11-2-24 The Weekend Hour 3: New Hampshire In Play? Secret Service Cover Up.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with
Michael Brown. Hey, welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown.
The Weekend before the election with Michael Brown. Are you
Are you going to be as glad for it to
be over as I am? I mean, obviously I want
to win, and I hope that well, it depends on

(00:25):
who your Canada is. I hope that my party wins.
I hope that Conservatives and Republicans and Libertarians all across
the fruited plane win on Tuesday. And I also hope
they win by wide enough margins that we can can
we just finally get away with all of the claims

(00:46):
of cheating this and cheating that. And I'm just so
sick of it. We've got a little cheating scant. I
would even well, you see, I hesitate to use the
word cheating because our Secretary of State is an income poop.
I mean, she's she's a total dufist. She's had the
you know, the basic input output systems called bios. She's

(01:09):
had the passwords. It takes two passwords to get into
the into a particular kind of dominion voting machine that
we use in Colorado, and they're they're voting machines that
are for the disabled. As inso far as I understand
the news stories, and our Secretary of State allowed an

(01:32):
Excel spreadsheet, stop and think about this. This reminds me, Mom,
if you're listening, I apologize, but I've been to my
to my childhood home where my mom still lives, and
she's asked me to, you know, do something to you know,
update or iPad or something. Mom, I need the password
to to this program. And she'll reach over for a

(01:57):
kind of a folio and she'll start digging through it,
and she starts a little sticky notes and she's digging
sticky notes through sticky notes and she found o oh.
She holds one up, kind of looks at her with
her with her old eyes, and I think this is
it and ends it to me, that's kind of what
our secretary of State does in Colorado with the with

(02:19):
the bio's passwords to the voting machines in Colorado. And
she's the same one that went to the state legislature
to make it a felony to knowingly publish those passwords
based on a county clerk that we have in Colorado
that is ended up is ending up going to prison

(02:39):
for having disclosed some passwords and some other information about
voting machines. But do you think anybody in the Secretary
of State's office will be held to account for that?
And I'm not gonna I wouldn't place bets on it.
So we have our own little controversy going on in Colorado.
I can only hope that that somebody will eventually hold

(02:59):
that woman account and that she will get She will
be defeated in the in the next general election, and
I hope that this password fiasco in Colorado dashes any
hopes she ever had, which I know she does being
the next governor of Colorado. Well, screw that, sweetheart. I'll

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do everything I can to keep you from winning. Let's
do just a little short story to give you an
idea of how crazy this election is. According to reports
that I read last night, I did not check again
this morning, Kamala Harris Canolaner count on winning in New Hampshire.

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Polls indicate that New Hampshire is actually in play ahead
of the election on Tuesday. Real clear Politics has classified
New Hampshire as a toss up state, moving it from
previous Lean's Day Democrat to a toss up. The New
Hampshire Journal and Prea Cone's Analytica poll chow a competitive race,

(04:11):
with Trump actually holding a narrow lead of fifty point
two percent to Harris's forty nine point eight percent. Now, again,
that's within the MOE, the margin of error, but nonetheless
it shows. And for those that listen to my local program,
and probably you by now too, I understand that I
don't like day to day polls. I like trend lines.

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I like to see what the trend is. And if
the trend line is showing that Trump is beginning to
move ahead of Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, then don't
tell anybody. But if that's true, and those trend lines
are the same as they are in Arizona, Trump's moving

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head in Arizona, Trump's moving head in Nevada, Trump's moving
head in Pennsylvania, if if all those trend lines hold true,
we could be looking at an electoral college blowout. Now
I refuse to believe that, and I won't believe anything
like that until Oh, I don't know. Maybe sometime next
year when we finally get the final tally in. But

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this change in New Hampshire and the forecast in New
Hampshire implies that more than one hundred electoral College votes
are now up for grabs. Now, I know New Hampshire
only contributes four electoral College votes, but New Hampshire could
emerge as a potential key player in determining the outcome

(05:39):
of the election. Why. In recent elections, New Hampshire has
consistently voted Democrat. The state went for Joe Biden in
the last cycle by seven point to almost eight points.
Now a little more narrowly for Hillary back in twenty sixteen.
But this newest trend might be tested in twenty twenty

