May 12, 2026 • 53 mins
Jim declares a winner in the NE-2 Dem race, NE GOP chair Mary Jane Truemper responds to Republican in-fighting, Rep. Mike Flood talks gas prices, Sean Callahan on the CSC ruling, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Primary election day is here. Good morning on this Tuesday,
May the twelfth. I am Scott Vorhees. I was also
Scott Vorhees yesterday and God willing, and I will be
Scott Vorhees tomorrow. No telling what Craig Evans might be
at any time, but he's here. Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose
as well, good morning. Thank you very much for being
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with us here on Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven
ten kfab Lucy, the question on the table here I
will ask you and Jim Rose who Jim just turned
his back to me to talk to his phone here
during the opening segment of the program, the Attorney General
of the State of Nebraska, greats all all right, got
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to help you out here. The question here on the
table for you wonderful people, is who emerges victorious after
today's Democratic primary, and will that candidate who wins in
the Nebraska's second congressional district here at the end of
the day to day be victorious in November. Please discuss
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amongst yourselves. I'm gonna I'm gonna go make some bacon
and eggs.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Ah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Know, Okay, all right, Lucy's gonna think about it some more.
Jim who emerges victorious among the Democrats in Nebraska second
District today and does that candidate end up being the
next congressman or congresswoman in Nebraska after November? Denise Powell?
And yes, Denise Powell, And yes, she's very upset. Well
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she's what a p O mom? Is that what her
ad says? She's very angry. That's all we need in
Congress is an angry woman.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You really think?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You really think she's gonna pull this out?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh, I do?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I think she's gonna pull it off. Yes I do.
I said that a year ago and I stand by
it today.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What does she have going for other than campaign ads
that stand out because she uses some rather salty language
in these ads and gets people's attention.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No reck, no voting record that can be attacked by
the Republicans, no voting record that can be attacked by Democrats.
She's never served in office, so she kind of taps
into this populous notion that let's throw the bums out.
They've had their chance and they've screwed it up, so
let's get somebody new. She can easily shift to the
center for the general election, because again, she has no
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voting record. Crystal Rhodes and John Kavanaugh have a voting
record that's very liberal, and millions and millions of dollars
and negative ads will flow into this district if either
one of them wins. Reminding people that they think it's
okay for boys to play on girls teams, They think
we should be giving all sorts of benefits to illegal aliens,
open borders, one payer health system, tax the rich. I mean,
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it's a Christmas carol. It's a hymn from a Christmas
carol of the left. And Denise Powell does not have
that problem. Doesn't mean she won't act like that when
she gets to Congress. But you can't run any ads
and say she voted for this, voted for this, and
she voted for that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If she emerges victorious and among the Democrats for this seat,
don't you think that just by virtue of those who
have put her in the ascension to that position, they
expect all of those things, whether she's voted for them
or not. She's going to represent all those things because
the people going to vote today in the Democratic primary
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in the second district, they believe all those things, They
want all those things.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well they do.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They hate Trump, they hate Maga, they want to do
all these these very very liberal things. So how how
did they get her to that position and then expect
her to shift back to center for November and then
still go out and vote for her.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I think she's a skilled politician. Yeah, her ads have
been I hate Trump, I hate Maga. You know, I'll
stand up for all this. That's how you get elected
in a Democrat primary. She's also been very skillful at
annexing and harnessing big money from other states to come
in and make it clear. If John Kavanaugh wins and
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he goes off to Congress, then that evil Maga ugly Republican.
Jim Pillen gets to decide who represents those people for
the next two years, and that could be a key
Republican vote for some of his initiatives. And he gets
to do that even if he loses the election in November,
because he can make that appointment between the time of
election day and inauguration day. And that has been successful,
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especially getting to low information voters. You know, you have
a low information voter in that district who would believe
that without looking at the facts, and that is Republicans
have not been reliable for Jim Pillen over the last
four years. Back one of the most reliable Republicans was
a Democrat, Mike MacDonald, when he was in the Nebraska
unicamer he switched over. But we've had a lot of
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people like merv Repee and other Rhino Republicans who have
left the flock on some of these key issues. So
if I were a Democrat, I wouldn't worry about that.
Now I don't. I'm not impressed by John Kavanaugh. I've
listened to him speak, I've watched him in action. I
don't think he can move the room, whether he's in
Congress or the Nebraska Unicameral. I think he's been very
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successful at annexing a very commonly used name in Nebraska politics,
especially Omaha. So I think it's Denise Powell's year. She's
a very, very knowledgeable political For the last ten years,
she's been running a pack that has gotten women elected
to the school boards and city councils and county boards.
She knows where the voters are, she knows where the
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money is, and she is collecting debts on all of
those people. And that's why I think this is Denise
Powell's day. A couple questions for you in the wake
of everything you just said. By the way, you're a
valuable asset when you're not on your phone. Well, I'm
trying to get the Attorney General on to see if
we have Nebraska athletes that are going to transfer out
because they're nil deals got mixed by the CSC today.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure he's standing by waiting for your text. We've got
Lucy standing by fiend traffic.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Lucy.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm glad you slept better last night. Lucy, didn't get
any sleep the night before. But you look well rested.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You look well, I look well, well, I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, but I got whatever you did. I didn't sleep
for nothing last night. And you know what I was
thinking about all night? Our Absolutely nothing. There's nothing on
my mind, nothing stressing me out, Just just awake, just
waiting like why why can't the the Morning Show start?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now? I got a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, what's worse is when you can't sleep, but then
you start to fall asleep and every time you wake
rab back up.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That is bad.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'd rather just I can't sleep. I can't sleep when
I find whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ye, Well, here we are so let's uh, come on,
let's wake up.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
That's just for me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh okay, Jim, you were talking about how you believe
Denise Powell will emerge victorious among Democrats in Nebraska second
district private race today, and you think that she will
be the next congress person in Nebraska second district. Why
not Brinker Harding, presuming he emerges victorious today. I think
he's pretty much the only one running.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yeah, Brinker, Yeah, he is. Brinker is an excellent candidate.
He's a really smart politico. He's a country club Republican.
And the challenge is that I don't know that the
Republican MAGA base that has turned out for Donald Trump
is going to turn out in this midterm. He's lost
the last three races in District two.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah, but Don Bacon hasn't. Don Bacon has not.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
And I think the key is going to be to
capture Don Bacon voters who turned out to vote for
other Republicans. The key is going to be turnout for Republicans.
And if you look at what happened in the last
Springs mayoral election here in omahaan District two is almost
entirely Omaha. Now there's parts of Sarpy County, and there
are pockets of dance Republicans in Sarpy County and even
(08:02):
a little slice of Saunders County too. You don't mean
that they're intellectually dance, you mean high density of them.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
In other words, they're all packed in there. But it's
primarily Omar.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
But if you look at last Springs mayoral race, we
have a lot of political fatigue in this country right now,
and getting the Trump people out in a race in
which he's not on the ballot is a chore. Brinker's
going to have to come up with a message, and
he's going to have to come up with an angle
that's going to motivate the average Republican and the average
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Independent to come out and show up for him and
pay very close attention to this race because I said,
if Denise Powell wins this primary tonight, she is going
to shift to the center faster than the road runner,
and she is going to make it sound like she's
an easy, washable moderate Democrat who's more than willing to
reach across the aisle, who will tell AOC in the
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squad and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to pound sand
because she's a pee old mom and she's not gonna
put up with this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I don't know that you can believe her. I don't
think you can believe any Democrats.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
But she again, we have low information voters and you're
not gonna have the turnout that you would have in
a presidential election.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So Breaker's got a real char on his hand.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
She's gonna have to change your ads and get us
all to forget the ads that got her to the
point where I still think that there are a lot
of people on the blue side of the blue dot
here who don't feel like she's going to be victorious tonight.
You're you're under selling the Kennedy family, that is the
Kavanaughs here in Omaha. But we can talk more about that.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
He's gonna split the vote with Crystal throughout the morning.
It's still blue persuasion.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't think Crystal Roads and the Public Service Commission
as big a force as you think. But now the
eleven to ten KFAB certified transmission Sports brief, Jim Rose,
what do you think about sports?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. Nil is back in the
front seat. The College Sports Commission, the third party watchdog
over phony nildals for college athlete through the penalty flag
on Nebraska vetoed one million in NIL deals for eighteen
football players.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Presumably.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
The transfers went to an arbitration judge, and the arbitration
judge sided with CSC says these deals don't meet a
legitimate business purpose. The money came from the university's media partner,
Playfly Sports, which plowed ten million of its twenty two
million dollar annual rights fee payment to Big Red to
be used to pay the players. But the Playfly money
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went to what they call warehousing, which means the players
get the money now in exchange for their future NIL
rights that Playfly can access. So if a player becomes
a media darling, Playfly advertisers can use them for no
extra money. The CSC says, no deal, But Nebraska passed
a state law a couple of years ago, essentially giving
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the CSC the middle finger. The law does not penalize
any athletes in Nebraska if their NIL deals are nixed
by the NCAA. See what the Attorney General Mike Kilgers
does on this and will the NCAA make Nebraska athletes
ineligible if they violate the rules.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Day one of.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
The forty day State Soccer Tournament began yesterday at Morrison Stadium. Okay,
it's only eight days, but it was Class A girls
day and here's the scoreboard. Lincoln Southwest five nothing over
Lincoln East, Elkcorn South of Rebellevue West three to one,
Carneybi millerd South five nothing, and Marian beat Southeast Final
five to nothing. The boys Class A State tournament begins
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at noon with Papio South and the East High Spartans today.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Class B tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Baseball scoreboard American le Cleveland seven to two over the Angels,
Baltimore three, Yankees two, Tampa Bay eight, Toronto five, Seattle three,
Houston one in the National League of San Francisco over
the Dodgers nine to three, Arizona Bee Texas one to nothing.
Toledo plays at Omaha to start up a series tonight.
NBA Playoffs Game four, Cleveland defeats A Detroit one twelve,
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one oh three. That series is tied up a two,
but the Thunder, number one seed in the Western Conference,
moves on to the West Conference championship game. They defeated
the Lakers in the West semi Finals Game four one
fifteen one ten and they sweeped the Lakers four games
to none.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
In the NHL.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Playoffs, she had Colorado five to two over Minnesota, that
is Game four. The Avalanche lead that series three victories
to one. Jim Culbert died pro golfer at eighty five.
The modestly successful pro who started his career as a
football player at Kansas State, got injured, took up golf,
and one semester got a golf scholarship and finished runner
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up in the NCAA Meet. Then turned pro. One summer
day he was playing, suffered a sunstroke, almost died. Doctor said,
if you're gonna play golf, you gotta wear a hat.
