The Blue Slip Blues

On Tuesday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," interim US Attorney Brad Schimel will have to leave his post next week because of Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin's abuse of the so-called "blue slip" process. Plus, the surest sign of Spring in Wisconsin: Tommy Thompson is floating his name as a candidate for statewide office!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
How can one of the most qualified men to ever
serve as US Attorney here in Wisconsin be out of
a job next week because Tammy Baldwin doesn't like him.
Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show as we dive into
the Blue Slip Blues on the Tuesday edition of the
program without any further ado, let's dive right into it

(00:24):
tough stories that we are following right now. Brad Shimmel
will leave his position as interim US Attorney when his
temporary appointment expires next week. We will explain why and
why the process for appointments needs some serious reform. That
is coming up in just a second. It is an
election year tradition, a statewide election is coming up and

(00:47):
Tommy Thompson is yet again letting it be known that
he is very interested in running. Plus, what are the
betting markets saying about who Democrats will pluck out of
the clown car to be their nominee? That story coming up.
At three twenty five, The Milwaukee school Board approves a
plan to cut two hundred and sixty non teaching jobs.
But we actually crunched the numbers and found a whole

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lot more fat in MPs that could be cut. Our
exclusive analysis is coming up at five h six. Coming
off at about four h six. It is the daily
Trump date. As White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt gives
an update on the War with Iron one days in.

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This campaign has been a resounding success thus far, and
America's warriors are winning this important fight at an even
faster pace than we anticipated.

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influential a talkshow this is. Brad Shimmel, who served as

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interim US Attorney for the past one hundred ten days plus,
is going to be out after a majority of federal
judges in the Eastern District of Wisconsin ruled today that
they are not going to allow him to stay past
the expiration of his interim appointment. According to a release

(03:21):
put out by those judges, a majority of judges on
the court declines to exercise this permissive authority. In doing so,
the court intends no criticism or commentary on the performance
or qualifications of the interim United States Attorney or any
of the attorneys in the United States Attorney's Office. To
the credit of that office. From the Court's perspective, it

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has continued to represent the citizens of this district well.
The Court awaits the nomination and confirmation of a full
time United States Attorney by the President and United States Senate. Now,
why has Wisconsin's Eastern District not had a permanent US
Attorney Because Tammy Baldwin, United States Senator from this state, Democrat,

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of course, has refused to return what is known as
a blue slip. In other words, she has been able
to veto a permanent selection by President Trump that would
ever go to the United States Senate for confirmation because
she has had an issue with pretty much anybody and
everybody that President Trump has potentially looked at in order

(04:27):
to try to get around Baldwin's obstinates and Baldwin's clear politicking.
Brad Schimmel, who is a former prosecutor in Waukesha. He's
the former Waukeshaw County District Attorney. He is a former
Waukeshaw County judge. He is the former attorney General of
the state of Wisconsin. He was a candidate for the

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Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is the real reason that Baldwin
despises him. Actually, the real reason is that he dares
to be a Republican in public life. And Baldwin is
the most craved political creature, quite possibly this state has
seen in quite some time. She is going to oppose
anybody and everybody that President Trump puts out on either

(05:09):
an interim or a permanent basis. Wisconsin has an additional Okay,
so to back up to the start, here's how the
process works for nominating somebody to serve as a US
attorney or as a federal judge. Now you might think,
you might think the Constitution might be pretty clear on this.

(05:32):
That the President makes appointments and the Senate has what
is known as the advice and consent power. The Senate
confirms the president's nominees. This is rather obviously how it's
supposed to go. However, it doesn't because since at least

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nineteen seventeen, there has been a process by which the
Presidency essentially defers to senators from the state where the
nominations are going to take place. This is informally known
as the blue slip process because the two senators from
that state quite literally return a blue printed piece of

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paper to the head of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. Since
nineteen seventy nine, Wisconsin has been unique in that it's
not just the home state senators that have a say.
There is actually a bipartisan federal nominating Commission. It's a
six member commission with three members chosen by each Senator,

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so it will actually solicit applications for US attorney for
vacancies for federal judge. It actually interviews candidates, it makes
recommendations to the two senators, and the senators almost always
only support and return positive blue slips for the candidates
who come through this commission. Because the commission has become

(06:57):
so overtly political under Tammy Baldwin's Democrat nominees, they have
simply refused to approve anybody. Democrats would not approve a
single US attorney to come through this commission for the
eastern district of Wisconsin. So President Trump had no choice
but to go the interim route and to essentially bypass

(07:18):
the bipartisan commission. So the way the blue process works
is it actually takes away power, not just from the
United States Senate as a whole, but also the Senate's
Judiciary Committee, the committee that is supposed to be responsible
for this sort of thing. So here's how it happens.
The President nominates someone for a position in a specific state,

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here Wisconsin, the Judiciary Committee chairman, Chuck Grassley in this case,
sends each of the states two senators a blue colored form.
It is literally blue. Senators return it with either a
positive response saying I am okay with this nomination, a
negative response saying I'm not okay, or they'll just withhold

(08:03):
a return of the slip entirely. And that's actually the
most common way to block a nomination. The chairman will
decide what happens next. Under longstanding practice, if there is
one negative blue slip returned, or if one of the
blue slips is not returned from a home state senator,
the nomination is dead. The Judiciary Committee doesn't even bring

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it before the committee to advance out of committee and
then go before the full United States Senate. Now, things
had gotten so bad in twenty seventeen when it became
apparent that Democrats were so tipped off that Donald Trump
dared to get elected that grassly had no choice but
to overhaul the blue slip system for circuit court judges,

(08:49):
the lowest federal judges, not the appellate courts, the district courts,
or Supreme Court obviously, but for circuit court judges the
rule was relaxed next, so a negative blue slip or
withheld blue slip no longer blocks a hearing, it no
longer stops a nomination cold. But for US attorneys and

(09:10):
district court judges, those blue stillips are still very important. Again,
this is sort of seen as a senatorial courtesy. It
dates back at least one hundred years. It's been sort
of an informal practice, and the idea was to force
the White House to consult with the senators from the

(09:33):
state where the person is going to serve. And you
would think, just in theory, this makes a heck of
a lot of sense, right that you need to understand
the people who represent the folks that your nominees, that
the people are going to serve as US attorneys or
serve as judges, that they are actually going to represent,

(09:53):
that they're actually going to be serving with and serving for.
As you might have mad Democrats have completely abused this process.
As of December, only two of eighteen confirmed US attorneys
have served in states with a Democrat senator. Think about

(10:16):
that for a second. Trump has nominated eighteen different US attorneys.
We're in a state where there is at least one
Democrat senator, So the Democrat senator can withhold the blue
slip or say I don't want this person serving. Sixteen
of eighteen times the Democrat has refused to sign off

(10:39):
on one of President Trump's picks. Let's go back a
little further. During the Obama presidency, there were twenty known
nominees who had at least one negative or withheld blue
slip from a Republican senator. Going back even further during
George W. Bush's residency, there were thirty seven who faced

(11:03):
blue slip problems. And again, when Trump got elected, Democrats
became so obstructionist that Chuck Rassley had no choice but
to relax the rules. Twenty seven of twenty eight circuit
nominees had blue slips. What this means is, had the

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rule not been relaxed in twenty seventeen, during Trump's first term,
every single one of President Trump's federal judicial nominees for
the lowest level for the Circuit Court Eastern District of
Wisconsin and so forth, twenty seven out of twenty eight
would have been rejected out of had they wouldn't have
even gotten a hearing in the Senate's Judiciary Committee because

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Democrats in that state are simply, for no reason other
than because the nominee is a Republican and because they
don't want Republican US attorneys or Republican federal judges to
serve in their states, they're handing out the blue slips. Now,
there was no question that Tammy Baldwin was not going

(12:08):
to oppose Shimmel serving past the expiration of his term
next month, which, by the way, is Saint Patrick's day,
March seventeenth. Shimmel is going to leave office as US
Attorney well. On March fourth, last Wednesday, Baldwin issued a
press release opposing any sort of extension. She called Shimmel
a clearly partisan actor who shouldn't get an extension for

(12:32):
this job. Clearly partisan actor. Are we kidding here? The
man was serving as a judge as a Waukeshaw County judge.
There has never been a case in which his integrity
or any sort of decision making was ever called into
question in any case he ever served on. He's a

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Waukeshaw County District Attorney and got incredibly high marks in
that role, got himself elected to two terms as Wisconsin's
Attorney general. Again, received very high marks, except of course,
from Democrats who invented attacks on the rape kits, which,
by the way, are being completed as a much slower

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rate under his successor, Democrat Josh Cole than they ever
were under Shimmel. There is no legitimate criticism of Brad Schimmel.
He's a partisan actor. Give me a break, a clearly
partisan actor. Does the name Gregory Hanstad mean anything to you?

(13:37):
Gregory Hanstad anything. He's the former United States Attorney He
served from twenty twenty two through the end of President
Biden's term, previously serving as Acting US Attorney twenty sixteen
through twenty eighteen. He's a Democrat, right, he is a Democrat.

