10.30.2024 -- NLS --The Trump Train, Prop 1 and Ranked-Choice Voting

Barb Ehardt invites listeners to join the "Trump Train" event. 

Not only is Idaho’s current infrastructure not be prepared to implement RCV, but it would open the door for unconventional election outcomes, such as helping a lone Democrat in a race against several Republicans.

Julie adds that the surge of outside funding for Prop 1 could undermine Idaho's local autonomy, emphasizing the need for transparency about who’s backing this shift. They both question whether ranked-choice voting would benefit the state, with concerns that it may complicate Idaho’s historically straightforward election process. The conversation also touches on the handling of mail-in ballots, and the issues surrounding post-election counting.

Neal and Julie wrap up by encouraging listeners to explore the full documentary on Prop 1 by texting a provided number and stay informed ahead of the November election, urging Idahoans to be cautious and deliberate with their votes.

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807 on this Wednesday on Newstalk 1078. Julie, I have a trivia question for you. Lay it on me. When statewide officials want to speak to the electorate on the eve of election day, where do they go? Well, they send me a text and they say, hey, can I be on your show on Monday? Yes. So we will have Secretary of State Phil McGrane, on again, Monday.

Well, we're like, sure. This is the state's top elected official. We will absolutely, accommodate that. And I'm sure we have more questions for him, so it'll be great. And also, I things have happened since then. I think it would be an interesting, conversation to talk with him about these drop boxes that were set on fire. Yeah.

And if that happened in Idaho, what would be the video camera surveillance situation and things like that? I mean, here's the deal. He's a self-proclaimed election nerd. He calls himself that. Yeah. And, it it dominates his life. And he does want secure elections. And he's working hard to make sure that happens. And we've interviewed him three times before now.

Monday will be the fourth in this year alone. Yeah. Yeah. That's how concerned he is about the election happening correctly. Yeah. Yeah. So, what time on Monday do we know? 835. 835. Okay. Looking forward to that. Also, Julie, we got a text earlier this morning, and it's one of those that just kind of warms your heart. And one of our listeners, she said, I almost forgot to tell you, I sent your documentary to my father in law after he said he was voting yes on prop one.

He called last night and said he is definitely voting no now. Good job. So I thought, and I had considered doing this earlier, but we kind of got moved on to other things. We're going to do something a little bit unorthodox today for the monologue because as you know, Julie, I was M.I.A. For about two and a half weeks.

Oh, this was truly a labor of love for you. You. I kept trying to dial you back. I kept going, yeah. Quit being such a perfectionist with it. We've got to get it out. It's going to work. And I. And you just. Yeah. You wanted it to be a certain way and. Yeah. And you gave the time. And it was a labor of love.

I started on a Saturday morning. Was it three weeks ago or four? Four. It'll be four weeks ago this Saturday. Saturday. And I started at four in the morning. Drove in and then and I mean we had a lot going on. We still did all of our regular stuff, but it was nights into like 11, 10 or 10, 11:12 p.m., I guess 12 a.m. but you know what I'm saying?

It was, you know, up until midnight putting this together. And, and I will tell you why we're making no money on this. But I love Idaho. I love our way of life here. I think Idaho is a beautiful state. I think it is a prosperous state. I believe that it is a conservative state. And those facts are not disconnected.

We like limited government here. We work hard to keep it limited. And what we're seeing across the country, the more influence the Democrat Party and the left has on the reins of government, life gets worse. And forgive my language here, but I will fight like hell to stop it in Idaho. We need to keep the system that we have and know it's not perfect.

I know we got rhinos, I know we got moderates and, and that's just the typical battles that will, will face. We cannot let the left take over Idaho or we will lose so much of what we have. And I thought this whole story has to be told because prop one, when you see the whole picture, do you remember those magic 3-D images, Julie, that they had back in the late 80s, early 90s?

And they were all the rage for about 3 or 4 years, where once you saw it, you could see the 3D images. Remember those? Yeah, absolutely. Once you see what they're doing with prop one and with ranked choice voting, you can't unsee it. After that, you realize this is absolutely a nefarious plot for getting more liberals elected. Now, you might say Democrats.

They may be Democrats. They may be Republicans. In either case, they're going to be liberals who cannot get a majority vote in a first round. They're they're they're rarely a majority's first pick. So this is how they do it. And they use a completely subpar voting system to do it. That's what drove me to to do this. And I wanted to look at everything.

What's on the ballot, who's behind it? What is their political bent? What is their likely motivation for all of that? And what I thought was going to be about a 20 minute documentary turned into a nearly 45 minute documentary. And I want to play a portion of it for you here this morning. There are a couple of segments where it's audio only.

You really kind of need to see the video. I'll do my best, Julie and I will to kind of narrate through those moments where all you're hearing is audio, some background music. Yes. But here we are picking up midstream about what the organizers of prop one are going to do. This is going to run about, 14 or 15 minutes, because Idaho's current system is protected by the Constitution.

Reclaim Idaho and Idahoans for open primaries had to do something different and dramatic change the very DNA of our election system. They had to reduce the standing that parties have in elections. Actually not just reduce it. They had to eliminate it. A lot of people don't understand. Proposition one is not tweaking or adjusting how we do our primaries.

If proposition one passes, it's dismantling our entire election system in Idaho. But they aren't just addressing primaries that they say is the real problem. They're demolishing the whole thing and installing something else that operates very differently. A major political upset in Alaska last night as a Democrat won the state's only C in the U.S. House of Representatives for Nathaniel Hirst has been all over this race, and he joins us now from Anchorage.

He's also the author of an article appearing in The Washington Post Wednesday, describing the significance of this win in the complicated voting process that got us there. Some really shocking news on this one tonight, just this hour, finally getting the results from Alaska's special election to replace the late Republican Congressman Don young. Scott Young represented Alaska in the At-Large seat for 50 years.

And NBC has projected that the Democrat in that race, a woman named Mary Tola, has won that election. Just shocking. You see who she won it over Sarah Palin, of course, the first woman.

In 2022, a special election in Alaska featured three candidates one Democrat Mary Tola and two Republicans, Nick Begich and Sarah Palin.

Alaska's new ranked choice voting system was put to the test.

Round one Mary Pell Tola win just over one. Just over 40%. Nick Begich over 28%. And Sarah Palin with 31%.

Combined, Begich and Palin reach nearly 60% of the vote. But because Begich received the fewest votes, he was eliminated.

Round two.

Begich ballots were. Reapportionment. Half of them went to Palin. Less than a third went to Paul Tola. The rest, more than a fifth of his ballots were tossed or exhausted.

The results. Mary Pell Tola won 51.5%. Sarah Palin with 48.5%. After Begich ballots were reapportionment.

Mary Pell Tola declared the winner.

But was she?

The election in Alaska was held on November 8th, 2022.

Tabulation began 15 days later on November 23rd. In ranked choice voting, officials can't count any ballots until they have every ballot.

Results in a statewide election can take weeks.

I will say from where we sit, the state of Idaho is not prepared to implement ranked choice voting at this point in time. Our voting equipment doesn't handle ranked choice voting. So I think there's going to be a lot of questions. I, you know, and I think this initiative feels very different than ones that they've circulated in the past.

People like us who are wonky in the political space follow this. But the average Idahoans, I don't know that they fully grasp what's being discussed at this point in time.

Were you included, like did Luke Mayville or anyone from his group, or Bruce Nukem or anyone from his group reach out to you to consult about how feasible is this? What does it mean for you and for all the county clerks across the state? No, I've never met with or spoken to anybody from, whether it's Luke Mayville or the Idaho for open primaries process.

