Life22

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Hey, gang, Kevin.
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I.
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Life 22 and so it is a it's a morning.
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Don't know if it's beautiful.
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I have yet to go outside.
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The birds aren't chipping, chirping, tweeting.
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They're not on acts, so they must still be sleeping.
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It is an hour behind schedule because of not us being an hour behind schedule, but we had daylight savings time over there.
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Whatever whatever time of year we were springing forwards, we lost an hour on Sunday morning.
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So that said, you know it's really 5/15.
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Don't let anybody screw with you.
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0.
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We had a lot going on over the weekend.
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So you guys went on a field trip with with your Cav guy here and.
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So I want to get into tiny houses, finish up on that topic.
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Now I'd like to jump into the Republican mayhem that happened.
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Like to jump into school board?
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There's a whole bunch of things we're going.
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Cover this morning.
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Ah, so coming right at you. And then also exciting news. We've got Della coming up on the show tomorrow afternoon and we'll be sending out invitations to the prospective candidates to get an initial interview from everybody.
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I was planning on waiting till after.
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After petitions got submitted and sent in and nobody got kicked off the ballot. But.
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I think either way I think this makes every well. I've had one candidate or incumbent already reach out to me, so I will be setting times and stuff like that, just sending them out to everybody, and I think it'll be good too, because it'll vest the public in.
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The candidates, somebody says they're gonna run and then you guys get to see the whole process.
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If somebody gets thrown off the ballot.
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Have you?
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You can be like, well, that seems like BS and then you'll.
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Then we'll explain the rules in which happen, and then you'll be like, oh, man, that is so dumb.
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You're like, then we'll be like, yes. Now you understand why politics is dumb.
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It's not just your vote matters. It is all the pollutantry.
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People have been thrown off the ballot before.
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At the end of Kevin's last name, it's supposed to be a why? But his pen ran out of ink.
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So it slightly faded here, so you can't tell if it's ay or AV.
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And so, because of its indiscreency, it could be a totally different erson.
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Almost like it's a Marvel Universe theory.
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Like well, but there is a there. There could be a Kevin Doherty out there.
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Going by Kevin Doherty.
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Right. Like you're just like, no, that's not. That's not happening in all practical like instances.
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Almost like Occam's razor, you know like.
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The most practical thing that the most likely thing is most likely what actually happened, right?
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Like whatever seems to be.
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The most likely outcome.
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Usually is the outcome.
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So that said, let's get back into. Let's get into tiny homes.
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All right, let's finish up this tiny homes topic for now anyways.
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We went.
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We went on site, I'm sure a lot of you have seen the video.
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If not, it's on the channel. Don't forget to like subscribe.
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Sorry for those who are audio listeners.
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Did not get to see.
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The video.
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See what the you know what the tiny home looked like?
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I know some of the the regular commentators you know had opinions on it one way or another, but.
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There, there could have been ways to make the structure look better, but obviously it's under construction, so maybe by shining some sunshine on this project, maybe it takes the owner.
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And and shows.
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Hey, you have to do something right?
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You have to do something with this project.
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Umm.
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Like you have to do something to make it look better, right?
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Maybe.
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Maybe it's doing fancy or trim or?
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The one thing that I know that the the Alderman for that ward who currently sits there was griping to me about was that like, there's no, almost no overhang. And I'm like, yeah, but you don't have to have an overhang. That's what drip Edge is for. You can.
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Drip Edge right up to the edge of the siding and it gives it that like you know.
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8th to half inch Wick away from the side of the building, and that's all that's necessary.
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It, I mean, siding is supposed to be.
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You know, watertight to a degree.
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So you know it is going to shed.
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So I mean that being a critique. Yeah. Would the House look nicer?
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Would it do more for you know, the aesthetics as well as maybe water runoff?
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Because it's hard to catch, it's hard to catch a gutter with something like that.
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Kind of almost inevitably, like you deter the ability to put a gutter up.
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You're going to fix it right to the side.
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Things like.
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But that's a design problem. That's a.
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A design problem.
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Prescriptive code.
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So prescriptive code is.
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Like so, if any time you're making a triangle, for example prescriptive code, is you like, making you know horizontal vertical lines.
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To make your structure and then tying them together and following that prescriptive code to build boxes, essentially boxes. And I even believe Ridge caps.
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As soon as you start making like structural items like triangles.
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You need an engineer and so if you ever look at a Truss, a Truss is a series of triangles that are put together to make.
