August 27, 2024 • 7 mins
I talk with USAF vet Felix Ungerman about how President Reagan influenced him, how the special session blew it on property taxes, and why he's running for a District Three seat in the legislature.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. We have a guest in the studio has
been waiting incredibly impatiently to speak on the radio for
several minutes now as we've been talking over time with
the doctor to say President Reagan's life. If you miss that,
we'll have it posted on the podcast later. We have
Felix Angerman here with us. Felix is running for the
(00:20):
District three representation in the Nebraska legislature. God only knows why,
but we'll talk a little bit about that. But let's
start here. You've counted President Reagan is among your biggest
political inspirations. I have my reasons, what are yours?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, you can look at what he did. He worked
with everybody who was available during his time, and he
got things done that probably today would be impossible to
do in this hyper partisan space of politics that we're in.
But I mean, many people have heard his speeches, whether
it was his early days of politics governor of California,
He's given many speeches that have been highlighted and considered
(01:00):
the essence of who Reagan was. And in particular I
can sum it all down, I guess, into one that
captures everything which was freedom is not free you have
to fight for it each successive generation, and if you don't,
then you will be sitting back someday. And I'm paraphrasing
looking back at the great days of old of freedom,
wishing you'd have done something.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I was a kid during the Reagan administration, and I
tried my best to kind of read up on the
reality rather than the little kid fantasy of Wow, that's
the president. He's the most important guy in the world
other than Michael Jackson. Again, I was a kid and
growing up in the eighties, and I read Tip O'Neil's
book Man of the House and he explained it the
(01:39):
same way as well, and that is, you would battle
tooth and nail throughout the day, have these robust discussions
on what was best for our nation. But at the
end of the day, we both realized we both love
this country and the people in it. We might have
different ideas about policy and how to get to certain places,
but we also kind of understand we're not going to
both win all the time. And at some point you
(02:01):
got to clock out and go get a beer and
slap each other in the back and go, all right, well,
you got that bill by me today. But I'm going
to get you tomorrow. One of those kind of things.
Those days are long gone, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well you can say they are, but if you look
at let's just go back to President Trump twenty sixteen
and how things felt kind of coming into that. There
was stagflation, eight years of decline in our military, a
number of things that were leading up to Oh my gosh,
well we ever see America like the days of old
of Reagan or even JFK and the boom and going
(02:32):
to the moon. Are those days gone for America? And
I think many people at that point, you know, coming
into the twenty sixteen election, would have said, yeah, I
think our greatest days are behind us. But then comes
in a president not expected. He's bold, he's aggressive. Granted,
he speaks in ways that really pissed people off, yes,
But at the same time, some of the things that
(02:52):
he did to resurrect an economy that was, you know,
stagnant for about eight years was pretty much miraculous. And
then the way he was bold with leaders like you know,
North Korea, even Iran, and how he was handling that China.
Don't ever you know, raise the tariffs on China. Oh
my god, they could shut us down in a day,
things like that, and he just didn't care. He was
(03:12):
doing the right things for the right reasons. And what
we saw transpire in his four years gave a lot
of people a lot of hope. And now here we
are kind of four years later, going can we ever
have this again? And I think the answer is absolutely
if we do what Reagan told us to do, which
is fight for it every day.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I always loved picking your brain about the national political
scheme scene. Twenty five years serving our nation in the
United States Air Force. You've also done your duty for
Congressman Don Bacon working in his offices over the years.
But now you've decided to get into politics to try
and replace Carol Blood who's term limited out District three
in Bellevue. Property taxes is the number one thing we've
(03:51):
been talking about here with unicameerl stuff here because of
the special session, which was a colossal waste of time. So,
I mean, the ameeror Nebraska have been begging for property
tax relief and we didn't really get it here. So
should you be elected, should we have the same and
some new members of the unicamerrall going to Lincoln. Is
(04:13):
there any chance on the horizon of doing some real,
meaningful property tax relief.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I'm glad you asked it that way. Let me take
a little bit of what we were just talking about
and put it into context. Here for Nebraska is we
need some hope. We need some people who can bring
some hope. And I think we could really analyze I
don't know how much time you got today, but we
can analyze what just took place. The governor's proclamation, which
was very specific, and to be honest with you, just
summarizing it very quickly, zo point fifteen out of sixteen
(04:40):
on his proclamation was kind of all that really got done.
But that's not his fault. He was bold, he was aggressive.