You heard that correctly before proposition one proponents attempted to dismantle our election system. They didn't even reach out to include the state's top election official.

That.

For a moment, let's pause. Alaska. We traveled to France in the late 18th century, a mathematician and social scientist with a very long French name, which I can't properly pronounce. But this professor I found on YouTube can know he's been to an ecological to the market Condorcet. I'll just call him the marquee de Condorcet. Well, he studied extensively the sometimes odd dynamics of ranked choice races with more than two options.

For instance, it's possible that a certain electorate may express a preference for apples over bananas and a preference for bananas over cherries and a preference for cherries over apples all from the same set of ballots. It's a little like the game paper, rock, scissors, and it's called Condor Saiz Paradox or a Condorcet loop. So it's not surprising that they studied ranked choice voting, and he began to notice the funky things that can happen and ultimately condemned the practice.

But in the midst of it, he identified an important concept the essay winner simply defined. It's the one candidate that could beat every other candidate in a one on one race. Some races don't have a Condorcet winner, but some do. The Alaska 2022 race did. Do you have any guesses who it was? After an examination of the caste vote data, Nick Begich, the early round loser in a three way ranked choice voting election, he would have beaten Palin in a head to head.

He would have beaten Pelle Tola in a head to head. But with the vote splitting that happened with another Republican in the race, he didn't survive long enough to have that head to head. That's what can happen in a ranked choice voting system. You know the one the proponents of prop one want you to support in November in Idaho.

It's very possible the dynamics could play out similarly in a number of races. A single Democrat with two or maybe three Republicans in the November election. They want to say things like, it's as simple as counting to four, and that's a great soundbite. But the underlying dynamics of voter preferences and the potential for the quirks kind of say, warned us about, combined with the risk of removing a condom, say, winner early, it's all a very real possibility.

If proposition one passes. There's no doubt in a state with our current dynamics, ranked choice voting will be a boon to a lone Democrat running in a race against multiple Republicans. Perhaps that's what they've wanted all along.

Now, from the other side, you're going to hear that. Oh, no. Oh, we're going to do so much more moderate Republicans. And the reality is, yes, yes, we will.

I know it's a common refrain. They talk about getting moderates elected. They talk about putting people ahead of party. But you have to ask yourself if the architects of proposition one simply want more, moderate, more consensus candidates to produce more moderate, more consensus policy. Who and what exactly do they mean? I was certain if I wanted to find out what say, Todd, Achilles believes, surely I'd find that on his campaign website.

Right. Like, where does he stand on abortion? Or what about his tax philosophy or education funding? Where does he fall on cultural issues, like transgender athletes competing against girls and women in sports? All the things we're currently arguing about. So I went to his website and other than the predictable cliche slogans like Running to Build a Better Idaho or a commitment to contribute positively.

Or the expected sections like a video about life growing up on the farm and serving in the military and mentioning he worked in several different tech jobs, and of course, the solicitation to help knock on doors and assist in his campaign. There's not really anything there about his policy goals. 16 B has been a reliable 6040 Democrat district for several election cycles now.

But Achilles doesn't list that. He's a Democrat anywhere on his website. If I wanted to know what Todd Achilles believes, I wasn't finding it on his campaign website. So plan B.

Open secrets dawg.

And a donor lookup of the name Todd Achilles.

A political donations search of the architects of proposition one doesn't exactly reveal a desire to elect more moderate Republicans, as Achilles claimed when he launched the petition drive. But it may shed light on the kinds of candidates they are hoping to elevate in Idaho and the political outcomes they are engineering for the Gem State. This helps explain why they're seeking to dismantle and replace our entire election system.

A mere adjustment to the primaries in Idaho would be insufficient to. For a candidate not listing his party affiliation on his website. Achilles, along with Mayville, certainly give a lot of money to a lot of left leaning Democratic candidates. Here's what they know. The current party led primary system in Idaho and a straightforward election in November is an ecosystem that is hostile to the candidates they like.

In short, they have to choose between being themselves or being electable. In a state like Idaho. The national candidates supported by Todd Achilles, could never win a statewide November election. Here.

The results of Hillary Clinton and Paulette Jordan, along with John Kerry, show overwhelming wins by the Republican. The donation histories also showed that he had donated to Howard Dean. By the way, there is neither scandal nor corruption implied in this information. Rather, this is sunshine, Todd, Achilles and Luke May. They'll have every right to donate to the candidates they like, but you have the right to know who they are.

The motive and the intent of those who would enact such dramatic changes to our system of governance. Given the prolific donation history to liberal politicians far to the left of Idaho, and a track record of giving almost exclusively to Democrats. Perhaps we should be suspicious of the stated intent of electing, in Todd Achilles words, moderate Republicans. You're going to hear that.

Oh, no. All we're going to do is like more moderate Republicans. And the reality is, yes, yes, we will.

And by the way, if you'd like to see the entire documentary and share it with your father in law or your mother in law or whoever, people who've said that they're planning on voting yes on prop one, it is super easy to access just Text Archive, short for Ranked Choice Voting Archive to (208) 542-1479. That's our CV to (208) 542-1278.

Got to take a break. We'll come back. And in just a few minutes we'll have Representative Barbot joining us. Of course she's on the ballot on Tuesday. She's also hosting a Trump train. And a lot happening here on Newstalk 179.

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And if you're outside of the Idaho Falls area or you don't quite meet that benchmark, it's just a small surcharge. Okay. GG primates.com. It's 832. We're going to break away when we get back. Representative Barbie Hart will join us in studio. We'll talk about an upcoming jump train. Also, I heard there's an election coming up too. Maybe next Tuesday or something.

I'm twitchy. All right, we're all twitchy. I think.

It's 838 on Newstalk 179 The Election, along with Julie Mason and Julie. We're super excited to welcome into the studio this morning, representative Barbie Hart. Hi, Barb. How are you guys? Thanks for having me. I love being here. Well, thank you for coming in. You are six days away. I know six days away. I'm about ready for those six days to be done.

Yes. Well, can we can we share some of the struggles you've had? Sure. You had a knee replacement? I did two days ago. I did two, two weeks ago. It was, not planned that way. And anyway, it's definitely, actually, it's been about three weeks ago, and it's slow. It's complicated things. When were you going to have it?

Sorry. I was gonna say I'm going to stun you. Well, though, I mean, so many athletic competitions. Yes, it has had lived a good life. Okay, time for some some extra help. You know what, Julie? I, I was talked about that with somebody, and I said, well, because this weekend, though, you might know, it was our 50th anniversary for Idaho State women's basketball.

And so we were down there celebrating that. And, and as I was telling teammates from however long ago, 30 years ago, whatever it was, I wouldn't I wouldn't change a thing. I would do everything over and and do the knee replacement. I would just time it differently. It wasn't supposed to be a total until it was. Yeah, I know because you like to go out and knock doors.

I love to be out with the people. I really do. Now you have to be in a wheelchair and throw rocks at the doors. Pebble, not rock. Got you. Yeah, yeah. Hey! Ask him. Please open your door. I want to talk to you. Well, this is not a repeat. This is a three peat of an election. That's right.

That kind of sounds like Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah, the three peat. Yeah, yeah. That's right. But, this is, Miranda's a very known opponent for you. Correct. So yes, I, I nothing's changed with Miranda. As far as who she is and the very progressive liberal policies that she represents. Yeah. You know, we've said it many time, even Democrats, I mean, people people aren't capable, believe me, they'll say, oh, she's just saying that.

