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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Every patriot has an obligation to question authority. Those who
are honest are not concerned with your watchful vigilance, and
those with integrity are not concerned with your discernment. Every
American is obligated to voice their concerns and stand up
for their freedoms and liberties.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
God invisible, with liberty and justice for all, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
We are the men in the arena.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We are the Patriot Confederation.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
We will liver back down from by We're unfreed Americans.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Patriot Confederation for
what is the twenty fifth of November twenty twenty five.
While so when we broadcast next month is going to
be December next week? So wow, it's gone by way
too fast. I'm your host, Bad Billy out of Twin Falls, Idaho,
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joined as always by John Grovenor out of Nasha in
New Hampshire, New England. How's it going up there in
that corner?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It's going, Billy, you know, I can't believe December is
coming up on it so fast. Turkey Day's Thursday, looking
forward to that, So wishing everybody a happy Turkey Day
coming up, and yeah, pier Man, Maggie Goodlander thinks she's
something else, crossing Trump with her Bolstein. I can't believe it.
First what not even Yeah, first year in office? I
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guess it's been almost a full year, about ten months
and she done messed it up.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, the whole thing's a mess. And while with the
in fighting with within the Republicans, that's another ordeal in itself.
Real quick to introduce our guests this week, of course,
I want to welcome Leslie Wolf to the show. She
is running for Twin Falls County Accessory. Thank you very
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much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
How are you today, I'm great, Thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, yes, good to have you here. Sorry we can't
have you showing on the cam, but then again, you know,
the Internet's not going to permit it, so we're gonna
work with what we got. Indeed, one thing I do
want to address though, before we get into the show is,
you know, John, I just cannot believe what has been
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happening with with this this crime on the subways and
the trains. You know, we saw what happened in Charlotte,
North Carolina with the Irene Zurutska. I think that's how
you pronounce her name. Just murdered. Nobody did anything to
help her. I mean, I can understand that with the
old Daniel Penny situation. You know, you don't you really
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want to engage the interpreter. But she was just left
dying on the right there on the floor. Nobody stopped
to help her. Nobody did anything, you know. And now
in Chicago we have Bethany McGee who's doused in gasoline,
and the guy lights a match and basically says, I'll
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say it nicely, he said, burn burn, baby burn. But
I'm gonna play a clip here. This is from Chicago
Mayor Brian Johnson, and listen to what he said following
this horrible crime.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We cannot incarcentrate our weight out of violence. We've already
tried that, and we've hit it up with the largest
prison population in the world without solving the problems of
crime and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in
this country.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
We have moved past that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It is racist, it.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the
way to drive by his own.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So they just I mean, they're shootings all the time.
In Chicago. As we know, they call it the world's
large just outdoor shooting range for good reason. But following
this horrible event that just happened on the train, that
man that did this was arrested seventy two times and
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they just keep letting him go. And I'm afraid after this,
he's gonna they're gonna let him go after this because
to prosecute him is racist. How's it racist?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Did he explain that when he said that, how's it racist?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Because you know, these a lot of these criminals, they're black,
and so black.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
People commit crime to get prosecuted, just like white people,
Asian people, Indian people, anybody of any race or color.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But you can't convince somebody, you know, like the governor
of Illinois, that fad idiot that can't pronounce his name.
And uh, and of course Brian Johnson, Chicago is gone.
And I don't care. You know, they're gonna fight Trump
every inch of the way if he tries to bring
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in troops to settle it and make it a safer place.
Now they want their crime. Chicago is gone. And sadly
for for Bethany McGee, I'm afraid there's gonna be no
justice for her.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's happening everywhere, Billy. I was watching some news this
evening after I got home from work, and they were
talking about the same sort of attacks happening in places
like England, knife attacks and stabbings and things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, any way, enough on that, get focused on our
guest here. Of course I want to leave her out,
so Leslie take a moment here, tell the listeners a
bit about yourself, and of course the position for county accessory.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay, So my husband and I moved to Twin Falls
about nine years ago, and we were we left California
looking for a more conservative home. And when we got here,
I joined a Republican women group and I noticed that
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it didn't seem very Republican. And so then I started
to wonder, maybe I wasn't a Republican. Maybe, you know,
maybe I'm something else. Maybe I need to do some
more research. And so I started listening a lot to
a local radio station, and I heard that the Idaho
GOP chairwoman Dorothy Moon, was going to be a different
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Republican women's luncheon. I had heard about this one, but
I worked during the day, so I could not attend,
and well, I took that day off and I went
and I finally realized I found my people. That I
didn't really understand what a rhino was before or the establishment,
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but I sure found out. So since then I have
been working with the Republican Women out of Bule I
found I'm sorry. I became a precinct committeeman for TF fourteen.
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And let's see, so it was eight years ago that
I started working at the Assessor's office. Brad Wills had
just been appointed. I'm sure you know that when elected
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officials get elected to these terms, when they decide to leave,
they never just step out and don't run again. They
like to leave in the middle of the term, so
so then the Central Committee can appoint someone. And so
that's what happened with Brad Wills. He was appointed in
December of seventeen, and I went to work for him
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in January of eighteen. And it was interesting because when
I got there, Gary Bowden, the old assessor. I never
worked under him, so I don't know what it was like,
but I can only imagine because everybody was so happy
to have Brad there. They just felt like this freedom
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and liberty had been, you know, given upon them. And
they were able to actually like play music in the office.
And it's interesting how these eight yes have and and
now everybody it's the morale in the office is so low.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah. So I gotta say, though, your timing is quite impeccable,
because I actually left Twin Falls back in twenty two
and came back in twenty sixteen to be with the
woman who is now my wife. And yeah, so that
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was nine years ago. See, so you and I came
to the I came back to the area and you
came to the area right around the same time.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, we came in the summer and that was the
that first winter that was Snowmageddon.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh yeah for that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I came from someone where that we did not
get snow. We you know, traveled up once or twice
a year to go sledding, you know, up in the mountains.
But so I had to learn how to drive in
the snow and ice and and acculmate to this kind
of a winter situation.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You had to hit me pretty hard too, because I
came back here in January of twenty sixteen, and you know,
throughout that year didn't snow in Christmas in Ohio and
then the day I decided to leave. We got hit
really hard with a storm off of Lake Erie, and
I had a really tough time getting out of there.
(10:52):
Oh wow, yeah, but but yeah, you're now you know
how the swamp is because you've been walking in those
murky waters and it's not too pretty, is it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No. When I first started with Brad, you know, to
say I was one of his favorites, I mean, I
don't know. That's what one of the other coat, one
of my other coworkers, said, Oh, you're just one of
his favorites. And she would complain about him, and I
would always make an excuse for him. You know, it's like, oh,
well he's not like that, or he's not that bad,
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or you know, different things, and she brings that up
to this day. She's like, I never thought you would
run against him, just because how much you defended him.
And I've just seen so much. And you know, it
was always from when I started working there was he
was going to run in twenty two, and then he
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would go ahead and retire in twenty four and then
let the chief deputy get appointed well then early and
then I would say in probably twenty three or so,
he started talking about needing to work a little bit
longer because he still wanted to be able to travel,
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and so he decided that he would run again in
twenty six and then leave in twenty eight. So he's
been on. He's been on our chief deputy for quite
a while now to start going to Republican events and
start getting out there and getting known to the public.
And I think that's pretty disingenuous if he's going to
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you know, that is his plan. It was to run
again in the primary in twenty six. He didn't think
he would be opposed and then leave in twenty eight.
So I've had enough. I couldn't wait any longer, just
with the things that I have seen working.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That yeah, yeah, I mean it gets to a point too,
you know, just just like our own beloved Glenita Zeyderveld,
who never once in her life planned on a career
in politics, but you know, decided, hey, I've had enough.
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I guess they need somebody else to come in and
do the job. You know. Anyway, here we are, we're
already at our first quarter. So we're going to take
our first commercial break and we'll be back and continue
this conversation with Leslie Wolf in just just over two minutes,
we'll be right back. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
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are back once again. We are joined by Leslie Wolf.