(06:01):
four because the Trump campaign, the campaign itself views New
Hampshire as actually winnable. Carolyn Levitt, Trump's campaign national press secretary,
mentioned that Harris is actually on the defensive in New Hampshire. Now,
before the latest New Hampshire Journal PRIAC Analytical Data poll,

(06:25):
Harris led every poll in New Hampshire, every single one. Now,
let's think about early voting. Now, early voting suggests a
very close race between Trump and Harris so far, over
fifty eight million early in person and mail in votes
have been cast, forty one percent of which were registered

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Democrats and forty percent of which were registered Republicans. But
here's a trend one more Republicans are voting earlier than
in the past. The early voting patterns may not reflect
the overall result. Let me emphasize that the early voting
patterns may not reflect the overall result, especially as a

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lot of Republicans tend to vote on election day. But
some posters are beginning to predict that Trump may not
only win, but could win by an electoral landslide of
more than three hundred Electoral College votes, and New Hampshire
might be the key to that. Four votes in New

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Hampshire may not seem like a lot now, California, New York, Colorado.
I don't think they're in play, but what might be
now we don't have any senatorial races in Colorado, but
in those states where the trend line is beginning to
favor Trump, and assuming that he's not cannibalizing day of votes.

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In other words, people that would nor vote an election
day are just banking their votes early. If that's not
cannibalizing the election day votes, and you still have a
good turnout on election day. This whole three hundred electoral
votes could be realistic. Now, I promised myself earlier that

(08:20):
I was not going to talk about it, but in
talking about New Hampshire, I just want to give you
kind of the momentum and momentum for those of you
are sports fans. I love college football, but really not
that interested in INFL football. But whether it's college or
NFL football, you know that once a team gets momentum,

(08:43):
there is a psychological factor that starts taking play and
the players themselves. The players that have the momentum work harder,
they play smarter, they play stronger, they're more aggressive, they
take greater risks, and those that are on the defensive

(09:04):
mentally start preparing themselves to lose. The same is true
in politics. There's so many parallels between life, sports and politics.
You know that if you've got the most, if you
got the big mo in your family and in your work,
in whatever sports you may play, you know when you've

(09:28):
got the big mo, and when you've got the big
mo and you keep going, you're more likely than not
to carry that big mo over the finish line. And
that's what we're seeing going on in this national election.
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and while you're at it, follow me on x at
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of Homeland Security, a guy by the name of Joseph Kafaris.
He's conducting a probe an investigation into those security lapses. Yeah.
I have the word lapses written down, but I actually

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think malpractice might be the better words, because having been
inside that presidential bubble, I can tell you that what
what I've read and seen that occurred back in June
and Trump was almost assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, really is
malpracticed and incompetence on the part of the Secret Service.

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And I really do hate to say that, except that's
what happens when you have an organization that, at least
when I was interacting with, the Secret Service was like
the premier government organization that I dealt with all professional.

(12:30):
Ralph Bashom happened to be the director of the Secret
Service when I was in Homeland Security, was just a
top notch individual, professional, courteous, a great manager, and made
certain that the Secret Service did everything they could and

(12:52):
more to protect not just the President and the Vice President,
but whoever the dignitaries were that they were in trusted. Well,
the Inspector General is indicating that there are stonewall attempts

(13:13):
by DHS in his investigation. That's unacceptable. Now. The reason
it's unacceptable is Inspectors General are appointed by the President
with the advising content of the Senate, and they operate independent.
They get generally, they get like secure secure terms, much

(13:34):
like the FBI director, so that they out they operate
independent of the Secretary. In every cabinet department and every
agency has an Inspector General, and the purpose of these
igs are to make certain that the rules are being
followed that money is being properly spent, that programs that

(13:55):
are being implemented by that department or agency are you know,
actually doing what they're supposed to be doing. They're supposed
to point out waste, fraud and abuse. They can actually
prosecute people if they find fraud. They're very powerful individuals,
and my attitude was always, you know what, that guy

(14:17):
has a lot of authority over FEMA and DHS, our
inspector General, who's not the same person, and so I
wanted to make sure I had to get a relationship
with that person so that if they found something that
was going on wrong, that they would come and tell
me about it and give me a chance to fix
it before they opened a full blown investigation. And we

