Dems Put the HIPAA in Hypocrite

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A scary half hour at UW-Whitewater on the first day
of classes and on the second day of classes at
Milwaukee Public Schools. There were no classes. All of that
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on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts. The jury

(01:27):
in the Clancy case sent home for the day the
judge saying, please, please, Try again tomorrow for a second
straight day. The jury handed Judge Sullivan a note saying
we can't reach a decision. We have been deliberating for
nearly 30 hours across five days. We are potentially hung.

(01:48):
What happens if a judge declares a hung jury? The
case results in a mistrial. That does not mean that
Clancy walks. It does not mean that she automatically gets
remanded to the custody of a mental health facility. The
state of Massachusetts, or excuse me, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
would then decide whether or not it's going to retry

(02:11):
Clancy or it's just going to not retry the matter
at all. My guess in a case this high profile,
there would almost certainly be a retrial and we will
see what happens. Here's what happens when a jury tells
a judge that that it just can't come to a decision.

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This actually occurs not super often, but more often than
you might think. The jury isn't automatically hung, nor can
a judge simply force a jury to keep working to
try to just get through to the one or two
remaining holdouts. Sometimes a judge will ask members of the

(02:57):
jury how many are holding out. Now, they're obviously not
when they're sitting in the courtroom, when they're in open court,
they're not going to buy a show of hands. Who
thinks this crazy person is guilty? Who thinks she's actually
not guilty because she's so crazy. You don't do that,
but you ask the foreperson maybe during a sidebar, a

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judge can go into the jury's chambers and talk to
them privately. There are all manner of things, but, but,
a lot of times what a judge will do is
try to figure out, okay, how many of you are
still dissenting from the main verdict? What can happen is
the judge can declare a mistrial. He can say, all right,

(03:43):
the jury is hopelessly deadlocked. They're not going to be
able to agree on a verdict. I am declaring a
mistrial and we will meet to discuss next steps, uh,
Then the ball is essentially in the Commonwealth's court in
the jurisdiction in which this case takes place to determine

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whether or not there is going to be a retrial.
It basically just stretches out the procedure. But what happened
today is the judge basically lit a fire under the
jury and said, look, There is no indication any other
jury would have a better job or do a better
job of coming to a unanimous verdict than you are.

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So he gives what's known in federal law, at least,
as an Allen charge. When a jury says we're deadlocked,
we can't come to a decision, the judge says, all right,
try again. Re-examine the evidence. Try to reach a unanimous verdict.
This is also known as a dynamite charge. It's meant

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to blow up a deadlock, get it? Dynamite charge. Sometimes
it's called a hammer charge, something like that. It dates
all the way back to the 1800s, a case called
Allen v. United States, which sets some parameters that are
still used today for how juries can be instructed. Because
believe it or not, one of the most significant parts
of a trial, one of the parts that lawyers will

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argue over endlessly if they're allowed to, is the actual
instructions given to a jury by a judge. Why is that?
Why are jury instructions in almost every jurisdiction and federal
law pretty much standardized? Because how a judge instructs a
jury can have more of an impact even than the

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evidence presented at trial because these are laypersons. These are
not attorneys themselves. they're relying on people who are attorneys
and they're relying especially on the judge that the one
who has been presiding over the trial the one they
see as the authority figure the one who is the
authority figure in that courtroom and presiding over that trial
they're relying on him or her to know what they're

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talking about a okay if you find this then you
must come to this work if you find this this
is especially important when you have lesser included offenses lesser
charges that the jury can get a guilty verdict on
it for example like in this case they don't believe
that it's first-degree murder if instead they believe it's manslaughter

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they can actually come to that conclusion if they are
convinced beyond reasonable doubt of certain aspects of the evidence
presented that lead up to it. They don't actually have
Allen charges in many. In fact, I think it's about 50%
of states in this country because oftentimes because the judge

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has such an outsized impact on jurors, if a judge says,
all right, you got to, blast through this deadlock and
we have to have a verdict jurors can feel like
there is undue pressure on them to change what their
conscience truly drives them to come to the conclusion if

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it's guilty if it's not guilty the holdouts can be
put under a tremendous amount of pressure so that they
have to, well, you know what, let's just give in.
Everybody else thinks Lindsey Clancy is guilty. We'd better come
to the same conclusion, especially if it's an 11 to
1 and there is one holdout. Many states say, hey,

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wait a second. The judge said, you better figure this out.
Could get the case to be decided against the defendant
based not on the evidence, but on the idea that
the judge might be mad at them. So in Massachusetts,
there are what is known as Tui Rodriguez instructions or

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Tui Rodriguez charge. This is a version of the Allen charge.
And it says, hey, do your best to come to
a conclusion. And that is what Judge Sullivan told these
jurors about two hours ago.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
In order to bring 12 minds to a unanimous result,
you must examine the questions submitted to you with candor
and with proper regard and deference and respect.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
To the opinions of each other.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
You should consider that it is desirable that the case
be decided and that you have been selected in the
same manner and from the same source from which any
future jury would be. There is no reason to suppose
that the case will ever be submitted to 12 persons
more intelligent, more impartial, or more competent to decide that.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
More or clearer evidence will be produced.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
And with this in mind, it's your duty to decide
the case if you can do it conscientiously.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
So that's your basic Allen charge. The judge spoke for
about three minutes, but that's the gist of it. Hey,
there is no guarantee that another jury could get it right.
You are just as competent. You are just as qualified.
as any other random group of 12 people in this state,
in this Commonwealth, in this jurisdiction, in Plymouth, to be

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able to decide this case. And if another 12 people
are picked, if we have to present months and months
and months worth of evidence again, it's entirely possible that
we get to this exact same point. So if you can, however, however,
do not betray your conscience. Do not think that another

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juror's opinion, seeing the same evidence that you did, is
somehow better or somehow worse than your opinion. But if
there is something that can get you holdouts to change
your mind, if you can, in fact, come to a
unanimous verdict, I would strongly urge you to do so.
You see how that can be seen as somehow coercive,

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somehow getting inside a juror's head and saying, maybe this
is why there are some serious constitutional questions about Allen
charges to the jury. Because if a jury says to
the judge, we are deadlocked. We have no hope of
ever reaching a verdict. We are not going to, I'm

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not sure the jury even knows at this point in
the Clancy case that they have that power. If, The
judge says, I'm going to ask you to come back
tomorrow morning. They can do that and say, all right.
They go for an hour. First of all, they can refuse.
They can. It is impossible. shocking how much power juries

(10:36):
have in our court system which is why no attorney
ever wants to go to a jury trial you always
want to get some sound like tiger woods for example
tiger woods just copped a plea deal to his dui
case or driving under the influence of pills i don't
think he was drinking but he was under the influence
of painkillers and he reached a plea deal today Nobody

(10:58):
wants to put their fate in the hands of a
jury because you just don't know what's going to happen.
You could have jury nullification, most famous. form of that.
The most famous example of that was more than 30
years ago now in the O.J. Simpson case, where the
jurors clearly heard all of the evidence, considered the evidence,
and said, well, this one cop who found the glove

(11:19):
once said the N-word, so that's going to invalidate everything.
And the jurors actually later admitted that this was just
as much about racial justice as it was about actual justice,
which should have been the single most horrifying thing this
country ever heard with respect to the criminal justice system,
that we're going to let a double murderer walk free

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because we're still ticked off about the Rodney King beating
two years, three years earlier. But juries do have the
power to do that. There's nothing– Judge Lance Ito couldn't
overrule the jury and say, well, you people are freaking morons.
You deliberated for 45 minutes after hearing six months' worth
of evidence. He could not overrule them. The jury's say

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is final. If the jury said, no, judge, we're not
going to come back tomorrow, we cannot come to a decision,
we're hopelessly deadlocked, this case is essentially over. It would
be over and the judge would have no question. He
would have no choice but to declare a mistrial. All right.
Does that kind of explain where things are? See, what

(12:28):
I'm trying to do with the Lindsay Clancy case is
instead of doing the same tired talking points to try
to get you a little bit more informed about what
actually is going on here with the jury. And the jury,
I think, is doing its due diligence because this is
a very difficult question. about whether at the time of
this triple murder, Lindsay Clancy was in fact unable to

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appreciate the gravity of her consequences, unable to determine the
difference between right and wrong, unable to comport her behavior
with the law, with standard community standards about morality and
that sort of thing. It's not, yeah, okay, she's nuts.
She went crazy and killed her three children. She's a
homicidal maniac. Yes, okay, great. Did she have the ability

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to discern between right and wrong when she was killing
those kids? That's the only question that matters. It's a very,
very difficult question in this case. I, after examining all
of the evidence, as I said yesterday, insomnia has served
me well in learning about this case because I stayed
up a couple of nights and just read a whole

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lot of transcripts and briefs in this case. And wow,
this evidence really does suggest that she was doctor shopping,
that she was trying to get a specific diagnosis, that
she was actually planning to murder these kids, or she
was planning to do something dramatic and was trying desperately
to provide a mental health cover. She was looking, I think,

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for a diagnosis of postpartum psychosis and didn't get it.
The fact, to me, that is most dispositive in this case,
that she heard a voice, she said, telling her to
kill the kids. That voice... only manifested at the time
she was killing the kids, in the 18 minutes that
she was engaged in a triple murder. That was the

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only time. She didn't hear any voices. She didn't hear
any commands before the murders, before she sent her husband out.
And she didn't hear any after. That is very bizarre.
Not unheard of, but very bizarre. And points to someone
who is making this up after the fact. All right,