(14:08):
Ron Johnson filled out a positive blue slip before he
was Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District. Had he
ever served as a prosecutor? Has he ever served in
any sort of capacity in public life? He had not,

(14:30):
so he had far less relevant experience than did Brad Shimmel.
He was no less a quote unquote partisan. You don't
get through this bipartisan nominating Commission and approved by Democrats
unless you are an avowed partisan Democrat. So clearly he
was a Democrat. He got a hearing, he got confirmed,

(14:56):
he served. Yet Brad Shimmel, who is prosecuted at the
county level and is prosecuted as the head of the
state's entire Department of Justice as attorney general because he
is a Republican, doesn't get to serve folks. As with everything,

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Democrats are abusing the blue slip process, especially here in Wisconsin,
to block clearly qualified actors. Is there anything about Brad
Schimmel that would put him outside of the mainstream of say,
political or legal thought. He's sort of the definition of

(15:41):
a no nonsense law and order guy. He's not out
there like say Alina Habba. Alina Habba was President Trump's
personal attorney, and she was nominated to be a US
attorney in New Jersey. She got blue slipped because she
was seen as rather obviously too close to President Trump. Okay,

(16:03):
it's his personal attorney. There's a conflict of interest there.
I could actually understand the Alina Habba blue slip. Brad
Shimmel taking money from the Republican Party, Brad Shimmel running
as a Conservative backed by the Republican Party for State
Supreme Court. That's that's somehow to partisan. Give me a break.

(16:29):
Gregory Hanstad was far less qualified for the job than
Brad Schimmelffer was, yet Hanstad sailed right through. Hanstad was
was just fine servant twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen before
he was eventually replaced by President Trump. No issue there.

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It's nice and unfortunately a relic of a bygone era
that the pre is expected to sort of defer to
what Home states senators want. Home state senators who happen
to have a D next to their name, they're just
never going to fill out a positive blue slip for

(17:15):
any of Trump's nominees or frankly, I don't believe any
Republican nominees ever. Again, remember we went through this a
generation ago when President George W. Bush could not get
any of his federal judges confirmed. They might get positive
blue slips, and they might actually get a committee hearing,
but Democrats resolve that they're not going to nominate a

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single They're not going to approve a single Bush judge. Republicans,
of course, then said, in the early days of the
Obama administration, Okay, look, we're going to respond in kind,
because this was so ridiculous, it was so beyond the pale.
I'm telling you, folks, everything you think is unique and

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is new in the era of Trump. Democrats did it.
It just wasn't nearly as widely known in the era
of George W. Bush because we didn't have social media
back then, and people weren't nearly as obsessed. And because
we didn't have social media, people weren't online every waking
moment and know every single thing that every other person
on planet Earth is thinking at any given moment. But

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they were just as bad. They were just as obstructionist.
So Republicans say, okay, turnabout's fair play. President Obama takes control.
Republicans retake control of the Senate in the House of Representatives,
and they say, all right, we're done. Harry Reid evokes

(18:40):
invokes the nuclear option. Remember that to break filibusters on
judicial nominees, Every single judicial nominee short of the United
States Supreme Court was done. Then. Of course, when Democrats
for the first time in the history of this country

(19:02):
for Neil Gorsich. Neil Gorsich, out of the three Trump nominees,
was probably the least controversial. He was just a soft
spoken judge served at the appellate level forever. Democrats philibustered
him just because he was nominated by President Trump. That
was the only reason they philibustered him. So, of course

(19:22):
Cocaine Mitch. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says, all right,
we're going to invoke the nuclear option for all judicial nominees. Well,
Democrats lost that power, so they can't just filibuster and
it's all appointees, right. Democrats were so obstructionist that it's
now every single This is why Trump would not have
been able to assemble a cabinet, because there would have

(19:46):
been a filibuster of every single one of his nominees,
even the ones that are eminently qualified. Marco Rubio at State,
Scott Bessant at Treasury, all of the ones who are
to forget about Secretary of War Pete Hegsath as good
as he has been, Remember he was just a Fox
News host and a drunk when he was up for nomination.
They just would not have allowed it. But since they

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no longer have the power of the filipbuster, they're now
abusing the blue slip process in order to try to
sink these nominees. You're listening to the Dan o' donald Show.
We are now a week from Saint Patrick's Day and
that means it is a very fun tradition. Here on
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the next week, straight ahead to Saint Patrick's Day, so
be listening for that all show long. Coming up next,
the Surest Sign of Spring Tommy is floating a statewide
run for office. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show,
as we are now one week away from Saint Patrick's Day.
As you could imagine by the title of this show,

(20:50):
Yes o donald actually is my last name. I don't
use a stage name here. We take Saint Patrick's Day
very seriously. My family is actually from donny Gall in
Northern Ireland known as Weed Donnie Gall. We took a
group of listeners with our friends at Cruise and Tour
a couple of years ago to the mother country and

(21:12):
I'll tell you I had an absolute blast. And in fact,
as you might know, there is an Irish singer who
happens to share my name, Daniel O'Donnell. They actually call
him Weed Daniel from We Donnie Gall. So our tour guide,
a guy whose name was actually quite literally John McGinnis,
I don't know if it gets much more Irish than that,

(21:34):
took to calling me Weed Daniel. And it was actually
hilarious because we were rolling up with these two big
buses and it said in the window of the buses
you roll up at a hotel in Dublin or in
Galway or wherever it was we were, and it would
say the Dan O'Donnell Family Adventure, just what we called
the trip Dan O'Donnell Family Adventure, and crowds would gather

(21:57):
around thinking it was this singer We Daniel from Weed
Donny Gaull. He's sort of like the Irish Barry Manilow.
That's the way it was described to me. Your grandmother
loves Daniel o. He's an incredibly talented guy with an
incredibly beautiful voice. But every time crowds would gather around,

(22:17):
I'm talking like ten fifteen people would just stop in
the middle of the street and sort of like peer
into the windows of this bus to try to see
We Daniel, our tour GUYE John had to stop them
and say, no, no, it's not him. It's just a
radio presenter from the States. And with that I realized,

(22:40):
no matter what I did, I would not be better
than we Daniel. Well, it doesn't feel like it today,
but yesterday, boy, did it feel like springtime?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
The sun shining, the snow melting. Maybe you even saw
the very first robin of the spring. But none of
those are the real sign of springtime in Wisconsin. No,
we got the first real sign of springtime in Wisconsin

(23:23):
today when former Governor Tommy Thompson let it be known
to one and all that he is once again interested
in running for statewide office. Stop me if you have
heard this one. As much as we love Tommy, and
we do love Tommy on this show, he's an incredible guy.
He is a true legend. He is the forget about

(23:47):
being the greatest governor in the history of Wisconsin. I
think it's one in one a him and Governor Scott Walker.
He's one of the greatest, most consequential state governors in
the history of this country. But every year, it seems
since he left the governorship to become Secretary of Health
and Human Services under President George W. Bush. He has

(24:09):
come back every single spring there is a statewide election
with an open Republican seat, and said he's interested. It
started back twenty years ago. May of twenty six, Thompson
toyed with the idea of a Senate run, publicly announced,
though a little bit later he's not going to run.

(24:30):
His longtime aid former Secretary of Administration Jim Klausser, confirmed
that Thompson gave a Senate run serious consideration. Ultimately, though
his family convinced him not to, And this began an
annual springtime tradition, sort of like the groundhog popping his
head up and saying it's going to be an early spring.

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When Tommy pops his head up in the spring, you know,
campaign season has officially begun. Of twenty ten, Politico roll Call,
tons of national organizations start to report that Tommy quote
is eyeing a bid for the United States Senate. Then

(25:13):
about a month and a half later, Thompson said, I
can't describe how badly I wanted to run, but say
it with me. My family convinced me not to. He
also apparently gave some consideration to a comeback bid against
incumbent Democrat Diamond Jim Doyle, but the race he was
really looking at was the United States Senate. Two years later,

(25:35):
he actually did run for the Senate. He won a
bruising primary against Eric Huvedy, but then he was completely
out of cash and Tammy Baldwin, who didn't face a
primary opponent, was able to just cruise through. Ultimately, Tommy
lost to Baldwin by six percentage points, and what turned
out to be a big Democrat year bullied by the

(25:55):
re election of Barack Obama. For the next ten years,
in the era of Scott Walker and with Ron Johnson
as the incumbent Republican Senator, there was really nothing to
run for. But then once again we had the sign
of spring. It came early in twenty twenty two. January eleventh,

(26:18):
he gives an interview with WISN Channel twelve, saying everything
is on the table in terms of whether or not
he would run for the governorship of the state. I
am physically and mentally capable of doing anything, telling multiple
outlets he wanted to run. He actually visited President Trump

(26:39):
to discuss it, and he only decided against it because
of say it with me, his family convincing him not
to run. Finally, April eighteenth, he made the official announcement
he is not going to run, saying I wanted to,
but family opposition ultimately profailed. Now he is out again.

(27:01):
Our good friends at Wisconsin right now reporting that Tommy
Thompson is telling people that yes, he is interested in
potentially running for governor. At some point the people around
Tommy have got to do everybody, including Tommy, a very

(27:24):
valuable service and tell him that all of this is
completely unbecoming. He is not going to get into this race.
He is not going to win this race, and that
if anything, the constant will he or won't he? Brett
Favre on the tractor routine is only serving to harm

(27:46):
his legacy, and his legacy is a towering one as
one of the greatest, most revolutionary conservatives at the state
level in again American history. Forget about what was Jahnson
history American history. But now it's become something of a joke.

