July 13, 2026 • 47 mins
What happened to Sen. Graham, and why is former Nebraska state senator Slama pushing a "Fairness in Sports" initiative? All is revealed (along with a lot more) on today's show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whether we like it or not, it is Monday morning.
Glad to have you here with us. This is Nebraska's
Morning News. My name is Scott Vorhees, hanging out here
with Lucy Chapman and Jim Rose at Chris Turner and
for Craig Evans. This week, Courtney Donaho here with Bloomberg
Market updates a couple times each hour, and we're all
here with you on news radio eleven ten kfab Thank
(00:23):
you for being here with us. Among the statements in
the wake of the passing of the South Carolina Senator
Lindsey Graham comes this one from Senator Deb Fisher. My
deepest condolences go out to Senator Lindsey Graham's family. Lindsey
was a friend, colleague, and tireless national security advocate who
led in supporting and strengthening our military and our country's defense.
(00:46):
He will be greatly missed. Shocking news yesterday morning when
we learned that the senior senator from South Carolina served
about thirty years there ed died suddenly. He was supposed
to be a guest on Meet the Press, I believe
it was, and wasn't available because he's succumbed to a brief,
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sudden and deadly illness on Saturday night, this after he
just got back from Ukraine. Conspiracy theories are running the
gamut here in the wake of Senator Lindsey Graham's passing.
But the guy, I mean, for thirty years, he's been
a pretty interesting figure on the political landscape for someone
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who seems like a good Southern gentleman. He has been
described as a warhawk, and he's also had a pretty
interesting nickname attached to him over the years, courtesy of
our old friend Rush Limbaugh. In fact, Senator Graham was
a guest on my program twelve years ago and I
asked him what he thought about that nickname, which do
(01:52):
you remember what that was? Lindsay Gramnesty? Grahamnesty. You never
saw an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants. He didn't like,
so Rushlimba called him Senator Lindsay Grahamnesty.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He wanted him to well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Senator Graham believe there was a wider pathway to citizenship
than most Republicans thought there should be, and he knew
that it was very important to have immigration for jobs
in South Carolina because a lot of businesses were struggling
with employees. And he says, we need more people that
are willing to come to this country and work. But yeah,
Rush had fun with Lindsey grahamnesty, and he wasn't the
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only one. This was a very very powerful politico. This
is a guy who understood the process of getting laws passed,
and he used to bowl people over with knowledge, with data,
and with evidence. It was very politically bloviating at times,
but mostly behind the scenes it was here's the deal,
(02:49):
here's how we're going don and it worked out. He
had a lot of very very good friends on the
Democrat side who would say he was a great adversary,
but he was a good friend. He was a loyal friend,
and when the bell rang and the round was over,
you know you could count on Lindsey Graham to be
a friend. It's a compelling story to Scott because you know,
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he grew up very poor. His mom and dad owned
a pool hall in central South Carolina, a little town
not too far from Clemson, and this was a guy
who didn't have much. They lived behind the bar, and
he grew up without much in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Then suddenly, when he was in high school, his mom
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and dad passed away. Actually within about fifteen months of
each other. So he took over the raising of his sister,
who later credited him with ridiculous amounts of sacrifice so
that she would have.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A more normal life. And that says something.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
He was a bachelor, and of course that fed rumors
of his sexual orientation, which never were founded. But mostly
when you are in d C, you get attacked just
because you're in DC. But the man was a stalwart
defender of American national security. He joined the Air Force,
rose to the rank of colonel, actually went into a
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combat zone during the Gulf War. And the country's better
because of Lindsay Graham's life on it. I believe life
in it. And this is a loss not just for
the people of South Carolina, but for the whole country.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And as far as the cause of death, they're not.
I mean, it's an aortic valve ear. He had hardening
of the arteries. Some people have said heart attack, but
that's that's not exactly it. As you said there, I
can't pronounce some of this stuff here. The District of
Columbia Medical Examiner identified the cause as an aortic dissection
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linked to an ardiosclerotic cardiovascular disease. An aortic dissection is
a terror in the inner wall of the body's main
artery that can, as you can see here, rapidly become fatal.
In other words, he wasn't sick and then he was dead. Yeah,
he had chest pain and by the time the doctor
(05:06):
showed up it sounded like he was pretty much gone.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well the guy probably you know, look, he led a
lifestyle of sitting, of traveling, of probably not great diet.
He'd just gotten back from Ukraine for the tenth time.
Now people think, well, what's the big deal, Just get
on a military airplane and go over to Ukraine. Well,
it's not like driving from here to Grand Island. Yeah,
(05:30):
you know, you fly over there, it's ten hours and
then you get on a train and you got to
go across the old Eastern Iron Curtain. It's a little scary,
it's a little harrowing, and you just don't get there
easily from here. And he'd been there ten times. So
that kind of travel, especially for a seventy year old man, can.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Wear you out.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So his lifestyle probably wasn't very conducive to health. But yeah,
he talked to the president apparently just literally maybe half
an hour Befo before he died, said I'm a little tired,
but then again, I just got back from Ukraine. I
feel fine, but I'm a little tired. If I'm not
feeling well tomorrow, I'll just go to the doctor. That
was the last thing he told President Trump. He was
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what seventy one one, He'll be seventy two on the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Then we got a.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Statement from Mitch McConnell's office about his lack of being there,
and wasn't it I generated, Well, there's questions, and then
we just learned this morning that a celebrities from some
of our favorite movies has died. We'll get to those
stories and more, including sports brief next year after traffic, weather,
and a news update right here on Nebraska's morning news. Well,
(06:39):
that was two years ago today that President Trump and
then campaigning for the presidency, was in Butler Township at
Pennsylvania Rally in the crowd and next thing you know,
a man behind him named Corey Compretour was killed and
President Trump was let off the stage with Secret Service agents.
(07:01):
This was one of the worst failures in Secret Service history.
And there's a guy on that room of the gun.
We'll deal with him later a gun. Yes, that was
two years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Today at over one hundred, they have over one hundred
tips about a potential shooter at Butler, Pennsylvania and they
did nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Absolutely asini.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now we got a statement here from the office of
Mitch McConnell's office. You know, he hasn't the eighty four
year old Republican senator from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Have they put a red felt rope around him yet.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He hasn't been in DC for weeks, and now they're saying, well,
he fell at his home on June fourteenth and it
was hospitalized, then had a mild case of pneumonia and
hasn't been there since. But they said, all right, no
broken bones, no concussion, no heart attack, no stroke, nothing
like that. He's not going to resign his spot in
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the US Senate. He wants to finish what the people
put him there to do. He's been there for deck
if you haven't gotten it done by now. But you know,
this certainly has got people saying, look, we're the same
you know, we're the Republican Party. We're the same people
that said Joe Biden is the fake President of the
United States because he can't come out and do his job,
(08:15):
and here's Mitch McConnell who can't come out and do
his job. So there is some rectifying that probably needs
to be done on that front.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Well, we can all agree that it's there needs to
be some understanding of capacity to do the job when
you get to a certain age. But when you elect
senators for six year terms, they might be fine three
years ago, but three years later now they've taken a
serious dip age wise. On the other hand, you look
(08:45):
at Chuck Grassley. Here's a guy out farming in Mount Pleasant,
Iowa this past week. He's literally in the fields farming
at what is he ninety three?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't think he's that old, is he? I think
he's ninety three now? Okay, here's ageless.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, here's a guy who truly is still capable at
that age of doing more than just monitoring bills in
the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He's been doing great.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Everybody's kind of individual And you know, age is a
is a funky thing. Some people age very rapidly, they
literally fall off the cliff, and when you have a
six year term, that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
McConnell was hospitalized in February for flu like symptoms. He's
had a series of public freezing episodes. He's had multiple
falls of concussion and they don't know why he fell
a month ago. And we also had a celebrity passing, Lucy.
Do you know who Sam Neil is? If I say
the actor's named Sam Neil Jurassic Park, that's right, he's
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ninety two.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They're moving in hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sam Neil wasn't ninety two?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Ninety three September.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's and then behind all that commentary is Sam Neil
from Lindsey Graham seeing the diet. Sorry from lindsay, yeah,
so now you've got me lose Graham is his father,
Sam Neil from Jurassic Park seeing the dinosaurs for the
first time, Doctor Allan Grant.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
In those films, he was very good. He was a
very good actor.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Eleven to ten kfab certified transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim Row.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Celebrity deaths coming threes for He's who's next?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't I don't play the dead tool? Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Major League Baseball Draft over the weekend, a couple of Huskers, actually,
well two current Huskers and one Husker to be got
picked Ty Horn to the Reds of the third round.
Very very shortly thereafter went Carson Yassa to the Cubs.
Horn was really thrilled for his teammate.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
We were celebrating, I was pretty emotional, and then I
look up and the Cubs are drafting Carsionoss. I'm like,
oh my god, that's so cool. Carcionosso is like my
best friend, and we're going to be spending time a
lot of time together, probably in Arizona, just because that's
where we're both gonna be. So it's just super awesome
to have a guy like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, big day for Ty Horn. That's worth probably about
eight hundred thousand dollars in signing bonus money for him
to be a third round pick. Same thing for Yasa.