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that is not all that went on at the Lindsay
Clancy case, but we'll get to the rest of it
in the unhinged liberal of the day coming up later
this hour when we come back from this commercial break.
First day of school at UW-Whitewater didn't quite go according
to plan. Second day of school at Milwaukee Public Schools
didn't happen at all. That's why we're providing a little

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bit different analysis than what you might be used to
if you're just scrolling through TikTok on the Lindsay Clancy case.
We will, of course, continue to discuss this. My very
strong suspicion now, folks, I know I told you after
the initial hung jury yesterday or after the initial note

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from the jury saying, hey, we are deadlocked. We don't
think we're going to be able to come to a conclusion.
I said, what happens generally is the jurors will get
together and say, okay, how many holdouts do we have?
Can we hammer through this? A lot of times there
is a verdict immediately afterwards because one of them just

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sort of caves. If there's one holdout, this suggests to
me that there are multiple notes after a second day
of deliberations. The jury is saying we're still deadlocked. We
still can't figure this out. It would not surprise me.
It would not surprise me if they say it for
a third straight day. And then finally, the judge says,

(16:09):
all right, I really have no choice here. I've done
my Allen charge or in Massachusetts, Tui Rodriguez charge. I
sort of lit a fire under him. We've tried to
break the deadlock. It's not happening. Hung jury, mistrial, back
to square one, essentially. And then we get to have

(16:29):
this insane debate. over how women are reacting to the
Clancy case, which I will admit is truly unhinged. Speaking
of which, the unhinged liberal of the day, and yes,
the nut who was arrested at the Lindsay Clancy trial
does appear to be a liberal. That's coming up later
this hour. UW-Whitewater today issued a shelter-in-place order. It calls

(16:58):
a An active threat to life safety alert. At about
10 after 11 this morning, there was a message sent
to all students. And in all buildings, there was an
alarm that sounded with a voice saying there is an
active threat to life safety. Please shelter in place. This

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is not a drill. went one of the text university
police asked the whitewater campus to remain sheltered in place
until told otherwise couple of minutes after that there was
another update there is an active threat to life safety
on the whitewater campus all caps run hide fight are

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that's pretty terrifying especially since today was the first day
of class Well, alarms sounded across the campus for about
a half hour while UW-Whitewater police and multiple jurisdictions all investigated.
Turns out it was a false alarm. This was the
statement sent by Chancellor Corey A. King and UW-Whitewater Chief

(18:06):
of Police Matthew Keterlin today. Per our safety protocols, we
initiated our emergency communication system until police gave the all clear.
It was reported to UW-Whitewater police that an individual walked
into Anderson Hall with what people believed was a weapon
and was yelling. The individual left the office without incident.

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So for about 27 minutes, the UW-Whitewater community was terrified
that I was getting texts from parents who just sent
their kids to Whitewater a couple of days ago as freshmen. Hey, Dan,
what's going on? Is there an active shooting? I said, sure,
sounds like it. 11.37 a.m., the school texted students, there

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is no threat to life safety. Police have confirmed there
was no threat to life safety earlier today when the
alert system was activated. We will share more information as
soon as we are able. Then we waited for about
an hour and a half until the statement from the
chancellor and chief of police. We are grateful for all

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who responded to today's incident and work to ensure the
safety of everyone on the Whitewater campus. While we are
relieved there was no active threat, we understand how deeply
unsettling these situations could be for our university community, especially
on the first day of classes. So they are now
offering counselors to help with the trauma of the half

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hour of terror. That apparently they caused by thinking there
was an active shoot because what some guy looked weird.
It was a weird looking guy and he was, so was,
was he yelling? Did he have a weapon? What was
going on here? Was it just your standard issue? First

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day freak out. That said, you cannot take any chances
with this sort of thing. you do have to take
proper precautions just in case there's an active shooter. But
we went real quick from weird dude yelling and he
may have a gun to everything is okay. The problem

(20:25):
with that is sort of like with the, I think,
increased frequency of the use of the emergency alert system
for severe weather. It's the chicken little phenomenon, right? The
sky is falling. If enough warnings are given that the

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sky is falling, when it actually does fall, people kind
of silence their phones. Maybe they don't go in the basement.
Maybe they don't. I'm not saying that when there is
a report of– and I'm also, also, just so we're clear,
not discounting the possibility that this was a swatting incident.

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that this was somebody who called on the for that
was actually my first inclination when it was report okay
there was no actual status oh well it's the first
day of school someone as a prank or someone as
with this by the way is not a prank and
you should be absolutely prosecuted to the fullest extent of

(21:26):
the law i think you should have prison time for
making false reports that said that for those who don't
know what's watching is It's when– this for years was
a common thing, and I mean real common thing on
the political left. Every couple of months, you would hear
a prominent conservative say, yeah, the SWAT team was at

(21:47):
my house because someone said that we were being held
at gunpoint. Usually what happens, the call is someone help,
I'm inside this house now. and they're holding us captive
or help. I just saw somebody rush into this house
with a gun. It's designed to send the SWAT team

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in guns blazing and terrify whoever it is. I believe
that SWATing should be punished by like a mandatory prison
sentence because it is dangerous for law enforcement officers. It's
dangerous for the targets of SWATing. It's dangerous for just
innocent bystanders. It's an incredible waste of law enforcement resources

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and for some jackass to be cackling his head off.
I'm not saying that's what happened here, but that was
my first thought. I'm not discounting that possibility. The other
possibility is are we really not verifying these tips too
closely before we're– so an unverified report of some dude
who might or might not have had a gun, looked

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creepy and was yelling– That triggers a campus-wide lockdown and
terrifies the entire Whitewater community? Not a great look on
the first day of class. But again, until we get
a full accounting of what exactly happened, how exactly the

(23:13):
Whitewater police and campus community got it so wrong, We
just won't know. All right. Did Milwaukee Public Schools get
it wrong when it canceled classes on the second day
of school? Folks, I had to run some errands today.
I was outside. I was at the gas station and

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a woman who happened to be at the pump next
to me just totally unprompted. So we kind of made
eye contact and she's, you know, going to her cushion. Man,
it's hotter than hell out here. Yes, it certainly is.
And she told me she didn't want to go out,
but her 80-year-old mother wanted to go out and run errands.
And I said, well, you got to get mom out

(23:55):
of the house. I can confirm. It was hot. It
was humid. It was real uncomfortable. I would not want
to sit in a building without air conditioning. Was it
so dangerous that kids couldn't be in school?

Speaker 3 (24:11):
No.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
No.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
But the better question is, why is it that only
about half of MPS's buildings have air conditioning? Because you
won't believe how much money Milwaukee Public Schools has gotten
just in the last couple of years. We'll discuss when
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(24:33):
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(24:55):
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That coming up in the four o'clock hour here on

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the Dan O'Donnell Show. Now, Milwaukee Public Schools announced yesterday,
the first day of school, that today, the second day
of school, classes would be canceled. We got the breaking
news alert right before the 5 o'clock hour yesterday. I
had to read it twice because I wasn't sure it

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was real. I thought, there's no way. They're canceling for
extreme heat. when the heat isn't going to be that extreme.
MPS policy says that when the heat index is above 95,
they're going to have to close. Well, the heat index
clearly topped 100 two days ago, but today it didn't

(26:05):
top 95. Now, can you accurately predict to a degree
what a temperature or heat index is going to be. No,
of course you can't a day before it happens, but
somehow we can tell you exactly what the average global
temperature is going to be a hundred years from now

(26:26):
due to climate change. Figure out that paradox for me.
We can't figure out individual weather patterns because of all
of the variability yet climate change produces no variability whatsoever
and the average global temperature in a century because if

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human burning of fossil fuels is going to raise the
temperature a degree or two Celsius and all of the
sea levels will rise by the way I am still waiting.
I think we just crossed the 10-year anniversary of when
Al Gore said the sea levels were going to rise

(27:10):
and it would be past the point of no return. No,
he said very famously, I think it was 2015, in
the documentary, he, believe it or not, won the Nobel
Peace Prize for An Inconvenient Truth, ironically. There was no
truth whatsoever to any of the doomsday predictions in an

(27:32):
inconvenient truth. He said the polar ice caps would be
ice free. I think it was by 2014. Eric, can
you check that out? The thing came out like 2006, 2007.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
And.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
He said 2014 back then. It's been like a decade
since the polar ice caps were supposed to be ice-free. Now,
you could predict that. You could predict with absolute certainty.
But we don't have the ability to predict what the
heat index is going to be within 24 hours in

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one specific place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
If you say so. climate science, I guess we have
to believe you because you are the science. MPS clearly
did what it thought was in the best interests of
the students. Second day of school, notwithstanding, if it felt

(28:35):
that it was going to be dangerous for students to
be in classrooms that don't have air conditioning, then they
couldn't be in classrooms that don't have air conditioning. And
in fact, While about 50% of buildings at MPS do
have air conditioning, only about 25% of classrooms across the

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district are in fact air conditioned. What's the reason for
this discrepancy? Because there's one big difference. very highly populated
building in Milwaukee public schools that absolutely does have air conditioning.

