Too Low Turnout & Ongoing Government Shutdown

Hy and Christopher start talking about the turnout in the Mayoral election. Many have praised the 40.1 percent who went to the polls - we think it’s too low. Read more about it in our official editorial.

Nearly four months ago, Hy and Christopher posed the question of whether Royce Duplessis could replicate the coalition that allowed him to best Democratic Rep. Mandie Landry in 2022. Would the state senator be able to build a biracial coalition of African-American Democrats as well as white Republicans and Independents to outflank a prominent Caucasian challenger? His Senate district, which has more than 75,000 registered voters in Orleans Parish, is a good microcosm of the city – 48 percent are Black, 40 percent are Caucasian and nine percent other. In fact, it’s a bit worse than the City of New Orleans for an African-American contender, which is 55 and 34 percent Black and white respectively. That Duplessis could carry a gentrified district, which under traditional political rules should have given a preference to a liberal white contender, spoke well of his chances in a citywide election.
In the end, the answer was no. He only won one precinct of District 5 by over 50 percent in his mayoral bid. Her totals in the senatorial district are pretty closely tracked with her 55 percent victory citywide.That is not to say that Duplessis did not perform quite well for a candidate who jumped into the mayoral race just over three months before election day and ended up outspent 5-1. At 22 percent, Duplessis did win a plurality in the neighborhoods where he grew up – Pontchartrain Park and throughout Gentilly. He also did well in several Central City neighborhoods and prevailed in a few precincts in New Orleans East, though Oliver Thomas tended to match or edge past Duplessis narrowly in both overall.Essentially, Duplessis’ campaign might have replicated its previous success against a very similar candidate to Moreno, Rep. Mandie Landry, if an additional 12 percent of the city’s voters – i.e. registered Republicans – had universally backed his bid for mayor, as they had in his previous election. Mostly, they did not. Unlike Landry, Moreno won the majority of the GOP vote. The city councilperson appeared a more compelling moderate than Rep. Landry had. The conservative Caucasian remainder tended to support the Republican candidate Frank Janusa. Read more on the results in the Mayor's race.

Then we end on a few comments and the government shutdown.  Christopher and Hy disagree.   Here is Christopher‘s take in The Louisiana Weekly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Battles, the politicians, the dressed, the digit datas and magicians.
Who's to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing
to fill the holes while then are feeling their pockets biles,
the politicians bouncing down the road. Everybody's wition to no moment,

(00:25):
corruption and dysfunction. It's gonna take me, divide it invention.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
The aftermath of the New Orleans elections have got everybody
talking and people are happy. Forty point one percent of
the vote turned out. However, that's a lot less than
previous elections. What's going on with a voter turnout? What's
going on with the new mayorial elect administration of colleenam Arena,
What's going on with LaToya Cantrell and her refusal to
leave all of this and the upcoming elections that we

(00:55):
have yet to do on this edition of The Founder Show.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And God bless you all out there. You are now
listening to the Founders. So the voice of the founding Fathers,
your founding fathers, coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big
Easy that Oh Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high
up on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped

(01:20):
in Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch. Is
none other then you've been Gary, Bobby all the Republic Chaplain.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Hi McHenry What Christopher Tidmore, your roving reporter, resident radical
moderate and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at
Louisiana Weekly dot net. Celebrating our one hundredth birthday this
past month, and speaking of stuff, I've been writing for
the Weekly a lot of after effects of the election,
and a lot of people have been examining it, and
we're going to go through some of the stats on

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the election. But I want to bring up something that
nobody's brought up, and it kind of shocked me that
no one brought it up.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, Christopher, you're always one of those first.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And yeah, but this is the first. I would love
to say I'm the only one who did in. My publisher,
Rennette Dejois Hall, made this observation to me on Sunday morning.
So after an election, Renette and I will often be
texting the next morning to say, Okay, what did you think,
because remember we endorsed these candidates for the Weekly, and
how did he perform. What precincts come out. We don't

(02:20):
usually know that till Tuesday, but we get an idea
and she texted me and she's like, this is insane.
Everybody's talking about how great forty point one percent of
the vote is, and forty point one percent of the vote,
let's be honest, is a lot higher than we've had
recent elections. The one criticism that cannot be made of
Helena Moreno is that she won because of a low,

(02:41):
low turnout election.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
She got a large portion of the Black vote.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
She did, she she earned, She earned, particularly African American
professional women were overwhelmingly behind her. She had, she had
incredible She was endorsed by the Life Organization, so a
lot of the old political alphabet soup organizations were hind her.
So she legitimately on every statistic. My favorite statistic of
all of them is Royce Duplessis represents essentially a district

(03:07):
that runs from the Garden District around there to the
French Quarter. It's a very it's probably one of the
most affluent districts in town. She got sixty percent of
the vote in that district. He got twenty percent. Wow,
Now he won a Ponchertrain Park in Gentili, where a
lot of the old black creole families live very much.
He got that, Oliver Thomas got New Orleans East, but

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she legitimately was winning across demographics. No matter how you
look at it, she won, and we're going to talk
about her new administration. But what was intriguing to me
was that everybody saying how great it was because they've
been elections with twenty five percent or twenty percent or less.
You know, the pathetic turnouts four years ago was just
a joke. But I kept saying to myself, you know

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what the turnout was in two thousand and eight when
Barack Obama was in the ballot, fifty three point two
eight percent. That means more than half of registered voters
turned out to the polls. Shouldn't be the aberration for
a competitive election. That should be the norm. And I
kind of get this because this was not an election