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To make a bigger triangle, well, every bit of that is an engineer stamped and then there are prescriptive lumbers like you need the higher quality of lumber, which Canada won't give us.
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Hence they have the big forests full of grade select lumber.
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And then you need to follow like like exactly as prescribed by the engineer how to construct that. And usually you have to be you know somebody who is certified in making in trust making so that like.
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There is no question whether you can do this or.
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Sometimes you know, like I.
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I have stamp plans for a balcony that I'm that I'm adding to a structure that I have, and if I went straight down to the ground I would be expanding the footprint, at which point I would have to make a whole bunch of changes.
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And and like there's like zoning issues and things like that. But because I'm shooting the the brackets back to the house, right.
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Like as as the the balcony comes out. I'm a fixing.
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The.
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Yeah.
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I'm fixing a brace at an angle to come in back to the building, just like you'd see on a shelf bracket. I'm sure that some engineers stamp that for whatever manufacturer made your shelf bracket and then could tell you load designs and that's why when you read the.
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Sticker on the one you buy at the.
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It tells you like this is good for 200 lbs.
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For this and they're, they're also making an assumption here that you're actually bracketing it to a stud and not into toggles and drywall things.
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Like that.
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But yeah, as soon as you have that triangle created between your bracket, that's you know and the top the the floor of your balcony that in the building wall that automatically.
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Requires an engineer stamp because you can't design A.
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You're not an engineer. That's the. That's the theory behind it.
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What was?
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So they're prescriptive building. So as long as they're following the prescriptive building code and the code enforcement guy can go through the list and say, well, wait a minute, that doesn't look right and they can double check the code and say, oh, you used A4 by 4.
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A you know as a post. And because it the the entire structure spans over.
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8 feet you have to use a 6 by 6 like you need to remove that and then structure you know make it structural again and so they have like framing and and they have different phases of their their code inspections but.
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That said, there's there's things that could be done, but I mean, you also have to owe the guy a little grace.
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Because it is a construction site and I don't know if it's first primary residence or going to be his primary residence, but the code does allow for you know there are windows like you can keep extending a permit.
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Could take him 5.
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Like how many of you have money out there to build a house?
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Right. Like maybe the guy is doing it on a budget and as he gets a little bit money here and there from his from his, you know, from whatever he does for a living, he, you know, takes some of that money and he sets it aside and then.
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Like hey, now I got enough for more 2 by fours.
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We've got enough for that insulation like start insulating and I've got enough for wire.
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I can wire and do the rough in.
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I gotta wait a week.
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Got all the wiring done this.
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I gotta wait a week until my paycheck bears enough money to pay for the electrical inspector to do the rough in inspection.
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And then I can start putting up that insulation that I had already.
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So then you can put up the insulation and you can put up the drywall and then you can do. You can do mudding and taping and seaming and.
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Sanding and priming and painting. And then hey, now that most of the painting is done, let's get the flooring down South.
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Don't have as much paint potentially, to get silled on it.
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A lot to it, right?
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The fact that he wants to build 2, I mean, go for it. Go for it.
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Mean this is.
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So do what you want.
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It's it's pretty much it's pretty much the American.
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So the neighbors for all being ****** *** down there, you have worse looking stuff, like a lot of the houses in that neighborhood need a paint job, and they're like, if you're really like, there's one neighbor that's abuts this property and.
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That's probably the squeakiest of the wheels, because his house seemed to be in well order. But.
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You get a lot of vacant lots next to your houseman and you didn't buy them like you have no right to *****.
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You have no right to *****.
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The only reason you have a right you you think you have a right to ******* because the government has let you go. Has has been doing your bidding for this long that you just think that you're entitled to utilize the city and the city government to continue to.
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Badger people that are buying those properties next to you, so oh, you can buy it, but you can't do it if it if it doesn't like you can't.
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Anything with it?
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But.
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Well, because I need to approve.
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Because it's next to my house and I am blah, blah blah blah.
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Know like I'm this is my mental.
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Like this is this is from my mental well.
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It's like, well, if it's for your mental well-being, why don't you you spend enough time and money into your own house?
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You should have some extra savings to be able to or even go out and get a loan and buy all the vacant properties around you so that you don't have to worry about this and then you can expand your yard.
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And then it can be your little creation and it looks like it's actually part of your yard instead of these, just like little vacant tooth holes next to your house to kind of give you some kind of ambiance.