(29:20):
Can you guess what it is? That's right. Central office.
All the bureaucrats are just fine today. Nobody's sweating at all.
In fact, they're probably chilling. Like, do you remember when
at New York City Hall after Zoran Mamdani in the

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middle of July said, hey, New Yorkers, you should raise
your temperature in your apartments to 78 degrees to save
the planet. And then people went into City Hall in
New York and and found that the temperature was like
65 degrees. I'll bet you central office has it extra
cold today because it's just so doggone hot outside. And

(30:09):
I've just taken a wild guess that a lot of
the people who work at MPS, I don't want to
cast dispersions, but I'm just guessing, just guessing a lot
of those people don't do well when it's hot. Because,
you know, maybe they're carrying a little extra insulation. Maybe

(30:29):
that's my own stereotypes about educational bureaucrats. Those poor teachers,
those poor kids are sweltering in the classroom. And you've
got 270-pound curriculum coordinators. pushing paper around at central office
who are doing just fine. Thank you very much. By

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the way, do we know, did central office have a
work day today or even if it's air conditioned because
everybody else was up, did they just say, ah, it's
going to be a beautiful 90 degree day. Let's go
to work at Bradford beach today instead of our glorious
air conditioned palace. Apparently, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

(31:15):
Ayesha Carr, if you remember her, the former Milwaukee school
board member who suggested that, hey, maybe we don't need
a quarter of a billion dollar tax referendum to fund
MPS after we just got $ 770 million in federal ESSER grant.

(31:37):
You're kidding me. Eric Paulson, they were all closed. All
schools and district offices were closed. All right, he's checking
to see if it was a different day. That just
popped in my mind. So help me God. If the

(31:59):
central office staff didn't go to work today because the
students were sweltering, but they were perfectly fine in their
air-conditioned central office palace, I may never stop talking about that, actually.
When I illustrate the different, like, people say conservatives, like Republicans,

(32:23):
conservative talk show hosts, Belling always got a bad rap for, like,
hating teachers. I love Teachers absolutely love what they do.
I can count on one hand probably any teacher that
my kids ever had that I didn't think was absolutely excellent.
All right. Okay. District, you dodged a bullet, MPS. Good decision.

(32:48):
District offices were open because if they took off, even
though they had air conditioning, oh, with that event, that
would have fueled my soul for this entire semester. Every
time MPS would have been in the news, guess what
I would have brought up? So good. At least they
were forced to go to work. I know how difficult

(33:10):
the first day back must have been, although central office,
many of those employees do go year round. Ayesha Carr
was actually criminally charged because she wasn't living in the
district that she represented as an MPS board member. And
this was only discovered after she spoke out. She actually

(33:33):
came on this show to speak out. against the referendum. Now,
what did we learn about that MPS referendum as soon
as it passed? Well, MPS was totally noncompliant in reporting
how it was spending $ 772 million in federal COVID relief
ESSER grants from 2020 to 2024. And they kept delaying

(33:55):
reporting how they were spending the money. We still don't,
in my opinion, have an accurate enough accounting for how
that money was spent. So we got a billion dollars
of cash in addition to property tax levies, state aid,
everything else flowing into MPS. And even though it was
estimated that to air condition 28 existing MPS buildings, it

(34:18):
would cost $ 128 million. They had a billion dollars to
spend a billion. You don't think keeping kids safe from
heat stroke when, you know, you're starting. They actually tried
to start earlier in August for a couple of years.

(34:41):
I didn't realize that the reason that MPS largely abandoned
that early start was because in August it's just way
too hot. They were losing too many days due to
the heat. Not only that, public schools in Wisconsin will
typically go into early to mid-June when it can get very,
very hot. You also have the occasional odd day or

(35:03):
odd week in May or even April where the temperature
can get up to 85 degrees just randomly. spring in
wisconsin is pretty much all seasons rolled into about two
and a half months that that sort of how we
roll you're telling me that it was a what the
hell has mps been spending money not only are they

(35:26):
the best funded school district in wisconsin by a country
mile on a per pupil basis and also in terms
of the total money that they've gotten they got a Yes,
MPS is a billionaire. Yes, they are a billionaire. Same people,

(35:46):
same people. who invariably say billionaires shouldn't exist, right? Isn't
this the talking point from the teachers' union left? Billionaires
shouldn't exist. If billionaires didn't exist, then maybe if we
just took all that money from the trillionaire Elon Musk
and gave it to schools, maybe our schools would have
enough money. NPS had a billion dollars. A billion dollars

(36:06):
plus what they're bringing in every single freaking year in
tax levies. And you're telling me That, of course, they
can provide air conditioning to the fat cats, literally fat cats,
in MPS central office. But for the kids who are
sweltering in classrooms and much more vulnerable to the heat,

(36:31):
they get no air conditioning. I am continually floored at
just how dysfunctional, poorly run, and frankly embarrassing this school
district is. You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show, unhinged
to The Dan O'Donnell Show each and every day. We

(36:52):
name the unhinged liberal of the day. And today it
is the woman who at the Lindsay Clancy case was
arrested and and criminally charged with juror intimidation. Her name
is Dawn Light. She was arrested outside the courthouse last night.
She claimed that she's a Lindsay Clancy superfan and was

(37:13):
just trying to take a picture of Lindsay. Well, they
searched her phone and found a ton of pictures of
the jurors. Now, why is she the unhinged liberal of
the day? Well, turns out she's a frequent donor to
Act Blue. She now faces upwards of 20 years in prison.
It is a very, very serious crime to attempt to

(37:34):
intimidate a jury by taking pictures of them, especially from
a restricted area. Dawn Light, your unhinged liberal of the day.
We'll be right back after the news. What are the
two things that Democrats are really hammering in the 2026
midterms and state elections here in Wisconsin? One, affordability, right? Affordability,

(37:58):
that Trump and the Republicans have made everything unaffordable. David
Crowley has made this sort of the centerpiece of his
gubernatorial campaign, that Tom Tiffany and the MAGA Republicans following
Donald Trump off the fiscal cliff have made everything more affordable.
He also signed into law a tax increase. that increased

(38:23):
the price of literally everything you buy in Milwaukee County.
He nearly doubled the county's sales tax, increasing it from 0.5%
to 0.9% on top of a brand new 2% city
of Milwaukee sales tax that he and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier

(38:44):
Johnson begged, almost literally got on their hands and knees
and begged the state legislature to allow them to enact
probably by the way even after getting a hundred million
dollars plus per year in new sales tax revenue over
the past several years because act 12 he's still running

(39:05):
a hundred and sixty million dollar debit how is that
even pot you made everything less affordable you took from
every county taxpayer gave to government and you still can't
balance your budget that that is like incompetence on steroids
That is like the East German swim team of incompetent

(39:29):
bureaucrats who in david crowley's milwaukee county so affordability is
the one thing right what's the other health care right
health care health care we need to expand health care
would you believe that crowley is out saying i'm not
going to let anyone slip through the cracks and not
get health insurance I will explain later this hour how ironic...

(39:54):
That statement actually is. Plus, a Democrat congressional candidate who
has made access to affordable health care the central attack
on the incumbent Republican that she's challenging. She's not even
providing any health coverage for any member of her campaign staff.
I actually dug through the finance reports. I dug through.

(40:17):
She finally, she finally released the required spending reports. Didn't
spend a single cent on health care. That's coming up
in the 4 o'clock hour here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.
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President Trump welcoming travel executives from across the country to
the Oval Office today to talk about another successful summer
travel season.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
In the last three months, travelers logged 290 billion miles
on American highways. Our national parks welcomed 78 million visitors,
all records. And on 11 separate days, more than 3
million travelers flew through the American flies. American skies were

(42:21):
loaded up with planes and loaded up with a lot
of happy people.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Did you hear that? Eleven different days this summer, we
set records for the number of people flying the friendly sky.
Big reason for that, of course, the World Cup, which
started in mid-June, ended on July 19th as Spain defeated
Argentina to hoist the cup. Many people are saying, to

(42:45):
borrow a popular Trump phrase, but it is absolutely correct.
Many people. In fact, the consensus is this summer's World
Cup in the United States was the most successful, was
the best run, was the most fun in the history
of this tournament.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
In June, America welcomed visitors from all over the globe
for the 2026 Fever World Cup. And Andrew Giuliani did
a fantastic job. Andrew's with us also. Thank you. match
day spending at local restaurants rose 80% and across 11
host cities the tournament added more than $ 18 billion to

(43:21):
our economy and supported more than 160,000 jobs and there
literally wasn't a riot or a fight or any problem
at all it was amazing from the standpoint of law
enforcement what law enforcement did working along with the National
Guard in certain cases and others we had a A

(43:42):
summer of real freedom and great entertainment and great soccer.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
And do you know how great it was? FIFA is
already talking about the United States hosting the Cup again
in 2038. 2030, it is, weirdly enough, going to Spain.
The defending champions are going to host. I believe it's
Spain and Portugal submitted a joint bid. And then it's
going to go to Saudi Arabia. The rumor is that

(44:11):
the Cup is going to expand to 64 teams. So
it's going to be like the NCAA tournament. And that's
going to happen in 2034. Saudi Arabia is building a
stadium on top of a skyscraper, on top of like
a 100-story skyscraper. There's going to be a soccer stadium.

