D-Day / Property Taxes / Medical Marijuana

Here are several conversations from across the morning (Scott filled in for Gary this morning = More Voorhees!):  D-Day commemoration in Omaha, Sheriff Hanson stops in to support our Camp + Care Radiothon, Sarpy County homeowners get their valuations, and Crista Eggers with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana is coming down the home stretch in her years-long effort.

Episode Transcript

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Good morning. Thank you so muchfor being with us here on Nebraska's news,
weather and traffic station. This isnews Radio eleven ten KFAB. Scott
vorhees in for Gary Sademeyer here withTerry Lahey, Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose
on this eightieth anniversary of the operationthat was given the code name Overlord June

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sixth, nineteen forty four, theland, air, and sea forces of
the Allied Armies in the largest amphibiousinvasion in military history. Is the Allied
nation's work to liberate Europe by stormingthe beach at Normandy and from Omaha Beach
to Omaha, Nebraska. We've gota celebration here this morning, and to

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talk more about it, one ofthe great patriots American history joins us here
from Patriotic Productions, Bill Williams.Welcome back to news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Bill, Good morning, Well,good morning, Scott. This is
a real pleasure. Thanks for lettingme jump on here quickly to give folks
the details. At seven point twenty, we have four members of the Lincoln

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Parachute Club doing the jump over MemorialPark. We're calling them paratroopers. Actually,
I think one or two of themactually are or were. And then
we have a program starting at sevenpoint thirty to eight o'clock, so we're
going to get in and get outpretty quickly. So if you're on our
way to work, I'm hoping thatshe'll stop. But hell Dob will be

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the MC and we have Eric Krell, who is a re enactor. He's
also the man responsible for identifying allof the guys at Evo gem on the
on the Marine Memorial there was onemisidentified because of Eric's work, he's the
one that may the correct identification.So he's our speaker and we hope everybody

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will come by on this eightieth anniversaryof D Day. Yeah, thank you
so much for doing this. I'mnot certainly not surprised that you have.
You have led honor flights to,among other places, you've gone to France
with some of those who have alreadybeen there in a military capacity. What's
it like to do something like thatwith these American heroes, Bill, Well,

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we only took them to DC.There were thirty five hundred total that
went to DC on our thirteen honorflights, but fifteen hundred of them were
World War Two guys. On thefirst seven flights, and sad to say,
mortality has taken most of them.But we need to honor this anniversary

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because these are the guys who savedthe world for democracy. Believe in personal
responsibilities, self reliance, right andwrong, and no whining. And we
all knew or maybe still know WorldWar two veteran or two, and they
all had those characteristics. So we'rehonoring what they did to save democracy.
There are so few of these guysleft, and some of them are over

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in Normandy, France right now.So few of them that you can probably
turn on the TV, look atthe coverage and say, hey, I
know that guy I saw where oneof them, Scott was one hundred and
seven. I think about the tripsthat we took from Omaha to DC on
the Honor Place, and you thinkabout going across the Atlantics with guys of

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that age, that's quite an accomplishment. Indeed, Well you know that they
made these guys a little differently thanothers. Well, that's right, they
were made of the right stuff.Now tell me about this paratrooper jump here
and forty minutes from now. Ifyou're just driving along Dodge, you look
up and you see paraschooters coming downin the Memorial Park. That's certainly going

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to get your attention. We gota slight breeze right now, it's not
going to be Its not too windyhere this morning, as it will be
this afternoon. Conditions are okay forthese guys to make the jump. Well,
the latest report is there a goAnd so it's just a beautiful morning
at Memorial Park and we really encouragefolks to stop by as you can.

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We'd like to have a good drowd. We put this together in about a
week and we just didn't want thisanniversary to pass, and so we hope
folks will stop buy and be partof this and we'll be out of here
by eight am. Yeah, AndI mean certainly it's a nice thing to
do for those who are still headingto work and come out there and you
can see the spectacle, listen tothe speaker and be back on your way

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and get to work. Also,there is the new Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial
that is opening in Papilion. Weplan on having I believe the under Secretary
of State in town for that.I think those plans have been dashed due
to a scheduling error, but thisis still a significant moment here for the

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Omaha area with the opening of thisNebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and that's why
we wanted to do ours early sothat folks that are going on to that
that starts at eleven o'clock. Helptold me that they're expecting around six thousand
people, so that that should bea wonderful event at eleven. But let's

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acknowledge the eightieth anniversary of d Dfirst, absolutely and probably best to enter
from the north side of Memorial Park. There the entrance at about sixtieth in
Underwood, and it's not a longceremony, so you can just stand there
and appreciate it there and Bill,we really appreciate what you and Yvonne and
all of the people at Patriotic Productionsonline at Patriotic Productions dot org have done

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and continue to do for our communityand these veterans and everything they stand for.
Thank you so much, Bill,You're very kind. Thank you,
Scott. That's Bill Williams of PatrioticProductions. And again, this D Day
eightieth anniversary Memorial at Memorial Park inOmaha begins just before seven point thirty with
those paratroopers jumping into the park atseven twenty am. I want you to

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be aware of that, as ifyou're driving down there and you suddenly look
up and go, what kind ofbird is that? There's just something nice
in the air today as we commemoratethis eightieth anniversary of D Day. For
more on this from our partners withtwenty four to seven News, here's White
House correspondent John Decker. For mostAmericans, archival footage of D Day June

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sixth, nineteen forty four is ouronly connection to one of the most important
battles of World War II. Eightyyears after that day that saved the world,
ninety nine year old George Sarah stillvividly remembers how he felt as he
landed on Utah Beach aboard his transportship LST five point fifteen. I know

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we were work, whether we're goingto make it or now, whether we
were going to keep the beach thereor gone. Sarah's native of Chicago,
was just nineteen years old his missionas a motor machinist when his ship hit
the beach at one pm deliver AMMOtroops, tanks, ambulances and jeeps in
exchange for wounded paratroopers to be broughtback to England for medical attention. When

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we hit the beach, we openedthe bow doors and lowered the ramps,
and the ambulance were coming and wewere taking all the guys who were wounded.
Was the largest naval, air andland operation in history. Success didn't
come easy. Some four thousand Alliedtroops were killed by German soldiers defending the

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beaches. I really liked the guys. We were all together. We worked
live stout for each other. ForGeorge Sarah's D Day was a noble cause.
Here at the World War Two Memorialin Washington, the words of President
Roosevelt, delivered to the nation onD Day are engraved immemoriam. They fight

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not for the love of conquest.They fight to end conquest. They fight
to liberate. When you're stopping,think of those and sacrifice our lives.
When those guys hit the beach andlost four or five thousand us on the
beach, we should honor them,make it a regular celebration, because if