So those two guys should be hit up for a
donation right away and then they can get tickets to
the regional and the softball regionals too in.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The thirtieth round.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Whether the twentieth round, Zach Bates goes to the Dodgers
with the last overall pick in this year's Major League
Baseball draft. Bates had transferred from Illinois, where he was
really good, to Nebraska and then sat out all of
the last season recovering from Tommy John surgery. So let's
see what Zach Bates does. How much will the last
pick in the draft get? Well, not eight hundred thousand dollars?
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How about that much? Major League Baseball American League, the
Baltimore Orios sweep the Royals eight to two in the
finale yesterday. Kansas City heads into the All Star Break
with a record of thirty eight and fifty nine. They
are thirteen games back at first place, and owner John
Sherman has yet to fire anybody. Seattle, Minnesota, the White
Sox and Rangers also get wins. National League Pittsburgh, the Cubs, Atlanta,
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San Francisco, and the d Backs get wins. In IT
League played Boston, the Philly, San Diego, so the Yankees
and Guardians, they all get victories. We have our All
Star break and it kicks off with the Home Run
Derby Today. Eight sluggers will square off in a new
format which ditches the clock and allows each player to
take twenty swings. Schwarber leads the event because he leads
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the majors in home runs, and the Royals Jack Gaglione
will also be there to hit home runs during the
Home Run Derby. Semifinal round of the World Cup is
almost here. We got Francis Spain which will play tomorrow
night in Arlington, Texas. And then you got Lionel Messi
and Argentina up against the ball club from England from
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Atlanta and the other semifinal on Wednesday. The championship match
will be in New Jersey at the Meadowlands, the Giants
Stadium in the Meadowlands. What about golf, Well, for the
first time in a thousand days, Tom Kim wins fourth
career PGA Tour victory.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He got the victory at.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The Genesis Scottish Open by two shots at seventeen under
par advance of the British Open at Birkdale, which is
this week. That is a common behavior of a lot
of golfers, and that is get over there, get acclimated
to the conditions of seaside golf, which gives yourself as
an advantage, or at least it calms you before you
play in the British Open. And at Wimbledon. Janick Center
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gets the victory again and the men's the singles Championship
celebrated his second consecutive win, took down Alexander zaverrev in
four sets. Saverav took a spill in the third set.
He said he recovered, but evidence to the contrary. Sports
his news on Nebraska's News weathern Traffic station.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Lindsy Graham dead at the age of seventy one, and
Jim said they go in threes. Well, Mitch McConnell's office
has released a statement that says it's.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's not going to be one of them. It's not me.
Statement from Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, nothing usual, but I'm not dead.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He says, he's not dead. Yes, isn't He will be doing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You a little money python there. That's that's so tasteless.
I can't believe you did that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
A Well, look some of those senators. We saw, you know,
the fossilization of Dianne Feinstein. We saw the same thing
out of Joe Biden. These people don't want to leave.
And the problem is is that every time we talk
about how you're too old to do this, they point
over Chuck Grassley from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, who will be
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ninety three in September.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But Chuck Grassley doesn't talk to a gaggle of reporters
and then suddenly get a look on his face like
he's just being called to the mothership, Chuck, and Mitch
McConnell does on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And Joe Biden did Joe Joe Biden, you know, he'd
mix up the pledge of allegiance. He couldn't even say
that anymore, but at least it seemed that way. But
every time we say you're too old, they go, well,
he's not.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He's not too old. You don't talk about Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, here's the thing with Senator McConnell. Should there be
term limits? No, But these people just cannot leave power.
They can't. They think that their irrelevance will bury them
and kill them if they leave. Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Did McConnell's statement. It wasn't a video, it was a statement.
And there's a picture of him shown with his wife
and he's holding a copy of yesterday's newspaper. This is
the kind of thing you release, as you know, if
you've taken him hostage. It's this proof that it's a
today's picture. It's a picture from today. He's got today's newspaper.
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And that's very, very weird. Who has printed newspapers anymore?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Probably Mitch McConnell. He's eighty four years old.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, he held up one that said Dewey defeats Truman.
The other day I thought this was the news. Yeah,
that's then old one.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We landed on the moon.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, you mean mean n ring Elaine, I'm missing Nixon.
Was ring Dewe defeats Truman. Today's new Dewey defeats Truman.
That I didn't realize Truman was president.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So the report there from Chris Turner, Chris jumping in
for Craig Evans. This week here on Nebraska This Morning News.
This probably the last week for all or most of
the Kellogg's workers.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And Pete Rickets will remind you that that's Dan Osborne's fault. Well,
dan Osborne led the strike. He was the union boss.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Against management for Kellogg's, and then Kelloggs later said, yeah,
we were thinking about closing a few plants. I wonder
which one is going to be. Oh, those people in
Omaha have been a pain in our neck. Let's shut
that one down, even though it's a fantastic facility that
had lots of workers. But those workers were persuaded that
they needed to go stand around on the sidewalk or
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out in front of the gate to get into the
parking lot rather than be in there making corn flakes
and for everyone. Kellogg said, look, I don't know if
you guys have noticed, not as many people eat cereal anymore.
So I know you want the stars and the moon
and the sun and everything. We can't do all this
for you. We're doing the best we can. We can
give you this. We can give you that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
No, we were shut everything down until we get all
this stuff. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, if you do this, you're gonna all be out
on the streets. No, we're not you greedy management. Okay,
we told you that's that's how you want it, and
that's how it went.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And that's sad for those folks because those big union
jobs don't grow on trees anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What do you do with that big, that big factory
over there off of what is it ninety sixth in
f Street. I'm sure that we could turn it into
a data center spirit Halloween. Yeah, maybe a Mangleson's office
with a couple of trampolines in there. Let the kids
run around. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What you do. Let's play cereal on the floor, keep
them fed for a while. That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You can drop the kids in there, and you can
come back years later, and then you'll just bring.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A bowl and a spoon and well you'll be fed
all day.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, the kids will be well fed, and they'll they'll
be persuaded to want to strike, you know, just having
been in that factory.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I mean, we're having fun with this. It is not
good for these families, but awful. It's they're used.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
To it now. I mean it closed a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, it started the closure a long time ago, so
people were getting laid off and that's unfortunate. Look, this
is we are in an unusual economic time right now,
where so many jobs are disappearing thanks to AI and
technology every day. It's not like, okay, well down the road,
we'll lose some jobs to automation. No, it's happening like now.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, but that's not what this is all not I
can't have AI for breakfast, no, but.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And AI doesn't cook up the corn flakes, that's right,
But AI doesn't cook up the corn flakes. But you know,
union jobs are scarce these days. They're really high, you know,
benefit union jobs that had been fought for for a
long long time. Hundred years because companies said, Okay, well
we'll just find other people to do it, or we'll
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just have a machine do it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
This message, though, is from the President's truth Social account.
He yesterday said, in honor of the remarkable life and
achievements of Senator Lindsey Graham, a dear friend of mine
and a truly great man who achieved so much for
our country in his beloved home state of South Carolina,
I am ordering all American flags throughout the United States
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lowered to half masked until Saturday evening at six pm.
God bless you, Lindsey. President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Trump. Yeah, they were close. They were adversaries.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
First, when we're Lindsey ran against him in the twenty
sixteen presidential Chase called him a jackass and a few
other things, mostly because of his criticism of John McCain,
who was a close personal friend of Graham's before his death,
which was a year or so later. But boy, they
became fast friends. They played a lot of golf together.
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He shepherded a lot of his national security agenda through
the United States Senate. So Trump really lost an ally.
Now let's see what happens with his replacement. The governor
gets to make the call. He's a Republican and he's
close to Trump, and Trump says he has someone. Trump
has been probably lobbying the governor for a certain specific person.
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There will be a primary August eleventh, and then, if necessary,
a runoff on August twenty fifth in South Carolina if
nobody gets fifty percent, and then they have a general
election in November. The Democrat nominee has already been chosen
in South Carolina, so you can expect some names you
might have heard of, Nancy Mace being among them. I
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think Nicky Haley would be an excellent choice as an
interim senator, but Trump probably doesn't want that because he
probably can't control Nicky Haley. And that's why he's suggesting
the lieutenant governor is a candidate, apparently for this introme gig.
He's suggesting to the governor, I need somebody that's not
going to give me any heartburn. And Nikki Haley is
an extraordinarily capable lady, but she's going to give me
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some heartburn. And I have some important stuff here in
the next six months.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
If the idea is you want someone who can win
in November, why wouldn't you put that person in there.
You don't want to put a placeholder in there, someone
just kind of going well, aw shucks, you know, for
a few months. I mean, you want someone who already
looks senatorial. You're already in the job, that gives you
a leg up in November, I would.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Think, well, except that they're going to have this primary
in three weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, but if you're already there doing the job, that
helps sure you already know where the office is, vote
for me. You got to run for the problem is
he needs somebody in DC, and that person also needs
to run for office. Now, if there's a clear cut
front runner, and I don't know that there is in
South Carolina, because I'm not as familiar with South Carolina
Republican politics as others, then you say, all right, this
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is the one. He or she can also run for
office and just mail it in until the primary or
the general election in November, and then after the Labor
Day break, take off, go, you know, camp out in
South Carolina and try to win votes. Nicky Haley might
qualify in that place. But again, Trump doesn't want to
mess around with this because he's got a fifty two
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forty nine right now, and with Graham's death, and then
you've got McConnell. His condition is probably at best, Iffy Ran.