But even Democrats that I served with over in Boise have said, I mean, they're not necessarily fond of her. And that if if she were to get over there, she would absolutely be the most progressive person they had in their legislative caucus. Wow. Out of all the out of all the Democrats, they believe she would be the most progressive, Democrat in their legislative caucus.

Wow. That's that's that's crazy. And makes this race even more important for you to win it. It really does for those in Idaho Falls in District 33 who who love. You know what we have here? Who who, love what we've been trying to do in Boise. I hope that they'll continue to support me, because the person that I said I was when I first ran for City council, it's the same person I think you guys know that I haven't I haven't changed, you know, I just I just try to work hard.

And when I'm in Boise, I work hard, I stay late, I, I'm not out partying or going to the, you know, fancy dinners and. Yeah, I'm, I'm I'm working. Yeah, we definitely witnessed that. Neal and I have been in Boise before. You're a hard person to track down, and that's because you're busy doing the work. No. You're easy.

I think we can catch up to you. Yeah? Yeah. Know. Tell the people I'm on crutches. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. Well, let's talk about this Trump train that's coming up. You have helped organize this and you had like minded people have gathered together to make this gigantic train happen on Saturday. Tell us the details. Well, you know, four years ago, Tom South and, he, he did when?

Prior to the Monday before the election. And and it wasn't as big as it could have been and I had to sound like, man, I, you know, I wanted to be part of that. And, and I had called him and said, hey, I want to do another one. And we, you know, I'm going to do it Monday before Tuesday of the election.

You want to join in? And we tried it one more time. I think it'd been a week later. It was huge. And the problem we made those we went on that Monday forgetting that, you know, you have daylight savings time and it got dark real, real quickly. So he thought we'd do it on a Saturday. And that's going to be this Saturday.

And, it turns out Sunkist Enterprises had been trying to do one too. And so they joined with me and we're we're doing it together. And it's going to be a big Trump train. It's going to be a celebration, a patriotic and and celebrating our, you know, our liberties and we want it to be civil and we want it to be fun.

I've been in, coordinating with our Idaho Falls Police Department. They've been absolutely great. They helped us pick out a route. We're asking everyone who participates to make sure you understand. We have to follow all traffic laws that it's not. It's not like a procession in a parade where you just keep going through. You have to stop at the light, stop at the stop signs.

Be courteous, let people in. But other than that, you know, we're going to do close to what we did last year. You know, we're going to gather up there at, Freeman Park. I think you guys are going to join in. We're going to, gather at the top. There's going to be Trump gear for sale. Come decked your stuff out and you know, we've got maps.

I've got it on my site. We've got an Sunkist site where you can now see, the map that we'll be using and how to line your, vehicle up. And then we'll, you know, use that route to go on out and, and and have fun. And for those of you who want to just follow along and cheer, look at the route, and come out and cheer us on and, you know, cheer for Trump.

This is our this is we need President Trump back in office. We need to put him back in office to save this country and and get back to our liberties and our freedoms and free speech and, you know, our Second Amendment. I mean, I could just go on. How many things have been destroyed, the open borders. I mean, that's going to destroy all of us.

You know, we haven't felt it as much in Idaho, but it's here, you know, so, as they say, every state's a border state, and and this is a celebration. Get out and support President Trump. And do not think that Idaho is just because Idaho is going to go red and go, Trump. Don't don't stay home.

Get out. Support overwhelming support. Help Trump make sure that he also, gains the consensus of the people the popular vote to well and and I think that is important that I mean Trump is going to win. That's not really in question. But the more overwhelming he can win, the more of a, a mandate, I think the better governance you're going to get.

Yeah. Which is good. I did hear there is a Kamala train, and it's just a couple of Subarus driving on the left side of the road. That's what I heard. Make sure you wave at them. Yeah. That's true. I come all straight. Yeah. Oh, that's funny, I it's my counterpart. Since I'm heading up the Trump train. Is Randy heading up the Kamala?

I don't know I don't know. She honestly I don't know why that would I would wave at her I would yes. There is an important part of also getting out and voting and and that will be the down ballot from getting out there and voting for Trump. There are down ballot races, yours being one of them. That's so proposition one.

Yes. This is something that Neal and I have talked about endlessly. Neal's documentary has been so important. So, give us your take on how prop one is doing. And, also, does it have a shot at passing in? If it does pass, what are you going to do as a lawmaker? Well, I'll tell you what. When I first heard about this and you guys have been phenomenal, you have carried this bucket of water as long or longer than anybody else in the state.

And we're so appreciative of what you have done to bring forward the the truth behind ranked choice voting. And, one of my first posts about ranked choice voting, I don't know, like a year ago was this ranked choice voting is voting until the winner loses. And that's that's just how I summed it up. It's it's a Marxist ploy.

There it's nefarious. There is nothing truthful behind it. And the only way it goes forward is, is through deceit. And you. We were just talking, Julie. I thought, it's so shameful that they've used our military and armed services as they had as a prop. As, as a reason regarding open primaries and, you know, to try to get people to say, oh, our military should be military can vote.

They're not kept from voting one iota. They have every right that every other American Idahoans citizen has to vote. They have those same exact rights, no more, no less. And that's how it should be. No more, no less. So, Yeah, but but if for some reason that, ranked choice voting happens to pass, we should have the most, true conservative legislative body that we've had that maybe that we've ever had.

And I believe that we all have it in our in our hearts and minds that we will repeal it. And we have every reason to repeal it because so many lies and deceit, if the people were actually voting on something truthful, that would be completely different. I think you saw that with Medicaid expansion, we we tried to put sidebars on it, but, you know, especially even here, I, I supported that, yeah.

But with the rank choice vote and even on Medicaid expansion, they lied. At some point we kind of kicked Luke Mayville out. He lies. Everything he says is a lie. And I said it with Medicaid expansion. But this as far as the numbers. But that wasn't as deceitful as what this is on the straight up lie as to what it is we're voting on, and we will lay out that case.

We will lay it strongly. And once that case has been laid, laid out, then we will vote it down. I and I just want to back up what you've said, Barb, because on their very own website, front page, front and center, they say people are blocked from voting. And then they say it's an injustice in Idaho. Neither one of those are true.

So when you say they lie, it's right. They're front and center on their page. Correct, correct. And and, you know, I was talking with one of my legislative colleagues in Montana the other day because they have ranked choice voting rights being pushed in, in all of the conservative states. And we were talking the very same things are being pushed from the very same dark money from out of state and people, anyone listening to this, do you tell your friends this is out of state money?

This isn't Idahoans within the state of Idaho coming up and deciding that Idaho wants to do this, this is being perpetrated on Idahoans by outside money, outside thoughts, outside people who want to try to turn these conservative states blue. This will sound like a compliment. And and I guess in a, in a weird way it is they have their sound bites down, though.

They are very crisp about it, and they know what to say. And it's hard to counter that because you have to have a discussion you had I have to create a 45 minute documentary to actually tell the whole story on on this. And, and that's, that's a tough thing to counter. They did the same thing with Medicaid expansion.

They said, well, this is just the compassionate thing to do. They tried it on this. The second thing they did, they were actually rewriting Idaho's tax code. But they said, this is about education funding. This is about our kids. And so they they have this front that they lie about. And in this one the lie is, well, it's open primaries so everybody can vote.

But the real intention is actually to destroy the Republican Party in Idaho. It's hard to destroy an already destroyed Democrat party, but it does that to and so you at some point, you would hope the voters would go, I get what you're up to, and I'm not going to reward you with a yes vote from here on out.