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it hasn't been for the generation thatI grew up, I don't know what
our nation would have been if we'dhave lost them more. Why were you
so lucky, George, I don'tknow. I think the Lord was there.
I have a great trust for theLord, and I often think about
that. You know why us ifthere's one lament of this true American hero,

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it is more about this country's futurerather than our past. I'll tell
you, I'm really disappointed in ourcountry now. I think we're going the
wrong way. I don't see thecamraadity we have when we're in war.
That camaraderie is what helped America defeattyranny. For George Sarro's, who will
soon turn one hundred d day isa reminder of what our country can achieve

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when it comes together and is unifiedin purpose. In Flat Rock, North
Carolina, I'm John Decker, Johna contributor to kfab's Morning News from our
partners at twenty four to seven NewsNetwork. With that wonderful report you think
about someone like and I love theway he continuously over pronounced his name there.
Of his guests there, George Sarrosnot to be confused with George Soros,

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So this is a different guy.But George Sarrows. They're talking about
that, a guy who's just aboutto turn one hundred years old and you
look at a tough guy like thatand go, yeah, that's a real
man right there. But years agohe was nineteen years old, and you

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would have looked at him at thattime and said, there's a real man
right there. These guys were justthey came from a different mold. These
guys were cast differently then and now. But you think about how many of
those young guys eighteen nineteen twenty yearsold went down in history for their bravery.

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Well, they came as boys,they left his men. But the
country then had known hardship, Thecountry had had been made tougher by life.
That generation did not enjoy the benefitsthat future generations did. That was
the generation that grew up in thedepression. Now many of them wondered,

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am I going to eat today?They did not have creature comforts, They
did not have conveniences, They didnot have a social safety. Their WiFi
was really spotty. Their WiFi wasextremely spotty. Sometimes they couldn't find it
a place to plug in their evs. Yeah, it was a much tougher
country then, and so when theyanswered the call to cross that ocean and

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then the other ocean, they justsaid, this is the price we pay
to be Americans. And we wereattacked, we were drawn into this war,
and now we have to go winit. And most of us ain't
going to come home. A lotof us ain't going to come home.
But it was never about oh God, this is tough. It's this is
what we do. This is whatAmericans do. And I just I think

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there are a lot of Americans todaywho would answer that call. I think
we've seen it in every single skirmishsince then. But as a country,
we've grown so soft because of thethings we've given ourselves. We've created programs
that don't ask us to do muchanymore. We've created initiatives to try and
make our lives more comfortable. Andwhat's the end result. I'm not sure

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we're as good as we used tobe. I can't stop thinking, though,
that is as brave and as courageousas these young guys were, they
were still just kids, and theymust have been terrifying. Oh my President
Biden in Norman Dy, France today. He came out and said it's great
to be here at the home ofthe University of Oklahoma. And they said,
mister President, that's Norman, Oklahoma. You're in Norman Dy, France.

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But other than that it didn't gotoo bad. We have here in
the studio a guy who just droppedoff some money during our kfab Camp plus
Care Radiothon. You can you cancall four h two eight nine eight hope
or donate online to kfab dot com. As Scott did, he donated to

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take care of a kid. Soto Darren Lonnie is taken care of five,
don has taken care of one.Thank you to Brian for taking care
of one kid with the forty ninedollars donation entire week of summer camp at
the Open Door Mission. Thank youto Joe, Linda John and another Linda.
I've each donated one hundred dollars takecare of two kids, and David

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has sponsored ten kids five hundred dollarsdonation, each of those donations matched by
lund Ross Construction. Have your creditcard ready when you call with that forty
nine dollars donation four h two eightnine to eight hope during the Camp plus
Care Radiothon or I guess you cando like Douglas County Sheriff Aarren Hanson did
and just drop by and just dropoff money here at the radio station.

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Who's always welcome here, Sheriff Hanson, good morning, Thank you, good
morning, Thanks for putting us on. That's a great open door mission.
Is a great way to support ifyou want to support folks in the community
need help. Yeah. I knowthat during your time with the Omaha Police
Department, you were a shop withthe cop guy there working with these kids,
and I know this is really closeto your heart, and your department

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was able to say that there's alot you know, the statistics when it
comes to drug use in this communityare really trending in the right direction.
Tell me more here in what youguys have done to get it moving in
that direction. Yeah, a lotof good news. I think DEA just
announced yesterday a forty percent decrease inthe Omaha Dougas County area in fentonyl overdose

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debts and big credit to the collaborationfrom the Overdose Task Force. And it's
a collaboration of law enforcement, federal, state, local, county, and
the medical industry, fire departments tryingto focus on the folks that need help,
focus on smart harm reduction, butalso smart enforcement. Target the drug

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dealers that are killing people, targetthem at their source. Put them in
jail, get them in prison fora long time when they kill someone,
or hopefully before. Yeah, targetingcriminals for doing criminal acts with proper punishment,
what a novel concept. Yeah,I mean I think it's It is
proof and concept that if you ifyou target the right high risk offenders,

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you can make our community safer andyou can save people's lives. We just
have to make sure that we seeit as an investment and not necessarily as
a violation of people's civil rights.We need to stand up for innocent people.
I just don't. It must justbe the way my brain works or
doesn't in this respect. But toknow that there are things out there when

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someone says, here, have someof this, try some of this.
Knowing that there are substances out therelaced with that which even just a little
bit could instantly kill you would probablymake me less likely to be able to
try some of those things. Likedid we run out of beer? Do
we run out of rum? Inthis community? I've got to go out
and try a bunch of stuff thatcould take down an elephant with just a

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small dose. I don't know thatthat's probably the best idea. It's ironic
that you say, take down anelephant, because that is the emerging trend
so right now. And it goesback to that good combination of law enforcement
harm reduction. You know, everyoneknows what narcan is now, right and
those are the little packet that youcan keep on you that if someone is
having a fentanyl overdose, it canit can pull them back from that that

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counteracts an opioid overdose. What we'reseeing now the drug cartels in Mexico are
now sending these facsimile pills that arenot only laced with the opioid fentanyl,
the synthetic opioid, but also nowsynthetic animal tranquilizers TRENK, and that's a
completely different drug. They're mixing itwith fentanyl, and the narcan will not

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counteract the effects of it. It'seven more potent. And so now the
cartels are trying to make a higherprofit margin. And as long as we
can continue to keep the pressure upon the drug cartels and the criminals,
hopefully we can keep these stats goingin the right direction. But they're always
trying to find new ways to killpeople in our key. Did we run
out of pino gresio? I'm justthinking about that, which I, you

