How Democrats Destroyed the Justice System

On Friday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," a pair of travesties of justice—one national and one in Wisconsin—illustrate just how badly Democrats have manipulated the court system. Federal Judge James Boasberg (who else?) unilaterally shuts down grand jury subpoenas because he doesn't like President Trump, while Wisconsin Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez reaches a plea in the most obvious political prosecution in recent memory.

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the top stories that we are following right now. President

(01:05):
Trump has now confirmed that all six crew members aboard
a US CASEY one thirty five refueling aircraft were killed
in a crash over western Iraq. The military said earlier
today this was not due to hostile fire as a
result of the excursion in Iran. This as the US
Israel war with Iran has entered its second week with

(01:28):
intensified fighting. President Trump discussed that and more in an
interview today with of all people, Jake Paul. Will get
into that and some words of wisdom from the President
of the United States from that interview. That's coming up
in the Daily Trump Date just after the four o'clock news.
Then an exclusive story here on the Dan O'Donnell show.

(01:48):
Why is Governor Evers refusing to hold signing ceremonies for
Republican authored bills. It's happened twice with significant pieces of
legislation in the past couple of weeks. We will dive
into that, plus another exclusive story. Democrats want to create
a brand new taxing authority with the authority to levy

(02:09):
new property taxes on you. We'll dive into that at
about four thirty. Then coming up later this hour, Sylvia
Ortiz Vallese, Democrat state representative pleads no contest to a
disorderly conduct charge for allegedly threatening fellow Democrats. But this
is far from what it seems, and it appears, from

(02:31):
my view at least to be a political hit orchestrated
by ortiz Vales's fellow Democrats. That story is coming up
in just a second here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.
We begin, though, with a truly remarkable press conference from
the US Attorney for Washington, DC, you know her as
Judge Janine Janine Piro, just about a couple of minutes ago,

(02:54):
I would say, about thirty forty minutes ago, held a
news conference in Washington, d c d an update on
the criminal investigation into potentially false statements made before Congress
by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. You might recall there
has been an ongoing battle between the Federal Reserve and
the White House, yes over whether or not to lower

(03:15):
interest rates, but also over repairs at the Federal Reserve
headquarters in DC that have topped now a billion dollars,
that's billion with a b.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
President Trump has been sharply critical of those repairs, and
he has suggested that there might be something nefarious going
on that they're trying to hide other spending in these
repair costs. And there was a grand jury investigation that
was actually launched by Janine Piro's office into Jerome Powell

(03:47):
whether or not he lied before Congress. Now, regardless of
what you think about the possible criminal investigation of a
sitting Federal Reserve chairman making false statements before Congress is
a crime. It is federal perjury, and it is absolutely
the subject of what a grand jury can be impaneled
to investigate. However, as Piro said today about a half

(04:10):
hour ago, in a truly remarkable press conference, a federal
judge actually quashed all of the subpoenas that the grand
jury was issuing, it, preventing the grand jury from actually
investigating a crime. Now, a grand jury, unlike a trial jury,
actually investigates, and it has presented evidence and determines whether

(04:31):
or not there is enough evidence sufficient for a criminal charge.
For example, there was a grand jury impaneled in Milwaukee
in the highest profile federal case that we've had in
the past couple of years, the prosecution of now former
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted
last year of helping an illegal alien defendant evade ice

(04:52):
in her courtroom by smuggling in through the jury room
doors before that case was able to go to trial,
before there were charges brought of grand jury had to
determine whether or not there was sufficient evidence in order
to bring those charges. What happened today is that a
federal judge said, not only is there not sufficient evidence,
the grand jury does not actually get to see any

(05:16):
of this evidence. In other words, the judiciary was getting
in between a grand jury, which is a function of
the prosecution, a function of the executive branch, and the
potential criminal target. And Janine Piro was having none of it.
We are going to play an extended segment of her
press conference. I'm going to interrupt to offer my thoughts

(05:37):
on what she says. This five minute segment of this
press conference that just wrapped up about ten to fifteen
minutes ago is truly remarkable.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
One of the age old tools that all prosecutors have
to investigate any crime, including cost overruns, is a grand
jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has
taken that tool away from us by inserting himself and

(06:10):
preventing the Grand Jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence.
He has neutered the grand jury's ability to investigate crime.
As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity,
preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Any guesses as to which federal judge you can get
every single judge in the Federal Judiciary, every single one,
but I'll bet you only need one guess. It is,
in fact, the chief district Judge for the District of Columbia,
James Bosberg. If that name sounds familiar, it should. He

(06:58):
has basically done his level best to thwart every single
thing that the Trump administration has attempted to do. He
has been overruled a whole bunch of times by higher courts.
He has been issuing injunctions solely to try to slow
down the Trump implementation of policy. In other words, he

(07:18):
has seen his role as being not just an activist,
but someone who is empowered to try to stop the
Trump administration. Now what he has done, now, what Piro
is saying, is actually throw himself in between a lawfully
issued subpoena. Again, whatever you think about the propriety of
potentially prosecuting the sitting head of the Federal Reserve just

(07:42):
before his term as Federal Reserve Chairman ends, which it
is scheduled to end in May. Whether or not you
think that was politically motivated, whether or not you think
that that was appropriate, what is beyond doubt is that
the subpoena power of a federal prosecutor, the subpoena power
of a grand jury, the power to impanel a grand

(08:03):
jury to then weigh evidence against whoever it is that
is under investigation. That is not something that a judge
can typically with as scant evidence as Bosberg was relying
on in his ruling. Get in between. Back to Janine Piro.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
This is wrong and it is without legal authority. In
June of twenty twenty five, jer Own Powell testified before
the Senate Banking Committee, making quote questionable statements that did
not comport with publicly available documents, and that was regarding

(08:41):
the atrocious cost overrun of more than one billion dollars.
I didn't say million, I said billion in renovations to
his headquarters. This from the man who says that he
is the steward of our public funds. In November, the

(09:05):
United States Attorney's office began an inquiry. Prosecutors from my
office gathered information from months before we served to grand
jury subpoenas.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
On December nineteenth, we.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Sent an email to the Federal Reserve to have a conversation,
a meeting, or even a phone call to discuss our concerns.
There was no response. On December twenty ninth, we sent
an email to have a conversation, a meeting, or even

(09:41):
a phone call to discuss our concerns. Again we were ignored.
We in fact asked to meet the first week in January.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
We were ignored.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It was at that point that two Grand Journy race
of poenas were issued to the Federal Reserve, not even
to Jerome Powell.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Again, no response, no.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Compliance, but instead a woe is Me video by mister Powell,
falsely claiming that he was being threatened with criminal indictment
and claiming victim status. Powell proceeds to call his political
friends in DC and around the world to gin up

(10:34):
support for himself, all the while refusing to produce simple documents.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Now you might remember that video.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Powell was sure to issue it as soon as the
markets were going to open, As soon as the futures
markets were opening on a Sunday night. He did this
intentionally to try to tank the stock market on Monday morning.
I'm telling you, the video was released within probably ten
minutes of futures marketing, futures markets opening on a Sunday evening.

(11:07):
It was remarkable the timing that he had there. What
he was saying was, well, the Trump administration, they're trying
to harass me, They're trying to get me to lower
interest rates. There's no possibility whatsoever that this was a
legitimate investigation. And here is where Bosberg steps in, because
Bosberg also believes, because he is so biased, impossibly biased

(11:28):
against the Trump administration, that his ruling just sort of
assumed that this.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Was what Jerome Powell said.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
It was that this was a witch hunt, that this
was an effort to bully him, that this was an
effort by the Trump administration to get some political outcome,
ie the lowering of interest rates, never even taking into
account the possibility and in fact, the evidence is actually
very strong that Powell did lie before Congress about those

(11:57):
cost overruns. This is a legitimate function of the United
States Attorney's Office for the District of Washington, D c
it can investigate whether people make false statements to Congress,
whether people make false statements to law enforcement officers, whether
people are perjuring themselves before bodies where they swear to

(12:17):
tell the truth, the whole truth. Then nothing, but this
is a legitimate investigation. In other words, because Powell simply said, well,
I'm too good of a person to possibly ever have
done anything wrong, And clearly the bad guy here is
the Trump administration and Trump specifically, this is an illegitimate investigation. Now,

(12:38):
of course, this is going to be something that somebody
says when they're under investigation. It is a line of defense.
It doesn't negate the severity of the potential crime, and
it certainly doesn't provide any authorization for a judge to say, well,
this is merely pretextual that there is no underlying crime here.

(13:00):
Clearly there was Back to Piro.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now enter local District Court Judge James Boseburg, whose written
decision on his face makes clear his antipathy toward President
Trump and this administration. He quashes both subpoenas, thereby prohibiting
us from reviewing any records and precluding US from submitting

(13:28):
records to the grand jury. Backgrand jury, of course, comprised
of ordinary people, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
No one is above the law.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I seem to recall Democrats saying that an awful lot
when President Trump was charged four different times in four
different cases, two state and two federal. No one is
above the law. Right even former presidents have to answer
for their put to crimes. Apparently current heads of the

(14:03):
Federal Reserve, though, do not.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
But for the first time, the judge is ruling that
a grand jury subpoena, on its face legal in all regards,
can be ignored because a judge thinks the subject is
beyond reproach.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And that is key here.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
A federal judge does absolutely have the power to quash
federal subpoenas. However, what is going on here is Boseburg
on balance is saying Jerome Powell is inherently trustworthy and
inherently of good character, and the Trump administration is inherently
of bad character. Ergo, they are only issuing this subpoena

(14:48):
to get a political outcome that they want, the lowering
of interest rates. That's a hell of a logical leap
for a judge to make instead of weighing the actual
evidence against Powell. Did he in fact lie to Congress?
Were their cost overruns?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Did Powell say one thing about cost overruns when he
was testifying about them, and did contemporaneous reporting about those
cost overruns counter exactly what Powell said?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Is that ample evidence? Is that probable cause to allow
for subpoenas to determine whether or not Powell was lying,
whether or not Powell committed federal perjury.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
This is a decision that is untethered to the law.
It creates chaos where any defendant who wishes to evade
an investigation, guiltier or not, can allege I'm a victim,
I'm being targeted, and therefore.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
You cannot investigate me, and if you find the right judge,
you'll buy it.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
This is the antithesis of American justice. Exonerating anyone without
any records, without an investigation or question is not how
our criminal justice system works. This judge has put himself

(16:19):
at the entrance door to the grand jury, slamming that
door shut, irrespective of the legal process, and thus preventing
the grand jury from doing the work that it does.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
The long term harm here to not just the grand
jury process, but to federal prosecutions to the rule of
law generally is not to be understated. This is a
very very dangerous slope to go down Bosberg without actually
examining the evidence that was going to be presented or

(16:55):
the nature of the investigation into Powell, simply made what
a s essentially amounts to a summary judgment, saying, Okay, Powell,
good guy Trump, bad guy. Trump clearly put pressure on
Janine Piro. Piro clearly put pressure on this grand jury.
We're going to quash this subpoena because Powell couldn't possibly have.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Been a bad guy.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
This must be a case of persecution. Coming up here
on the Dan O'Donnell Show, I am going to show
you what political persecution in the form of prosecution actually
looks like. Sylvia ortiz Valez, a Democrat state representative, today

(17:36):
pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct that
a does not seem to fit the criminal complaint against her.
In other words, it does not look like the behavior
she is accused of engaging in as outlined in the
criminal complaint, rises to the leveler meets the statutory definition
of what we would consider disorderly conduct in this state.