A couple of those are Collins and Murkowski and Cassidy,
Nan tell Us, right, and Cornyan. You know these are
he has done a very good job of crapping in
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his own campfire. This president has by making enemies out
of these Republicans in these primaries.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And I never could understand why would you tee off
on Bill Cassidy? And I know why because he voted
to impeach you and all of that. But you need
the guy for your legislation, and all you're doing is
making it a lot harder for him to say yes.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
From the talkback Mike.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Hey, Scott A. You know, sometimes I can't believe I
tune in every morning just to listen to you guys
talk about and share Nilo wafers on the air, and
I'm very entertained. Have a great week, Gay.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I don't know if that means we need to try harder,
so we're not doing that, or we're trying too hard
and all we got to do is just chew Nilla
wafers on the air, or.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The good stuff is just not good enough. So they're
tuning in to see what we have for breakfast on
the air. That's a little troubling to me because I
spend a considerable amount of time gathering content that nobody
else has.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All I know is we I want you to tune
into this radio show and not exactly know what might happen.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
For example, we've got to be a moving target. We've
gone into the archives here and pulled out a has been.
This is a former Nebraska state senator.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
She's not a has been.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This is someone who's not served in public office now
for a couple of years and is looking for you know,
she's like, I will talk on the radio for food.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You suggest, sek her best days are behind her.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Julie Slama joins us here on Islama Time on eleven
to ten kfab Good morning, senator.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Is it a good morning?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Exactly, saw appointment. I'm only thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Guys, right, she's just getting started and I entered into
a wonderful time in your life. You've got beautiful kids
and a wonderful family, but you're also looking out for
other kids. Tell me about this Fairness for Girls ballot
initiative that you're part of.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Absolutely Fairness for Girls of a bout initiative for which
I'm one of the sponsors, was able to turn in
two hundred and eleven thousand signatures about a week and
a half ago to the Secretary of State's office. What
Fairness for Girls would do is make Nebraska the first
state in the country to have constitutional protections in place
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for girl sports, basically keeping boys out of girls sports.
We've seen across the country this movement for men who
have failed in their own gender categories to shift over
to women's sports. And I'm just so grateful to the
thousands upon thousands of Nebraskans who stepped up signed the
petition and are helping get this initiative on the ballot
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and hopefully into our states constitution to once and for
all protect girls sports in the state of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
All Right, A lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
First, one is people will say, I thought the Unit
Camerale this past session already put this as state law,
and then the Supreme Court affirmed it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Why do we need what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
So this goes beyond the statutory language that was passed previously.
We're doing different language. And that's for two reasons. One,
a constitutional amendment's going to require different language. And two,
we've seen in years past when the legislature takes one
step forward, the Democrats come back in the next session
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and hold the session hostage until we take two steps back.
So this removes girls sports and having boys be in
girls sports from being a political football for the legislature
to screw up. This gives the people a voice in
the matter as well, and honestly, it saves four time
in the legislature in the years to come because Democrats
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have promised that they would repeal the girl's protections the
first chance they got.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So one more process question for you here before Jim
Rose sets in on the issue at hand. Here you
turn the signatures over. That obviously doesn't just implement this
in the constitution. So what happens next?
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yes, the next steps are the Secretary of State will
go through and verify signatures. We're very blessed. Two hundred
and eleven thousand is the most it's ever been turned
in for a signature petition in the history of the
state of Nebraska. It's a matter that I think a
lot of Nebraska voters view is simply common sense. It
pulls at about seventy nine percent approval statewide. So now
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our goal is to just get the word out. Once
the Secretary of State approves fairness for girls on the ballot,
our job is to go out into the state and
make sure voters know that this is going to be
on the ballot this year and know that they need
to support this to put girls to put a constitutional
protection for girls sports into our state constitution.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Jim Rose, Julie, You've been shepherding legislation a lot down
through the years.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You know how this works.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So why won't we include no boys in girls' bathrooms
or no boys in girls' locker rooms as part of this.
Our good friend merv Repee, who will probably be defeated
in the November election, was the guy who stopped that
from happening, saying I don't want us to be potty police,
which I thought was juvenile. But the bottom line is
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we're trying to protect girls in a lot of ways.
Why not include this.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Because that's actually a fantastic question, and it's really on
point for a very special issue we have in Nebraska,
which for constitutional amendments is a strict interpretation of the
single subject rule. So if you're going to put something
on the ballot for voters, it needs to fulfill the
single subject requirement. So if we were talking it's sports
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and spaces, we would need two initiatives petitions, one for each.
You also get into questions on definitions if you're doing
it in a single cycle. Later on down the road,
there might be space for a space's constitutional amendment, but
for right now, the focus was girls' sports. Just to
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focus on fulfilling that single subject rule and ensure that
the Nebraska Supreme Court didn't get any heartburn about the
constitutional adequacy of the initiative.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Well, in light of the fact that the law has
been passed that probids male biological males from competing on
girls' sports teams, seems to me that the space's component
would be more important than the sports component because the
spaces performance right now, the component has not been legislatively
passed into law. So how about let's do that one
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as a constitutional amendment and then come back on the
sports one.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Well, I don't think it's a matter of you have
to have one or the other. If you're saying you're
going to help us out now and get the sports
and spaces initiative up and going for the twenty eight cycle,
I'd welcome that for sure. This was what we went
with this time around. Again, I think it was far
simpler to do the sports side to fulfill the single
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subject requirement. The space's side will require a little bit
more massaging of the definitions. Do we want to make
sure that if we're doing this, we're doing it right
and we have to be sure that we're crossing our
te's and dotting our eyes on the constitutional requirements. Hey,
if you're wanting to bring the spaces initiative and twenty eight,
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I am more than happy to help you out with that.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Jim, Well, I'll let you guys work on that behind
the scenes.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Look, have to convince me.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I think it's the only thing that confuses me about
this whole issue, Julie Slama is how silent women have
been in support of girls.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Well, that's why we have Julie on. She's the only one.
Are you the only one? Where's the National Association?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, we're Kathleen Causah, where's now?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You got Kathleen and Julie. That's it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Well, I mean there's a reason why two hundred and
eleven thousand Nebraskan stepped up and find the pistion. It's
because men, women, I everybody across the board sees this
as something that's just common sense. This is something that
and sender Kus can speak to this as well. Some
of the nastiest feedback I ever got when I was
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in the legislature was when this issue was up, and
I think a lot of women are bullied into silence.
We saw in the last time around when Husker athletes
were supporting the Pro Life Initiative, just how much grief
and threats and bulleene they took online. And that served
not only that trans movement that liberal quote unquote women
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supporting women, but we all know it's not movement. Is
they make an example out of the higher profile women
who decide to speak up, trying to shame other women
and bully other women into silence by seeing what those
women have to go through. In the United States Supreme
Court case on Boys and Girls Sports that was just
decided a couple of weeks ago as well, you saw
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the boy who was trying to play in girls sports
that the ACLU had propped up as this big victim
had actually really violently sexually harassed his teammates in the
locker room for seasons, and it led to a lot
of the girls quitting. A lot of that movement is
about silencing women and making women get on board, and
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also taking women's sports with about the same series that
most people think of raiding your hair at a slumber party.
Women's sports aren't just about the camaraderie. It's a wonderful
part of it, but you're going through injuries, thousands of
dollars of investments, giving up your weekends for years, all
in an effort to where most female athletes snacks out
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with the hope of playing varsity high school sports.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We got to that's where a.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Lot is athletes and their careers, and when a voice
taking those spots, it's a real insult to all of
the investment, all the things that that girl and her
family have gone through to get to that point in
their career.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Julie, we got to run. Thank you very much for
the time this morning. If people want to learn more
about the Fairness for Girls ballot initiative before it ends
up in the ballot in November, is their website or something.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Absolutely We're at ww dot Fairnessforgirls dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Julie Slama always a pleasure. Thank you very much for
allowing us to have some Slama time this morning. Hey,
thanks guys, anytime here on news Radio eleven ten kfab So, Jim,
what's your favorite can conspiracy theory as to what killed
Senator Lindsey Graham? Was it the COVID shot or did
he get poisoned by Russia or Iran while he was
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in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm not really subscribing to too many conspiracy theories in
this case, but Lucy, I'm not even going to look
at it has been. It has been great stuff on
social media. It seems to me that if the Russians
were going to poison the guy or the Iranians, we're
going to get to his salad while he was over
in Ukraine, he wouldn't be the only one dead. Truth is,
Lindsey Graham didn't get to make the decision about what
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we were doing with Ukraine. He was an influencer and
a big influencer, but he wasn't the only one. So
seems to me, if some bad guy had gotten into
the kitchen in the Ukrainian presidential palace, mister Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Would probably be flat as a board too.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's probably a good But you look at his lifestyle
and this is very This is very consistent with a
lot of guys in DC. And I know it's easy
for us to bag on Congress people because they do
things and you should at your head and said what
are you doing? But they do put in a lot
of strange hours and a lot of hours. They don't
get a lot of sleep, They probably unless they're committed,
they don't get a lot of exercise. Their diet is
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probably not very healthy. He had been traveling constantly, and
when you travel to eastern Europe, it's a very very
long long journey there and back, and just multiply that
by all of the other campaign stops. He was constantly
campaigning for other candidates in other states because he was
unmarried running for re election. Yeah, he wasn't married. He
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had a huge, huge leading the polls in South Carolina,
so he could probably ease up on South Carolina. But
this guy had no kids. This guy had no wife,
so he politics was his first love and became one
of the more celebrated bachelors in DC for years. So
he was constantly on planes, constantly driving around, constantly, probably
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eating fast food, and he had hardening of the arteries
and that's what caused medically, according to the Examiner's office
and some of the medical experts that I've watched over
the last twenty four hours to say, this is what
hardening of the art areas will do for you. You know,
it puts a lot of strain on the heart valves.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And that's apparently what happened here.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
There is obviously, you know, a lot of conspiracy theories
it was this or that. Probably it was just being
a guy, because the story here from Axios quotes a
friend of Lindsey Graham who's been unnamed right now, said
that the seventy one year old refused to seek medical
attention on Saturday as he said he wasn't feeling well,
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and this person said you should probably go see a doctor,
and Lindsey Graham is quoted as joking saying, quote, I
can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions,
get Iran sorted out, and do the Israeli Saudy normalization.