So he went into the pro shop grabbed a bucket
hat that covered part of his neck and ears, and
it became his signature sports his news on Nebraska's news
weathern Traffick station, we have KAFA B Husker Info Strongman
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Sean Callahan exclusively at six forty seven to talk about
the ramifications of this CSC decision on Nebraska football players
and will all these guys pack up and leave and
maybe go play for Millard South?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Who knows.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We'll have Sean talking about that in about twenty two
minutes kfab News time in the morning, six twenty five.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I hope he got a bowl of soup with that hat.
Thank you, jam Hey. That hat became very, very lucrative
for that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Scott at kfab dot com. Here's a little secret though.
Both the comment and the Scott at kfab dot com
emails both all go to my inbox, the Zonker's custom
Woods inbox. So because I'm a control freak and I
also look into Lucy's email address, all of those emails
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also come to my inbox.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's what you use to put yourself to sleep. That's right,
pretty boring. No Terry does something an email. It's good
advice about getting some sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I don't know share to share with the rest
of the class, because I just I hate it when
I'm staring at the clock and then you start doing math.
If I fall asleep right now, I can still get
five hours and fifteen minutes. If I fall asleep right now,
I can still get four hours and forty five minutes
to sleep if I and you just do that until
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it's like, well, I guess I'll wake up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, he suggests a nod pod mask, never heard of it,
and you can get it at the container store.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
So he wants you to put a big plastic bin
on your head.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Maybe, what are you a DJ It's not a beIN,
it's a container.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, it's a container for your head. A nod pod mask.
I'm guessing that's a sleep mask.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Is it particularly bright in your room?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You see? I don't spend a lot of time on
the internet looking at other stuff other than traffic traffic monitors,
so I haven't gone to the container store website or
just checked out nod pod mask.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Itt did they take down? Speaking of traffic stuff, I
know this doesn't end packed traffic. It will when they
start building stuff. The Florence Mill is gone.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
If by the Florence Mill you mean the OJ's restaurant
and all that.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, they took it down.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
They took it down the other day.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Sad, even though I hadn't been there in twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, well it hadn't been opening since when.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The restaurant was Yeah, closed that long, man.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I think I was only in there once and uh
and that was after it closed.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I was squatted looking for a place.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, got a party in there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, it's just it's such a it was such an
identifiable landmark, as in turn here and you can go
to the river, you can go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Right now, there are people driving all around and they're
trying to find their way out.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I went clear across the Mormon Bridge, and I don't
know where to turn. But if you hit the bridge,
you've gone too far. Especially if you hit the bridge.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The Fox and Friend ends on our television screen here
is now talking about they're apparently Americans from that Haunta
virus ship who were here in Omaha. Wow, we should
have talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Did that come up?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
They got doctor Davis, who's the president of view on
MC chancellor of Viewing MC interviewing. You're getting interviewed by
the Fox and Friends people about what's happening with these
eighteen folks that are now housed in Omaha.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
How'd you who were these people?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
We were told by Jim Pillon, don't worry. They won't
be out walking the streets. They're not going to be
sampling the fare at the farmers market or run on
the basis at schwab Field.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
And they're not.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
They're they're housed. They're locked up. You know they're not
going anywhere. Nobody's leaving the door roll.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
They just showed an image of people there at the
windows wearing just masks, just your your standard blue COVID
mask masks.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yeah, but those are those the healthcare workers are.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
In some very secure rooms. You know they're not. But
if they're, they're not in straight jackets. If they're in
the rooms by themselves, what do they got the mask on?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And if those are the healthcare workers, why are they
They can't just be wearing that mask unless they're trying
to prove a stupid point that goes back five years
saying if you wear this mask, nothing can ever get
to you, which is bold.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Give them a coronavirus shot. Remember, you can't get sick
if you get one. According to Joe Biden, I don't
wear this mask for me. I wear it for you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Is I don't know if those if those are the patients,
let them take their mask off and breathe in their room. Otherwise,
if they have a little bit of haunt a virus,
they're gonna be breathing in their own haunt of virus.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Actually, it was bad tape, that tape that we just
saw that had those folks with masks. Those were the
kids at the Children's Hospital at Iowa waving to the
crowd after the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Uh see, they can't tell the difference between Nebraska and Iowa.
They think they were all the same. But then we
all look alike.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's it's sad that they think that. From the talkback,
Mike in the Zonker's custom was in.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Good morning, a happy primary election day.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Say, you know, we're always talking about turnouts and what's
going to get people to turn out? You know, can
you guys dedicate a show or maybe this would be
something for Gene to have people call in that did
not vote and tell us why. I mean, what excuse
is there not to vote. One of the things that
sticks in my head after the Iraq War is this
little old lady who walked like fourteen miles to get
her some dipted purple ink so she could vote.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
People.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I mean, voting is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Why don't they vote?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I don't know, but look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If people have no idea what's going on, they're not engaged,
They're completely ignorant, and they want to be that way?
Do you really want them to vote? Case rested now?
The eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. I
vote we go to a special Husker Buzz edition with
Sean Callahan and Jim Rose.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Okay Scott, and we got Shana in here to talk
about the CSC ruling yesterday. The arbitration judge said, I
only flag on Nebraska's nil deals for these eighteen players.
It was a million dollars worth of nil deals. They
said were not legitimate business for legitimate business practices or purposes.
So they've been invalidated. What are Nebraska's options right now, Shano.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, you know, it is a clear beating by the
CSC to quote Ross Delling or the neutral arbitrator declared
a resounding victory for the CSC. One person who's seen
the full arbitration ruling described it as a beatdown. Quote
So yeah, they they submitted, you know, and did things
the wrong way, and I think now the process is
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to resubmit and do it the right way. It's it's
kind of like, yeah, there's free candy here, you can
take it, but you've got to put it in the
proper bags. They didn't do it properly or or you know,
something was not processed right everyone's doing what Nebraska's doing.
I think that's a confusing fan of most Husker fans.
Like teams that have these forty to fifty million dollars
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rosters which greater than Nebraska's, are doing the exact same thing.
But clearly the process with working with Playfly and how
they chose to do this clearly winning into the CSC,
and they've got to do things correctly and so hopefully
that gets squared away. There's been no statement or comment
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from the Nebraska Attorney General, Mike Kilger's at this point,
so we'll see if the state weighs in on this
for the student athletes, but as of right now, they're
going to resubmit the deals. And you were talking eighteen
athletes and over a million dollars of payments.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
So what playfly did And for those of you who
don't know who playfly is, and that's understandable, it's not
a very common name. This is a marketing firm out
of San Diego that buys up marketing rights at various
big colleges and universities and they pay the university a
chunk of money and then turn around and sell that stuff.
The radio advertising, the signs, in the stadium, internet banner
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ads and all of that. They gave the university's athletic
department ten point five million of the twenty five million
that they pay every year for these rights. And then
the university took that ten and a half million and
plodded into nil money over and above the revenue share
that we all know about and read about after the
court case. The house is settlement court case of a
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year or so ago, and they ware house this money. Now, Shana,
what does warehousing mean?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Well, it means basically taking a bunch of money and
holding on to it to pay athletes. And so the
Playflying money was warehoused by Nebraska essentially to pay these athletes.
And Playfly is an associate and entity with the university,
and that's where the issue is with this. I mean
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they specifically say and associate and entity. Can't you do
what they did here? And so they've got to figure
out a way to redirect it. And you know, they
did away with the collective relationship back in the fall,
So you don't have eighteen ninety anymore. And I know,
at least until the rules change more. There's a lot
of schools that wish they still had a collective just
to you know, do some different things, almost like as
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a marketing agent, Like they're just different things you wonder
that could have been done or and how they do this.
But it's it's crucial they get this worked out because
you know, you're you're talking about paying guys, and you
know there's a lot of schools that are going through
this as well, like just because the money. To quote
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Dellinger in his most recent article, he said, the Big
ten of the SEC have submitted six times more financial
deals through the CSC in the last few months, and
the Big twelve and the ACC combined.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, and the warehousing essentially does this player a Sean
Callahan is a transfer in from you and l V
and they say, okay, Sean, here's five hundred thousand dollars
and we're going to put this in a warehouse for you.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
You get it now.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
But if you turn out to be a big star
and the playfly guys can find an advertiser that wants
to put you on their billboards, then they get you
for no extra money because we're paying you up front.
And what the CSC and the NCAA said is no,
and that's not how it works. It has to be
for legitimate business purposes, a product or a service that
is sold to the general public. So let's see what
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Nebraska does. But we have a minute or so left,
seanel and you're not a lawyer, but Nebraska passed a
law and pill and signed it into law a couple
of years ago that shields Nebraska athletes from any of this.
Why don't they just plug that in now and tell
the NCAA and the CSC to pound sand.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, they very well could, but if they get this
worked out, the deals get resubmitted, they could also just
move forward and not blow this up, because you know,
that is the type of thing that could blow up
the entire system if the Attorney General this kind of
overrides and allows the payments to go through. And this
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arbitration means nothing. So we'll see what the next step is.
But it is a is a big deal in kind
of the grand scheme of where we're at in college athletics,
and things have moved so quickly. I think that's the
hard part for most fans is, you know, we've gone
from the collectives to this to this to this to this,
and it's at warp speed, right, now and it continues
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to operate at that and it doesn't feel like there's
an end in sight with how this is going to
get rained in. And I think that's a scary thing
for a lot of fans and coaches and administrators. Is
win is enough enough? I mean, it went from twenty
to thirty to forty to fifty million dollar rosters in
college athletics for football and basketball is pushing twenty million
dollar rosters in some cases.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Hi, big guy, Thanks appreciate the emergency visit. We'll talk
on Friday. Get an update on baseball, softball and all
the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Jim Rose has predicted that Denise Powell will emerge not
just victorious from today's Democratic primary, but in November we'll
beat BA think her hearting for this seat. Now as
of today, yeah, that's that what you're you today? Okay, well,
the election is the primary.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, but in November, I mean if if, if she
gets picked up for drunk driving, or she gets picked up,
you know, going nuts down there in the old market
sometime this summer, things could change. But as of today,
my prediction is she will win this Democrat primary and
she will win.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
The election to cong if she gets picked up for
drunk driving or going nuts, then she can get a
spot in the Nebraska unicameral.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
So I mean, if she decides to take off her
shirt down there in the Old Market about August first
or tenth, and you know parades around that, that could
that could damage your hopes with the you know, soccer moms.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like no I'll vote for and so a lot of
the question I ask about who could not just emerge
victorious today but then in November in Nebraska's second district,
of course, has to do with the referendum on the
president of the United States. Are you thinking that President
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Trump has done worse and not the job that people
elected him for in twenty twenty four and that if
he continues on the path he's on, no Republicans will
be re elected or elected in the mid term elections,
or do you think that there's a chance, if people
are disillusioned with the current version of the Trump train,
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that he can turn things around. Economy turns around, gas
prices go down. Iran says, you were right. We were
trying to make nuclear weapons and kill everybody, and we're
not going to do that anymore. I mean, is it
possible that all these things turn around. Yeah, it's possible.