(04:09):
where it was a foregone conclusion, no matter how you
say it. Royce de Plasis got twenty two percent, Oliver
Thomas got, you know, almost nineteen percent. They were doing
really well. Even Frank Geniza, who only got two percent,
was had a real serious campaign. Most of the Republican
vote went to Helena Moreno, it didn't go to the
Republican candidate, but that was not insignificant. We had two

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white candidates that together collected just under sixty percent of
the vote in a majority black city. That's a fascinating
statistic to me. But all of this turnout was going on,
and yet everybody saying how great it is. No, I'm sorry,
it's not great when sixty percent of the eligible population

(04:52):
to vote does not bother. It has never been easier
to vote if you're over the age of sixty, can
mail in vote. If you're under it, there are multiple
locations to early vote. Frankly, this is the first election.
This is an interesting stistic. You can argue there was
one other one, but this is really the first election
where the majority of the voters voted before election day.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
They actually early voted.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
People have gotten to the habit that, you know, the
early vote is what they're going to do, and that's
you know, I have a problem with that. That's good,
but I just you know, it's it's a pet peeve
of mine. I know I'm going on this, but I can't.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
But it's important to emphasize how important it is to vote. Yeah,
I mean, folks, our ancestors paid great prices for us
to be able to do this with their lives. I mean,
they lost enormous amount of wealth and health and you know,
many of the fortunes for our right to vote. And
now we just too many people take it for granted.

(05:48):
I think what happens with a lot of this is
they think, well, you know, nothing's going to change that
whichever way you go, the politicians are all crooked, so
why waste my time. It's the wrong way to think
about it. And I think then it's always just got
that percentage of people are just apathetic, don't care. Aren't
going to get maybe ten or twenty percent of the
populations like that. But Americans need to wake up and

(06:10):
realize how important it is to vote. Even if you
think you don't have a big choice. That is a response.
It's not just a right, it really is a responsibility.
I feel like it's a duty, a patriotic duty to
go out and vote. Like you said, it's easy to
do it, it doesn't take hard anytime, and we should all
do that.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, I've thought a lot of the people who've
said we should make voting a requirement. There's some countries
Western country Australia is a good example of this where
if you don't vote, you pay a fine. We say
it's like, you know, it's mandated that you vote. It's
not mandate that you vote, it's that that you just

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don't show up. It's not a huge fine, but it's painful.
It's about one hundred dollars. So I mean, it's not
insignificant to miss an election and you take it seriously
and they get ninety plus percent turnout because of that.
Now some people will say, well, you know, forcing people
to vote is just as bad as.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
People not voting.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Maybe, and that's a fair argument, which I'm not.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Sure where freedom. So you have the freedom not vote, to.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Not vote, don't have to do anything. But I got
to tell you it's not only is it disrespect to
your ancestors, it's you If you're apathetic about the government
that you got, well guess what. That's because people figure
they they've got the election one beforehand. I'm not saying
any particular candidate really thought that, or least of all
Helena Moreno, who I've had my you know, differences with

(07:32):
Helene at times. But I've got to say, first, she's honest.
Second of all, she's hard working and no one will
debate it. And third of all, she's been running hard
for a year or more and really longer. But I
mean serious as a serious candidate, and she's putting together
a pretty decent transition team. So the transition team that
she's got going, for those that don't know some of

(07:54):
the players, these are well known New Orleans players. Amy Quirk,
who's with Auctioner, used to be a major staffer. Emily
Ratta was chief of staff for Mitch Landrews.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Going to be part of that, you, Brian, the one
who passed away by.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Jay Jay was supporting her.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you think he'd have been on
the transition.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
To Probably not at that point. I think he might
have been one of the panels Jay was. Jay's been
Jay had been sick for a while and so he
had diabetes, and.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
He was sooved well he was, he was so much.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
For example, he and I were serving together on the
Louisiana State Museum Board.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
I mean, I was with Jay.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It breaks my heart, you know, I was with Jay
just a few days before he died and I just
it was like, I will say, one of the you know,
Brian Bat his brother put together a fantastic coalition of
things for Helena, and he might be involved in her
arts council very much. Brian has you know. For those
that don't know Brian bad of course, you know he

(08:53):
runs hazel Nut on Magazine Street.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
This is my ad.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I think they're having a sale right now, so people
go to hazel Nut. But also Brian is He and
his husband Tom are the biggest cheerleaders for the city
in New York, all around Hollywood all this.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Brian of course was on mad Man.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
He was a Broadway star at Scarlet, Pimpernel and all this,
and he's been a major advocate for the arts economy
for those of us you know, he's supported his mother,
of course, was a legend of the arts economy, Gail Batt.
But it was it's kind of an interesting race. It
had some interesting effects, the turnout where it was down ticket.

(09:28):
I'll the race that fascinates me is the one that
everybody just sort of like, well, who airs, But it's
actually one of the more important races.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Clerk of Court.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
People were like who cares?

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Who cares?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
The guys, the secretary just files the records.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Big deal, except he's not tell us.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, so a clerk of court runs your elections, runs
all the evidence, runs all the court systems, runs everything.
In most places is actually the tax collector. That's not
true in Orleans, but he does. He does an incredibly
important job. And Darren Lombard was the overwhelming favorite, and
he kind of look, Darren's a friend of mine. I'll
be the first one to come out and say he

(10:07):
is a personal friend. Having said that, he didn't run
a particularly good election. There wasn't a really great campaign.
There was no kind of missteps, and he was running
against somebody his opponent was sent to jail and then exonerated,
and he was talking about the problems in the criminal

(10:28):
justice system and ran a very disciplined campaign. His media
guy was the same guy who ran the media for
John Bell Edwards, was heavily financed. The guy's incredbly articulate.
On the other hand, for those of us that know
a little bit more of the story, the guy it
had some real criminal conviction problems and so this is
a situation. He got forty seven percent of the vote.
Lombard got forty six. And it's whenever an incumbent doesn't