And then he was gone a couple hours later. If
he'd gone to the doctor. When friends were saying, hey,
(36:02):
lindsay if you're not feeling well, and this feels strange.
Why don't you go see someone. I can't die now,
I'm too busy. If he had gone in when he
obviously felt unwell enough to say something.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Out loud, well, body, the body tells you everything you
need to know. But if you don't listen to it,
then things like this happen. There's one other thing about
kills a lot of guys. By the way, day, I'm fine,
I'm fine again. Next thing you know, you're six. But
there's one thing about Lindsay Graham that I think should
should be told and probably hasn't been told enough. You
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look at these people who enter the halls of Congress,
whether it's Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden,
and all of these people that are career politicians, and
they're working for a modest salary with modest benefits, but
when they leave, they've got thirty forty fifty one hundred
(36:57):
million dollars in the bank because of the deals that
they've cut with private enterprise or unsavory individuals or captains
of a certain industry. Lindsey Graham's net worth is one
point four million dollars, which means he's been living off
his salary as a United States Senator, and prior to that,
his salary is a congress person and his pension from
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the United States Military.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I want to make sure we mentioned that, because that's
not a career politicians. I mean, a guy served decades
in the military.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He was a fernal well, but he's in the air
for He's been in public elected office since the early
nineteen nineties and in fact the late eighties. He was
first elected to the state legislature in South Carolina in
the late eighties, but he was elected to Congress in
nineteen ninety four and he served until now with a
net worth of all of one point four million dollars.
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That says to me that he wasn't in bed with
the fat cats from the defense industry, even though South
Carolina is one of the leading states in the defense
manufacturing industry. This guy was a straight arrow, and he
could be candidate. He could tell people things because he
was beholding to no one set this up.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's September of twenty and eighteen. President Trump has nominated
a guy named Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the United
States Supreme Court. Just as the hearings are started, Senator
Dianne Feinstein comes out of the ward work and says,
I found someone who's a credible witness that says he
attacked her at a party in college, way back when.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
High school.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Oh that's right, it was a high school party, way
back when. And that process went on and on and
on until finally South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham had heard enough.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
to us. What you want to do is destroy this
guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win
in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got
nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron cake
and tell him that, Lindsay said, oh, because I voted
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for them, I would never do to them what you've
done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham
since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted
to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have
done what you've done to this guy.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
That was he was looking at Dick Durbin, the senator
from Illinois, rabbit liberal, not a good person, not a
person of sincerity or integrity, and they were grasping at straws.
You should also remember the time frame here. Twenty minutes
after Donald Trump introduced Bret Kavanaugh as his candidate, Chuck Schumer,
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another gigantic phony, stood on the steps of the United
States Capitol and said, I will do everything in my
power to block this nomination. You haven't even talked to
the guy. He could sit in your lap and you
wouldn't know who it is. That was the great exposure
of the hypocrisy and the politicalization of the court that
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the Democrats launched on Donald Trump's nominees. Told me once
after that, because Sas was sitting two guys down from
Lindsay Grant, I remember Sas was on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He said that turned the tide because there were some
flimsy Republicans they were thinking, oh, you know, maybe we
should leave this guy alone, tell Trump to get somebody else,
maybe somebody that's a little less dogmatically conservative.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
And they that shocked these rhinos back into you know what,
Lindsay's right, this is garbage. What those Democrats are doing
to this guy, and what they're doing to miss Ford,
to doctor Blazy Ford. You know, somebody got to her
and said, hey, you know you got to hatch this
story about Brett Kall. She couldn't remember where it happened,
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She couldn't remember any of the details from the night,
even the date.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I mean, it was the worst.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It was the worst of the worst, the politicization of
the Supreme Court judicial nomination process. So thank goodness, Lindsay said,
all right, I've had enough of this, and he was
looking right at Dick Durbin when he pointed his there's a.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
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about it or not. Jim, this is one for you
here from the talkback Mike.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Hi Jim about property taxes drove by Millard West the
other day. They're tearing the whole baseball field up. I
just went to a ballgame there a couple of weeks ago.
There's nothing all with that baseball field, just more taxes, more,
you know, more property taxes. What's going on? I know
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you pay a lot of taxes too. Is there we
going to get any relief?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Well, the short answers, I hope so. But we've had
a lot of promises made that haven't been kept, and
I've done a lot of stuff on this. I've called
out state senators who run on cutting property taxes, and
then when the time comes to pass bills that would
make permanent property tax formulas changed, they either present, not voting,
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or they literally vote no, and they claim stupid reasons
for it. Many of those previous senators are not in
the unic camera anymore. They were term limited out, and
you have some new ones. The governor is promising it again,
and he says he has a formula to do it
in his second term. He's tried very very hard. He's
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put his shoulder behind some important legislation, he has called
a special session to do it, he has committed state
resources for it. To me, it's not a revenue problem,
it's a formula problem. And what we have is an
unbalanced tax system in our state. That's simple. We don't
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charge enough sales tax, which puts too much pressure on
property taxes. And there are very few states in the
Union that do this. Most states don't discriminate against sales.
All sales are taxed, both at the state and local level.
But not here because over the last sixty years, we've
had lots of smart political people twist arms of thoughtful
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or thought less state senators who say, well, yeah, that's right,
dog gone, we'll give you that exemption. And then after
sixty years there's a whole bunch of there are a
whole bunch of exemptions. Now we have a six billion
dollar hole because there are six billion dollars in sales
in this state that are not taxed. Six billion that
is essentially one year's entire budget. A couple of things
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for you there in the wake of that. Excellent well,
hoping that that happens in the next term, but that no, dude,
I can't bonus I was. I had high hopes when
Jim got elected, because here's a business guy who doesn't
care about the next election, and he's tried, but he's failed.
They've come up two three votes short every time. Well,
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even though he had a filibuster proof majority.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
First thing, Governor Pillen put a memo out to state
agencies last week and says, you got to cut five
percent of spending out of your budget. Now here's a
response on top of the ten percent they cut this
past spring. Here's the response from longtime Nebraska state Senator
Danielle Conrad, who also has headed up the local acl ACLU.
She said, Jim Pillen is truly choosing to amplify and
(44:33):
embrace his failure to manage state finances under his watch.
He's given credence to the fact that we're in a
fiscal crisis due to policy decisions that he has been
a part of and helped to lead.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Also, all the unions of public employees say we couldn't
possibly cut anything. We're down to the bunch. It's basically
the same thing everyone says. But in the real world,
in the private sector, businesses cut people all the time,
talking about doing that to government like Doge did. As
Trump and Elon Musk started going through it, everyone loses
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their minds, like, you can't gore this animal. We're not
going to have that.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Well, Danielle Conrad, with all due respect to her, she
represents a district where property taxes aren't that important. Lincoln
quite quite candidly her specific Lincoln district would be considered
with lower property taxes because the homes have lower valuations.
So those who live in many of the single family
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homes of her constituents aren't paying a ton of property tax.
They just don't grow. The values of those homes don't
grow as fast or as high as others. So she's
representing her people. She's also a liberal Democrat. She believes
that government should pay for everything. That there's no such
thing as an appropriation for social services that shouldn't be
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not only passed but enhanced every year. That's her approach
to politics. The state should do it for the other thing.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't know how much time you spent at the
Millard West baseball field. I've been there, been there recently.
But his point, the talkback Micer's there, was that they're
tearing up and redoing this baseball diamond there. He said,
there's nothing wrong with it. I was just there. It's perfect,
it's great. I don't know what they're doing. They're just
wasting the people's money here. Well, some of that maybe
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private donations. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
West Side High School just completed a forty five million
dollar expansion that included a swimming pool, and some other things.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, they got their own space station at west Side Now,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Much of that was donated money. Now, the west Side
Foundation is probably a little more active than some public
school foundations around here. But what we don't know about
that project, and I don't know about it specifically, is
was it strictly CAPEX funding from the district or was
there some contribution made from the private sector or businesses
around Millard West that contributed to it. I don't know,
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But yeah, if this was funded strictly through the general fund,
that was money that flowed into the Millard School District
because of gigantic valuation increases by homes in the Millard
School District. And there are homes that have gone up
fifteen twenty twenty five percent in one year in valuations
in the Millard School disc Usually your knee jerk reaction
(47:21):
to things is not that measured and sometimes well sometimes
you actually a research and slapped together. A comedy are
you talking about? That's coming up?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Happens five days a week. Baby, the Rosie Digenozi
Whether we like it or not, it is Monday morning.