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know, don't mind having a littlebit of every now and again. At
no point have I said this,whye's pretty good? Does anyone have a
horse tranquilizer? I can take lesswith a lace, with something that's potentially
deadly. On a different topic,here, Sheriff Aaron Hanson, Douglas County
Sheriff, I like what you didfor Rick and some others here who have
suffered storm damage. You get stormdamage. Suddenly you got people you know

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canvassing the neighborhood knocking on doors.Hey, make sure that if you have
any damage you can use us andall that. This guy's got people coming
to his door at nine thirty atnight knocking on his door, and sometimes
you see a little sign there saysno solicitors. You've taken it a step
further explain. Yeah. So whata lot of people don't realize is there's

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two ways you can be essentially inviolation of our criminal trespassing statues. One
of the trespassing statutes says that ifyou're given a directorder to leave and you
don't, or you cross a fence, or you know, you break some
type of barrier, you're trespassing.The other type if you don't have a
barrier or someone hasn't directly told youto leave, is if you violate a
clearly marked sign. And so weworked with Unionist printing. They're down there

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off of I think hundred and fourteenth, just south of Maple. They have
especially designed a sign that says notrespassing, no soliciting. The owner will
prosecute. Violators will be prosecutor.It's a big sign sheriff's badge in the
middle. But the difference is itcomes on an aluminum post, kind of

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like the ADT signs yes, andyou can post that at the edge of
your driveway at your curtilage. It'seasily discernible, and then the trespassers have
no excuse and that's an important elementto the trespassing crime. Deputy's cops can
take pictures of that and they canbe part of the prosecution. Everyone's entitled
to do process. But you're goingto be hard to argue you didn't see

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this big sign. And it's notbad looking either. No, it really
spruces up the curtilage. I liketo have properly decord curtilage. And thank
you very much. That's great.That story from WWT six News yesterday.
Sheriff Hansen thanks a lot for comingby here and don't to our Camp plus
care radiothon. Really remember don't givecash to panhandlers. Give cash to great

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nonprofits like the Open Door Mission.This story from KTV News Watch seven,
they talked to a woman in LaVista named Terry. Terry has lived in
this home since it was built innineteen eighty eight, as she is now
unfortunately a widow. Her husband diedin twenty nineteen and she is living just

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her and the dogs she's got MSuses a cane to get around. She's
certainly tough and can deal with justabout anything, as I'm sure she has
in her life. But when shejust was told, hey, congratulations,
your home is worth so much morethan it was just a year ago.

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How much more seventeen percent increase whichfor her home last year was valued at
two hundred and sixty six thousand dollars. This year, without making any improvements
on it, it's been valued nowat three hundred and thirteen thousand dollars,
a forty seven thousand dollars increase,about a seventeen percent increase in the home

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valuation, which is great. Andthis is always the tough thing when it
comes to these home valuations, iswe want our home to increase in value.
Right. Of course, ideally thatvaluation increase would come the day before
we were going to sell it.But that's the other thing here is as
some of these people say, well, the assessor here in my county assess

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my home to a value that Ican't possibly sell it for it here,
you want to buy it at thisamount, I can't sell it for this
amount. Yes, other homes inthe area have sold for more than this,
but my home isn't like these homes. So in this case it's Sarpee
County. So the Sarpye County Assessor, Dan Pittman says, please protest your

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valuation. Only about one percent ofpeople protest their valuation change every year.
I don't know how many of themare successful, but he says, yeah,
if you think that this is anunfair increase, then please go to
the website and do a valuation protest. It can work. I know in

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Douglas County protested my valuation increase ofa year ago got it down a bit.
And for this woman Terry and LaVista, she tells k E TV
News Watch seven quote. Just becausewe keep our house in decent shape doesn't
mean our pockets are filled with goldcoins. Because when you get that increase

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in your property evaluation, you alsohave an increase in your property tax bill.
And when you have a forty seventhousand dollars increase in the valuation of
your home, that property tax increaseis one thousand dollars a year. Now

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is that overly burden some I guessthat depends on you and what your monthly
budget is like. For her,though, she says, I don't want
to sell my home. We've livedhere since nineteen eighty eight, but now,
you know, trying to come upwith the extra money every single month,
the extra thousand dollars a year topay for these taxes. By the

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way, it's not just you know, if it was just a thousand dollars
increase year over a year, Icould probably handle it. But everything is
increased and expense everything from healthcare togroceries to gasoline, I mean everything.
Energy costs continue to be a problemfor a lot of people, especially if
you're on a fixed income. SoI don't want to sell, but am

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I going to have to get aroommate, or she even says, I
might have to quit my part timejob so I can fully qualify for the
Homestead Exemption Act in the and Idon't know that she wants to do that.
I'd have to stop working and beinga so called productive member of society

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so I can qualify for some assistancefrom the state. I'm sure she is
from a generation that it doesn't feelright for her to do that, But
what are the options here? KETVtook a look at increases from twenty twenty
through today, and the average increaseover the last four years in Sarpye County

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is seventy eight, three hundred andseventy three dollars. That's a thirty eight
point nine percent increase. In DouglasCounty in the last four years, the
increase has been an average of eightythree thousand, five hundred and fifty six
dollars forty two point eight percent.And obviously people complain to the county assessors.

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Pittman in Sarpie and Peffer in Douglasthen say you guys, and they
say, look, we're only followingthe model that the Nebraska legislature has provided
us in terms of how much wevalue up to a certain rate. This
is Nebraska law. You want tochange the law, talk to the legislature.

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You want to cap valuations year overyear. Talk to the legislature.
You want to do something to bringdown your property taxes, Talk to the
schools. About sixty percent goes toeducation. That's the biggest piece of where
your property taxes go. So whenthat's a story from KETV News watch seven,

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you flip over to KMTV three andthere's a very nice story here that
talks about how Omaha public schools andothers. West Side is also noted in
the story. But a lot ofthe local school districts are saying, hey,
great news for families in need.We are keeping the schools open all
summer long. You can come bythe school, get yourself a nutritious breakfast

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and lunch all summer long. Now, I'm the last person to say we
shouldn't be feeding kids. We should. I'm going to go out on this
limb here and say I think it'sa good idea to feed children. The
problem I have every summer when theschools do this is we're turning on the

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lights, We're turning on the airconditioning, We're providing a staff to provide
food for everybody, because they say, and it's even noted in the story
that there's there's no criteria that mustbe met. You don't have to show
up and you know, stand nextto a sign from some member of our