She is running for Twin Falls County Accessory. Before we
go any further, John, did you have any questions for her?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
No, I'm just kind of getting the fill of lay
of the land here as you guys are talking. So
I'm not overly familiar with your politics or or what
goes on in Idaho.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah. Well, I'll be quiet once we can get a
representative from New Hampshire, which we've gotta. We gotta get
one too. We'll work on that. Uh So, Leslie, if
you could please describe the duties of the accessory to
the listeners.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Okay, So the assessor is tasked with making sure that
the entire county is valued at market value every year.
It's an Idaho statute that.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But I'm so sorry, No, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is my first podcast, and this is this is
definitely nerve wracking, and I'm so sorry that I can't
see my little picture up there. Okay. So the Assessor's office,
we work all year long on making value changes. We
go out to the properties, we see if anything has
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changed if they've built. You know, I work a lot
on the new homes. So we get values into our
system and then once a year, the values go out
in June and they we have a month to as
a taxpayer to appeal your value. And then once that
happens and the value is set, that's how they then
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take the budgets from the commissioner's approved budgets that and
we come up with a levey rate, and that's how
the taxes are ultimately then figured out. Above and beyond
seeing property taxes, I'm sorry, the property value. The assessor
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also is over the d m V for the auto registration.
So not not the driver's license itself, that's that's under
the sheriff's office, but all of the registration for the
vehicles is also under the purview of the assessor.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
All right, so you do you waw do you pay
taxes on the value of your vehicle when you register it?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, all right, that's why you would do that. I
guess we do.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We do that also here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, you know. One thing I did find as a
rather big concern too, uh from the summer into the
fall too, is you know, my wife and I were.
We drive it into Kimberly every every other Sunday, and
of course so we're pas and through all the agricultural
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lands and you know, uh, the land over this past
year was not maintained. I saw the alfalfa was cut,
but it wasn't bailed. So something's wrong there. And they
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it's like they waited the last minute to take down
the dead corn, you know. And I'm I'm thinking of
what has happened in Hawaii and what has happened in
Los Angeles. I think getting ready to burn down that
farm land and in a raging infernal And then a
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strange thing too, is that a house was burned down
just just outside or heading towards Kimberly. It was it
was a nice cabin too. John, get this, We've heard
this before. The house was burned down to ashes. But
one thing that didn't burn within the house was a
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blue Bible.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Act of God man act of God.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, but given the fact that it was blue, if
you know the Malle fires and the La fires, anything
that was blue didn't burn. It's so weird. And I
know I sound crazy just saying that, but it's fact.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Well, it's supposed to be true that they do have
blue laser lights and that when it hits the blue surface,
it doesn't necessarily penetrate like it will other colors, but
if it's if the laser lights focused there.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Long enough, it will burn. So I don't know if
it's John, you were that hiss that we occasionally get
catching out.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What were you saying, Oh, I said, I don't know
all the details about how this really works, but they
do have that blue laser light, so it does.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It does.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Actually, there is a blue laser light that's stronger than
red lays are light, and with a focused beam or
something like that, they can they can produce a lot
of heat and if it does hit a blue surface
supposedly reflects back. It doesn't burn a blue surface if
it moves over it rapidly, but if it's focused so
long enough, it will burn. So it makes sense from
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things I've heard about a red about so I'm not
you know, it's kind of one of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's hard to you got to.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Take a little bit with the grain of salt, but
it does seem like something's there when you're seeing the images,
and these aren't ai images that they've been producing.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, but you know, getting back to how I see it,
that these farm lands are not being maintained is a
big concern, and we're talking about the value of the property.
I don't know, Leslie, I don't even know how to
ask this question. But based on what I'm saying, do
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you have any any response?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
So farmland is a touchy subject when it comes to
the value. We break it down into if it's irrigated
or if it's not irrigated, and then if are they
growing like a a row crop on it, like the
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corn or else, you know, or is it more like
a grazing situation where the cows just get out and
actually graze on it. So if it takes longer for
them to maintain or to you know, get their alfalpha
bailed or cut down their corn, we don't have that
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doesn't affect anything. That corn is a row crop, so
it is getting you know, it is valued at one
of the higher values per acre. Then if it was
like dry grazing land where it's like if it rains,
you know, those cattles will be lucky to have something
growing on it.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
So the value, you say, the valuation of property or
farmland is based on what they yield for a crop.
So depending on what it is, what their take or
with their ability to profit off it, we've determined its
value like its form of business.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No how it is maintained. If it's a row crop
and that's been irrigated and has has canal water, then
it is it is valued higher than if you know,
out in the southern Idaho or I'm sorry, southern Twin
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Falls County where they might have water for a little bit,
but the canal system shuts down pretty early because they
don't have that much water. That's more of a grazing issue,
where if it's dryer and they don't have any sort
of irrigation on it, it's just you know, basically they
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threw some seed out there once and whatever grows grows,
and there's rocks and sagebrush and but as long as
the cows are out there eating, that is basically the
lowest form of a farm land and so that value
would be much lower per acre.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
So how does that work exactly? How do you determine
its value based on its usage or its development.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So we have done some studies on cash rents and
what the farmers are getting when they rent these these
these farms out are not farms. But this land out
you know, obviously if it's it's getting water and it's
actually yielding a good crop, it's going to be worth
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more money per per acre.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
So then it is basically based on what it yields
for a crop. Basic creates its value. As I was
saying previous.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes and no, I mean we don't look at what
they're growing that year. If they're growing alfalfa, if they're
growing corn, we don't care what they're taking off of it,
and you know what they're selling it for and think like,
we don't go into that. We just look at if
it is actually growing a crop or not.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
All right, So, but it is based on the land.
It's not based on their take or anything. So if
they haven't, right.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It's on the land.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah. And and water rights, now, I mean that's always
that's always been an issue. I remember, uh that when
my my uncle he of course he purchased somewhere around
one hundred acres and he built his house on that land.
That's where he is to this day. And of course
he's got some alfalfa and uh, but however he was
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he was dipping a five gallon bucket in a nearby
creek that wasn't on his property line to water his
fruit trees. And one of the neighbors saw him do
that and they complained, and of course he didn't They
told him he couldn't do that anymore. So water rights
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has been an issue for I mean that what I
just explained was what thirty five years ago, and now
the way they fight over water rights is just unbelievable.
And and yes, you know, talking about that farmland that
I've seen, there was not a whole lot of irrigation
going on there too.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, water rights is a big deal. If you remember
last summer Eastern Idaho, they were trying to take the water,
and we have the senior water rights here in Twin Falls,
and so that did get into an ugly mess where
they'd shut off the water to the Eastern Idaho people
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there for a while until they could come up with
an agreement. I know that up in Bell Rapids, up
where all the windmills are, they sold their water rights
because they weren't getting much anyway, so they sold their
water rights up there, and the farmers that are up
there use it, you know, just as grazing land or
you know, it's basically worth nothing. And so when since
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they lost that, you know again, their value for that
land plummeted.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah. Yeah, there there's an agenda behind all of this.
That's that's much bigger than we can all see that,
you know that most of us don't know or don't
care to look at too, And it's it's it's very
sad and it's very ugly, you know what. We are
at the bottom of the hour, So that means we're
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going to go ahead and take our bottom of the
hour break and then we'll talk more with Leslie Wolf
in about three minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
are back once again, joined by Leslie Wolf. And Leslie,
you and I were talking before the show started, too,
and I actually wanted to get into this subject a
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little bit since you started, but we really couldn't get
further into the conversation at the time because we were
about to start the show. But you know, as mentioned,
but amongst people in Twin Falls, they know that Lance
Klow is stepping down and retiring, which I think he
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should have He should have done a long time ago,
mind you, And I'm I'm gonna tell you I got
I really got no beef myself with with Lance. I've
had lunch with him and uh, and we just we
talked a little bit. But I'm just gonna say, you know,
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I'm his His score with the Idaho Freedom Foundation says
it all. I mean, he's got the worst score out
of all our representatives in this area. And I'm going
to say partially because you know, when him and I
were talking over lunch, you know, we discussed policies such
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as you know, such as gun control and things like that,
and the gut. He's a nice guy, but he's weak.
He is very weak, and we'll just go with whichever
way the river flows, it seems like.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And so I had a conversation with him back in September,
and I had noticed that Don Hall had started a
Sunshine account for Lance Lance's seat, and so I asked
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him about it, and let's just say the answers he
gave me, I felt pretty bad for him. You know,
he's always he's been my legislator. Yeah, I've seen his score,
not pleased with it. Doesn't vote how I wish he
would vote when he is in session. But that conversation
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that I had, I really felt badly for him. And
then him to wasn't even sure that he was going
to actually retire in twenty six or not run again
in twenty six to now leaving a year early. I
feel that there was a lot of pressure there for him.