Glad to have you here with us. This is Nebraska's
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here with you on news radio eleven ten kfab Thank
(00:23):
you for being here with us. Among the statements in
the wake of the passing of the South Carolina Senator
Lindsey Graham comes this one from Senator Deb Fisher. My
deepest condolences go out to Senator Lindsey Graham's family. Lindsey
was a friend, colleague, and tireless national security advocate who
led in supporting and strengthening our military and our country's defense.
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He will be greatly missed. Shocking news yesterday morning when
we learned that the senior senator from South Carolina served
about thirty years there ed died suddenly. He was supposed
to be a guest on Meet the Press, I believe
it was, and wasn't available because he's succumbed to a brief,
(01:07):
sudden and deadly illness on Saturday night, this after he
just got back from Ukraine. Conspiracy theories are running the
gamut here in the wake of Senator Lindsey Graham's passing.
But the guy, I mean, for thirty years, he's been
a pretty interesting figure on the political landscape for someone
(01:30):
who seems like a good Southern gentleman. He has been
described as a warhawk, and he's also had a pretty
interesting nickname attached to him over the years, courtesy of
our old friend Rush Limbaugh. In fact, Senator Graham was
a guest on my program twelve years ago and I
asked him what he thought about that nickname, which do
(01:52):
you remember what that was? Lindsay Gramnesty? Grahamnesty. You never
saw an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants. He didn't like,
so Rushlimba called him Senator Lindsay Grahamnesty.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He wanted him to well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Senator Graham believe there was a wider pathway to citizenship
than most Republicans thought there should be, and he knew
that it was very important to have immigration for jobs
in South Carolina because a lot of businesses were struggling
with employees. And he says, we need more people that
are willing to come to this country and work. But yeah,
Rush had fun with Lindsey grahamnesty, and he wasn't the
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only one. This was a very very powerful politico. This
is a guy who understood the process of getting laws passed,
and he used to bowl people over with knowledge, with data,
and with evidence. It was very politically bloviating at times,
but mostly behind the scenes it was here's the deal,
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here's how we're going don and it worked out. He
had a lot of very very good friends on the
Democrat side who would say he was a great adversary,
but he was a good friend. He was a loyal friend,
and when the bell rang and the round was over,
you know you could count on Lindsey Graham to be
a friend. It's a compelling story to Scott because you know,
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he grew up very poor. His mom and dad owned
a pool hall in central South Carolina, a little town
not too far from Clemson, and this was a guy
who didn't have much. They lived behind the bar, and
he grew up without much in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Then suddenly, when he was in high school, his mom
(03:30):
and dad passed away. Actually within about fifteen months of
each other. So he took over the raising of his sister,
who later credited him with ridiculous amounts of sacrifice so
that she would have.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A more normal life. And that says something.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
He was a bachelor, and of course that fed rumors
of his sexual orientation, which never were founded. But mostly
when you are in d C, you get attacked just
because you're in DC. But the man was a stalwart
defender of American national security. He joined the Air Force,
rose to the rank of colonel, actually went into a
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combat zone during the Gulf War. And the country's better
because of Lindsay Graham's life on it. I believe life
in it. And this is a loss not just for
the people of South Carolina, but for the whole country.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And as far as the cause of death, they're not.
I mean, it's an aortic valve ear. He had hardening
of the arteries. Some people have said heart attack, but
that's that's not exactly it. As you said there, I
can't pronounce some of this stuff here. The District of
Columbia Medical Examiner identified the cause as an aortic dissection
(04:45):
linked to an ardiosclerotic cardiovascular disease. An aortic dissection is
a terror in the inner wall of the body's main
artery that can, as you can see here, rapidly become fatal.
In other words, he wasn't sick and then he was dead. Yeah,
he had chest pain and by the time the doctor
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showed up it sounded like he was pretty much gone.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well the guy probably you know, look, he led a
lifestyle of sitting, of traveling, of probably not great diet.
He'd just gotten back from Ukraine for the tenth time.
Now people think, well, what's the big deal, Just get
on a military airplane and go over to Ukraine. Well,
it's not like driving from here to Grand Island. Yeah,
(05:30):
you know, you fly over there, it's ten hours and
then you get on a train and you got to
go across the old Eastern Iron Curtain. It's a little scary,
it's a little harrowing, and you just don't get there
easily from here. And he'd been there ten times. So
that kind of travel, especially for a seventy year old man, can.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Wear you out.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So his lifestyle probably wasn't very conducive to health. But yeah,
he talked to the president apparently just literally maybe half
an hour Befo before he died, said I'm a little tired,
but then again, I just got back from Ukraine. I
feel fine, but I'm a little tired. If I'm not
feeling well tomorrow, I'll just go to the doctor. That
was the last thing he told President Trump. He was
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what seventy one one, He'll be seventy two on the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Then we got a.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Statement from Mitch McConnell's office about his lack of being there,
and wasn't it I generated, Well, there's questions, and then
we just learned this morning that a celebrities from some
of our favorite movies has died. We'll get to those
stories and more, including sports brief next year after traffic, weather,
and a news update right here on Nebraska's morning news. Well,
(06:39):
that was two years ago today that President Trump and
then campaigning for the presidency, was in Butler Township at
Pennsylvania Rally in the crowd and next thing you know,
a man behind him named Corey Compretour was killed and
President Trump was let off the stage with Secret Service agents.
(07:01):
This was one of the worst failures in Secret Service history.
And there's a guy on that room of the gun.
We'll deal with him later a gun. Yes, that was
two years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Today at over one hundred, they have over one hundred
tips about a potential shooter at Butler, Pennsylvania and they
did nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Absolutely asini.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now we got a statement here from the office of
Mitch McConnell's office. You know, he hasn't the eighty four
year old Republican senator from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Have they put a red felt rope around him yet.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He hasn't been in DC for weeks, and now they're saying, well,
he fell at his home on June fourteenth and it
was hospitalized, then had a mild case of pneumonia and
hasn't been there since. But they said, all right, no
broken bones, no concussion, no heart attack, no stroke, nothing
like that. He's not going to resign his spot in
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the US Senate. He wants to finish what the people
put him there to do. He's been there for deck
if you haven't gotten it done by now. But you know,
this certainly has got people saying, look, we're the same
you know, we're the Republican Party. We're the same people
that said Joe Biden is the fake President of the
United States because he can't come out and do his job,
(08:15):
and here's Mitch McConnell who can't come out and do
his job. So there is some rectifying that probably needs
to be done on that front.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Well, we can all agree that it's there needs to
be some understanding of capacity to do the job when
you get to a certain age. But when you elect
senators for six year terms, they might be fine three
years ago, but three years later now they've taken a
serious dip age wise. On the other hand, you look
(08:45):
at Chuck Grassley. Here's a guy out farming in Mount Pleasant,
Iowa this past week. He's literally in the fields farming
at what is he ninety three?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't think he's that old, is he? I think
he's ninety three now? Okay, here's ageless.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, here's a guy who truly is still capable at
that age of doing more than just monitoring bills in
the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He's been doing great.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Everybody's kind of individual And you know, age is a
is a funky thing. Some people age very rapidly, they
literally fall off the cliff, and when you have a
six year term, that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
McConnell was hospitalized in February for flu like symptoms. He's
had a series of public freezing episodes. He's had multiple
falls of concussion and they don't know why he fell
a month ago. And we also had a celebrity passing, Lucy.
Do you know who Sam Neil is? If I say
the actor's named Sam Neil Jurassic Park, that's right, he's
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ninety two.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They're moving in hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sam Neil wasn't ninety two?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Ninety three September.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's and then behind all that commentary is Sam Neil
from Lindsey Graham seeing the diet. Sorry from lindsay, yeah,
so now you've got me lose Graham is his father,
Sam Neil from Jurassic Park seeing the dinosaurs for the
first time, Doctor Allan Grant.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
In those films, he was very good. He was a
very good actor.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Eleven to ten kfab certified transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim Row.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Celebrity deaths coming threes for He's who's next?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't I don't play the dead tool? Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Major League Baseball Draft over the weekend, a couple of Huskers, actually,
well two current Huskers and one Husker to be got
picked Ty Horn to the Reds of the third round.
Very very shortly thereafter went Carson Yassa to the Cubs.
Horn was really thrilled for his teammate.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
We were celebrating, I was pretty emotional, and then I
look up and the Cubs are drafting Carsionoss. I'm like,
oh my god, that's so cool. Carcionosso is like my
best friend, and we're going to be spending time a
lot of time together, probably in Arizona, just because that's
where we're both gonna be. So it's just super awesome
to have a guy like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, big day for Ty Horn. That's worth probably about
eight hundred thousand dollars in signing bonus money for him
to be a third round pick. Same thing for Yasa.
So those two guys should be hit up for a
donation right away and then they can get tickets to
the regional and the softball regionals too in.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The thirtieth round.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Whether the twentieth round, Zach Bates goes to the Dodgers
with the last overall pick in this year's Major League
Baseball draft. Bates had transferred from Illinois, where he was
really good, to Nebraska and then sat out all of
the last season recovering from Tommy John surgery. So let's
see what Zach Bates does. How much will the last
pick in the draft get? Well, not eight hundred thousand dollars?