(10:52):
win in the first or is forced into a runoff
where he's less even by a little bit of the
other person, it's always a bad sign for the incumbent.
Doesn't mean he doesn't win, but it's always a really
bad sign. And nobody saw that race coming. There were
other races where it's not really a surprise. JP Morrell,
he's incredibly popular of whites and blacks, effective n that

(11:14):
wasn't a surprise. What was a surprise a little bit
was that Matthew Willard won. Now, I supported Matthew even
though a lot of my friends, including Congressman Troy Carter,
were very heavily behind Delicia Boyd, who's a wonderful lady
and would have been a great counsel woman. But she
had some problems and there was a campaign filey. Now
this is and I thought at the time it was
a little unfair to be honest as criticism go. Her

(11:35):
daughter is her secretary for her real estate firm. She's
a real estate broker, much like your brother. She runs
a very big real estate broker firm in the West.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
You just hit me.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
You had to say, give me a second, I'll remember.
But she's a big commercial real estate broker, very similar
to mckenry, and very highly respected. She's a member of
the legislature. She was the leader on a lot of
insurance reform issues. Very smart, smart lady. But she had
always had her daughter as her secretary and paid her daughter,
and her daughter is a very good secretary. Well, they
had her secret daughter as the secretary of the campaign

(12:06):
in Peter and unfortunately that runs into the rule of
ethics laws. You can't have a family member on the
payroll if you're running for office or in office, and
it was the way it was filed, and it ended
up being a major issue in the race. It is
probably one of the reasons why that race ended as
quickly as it did. Matthew Willard prevailing. He of course,

(12:26):
is the grandson of Doc Willard. You know, I felt
really old. I had him on a campaign and we're
laughing about his you know, Cynthia Willard Lewis was his aunt,
and a whole bunch of Matthew's been We've had Matthew
on the air. He's the guy who he's tried to
raise the homestead exemption. You remember, we've had him on
he tried to pass the constitutional amendment, got it passed
that would have essentially frozen your home value except for

(12:48):
the rate of inflation, so people weren't hit with higher
higher bills. He's the only candidate who ran on this
alone would have gotten the support as much who ran
saying he wants to nally change.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
The law to outlaw it, but also.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Will never not support any rolled forwards after rolling backs
of millages, which is the stealth tax increase that is
affecting not just us in Orleans but everyone around the state.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
But you know, I was interviewing and I.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Said, yeah, your dad used to say, and he looked
at it, and I made a comment he said, and
he says, you realize, Christopher, that's my grandfather, right.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
I was like, oh God, I feel old.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
These grandfather was Doc Willard, the legendary educator and school
board member. So anyway, it was the races came in.
The one that didn't and it's not yet set is
to me one of the more interesting races, and that
is Jason Hughes versus Cynthia Win.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
So.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Cynthia Winn was the first Vietnamese American council person and
she lost. She was elected for a term and then
lost to Oliver Thomas. Jason Hughes ran second in that race.
He's a state representative and one of the one of
the more hard working state representatives. Both both are excellent candidates.

(14:00):
I have a lot of sympathy for Hughes because he's
a big opera lover. He went up to New York
for We're doing Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in my Bones.
It's Lyla Palmer's thing. Terrence is actually conducting. Jason is
the only person I know in politics that flew up
and bought a ticket at the Metropolitan Opera just sitting
in the orchestra so he could see at the first
Louisiana conductor do it at the met and just do that.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
He's a huge things incidentally, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
And that's probably that probably lost him votes.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's probably like, why are you telling people that if
you think I'm to elitists?

Speaker 5 (14:28):
But he's this, yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Who do you think?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Who was from New Orleans and as a very young gal,
a you know, freshman in college, took off for New
York to.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Be to be in the met Who told me this before?

Speaker 3 (14:42):
She was one of the greatest opera singers and boys,
you know, just singers of our time. Seven and maybe
eighteen years old. It's an amazing.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Okay, tell us.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
She got so lonely up in New York and she
didn't like everybody was cold and rough and brusque and
all that and aggressive. So she got home sick, and
a year later she came back to her Cajun family.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Who is this high?

Speaker 4 (15:04):
But this was none other.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Than our Supreme Court Justice Jeannette Noel Yes and Jeanette
Terrio no. And the reason I know the story so well,
she lived with her. She was my first cousin, So
I mean we broke her father's heart because she she
could have been one of the top opera stars.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Instead she just became a Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
She she came back, went to loyal ended up in
law school.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Restes the For those that don't know, I'm the director
of External Affairs of the New Orleans Opera. By the way,
you can always go to New Orleans Opera dot org
or get tickets at our new festival website, which is
March twenty fourth through April first at New Orleans Opera
Festival dot org.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Christ still sing, We got to get her here, so that.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Would be great, okay, But looking at the elections other
than the Clerk of Court race, there were several candidates
in the District E race New Orleans East.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
The District A race.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well, we're back to the two front running candidates, mccaren
and Friedman, both of whom were aids to the current Jojarrusso,
the current incumbent, and they ran hard, and they basically
ran neck and neck, and they're going for it. That
will be the most interesting because that was traditionally thought
of as the Republican district. It is not a Republican
district anymore, but it is the majority white district.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Very clearly.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
And to me, it's also the indication there's only one
council one who did not face opposition. That was Leslie
Harris' council District B. That's everything from the Garden District
through Central City all the way across.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
She didn't have.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Everybody else got an opponent mostly won. Freddie King won
Eugene Green one. But freddie King's the first District Sea councilman.
He's from Algiers, represents Algiers, the French quarter marinee bywater.
He's the first one to win reelection, actually in since
Troy Carter was a councilman twenty five years ago in
that seat, which really tells you something about heart. It

(16:54):
is sometimes to win reelection. But what I found interesting
was this where Marina was helped was the fact that
this was the first election where we really saw Caucasians
outnumber African Americans. So really, yeah, as a polariti well
here's why Hispanics. Hispanics played a major role in this election.

