The Founders Show #473

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Bite holes. The politicians addressed todigit datas and magicians us to see the
money. Then you don't, there'snothing to feel the holes while then feeling
their pockets bite holes, the bioliticiansbouncing down the road. Everybody's wision,

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But no more corruption and dysfunction.It's gonna take govention. Last year,
Governor John Bell Edwards was the firstgovernor in a generation to have a veto
overturned. Well, it looks likea Vito session may soon be coming to
have another one on the transgender issuesoverturned. But it could have also overturned

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the corporate franchise tax which he vetoed. And could the Vito session actually lead
to a special session on a secondBlack majority district. All this and more
of our special gas Madison O'Malley onthis edition of The Founder's Show, Secondary
and tertiary Issues. Oh my goodness, we lead the Lord Christopher and God
bless all out there. You arenow listening to the founders. So the

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voice of the founding Fathers, yourfounding fathers, coming to you deep within
the bowels of those mystic and crypticalligator swamps of the Big Easy, that
old Crescent City, New Orleans,Louisiana, and Hi, up on top
of that old Liberty Cypress tree wayout on the Eagles Branch, draped in
Spanish moss, is none other thenyou's been Gary Baba of the Republic Chaplain

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Hi mckenry with Christie Richard moorey Rovingreporter, Resident Radical Modern Associate editor of
the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weeklydot net, where I write about this
idea this week of a special sessionand how the business lobby has made common
cause a little bit with the socialconservative lobby in an unexpected way. And

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that's kind of what we're going totalk about with our special guest and joining
us here in the Founders Show iscandidate for District ninety one state Representative Madison.
O'Malley and Madison, Welcome to theFounders Show, and you know you're
here. Madison, tell us somegood Irish jokes. I would do a
jig, but since we're on theradio, I don't know how helpful it'll

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be. Well, it's kind ofappropriate, of course, because you're running
for a district that represents the IrishChannel, amongst other places. But Madison,
of course, graduate of Loyal University, and you, I know,
married a local boy. The wholeworks. You're we're bringing into the general
conversation before we talk a little bitabout your race. And I've got a
new column coming out in Louisiana Weeklywhich I sent to you in high and

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basically, I've been fascinating about thefact we're probably going to have a recall
session now to recall such an aoverride session in the next week or so.
Even though Amy Freeman has written,a few other Democrats have written.
But what's interesting to me about thisis not what the discussion is about overturning

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the transgender bills. What's interesting tome about this is sort of the subtle
thing that happened for those that don'tknow. Governor John Bell Edwards vetoed legislation
that would have phased out the corporatefranchise tax. Now, this is interesting,
Madison, and I bring this upto you because one of your predecessors

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in District ninety one, Walt lejthe third, actually is the person who
created the situation where this bill couldcome about. He actually put a ceiling
on the amount of money that thestate could spend in corporate income and franchise
taxes six hundred million dollars. Hedid this over a decade ago, and
the idea was so this surplus moneywould go into basically a rainy day fund

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or for infrastructure or to pay offdebt. And at the time, the
state had never collected six hundred milliondollars, so if they voted for it,
because it doesn't look like it's evergoing to come in, flash forward
more than a decade and the statecollects a lot more than six hundred million
dollars, so we've been having extramoney going into debt relief in other areas.
This bill was pushed through by BredaLane to phase out the corporate franchise

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tax over a period of about fouryears, and it would stop if there
was a revenue jip. A lotof people expected Governor Edwards to actually let
it become law, either to signit or have you just let it become
law. The government doesn't have tosign it, can just do nothing.
And because the business community was soapt on this, it was going to
raise Louisiana from thirty ninth to thirtysecond in the country. The governor,

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however, vetoed it, and hisargument was essentially we're about to lose the
sales tax. We're in a fiscalsituation where we're going to need as much
revenue as possible, and I'm reallyuncomfortable vetoing this. There's a subtext in
this. What it's done is madenot only the possibility of a veto override
session for the other transgender bills morelikely. It's actually gotten the business community

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kind of involved in an issue thatmost of them didn't care about. And
I know it's very big for socialconservatives, but it wasn't particularly big for
lobby in the Louisiana Chemical Association.And I'm sure you're not getting this question
on the campaign trail medicine, butyou're watching what's going on in Baton Rouge.
There's the before Governor Edwards's veto andsomething we're about to talk about.

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That's the second African American Congressional Districta year ago, and in the override
of that, no governor had seenan override of any of his vetos since
Buddy Romer and the abortion bill backin the eighties. And so we're sort
of a new territory for Democrats wherethey're basically if you've had a Democratic governor
in a Republican legislature, veto overridesare becoming the norm, not the exception.

