really entertaining.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I wish the new mayor of Saint Paul would talk
about property taxes and taxes in general and what she
can do to lower those, because they are going nowhere
but up, up, up, and with that school referendum up
up up even more.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Leave it. So let's spend some time. I closed the
show out with a little bit of this yesterday, but
We've got some time to get into it further, and
I'm waiting to see what else emerges from this potential scandal.
We'll start off with USDA Secretary brook Rawlins. On her
first day, they told every state to send their snap
(32:22):
data so that they could make sure illegal immigrants weren't
getting benefits meant for American families. Twenty nine states stepped up,
twenty one Blue states refused, and two sued the federal
government for even asking. Here's a bit of Secretary USDA
Secretary Brook Rawlins on Fox News Day.
Speaker 13 (32:42):
Day one of USDA February thirteenth, is we sent letters
to every governor in America being very clear that no
illegal aliens can use.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
SNAP zero zero zero.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
We asked every state for the first time in history,
and this was in February, to send us their data
and let us with Doge and a war room, actually
start going through this data to better understand how this
explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased
almost forty percent on this program in just a couple
of years under the Biden administration. Of course, we know
(33:15):
they were trying to buy the election, but that's a
conversation for another time. And since we have asked for
that data, twenty nine states have complied. Complied of course
almost all the Red states, a couple of the you know,
the couple of Blue states too.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
But in that.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
Data, and I haven't talked about this yet publicly, in
that data, we have found we've studied about one hundred
billion dollars in spend. We have found thousands and thousands
of illegal use of the EBT card. We have been
moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost seven hundred
thousand people. I think we've moved off just since the
President took office. We've arrested about one hundred and eighteen people.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
So this has been ongoing.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
But Rachel, to your point, what this conversation has allowed
is a national spotlight on a broken and corrupt program.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
We found one guy.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
In six different states getting a benefit. We found about
five thousand people that are dead who are still getting benefits.
Like it is time to drastically reform this program so
that we can make sure that those who are truly needy,
truly vulnerable, are getting what they need and the rest
of the corruption goes away and we can serve the
American taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It was ak Kamara putting up a post online that
brought this to my attention and what he was responding
to in writing. Under the Walls administration, SNAP issuances increased
by one hundred and seventy four percent, while total recipients
only increased by twenty one percent, But the state's population
(34:47):
increased by one point eight percent. So Ak asked the question,
how much of it is fraudulent, given that we've become
the fraud capital of the US, nearing an estimated six
billion dollars in fraud, And what he was referring to
was Representative Pam Altendorf had written, why is Minnesota refusing
(35:08):
to give the federal government our SNAP records? I think
I found what the Minnesota DFL is hiding. And what
she showed on X was the chart showing that Minnesota
has a one hundred and seventy four percent increase in
SNAP issuances. No other state even came close over the
(35:28):
course of a few years. And what have we seen
throughout the examples of the fraud that's been exposed to
just this year alone. It's its exact same thing, a sudden,
massive increase in the amount of money going to these benefits,
and yet not seeing the example of the individuals that
(35:50):
are supposed to be receiving it, whether it's feeding our future,
whether it's the housing and stabilization services with there it
is the autism centers, and here you have SNAP benefits.
It's almost as if the Democrats may have gone and
(36:10):
exposed something that has been taking place unintentionally with their
continued desire to keep the government shut down. One more
quick talkback relating to the new mayor elected in Saint Paul.
I wanted to share with you before we wrap things
up this morning.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 14 (36:30):
Now, she has a plan to make a plan, to
make a plan, to make a plan, and that's how
for yours will pass by and then having the great
support of her community will help her. Again, those are
hard working individuals the among community. Unfortunately they chose an
individual without any perspective on their lives. Sorry for them
(36:53):
and for Saint Paul.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
You have a great day, buye. Thank you for the
talk back, and thank you for your time this morning
listening to the show. Of course, if you missed any
portion of it all you want to share it with
friends and family. Check out the podcast that'll be available
on the iHeartRadio app and the Master Control booth. This morning.
Is Devin, Good to see him. He'll have those podcasts
up shortly tomorrow. Another Freedom Friday. Get your talkbacks in
(37:17):
early on and off topic comments all morning long. We'll
have Catherine Johnson and Grace keating from Center of the
American experiment in ak Kamara live in studio. Have a
great Thursday. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning. Bye.
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