(17:58):
And two it is very possible. The Wisconsin constitution flatly
bars this prosecution. She was charged, and she was convicted
anywhere at least today she pleaded no contest. She is
going to be convicted. She is going to face ada
da du three hundred dollars fine. Suffice it to say,

(18:20):
this was not the most serious prosecution in the world,
but it was very clearly politically motivated. I'm going to
draw a sharp distinction and dive into what I believe
to be the worst political persecution in this state in
quite some time. Stay tuned, Dan O'Donnells show coming right back.

(18:45):
Not sure how busy the bars are going to be
this Saint Patrick's Day week, And yes I know Saint
Patrick's Day is actually Tuesday, but a lot of people
were planning on going out and celebrating. Tonight is going
to be just fine. Tomorrow night snow is going to start.
Our freezing rain, ice, sleets, We're going to see all
of it. Be weather aware, as they say, stay off

(19:07):
the roads if you don't need to be out on Sunday.
We've been through this a million times before. It's not
going to be anything out of the ordinary. Even though
everybody's apple weather app said we were going to get
about six feet of snow on Wednesday. This, folks, is
why I am such a big proponent of local news,
even though I am critical of the insane liberal bias

(19:29):
of our local news here in Wisconsin. It is very
necessary local news, local weather, local meteorologists who are actually
using models instead of just the algos that Apple employs
through their partnership with the Weather Channel. That can't possibly
be accurate five days out. And I will remind you again,

(19:50):
since we have no way of predicting the weather and
say with any certainty how cold it is going to be,
or to predict how much snow we're going on to
get five days away from a storm, how exactly are
we accurately going to predict what the global temperature is
going to be five decades from now. Something to think

(20:12):
about when you are questioning meteorology and the snow.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Totals this weekend.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sylvia Ortiz Valees, Democrat state representative who represents a portion
of Milwaukee's South Side, pleaded no contest today to a
charge of disorderly conduct. Now what did she do? Was
she screaming and hollering? Did she get a little bit
too drunk at last year's Saint Patrick's Day festivities. No,

(20:40):
she told a couple of her fellow Democratic reps that
she was going to go to the media with embarrassing
information about them. That's disorderly conduct, according to the criminal
complaint against her. This dispute from a long time feud

(21:02):
that ortiz Valez has had with fellow Democrat Priscilla Prado.
Now we reported on this extensively here on the Dan
O'Donnell show. I believe at one point we called it
the Great Democrat cat Fight of twenty twenty five. Orties
Valez was very upset that she was not included on
of all things, a bill dedicating a portion of September

(21:24):
and October to Hispanic Heritage month. And Prado and she
got into an email back and forth, which of course
my sources made me aware of, so we read back
and forth emails from the two of them. Then there
were social media posts. It was a good old fashioned
cat fight, right well. It escalated significantly in November when

(21:48):
apparently ortiz Valeise was texting people saying, if she brings
a knife, I'm gonna bring. If she's going to bring
a gun to a knife fight, you know the old saying,
I'm going to bring AR fifteen. Assembly Minority Leader Greta
Nubauer actually went to the Capitol police. Now, this is
clearly a figure of speech. This is clearly do I

(22:10):
believe a sitting member of the state legislature is going
to shoot up the place with an AR fifteen because
she's upset over a Hispanic Heritage month bill. No, nobody
actually believes that it was okay, heated rhetoric. Maybe it
went a little too far. Maybe if you're an insane
liberal and you're terrified by the mere mention of an

(22:32):
AR fifteen, you might get freaked out. Greta Nubauer actually
went to the Capitol police and had Silvia Ortiz's credentials blocked.
She was not able to access the capitol. She was
not able to get into the state Capitol. Now, coincidentally,
Ortiz Valaise was also as a member of the Milwaukee

(22:53):
County Board, testifying against the apparent Democrat chosen one for
Governor David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, on Crowley's alleged
misbehavior and his alleged illegal seizure of emergency power during COVID.

(23:14):
This happened right before ortiz Vales was scheduled to testify
on that It looked an awful lot like political payback.
It was so ridiculous that as soon as Assembly Speaker
Robin Voss's office learned that ortiz Valz's credentials had been
revoked and she was barred from the Capitol, they went
to the Capitol police and said, look, there is no
threat here. Obviously you need to allow this woman back

(23:38):
into the state Capitol. Right after the Assembly's session ended
last month, ortiz Valez faced criminal charges. Interestingly, though not
over the supposed threat to bring an ar fifteen to
a gunfight in a debate over a particular piece of legislation,

(23:59):
but rather what she had said way back in August
and September to Greta Neubauer, Priscilla Prado, and Calin Haywood Junior,
fellow Democrat representatives who are listed as Witness one, Witness two,
and Witness three. Well, I have been able to do
a little digging and figure out that they are Haywood,
Newbauer and Priscilla Prado. Ortiz Villez was upset over this

(24:25):
Hispanic Heritage Month exclusion. She also has been sort of
a thorn in the side of Democrat leadership. In fact,
she hasn't caucused with Democrats in quite some time. She
is a very independent thinker, and she's voted with Republicans
on a number of bills. She apparently was saying, Okay, Priscilla,

(24:48):
if you go public with all of this information about me,
I am going to talk about whatever private information was
not outlined in the criminal complaint. It was something personal, apparently,
I am going to go public with you. Haywood and
Neubauer were witnesses to this, and again they go to
the Capitol police. This time, instead of just barring Orties

(25:12):
Valez from the capitol, they file criminal charges.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Here's the problem.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
According to the Wisconsin Constitution, members of the Wisconsin Legislature
cannot be arrested during the session or for fifteen days
after a legislative session ends. It is an open question
as to whether the state Legislature, the State Assembly, is
actually still in session. The Legislature is going to be

(25:40):
in session until Tuesday, Saint Patrick's Day, the last day
of the legislative year, is when the State Senate meets
on the floor and they are going to potentially take
up controversial bills such as online sports betting, nil that
sort of thing. But the State Assembly is still working
at the state Capitol. They don't have any floor sessions left.

(26:02):
But you could make the case that the legislative session,
the Assembly session, is still ongoing. That would mean it
is a legal impossibility to arrest or criminally charge someone
like Sylvia ortizvill Less. Still, I maintain even if the
Assembly session ended after the final floor session, which was
I believe February twenty first, twenty second, somewhere in there,

(26:25):
these charges came within fifteen days after. It is very
possible it is a legal impossibility, a constitutional impossibility, that
this woman was charged to begin with.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
But then we get to.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
What she was actually charged with. Disorderly conduct. Now, when
you think of disorderly conduct, what do you think of
somebody who's loud and maybe a drunken mess. Maybe there's
a fight in a bar. Maybe somebody is just being harassing,
just being disorderly in public. Here is the bacheatory requirement

(27:01):
for a conviction of disorderly conduct. Whoever in a public
or private place engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous,
unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which
the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance, is

(27:24):
guilty of a class be misdemeanor. Is Sylvia ortiz Villez
a politician telling another politician, Priscilla Prado, I'm going to
go to the press to say something about you. Is
that violent? No abusive, no indecent, no profane, no boisterous,
no unreasonably loud, no otherwise disorderly.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
This is what politicians do. This is, as the saying goes,
the game of thrones. When you play the game of thrones,
you win or you die, or if you're Greta Nubauer,
you get people who challenge your authority.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Criminally charged.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
There is no way in which the statutory burden in
which the burden of proof for a charge of disorderly
conduct was met. There is no probable cause here. None
of what Sylvia ortiz Villez is alleged to have done
is violent, abusive, and decent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or

(28:26):
otherwise disorderly, and therefore could not be disorderly conduct. So
why did she plead no contest? We've got a statement
from her that we will read. She put out a
press release shortly after she pleaded no contest that nual.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Next Saint Patrick's say bumper music.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
In the Dan O'Donnell Show until the big day, which
is Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
What are they say?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb.
I don't buy that. March this year went in like,
I don't think a lamb. What would be like a
mean farm animal, like a bull, Maybe not a bull,
maybe like a distempered pig. And then it goes then
you've got like a rabid wolverine at some point in

(29:21):
the middle, like we're experiencing now, we're apparently going to
get a blizzard on the IDEs of March in two days,
and then it goes out like a slightly less distempered pig.
March is easily the worst weather month of the entire
year here in Wisconsin. Best month for weather well, I
say July, but I love summer. I love the heat.

(29:44):
July is also my birthday. You've got the fourth of
July this year, America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. It's
going to be Oh, I just I can't wait for
this summer even though I'm going to be spending most
of it.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
In a knee brace. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
For those who don't know, I did tear my ACL
and my meniscus playing basketball with my son. I've had
a bad knee for a long time and it finally
just gave out. It finally just said no, moss, old
man to the wheelchair for you, and in just scheduled
the surgery for mid May. I've been doing quite a

(30:21):
bit of rehab work. I had to get a lot
of testing, MRIs that sort of stuff. Last week. Yeah,
it was what last Saturday, the twenty eighth, February twenty eighth,
Tormia is yea. The only person who had a worse
February twenty eighth than me was the Ayatola Hamine. All right,

(30:42):
back to our big story today, Sylvia Ortiz Velez pleads
no contest. That is not a guilty plea. It means
she is not contesting the charges against her. It sounds
like a distinction without a difference, But the lawyer in
me knows that is not true. She did not plead guilty.
She is not contested the charges. To set up what
ladies and gentlemen un inevitable appeal she is going to

(31:06):
appeal the charge. I believe she's got very strong grounds too,
And I believe she's got a very strong grounds for
malicious prosecution, for possible intentional deprivation of civil rights. She
has got any number of potential claims against the Milwaukee
County District Attorney's office, the Capitol Police. But first and foremost,

(31:28):
I think she's going to try to get this knocked out.
That the charge itself, she's going to try to get
busted out on appeal she wants to. If she pleads guilty,
then okay, well whatever, a no contest police says, Okay,
I'm just going to let the process go. She's going
to pay a three hundred dollars fine, which should tell
you that the Milwaukee DA's office didn't think that this
was all that severe of a charge. Class B misdemeanor

(31:51):
is punishable by up to nine months in jail if
it was a true disorderly case. What a disorder conduct
charge typically is is if like, let's say there's a
bar fight and it's impossible to say who started it,
so there's no possible charge of a possibility of an
assault charge or anything like that, everybody involved will just

(32:13):
get a disorderly conduct charge, and depending on the severity
at sentencing, you could end up with jail time if
you've got a long criminal record. Obviously, a state representative
does not have an extensive criminal record, and there's really
no indication that she actually did anything that would rise
to the level of disorderly conduct. Now, why is it

(32:35):
Democrats are so hot to trot to target one of
their own because she has been a thorn in their sun.
Let's go back to February twentieth, one of the last
days of the legislative session. State Representative Shay Sortwell, a Republican,
blew the whistle on what apparently has been a common
practice for Democrat leadership. They don't want bills passing with

(33:00):
any Democrat support. They don't want Republicans to be able
to say I passed this bipartisan bill. So if they
get win that a Democrat is going to vote for
a Republican bill, they actually prevent them from going to
the floor to vote on it. Short Well actually caught
Representative Joe Sheehan fleeing from the floor on February twentieth

(33:24):
instead of voting for the Republican's DPI accountability bill.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
As the quorum call was going on this morning, I
was walking to the Assembly chamber and I saw the
represented from the twenty sixth walking the opposite direction. The
represented from Sheboygen walk in the opposite direction and just
laughingly thinking he was going back to his office to
get something. I said, hey, you're going the wrong way.