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Anyways, people.
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So we'll have more in the future.
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On tiny homes, I'm actually building an entire.
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Kind of seminar and business model on this.
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Actually I'm. I'm very excited about this.
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Entire topic has got me.
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Kind of amped up for something, so stay tuned in the future for that one.
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Umm.
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And then we are going to before we jump into the next section, I'd like to point out something to most of you who may know this or may not know this or maybe one of you has an answer and you can give it to me what constitutes a.
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Station.
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What constitutes a newspaper?
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What is the media and Free Press, right?
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Is.
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What is? What is that right. OK.
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Well, so.
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Here's.
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Here's my thought process.
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Um.
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I believe to an extent it is a self declared title, right?
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Like what happened when the Olean Times Herald was founded?
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They just got a bunch of people together.
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They had a big building that said only in times herald on it.
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They had printing presses just because you own a printing press. Does that make you a newspaper?
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If nobody reads your.
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Because, I mean, that's really the case of the Times herald now.
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And so it's like, OK, and then you don't even own a building in oleans?
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Not, you know, like pretty sure they sold their building.
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So like the extent that their employees own homes in the city, I mean really is the the extent of their their reach in Olean.
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But you, you.
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So.
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What makes the Olean star different than the Olan Times? Harold? Like. OK, they don't.
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I mean, they actually, you know, the owners of that own property in Oland, both commercial and residential.
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But.
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They don't have a printing press.
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Because they're an epaper, right?
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And they're.
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I mean, you have to.
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I mean, I guess, what if somebody else were to start a?
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What is somebody else's prerogative to just say that they have no legitimacy, like, at which point do you say that they have legitimacy or is it the fact that they're publishing things and people are reading them? If they just stop publishing things and let all the stories?
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Of trail off and then.
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They just had no new information on their website.
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That just no longer make them a.
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And then in 10 years, if they pick back up, would that make them a newspaper again?
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There's a lot of, like, there's there's a lot of things like that. The definitions that humans put on, things that like, well, they can they. Oh, I can talk to them 'cause. They're the paper, right. Like, OK.
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Well, there's been a lot of, like, connotations lately that, well, the only stars in the paper. Like, OK. What, what? How? Well, they're they're not legacy, right, like. Oh, OK.
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So they just have to be like around for.
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Years in order for them to be like. No, I think the fact that.
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I think the you have a couple things at play here.
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Think that if you are actively.
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Writing news stories that you should be considered newspaper regardless of your viewership, because that is something that grows and ebbs and flows over time, the same way that we are Orleans local news station, right?
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Are the life 22 baby?
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We we talk about all sorts of.
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We talk, we talk about self help, we talk about health and holidays.
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Talk about.
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We, we have Kevin's Kevin's rants.
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Have political talk.
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Have.
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You know what's the scoop on?
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We have educational things where we talk about tiny homes and educate you on topics that you might be concerned about.
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They are sparked by local news and local.
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Local commentary.
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Sometimes we talk about politics from mayor's races to the presidential races.
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Gubernatorial races.
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So I just wanted to just have this conversation.
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I know that it's one sided, but I at least wanted to throw those thoughts out there to get people thinking because there's a lot of people that are saying, well, we shouldn't listen to the only.
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Than.
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Newspaper. Well, they are a newspaper because they're writing news.
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And.
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They're they're not a paper in regards that they are not in print, but main technology has changed.
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A lot of things that aren't in print anymore.
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So most people, I'm sure most people read the only times Harold not because it's delivered to their house.
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If they do read it at all.
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Either that, or there's a bunch of people that have passed away that just their credit cards never got canceled.
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Still like the the OTH so.
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So that said, I received a call over the weekend asking me if I participated in a poll from the Republican Committee.
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I had no idea what this was about.
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Well, I had a slight idea because there was a discussion at a meeting that I was.
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At about doing a poll.
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And.
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I just finished reading the only times herald are are the only star article on.
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On it and there is a couple corrections and I'm sure I'm going to get blamed for the article being written, even though I was probably 1 of many calls on this.
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I had no idea, and I delved deeper to find out that I had never received said e-mail, at which point.
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I.
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Drafted an e-mail in response.
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And then.
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The reporter on this article called Me later to follow up and I said yeah, I drafted an e-mail and blah blah.
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But this this reporter already had a copy of this e-mail because he read me portions of it, which got me curious because how does he have a copy of an e-mail?