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So yeah, So I, like I said, I am on
the Central Committee and we are tasked, you know, with
filling vacancies when things like that come up. And so
that was, as I was telling you before the show,
that was very eye opening. So what happened is so
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our Central Committee has forty four precinct committeemen. Twenty two
of them come from Legislative District twenty four and twenty
two of them come from twenty five since Lance was
a legislative district twenty five. The twenty two of us
met at a special special meeting last week and we
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were tasked with basically vetting anyone who came forward. We
got their resumes, were listened to their little spiel on
why they think they should replace Lance, and then we
were able to ask them questions and we take the
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top three. So there was actually four of them that
wanted the job. And I do feel that some of
them maybe just put their name in just to be placeholders.
Because what happens is we take three of them and
we send them up to Governor Brad Little. If we
would have sent one or two, he can choose anyone
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from listen from LD twenty five to fill the vacancy.
He can knock on anyone's door, you know, call him
up and say, hey, I want you to fill that.
But because we sent him three, he has to choose
from one of those, and we ultimately decided on Don Hall,
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my pause's wife, Lucy Wills, and then another precinct committeeman,
her name is char Alexander. And so those are the
three that went up. He has fifteen days to pick
someone or else. On the sixteenth day, we will meet
again as the legislative body or as the the Social
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Committee for Legislative twenty District twenty five, and we will
then choose someone from those three. Okay, So yeah, it
was interesting they you know, the establishment was really shining
and you could see exactly, you know, how how they
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intend for all that to work out. And it's for
for Don Hall to get at the position.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And this is just primarily within the Republican Party or
is this or is this all parties that we're talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Because the the person retiring was a Republican, it falls
back on the Republican party to then name a nominee.
And that's when, like, if our governor would have been
a Democrat, you definitely want to send up three Republicans.
Otherwise he could choose, you know, someone that's not it's
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not a Republican. He could have chose a Democrat, but
the whole state. As long as he said we send
him three, he has to choose one of those.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Of course, I don't really consider Brad Little a Republican myself.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Oh me, neither.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I remember though, in twenty four when this last time
that Lance ran his opponent, I mean, like I said,
you know, I mean, I don't think Lance has done
the greatest job, but his opponent that was running against him,
oh boy, I saw the agenda that he had on
his plate. No, it's like, okay out, no, I'm just
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going to vote for Lance because I am not going
to vote for a progressive communist. I can't even remember
the guy's name, but he was all about communism.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Now that was in the general rate. So he was
a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but his his agenda was communism,
you know, just like you know, and I can't remember
his name, And yes, I'm going to say his name.
Who's running for governor as an independent and start starting
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to make some waves. This transgender who's running for governor
of Idaho, Andy And just like uh, just like Zoren
Mndomini is it says she's or he's all about socialism.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, Unfortunately, if we don't have someone step up in
the next month or two, we're going to get a
third term with Brad Little and that you might as
well have have a democrat up there, you know what.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Oh go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Oh no, he's definitely does does not embrace the publican values.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well. In twenty twenty two, when Shane Klass put on
the event at the park in the fall time there,
I remember that. That was a lot of fun too,
I was. I don't know if you know who now,
her name just escaped my mind completely. I'm sorry about that.
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I'm sure you've heard of the of the lady who
was arrested during COVID for taking her children to the park.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is Sarah Walton.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Thought that, Yeah, I believe so, I just cannot remember.
I just can't remember her name off the top of
my head. But I believe that was her. Yeah. Well,
I sat down and talked to her and she said
that she will vote Democrat over Brad Little as a
strategic measure. A lot of people disagree with this. I
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can see the logic behind it, mind you. It's because
you know, when, uh, when, when Brad Little brings something
to the table as a Republican and the majority of
the legislature being Republican, it's likely going to pass because
they say, hey, it's from a Republican, it's got to
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be good, let's do it. If a Democrat does the
very same thing, they'll get some pushback.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah. Yeah, it's you know, at least you know what
you're getting with a Democrat. Oh yeah, you don't know
what you're going to get with some of these Republicans
out there.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I mean the exactly as the term is phrase the rhinos,
you know, they're I mean, I I almost want I
want to call them reptiles more than rhinos, because they're
so sneaky in their motives.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Whereas snakes of reptiles. Right, Yes, so I think it
was Sarah Walton Brady is her name?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Okay, Yes, I was thinking there was a Brady in
there too, but I wasn't sure. But yeah, Sarah and
she she's is she the one now that's making the
gowns out of the different like flags like that don't
tread on me and and different.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I didn't know she was making them, but I've seen
pictures of her wearing gowns like that. You know, she
went to the Republican Convention and was wearing something like that.
You know, it's kind of like what AOC's ridiculous gown
that's acts the rich, you know. So she yeah, she
was wearing something similar to that, sar wearing one for
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amm and Bundy.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah, yeah, I thought she was making them. Maybe I
was mistaken.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I know she was wearing them. I can't tell you
not she's making yeah now, But honestly, uh, when I
first heard her story and saw the videos, I thought
it was I thought it was completely ridiculous. I thought
she was being ridiculous until I got a chance to
talk to her and really understand what's going on. And
(37:21):
she was she was fighting tyranny and didn't care if
she was going to get arrested, and to her, it
was a reason to get arrested. Now I fully understand
her logic. I mean before that, I was making fun
of her, to be honest with you, because because the video,
you know what I was it's what I was fed.
The video showed something else. And you know, I mean
(37:47):
I sad to say that during COVID, Idaho was the
first one to uncover corruption during COVID. I mean, the
first arrests were all done here, and I.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
You never would think that would happen. Never think that,
you you know, in Idaho, that a mom would get
arrested for going to the playground with her kid, or
you know, you'd have pastors getting you.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Know, churches Moscow, people getting arrested just for going to church.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yes, I mean you can maybe see that in in
California and Illinois and you know, some of these other
definitely blue states, but you never thought that that would
happen in Idaho. And that just goes to show you
that I'm not sure we are a red state. I
think we are purple at best, and we're just hiding
our true colors.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, it's it's that way. Unfortunately. Let's I'm gonna have
a question another question here for you. But first we
got to get to our final break and we'll be
back in just under two minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
we are back. I lost you there for.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, my fingers on that mouse cann't move fast enough.
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh they did move fast enough. We got you here,
just back, just before the end of the break. Now,
a question I want to ask you, and this is
a story I've already told a thousand times, but you
coming from California. By the way, I gotta ask what
part of California are you in from?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
I was born and raised in Modesto.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You're joking, right, I am not. I lived in Mantico
As in my preteens and left when I was sixteen.
Oh wow, in back to Idaho. Yeah, yes, I know
that area. Anyway, my next door neighbor was also a
conservative who left the communist hell hole that Gavin Newsom
(40:01):
had created. And I remember this was the midterm elections
of twenty eighteen and him and I were talking, and
I'm going to tell you what he said to me.
I'm not too familiar with whoever was on the ballot,
but if they were a Republican, I just marked him down.
And of course I added a faceball. I'm like, oh,
(40:23):
you're becoming part of the problem, and you don't know it.
You said at the beginning of the show, you're not
even sure if you're a Republican or not, And I'm
gonna tell you I am not. I mean, I'm registered
as a Republican, which I think is really stupid, and
they need to take that off a voter registration. Whatever
party you are, that's none of their business to start with.