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How about that much? Major League Baseball American League, the
Baltimore Orios sweep the Royals eight to two in the
finale yesterday. Kansas City heads into the All Star Break
with a record of thirty eight and fifty nine. They
are thirteen games back at first place, and owner John
Sherman has yet to fire anybody. Seattle, Minnesota, the White
Sox and Rangers also get wins. National League Pittsburgh, the Cubs, Atlanta,
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San Francisco, and the d Backs get wins. In IT
League played Boston, the Philly, San Diego, so the Yankees
and Guardians, they all get victories. We have our All
Star break and it kicks off with the Home Run
Derby Today. Eight sluggers will square off in a new
format which ditches the clock and allows each player to
take twenty swings. Schwarber leads the event because he leads
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the majors in home runs, and the Royals Jack Gaglione
will also be there to hit home runs during the
Home Run Derby. Semifinal round of the World Cup is
almost here. We got Francis Spain which will play tomorrow
night in Arlington, Texas. And then you got Lionel Messi
and Argentina up against the ball club from England from
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Atlanta and the other semifinal on Wednesday. The championship match
will be in New Jersey at the Meadowlands, the Giants
Stadium in the Meadowlands. What about golf, Well, for the
first time in a thousand days, Tom Kim wins fourth
career PGA Tour victory.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He got the victory at.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The Genesis Scottish Open by two shots at seventeen under
par advance of the British Open at Birkdale, which is
this week. That is a common behavior of a lot
of golfers, and that is get over there, get acclimated
to the conditions of seaside golf, which gives yourself as
an advantage, or at least it calms you before you
play in the British Open. And at Wimbledon. Janick Center
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gets the victory again and the men's the singles Championship
celebrated his second consecutive win, took down Alexander zaverrev in
four sets. Saverav took a spill in the third set.
He said he recovered, but evidence to the contrary. Sports
his news on Nebraska's News weathern Traffic station.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Lindsy Graham dead at the age of seventy one, and
Jim said they go in threes. Well, Mitch McConnell's office
has released a statement that says it's.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's not going to be one of them. It's not me.
Statement from Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, nothing usual, but I'm not dead.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He says, he's not dead. Yes, isn't He will be doing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You a little money python there. That's that's so tasteless.
I can't believe you did that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
A Well, look some of those senators. We saw, you know,
the fossilization of Dianne Feinstein. We saw the same thing
out of Joe Biden. These people don't want to leave.
And the problem is is that every time we talk
about how you're too old to do this, they point
over Chuck Grassley from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, who will be
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ninety three in September.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But Chuck Grassley doesn't talk to a gaggle of reporters
and then suddenly get a look on his face like
he's just being called to the mothership, Chuck, and Mitch
McConnell does on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And Joe Biden did Joe Joe Biden, you know, he'd
mix up the pledge of allegiance. He couldn't even say
that anymore, but at least it seemed that way. But
every time we say you're too old, they go, well,
he's not.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He's not too old. You don't talk about Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, here's the thing with Senator McConnell. Should there be
term limits? No, But these people just cannot leave power.
They can't. They think that their irrelevance will bury them
and kill them if they leave. Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Did McConnell's statement. It wasn't a video, it was a statement.
And there's a picture of him shown with his wife
and he's holding a copy of yesterday's newspaper. This is
the kind of thing you release, as you know, if
you've taken him hostage. It's this proof that it's a
today's picture. It's a picture from today. He's got today's newspaper.
(15:39):
And that's very, very weird. Who has printed newspapers anymore?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Probably Mitch McConnell. He's eighty four years old.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, he held up one that said Dewey defeats Truman.
The other day I thought this was the news. Yeah,
that's then old one.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We landed on the moon.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, you mean mean n ring Elaine, I'm missing Nixon.
Was ring Dewe defeats Truman. Today's new Dewey defeats Truman.
That I didn't realize Truman was president.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So the report there from Chris Turner, Chris jumping in
for Craig Evans. This week here on Nebraska This Morning News.
This probably the last week for all or most of
the Kellogg's workers.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And Pete Rickets will remind you that that's Dan Osborne's fault. Well,
dan Osborne led the strike. He was the union boss.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Against management for Kellogg's, and then Kelloggs later said, yeah,
we were thinking about closing a few plants. I wonder
which one is going to be. Oh, those people in
Omaha have been a pain in our neck. Let's shut
that one down, even though it's a fantastic facility that
had lots of workers. But those workers were persuaded that
they needed to go stand around on the sidewalk or
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out in front of the gate to get into the
parking lot rather than be in there making corn flakes
and for everyone. Kellogg said, look, I don't know if
you guys have noticed, not as many people eat cereal anymore.
So I know you want the stars and the moon
and the sun and everything. We can't do all this
for you. We're doing the best we can. We can
give you this. We can give you that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
No, we were shut everything down until we get all
this stuff. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, if you do this, you're gonna all be out
on the streets. No, we're not you greedy management. Okay,
we told you that's that's how you want it, and
that's how it went.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And that's sad for those folks because those big union
jobs don't grow on trees anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What do you do with that big, that big factory
over there off of what is it ninety sixth in
f Street. I'm sure that we could turn it into
a data center spirit Halloween. Yeah, maybe a Mangleson's office
with a couple of trampolines in there. Let the kids
run around. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What you do. Let's play cereal on the floor, keep
them fed for a while. That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You can drop the kids in there, and you can
come back years later, and then you'll just bring.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A bowl and a spoon and well you'll be fed
all day.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, the kids will be well fed, and they'll they'll
be persuaded to want to strike, you know, just having
been in that factory.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I mean, we're having fun with this. It is not
good for these families, but awful. It's they're used.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
To it now. I mean it closed a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, it started the closure a long time ago, so
people were getting laid off and that's unfortunate. Look, this
is we are in an unusual economic time right now,
where so many jobs are disappearing thanks to AI and
technology every day. It's not like, okay, well down the road,
we'll lose some jobs to automation. No, it's happening like now.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, but that's not what this is all not I
can't have AI for breakfast, no, but.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And AI doesn't cook up the corn flakes, that's right,
But AI doesn't cook up the corn flakes. But you know,
union jobs are scarce these days. They're really high, you know,
benefit union jobs that had been fought for for a
long long time. Hundred years because companies said, Okay, well
we'll just find other people to do it, or we'll
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just have a machine do it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
This message, though, is from the President's truth Social account.
He yesterday said, in honor of the remarkable life and
achievements of Senator Lindsey Graham, a dear friend of mine
and a truly great man who achieved so much for
our country in his beloved home state of South Carolina,
I am ordering all American flags throughout the United States
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lowered to half masked until Saturday evening at six pm.
God bless you, Lindsey. President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Trump. Yeah, they were close. They were adversaries.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
First, when we're Lindsey ran against him in the twenty
sixteen presidential Chase called him a jackass and a few
other things, mostly because of his criticism of John McCain,
who was a close personal friend of Graham's before his death,
which was a year or so later. But boy, they
became fast friends. They played a lot of golf together.
(20:00):
He shepherded a lot of his national security agenda through
the United States Senate. So Trump really lost an ally.
Now let's see what happens with his replacement. The governor
gets to make the call. He's a Republican and he's
close to Trump, and Trump says he has someone. Trump
has been probably lobbying the governor for a certain specific person.
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There will be a primary August eleventh, and then, if necessary,
a runoff on August twenty fifth in South Carolina if
nobody gets fifty percent, and then they have a general
election in November. The Democrat nominee has already been chosen
in South Carolina, so you can expect some names you
might have heard of, Nancy Mace being among them. I
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think Nicky Haley would be an excellent choice as an
interim senator, but Trump probably doesn't want that because he
probably can't control Nicky Haley. And that's why he's suggesting
the lieutenant governor is a candidate, apparently for this introme gig.
He's suggesting to the governor, I need somebody that's not
going to give me any heartburn. And Nikki Haley is
an extraordinarily capable lady, but she's going to give me
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some heartburn. And I have some important stuff here in
the next six months.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
If the idea is you want someone who can win
in November, why wouldn't you put that person in there.
You don't want to put a placeholder in there, someone
just kind of going well, aw shucks, you know, for
a few months. I mean, you want someone who already
looks senatorial. You're already in the job, that gives you
a leg up in November, I would.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Think, well, except that they're going to have this primary
in three weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, but if you're already there doing the job, that
helps sure you already know where the office is, vote
for me. You got to run for the problem is
he needs somebody in DC, and that person also needs
to run for office. Now, if there's a clear cut
front runner, and I don't know that there is in
South Carolina, because I'm not as familiar with South Carolina
Republican politics as others, then you say, all right, this
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is the one. He or she can also run for
office and just mail it in until the primary or
the general election in November, and then after the Labor
Day break, take off, go, you know, camp out in
South Carolina and try to win votes. Nicky Haley might
qualify in that place. But again, Trump doesn't want to
mess around with this because he's got a fifty two
(22:13):
forty nine right now, and with Graham's death, and then
you've got McConnell. His condition is probably at best, Iffy Ran.