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For twenty years, every time there is a Republican who
might be running, every time there isn't a Republican incumbent,
Tommy pops up and says, hey me too. Look This
is not an agist comment or anything like that. Tommy
is eighty four years old. I have no doubt. I

(28:29):
actually just ran into Tommy, talked to with him a
couple of times at the Republican National CONVECTI he looks good.
He hees probably got more energy than I do. For
goodness sakes, age would be an absolutely massive issue. He
would be eighty eight years old at the end of
his first term were he to win. Not only that,

(28:53):
this song and dance routine four years ago did incalculable
damage during a must win gubernatorial election in twenty twenty two.
Republicans then had coalesced around former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Clayfish.
She was raising a good amount of money. She got
pretty much every endorsement from every political figure in the state.

(29:16):
It looks like we're going to avoid the bruising primary
that absolutely destroyed Lea Vukmir in the twenty eighteen Senate race,
where she had to battle tooth and nail against our
good friend Kevin Nicholson, and she was tapped. She was spent.
Just like in twenty twelve, the bruising primary between Hovedy

(29:38):
and Tommy left Tommy completely out of resources. Tommy's allies
convinced whoever would listen, or they tried to convince whoever
would listen. I know this because they reached out to
me multiple times. They told me Dan Becky can't win,

(30:00):
Rebecca has no chance of wit, to which I replied,
Republican women are winning everything. This was in the era
where January sixth was still fresh, and let's face it,
that Trump brand was not doing particularly well. When Republicans
nominated women, they did exceptionally well. I said, you're telling

(30:23):
me that Republican women are winning everywhere, but in Wisconsin,
Rebecca Clayfish is the one Republican woman who can't possibly win.
Give me a break. And I rejected that flat out.
Tommy's people, though, were relentless. They said, no, no, no, no, no,
we need Tommy, We need Tommy back in this race.

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So behind the scenes they were trying to get Tommy
to run so that he would go in with the
Trump endorsement. He would just blow Clayfish out of the water,
and then all of the support would go to Tommy.
Well again, in April eighteenth, he officially says I'm not
going to run. About a week later, Tim Michaels gets

(31:07):
in the race. Now, Michaels was sort of the backup
candidate as I understand it, He was not going to
run if Tommy was going to run, rather obviously, but
Michaels just happened to get all of that institutional Tommy's support,
the Tommy support, by the way, which was kind of
hostile to Rebecca Clayfish and her Scott Walker based team.

(31:31):
They wanted nothing to do with each other. Once again.
Bruising primary left Tim Michaels, who we were told was
going to be able to self fund and was going
to be able to just blow Evers out of the
water in fundraising numbers because he would just dump fifty
million dollars of his own money into the campaign. He
dumped a ton of money in to win the primary,
and then he just sort of stopped spending. I have

(31:52):
nothing against Tim Michaels. In fact, I love Tim Michaels,
but it was obvious he was not the right candidate.
Would Rebecca Clayfish have won I don't know, Frankly, it's
an unknowable thing. But what I can tell you is
that Ron Johnson won and Michael's ran significantly behind him.

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This notion where the entire party coalesces around one cat.
Right now, it's Tom Tiffany. And yes, I've heard rumblings
that the mayor of Wapan, Ron Bishop, who is a
good guy. I've seen online people are blasting him as
a rhino. He is not a rhino. He's a very good,
decent man. He's a principal conservative Republican. But again, he's

(32:36):
just not going to have the institutional support. It would
essentially be a fools there. There is just no chance
at this point anybody is going to unseat Tom Tiffany.
And so help me if this is part of another
behind this scenes effort to get an alternative to Tom Tiffany,

(32:56):
because now we're starting to get cold feet in Tommy
world that Tiffany can't win. I just I can't support
any of this now. Is this just Tommy wanting to
hear people talk about him. Yeah, it's certainly possible. Certainly possible,
it is. But four years ago it wasn't just an

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innocent thing like, oh well, Tommy's interested in running. Four
years ago, it absolutely was a precursor to one of
the most damaging primaries that Republicans have ever inflicted upon themselves,
and I'll be dog gone if it's gonna happen again
on my watch. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show.
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(35:41):
describes them. I did not change a single word out
of this tweet. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York
City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day,
enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less
than an hour, their lives would drastically change. Jazz. The
pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an

(36:03):
anti Muslim protest outside of marizoron Mamdani's home here's what
we know so far. What two Saudi nationals were just
out for a flight on a beautiful September more, what
are we doing? They're terrorists, you crazy people. He was

(36:28):
a brilliant mathematics student who could have gone to Harvard
at age fifteen, but instead he started mailing bombs to people.
The Ted Kaczinski story. What they could have spent a
normal day enjoying the city. Yeah, they could have, but
they're terrorists, so they did what terrorists have a tendency

(36:52):
to do. What is it about liberals in the media
and their attempts to sanitize what it is the worst
people in humanity do? Whoever it is that runs that
cnn X account is your unhinged liberal of the day
coming up. For four straight years, four straight years, Democrats

(37:17):
told us that the president is not responsible for gas prices.
Do you know? There are just so many factors that
go into the price of crude oil and that you know,
the refining process, and it could be it could be
bad weather in Malaysia and that has an impact on
the global oil market. Look, there's look, nothing Biden could

(37:38):
have done could get gas prices down from five bucks
a gallon in the summer of twenty twenty two. Now
that we have seen a temporary spike in the price
of gas, I believe the triple A average today is
three dollars and fifty three cents. Now it is one
hundred percent the president's fault. And by the way, by
the way, we have paid three dollars and fifty three

(38:00):
cents a gallon for gasoline since yesterday morning, so about
two days give or take two days. Right, would you
believe that is only eight cents higher than the average
price of a gallon of gasoline during four straight years
of Joe Biden's presidency. That's right, it was about this

(38:23):
price for four years. Libs, you think we'd forget Dan
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(39:07):
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(39:31):
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We're gonna win.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
So much you may even get tired of winning.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
It's all so a big wind for the United States.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
updating on the progress of the war in Iran during
her daily press briefing this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
More than five thousand enemy targets have been struck so far.
Iran's ballistic missile attacks are down more than ninety percent,
and their drone attacks are down by approximately eighty five
percent since the start of Operation Epic Fury. The United
States is also annihilating the Iranian regimes navy, and we
have destroyed more than fifty Iranian naval vessels, including a

(42:39):
major drone carrier ship. None of the regime's vessels are
operating in major regional waterways, and the Iranian Navy has
been assessed as combat ineffective.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Levit also reiterated President Trump's warning to the remnants of
the Iatolas regime to not disrupt the transportation of oil
and other goods through this straight of horror moos mooming forward.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
The stated objectives for Operation Epicuri remain the same, destroy
the terrorist regime's ballistic missiles, raise their Iranian missile industry
to the ground, ensure their terrorist proxies can no longer
destabilize the region, and ensure that Iran never obtains a
nuclear weapon. President Trump remains confident these goals will be
accomplished in swift fashion.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Levitt today also urged Senators to pass this Save America Act,
which requires proof of citizenship and photo ID for voting
in all federal elections. We'll dive into the very latest
on that coming off. At about four to twenty five
earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegsith offered his own
update on the war and said that this conflict will

(43:44):
not despite what the media is saying via Forever War.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Today will be yet again our most intense day of
strikes inside Iran, the most fighters, the most bombers, the
most strikes, intelligence, more refined and better than ever.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
So that's on one hand. On the other hand, the
last twenty.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Four hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of
missiles they've been capable of firing yet, just the bifurcation,
just the trend lines that we talked about on our
first briefing. You see, this is not two thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
This is not.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw
under Bush or Obama.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's not even close.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again,
and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against
those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Those days are dead.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total air dominance,
and an unbreakable will to accomplish the President's objectives on
our timeline.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Oil price continuing to plummet today from a high of
over one hundred and fifteen dollars a barrel Sunday evening.
The average price at gas in the US is now
three point fifty two a gallon, up substantially from a
month ago, but up just slightly from the average price
under four years at President Biden. More on that coming
up in just a second. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy today

(45:20):
spoke at the first ever national Autonomous Vehicle Safety For him,
he says, the United States is in competition with other
nations to master this new technology for the race right.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
Everyone is trying to have the best technology that will
be deployed around the world. And I want the technology
to be developed in America. I want the jobs in America,
and I want the rest of the world to use
American technology. I don't want to see a foreign competitor

(45:53):
slash foreign adversary slash Communist Party beat America and have
their technology deployed.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Around the world.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
This is a national security issue, This is an economic issue,
This is a safety issue.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Today seminar is being hailed as the biggest federal gathering
on self driving car safety in years. It comes as
autonomous taxi services like Waimo and Tesla's Robotaxi scale up
their operations in a number of cities that ladies and
gentlemen is your Daily Trump Date. Producer Eric is with
us here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Eric, you ever

(46:30):
been in a robo taxi self driving car. I have
not either. My brother was in one in Austin, Texas,
and he said it's one of the coolest things he's
ever seen. He knew I would be super interested, so
he actually videoed his entire ride. He was like giddy
as a schoolgirl when he saw a waimo come to
pick him and his family up when they were visiting

(46:50):
my other brother about a year or so ago, and
he said, it's one of the wildest experiences. I am
a big believer in autonomous technology, as you i'd imagine.
I am a huge believer in artificial intelligence generally. I
think it is going to revolutionize the world. I think
it is already revolutionizing the world. And you want to
talk about not being dependent on the strait of Hormuze