Exactly. We may needs to be given his ticket someplace else. Yeah, his ticket to California. Go set up shop where you're more welcoming and the people agree with you over there because, he shouldn't be here. So we interviewed the Alaska, speaker of the House. My. Oh, there's. Oh, you did. Oh, you got Cathy. Okay. Yes. So she she said they're like $7 million, Julie, that they've spent millions and millions against the repeal effort in Alaska.

Same thing out of state dark money. And it it does make you wonder why is so much money coming from out of state to impact what happens in our state? Yeah, that's a that's a super important question to ask. And answer me. Oh completely agreed. And and when if people will just open their minds and look a little deeper instead of so surface with, with so many things that come up, they will see that and and it's, it's I think any of us would ask that if this if this were literally something having to do with your family, with your own job, you would ask that.

I was just going to say if it was your home. Yes. You let somebody come into your home and make the rules, decide what you were eating for dinner, discipline your children. Yep. You would never do that. Yet we're accepting dark money out of Idaho to come in and change the rules in Idaho to change our rules as as, sovereign, members of the state of the great state of Idaho, we we need to say no, and then we need to wake up after this and not let Luke Mayville continue to run things.

But, Yeah. So I, I, I'm still hopeful with the work that you've done in the work going on with the state GOP. And I'll tell you, kudos to our Bonneville County. Republican Party. They've they've I've, I've been to three stuffing parties where, the ranked choice voting literature went out with my literature and Wendy's literature and, and Carl Casper sins and you know, so I'm, I am I am optimistic that our our district 33 and 32 have received the information.

Good. Yeah. Well that that's good. That's good. All right. Let's go back over the Trump train before we let you go again. Tell us what day what time Saturday. Well, we're going to start the we we want the Trump train to definitely start rolling at 1045 because it's going to take a little while to get out of the parking lot.

We want to be on the road, as close to 11 as we can. And so we'll start gathering at 11. But people will start being there at nine if you're interested in buying here. And so whenever you guys can get there, we want to have a little program beforehand, you know, around 10 to 10:00. And we'll certainly, start, you know, with the prayer and, you know, we'll we'll have a few people speaking, but, just get us fired up, revved up, and and then get on the road.

We will remind everybody of the rules and our police. This time four years ago, we hadn't quite coordinated as well with the police, that there will be a presence and they'll be aware of where we are throughout the city. So anyone who has nefarious plans to slow the Trump train down, get in front, stop it as before. The the police will take it.

You all right? Okay. Barbie. Hart, thank you so much. Good luck. I'm sure we're going to see you election night. Right. You'll be at the party? Oh, yeah, I I'll be there. All right. Celebrate. Okay. Sounds sounds good. It's 853. We'll take a break and we'll wrap up this hour just ahead on Newstalk 107 nine.

It's, 858 on Newstalk 107, I, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. Couple of questions. Julie, from our listeners, where does the Trump train start? Freeman Park. They asked which parking lot? Just go to Freeman Park. I'm sure there will be lots and lots of, people there. And you'll you'll see exactly where it is. So yeah, I'm not sure how to describe which parking lot is which.

Freeman Park, but you'll you will find it. You'll you will not miss it where there's a ton of people and trump flags, that's just where you need to go in. Freeman Park. Just show up and, you'll be all right. Also, Barb has given us some Trump signs to give away to you. We might. Yeah, we might get a little creative with this.

Yeah, it'll be great. All right. 859 on this Wednesday hour two coming up on Newstalk 1079.

All right. Welcome back, Howard two show. Poor Kamala Harris has to play clean up on aisle three behind Joe Biden after he, of course, called Trump's supporters garbage. Here's what he said. Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters is is this demonization thing is unconscionable and it's un-American.

And I love how he's talking about demonizing people. And he just called people garbage.

Pot. Kettle in. Look at a mirror. That's like instant hypocrisy. So apparently they talked to Vice President Harris, who wants to be the president, and she had to counter him. Listen to this. First of all, he clarified his comments. But let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. Okay, since when?

Yet no kidding. Since when? Because just 48 hours ago, you were beaten. The drama of a Nazi rally at, Madison Square Garden. Like. Since when? Yeah, now. And they're calling MAGA Nazis. Yep. She's I mean it's so stand it. I mean sometimes you see flip flops or contradictory statements that might be separated days apart or months apart or years apart.

This is like just a day or two ago. The, the whole Democrat Party was trying to say, if you go to a Trump rally, you're a Nazi. Yep. Here's, by the way, here's Hillary Clinton, you know, to just be grossly general istic, you could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.

This is, first of all, you got Biden calling us garbage. You have Hillary Clinton calling us deplorables. Last week, the Democrat Party was calling us Nazis. I'm gonna give a little bit of free consulting advice to the Democrats. That's probably not the best politics. If you're trying to win people over and you're trying to have a joyful campaign calling them garbage and Nazis and deplorables, that's probably not the best sales pitch she got, right?

Well, also not the best sales pitch when you've complained since the the rally about the comedian. Yeah. And now you turn around and do exactly the same thing. Yeah. And just to follow up, when Kamala said, well, he's clarified his remarks, I don't I will not accept that clarification. It doesn't make any sense with what he was supposed to be saying and what they're now saying.

He meant they don't match. Yes. And yes, they they don't match. Okay. There's a bit of breaking news. The Supreme Court has intervened and sided with Glenn Youngkin. And so Virginia's efforts to make sure that only citizens can vote has been backed by the Supreme Court. That's great news. It is great. Now, this wasn't we're not talking massive amounts of of cleanup here.

They had already done the big clean up in in Virginia. It had already happened. But then they discovered some more like 1600. Yeah. It was that second batch they said had fell past a deadline and the Democrats sued the state or sued the Commonwealth. If you for me, there's nothing more glaring in these suits than to say if you're suing a state to keep dead people on the rolls, you're a cheater.

Yes. And that's the Democrat Party. This is not the only state that they sued in. Yes. You know, I don't think this will happen, but I would love it because they took this up very quickly because of the time frame, the limited window of time, and good for them for being that responsive. I hope a similar thing happens with Nevada and the judge's ruling.

That is going to allow post Election Day ballots that come in without a postmark. What could possibly go wrong with that? Julie? Like, if I were the Supreme Court, I'd say, okay, we'll acknowledge your concern about people being disenfranchized. Here's our ruling. You have to keep every single one of those ballots that come in and set them aside.

They will not be tallied in the final vote. However, if there are enough of them that it changes the the outcome, it could potentially change the outcome. It could potentially change the outcome. Then we will adjudicate it, then. But that's just how could you put you know what? Let's put that on the list for questions for Phil McGrane.

Okay. What what would happen in Idaho if somebody mailed in a ballot doesn't have a postmark and it shows up Wednesday or Thursday after Election Day? What what do you do with that ballot? He's going to say it's not counted. Yes. As it shouldn't be as it shouldn't be. But you don't have fair election officials in every state.

And I'm not sure of the make up in Nevada, but it doesn't appear that they're being fair election officials there. No. Yeah, they're trying to steal it again. Yeah. Again. Shenanigans. Like if you don't like the word still, these are these are clearly shenanigans that they're polling. You know what I think that mantra of the the left in the Democrat Party should be, well, we don't have our ideas aren't good enough to win.

