May 14, 2025 • 14 mins
Before you think Mayor-Elect Ewing will solve all your problems, there are a few things you should know. Thankfully, I'm here to tell you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorhees.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The people of Omaha have spoken, and it's not even close.
You know, I mentioned earlier this hour, I wasn't surprised
necessarily that Mayor Scotthart lost her election bid, just because
of the the traditional fickleness of Omaha voters. And I
think most recently we saw this with like Lee Terry.
(00:22):
I think Lee Terry does a good job. You're gonna
vote for him? Nah, he'd been there long enough. Let's
get someone else in there. And before that, it was
the repeat mayoral ambitions of hal Doabb. Hal Dobb was
a great mayor, loved hal Doab is mayor. He's running
for election for mayor again. You're you gonna vote for him? Nah,
(00:43):
Let's get someone else in there. I mean, that's just
kind of the Omaha voter way. So now we've got
John Ewing, who incidentally is Omaha's first elected black mayor
since hal Doab. Just seeing if Lucy's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I told you I'm always paying attention.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, the designation there is that Johnny Wing is
Omaha's first elected black mayor. Do you know why that
is no joke? Because it was Mayor Bernie Simon who
was elected. Well, No, he was chosen by the City
(01:26):
Council from the city council to fill out the remaining
term of Mayor Mike Boyle, who was recalled in nineteen
in like eighty seven, eighty six and eighty seven, and
so Boyle got recalled. The council filled out the remaining
part of the term with Bernie Simon. But Bernie Simon
(01:46):
died in office just before taking office. He was diagnosed
as having an inoperable tumor in his lung and he
only served just a matter of months in office. Yes,
so that was let's see here, so Bernie Simon dies
(02:08):
in office and then the City Council president became the
acting mayor of Omaha for six days in the spring
of nineteen eighty eight. That was City Council President Fred Conley.
Fred Conley black Man was He was mayor of Omaha
(02:29):
for almost a week and so he technically is Omaha's
first openly black mayor. Johnny Wing is Omaha's first openly
black elected mayor. As we said about Jeans Stothard, Omaha's
first openly female mayor since how don so what do
(02:53):
we have in Johnny Wing? I can tell you that.
As I've said, John Ewing and I are apparently not
good enough friends where I can text him and say
join me on the radio and he'll get back to
me and say absolutely, what time. Apparently we're not that
(03:13):
level of friends. But I will say that I like
John Ewing. He's just a likable guy. He's a good man.
His wife, viv is so much a better human being
than he is, and that's not because of his shortcomings.
It's only it's only because she's awesome. His family's great,
(03:36):
He's got a wonderful family. He's a good man, and
I think he's done a solid job as treasure. I
think there were a lot of people, though, who didn't
dig very deep into John Ewing from the standpoint of
the really hardcore wing of the progressive liberal Democrat Party.
(03:59):
They probably I don't know. Well, he's former law enforcement.
So if you have this dream that this is going
to be a lawless city where we can have you know,
chop zones, and Antifa is shutting down traffic and saying
we've got from here down to twenty fourth Street, this
is our area, and cops are not allowed in, and
(04:19):
the mayor says, well, let's give them space to destroy,
like the mayor of Baltimore said years ago, you know,
basically that same movement that just latches onto a different
movement because it's not about the movement. It's about the
anarchy of the movement. Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter,
this Free Palestine movement, hating Trump. It's not about the movement.
(04:42):
It's about some people just want to destroy stuff, and
they'll just say this is the movement. Now, there are
good people who believe those things, who get pushed aside
by the crazy people dressed like Ninja's setting fire to
the city. I don't think you guys are in charge
with John Ewing. I'm curious though, with whom he's going
to surround himself. And what about this claim for we're
(05:05):
going to have affordable housing. We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Scott Boy's NewsRadio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't think it was the street car that ultimately
doomed meyerstuther Or. I don't like this, I don't like that,
and I heard this, and I don't know about that.