(47:15):
or uncertainty in the Middle East, you get into a
situation in which autonomous electric vehicles are just dominating American
roadways and that does more than anything else to decouple
us from awful regimes like Iran. Well also that and

(47:37):
just destroying the military capabilities of an evil regime. Now,
Democrats are not used to this sort of military might.
Now you heard from the Secretary of War Pete Hegseith,
and he said what I have been trying to explain
to people for several weeks now since this conflict started,

(47:57):
and really starting with the arrest of Nicholas Maduro, the
now former dictator of Venezuela. We are not going to
the idea of a forever war, the idea of American
boots on the ground for a generation like there were
in Afghanistan, that is long past. Technologically, the United States
is so superior to every other military on planet Earth

(48:21):
that we are able to achieve our objectives as quickly
as the blink of an eye without deploying a significant
portion of our fighting force or any portion of our
fighting force. Now, this sort of strength, this sort of speed,
this sort of military might, this sort of extreme competence

(48:42):
at the top of the Department of War, or as
it was formerly known, the Department of Defense, is rather alien.
I want to take you back two years ago to
February one, twenty twenty four. The Iranian regime's proxies Hamas
had just killed three service members, and Biden's Secretary of Defense,

(49:04):
Lloyd Austin, took to the White House briefing room podium
to offer his condolences and to pledge to do I
don't know something in response, the.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
President will not tolerate attacks on American troops, and neither
will I sounds.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Tough, right, Exactly forty five seconds after Austin opened that
press briefing by saying that he apologized for going a
wall over the Christmas holiday, just absolutely disappearing. And even
the woman who was left in charge as acting Secretary

(49:45):
of Defense had no idea that she was actually in
charge while Austin was getting surgery for prostate cancer. Now,
of course, nobody is going to criticize Secretary Austin for
having prostate cancer. All right. I have loved ones with
prostate cancer. I've known my grandfather had prostate cancer. When
he passes, millions of men at prostate cancer, millions of

(50:09):
men get treatment. That's not the issue. You cannot while
hoothy rebels were sinking American ships while Hamas was flexing
its muscles, just sort of disappear and leave America without
a Secretary of Defense, but forty five seconds later, after
he promised some ambiguous action at some future date in

(50:31):
response for the killing of three American service members, you
had Austin groveling for forgiveness for going a one.

Speaker 7 (50:38):
But I want to be crystal clear, we did not
handle this right, and I did not handle this right.
I should have told the President about my cancer diagnosis.
I should have also told my team and the American public.
And I take full responsibility. I apologize to my teammates

(50:58):
and to the American people.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
How absolutely pathetic was that display. Meanwhile, Democrats have spent
two days now predicting that oil would get to two
hundred dollars a barrel. It is now at seventy seven dollars,
and in free fall. Yesterday we actually saw the single
biggest one day decline in the price of a barrel

(51:23):
of oil. After there was a whole lot of fear mongering.
My good friend Dave Spano over at Annex Wealth Management
calls it a wall of worry that just sort of
gets built up over things, whatever it is, global conflicts,
the Federal Reserve, anything and everything. When you get that
wall of worry built up a lot of times you
get panic selling a lot of times, you get panic hoarding.

(51:45):
You just get illogical behavior. What we saw with the
Straits of Hormuz being essentially bottlenecked by the remnants of
the Iyatola's regime was this wall of worry being to
call it, a dam of fury being built up in
the strait of horror moves. But once that cleared, once
it was abundantly clear that we had plenty of supply,

(52:08):
the price of a barrel of oil dropped from one
hundred and ten down to eighty four almost instantly Monday,
and pretty much every Democrat talking point was destroyed. Right now,
though we are in a gas price spike, we have
seen higher than normal gas prices. According to Triple A,
the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded is

(52:31):
three dollars and fifty three cents per gallon. Three dollars
and fifty three cents per gallon. The average price under
Joe Biden for four years was three dollars and forty

(52:52):
five cents a gallon. For four years, we have been
paying the price of gas that we are paying for
the last two days when it's a natural national emergency.
Excuse me, Democrats, are screaming about the price of gas,
as though we didn't just live through the single worst

(53:13):
period for gas prices, probably since the last time we
had a truly disastrous Democrat president in Jimmy Carter. And
at some point, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is
worth revisiting Carter's responsibility for not just bringing us the
Iyatola's brutal forty seven year reign of terror in Iran,

(53:36):
but also undermining Middle East policy by subsequent presidents through
back channel communications with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries
after he left office. You know, Jimmy Carter somehow skated
by on this reputation, largely unearned, of just being a
nice guy who builds houses for habitat for humanity, who's

(53:58):
going back to his peanut farming in Georgia and he
was just going to live a nice, long life. No,
he was actively undermining American foreign policy to the degree
where some might consider it to be a criminal offense
against the United States of America, to say nothing of

(54:20):
the fact that forty seven years of the Iyatolas and
the Mullahs brutally oppressing their people, spreading the tentacles of terrorism,
not just through the Middle East, but across the globe,
killing hundreds of Americans, thousands if you include all of
the Ied attacks in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

(54:44):
Jimmy Carter in in large measure, and his effeckless foreign
policy in the late nineteen seventies was responsible for a
good portion of it. All Right, when we come back
here on the Dan O'Donnell show, the Save America Act
King to Senate Majority Leader John Thune is not going
to pass because he does not have support for ending

(55:07):
the phantom philibuster. We'll discuss in just three minutes here
on the Dan o' donald's show. Ballroom Hero, the Dropkick,
Murphy's in the Saint Patrick's Day, punk music, bumper music rotation.
Here on the Dano donald's Show, Welcome back to it,
Happy Saint Patrick's Dale. A little bit early on top

(55:28):
of the afternoon. To all of you. Senate Majority Leader
John Thune saying today in a press conference with reporters
that he does not have the votes to get the
Save America Act passed through the talking philibuster. For those
who have been unfamiliar with this debate, the talking filibuster

(55:50):
is what you would think of philibuster should be you
simply talk until you can't talk anymore. You might remember
we had to do something like that on this very
radio show back in December. When we lost the ability
to play commercials or anything else. I basically just had
to talk for hours and hours and hours. The most
famous example that everybody reminds themselves of when they hear

(56:13):
philibuster is Mister Smith Goes to Washington nineteen thirties or
forties film starring Jimmy Stewart as Jefferson Smith who goes
to Washington and tries to take on corruption, and the
climactic scene is him filibustering and he gets all the
male delivered from people who support him, and then he

(56:33):
collapses because he just can't talk anymore. So that's what
people think when there's a filibuster. Well, about one hundred
years ago or so, the Senate abolished the talking philibuster
and instead went to what's known as a zombie filibuster
or phantom filibuster. A senator merely says he's going to filibuster,

(56:57):
and then there is a vote for cloture. Lolacher means
debate is ended on a particular measure. And then there's
a vote on the measure itself. Klocher used to require
two thirds plus one majority sixty six votes plus one.
When that threshold was lowered to three fifths in the

(57:19):
nineteen seventies, zombie filibusters became commonplace when you only needed
sixty plus one. When you only needed sixty votes to
end a filibuster, everybody started filibustering, but not actually filibustering
using the zombie philibuster. There has been a movement, and

(57:40):
this is something, by the way, that the framers of
the Constitution never actually intended. Look, the framers of the
Constitution never actually intended for the direct election of United
States senators. They actually intended that state legislatures would appoint
two United States Senators. We changed that with the seventeenth
Amendment about a one hundred and fifty years after the

(58:04):
Constitution was ratified. Thune today, it's about the votes, It's
about the math. I'm the one who has to be
clear eyed and a realist about what we can achieve here.
We don't have the votes either to proceed to get
on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we
got on it. There is nothing I can do about that.

(58:27):
I mean, I understand the President's got a passion to
see this issue addressed, as we all do. Sigh the
fear that a lot of Republicans have, and yes, it's
the usual suspects, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Cocaine,

(58:47):
Mitch McConnell. As much as I loved the guy when
he was Senate Majority Leader, he has no business being
in the Senate anymore. I was in the first hour
talking about how Tommy just I hate to say it,
but is too old. Even though he's very vibrant, he's
very full of life, it just isn't going to work

(59:08):
him as governor of Wisconsin. Again, Mitch McConnell is not
vibrant at all. He is the opposite of vibrant. He
needs to step down now. Of course he's not going to,
but he also opposes this. You actually also have a
number of other senators I think I saw Barrasso was

(59:31):
one of them. That you got a pretty big coalition,
seven or eight senators who are saying, look, we don't
support going back to the talking filibuster. And the fear
is always the same that Democrats will simply do what
Republicans did after Cocaine Mitch went on the floor of
the Senate. Remember when the late Senate majority leader Harry

(59:52):
Reid for the Democrats got rid of the he used
the nuclear option to get rid of the filibuster for
nominations for federal courts. Cocaine Mitch gets up and he says,
you may regret this, and you may regret it sooner
than you think. And Democrats absolutely did, because as soon

(01:00:14):
as President Trump took power and Democrats filibustered Neil Gorsich,
Republicans simply used democrats precedent against them and said, all right,
well now we're going to use the nuclear option and
get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees as well.
The fear here is that if Republicans do anything to