(17:18):
And the fact that Helena Moreno, she does not build
herself as a white mayor of New Orleans. She was
born in Mexico and says, I'm a Mexican American. You know,
I'm a Hispanic. I'm the first Mexican American mayor.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
That's very true.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Forward her Marino is that her maiden.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Name, Not that's that's her name. Yeah, she's her husband
had her husband's Christopher Meeks.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
But she goes by Marino.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
That's the name she was born with.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's what I just said, that that's a she goes
by her maiden name.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah, it's a Mexican name. Of course, it's Castilian, yeah, yeah,
but it's.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Spanish, it's Hispanic, right, But the point being that she yeah,
she's yeah, she comes out of the first time. But
that's what I'm trying to say is if you look
at the demographics there there is some argument that African
Americans are slightly more people. But what she found is
not only did the Black vote very evenly split, Otherwise
she wouldn't have gotten fifty seven fifty eight percent about it.

(18:10):
Coleena Moreno legitimately earned a massive portion of the Black vote,
no question about it. She would have won if they
were overwhelming African Americans. That would did not happen. I
want to make that very clear. However, it's the first
election where we're starting to see even though African Americans
way out number White still almost sixty percent, the effects
of gentrification in the city and the effects of out migration.

(18:33):
We lost and this was a common theme in this election.
We lost twenty thousand people in the city of New
Orleans in the last eight years. They've moved, for the
most part, not to the suburbs, out of state.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
This is very important.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh addressed that the great loss of our population at
her acceptance speech and how she has great plans I
hope she can do it to try to reverse all this.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Oh yeah, bring the people back or getting people get.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Whether you vote, whether you voted for her or not.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
And I can honestly say this is pretty well known
that my newspaper and I endorsed Royce to plessis right.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
It is no good friend.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I wish her nothing but success. I have great admiration
for her, and I said this beforehand. I thought she'd
make a good marriage.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
And our organization, crime Fighters, endorsed, endorsed yes, Chris Phanat
both on the board of crime Fighter.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
That was one of the dissenting votes. But that's yeah,
but it was. It was, but she was along. But
here's the thing she was. She was She's a long
time victim's right advocate as well, which is.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, Colleenna Moreno's politics are very strange in the sense
that she doesn't fit and some issues she's very liberal,
very left to the left of the African American countis
of them race. In other issues she's not. And in
some issues she's just kind of not easily classified. And
my favorite one is potholes. She had the best idea.
Half the reason I think she won was she's doing

(19:54):
these tiktoks, these little video things of her walking basically
like you walk in the park, you're talking to your phone,
but she would do them. And what it was she'd
walk and look look at a pothole and say, how
do we fix this pothole? And her plan was she
wants to hire one hundred pothole teams of three three
hundred people years and she said.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
For years I've been saying that instead of have every
pothole fixed. And probably a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
She said, why is it Orleans Parish has one pothole
team and Jefferson Parish has one hundred pothole teams. And
it was this, But she's kind of weird because that's
privately let out. She wants to bring that into government.
On the other hand, there's several areas that she wants
to actually have a project managers and do private stuff.
So it's not at one or the other. It's very

(20:38):
situational about individual situations, you know, people. Even though we
can say there are now different ideological viewpoints of picking
up the trash. You remember the old comment there's not
a Republican or democratic way of picking up the trash. Well,
maybe Sidney Torres has proven that wrong. But the fact
of the matter is. It is she's very much practiced.

(21:00):
The people that are coming into her administration are seasoned,
old hands. Maybe that's a good sign. It's not an
accident that the morning after the next morning the person
who was appearing with her was Mark Morrial.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
That really the Morreals were.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's it's kind of interesting the divide between the Landrews
and the Moreals went away in this election. The co
chairs of her campaign effectively were, you know, we're amoral
and Landrew Mary Landrew be in this case. But it's
it was, it was very much an anti the thing
that I'm fascinated by. As of our recording of this show,

(21:37):
Mary LaToya Cantrell has yet to forget congratulate her comment
on the election Manufactory.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
She's never said anything.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
I mean, he's a dirt She's a dirt bag.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Now she's she's a dirt bag. She has a low No, no,
she's not vile. For first. First, first, let me, let's
let's be.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Fair, extremely impolite.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Let me, let's be fair. She is not a crook,
She's not this. Let me let me say this very particularly,
it's worse than what you said. Oh she is goodness,
she is not a dirt bag. She's not this here's
what she is. She is a tragedy wrapped in a disappointment.
She was somebody who was very intense, was a very

(22:18):
good counsel person. Was agree with her, disagree with him.
She was very hard working. She was very intense because
she could have been a great mayor. She had the
intelligence and the ability. She went in and between her
husband's death and the loss of her political advisor, Bill Roussel,
and a whole bunch of things, she basically went a
little crazy and just started phoning it in at best
and being offended if anybody pointed out she was phoning in.