We just talked about needing bold, aggressive leaders who aren't
afraid of doing things. Now, was it all done right?
I can't really get into the fine grain analysis of
did the governor do it right? Should he have done it?
You know we can all armchair quarterback. We do that
(05:01):
every Sunday throughout Husker season, and so I would say
the governor's boldness is to be applauded. He went after something,
he tried to get something big done. But then you
look at kind of what he said could be done.
And if you and I did a little homework. So
I'll geek out for just a second. Article four, section
eight of the Nebraska State Constitution says the Governor may,
(05:21):
on extraordinary circumstances or occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation
stating they're in the purpose, which he did through his
proclamation for which they are convened, and the legislature shall
enter upon no business except for which they were called together.
So that was all they were really given that they
could do. And so if they only got that one done,
(05:42):
there were other ideas out there. There were plenty of them,
record number.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
At least it got us moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
We need some hold.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So how would you if you were in charge of everything?
They said, all right, here are the keys to the
UNICAMRAI get it done here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How well extraordinary circumstances, I wouldn't have gone for the
whole inch a lot of Most likely I would have said,
if something can't wait until the next session, then that's
the emergency. That's what we need. And I have knocked
thousands of doors. I've had many hundreds of them open
to me, and one of them in particular was an
eighty nine year old widow who lost her husband about
five years ago, and she's telling me I can't afford
(06:17):
the goods and services because of inflation. I'm being priced
out because my husband's pension is no longer there. Half
the solid security's gone, and the property taxes just went
up one hundred percent and ten years if you look
at the numbers, So I really can't afford my house anymore.
I'm eighty nine. I wanted to finish my life here,
but I can't. And I'm starting to get the boxes
packed because I'm gonna have to move and I'm gonna
(06:38):
have to use all the equity to pay for my
life from here on out. Should never happen in the
state of Nebraska. That's the emergency. We should have been about.
To solve that one problem and then work on the
rest in the next session.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
One person can't do it by him or herself. But
Felix Hungerman is willing to be a part of this
mess Town and Lincoln to try. Details at Felix for
free edom dot com. That's the number four, felixfor freedom
dot Com. He's running to serve the people of District
three in the wake of the term limited Carol Blood Felix.
Always good to see you, thanks lover stopping by Scott
(07:12):
Voices mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten
KFAB
Scott Vordiez. We have a guest in the studio has
been waiting incredibly impatiently to speak on the radio for
several minutes now as we've been talking over time with
the doctor to say President Reagan's life. If you miss that,
we'll have it posted on the podcast later. We have
Felix Angerman here with us. Felix is running for the
(00:20):
District three representation in the Nebraska legislature. God only knows why,
but we'll talk a little bit about that. But let's
start here. You've counted President Reagan is among your biggest
political inspirations. I have my reasons, what are yours?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, you can look at what he did. He worked
with everybody who was available during his time, and he
got things done that probably today would be impossible to
do in this hyper partisan space of politics that we're in.
But I mean, many people have heard his speeches, whether
it was his early days of politics governor of California,
He's given many speeches that have been highlighted and considered
(01:00):
the essence of who Reagan was. And in particular I
can sum it all down, I guess, into one that
captures everything which was freedom is not free you have
to fight for it each successive generation, and if you don't,
then you will be sitting back someday. And I'm paraphrasing
looking back at the great days of old of freedom,
wishing you'd have done something.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I was a kid during the Reagan administration, and I
tried my best to kind of read up on the
reality rather than the little kid fantasy of Wow, that's
the president. He's the most important guy in the world
other than Michael Jackson. Again, I was a kid and
growing up in the eighties, and I read Tip O'Neil's
book Man of the House and he explained it the
(01:39):
same way as well, and that is, you would battle
tooth and nail throughout the day, have these robust discussions
on what was best for our nation. But at the
end of the day, we both realized we both love
this country and the people in it. We might have
different ideas about policy and how to get to certain places,
but we also kind of understand we're not going to
both win all the time. And at some point you
(02:01):
got to clock out and go get a beer and
slap each other in the back and go, all right, well,
you got that bill by me today. But I'm going
to get you tomorrow. One of those kind of things.