We'll see where the war goes. Wall Street believes the
war will be over fairly soon. Corporate earnings are really high,
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which is one of the reasons. Now there's a pullback
today because oil went up another three percent.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
But yesterday it was very resilient.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
The Martin was very resilient because Wall Street leaves that
Trump will get this thing finished and we'll get back
to the business of kicking. You know what's this Economically,
gas prices are high, but that's not all. Healthcare prices
are through the roof, everything dry. Getting a plumber over
to your house for less than five hundred dollars. This
is what we're saying. And the President promised Independence Scott
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that he would fix all this. He would not just
fix food prices. And food prices I think it moderated.
Maybe they're even down a little bit from the super
highs of the bidening years. But he promised that we
would do this, this and this. Now he closed down
the border, but he's run into problems with ice. He
promised that Doge would go through that budget like Buckshot
through a goose. We haven't heard anything from Doge in
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a long, long time tied up in court, you know
how much money has actually been saved. The big beautiful
bill has delivered on a lot of pluses for business.
We talked about the tax return and the increase in
the individual deduction or the couple's deduction for your property
or your income tax. But what it did for business
was very, very very positive. And maybe that will translate
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into higher wages and that will translate into a better
economic scenario. But a lot of independence. This is what
got Trump elected. The independence and the black vote got
Trump elected. He got more black votes than any other
Republican president of all time. And frankly, I can't understand
how Republicans don't get a lot more black votes because
blacks have been under Democrat ruled in these major cities
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for two generations and the places have gone to crap.
But these people want him to deliver on these results,
and these mid term elections is a check on whether
the presidents can coming through with promises. Long way until November.
But to some of your points there, the president can't
even paint the bottom of the reflecting pool in Washington,
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DC without it going to court. By the way, they
did file a lawsuit yesterday against the Trump's plan to
paint the bottom of the reflecting pool to have it
be a nice blue color.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
They said no, no, no, you can't do it. That's
now in court. So as far as cutting jobs, trying
to save some money from DOS, he can't get any
of that stuff done. Now, why is Republican primary turnout
so down in these elections? People will tell you that
people are off the Trump train, and a lot of
it has to do with they wanted him to go
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and get the worst of the worst, the murderers, the cannibals,
and the drug dealers and all the rest of these
awful people, grave robbers who are in this country illegally,
terrible people, jay Walker's Jayhawks, just awful, awful people. Well,
now they're looking at this and going, await a second,
He's going after people like this pastor at Saint Francis
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of Assissi in South Omaha. This is a Catholic church
and he is believed to be America's only permanent Catholic
deacon who hail from this particular area of Guatemala. He
is in the country illegally, he says, I've tried to
be a legal immigrant in this country.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
On one side, based on what's been reported the story
excellent story here from Cindy Gonzales in the Nebraska Examiner.
On one side, you got people saying, oh, come on,
he's been here since he was like in his early twenties.
He's been here for like twenty five years. He has
been named this Catholic deacon. He helps people at this church.
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He's absolutely great. On the other side, he came into
the country illegally. He was found to have been in
the country illegally, was deported from America, and then came
back into America illegally. He does have a DUI charge
in his background. Granted it was a long time ago,
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but some of these things, the deportation, the re entry
in the country, a criminal charge, these are the things
that are flagged when ICE is looking for people who
may need to be deported from this country. Now, he
hasn't been deported yet. They have been working with him
from a court standpoint. He is wearing an ankle monitor.
He says, I'm buying a house here. I'm not going
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to run away. I love my work in my community,
and I hope that's all fine. I hope that there's
some way to try and get this figured out. But
it can't just be like he's a good guy, he
can stay. There's got to be some penalty when you
have things like you were removed from America, you returned
several months later, you were detained by a federal grand
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jury in twenty fifteen of illegal re entry, and you
still don't have any status in this country. What is
it that this group ICE is supposed to do? What's
the Trump Department of Homeland Security supposed to do? So
don't just scan the headlines and go they're going after
a deacon, Remove that tie, and take a look at
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the facts of the case and see if you look
at it a different way. Now, that doesn't mean send
him to Guatemala. Maybe there's a different path here. That's
part of what we're working on. And this is what's
got people off fired up when it comes to things
like voting, and it's got Denise Powell ticked off, so
to speak, for her Democratic second congressional race today. I'm
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sure the others are ticked off as well. Can't wait
to see how that race turns out. Welcoming on here,
the chair of the Nebraska Republican Party, Mary Jane Trumper
joins us here. Mary Jane, good morning.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Good morning, Scott.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So here's a little bit of what I wanted to
chat with you about today. And it's kind of seen
in this secretary state race, which is not exactly the
sexiest of your political races, but the Republican primary here
between the incumbent establishment to Republican that some may call
him Bob Evden and this challenger of the more trump
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be wing of the Nebraska Republican Party, Scott Peterson, kind
of shows me this division in state Republican politics, and
we wonder about turnout and what might happen. I mean,
the state and some of the local Republican party chairs
and groups haven't even endorsed Republicans who are seeking reelection
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over the last couple of years. So Mary, there's Mary Jane.
There's a lot to respond to here. Is there a
problem a rift here in the Nebraska Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Well, you know, Republicans are independent minded people, they're not collectivists,
and so there's always been a rift in the Republican
Party if you really want to know the truth of it.
We all have different opinions on a variety of subjects
and are very vocal about them. I see that as
a boon and not a bust, because it makes us
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then have to defend our arguments with other Republicans, and
it makes our arguments strong longer. So I don't see
that as a negative. But yes, there's probably I think
we had seen back in twenty twenty two there had
been a big rift in the party where we had
gotten new chairmanship, and that is not the first time
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that that has ever happened. The twenty five years I've
been in Nebraska, We've had some rough transitions in the
Republican Party. Let's just put it at that, some rough
transitions and leadership, but we all come together when it
comes to voting into elections, and I don't see that
being any different this time.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, let's just look at the Secretary of State's race.
Is the Nebraska Republican Party endorsing the re election efforts
of Bob Evanan, the Republican incumbent.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
In this race.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, when I first became, when I first became chairman
in March of last year, I was the first thing
I wanted to do was to go back to what
had originally been, at least when I first came to
Nebraska the policy of the Publican Party, and in that
policy we maintained at the state level a neutral policy
on Republicans and Republican primaries, and so we supported all Republicans.
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We had that change at our state Central Committee, so
we do not endorse anymore. We support both parties. They're
able to, you know, use our walk apps, and in
the things that we're able to provide as a party,
we provided equally. And I remain to be Uh. I
can't tell you how grateful I am to have to
be Switzerland, especially during this race.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
All right, but do you need but Mary Jane, do
you need to be Switzerland? Bob Evnon.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Bob Evnon is not only probably the most you know,
basically intelligent person in Nebraska state government, but he's been
a loyal Republican. He's delivered on all of his campaign promises.
And this is just messy. How much influence does the
state party have when candidates say, I want to challenge
this guy, Well.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Why would you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:59):
You know, maybe you're hanging on conspiracy theories, maybe you
believe that he's a bad guy. But how much influence
does the party have? Because if you go back to
the Ronald Reagan years, we didn't have a lot of
riffs in the Republican Party.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Everybody was on board, a lot of good stuff got done.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Well, you know what, Jim, this is our process, and
our process is if someone wants to run against an incumbent,
they have to organize, they have to find people that
support them, and they get out there and they run
against them. If anything, it makes the incumbent's position stronger
in my viewpoint, because if one person is able to
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garner the support of even a significant number of Republicans
to go toward their cause, then that needs to be
an indicator to the incumbent that there's an issue that
needs to be better addressed or addressed differently. So that's
our process in the We don't have a monarchy where
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once you're enthroned, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I think we've never had that iron sharpens iron. Just
a moment left here with Mary Jane trump Er, chair
of the Nebraska Republican Party. What do you think about
the Democrats in Nebraska's second congressional district race here?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Oh my gosh, there's a bunch of them, isn't there.
I just it's going to be an interesting race for sure,
and who knows that the dark horse doesn't creep up
out of there. But I think whoever wins, there's a
distinct difference between Democrats and Republicans. I mean, the distinction
has never been greater in the policies and in their
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viewpoint worldview, and so it'll be an interesting race. I
think that whoever wins this race will have to wear
the mantle of the Democrat Party, which is gott gotten
farther and farther left as time has gone on.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Who do you want to win?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
You know, I don't have I've thought about the two
front runners, I guess, you know, or supposed front runners.
I've thought about both of them. That's just something I
do in my spare time. And you know, job, there's
pros and cons. There's pros and cons of both, and
so you know, they can they we can have a
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program ready to go for either one of them, as
far as you know, pointing out their defects or the
flaws and their thinking. So I have no problem coming
up with reasons to Republican over Democrats.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So why should Republicans go out and vote on primary day?
You don't really have significant challengers for governor or senator
for Nebraska's Republican second congressional district.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Why go vote?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Well, you know, voting is a civic duty, at least
in my mind it is, and so I think it's
very important for people to get out and perform that duty.
And it's also an active charity towards your neighbor because
you want to make sure that the best candidate, at
least the best candidate via your conscience, is the one
that gets elected. And so I think it's a duty
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to get out there and do it. But I also
think that people fall asleep, they get lethargic, they get
the lack of delicool about getting out and voting, and
that's when bad things happen, and our country would not
be in the shape it's sin if people were more engaged.
And we see what happened with the Stauthard election there
was a low turnout. Bad things happen when Republicans don't
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show up at the polls.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Mary Jane Trumper, chair of the Nebraska Republican Party online
at n dot GOP, thank you very much for the
time today. Thank you both, good morning, Thank you so
much for spending some time with us here and this
is the place we convene to laugh, cry and get
through the day together. What do we feel like doing today?
I vote we laugh a little bit, get through the
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day together. We got to do that every day. I
am not necessarily in the mood to cry, but that
could change. I mean there could be a beer commercial
that comes on the TV monitor.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
In the studio that I give you something to cry about.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Dad and the sun going out fishing or something like
that always gets me. Are you gonna give me something
to cry about?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Lucy Chapman only if you have to drive on Pacific Street?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Huh no, No, here's a construction about every intersection.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Oh that's oh, that's because it's a it's a street
in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That's why there is it part of the street car.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How far can you drive in Omaha before you run
into construction?