(01:00:35):
the filibuster now, as soon as Democrats retake control of
the Senate and they've got say, a governing trifecta the President,
the Senate and the House of Representatives, that they will
simply use the Republican president and further gut the filibuster
and get rid of it all together. Is there anyone
alive who thinks that this current crop of Democrats. Well, folks,

(01:01:01):
they're talking about packing the Supreme Court, adding states simply
to give them more senators, so Republicans have no chance
of ever winning the Senate again. And you're wondering if
they'll keep the filibuster rule. They were calling the philibuster
a relic of Jim Crow when Republicans were using it

(01:01:24):
against President Biden from twenty twenty one to the end
of twenty twenty four. You're really telling me that they're
not just going to do whatever it is. They feel
like maybe a generation or so a go, Democrats would
have bowed to precedent and say, Okay, there's a level
of decorum here, and we must respect prior precedent. I'm

(01:01:46):
telling you, folks, this generation of Democrats does not. As
soon as it suits them, they will get rid of
the filibuster. They will do whatever they need to get
their agenda passed. The idea that we can make this
most minor change and simply go back to what a

(01:02:07):
filibuster is supposed to be, This idea that this is
just a bridge too far and we can't possibly do this,
especially to get something passed as vital as ensuring that
only American citizens are taking part in America's democratic process.
If we can't even do that, then what are we

(01:02:28):
really doing with a governing majority. We will talk more
about the Save America Act itself when The Dan o'donald
Show returns. Stay tuned, Welcome back to the dano'donald's Show.
So the Save America Act itself, what specifically does it require?

(01:02:49):
There is a whole lot of misinformation out there. All
it requires is that you essentially prove not only that
you are who you say you are, but a soh
that you prove that you're an American citizen. During today's
White House Press briefing, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt took the
very first question on the Save America Act, and it

(01:03:12):
was about Democrats who claim that married women will be
unable to comply because they're not able to change their
name when they get married. This is honestly one of
the dumbest arguments I think I've ever heard. It essentially
comes down to married women, and it's always racial minorities.
Just racial minorities are unable to comply with this law

(01:03:36):
because reasons, well, the very strong implication is that they're
somehow not competent to be able to get the thing
that you need to do to do most things in
American public life, and that's have a photo ID. In
order to get on an airplane, in order to buy
a car, in order to rent a car, in order
to buy a house, in order to rent an apartment,
in order to apply for a loan, for a credit card,

(01:03:59):
for a bank account, you need a photo ID. And
what is so wrong with requiring a birth certificate if
you don't have a passport? By the way, fifty percent
of Americans have a passport. It is it is very
easy to get one. Admittedly it does cost money. This
is why there is a provision in the law where

(01:04:22):
if you are one of the estimated three percent of
people who is unable to get your birth certificate, it
doesn't have easy access to your birth certificate. Admittedly I
don't have a copy. Actually I do. I take that back.
I do have a copy of my birth certificate somewhere
in the files in the bowels of my home. I
think somewhere in my home office, I've got my birth certificate.

(01:04:43):
But you know what I can do. I was born
in Milwaukee County. I can call up Milwaukee County and
I can get a birth certificate printed for me. I
can go and get it, I can get it emailed
to me. There are a million ways. It is very
very easy. I make fun of Milwaukee County government in
a fish, but their records department is remarkably good, very

(01:05:04):
easy to get. So, Caroline Levitt was asked, Okay, are
married women really not going to be able to comply
with it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
As far as married women who have changed their name,
if they're already registered to vote, they're entirely unaffected by
the Save Act. And for the small fraction of individuals
who have changed their name or their address, they can
still register to vote, of course, they just have to
go through their state processes to update that documentation. And
this is something that the American people, married women and

(01:05:32):
minorities and people all across this country who Democrats are
insultingly saying cannot do this. They're already doing it every day,
going to the Social Security Office, going to the DMV.
And I think it's frankly insulting that the Democrats are
saying that there are certain groups of people in this
country who aren't smart enough to update their documentation to
allow them to vote.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
That's it exactly the fact that there is a provision
in the proposed bill, in the act itself that says, okay,
if you truly can it, you are still able to attest,
meaning you're still able to say, okay, hey, person who
is checking my idea, I swear I am an American citizen.
I am someone who is legally authorized to vote in

(01:06:14):
this country. And oh, by the way, lest you think
non citizens voting in American elections is something that never happens,
there was just someone who is arrested yesterday for voting
in presidential and other federal elections since two thousand and eight.
He is a native of his Mauritania. Is that how
you say? As a nation in Africa, it's rare? To

(01:06:36):
be sure, we think it's rare. We have no idea
how often it actually happens. There is no legitimate argument
against this, unless when it boils down to we don't
care who it is that's actually voting in our elections. Now,
I would say, okay, Democrats don't actually want non citizens

(01:06:58):
voting in America elections. Except Democrats want non citizens voting
in American elections. Multiple cities across the country, including San Francisco,
allow non citizens allow legal residents in this country, not
illegal aliens. But again, how would you really know if
illegal aliens are voting in municipal elections, in school board elections.

(01:07:23):
This has been this was something that for a few
years in there, this was all the rage in Democrat circles.
We have to allow non citizens to vote in these
municipal elections, especially school board elections, because look, they live
here too, they go to the schools, their children are
going to the schools, so they should have a say
in who it is that represents them on these school boards,
who it is that's hiring the superintendents, and principles and

(01:07:46):
so forth. Regardless of the fact that it is a
federal law that only American citizens are allowed to vote
in federal elections, the clear implication there is that you
need to be a US citizen in order to take
part in American democracy. And I just find it bizarre

(01:08:06):
that the Democrat Party, who has positioned itself as the
great defenders of democracy ever since January sixth, all of
a sudden, does not want any procedural safeguard whatsoever. This
is something, folks, that eighty plus percent of Americans won,

(01:08:28):
even about forty seven percent of Democrats actually do want
proof of citizenship, not just voter ID, but proof of
citizenship before you're allowed to vote in federal elections. Election
security is something that actually unites both parties because frankly,
both parties have accused the other of stealing an election

(01:08:50):
and cheating every time they have lost. Oh, Democrats don't
do that. That's just Republicans. That was just Trump pitching
a fit in twenty five twenty Oh really, oh really,
because in twenty twenty four, how many people were taking
to social media and say, hey, there were eight million
Democrat votes who just disappear. These voters just disappeared. In

(01:09:15):
twenty twenty, there were eight million more Democrat voters for
Joe Biden than there were for Kamala Harris in twenty
twenty four. What happened? Trump must have done something, to
which I said, yes, absolutely, It is weird. It is
very weird that it just looked like there were eight
to nine million people who appeared out of the ether

(01:09:35):
in twenty twenty. They voted for Joe Biden, and then
they disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Yes,
I do find that very weird. In twenty sixteen, Democrats
claimed that Trump was a Russian agent and that Russia
hacked the election. They were actually going into ballot boxes

(01:09:56):
and hacking the vote totals. Two thousand and four, remember
in Ohio, they were claiming that, ironically enough, dominion voting
machines were changing John Kerry votes to George W. Bush votes.
In two thousand, of course, they accused Jeb Bush, then
governor of Florida, for rigging the election for his brother

(01:10:20):
in the critical swing state. With the hanging chads and
the Supreme Court decision. Do you realize that Democrats every
single election they lost, every single one this century, they
have claimed was rigged, they have claimed was stolen, they
have claimed was not on the up and up. Don't
you think it is a little weird, therefore, that when
Republicans say, okay, yes, we want to do something to

(01:10:43):
make sure that those elections can't be stolen, that elections
can't be rigged, that Democrats say, well, no, absolutely not,
we don't want to do anything about that. Unsung hero
of the day coming up next right here on the
Dan o'doon Show. If Republicans get shellacked in the midterms,

(01:11:06):
you can take a look back at today as a
potential big reason why if in fact, John Thune and
Republicans in this Senate don't show some sort of spine,
some sort of backbone, and President Trump and Republicans can't
get something that eighty five percent of the American people

(01:11:28):
want past. That is the Save America Act required voter
id for all federal elections in addition to a requirement
that you prove citizenship. That'll be a big reason why.
Forget about the price of gas, forget about the war
in Iran, forget about inflation or the economy, or interest

(01:11:48):
rates or anything like that. This is this is about
just doing what your voters want, doing what all American
citizens want. The Trump administration has had a year of
pretty substantial wins, especially on the immigration issue, but it's
all for naught if we can't have faith and can't

(01:12:12):
have secure elections, and we can't have faith in elections
that we know to be legitimate and Democrats, this is
the thing that absolutely gets me. The charge of being
an election denier is almost exclusively hurled at Conservatives, even
against your very humble host here, who actually did find

(01:12:32):
a substantial amount of voter fraud in the twenty twenty
presidential election in the form of nursing homes, absolutely casting
ballots for patients who had no business voting whatsoever. I
found dozens of examples. I think that the final number
was seventy six examples that were emailed to me that
I could verify. These are people who's loved ones contact

(01:12:56):
in me and said, look, my mother has no idea
who is on the bout. She would have no idea
whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is even running for president.
She had no idea Donald Trump was president. Yet somehow
she voted, and I'm going to take a wild guess
that she voted for Joe Biden. Democrats have been complaining