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gang and I have it stand bythe side that says you must be this
poor to be able to get freebreakfast or free lunch at the schools all
summer. They just they don't wantto stigmatize anyone. They don't want to
shame anyone. They're like, hey, just stop by any toone need.
So you've got kids in there thatcome from very wealthy families, like I'm

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gonna go hang out with my friendsand get some French toasticks at the school.
Why wouldn't you? And you've gotpeople who come from families who are
barely you're rubbing Nichols together and they'regoing in there and getting the food.
That's great, But you think aboutall the money that has gone towards this.
Hey, anyone that wants to comeup and get whatever they need,

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is this the best use of thesefunds? Could you really take care of
those families in need if we specificallyfunnel that generosity to the people who really
really need it, rather than justleaving everything open for a lot of people
that don't need it and maybe inmany instances aren't coming to get it.
I don't know how much food iswasted in this throughout the year, and

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then you hear things like this andyou go away. So my property taxes
have gone up to do this,which maybe isn't even necessary for some of
these kids. It's a lot todeal with. It's a lot to pay
for. Good Morning, Scott four, He's with you on Nebraska's news,
weather and traffic station News Radio eleventen KFAB. Welcoming Jason Butler Harner on

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the program The new film is Edgeof Everything. But a lot of us
know Jason as his role as FBIspecial agent Roy Petty on the Netflix series
Ozark. Jason, welcome to eleventen KFAB. Good Morning Nebraska. Yes,
and Nebraska says good morning to youand Iowa. We got a lot
of Iowan's on this station as well. Here, but and maybe even into

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the Ozarks in Missouri. Have youbeen down there just to visit and try
and pull a hat down low andnot look like the FBI agent you play
so well in that series. I'venever been to that part. Now.
I come from a small town inupstate New York, Elmira, New York,
which has some similarities, but Ihave never been to the Ozarks.

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They only we shot that in Atlanta, and I think the only time they
were actually there was for a weekweek and a half in the pilot,
you know, the people never There'sa scene in the pilot when they when
they get to the Ozarks and thefamily is there and it's a full pullback
that they did on the nose ofa helicopter and it shows, you know,

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the expanse there and a lot ofpeople think that's like CGI and I
was like, no, no,no, that's real. They just stood
there and that is how big thewater is, and that has not big
the forest is. That is thelandscape there. But no, unfortunately I've
never been there. If you guyscould send just a little bit of the
clean air that you're breathing to herein smogfille La right now, I would
really appreciate it. Yeah, it'sbeautiful and they're so proud of this show

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there, and like around o SageBeach, that's where you'll find Marty Bird's
bar there, and they're just reallyproud to have this. But I want
to talk to you about this newmovie. But regarding Ozark, I haven't
started this latest season yet because onceI start watching a new season of Ozark,

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I can't stop. I can't sleep. I'm just constantly nervous and tense,
and I'm just walking around muttering tomyself about this family going why can't
they make better decisions? Like Iget so involved and your character FBI special
agent Roy Petty was such a greataddition to the series, and I imagine
that as I look over some ofyour film credits here, including your role

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as a struggling father in Edge ofEverything. Did you go to Hollywood and
go, Hey, I'm Jason ButlerHarner. I'm a good looking guy.
I got a lot of talent,and they're like, you look like someone
we want to have punched and killedand a lot of different things here.
You kind of have that look aboutyou, so we're gonna put you in
all this. It's funny. It'sjust a weird thing, you know.

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They let's said expression make a plan. God laughs like that. I never
thought I'd be an actor in thefirst sort of creative in my family.
I'm the second to get to goto college, and I do. I
do a lot of stage. WasI started. I went to school in
Virginia. Then I was in NewYork. I lived in New York for
twenty three years. I still goback and forth quite a bit. And

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on stage I play a lot morefunny, a lot of English characters,
funny, witty feeling, you know, Glass Menagerie with Sally Field, or
Cherry Orchard with Anette Benning, andand I did this big play on Broadway
called The Coast of Utopia, andI said at the end, I was
like, I'm just so tired ofcrying on stage. And I never get

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to be dangerous. And the firstfilm I got was a film with Clint
Eastwood called Changeling with Angelina Jolie.It's true story about a woman whose kid
went missing and the police was corruptin LA and they tried to force a
kid on her and said no,no, ma'am, you're crazy, this
is your actual son, and shekept saying it's not her son. And
I played a batty named Gordon Northcottwho had he would take kids and he

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would kill them. He wouldn't molestthem. I'll celebrate that, but he
would kill them, and so itwas really fun to dig into because I'd
never been that way. Be Bena batty character, and I do a
lot of research whenever I play acharacter, and you know, the journey
is that that's the first impression thatI made with big audiences in Hollywood,

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with casting, with studios, andwhenever they meet me in real life even
now, they're sort of surprised.They're like, Wow, you don't sound
like you sound you are. Youare so funny, You're so different,
and it's like, yeah, becauseI'm an actor what I like to do.
And with with Roy, he wasso tormented, man, he was.
I wish the episode had turned outbetter. But there's a great episode

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in the first season when you seein flashbacks his mom breaks a bone and
he he fights narcotics and stuff andhe's so she's in such pain. He
wants her to take the oxy andthen she becomes an addict and so it
plagues him. That's the drive forhim of why he's so tunnel vision about

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taking down Marty and a drug herself. It's so dark, it's so well
done, and your character is sucha great addition to that here and then
I want to know we just gota minute or two left here about this
new film Edge of Everything. Yourrole fine and being a dad who's dating
someone who's slightly older than his fifteenyear old daughter who's just come against her

(32:37):
will to live with you. Tellme about this movie. It's a beautiful
film. It's you know, it'sa eighty three minutes first time filmmakers.
They delivered something so special it's wonawards. You know, it's winning awards.
Basically, my ex wife Abby playedby Sierra McCormick, her mom dies

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after a fight with cancer, andso she has to move in with her
dad. And the dad has beenthe one that's been supporting them financially,
which the daughter doesn't know, andhe's got a girlfriend. Sabina the actors
who plays my wife, is goingto be very happy that you said she's
contemporary of Sier Harris. She lookslike a teenager. She that's nice.

(33:20):
She's not, she's not. Butanyway, so they're struggling and they want
to have a family and want tohave a baby. And this all takes
place in Mill Valley, which isright outside of San Francisco. So it's
a unique kind of a lot ofpeople in tech and people out nature biking
and stuff like that. So thisspecific kind of parent, but I think
right now unique all parents are tryingto do their best to not only you

(33:43):
know, raise their kids, putbumpers on their lives, but also try
to let them live their life andfigure out who they are in a way
that is more the norm than not. You know, in my childhood,
a lot of parents are super handson, super strict. So he's doing
the best you can you can she'she's also grieving the loss of his ex

(34:05):
wife, even though they're not marriedanymore. But she is, especially and
in this chapter, trying to figureout who she is. And she has
a great group of friends and they'regood students and stuff, and she meets
she meets a hellion and gets fascinatedand takes a little tangent down that for
a week or so and finds herway out of it in an interesting way.