Speaker 8 (40:32):
You can?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I don't understand how we have street racers in this town?
How can you get anywhere?
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Where are they getting all these people to work? It's
I mean, that's a lot of cruise. Oh they're not
always occupied.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Right, there's Lucy chapin Craig Evans as well. Jim Rose
is right there. Jim Rose has been just up my
all morning today. It's been hectoring me, bothering me, been
harassing me.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I've been your grill.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm Scott Vorhees. This is News Radio eleven ten kfab here, Jim.
This will make it.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
You're demanding, This will make it. I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
We got a Chinese spy. The mayor of a southern
California town has stepped down from office yesterday, as federal
prosecutors said she's been charged with secretly working for the
Chinese government. This was the mayor of Arcadia, California. Her
name Eileen Wang. Here's how they busted her.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Hey, what's for their pictures? That's a parking lot.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Come on, well, I think this place is restricted Wang,
So don't tell you you're Jewish.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, fine, they busted her, mayor Wang Chinese spy. And
in case you're wondering, like, all right, well a lot
of these female Chinese spy are attractive.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Issue, yes, well the Chinese aren't stupid. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The people in town, especially the guy, said we're good,
We're fine. If she's spying for China, that's fine. We
had a really attractive mayor and who cares if she
had direct access to President Xi Jinpeng. Well, what is
she gonna She's the mayor of Arcadia, California, and I
don't have any idea where that is. I'm going to
say somewhere in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. I think
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I'm right in that. What's she going to tell the
premiere of China. Hey, we've got a lot of traffic
out here, all right, thanks Merwang. You're doing a bang
up job there in Arcadia, California. Report back of you. Yeah,
it's hot. We had some wildfires in the vicinity. Thanks Merriwang.
I tell you what we We're gonna someday top of
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that American regime, and you're a big part of it.
What in the world is she gonna tell is? Meanwhile,
you got the President of the United States heading over
to China right now. And I know that not only
because it's on his daily schedule, but also one of
his truth social posts today, in addition to his face
(42:59):
on the one hundred dollars bill, a fake image of
Governor JB. Pritzker saying JB is too busy to keep
Chicago safe while he is devouring a double cheeseburger while
holding a piece of pizza with a bucket of jumbo
size fried chicken and a milkshake and nachos and a
Hogy sandwich in front of him. He posted all those
(43:20):
things and he said that I'm off to China. That
was right under a picture featuring President Obama, President Biden,
and Speaker Pelosi swimming in the reflecting pool in front
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of the Washington Monument in what appears to be the
filthiest water you've ever seen, and it says Democrats love sewage.
As I mentioned earlier, the President is Jim has not
just been harassing me today, he was also harassing President Trump.
I'm saying, what happened dose what happened to him doing
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all this stuff? Well, it's all tied up in court. Yeah,
And one of the things tied up in court is
President Trump wanting to paint the bottom of the reflecting
pool there at the National Mall. You can't even do that.
You can't even paint the bottom of the reflecting pool.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
Well, I was looking through some AI videos and they
actually have the Iranian Navy at the bottom of the
reflecting pool.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
And that's what Trump wants to do.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
He wants to deposit the Iranian Navy at the bottom
of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which is actually only
two feet deep. Look, this ballroom, which has gotten has
become kind of a political football. This ballroom is not
about just big parties. And this has been part of
the national narrative that has been lost, and that is
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it's a massively secure, underground military installation that has drone proof.
I don't know if people appreciate this. And the Department
of Homeland secure, he works at it all the time.
But the White House is a little bit vulnerable to
drone attacks. A lot of drone not one drone, but
like one hundred and fifty or two hundred of them.
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They get launched, it might be more difficult to take
those out than you think. This particular installation is drone proof.
And here's the other thing that's lost. Sure it might
get built under Trump, but he's not going to be
the last American president who uses it.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Right? Is he the last president We're ever going to have?
Speaker 6 (45:27):
No So there, Resident there may even be a Democrat
down through the years that might need a very secure
military installation president very close to the White House.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
President Trump can use it. President Vance can use it.
President Trump Junior.
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Can use it.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
President Rubio can use it as President Baron. President Ricketts
can use it, and all use it. President Adrian Smith
can use it. President Adrian Smith, President Kim Reynolds now
welcoming Nebraska first a district Congressman Mike Flood to the
program here on this primary election day. I'll let you
do they get out the vote message in a moment, Congressman,
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but with no offense. I'm not exactly sure what you
have for primary challengers right now, which doesn't say much
for any potential primary challengers. But let's talk about a
few of the issues of the day as people are
voting today, thinking about gas prices and the ongoing whatever
we're doing in Iran. What are your thoughts on gas
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prices here and what do you tell people across Nebraska
about them.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
Well, they're too high, obviously, and a lot of this
is connected to the straight you know, and Iran and
our efforts there. Listen, we don't want to Ran to
have a nuclear weapon, we don't want them to have
a dirty bomb. We've been at this for fifty years.
The President's trying to land the plane with the country
that has really no leadership, you know, who's in charge,
who makes the call?
Speaker 4 (46:49):
How do we do this.
Speaker 8 (46:51):
We're going to reconvene this week in Washington. There's going
to be a discussion about a supplemental Listen. I want
this over as soon as possible. And I do think
that see those guests and fuel prices come down, but
they're getting too high.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Yeah, he's on his way over to China right now.
What do you think about what the president has done
to rain in oil and divert it away from China
and Russia here lately with not just Iran but Venezuela
disruptions and OPEC.
Speaker 8 (47:23):
Well, you know, hopefully we can bring the Chinese to
their senses and have them intervene with Iran. Getting them
on board would help quell things, bring this to an
end and make sure that Iran doesn't have any good weapon.
I'm pleased to see the President going over to China
with some of our executives, business executives. Listen, we have
a lot of there's a lot of problems with China
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and if they would just simply buy our soybeans like
they agreed to do, like they promised to do by
March of this year, which we know didn't happen that
would have an immediate impact on the farm economy in
our home state.
Speaker 6 (47:58):
Jim Rose, do you think it's a good idea for
the President to suspend the national gas tax?
Speaker 8 (48:05):
Well, it's a short term deal. I it's eighteen cents,
and maybe we're a dollar fifty above where we were, so,
you know, everything helps, But at the end of the day,
we still have to we still have to build those roads.
You know, tell me how two hundred and four Street
Omaha's going for you these days? Like, we've got to
balance all those interests. Ultimately, we need to warner Rant
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to be over with so that we don't have to
even entertain ideas like that.
Speaker 6 (48:32):
What are you hearing from the White House about that?
Not what Trump says in front of cameras, but what
the White House is saying about it.
Speaker 8 (48:40):
Well, internally, I think they're confident that they can wrap
things up with a run. I think they are using
every tool at their disposal. They don't see this as
a long term issue. They certainly don't see this as
an issue that will be here in November. I hope
they're right. That's what we want, that's what Americans want,
That's what you know our own national security. That's in
our best interest there. But that's internally what I'm hearing.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
Of the Democrats running in district too. Who worries you
the most?
Speaker 4 (49:08):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (49:10):
I have had a hard time in all candor figuring
out which one we'd rather run against. It just depends
on the day. Here's the fortunate thing for me where
I live in Norfolk, I'm not in the Omaha media market,
so I have not seen the endless barrage of ads
that you have all been subjected to. So I'm not
as up on the daily back and forth. Listen, I've
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served with John Kavanaugh. He is as advertised, he is
a progressive. He's got their endorsement. I see how that
works in Congress. They don't come to the table. They
don't want to fund DHS. They're happy to have our
border open, and they're happy to have our border protection
folks not funded. And they respond to the far left,
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which they're completely out of sync with Americans. So we'll
see what happens tonight. It's going to be an interesting race.
I'm going to be watching it from afar. We're actually
in session today and I've got a big Main Street
meeting tonight with the Director of the Secret Service, So
I'll be running that and then I'll be watching the polls.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, and we'll be watching it as well and talking
about it here tomorrow morning on Nebraska's Morning News. But
just to sum up everything we've talked about here, Congressman,
when it comes to gas prices, inflation, diesel prices, which
then costs to go up. We haven't been dealing with
Iran for too long, but it's already had a major
impact just in the last six or seven weeks. How
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long should America's patients be for what we're doing in
Iran and how much it's going to cost us here
in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 8 (50:42):
Well, the good news about oversight is that we are
going to have to eventually vote on a supplemental and
we're going to have to get answers about where we're
at and what the plan is and what the endgame is.
And so far that request is at about twenty five billion.
That's the number that they said they've spent. Replacing our
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munitions is going to be the big issue, and I
think Congress most notably are Defense appropriators House Armed Services.
There's going to be a plenty of public opportunity to
find out where we're at. And I think ultimately the
president he as I understand it more than anybody, wants
this over with, but he doesn't want to cut and run.
We've seen what happens when you cut and run. I
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eat Afghanistan. That's not what this is today, and that's
not where we're going.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
My flood is running unopposed in today's primary election in
Nebraska's first district. So a congressman, good luck in the
primary today. I hope you don't get beat by right In.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
If I got beat by right In, I'm moving to England.
Speaker 5 (51:42):
That the top opponent. Now.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
The Associated Press is very interested, it says the fate
of Nebraska's blue dot a small but significant factor, and
presidential politics will take center stage today as Democratic voters
select a congressional nominee in the state's high profile second district.
They know that we have till November, right. They know
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that it doesn't matter who emerges victorious, it's going to
be a very tough campaign against Brinker Harding on the
Republican side. They know that Don Bacon has even when
when Trump has not won the second district, won the
second district. So and they also know that it's one
electoral college vote. That always there's always the conversation before election,
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before presidential election day, like, well, if Wisconsin goes here
and Michigan does this, and you get this over here,
and then and then Nebraska could come down two sixty nine,
two sixty nine and Nebraska's won, and that never happens,
is never even close, But it's it's very plausible.
Speaker 8 (52:44):
It is.
Speaker 6 (52:45):
I mean, it's not that outrageous that the election could
come down to the Nebraska blue dot.
Speaker 5 (52:51):
It's the subtext of what will the unicameral do.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
Will the unicamer if you get enough Republicans in there,
make it a winner take all state.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
That's what the Democrats are worried about.