(22:42):
It would be easier if she were a crook, It
would be easier to dismiss her if she were just
an idiot.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
She's not.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
And that's the tragedy of LaToya Cantrell. She could have
been a great mayor. She had elements into it. She
was a great comedian organizer. After Katrina, she saved the
Broadmore neighborhood. She is a very good counsel person. Even
me who doesn't didn't agree with her in a couple
of things in the smoking initiative, did not doubt that
she was passionate, and she was focused and she was
really caring, and in office as mayor, she has basically

(23:12):
let everyone down. And that to me is worse than
being a dirt bag. That is being a disappointment. That
is letting your duty. We just started talking about duty
and voting, letting your duty in office, your oath of office.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, be betrayed. I was just saying how she presents
herself to the public. She's just crude, rude and obnoxious
and insulting to the public, I find, you know, and
most people I know say the same thing.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
So why is she like that?

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Okay, she's got she wade tragedies and that's how she's
dealing with her own personal problems.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Maybe. So, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
She didn't really have a candidate in this race. Certainly
it's not do not insult Oliver Thomas by saying he
was her candidate.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
He wasn't.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
But of all the candidates she probably would have preferred Thomas.
She didn't like Duplessis. Dupless Us was a critic of hers,
but the biggest critic of hers across the.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Board is Helena Moreno.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
And so I mean it's that there's it would be
pulling teeth, you know, to be able to.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Get her to say something.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
She was a critic because that helped her in her
political campaign, saying I know what's wrong with this city.
I know what's wrong with the mayor. This is what's wrong,
and I can fix it. I guess that's why she
went on, you know, when attacked Cantrell.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
That would make sense.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
So we're votes following that thought.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
By the way, I think one thing about Marino that
I like. I think she's bringing to the office a
tremendous amount of common sense and that always works.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Well. Let's say, well, let me let me apply that idea.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
So she's putting together what because she's got an extra
month what could be the most detailed transition that has
happened in a very long time for mayor. She's got
more time than Mitch Llandrew had. She's got a lot
more to actually figure out who she's going to hire.
I guarantee you there would be very few employees left
at city Hall that are part of Marinos that is,
that are part of Control's administration. But she is seeking

(24:57):
a lot of different viewpoints and we'll see how that
plays out. I will tell you that the thing that
bothers me, and the thing I'm afraid of is if
you remember, in the last week's show, we talked about
what's coming up in the next election, and that's a
major tax initiative. I don't see Helena Moreino understanding that

(25:17):
one of the major reasons people leaving this town is
not just affordable housing, it's the tax rate that for
a while, this is a strange thing to compliment. For
all of his incompetence everywhere else, ray Nagan did something
really good when the houses were reevaluated after Katrina, when
we actually started doing fair evaluations, When when Errol Williams

(25:42):
got elected as a single assessor, every time there was
a push we need more money to roll forward millages,
either he vetoed it or he stopped it, Rayn Eagan.
And so for a while the millage rate in Orleans
Parish it was still higher than a lot, it was
lower than Saint Tammony, but it wasn't out of the
whack of the other parishes. And what happened there was

(26:03):
a huge influx of people because suddenly it was very
competitive to be here, not just a homeowner, to be
a business owner. And what we've seen is every time
there's there's a problem, roll for the millage and spend
the money. So the biggest thing that happened this week
was that the council got together and Joe jarusso, who
I am going to miss on this council. He is

(26:23):
the best counselman. He just decided he's got kids going
to college. He's not a crook, so you better make
some money and to pay for their college. Yea, and
so but we're going to miss him because he can.
And he said, okay, we're supposed to have a two
hundred million dollars surplus. First of all, ask yourself a question,
why did we roll forward millages a few months ago
when we have we're heading towards the surplus.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
But let's put that aside for a second.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
The Cantrall administration overspent their budget by one hundred and
sixty million dollars. Let me put this in actual concrete terms.
For everybody there are in the city of New Orleans
currently about three hundred and forty thousand people. If you
spend one hundred and sixty million dollars, what is that

(27:05):
by person? And you're gonna find out basically, they overspent
you know in tune of sixty one sixteen hundred dollars
a person, or a ridiculous amount of money. I'll do
the actual math in just a second. But the point
I'm getting about all of this is that, you know,
we don't really appreciate how much money is being wasted.

(27:29):
We talk about political you know, disagreements. I'm sorry I
was wrong. It's four hundred and fifty nine dollars a person.
Let me tell you that it's still five hundred bucks
a person. What could the average person do with an
extra five hundred bucks? I mean, think about this for
a second. That's not pocket change, and that's what was wasted,
and so any of the end of it. He said, well,

(27:50):
if we lost one hundred and sixty million, we over
spend one hundred sixty million, we had two hundred million
dollar surplus. Does that mean we still have forty to
forty five million dollars left? I think it was between
one hundred and fifty five one hundred and sixty And
he looked at the finance people, the Cantra, all administrations,
So where's the forty five million?

Speaker 5 (28:05):
They could not answer the question.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I hope to god, I don't see any more testimonies
before the New Orleans City Council like that. That was
one of the most pathetic responses I ever got. Anyway,
on that note, we got to take quick commercial break.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Will be back.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh okay, he she real quickly. Had she said anything
about the municipal or tourm what we might do with that.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
No, No one has, in fact, to be honest with you,
The one thing that I was really mad at all
the candidates about was that none of them they even
had a whole form about it, and basically they all said, well,
we've got to let the community groups.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Decide what to do.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
And the community groups have been arguing about this now
for about five years, and we're about to lose. We're
spending just enough money to secure the building, we're about
to lose at the other funding. That's how bad it was.
So no, no, she did not. All right, we'll be
back right after this. Stay tuned more of the Founder
Show and a little bit the impact of what looks
like a never ending and I mean it's not going
to end, folks, before the end of November more likely

(29:00):
government shutdown. It is currently approaching and will be soon
in another week. The longest we've ever had, So what's
going to happen next? Little view from the National Parks
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Speaking of not laugh, but I have tears of joy.