So we'll bring in illegals will allow post-election ballots to be counted, will not clean up the voter rolls, will in various states will try to get ranked choice voting implemented. Yes, they they do everything possible to compensate for the fact that their ideas stink and don't resonate with the the voting public and in the long term, create, create a country that we shouldn't we shouldn't desire, nor can I be proud of.

Yes. Which I think is their point. In in the long run. There's a headline here, and Fox News Julie says what the betting markets say about which party will control Congress after the 2024 election. But it triggered this idea of the betting markets. And I talked to you a little bit about this this morning, about 3 or 4 days ago.

Kamala Harris was right around 40, between 40 and 41%. She's down to 35% now. It with the probability at least on the real clear Politics RCP betting average. It's imploding. It is imploding for her. Now there is a headline being run on Drudge that talks about that. The House is leaning more to be a flip to the is to the Democrats.

Yeah. Look you cannot underestimate the down ballot if this happens and Trump sweeps like it's looking could be a possibility. Yeah the down ballot will come into play. Yeah yeah. Oh yeah. And help the Republican help the Republicans I would. So they shouldn't count their chickens before they're hatched. I mean I'm not counting my chickens before they're hatched here.

I'm not guaranteeing that Trump's going to win. I have no idea what kind of shenanigans will be pulled. Yeah, and I don't believe the polls. I don't I I've been saying that for a couple of weeks. The closer you get to the election, I think the more wonky they become. So because they're, they're trying so hard to manufacture something.

So I don't believe the polls, but I do have a gut feeling that if the shenanigans are limited, I don't know how Trump loses this. No, I, I don't either. I, I don't think they can stop him. If we can have at least a basic level of election integrity. Yeah. We saw headline earlier this morning, Julie. You noticed it?

I think it was on CNN or maybe ABC, where they said Donald Trump is in damage control after the Madison Square Garden comedian, Puerto Rico. Joe. No he's not. There's no damage control. I don't even think he's talking about it. He's out doing his thing. Yeah. There is no damage control to be done. He I sent Neal a video from the Allentown, Pennsylvania rally that Trump did last night.

It was outside of the rally, and actually it was Kamala headquarters that retweeted this video. That there were, that there was massive support, in front of the rally, because people were infuriated because of the comments that were made at the Madison Square Garden rally. There was two people with flags and two made national news.

Two and they retweeted it like that is how much damage, I mean, that there happened to talk about quote unquote damage control, when in reality it's Kamala's campaign trying to spin something that doesn't exist. Yeah, well, no, it's true, John Stuart, you sent that. Yeah, I play that. Yeah. Play it. I will warn you, there is some offensive humor in the middle of this.

I don't believe there's any swearing. I didn't hear any, but there there are some offensive jokes from this same comedian at a previous event that made no controversy. Listen, remember Hillary? She said that would be, Donald Trump. Hold on. Let me get the let me get the Jon Stewart, clip cued up here, the opening act grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Montage comedian who offered unfunny, racy, cringeworthy jokes, basically calling Puerto Rican trash the most repulsive racial jokes about Latinos disgusting and hateful. So incredibly crude, frankly, just too X-rated to play here. Extremely wild so-called jokes, extremely vile, so called jokes. She name checked my comedy album from the 90s.

Now, obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before Election Day and roasting a key voting demographic, probably not the best decision by the campaign politically. But to be fair, the guy's really just doing what he does. I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady Roast a few months ago, the great Jeff Ross.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff is so Jewish, he only watches football for the coin toss. Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton they called it deadlifting. Yes yes of course. Terrible. Boohoo. Yes. That's.

There's something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny, so. I'm sorry. As I listen to the audience. Yeah, they think it's funny to do a rally and have them not do roast jokes. That would be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not, oh, that was pretty funny, though. Okay, but but here's the thing. Where are the pearls that they were clutching ten minutes ago?

Right. They're laughing at the jokes that were told at the Tom Brady roast. Right, right. So they think that's hilarious but oh it can't happen at a rally when it was actually hours before Trump even took the stage. Yeah the arena wasn't full yet. They were still funneling people in. We've been to rallies in much smaller arenas.

That how it happens. People are still coming in and sitting down when they start people talking. Yeah, there are so many speakers lined up to keep everybody engaged for the long amount of time it gets, it takes to get that many people through. And in their. So Julie, I we should probably I mean, it's kind of too late now.

The election's less than a week away, but we should put have put up a whiteboard in the studio and written down what is this week's outrage against Trump? Because we have gone through these iterations of the outrageous thing Trump did, or the outrageous thing connected to Trump, and they try it out for a while. They hope it sticks.

They hope that it it's finally the thing that's going to bring him down. But the problem is they do this so much, it has zero impact whatsoever anymore. We're just like, okay, what's the outrage of the week? What what did Trump supposedly do this week? This last week it was, oh, he's hosting a reenactment of a Nazi rally.

Everybody knows he's not that going to Madison Square Garden has been a tradition for high level politicians in advance of a presidential election for 50 years. I mean, this is like it's it's amazing to me how desperate they are to have one of these narratives maybe finally stick. And I hate to break it to him. It's not going to.

Well, he's just who he is. That's just who he is. And I want to use that to play off of what they're saying. They're acting like this whole world is going to be destroyed if this man gets elected. He served for four years. What happened to you in that four years that hurt you so bad? You need trauma counseling like nothing.

Nothing happened to you in those four years. Yet all of a sudden, in his next four years, the world he's going to set America on fire. Come on. You know, yeah. Yeah, there is a set of the population, Julie, that is completely under the control of the mainstream media. We have a handful of our listeners that operate this way.

If the media has told them to be outraged over Nazi this or, you know, garbage that or comedian did this, or they will follow the order perfectly with complete obedience. Dutiful little soldier. They absolutely will. And we get the texts or the emails like they are incredibly obedient people. And to me, I feel like that's kind of sad and pathetic that they don't have the level of scrutiny to go.

You know what? I might be being played here. Yeah. Well, I it when we were interviewing Barbie Heart just last hour about ranked choice voting and I said, would you ever, ever allow somebody out of state to come into your home and change the rules of your home and determine where you're going to vacation and decide what you're going to have for dinner and decide how your kid is going to be punished or rewarded for good behavior or bad behavior.

You would never do that. Yeah. Yet somehow you're jumping on board to dark money coming into Idaho and saying you guys are running your elections. Wrong. Yeah, it's the same concept. Be independent enough to go, yeah, I don't need you. I don't need you to decide for me. I don't need it in my life. Yeah, I can do my own thing.

Yes. Yeah. It's true. And everybody should reach that level of of independence. There's a clip we haven't played yet. Julie, this is CNN, Maggie Hassan. Oh, wow. This was this was quite the exchange. And, Ryan guard dusky gir dusky, dusky. Yeah okay. Here's how it all done. You got three different windows here. You don't want to be called Nazis.

Stop doing this. Here we go. You don't call this table. Yeah, and people like, you know, by me, I never call geniuses. I might. I mean, I'm not sitting here saying, you know, I'm a supporter of the Palestinians. I'm used to it. Yeah, well, I'm hope your people doesn't go off. Okay, so this is how I read this.

This back and forth. Good. Dusky isn't actually making a joke here. Grew. Dusky is throwing back what's being thrown at him because you have Maggie Hassan calling him a Nazi or the people he supports Nazis. And he's saying, how do you like being characterized unfairly? So there's this reference about Palestinian, and he says, I hope your beeper doesn't go off.

Now, how do you like being characterized and stereotyped a certain way? That's how I had to listen to the clip 3 or 4 times because there's so much crosstalk. Well, guess who got fired from CNN? Ryan. Good. Dusky did because he made the beeper comment. But Maggie Hassan can cast Nazi, aspersions that he can throw out that and they're zero zero discipline.