Primary election day is here. Good morning on this Tuesday,
May the twelfth. I am Scott Vorhees. I was also
Scott Vorhees yesterday and God willing, and I will be
Scott Vorhees tomorrow. No telling what Craig Evans might be
at any time, but he's here. Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose
as well, good morning. Thank you very much for being
(00:20):
with us here on Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven
ten kfab Lucy, the question on the table here I
will ask you and Jim Rose who Jim just turned
his back to me to talk to his phone here
during the opening segment of the program, the Attorney General
of the State of Nebraska, greats all all right, got
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to help you out here. The question here on the
table for you wonderful people, is who emerges victorious after
today's Democratic primary, and will that candidate who wins in
the Nebraska's second congressional district here at the end of
the day to day be victorious in November. Please discuss
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amongst yourselves. I'm gonna I'm gonna go make some bacon
and eggs.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Ah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Know, Okay, all right, Lucy's gonna think about it some more.
Jim who emerges victorious among the Democrats in Nebraska second
District today and does that candidate end up being the
next congressman or congresswoman in Nebraska after November? Denise Powell?
And yes, Denise Powell, And yes, she's very upset. Well
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she's what a p O mom? Is that what her
ad says? She's very angry. That's all we need in
Congress is an angry woman.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You really think?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You really think she's gonna pull this out?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh, I do?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I think she's gonna pull it off. Yes I do.
I said that a year ago and I stand by
it today.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What does she have going for other than campaign ads
that stand out because she uses some rather salty language
in these ads and gets people's attention.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No reck, no voting record that can be attacked by
the Republicans, no voting record that can be attacked by Democrats.
She's never served in office, so she kind of taps
into this populous notion that let's throw the bums out.
They've had their chance and they've screwed it up, so
let's get somebody new. She can easily shift to the
center for the general election, because again, she has no
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voting record. Crystal Rhodes and John Kavanaugh have a voting
record that's very liberal, and millions and millions of dollars
and negative ads will flow into this district if either
one of them wins. Reminding people that they think it's
okay for boys to play on girls teams, They think
we should be giving all sorts of benefits to illegal aliens,
open borders, one payer health system, tax the rich. I mean,
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it's a Christmas carol. It's a hymn from a Christmas
carol of the left. And Denise Powell does not have
that problem. Doesn't mean she won't act like that when
she gets to Congress. But you can't run any ads
and say she voted for this, voted for this, and
she voted for that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If she emerges victorious and among the Democrats for this seat,
don't you think that just by virtue of those who
have put her in the ascension to that position, they
expect all of those things, whether she's voted for them
or not. She's going to represent all those things because
the people going to vote today in the Democratic primary
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in the second district, they believe all those things, They
want all those things.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well they do.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They hate Trump, they hate Maga, they want to do
all these these very very liberal things. So how how
did they get her to that position and then expect
her to shift back to center for November and then
still go out and vote for her.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I think she's a skilled politician. Yeah, her ads have
been I hate Trump, I hate Maga. You know, I'll
stand up for all this. That's how you get elected
in a Democrat primary. She's also been very skillful at
annexing and harnessing big money from other states to come
in and make it clear. If John Kavanaugh wins and
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he goes off to Congress, then that evil Maga ugly Republican.
Jim Pillen gets to decide who represents those people for
the next two years, and that could be a key
Republican vote for some of his initiatives. And he gets
to do that even if he loses the election in November,
because he can make that appointment between the time of
election day and inauguration day. And that has been successful,
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especially getting to low information voters. You know, you have
a low information voter in that district who would believe
that without looking at the facts, and that is Republicans
have not been reliable for Jim Pillen over the last
four years. Back one of the most reliable Republicans was
a Democrat, Mike MacDonald, when he was in the Nebraska
unicamer he switched over. But we've had a lot of
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people like merv Repee and other Rhino Republicans who have
left the flock on some of these key issues. So
if I were a Democrat, I wouldn't worry about that.
Now I don't. I'm not impressed by John Kavanaugh. I've
listened to him speak, I've watched him in action. I
don't think he can move the room, whether he's in
Congress or the Nebraska Unicameral. I think he's been very
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successful at annexing a very commonly used name in Nebraska politics,
especially Omaha. So I think it's Denise Powell's year. She's
a very, very knowledgeable political For the last ten years,
she's been running a pack that has gotten women elected
to the school boards and city councils and county boards.
She knows where the voters are, she knows where the
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money is, and she is collecting debts on all of
those people. And that's why I think this is Denise
Powell's day. A couple questions for you in the wake
of everything you just said. By the way, you're a
valuable asset when you're not on your phone. Well, I'm
trying to get the Attorney General on to see if
we have Nebraska athletes that are going to transfer out
because they're nil deals got mixed by the CSC today.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure he's standing by waiting for your text. We've got
Lucy standing by fiend traffic.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Lucy.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm glad you slept better last night. Lucy, didn't get
any sleep the night before. But you look well rested.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You look well, I look well, well, I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, but I got whatever you did. I didn't sleep
for nothing last night. And you know what I was
thinking about all night? Our Absolutely nothing. There's nothing on
my mind, nothing stressing me out, Just just awake, just
waiting like why why can't the the Morning Show start?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now? I got a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, what's worse is when you can't sleep, but then
you start to fall asleep and every time you wake
rab back up.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That is bad.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'd rather just I can't sleep. I can't sleep when
I find whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ye, Well, here we are so let's uh, come on,
let's wake up.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
That's just for me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh okay, Jim, you were talking about how you believe
Denise Powell will emerge victorious among Democrats in Nebraska second
district private race today, and you think that she will
be the next congress person in Nebraska second district. Why
not Brinker Harding, presuming he emerges victorious today. I think
he's pretty much the only one running.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yeah, Brinker, Yeah, he is. Brinker is an excellent candidate.
He's a really smart politico. He's a country club Republican.
And the challenge is that I don't know that the
Republican MAGA base that has turned out for Donald Trump
is going to turn out in this midterm. He's lost
the last three races in District two.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah, but Don Bacon hasn't. Don Bacon has not.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
And I think the key is going to be to
capture Don Bacon voters who turned out to vote for
other Republicans. The key is going to be turnout for Republicans.
And if you look at what happened in the last
Springs mayoral election here in omahaan District two is almost
entirely Omaha. Now there's parts of Sarpy County, and there
are pockets of dance Republicans in Sarpy County and even
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a little slice of Saunders County too. You don't mean
that they're intellectually dance, you mean high density of them.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
In other words, they're all packed in there. But it's
primarily Omar.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
But if you look at last Springs mayoral race, we
have a lot of political fatigue in this country right now,
and getting the Trump people out in a race in
which he's not on the ballot is a chore. Brinker's
going to have to come up with a message, and
he's going to have to come up with an angle
that's going to motivate the average Republican and the average
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Independent to come out and show up for him and
pay very close attention to this race because I said,
if Denise Powell wins this primary tonight, she is going
to shift to the center faster than the road runner,
and she is going to make it sound like she's
an easy, washable moderate Democrat who's more than willing to
reach across the aisle, who will tell AOC in the
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squad and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to pound sand
because she's a pee old mom and she's not gonna
put up with this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I don't know that you can believe her. I don't
think you can believe any Democrats.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
But she again, we have low information voters and you're
not gonna have the turnout that you would have in
a presidential election.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So Breaker's got a real char on his hand.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
She's gonna have to change your ads and get us
all to forget the ads that got her to the
point where I still think that there are a lot
of people on the blue side of the blue dot
here who don't feel like she's going to be victorious tonight.
You're you're under selling the Kennedy family, that is the
Kavanaughs here in Omaha. But we can talk more about that.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
He's gonna split the vote with Crystal throughout the morning.
It's still blue persuasion.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't think Crystal Roads and the Public Service Commission
as big a force as you think. But now the
eleven to ten KFAB certified transmission Sports brief, Jim Rose,
what do you think about sports?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. Nil is back in the
front seat. The College Sports Commission, the third party watchdog
over phony nildals for college athlete through the penalty flag
on Nebraska vetoed one million in NIL deals for eighteen
football players.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Presumably.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
The transfers went to an arbitration judge, and the arbitration
judge sided with CSC says these deals don't meet a
legitimate business purpose. The money came from the university's media partner,
Playfly Sports, which plowed ten million of its twenty two
million dollar annual rights fee payment to Big Red to
be used to pay the players. But the Playfly money
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went to what they call warehousing, which means the players
get the money now in exchange for their future NIL
rights that Playfly can access. So if a player becomes
a media darling, Playfly advertisers can use them for no
extra money. The CSC says, no deal, But Nebraska passed
a state law a couple of years ago, essentially giving
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the CSC the middle finger. The law does not penalize
any athletes in Nebraska if their NIL deals are nixed
by the NCAA. See what the Attorney General Mike Kilgers
does on this and will the NCAA make Nebraska athletes
ineligible if they violate the rules.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Day one of.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
The forty day State Soccer Tournament began yesterday at Morrison Stadium. Okay,
it's only eight days, but it was Class A girls
day and here's the scoreboard. Lincoln Southwest five nothing over
Lincoln East, Elkcorn South of Rebellevue West three to one,
Carneybi millerd South five nothing, and Marian beat Southeast Final
five to nothing. The boys Class A State tournament begins
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at noon with Papio South and the East High Spartans today.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Class B tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Baseball scoreboard American le Cleveland seven to two over the Angels,
Baltimore three, Yankees two, Tampa Bay eight, Toronto five, Seattle three,
Houston one in the National League of San Francisco over
the Dodgers nine to three, Arizona Bee Texas one to nothing.
Toledo plays at Omaha to start up a series tonight.
NBA Playoffs Game four, Cleveland defeats A Detroit one twelve,
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one oh three. That series is tied up a two,
but the Thunder, number one seed in the Western Conference,
moves on to the West Conference championship game. They defeated
the Lakers in the West semi Finals Game four one
fifteen one ten and they sweeped the Lakers four games
to none.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
In the NHL.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Playoffs, she had Colorado five to two over Minnesota, that
is Game four. The Avalanche lead that series three victories
to one. Jim Culbert died pro golfer at eighty five.
The modestly successful pro who started his career as a
football player at Kansas State, got injured, took up golf,
and one semester got a golf scholarship and finished runner
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up in the NCAA Meet. Then turned pro. One summer
day he was playing, suffered a sunstroke, almost died. Doctor said,
if you're gonna play golf, you gotta wear a hat.
So he went into the pro shop grabbed a bucket
hat that covered part of his neck and ears, and
it became his signature sports his news on Nebraska's news
weathern Traffick station, we have KAFA B Husker Info Strongman
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Sean Callahan exclusively at six forty seven to talk about
the ramifications of this CSC decision on Nebraska football players
and will all these guys pack up and leave and
maybe go play for Millard South?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Who knows.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We'll have Sean talking about that in about twenty two
minutes kfab News time in the morning, six twenty five.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I hope he got a bowl of soup with that hat.