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Speaker 2 (33:42):
Christopher Tidmore, And one thing I wanted to bring up
is a little bit towards arts and music education. So
there's a lot of talk about in the government shutdown.
We're gonna talk about it in a second, about the
impacts on it on various parts of a society, and
one of the things with education, but the truth is
we don't do a very good job in most of
our schools, private or public about arts education in general

(34:05):
and music education in particular. Some schools do very well,
obviously they're the Noocas of the world, but most schools don't,
and it's because it's very expensive. And so one of
the things we do with the New Orleans Opera is
that we've put together young artists programs. We're trying to
send them to schools get singing in arts in the schools.
We actually organized master classes for students for the universities,

(34:27):
but we also do high school programs and all of
that takes money. Well, one of the things one of
the big people that were dedicated to this somebody you
knew very well, my aunt, Denise Hillary Schimick. She was
a fifty year She was an internationally known concert violina.
She actually had been in Bob Hope's orchestra.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
She'd done all this.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
She was dynamic, she was, but she was.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
First and foremost and music educator for many many years.
And to follow her example, we created a fund called
the Denise Hillary Shimmic Fund for Women Artists. So this
is for young female performers for all of their needs,
and we're doing a fundraiser for them. For the folks,
we're dedicating a room at the New Orleans Opera guild House.
You ever want to know where High and I do

(35:08):
this radio show, we actually do it at the Opera
guild House on Britannia in the Garden District, in a
beautiful room. Well, we're going to be you know, that
particular day, we're going to both be there and we're
going to be dedicating a room after Denise Hillary Schimick
putting our painting on the wall. But what we're doing
is we're raising money for these educational and female performance programs,
and we're hoping you will join us. It's a fundraiser,

(35:30):
it's one hundred and fifty dollars, but it has We're
going to have Robert Fang, the famed opera singer, singing there.
He's performing. We're gonna have food libations. Denise's favorite drink,
which was a white rooster. If you've never had that,
it's kind of interesting, So well you will after you
have a few of them. But the point being that,
at the point being that, folks, if you support musical education,

(35:52):
you support women in the arts, young aspiring local artists
that want to be given a chance here in New
Orleans to sing on the not just in the New
Orleans stage just but inter nationally. We have sponsorship programs.
I hope you will come out and support us. You
can find out more information by going to our website
New Orleans Opera dot org at New Orleans Opera dot
orgy scroll down and you'll see Denise Hillary Shimmick uh

(36:13):
parlor and fundraiser. Just click on it and you can
get a ticket, or you can call me directly on
my cell phone area code five O four three nine
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is going to the musical educational programs. So this is
this is not like underwriting just a party. You're you're you're,
You're going to a good cause. So we hope you
will join us. Check out more on the website at

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New Orleans for a lot of people.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
And if you knew.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Denise Villary at all, you knew how much you would
care about this. If you knew her, I hope in
her memory you will come out as we hang her
painting in the.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Room from an old New Orleans family, one of the
original families of this city, the Villary.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Family, Denise Villaray shimick. Well, and one of the things
I hope you'll come out. You can find out more
at New Orleans Opera dot org. You call me on
my cell phone Christopher Tidmore five O four three nine
or four to five seven nine. But I do want
to point out that there are a lot of things
that are educational that are being kind of defunded right now.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Now, for those that don't.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Show, we're shut down, Trump shout, I will.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Let me, let me let me point out some Democrats
that it could be a Republican shutdown. Right, Let's let's
let's talk about the implications of this. If this is
just a shutdown, then Trump is not trying to fire people.
He's not coming out and saying, let's pay our soldiers,
but not pay the other people and let them go.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
He's following the twenty.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Nineteen the bombs.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Well, but that's not part of the shutdown.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
That's not supposed to be because there's a twenty nine
that except there's a twenty nineteen, then it's not the
Schumer shutdown.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
There's a twenty This thing would have gone through if
Schumer would have supported it. We all know that. Look,
we didn't do anything. We didn't ask for anything. Probably
had said actually everything, like you know, we're not gonna
and they came back and said, we wanted one point
five trillion dollars.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
Hi, sorry, Chris, no, no, save one extra one point
five dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
They said, we didn't you cut all of the Medicaid programs.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Look at Marky Taylor.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Green Obamacare because it's dying of its own self. Deser well,
I was talked of design.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I would point out that Marjorie tail A Green of
all people, is one of the ones disagreeing with that,
but that that that goes aside. One of the things
that did happen, and this is something that is on
the Trump administration, was the superintendence of every national park.
We talked about this a bit last week, said close
the national parks because we don't have the personnel to

(38:28):
monitor them. If you're shutting down the government, you're not
paying people, you don't have people to actually monitor the safety.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
All right, Well, the Trump he's.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Got a handle. He's got to manage the shut down.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, Trump, Trump could have shut the parks. That would
there was there were a few parks where the governments
of the states took him over. Smoke the mountainto National Park.
They funded the operations Rocky Mountain National Park Conservatory Conservancy
managed to keep the park open with active volunteers and
paid personnel that they raised the money for. But most

(38:57):
national parks don't have those capabilities. And so what happened
is a lot of national parks, it would be easy
to close them because they had front gates there. They're
they're not pass throughs. They normally charge you like thirty
dollars to get in anyway. Instead, we left them open.
And one of the things that happened is what happens
when you don't have police around and you've got people
coming in, is that people teach.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Well.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
But here's the thing. Trump defunded the police.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
That's what a lot of national parks don't have the
money for. Well, except Schumer shut it down.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Except Trump could have closed the parks. And what happened
was yosementy el Cappy Town, the most beautiful of one.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Of our national treasures.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
One of the things that's coming is people coming in
and they're using graffiti.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
They're like painting at these a bunch of old hippies
or there's Democrats.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
That's the hall mists are coming in trashy. Who's doing it?