(01:13:18):
that elections have been stolen every single time they have
lost an election this century. Let me repeat that, every
time Democrats have lost an election this century, they have
complained that it was rigged. Did Republicans complain in two
thousand and eight that Barack Obama had rigged the election

(01:13:39):
or did we say, hey, okay, a lot of people
voted for the first black president. John McCain was not
a particularly inspiring candidate. Heckwee Republicans didn't particularly like McCain
all that much. Twenty twelve, same thing. Did we complain
that somehow the election was stolen twenty twenty, when all
of a sudden you had roughly sixty six sixty seven

(01:14:00):
million total votes for Barack Obama, all of a sudden,
that number jumps to eighty three million for Biden, and
then it goes right back down to the mid sixties again.
Maybe it was upper sixties for Kamala Harris. Yeah, there's
a big reason that people are suspicious of that that
a guy who didn't even campaign got the most votes

(01:14:22):
by far in the history of American elections in a
year in which Democrats fully admitted that they changed all
the rules because of COVID nineteen. Okay, time out to
name the unsung heroes of the day. Today's unsung heroes

(01:14:46):
of the day just might be the most worthy in
quite some time. They are Assistant New York City Police
Chief Aaron Edwards and Sergeant Luis Navarro. During Saturday terror
attack at the anti Islam demonstration outside of Gracie Mansion
in Manhattan, Assistant Chief Edwards jumped over an iron barricade

(01:15:10):
and tackled one of the terror suspects, a man by
the name of Emir ballad brought him to the ground
as he was trying to throw a second improvised explosive device.
The video is absolutely incredible. Assistant Chief Edwards actually gets
him mid throw. His tackle stopped the second bomb from
being launched into the crowd. Sergeant Navarro. As Edwards tackled

(01:15:36):
the suspect, he ran straight toward the lit smoking ied
that ballot had dropped near officers and protesters. He did so,
according to the New York Police Department, without hesitation and
without regard for his own safety, to neutralize the device
and protect everyone nearby. Both were publicly honored by mayor

(01:15:58):
's Ooran Mamdania and New York Police com Missioner Jessica
Tish in yesterday's press conference, and today they are the
Dan O'Donnell shows unsung heroes of the day. When we
come back here on the program, MPs is going to
cut two hundred and sixty non teaching jobs. Is it enough?
Not nearly? Stay tuned. We'll be right back after the news.

(01:16:22):
Believe it or not. We are three weeks away from
the spring election here in Wisconsin. My goodness, is it
really that quick? Let's see one? Two? Four weeks? All right? Four?
Weeks away, two weeks away from the start of early voting,

(01:16:48):
My goodness, in person early voting or the rather paradoxically
titled in person absentee voting. That just kind of reiterates
how ridiculous it is. You are absentee voting, but you
are doing so in person. Folks, we are once again
launching the state's largest early vote drive here on the

(01:17:10):
Dan O'Donnell Show. What we are going to encourage everybody
to do, as per usual, is to vote early, to
vote as early as possible. Vote for Conservative Maria Azar,
vote for every conservative on your ballot. What Dan, What's
that you're saying, Dan, Dan, we don't know who the
conservatives on our ballot are. We don't know. Well, ladies

(01:17:31):
and gentlemen, have we got something for you. What we
are going to unveil on Monday, March twenty third is
the state's ultimate Conservative voter Guide. We have been working
on this for the better part of a month and
a half now. It is going to be the single

(01:17:53):
biggest conservative voter guide that has ever been put together.
It is going to be in a new digital spot
which we are going to unveil on Monday, March twenty third.
I am very very excited about it. And as part
of this, we are going to be running once again
our very popular segment Better Noah Candidate, and we are

(01:18:17):
expanding this in conjunction with my good friends Benyant and
Jason Gotch, who do the morning and midday shows here
on our flagship station News Talk eleven thirty WISN. They
are also going to be doing Better Noah Candidate, and
they are also going to be letting you know where

(01:18:38):
you can get the digital copy. We are not having
hard copies of the Conservative Voter Guide. It is going
to be let's just say, at a brand new spot
online and you are going to know no matter what
county you are in, we're going to have an interactive
map where you're just going to be able to click
on your county and you are going to have every

(01:19:01):
conservative that we were able to identify. We have been
working with Republican Party county parties across the state. We
have been working with conservative groups across the state. We
have just been going through and doing our own research
on the candidates, and we are trying to get as
many conservatives as humanly possible. Again, if you are a

(01:19:21):
conservative if you're in southeast Wisconsin, Waukeshaw County does easily
the best job of this. I think i've ever seen
the Republican Party of Waukeshaw County. Terry Dietrich, the chairman there,
does just an excellent job. He runs an initiative called
wis Red, and we have partnered with them here at

(01:19:43):
the Dan o'donnald Show. So if you're in Waukeshaw County,
don't worry. We already know who you are. You are
already in our voter guide. Same thing with I believe
Milwaukee County. We've got Racine, We've got Kenosha, sh Boygan,
I believe, Fond de Lac, We've got What wis red
does is to identify candidates and actually produce materials to

(01:20:06):
help them win in local elections. We're not doing that
here on the Dan o'donald Show. We're literally just giving
you a list of names. Because for years and years
and years now, I've been doing this radio show for
the better part of a decade. I believe it's coming
up on a decade now. The number one question I
get every spring is, Dan when is Tommy Thompson going
to say he's thinking about a serious run for state

(01:20:28):
wide office. Okay, But the second biggest question that I
get is Dan, who is the conservative in this race? Dan?
Who should I vote for in this race? I am
firmly convinced that one of the big reasons that conservative
turnout is somewhat depressed and has been for a long
time now in spring elections in state Supreme court elections,

(01:20:52):
is that conservatives stay home because they literally don't know
who to vote for. And this isn't you know. I'm
sure this point liberals are going to be saying, well,
that's because conservatives are stupid. They don't pay attention to
local race. It's very difficult. It's very difficult. Pretty much
every study has shown, by the way that conservatives actually

(01:21:13):
consume way more news than do liberals and are way
more informed and better informed on current events than the left.

Speaker 8 (01:21:19):
Is.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
The reality is, when am I going to be talking
about the you know, Mount Horreb School board, When am
I going to be talking about the Shaniqua Village board elections?
And folks, I dare say, we hear on this show,
do local news and do Wisconsin news more in depth,

(01:21:43):
and I may pull out a shoulder blade patting myself
on the back here. But I dare say we do
better local coverage than pretty much anywhere else. We certainly
break more exclusive stories, I think than any other news
organization in this state on Whiskey news and politics, but
we can't cover it at a granular level. And an

(01:22:04):
unfortunate byproduct of the destruction of local news is that
you just don't get that coverage anymore. Remember when we
used to have the CNI local newspapers, you'd have like Greendale,
now Hell's Corners, now cut a Hey. Now those don't
exist anymore, and we don't have Patch. Attempted to fill

(01:22:27):
the void, but it really didn't work out. It is
very difficult to do. I'm sort of hoping that now
in the era of artificial intelligence, where you can have
AI do some of the newsroom work that you would
otherwise have like low level employees or interns, do you
might see that again. But the reality is there just

(01:22:48):
aren't a whole lot of people passionate about it. So
as a result, we're a less informed electorate, We're a
much worse served electorate by the so called forth the state,
and heaven knows the biggest news organizations in the state,
the Journal set or the State Journal. They aren't covering
local elections in any fair manner whatsoever. So that's why

(01:23:14):
I think, I actually do believe that you get people
to say, wow, I don't know who any of these
candidates are. I don't even know if I'm going to
be running voting for the right person, why should I
show up? And then when you say, okay, well there's
a big Supreme Court election on the ballot, some people
will show up and just vote for that. But other
people will say, well, does it really matter? Honest to goodness,

(01:23:37):
does it really matter? All right? That was a long
way of saying. Stay tuned. Monday, March twenty third, The
Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide goes live online. Top stories we're
following right now here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The
White House is providing an update this afternoon on the
status of the military campaign in Iran. Press Secretary Caroline

(01:23:59):
Levitt says iran ability to strike back against its enemies
is decimated and the US its mission is well ahead
of schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Moving forward, The stated objectives for Operation Epic Fury remain
the same, destroy the terrorist regime's ballistic missiles, raise their
Iranian missile industry to the ground, ensure their terrorist proxies
can no longer destabilize the region, and ensure that Iron
never obtains a nuclear weapon. President Chump remains confident these
goals will be accomplished in swift fashion.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
And I have no doubt that that is the case.
Here at home, The Milwaukee Public School Board has approved
MPs Superintendent Friend of Cassilius's plan to cut two hundred
and sixty non teaching positions. More details on that coming
up in just a second, then coming up in three
twenty five. Did the Hudson School District flat out lie
to parents about an anti ice student walkout last month?