(44:34):
That's going to be the centerpiece. That's going to be
where the final, the opening match, the opening ceremony are
going to be. They're concerned, however, that they're not going
to be finished with that stadium in time. Obviously, these
things take a long time to build, that they're just
not going to have the infrastructure ready. The rumor in
the international football community, is that the United States is

(44:58):
going to be awarded the 2038 World Cup, which is
basically right now seen as a foregone conclusion given the
success of this year's tournament. But then the U.S. would
immediately trade years with Saudi Arabia. It is entirely possible
the World Cup is back on American soil in eight years,

(45:19):
in 2034. I'm not putting a ton of stock in
this rumor, but it does make a whole lot of sense.
In fact, almost certainly the thinking is that FIFA is
going to award the next World Cup to the U.S. Remember,
the U.S. went 32 years without hosting a World Cup,
and now they're going to have two certainly within 15 years,

(45:41):
and because other nations, again, I know it's great. You
want to host an Olympics. You want to host a
World Cup. You want to host these big, incredible events
and welcome the entire world. Nations bankrupt themselves because they
build stadiums for the Olympics. They build venues that are
never used again. I can remember when I was a

(46:04):
kid going to the Montreal Natatorium, the big swimming arena.
It was totally empty. They opened it up for kids
to swim. What was that? The 76 Olympics were in Montreal.
I think I was probably there in 93, 94. My
dad used to do business in Montreal, so we'd come up.

(46:24):
It would be like a Business trip. I love Montreal.
If you ever get a chance, it is like a
European city very close to home. I cannot say enough.
I know we're supposed to hate Canada right now, but
God help me. Vancouver is a beautiful city. I've only
been there once. Love Montreal. Love Toronto. Toronto is always

(46:46):
a lot of fun to go to. And I love
the Canadians. We all love them. It's impossible to hate
Canadian people. So why is it that the prime minister
is just a tool? Why is he such a jerk?
He said, hey, U.S. Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday, stop
throwing shade, y'all. So President Trump today shot some shade

(47:11):
right back at him.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Canada has been ripping off the United States for many,
many years, for decades, many decades. We lost anywhere from
60 to 100 billion dollars with Canada. We traditionally lose
that for the last 15 years. It's a very unfair deal.
They charge tremendous tariffs to our farmers. They take advantage

(47:33):
of our farmers. They take advantage of our tourists. They
take advantage of airlines, something that nobody brought up. I'll
bring it up right now. They think it's so sensitive,
but I don't find it sensitive. Canada has all of
its major banks here, and we're their biggest source of income,
far bigger than they are in Canada. They basically don't
allow banks of America to be in Canada. That's sort

(47:55):
of emblematic of the way they treat us. Think of it.
So they have their banks here. Bank of Canada, all
of their big banks, big, beautiful banks. I think they
have six or seven major banks here. We don't have
our banks there.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
You know why?

Speaker 3 (48:09):
They don't allow it.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
You know why? Because our banks would put their banks
out of business because ours are much better. And this
has been President Trump's stance on basically his entire business
posture towards the international community is what are you so
afraid of if you have the very best, let's say Canada,

(48:32):
you have the very best maple syrup in the world, right?
Nobody would dispute that. What is the harm of an American?
What is the harm of letting Aunt Jemima come in
And sell her. I'm sure they have Aunt Jemima in Canada.
I'm just I'm doing a thing here. Why are you
so racist against Aunt Jemima Canada? What Trump is saying is,

(48:55):
why are we making it all but impossible for American
products and American services, American businesses to compete on a
level playing field? This protectionist racket. that the rest of
the world has engaged in specifically to limit the economic
might of the United States. You're doing a hell of
a job, fellas, because our GDP still dwarfs pretty much everybody.

(49:20):
China included and if we actually had truly fair trade
agreements with the rest of the world our our economic
power would increase exponentially so what President Trump is trying
to do is to get us to a position where
the American product where the American business person can compete

(49:41):
in Canada, in Mexico, in France, across the globe and say, okay, yes, great. Hey,
we don't want to tariff. We want the American people
to have access to the very best French product. Pause
for laughter here. I assume the French actually make something worthwhile.

(50:04):
Certainly not deodorant. Okay, I couldn't, I could not resist.
That is a joke. I know I have got a
lot of French Americans. The old joke about the smelly French,
was that like the stereotype back in the day? I
feel like it was like Pepe Le Pew, right? They
made a freaking cartoon skunk French because the joke was

(50:26):
the French smelled. Well, Andy's a romantic, but he's also
a skunk, right? They could have very easily done, I
don't know, a Chinese skunk you know, but they did
a French skunk. I don't even know where that stereotype
came from that the French don't wear deodorant. It was
just like ingrained in our minds as kids watching Looney Tunes.

(50:50):
They don't, I see, I was in France a couple
of years ago, never noticed, did not, I, I was
there in the middle of August too. I honestly, now
then again, There are very few native French people who
still live in Paris. I mean, but I'll tell you,
the Moroccans and Algerians who now call France home, they

(51:13):
smelled very nice. President Trump, of course, taking a ton
of questions today on Iran. The most pointed one from
Peter Doocy of Fox News.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
He posted today on Truth Social, when are the Iranian
people going to rise up and fight? Well, if that's
what you want. Will you send the CIA in to
arm Iranians?

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Well, I wouldn't want to say that to you, Peter.
I'd love to tell you that, but it wouldn't be
appropriate to say. But I mean, I understand their plight,
their being shot. Right now, you know, these gentlemen sit
here in the lap of luxury and they see things,
but over there it's not so luxurious. As of three
months ago, they had 52,000 protesters were killed. Can you

(51:55):
imagine this, fellas? And now I hear the numbers, probably 20,
25,000 more. They have close to 65,000 protesters killed. So
when I ask that question, I ask it sort of
knowing the answer. The only answer is that they're being shot.
The regime is getting weaker and weaker by the day.

(52:15):
And at some point, they're not going to be able
to shoot so easily because I think the people aren't
going to take it. But I did pose that question
because You know, it would be time, but unlike most,
most people can't kill their people like that. Most people
try and reason, they talk, and then there might be
an overthrow. In Iran, they kill the people. When they

(52:37):
get out to protest, they kill them. They shoot them
right between the eyes.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Yeah, President Trump got a little bit more descriptive of
how Iran kills protesters. Two methods, the machine gun and
the sniper. I'm not going to get into that because
I know I've got a lot of kids in the car.
Not MPS kids because they didn't have to go to
school today because it was too hot and they don't
have air conditioning. But of course, the MPS bureaucrats do.
But if you're going to like soccer practice or something,
I don't want to get into all of that. But

(53:03):
tens of thousands, we actually have no idea how many
protesters were killed. It could be 5,000, 10,000, 50,000. We
just have no idea. And those were the people I
think the US government expected to overthrow the regime following

(53:25):
the decapitation, the bombing that killed the Ayatollah and most
of his top command support staff on February 28th. I
think one of the big reasons that we're still dragging
on with this is there hasn't been a protest movement
that the remains of the Ayatollah's regime, whoever is still alive,
we honestly don't really know because we need to negotiate

(53:48):
through third-party negotiators because the Iranians will not let us
know who's in charge because, well, Trump would be very
likely to kill them if they don't comply with the
terms of the deals that they originally initially agreeing to
and then, of course, backing out. Now, it was apparently
a very, very good day through the Strait of Hormuz

(54:10):
with respect to oil exports and getting commerce flowing through
that region. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this morning.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
So Monday was our record ever since the conflict began.
Over 17 million barrels of oil flowed through the Strait
of Hormuz.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
On ships on Monday.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
If you add the bypass export pipelines, more than left
the region in the pre-conflict. So is Iran trying to
challenge that?

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Are there challenges? Yes.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
But this is the United States Navy and President Trump
taking the one card out of Iran's hands.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Which is to try to hold the world economic hostage.
That's what they've got. They're all in on it.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
They're causing some disruption, but they are losing that card.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
That, ladies and gentlemen, is your Daily Trump Date. Coming
up in just three minutes, quite possibly the biggest health
care hypocrite in Wisconsin. It's an exclusive to... Welcome back
to it. Now, an exclusive story we first broke at

(55:18):
the Heartland Post. This is the big media company that
we started about, I would say, three, four months ago.
We timed it with the start of the spring election,
and it is what we're calling And I think with
good reason, backed up by the available data, the single

(55:41):
biggest conservative news and analysis site, and I believe the
biggest political site in the state of Wisconsin, one of
the biggest in the Midwest, heartlandpost.com. An exclusive story, Rebecca Cook,
the Democrat candidate in the third congressional district challenging Republican

(56:01):
Derek Van Orden for the second time, has spent years
telling voters that health care is too expensive. Health care
coverage must be dramatically expanded. She even racked up a
very powerful endorsement. from Bernie Sanders, the lead advocate for

(56:23):
Medicare for All. But I searched her federal campaign finance
records and showed that her campaign has not paid for
health insurance or even a health care stipend for her
campaign staff. this woman's campaign has taken in millions of dollars,

(56:48):
but according to her filing with the Federal Election Commission, which, remember,
was delayed until after the primary on August 11th, lists
a number of staff salaries, but not a single disbursement
for health insurance or a health care stipend. I went

(57:09):
back and looked at FEC records of her previous filings,
she stopped paying for workers' compensation insurance last October. Even
as she was raising millions of dollars promising to expand
health care, she is not providing health care for her

(57:33):
own workers. Now, I am very strongly of the opinion
that this is one of the main reasons that Cook
did not want her finance reports released until after this primary,
because she had an opponent, Emily Berge, who was running on.

(57:53):
expanding Medicare for all. She wanted universal health care. Cook,
of course, understands that if you say, hey, we want
the Affordable Care Act, but to cover everybody because that's
been going so swimmingly well over the last 15 years.
It is remarkable. To me, that Democrats can destroy the

(58:14):
health care system in this country and then say, well,
the problem is we didn't go far enough. Give government
more control of health insurance. Put government in charge of
all of it. And prices, of course, will go down.
Care will, of course, get better. If you like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan,

(58:35):
you can keep your plan. It's just as true now
as it was when Barack Obama said it. Again, pause
for laughter. In one of their final primary debates, Cook said,
if I'm elected and Democrats win a majority in the House,
hopefully with me, they're going to have to prioritize health care.