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Oh, I mean like people come in January sixth, But
that aside the point, the point they didn't do it.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
I'm gonna ask you. I'm gonna ask you a very
basic question.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
There.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
There's literally people who are base jumping off of l Cappytown,
which is, as we know, incredibly dangerous. You know this
is this is like jumping with the parachute off a mountain.
But that is, believe it or not, the least of
the problems. The problem is is trash. The problem is
off those things anyway. Yeah, they not when the rangers
run because you get rested.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
No, you go to another one. Well, but plenty of
clips jump off in America.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
Yes, But but my point all.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
The storis you've done, you know that yet.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
But my point about this is there aren't plenty of
places where you can come in and deface quite literally face,
and that is what is happening tragedy. And what I
don't understand is why.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Don't Democrats learn how to be nice? Why don't conservatives
have republics have great rallies like the park police in
Washington set love it is. They say, they leave it
cleaner than when they got there.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
It's always the Democrat mob always let me.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Here's the thing that I don't understand. Trump is saying,
the Democrats shut down the government. Why do you leave
the national parks open? When every superintendent it was, it
was public knowledge, you talked about the show.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Maybe he thought this will help heal people's trouble souls
during this time.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
What happens?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
What happened of anxiety when we people are afraid that
everything's going to fall apart because the government's being shut
down by Schumer and the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Except in this case, he left something open and refused
to operate it, whereas as opposed to close.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
I'm sure they have a skeletal crew. Well, look the
subtext it may be a real mistake.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, I mean so, yeah, the subtext of the government
shut down is Trump. If you notice, there are certain
projects that are being funded with emergency funding, and they
tend to be funded in red states. And my favorite
example of this is Trump is all against offshore windmills,
except that when they're in Virginia and there's a governor's
race going on and one of his friends is running
for governor Sears. So the fact is he's choosing in

(41:45):
a lot of different places to keep certain things like that.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Except you're that the first time you've ever discovered this.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
No, No, I will say it's the reason why you
don't see it all the time, why he's selective funding,
because the law very clearly says you can not selectively
fun You've got to follow the appropriations of Congress, his
own coverment, and you've got to effect when you have
a government shutdown. There's a twenty nineteen law and it's
very specific. High you got to affect everything the same way.
Every So if you're cutting the amount you got, everybody's

(42:13):
got to pay the hosts.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
He's not doing that.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
He's very sick saving a military thank God.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Well, but here's the problem with that.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Sure is trying to cut the military off. He's trying
to give move.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Yes he is, Yes he is.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
The Military Authorization Bill actually is before the Congress and
we're going to see how it goes through. It passed
committee twenty six to three. But the fact is hi
in all of this, Trump's objective is the reason why
this government shutdown is not happening it was not ending,
is because he's trying to get to the middle of November.

(42:45):
The re enrollment period for Medicaid is the beginning of November.
And if you get to the end of November and
there are no subsidies and people can't re enroll, in
which you can't do, guess what happens. Medicaid as we
know it ceases to exist.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
So there will be care of Medicaid.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Medicaid is the expansion of Medicaid is part of Obama.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, that's what he's trying to get rid of. Obama Care.
It's such a disaster. Really, tell me, it's a disaster
of Chris.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
You know what I'm getting at is the cuts in
Medicaid is not just what Obama did, Hi, it's literally
every person on the program, including your kids.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah, all right, So.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
What Trump is trying to do is kill Medicaid, which
last time I check, has been around since nineteen sixty.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
He's not going to kill a christ Really, you say
that because you keep saying he's going to do that.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Why, really he's doing it? Well, if they can't, he
can't do.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
They always say Trump's doing this, and it turns out
he doesn't do that at all.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
Really, with the Peace Plan, oh.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
He couldn't do the Peace Plan. He's messing everything up.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
You never heard me say that.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
I didn't say you did. Okay?

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Well quite the contrary, was very complimentary of Trump on
our last show about the Peace Plan.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
If you if you know yeah about it?

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Sometimes I mixture you with the Democrats. I'm right, sorry,
just to Freuden.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Story on that we got to get take quick commercial.
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Speaker 3 (45:36):
Well, folks were back in this Chaplin high mcinry, It's
not time for us to our chaplain by by patriotic
moment which just take a brief moment to remind you
of the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.
And today we want to talk about a great president,
the thirteenth President of the United States, who held office
from eighteen fifty to fifty three, following Zacharytaylor. He was

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Zachartail's vice president. Zacharytaylor, of course was Louisiana man and
another great president. But there is a time, a lot
of stress and hard times. People were struggling. And you
know what, Miller Fildmer said, he said, may God save
the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
That's how much we need God in America. If we're

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ever going to make America great again, we got to
make God great again in our hearts.

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We the people.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
It's got to come from we the people, not the government.
We the people that the funding fathers made that very
clear that it was we the people that made this
government what it was. It wasn't the government, it wasn't
the politicians, it was we the people. So if we
don't have a national revival, I don't care how hard
we work at making America great again. I believe, and

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I'm working very hard. It's really never going to go anywhere.
It'll do something good, but in the end it's going
to fizzle a lot because we the people didn't step
up to the plate and really put God first in
our lives for our country.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
We need to do that, folks.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
But you know what, you could be the greatest patriot
that ever lived, the greatest biblical patriot.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
And if you died and went to hell, what good
would it do you?