Thank you, jam Hey. That hat became very, very lucrative
for that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Scott at kfab dot com. Here's a little secret though.
Both the comment and the Scott at kfab dot com
emails both all go to my inbox, the Zonker's custom
Woods inbox. So because I'm a control freak and I
also look into Lucy's email address, all of those emails
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also come to my inbox.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's what you use to put yourself to sleep. That's right,
pretty boring. No Terry does something an email. It's good
advice about getting some sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I don't know share to share with the rest
of the class, because I just I hate it when
I'm staring at the clock and then you start doing math.
If I fall asleep right now, I can still get
five hours and fifteen minutes. If I fall asleep right now,
I can still get four hours and forty five minutes
to sleep if I and you just do that until
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it's like, well, I guess I'll wake up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, he suggests a nod pod mask, never heard of it,
and you can get it at the container store.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
So he wants you to put a big plastic bin
on your head.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Maybe, what are you a DJ It's not a beIN,
it's a container.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, it's a container for your head. A nod pod mask.
I'm guessing that's a sleep mask.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Is it particularly bright in your room?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You see? I don't spend a lot of time on
the internet looking at other stuff other than traffic traffic monitors,
so I haven't gone to the container store website or
just checked out nod pod mask.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Itt did they take down? Speaking of traffic stuff, I
know this doesn't end packed traffic. It will when they
start building stuff. The Florence Mill is gone.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
If by the Florence Mill you mean the OJ's restaurant
and all that.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, they took it down.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
They took it down the other day.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Sad, even though I hadn't been there in twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, well it hadn't been opening since when.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The restaurant was Yeah, closed that long, man.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I think I was only in there once and uh
and that was after it closed.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I was squatted looking for a place.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, got a party in there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, it's just it's such a it was such an
identifiable landmark, as in turn here and you can go
to the river, you can go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Right now, there are people driving all around and they're
trying to find their way out.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I went clear across the Mormon Bridge, and I don't
know where to turn. But if you hit the bridge,
you've gone too far. Especially if you hit the bridge.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The Fox and Friend ends on our television screen here
is now talking about they're apparently Americans from that Haunta
virus ship who were here in Omaha. Wow, we should
have talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Did that come up?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
They got doctor Davis, who's the president of view on
MC chancellor of Viewing MC interviewing. You're getting interviewed by
the Fox and Friends people about what's happening with these
eighteen folks that are now housed in Omaha.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
How'd you who were these people?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
We were told by Jim Pillon, don't worry. They won't
be out walking the streets. They're not going to be
sampling the fare at the farmers market or run on
the basis at schwab Field.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
And they're not.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
They're they're housed. They're locked up. You know they're not
going anywhere. Nobody's leaving the door roll.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
They just showed an image of people there at the
windows wearing just masks, just your your standard blue COVID
mask masks.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yeah, but those are those the healthcare workers are.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
In some very secure rooms. You know they're not. But
if they're, they're not in straight jackets. If they're in
the rooms by themselves, what do they got the mask on?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And if those are the healthcare workers, why are they
They can't just be wearing that mask unless they're trying
to prove a stupid point that goes back five years
saying if you wear this mask, nothing can ever get
to you, which is bold.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Give them a coronavirus shot. Remember, you can't get sick
if you get one. According to Joe Biden, I don't
wear this mask for me. I wear it for you.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Is I don't know if those if those are the patients,
let them take their mask off and breathe in their room. Otherwise,
if they have a little bit of haunt a virus,
they're gonna be breathing in their own haunt of virus.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Actually, it was bad tape, that tape that we just
saw that had those folks with masks. Those were the
kids at the Children's Hospital at Iowa waving to the
crowd after the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Uh see, they can't tell the difference between Nebraska and Iowa.
They think they were all the same. But then we
all look alike.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's it's sad that they think that. From the talkback,
Mike in the Zonker's custom was in.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Good morning, a happy primary election day.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Say, you know, we're always talking about turnouts and what's
going to get people to turn out? You know, can
you guys dedicate a show or maybe this would be
something for Gene to have people call in that did
not vote and tell us why. I mean, what excuse
is there not to vote. One of the things that
sticks in my head after the Iraq War is this
little old lady who walked like fourteen miles to get
her some dipted purple ink so she could vote.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
People.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I mean, voting is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Why don't they vote?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I don't know, but look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If people have no idea what's going on, they're not engaged,
They're completely ignorant, and they want to be that way?
Do you really want them to vote? Case rested now?
The eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. I
vote we go to a special Husker Buzz edition with
Sean Callahan and Jim Rose.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Okay Scott, and we got Shana in here to talk
about the CSC ruling yesterday. The arbitration judge said, I
only flag on Nebraska's nil deals for these eighteen players.
It was a million dollars worth of nil deals. They
said were not legitimate business for legitimate business practices or purposes.
So they've been invalidated. What are Nebraska's options right now, Shano.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, you know, it is a clear beating by the
CSC to quote Ross Delling or the neutral arbitrator declared
a resounding victory for the CSC. One person who's seen
the full arbitration ruling described it as a beatdown. Quote
So yeah, they they submitted, you know, and did things
the wrong way, and I think now the process is
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to resubmit and do it the right way. It's it's
kind of like, yeah, there's free candy here, you can
take it, but you've got to put it in the
proper bags. They didn't do it properly or or you know,
something was not processed right everyone's doing what Nebraska's doing.
I think that's a confusing fan of most Husker fans.
Like teams that have these forty to fifty million dollars
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rosters which greater than Nebraska's, are doing the exact same thing.
But clearly the process with working with Playfly and how
they chose to do this clearly winning into the CSC,
and they've got to do things correctly and so hopefully
that gets squared away. There's been no statement or comment
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from the Nebraska Attorney General, Mike Kilger's at this point,
so we'll see if the state weighs in on this
for the student athletes, but as of right now, they're
going to resubmit the deals. And you were talking eighteen
athletes and over a million dollars of payments.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
So what playfly did And for those of you who
don't know who playfly is, and that's understandable, it's not
a very common name. This is a marketing firm out
of San Diego that buys up marketing rights at various
big colleges and universities and they pay the university a
chunk of money and then turn around and sell that stuff.
The radio advertising, the signs, in the stadium, internet banner
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ads and all of that. They gave the university's athletic
department ten point five million of the twenty five million
that they pay every year for these rights. And then
the university took that ten and a half million and
plodded into nil money over and above the revenue share
that we all know about and read about after the
court case. The house is settlement court case of a
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year or so ago, and they ware house this money. Now, Shana,
what does warehousing mean?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Well, it means basically taking a bunch of money and
holding on to it to pay athletes. And so the
Playflying money was warehoused by Nebraska essentially to pay these athletes.
And Playfly is an associate and entity with the university,
and that's where the issue is with this. I mean
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they specifically say and associate and entity. Can't you do
what they did here? And so they've got to figure
out a way to redirect it. And you know, they
did away with the collective relationship back in the fall,
So you don't have eighteen ninety anymore. And I know,
at least until the rules change more. There's a lot
of schools that wish they still had a collective just
to you know, do some different things, almost like as
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a marketing agent, Like they're just different things you wonder
that could have been done or and how they do this.
But it's it's crucial they get this worked out because
you know, you're you're talking about paying guys, and you
know there's a lot of schools that are going through
this as well, like just because the money. To quote
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Dellinger in his most recent article, he said, the Big
ten of the SEC have submitted six times more financial
deals through the CSC in the last few months, and
the Big twelve and the ACC combined.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, and the warehousing essentially does this player a Sean
Callahan is a transfer in from you and l V
and they say, okay, Sean, here's five hundred thousand dollars
and we're going to put this in a warehouse for you.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
You get it now.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
But if you turn out to be a big star
and the playfly guys can find an advertiser that wants
to put you on their billboards, then they get you
for no extra money because we're paying you up front.
And what the CSC and the NCAA said is no,
and that's not how it works. It has to be
for legitimate business purposes, a product or a service that
is sold to the general public. So let's see what
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Nebraska does. But we have a minute or so left,
seanel and you're not a lawyer, but Nebraska passed a
law and pill and signed it into law a couple
of years ago that shields Nebraska athletes from any of this.
Why don't they just plug that in now and tell
the NCAA and the CSC to pound sand.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, they very well could, but if they get this
worked out, the deals get resubmitted, they could also just
move forward and not blow this up, because you know,
that is the type of thing that could blow up
the entire system if the Attorney General this kind of
overrides and allows the payments to go through. And this
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arbitration means nothing. So we'll see what the next step is.
But it is a is a big deal in kind
of the grand scheme of where we're at in college athletics,
and things have moved so quickly. I think that's the
hard part for most fans is, you know, we've gone
from the collectives to this to this to this to this,
and it's at warp speed, right, now and it continues
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to operate at that and it doesn't feel like there's
an end in sight with how this is going to
get rained in. And I think that's a scary thing
for a lot of fans and coaches and administrators. Is
win is enough enough? I mean, it went from twenty
to thirty to forty to fifty million dollar rosters in
college athletics for football and basketball is pushing twenty million
dollar rosters in some cases.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Hi, big guy, Thanks appreciate the emergency visit. We'll talk
on Friday. Get an update on baseball, softball and all
the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Jim Rose has predicted that Denise Powell will emerge not
just victorious from today's Democratic primary, but in November we'll
beat BA think her hearting for this seat. Now as
of today, yeah, that's that what you're you today? Okay, well,
the election is the primary.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, but in November, I mean if if, if she
gets picked up for drunk driving, or she gets picked up,
you know, going nuts down there in the old market
sometime this summer, things could change. But as of today,
my prediction is she will win this Democrat primary and
she will win.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
The election to cong if she gets picked up for
drunk driving or going nuts, then she can get a
spot in the Nebraska unicameral.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
So I mean, if she decides to take off her
shirt down there in the Old Market about August first
or tenth, and you know parades around that, that could
that could damage your hopes with the you know, soccer moms.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like no I'll vote for and so a lot of
the question I ask about who could not just emerge
victorious today but then in November in Nebraska's second district,
of course, has to do with the referendum on the
president of the United States. Are you thinking that President
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Trump has done worse and not the job that people
elected him for in twenty twenty four and that if
he continues on the path he's on, no Republicans will
be re elected or elected in the mid term elections,
or do you think that there's a chance, if people
are disillusioned with the current version of the Trump train,
(26:25):
that he can turn things around. Economy turns around, gas
prices go down. Iran says, you were right. We were
trying to make nuclear weapons and kill everybody, and we're
not going to do that anymore. I mean, is it
possible that all these things turn around. Yeah, it's possible.