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Your thoughts, Yes, So,I think it's clear that we definitely
need some reforms when it comes toour attacks as and I know Governor John
Bell has said that they're antiquated andthis should be structurally reformed and repealed.
Anyway, So my thoughts on thisor I'm definitely supportive of making these reforms
and kind of getting into this conversationin general, I think that we need

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to move towards our work together onthis issue in general. So, and
the Senate Bill six was the otherbill that kind of came with this,
and I guess my thoughts are thatwe really should be working together on some
of the issues. It does seemthat they're used to be. The one
thing that was interesting with the Louisianalegislature compared to the rest of the country

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was that, for all of itsflaws, it wasn't a particularly partisan place.
Particularly the House of Representatives as wellas the Senate. Democrats and Republicans
could work across party lines, andyou had what in other states would be
strange coalitions. Sometimes African American Democrats, white Republicans, white Democrats, white
Republicans actually phrasing themselves, and we'reseeing that that kind of bipartisanship lately has

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been dissipating, and I wanted yourthoughts on that. Yes, so I
guess this is one of the reasonsthat I really decided to run. I
was not planning on running for theseat, And I guess generationally, I
see this as a big issue wherewe have such partisan politics in general,
and I think voters and myself includedin this, are just fed up with

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that. So again, I thinkwe're seeing, like you said, a
lot more of the veto override potential, and I think voters are more inclined
to elect people, and they're reallysupportive of people that are going to commit
to work together on these issues.So, yes, it is kind of

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one of those issues where there arecertain issues. When it comes to our
tax system, there is there's asurprising amount of agreement that Louisiana's corporate tax
system and Texas m in general,is causing us to lose businesses and people
to Texas and Florida. So there'sa lot of discussion, but not a
whole lot of political will to reformour tax system. And I'm curious,

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you know, are you hearing onthe campaign trail? I mean, these
for a lot of people, theseissues of taxation are kind of esoteric.
They don't really think about it,but they kind of feel like something's wrong
because they're watching their kids move outof town. And when I ran for
the legislature, people talked about thatanxiety will my kids be able to make
a living here. You're a youngprofessional, Madison, O'Malley's joining us,

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and you're not just running for thelegislature, and you and your fiance are
basically have put down roots. You'rehere, You're you're you're building a life
here in New Orleans, and youa lot of your friends must have basically
left. And so I'm curious aboutyour thoughts about this. So, coming
out of school and graduating from Loyola, many of my friends and I would

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say a majority of the class thatI graduated with are no longer here.
So I see this as an issuethat we're facing with young professionals in general.
Post COVID and post hurricane recovery,it's become increasingly expensive for us to
live here. And I see thatagain with the insurance and property damage rates

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with people's taxes they're paying themselves,and then just the cost again of living
in New Orleans and in this district. So I think it's become so expensive
for young professionals. Yes, please, Madison tied into this. Can you
tell us how long you've been inpolitics, like when did you first run,
what offices you've held on the past, etc. So this is my

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first race. I've never run foroffice before, wow, and was not
planning on running for office until Iguess this issue with insurance came up,
and that was really a driving reasonwhy I got into the race. I
started a small business that deals withall the hurricane inspections. So we've gone

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out to do so many local homesand talking to those homeowners. It's become
such a pressing issue. And Iwould say that that's one of the things
I hear and almost every door thatI knock, she is the increasing cost
so well for those for those distortis. We're joined by candidate for District ninety
one State Representative Madisonalmalley. The electionis in October. She's running against incumbent

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Mendy Landry. And yeah, andI know you're hitting it. The insurance
is something that high and I talkabout all the time. Yeah, by
the way, real quickly, Ijust from what you just shared with us,
uh, I think it's great youhave no political background. It means
you have no political baggage and noneof all the garbage and evil and everything
I call the political world of septictank. And I'm glad Christopher is our

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surge engineer, if you will,a surge and waterboard engineer in this show.
And I hate it. I hateto think about it. I hate
to talk about It's so ugly andso dirty. So and you kind of
reminded me of another guy, tremendoussuccess, Donald Trump. He had no
political I don't. I don't thinkshe would take that comparison. I would
either just in that neither one.I'm political. I'm sorry, I would

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not. I would not sentence herto that comparison, and nor would any
of her constituents. I would think. Call it a great honor. I
know where I am now, Madi, but now my district is very progressive,
and I mean I'm a very progressiveyoung persons. Let's I've always been
progressive. Let's let's talk about TeddyRoosevelt. My great hero was the first

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progressive. Let's talk about your districtbecause you medicine, O'Malley. Before we
go to the break, you're runningfor in you talked about cost of living.
You're running in what is quickly forrents and housing become one of the
most expensive districts in the country.It is one that has seen some of
the biggest amounts of gentrification, butat the same time it's seen a lot
of disparagies and wealth and it's essentiallyit's you know, it's from that go

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through with the how where your districtis. But we're talking about Napoleon Avenue
almost to downtown, so talk aboutit if you would, yes, So
it will now run from Napoleon isthe cutoff until the CBD, so it
goes to Felicity and it picks upthe neighborhoods of the Lower Garden District and
the Garden District. So again inthe fall, with redistricting king in place,

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this will be the first time thoseneighborhoods have been added, along with
some different areas in Broad moorne FountainBlue, along with Central City and the
Milan area and then East Riverside.So there's been a little bit of the
change of these precincts. Yes,but you also talked about an area that
has seen some of the largest influxof young professionals moving in, first as

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urban pioneers and now essentially as youngprofessionals raising families, almost more so than
any state rep district in the state. Yes, as young college graduate professionals.
And I'm curious, are you seeinga lot of young people who are
like, we want somebody to speakfor us. Well, I'll tell you.
I see a lot of young professionalsthat have bought homes here and have

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stayed here and now they're looking tostart families and start their life, and
I see them leaving. And soI think that there is not a voice
for people that are, you know, trying to set up down roots here
and making the investment here. SoI knock on a lot of doors for
sale science these days, and soI just see an influx of people that