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For a committee I'm a part of before I do, and so that's what irked me.
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And then, you know, he was discussing the bylaws of something that he was like, you know, well, your bylaws say this and that. I don't.
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The bylaws say.
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I was heard that one or two, one, possibly two members, had the bylaws and I've yet to see them. So I'm like, so the fact that, you know, he had the bylaws is is beyond me, but I'm sure I'm going to get blamed.
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Kevin Doherty spilling the you.
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There's gonna be some, like, internal grumblings. Kevin should be ousted as a member for speaking to the press.
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Which is going to be funny because.
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I gave my comments on information that this person was already Privy to, which?
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Not Privy to me.
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So.
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There was a portion here that talks about parliamentary discussions.
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See.
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Procedural mishaps run rampant in this committee.
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That is something that I said.
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And I was actually quoting myself from an e-mail that I had sent in reply.
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I did not state in the meeting this is the only critique on this article.
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Was that I did not say that the phone call.
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With one of the committee members was illegal and I didn't say.
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An emailing poll was illegal and likely violated the committee's bylaws. It may commit, it may violate the committee's bylaws, which I had not seen at the time.
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One's been able to produce them since I've been a board member.
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A committee member.
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So.
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Doherty says procedural mishaps.
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So I suggest it was actually my.
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I said, listen, if you if anybody's trying to endorse candidates, you have to bring a quorum forward. If you believe that it's going to be 50, you know majority.
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Then you need to.
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If you believe that you need a majority, then you need to try to get those people in the room.
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Umm.
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Which we hadn't even started the meeting with a quorum then in that.
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So that was another moment of contention that I had. But I said if you're going to bring people in the room.
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You can do a roll call vote and then check later with with somebody of a legal authority, somebody whose legal authority.
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Is knowledgeable in, you know, political party, law and whatever, whatever.
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You know, whatever.
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Judicial.
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Doctrine covers this. If the person is knowledgeable in this field, check with the Board of Elections.
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Have a lot of information.
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They they most of the people there are on committees or guide committees themselves.
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It is just one of those.
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It's one of.
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It's one of those things, you know, but if you're going to try to, if you want to try to push out endorsements tonight.
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You can do.
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I even suggested you could probably do the e-mail an e-mail polling, but again, before you do that.
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And waste your time.
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Since everyone's in the room like you can waste your time bringing somebody on the phone and bringing somebody in from the other room and trying to generate a quorum as quick as you can so you can do it.
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It may be just considered null and void later.
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And then I said, you know, the beauty of technology, you know, you may be able to just get away with, like, a remote vote of vote by proxy via e-mail. What have you and they they were like, oh, that's a great idea. And I'm like.
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But but but.
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You need to talk.
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To somebody that is a lawyer.
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Somebody who understands this stuff or get a copy of the bylaws to double check if that's legitimate and from what I gathered is.
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You know.
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You know, somebody had the bylaws, so it's like OK or a couple people had the bylaws, OK.
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Great produce.
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Produce them so we can double check.
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And so. But I you know any of that stuff could have been null and.
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That was my my contention was if you want to try to do it, since everybody's in the room, then do it.
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It might be thrown out later.
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And then before you do your polling, you need to do this and then for them just to continue to.
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Leave me off of emails.
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Actually, because of this channel.
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My my, my, my notice of contention is that they that the the Chair, the chairperson, the the chairman of the Republican Committee, has consistently left me off emails.
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That is my notice of that is my like. If you're going to mail them out, then mail them out to everybody.
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If you're, if you don't have everybody's e-mail, then you have to mail it to those remaining people that don't have emails or gather their emails.
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You don't get to say, well, I have Kevin.
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E-mail but I don't send it to him because he made fun of Frank Higgins on this YouTube channel and it's like, hey, like listen.
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Bury the hatchet lady.
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And my my big issue with this particular this particular committeemen and chairman is that.
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Like.
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Cheat.
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She, like I understand where, why she's angry with me. But you don't get to use your angry, your anger in a passive aggressive way in.
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The Parliament of politics.
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So like you have a duty as the chairman to notify all members of meetings, you don't get to just say, oh, I don't want to or the fact that you can call the Board of Elections and say when you send the petitions in for my party to pass.
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Remove Kevin's name from the committee roles.
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Or from the petition roll. So in Ward 4 we passed a.
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They everyone was passing petitions and there was only two names on it and so that means there's a vacancy and it's like that's ********.