(33:52):
He laughs, and he keeps walking. And then we get
to the floor and they asked for a leave for
their represent from the twenty sixth.

Speaker 7 (33:59):
And I I thought to myself, well, what the heck
is going on? And then I thought about a little
bit more.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
I forgot that these bills were on the calendar for today,
and we see that maybe this is more of the
same from the other side of the aisle. They don't
want dissent from their side. They want to make sure
that because you know what, the represent for the twenty
sixth voted for some of these bills for accountability for DPI,

(34:25):
and just like they always do, they kick people out
of the building if they won't.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
Fall in line.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
That is insanely, insanely unethical. And that kicked off a
huge blowback by Democrats saying no, no, no, we didn't
do this no, no, no, Democrat leadership would never do this. Now,
how you might be asking does this relate to Sylvia
Ortes vals because remember she was criminally charged a couple
of days after this blow up by Shortwell Well Ortiz

(34:54):
Valaise actually proved that Democrat leadership read a new really
did kick members off the floor if they dared to
vote for Republican bills. Representative Nate Gustafson, a Republican, asked
her flat out on the floor. Hey, Representative Ortiz vill As,
have you ever been barred from the Assembly floor because

(35:18):
you were going to vote for a Republican bill?

Speaker 8 (35:19):
Thank you, mister speaker.

Speaker 9 (35:21):
Real quick, I'd like to ask the gentle lady from
the eighth if she'd yield to a question.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
Would the represent from the eighth yield to a question?
Was that yes or not?

Speaker 10 (35:34):
Well?

Speaker 8 (35:35):
Represent from the eighth will yield to a question.

Speaker 9 (35:38):
The question from the question is has the gentle lady
from the eighth ever been told to get off the
floor and not vote for her district.

Speaker 11 (35:51):
Representative from the eighth?

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Represent from the eighth The answer is yes, Speaker.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh three days later she faces criminal charges.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
You get it?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yet this was political payback from Greta Nubauer and what
appears to be her allies in the Capitol Police and
an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Nothing more.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
The charge was not supported by the alleged misconduct of
Sylvia or ties Valise did not rise to the level
of disorderly conduct. In fact, it was standard political hardball,
and it happened just after ortiz Villeise publicly humiliated Neubauer
by confirming on the floor of the State Assembly and yes,

(36:42):
we on this show turned this into a statewide issue
by posting about it on social media and talking about
it extensively on the air that afternoon, So she was
embarrassed statewide. She responds by bringing politically motivated charge Chase
despicable conduct by.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Saint Patrick's day bumper.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Music in the Dan o'donald Show until the Big Day
which is Tuesday. Uh, what do they say, March goes
in like a lion and out like a lamb. I
don't buy that. March this year went in like I
don't think a lamb. What would be like a mean
farm animal, like a bull, Maybe not a bull, maybe

(37:46):
like a distempered pig. And then it goes then you've
got like a rabid wolverine at some point in the middle,
like we're experiencing now. We're apparently going to get a
blizzard on the IDEs of March in two days, and
then it goes out like a slightly less distempered pig.
March is easily the worst weather month of the entire

(38:09):
year here in Wisconsin. Best month for weather, well, I say, July,
but I love summer. I love the heat. July is
also my birthday. You've got the fourth of July this year,
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
It's going to be Oh. I just I can't wait
for this summer.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Even though I'm going to be spending most of it.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
In a knee brace. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
For those who don't know, I did tear my acl
and my meniscus playing basketball with my son. I've had
a bad knee for a long time and it finally
just gave out. It finally just said no, moss, old man,
to the wheelchair for you and in I just scheduled
the surgery.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
For mid May. I've been doing quite a bit of
rehab work.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
I had to get a lot of testing, MRIs that
sort of stuff. Last week yeah, it was what last Saturday,
the twenty eighth, February twenty eighth, tormaie is yea. The
only person who had a worse February twenty eighth than
me was the Ayatola Hamine. All right, back to our

(39:14):
big story today, Silvia ortiz Villez pleads no contest. That
is not a guilty plea. It means she is not
contesting the charges against her. It sounds like a distinction
without a difference. But the lawyer in me knows that
is not true. She did not plead guilty. She is
not contesting the charges to set up what ladies and
gentlemen uninevitable appeal. She is going to appeal the charge,

(39:39):
and I believe she's got very strong grounds too.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
And I believe she's.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Got very strong grounds for malicious prosecution, for possible intentional
deprivation of civil rights. She has got any number of
potential claims against the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office, the
Capitol Police. But first foremost, I think she's going to
try to get this knocked out. That the charge itself,

(40:04):
she's going to try to get busted out on appeal.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
She wants to.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
If she pleads guilty, then okay, well whatever, a no
contest police says, Okay, I'm just gonna let the process go.
She's going to pay a three hundred dollars fine, which
should tell you that the Milwaukee DA's office didn't think
that this was all that severe of a charge. Class
B misdemeanor is punishable by up to nine months in
jail if it was a true disorderly case. What a

(40:31):
disorderly conduct charge typically is is if like, let's say
there's a bar fight and it's impossible to say who
started it, so there's no possible charge of a possibility
of an assault charge or anything like that, everybody involved
will just get a disorderly conduct charge, and depending on
the severity at sentencing, you could end up with jail

(40:52):
time if you've got a long criminal record. Obviously a
state representative does not have an extensive criminal record, and
there's really no indication and that she actually did anything
that would rise to the level of disorderly conduct. Now,
why is it democrats are so hot to trot to
target one of their own because she has been a

(41:12):
thorn in their son. Let's go back to February twentieth,
one of the last days of the legislative session, State
Representative Shay Sortwell, a Republican, blew the whistle on what
apparently has been a common practice for Democrat leadership. They
don't want bills passing with any Democrat support. They don't

(41:35):
want Republicans to be able to say I passed this
bipartisan bill. So if they get win that a Democrat
is going to vote for a Republican bill, they actually
prevent them from going to the floor to vote on it.
Sort Well actually caught Representative Joe Sheehan fleeing from the
floor on February twentieth instead of voting for the Republicans

(42:00):
DPI accountability bills.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
As the quorum call was going on this morning, I
was walking to the Assembly chamber and I saw the
represented from the twenty sixth walking the opposite direction. The
represented from Schboygen walk in the opposite direction and just
laughingly thinking he was going back to his office to
get something. I said, hey, you're going the wrong way.

(42:24):
He laughs, and he keeps walking. And then we get
to the floor and they ask for a leave for
the represent from the twenty sixth, and I thought to myself, well,
what the heck is going on?

Speaker 7 (42:35):
And then I thought about a little bit more.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
I forgot that these bills were on the calendar for today,
and we see that maybe this is more of the
same from the other side of the aisle.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
They don't want dissent from their side.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
They want to make sure that because you know what,
the represent for the twenty sixth voted for some of
these bills for accountability for DPI, and just like they
always do, they kick people out of the building if
they won't fall in line.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
That is insanely, insanely unethical, and that kicked off a
huge blowback by Democrats saying no, no, no, we didn't
do this, No, no, no, Democrat leadership would never do this. Now,
how you might be asking, does this relate to Sylvia
ortiz Valz, because remember she was criminally charged a couple
of days after this blow up by sortwell, well, ortiz

(43:26):
Valleise actually proved that Democrat leadership Reta Neubauer really did
kick members off the floor if they dared to vote
for Republican bills. Representative Nate Gustafson, a Republican astor flat
out on the floor. Hey, Representative ortiz Vales, have you

(43:46):
ever been barred from the Assembly floor because you are
going to vote for a Republican bill.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Thank you, mister speaker.

Speaker 9 (43:53):
Real quick, I'd like to ask the gentle lady from
the eighth if she'd yield to a question.

Speaker 8 (43:58):
Would the represent from the eighth yield to a question?
Was that yes or not? Will represent from the eighth
will yield to a question?

Speaker 9 (44:10):
The question from the question is has the gentle lady
from the eighth ever been told to get off the
floor and not vote for her district.

Speaker 11 (44:22):
Represent her from the eighth represent from the eighth.

Speaker 7 (44:31):
The answer is yes, missus speaker.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Oh three days later she faces criminal charges.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
You get it.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yet, this was political payback from Greta Nubauer and what
appears to be her allies in the Capitol police and
an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Nothing more.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
The charge was not supported by the alleged misconduct of
Sylvia ortiz vilest did not rise to level of disorderly conduct.
In fact, it was standard political hardball, and it happened
just after ortiz Villez publicly humiliated Neubauer by confirming on
the floor of the State Assembly. And yes, we on

(45:14):
this show turned this into a statewide issue by posting
about it on social media and talking about it extensively
on the air that afternoon. So she was embarrassed statewide.
She responds by bringing politically motivated charges despicable conduct by Defts.