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are that have you moved into thedistrict and then are leading the district.
And I see that as a patterneverywhere. We are talking to candidate for
a District ninety one State Representative MadisonO'Malley. The election is going to be
this fall, ladies and gentlemen ona district that stretches from Napoleon Avenue to
the Lower Garden, from the Riverpretty much into Central City and as far

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as Broadmoor and Fault and Blow.But we're talking about the legislative session,
the likelihood of the override legislative session, and some of the unfinished work of
this session. In fact, whenwe come back from the break, Madison,
I want to ask you a bitabout insurance, because I know that's
something that has motivated you. Ifor those that don't know, I'm an
insurance agent, and I've spent alot of time with people desperate to try

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to keep insurance in their home,and the insurance is starting to be almost
more than several of their monthly mortgagepayments, if not half of a year
of mortgage payments. I know youstruggle with that high I know other people
struggle with that. I've struggled withthat, And I want to talk about
your focus on this because you're bringingup a subject that frankly, not a
lot of legislators are providing a lotof answers on Madison, O'Malley is joining

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Founding Fathers. Give who I am? This is Chappanheim again. Yeah,
and we're joined by Madison O'Malley.She's a candidate for State Representative District ninety
one. This is a district thatstretches from Napoleon Avenue essentially towards downtown,
through the Lower Garden District and everythingin between along the River all the way
up through not only Central City inone end, but also Broad Moor and

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it kind of loops around into theFountain Blow area as well. And Madison,
before we went to the break,we talked about the fact that people
are struggling for not being able toget insurance and no disrespect. I'm somebody
who's been friends with Jim Donalin foralmost thirty years. I worked for him
when he ran for the US Senate. He's a personal friend and I can

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tell you that his proposal to bringin and encourage other insurance companies to write
business in Louisiana. I say,this is an insurance agent has been a
dismal failure. It hasn't done awhole lot. It has It's been a
great step. It was nice totry, but in practical terms, it
didn't encourage the number of policies.And a lot of people are in pretty

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desperate situations about insurance. And Iknow you've been talking to people who are
literally facing losing their homes because ofthe factor of rising insurance rights. Can
you talk about that, yes,yes, So most people in the district
are facing a double of the costof their insurance, so their insurance premiums
have doubled. And now the homeownersthat do not have insurance and that are

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on citizens are feeling a sixty threepercent increase in that cost as well.
So, I mean I was talkingto somebody the other day and her premium
had gone from two thousand up tofour thousand last year, and now this
year it is at ten thousand dollars. And I mean you're talking about somebody
that has retired, that had,you know, a homeownership, and now

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that is being jeopardized because of thecosts of this insurance, she's going to
have to choose maybe not to ensureher home. And so I can't tell
you how many how many times I'veheard people whom some of them are clients
of mine. I mean, Ido a lot more commercial insurance, but
I have some homeowner's insurance clients whohave come to me and said, look,
I can't afford this. What canwe do? And what essentially happens

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is I said, well, I'vegot this this or you can go on
citizens. Still too much on citizens, So um, well, your option
is not to write wind and hailcoverage. Now, let me explain this.
That is kind of dangerous in astate when hurricanes hit us every other

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years and tornadoes increasingly, not tohave wind coverage is insane. But you
know, I have so many peoplehave come to me and said, you
know, basically, I don't havea choice. M my, you know,
my my mortgage require insurance, andif I put this on, I've
got to find some way because Ijust can't afford it. At Madison,
O'Malley, I've got to tell youthat there's it's starting to get to the

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point where we've got to look atsome extreme answers to this. I mean,
I've been walking around saying it wasgreat that we try to attract other
domestic insurers. It's not a wholelot. Maybe we need to do with
citizens what we did with the LouisianaWorkers Compensation Corps and actually make it with
competitive rates. We actually charge morefor citizens than we normally do until we

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get some more markets in. That'ssocialism. I would be the first one
to say it. It's a governmentrun thing, but right now people are
in such dire straits that no oneright We're facing a situation where people are
opting either to be not insured,to self insure, or in some cases
they are literally defaulting on their mortgagesbecause it's becoming too expensive to have insurance

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to hold the mortgage. Yeah,I think I'm definitely supportive of big reforms
to this industry. I think thatwe do need to consider a public option
at this point. And I thinkthat there was a few bills that came
out of this session, but nothingthat would impact us in the immediate future,

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and that's where people are in need. So we really need to take
this issue seriously. And again,it's something that I hear every day from
so many people as I'm knock indoors, so this comes up, comes up
so much. MATTISONA. Malla's runningfor the District ninety one state representative.
I'm going to tell you my preferredoption. While I'm okay with making citizens

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affordable for the next couple of years, my long term option is the state
should step in and provide reinsurance fordomestic insurers. Domestic ensure, by the
way, means that they're located inLouisiana. Other they're located the United States.
But if you have an insurance companyit's located in Louisiana. The idea
would be it needs to get reinsurance. It needs it's an insurance company that

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needs to be reinsured, and usuallythey can afford reinsurance above five or ten
billion dollars. That's not too expensivefrom the London syndicate markets, but they
can afford between a billion and fivebillion. And yes, it puts the
state on the hook, but itwould allow the private sector to actually have
a competitive advantage because right now,demographically, the big insurers around the country,

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and that's what Jim Donald was tryingto lock in, they don't want
to come into Louisiana because there's onlyfive and a half million people in the
whole state and we get hit bya hurricane every two years. For those
that don't understand this, insurance operatesby actuarial tables. If your pool is
five and a half million and amillion people have a loss every two to
three years, well that's not avery good business model in those cases.