Those days are long gone, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well you can say they are, but if you look
at let's just go back to President Trump twenty sixteen
and how things felt kind of coming into that. There
was stagflation, eight years of decline in our military, a
number of things that were leading up to Oh my gosh,
well we ever see America like the days of old
of Reagan or even JFK and the boom and going
(02:32):
to the moon. Are those days gone for America? And
I think many people at that point, you know, coming
into the twenty sixteen election, would have said, yeah, I
think our greatest days are behind us. But then comes
in a president not expected. He's bold, he's aggressive. Granted,
he speaks in ways that really pissed people off, yes,
But at the same time, some of the things that
(02:52):
he did to resurrect an economy that was, you know,
stagnant for about eight years was pretty much miraculous. And
then the way he was bold with leaders like you know,
North Korea, even Iran, and how he was handling that China.
Don't ever you know, raise the tariffs on China. Oh
my god, they could shut us down in a day,
things like that, and he just didn't care. He was
(03:12):
doing the right things for the right reasons. And what
we saw transpire in his four years gave a lot
of people a lot of hope. And now here we
are kind of four years later, going can we ever
have this again? And I think the answer is absolutely
if we do what Reagan told us to do, which
is fight for it every day.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I always loved picking your brain about the national political
scheme scene. Twenty five years serving our nation in the
United States Air Force. You've also done your duty for
Congressman Don Bacon working in his offices over the years.
But now you've decided to get into politics to try
and replace Carol Blood who's term limited out District three
in Bellevue. Property taxes is the number one thing we've
(03:51):
been talking about here with unicameerl stuff here because of
the special session, which was a colossal waste of time. So,
I mean, the ameeror Nebraska have been begging for property
tax relief and we didn't really get it here. So
should you be elected, should we have the same and
some new members of the unicamerrall going to Lincoln. Is
(04:13):
there any chance on the horizon of doing some real,
meaningful property tax relief.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I'm glad you asked it that way. Let me take
a little bit of what we were just talking about
and put it into context. Here for Nebraska is we
need some hope. We need some people who can bring
some hope. And I think we could really analyze I
don't know how much time you got today, but we
can analyze what just took place. The governor's proclamation, which
was very specific, and to be honest with you, just
summarizing it very quickly, zo point fifteen out of sixteen
(04:40):
on his proclamation was kind of all that really got done.
But that's not his fault. He was bold, he was aggressive.
We just talked about needing bold, aggressive leaders who aren't
afraid of doing things. Now, was it all done right?
I can't really get into the fine grain analysis of
did the governor do it right? Should he have done it?
You know we can all armchair quarterback. We do that
(05:01):
every Sunday throughout Husker season, and so I would say
the governor's boldness is to be applauded. He went after something,
he tried to get something big done. But then you
look at kind of what he said could be done.
And if you and I did a little homework. So
I'll geek out for just a second. Article four, section
eight of the Nebraska State Constitution says the Governor may,
(05:21):
on extraordinary circumstances or occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation
stating they're in the purpose, which he did through his
proclamation for which they are convened, and the legislature shall
enter upon no business except for which they were called together.
So that was all they were really given that they
could do. And so if they only got that one done,
(05:42):
there were other ideas out there. There were plenty of them,
record number.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
At least it got us moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
We need some hold.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So how would you if you were in charge of everything?
They said, all right, here are the keys to the
UNICAMRAI get it done here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How well extraordinary circumstances, I wouldn't have gone for the
whole inch a lot of Most likely I would have said,
if something can't wait until the next session, then that's
the emergency. That's what we need. And I have knocked
thousands of doors. I've had many hundreds of them open
to me, and one of them in particular was an
eighty nine year old widow who lost her husband about
five years ago, and she's telling me I can't afford
(06:17):
the goods and services because of inflation. I'm being priced
out because my husband's pension is no longer there. Half
the solid security's gone, and the property taxes just went
up one hundred percent and ten years if you look
at the numbers, So I really can't afford my house anymore.
I'm eighty nine. I wanted to finish my life here,
but I can't. And I'm starting to get the boxes
packed because I'm gonna have to move and I'm gonna
(06:38):
have to use all the equity to pay for my
life from here on out. Should never happen in the
state of Nebraska. That's the emergency. We should have been about.
To solve that one problem and then work on the
rest in the next session.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
One person can't do it by him or herself. But
Felix Hungerman is willing to be a part of this
mess Town and Lincoln to try. Details at Felix for
free edom dot com. That's the number four, felixfor freedom
dot Com. He's running to serve the people of District
three in the wake of the term limited Carol Blood Felix.
Always good to see you, thanks lover stopping by Scott
(07:12):
Voices mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten
KFAB
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