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That's ********. I had to go call and get my own individual petitions and I passed to myself so that I could still remain on the committee, but that that kind of like, passive aggressive ********. You know what's funny is Kevin Doherty will tell you everything. Anything that's on.
00:23:13 Kevin
Mind, I will tell.
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I'll tell you when I'm right.
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Tell you when I'm.
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I'll tell you when I think I'm right. And if you correct me, I will admit that I was wrong.
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I will take it under.
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I will remodel my I will remodel myself and kind of contemplate and Stew, and then I'll come back to you with my determination.
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Can re debate.
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But that's honest.
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You know, it's not honest.
00:23:33 Kevin
Is like looking somebody straight in the face and just like not knowing, you know, not saying what you're thinking not doing this, just just staying silent and then like, doing things behind the scenes. That's dishonest.
00:23:47 Kevin
Just as dishonest as lying straight to somebody's face and talking to them.
00:23:51 Kevin
You just sit there and somebody's talking at you and you just kind of like bobbling your head, making them think that you're agreeing, right?
00:23:57 Kevin
Then all of a sudden, like behind the.
00:23:58 Kevin
Like telling other people, screw that guy.
00:24:01 Kevin
Screw that.
00:24:02 Kevin
Screw that guy, because if you're too much of A ***** to tell somebody to their face on.
00:24:08 Kevin
That's like that's that's a problem.
00:24:12 Kevin
Just as bad as lying.
00:24:13 Kevin
Like that's the issue is the entire world is run by ******* now, and we need to not. We need to not.
00:24:19 Kevin
Has got me fired up, so we need to not.
00:24:23 Kevin
Let. That's the people that run the world have to be affirmative.
00:24:26 Kevin
And if you're gonna sit there and try to be the chairman of a committee, you can't just back down to stuff.
00:24:31 Kevin
And I'm sure if she's back into a corner, she'll she'll start swinging. But it's one of those. My other issue with her was always that her defensive Frank, right?
00:24:41 Kevin
It was always we need.
00:24:43 Kevin
Kevin and this is what I hear behind the scenes to friends of mine and people that she talks to that are on this committee and off this committee.
00:24:51 Kevin
Kevin is not a Republican because he didn't support Frank and Franks great grandfather was the Governor of New York and he was from Olean.
00:24:58 Kevin
York and blah blah blah blah.
00:24:59 Kevin
And he is a moral exemplar, moral exemplar, a direct quote that I.
00:25:04 Kevin
Somebody that they said that hurt so clearly it is hearsay.
00:25:08 Kevin
Right, not admissible in court, but when four people tell me those words came out of her mouth at different points. Like you're not a moral exempt.
00:25:16 Kevin
Like we need to stop holding politicians to the status of moral excellence.
00:25:21 Kevin
Are no Jesus Christ.
00:25:23 Kevin
Of of politicians, there can be, there can be politicians that are still human.
00:25:28 Kevin
They're.
00:25:29 Kevin
But they are very.
00:25:35 Kevin
Very good.
00:25:37 Kevin
You can have politicians that are very good people.
00:25:39 Kevin
Is slim.
00:25:40 Kevin
It is slim.
00:25:43 Kevin
Politics are rife with corruption.
00:25:47 Kevin
And that like that, that poses a huge, you know, like poses a huge issue.
00:25:52 Kevin
But the the problem is that you're not gonna sit there and tell me like this is this has been one of my biggest issues and it's not so much even Frank.
00:26:02 Kevin
My like I I think, I think I've said my piece on.
00:26:05 Kevin
Really my issue is the the people that are that that like like the chairman here, Mary Faye, she she is.
00:26:15 Kevin
She is, like, so enamored with, you know.
00:26:19 Kevin
The the legacy that is the Higgins family, that it's like, listen you you want to talk about like being a traditional Republican?
00:26:26 Kevin
A lot of Republicans in my small.
00:26:28 Kevin
It is like Republicans and.
00:26:31 Kevin
It's funny because I know a lot more people that are on my side of the aisle that are registered Democrat than that are registered for the Republican Party because there's there's, there's some people out there that are Republican at heart and they follow the actual like, what the?
00:26:45 Kevin
Like synopsis.
00:26:46 Kevin
And then there's a lot of other people that it's just like their.
00:26:48 Kevin
It was the party that they like led to take over and they're surrounded by all their friends and people.