Speaker 3 (47:07):
What good would it do you? Nothing? You'd be burning
in hell forever. So we're back to we the people. Now, folks,
you me, all of us. We need to have a
personal relationship with the living God, and there's a way
to do that. It's a simple way. In fact, all
it requires is the faith of a little child. The
Bible says, for God's soul love the world. That's you,

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that's everybody. That he gave his only begotten son. That's
the Lord, Jesus Christ, perfect God, perfect man, all the
way God, all the way man. He gave his only
begotten son. That whosoever that's you again, believeth in him.
What does that word believe mean? Interesting word. I'm gonna
expound on that a little bit. That whosoever believed in
Him shall not perish, not go to hell, but have
everlasting life. This is what that word believe means. It's

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a two fold belief, folks. First of all, it's believing
you cannot save yourself. That's called repentance. And to help
clarify this, here's another great passage in Ephesians. It says
for God, it says, for we have been saved by grace.
That means free gift. The word grace just means free gift.
I gotta say free because people, it needs to be emphasized. People,

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you say gift, they may think it's gonna happen. What's
the angle on it? No, it's free. You can't do
anything for it. It's free. We've been saved by grace,
free gift through faith. That's how you take it, folks,
that's how you reach out and take it. You can't
grab it with your hand, but in your mind you
take it. We have been saved by grace through faith.
And even that is not of ourselves. It is a

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gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
When you repent, you know for sure that it's not
your works. Your works are no good before God. I
don't care how good you are. He doesn't care about
how smart you are, how good looking you are, how
rich you are, how religious you are, and on and on,

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and he doesn't care about all that. It's not good
enough for him. He's perfect. He demands perfection. So no
matter how good you are, you still don't reach perfection.
You're still infinitely short of perfection. So just quit trying,
let go, and let God take it as a free gift.
The only way to take it as a free gift
is to repent, and that means believing you can't save yourself.

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You can't do anything for this gift. Jesus did it
all on the cross. Take that free gift. He did
it all when he rose from the dead. Take that
free gift. He rose in the dead to win for
you his precious, free gift of resurrection, everlasting life. Folks,
if you've never done this before, do it now. Don't
wait till it's too late. The Bible says, now today
is the day of salvation. What you need to do

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is first believe you can't save yourself. That's the first
half of your faith. That's called repentance. And then the
next thing is believing that only he can, that he did,
and that he will save you from a burning hell
and guarantee you everlasting life, resurrection life. The split second
you trust him to take care of your sin problem
and your death problem. He did it when he died

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on the cross for your sins. The Bible says, blood
washed away all you since, and when he rose from today, he.

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Took care of your death problem.

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So folks, don't get that second death, get the second birth.
The second birth means you're born again. You're dead and
down the spirit. It's just become fully alive because you've
trusted Jesus, putting faith alone, with all of your heart,
faith alone in Christ alone, and now you're born again,
you become a child of God. You can do it
right now. It doesn't take any time. It's just it's

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in your heart, it's in your mind. It's what you
really believe. Believe that right now, folks. Don't wait till
it's too late. Believe right now. Well, folks, there's another
thing that's happening in the world today. It has to
do with Jesus coming back. And he's coming back soon.
As we now go into our chaplain by Bob, watchmen
on the wall where And what that means is we're
on the wall waiting for the enemy to come, and

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we have to warn the people. So that's what I'm
doing right now. I'm warning you folks. Jesus is coming
back very soon. He said, get ready, he said, when
you see all these things happening. All the predictions are
with two hundred prophecies about Jesus' second coming. Of course,
I can't do them all right now, and do some
here there and whatever throughout the show, over the over,
the year.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
But uh so.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
But today I want to talk about a very interesting development,
and it's called the Kings of the East. The Bible
says the Kings of the East will one day rise up,
march to Jerusalem to conquer Jerusalem in the Middle East,
take take the oil, you know, like China is desperate
for oil, and and and and and and defeat the Antichrist.

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There's an old saint where that East is East and
West is west, and never the twain shall meet. There's
always been a division throughout the history of the world
between the East and the West. Where we may copy
one another, we may admired one another, we also fight
with one another, but we don't agree.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
We just there's a division. There's something that keeps us separate.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
And in the end, as the Antichrist rises and takes
over the way he's coming out of Europe, that means
the West, well, the East ain't gonna like that. And
after all they're going to be chafing under his control,
and they're finally will say that's it, and they're going
to march to Jerusalem to take him out. When they
do that, by the way, they're building twenty lane roads, highways,
major highways from China in the East into toward the

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Middle East to it right now toward Jerusalem that area.
India is building a bunch of roads going up to
meet that road because they're concerned that when China comes down,
China always fights with Indy, they're gonna have a war,
so to protect they want to be ready to meet China.
But what's gonna end up happening is they're going to
join China. Because they're the kings that represent the Kings
of the e. They need two hundred million soldiers. That

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is a if you took all the armies in the
world today, you couldn't get two hundred million. I mean,
a big army today is about at the max maybe
two million. I think Russia's got three million, maybe China's
got three million.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
We have about two million.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Their armies are not huge, like millions and millions of people,
but there's gonna be one like that in the end.
I think the Antichrist is going to gather together about
forty million because he's gonna have greater firepower than the
Kings of the East.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
That's why he's he.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Will be able to meet them. So, folks, it's getting
close it's getting so close. I'm excited about it. Jesus
is coming back soon. We need to just get ready.
We need a safe house. We need a good bunker,
you know when the wars that's off of the bombs
and fallen.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
We need a good bunker. That bunker.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
I'll give you the name of that bunker, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Go to him right now. Make him your
safe house, Make him your bunker. Believe he died for
all your sins, was buried and rose dead. Well, it's
time for us to close. Is We're not closed? With
the mont Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God
bless all out there?

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Does this have to be the end of the night?

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Do I love you?

Speaker 1 (53:42):
In the pamal Land, I can see across the million
stars when I look at