A couple of those are Collins and Murkowski and Cassidy,
Nan tell Us, right, and Cornyan. You know these are
he has done a very good job of crapping in
(22:36):
his own campfire. This president has by making enemies out
of these Republicans in these primaries.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And I never could understand why would you tee off
on Bill Cassidy? And I know why because he voted
to impeach you and all of that. But you need
the guy for your legislation, and all you're doing is
making it a lot harder for him to say yes.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
From the talkback Mike.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Hey, Scott A. You know, sometimes I can't believe I
tune in every morning just to listen to you guys
talk about and share Nilo wafers on the air, and
I'm very entertained. Have a great week, Gay.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I don't know if that means we need to try harder,
so we're not doing that, or we're trying too hard
and all we got to do is just chew Nilla
wafers on the air, or.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The good stuff is just not good enough. So they're
tuning in to see what we have for breakfast on
the air. That's a little troubling to me because I
spend a considerable amount of time gathering content that nobody
else has.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All I know is we I want you to tune
into this radio show and not exactly know what might happen.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
For example, we've got to be a moving target. We've
gone into the archives here and pulled out a has been.
This is a former Nebraska state senator.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
She's not a has been.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This is someone who's not served in public office now
for a couple of years and is looking for you know,
she's like, I will talk on the radio for food.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You suggest, sek her best days are behind her.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Julie Slama joins us here on Islama Time on eleven
to ten kfab Good morning, senator.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Is it a good morning?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Exactly, saw appointment. I'm only thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Guys, right, she's just getting started and I entered into
a wonderful time in your life. You've got beautiful kids
and a wonderful family, but you're also looking out for
other kids. Tell me about this Fairness for Girls ballot
initiative that you're part of.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Absolutely Fairness for Girls of a bout initiative for which
I'm one of the sponsors, was able to turn in
two hundred and eleven thousand signatures about a week and
a half ago to the Secretary of State's office. What
Fairness for Girls would do is make Nebraska the first
state in the country to have constitutional protections in place
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for girl sports, basically keeping boys out of girls sports.
We've seen across the country this movement for men who
have failed in their own gender categories to shift over
to women's sports. And I'm just so grateful to the
thousands upon thousands of Nebraskans who stepped up signed the
petition and are helping get this initiative on the ballot
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and hopefully into our states constitution to once and for
all protect girls sports in the state of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
All Right, A lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
First, one is people will say, I thought the Unit
Camerale this past session already put this as state law,
and then the Supreme Court affirmed it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Why do we need what you're doing?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
So this goes beyond the statutory language that was passed previously.
We're doing different language. And that's for two reasons. One,
a constitutional amendment's going to require different language. And two,
we've seen in years past when the legislature takes one
step forward, the Democrats come back in the next session
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and hold the session hostage until we take two steps back.
So this removes girls sports and having boys be in
girls sports from being a political football for the legislature
to screw up. This gives the people a voice in
the matter as well, and honestly, it saves four time
in the legislature in the years to come because Democrats
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have promised that they would repeal the girl's protections the
first chance they got.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So one more process question for you here before Jim
Rose sets in on the issue at hand. Here you
turn the signatures over. That obviously doesn't just implement this
in the constitution. So what happens next?
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yes, the next steps are the Secretary of State will
go through and verify signatures. We're very blessed. Two hundred
and eleven thousand is the most it's ever been turned
in for a signature petition in the history of the
state of Nebraska. It's a matter that I think a
lot of Nebraska voters view is simply common sense. It
pulls at about seventy nine percent approval statewide. So now
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our goal is to just get the word out. Once
the Secretary of State approves fairness for girls on the ballot,
our job is to go out into the state and
make sure voters know that this is going to be
on the ballot this year and know that they need
to support this to put girls to put a constitutional
protection for girls sports into our state constitution.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Jim Rose, Julie, You've been shepherding legislation a lot down
through the years.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You know how this works.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So why won't we include no boys in girls' bathrooms
or no boys in girls' locker rooms as part of this.
Our good friend merv Repee, who will probably be defeated
in the November election, was the guy who stopped that
from happening, saying I don't want us to be potty police,
which I thought was juvenile. But the bottom line is
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we're trying to protect girls in a lot of ways.
Why not include this.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Because that's actually a fantastic question, and it's really on
point for a very special issue we have in Nebraska,
which for constitutional amendments is a strict interpretation of the
single subject rule. So if you're going to put something
on the ballot for voters, it needs to fulfill the
single subject requirement. So if we were talking it's sports
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and spaces, we would need two initiatives petitions, one for each.
You also get into questions on definitions if you're doing
it in a single cycle. Later on down the road,
there might be space for a space's constitutional amendment, but
for right now, the focus was girls' sports. Just to
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focus on fulfilling that single subject rule and ensure that
the Nebraska Supreme Court didn't get any heartburn about the
constitutional adequacy of the initiative.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Well, in light of the fact that the law has
been passed that probids male biological males from competing on
girls' sports teams, seems to me that the space's component
would be more important than the sports component because the
spaces performance right now, the component has not been legislatively
passed into law. So how about let's do that one
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as a constitutional amendment and then come back on the
sports one.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Well, I don't think it's a matter of you have
to have one or the other. If you're saying you're
going to help us out now and get the sports
and spaces initiative up and going for the twenty eight cycle,
I'd welcome that for sure. This was what we went
with this time around. Again, I think it was far
simpler to do the sports side to fulfill the single
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subject requirement. The space's side will require a little bit
more massaging of the definitions. Do we want to make
sure that if we're doing this, we're doing it right
and we have to be sure that we're crossing our
te's and dotting our eyes on the constitutional requirements. Hey,
if you're wanting to bring the spaces initiative and twenty eight,
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I am more than happy to help you out with that.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Jim, Well, I'll let you guys work on that behind
the scenes.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Look, have to convince me.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I think it's the only thing that confuses me about
this whole issue, Julie Slama is how silent women have
been in support of girls.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Well, that's why we have Julie on. She's the only one.
Are you the only one? Where's the National Association?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, we're Kathleen Causah, where's now?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You got Kathleen and Julie. That's it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Well, I mean there's a reason why two hundred and
eleven thousand Nebraskan stepped up and find the pistion. It's
because men, women, I everybody across the board sees this
as something that's just common sense. This is something that
and sender Kus can speak to this as well. Some
of the nastiest feedback I ever got when I was
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in the legislature was when this issue was up, and
I think a lot of women are bullied into silence.
We saw in the last time around when Husker athletes
were supporting the Pro Life Initiative, just how much grief
and threats and bulleene they took online. And that served
not only that trans movement that liberal quote unquote women
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supporting women, but we all know it's not movement. Is
they make an example out of the higher profile women
who decide to speak up, trying to shame other women
and bully other women into silence by seeing what those
women have to go through. In the United States Supreme
Court case on Boys and Girls Sports that was just
decided a couple of weeks ago as well, you saw
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the boy who was trying to play in girls sports
that the ACLU had propped up as this big victim
had actually really violently sexually harassed his teammates in the
locker room for seasons, and it led to a lot
of the girls quitting. A lot of that movement is
about silencing women and making women get on board, and
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also taking women's sports with about the same series that
most people think of raiding your hair at a slumber party.
Women's sports aren't just about the camaraderie. It's a wonderful
part of it, but you're going through injuries, thousands of
dollars of investments, giving up your weekends for years, all
in an effort to where most female athletes snacks out
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with the hope of playing varsity high school sports.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We got to that's where a.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Lot is athletes and their careers, and when a voice
taking those spots, it's a real insult to all of
the investment, all the things that that girl and her
family have gone through to get to that point in
their career.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Julie, we got to run. Thank you very much for
the time this morning. If people want to learn more
about the Fairness for Girls ballot initiative before it ends
up in the ballot in November, is their website or something.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Absolutely We're at ww dot Fairnessforgirls dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Julie Slama always a pleasure. Thank you very much for
allowing us to have some Slama time this morning. Hey,
thanks guys, anytime here on news Radio eleven ten kfab So, Jim,
what's your favorite can conspiracy theory as to what killed
Senator Lindsey Graham? Was it the COVID shot or did
he get poisoned by Russia or Iran while he was
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in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm not really subscribing to too many conspiracy theories in
this case, but Lucy, I'm not even going to look
at it has been. It has been great stuff on
social media. It seems to me that if the Russians
were going to poison the guy or the Iranians, we're
going to get to his salad while he was over
in Ukraine, he wouldn't be the only one dead. Truth is,
Lindsey Graham didn't get to make the decision about what
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we were doing with Ukraine. He was an influencer and
a big influencer, but he wasn't the only one. So
seems to me, if some bad guy had gotten into
the kitchen in the Ukrainian presidential palace, mister Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Would probably be flat as a board too.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's probably a good But you look at his lifestyle
and this is very This is very consistent with a
lot of guys in DC. And I know it's easy
for us to bag on Congress people because they do
things and you should at your head and said what
are you doing? But they do put in a lot
of strange hours and a lot of hours. They don't
get a lot of sleep, They probably unless they're committed,
they don't get a lot of exercise. Their diet is
(34:10):
probably not very healthy. He had been traveling constantly, and
when you travel to eastern Europe, it's a very very
long long journey there and back, and just multiply that
by all of the other campaign stops. He was constantly
campaigning for other candidates in other states because he was
unmarried running for re election. Yeah, he wasn't married. He
(34:32):
had a huge, huge leading the polls in South Carolina,
so he could probably ease up on South Carolina. But
this guy had no kids. This guy had no wife,
so he politics was his first love and became one
of the more celebrated bachelors in DC for years. So
he was constantly on planes, constantly driving around, constantly, probably
(34:53):
eating fast food, and he had hardening of the arteries
and that's what caused medically, according to the Examiner's office
and some of the medical experts that I've watched over
the last twenty four hours to say, this is what
hardening of the art areas will do for you. You know,
it puts a lot of strain on the heart valves.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And that's apparently what happened here.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
There is obviously, you know, a lot of conspiracy theories
it was this or that. Probably it was just being
a guy, because the story here from Axios quotes a
friend of Lindsey Graham who's been unnamed right now, said
that the seventy one year old refused to seek medical
attention on Saturday as he said he wasn't feeling well,
(35:39):
and this person said you should probably go see a doctor,
and Lindsey Graham is quoted as joking saying, quote, I
can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions,
get Iran sorted out, and do the Israeli Saudy normalization.