I think it was all those things and probably something
that there was nothing she could do about, and that
was she'd been a popular mayor for too long. She'd
(05:37):
won three elections in a row, was voting for an
unprecedented fourth. We haven't seen someone serve in this capacity
in the city of Omaha for as long as mayor
of Omaha in nonconsecutive terms. You have to go back
one hundred years to Cowboy Jim Dolman. We could have
had Cowgirl Jean Stothard, Calamity Gene the Root and tutinous
(06:01):
mayor in the West. But Omaha voters tend to be
pretty fickle. They say, well, I think we just need
to have a little change there. She's been there long enough.
We need some change. It's good to have change once
in a while. Yeah, what do you think about the
ballpark moving downtown?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I don't like that change. What do you think about
the street car? I don't like it. It's just keep
things the way they are. This is bad change. What
do you think about what's happened to that library?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oo?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I don't lave So the same people that are resistant
to change on every front. Also, every once in a
while say that person's been there long enough. We don't
need anyone around here getting cocky. I think maybe she's
getting a little cocky. Fourth term. Who does she think
she is the person that you elected four years ago,
(06:53):
eight years ago and twelve years ago. Yeah, but it's
time for someone else. I also love the people who say,
I tell you what, this city would absolutely go to
It would go there in a handbasket. If we get
that blue leadership, you get a Democrat mayor and a
Democrat leading city council, it would just absolutely be terrible.
(07:14):
But I'm not voting for Stothard because she's not trumpy enough, like, Okay,
So what happens then in that scenario, the same people say,
I'm not voting for Stothard, she's not maga enough for me.
But the city would go absolutely to health we had
all Democrat in charge. Okay, so you don't vote for Stothard.
(07:37):
What exactly what scenario do you see happening? Blank stares,
the Democrat's gonna win. Now to the Democrats here, I
think you've got a lot of people. Some of them
are well intentioned, some of them are hoping we'd devolve
(07:58):
into a sanctuary city that is absolutely run by Antifa,
you know that, which you might see in Portland or
Seattle or Denver or Minneapolis or Baltimore or Washington, d C.
Just absolute lawlessness. Chicago, bullets flying everywhere, like are those bats? Now?
(08:19):
It's gun fire? Let's go inside, kids like they they
want that here. I don't think John Ewing is the
horse that can ride to that conclusion, but I don't
doubt that there were some people. Now I don't call
all Democrats as either current or future members of Antifa, who,
(08:42):
as I described, We've got a group of anarchists in
this country who they're an interesting lot. They say, this
is the cause of my life, it's the cause de joure,
it's whatever, whatever seems to be allowing people to protest,
Occupy Wall Street, black lives, I hate Trump, free Palestine,
(09:04):
we need a more minimum wage, all whatever. It's just
we see an opportunity to take what some people actually
have a legitimate cause for, and we're just gonna glom
onto it and ruin it, and we're bringing guns, and
we're gonna dress like Ninja's because dressing like Ninja's is awesome.
I don't think that the people who feel that way
(09:27):
got a Democrat in office who will allow that to happen.
I certainly hope so, and I'm not gonna be despondent
today and say, well, here we go. Now, Omaha is
a blue city, gonna be a sanctuary city, gonna be
crime everywhere. It's gonna look like Back to the future too.
(09:50):
It's a documentary about what happens if you put I'm
pretty sure Biff was a Democrat in charge. So anyway,
I don't think John Ewing leads us to on that path.
I think he'll have a lot of people who are
trying to push him that way, which, as I said yesterday,
I don't have any questions about John Ewing. I think
(10:11):
he's a good man, and I hope he does a
wonderful job as mayor of Omaha. I honestly do. I
have a lot of questions about with whom he's going
to surround himself and what allowances will be made for
some of these people who are the type who say well,
I want jobs without looking in the mirror and realizing
(10:33):
that through their own decisions in their lives, including the
decisions they make every single day. Some of the same
people who are yelling I want jobs, you are unemployable,
you are so full of entitlement that Mayor John Ewing
could bring twenty thousand jobs to Omaha, and you wouldn't
(10:56):
be good for any of them. Maybe you might get
hired for one. If you even show up, you won't
last a week because you are unemployable, which therefore makes
you a bad candidate for what you say you want.