(14:39):
had a great working relationship. In the aftermath of that
attempt on Trump's life in Pennsylvania, managers within the Secret
Service told employees to notify them if they got any
requests for documents or information or interviews from the Inspector General.
And what now, Why is that important? Because that suggest

(15:00):
us that the agency was wanting to coach any potential
witness before they spoke with that government watchdog that's almost
close to witness tempering. Now we have internal Secret Service emails,
first obtained by Real Clear Politics, that directed employees to

(15:24):
immediately inform their supervisor if they were contacted by the
Office of the Inspector General, and specifically, Secret Service management
indicated that they intended to prevent or to present an
organized response to the Inspector General's investigation. That email alert

(15:46):
came just days after the Inspector General released a report
that was critical of the Secret Services handling of of
all things, the riots on January sixth. Senior leaders in
the Secret Service knowledge that typically employees would not need
to clear their conversations with the IG, with the supervisors,

(16:10):
or for any interviews with the Inspector General. In fact,
my instruction to my staff was always the Inspector General
comes to you, I'd kind of like to know about it,
but you're free to go talk to them. In fact,
if you get a request from the Inspector General, you
better go talk to them. I'd like to know what
they're talking about, because if there's something the fary is

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going on, I want to know about it, Secret Service
officials wrote in one email. This generally not an issue. However,
this is not the normal course of action, and the
service needs awareness and to ensure an organize response with
information in the correct context, correct context. The Inspector General

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just wants information. What did you do? What did you
not do? Why did you do this? Did someone tell
you not to do something? In response to those revelations,
Chuck Grassley, the senior senator from Iowa, a Republican, warned
in a letter to the Secret Service that the directive

(17:22):
to employees could have had a chilling effect and is
probably hampering the interdependent investigation into the Secret Services security failures.
In fact, I would say the emails appeared to suggest
that Secret Service management was and is keeping tabs on

(17:44):
employee communications, both with the Inspector General and any congressional
inquiries into an attempted assassination. My gosh, the federal government
is absolutely corrupt. Shocker, right, hangtight, I'll be right back tonight.

(18:05):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing
a heck of a job The Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. Rules of engagement Number one, you
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(18:27):
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one doesn't make a difference. Uh, and just tell me
anything or ask me anything you would You would not
believe some of the junk that I get in my
email inbox throughout the well, throughout the week, on this
every single day, including during this program, and because I

(19:09):
am an employee of iHeartMedia, and because I tend to
sign up for an awful lot of campaigns and other
things because I want to. I want to see what
people are saying. Much of the brain dead junk comes
my way from climate activists. Groups have put out some

(19:30):
of the most degenerate propaganda you could ever want, you
could ever imagine, or maybe don't want to imagine quite honestly, anyway,
The note blow from somebody named Cassidy at fossil free
dot Media give me my inbox, and I figured, you know,
we could use a good laugh. So starting with what

(19:53):
might be the most pernicious, utterly absurd headline ever concocted
with four days until election. This was from yesterday, with
four days until election, Big Oils seventy five million dollar
Trump spending spree threatens democracy. I was listening to an

(20:21):
economist yesterday or day before yesterday. I think I'm going
to talk about this sometime during maybe i'll do it
on Monday before the election. An economists talking about how
since the nineteen seventies we have so overregulated the energy sector,

(20:43):
whether that be nuclear, oil and gas, fossil fuels, even
solar wind. It's all so overregulated. And I don't have
the number in front of me, but the number was
something like this, that the average it wasn't a kilowatt,

(21:04):
but the average amount of electricity, the average cost of
electricity is almost one hundred times more than what it
needs to be except for all the regulation that we
pose on energy production in this country. And I thought
about that. I need to go back and find those numbers,
because that headline is what reminded me of that economists analysis.

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But listen to I mean, this is a press release.
Listen to this dayline Washington, d C. Contact Cassady blah
blah blah. In an unprecedented flood of fossil fuel money
into American politics, oil and gas interests have poured more
than seventy five million dollars into Donald Trump's presidential campaign
and affiliated committees, according to a new analysis. This massive spending,

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revealed just days before Americans head to the polls, follows
Trump's explicit request for one billion dollars from oil executives
at marl Iago in April, where he promised industry favorable
policies in exchange for campaign contributions. Key findings about big
Oil's attempt to buy the presidency and here the three are.