Do you even think they have a conversation about this behind the scenes at CNN going, maybe we shouldn't call all the Trump supporters Nazis. That might be a bad, bad approach here. Yeah, I am well, first off, I had to listen to it a couple of times too. And you should know, there there was a lead up to this.

There was tension in the room. They were going at each other. And I said to you earlier, who whomever was at that table that was supposed to be moderating the discussion they need talk to because you're supposed to jump in before it gets to this place. Yeah. This is not how journalism is supposed to happen. And you should have jumped in prior to this.

So there's you've got the the beeper joke. You've got the knots or the beeper comment, you've got the Nazi comment and you have a moderator who's not doing their job. Yeah. All of it's it's a trash. It's just like it. All of it is just a fire, a cluster. And they need to get control of it on CNN.

But they that we live in a world where this is supposed to be what draws people in. Hey. Okay. Yeah. Nothing good came out of that conversation. You have one side throw throwing insults. You have another side responding by throwing an insult. And you have somebody who's not grown up enough to control the show. Yeah. Well it's why CNN is a dumpster fire.

All right. 925 Newstalk 179 2085421 and seven nine. If you'd like to join us on the program, let's open up the phone lines and take your calls on this Wednesday morning.

Hi, Facebook friends. Hi, Facebook. Okay. I didn't get to ask you. You were messing around with the board prior to Barb coming on. Yeah. Did. Was it because the microphones are wonky? No. In order to have a third mike on, I have to go to layer two, which is what I did the other day in my podcast. Yes.

No. What I was doing, part of the problem is that's the only similar thing about that layer. So if I want to go back to commercials and use the bumper music, I have to go to layer one. But if I haven't turned Barb's mic down, then she's still hot, the mic still hot. Got it. So I was actually adjusting layer two so that I could control automation and music.

Got it at the same time, but it didn't. It didn't quite work the way it did respond anticipated. Okay. Weird. Yeah, yeah. There is a text that's buried deep, but I have it pulled up. I think we should probably read it on there. And it it says, I really would like to call in because I have a very strong opinion about prop one and all of the ads being run in support of it.

My grandfather is a World War Two veteran. My dad's a Vietnam veteran, my husband is a Desert Storm veteran, and my son is also an Air Force veteran. They've never once had a problem voting. They have never been denied the right to vote and voice their opinion. Our military people are not stupid, and that ad makes our military look like we are stupid, weak and pathetic.

And that infuriates me. It is because of them that we have the great land of the free. It's a great text. That is a great text. Oh, look, somebody's complimenting you on your documentary. Oh. Thank you. Okay. Someone said, there are scenarios in our system. Plurality voting works. Well, like in our state, but in most cases, it leads to two perpetual parties and an unnatural level of polarization and division.

So here's my feeling about it. I don't have a problem with the two party system. Why is it unnatural? Because when you talk about sort of big tent theory, each side is trying to extend or expand their tent big enough to take in those people that want to start a third party. Right? Which is why the Libertarian Party is pretty anemic.

Tea party? Yeah, the Constitution Party, the Republican Party does a decent job of accommodating many of those people. So we don't want a bunch of parties because you you're going to have a mess if you have 11 parties to choose from. None of them are going to be strong enough to get to, a majority coalition. I also have a problem with the word unnatural.

Yeah, I'm not sure there's something more natural than opposites. Good. Bad. Hot, cold, dark light. Like we're. Our world is built upon it. Yeah, actually, if you're religious, it's the reason this world exists. Because you needed to know good from evil. Yeah, you needed to know the good or the bad. To know the good. Yeah. Yes. It's not a natural.

It's a very human concept. You're right. And and having part of politics is, is being polarized. We do see things differently. There is inherent conflict and people get uncomfortable with that because Kumbaya feels better. Yes, getting along feels better, but it doesn't really solve problems. Nope. So yeah, I think and I don't want to sound like Spencer Cox.

I think we have to I don't want to say disagree better, but I would say disagree productively. And that sometimes we get so uncivil is well, like that last exchange. It just devolved into being unproductive. You know, I thought about that with, Kamala this morning. Yeah. Remind me I'll give that point. I had another point, but okay.

Here we go.

It's, 931 on Newstalk 178. Really quick. Julie, we've had a lot of people request the documentary How to get It. The easiest way is to text Racv. That's short for Ranked Choice. Voting our CV to (208) 542-1079. If you want to join us for our election night results party. I don't know the name of it, but you know we're going to be there on election night.

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Local politicians should be a very lively atmosphere. Yeah, absolutely. Right. Let's go to the phones. Two. 085421079 hi, caller. How are you? Hey, good morning guys. How you do? I was man Idaho Falls. Hey, man. Hey, it, kind of sucked. I wasn't able to get out to, your, no on prop one, saying you were way up there by the.

Well to hell. But, my buddy Bob real Bob Eagle came through, and he picked one up for me and got that going. Oh, good. I tell you. Yeah, it was great. It was some nice home to do, but, no, if this prop passes, let's hope it doesn't. But if it does, what are the legal recourses? Because they've lied so much, would that be?

Yeah. They lied so much about it. I just wondered, what do you know? Well, here's what I know. The legislature has the ultimate lawmaking authority in Idaho. Even if it passes, the legislature can say your effort to pass this was filled with lies. Your effort to get signatures was filled with lies. We are not viewing this as a legitimate voter initiative that was passed in good faith, and they could just toss it.

So that's a scenario. There might be like a court challenge to that, but I don't think it would. I don't that's what I was wondering, is there's a supreme, the Supreme Court. I mean, I don't think the courts could force the legislature to to pass it. I don't think they can deny the legislature's ability to repeal, law.

And so the big concern and I actually I interviewed with Nate Shulman last week, and that's a question that he asked, like, what's over the horizon here if it passes and and the legislature repeals it in terms of litigation. And I said, I, I don't think there will be too much litigation if that's the scenario. I just think the legislature has to think twice about the political ramifications of repealing a voter initiative that that is passed.

I think they're fine. I think they're fine because they can absolutely make the case of how deceptive this effort was. Oh, yeah, it's right out in front, like you guys have to say. Yeah, right there and in your face, you know. Yeah, I think specifically legislators who choose to vote to repeal it. If it does pass, all they have to do is look at who, how the votes, panned out in their district.

You know, if you, if, if you're in a super liberal district, district, that kind of puts you in a hot seat a little bit. But there's going to be plenty of conservative areas in Idaho where this does not do well. And those those lawmakers have a lot of like they can arm themselves with that and say, no, my people didn't want this and I'm voting to repeal it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah. There will be a lot of yes. It's yeah, the silly season this year. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens in this election as well. Yeah. Thank you for the call, Matt. Appreciate it. 2085421079I will also add, if it passes and the legislature does not repeal it, there's still avenues for this to be challenged in the courts.

The court basically punted when the attorney general, tried to challenge this on the single subject rule, which basically is any law. This applies to laws. It also applies to voter initiatives. You need a singular, simple idea put forward to the voters. This clearly has that any everybody's common sense test says there are two distinct ideas in this.

In this initiative. It's a it's a complete overhaul of the primary system. And it's a complete overhaul, overhaul of our general election system. Those things could have been handled separately, but they weren't. And so I think there's a chance that the court would take it up if it passes and then say, yeah, this, this does not meet the the single subject test.