I want affordable housing, And what is that exactly? You
(11:17):
want someone to give you a job that you don't
actually have to show up for. You want someone to
pay you to exist, and you want someone to pay
for your housing in a good place, not in some
place that's dangerous and filthy and riddle with crime. Yeah
I want, Yeah, I know. This is what when these
people say we want jobs in affordable housing, they don't
(11:39):
want to work and can't because they're unemployable. People. You
can raise the minimum wage as much as you want.
If you don't show up for the job and you
have no skills to bring to that job or any
kind of sense of self responsibility, you're unemployable, which, therefore,
as I said, makes you a bad candidate for affordable housing.
How do we get to a point where people say, like, well,
(11:59):
we need to have a affordable housing where is? Where
is what lamp do I rub to get affordable housing?
What affordable housing. Are we talking about new construction? How
is that affordable construction materials cost so much more than
(12:19):
they did thanks to the policies created partly by the pandemic,
partly by the Biden administration. We have material costs super high,
we have labor costs super high, and a very long
timeframe to get a lot of this stuff done. So
if any if we're talking about new housing, it's automatically
(12:43):
not going to be anything that you say is affordable.
It's going to cost a billion dollars plus. Anytime someone
tries to do this in a neighborhood, that maybe we
knock down a few buildings that have been or should
be condemned and put and convert them to affordable housing,
or even put some new construction in there, if we
(13:05):
can get it to a point where it can be subsidized,
and maybe some people can afford to live here who
don't have a whole lot of nickels to rub together.
Then the first thing you hear is, but this isn't
a bad part of town. There's crime in this part
of town, and we got some people living here. I
don't think they're in this country legally, and I don't
think they're paying anything to live here. I mean, is
(13:25):
this the affordable housing we're talking about? What is this
pipe dream of affordable housing. We need to clean up
the crime. We need to stop allowing illegal immigration to
be bringing people here who are subsisting off of the
generous taxpayers over overflowing teat. And we need to be
(13:50):
able to create employable people who have been instilled with
the responsibility to work for what they want, not cry
until they get what they want. That starts at childhood
and it certainly goes to when you are entering the workforce.
All these people can say, I like John Ewing, He's
(14:10):
gonna bring jobs in affordable housing. Probably not for you.
And if anyone, if anyone thinks that there's some magic
lamp that John Ewing can sit there and rub, you
probably have a better result by rubbing yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vorhees.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The people of Omaha have spoken, and it's not even close.
You know, I mentioned earlier this hour, I wasn't surprised
necessarily that Mayor Scotthart lost her election bid, just because
of the the traditional fickleness of Omaha voters. And I
think most recently we saw this with like Lee Terry.
(00:22):
I think Lee Terry does a good job. You're gonna
vote for him? Nah, he'd been there long enough. Let's
get someone else in there. And before that, it was
the repeat mayoral ambitions of hal Doabb. Hal Dobb was
a great mayor, loved hal Doab is mayor. He's running
for election for mayor again. You're you gonna vote for him? Nah,
(00:43):
Let's get someone else in there. I mean, that's just
kind of the Omaha voter way. So now we've got
John Ewing, who incidentally is Omaha's first elected black mayor
since hal Doab. Just seeing if Lucy's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I told you I'm always paying attention.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, the designation there is that Johnny Wing is
Omaha's first elected black mayor. Do you know why that
is no joke? Because it was Mayor Bernie Simon who
was elected. Well, No, he was chosen by the City
(01:26):
Council from the city council to fill out the remaining
term of Mayor Mike Boyle, who was recalled in nineteen
in like eighty seven, eighty six and eighty seven, and
so Boyle got recalled. The council filled out the remaining
part of the term with Bernie Simon. But Bernie Simon
(01:46):
died in office just before taking office. He was diagnosed
as having an inoperable tumor in his lung and he
only served just a matter of months in office. Yes,
so that was let's see here, so Bernie Simon dies
(02:08):
in office and then the City Council president became the
acting mayor of Omaha for six days in the spring
of nineteen eighty eight. That was City Council President Fred Conley.
Fred Conley black Man was He was mayor of Omaha
(02:29):
for almost a week and so he technically is Omaha's
first openly black mayor. Johnny Wing is Omaha's first openly
black elected mayor. As we said about Jeans Stothard, Omaha's
first openly female mayor since how don so what do
(02:53):
we have in Johnny Wing? I can tell you that.