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It doesn't if the state doesn't stepup and do something. There are a
lot of people, and I knowthis doesn't affect your district, but there
are people who are below the floodlineswho are now seeing jumps in their flood
insurance to thirty two thousand dollars ayear and they've never flooded, even in
the big storms. So it's notjust would yeah, Chris, for what

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we need is we need a manlike you, follower who really understood the
finer nuances of insurance P ANDC andwhatnot, and get him in There was
a group of good good man andstart an insurance company that's far we the
people, that we the people canown and that it can be for us.
And I bet you they could comeup with a plan that would be
affordable. Well, and this iswhen I'm getting at Madison. Um,

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yeah, there isn't a lot ofincentive for the legislature hasn't created incentive for
Louisianians to form insurance companies. Rightnow. There's only like three or four.
One of them is a great insuranceand others they require the threshold is
so high. And I understand whywe had some bad experiences back in the
early eighties with Champion and others whethersome big insurance values. But essentially what

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has happened is instead of saying peoplecould come together that know the insurance markets
and they can assemble a fund ofone hundred billion dollars and it together an
insurance company that would ensure locals andthey know the market, essentially, what
has happened is the state makes itvery difficult for that to happen. And
Um, I think I'm a partof me said there's only two solutions to

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this problem. Either the Louisiana insurancemarket partners together with Mississippi, Alabama,
maybe George or Florida in a jointin a big market. I'm fine with
that that increases the demograph table orand or Louisiana ins are given the tools
maybe through reinsurance and through part ofthis to be able to do it for
the state, because there's not goingto be a white Knight. That's the

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thing I disagree with Jim donaldin on. There's not going to be a white
knight that comes in and saves usin this situation if we don't do it
ourselves. Chris, how do wefare with the other states as far as
twice as much as the next week? As far we're far more expensive with
at least know how much it's aboutthirty percent more? Wow? Yeah,
Madison, O'Malley, I'm sorry wecut you off. Go ahead please.

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Oh no. I like what you'resaying about a public here, and I
like the reinsurance being in state.I've looked a little bit here at the
how we've ensured our public entities,and again it's like a publicly pooled option
where you have the reinsurance that's inLouisiana and that's not currently happening, but
they do have. Um we areencouraging ensured in Louisiana to come in and

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write those policies. So, Imean, it's happening on a very small
scale for our public schools, andso I think the way of looking at
that and doing that in a largerand a larger scale would be very effective.
There's there's certainly the self insurance policiesthat we should be looking at.
Definitely, Madison and Aaliy's joining us. She's running for the state representative district
ninety one seats. And let's gothrough some of your platform pieces. You

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mentioned education. The state of coursedeals with at least a quarter of teacher
pay through the minimum foundation formula.It deals with the oversight of the school
systems, and I'm curious how youlook at the school systems. On the
one hand, your district has onits edges three of the best rated public
schools in the state of Louisiana,Willow the formerly Lusher and it goes through

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in this On the other hand,it has some of the most struggling schools.
You have a district you're representing wherea lot of kids go to public
school, but it has one ofthe highest private school attendances. And I'm
curious, what do you what youthink about elementary, secondary and in high
school education, elementary and secondary educationin the district and what the state could
do at this point or is thissomething that's pretty much a school board issue

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here in New Orleans. So thestate can talk a lot about the standards
here, and I see the biggestissue is the inequity when you're looking at
one public school versus another. Andso when we talk about, you know,
the standards of our schools, wecan employ a way to close them

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or make sure that you know,we're not letting schools operate when they're failing
schools. And I mean, wedo have to work closely with the school
board on those things. But justmaking sure our funding is tied to schools
that are doing a good job,I think it's the best way to handle
that. And I mean I thinkit's there's a situation where we've got to
look at across the board. I'ma supporter of school vouchers, but I'm

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somebody also believes that if your kidsare in school vouchers, and this effects
many schools in your district, SaintStephen's, that they have to have the
same standards as charter schools. Theyhave to be rated. I think charter
schools, if they're not in aBAC range, they have to be closed.
And ultimately that these are not popularfor a lot of parents. These
are not popular decisions, but ifwe don't actually get schools and aren't operating

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to either correct themselves, bringing anew management or clothes, we're going to
be in the same situation that we'vealways been, which is last in the
United States. Yeah. Yeah,the biggest issue we're seeing now is with
early childhood education. So we justfaced a big budget cut there. I
know that there was a proposed amountwe were supposed to get somewhere around fifty

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two million, and i'll believe correctlyfrom on I think it's fourteen million.
And so that was all of theHeadstart programs, that was all of the
early childhood programs, and I meanacross the board, we were recognizing that
early childhood education is the most importantthing for us to be funding. And
so I think that's the largest issuethat we're going to see facing us,

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is that big budget cut, andin fact, there's several other budget cuts.
One of the budget cuts that's goingto come up in this Vito session.
I don't actually think it's going tobe the Vito's gonna be overridden in
this case, but it's one hundredmillion dollar cut in healthcare funding, and
that directly affects not only this yourdistrict, because your district has several hospitals
in it. Yeah, and theideas you've got one hundred million from Medicaid