(45:54):
It's just gone final Big Ten Tournament action in the
Wisconsin Badgers have defeated Illin ninety one to eighty eight
in overtime. The ALIGNI I try to last second three
banked off the back iron, and the Badgers come from behind,
pull off an incredible second half come back to make
it to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. I think I

(46:16):
said a couple of days ago that I thought the
Badgers were possibly a bubble team.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Now they are.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
They are absolutely in a very good Big ten conference.
They are probably what would you say, Producer Doug Russell,
our residence sports guy producing the show today, what would
you say, a six seed, seven seed somewhere in there
at worst a six. You think they're a five. I'd
rather have them be a six than a five. Everybody

(46:44):
knows about those five twelve matchups in the NCAA tournament.
Selection Sunday is this Sunday, So that means next week
we all have to pretend like we know something about
college basketball, and all I know is that my Marquet
Golden Eagles were terror this year, but hopefully they're going
to be better next year. All Right, we're gonna have

(47:09):
to pause for time here. Both producer Doug and I
were watching the end of the Badgers game, so neither
of us got ready for the daily Trump Day. We're
gonna get let Doug get those sound bites in. We
had both President Trump and jd Vance out on the
road today. If you would like to join The Dan

(47:29):
o'donald Show four one four seven nine to nine eleven
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live everywhere on our YouTube channel. Also, please do subscribe
to the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever

(47:49):
you listen to podcasts. Yeah, normally I would be upset
that you weren't ready for the next segment, Doug, but
we were both We were both talking about old radio start.
We were talking about Gordon Hinckley randomly, God Rest is Soul,
Old Gordy we're telling old Gordon Hinckley stories and watching
the Wisconsin basketball game. Just in case you wonder how

(48:11):
we spend our commercial breaks. Gordy god rest is soul.
How long has he been gone? Probably about a decade.
About a decade. Boy, what a wonderful guy. Everybody. Nobody
believes me when I say my first like Gordon Hinckley
radio legend. I was doing news when he was doing
Ask Your Neighbor, and he was doing some of the

(48:32):
Saturday programming on WTMJ, and nobody believes me.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
I said. The man had like the dirtiest old.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Man jokes like everybody everybody in ready, even like the
most revered figures.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
They're guys, right, they do.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
You know?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
This is why, This is why, having grown up, having
literally grown up in radio and television newsrooms. I started
in this business when I was nineteen. I knew exactly
what Trump was talking about when he was talking about
the Access tape and said, it's locker room talk. This
is just how dudes talk. Yes, I can tell you
in press boxes, in newsrooms everywhere. Even Gordon Hinckley, who

(49:10):
at the time was probably about eighty seven years old,
who was telling me dirty jokes, which I love because
you know, I'm some twenty two year old nobody, and
yet he's cracking his dirty jokes like you know, I'm
the most important guy in the world. Did love Gordy
quite a bit all right. Time, Now for the daily
Trump Day.

Speaker 12 (49:30):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Just keeps winning.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 7 (49:36):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
We have to keep winning.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
We have to win more.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
We're gonna win more.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Produce some dugs in my ear telling me one of
Gordy's favorite old dirty jokes.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
You gotta stop that. I'm gonna start laughing before I
do the Trump Day.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Speaking of Access Hollywood, did you see that Access Hollywood
just got canceled?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
We may get into that.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
NBA Universal is stopping all first run syndicated daytime programming.
The Steve Wilcos Show is also being asked. This is
yet another sort of admission in the YouTube era, in
the era of social media, that it is very, very
difficult for broadcast television to find audiences during off hours.

(50:22):
I mean, think about, when's the last time you watched
a broadcast television show that wasn't a sporting event. When's
the last time you watched, you know, one of the
Cold Case File shows or what are they still doing
CSI I don't know. I watched so little television.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
All Right, Daily Trump Day, your daily look at what's
going on in Donald Trump's Washington. The president sat down
for an interview with, of all people, Jake Paul, the
boxer and former YouTube viral video star is a huge
Trump supporter, and Trump said at a recent event with
Paul that he is a very big fan of his

(51:01):
and would endorse Paul if he ran for any office. Well,
Jake Paul does a podcast that interviewed the president.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Today.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
The President talked about why the strikes on Iran were
necessary country.

Speaker 12 (51:12):
I mean, we did this excursion. We had to do
it wipe out evil. Sometimes you have evil, and for
forty seven years they've been killing people.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
Yeah, in the most violent way.

Speaker 12 (51:23):
The roadside bombs all over the place. That was ninety
five percent of them are from Iran. Salomoni, that was
the one which to come out. We did a lot
of things to beat two bombers and all of this
whole thing that we're doing now is people have waited
for forty seven years for it to happen, so we

(51:44):
have to do it right. But our military has been unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
All six airmen on board an aircraft that went down
over the in Iraan, in Iraq, I should say, due
to what's believed to be mechanical failure, are confirmed to
be dead today. And Vice President JD. Vance, who is
on location in North Carolina today touting the President's economic agenda,

(52:11):
offered prayers for them and for all those service members
serving in the war against Iraq.

Speaker 13 (52:17):
There are a lot of people from the state of
North Carolina who are in harms Way right now, and
so I want all of us when we go home,
we leave this event, I want all of us to
say a prayer not just for the North Carolinians, but
for the people of all of our fifty states who
put on the uniform and are willing to sacrifice for
the safety and security and freedom of the United States

(52:38):
of America. I want every single person, I want you
to tell every single person who is serving overseas and
harms Way that this crowd in North Carolina has their back.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Thank you all.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Now, the stated purpose of the Vice President's visit was
to tout President Trump's economic accomplishments and try to boost
support ahead of the midterms.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Bans did that, of course, in just a.

Speaker 13 (53:02):
Very brief time.

Speaker 8 (53:03):
We've seen new home.

Speaker 13 (53:06):
Purchases rise to their highest level in five years since
the last time Donald Trump was president. We've seen the
cost of rents drop for six months in a row.
We've seen the average tax refund that's going to come
to the people of North Carolina about thirty seven hundred
dollars per family. And we see interest rates that are
the lowest day events since the last time that Donald J.

(53:27):
Trump was president. My friends, the President is impatient. He's
the most impatient person I have ever met. In fact,
he constantly is President on the gas.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
He wants us to do more.

Speaker 13 (53:38):
But I stand here proud to say that after the
first year of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans leadership,
we are rebuilding the American dream and we are taking
back this country for the people of this state.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Now back to the President's interview with Jake Paul. Since
it was Jake Paul. He asked President Trump if he
had ever been in a fight.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Have you ever been in a fight?

Speaker 11 (54:02):
I heard a rumor about you like helping Kobe one
time at a game?

Speaker 7 (54:08):
Is that a wrong time?

Speaker 5 (54:09):
We was?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Well, wasn't a fight.

Speaker 12 (54:12):
I was breaking up a fight, which sometimes is more
dangerous than being in a fight. Right, But now, I
like Kobe. Kobe was having a hard time with somebody
and it worked that fine. But yeah, I broke it up.
Probably not a smart thing to do. Historically, it's never
good to break up fights.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Wait, what President Trump and Kobe Bryant were in a fight?
This is news to me, of course. I had to
look this up, and apparently this is at the NBA
All Star Weekend in nineteen ninety eight. The players, including
Kobe Bryant, who at the time was very very young,

(54:52):
were staying at Trump's hotels, the Grand Hyatt. Now this
is from sports writer Jeff Perlman. A exchange escalated in
an elevator between Bryant and veteran player Jason Williams, who
is playing with the New Jersey Nets. Williams reportedly took
offense to Kobe's casual response to a greeting, failing to

(55:13):
show proper respect as an old school vet, He lunged
at him and started punching Trump also happened to be
in the elevator along with Charles Oakley. He stepped in
to separate them, grabbing Williams and telling Kobe to get
out quickly to de escalate the situation before it got worse.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
What Donald Trump Jason Williams.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
He was like six foot eleven and known as like
an NBA enforcer. He was like a big tough dude.
Charles Oakley of the New York Knicks also big tough dude.
And it's Trump who is leaving. He's putting his hands
on Jason Williams. I don't know if he thought, okay, well,

(56:02):
you know, Trump at the time would have been a
relatively older guy. He would have been what in his fifties,
I would say back then, if he thought there's no
way that this guy is gonna or maybe he thought
as maybe he thought as the owner of the hotel,
he wouldn't get popped.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
I think we broke some remarkable news on the Jake
Paul podcast because apparently this was a long rumored thing.
Pearlman apparently put it in his book on Kobe Bryant,
which is like sort of the definitive retelling, and it
appears that Donald Trump just confirmed this longstanding rumor an

(56:42):
exclusive story here on the Dan o'donald Show, Governor Evers
is apparently refusing to hold signing ceremonies for Republican authored bills.
He's accused of playing politics with his bill signings in
of course, this all important gubernatorial and legend slate of
election year. The governor has refused to hold signing ceremonies

(57:05):
for two significant bills that happened to be authored by Republicans,
and he didn't even inform either of those Republican authors
that he was signing their bills, even though they were
in the Capitol at the time. Earlier today, State Representative
Barb Dietrich, who's a Republican from Oconomowok, said the governor's

(57:27):
office never informed her that he had signed her bill
allowing law enforcement officers to test drivers for multiple controlled substances.
The measure passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. Ebers neither held
a signing ceremony to highlight its passage, nor to inform
anyone that he was signing it. Now, obviously, the governor

(57:49):
is under no obligation to hold a big signing ceremony
to invite people who will be impacted.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
By the bill.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
But this would seem like a pretty big one. There's
a good bill that Representative Dietrich got in because now
law enforcement officers aren't just going to be able to
test for alcohol, but also marijuana other controlled substances.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
And this is this is a significant step forward.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
This is a bill that would obviously be praised by
law enforcement officers.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Obviously be praised. You could get people.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Who lost loved ones to drunk or impaired driving, you
could get together and you could you could sign this bill.
But what's clear is that EBS didn't want to give
Dietrich or Republicans, who are the driving forces behind this bill,
any credit. The far bigger one was last week Representative

(58:40):
Amanda ned Wesky, who's a Republican from Pleasant Prairie, authored
a very significant bill. It, for the first time in
Wisconsin history, makes child grooming a crime where if you
are grooming an underage person for the purposes of sex,
if you if you're trying to gain a relationship with

(59:00):
the child to eventually start a sexual relationship. I think
everybody knows what grooming is. This actually passed the state
Senate unanimously, and there was only minor opposition. There were
six Democrats out of ninety nine total state representatives in
the Assembly who voted against this. One of them happened

(59:21):
to be Franni Hong, the leading candidate for governor right
now for the Democrats. For some reason, Francesca Hon is
very very pro child grooming, right, I mean, isn't this
what Democrats do. If you vote against the bill, you
must be pro the thing that that bill is trying
to stop. So I guess we can refer to her

(59:42):
as pro child grooming state representative and Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Francesca Hong. Now what she said and what another pro groomer,
Ryan Clancy said about the bill is rather ridiculously. It
would criminalize teachers giving hugs to students. Once again the tweet.

(01:00:06):
The problem with modern discourse is that liberals pretend not
to know things, thus making discourse impossible. It has proven
true over and over and over again. Clearly, we are
not criminalizing hugging a student. We are criminalizing the sort
of behavior that we outlined a couple of days ago
in the massive teacher sex scandal at Oconto Falls High School,

(01:00:30):
where there was grooming behavior clearly going on by a
tech education teacher and an assistant volleyball coach who is
now criminally charged with sexual abuse of children. And there
was apparently a long standing quarter century pattern of cover up.
Now this is a significant piece of legislation, the anti
child grooming bill. You would think that this would be

(01:00:52):
one that Governor Evers would want to hold a signing
ceremony on to say, yes, we are cracking down on
crimes against children.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
He did not.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Ned Wesky two had no idea that the bill was
even signed until afterwards she put out a hastily written
press release saying, oh hey, my bill was signed in
alt She was never actually told about it. Now, meanwhile
Evers is signing. He's planning major signing ceremonies for two
Democrat authored bills, one on breast cancer another on postpartum care.