(40:47):
You know, I'm not gonna say I've never voted Democrat,
because I have, but that was a different time when
you know, there were more blue dog Democrats crats at
that time. And yeah, that was when I was eighteen
or so. I voted a couple of Democrats.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah, the Democrats and Republicans have kind of reversed course
there a little bit to be to be clear, when
I was going to the other Republican women group is
when I started to question if I was a Republican
(41:25):
or not because of the way they were acting. Because
if I thought these people are Republican, then I definitely
can't be one. But I have read the platform and
I definitely, I mean truly am a Republican. It's just
some of these other ones that they are just Republicans
(41:45):
because that's that's what they've you know, they know that's
what they have to be if they want to get elected.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well, see me, I've looked over the platform myself, and
most of the time, whereas I will most likely vote Republican,
I'm I align more with the libertarians. And I'm just
I put conservative libertarian on my resume for my political affiliation,
(42:14):
not just libertarian, because I am pro life, unlike most
libertarians who are pro choice. And I'm you know, I
think what kind of puts me into that category of
being a libertarian is And you may disagree with me,
and that's fine, That's that's what we're here for. Is
(42:36):
agree to disagree and and still get along. And that's
the way we see it works. But I'm I'm for
the legalization of marijuana. I mean yeah, I mean, I'll
tell and I'll tell you. Partially why is because I've
there's never been an overdose on marijuana, whereas alcohol poisoning
(43:01):
is an overdose in my book, And not only that,
take the take the violent crimes associated with marijuana as
opposed to alcohol, and uh and and just look at
the statistics for yourself. Plus for medical reasons, too. I mean,
(43:22):
it's honestly worked right, you know, and not use so
much for pleasure and leisure. Honestly, it's God created it
for a reason.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I understand your point.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
And if you disagree with me, I'm no.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I I I definitely agree with using it medicinally. But
I also saw what happened in California. Everyone, I think
the only people that came out ahead in that situation
where the doctors who were taken the under under the
table bribes give out the cards. That goes Being against
(44:06):
legalizing drugs kind of goes back to my childhood. My yes,
some of my family members, well my parents they were
so yeah. Anyway, my father, my stepfather was a dealer
(44:27):
and we got broken into all the time. I mean
I remember seeing things as a kid. You know. They
never wanted to hide anything from me. I wish they
would have, but just kind of growing up, we never
had anything because they were you know, they were smoking it,
or they were shooting it up, or they were putting
(44:48):
it up their nose. So it's not something I've come
out and really told too many people. But that's that's
where I have a problem with legalizing anything, any drug
or substance.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Like that, you see marijuana as a gateway drug, No,
because I think.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
A lot of people use it and they've used it
since the sixties, and you know, they've never went any
further with that. Unfortunately. I think that my stepdad had,
you know, just an addiction problem in general, you never
really drank alcohol, but he went from you know, marijuana
(45:31):
to you know, snorting and then you know, ultimately an
ivy drug user. So that's that's where I have because
I see what happens to the kids, and you know,
unfortunately some of these some people out there can't just
use it recreationally and you know, do it when and
(45:53):
have a good time. They have to overdo things, you know,
with food, with you know, out draw whatever. They overdo
things and it really hurts the children. That's where I
kind of draw that line and why I draw that line.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
So we got a few minutes here left, and you know,
marijuana is an interesting topic. But I wanted to ask
you on your website. You were basically calling out others
or in a sort of way about well here, I'll
just read it real quick, ask you, as your candidate
for assessor, I am committed to transparency, community engagement and
(46:31):
ensuring fair tax assessments that benefit all residents. Together we
can enhance our local government and make a positive impact
on our community. Then in any status, it's time for
a change of voice matters and changing the future of
Twin Falls County. Let's work together to bring transparency like
to the format and rid ourselves of establishment and good
old boys who control everything from the school board, city
(46:51):
council members to county and state elected officials. So I
was kind of wondering if you can offer some clarity
on that one. Do you see some sort of corrupt
within the Assessor's office at the time that you feel
like you need to clean up?
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Not so much corruption. So my slogan is equality for all,
and that goes for the people that work in that
office right now as well as for the taxpayers because
(47:29):
certain individuals, I mean, the office is one thing, you know,
office politics. You know that aside, I feel that you know,
I will be accessible, accessible to the public. You know,
I'm not going to shut my door, I'm not going
(47:50):
to take my daily nap. I'm going to be a
part of the community. And right now it's it's not
just during election time, but I want to be a
part of the commun need you all the time. And
I have heard from several good friends of Brad that,
you know, they can tell he has an opponent because
(48:11):
he's now everywhere, he goes to every little thing, and
that wasn't the case before. He only made himself available
basically to his friends and then the developers and builders.
And I've seen some things. There were laws broken, no,
(48:32):
but were they blurred and crossed a little? Yes, you know,
the state does have rules, and so it's really hard
to say, oh, I'm going to you know, lower your
taxes or I'm going to you know, lower this or that.
The assessor's office does have strict oversight by from the state.
(48:56):
They have people coming in every year looking at our
ratio study, our sales studies, and making sure that we
are within ninety two one hundred and ten percent of
market value. So it's it's hard to to change, you know,
to break any sort of I don't want to say
(49:19):
break the law.
Speaker 8 (49:20):
But.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
Hard to get around any of that. But there are
other things that are that can be done that I've
you know, I've seen I've seen the way some people
get their jobs, you know, friends or you know, relatives,
of friends. And I think it's just when you have
(49:50):
all of these elected officials and they're all part of
this establishment, they start to think they kind of are
above the law and that they what they're doing doesn't
affect anyone else, and it does. There are things that
are being done that that do put a negative impact
(50:11):
on some of the other taxpayers in our county. So
you have to understand that our county needs so much
money to function, and you know, those are the budgets
and everything that they put together. So if somebody is
assessed lower than really they should be. And I'm not
(50:34):
saying this that he's doing that because he does not
go in and change values, but he does have you know,
he has us as his appraisers, and he does come
to us. And you know, I think this is a
little high. You know, look into it, let me know,
and then I'll call him back because it's a friend
(50:55):
of mine. Well, we have a process, you know, the
person's supposed to call or come in. We get the
phone numbers, We talked to them. Why do you think
there's a value to you know, why do you think
it's do I you know, and we are the ones
that are supposed to do that when we're not even
given a phone number. That kind of you know, tweaks
the way things are should be done. Just because he's
(51:17):
out on the golf course with them the day before.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
Well, there's a little bit of favoritism, nepotism and yes,
yeah that So the.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
First time I saw it with there was a his
good friend's granddaughter needed a job. She was one of
the applicants that came in. Well, instead of just saying
because it's a panel, a panel interview, and instead of
just saying, you know, oh, I've got a dentist appointment
that day, so you know, want you guys to go
(51:50):
ahead and interview and whoever you pick, you pick, it's oh,
I can't be in there because she's you know, my
friend grant. You know, this one's my friend's granddaughter. And
you know, I trust you guys to pick whoever you
want to pick. And he just you know, and he's
(52:11):
done this with another individual as well. I won't go
into that one, but you know, here we are, you know,
his employees. Oh well, you know this is the one
that he's basically wanting because it's his friend's granddaughter. So
instead of just stepping out saying, hey, you know what,
I can't be there that day. Something came up. I
(52:32):
got to go, you know whatever. He's definitely made it
known that this is, you know, a friend of his.
Basically you've seen that happen a couple of times I have.
So Idaho is very strict on their rules on who
who can work in the assessor's office. I mean, you
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have to be certified by the state and you have
to keep up your continuing education credits. And know that
that is a big deal. Some people have been appraisers
for a long time and Brad recently brought someone in
and just thought that this guy was, you know, like
(53:14):
the cat's meow, and he had been there for seven
months at that point, and he was actually meeting with
someone meeting with a taxpayer individually. And that is a
no no, you are too You're not allowed to talk
to taxpayers. You can sit and listen and learn, you know,
(53:35):
you learn how how they and how to interact, but
you are never to sit out there by yourself. And
it happened. I went to the chief deputy and they
said they had it covered. So even some of the
other appraisers saw that and were very very unhappy with
what they saw. So it's you know, it's just just
(53:58):
you know, little thing, but they aren't really that little.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Oh well, it's it's an ugly business as we know. Yes, uh.
Unfortunately though, we are out of time, and I want
to thank you very much for your time here on
the show, by the way, for your first podcast and
introducing yourself to the community. And obviously this goes nationwide
(54:29):
or worldwide who whoever's watching as well. You know you did,
you did, you did great, So I want I want
to let you know up front there if somebody wants
to look you up. We see the website in the
ticker there, Leslie for assessor dot com. Correct, that is correct? Yes,
(54:50):
all right? On tap for next week, John, we got
a good one. I know we scheduled him before and
he couldn't make it, but uh, we're going to be
speaking with the Otis Daniel. You remember he's the father
of little DJ Daniel, you know, the ones the Democrats
refused to acknowledge because they were more interested in acting. Leslie,
(55:17):
God bless you, Thank you so much for your time
and best of luck to you.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
Thank you, Billy, Thank you, John, good.