00:26:53 Kevin
Graduated high school with and people that they get along with and and like, even though like.
00:26:58 Kevin
They are left of.
00:27:00 Kevin
Center like Oh well, this is my stance on abortion. Like, OK.
00:27:05 Kevin
Oh, you're Republican in that regard, but every other regard. You're a Lib like, get out of here.
00:27:10 Kevin
Like that's that is my notice of that it that is like why I'm I'm frustrated.
00:27:16 Kevin
So my frustration aside, these people also so they sit there and they say well listen we we need to hold up these people because they are like true Republicans. It's like true Republicans like.
00:27:30 Kevin
I mean, when I think of a true Republican, I think of somebody who, you know, is married with lots of kids faithful, you know, has their problems, right?
00:27:39 Kevin
All flawed humans, but like.
00:27:42 Kevin
You know is is a hard working Joe is you know.
00:27:48 Kevin
Goes to church. You know, these are things that like, you know, like when you think of Republican, you think of those things and like to say that like a lot of these people in town that are like, politicians that are Republican or, you know, like.
00:28:01 Kevin
It's like man, that's that's that's not really like a stereotypical Republican like, you know, they might vote this way or that way on certain Republican topics like, you know, you know, pro-life and, you know.
00:28:14 Kevin
Freedom of speech and you know.
00:28:17 Kevin
Protection for businesses and small government.
00:28:23 Kevin
It's one of.
00:28:24 Kevin
It's it's just it drives me.
00:28:25 Kevin
So it's like, don't don't try to ouster me from the party because I'm just holding us to a higher standard.
00:28:31 Kevin
Out of my face like.
00:28:33 Kevin
And then it's like, oh, she did get out of my face because she stopped sending me emails to come to these meetings. And then they tried to have me outed from the committee because I wasn't in attendance.
00:28:41 Kevin
Oh well, Kevin doesn't show up anymore.
00:28:43 Kevin
Like you.
00:28:44 Kevin
Bite him. That is a ********. That is a bullsh.
00:28:48 Kevin
Do you can't sit there and be like, well, he doesn't show up to the meetings?
00:28:53 Kevin
It's like you change the, you know, like aside from not changing the location, you change that you don't tell anybody one of the times. What's always usually the third Thursday, and then you come in.
00:29:01 Kevin
Like, well, we had it the second Thursday, and it's like there's times that I've shown up because I anticipated being there.
00:29:07 Kevin
And I'm like, you know.
00:29:08 Kevin
I'm just gonna start showing up to when we normally hold the meetings.
00:29:10 Kevin
Like, oh we, we hold them at six.
00:29:13 Kevin
Oh, we held it the previous week or it didn't work for us.
00:29:16 Kevin
Did it on a Wednesday like.
00:29:19 Kevin
I've been standing there with nobody there and oh, like they had that two nights ago. I think like, you get find out from a waitress.
00:29:27 Kevin
So I think it that is my those are my edits to this article that is my contention with the local committee.
00:29:36 Kevin
I have read the bylaws as they were posted.
00:29:39 Kevin
I don't know if those are the accurate bylaws and if they are.
00:29:44 Kevin
The local committee needs to.
00:29:47 Kevin
Either adopt A modified set so it actually passes.
00:29:51 Kevin
But do we even have the legal authority to do that?
00:29:54 Kevin
This is such.
00:29:54 Kevin
This is such a cluster I don't even know if the the the committee that I am a part of, like the the petition I passed is to be on the county committee.
00:30:03 Kevin
And by default by default, from what my understanding is, you're automatically on the local city committee.
00:30:10 Kevin
But the local city committee doesn't appear to have accurate bylaws, so I would surmise that the entire local city committee is also like null and void in and of itself, because we don't like I should be passing.
00:30:22 Kevin
Should be 1 petition for three.
00:30:25 Kevin
3 representatives from each ward, and then there should be another petition for.
00:30:32 Kevin
For one participant to be on the local city committee from each ward, not 3, unless the bylaws were to be changed.
00:30:39 Kevin
Which petition am I?
00:30:40 Kevin
I'm passing the Republican County Committee petition to and that's what I'm a member of, which by defacto I was a member of this.
00:30:49 Kevin
But if if that's not the case, or if I'm fighting for, you know, three of us share a seat, then I mean, essentially there are no Members because we haven't passed a petition for it. As soon as you void one article out.