(59:00):
I'm hopeful that we.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
Win back the House majority this fall. And day one,
when Democrats win back the House and we have gavels, H.R.
1 has got to be focused on health care. One
of the first things that we need to do, which
is what Democrats tried to do this last fall, was
expand the ACA tax credit premiums for three more years.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
OK, here we go. We're expanding access to care. There
we go. becky cook yeah yeah more people need access
to get more tax credits yes yes hr1 by the
way she's talking about a budget reconciliation bill so she
can do this democrats can do this without any fear
of uh uh senate filibuster but of course if democrats

(59:41):
take control of the senate they're going to get rid
of the filibuster immediately trust me immediately now the the
the only caveat i'll give to that is they may
wait until there's a democrat president And they have the House,
the Senate, and the presidency. And then Katie barred the
door because everything the socialists promised to do, pack the

(01:00:02):
Supreme Court, get rid of the filibuster, just add a
whole bunch of new states. Hell, we can even do
away with the Constitution. They're going to do it. Now,
during that same debate, Rebecca Cook, who is not paying
for health insurance for any of her employees on her
campaign staff, said, Yeah, I want to expand Medicare to

(01:00:25):
cover vision and dental.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
Things that I believe in are expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental,
and hearing. The things that deteriorate as folks age. I
see a lot of seniors here in this crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
And you should be able to age with dignity.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
You should. Just not if you happen to be working
for Rebecca Cook's campaign, because... You don't get basic health insurance,
let alone vision, hearing, and dental. So she wants taxpayers.
She wants you to pay for expanded coverage for everybody else.

(01:01:00):
When she can do this as an employer, as somebody
who has a business, the Rebecca Cook campaign that has employees,
campaign staffers, she doesn't do any of it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
Any of it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
She also says, yeah, by the way, I also want
a public option. We also totally need universal health care,
even though I can't say we need universal health care
because I'm trying desperately to pretend that I'm not actually
a socialist.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
In addition to expanding Medicare, I want to make sure
that we have a public option so that people can
afford the health care that they need and deserve.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Public option, by the way, for those who forget the
battles over Obamacare in 2010 and 2011, that would be
the government-backed insurance plan that competes on a quote-unquote level
playing field with private insurance companies. How quickly do you
think the government is able to just kind of get

(01:02:03):
every other business out of whatever business It competes.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
So that was Rebecca Cook about a month or so
ago in the debate that she had with Emily Berge. Now, Berge,
who didn't do too badly in this primary, even though
Rebecca Cook was clearly the establishment. Of course she is.

(01:02:29):
I mean, she has been a high powered Democrat lobbyist
and campaign consultant forever. Did you know that she actually
worked for the psychopath brewery owner, Kirk Bangstad, the Minocqua
Brewing Company guy when he was running his scam pack?
And did you know that Kirk Bangstad in one of
his unhinged rants on Facebook a couple of months ago

(01:02:52):
actually accused Rebecca Cook of stealing his fundraiser donor list? Boy,
would I love a copy of that list. to see
who is just nuts and dumb and rich enough to
give to Kirk Bangstad. Like, who cuts a check to Kirk?
You know what? The guy who is going to sell

(01:03:15):
free beer when Trump dies and constantly posts himself saying
increasingly insane, I like the cut of his jib. I'm
going to write him a check for five grand. I just,
I want to know. Who, besides Soros and the LinkedIn
Jeffrey Epstein buddy, who have been funding the Democratic Party

(01:03:38):
of Wisconsin forever, I want to know who's just that
nuts to write a check to Kirk Bangstad. And who's
nuts enough to go to work for this idiot to
fundraise for him? Well, it's Rebecca Cook. Bergey. rather obviously

(01:03:59):
would have used the information that Rebecca Cook isn't paying
health insurance to her own campaign staff in the primary
against her. This is one of the major reasons, I believe,
that Cook filed a 90-day extension for her campaign finance

(01:04:19):
reports back in April, because she knew this information was
going to get out. She knew it was only if
Dan O'Donnell can find it, Well, I may be giving
a left-wing Democrat from western Wisconsin too much credit in
saying Emily Berge would have been able to find it,
because I don't think she might have, but I found it.

(01:04:43):
And I think Rebecca Cook might actually be the single
biggest hypocrite in this state. As one of our texters
on the Carpetland USA Flooring Center Talk and Text Line
put it very hilariously, Democrats put the HIPAA in hypocrite.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Dear listeners, is a fantastic lie. Who else is a
health care hypocrite? Who else is putting the HIPAA in hypocrite? Well,
the Democrats' gubernatorial nominee, of course, David Crowley. He doesn't
want anyone to fall through the cracks and not get
health insurance, except, of course, for the thousands of Milwaukee

(01:05:23):
County employees who saw their coverage lapse because David Crowley
is an incompetent county executive that story next here on
the dan o'donnell show member of the state assembly and
a candidate for the state senate touts her success running
a small business a photography llc which she has had

(01:05:47):
for fifteen years over the past ten years it has
been repeatedly delinquent in paying required fees and filing annual reports,
so delinquent, in fact, that it was actually dissolved by
the state of Wisconsin's Department of Financial Institutions. It's a

(01:06:10):
remarkable story, and you will hear it only here on
the Dan O'Donnell Show coming up at 5.06. Once again,
Democrats saying, trust us, we know how to run government.
Just look at how we run our businesses. Yes, we are. Terribly.

(01:06:32):
Francesco Hong immediately comes to mind. Yes, I'm a small
business owner. I was a restaurateur. Yeah, your ramen shop
failed pretty spectacularly. If you can't run a photography LLC.
You are not qualified and you are certainly not to
be trusted. If you can't be bothered to fill out

(01:06:57):
the required compliance forms with the state of Wisconsin and
pay the very minimal annual fee to keep your LLC current,
how can you possibly be trusted to read and pass
complex legislation as a member of the state Senate? You
aren't going to want to miss this. It is an
exclusive story. Coming up on the Dan O'Donnell Show at

(01:07:19):
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(01:08:03):
on the line coming up at 5.06. Democratic gubernatorial candidate
and Milwaukee County executive David Crowley put out one of
the least self-aware posts I have ever seen anyone post
on X. It's a video clip of him talking to

(01:08:24):
a Madison TV station about how if he's elected governor,
no one will slip through the cracks of And fail
to have health care coverage.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
We need to make sure that no one falls through
the cracks when it comes to health care.

Speaker 8 (01:08:38):
And for me, it's really about how do we make
sure we can expand a badger care, have mobile crisis
units in many of our rural communities all across this state,
but continue to bridge the gap between getting that care
that they need and making sure people know what exactly
is in their community.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Wait a second. Wait a second. He wants to make
sure no one sucks. slips through the cracks. Did I
hear this correctly?

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Okay, I wanted to make sure that I heard that.
I wanted to make sure that those words, those specific words,
came out of the mouth of David Crowley, the Milwaukee
County Executive.

Speaker 7 (01:09:18):

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Okay, good. How exactly do you explain the fact that
the contract with UnitedHealthcare that David Crowley's office itself has,
David Crowley himself signs off on this. There's no passing
the buck here. There is no, oh, well, it was

(01:09:43):
someone else's responsibility. The contract lapsed with UnitedHealthcare for all
of the county's workers and all retirees who were still
on the county's health care plan. It expired at the
end of 2025. UnitedHealthcare had been sending email after email

(01:10:03):
after email saying, hey, guys, we need to re-up this contract.
It's going to lapse. Your coverage is going to lapse
in January if we don't do this. Our contract is done.
It wasn't until late January that the Milwaukee County Board
was even aware. Now, Crowley says, well, it's no big deal.

(01:10:26):
Nobody lost health care coverage. No harm, no foul. How
exactly do you let something like that happen? When you
are going to tout your experience providing health care and
as a competent executive, he leads the biggest county in Milwaukee.

(01:10:48):
He has made that a central focus of his campaign.
And because of that experience, because he has the executive experience,
he is the best candidate to lead Wisconsin. Take that
next step. Well, he's led Milwaukee pretty terribly. County supervisors
said that procurement rules for how exactly the contract negotiation

(01:11:14):
process went down were not followed. There was a top
county employee who was fired. He has claimed that he
is merely a scapegoat for the incompetence of the Crowley administration,
that in fact, there were ample opportunities for Crowley's office

(01:11:35):
to get involved and say, hey, we definitely need to
re-up this contract, but never did. This was a $ 450
million deal. This equates to about $ 90 million a year,
$ 450 million over, I think it was five years. That
covers more than 5,100 employees, their spouses and children, dependents,

(01:12:02):
and retirees. The contract lapsed. So for a month, it
was entirely possible that you would have had skyrocketing out
of network costs just by the good of United, just
in case, just in case we are on this United Healthcare.

(01:12:24):
And remember, the CEO was actually murdered by a socialist
lib on the streets of New York, Brian Thompson. in
December of 2024 because of how evil and awful UnitedHealthcare is.
UnitedHealthcare could have said, we don't have a contract, so
all of your employees do not have health insurance with UnitedHealthcare.