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All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Patriot Confederation for
what is the twenty fifth of November twenty twenty five.
While so when we broadcast next month is going to
be December next week? So wow, it's gone by way
too fast. I'm your host, Bad Billy out of Twin Falls, Idaho,
(01:21):
joined as always by John Grovenor out of Nasha in
New Hampshire, New England. How's it going up there in
that corner?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It's going, Billy, you know, I can't believe December is
coming up on it so fast. Turkey Day's Thursday, looking
forward to that, So wishing everybody a happy Turkey Day
coming up, and yeah, pier Man, Maggie Goodlander thinks she's
something else, crossing Trump with her Bolstein. I can't believe it.
First what not even Yeah, first year in office? I
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guess it's been almost a full year, about ten months
and she done messed it up.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, the whole thing's a mess. And while with the
in fighting with within the Republicans, that's another ordeal in itself.
Real quick to introduce our guests this week, of course,
I want to welcome Leslie Wolf to the show. She
is running for Twin Falls County Accessory. Thank you very
(02:17):
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
How are you today, I'm great, Thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, yes, good to have you here. Sorry we can't
have you showing on the cam, but then again, you know,
the Internet's not going to permit it, so we're gonna
work with what we got. Indeed, one thing I do
want to address though, before we get into the show is,
you know, John, I just cannot believe what has been
(02:47):
happening with with this this crime on the subways and
the trains. You know, we saw what happened in Charlotte,
North Carolina with the Irene Zurutska. I think that's how
you pronounce her name. Just murdered. Nobody did anything to
help her. I mean, I can understand that with the
old Daniel Penny situation. You know, you don't you really
(03:12):
want to engage the interpreter. But she was just left
dying on the right there on the floor. Nobody stopped
to help her. Nobody did anything, you know. And now
in Chicago we have Bethany McGee who's doused in gasoline,
and the guy lights a match and basically says, I'll
(03:33):
say it nicely, he said, burn burn, baby burn. But
I'm gonna play a clip here. This is from Chicago
Mayor Brian Johnson, and listen to what he said following
this horrible crime.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We cannot incarcentrate our weight out of violence. We've already
tried that, and we've hit it up with the largest
prison population in the world without solving the problems of
crime and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in
this country.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
We have moved past that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It is racist, it.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the
way to drive by his own.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So they just I mean, they're shootings all the time.
In Chicago. As we know, they call it the world's
large just outdoor shooting range for good reason. But following
this horrible event that just happened on the train, that
man that did this was arrested seventy two times and
(04:38):
they just keep letting him go. And I'm afraid after this,
he's gonna they're gonna let him go after this because
to prosecute him is racist. How's it racist?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Did he explain that when he said that, how's it racist?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Because you know, these a lot of these criminals, they're black,
and so black.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
People commit crime to get prosecuted, just like white people,
Asian people, Indian people, anybody of any race or color.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But you can't convince somebody, you know, like the governor
of Illinois, that fad idiot that can't pronounce his name.
And uh, and of course Brian Johnson, Chicago is gone.
And I don't care. You know, they're gonna fight Trump
every inch of the way if he tries to bring
(05:30):
in troops to settle it and make it a safer place.
Now they want their crime. Chicago is gone. And sadly
for for Bethany McGee, I'm afraid there's gonna be no
justice for her.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's happening everywhere, Billy. I was watching some news this
evening after I got home from work, and they were
talking about the same sort of attacks happening in places
like England, knife attacks and stabbings and things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, any way, enough on that, get focused on our
guest here. Of course I want to leave her out,
so Leslie take a moment here, tell the listeners a
bit about yourself, and of course the position for county accessory.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay, So my husband and I moved to Twin Falls
about nine years ago, and we were we left California
looking for a more conservative home. And when we got here,
I joined a Republican women group and I noticed that
(06:47):
it didn't seem very Republican. And so then I started
to wonder, maybe I wasn't a Republican. Maybe, you know,
maybe I'm something else. Maybe I need to do some
more research. And so I started listening a lot to
a local radio station, and I heard that the Idaho
GOP chairwoman Dorothy Moon, was going to be a different
(07:11):
Republican women's luncheon. I had heard about this one, but
I worked during the day, so I could not attend,
and well, I took that day off and I went
and I finally realized I found my people. That I
didn't really understand what a rhino was before or the establishment,
(07:33):
but I sure found out. So since then I have
been working with the Republican Women out of Bule I
found I'm sorry. I became a precinct committeeman for TF fourteen.
(07:55):
And let's see, so it was eight years ago that
I started working at the Assessor's office. Brad Wills had
just been appointed. I'm sure you know that when elected
(08:16):
officials get elected to these terms, when they decide to leave,
they never just step out and don't run again. They
like to leave in the middle of the term, so
so then the Central Committee can appoint someone. And so
that's what happened with Brad Wills. He was appointed in
December of seventeen, and I went to work for him
(08:40):
in January of eighteen. And it was interesting because when
I got there, Gary Bowden, the old assessor. I never
worked under him, so I don't know what it was like,
but I can only imagine because everybody was so happy
to have Brad there. They just felt like this freedom
(09:02):
and liberty had been, you know, given upon them. And
they were able to actually like play music in the office.
And it's interesting how these eight yes have and and
now everybody it's the morale in the office is so low.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah. So I gotta say, though, your timing is quite impeccable,
because I actually left Twin Falls back in twenty two
and came back in twenty sixteen to be with the
woman who is now my wife. And yeah, so that
(09:49):
was nine years ago. See, so you and I came
to the I came back to the area and you
came to the area right around the same time.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, we came in the summer and that was the
that first winter that was Snowmageddon.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh yeah for that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I came from someone where that we did not
get snow. We you know, traveled up once or twice
a year to go sledding, you know, up in the mountains.
But so I had to learn how to drive in
the snow and ice and and acculmate to this kind
of a winter situation.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You had to hit me pretty hard too, because I
came back here in January of twenty sixteen, and you know,
throughout that year didn't snow in Christmas in Ohio and
then the day I decided to leave. We got hit
really hard with a storm off of Lake Erie, and
I had a really tough time getting out of there.
(10:52):
Oh wow, yeah, but but yeah, you're now you know
how the swamp is because you've been walking in those
murky waters and it's not too pretty, is it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No. When I first started with Brad, you know, to
say I was one of his favorites, I mean, I
don't know. That's what one of the other coat, one
of my other coworkers, said, Oh, you're just one of
his favorites. And she would complain about him, and I
would always make an excuse for him. You know, it's like, oh,
well he's not like that, or he's not that bad,
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or you know, different things, and she brings that up
to this day. She's like, I never thought you would
run against him, just because how much you defended him.
And I've just seen so much. And you know, it
was always from when I started working there was he
was going to run in twenty two, and then he
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would go ahead and retire in twenty four and then
let the chief deputy get appointed well then early and
then I would say in probably twenty three or so,
he started talking about needing to work a little bit
longer because he still wanted to be able to travel,
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and so he decided that he would run again in
twenty six and then leave in twenty eight. So he's
been on. He's been on our chief deputy for quite
a while now to start going to Republican events and
start getting out there and getting known to the public.
And I think that's pretty disingenuous if he's going to
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you know, that is his plan. It was to run
again in the primary in twenty six. He didn't think
he would be opposed and then leave in twenty eight.
So I've had enough. I couldn't wait any longer, just
with the things that I have seen working.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That yeah, yeah, I mean it gets to a point too,
you know, just just like our own beloved Glenita Zeyderveld,
who never once in her life planned on a career
in politics, but you know, decided, hey, I've had enough.
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I guess they need somebody else to come in and
do the job. You know. Anyway, here we are, we're
already at our first quarter. So we're going to take
our first commercial break and we'll be back and continue
this conversation with Leslie Wolf in just just over two minutes,
we'll be right back. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
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are back once again. We are joined by Leslie Wolf.