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Here are the four takeaways. Oil and gas industry donations
to Trump are more than five times higher than previously reported.
Two contributions have more than doubled compared to the twenty
twenty election cycle. Three three oil billionaires alone Harold Ham,

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who I happen to know personally, Kelsey Warren, and Jeff
Hildebrand have contributed over fifteen million dollars and last, but
not least, additional millions flow through dark money groups and
industry trade association advertising. So now the press release continues
this way. This isn't just about campaign contributions. It's about

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the oil industry trying to buy their way to unlimited drilling,
weaken environmental protections and freedom from accountability, said Jamie Hen,
executive director at Fossil Free Media. Do you think the
name of their organization tells you a little bit about
where they're, where they sit, where they stand, what they

(23:24):
believe in Fossil Free Media. They continue with this quote,
if Trump wins on Tuesday, we know exactly what this
seventy five million dollar investment will buy, a wholesale takeover
of American energy policy by big oil executives. The American
people deserve to know that in these final days before
the election, oil industry executives are attempting, attempting to purchase

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not just the presidency, but also four years of unfettered
access to our public lands, waters and resources. Oh my god,
you know good. Then, if successful, the oil industry's investment
would secure Trump's promises to and they list six different

(24:10):
things roll back environmental regulations. On day one immediately in
the pause on liquid natural gas export permits, rapidly expand
oil drilling in public lands and waters, reduce the Federal
Trade Commission scrutiny of industry mergers. We can vehicle emission
standards and install industry allies throughout the federal agencies. And

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they say Congressional Democrats have launched investigations into what they
call the definition of corruption, but oil executives have provided
what investigators call woefully inadequate responses about their participation in
Trump fundraisers and subsequent donations. This eleventh hour revelation of
big oil's massive campaign spending comes as voters make their

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final decisions about the future of American democracy and climate action.
And that's the end. That's the end of the press release. Now, Honestly,
if groups like fossil fuel media didn't already exist, no
one could possibly make them up in a million billion years.

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And why would any person with functional cranial synapsis even
want to try. By the way, all of these things
that they say that the oil and gas industry wants
to do, I support. Now. I don't want to roll
back all environmental regulations, but I think we're way over

(25:39):
way over regulated, and I think we had to roll
some of them back. The pause on liquid natural gas
export permits. Yes, we should be exporting as much liquefied
natural gas as we possibly can, particularly to the EU.

(25:59):
Why because the EU wants to stay warm in the
winter time, So they're going to buy liquid fied and
they're gonna buy LNG or crude oil or natural gas
wherever they can get it, and where can they get
it the Russians, or they might buy it through a

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third party like oh, I don't know, the Chinese. So
we're giving money to our enemies by pausing LNG export permits.
We're hurting our own economy. We're costing jobs in this
country by doing that. But do you think those y'all
whos would ever understand that? Of course not, because there

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are a bunch of dufases. They also claim that would
rapidly expand oil drilling on public lands and waters. Yes,
and I think we should. One, I think the federal
government already owns too much land. I think some of
that land ought to be auctioned off to people that
want to buy some end Number two, we've been drilling

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on public lands for decades. For one, hundred years or
more and ninety percent of the time or greater. It's
perfectly safe, just as safe as this drilling on private lands.
Reduce the Federal Trade commissioned scrutiny of industry mergers. Do

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you know why there are mergers going on right now?
Because we've made it so difficult for oil and gas
companies to operate in this company, in this country that
merging is sometimes the only way for them to survive.
We can vehicle emission standards. Yeah, I go for that,

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not saying do away with them, but once again, we're
over regulating. And then they want to install industry allies
throughout federal agencies. You know whether that's true or not.
Talk about cognitive dissonance. Who runs the e p A
right now? Yeah, all the environmentalists who want who runs

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the Federal Trade Commission? All the anti oil and gas people?
Who runs the FCC right now? All the anti free
speech people, so the very things that and look, do
I think that we've got way too many revolving doors
between the private sector and the government. Yeah, I think

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we do. But do you think they would object to
Bobby Kennedy Junior, who wants to overhaul the FDA and
the NIH and the CDC. Do you think that that
that a liberal like Bobby Kennedy that now he supports
Trump wants to do some of those things that they
probably want to do. Do you think they would object to