(01:12:45):
It was only by virtue of the good and just
business practices of UnitedHealthcare that coverage did not lapse. It
was not David Crowley. UnitedHealthcare saved David Crowley's ass. Because
he didn't bother to tell the county board. He didn't
bother to tell anybody that for three, as long as

(01:13:08):
four weeks, and it goes well beyond that, for months,
UnitedHealthcare is sending notices, phone calls, begging people in Crowley's office, hey,
we need to re-up this contract. We need you guys
to re-up this contract. They didn't do it. 5,100 people
literally fell through the cracks in David Crowley's Milwaukee County.

(01:13:31):
The people that work for David Crowley, just like Rebecca Cook,
can't be bothered, even though she calls for Medicare for
All and expand, or excuse me, the public option. She
wants government-run health care in addition to expansions of government-backed
health care, Medicare for That should cover vision and dental

(01:13:52):
and all of this stuff. We need new ACA tax credits,
expanded tax credits. We need that to go. She wants
all of it, provides no health insurance whatsoever for her
own campaign staff. David Crowley said, yes, I am going
to be the guy to make sure that nobody falls
through the cracks on health insurance when 5,000 people that

(01:14:14):
David Crowley employs as Milwaukee County executive quite literally fell
through the cracks because of his own bureaucratic incompetence. Truer
words were never spoken than our texter who said Democrats
put the HIPAA in hypocrite. Welcome back to the Dan

(01:14:36):
O'Donnell Show, conservative thought, not just talk. Coming up next hour,
another exclusive story about another Democrat just being a complete
and total hypocrite. You have got a member of the
Wisconsin Assembly who is currently running for state senate. She

(01:14:58):
runs a photography business. I actually had no idea how, uh,
what she did for a living outside of drawing a
government check. Uh, but apparently she has run a photography
LLC and she has not run it well because it
has not been in compliance with the very minimal requirements

(01:15:21):
to keep an LLC active. I believe you have to
pay an annual fee and you know, I run an
LLC and, We have a business. It's called the Heartland Post.
You should check it out, heartlandpost.com. Your one-stop shop for
all things conservatism here in Wisconsin. We have got that

(01:15:44):
exclusive story about Rebecca Cook. not paying health insurance for
her employees on her campaign. And we have got the
exclusive story about, uh, Dem who shockingly isn't very good
in the private sector. Who would have guessed that's coming
up next year on the Dan O'Donnell show. Big show

(01:16:05):
so far this year, uh, this, this year.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Big show. It's been, it's been a big show this year.
It has been a big, I'm sorry. I'm, I've got
half an eye on, uh, the Fox News monitor in
our studio as I was watching Tiger Woods barefoot doing
the sobriety test after his DUI arrest. He pleaded guilty today.

(01:16:32):
He reached a plea agreement. I'm not sure if there
was actually a guilty plea or a no contest, but
I don't think there was anybody in the world who
thought that Tiger was going to take this to trial.
He went to rehab out of the country, apparently. He
has been horribly addicted to painkillers for years and years
and years. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if in

(01:16:56):
the previous car crash, you might remember a couple of
months ago, this was spring, maybe early spring, he flipped
his car over in a residential neighborhood. Well, a couple
of years ago when he got in a bad crash
that nearly resulted in the amputation of his leg, believe
it or not, in California. When he sped away at

(01:17:18):
a high rate of speed because he needed to film
a commercial or something like that, he was going down
a winding road and the car just flipped over and
he was badly hurt. I don't think he's come back
to competitive golf since that last car crash. I'm actually
surprised that he wasn't tested for prescription painkillers. Maybe he was.

(01:17:41):
You never know. Because it would not shock me if
he was under the influence of painkillers. Just knowing the
ravages that prescription drug addiction can have. I've known a
number of people who were addicted. Fortunately, almost miraculously, were

(01:18:02):
able to get clean. They went to rehab.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
It stuck.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
And thank heavens because that is just a terrible, terrible,
terrible addiction. to try to shake. So, sorry, I was
a little distracted. It has been a great big show. Today,
the Wednesday Dan O'Donnell Show, we broke the story. Rebecca Cook,
Democrat congressional candidate, and she is the great white hope.

(01:18:32):
I guess we should call her the great red hope.
She's a redhead, and she's taking on Derek Van Orden.
They desperately want to take out our friend D.V.O., in
this third congressional district. In fact, a lot of Democrats
think that this is going to be the key bellwether
in the entire country of whether Democrats are going to

(01:18:54):
be able to take over control of the Congress. What
if I were to tell you there is a truly
shocking poll out today from Harvard University showing that it's
not Democrats but Republicans leading the generic ballot. Now, it's
very likely this is an outlier, but there is some

(01:19:15):
data that is trending the right way for Republicans that
may not portend a huge surprise that Republicans keep control
of the House and You know, they actually do very,
very well this year. But there are some signs that
Republicans aren't going to do as bad as might be

(01:19:37):
expected in a Trump midterm. We will get to that
later this hour here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. But
Rebecca Cook, she's been calling for expanded access to Medicare.
She wants more health insurance. She wants you to pay
for it in the form of your tax dollars, of course.
She won't pay for it. out of her campaign dollars
at all. We went back and looked at her FEC

(01:20:01):
filings and found that while she does list staff salaries,
she does not list a single disbursement for a single
employee for health insurance coverage. In other words, she is
not providing health care coverage for her campaign staff. She
didn't even provide workers' comp. If somebody is I don't know,

(01:20:26):
run over by a car while knocking doors for Rebecca Cook.
That's too doggone bad because they don't have workers comp.
You don't get a red cent and they stopped doing
that in October. So for nearly a year, absolutely no
coverage at all. No healthcare stipend, no nothing. If you

(01:20:46):
work on the Rebecca Cook campaign, meaning you are fighting
for healthcare for all while you, Do not have health
care because you're working for the woman who is promising
health care for all. Again, I do hope whoever it

(01:21:06):
was that texted, Democrats put the HIPAA in hypocrite. Please
identify yourself. I'm not going to read your full first
and last name. I've got to know who said it
because that is just a fantastic line. HIPAA, the Privacy Act.

Speaker 7 (01:21:20):
You get it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
It's a joke. HIPAA, hypocrite. Okay, just heard it. iHeartRadio
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(01:22:07):
headed to Las Vegas. Wouldn't you like... No, not our Eric,
not producer Eric. Eric H. from Waukesha. He's headed to
Las Vegas. Wouldn't you like to be on his flight?
Wouldn't you like to strike up a conversation and say, hey,
I won on the Dan O'Donnell Show. And you can say,
I did too, Eric. Congratulations. Well, congratulations to you, 5

(01:22:27):
o'clock winner on Wednesday, September 2nd. Make sure you are
that winner. Text the word win to 200-200. Democrat Robin Vining.
who is a member of the Senate. She is currently
running for the state Senate seat that is being vacated

(01:22:47):
by the retiring Rob Hutton against the very, very good
Republican Dr. Mike Roberts. Vining has for 15 years been
running a photography business, Robin Vining Photography LLC. she has
repeatedly touted her success and her experience as a small

(01:23:10):
business owner as a big reason that voters in that
district should elect her, should give her a promotion from
the state assembly to the state senate. Here's what we found, however.
The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions has repeatedly marked Robin

(01:23:34):
Vining Photography LLC as delinquent and once actually dissolved the
company after she repeatedly missed annual filings. Folks, anyone who
has a business or anyone who runs an LLC knows

(01:23:59):
that there are annual reports that you have to file.
there are annual fees that you have to pay. If
you don't, the DFI, Department of Financial Institutions, will mark
your LLC delinquent. If the report stays unfiled for about

(01:24:19):
a year, DFI may publish a notice of administrative dissolution
and then actually dissolve the entity. What if I told
you that twice Vining was given this notice of administrative dissolution.

(01:24:40):
Once in 2017, once in 2023. In 2017... She ignored
every single file. Now, this wasn't like this was the
first time that she had ever had to make this file.
She has run, or at least she registered, Robin Vining
Photography LLC in 2011. She, by the way, has been

(01:25:02):
the registered agent every single year. So it's not like
someone else was running it while she was busy being
a member of the Wisconsin Assembly. No, no, no, no, no.
She is the registered agent. When you are the registered agent,
You are responsible. Oftentimes, the registered agent will not be
the one filing the reports on behalf of the LLC. However,

(01:25:22):
since Robin Vining Photography was almost certainly just Robin Vining
and a camera, she would probably be the one who
would be expected to make these files. She did not.
So in 2017, DFI, first in 2016, the DFI... submits

(01:25:43):
a notice and says, hey, Robin, you're a delinquent. You
have to pay your fee. You have to file your report.
She did not. In 2017, she gets repeated notices of
the delinquency of her LLC. Then she gets a notice

(01:26:06):
of dissolution. Then the company is actually dissolved. Now, this
does happen. This does not mean that it's– when I
think of like administratively dissolved, when it's dissolved, I don't
know why, but I sort of had an image of
the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit where the judge played

(01:26:30):
by Doc Brown from Back to the Future, Christopher Lloyd.
created this, what was it, goo or gack or whatever.
It's this slime where you could actually permanently kill cartoons.
If you have never seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it
is one of the best movies of the 1980s. I
think it is an absolutely fantastic film. You're looking at

(01:26:50):
me very, very weird in there, Eric. You are like Mr.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
1980s.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
You are like every stereotype of Gen X I have
ever known. Oh, it was 88? Did I say 89?

