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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we all head to the holiday, the long thanks
Giving holiday weekend. Great to have you with us here
on this Wednesday morning, and great to have Governor Pilling
back on for a few minutes in the wake of
the endorsement that came yesterday for his bid to retain
the governor's seat from President Donald Trump. Jim, good morning, Congratulations, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, thank you, thank you. It was a you know,
we're really really proud of the work that we're doing
for Nebraska. Really proud of our team, everybody. We've got
a cabinet meeting in an hour. Really proud of the
work that everybody's doing. And you know, coming from from
the farm, coming from business, I've been blessed to have
(00:48):
a lot of great partners. And I think President Trump's
backgrounds the same. He understands how critical partners are. It's
been a privilege to be a partner with President Trump
and his administration. We work very hard and it's awesome
to be aligned on all the key issues.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, So as it relates to Nebraskans, affordability is a
factor around here. You've been a champion trying to do
some about property taxes. Might be hard to get transformative
property tax changes in an election. Here, let's talk about affordability.
Is there anything the government can do, the state government
can do to address the cost and let's just pick
(01:26):
one bad one. Healthcare?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, Well there's the yeah, and we're working on it.
We had a meeting with superintendents two days ago about
cleaning the closets, getting rid of the ridiculous government mandates
that do nothing but increase the cost of educating our kids,
have nothing to do on outcome. Let's talk about building houses.
It's insane. Seriously, the city of Omaha has mandates and
(01:53):
regulations on building codes that increase the cost of the
house over others by forty thousand dollars. It's time every government,
city government, county government, state government runs like a business.
Get rid of this nonsense, Get rid of this nonsense,
and let the free market work. So we've got in
(02:13):
the same in healthcare, just way way too many mandates,
way too many restrictions. We got a lot of work,
and that's that's going to take us five years to
get this stuff cleaned up, get it back to the
way common sense works. And that's what Nebraskan's wants, and
that's what we're working our tails off to make happen.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you? Are you guys planning on something that has
been ignored? I think from the health insurance issue, because
we're talking about two things, health insurance costs and healthcare costs.
But why can't we create a more competitive environment in
Nebraska for interstate commerce involving health insurance?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We can do it if we want to buy insurance
for our cars or our tractors or our homes, but
we can't do it for our healthcare. How does that change?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, Well, I tell you what. It's a I'm not
afraid to tell you when there's something that's a lane.
We've got to bring in more experts, more people. That's
a space that I'm sure not an expert in. We've
got to attack it and work it. You know, we've
we domicile ten percent of the insurance industry. If there's
(03:18):
a place that can figure out how to solve this crisis,
it should be Nebraska because it's the people. So we've
got to work on that. Because there's no question our
insurance costs are out of control, our property taxes out
of control, building costs are out of control. Because of mandates.
You know, those are things that we have to get solved,
(03:38):
affordable housing to be able to grow the good The
good news, Rosie, the good news is is that there's
extraordinary opportunities. There's extraordinary opportunities for people across the state.
And you know that that doesn't even talk about all
the things that are going to be happening with the
ethanol industry because of the Tallgrass pipeline and all the
(04:00):
other activities. So we have extraordinary growth on the horizon,
lots of electricity being generated to grow economy, and you
know that those things are going to come. Uh. We
we've just got to keep working at it to get
government out of the way. That's that's a gigantic competiment.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Charles Herbster has been a huge supporter gotnor Pillen of
the president, and he's been taking some veiled shots in
your direction lately. He's probably got to announce a run
of his own. How do you think this came about,
this Trump endorsement because he was close to Herbster.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, we've uh, we've built partnerships and relationships. That's
how I've run how we grew a business, how we
built our team, partnerships, relationships, When people know how much
you care and how hard you work, it makes a
big difference. Uh, it's really not any work implicated than that.
(05:01):
We've built the President Trump's got an extraordinary administration. We've
built relationships with key members of the administration that have
has impacts on Nebraska, like Doug Bergham, Sector of Interior,
les Old and EPA for fifteen year round. Uh, with
(05:21):
Chris Wright because obviously electricity empowers gigantic secretary rowns with USDA.
So we built great relationships Bobby Kennedy make America healthy again. Hey,
you know, we don't need dieticians. We've got to just
quit eat and crap out of a bag. So we've
built great relationships with key members of the administration and
(05:41):
with President Trump because we're partners. We're partners working to
solve problems, not play politics.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
All right, Well, onward to the primary. You got the
coroner Oscar Clink, two hundred beds palled. Now right, let's
not call it well what.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We you know? You know, seriously, on it's really important.
I was at the border two weeks ago. I wish
everybody could have been there the first time I was,
and see it the second time. This last time because
this border is secure, the flood of people coming across
that we're doing drugs and sex trafficking seriously in twenty
(06:18):
twenty four, nobody realizes that that we lost three hundred
Americans a day because of drugs. Yeah, the work in McCook.