And then he was gone a couple hours later. If
he'd gone to the doctor. When friends were saying, hey,
(36:02):
lindsay if you're not feeling well, and this feels strange.
Why don't you go see someone. I can't die now,
I'm too busy. If he had gone in when he
obviously felt unwell enough to say something.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Out loud, well, body, the body tells you everything you
need to know. But if you don't listen to it,
then things like this happen. There's one other thing about
kills a lot of guys. By the way, day, I'm fine,
I'm fine again. Next thing you know, you're six. But
there's one thing about Lindsay Graham that I think should
should be told and probably hasn't been told enough. You
(36:36):
look at these people who enter the halls of Congress,
whether it's Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden,
and all of these people that are career politicians, and
they're working for a modest salary with modest benefits, but
when they leave, they've got thirty forty fifty one hundred
(36:57):
million dollars in the bank because of the deals that
they've cut with private enterprise or unsavory individuals or captains
of a certain industry. Lindsey Graham's net worth is one
point four million dollars, which means he's been living off
his salary as a United States Senator, and prior to that,
his salary is a congress person and his pension from
(37:19):
the United States Military.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I want to make sure we mentioned that, because that's
not a career politicians. I mean, a guy served decades
in the military.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He was a fernal well, but he's in the air
for He's been in public elected office since the early
nineteen nineties and in fact the late eighties. He was
first elected to the state legislature in South Carolina in
the late eighties, but he was elected to Congress in
nineteen ninety four and he served until now with a
net worth of all of one point four million dollars.
(37:48):
That says to me that he wasn't in bed with
the fat cats from the defense industry, even though South
Carolina is one of the leading states in the defense
manufacturing industry. This guy was a straight arrow, and he
could be candidate. He could tell people things because he
was beholding to no one set this up.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's September of twenty and eighteen. President Trump has nominated
a guy named Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the United
States Supreme Court. Just as the hearings are started, Senator
Dianne Feinstein comes out of the ward work and says,
I found someone who's a credible witness that says he
attacked her at a party in college, way back when.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
High school.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Oh that's right, it was a high school party, way
back when. And that process went on and on and
on until finally South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham had heard enough.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
to us. What you want to do is destroy this
guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win
in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got
nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron cake
and tell him that, Lindsay said, oh, because I voted
(38:58):
for them, I would never do to them what you've
done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham
since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted
to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have
done what you've done to this guy.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
That was he was looking at Dick Durbin, the senator
from Illinois, rabbit liberal, not a good person, not a
person of sincerity or integrity, and they were grasping at straws.
You should also remember the time frame here. Twenty minutes
after Donald Trump introduced Bret Kavanaugh as his candidate, Chuck Schumer,
(39:36):
another gigantic phony, stood on the steps of the United
States Capitol and said, I will do everything in my
power to block this nomination. You haven't even talked to
the guy. He could sit in your lap and you
wouldn't know who it is. That was the great exposure
of the hypocrisy and the politicalization of the court that
(39:56):
the Democrats launched on Donald Trump's nominees. Told me once
after that, because Sas was sitting two guys down from
Lindsay Grant, I remember Sas was on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He said that turned the tide because there were some
flimsy Republicans they were thinking, oh, you know, maybe we
should leave this guy alone, tell Trump to get somebody else,
maybe somebody that's a little less dogmatically conservative.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
And they that shocked these rhinos back into you know what,
Lindsay's right, this is garbage. What those Democrats are doing
to this guy, and what they're doing to miss Ford,
to doctor Blazy Ford. You know, somebody got to her
and said, hey, you know you got to hatch this
story about Brett Kall. She couldn't remember where it happened,
(40:41):
She couldn't remember any of the details from the night,
even the date.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I mean, it was the worst.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It was the worst of the worst, the politicization of
the Supreme Court judicial nomination process. So thank goodness, Lindsay said,
all right, I've had enough of this, and he was
looking right at Dick Durbin when he pointed his there's a.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
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(41:21):
about it or not. Jim, this is one for you
here from the talkback Mike.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Hi Jim about property taxes drove by Millard West the
other day. They're tearing the whole baseball field up. I
just went to a ballgame there a couple of weeks ago.
There's nothing all with that baseball field, just more taxes, more,
you know, more property taxes. What's going on? I know
(41:51):
you pay a lot of taxes too. Is there we
going to get any relief?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Well, the short answers, I hope so. But we've had
a lot of promises made that haven't been kept, and
I've done a lot of stuff on this. I've called
out state senators who run on cutting property taxes, and
then when the time comes to pass bills that would
make permanent property tax formulas changed, they either present, not voting,
(42:18):
or they literally vote no, and they claim stupid reasons
for it. Many of those previous senators are not in
the unic camera anymore. They were term limited out, and
you have some new ones. The governor is promising it again,
and he says he has a formula to do it
in his second term. He's tried very very hard. He's
(42:40):
put his shoulder behind some important legislation, he has called
a special session to do it, he has committed state
resources for it. To me, it's not a revenue problem,
it's a formula problem. And what we have is an
unbalanced tax system in our state. That's simple. We don't
(43:01):
charge enough sales tax, which puts too much pressure on
property taxes. And there are very few states in the
Union that do this. Most states don't discriminate against sales.
All sales are taxed, both at the state and local level.
But not here because over the last sixty years, we've
had lots of smart political people twist arms of thoughtful
(43:25):
or thought less state senators who say, well, yeah, that's right,
dog gone, we'll give you that exemption. And then after
sixty years there's a whole bunch of there are a
whole bunch of exemptions. Now we have a six billion
dollar hole because there are six billion dollars in sales
in this state that are not taxed. Six billion that
is essentially one year's entire budget. A couple of things
(43:48):
for you there in the wake of that. Excellent well,
hoping that that happens in the next term, but that no, dude,
I can't bonus I was. I had high hopes when
Jim got elected, because here's a business guy who doesn't
care about the next election, and he's tried, but he's failed.
They've come up two three votes short every time. Well,
(44:08):
even though he had a filibuster proof majority.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
First thing, Governor Pillen put a memo out to state
agencies last week and says, you got to cut five
percent of spending out of your budget. Now here's a
response on top of the ten percent they cut this
past spring. Here's the response from longtime Nebraska state Senator
Danielle Conrad, who also has headed up the local acl ACLU.
She said, Jim Pillen is truly choosing to amplify and
(44:33):
embrace his failure to manage state finances under his watch.
He's given credence to the fact that we're in a
fiscal crisis due to policy decisions that he has been
a part of and helped to lead.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Also, all the unions of public employees say we couldn't
possibly cut anything. We're down to the bunch. It's basically
the same thing everyone says. But in the real world,
in the private sector, businesses cut people all the time,
talking about doing that to government like Doge did. As
Trump and Elon Musk started going through it, everyone loses
(45:06):
their minds, like, you can't gore this animal. We're not
going to have that.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Well, Danielle Conrad, with all due respect to her, she
represents a district where property taxes aren't that important. Lincoln
quite quite candidly her specific Lincoln district would be considered
with lower property taxes because the homes have lower valuations.
So those who live in many of the single family
(45:32):
homes of her constituents aren't paying a ton of property tax.
They just don't grow. The values of those homes don't
grow as fast or as high as others. So she's
representing her people. She's also a liberal Democrat. She believes
that government should pay for everything. That there's no such
thing as an appropriation for social services that shouldn't be
(45:54):
not only passed but enhanced every year. That's her approach
to politics. The state should do it for the other thing.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't know how much time you spent at the
Millard West baseball field. I've been there, been there recently.
But his point, the talkback Micer's there, was that they're
tearing up and redoing this baseball diamond there. He said,
there's nothing wrong with it. I was just there. It's perfect,
it's great. I don't know what they're doing. They're just
wasting the people's money here. Well, some of that maybe
(46:22):
private donations. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
West Side High School just completed a forty five million
dollar expansion that included a swimming pool, and some other things.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, they got their own space station at west Side Now,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Much of that was donated money. Now, the west Side
Foundation is probably a little more active than some public
school foundations around here. But what we don't know about
that project, and I don't know about it specifically, is
was it strictly CAPEX funding from the district or was
there some contribution made from the private sector or businesses
around Millard West that contributed to it. I don't know,
(46:58):
But yeah, if this was funded strictly through the general fund,
that was money that flowed into the Millard School District
because of gigantic valuation increases by homes in the Millard
School District. And there are homes that have gone up
fifteen twenty twenty five percent in one year in valuations
in the Millard School disc Usually your knee jerk reaction
(47:21):
to things is not that measured and sometimes well sometimes
you actually a research and slapped together. A comedy are
you talking about? That's coming up?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Happens five days a week. Baby, the Rosie Digenozi
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