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
88, 89.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Oh, I said 80s. I was going to say, it
was at the end of the decade. 88, 89, somewhere
in there. It was the one time that Bugs Bunny
and Mickey Mouse appear together in a full-length feature film.
They are together in one scene. It is where the character,
it was Bob Hoskins. was the hard-boiled detective. He's a real-life,

(01:27:30):
you know, he's a... And he has to solve a
murder in Toontown that the superstar Roger Rabbit is framed for,
and he's got to solve the mystery. And there is
this judge who is trying to kill all the... Because
when you kill a cartoon, they can just come back, right?
They have the little angel wings, and, you know, it's like...

(01:27:52):
It was just a fantastic... It was based off of
a book... called who something roger rabbit which was way
darker i read it years and years actually when i
was a kid and probably too young to read it
because i thought the movie was just absolutely spectacular who
censored roger rabbit that was it that was it really

(01:28:13):
really well done book um I am way far afield.
We started talking about Robin Vining being terrible at running
a business, and now we're on who framed Roger Rabbit.
That's what you get here on the Dan O'Donnell. When
you say talk radio done different, it's actually talk radio
done just like Mark Belling and going off on tangents.

(01:28:33):
Now I will talk about my horse racing picks. Thank
you very much. So all I can think of, the
business is like administratively dissolved. Like I'm seeing Tony Evers,
like the evil judge in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, holding
Robin Vining over the vat of slime to dissolve her. No, no,
it's not like the business is permanently dissolved. You can

(01:28:54):
restore it. All you need to do is pay the
stupid fee and file the annual report, which should take
about 10 minutes. In 2018, The DFI lists Robin finding
photography as restored to good standing. I think you can

(01:29:16):
guess what happens next by 2021. She's marked as delinquent again.
Then she's restored.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
This has got clearly, it has been five years of
this woman just having to, is it 26 bucks? I,
that sounds right. I had to, I had to do
it with, Yeah, 25 plus it. I was going to
say it's like a $ 25. I don't remember what it was.
We had to register the LLC behind the Heartland Post.

(01:29:47):
It's pretty nominal. Then, of course, you have to pay
your tax. How much was she actually paying taxes? This
would be the next. I just checked DFI after getting
a tip. So you would think, after five years of
Robin Vining Photography LLC being delinquent and actually getting dissolved,

(01:30:10):
she was dipped in the vat of dip. That was it.
Thank you, all of my Gen X listeners texting it.
The stuff in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that would permanently
kill cartoons was called dip. That was it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Dip.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Seriously, if you're looking, it's... If you're looking for a
film to watch, younger kids, the themes are pretty adult.
Like Jessica Rabbit, the wife of Roger Rabbit, who's like
a silly bunny. She is like played up as like
this sexy bombshell. I mean, it's adult themes. I think
it was rated PG-13 when it came out. But, you know,

(01:30:48):
it's silly. I seriously cannot recommend this film highly enough.
It is that good. The book, too. Who censored Roger Rabbit?
You know, I might reread that. Um, currently reading, uh,
a night to remember about the sinking of the Titanic
much to my wife's delight. She thinks it's hilarious because
periodically I get obsessed with just random historical events. Like

(01:31:12):
for a while, it was the Manson family murders. I swear.
I am not a psychopath. I just, I think at
that moment in history, the Manson family murders like that,
that changed the culture permanently. Titanic I've just been forever
obsessed with even before the movie. I think I might
read Who Censored Roger Rabbit again because I don't think
I read it since I was like 12 maybe. And

(01:31:34):
that was, let me tell you, friend, really inappropriate for
a 12-year-old. Sometimes I wonder like did my parents just
like buy me stuff? I said, yeah, I really want
this book because the movie was fun and it was
about cartoons. It's like I remember reading it and being like, hmm, well,
I may be traumatized. That was also the same summer
I snuck in and saw Pulp Fiction when I was

(01:31:54):
like 12 years old. Oh yeah, by myself. Fortunately, I
didn't understand the bad scene, but I understood the scenes
where they're like shooting each other. The gimp scene. That was,
did not understand what was going on there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
And I'm, I am definitely not going to describe it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
Robin Vining. I just want to tie this to Robin Vining.
Bring out the GIMP. Photograph the GIMP. GIMP sleeping, Robin. Well,
I guess you're going to have to wake him up then. Okay,
so Robin Vining. It's 2021. Spent the link when she's
had the stupid LLC. In the administrative dip and dissolved.

(01:32:43):
In 2023, would you believe? I wish I could make
this up. She was hit with another notice of dissolution.
She just, for two straight years, ignores the fact that
she's delinquent again. She finally said, oh, well, probably should

(01:33:03):
pay my fees, probably should fill out the report. She's
restored to good standing in 2024. That's the end of it, right? Wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
Wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
As recently as this January, Robin Vining Photography LLC is
again listed as delinquent. Now, of course, Robin was at
the time running for state Senate and probably realized, uh-oh,
this looks bad. I should get this thing restored. So

(01:33:37):
later that month, she was restored to good standing. How
is it? that for two-thirds of this company's existence, it
has not been in compliance with the very basic requirements

(01:33:57):
of the state of Wisconsin. I would love to know
How Robin Vining, who is currently employed as a state representative,
she's from Wauwatosa, by the way, this district was one
of the ones that Dems were able to gerrymander, or
excuse me, they were able to restore a fair map.

(01:34:18):
They drew a ton of Wauwatosa into this Senate district
that Rob Hutton was going to have to defend. Hutton,
I think, said it's kind of a tall order. He
decides not to seek a new term. Democrats have been
grooming Robin Vining for this seat since even before I
think she was first elected to the state assembly. And oh,

(01:34:41):
my gosh, she's a small business owner. She's still a
hardcore lefty. She's an incompetent. How can you not? file
the very simple, very basic thing. I myself have, I chose, right?

(01:35:08):
So I think technically I made my law license may
technically be suspended. Because for 20 years, the Supreme Court
of Wisconsin and I have had a fierce debate over
what it means to be a non-practicing attorney. So I said, no,
I am non-practicing. I want to go on basically reserve status.
And they said, no, you still need to do continuing

(01:35:30):
legal education. Well, at the time, I was working full
time in radio and I wasn't making a lot of money.
And those classes were hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I
had just had a baby who is now off to college.
And I said, no, I don't want to do CLE.
I'm not practicing law. I don't plan to practice law
in the state of Wisconsin. So I am going to
go to inactive status. They said, no, you still have

(01:35:50):
to do CLE. And I said, no, I don't. I'm inactive.
I swear this was a dispute I think that goes
back to Shirley Abramson's days on the court. I pleaded
my case and I said, fine. I took my ball
and left the state bar of Wisconsin and I haven't practiced.

(01:36:11):
If I wanted to practice, I would probably have to
take continuing legal education. I don't know if I'd have
to make up 20 years of not taking CLE. But no,
I thought it was stupid. I'm like, well, why do
I have to? I am non-active. I'm non-practicing. Why do
I still have to? I'll pay the stupid dues. So

(01:36:33):
then I said, you know what? The hell with it.
You can suspend me. So I probably owe like $ 10, 000.
I'm like, That's why I always add a non-practicing attorney.
I'm trained as an attorney, but whatever. If I was
actually practicing as an attorney and then ran for the state,

(01:36:53):
I got myself elected to the state assembly on the
strength of my skills as a lawyer. But then I
was just not doing the very basic thing that I
am expected to do. Like, hey, take CLE credits, pay
the annual dues, keep your license current. You would say, hmm,

(01:37:19):
I think we should probably think twice about promoting that
Dan O'Donnell character to the state Senate.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Because.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
he doesn't seem like he is really a one who
pays a lot of attention to detail. This is not
a totally, this is not an irrelevant thing for a
state legislator. A state legislator, first of all, is the
one who sets the rules for the state of Wisconsin.

(01:37:52):
Robin Vining for years has been, writing the laws that
everybody else in the state is bound by law to follow.
She is the one, as a member of the state legislature,
who sets the parameters for the executive branch to promulgate
rules like the Department of Financial Institutions to regulate businesses

(01:38:18):
in Wisconsin. So rules are promulgated under the lawmaking authority
that is Granted slightly to– there was a big dispute
over this during COVID. state Supreme Court case and so forth.
What this means is that she is a rulemaker for

(01:38:39):
the state of Wisconsin who has refused for a decade
through either willful refusal to– pay dues and fill out
reports because I don't know. She thinks it's beneath her.
She doesn't have a spare 25. If all it was
was 25 bucks for the stupid CLE credits, I would

(01:39:00):
have done it. It's like 400, 500 bucks. And this
was in like 2008. Jeez. Well, that was going to
diaper funds. Thank you very much. But just think about
it for a second. She, is writing rules and not

(01:39:24):
following them. That's remarkable. And that suggests to me, at least,
not only does she not deserve a promotion, but we
should seriously think about whether Robin Vining actually belongs in
the state legislature at all. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell.

(01:39:45):
To one of my friends who texted me, not on
the Carpetland USA Flooring Center talking text line, but rather
my personal cell phone, that when he heard that I
snuck into Pulp Fiction during the summer of 1994, I
was 12, about to turn 13. I think I told
my mom I was going to see Forrest Gump or something.