And there's a lot of conversation about you can't charge someone with something because they there was no harm yet to that. They can't determine that there's been harm to the voters yet. If it passes, then you can submit all of the evidence and say this harmed voters, see this deceit, see what happened, and then you can actually carry forward with the court case.

Yeah, you're trying to litigate something that hasn't completed its steps yet. Yes. So nobody has standing in a sense. Yes, yes. Okay. Let's go back to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you? Great. How are you, Julian? Neal. Good, good, good. Great job. Well thank you. Hey, sometimes I wonder why we even talk about, you know, hypocrisy in politics because it's so evident.

But there's never a solution. But this this latest TDs attempt is just beyond what I can believe. So here is a comedian who Trump probably doesn't even know. He probably doesn't even know he was on the agenda. He obviously didn't hear it, but he says an off color joke, which okay, whatever like he does everywhere and the media and the left goes absolutely nuts.

And labels it as a Trump, you know, racist thing. And yet sleazy Joe Biden disparages over half of the country voters. And there's not a word. It's crickets. You know, they totally ignore it. Cover it up. It is so disgusting. I hope that we can just next week, get these clowns as far away from Washington as possible.

Agreed. I like the way you put that. Absolutely. Well thank you. All right. Have a great day here to take care. 2085421079I for some reason when he said, I hope next Tuesday we can get these clowns as far away from Washington as possible. I hear that in a promo like a, you know, a station. So it might be made into one.

Yes. Okay. Yes. On the commercial break, Neal and and I and the Facebook audience, we were discussing the two party system and that there's part of the deceit with this ranked choice voting is that you want to get rid of the two party system, right? Like it just doesn't feel good. And and somebody had texted and said it wasn't natural.

And we were discussing that and saying, I don't I don't agree with that or whatever. I had a thought about this with Kamala and her speech at, near the mall last night. And I felt like it was you if I was in a relationship with Kamala, and she had just spent the last six days abusing me daily, calling me a name, telling me I'm Hitler, like telling me what an awful person I am that I want to vote for Trump.

Likening me to Nazis and and it had gone on day after day for six days. And then all of a sudden when you meet back up with that person, she shows up and says, oh, no, we need to be good friends. Yeah. I was like, that is a relationship I've got to get out of immediately. Go, absolutely. Get out of that relationship immediately because no one should ever treat you that way.

You know, you should never be called names over and over again. And then they show up and they're like, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I want us all to be. I want us all to get along. If you're in a daily relationship and someone's arguing with you like that, it's time to go. It's time to get out.

And in a in a national relationship, I don't want anyone leading me who believes that. That's all right. Yeah, no, but some people are okay with it. Julie. I guess it's sad. Let's go to our next caller. Welcome to the show, Tony joy. Hi. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Bob. I just wanted to add one thing to the prop one discussion.

I know that we talk a lot about the mechanics of prop one. And you in your, in your documentary does a fantastic job. But what I really would like to have heard more, was about the cultural consequences of passing prop one. And this goes to the callers out there, and I'll keep the break that it's, we could talk about, porn and kids schools.

We could talk about, the rejiggering, we could talk about, health and Human Services being given more of a hand and taking your kids and doing things to them without your permission. Or we could talk about the First Amendment and and, and more of these, legislators who who are brought in by this prop one, going against your first one, the First Amendment Amendment rights and your Second Amendment rights.

And I'll just simply leave this with all of you parents out there, all of you mothers and all of you fathers out there with this prop one is probably okay. And we need to make a change and try it out. Hey, you have fun when all those boys are pretending to be girls. Walk in on your girls bathroom or they walk in or they play against your girls and girls sports because that's what you're having inviting when you the high possibility of what you're inviting when you pass this prop on.

So you all you parents out there, you have fun with this prop one. Okay, okay. And that's my comment, guys. Thank you. Thank you, for the call. Appreciate that. We do have to take a break here. We're a little past time. It's 942 on a Wednesday. If you'd like to reach us. 20854210791. You're closer to 2 to 3 to the point.

Tell them bring another round. We need 30 more. Two stabbing on the table. She'll need a fast one. Oh, my. I hit a wall yesterday like eight. And I'm finding a after the election. Julie, I've got to breathe a little. Yes you do. Yes you do. Hopefully everyone will. Yeah, definitely. The remaining three weeks of November will be not contention filled.

Everyone can just go. You know what? I'm going to do a jigsaw puzzle. Let's go play Parcheesi. Like. Yeah, yeah, it is Parcheesi. What game is that? Parcheesi. It's a board game, right? Yeah. It, I think it's like I remember playing it growing up, and it was kind of like. Sorry if I remember. Right. Okay, I have a goal.

The only here I don't make goals very often because I just. I'm a everyday girl. Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Yeah. I used to play cribbage when I was like, ten and 11 and 12 with my grandpa mangum. It was the thing we did together when my dad would take me to Lake Havasu and we would visit my grandpa, and we'd go fishing during the day, and then we'd eat dinner, and my grandma would make us homemade potato salad and we'd have fish and potato salad.

And then grandpa and I would play cribbage. I'm going to I'm going to resurrect cribbage. I'm going to go back to it. I'm sure it's not going to take much because, yeah, it'll all come back. I can't tell you the rules right now, but it'll all come back. And I'm going to learn how to play cribbage again. Okay, good.

I've seen the cribbage board. I have no idea. You know what other game? I don't know how to play backgammon. Oh, I don't know how to play backgammon either. Like, it's just a game. We had a backgammon set growing up. I had one, yeah, I didn't know how to play it. And I played a I was probably the most game playing kid of.

Yeah, my family. And I didn't play backgammon. You like to play games I didn't like. You played Trivial Pursuit the other night? Yeah, with Marlee and Colton and. Yeah, I didn't do well. I was so tired. I can win Trivial Pursuit pretty commonly, but I wasn't doing well the other night. That's all right. Oh, I hope, I hope this is about.

Yeah, we're on it together. Oh, okay. You. Oh, yeah. We are. Okay. Yeah. I hope this is about, pulling in that. Yeah. Ranked choice voting is not doing well. Boy, I hope so too, I hope so, I just got an interesting message. I'm just going to screenshot and send it to you. I want you to look at it and see what you're how we should have done that.

Gee, with the left. Jeff. I haven't scheduled her. We do already have a guest tomorrow. Concerning the school bond. So, he said, remember when we had the medium on last year because of Halloween? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't schedule her this year, but she was a great guest. Oh, yeah. Okay, I remembered correctly, Parcheesi is the Americanized version of Parcheesi, the Indian game with ancient origins that inspired.

Sorry. Oh, okay. So? So it was the original? Yeah. Did you like the game? Sorry. Yeah. I don't how come? Because it makes me mad that somebody can just knock me off the board and throw me back home. Which is the inspiration for the whole name of the game. Like. Oh, sorry. I don't know if I understand this.

I don't know if I do either because I didn't know they had flipped or how they flipped. Yeah. Should I message back and say we had not heard that they've been flipping? Yeah, yeah. Because we just got a Bruce Nukem mailer the other day saying vote yes. There's been three within the last three weeks. Yeah. Weird. Okay. Yeah.

Yes. Okay. Standby stuff at 947 on Newstalk 1079 on this Wednesday, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and, Julie, we're going to go right back to the phones. Caller, welcome. How are you today?

Hi. Hi. I'm doing good. Good. Want to reach out, about the Idaho schools and the levees. It's pretty interesting that you guys may have talked about it, and I missed it. I kind of catch your show in and out of, in between work stuff. But I just wanted to ask about the school levies and kind of the the reallocation of funds that happened after the House bill that was passed this spring.