As I've said, John Ewing and I are apparently not
good enough friends where I can text him and say
join me on the radio and he'll get back to
me and say absolutely, what time. Apparently we're not that
(03:13):
level of friends. But I will say that I like
John Ewing. He's just a likable guy. He's a good man.
His wife, viv is so much a better human being
than he is, and that's not because of his shortcomings.
It's only it's only because she's awesome. His family's great,
(03:36):
He's got a wonderful family. He's a good man, and
I think he's done a solid job as treasure. I
think there were a lot of people, though, who didn't
dig very deep into John Ewing from the standpoint of
the really hardcore wing of the progressive liberal Democrat Party.
(03:59):
They probably I don't know. Well, he's former law enforcement.
So if you have this dream that this is going
to be a lawless city where we can have you know,
chop zones, and Antifa is shutting down traffic and saying
we've got from here down to twenty fourth Street, this
is our area, and cops are not allowed in, and
(04:19):
the mayor says, well, let's give them space to destroy,
like the mayor of Baltimore said years ago, you know,
basically that same movement that just latches onto a different
movement because it's not about the movement. It's about the
anarchy of the movement. Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter,
this Free Palestine movement, hating Trump. It's not about the movement.
(04:42):
It's about some people just want to destroy stuff, and
they'll just say this is the movement. Now, there are
good people who believe those things, who get pushed aside
by the crazy people dressed like Ninja's setting fire to
the city. I don't think you guys are in charge
with John Ewing. I'm curious though, with whom he's going
to surround himself. And what about this claim for we're
(05:05):
going to have affordable housing. We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Scott Boy's NewsRadio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't think it was the street car that ultimately
doomed meyerstuther Or. I don't like this, I don't like that,
and I heard this, and I don't know about that.
I think it was all those things and probably something
that there was nothing she could do about, and that
was she'd been a popular mayor for too long. She'd
(05:37):
won three elections in a row, was voting for an
unprecedented fourth. We haven't seen someone serve in this capacity
in the city of Omaha for as long as mayor
of Omaha in nonconsecutive terms. You have to go back
one hundred years to Cowboy Jim Dolman. We could have
had Cowgirl Jean Stothard, Calamity Gene the Root and tutinous
(06:01):
mayor in the West. But Omaha voters tend to be
pretty fickle. They say, well, I think we just need
to have a little change there. She's been there long enough.
We need some change. It's good to have change once
in a while. Yeah, what do you think about the
ballpark moving downtown?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I don't like that change. What do you think about
the street car? I don't like it. It's just keep
things the way they are. This is bad change. What
do you think about what's happened to that library?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oo?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I don't lave So the same people that are resistant
to change on every front. Also, every once in a
while say that person's been there long enough. We don't
need anyone around here getting cocky. I think maybe she's
getting a little cocky. Fourth term. Who does she think
she is the person that you elected four years ago,
(06:53):
eight years ago and twelve years ago. Yeah, but it's
time for someone else. I also love the people who say,
I tell you what, this city would absolutely go to
It would go there in a handbasket. If we get
that blue leadership, you get a Democrat mayor and a
Democrat leading city council, it would just absolutely be terrible.
(07:14):
But I'm not voting for Stothard because she's not trumpy enough, like, Okay,
So what happens then in that scenario, the same people say,
I'm not voting for Stothard, she's not maga enough for me.
But the city would go absolutely to health we had
all Democrat in charge. Okay, so you don't vote for Stothard.
(07:37):
What exactly what scenario do you see happening? Blank stares,
the Democrat's gonna win. Now to the Democrats here, I
think you've got a lot of people. Some of them
are well intentioned, some of them are hoping we'd devolve
(07:58):
into a sanctuary city that is absolutely run by Antifa,
you know that, which you might see in Portland or
Seattle or Denver or Minneapolis or Baltimore or Washington, d C.
Just absolute lawlessness. Chicago, bullets flying everywhere, like are those bats? Now?