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It's so respectful of her, thisyoung girl's experience. And also part
of thing I like about it isthat you got to trust people to go
and come out the other side ofsomething. You got to step in if
something gets really bad and the dadsteps in and makes it take a drug
test and stuff like that. Butalso we all can find our way.
It's an interesting story here Edge ofEverything. Jason Butler Harner co starring in

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this best of luck with this newfilm, and look forward to seeing you
in the next thing and having youback on the radio here in Nebraska again
soon. Thank you so much.Have a great day. Thank you Jason
Butler Harner of Ozark fame now inthe new film Edge of Everything with us
here on News Radio eleven ten KFAB. And for those who were about to

(35:12):
email, going you didn't have himmake pancakes. I know I was going
to say, good morning, Marty, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
But you see when sometimes when youhave these individuals on the program with you,
they're part of a radio tour andwe've got to try and keep them
on time, and if you don'tkeep them on time, it's bad news
for everybody and make someone else waitdown the line. And I don't want

(35:34):
to do that to somebody else,So next time on that one. All
right, we are in the midstof our KFAB. Can't plus care radiothon
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(36:17):
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So that's like seven and a halfkids. So thank you very much Keith.
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All right, let's get to someof these emails here in the Zonkers custom
Woods inbox. I mentioned earlier thatit's in Sarpie County right now when the

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valuations are going out from the SarpyCounty Assessor and people are getting their valuations
going away. I seventeen percent increaseyear over year, and that's nothing compared
to some of you. I gota message here from Kermit says mine went
up forty one percent. I don'tknow if that's year over year or since

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the last valuation. Mike says,yep, from twenty twenty two to today,
twenty twenty four. My valuation isup ninety one thousand dollars. And
of course, as your valuation goesup, that's a great thing, right
here's your maybe something that is yourmost valuable bold possession, your home.

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You wanted to increase in value,certainly, But when you're paying property taxes
on this and the valuation spikes toa point where you're like, well,
I didn't budget for this, that'sobviously an issue. Craig emails and said
Scott, I only have one thingto say about those complaining about their high
property tax notices who didn't vote inthe last election. Twenty seven percent voter

(38:09):
turnout. That is voter apathy.You're going to keep getting this. That's
from Craig, Thank you very muchfor the email. Scott at kfab dot
com. The Geezer emails in theZonker's custom was in box and says,
I found it's not the rebuilding valuethat drives our property taxes. It's real

(38:30):
estate agents who come in and sayI can get twenty percent more, and
then that more expensive home somewhere otherthan on my block is included in the
array, which drives the valuation forthe area. Well, Geezer, you
can't blame the real estate agents.They're not the ones buying the home.

(38:52):
If someone basically, your home isworth whatever someone's willing to pay for it,
right, So if your valuation asthis and someone's willing to pay twenty
to one hundred percent more for it, then that's how much the home is
really worth. The problem that alot of these people have is that the
county assessor comes in and says,we think your home is valued at this

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and this is what it's worth,and you go, great, you want
to buy my home for this?In fact, why don't you knock off
ten percent? Buy my home forthat I can't sell my house for that
amount of money. But you can'tblame the real estate agents that come in
and say I can get twenty percentmore for your home. If you can
get it, it's not the agent'sfault. Well, it's to their credit

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if anything. But appreciate that.Email Scott at kfab dot com. Here's
the word from Scott listening to usout in beautiful Dawson County, out near
Cozad. Emails and says, myassessment went up nineteen percent last year and
another ten point three percent this year. My income has not increased anywhere close

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to that. From Nebraskans for MedicalMarijuana, Christa Aggers is with us.
I forget your title with this organization, but I want you closer, to
grab that microphone. Get real closehere, Krista. But who are you
so? I am the campaign managerfor Nebraska's for Medical Marijuana and we are
the ballot committee pushing to get medicalcannabis access on the November ballot Nebraska Marijuana

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dot org. And this is Ithink you can tie into what we're doing
here for the kids in a coupleof different ways, both good and bad.
Certainly, there's so much of thispush for medical marijuana that would be
there for kids experiencing among other things, see sure, and then you'll have
people saying like, well, marijuanais a bad substance that puts people in

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a situation where suddenly they can't takecare of themselves, they're their kids,
and they end up in places likethe mission. So let's talk about what
this effort is supposed to be,what it's not supposed to be, and
the fine line here that's people drawbetween medical and recreational use of this controversial
product. Do you find that peoplewho want recreational marijuana are really disappointed when

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they sign these things, like,hey, we're going to be able to
like, no, that's not whatthis is for. Yeah, we do.
You know, when we're oute collecting, we definitely do talk to folks
who don't necessarily believe medical is whatthey want. They want something more.
But you know, we remain focusedNebraska's for medical marijuana and the patients and

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advocates that started this mission over twelveyears ago, when we went to the
legislature and started trying to bring billsand you know, beg lawmakers to do
something within their power of passing legislationon this. We have never defaulted or
changed our path, which is weare trying to get medical access for the

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patients in this state, children,adults, people with cancer, PTSD,
seizures, MS list goes on andon and on, and that is our
absolute main focus has to bring accessto those individuals, to allow them to
work with their doctors who know them, who know their history, know what
kind of medications are on. Thisis something that one of we're one of

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three states in the nation that doesnot have any access for patients, and
I mean, I feel like that'shorrific. It's not something that we should
be proud of in terms of,you know, the pushback on medical versus
recreational. Again, we remain focusedon medical. I can tell you that
the narrative that any state that passesmedical goes on to pass recreational is not

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true. In fact, that's it'snot true at all. And I will
tell you a state like Nebraska,they need to see that a medical law
can provide patients with help and itcan remain just that it can be a
medical law. Your opponents point toa couple of quotes from those who've been
in charge of this group called NormalNational Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws.