We'll see where the war goes. Wall Street believes the
war will be over fairly soon. Corporate earnings are really high,
(26:50):
which is one of the reasons. Now there's a pullback
today because oil went up another three percent.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
But yesterday it was very resilient.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
The Martin was very resilient because Wall Street leaves that
Trump will get this thing finished and we'll get back
to the business of kicking. You know what's this Economically,
gas prices are high, but that's not all. Healthcare prices
are through the roof, everything dry. Getting a plumber over
to your house for less than five hundred dollars. This
is what we're saying. And the President promised Independence Scott
(27:21):
that he would fix all this. He would not just
fix food prices. And food prices I think it moderated.
Maybe they're even down a little bit from the super
highs of the bidening years. But he promised that we
would do this, this and this. Now he closed down
the border, but he's run into problems with ice. He
promised that Doge would go through that budget like Buckshot
through a goose. We haven't heard anything from Doge in
(27:42):
a long, long time tied up in court, you know
how much money has actually been saved. The big beautiful
bill has delivered on a lot of pluses for business.
We talked about the tax return and the increase in
the individual deduction or the couple's deduction for your property
or your income tax. But what it did for business
was very, very very positive. And maybe that will translate
(28:06):
into higher wages and that will translate into a better
economic scenario. But a lot of independence. This is what
got Trump elected. The independence and the black vote got
Trump elected. He got more black votes than any other
Republican president of all time. And frankly, I can't understand
how Republicans don't get a lot more black votes because
blacks have been under Democrat ruled in these major cities
(28:29):
for two generations and the places have gone to crap.
But these people want him to deliver on these results,
and these mid term elections is a check on whether
the presidents can coming through with promises. Long way until November.
But to some of your points there, the president can't
even paint the bottom of the reflecting pool in Washington,
(28:52):
DC without it going to court. By the way, they
did file a lawsuit yesterday against the Trump's plan to
paint the bottom of the reflecting pool to have it
be a nice blue color.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
They said no, no, no, you can't do it. That's
now in court. So as far as cutting jobs, trying
to save some money from DOS, he can't get any
of that stuff done. Now, why is Republican primary turnout
so down in these elections? People will tell you that
people are off the Trump train, and a lot of
it has to do with they wanted him to go
(29:24):
and get the worst of the worst, the murderers, the cannibals,
and the drug dealers and all the rest of these
awful people, grave robbers who are in this country illegally,
terrible people, jay Walker's Jayhawks, just awful, awful people. Well,
now they're looking at this and going, await a second,
He's going after people like this pastor at Saint Francis
(29:48):
of Assissi in South Omaha. This is a Catholic church
and he is believed to be America's only permanent Catholic
deacon who hail from this particular area of Guatemala. He
is in the country illegally, he says, I've tried to
be a legal immigrant in this country.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
On one side, based on what's been reported the story
excellent story here from Cindy Gonzales in the Nebraska Examiner.
On one side, you got people saying, oh, come on,
he's been here since he was like in his early twenties.
He's been here for like twenty five years. He has
been named this Catholic deacon. He helps people at this church.
(30:31):
He's absolutely great. On the other side, he came into
the country illegally. He was found to have been in
the country illegally, was deported from America, and then came
back into America illegally. He does have a DUI charge
in his background. Granted it was a long time ago,
(30:51):
but some of these things, the deportation, the re entry
in the country, a criminal charge, these are the things
that are flagged when ICE is looking for people who
may need to be deported from this country. Now, he
hasn't been deported yet. They have been working with him
from a court standpoint. He is wearing an ankle monitor.
He says, I'm buying a house here. I'm not going
(31:14):
to run away. I love my work in my community,
and I hope that's all fine. I hope that there's
some way to try and get this figured out. But
it can't just be like he's a good guy, he
can stay. There's got to be some penalty when you
have things like you were removed from America, you returned
several months later, you were detained by a federal grand
(31:38):
jury in twenty fifteen of illegal re entry, and you
still don't have any status in this country. What is
it that this group ICE is supposed to do? What's
the Trump Department of Homeland Security supposed to do? So
don't just scan the headlines and go they're going after
a deacon, Remove that tie, and take a look at
(32:02):
the facts of the case and see if you look
at it a different way. Now, that doesn't mean send
him to Guatemala. Maybe there's a different path here. That's
part of what we're working on. And this is what's
got people off fired up when it comes to things
like voting, and it's got Denise Powell ticked off, so
to speak, for her Democratic second congressional race today. I'm
(32:23):
sure the others are ticked off as well. Can't wait
to see how that race turns out. Welcoming on here,
the chair of the Nebraska Republican Party, Mary Jane Trumper
joins us here. Mary Jane, good morning.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Good morning, Scott.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So here's a little bit of what I wanted to
chat with you about today. And it's kind of seen
in this secretary state race, which is not exactly the
sexiest of your political races, but the Republican primary here
between the incumbent establishment to Republican that some may call
him Bob Evden and this challenger of the more trump
(33:00):
be wing of the Nebraska Republican Party, Scott Peterson, kind
of shows me this division in state Republican politics, and
we wonder about turnout and what might happen. I mean,
the state and some of the local Republican party chairs
and groups haven't even endorsed Republicans who are seeking reelection
(33:23):
over the last couple of years. So Mary, there's Mary Jane.
There's a lot to respond to here. Is there a
problem a rift here in the Nebraska Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Well, you know, Republicans are independent minded people, they're not collectivists,
and so there's always been a rift in the Republican
Party if you really want to know the truth of it.
We all have different opinions on a variety of subjects
and are very vocal about them. I see that as
a boon and not a bust, because it makes us
(33:54):
then have to defend our arguments with other Republicans, and
it makes our arguments strong longer. So I don't see
that as a negative. But yes, there's probably I think
we had seen back in twenty twenty two there had
been a big rift in the party where we had
gotten new chairmanship, and that is not the first time
(34:15):
that that has ever happened. The twenty five years I've
been in Nebraska, We've had some rough transitions in the
Republican Party. Let's just put it at that, some rough
transitions and leadership, but we all come together when it
comes to voting into elections, and I don't see that
being any different this time.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, let's just look at the Secretary of State's race.
Is the Nebraska Republican Party endorsing the re election efforts
of Bob Evanan, the Republican incumbent.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
In this race.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Well, when I first became, when I first became chairman
in March of last year, I was the first thing
I wanted to do was to go back to what
had originally been, at least when I first came to
Nebraska the policy of the Publican Party, and in that
policy we maintained at the state level a neutral policy
on Republicans and Republican primaries, and so we supported all Republicans.
(35:10):
We had that change at our state Central Committee, so
we do not endorse anymore. We support both parties. They're
able to, you know, use our walk apps, and in
the things that we're able to provide as a party,
we provided equally. And I remain to be Uh. I
can't tell you how grateful I am to have to
be Switzerland, especially during this race.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
All right, but do you need but Mary Jane, do
you need to be Switzerland? Bob Evnon.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Bob Evnon is not only probably the most you know,
basically intelligent person in Nebraska state government, but he's been
a loyal Republican. He's delivered on all of his campaign promises.
And this is just messy. How much influence does the
state party have when candidates say, I want to challenge
this guy, Well.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Why would you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:59):
You know, maybe you're hanging on conspiracy theories, maybe you
believe that he's a bad guy. But how much influence
does the party have? Because if you go back to
the Ronald Reagan years, we didn't have a lot of
riffs in the Republican Party.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Everybody was on board, a lot of good stuff got done.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Well, you know what, Jim, this is our process, and
our process is if someone wants to run against an incumbent,
they have to organize, they have to find people that
support them, and they get out there and they run
against them. If anything, it makes the incumbent's position stronger
in my viewpoint, because if one person is able to
(36:36):
garner the support of even a significant number of Republicans
to go toward their cause, then that needs to be
an indicator to the incumbent that there's an issue that
needs to be better addressed or addressed differently. So that's
our process in the We don't have a monarchy where
(36:57):
once you're enthroned, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I think we've never had that iron sharpens iron. Just
a moment left here with Mary Jane trump Er, chair
of the Nebraska Republican Party. What do you think about
the Democrats in Nebraska's second congressional district race here?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Oh my gosh, there's a bunch of them, isn't there.
I just it's going to be an interesting race for sure,
and who knows that the dark horse doesn't creep up
out of there. But I think whoever wins, there's a
distinct difference between Democrats and Republicans. I mean, the distinction
has never been greater in the policies and in their
(37:34):
viewpoint worldview, and so it'll be an interesting race. I
think that whoever wins this race will have to wear
the mantle of the Democrat Party, which is gott gotten
farther and farther left as time has gone on.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Who do you want to win?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
You know, I don't have I've thought about the two
front runners, I guess, you know, or supposed front runners.
I've thought about both of them. That's just something I
do in my spare time. And you know, job, there's
pros and cons. There's pros and cons of both, and
so you know, they can they we can have a
(38:17):
program ready to go for either one of them, as
far as you know, pointing out their defects or the
flaws and their thinking. So I have no problem coming
up with reasons to Republican over Democrats.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So why should Republicans go out and vote on primary day?
You don't really have significant challengers for governor or senator
for Nebraska's Republican second congressional district.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Why go vote?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Well, you know, voting is a civic duty, at least
in my mind it is, and so I think it's
very important for people to get out and perform that duty.
And it's also an active charity towards your neighbor because
you want to make sure that the best candidate, at
least the best candidate via your conscience, is the one
that gets elected. And so I think it's a duty
(39:06):
to get out there and do it. But I also
think that people fall asleep, they get lethargic, they get
the lack of delicool about getting out and voting, and
that's when bad things happen, and our country would not
be in the shape it's sin if people were more engaged.
And we see what happened with the Stauthard election there
was a low turnout. Bad things happen when Republicans don't
(39:28):
show up at the polls.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Mary Jane Trumper, chair of the Nebraska Republican Party online
at n dot GOP, thank you very much for the
time today. Thank you both, good morning, Thank you so
much for spending some time with us here and this
is the place we convene to laugh, cry and get
through the day together. What do we feel like doing today?
I vote we laugh a little bit, get through the
(39:52):
day together. We got to do that every day. I
am not necessarily in the mood to cry, but that
could change. I mean there could be a beer commercial
that comes on the TV monitor.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
In the studio that I give you something to cry about.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Dad and the sun going out fishing or something like
that always gets me. Are you gonna give me something
to cry about?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Lucy Chapman only if you have to drive on Pacific Street?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Huh no, No, here's a construction about every intersection.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Oh that's oh, that's because it's a it's a street
in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That's why there is it part of the street car.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How far can you drive in Omaha before you run
into construction?