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cut, you actually are cutting sevenhundred million because yes, because of the
matching. I think, so thisis an issue I'm so passionate about.
I love talking about what we cando to make our hospitals and help your
systems better. I've worked in manyof the hospitals here. I've worked at
our ostener, I've worked at Westjeff and East Jeff and with a bunch

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of different providers and different roles.So I think when we look at healthcare
overall, we rank very low interms of pre existing conditions. We're fiftieth
in the country for our overall healthand the health of people here. So
it seems to me that when wetalk about cutting something, this could only
only be detrimental again, because we'resuch you know, this is where we

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really could use the funding, andthe funding is directly correlated to our hospitals,
So we really are taking away moneyfrom our hospitals, and this could
only make healthcare worse for us here. So I think it's it's just it's
so unfortunate this happened well before weget into maybe the subtext of what happens

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right after the override session that's potentiallya special session for a second African American
congressional district, Madison O'Malley, Iwanted to ask you a couple of the
other points that you're running on.A new insurance has been your major issue,
that you talk about it all thetime and what it's affecting it,
But you've got several other ideas thatyou've been sharing with the public running for
this district ninety one state representative seat. What are they? So the biggest

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things to me are I mean,growing up, my dad is and still
is a truck driver, but wasa laborer. And so are the biggest
and most important things to our familywork? You know, do we have
healthcare if our family is sick?Are you able to afford the cost of
a home and homeownership? And thendo your children have access to public education?
And can they better themselves? Andyou know, your next generation.

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So I see a direct attack onthose three things right now, and it
comes down to those the quality oflife issues in the district. And I
think that's where we can really striveto make the greatest difference. That's where
I contrast the most from my opponent, because I really don't see an effort
there from her on behalf of anyof these issues. And so I think
when we talk about the issues thataffect all of us, we can make

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a lot of progress in a bipartisanway on each of those things. And
you mentioned that bipartisans So I'm curious. We've had Mandy Landry on this radio
program before and she's and I knowyou've both have striven to keep this kind
of above board and very cordial.But you talk about building coalitions a great
deal and saying that's something that thedistrict has lacked. It's something I know

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Amy Friedman kind of prides herself inthe associated district and Rice to plusus used
to in the other district next toit. I'm curious what you would bring
to the table that the current incumbentdoes not have. So the greatest difference
that we can make for constituents,and the greatest difference you can make as
a legislator is building the coalitions forthe people that you represent. And I

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think in the climate that we're in, would deal with the supermajority legislature.
As a Democrat, you have tobe able to make sure that your legislation
gets passed, and so by doingI'm in The greatest thing that I can
offer the people of the district isbuilding the relationship, you know, working
together on some of these things.When I talk about the biggest things that

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impact the district, it's fine inthe common ground where I can do a
good job and make sure that Ican pass things that affect those issues.
So that is the biggest difference thinkbetween the two of us. It's clear
that there's not really been a lotof progress in the district that's been made

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with the current incumbent. So yes, are your roads better? Are you
this? Ladies and gentlemen. We'rejoined by by Madison O'Malley. She's running
for the state representative District ninety oneseat. We're just talking about it,
and we've been talking about a columnI have in the Louisiana Weekly about the
legislative session that's probably going to happenfor a veto override on the transgender bills,

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potentially the coup for franchise tacks.But what I also put in the
column is the fact that Governor JohnBell Edwards has a little bit of a
how shall I put that is politely, ace up as sleeve, and the
ace up its sleeve is that providedby the Supreme Court. Supreme Court says
under the Voting Rights Act, therehas to create two African American majority districts

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if he adopts a plan similar tothe plan that passed and was overridden.
There other reason that was of overridev to a year ago. It's interesting
that the demographics in the two AfricanAmerican majority seats, whether it's Troy Carter's
seat in the second or what iscurrently Junior Letlow's fifth congressional district, will
have about fifty two percent African Americansor less, somewhere between fifty and fifty

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two percent. And what's interesting whyI was intrigued by that, Madison,
is that's very similar to the demographicsof the district that you're running for about
fifty fifty overall. And it's there'ssome Republicans I'm saying you're fighting for the
right to not have competitive districts,but on the same note, you actually
could have competitive districts. I wascurious not just about the second district and

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that your thoughts on that, butthe idea what it's like to run in
a district that essentially is divided prettyevenly between African Americans, Caucasians, and
other minorities. Yes, so Ithink that this district is it's a good
way to ensure that you are electingpeople that are committed to getting the job

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done. And I think it's ait's a good accountability check when we have
districts that are set up this way, and just I mean just in general,
when we're talking about congressional districts andwe're talking about any kind of district,
it's always it's never good to havea safe seat. And so I'm
very supportive of the second Congressional districtand I think we deserve the representation and

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are you know we need another blackdistrict in Louisiana to effectively represent the demographics
of Louisiana. However, I thinkthe way that our seats, the other
four seats are set up in away that you can really never ensure that
there's a challenger there, and soI think it's dangerous and that's contributed to
this conbative politics that we have andthe partisan politics that we have overall and

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if a district can never be wonby the other party, it's yes,
yeah, there's there's there's a injuries. It's a dangerous situation. I could
see that. You said there wasabout a thirty percent uh population of blacks
and thirty thirty three percent in Louisiana. Do we have the highest in the
country per capita as a percentage ofstate population. Yeah, pretty much sounds