(01:24:54):
It sure seems like it. One parent called the district
out during last night's school board meeting. U won't want
to miss this audio from that brave parent. Finally, what
is it about liberals that they don't want parents knowing
what sort of sexually explicit material their kids have access to.
A library group in Madison is very upset that Republicans

(01:25:16):
in the legislature want warning labels on graphic books for kids.
That story coming up at five thirty five right now,
though Brenda Cassilius, the Milwaukee School superintendent, has announced plans
that she is going to cut two hundred and sixty
two non teaching positions from MPs. This is to help

(01:25:41):
close a forty six million dollar budget shortfall. Now, that
sounds pretty impressive, and MPs the school board passed these
cuts last night. The school district wants some plaudits here.
They want they want an attaboy for saying, hey, hey,

(01:26:01):
we're doing something right. This is on top of the
one hundred and sixty jobs cut last year. About a
one hundred and four of those positions I believe were
subsequently refilled. Well, I actually did some digging just how

(01:26:23):
many non teaching positions are there in MPs and what
percentage is two hundred and sixty two non teaching non
teaching positions. According to mps's website, it employs four thousand,
five hundred teachers. It's pretty impressive. That's actually very impressive.

(01:26:50):
Plus one thousand, five hundred educational aids. Okay, one thousand,
five hundred, so we have got six thousand and what
I would consider teaching professions professionals. Right, guess how many
non teaching positions there are in the Milwaukee Public so

(01:27:13):
mid level school district nationally, it is by far the
biggest school district in Wisconsin. Sake a whild guess, four thousand,
four thousand non teaching positions. There are roughly ten thousand

(01:27:34):
total employees in Milwaukee Public Schools. The two hundred and
sixty two non teaching positions that are being cut right
now represents a six point five percent reduction in the
number of non teaching positions. Given the fact that MPs

(01:28:00):
has been fiscally underwater for quite some time now, and
apparently its financial situation has been so bad that they
have just refused to report it to the Department of
Public Instruction for several years, resulting in all manner of
sanctions not just from DPI, but also from the federal
government because of its financial reporting requirements that MPs did

(01:28:23):
not follow. And also, by the way, the fact that
the head Start program, the pre K daycare program that
MPs runs, was quite literally losing track of children. The
Biden Education Department actually cut funding from mps's head Start program.
And given the fact that the Laukee Public Schools just

(01:28:44):
passed a two hundred and fifty two million dollar referendum,
a couple of springs ago, and also got roughly seven
hundred and seventy million dollars in federal esser grants for
COVID nineteen relief. In mitigation, this district, over and above
shared revenue from the school or from the state, over

(01:29:05):
and above property tax revenue, has gotten more than a
billion dollars. The fact that it can only manage to
cut six point five percent of the non teaching staff
is frankly a slap in the face. Not only that,
what we found from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce are great

(01:29:28):
friends here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, in their brand
new competitiveness report here in Wisconsin, is that statewide, we
have lost anywhere between sixty five thousand and eighty three
thousand K twelve public school students since the year two thousand. Now,
as you might imagine, that's led to a loss of

(01:29:49):
teaching positions as well. We have shed roughly two thousand
teaching positions in the past twenty five years, but according
to WMC, across the state, we have gained eight thousand
non teaching educational bureaucrat positions in that same time frame.

(01:30:10):
How exactly does that make sense, especially when oftentimes non
teaching positions, vice principles, education coordinators, any manner of make
work jobs at MPs central office or in district offices
across the state. These people are oftentimes making, sometimes double
the salary that teachers are making, when teachers are the

(01:30:33):
ones who are providing the most valuable service actually educating
our kids. If anything, lest you think that that evil
Dan O'Donnell, big bad conservative, he hates teachers. If anything,
I would say, double teachers salaries and get rid of
half of the administrative staff. I'd rather have instead of

(01:30:57):
forty five hundred teachers and fifty teen hundred educational assistants,
I'd rather have fifty five hundred teachers and two thousand
educational assistants and maybe a thousand non teaching bureaucrats who
are making, by the way, way more than those teachers
and educational assistants. I would actually bump up the salary

(01:31:20):
of teachers and dramatically reduce the salary of the educational bureaucrats. Look, folks,
the reality is it ain't working. MPs is according to
the most recent national testing, the NAEP National Test, it

(01:31:43):
is the worst school district in America for educating black students.
Pretty damn bad at educating all students. But Milwaukee has
this single worst racial disparity in the country. It's so
bad that the entire state of Wisconsin has the worst
racial disparity of any state in the entire country. Cutting

(01:32:06):
two hundred and sixty two bureaucrats is a good start,
and I will actually admit I have been pleasantly surprised
by Brenda Casselius's brief tenure as the head of MPs.
The bottom line, though, is that more bureaucrats need to
be cut, More salaries need to be shed, More of

(01:32:27):
these wake make work positions need to go away permanently,
and the investment has to be in teachers. The investment
has to go into the classroom. The investment, in other words,
needs to actually go to kids from Milwaukee to Hudson.
A student walkout in protest of ice put students in danger.

(01:32:53):
One parent is absolutely furious. You'll hear from him coming
up in just three minutes. Welcome back to the Dan
o'donald show is who we are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day
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bumper music all week long here on the Dan o'donald Show.
Welcome back to It. Well, about a month ago, students
across Wisconsin across the country were taking advantage of the
lefties freaking out about how quaint it seems. When the
lefties were just freaking out about ice raids in Minneapolis,

(01:33:37):
now they're freaking out about World War three, about the
price of gas is just quickly. It's remarkable how quickly
they're able to just turn on a dime as to
what the most existential crisis to this world is. Well,
about a month ago it was ice rains, and you
might recall that every Democrat in Wisconsin was panicmongering that

(01:34:00):
ice was going to leave Minnesota and they were going
to set up shop in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay. Were
not entirely sure where maybe in Hudson, students in the
Hudson School District took part in the nationwide trend of

(01:34:21):
getting not a class by walking out in protest of ice. Well,
one parent at the Hudson School Board meeting last night,
by the name of Joseph Rivera stood up and said, hey,
wait a second. Last month, we were told by the
superintendent that there was going to be no walkout, that

(01:34:42):
students were not going to be walking out of class.
The very next day, guess what, the students walked out
of class, and not just that they walked out in
what appeared to be a very highly coordinated school anti
ice walkout.

Speaker 9 (01:35:02):
Parents were told that students would not be permitted to
leave campus, that destructions would be minimized, and that parents
could excuse their children if they plan to participate. In response,
the superintendent wrote back stating that he supported that message
to families and that the district had handled previous walkouts
in the same manner. But the next day, around one
hundred and fifty students, including middle school students, walked out

(01:35:24):
of school and were seeing downtown participating in protests and
wandering around the streets with alongside adults. That was not spontaneous,
it was anticipated. District policy four four to two clearly
states that disruptive demonstrations and walkouts during the school day
will not be permitted and that students remain subject to
compulsory attendance loss. Yet the walkouts still happened. Parents were

(01:35:48):
told one thing and experienced another. I heard from families
who were frustrating that their children were allowed to leave
campus without their permission and without consequences. That creates confusion,
if undermine trust, and it puts our students at risk.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Now, why would the school district say no, no, no,
students are not going to be allowed to leave campus.
If they want to walk out, they can walk around,
and they can march around the campus. They're not going
to go downtown. But they did go downtown. Now, just
to be clearer, Just to be clear, this is not
Joseph Rivera or Dan O'Donnell or anybody else saying that

(01:36:28):
these students don't have a right to walk out. They
do First Amendment. They however, are still students. They are
still kids. They are still being protected by school staff,
by teachers, by adults who should know better than to

(01:36:51):
allow them to just sort of wander around downtown where
there's one hundred and fifty kids marching and maybe only
a handful of chaperones in something that was never communicated
to the parents. The parents, in fact, were told the
exact opposite. Okay, your kids aren't going to march out.
They're not going to leave campus and then lo and

(01:37:13):
behold very next day They're marching out and they're leaving campus.
Here's Rivera.

Speaker 9 (01:37:17):
When students are on campus during the school day, they're
under the district's care and responsibility. Allowing that many students
to leave campus and walk around through downtown during school
hours creates obvious safety risks. Hudson Police were present, and
I appreciate their support. They were only there because this
was a known safety risk. But the reality is this,

(01:37:40):
we got lucky that no student was hurt, and we
cannot rely on luck when it comes to the safety
of our students. Policy exists for moments like this, when
leadership must enforce clear boundaries and set expectations. If a
policy exists, it must be followed. If expectations are communicated,
they must be enforced. And if safety is the priority,
actions must match words. Our students deserve that level of leadership,

(01:38:03):
our families expected, and our district must do better.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
I don't know if Joseph Rivera is running for a
school board or not, but he should and he absolutely
would have my vote. Why is it that a random
parent seems to be the only one in the Hudson
School District who is concerned about this sort of thing. Again,
nobody is saying the kids can't walk out, they can't
make us stink about Ice. As dopey as some of

(01:38:31):
those protests were. They do need to be safe, and
parents do need to know where their kids are going
to be. You drop off your kid, especially if it's
a middle schooler kid who's sixth seventh grade, you drop

(01:38:52):
your kid off at school, and if they're going to
be leaving the school building, say they go on a
field trip, right, is there always a big Well, there's
weather Day at the ballpark, the meteorologists from a local
TV station. You'll go to American Family Field and you

(01:39:12):
watch a daytime Brewers game and you learn about the weather.
It's a cool little tradition. You have to sign your
consent for your student to go to weather Day, even
though they know exactly You know exactly where the kid is. Okay,
he is at American Family Field. Okay, there's a certain
number of share parent chaperones, there are teacher chaperones. But
when it comes to protesting the evil Nazi brown shirts