Speaker 8 (40:32):
You can?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I don't understand how we have street racers in this town?
How can you get anywhere?
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Where are they getting all these people to work? It's
I mean, that's a lot of cruise. Oh they're not
always occupied.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Right, there's Lucy chapin Craig Evans as well. Jim Rose
is right there. Jim Rose has been just up my
all morning today. It's been hectoring me, bothering me, been
harassing me.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I've been your grill.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm Scott Vorhees. This is News Radio eleven ten kfab here, Jim.
This will make it.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
You're demanding, This will make it. I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
We got a Chinese spy. The mayor of a southern
California town has stepped down from office yesterday, as federal
prosecutors said she's been charged with secretly working for the
Chinese government. This was the mayor of Arcadia, California. Her
name Eileen Wang. Here's how they busted her.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Hey, what's for their pictures? That's a parking lot.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Come on, well, I think this place is restricted Wang,
So don't tell you you're Jewish.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, fine, they busted her, mayor Wang Chinese spy. And
in case you're wondering, like, all right, well a lot
of these female Chinese spy are attractive.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Issue, yes, well the Chinese aren't stupid. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The people in town, especially the guy, said we're good,
We're fine. If she's spying for China, that's fine. We
had a really attractive mayor and who cares if she
had direct access to President Xi Jinpeng. Well, what is
she gonna She's the mayor of Arcadia, California, and I
don't have any idea where that is. I'm going to
say somewhere in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. I think
(42:17):
I'm right in that. What's she going to tell the
premiere of China. Hey, we've got a lot of traffic
out here, all right, thanks Merwang. You're doing a bang
up job there in Arcadia, California. Report back of you. Yeah,
it's hot. We had some wildfires in the vicinity. Thanks Merriwang.
I tell you what we We're gonna someday top of
(42:38):
that American regime, and you're a big part of it.
What in the world is she gonna tell is? Meanwhile,
you got the President of the United States heading over
to China right now. And I know that not only
because it's on his daily schedule, but also one of
his truth social posts today, in addition to his face
(42:59):
on the one hundred dollars bill, a fake image of
Governor JB. Pritzker saying JB is too busy to keep
Chicago safe while he is devouring a double cheeseburger while
holding a piece of pizza with a bucket of jumbo
size fried chicken and a milkshake and nachos and a
Hogy sandwich in front of him. He posted all those
(43:20):
things and he said that I'm off to China. That
was right under a picture featuring President Obama, President Biden,
and Speaker Pelosi swimming in the reflecting pool in front
(43:40):
of the Washington Monument in what appears to be the
filthiest water you've ever seen, and it says Democrats love sewage.
As I mentioned earlier, the President is Jim has not
just been harassing me today, he was also harassing President Trump.
I'm saying, what happened dose what happened to him doing
(44:02):
all this stuff? Well, it's all tied up in court. Yeah,
And one of the things tied up in court is
President Trump wanting to paint the bottom of the reflecting
pool there at the National Mall. You can't even do that.
You can't even paint the bottom of the reflecting pool.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
Well, I was looking through some AI videos and they
actually have the Iranian Navy at the bottom of the
reflecting pool.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
And that's what Trump wants to do.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
He wants to deposit the Iranian Navy at the bottom
of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which is actually only
two feet deep. Look, this ballroom, which has gotten has
become kind of a political football. This ballroom is not
about just big parties. And this has been part of
the national narrative that has been lost, and that is
(44:49):
it's a massively secure, underground military installation that has drone proof.
I don't know if people appreciate this. And the Department
of Homeland secure, he works at it all the time.
But the White House is a little bit vulnerable to
drone attacks. A lot of drone not one drone, but
like one hundred and fifty or two hundred of them.
(45:09):
They get launched, it might be more difficult to take
those out than you think. This particular installation is drone proof.
And here's the other thing that's lost. Sure it might
get built under Trump, but he's not going to be
the last American president who uses it.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Right? Is he the last president We're ever going to have?
Speaker 6 (45:27):
No So there, Resident there may even be a Democrat
down through the years that might need a very secure
military installation president very close to the White House.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
President Trump can use it. President Vance can use it.
President Trump Junior.
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Can use it.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
President Rubio can use it as President Baron. President Ricketts
can use it, and all use it. President Adrian Smith
can use it. President Adrian Smith, President Kim Reynolds now
welcoming Nebraska first a district Congressman Mike Flood to the
program here on this primary election day. I'll let you
do they get out the vote message in a moment, Congressman,
(46:03):
but with no offense. I'm not exactly sure what you
have for primary challengers right now, which doesn't say much
for any potential primary challengers. But let's talk about a
few of the issues of the day as people are
voting today, thinking about gas prices and the ongoing whatever
we're doing in Iran. What are your thoughts on gas
(46:24):
prices here and what do you tell people across Nebraska
about them.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
Well, they're too high, obviously, and a lot of this
is connected to the straight you know, and Iran and
our efforts there. Listen, we don't want to Ran to
have a nuclear weapon, we don't want them to have
a dirty bomb. We've been at this for fifty years.
The President's trying to land the plane with the country
that has really no leadership, you know, who's in charge,
who makes the call?
Speaker 4 (46:49):
How do we do this.
Speaker 8 (46:51):
We're going to reconvene this week in Washington. There's going
to be a discussion about a supplemental Listen. I want
this over as soon as possible. And I do think
that see those guests and fuel prices come down, but
they're getting too high.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Yeah, he's on his way over to China right now.
What do you think about what the president has done
to rain in oil and divert it away from China
and Russia here lately with not just Iran but Venezuela
disruptions and OPEC.
Speaker 8 (47:23):
Well, you know, hopefully we can bring the Chinese to
their senses and have them intervene with Iran. Getting them
on board would help quell things, bring this to an
end and make sure that Iran doesn't have any good weapon.
I'm pleased to see the President going over to China
with some of our executives, business executives. Listen, we have
a lot of there's a lot of problems with China
(47:46):
and if they would just simply buy our soybeans like
they agreed to do, like they promised to do by
March of this year, which we know didn't happen that
would have an immediate impact on the farm economy in
our home state.
Speaker 6 (47:58):
Jim Rose, do you think it's a good idea for
the President to suspend the national gas tax?
Speaker 8 (48:05):
Well, it's a short term deal. I it's eighteen cents,
and maybe we're a dollar fifty above where we were, so,
you know, everything helps, But at the end of the day,
we still have to we still have to build those roads.
You know, tell me how two hundred and four Street
Omaha's going for you these days? Like, we've got to
balance all those interests. Ultimately, we need to warner Rant
(48:27):
to be over with so that we don't have to
even entertain ideas like that.
Speaker 6 (48:32):
What are you hearing from the White House about that?
Not what Trump says in front of cameras, but what
the White House is saying about it.
Speaker 8 (48:40):
Well, internally, I think they're confident that they can wrap
things up with a run. I think they are using
every tool at their disposal. They don't see this as
a long term issue. They certainly don't see this as
an issue that will be here in November. I hope
they're right. That's what we want, that's what Americans want,
That's what you know our own national security. That's in
our best interest there. But that's internally what I'm hearing.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
Of the Democrats running in district too. Who worries you
the most?
Speaker 4 (49:08):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (49:10):
I have had a hard time in all candor figuring
out which one we'd rather run against. It just depends
on the day. Here's the fortunate thing for me where
I live in Norfolk, I'm not in the Omaha media market,
so I have not seen the endless barrage of ads
that you have all been subjected to. So I'm not
as up on the daily back and forth. Listen, I've
(49:34):
served with John Kavanaugh. He is as advertised, he is
a progressive. He's got their endorsement. I see how that
works in Congress. They don't come to the table. They
don't want to fund DHS. They're happy to have our
border open, and they're happy to have our border protection
folks not funded. And they respond to the far left,
(49:55):
which they're completely out of sync with Americans. So we'll
see what happens tonight. It's going to be an interesting race.
I'm going to be watching it from afar. We're actually
in session today and I've got a big Main Street
meeting tonight with the Director of the Secret Service, So
I'll be running that and then I'll be watching the polls.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, and we'll be watching it as well and talking
about it here tomorrow morning on Nebraska's Morning News. But
just to sum up everything we've talked about here, Congressman,
when it comes to gas prices, inflation, diesel prices, which
then costs to go up. We haven't been dealing with
Iran for too long, but it's already had a major
impact just in the last six or seven weeks. How
(50:33):
long should America's patients be for what we're doing in
Iran and how much it's going to cost us here
in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 8 (50:42):
Well, the good news about oversight is that we are
going to have to eventually vote on a supplemental and
we're going to have to get answers about where we're
at and what the plan is and what the endgame is.
And so far that request is at about twenty five billion.
That's the number that they said they've spent. Replacing our
(51:03):
munitions is going to be the big issue, and I
think Congress most notably are Defense appropriators House Armed Services.
There's going to be a plenty of public opportunity to
find out where we're at. And I think ultimately the
president he as I understand it more than anybody, wants
this over with, but he doesn't want to cut and run.
We've seen what happens when you cut and run. I
(51:23):
eat Afghanistan. That's not what this is today, and that's
not where we're going.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
My flood is running unopposed in today's primary election in
Nebraska's first district. So a congressman, good luck in the
primary today. I hope you don't get beat by right In.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
If I got beat by right In, I'm moving to England.
Speaker 5 (51:42):
That the top opponent. Now.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
The Associated Press is very interested, it says the fate
of Nebraska's blue dot a small but significant factor, and
presidential politics will take center stage today as Democratic voters
select a congressional nominee in the state's high profile second district.
They know that we have till November, right. They know
(52:05):
that it doesn't matter who emerges victorious, it's going to
be a very tough campaign against Brinker Harding on the
Republican side. They know that Don Bacon has even when
when Trump has not won the second district, won the
second district. So and they also know that it's one
electoral college vote. That always there's always the conversation before election,
(52:28):
before presidential election day, like, well, if Wisconsin goes here
and Michigan does this, and you get this over here,
and then and then Nebraska could come down two sixty nine,
two sixty nine and Nebraska's won, and that never happens,
is never even close, But it's it's very plausible.
Speaker 8 (52:44):
It is.
Speaker 6 (52:45):
I mean, it's not that outrageous that the election could
come down to the Nebraska blue dot.
Speaker 5 (52:51):
It's the subtext of what will the unicameral do.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
Will the unicamer if you get enough Republicans in there,
make it a winner take all state.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
That's what the Democrats are worried about.
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