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like. So what this is alltriggered for those that didn't follow it,
is Alabama had a Supreme Court case. They have seven congressional districts. Alabama
has more population in Louisiana. Peopledon't think about it that way, but
I watched it grow. Yeah.But well, but the fact is they
have seven districts and they had twentyseven percent African American population. Well,

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I mean two seventh to two seventhsis twenty seven percent exactly, it's and
so the Supreme Court said that appliedto Alabama, and then very quickly thereafter
said no, Louisia, which hasa third at least has to have two
districts where African Americans have a chanceof winning. Now, the interesting part
of this, Madison and where I'mbringing This is Madison Omalley's running for state

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representative District ninety one in the fallelections. The idea, I like districts
that are about fifty fifty because theyreally are competitive. In this case,
they may be Democratic districts, butyou have different different viewpoints. And there
are people I'm hearing in the AfricanAmerican community who are saying the best case

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scenario in these two districts is youget fifty two percent African Americans, down
from sixty one percent in the currentsecond crasial district. And there are people
in the Black community are saying,no, we don't want that because it
won't ensure that this is a gerrymanderdDemocratic seat or African American seat. And
frankly, my attitude is, well, if you can't fight for something then
something has a bit of political competition, then it's not worthy of having.

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I'm not that that's the one thingthat doesn't fighten me, and neither side
should be completely frightened. Julia Letlowcould probably might win a district that's fifty
fifty if it goes that way,So I think it's coming down. We're
certainly I believe that John Bell EdwardsI don't know if he's going to do
it, but I think if everybodyas assembles in Baton Rouge for these veto

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override sessions, Edwards would say thathe wants to do the special session.
There are a lot of progressive ofpushing it, and that's my question to
you, Madison O'Malley. A lotof Republicans want this to wait until,
say Governor Jeff Landry is in office, and that's not something that a lot
of Democrats are all that excited about. Well, I think the courts have

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determined, you know, kind ofthe timeline here, and the Alabama case
has certainly made it more of apriority for us to get things done over
here. So I know they Ithink they started their session last week again
with some of this redrawing, soI think again it's indicative of their the
decision coming down, and just thetiming of things happening. I think now

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more than ever, we need todo it. It's been delayed for a
while, so I don't know ifwaiting would be beneficial or necessarily. I
don't think waiting is really necessary inthe situation, and there was a lot
of thought that Governor Edwards by callingas lame duck by calling a session might
be perceived as being politically opportunistic.However, since there's going to be an

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override session anyway and everybody's in batonrouge, it's kind of hard to make
an argument. It's yeah, Idon't feel I mean, he's not able
to draw the maps himself, soI don't know how I mean, we
have to go through that whole processagain where the House draws them, and
you know, they review the mapsand the courts review, and so I
don't know how opportunistic it is unlesshe draws them well. And I think

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the House kind of refused to drawhim last time. I don't think you're
going to have that problem this time. My guess is they're going to draw
to congressional districts that are going tobe fifty plus one fifty percent plus one
person. And that's not what severalpeople. But when you factor that Steve
Scalis's district is seventy nine percent white, you put one or two percent across

(38:06):
the line of Steve's Scalisa's district,or you do it in you know,
in Johnson's district or something. Itworks on the map. So it's one
of the things we're gonna have tobe watching. But I agree. A
lot of people though, are alsolooking at the date that qualifying comes up
by August thirteenth, and that's whenyou're qualifying yourself to run for state representatives,
so they want to get everything doneby August. Yes, do we

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have qualifying too close to the actualelection? I mean, you've been in
the field running for the better partof six months, and a lot of
people are and I just I thinkit's kind of ridiculous that we have qualifying
basically five or six weeks before earlyvoting starts. Yes, it is.
It seems that that is a littlebit late to me. Again, it's
my first time running here, soI've been trying to prepare and get out

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there early myself. But again,the official qualifying date it does come up
on us pretty quickly here and thenthe election is like fast approaching. Um.
For those who joining us, MadisonValley, she's running for the District
ninety one State rep. Seat,is has been joining us. The district
runs the new district redrawn goes fromNapoleon Avenue essentially to the Lower Garden District

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from the River Irish Channel in theriverside neighborhoods all the way towards Central City
with Broadmoor and the Fontainbloy area andit as well, and give us side
a date again for the election place. So the date is Act Chamber fourteenth,
Okay, And right now it lookslike it's going to be you,
Madison O'Malley and Mandy Landry, butyou never know. They could be other
candidates coming upon. It's gonna bevery tires though. Interestingly, yes,

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I'm intrigued about your race for simplenot just because it's a it's an interesting
race, a competitive race, butthe fact that it may be one of
the only competitive races. Term limitsdon't kick in for most of the other
candidates until four years from now orlonger. So you know, while there's
going to be a competitive governor's race, a competitive secretary of State's race,

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a competitive insurance commissioners race, treasurer'srace, there's not going to be many
competitive races for the Louisiana Legislature.A few, but not many. And
that I think is indicative that ourdistricts may be drawn a little too protective
of one party or another. So, Madison O'Malley, as we're coming in
our last couple of minutes, Iwanted to see if you have any final
thoughts or messages you wanted to sendto the constituents of District ninety one and

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beyond. Well, thank you verymuch for having me. I'm always glad
to chat. I think the biggestthing that we are going to be talking
about coming up again will be alwaysthe insurance. So hopefully I'll be knocking
on a lot of doors and alot of listeners. Doores coming out,
But I think the best thing andthe best way that state reps can represent
us is by being accessible and bybeing open to work together with other people.