She is running for Twin Falls County Accessory. Before we
go any further, John, did you have any questions for her?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
No, I'm just kind of getting the fill of lay
of the land here as you guys are talking. So
I'm not overly familiar with your politics or or what
goes on in Idaho.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah. Well, I'll be quiet once we can get a
representative from New Hampshire, which we've gotta. We gotta get
one too. We'll work on that. Uh So, Leslie, if
you could please describe the duties of the accessory to
the listeners.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Okay, So the assessor is tasked with making sure that
the entire county is valued at market value every year.
It's an Idaho statute that.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But I'm so sorry, No, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is my first podcast, and this is this is
definitely nerve wracking, and I'm so sorry that I can't
see my little picture up there. Okay. So the Assessor's office,
we work all year long on making value changes. We
go out to the properties, we see if anything has
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changed if they've built. You know, I work a lot
on the new homes. So we get values into our
system and then once a year, the values go out
in June and they we have a month to as
a taxpayer to appeal your value. And then once that
happens and the value is set, that's how they then
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take the budgets from the commissioner's approved budgets that and
we come up with a levey rate, and that's how
the taxes are ultimately then figured out. Above and beyond
seeing property taxes, I'm sorry, the property value. The assessor
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also is over the d m V for the auto registration.
So not not the driver's license itself, that's that's under
the sheriff's office, but all of the registration for the
vehicles is also under the purview of the assessor.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
All right, so you do you waw do you pay
taxes on the value of your vehicle when you register it?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, all right, that's why you would do that. I
guess we do.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We do that also here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, you know. One thing I did find as a
rather big concern too, uh from the summer into the
fall too, is you know, my wife and I were.
We drive it into Kimberly every every other Sunday, and
of course so we're pas and through all the agricultural
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lands and you know, uh, the land over this past
year was not maintained. I saw the alfalfa was cut,
but it wasn't bailed. So something's wrong there. And they
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it's like they waited the last minute to take down
the dead corn, you know. And I'm I'm thinking of
what has happened in Hawaii and what has happened in
Los Angeles. I think getting ready to burn down that
farm land and in a raging infernal And then a
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strange thing too, is that a house was burned down
just just outside or heading towards Kimberly. It was it
was a nice cabin too. John, get this, We've heard
this before. The house was burned down to ashes. But
one thing that didn't burn within the house was a
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blue Bible.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Act of God man act of God.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, but given the fact that it was blue, if
you know the Malle fires and the La fires, anything
that was blue didn't burn. It's so weird. And I
know I sound crazy just saying that, but it's fact.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Well, it's supposed to be true that they do have
blue laser lights and that when it hits the blue surface,
it doesn't necessarily penetrate like it will other colors, but
if it's if the laser lights focused there.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Long enough, it will burn. So I don't know if
it's John, you were that hiss that we occasionally get
catching out.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
What were you saying, Oh, I said, I don't know
all the details about how this really works, but they
do have that blue laser light, so it does.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It does.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Actually, there is a blue laser light that's stronger than
red lays are light, and with a focused beam or
something like that, they can they can produce a lot
of heat and if it does hit a blue surface
supposedly reflects back. It doesn't burn a blue surface if
it moves over it rapidly, but if it's focused so
long enough, it will burn. So it makes sense from
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things I've heard about a red about so I'm not
you know, it's kind of one of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's hard to you got to.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Take a little bit with the grain of salt, but
it does seem like something's there when you're seeing the images,
and these aren't ai images that they've been producing.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, but you know, getting back to how I see it,
that these farm lands are not being maintained is a
big concern, and we're talking about the value of the property.
I don't know, Leslie, I don't even know how to
ask this question. But based on what I'm saying, do
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you have any any response?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
So farmland is a touchy subject when it comes to
the value. We break it down into if it's irrigated
or if it's not irrigated, and then if are they
growing like a a row crop on it, like the
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corn or else, you know, or is it more like
a grazing situation where the cows just get out and
actually graze on it. So if it takes longer for
them to maintain or to you know, get their alfalpha
bailed or cut down their corn, we don't have that
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doesn't affect anything. That corn is a row crop, so
it is getting you know, it is valued at one
of the higher values per acre. Then if it was
like dry grazing land where it's like if it rains,
you know, those cattles will be lucky to have something
growing on it.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
So the value, you say, the valuation of property or
farmland is based on what they yield for a crop.
So depending on what it is, what their take or
with their ability to profit off it, we've determined its
value like its form of business.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No how it is maintained. If it's a row crop
and that's been irrigated and has has canal water, then
it is it is valued higher than if you know,
out in the southern Idaho or I'm sorry, southern Twin
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Falls County where they might have water for a little bit,
but the canal system shuts down pretty early because they
don't have that much water. That's more of a grazing issue,
where if it's dryer and they don't have any sort
of irrigation on it, it's just you know, basically they
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threw some seed out there once and whatever grows grows,
and there's rocks and sagebrush and but as long as
the cows are out there eating, that is basically the
lowest form of a farm land and so that value
would be much lower per acre.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
So how does that work exactly? How do you determine
its value based on its usage or its development.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So we have done some studies on cash rents and
what the farmers are getting when they rent these these
these farms out are not farms. But this land out
you know, obviously if it's it's getting water and it's
actually yielding a good crop, it's going to be worth
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more money per per acre.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
So then it is basically based on what it yields
for a crop. Basic creates its value. As I was
saying previous.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes and no, I mean we don't look at what
they're growing that year. If they're growing alfalfa, if they're
growing corn, we don't care what they're taking off of it,
and you know what they're selling it for and think like,
we don't go into that. We just look at if
it is actually growing a crop or not.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
All right, So, but it is based on the land.
It's not based on their take or anything. So if
they haven't, right.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It's on the land.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah. And and water rights, now, I mean that's always
that's always been an issue. I remember, uh that when
my my uncle he of course he purchased somewhere around
one hundred acres and he built his house on that land.
That's where he is to this day. And of course
he's got some alfalfa and uh, but however he was
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he was dipping a five gallon bucket in a nearby
creek that wasn't on his property line to water his
fruit trees. And one of the neighbors saw him do
that and they complained, and of course he didn't They
told him he couldn't do that anymore. So water rights
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has been an issue for I mean that what I
just explained was what thirty five years ago, and now
the way they fight over water rights is just unbelievable.
And and yes, you know, talking about that farmland that
I've seen, there was not a whole lot of irrigation
going on there too.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, water rights is a big deal. If you remember
last summer Eastern Idaho, they were trying to take the water,
and we have the senior water rights here in Twin Falls,
and so that did get into an ugly mess where
they'd shut off the water to the Eastern Idaho people
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there for a while until they could come up with
an agreement. I know that up in Bell Rapids, up
where all the windmills are, they sold their water rights
because they weren't getting much anyway, so they sold their
water rights up there, and the farmers that are up
there use it, you know, just as grazing land or
you know, it's basically worth nothing. And so when since
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they lost that, you know again, their value for that
land plummeted.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah. Yeah, there there's an agenda behind all of this.
That's that's much bigger than we can all see that,
you know that most of us don't know or don't
care to look at too, And it's it's it's very
sad and it's very ugly, you know what. We are
at the bottom of the hour, So that means we're
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going to go ahead and take our bottom of the
hour break and then we'll talk more with Leslie Wolf
in about three minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
are back once again, joined by Leslie Wolf. And Leslie,
you and I were talking before the show started, too,
and I actually wanted to get into this subject a
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little bit since you started, but we really couldn't get
further into the conversation at the time because we were
about to start the show. But you know, as mentioned,
but amongst people in Twin Falls, they know that Lance
Klow is stepping down and retiring, which I think he
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should have He should have done a long time ago,
mind you, And I'm I'm gonna tell you I got
I really got no beef myself with with Lance. I've
had lunch with him and uh, and we just we
talked a little bit. But I'm just gonna say, you know,
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I'm his His score with the Idaho Freedom Foundation says
it all. I mean, he's got the worst score out
of all our representatives in this area. And I'm going
to say partially because you know, when him and I
were talking over lunch, you know, we discussed policies such
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as you know, such as gun control and things like that,
and the gut. He's a nice guy, but he's weak.
He is very weak, and we'll just go with whichever
way the river flows, it seems like.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And so I had a conversation with him back in September,
and I had noticed that Don Hall had started a
Sunshine account for Lance Lance's seat, and so I asked
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him about it, and let's just say the answers he
gave me, I felt pretty bad for him. You know,
he's always he's been my legislator. Yeah, I've seen his score,
not pleased with it. Doesn't vote how I wish he
would vote when he is in session. But that conversation
(28:30):
that I had, I really felt badly for him. And
then him to wasn't even sure that he was going
to actually retire in twenty six or not run again
in twenty six to now leaving a year early. I
feel that there was a lot of pressure there for him.