(01:01:28):
You might remember that one there was the big controversy
where Republicans supposedly pave because they realized how terrible their
posture was. Well, of course Evers is going to hold
a big signing ceremony for that one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Also the breast cancer bill.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Because they were authored by Democrats, Evers does not want
to give Republicans any credit whatsoever, because he is deathly
afraid that Republicans will be able to hold on to
their state legislative majorities, even though he's not running for reelection.
His handlers, the people who are actually running the governor's

(01:02:05):
mansion in this state, are terrified that Republicans might actually
defy the odds and they might actually hold on to
the state legislature. And horror of horrors, Tom Tiffany might
actually win the governor's race. And with proposed bills like
the one I'm going to report on next, it's entirely possible.

(01:02:26):
Another Dan O'Donnell's show exclusive Republicans are excuse me, Democrats
are introducing a bill that would create a brand new
entity authorized to levy even more property taxes on you. You're
not going to want to miss this Dan O'Donnell exclusive
coming up next. Democrats are trying desperately to avoid blame

(01:02:54):
for the massive increase in property taxes that were brought
about by Governor Evers four h hundred year veto from
twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, we saw the
single biggest jump in average property tax increases in thirty years.
Thirty years, three decades, and it just happened to be

(01:03:16):
the first year that Governor Evers four hundred year property
tax veto was in place. Rather obviously, people started to
get the idea that, hey, maybe it was Governor Evers
and Democrats that are responsible for this massive hike in
property taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Democrats said no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Their allies said no, no, no, it's to see this
confluence of factors that has absolutely nothing to do with
the fact that the governor used the most unconstitutional veto
I've ever seen to allow school districts to just automatically
add three hundred and twenty five dollars per pupil per
year to their property tax levies for the next four

(01:03:56):
hundred years. That could not possibly have had anything to
do with the dramatic spike in property taxes. Well, the
Dan O'Donnell Show has learned exclusively that Democrats are now
pushing a new bill that would allow municipalities to form
an emergency service district that would be empowered to levy

(01:04:16):
say it with me property taxes as well as imposed
special charges and issue debt. This according to a circulation
memo we obtained today. The proposal is known as LRB
twenty nineteen Slash one. It comes from Representatives Clinton Anderson
and Lorie Palmery, along with State Senator Mark Spritzer. All

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of them are Democrats. Under the bill, participating municipalities could
create a separate district as a special purpose government unit
that they could transfer assets into. They can also transfer
some of their taxing authority and responsibilities into.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
This is basically.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
A at communities that lose their independent fire departments, their
independent police departments. When you have the merging of law
enforcement or fire departments into various communities, it becomes more
of like a regional thing. This is what this is
aimed at. Under this bill, an elected board of district

(01:05:21):
residents would oversee operations. Now, the bill's authors say that
since this is an optional structure, it'll promote efficiency, it'll
sustain high quality service. But what this actually does is
open the door to yet another layer of government bureaucracy
that burdens taxpayers further. If you remember how the four

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hundred year veto worked. In twenty twenty three, Governor Evers
used his partial veto authority from the school funding portion
of the state budget, and he allowed the Republican legislator said, Okay,
we're going to allow, for two years only under this budget,

(01:06:10):
school districts to impose three hundred and twenty five dollars
per pupil per year in increases to the property levy
the property tax levee, so that we can get more
money and we don't have to go to referendum for it.
It was a compromise with Governor Evers. Evers use the

(01:06:33):
partial veto authority to strike down the two three and
dash in twenty twenty three DASH twenty twenty No twenty
twenty three DASH twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty four
DASH twenty twenty five. He basically struck down dashes and numbers.

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To turn that into the year twenty four twenty five,
average tax bills jumped five percent in one year, biggest
increase in thirty years. Biggest portion of that increase, no
real surprise, the property tax levy from schools. So Democrats

(01:07:17):
are saying, well, we aren't in favor of increased property taxes.
At the same time, they're circulating for cosponsorship a bill
that would create a brand new taxing authority. So not
only would you be taxed by your local school board.
Not only could you be potentially taxed by your municipality,

(01:07:37):
your city government, you can also now be taxed by
this Regional Authority board, which has more elected positions, presumably
more bureaucratic bloat, and no real purpose other than two.
It seems soak taxpayers. Why Democrats are and have been

(01:08:01):
so bad on taxes, so bad on rates, and if
elected in November, will only cost you more money. Coming
up next when the Dan O'Donnell Show returns, it's classical
conservatism and contemporary style. What is going on with the

(01:08:31):
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I'm serious, big story today jsonline dot
com about how former Lieutenant governor and Senate candidate man
deadbeat Barnes his plans to freeze utility rates is very
likely not possible under Wisconsin law. Democrats never get this

(01:08:55):
sort of treatment, I'm telling you, folks. They are all
terrified that Mandela is going to win this nomination. Frankly,
I think they should be more scared of Francesca Hong
Mandela is. The Democrats are well aware of Mandela's shortcomings.
They know he lost in an election that, for the

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most part, he wasn't supposed to lose against Ron Johnson.
Ron Johnson in twenty twenty two was the number one
target of National Democrats. They wanted him gone. They hate
Ron Johnson, and the field was cleared for Mandela Barnes.
Democrats literally rigged their Senate primary by forcing Sarah Godluski

(01:09:40):
and Alex Lazri to drop out while votes were being cast.
Mail in ballots had been mailed out, and both of
those two dropped out of the race.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Now, why would.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
They do that unless they were told to drop out.
God Luski, of course, got paid off. She gave up
her seat as state treasurer in order to run for Senate. Well,
Doug la Follett won re election for the five hundred
and seventy eighth consecutive time that November. He immediately retired,

(01:10:10):
and Governor Evers, in what was very clearly a preordained deal,
just named Sarah Godluski to serve as Secretary of State
so she got to continue to have a statewide elected
office so she could run for higher office in twenty
twenty six. She clearly wants to run for Senate, but
she's going to settle for Lieutenant governor because she thought

(01:10:33):
that she was never going to go anywhere in that
crowded field. Mandela Barnes instantly upon getting into this race
in November, was met with a whole lot of skepticism. First,
The New York Times published an article quoting both named
Democrats and unnamed sources within the Democrat Party saying exactly

(01:10:55):
what we've been saying here on this show that Mandela
is an unusually weak candidate because frankly, he's not especially bright,
he's not especially politically savvy, and he's got a whole
lot of baggage in both his professional and personal life.
Immediately after that, a black owned newspaper in Milwaukee called

(01:11:16):
The Milwaukee Courier came out with an editorial piece that said, Hey, Mandela,
you are not going to get the support automatically of
Milwaukee's black community that you did last time, because again,
he's already lost statewide. If I were the Democrats, I
would be concerned about Francesca Hang. She's just as stupid

(01:11:38):
and has just as bad policies as Mandela, just as
messy of a personal life with a bitter divorce that
may actually involve Mandela more than many people think. She
also is a vulgar, just from all accounts, nasty human

(01:11:59):
being and she would be thoroughly rejected by voters. In fact,
Tom Tiffany has got to be licking his chops at
the fact that the two leading candidates right now are
Mandela Barnes and Francesco Hon. Personally, I believe, at least
on paper, the strongest candidate would probably be Milwaukee County
executive David Crowley. But again, he's proven himself to be

(01:12:22):
so remarkably incompetent, as evidenced by the fact that he
allowed the county's health insurance plan to lapse. You know
how like when you have usually it's what October November,
your company will send out the notice, okay, time to
sign up for the health insurance plan again. How many
times have you just kind of forgotten to do that?
How many times did your family just not have health

(01:12:43):
insurance because you didn't fill out the required paperwork? I'm
taking a while, guests, probably never. Well, David Crowley did,
and it affected not just his family but the entire county.
Every single county employee and a whole bunch of county
retirees who are still on the healthcare plan apparently didn't
have coverage or at least had some sort of lapse

(01:13:05):
in coverage for the better part of three weeks. Now
he claims there was never any lapse, but for whatever reason,
he just decided that the Milwaukee County Board didn't need
to know about this, when absolutely it did. So he's
still dealing with the ramifications of that, and as a result,
I think he has just gone nowhere in the polls.
The latest Marquete University Law School poll shows him as

(01:13:25):
an afterthought. Democrats' best chance to get a sort of
non crazy candidate is probably going to be Sarah Rodriguez,
the current Lieutenant governor, who is rather obviously hated by
her own administration. It's actually kind of remarkable how much
the Tony Evers people despise Sarah Rodriguez. I think I'm

(01:13:48):
going to get into that at some point. I've got
some insight into why it is those two sides hate
each other and why it is that they despise Sarah
Rodriguez so much. But the point is that Mandela came
out with a with a typical lib respose, like, hey,
we're going to freeze all of the utility rates. We're

(01:14:10):
not going to allow those evil utility companies like we
energies to jack up rates, and normally the media would
just sort of act as stenographers and they would dutifully report, yes, yes,
Mandela is saying this, and wouldn't it be great if
all of the rates were frozen? And here we're going
to talk to a couple of widows and some disabled
people and minorities who say, oh, yes, this would benefit

(01:14:30):
us greatly. Essentially, it would be just doing pr for
whatever Democrat proposal was put out there. Not so they
actually talked to UW. Madison professors who said, no, in practice,
you can't actually freeze rates. Now, everybody with a brain
knows that you absolutely can't freeze rates. And as we
said on this show, it was hilarious coming from Mandela,

(01:14:52):
who is part of the Evers administration who approved two
point two billion dollars worth of rate in increases by
the utility companies. Now, compare that with Governor Scott Walker
when his nominees gained control of the Public Service Commission
the PSC, which is the board that authorizes those rate hikes. Essentially,

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we energies and Alliant and the big energy companies they
can't just jack rates up because they are government sanctioned monopolies.
They have to go to the PSC and ask whether
or not they're allowed to raise rates. Well, Governor evers
appointees to the PSC would only approve twenty five percent
of the requested rate hikes for a total of three

(01:15:37):
hundred million. Over Walker's term, Evers's appointees have greenlit seventy
one percent of rate increases for a total of two
point two billion dollars. So people are noticing, Hey, my
utility bill is way higher. I am paying way more

(01:16:00):
to heat my house. Obviously, the heaters are going to
be working overtime this weekend with all of the snow
that's coming. Electricity bills, those are going up, and people
notice the mere fact that Mandela is seeing this as
an issue that he can make. Hay On tells me

(01:16:21):
that he is seeing that people are ticked off about
utility rates. Now too bad, it's Mandela's party that's responsible
for the rate increases. But the single biggest thing I
think that people are po'ed about in Wisconsin right now
is the property tax rates, utility bills, property taxes, the
fact that in a very short amount of time, we
are paying way more for the exact same house that