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And it goes all the way backseveral decades to the founder of this organization
saying, quote, we will usethe medical marijuana argument as a red herring
on the road to full legislation.Decades later, his successor, celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of LSD, said, medical marijuana is our strongest
suit. It's our point of leveragewhich will move us towards the legalization of

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marijuana for personal use. So thesearen't you know, people, you know,
some fringe, wacky website trying totarnish what you're doing. These are
the people who clearly want recreational useand they see this as a path to
get it. Does your organization havea stance on recreational marijuana? You know,
we don't have a stance. Wehave a stance though, that we

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are exclusively bringing two ballot initiatives formedical use only. And that is again
what myself is a parent, asan advocate, as a campaign manager,
that is the only thing we're focusedon. And so what happens later,
what happens next, First of all, that can't be our focus because we've
got to get what we are setout to do done. But you know,

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that's that's not our concern right now. And I do feel very different
that that. This doesn't just meanthe next thing comes the people of Nebraska.
It is up to them on whatthey want, and you know,
the legislative body as well, andso I don't see that, but I
do get that concern a lot.I do think it's the time, the

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timeliness of the federal government taking astance on cannabis as a medical use.
It's very timely, especially for whatwe're doing. Just recently, they did
push that medical or that cannabis,that the marijuana plant should be descheduled from
a Schedule one drug, which meansthere's no medical use, highly addictive,

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absolutely again, no medical use,cannot stay, it cannot test it,
and they have pushed for the reclassificationto a Schedule three drug. I think
what is so great about this.We've been waiting for this to happen.
We've known this is going to happen. It should have happened a long time
ago. Marijuana should have never beenput as a Schedule one drug that was

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up there with ecstasy and heroin andLSD things like that. As a Schedule
three drug. What is going tohappen is we're going to be able to
study it. We will know that, you know, to be moved to
a Schedule three. That is meaningthe federal government is now saying there is
medical use to marijuana, and soall these folks that say there's not,

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you know, we are moving toa direction that there absolutely will be,
and we will catch up with therest of the world who has been studying
and all of that for many,many, many thousands of years in some
places marijuana use and its impact onhealth, and I think we will see
once and for all that there absolutelyis a medical use. One more thing
here, I think on these recreationalguys is that you know, it's a

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delicate dance that your organization has todo because you need to have people passionate
about not just signing this petition,but also manning the petition, trying to
get others to sign and do thisdrive. And some of these guys,
you know, they don't care aboutmedical marijuana. They want recreational. In
fact, some of your petitioners havebeen found around some of these locations that

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sell paraphernalia and promote various things thataren't of a medical capacity. So how
do you walk that delicate balance betweenwell, we need them for our drive,
but they need to know, likethis isn't for whatever it is that
they're thinking. This isn't going tobe a giant Fish or Grateful Dead concert
here in Nebraska if this gets pastYeah, so I guess to start with,

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you know where we have circulators.You know, we have circulators anywhere
where there's people, foot traffic,anywhere. Some arts festival this weekend,
we were at Taste of Omaha.We're in parking lots, we're on street
corners, we are in front ofsome of the vape shops that people will
see all over the metro areas.So we are everywhere, right, We
don't we don't discriminate on where wecollect signatures and who we collect signatures from.

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You know, when we do getpushbacks, say well I don't I'm
not for medical you know, Imean it's very simple. It's you know,
I'm sorry, We're trying to pushthis for sick patients, and you
know, if they don't want tosign because they want recreational you know,
that's I can't change that, Butit doesn't change what I'm doing, which
is again I am firmly a believerthat medical cannabis actions should be in our

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state. And you know the thingabout recreational when people bring this idea of
well, why not just go forfull legalization again going back to we are
firmly for medical use. But numbertwo is that a recreational or an adult
market does not help children. Itdoes not help the cancer patient that is
in the hospital right now undergoing chemotherapy, doesn't help the patient with als us

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who is on other treatments. Theadult use recreational market is not helping them.
And so you know, I thinkthere's a world in which you know,
both run someday, and I dobelieve at one point it will be
decriminalized at the federal level. Sowe will see that at the state level.
But not one state that has passedmedical cannabis access has ever repealed it.

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The sky did not fall, Kidsdid not all of a sudden get
a hold of marijuana. You know, we'd be absolutely, you know,
playing dumb to think that there's notalready marijuana on our streets, that the
black market isn't here. What thereis, it is, it is there,
And so I don't think it's somuch in the streets as it is
in the average vaighte pen in themiddle school bathroom. It is here already.

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I want to talk to you aboutsome of the medical issues irrelated here.
And also there's a press release goingout from Nebraska's for Medical Marijuana.
We'll let Crystal apartment. Christa Eggers, sorry, I been on the radio
since five thirty this morning. There'sa more radio than sleep kind of a
Thursday. Can get the fan,Yes, yes, thank you, lou
Bell. All right, so we'lltalk more with what's your face here in

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just a moment. Scott Boriez NewsRadio eleven ten kfab. Christa Eggers is
with us here Nebraskan's from Medical Marijuana. We've got a number of people trying
once again. This seems like anannual event leading up to fourth of July
time in omahas Hey, we gotsignatures out there. People are trying to

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sign this up so we can maybeget this in a ballot before someone's able
to knock it off of there here. So how are things looking for getting
this done this year? Krista?So you're exactly right. We this is
our third attempt, and you knowthere's there's a part of me that just
dreads, you know, this conversationwe're getting ready to have in this press
release I'm sending out because you know, year after year we have pushed to

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get medical access, and year afteryear we've gone home empty handed. We
have had two failed petition drives.And when I say failed, you know
I use that word. Yep,we didn't make the ballot, but we
sure did give it our all,and technicalities and money has been what has
kept us off. And so yes, today we're in a situation we are
twenty seven days from turn in.July third is the deadline to submit eighty

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seven thousand valid signatures on each ofour two ballot initiatives, again both dealing
with medical cannabis access. You know, we're sitting at a point where,
in addition to that, you haveto qualify counties across the state, and
that is something that is very costly. It takes a lot of time and
resource to go out and get thosesignatures. You know, Omaha and Lincoln
we can have people all over theplace collecting signatures, but these other areas

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we have to be very strategic inhow to get there. You know,
sending our volunteers, supporting them withgas in their car, putting them in
a hotel room. And so whatwe did this time is we went after
the counties first, and we usedall of our resource, all of our
money to qualify thirty eight counties acrossthe state. And this is extremely exciting
because we've known this support is therestatewide. There is not one demograph or

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group of people or place in thestate that supports medical cannabis less than seventy
percent. So we went out gotall those signatures, qualified the counties.
Now we've got to get the bulk. We've got to get to that eighty
seven thousand valid number. And weknow from previous history that we just can't
come in write at the requirement.We need to come in with a huge

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buffer. And so we're really callingupon Nebraskans yet again that we are an
urgent need of people to get outand come find a petition to sign.
We need at least thirty thousand moresignatures on each of our two petitions in
the next twenty seven days. It'sa huge hill to climb. You know,
there's a lot of petition drives goingon right now. There is going

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to be an all time high numberof things on the ballot, not just
in Nebraska but across the nation.And unfortunately, what this does is it
drives up the cost. And whenpeople say why does it cost money to
get something on the ballot, itis because it costs money to print petitions
and to go get signatures. Itis typically something that costs several million dollars.