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So I'm excited to hear from morepeople and just looking forward to the
process. And if somebody wants toget in touch with your campaign or you,
how would they do it. Yes, So my website is Madison for
La dot com and there's an emailon My number is on there, um
you can reach out to us.Also, we are on Facebook and Instagram

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and newly on TikTok, so we'reon all the forms of social media right
One question is are you going onthe new Twitter alternative that Beta is putting
out that premiere today so somebody,you know, I did see that.
So that's the cage match between ElonMusk and uh and Mark Zuckerberg has begun.
So mat Madison, is O'Malley yourmaiden name or your marriage O'Malley's my

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maiden name, and so especially sinceshe's engaged and not married yet, so
I am not yet. We startedplanning a wedding and then we started planning
a campaign. So the campaign fromthe president over the wedding, lord and
mercery. A wedding and a campaign. Once you're you've got quite a story
there. One last second, beingfrom Cleveland, isn't that way they have

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the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It is the rock and Roll Hall
of Fame? Is there that doesconnect all? Because we've got um the
birthplace of rock and roll right here. The do drop in it. It's
gonna be a museum. It's gonnabe opening soon. So and actually that's
what one thing I'll if I ifI can have a personal indulgence for Madison
Omalley, as you know, Isaid on the Louisiana State Museum Board,

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and we had millions of dollars thatcame out, really billions and infrastructure funds
and yet very little money that cameto our museums comparatively. And since these
museums are literally all along the edgeof your district the due drop in referring
to it's quite literally on the edgeof your district in Central City. The
Cabildo and Presbyteri is on the edgeof your district from the CBD side.

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And I'm curious about why legislators youthink, um kind of ignore our museums.
We were according to a Lord's study, we were we have been rated
as the most efficient museum in thecountry because we had the least funded for
the amount of that we do.You know, any state museum in the
United States think of the tourists thatcome and manium come from the museums.

(42:59):
What's what's going on? It's whydo the legislatures have problems understanding cultural tourism?
Interesting? Well, I think again, it's probably something that's not immediate
and to me, that's such along term, sustainable investment that would probably
you know, create great jobs andagain attract so many people to visit us.
So something we definitely need to beaware of. Well, I hope

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you remember this when I come testifybefore you're committing asking for money next year
for the museums. So, bythe way, I don't get paid to
do anything in the museums. It'sa near friend time job. So yeah,
the wonders of being in politics inLouisiana. Madison, O'Malley, thank
you so much for joining us herein the Founders Show. Real quick.
You're druvving for District ninety one.For those that are looking. The election

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is in October and October fourteenth andit stretches from Napoleon Avenue to the Lower
Garden District everything pretty much in betweenalong the river as far as Central City
in Broadmoor all the way to fontand Blow. Somebody wants to get more
information, how would they do it? Yes, yes, yeah, north
of Clayburn, going the other way, so like look about ten blocks north

(44:04):
of Claiborne all the way up throughyes, central City and then going into
the Broadmore area as well as Broadmoreand found Blue. Then the do drop
in. It is not on theedge, it's it's right in the middy
of the middle. Yeah. Yeah, So all right, Madison, one
more time, and somebody wants toget in culture of the campaign. How
the they do it. Yeah,so you can go to Madison for La
dot com. And then we areon social media, So Madison for La

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um my email and all the contactis on there as well, so you
can reach out to me on Instagram, on Facebook and now on TikTok,
so stay tuned for that. MadisonO'Malley, thank you so much for joining
us here in the Founder Show.Hi, McHenry. We'll be back with
the patriotic moment after these important messages. Remember you can always hear us every
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the Founders Show dot com. MadisonO'Malley, thank you so much. Hi,
we'll see you right after the break. Thank you, Madison, Yes,
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to listen to our Chaplin blah blahpatriarch moment where we just take a brief
moment to remind you of the biblicalfoundations of our country, our Judeo Christian
jurisprudence. And today, because there'sso much talk about the Supreme Court right
now in the news, many SupremeCourt decisions, we're going to talk about

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one of our most famous and earliestof Supreme Court Justice Justice Joseph Story,
a famous Harvard Law School professor,an eminent jurist of his day. Madison
appointed him to the Court at theturn of the century, and this is
one of his decisions. The realobjectives of the First Amendment was not to
countenance much less to advance Muhammanism,infidelity or infidelity by prostrating Christianity, but

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to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, denominations, and to prevent any national
ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.Infidels and pagans were banished from the halls
of justice as unworthy of credit.Folks, that's pretty severe. The reason
I'm quoting this, I want youto see the mindset of our finding fathers.
They really were focused on the Bible. They really wanted biblical contexts,

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concepts that came from our Jewish andChristian heritage, folks, because after all,
Jesus is the most famous rabbie thatever lived, and we are basically
a Jewish sect. A lot ofpeople don't think of it like that.
That's I think of it because that'sa little if you get to the details
and then find nuances, that's exactlywhat we are. So, folks,
can you see where they from,where they were coming. Can you see

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how much they believed in the biblicalfoundations of our country? What about your
foundations? And by the way,are you going to get some credit in
heaven? Like just the story wastalking about right here, Well, if
you want your credit in heaven,this is what you need to do.
What is your guiding light? Whereare you going Do you haven't figured out
yet? Are you going to beworthy of credit when you get to heaven?