(01:16:45):
we used to own, that we've always owned, and the
exact same amount of square footage that you need to
light and heat it. There is significant political advantage here
for Republican Democrats have done nothing but jack property tax rates.
In fact, under Governor Walker, do you remember that there

(01:17:08):
were revenue limit controls that Walker and the Republican Legislature
placed on local government. They actually took out the state
portion of the property tax levee every single year. That's
been estimated to save taxpayers eighty five million dollars per year,
every single year. And as a result of this under

(01:17:29):
the Walker era, under the Walker administration from twenty eleven
to twenty nineteen, overall property tax levies they increased, very,
very slightly. Property taxes were not a big issue. The
K twelve portion of property tax bills rose seven point

(01:17:50):
eight percent in the past year after Governor Rivers four
hundred year VITA. That's the biggest increase since nineteen ninety two.
We have seen the single biggest total property tax levy
increase in thirty years. Any way you slice it. Governor
Evers and these Democrat allies who are pushing this four

(01:18:12):
hundred year property tax levy, this veto, they're responsible they're
responsible for the massive increases in utility bills, they're responsible
for the massive increases in property taxes, and if Republicans
are smart, they will use this as the electoral issue
this November.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
This is the Dan o'donald Show.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
We name the unsung hero of the day next coming
up next hour here on the Dan o'donald Show, some
potentially very very good news about the Save America Act

(01:18:56):
coming from Senator Mike Lee, who is a huge supporter
of it. Also, a county clerk in Illinois appears to
be saying the quiet part out loud about why the
Save America Act is so necessary because illegal aliens absolutely
are voting in DuPage.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
County, Illinois. We'll get to that. Plus UW.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Madison's faculty and teacher student teacher unions are holding ICE
is a bunch of Nazis training sessions. First of all,
they're about a year late on this. This was all
the rage last spring. You might remember we broke this
story here on the Dan O'Donnell Show about Governor Evers

(01:19:40):
putting out a memo that became a big national story
because it was clearly telling state employees to interfere in
ICE investigations or law enforcement investigations. It was sort of
lost in the shuffle because literally a week later, maybe
not even a week later, I think we broke the
Evers story on Thursday, and then the following Monday, we

(01:20:04):
broke the much bigger story that Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee
County judge, had actually helped an illegal alien, violent criminal
defendant sneak out of her courtroom through the jury room
because Ice was there looking to bring him in. But
now UW Madison's faculty and graduate student teacher's assistant unions

(01:20:29):
are doing trainings of their own, and we will get
into that exclusive story, plus our fun Friday segment, how Bizarre,
Strangest stories of the past seven days. We will also
chat with a man who I believe is the most
effective local Republican party chairman in the state, Terry Dietrich
of the Waukeshaw County Republican Party. We will chat about

(01:20:50):
his wis Red initiative that we're actually partnering with this
year here on the Dan O'Donnell Show to create the
Ultimate Conservative vote voter Guide. It is a list of
as many conservative candidates running in the upcoming spring election
that we could find. We are going to unveil this
one week from Monday, Monday March twenty third, we are

(01:21:14):
going to put online the ultimate Conservative voter Guide for
the spring election, as part of a broader web initiative
that we will be telling you more about next week
here on the Dan O'donnaho. Today's unsung heroes of the

(01:21:36):
day are unfortunately no longer with us. They are the
six crew members aboard a KC one five refueling aircraft
who were killed today in a crash over western Iraq.
The military has confirmed was not due to hostile fire.
It is believed that there was some sort of mechanical

(01:21:58):
malfunction or potentially inclement weather, or a combination of both
that led to that crash. The death toll for Americans
serving in the war in Iran has now hit thirteen,
and we do pray for the souls of all of them.
We thank everyone serving in uniform during this conflict for

(01:22:19):
their service. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show. Will
be right back after the news final hour of a
busy broadcast week, as we all prepare to hunkered down
ahead of a major winter storm that could drop as
much as two feet of snow on northern Wisconsin. It's
sounding like here in southern Wisconsin. It's probably going to

(01:22:41):
come down mostly as rain, freezing rain and snow that
has a tendency to drop down the snow totals. But
it's no less dangerous because we are going to see
a lot of ice that could lead to power outages,
that could lead to a whole lot of bad stuff.
So as always stay weather aware. Oakland County Sheriff Michael
Bouchchard is offering an update on the terror attack against

(01:23:04):
the synagogue yesterday in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Let's go very
briefly to that press conference forward again.

Speaker 14 (01:23:11):
It's not a time to make a plan at the door.
That's why you have to train in advance, communicate in advance,
and then execute when something like this begins to happen.
Security did a great job, staff did a great job,
First responders did a great job. And it doesn't come
without training. There's been questions about, well, it's kind of

(01:23:31):
coincidental that there was training at the temple fairly recently,
and is it connected or was there something suspected. The
answer is no, We're training all the time as agencies
with our partners, with our houses of worship, with our schools,
and that was one of those such trainings. There was
no credible intelligence or belief that it was about to

(01:23:52):
get hit, but it's ongoing training throughout the community and
they did a great job executing that training. Also, I'd
like to thank the community at large who has really
poured out their support and affection for everyone involved. The
Jewish community first and foremost has been i think uplifted
and hugged from our community, and that's appreciated and is encouraged.

(01:24:18):
If you know someone in the Jewish community, tell them
you're with them. You stand against anti Semitism. It's not
tolerable on any level anywhere period. And also I'd like
to thank, in addition to all of our partners, the
Shenandoah Country Club and the Kaldian community which served a

(01:24:39):
lot of things, an incident command post and reunification center.
They jumped right in and did everything they could and
did that day and they continue to do so to
this day. And then finally, everyone here at this facility
where we moved on day two has been amazing to
make the facility and capability and staff available.

Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
Well, it's those kinds of things.

Speaker 14 (01:25:02):
When you see the worst in humanity, you see the best,
and we've seen the best in humanity respond to that
here in this community.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
That is Michael Bouchard. He is the Oakland County Sheriff,
giving an update on the terror attack from West Bloomfield,
Michigan yesterday where a suspect identified to be a naturalized
citizen from Lemanon drove a car into a synagogue. His
plan was to get out and just open fire. Fortunately

(01:25:31):
there was a school that is attached to that synagogue.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
It was not in session right now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
We're getting an update now for the West Bloomfield Police Chief.
I don't think there's a whole lot more to update
other than the identity of the suspect, who we can
now surmise that Islamist terrorism was the motive here and
this was actually the fifth terror attack or attempted terror
attack in the United States in just the first couple

(01:25:59):
of days of March. After Operation Epic Fury began in Iran,
we saw at Gracie Mansion. Outside of the Gracie Mansion,
the New York City Mayor's home, there was an anti
Islamist protest by a white nationalist group led by Jake Lang.

(01:26:21):
And there were a couple of children of naturalized citizens
who through improvised explosive devices into the crowd there and
but for the quick thinking of a pair of truly
heroic New York City police officers, those could have exploded,
and those could have caused tremendous damage and loss of life.
Of course, this all kicked off with just hours after

(01:26:45):
the Iran attack, you saw a naturalized citizen from Africa,
an Islamist sympathizer wearing a sweatshirt reading property of a law,
open fire at a bar in Austin, Texas, killing multiple
people before he turned the gun on himself. We saw
two separate terror attacks yesterday. One a naturalized citizen who

(01:27:09):
was a former member of the National Guard attacked an
ROTC classroom, killing a decorated American veteran who was teaching
a class, and he shouted Alahu akbar. This guy was
previously convicted of providing materials support to ISIS a decade ago.
He gets out of prison goes right back to terrorism.

(01:27:29):
Here's where the story just takes a quite a turn.
The ROTZI cadets who were in the classroom beat and
stabbed the terrorist to death. According to a press release
and press conference yesterday in which the FBI special Agent
in charge in Norfolk, Virginia, where odu's campus is, she

(01:27:52):
was trying desperately not to say, yeah, the cadets viciously
beat this guy to death in self DEFAMBI obviously this
is a defense case. He opened fire and killed their teacher,
and they just punched him and beat him and stabbed
him until he was I believe the special agent put
it no longer alive, she said, I don't know how

(01:28:12):
to put this. He is no longer alive.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
Folks. We have a very real issue.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
With people who get into this country, not just illegally,
but also as refugees, also as part of Operation Allies Welcome,
which brought one hundred thousand Afghans into this country, many
of whom were not in fact properly vetted following the
disastrous pull out of Afghanistan. At the very beginning of
the very disastrous Biden administration, we were bringing in people

(01:28:46):
from Syria, we were bringing in people from Yemen. We
are bringing in people from terror hotspots that frankly hold
terrorist sympathies, and we are seeing people who have become
naturalized citizens that just in the last couple of weeks
are committing unspeakable acts of evil. Denaturalization and deportation needs

(01:29:10):
to be a very serious weapon used in the war
on terror, because, folks, we are going to see I believe,
homegrown terror attacks and attacks on synagogues, attacks on Jewish
community programs and schools, and that sort of thing with
increasing frequency because of the unfettered rage against the toppling

(01:29:34):
of the Ayatola. All right, let's switch gears very quickly.
Dan O'Donnell's show exclusive. UW Madison's faculty Union the UFAs
as well as its Teachers Aid Union the TAA, are
holding a pair of events in support of quote resisting

(01:29:59):
ice terror. According to flyers that have gone up across
the UW Madison campus, they are holding events March sixteenth,
that's Monday, in the Engineering Lab at ten am, and
then again on March twenty seventh at the Soils Building

(01:30:20):
on Observatory Drive. Of course, we have raised fist graphics
on these flyers and it says know your rights, wondering
what to do if ICE shows up in the building.
Want to learn how to talk about your rights with
coworkers interested in working with others so that none of
us stand alone. We got you come learn about your

(01:30:41):
rights when dealing with immigration agents, will go over basics,
talk about how to develop a plan for your workplace,
and discuss how your union can support resisting ICE terror. Now,
this of course raises a very interesting question, how many
illegal aliens does the University of Wisconsin Madison employee? Because
this is specifically for university employees, right, this is specifically

(01:31:11):
for if it's being put on by the faculty union
and the Teachers Aid union, it would be presumably for
faculty members in teachers aids. How many illegals are in
UW medicine? Is the exact same question I asked last
year when Governor Evers put out a ridiculous memo saying
that if an ICE agent shows up to a state

(01:31:33):
office building, you are to essentially lock them in a
conference room while you shuttle all of the illegal alien
employees out the back door. You think I'm kidding. That
was essentially the gist of the memo. It became a
national controversy because it very much was encouraging state employees

(01:31:54):
to obstruct active, legitimate law enforcement investigations. Now, of course,
as the UW Faculty Association and Teachers Aid Association are saying, well,
this is just you know, we're informing people of their
rights what we know in these training sessions. This is
not what goes on. They're not just saying okay, here
is what your rights are. Here is what you can

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and can't do. They are being instructive to actively impede
these investigations. And again, if UW Madison is not actively
employing illegal aliens, which again it is against federal law
and I believe against state law as well to employ
illegal aliens, then why is this necessary to begin with?