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I don't know the exact numbers fromevery petition drive, but I would
say that most drives that are successfulhave had resource about three million dollars to
do it every campaign, but mineand we are in the same situation.
We are begging people to get outand find a signing location, which they
can do at Wine Beer Spirits inOmaha and Lincoln from four to close every

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weekday and all day on the weekends. We are going to be at DMVs
and they can go to our website, Nebraska Marijuana dot org and find signing
locations, many of them in storefronts. They are going to be many of
them in some of the vape shops. But we're in coffee shops, we're
in law offices, we're in printinglocations, we're in a T shirt shop.
But people have to act now,and I truly believe that if people

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that want to see that's on theballot, which we know there is a
lot of folks and the majority ofpeople, and I hope the majority of
people listening that are listening to metalk about my own personal push for this.
I have a child at home whodesperately needs this. My story is
not unique though. The individuals outcollecting signatures. Ninety five percent of my

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people, they themselves are patients,They're caregivers, you know. I've got
a guy who has horrific PTSD andhe uses cannabis because he's a veteran,
and he's out collecting signatures at theDMV today. Ed is a patient himself,
and he is fighting for himself,and he's fighting for others. He's
fighting for my son. I havea patient who she is in between chemotherapy

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treatments for breast cancer. She desperatelywants the option to use this versus opioids,
but she's a criminal for doing it, and so on her off days,
when she feels good enough, she'sout collecting signatures. I've got parents
that are leaving their children with nurseson the weekends to be out in the
heat and the rain collecting signatures,and you know what, it shouldn't have

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to be this hard. I amso sorry for all the patients suffering in
our state and we have continued failingthem. But I will tell you we
are not going to go down witha fight. It is the most horrifically
beautiful thing I've ever seen to watchpatients fight for their own lives. But
it shouldn't have to be that way. But I need people to act.

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And if you think want this issueon the ballot, you've got to go
find a petition. Unfortunately we can'tcome to you. And unfortunately, I
think for your cause, a lotof the people will say, yeah,
I want to sign this. Areyou a registered voter? Yeah? Well,
some of the people who again pushfor the recreational may or may not
know whether they are a registered voteron this planet, let alone in this

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county. So I mean it's atough thing sometimes with yeah, you know,
I'm going to push back a littlebit on that because I will tell
you that some of the people thereis a small percentage of folks. I
will tell you it is very frustratingwhen people say I'm not going to sign
them out cannabis initiative because I wantrecreational. That's very tough for me as

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a parent, knowing the fight thatwe're putting in and why we're doing it,
you know, and that individual probablyhas access already, they'd love it
to be recreational. But again,that's not what we're fighting for. We're
fighting for the folks that don't haveaccess. But from a medical standpoint,
there are some questions that come uphere. Can you hang out for one
more segment? All right, KristaEggers with us here in Nebraskans for Medical
Marijuana online at Nebraska Marijuana dot organd you can get all the details that

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Chris had just mentioned about this lastfew weeks push to get the signatures to
force this as a ballot initiative.More with her. Next scot for Krista
Eggers is in the studio, campaignmanager with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana online at
Nebraska Marijuana dot org. You've gotjust a few weeks left to get as

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many signatures as possible that valid signaturesyou can turn into the Secretary of State's
office and get medical marijuana on theballot for November. Let's talk about medical
marijuana here because one of the criticismsis there are some in the medical community
that say that it's a fraud.There are no medical reasons why you would
need marijuana. No doctor is evergonna prescribe something that you would smoke.

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You got other people in the medicalcommunity saying, you guys don't know what
you're talking about. There are greatuses for this. As usual, the
answer is often somewhere in the middle. It's usually never an all or nothing
type of situation. But it doesbring up an issue that some states have
struggled with Christa, and that is, Okay, we've passed medical marijuana.

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This is not something where someone canjust decide for themselves, I'm gonna go
get some marijuana. I mean,you've got to have a prescription, has
to be provided by a doctor.But the problem in some of these states
is suddenly these doctors are opening twentyfour hour huts, all lit up in
green with marijuana leaves as their logos, and some people look at that and

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go, that doesn't look like adoctor's office. What will be the reality
from Nebraska if all this gets pastYeah, well, you know, right
now, I think everybody probably listeninghas passed some of these shops that do
have light up signs. You know, that is the gray market. It
is what is providing recreational to alot of folks. But again, the
one demographic of people that are leftout from that are the patients, the

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children. And so I can tellyou from touring medical facilities that people would
be blown away and I would encouragehim. Google medical cannabis extraction. You
know this isn't I have a child. He's not going to smoke a blunt
right of marijuana. He's going touse oil under his tongue or a nasal
syringe that sprays cannabis spray in hisnose as he's seizing and turning blue,

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not breathing on the ground. Thatis what we're talking about. We're talking
about some patients getting infusions of youknow, chemotherapy and they will use a
sav or an ointment on their hands. It is. It is very medical
based and I do think we haveseen a shift, and especially now at
the federal government rescheduling marijuana, thatthat there is a medical use. There

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is no doubt that medical marijuana isa real thing. Now are we waiting
for the testing and all the studyingof it? Yes, but we can
look at any other country across theworld and see that they've been studying it,
they've been using it, and thereis a true medical purpose. You
know that that is what we continuepushing for. And you know so I

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do believe there's a medical reason,and I think most people listening have have
got to admit that there has beena change, There has been a shift
in this. I believe Nebraska's absolutelysupport this, and I know that based
on polling, but I know itbecause I've been in the field, and
I've been in the most conservative ruralcommunities in Nebraska. And I talk with

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the gal that provides funeral meals ather church, and she's using cannabis in
a lotion form that she's getting outof state, and so she's a crime
and it allows her to continue makingfuneral meals. The patients that are out
there in the state that right nowhave to be criminals. It's horrible for
me. It is absolutely legal andrecommended for me to pump my child full

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of pharmaceutical meds that I do believein, and I wish they were helping
Colton. Let me make that veryclear that my son sitting at home right
now, I wish that these medsthat we have tried, the meds that
I can go down get a scriptfor and put in his mouth every day.
It would be my biggest hope isthat they would help him. But

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they haven't. And that's reality formany patients. This isn't hey someday I
decided I want to I want tofight for medical cannabis. Let me tell
you the reality of this fight hasbeen life altering. It's destroyed my last
five years of my life. Thepatients that have paraded up to the capital
year after year and gotten sick anddied. Do you know the amount of