(28:52):
So yeah, So I, like I said, I am on
the Central Committee and we are tasked, you know, with
filling vacancies when things like that come up. And so
that was, as I was telling you before the show,
that was very eye opening. So what happened is so
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our Central Committee has forty four precinct committeemen. Twenty two
of them come from Legislative District twenty four and twenty
two of them come from twenty five since Lance was
a legislative district twenty five. The twenty two of us
met at a special special meeting last week and we
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were tasked with basically vetting anyone who came forward. We
got their resumes, were listened to their little spiel on
why they think they should replace Lance, and then we
were able to ask them questions and we take the
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top three. So there was actually four of them that
wanted the job. And I do feel that some of
them maybe just put their name in just to be placeholders.
Because what happens is we take three of them and
we send them up to Governor Brad Little. If we
would have sent one or two, he can choose anyone
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from listen from LD twenty five to fill the vacancy.
He can knock on anyone's door, you know, call him
up and say, hey, I want you to fill that.
But because we sent him three, he has to choose
from one of those, and we ultimately decided on Don Hall,
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my pause's wife, Lucy Wills, and then another precinct committeeman,
her name is char Alexander. And so those are the
three that went up. He has fifteen days to pick
someone or else. On the sixteenth day, we will meet
again as the legislative body or as the the Social
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Committee for Legislative twenty District twenty five, and we will
then choose someone from those three. Okay, So yeah, it
was interesting they you know, the establishment was really shining
and you could see exactly, you know, how how they
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intend for all that to work out. And it's for
for Don Hall to get at the position.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And this is just primarily within the Republican Party or
is this or is this all parties that we're talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Because the the person retiring was a Republican, it falls
back on the Republican party to then name a nominee.
And that's when, like, if our governor would have been
a Democrat, you definitely want to send up three Republicans.
Otherwise he could choose, you know, someone that's not it's
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not a Republican. He could have chose a Democrat, but
the whole state. As long as he said we send
him three, he has to choose one of those.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Of course, I don't really consider Brad Little a Republican myself.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Oh me, neither.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I remember though, in twenty four when this last time
that Lance ran his opponent, I mean, like I said,
you know, I mean, I don't think Lance has done
the greatest job, but his opponent that was running against him,
oh boy, I saw the agenda that he had on
his plate. No, it's like, okay out, no, I'm just
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going to vote for Lance because I am not going
to vote for a progressive communist. I can't even remember
the guy's name, but he was all about communism.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Now that was in the general rate. So he was
a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but his his agenda was communism,
you know, just like you know, and I can't remember
his name, And yes, I'm going to say his name.
Who's running for governor as an independent and start starting
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to make some waves. This transgender who's running for governor
of Idaho, Andy And just like uh, just like Zoren
Mndomini is it says she's or he's all about socialism.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, Unfortunately, if we don't have someone step up in
the next month or two, we're going to get a
third term with Brad Little and that you might as
well have have a democrat up there, you know what.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Oh go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Oh no, he's definitely does does not embrace the publican values.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well. In twenty twenty two, when Shane Klass put on
the event at the park in the fall time there,
I remember that. That was a lot of fun too,
I was. I don't know if you know who now,
her name just escaped my mind completely. I'm sorry about that.
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I'm sure you've heard of the of the lady who
was arrested during COVID for taking her children to the park.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is Sarah Walton.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Thought that, Yeah, I believe so, I just cannot remember.
I just can't remember her name off the top of
my head. But I believe that was her. Yeah. Well,
I sat down and talked to her and she said
that she will vote Democrat over Brad Little as a
strategic measure. A lot of people disagree with this. I
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can see the logic behind it, mind you. It's because
you know, when, uh, when, when Brad Little brings something
to the table as a Republican and the majority of
the legislature being Republican, it's likely going to pass because
they say, hey, it's from a Republican, it's got to
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be good, let's do it. If a Democrat does the
very same thing, they'll get some pushback.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah. Yeah, it's you know, at least you know what
you're getting with a Democrat. Oh yeah, you don't know
what you're going to get with some of these Republicans
out there.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I mean the exactly as the term is phrase the rhinos,
you know, they're I mean, I I almost want I
want to call them reptiles more than rhinos, because they're
so sneaky in their motives.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Whereas snakes of reptiles. Right, Yes, so I think it
was Sarah Walton Brady is her name?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Okay, Yes, I was thinking there was a Brady in
there too, but I wasn't sure. But yeah, Sarah and
she she's is she the one now that's making the
gowns out of the different like flags like that don't
tread on me and and different.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I didn't know she was making them, but I've seen
pictures of her wearing gowns like that. You know, she
went to the Republican Convention and was wearing something like that.
You know, it's kind of like what AOC's ridiculous gown
that's acts the rich, you know. So she yeah, she
was wearing something similar to that, sar wearing one for
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amm and Bundy.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah, yeah, I thought she was making them. Maybe I
was mistaken.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I know she was wearing them. I can't tell you
not she's making yeah now, But honestly, uh, when I
first heard her story and saw the videos, I thought
it was I thought it was completely ridiculous. I thought
she was being ridiculous until I got a chance to
talk to her and really understand what's going on. And
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she was she was fighting tyranny and didn't care if
she was going to get arrested, and to her, it
was a reason to get arrested. Now I fully understand
her logic. I mean before that, I was making fun
of her, to be honest with you, because because the video,
you know what I was it's what I was fed.
The video showed something else. And you know, I mean
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I sad to say that during COVID, Idaho was the
first one to uncover corruption during COVID. I mean, the
first arrests were all done here, and I.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
You never would think that would happen. Never think that,
you you know, in Idaho, that a mom would get
arrested for going to the playground with her kid, or
you know, you'd have pastors getting you.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Know, churches Moscow, people getting arrested just for going to church.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yes, I mean you can maybe see that in in
California and Illinois and you know, some of these other
definitely blue states, but you never thought that that would
happen in Idaho. And that just goes to show you
that I'm not sure we are a red state. I
think we are purple at best, and we're just hiding
our true colors.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, it's it's that way. Unfortunately. Let's I'm gonna have
a question another question here for you. But first we
got to get to our final break and we'll be
back in just under two minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
we are back. I lost you there for.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, my fingers on that mouse cann't move fast enough.
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh they did move fast enough. We got you here,
just back, just before the end of the break. Now,
a question I want to ask you, and this is
a story I've already told a thousand times, but you
coming from California. By the way, I gotta ask what
part of California are you in from?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
I was born and raised in Modesto.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You're joking, right, I am not. I lived in Mantico
As in my preteens and left when I was sixteen.
Oh wow, in back to Idaho. Yeah, yes, I know
that area. Anyway, my next door neighbor was also a
conservative who left the communist hell hole that Gavin Newsom
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had created. And I remember this was the midterm elections
of twenty eighteen and him and I were talking, and
I'm going to tell you what he said to me.
I'm not too familiar with whoever was on the ballot,
but if they were a Republican, I just marked him down.
And of course I added a faceball. I'm like, oh,
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you're becoming part of the problem, and you don't know it.
You said at the beginning of the show, you're not
even sure if you're a Republican or not, And I'm
gonna tell you I am not. I mean, I'm registered
as a Republican, which I think is really stupid, and
they need to take that off a voter registration. Whatever
party you are, that's none of their business to start with.