(01:32:38):
It is the same thing that sort of underpins Democrat
resistance to the Save America Act.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Over the last.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Couple of days, we have been documenting Democrat leaders Hakim
Jeffries and Chuck Schumer bizarrely saying that ICE agents will
start showing up at the polls if the Save America Act.
Now illegal aliens are absolutely barred from voting, So why
would ICE agents be there unless, of course, illegal aliens

(01:33:09):
are actually voting.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Gene Cosmeric, who is the county clerk in DuPage County, Illinois,
put out a video that all but confirms that she
knows illegal aliens are voting. It is one of these
ridiculous hey we're going to protect you against ice videos,

(01:33:31):
but it actually sets up she sets up an alternative
polling place. She says, Okay, if ICE is at your
polling place and you are worried about ICE, because of
course you're an illegal alien who should not be voting,
don't worry. You can go vote at any other polling
place in DuPage Counties.

Speaker 10 (01:33:52):
Should Ice be spotted at the polls, my office will
alert rapid responders on the streets, instantly, contest election judges
at polling places, and use social media to get the
word out to the people of du Page County. Du
Page County voters can vote anywhere in the county, So
if an ICE presence is reported at any polling place,

(01:34:15):
you can go to Dupagecounty dot gov slash vote anywhere
for a list of all two hundred and forty eight
polling places in the county for an interactive map to
find an alternative polling place near you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Okay, So again, why would we need this warning Because
we are told illegal immigrants.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Do not vote.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
We are told that voting fraud is such a minor thing.
We don't even need the Save America Act. We don't
even need photo ID, we don't need proof of citizenship,
we don't need any of it because this never happens.
This is the crime that absolutely never happens. And especially
illegal aliens, they are so terrified of the consequences for
illegal voting none of them would ever try. Okay, So

(01:35:00):
then why is the clerk of DuPage County saying, Okay, hey,
all you illegal aliens who are showing up at a
polling place, if an ICE agent is there, don't worry.
You just get out of there and will still allow
you to vote at any other.

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
Polling place in DuPage County.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
You talk about saying the quiet part out loud when
you are actually going so far as to put out
a video warning people that ICE agents might show up
at the polls. And if they do show up at
the polls, if you're an illegal alien voter, you can
just vote elsewhere. So what is the status of the
Save America Act?

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Yesterday? Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
Said that it was going to go up for a
vote before the full Senate next week. Now, I said, okay, great,
that doesn't matter, because it's going to get filibustered, and
unless there is philibuster reform, unless there is a vote
to go back to what's known as the talking filibuster,
where they're actually is a filibuster instead of someone just saying, hey,

(01:36:02):
I'm going to filibuster, and then the bill essentially dies
until there's a cloture vote with sixty votes, something that's
never going to happen. On the Save America Act, it's
essentially a moot point because there's just no way that
this bill is ever going to pass. So what exactly
is Thune doing? Is he just putting this forward in

(01:36:24):
order to say he put it forward and then watch
it die. A lot of conservatives thought so well. Mike Lee,
who is one of the biggest supporters of the Save
America Act, he put out a video today saying he's
been in negotiations with Thune's office, he and a number
of other senators who are supportive of the Save America Act,
and he said there's been significant progress and that he

(01:36:47):
is confident there is a way that this bill will
not just come up but will actually be voted on.

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the
effort to get it passed. Look, I am guardedly optimistic.
We've turned kind of a corner over the last few days.
There's been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will
be and will not be using. In the end, we've
been working closely with Leader Thuone and his staff, and
they've been great to work with. What we're coming up

(01:37:16):
with is something that I think is best described as
a hybrid version of the talking filibuster. But look, let's
not get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more
than what we call it is what we do with it.
We're going to bring it to the floor, We're going
to debate it for an extended period of time before
filing cloture, and in my view, at least I don't
want to speak for anyone else, this bill needs to

(01:37:38):
remain on the Senate floor before we file cloture on
the bill, for as long as it takes to get
it done. Now, the fact that Leaderthoon in his office
has been willing to work with us on this and
they appear open to a variation of that is a
good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
So let's keep up the momentum.

Speaker 15 (01:37:55):
Let's encourage them to continue to do this let's put
the bill on the floor. Let's make those who want
to fillbuster speak and keep it on there as long
as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
All Right, that is Senator Mike Lee of Utah. I'll
believe that when I see it. Frankly, I don't think
there's any real appetite to get this thing past. I
have also been hearing that you have got Lisa Murkowski
against the Save America Act. I believe Mitch McConnell is
against it. Susan Collins is against it. John Fetterman, a

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Democrat who has been increasingly siding with Republicans over the
past year, he has come out against it. There is
a very narrow, tight rope that you would need to
walk even to get fifty one votes or fifty votes
with Vice President JD. Vans casting the deciding one in
order to get this thing passed. And then, of course,

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let's say it gets past. Let's say, miracle of miracles,
they do get this hybrid talking filibuster, cloture reform, whatever past.
What do you think is going to immediately happen. Democrats
are going to sue over it, and of course it's
going to go before the DC Circuit and Chief Judge

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James Bosberg, who we opened the show talking about with
respect to his completely inappropriate shutting down of a legitimate
US Attorney's Office investigation. He would simply issue an injunction
against it so that the Save America Act would not
be in place for the upcoming twenty twenty six November

(01:39:29):
midterm election. And in fact, you could get a Court
of Appeals to say, look, it's just not enough time
to get people to have their birth certificate to be
able to prove citizenship. Let's not kid ourselves, folks. This
would face significant challenges.

Speaker 14 (01:39:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
I remain, like Lee, guardedly optimistic that we are going
to see this sort of meaningful electoral reform. But let's
not kid ourselves that even if it does pass the Senate,
even if President Trump does douz sign it into law,
then the courts get at it. And what we have
understood about what the courts are doing in the age

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of Donald Trump, and that is to just obstruct as
much as possible, not to issue rulings that are supported
by the Constitution or federal law. In fact, it's the
exact opposite. What's going on is these rulings the judges
no I am convinced Boseburg with all the ridiculous rulings

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that he has issued over the past several months. They
know they're going to get struck down on appeal and
certainly struck down by the US Supreme Court if it
goes that far. The issue and the aim is to
just get a temporary injunction so that Trump is slowed
down so he can't do whatever it is he wants.

(01:40:52):
If you get an injunction against the Save America Act
and we get to a critical point in this election cycle,
say we get close enough to the primaries, and given
states a number of states have already had their primaries,
if you get to that point, well then the courts
can say, all right, we're too close. There is no

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way that people are able to prove who they are. Meanwhile,
back here in the real world, everyone knows it's remarkably
easy to be able to prove citizenship and to be
able to prove who you are. But the point is
that they would want to delay it. And again I'm
getting way ahead of myself. I have some serious doubts

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that it's ever going to pass the Senate. I don't
think there is going to be meaningful filibuster reform. I
think we're going to be stuck with this sixty vote
threshold at least until the very second that Democrats retake
control of the Presidency, the House, and the Senate. They'll
get rid of the filibuster instantly to get passed with
fifty one votes whatever they want to get passed.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
When we come back, Halvins are Strangers. Stories of the
past seven days. Our fun weekly segment coming up.

Speaker 16 (01:42:04):
Next, Conservative Thought, not just Talk.

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
It is the Dan o'donald Show. Welcome back to it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
Coming up in i'd say about ten minutes fifteen minutes
or so, we are going to be talking with Waukeshaw
County Republican Party Chairman Terry Dietrich. He is the founder
of the wis Red Initiative. It is a voter guide
as well as a comprehensive assistance for Spring candidates in

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Waukashaw County, one of the most important Republican counties in
the entire state. We are actually partnering with wis Red
here at the Dan o'donald Show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
This year.

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
We are putting together the ultimate Conservative voter guide, not
just Waukeshaw County, but all seventy two counties. Every single county,
we are going to have a list of conservative candidates.
It is the biggest conservative voter guide in the history
of Wisconsin. I can say that with absolute confidence. We
are putting the final touches on it. We are going

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to debut it a week from Monday, March twenty third,
the day before in person absentee voting starts. We are
going to be running once again the state's largest early
vote drive, and we are going to be doing better.
Noah Candidate where candidates, local conservative candidates call in all
day long. We're doing this in conjunction with Ben Yeant

(01:43:30):
and Jason Gotch on WISN. So it is going to
be an entire day devoted to local elections. Right now,
we devote some time to the silliest stories of the
past week.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
It is our weekly segment. Howazam Talmazon on.

Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
His podcast this week, NBA retired superstar Lamar Odom, a
former teammate and friend of the late Kobe Bryant, said
Kobe visited him in a dream and apparently said the afterlife, yeah,
ain't all that great.

Speaker 17 (01:44:06):
He looked back at me, he said, hello, after life
is not what people make it up to be. And
then I woke up shortly after that and I just
made me think, like what was he trying to say?

Speaker 18 (01:44:21):
Like, you know, could be he missed everybody. You know,
it can mean a multipot of things.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
A multipude, a multipood of things. It could mean.

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
Look, I am not I am not going to make
fun of this. I am not going to say I'm
not going to bring up the fact that lamar Odom
is an admitted former heavy drug user.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
People have these sort of encounters all the time. But
what what do you mean He's not that The afterlife
is not what it what it's cracked up to. What
Jesus beat up in a game of horse? What is
Kobe talking about here.

Speaker 15 (01:45:05):
Alva?

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
Believe it or not, that is not the weirdest basketball
story this week. Major scandal at California State University cal
State Bakersfield, a former men's basketball assistant coach by the
name of Kevin Mays, who's a former player on the team,
was allegedly moonlighting as a pimp, operating across four states California, Oregon, Washington,

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and Nevada. In August, head coach Rod Barnes received an
anonymous tip email alleging Mays with trafficking women for prostitution,
prompting an internal investigation that led to his arrest following
a police sting operation. He now faces eleven criminal charges.
He has been held without bail since his arrest. The

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case has triggered multiple dismissals and resignations within the athletic department,
including Barnes stepping down after a fourteen year tenure. The
investigation revealed Mays was initially hired as a player development
coordinator in twenty nineteen by Barnes, later promoted a temporary
assistant coach in June at around three thousand dollars a month,

(01:46:13):
a month raising questions about background checks and who knew
what about his alleged side.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Hustlebazon Albaza Talbazon.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
Lest you think that performance enhancing drugs or silicone injections
are only plaguing professional sports or human beauty pageants, a
camel beauty pageant Camel Beauty Pageant in Oman plunged into chaos.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
Twenty of its competitors.