(28:50):
him now? Yeah? Probably so. Fossil fuel media just an
example of some of the insanity that I read in
order to explain to you the nut jobs that are
out there. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text the
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(29:15):
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Like Friday, we were totally goofing off because we're sick
of politics. And then the reason I was laughing when

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we came back. I always want to be sure and
say thanks to everybody that tunes in on the weekend program,
because I know that you've got lots of other things
you could be doing and you're listening to this and
I truly, insincerely do appreciate it, and we'd appreciate you
telling your friends and family and maybe even your enemies
about the program so they can tune in too. But
I was also laughing because I knew that when I
wanted to tell you thanks, I also wanted to remind

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you that turn your clocks back. Don't forget to turn
your clocks back. And I laugh about it because and
I talked about this on night during the week but
I want to mention it to you also if you're
if you're not convinced that somehow politicians don't care about you,

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then what you are going to do before you go
to bed tonight, or if you forget, you will do
it tomorrow morning when you wake up and realize what
time is it. I don't I'm off by an out.
Or if you're one of those weirdo's that actually gets
up at two am tomorrow morning, Sunday morning, and that's
when you turn your clocks back, well, sucks to be

(31:35):
you because you're pretty weird. But there's a there's an
editorial in the Wall Street Journal this says, no more,
turning back the clock, making daylight saving time permanent would
provide Americans huge economic and health benefits. Now, without reading
anything else in this editorial in the Wall Street Journal,

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which this editorial was published yesterday morning at five point
fifty seven am East Coast time, think about this headline
note more turning back the clock, making daylight saving time
permanent would provide Americans huge economic and health benefits. And

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let's just assume for a moment that that's true. Then
ask yourself why one of my indihows what a pathetic
life I have. One of my dreams is that someday
before I die, whether that's tonight or thirty years from now,

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is that somebody will end this charade that we do
twice a year when an overwhelming majority we're talking like
seventy five percent of Americans or more are sick of
daylight saving time or standard time. Because I don't care
which one. And if your thought doesn't really make any difference. No,

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if you prefer daylight saving time, then we shouldn't be
doing the turning the clocks back. Or if you prefer savings,
if you prefer standard time, then yeah, then then let's
turn it back. It doesn't make any difference. There's still
twenty four hours in a day. The Sun's still going

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to rise and set. When it rises and sets, the
Earth's still going to spend, and we're still going to
spin around the sun. We're going to spend ourselves while
the earth is self rotates around the sun. We can't
change any of that. We're just changing a stupid clock.
But again, ask yourself why, But you may not be

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thinking of the right why question. The correct why question
is if there are so many economic and health benefits
to no more turning back the clock, then why do
politicians not do it? Have you ever thought about that

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if everybody wants this, I shouldn't say everybody, if a
majority of Americans. We live in a representative republic, right,
we live in a constitutional republic where we elect people
to go represent us at the local level, the state level,
the federal level. We have all these people that we elect,

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and we pay them salaries, we give them all these benefits,
and they're supposed to do the will of the people.
Right then, why aren't they doing it? The story says
this next week will bring dark days to America, not
because of the election, but because daylight saving time in Sunday.
When you set your clock back Saturday night, you'll gain

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an extra hour of sleep. But by the time you
leave your office at the end of the at the
end of work on Monday, it may already be pitch black.
The sun will reach its peak earlier in the day,
meaning cold afternoons over the next few months will feel
even colder evenings will too. This is the dark rain
of standard time. Tourism, golf, barbecue, retail candy. All these

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industries have credited the extra hour of evening sunlight with
generating hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue, which
would increase if it were be made permanent. The golf
industry claimed that daylight saving time extension into the fall
resulted in two hundred million dollars in additional revenue. The

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candy industry industry said that brighter evenings in October that
children trigger treat longer, getting more goodies along the way.
Who could be against that? It's an economic boon, and
of course they go on, let's talk about the health effects. Congress,
God ascended this mess. Congress started it. Congress could end it.

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Marco Arubio, Florida, Vern Buchanan, also of Florida, have introduced
the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
Ask yourself, why isn't your delegation in your state latched
onto this bill? And why haven't we done this? Why

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have we not ended this madness? Think about that when
you go vote this next week, if you haven't already voted.
Do they really represent you? Do they really care about you?
I think you know the answer. Thanks for tuning in.
I'll see you next Saturday.