(08:19):
It's gun fire? Let's go inside, kids like they they
want that here. I don't think John Ewing is the
horse that can ride to that conclusion, but I don't
doubt that there were some people. Now I don't call
all Democrats as either current or future members of Antifa, who,
(08:42):
as I described, We've got a group of anarchists in
this country who they're an interesting lot. They say, this
is the cause of my life, it's the cause de joure,
it's whatever, whatever seems to be allowing people to protest,
Occupy Wall Street, black lives, I hate Trump, free Palestine,
(09:04):
we need a more minimum wage, all whatever. It's just
we see an opportunity to take what some people actually
have a legitimate cause for, and we're just gonna glom
onto it and ruin it, and we're bringing guns, and
we're gonna dress like Ninja's because dressing like Ninja's is awesome.
I don't think that the people who feel that way
(09:27):
got a Democrat in office who will allow that to happen.
I certainly hope so, and I'm not gonna be despondent
today and say, well, here we go. Now, Omaha is
a blue city, gonna be a sanctuary city, gonna be
crime everywhere. It's gonna look like Back to the future too.
(09:50):
It's a documentary about what happens if you put I'm
pretty sure Biff was a Democrat in charge. So anyway,
I don't think John Ewing leads us to on that path.
I think he'll have a lot of people who are
trying to push him that way, which, as I said yesterday,
I don't have any questions about John Ewing. I think
(10:11):
he's a good man, and I hope he does a
wonderful job as mayor of Omaha. I honestly do. I
have a lot of questions about with whom he's going
to surround himself and what allowances will be made for
some of these people who are the type who say well,
I want jobs without looking in the mirror and realizing
(10:33):
that through their own decisions in their lives, including the
decisions they make every single day. Some of the same
people who are yelling I want jobs, you are unemployable,
you are so full of entitlement that Mayor John Ewing
could bring twenty thousand jobs to Omaha, and you wouldn't
(10:56):
be good for any of them. Maybe you might get
hired for one. If you even show up, you won't
last a week because you are unemployable, which therefore makes
you a bad candidate for what you say you want.
I want affordable housing, And what is that exactly? You
(11:17):
want someone to give you a job that you don't
actually have to show up for. You want someone to
pay you to exist, and you want someone to pay
for your housing in a good place, not in some
place that's dangerous and filthy and riddle with crime. Yeah
I want, Yeah, I know. This is what when these
people say we want jobs in affordable housing, they don't
(11:39):
want to work and can't because they're unemployable. People. You
can raise the minimum wage as much as you want.
If you don't show up for the job and you
have no skills to bring to that job or any
kind of sense of self responsibility, you're unemployable, which, therefore,
as I said, makes you a bad candidate for affordable housing.
How do we get to a point where people say, like, well,
(11:59):
we need to have a affordable housing where is? Where
is what lamp do I rub to get affordable housing?
What affordable housing. Are we talking about new construction? How
is that affordable construction materials cost so much more than
(12:19):
they did thanks to the policies created partly by the pandemic,
partly by the Biden administration. We have material costs super high,
we have labor costs super high, and a very long
timeframe to get a lot of this stuff done. So
if any if we're talking about new housing, it's automatically
(12:43):
not going to be anything that you say is affordable.
It's going to cost a billion dollars plus. Anytime someone
tries to do this in a neighborhood, that maybe we
knock down a few buildings that have been or should
be condemned and put and convert them to affordable housing,
or even put some new construction in there, if we
(13:05):
can get it to a point where it can be subsidized,
and maybe some people can afford to live here who
don't have a whole lot of nickels to rub together.
Then the first thing you hear is, but this isn't
a bad part of town. There's crime in this part
of town, and we got some people living here. I
don't think they're in this country legally, and I don't
think they're paying anything to live here. I mean, is
(13:25):
this the affordable housing we're talking about? What is this
pipe dream of affordable housing. We need to clean up
the crime. We need to stop allowing illegal immigration to
be bringing people here who are subsisting off of the
generous taxpayers over overflowing teat. And we need to be
(13:50):
able to create employable people who have been instilled with
the responsibility to work for what they want, not cry
until they get what they want. That starts at childhood
and it certainly goes to when you are entering the workforce.
All these people can say, I like John Ewing, He's
(14:10):
gonna bring jobs in affordable housing. Probably not for you.
And if anyone, if anyone thinks that there's some magic
lamp that John Ewing can sit there and rub, you
probably have a better result by rubbing yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
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