Speaker 1 (01:46:45):
Camels like actual camels, were disqualified after their owners enhanced
their humps using injectable fillers silicone wax and botox. Veterinary
inspectors at the twenty twenty six Camel Beauty Show Festival
in Al Musana Oman discovered that the camels had undergone
several cosmetic procedures to enlarge the size of their humps,

(01:47:13):
using a mix of injectibles similar to dermal fillers used
on humans. According to both Vice and Forbes, that disqualified
camels had received a mix of injectibles, including hyaluronic acid
injections for pouty lips. The camels needed pouty lips, dermal
fillers around their nose, botox to soften their faces, and

(01:47:35):
silicone wax to inflate their humps. Now, the camels in
this pageant are judged on four key features.

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
Their coat, neck, head, and humps.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
The winning animals usually have the shiniest hair, a long
and muscular neck, long eyelashes, and plump lips and of course,
plump and defined humps. Festival organizers say they are working
to halt quote all acts of tampering and deception in
the beautification of camels, adding that they would impose strict

(01:48:06):
penalties on manipulators going forward. How Bazam Bazar here's a
story about the absolute state of the education system in America.
A high school graduate who got a three point seven
GPA but could barely read is now suing her former
school district in Washington State. McKenna Simonson graduated from Lynnwood

(01:48:31):
High School in the edmund School District with high honors,
but her family claims she finished her senior year reading
at just a first grade level and often didn't understand
which she was reading. Lawsuit alleges educational malpractice and benevolent discrimination,
saying the district gave her a meaningless diploma despite knowing

(01:48:52):
her severe reading struggles. Now, instead, the family says they're
facing steep cost forty thousand dollars a year for vocational
training elsewhere that they say they should have gotten at
the Edmondsville School District. The district has not yet publicly
responded to the suit. Ladies and gentlemen, This your weekly

(01:49:13):
look back at the strangest stories of the past seven
days on a segment we call here on the Dan
o'donald Show, How I'm com on Welcome back to the

(01:49:54):
Dan o' donald's show, Believe it or not. In a
little more than a week in person, early voting opens
up for the state Supreme Court election, and a whole
bunch of municipal and county election Spring election. Election day
is Tuesday, April seventh. Now, what we always talk about
here on the Dan o'donalds Show is that a whole

(01:50:15):
lot of conservatives don't know who it is that they
should be voting for. They don't know who the conservative
candidates are. Obviously, I think everybody knows to vote for
Maria Lazar for State Supreme Court judge, but beyond that,
who are the conservatives on the ballot. It has been
an issue that has been plaguing us forever. Joining me
now is a man who saw that same problem and

(01:50:37):
decided to do something about it. Waukeshaw County Republican Party
Chairman Terry Dietrich. He is the founder of the Wis
Red Initiative. Terry, Happy Friday to you.

Speaker 5 (01:50:48):
Happy Friday, Dan, Great to be up with you well.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
This year, Terry, we are actually partnering with the Wis
Red Initiative as we are putting together here at the
Dan o'donald Show what we're calling the Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide,
where we're taking your recommendations for Waukeshaw County combining them
with pretty much every other county in the entire state
that is going to debut online one week from tomorrow

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as part of a broader web initiative that we are
launching here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. But wis read
actually goes well beyond terry just a voter guide. You
are actually vetting candidates. You are actually working with these
local candidates to get them ready to run. Explain for
our audience again, how wis read works exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Yeah, Basically, in August, actually through the summer, we're out
looking at all the individual races, whether they're incumbents, whether
they're open seats, et cetera. County wide, which is typically
between one hundred and forty and one hundred and sixty races.
This year, we've even got the county board up, so
it's another twenty five and so we're looking for those

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counties or those candidates all that time, and we actually
start selecting and vetting individuals. They come to us through
a whole series of channels, but we start actually vetting
those candidates a whole series of questions and backgrounds and
those types of things. That takes place from early September

(01:52:15):
all the way through the end of December. Obviously, the
filing deadline for the candidates is the first week in January,
so it's hundreds and hundreds of hours. But we vet
these candidates and we ultimately decide with a vetting board
of seven individuals, very dedicated, all from Waukeshaw County. We
spend time with each one of these candidates and we
decide on whether we are going to support them. We

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don't say endorsed, because sometimes we have two or three
conservatives running for the same seat, and if we determine
that they're good conservatives, we support them all and let
the people like it's supposed to be, let the people decide,
but ultimately we decide who we're supporting, and from that
point forward, it's all full scale go. In January, after
they've filed, we put together our voter guide of that

(01:53:00):
just came out about a week ago. We do that
for the primary and then obviously for the general, and
then we have a whole series of outreach programs to
the voters in Waukesha County, typically conservative voters, but even
some of those low propensity voters you were talking about
that we've got to drive out we're knocking, we're dropping,
we're canvassing, we're texting, etc. We've got a whole array

(01:53:21):
of outreach programs, including meeting the candidates themselves, and basically
go all the way full scale through April seventh, or
actually three days before and try to push that voter
turnout up. I think if you remember way back, Dan,
it seems like a long time ago in two thousand
when we first started this for the twenty one spring race.
This is now our sixth year of wis Red. We've

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won believe it's about one hundred and six, six hundred
and twenty out of seven hundred and twenty or so races,
about an eighty nine percent win rate. But every year
each one of these school boards and municipal boards has
turnover won to three candidates, and we've got to be prepared.
So this year exciting for sure, major major races this year,

(01:54:04):
interestingly for the mayoral races and Brookfield Steve Ponta, who
are supporting Scott Allen, we're supporting over in Waukesha, City
of Waukesha for Riley's seats that's vacated. And then we've
got Elmbrook school board race. Waukesha school board races. It's
a myriad of really really close races. Matt Rosick running

(01:54:25):
for mayor out and o'conhomwalk so county wide, we've got
a lot of races, We've got a lot of volunteers working.
We are full full scale right now. But ultimately we
want to drive that voter turnout up. If we do that,
we feel we're in good shape to take the majority. Well,
we've pretty much got all the majorities of all the
school boards and municipal boards, but a couple of really
tight races, especially Elmbrook and those mayor's races.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
Yeah, it does seem like Elmbrook school Board is always
a contentious battle, but obviously a great weapon for conservatives
running for those seats is the WIS Red initiative. Is
that WIS red support and is the voter guide. I
have long believed that one of the biggest things that
conservative organizations the Republican Party can do is just put

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together a voter guide. And I have been a huge fan,
as you know, Terry, of what it is that you
guys have been doing since twenty twenty ahead of the
twenty twenty one spring election and We're trying our best,
I said, we are putting together the ultimate Conservative voter Guide. Obviously,
Waukeshaw County has by far the most names on it
thanks to the hard work that you do. And it

(01:55:31):
is my goal to try to get this wis Red
initiative duplicated in every other county in Wisconsin. I know
that's been your goal as well. You faced some you
faced some opposition intra party. Where do we stand right now?
Are other counties picking this up? Is this something that

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you think can be replicated? Is the state party behind you?
What are the what's the status or the efforts to
get this more of a statewide thing?

Speaker 5 (01:56:01):
Sure? I mean I've been contacted by so many chairs
around the state who said, boy, we need this in
our county. There is a state party called the Farm Team.
It's there. It's their version. I think it was a
takeoff of ours, and I think it's it's been fairly
successful in some locations, and I think I think, you know,
ultimately it's got to be a statewide program. We mis

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read has some unique features to it, that's for sure.
I'd say in most of these counties that are picking
up the farm Team or other local elections programs they're in,
they're in the pretty early stages of doing that. I
think our our real advantage is we've been able to
scale right. So back in before two thousand, before we read,

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candidates would go out by themselves effect really effectively, the
state party and even county parties were not interested in these, uh,
nonpartisan races. But when they when these candidates would go out,
they go out by themselves and and they'd really be
kind of one man bands, uh, and it just made
it very very confusing to the voter. It made it
very difficult for those individual candidates to try and get

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the momentum in a very short sprint that we have.
You know, this is only basically mid January through April seventh,
and we take a look at the take a look
at the post primary, we're really only talking about a month.
So the idea that we were able to bundle all
of these candidates, whether they're municipal or school board in
a particular municipality or a particular area and sell them

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as the team under Wes read and brand the logo
of wiss Red. So the average voter who's not really
up to speed, not paying too much attention. We've had
so many calls from people who just simply said, Dan,
They said, Terry, finally you told us who to vote for.
We don't have the time and we don't know all
of these candidates and nuances of the issues. So you

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make it simple for us. And by scaling and bundling
as a package and letting them understand the team approach,
that has been what catapulted with Red and I'd love
to be able to see us do that, and you know,
most of the major red counties. If we do that,
like Ron Johnson says, trickle up instead of spending all
the money at the top and all the rest of that.

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If we do that, this state can be read every time.
I'm convinced that that's our that's been our Achilles heels.
The fact that we don't register enough voters number one,
and we don't get voters out at the local level.
At the local level, voters tend to pay attention and
then they become habitual voters. They don't take elections off.

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And you know, I don't like to give kudos to
the other side, but that's what they've been very effective
at doing for many years, is making sure that their
voters vote every single election cycle, which we don't. And
if you have a candidate who comes off the ballots,
say President Trump, that there isn't a fall off from
that because people still believe that it's necessary at their
local level on up to be able to get out

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there and vote and vote. And so looking at the
entire WIS Red array of touching those vot voters five, six,
seven times in a forty five day period is so
much more effective in getting those voters to become habitual,
which is what we need on the Republican side here
in Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
Absolutely, just look for the WIS Read Voter Guide at
the Waukeshaw County GOP page. Terry Dietrich is the chairman
of the Waukeshaw County Republican Party. Terry, as you know,
I am a huge, huge, huge supporter of WIS Red
and your efforts to take this more to a statewide level,
because you're right, Senator Johnson is right, we need to

(01:59:34):
have trickle up politics. The Democrats have figured this out.
They have been contesting every single election statewide. They are
not taking any one of their voters for granted. They
have basically maxed out their voter registration. I am convinced
of that that every liberal in this state is already
registered to vote. They are already voting Democrat. We've got
hundreds of thousands of potential conservative voters who aren't. All right, Terry,

(01:59:59):
I know it's a busy, good evening for you, so
we're gonna let you go. Really do appreciate you stopping by.
Let's touch base again very soon.

Speaker 5 (02:00:07):
Okay, absolutely, thanks Dan. Everybody, come on, get out and
vote all conservatives from this county. This is a red cony.
Let's go out more him.

Speaker 1 (02:00:15):
Absolutely it is. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show.
When we come back, words of advice from President Trump
to wrap up this edition, this busy broadcast week, you're
on The Dan o'donald Show and much much more.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Stay tune, we're coming right back, folks.

Speaker 1 (02:00:35):
Did want to get to words of wisdom from President
Trump in his interview with Jake Paul of all people today,
looks like we are not going to have enough time.
Just want to say, hope everybody stays warm, stays safe,
the snow, the ice, the sleep, all of it. Heading
our way, hunkered down, spend time with some loved ones
this weekend and come back rested and hopefully ready to

(02:00:57):
face another week. We are back here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show three oh six Monday. Have a great weekend
and stay safe Wisconsin.