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You know, I'm not gonna say I've never voted Democrat,
because I have, but that was a different time when
you know, there were more blue dog Democrats crats at
that time. And yeah, that was when I was eighteen
or so. I voted a couple of Democrats.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah, the Democrats and Republicans have kind of reversed course
there a little bit to be to be clear, when
I was going to the other Republican women group is
when I started to question if I was a Republican
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or not because of the way they were acting. Because
if I thought these people are Republican, then I definitely
can't be one. But I have read the platform and
I definitely, I mean truly am a Republican. It's just
some of these other ones that they are just Republicans
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because that's that's what they've you know, they know that's
what they have to be if they want to get elected.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well, see me, I've looked over the platform myself, and
most of the time, whereas I will most likely vote Republican,
I'm I align more with the libertarians. And I'm just
I put conservative libertarian on my resume for my political affiliation,
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not just libertarian, because I am pro life, unlike most
libertarians who are pro choice. And I'm you know, I
think what kind of puts me into that category of
being a libertarian is And you may disagree with me,
and that's fine, That's that's what we're here for. Is
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agree to disagree and and still get along. And that's
the way we see it works. But I'm I'm for
the legalization of marijuana. I mean yeah, I mean, I'll
tell and I'll tell you. Partially why is because I've
there's never been an overdose on marijuana, whereas alcohol poisoning
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is an overdose in my book, And not only that,
take the take the violent crimes associated with marijuana as
opposed to alcohol, and uh and and just look at
the statistics for yourself. Plus for medical reasons, too. I mean,
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it's honestly worked right, you know, and not use so
much for pleasure and leisure. Honestly, it's God created it
for a reason.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I understand your point.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
And if you disagree with me, I'm no.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I I I definitely agree with using it medicinally. But
I also saw what happened in California. Everyone, I think
the only people that came out ahead in that situation
where the doctors who were taken the under under the
table bribes give out the cards. That goes Being against
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legalizing drugs kind of goes back to my childhood. My yes,
some of my family members, well my parents they were
so yeah. Anyway, my father, my stepfather was a dealer
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and we got broken into all the time. I mean
I remember seeing things as a kid. You know. They
never wanted to hide anything from me. I wish they
would have, but just kind of growing up, we never
had anything because they were you know, they were smoking it,
or they were shooting it up, or they were putting
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it up their nose. So it's not something I've come
out and really told too many people. But that's that's
where I have a problem with legalizing anything, any drug
or substance.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Like that, you see marijuana as a gateway drug, No,
because I think.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
A lot of people use it and they've used it
since the sixties, and you know, they've never went any
further with that. Unfortunately. I think that my stepdad had,
you know, just an addiction problem in general, you never
really drank alcohol, but he went from you know, marijuana
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to you know, snorting and then you know, ultimately an
ivy drug user. So that's that's where I have because
I see what happens to the kids, and you know,
unfortunately some of these some people out there can't just
use it recreationally and you know, do it when and
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have a good time. They have to overdo things, you know,
with food, with you know, out draw whatever. They overdo
things and it really hurts the children. That's where I
kind of draw that line and why I draw that line.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
So we got a few minutes here left, and you know,
marijuana is an interesting topic. But I wanted to ask
you on your website. You were basically calling out others
or in a sort of way about well here, I'll
just read it real quick, ask you, as your candidate
for assessor, I am committed to transparency, community engagement and
(46:31):
ensuring fair tax assessments that benefit all residents. Together we
can enhance our local government and make a positive impact
on our community. Then in any status, it's time for
a change of voice matters and changing the future of
Twin Falls County. Let's work together to bring transparency like
to the format and rid ourselves of establishment and good
old boys who control everything from the school board, city
(46:51):
council members to county and state elected officials. So I
was kind of wondering if you can offer some clarity
on that one. Do you see some sort of corrupt
within the Assessor's office at the time that you feel
like you need to clean up?
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Not so much corruption. So my slogan is equality for all,
and that goes for the people that work in that
office right now as well as for the taxpayers because
(47:29):
certain individuals, I mean, the office is one thing, you know,
office politics. You know that aside, I feel that you know,
I will be accessible, accessible to the public. You know,
I'm not going to shut my door, I'm not going
(47:50):
to take my daily nap. I'm going to be a
part of the community. And right now it's it's not
just during election time, but I want to be a
part of the commun need you all the time. And
I have heard from several good friends of Brad that,
you know, they can tell he has an opponent because
(48:11):
he's now everywhere, he goes to every little thing, and
that wasn't the case before. He only made himself available
basically to his friends and then the developers and builders.
And I've seen some things. There were laws broken, no,
(48:32):
but were they blurred and crossed a little? Yes, you know,
the state does have rules, and so it's really hard
to say, oh, I'm going to you know, lower your
taxes or I'm going to you know, lower this or that.
The assessor's office does have strict oversight by from the state.
(48:56):
They have people coming in every year looking at our
ratio study, our sales studies, and making sure that we
are within ninety two one hundred and ten percent of
market value. So it's it's hard to to change, you know,
to break any sort of I don't want to say
(49:19):
break the law.
Speaker 8 (49:20):
But.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
Hard to get around any of that. But there are
other things that are that can be done that I've
you know, I've seen I've seen the way some people
get their jobs, you know, friends or you know, relatives,
of friends. And I think it's just when you have
(49:50):
all of these elected officials and they're all part of
this establishment, they start to think they kind of are
above the law and that they what they're doing doesn't
affect anyone else, and it does. There are things that
are being done that that do put a negative impact
(50:11):
on some of the other taxpayers in our county. So
you have to understand that our county needs so much
money to function, and you know, those are the budgets
and everything that they put together. So if somebody is
assessed lower than really they should be. And I'm not
(50:34):
saying this that he's doing that because he does not
go in and change values, but he does have you know,
he has us as his appraisers, and he does come
to us. And you know, I think this is a
little high. You know, look into it, let me know,
and then I'll call him back because it's a friend
(50:55):
of mine. Well, we have a process, you know, the
person's supposed to call or come in. We get the
phone numbers, We talked to them. Why do you think
there's a value to you know, why do you think
it's do I you know, and we are the ones
that are supposed to do that when we're not even
given a phone number. That kind of you know, tweaks
the way things are should be done. Just because he's
(51:17):
out on the golf course with them the day before.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
Well, there's a little bit of favoritism, nepotism and yes,
yeah that So the.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
First time I saw it with there was a his
good friend's granddaughter needed a job. She was one of
the applicants that came in. Well, instead of just saying
because it's a panel, a panel interview, and instead of
just saying, you know, oh, I've got a dentist appointment
that day, so you know, want you guys to go
(51:50):
ahead and interview and whoever you pick, you pick, it's oh,
I can't be in there because she's you know, my
friend grant. You know, this one's my friend's granddaughter. And
you know, I trust you guys to pick whoever you
want to pick. And he just you know, and he's
(52:11):
done this with another individual as well. I won't go
into that one, but you know, here we are, you know,
his employees. Oh well, you know this is the one
that he's basically wanting because it's his friend's granddaughter. So
instead of just stepping out saying, hey, you know what,
I can't be there that day. Something came up. I
(52:32):
got to go, you know whatever. He's definitely made it
known that this is, you know, a friend of his.
Basically you've seen that happen a couple of times I have.
So Idaho is very strict on their rules on who
who can work in the assessor's office. I mean, you
(52:53):
have to be certified by the state and you have
to keep up your continuing education credits. And know that
that is a big deal. Some people have been appraisers
for a long time and Brad recently brought someone in
and just thought that this guy was, you know, like
(53:14):
the cat's meow, and he had been there for seven
months at that point, and he was actually meeting with
someone meeting with a taxpayer individually. And that is a
no no, you are too You're not allowed to talk
to taxpayers. You can sit and listen and learn, you know,
(53:35):
you learn how how they and how to interact, but
you are never to sit out there by yourself. And
it happened. I went to the chief deputy and they
said they had it covered. So even some of the
other appraisers saw that and were very very unhappy with
what they saw. So it's you know, it's just just
(53:58):
you know, little thing, but they aren't really that little.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Oh well, it's it's an ugly business as we know. Yes, uh.
Unfortunately though, we are out of time, and I want
to thank you very much for your time here on
the show, by the way, for your first podcast and
introducing yourself to the community. And obviously this goes nationwide
(54:29):
or worldwide who whoever's watching as well. You know you did,
you did, you did great, So I want I want
to let you know up front there if somebody wants
to look you up. We see the website in the
ticker there, Leslie for assessor dot com. Correct, that is correct? Yes,
(54:50):
all right? On tap for next week, John, we got
a good one. I know we scheduled him before and
he couldn't make it, but uh, we're going to be
speaking with the Otis Daniel. You remember he's the father
of little DJ Daniel, you know, the ones the Democrats
refused to acknowledge because they were more interested in acting. Leslie,
(55:17):
God bless you, Thank you so much for your time
and best of luck to you.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
Thank you, Billy, Thank you, John, good.
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