00:31:01 Kevin
You know or avoid 11 requirement. All you need to have what you know 1 member from each ward shall be enrolled.
00:31:10 Kevin
And a resident of that.
00:31:11 Kevin
It's funny because our committee is made-up of like, I think like 10 of the Members are from Ward one.
00:31:20 Kevin
Like.
00:31:21 Kevin
Me and I think two other Members are from Ward 4.
00:31:30 Kevin
So.
00:31:34 Kevin
Anyways, that was another morning that I wanted to.
00:31:38 Kevin
I keep saying notice of.
00:31:39 Kevin
I don't even know if I'm accurately using it so.
00:31:46 Kevin
That said, we're going to go into the next topic, which is local school board races, folks.
00:31:50 Kevin
All right, so the school board races are coming up.
00:31:53 Kevin
So they're they're going to be passing petitions here very shortly very, very shortly. And I believe there's an election in May.
00:32:00 Kevin
There's one seat open from what I gather, the current.
00:32:05 Kevin
Position is held by Kelly Keller.
00:32:09 Kevin
And she does a phenomenal job.
00:32:13 Kevin
The thing about Kelly is she is one to show up.
00:32:17 Kevin
To the she's one to show up and like put.
00:32:20 Kevin
She can't phone it in. So when you say you're gonna be a school board chair or hold the position of a school board member, you need to show up.
00:32:29 Kevin
And so here this is actually putting out on notice everybody that's out there that's planning on running.
00:32:35 Kevin
So it's anywhere from like 2 hours to five hours a week.
00:32:42 Kevin
At just one committee or just one meeting, that's just the general meeting. It can be anywhere from 2 hours to five hours.
00:32:49 Kevin
And then you go into committee nights and it's like there's like, two more nights a week that you have to be in committees.
00:32:56 Kevin
Something that I was I've discussed with board members.
00:33:00 Kevin
You know.
00:33:02 Kevin
And I believe the reason Kelly's not going to rerun is because she wouldn't be able to just phone it.
00:33:07 Kevin
She would be at every one of those, which means she's going to be putting in 10 to 15 hours a week volunteering.
00:33:12 Kevin
Not you don't get paid for this.
00:33:14 Kevin
It is.
00:33:15 Kevin
It is a donation to your community to.
00:33:19 Kevin
And so right now, there's already a large portion of those board members that don't show up.
00:33:23 Kevin
Kelly is one of the ones who's showing.
00:33:25 Kevin
And so she'll be a hard a hard member of the board to replace, whether you agree with Kelly's politics or not.
00:33:34 Kevin
And everyone says, well, the school boards aren't political like ********.
00:33:37 Kevin
School boards are political because the people that say that don't want you and your culture to run right.
00:33:43 Kevin
Like.
00:33:44 Kevin
If you're, if you're of a culture that is very Republican in nature, or you're a very culture is in Democratic is a Democrat in nature, then guess what? You can have different ideologies and all that other stuff.
00:33:55 Kevin
Guess.
00:33:55 Kevin
Politics is downstream from.
00:33:57 Kevin
So if you have a group of people that are running your school board that are all Democrats.
00:34:02 Kevin
And they say, well, it has nothing to do with our political.
00:34:05 Kevin
So it's funny because you're all you're all Democrats for. The reason that you have similar values, similar ideas, and similar cultures.
00:34:14 Kevin
So politics is downstream from culture.
00:34:18 Kevin
So if you load it full of people with the same ideas, most likely they're all registered under the same political party and and the same can be said about the Republicans. If you're all Republican in nature, and guess what? You can have some ideas similar culture, so I.
00:34:32 Kevin
This.
00:34:32 Kevin
That said, you.
00:34:33 Kevin
Oh, no, you can't get the politics out of it.
00:34:36 Kevin
The.
00:34:36 Kevin
No, guess what?
00:34:38 Kevin
Politics is part of life, baby.
00:34:40 Kevin
That's it.
00:34:41 Kevin
Like you're gonna have a bunch of people that are gonna argue about things that are going on at the local school level and. And then here's the other thing is that you're not gonna be able to change anything.
00:34:52 Kevin
Almost every one of the mandates that you people go, I wanna change this. I wanna change.
00:34:57 Kevin
You're not going.
00:34:57 Kevin
Be able.
00:34:58 Kevin
To do.
00:34:59 Kevin
You're not going to be able to do it.
00:35:00 Kevin
All.
00:35:02 Kevin
It is.