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Well, I can show you howyou will be, as we now
go into our chaplain bah bah gospelmoment. You want credit in heaven,
there's only one place to get it. The only place to get it is
to go to the bank of theLord Jesus Christ. And he's got it
all for you. He's got everythingyou need. Just go to Jesus and
you get it, folks, forfree. He issues credit for free,

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no interest, and no payback.Folks, You'll never have to pay back
to principle, because he got itall for you. When he died on
the cross for all your sins wasburied. And from the day the Bible,
since he died for all your sins, from the day you're born,
in the day you die, yourtiniest, your greatest sins all went on
our precious savior of the Lord JesusChrist. In fact, the Bible says,
he that knew no sin, that'sJesus. He was perfect. He
was perfect God, perfect man allthe way God, all the way man.

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He that knew no sin was madesin. Folks, he was turned
into all of your dirty, filthy, rotten sins, and you got a
lot of them. And so doI, so does the entire human race.
That he that knew no sin,was made sin. That's how close
he is to us and our sin, folks. He was turned into our
sin. He was made sin thatyou might be made the righteousness of God

(49:37):
in him. He takes all yourbad to give you all his good.
You get all of his righteousness.That means you got credit in heaven,
and lots of it, endless amountsof it just for you. It's infinite.
Folks. God loves you so muchhe wants you to go to heaven.
He didn't want you to go tohell and burn forever with the damned.
He wanted you to be in heavenwith him forever. That's why he

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built heaven for you. He didn'tbuild hell for you. The Bible says
hell was created for devils, forsin, and for death. God's gonna
throw all that into the lake offire in the end. But there's a
very tragic verse in the scripture sayshell is being enlarged, and that means
people who reject God's love no matterhow much he gives it to them.

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The Bible says, He is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. He wants everybody coming to him.
He wants everybody going to heaven.Folks, if you reject that,
the scripture says, how so theyescape if they neglect so great a salvation.
Don't reject it, folks, believeright now with all your heart.
You notice us that repentance. Thatword repentance means change your mind. That's

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all it means in the Greek medinoia, will change your mind about what.
Well, the Bible is very clearabout what you have to change your mind
about before it. Maybe you thoughtyou were good enough, righteous stuff,
wholy enough, or whatever. Thescripture says, all of your righteousness are
as filthy breaks. You have torealize you have nothing to offer God,
nothing but childlike faith, and Heis even given that to you. The
bow says, He's given a measureof faith to everybody. And the scripture

(51:04):
says the grace that bringing salvation hathappeared unto all people. That word grace
means your ability to understand this message. It means that's like an enlightenment.
God gives you, and he givesit to everybody. It also means the
actual act of saving your dirty rightand soul. Folks. Grace is a
very and it also stands for God'sdisposition towards us, his disposition of love
and mercy and forgiveness towards us.If you've never taken that before, take

(51:28):
it right now, believe with allyour heart. Well, folks, it
is not a time for us togo into our chaplain by watchman on the
wall. Why I just take abrief moment to show you how you can
prepare for the end. Because theend is here. It is near,
folks, It's right at the doorstep, Jesus said. When you see all
these things happening, behold, I'meven at the door. That means that

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they all have to be happened atthe same time, he said. It
has to be coincidental. It hasto coal us all at once. And
it all is right now. Thereare two hundred prophecies that are all coming
together right now as I speak withyou, man, how much longer do
we have? It is close,Jesus, It's coming back soon. Folks.
Get ready. Now, I'm gonnagive you a sign. I always
trying to give you a sign orseveral signs, and the sign today is
going to be famines. Do yourealize we're sitting on the verge of a

(52:14):
great famine all around the world.Even America is experiencing shortages of food where
it's beginning to look like maybe wemight go into what Miles say Tongue did
with his Four Pests war, wherehe wanted to get rid of four pests
and in the process he created amassive famine because one of the pests with
sparrows that they desiperately needed for agriculture. Typical communism in it they're always killing

(52:37):
people, even with their best intentions. Forty million people were killed in that
famine. Folks, Will that happenagain? We are on the verge of
it right now. We're experiencing morefamine the world has seen and maybe one
hundred years all around the world.It's bad, folks, It's really bad.
In fact, we're experiencing twice asmuch as we had a year ago.
It's increasing. That's one of thesigns. So, folks, where

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are you going to be with allthis? You need a safe house,
you need a bunker with lots ofstorage food. So you won't go hungry.
Well, I'll tell you what.The greatest bunker you'll ever get,
the greatest safe house you'll ever find, as the Lord Jesus Christ. Go
to him, Go to his bunker, and you'll be safe, and you'll
be you'll be fed well, folks, especially throughout all eternity, because you
believe that He died for all yoursins and rose in the dead. Do

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that right now. The Bible saystoday, now is the day of salvation.
You may not get tomorrow. Andlike the old preacher said, don't
wait till it's too late. Well, it's an time for us to close.
As we close to the mind,Saint Martin's singing a creole goodbye and
God bless you all out there.Does this have to be the end of

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the night? Do I love you? In the pay lad, I can
see across theion stars Kid,