And knowing that, you know, there's I think there's 25 counties that are are passing school levies or trying to pass school levies this year, asking over $240 million for funds, teacher salaries and things like that, which is important. We need to be able to take care of our schools. But in the time when we're all kind of hard spent, that's really, really hard to see that be done.

And, you know, knowing that the cost is quite expensive because these are really, really short money, an extra three, $400 a year for every, you know, homeowner when it comes to taxes on their levies. Yeah, that's kind of a kick right now. Yes. So do you have a specific question or like, I think part of the problem is this feels like a pretty typical year in terms of levies and we just bandwidth.

We've actually had people approach us about a convention of states issue. And right now all the oxygen, all the bandwidth is being taken up by proposition one. It's what everyone wants to talk about. And and quite frankly, I'll be honest with you, I think that has the biggest potential to change Idaho's future as well. And so that's why we've talked a lot about it.

I do think we we do at some point have to address this issue of how we fund education in Idaho. But that's more of an ongoing discussion. And I, I don't sense there's anything highly urgent between now and Tuesday where it's going to be a needle mover or a game changer. And and I don't mean to minimize your concerns.

I'm just telling you are thought process behind this. It it feels like a fairly typical year when it comes to levies. Well, I know that there's 25 counties. There's 44 counties in Idaho. There's 25 trying to pass bond school levies. And there was a change with the way funds where it really had done by the House and the Senate, of course, it was signed into law by the governor.

But, you know, it's kind of interesting to see that big of a demand. I mean, you're saying, hey, yeah, this is not an out of normal thing. And I realize and it's important that we speak out against prop one and that we try and protect our elections. Absolutely. I understand that bandwidth, but I just saw something local.

You know, we talked a little bit about what's going on nationally, but that's a big local thing to get on there and say, hey, it's important. Look at your school, look at what your school needs. Go out and vote. Don't miss this opportunity. It's not just a national, it's not just prop one, but there's so many things that come down to the county so important that we really look at why we vote and how we vote.

Yeah. All right. So as a programing note, try to tune in tomorrow at 730. It might not be the school district that you live in, but we will be asking questions about the law that you're talking about, that or the change in the budget that was passed. Superintendent Scott Wilson Ume from district 93 will be joining us for about ten minutes at 730 tomorrow.

And we will discuss what was the influx of the money and the change and, and that levy specifically. But I think he would broadly answer questions too, about levies. Oh, wonderful. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for the call. All right. 285421279. Back to the phones. Hi, caller. Hi. Good morning. I just had a thought with all the prop one stuff and some of the people that are kind of just naive about it.

I just wanted to make a point. It's really frustrating as, especially as a Christian, somebody that believes. And this is not, you know, just Maple leaf is a pretty common belief of Christians that the world is going to get worse. Things are going to people is going to try it and it changing things, making good look bad, bad look good.

And all the different ways that they can do that. And we all think that we all know that in religion, but then we start talking politics and. Well, no, I mean, prop one is not a big deal. It's not going to do anything. Idaho. Right? It can't do anything to Idaho. And we're so naive to the fact that it's not like you don't think this is possibly an effort to further us into it wasn't it wasn't California Republican state.

Yeah. At one point, Reagan was the governor of California. Yeah. All right. What exactly are we so special that Idaho can't change? Yeah. The one caller said, man, it's just. Why do we even talk about this? Yeah. Like it's just. Well, imagine if we didn't actually know if we didn't, prop one, you know, especially for Christians, it's just it's amazing to see how blind people are.

To, to all this. And that's just the point that I want to make since I know, you know, religiously. Well, agree. Yeah. We're always going to change families. We're going to get attacked, and all of our values are going to change for for the worse. And then we're like, oh yeah, things like prop one, oh, I got a big deal.

Yeah. It's like we it's pretty amazing. We do have to take a break here in just a moment. But we we kind of do act like they are two separately existing realities, when in actuality they're intricately connected and there's only one reality and there's an overlay there. And I think that's a point well taken for sure. So thank you for the call.

(208) 542-1079 we'll be back and we'll wrap it up after this. That was just another way of saying the thing that we've talked about with Christians that the well, it's in God's hands. Yeah. Well, I challenge you to go to your set of scriptures. And if you're whatever your set of Scripture says, Bible Book of Mormon like that is not how evil is destroyed.

I'm waiting for God to do it. No, we are God's hands like we are instruments in his hands. So. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. You know, I guess one question that I would have too is even if you love everything that's in prop one, you want open primaries. You even want ranked choice voting because you think it sounds good.

Even if you want all of that knowing what's in it. Aren't you a little betrayed by how they passed it back there? You see it? Yeah. Are you disturbed at all by the this stakes? Excuse me? The lies by omission. I don't know what. That's basically the conversation I had with, the older lady who was gathering signatures outside the library.

Yeah, I simply focused on the fact that she was only telling half the story. Yeah, well, it's on the paper. Know your signs. A lot of people are not going to read Claire deep into the paper. Why are you. Why are you hiding ranked choice voting? Well, it's in there. No, you're hiding it. Yeah, like I can also hide broccoli in muffins and feed it to my kids.

That's true. And say it's still in there, but I don't call the muffins broccoli if. Well, I'll make an analogy here. If if you had a romantic interest that convinced you to marry them based on the exact same methodology, you could easily get that annulled. Yep. Which is the justification for the legislature to go. We're not. No. Yeah.

Yeah. So I that deceit has always been super bothersome to me. If it's really that awesome, you don't have to hide it. Yeah yeah. Boy Kamala just looks angry. They panned away from her now, but I think she looks so tired. There's a a human part of me that actually feels bad for this woman. Yeah, I can't imagine how exhausted she is.

Yeah, especially if they have taken away her liquid courage. Yeah. That's true. So she. You got to think she's she's running a schedule. Plus they're limiting what she's been. Crutch twist. Yeah. For probably decades. Yeah. Because being drunk is actually a worse look. Yes. It may be less miserable for her, but it's a worse look for her campaign.

Yes. So I like the woman is thin. She's got dark circles under her eyes. I think that her moods are probably unstable. When you lose a substance like that, your moods do get unstable. Yeah, I it's not good. Yeah. I sent Neal a video the other day and it was put out by Trump's campaign, and you could tell it was by somebody young, probably 23 or 24.

And it's on TikTok if you want to find it, it's on Trump's TikTok channel. But it points out everything the man accomplished in one day and its head shaking. They did just one day on the campaign trail and condensed it down into a TikTok video. It's crazy. Oh, yeah. Well, do you remember for a while, and I think you still see a few, a few references to this.

They're trying to, put together the narrative that that Trump is losing it, that his mind is slow, he's weak. Yeah. And I'm like, I watched him at the rally. He sat down for three hours with Rogan. He, I'm like somebody who's middle aged but has a schedule like that. Could have little memory lapses, like, you're you and I get that way sometimes.

Oh, if I don't get enough sleep, it's not a good day on the radio. It's like you get overloaded. So they'll take a moment like that, that Trump might have, and then somehow they morph that into a full blown Alzheimer's diagnosis, which I don't know how they like it, but so they're they're just so desperate. Yeah. They're so desperate.

Completely agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. He hold us. All right. 958 on Newstalk 107 nine Neal Larsen and Julie Mason, if you are on the phones, stick with us. We will take your calls after the show will be on Facebook Live for just a few minutes. And if you'd like to join us on Facebook Live, just text that word live to (208) 542-1079.

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