I'm proud of what our team is doing because we
got to get these people that came to sex traffic
and smuggle drugs. We got to get them off for
street Well.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The TechEd off granny's are going to be a little
cold that they're out there today. I don't care about
their signs, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just it's country. It's great that they can they
can express themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank you, Governor. Happy, thanks guy.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Great, thank you, happy Thanksgiving. Great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Nebraska Governor Jim Pill
As we all head to the holiday, the long thanks
Giving holiday weekend. Great to have you with us here
on this Wednesday morning, and great to have Governor Pilling
back on for a few minutes in the wake of
the endorsement that came yesterday for his bid to retain
the governor's seat from President Donald Trump. Jim, good morning, Congratulations, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, thank you, thank you. It was a you know,
we're really really proud of the work that we're doing
for Nebraska. Really proud of our team, everybody. We've got
a cabinet meeting in an hour. Really proud of the
work that everybody's doing. And you know, coming from from
the farm, coming from business, I've been blessed to have
(00:48):
a lot of great partners. And I think President Trump's
backgrounds the same. He understands how critical partners are. It's
been a privilege to be a partner with President Trump
and his administration. We work very hard and it's awesome
to be aligned on all the key issues.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, So as it relates to Nebraskans, affordability is a
factor around here. You've been a champion trying to do
some about property taxes. Might be hard to get transformative
property tax changes in an election. Here, let's talk about affordability.
Is there anything the government can do, the state government
can do to address the cost and let's just pick
(01:26):
one bad one. Healthcare?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, Well there's the yeah, and we're working on it.
We had a meeting with superintendents two days ago about
cleaning the closets, getting rid of the ridiculous government mandates
that do nothing but increase the cost of educating our kids,
have nothing to do on outcome. Let's talk about building houses.
It's insane. Seriously, the city of Omaha has mandates and
(01:53):
regulations on building codes that increase the cost of the
house over others by forty thousand dollars. It's time every government,
city government, county government, state government runs like a business.
Get rid of this nonsense, Get rid of this nonsense,
and let the free market work. So we've got in
(02:13):
the same in healthcare, just way way too many mandates,
way too many restrictions. We got a lot of work,
and that's that's going to take us five years to
get this stuff cleaned up, get it back to the
way common sense works. And that's what Nebraskan's wants, and
that's what we're working our tails off to make happen.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you? Are you guys planning on something that has
been ignored? I think from the health insurance issue, because
we're talking about two things, health insurance costs and healthcare costs.
But why can't we create a more competitive environment in
Nebraska for interstate commerce involving health insurance?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We can do it if we want to buy insurance
for our cars or our tractors or our homes, but
we can't do it for our healthcare. How does that change?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, Well, I tell you what. It's a I'm not
afraid to tell you when there's something that's a lane.
We've got to bring in more experts, more people. That's
a space that I'm sure not an expert in. We've
got to attack it and work it. You know, we've
we domicile ten percent of the insurance industry. If there's
(03:18):
a place that can figure out how to solve this crisis,
it should be Nebraska because it's the people. So we've
got to work on that. Because there's no question our
insurance costs are out of control, our property taxes out
of control, building costs are out of control. Because of mandates.
You know, those are things that we have to get solved,
(03:38):
affordable housing to be able to grow the good The
good news, Rosie, the good news is is that there's
extraordinary opportunities. There's extraordinary opportunities for people across the state.
And you know that that doesn't even talk about all
the things that are going to be happening with the
ethanol industry because of the Tallgrass pipeline and all the
(04:00):
other activities. So we have extraordinary growth on the horizon,
lots of electricity being generated to grow economy, and you
know that those things are going to come. Uh. We
we've just got to keep working at it to get
government out of the way. That's that's a gigantic competiment.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Charles Herbster has been a huge supporter gotnor Pillen of
the president, and he's been taking some veiled shots in
your direction lately. He's probably got to announce a run
of his own. How do you think this came about,
this Trump endorsement because he was close to Herbster.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, we've uh, we've built partnerships and relationships. That's
how I've run how we grew a business, how we
built our team, partnerships, relationships, When people know how much
you care and how hard you work, it makes a
big difference. Uh, it's really not any work implicated than that.
(05:01):
We've built the President Trump's got an extraordinary administration. We've
built relationships with key members of the administration that have
has impacts on Nebraska, like Doug Bergham, Sector of Interior,
les Old and EPA for fifteen year round. Uh, with
(05:21):
Chris Wright because obviously electricity empowers gigantic secretary rowns with USDA.
So we built great relationships Bobby Kennedy make America healthy again. Hey,
you know, we don't need dieticians. We've got to just
quit eat and crap out of a bag. So we've
built great relationships with key members of the administration and
(05:41):
with President Trump because we're partners. We're partners working to
solve problems, not play politics.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
All right, Well, onward to the primary. You got the
coroner Oscar Clink, two hundred beds palled. Now right, let's
not call it well what.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We you know? You know, seriously, on it's really important.
I was at the border two weeks ago. I wish
everybody could have been there the first time I was,
and see it the second time. This last time because
this border is secure, the flood of people coming across
that we're doing drugs and sex trafficking seriously in twenty
(06:18):
twenty four, nobody realizes that that we lost three hundred
Americans a day because of drugs. Yeah, the work in McCook.
I'm proud of what our team is doing because we
got to get these people that came to sex traffic
and smuggle drugs. We got to get them off for
street Well.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The TechEd off granny's are going to be a little
cold that they're out there today. I don't care about
their signs, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just it's country. It's great that they can they
can express themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Thank you, Governor. Happy, thanks guy.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Great, thank you, happy Thanksgiving. Great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Nebraska Governor Jim Pill
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