(01:40:07):
I don't know how I snuck that one past the goalie,
but she had no idea I was going to see
Pulp Fiction, but I did. I think I biked to
the movie theater. My buddy said he snuck into Striptease
starring Demi Moore back in the day. So that was
his big takeaway, was the core memory of seeing Demi

(01:40:31):
Moore in Striptease. I bet you everybody in this audience.
has a story about sneaking into a movie that they
were absolutely not going to be allowed to see. Now,
the big takeaway should be that Robin Vining, state representative
from Wauwatosa, candidate for the state Senate, has had her

(01:40:53):
photography business, Robin Vining Photography, LLC, repeatedly. And not, look, folks,
I show a lot of grace here. Believe it or not,
I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
If Robin Vining Photography was delinquent once or twice, I
would say, okay, I have on the various cars that

(01:41:17):
my wife and now kids and I drive, I have missed,
I have been pulled over a number of times because
I forgot to put the sticker on or I forgot
to re-register. It slips your mind. It happens. I have
never had my car impounded because I couldn't be bothered

(01:41:40):
to pay the, what is it now?

Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
$ 80, $ 100.

Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
To re-register your license or your license plate every year. Yeah,
that's about right. Yeah. 85 in Waukesha County says producer Eric,
125 because of the wheel tax in Milwaukee County. We
actually had an issue. I'm not even sure how this happened.

(01:42:06):
I got pulled over. My wife got pulled over constantly
in an old van that we had. This was right
after 2020. It was right during the pandemic. Because for
some reason, there was no record with the state DMV
of our vehicle existing. Yes, that was the darndest thing.

(01:42:26):
We could not figure... Many different police departments were utterly
baffled by this because they said, Mr. O'Donnell, whose car
is this? I said, mine. Here's the registration. Here's the–
I'm like, yeah. I'm telling you, between the two of us,
my wife and I, we were pulled over at least
six or seven times. We'd go back to the DMV.

(01:42:49):
We would– hey, so can you like prove our car exists?
Like this is not a ghost car. But yeah, I
don't remember what the snafu was. It was something during
COVID with the registration process itself. It wasn't like, oh, hey,
you have it. Oh, don't worry. We were continuing to

(01:43:09):
pay to have our license plate updated. That didn't matter.
It was the vehicle registration. It was like the vehicle
registration did not exist, which we always thought was funny
because we were paying to register a vehicle that wasn't
actually a registered vehicle in the state of Wisconsin. My wife,
I wish she was, she just dropped my daughter off
at soccer. Hon, if you're listening, can you please text

(01:43:32):
me with what the heck was going on with that van?
Because I'd like to tell the people on the radio.
So I get it. I get it. You're busy. You're
doing stuff. It can slip your mind. When you go
years without taking care of it, that's an issue. And

(01:43:53):
when this happens, For a decade, she's had this LLC
for 15 years. For 10 of those years, she has
been delinquent or she has been dissolved. I'm actually kind
of in awe at either the negligence, incompetence, or just

(01:44:16):
sheer refusal to do the basic requirements of the law.
Either way, is this a good look or is this
appropriate from someone who has spent several years now writing
the laws that we're all expected to follow? Let's say

(01:44:37):
the libs finally get their wish and there is a
gun registry in Wisconsin. And I don't register my gun.
I don't have a gun license. Sort of like Kurt Cobain.
And I swear that I don't have a gun. You
like that reference, Mr. Gen X producer in there? He

(01:44:59):
says whatever. See, I'm telling you, you are the ultimate
Gen Xer. You are Mr. Gen X. Whatever. That is
the best possible Gen X answer. I'm like Gen X adjacent.
I'm what's known as an Xennial. I think I was
born in 81, which is considered like the first year

(01:45:22):
of the millennials. If you were born in 1980, you
were a Gen Xer. So we have this like little
mini generation. And you're a little bit older. You were
born in like, what, 77? You were born in 70.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
Again, we've been through this before. You have really good
skin for being– You do beef tallow bomb and beer.
That's what does it. Well, you got to put the
beer on your face. You can't just drink it. You see, that's,
that's a key. Sometimes. All right. So let's say though,
that Robin Vining gets her gun registry passed. Dan O'Donnell,

(01:45:59):
either through negligence or willful refusal, doesn't register his gun.
Doesn't fill out the required. I have a gun form
that the libs make you fill out. doesn't pay the
annual $ 10, 000 gun registry fee. This, by the way, is
the real reason you should oppose gun registries. Yes, it's

(01:46:22):
most likely a Second Amendment. But the costs that they
will associate with you owning a gun will be astronomical.
I'm told it is now $ 145 to register your car
in Milwaukee. What the hell do you think it would cost?
What if David Crowley and Robin Vining had their way?
What do you think? You as a law-abiding, responsible gun owner,

(01:46:46):
not like the people who have guns, would never register
them because they're stolen in David Crowley's Milwaukee County. What
do you think they would charge you on an annual
basis to register your gun? $ 1, 000? $ 2, 000? You got the
Wisconsin Supreme Court. there to say, nah, that's not a
Second Amendment violation at all. No. $ 10, 000 a year to

(01:47:10):
register your gun. What do you think would happen if
I didn't pay my gun registration fee and I didn't
comply with the annual requirements of owning my gun? Do
you think there's any chance that Robin Vining would allow
me to keep that gun? Or would that gun be seized?

(01:47:33):
Would Dan O'Donnell's gun ownership privileges, I do have a
CCR permit, would that be immediately dissolved? Would I ever
be able to get my gun ownership privileges back? Of
course not. But for a decade, she has her camera
privileges removed. Revoked, restored, revoked. She's got the business dissolved

(01:48:00):
by the state of Wisconsin. This is the thing that
just boggles my mind. While she is in the legislature,
the state of Wisconsin is taking steps to dissolve her
LLC because while she's writing rules for everybody else to follow,
she can't be bothered to follow the state's rules. herself.

(01:48:21):
And isn't that just Democrats in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen,
the dad, the Robin finding story going to be up very,
very shortly at the heartland post heartland post.com. We will
get it out. It boggles my mind. We'll get it
out on social media that for 10 years, a member

(01:48:42):
of the state legislature, somebody who wants to be a
state Senator could not do the absolute basic minimum to
keep her business in good standing with the state of Wisconsin. Now,
I did call my wife during that commercial break. She
couldn't remember the specifics of our vehicle. She said it
wasn't with the license registration. It was with the title.

(01:49:05):
And because of COVID, you couldn't go into the DMV
to take care of it in person. And you couldn't
do it online. So she was trying to do it
at various police stations. Well, they couldn't do it because
You needed to go into the DMV to do it,
but the DMV was closed. So it was basically like
we were paying for a license plate that was not

(01:49:27):
attached to an actual car because the car was not
titled to us and the car was not actually titled
to anyone. To this day, I still have no idea
what happened. Eventually, this was like a multi-year thing, too.
And we tried our damnedest to get it fixed and
simply could not. It was a very weird situation. I

(01:49:51):
have a difficult time believing. And if the, uh, Vining
campaign or Vining assembly office would like to explain how
for 10 years, Robin Vining photography LLC, uh, was not
able to do the very basic work of paying a
nominal fee and filing an annual report, which should take

(01:50:14):
you a grand total of about 10 minutes. I'm all ears.
But this does not bode well for the core competency
test that voters should. But then again, if it's a
bunch of libs in Wauwatosa, maybe it doesn't matter. Meanwhile,
she's running against a doctor. who yeah, probably has the

(01:50:40):
most stringent. I don't know about Wisconsin. My brother's a
pediatrician down in Texas and he says the compliance stuff
and continuing education they have to do there is insane.
Take it a wild guess. He's not going to let
his medical license just kind of be delinquent for several years.

(01:51:00):
Like Robin Vining's photography license. Uh, So that's an exclusive story.
Earlier in the show, we also broke the story that
Rebecca Cook, running for Congress, you talk about negligence. Now,
this is just willful. She wants universal health care. She

(01:51:21):
won't say she wants universal health care because, you know,
she's running in a pretty conservative district in western Wisconsin,
but she wants universal health care. She wants as many
people to have health care as possible, except apparently, for
her own campaign staff, which she is refusing to provide
health care coverage for. This is the best and brightest Democrat.

(01:51:47):
This also is why I spent a lot more time
than I thought I was going to this hour on
the Robin Vining story, because it was so entertaining to me.
This is why a Harvard-Harris poll out today actually shows
Republicans leading the generic ballot question by two points. Generic

(01:52:07):
ballot asks, if the election were held today, regardless of
who is running, would you vote for the Republican or
would you vote for the Democrat? Democrats led by four
points in April, by two points in July, today, September.
In that same poll, Republicans lead by two. It's one poll,
but that is a trend. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll discuss

(01:52:30):
a little bit further. Harvard-Harris poll released today in the field,
August 28th through the 30th, shows Republicans leading the generic
ballot 51% to 49% over Democrats. Yes, this is just
one poll, but it does show a trend. There are

(01:52:51):
a number of other generic ballot polls which show are
actually pretty predictive at this stage of the game that
are showing Republicans not doing as badly as you might think.
In 2022, at roughly the same point, Democrats, or excuse me,

(01:53:16):
Republicans were leading the generic ballot by two and a half, okay?
Two and a half points. The actual House popular vote,
Republicans won by about 2.8%. That's kind of remarkable. In 2018,
the early generic ballot showed Democrats up 8.3 points, 2018.

(01:53:43):
Democrats won the popular vote in the House by 8.6%.
That's actually kind of eerie how close the generic ballot
questions have been relatively early in the cycle. Does this
mean Republicans are going to keep control of the House? No,

(01:54:06):
but it is a trend that is worth watching. Out
of time for tonight's show. Talk to you tomorrow, 3.06 p.m.
right here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

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