(01:39:37):
in Ice, well, those rules don't seem to apply because
you see, the message is just so great that we
got to allow as many twelve year olds to walk
out of the building without ever telling their parents. Again,
what is it with these school employees who believe that
they do not have to tell parents what it is

(01:39:58):
their kids are doing at school. This goes right back
to the same thing we have been arguing about the
social transitioning, where a kid is going by different pronouns
at school and the teachers are saying, well, your secret
is safe with me. Okay, adults and children should not

(01:40:19):
have secrets unless their mom and dad, grandma and grandpa. Okay, fine,
I think I'm old enough to admit this. When I
was in my twenties, I really liked PBR beer, perhaps
blue Ribbon. This is in the earrow where hipsters were

(01:40:43):
drinking PBR and Old Milwaukee and you know Schlitz. And
everybody accused me of being a hipster because I'd go
out to bars and I would order a PBR. Well,
really it was because my grandpa. When I would I
was a teenager, I was like a jewis you're a
senior in high school and I drive over and every

(01:41:03):
week or so I would mow his lawn. My younger
brother and I took turns. Well, my grandpa, when I
got to be an older teen, he would sit and
he loved the smell of freshly cut grass. What dude
does not. And he would sit and he would drink
a PBR and watch me mow the grass and just

(01:41:23):
sit out read his newspaper. And as I got a
little older, I was getting ready to go off to
college and so forth, he would have a PBR waiting
for me and he would say, what do you think?
He told me as he and I would sit and
sit beer, don't tell your dad. Well, we lost Grandpa

(01:41:46):
boy fifteen years ago, and I think I can finally
come clean to my dad that Grandpa was allowing me
to have PBRs. And that's why I still to this
day I love I haven't I've actually extended January. I
call it dry Danuary. I haven't really had a drunk.
I went out to the Milwaukee Public Museum's Food and

(01:42:07):
Froth event, by the way, fantastic event, the last one
at the old Museum. That was the only time I've
drank in twenty twenty six, the only alcohol I've had.
Oh yeah, I'm probably down, Producer Eric, Do I look thinner?
I think I'm down fifteen pounds just from cutting out alcohol.
I'm not even kidding, well, just from alcohol, and I

(01:42:27):
don't know what it is. I boy, it's been a
rough year for health for the old DoD. If I've sounded,
I've had real bad acid reflux and that has really
impacted my hunger. I'm just I'm not hungry because like
my chest and my stomach just constantly feel awful. And

(01:42:47):
if I've sounded distracted last week, I think I told
you folks that it was almost certain that I tore
my ACL. Well MRI results finally came back. I didn't
tear my ACL. I tore my ACL and my meniscus.

(01:43:09):
So I've been about midway through the show. I took
the call from the doctor's office and yet no real
surprise there. I'm gonna need surgery. So boy, oh boy,
But no, I haven't been drinking alcohol. My point though,
in saying all of this, is that unless it's your

(01:43:32):
grandpa sneaking you a beer before you go off to
college after cutting the grass, you should not be having
secrets with adults. This is why this idea of social
transitioning at school is so dangerous. Oh, it's your in
my secret. I won't tell your mom and dad that
you're exhibiting signs of severe mental illness. No, no, no,

(01:43:53):
you can trust me. What is it about this? In fact,
coming up next, we have got education advocates in Madison
very very upset that parents might actually know about the
sexually explicit material in some of these left wing children's
books that are on school Library Show. Stay tuned, Dan

(01:44:16):
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it's been it's been a rough go of it with
this knee that's been bothering me for quite some time.
Good to finally have some well, not good. The fact

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that week ago Saturday, I was playing basketball with my
son and just it just collapsed, like my leg just
it was like it wasn't even there, I knew instantly
something was badly torn. Turns out it is a complete
tear of the ACL plus a what is in vertical
tear of the meniscus. So yeah, I'm something of an overachiever,

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says one listener on our Avantos dot com talk and
text line. Can't just tear one ligament, I got a
tear two. I am going to need surgery, probably going
to miss minimal time off of work, but just fair
warning that that is happening. Republicans in the state legislature
want to require warning labels on explicit content that is

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sold commercially and geared towards children's literature. In other words,
some of these truly insanely graphic kids books. Boys Aren't
Blue is a classic example where there is folks, I
have done this segment so many times that it's almost

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become cliche, where I will literally just read passages from
books geared towards children and see if I don't get
shut down by the FCC. That's how graphic this stuff is.
All Republicans want is a warning label on the book
that says, hey, parents, there is like graphic sexual content

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in the book that is geared towards eleven year olds. Well,
one group in Madison, headed by a woman named Rowan Childs,
is very upset that Republicans would warn parents about the
pornographic content in the books that are marketed towards children.
Here's the report from WMTV.

Speaker 8 (01:46:50):
We always are concerned when people are policing books or
policing words, so a we're always concerned about that and
always look at who is trying to police books, whether
they are for adults or teenagers kids.

Speaker 10 (01:47:07):
Rowan Childs, with the Madison Reading Project, says her organization
focuses on expanding access to books for kids and families
across Dane County.

Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
She says a big.

Speaker 10 (01:47:16):
Part of that work is making sure children can see
themselves in the stories they read.

Speaker 8 (01:47:21):
The diversification of the books, even just that alone is
really important, so that you can see yourself in the cover,
or you are the main character in the book. Those
are all really important things so that everybody can engage
in the books.

Speaker 1 (01:47:37):
So, yeah, what if the main character is performing sex acts?
Do we want the twelve year old to see himself
in the main character. There, nobody's talking about banning books,
although quite frankly folks do yourself a favor and read.

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First of all, make sure you explain to anybody else
who might use your computer why you are looking at
the images you are because, folks, I'm telling you, in
some of these books, this is not like are you there, God,
it's me Margaret, where the little girl gets, you know,
she becomes a woman, she gets that time of the

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month for the first time. It's not that, Okay. It
is a very different sort of coming of age story
where you have graphic depictions of sex, of drug use
of and I'm not talking about like implied sex where
it's necessary to the plot, where say, I'm trying to think,

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what would be trying to think of a classic work
of literature where some sort of sexual abuse is very
central to the plot. Yeah, Lolita, classic example. Lolita is
all about, you know, the relationship between a man and
a girl, about pedophilia. Okay, there is artistic merit to Lolita.

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I never actually read it, to be totally honest. It
didn't they make a movie about it, like twenty years
ago or something like that. Yeah I didn't. Yeah, just
a little creepy for me, But okay, there you go.
There's at least some sort of art. In many forms
of literature and forms of entertainment where there is going

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to be graphic, you know, relations, it was always sort
of done tastefully. You always knew when a sex scene
was coming because you know, the characters would start kissing
and then they would pan away from the bedroom, and
it was implied. Right now, you don't get that, And

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I'm telling you, folks, take a look at what is
actually in these books. It's not as the I mean,
these people they try to pretend that they're freedom fighters
standing up against the Nazi book burners, when really it's
bizarrely trying to make sure that nobody knows what type
of sick child sexual material. And that's what it is.

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You have got underage characters in books engaging in sexual
content that is being put out into the marketplace and
marketed explicitly to underage audiences as part of young adult
or even children's literature. There's a big problem with that.
Republicans are saying, Okay, well, maybe we should put warning

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labels on that. Hey, there's a graphic sex scene in
the new Bernstein Bear's book. Okay, I'm making that up.
Brother and sister Bear are not doing all manner of
unholy things. But the point is that in some of
these books I wish I can't even I can't even

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describe one of the scenes that I am thinking of
in Boys Aren't Blue. That's how graphic, that is, how
truly deviant it is. And the idea that we would
warn parents that it's in there is somehow wrong. Give
me a break. Couldn't believe what I heard from Senate

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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer today as he is again voicing
his opposition to the Save America Act. It sure as
hex sounds like he admitted that there are an awful
lot of illegal aliens on America's voter roles. Why else
would he be spreading the paranoid delusion that ICE is

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going to be cleaning up the voter rolls. Ice devout
voter registration. It makes it. It allows ICE.

Speaker 4 (01:51:56):
To kick tens of millions of people off the rolls,
off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election
day and you show up and you say you're not
registered anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
You're not registered here? What Why would ICE be involved
Unless the people on the voter rolls are illegal aliens
or suspected of being illegal aliens, You're not on the.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
Rolls, and they say, I didn't know that. This is
a bill that destroys the country. And it is not
about showing id when you show up to vote. It's
about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not
letting people know, and taking the rights in a algorithm
put together by Ice, put together by Doge and Musk.

(01:52:47):
It's an outrage and that's why so many people don't
want to pass it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
You gotta he Ice, Doge, Musk, Benjamin net and Yahoo Israel,
Stephen Miller, Christy Nome. Let's see who else don't we
like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh. Wait, he passed away a
few years ago. Give me a break. By the way,

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if there was no issue with the voter roles, especially
here in Wisconsin, why is Governor Evers hiding them from
federal investigators? Not Ice that wants to look at Wisconsin's
voter roles. It's the FBI. They're apparently finding all manner
of inconsistencies on voter roles in Maricopa County in Arizona,

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so much so that they're now fear mongering that if
that happens here in Wisconsin. Big article in the Journal
Sentinel today. If that happens here in Wisconsin, they may
know who you voted for in twenty Times. No, they won't.
You people all right out of time back tomorrow Wednesday
edition of The Dan O'Donnell Show. Talk to you then,