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people we've lost in this fight whohave been out circulating petitions and have died.
I can tell you there's seven ofthem since last year that are no
longer here, and they died beingcriminals or not having access. You know.
So we talk about you know,right now you're doing a radiothon about
helping children, and I am beggingpeople to help my child who deserves a

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chance to go to camp. Hedeserves the chance to have a life that
isn't full of suffering. And hisdoctors at the Mayo Clinic, the most
world renowned institute of health have saidthis could save Colton's life. I need
people to think about what they woulddo if they were faced with that same

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situation of saving their child's life fortheir loved ones. And I know you've
heard from people that say, well, why don't you move to a state
that allows this? Yeah, youknow, I'm going to be really honest.
I wish I had. I wishthat five years ago. That's the
choice that we would have made,but instead it wasn't an option at that

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moment, and it shouldn't have tobe an option. No one should be
asked to leave their community and theirfamilies and their jobs and their insurance and
have to move and become a medicalrefugee, right, that's number one.
That's not acceptable. But what happenedis, just like most everybody that's a
part of this fight today, isthey got involved and they started realizing that

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their own situation, Yes, that'swhy they got involved to start with.
But there's a Leah I'm a fightingfor, and there's an Ed, and
there's a Cindy, and there's Joshand Josh's child, like all of these
people matter, and their situations arejust like mine that they're fighting to have
medical access of something that hopefully canaid them in their treatment, help with

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symptoms, or possibly yes, bettertheir life, save their life in some
situations. And so you know,we're all here for the same reason in
this fight, and that's to provideaccess to patients who are suffering. And
that is the end. That's it, that is what we are fighting for.
It's Christa Eggers, Nebraska's from medicalMarijuana. You and I were talking

(01:02:13):
before we went back on the radioand the segments that I started having this
conversation with people that wanted to comeon the radio and talk about medical marijuana
or something, or the the industrialuse of hemp. You know, when
I got into radio talk radio ofabout thirty years ago when I was negative
eight years old, and those guyswere a bunch of super boring hippies that

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just wanted to talk about Thomas Jeffersongrew hemp on his and it was coma
inducing you your story, your lifeexperiences, and the way that you share
this story is causing people to lookat this issue in a very very different
way. I don't know anyone,including you, say I go into these
conservative counties in Nebraska when people hearabout the story, no one disagrees with

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it. No one wants to likeslap medicine away from a kid or an
adult, a senior citizen, aveteran in need of these things. And
then you look at some of thesedetails around the country where it says like
suddenly a lot of these medical marijuanaprescriptions go to a bunch of twenty something
year old guys with quote chronic painun quote and kind of know what to
say in order to get the prescription. There is abuse. There's abuse in

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the legal things, the pharmaceuticals we'retalking about right now. Absolutely, how
do we prevent that, How dowe take care of those who need it
and try and limit that abuse?Is that something that is on your cause
or is that for the state tolook at? You know, no,
it's not on our cause. ButI can tell you that this doesn't end
when we get on the ballot andit passes. The work begins to work

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with the legislative body that will setup the rules and regulations for this.
So when you say who is iton, it's on the state. It
still gets punted back to them tohelp create a regulated medical cannabis system that
puts it in the hands of thepatients who have the recommendations with the correct
physicians, and keep it out ofthe hands of those who don't, which
is youth. I mean, Ihave one child at home who I am

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fighting for his life and want accessto this, and I have another I
don't want it in his hands,and so I think, you know,
patients and advocates will be called toaction in a very important way when this
does pass, because we want itto be safe, we want it to
be regulated. I want to makesure that when I get the recommendation from
his doctor that the medication, rightthe oil that I put under his tongue

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in the morning, at noon,and at night, is medical, it's
tested, it's regulated, it's safe, because right now what's on our streets
and any shops is not safe,and it's not an option for patients.
I would actually, unfortunately tell them, you know, there's very few places
that I could send them, ButI hate having to say you have to
go to another state to get it, and be a criminal to bring it

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across state lines. They shouldn't haveto worry about that. You know,
the mom that's bringing it back forher kid, fearful of losing her children
if she's got it is just ahorrific place for patients to be and we
are all fighting so that we canstay in the state of Nebraska. And
so I would tell people out therethat are concerned about these things, that

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want to support medical cannabis but areworried about the future, reach out to
your lawmakers. I mean, ifpeople would do that, I hope we
could have gotten it done in thelegislature. And a lot of people do,
but not enough right and so theyneed to hear from their constituents that
say, I support medical cannabis,but that's all I support, And so
I want you to be a proponentfor medical cannabis, but I don't want

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you to let it go farther.That's what people need to do. Get
involved. Sign our petition. Youknow what. Our petition just says you
want to see it on the ballot. It actually doesn't say you support it
or oppose it. And so whensomeone says I don't know how I feel
about it, that's okay. Whydon't you sign the petition to get it
on the ballot. Let Nebraskans decide. Nebraska Marijuana dot Org details about how

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you can host a petition drive,how you can find the petition to sign
it. I'm sure you would acceptdonations to this effort earlier a matching donor.
It's very expensive, and it's it'sit's really tragic that it takes money
to get something on the ballot,especially that most people support. But we
do. We need money. Weneed people to get out and grab take
petitions. We will mail them,you can pick them up. Go sign

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at Wine Beer Spirits from four toclose every week. Wine Beer Spirits.
Wine Beer Spirits is the Toys rUs Slickery store. There's one at Oakview
Mall. We have volunteers, patientsthemselves sitting in there at a table,
manning shifts a couple hour shifts astheir health allows, and they're ready for
people to come in all weekend.Go there. DMVs will be staffed.

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We need Nebraskas to act. Weneed thirty thousand more signatures on each of
our two petitions to make it acrossthe finish line. We can do this,
but we need people to act now, and so yes, Nebraska Marijuana
dot org. Please go on.When you donate, I get an alert
on my phone and when I seetwenty dollars come in, I know that
I can go get twenty more signatures, and I know that I can send

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that volunteer with gas in his vehicleto go and sit at the DMV.
I get to see all the moneythat comes in goes directly back into this.
This isn't a profitable This is volunteersworking hard, using their own money
to go out and collect signatures,and we sure appreciate a little bit of
help doing it again. The websiteis Nebraska Marijuana dot org. Nebraska's from

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Medical Marijuana as the organization that istheir campaign manager Christa Eggers, and I
hope that through whatever means necessary,they can figure out the medical issues with
your son. I know that whenthat is all taken care of, and
I believe it will be that yourson will have no problems because he has
a great mommy. So thank youChrista for coming in here.