00:35:04 Kevin
Mandated. It's all mandated from state.
00:35:07 Kevin
It's all if the state says that you have to do this. If you have to put transgender bathrooms in your in your bathroom at the school at the local level, then you have to.
00:35:17 Kevin
You have to or you lose funding.
00:35:19 Kevin
And you got to think that like we're $46 million as a school budget or some crazy non $56 million as a school budget and like.
00:35:30 Kevin
We like we're $56 million, is a school budget school board.
00:35:35 Kevin
For the school district and and like we a large portion that still comes from the state in federal and federal and state funding. And so we have all these mandates that come down.
00:35:44 Kevin
It's like, yeah, I understand that there's an executive order that's gonna withhold state funding from the state of New York if they pushing transgender bathrooms.
00:35:51 Kevin
Ah.
00:35:52 Kevin
Or men and women sports and stuff like.
00:35:53 Kevin
But that doesn't change the fact that, like if the state says something, the local municipal, the local school district, will do it.
00:36:02 Kevin
That's it.
00:36:03 Kevin
That's there's a hierarchy of laws here, and so the higher laws Trump the local laws and that becomes the issue.
00:36:11 Kevin
And so for all these people that are, I'm gonna change the school board. I'm gonna get on there, and I'm gonna stop this and that, like, no, you want to change the school district either.
00:36:18 Kevin
Your kids out of the school and and create the district at your home or you're gonna have to run for state ledge.
00:36:24 Kevin
You're gonna have to run for us.
00:36:26 Kevin
You're gonna have to do something that's gonna help manipulate your state.
00:36:29 Kevin
In a manner that is more suiting of your values.
00:36:32 Kevin
And obviously, then the constituents that vote for you.
00:36:35 Kevin
Joe.
00:36:36 Kevin
That's the issue.
00:36:38 Kevin
And then I so I've heard that there is there are three candidates.
00:36:42 Kevin
Aware of that are running for school board.
00:36:45 Kevin
And I don't think they know what they're in for.
00:36:47 Kevin
I don't think that they they're going to.
00:36:49 Kevin
And then from my take and talking with other people that are either on the school board, spouses of school board members, friends of school board members, they are.
00:36:57 Kevin
They're going to.
00:36:59 Kevin
They're going to be sorely mistaken when they get there and they're just going to turn into everybody else. There's there's you got.
00:37:05 Kevin
You know what?
00:37:07 Kevin
Five years, 10 to get 11 school board members, I believe.
00:37:10 Kevin
No 99 school board members.
00:37:13 Kevin
Because every for four of the years there's two positions open and then on the 5th year, there's always one, which is this year.
00:37:20 Kevin
So.
00:37:21 Kevin
So 4 * 2 is 8 + 1 is.
00:37:24 Kevin
So we have 9 school board members and right now I bet you have like 3 or 4 of them that actually show up to every meeting.
00:37:32 Kevin
And the other one is, you know, they show up here and there as they can.
00:37:35 Kevin
It's like they don't even know what they're voting on.
00:37:37 Kevin
So it's like and then the stuff that they're voting on is like.
00:37:41 Kevin
Can be a little bit of nonsense but.
00:37:45 Kevin
You know it.
00:37:46 Kevin
It is what it is.
00:37:47 Kevin
So the three school board members, which I'll be reaching out to, each one of them to to get their take on what they're going to do as school board members and what you know what their expectations are and what their platforms are.
00:38:00 Kevin
So that'll be exciting.
00:38:01 Kevin
Kelly Keller will.
00:38:02 Kevin
Be be sorely missed when when her term is up in, I think June.
00:38:08 Kevin
And then so you have Tracy.
00:38:12 Kevin
Lynn Holstein is running.
00:38:14 Kevin
Levi Armstrong is running and.
00:38:19 Kevin
Jason de Blasi.
00:38:23 Kevin
Ryan Jason deblasi.
00:38:26 Kevin
I think that was the name anyways.
00:38:29 Kevin
He sent me a Facebook message.
00:38:32 Kevin
There's a lot of people, so I'm gonna be reaching out to each one of these individuals to to see if I can get them on the show and see what their take is. If you're gonna run for school board, I think people should know who we are and.
00:38:41 Kevin
Do think that people out there in TV Land need to?
00:38:45 Kevin
Be need to be paying attention to the school board races and going out there and.
00:38:48 Kevin
Nobody like this. The lowest you need to vote the budget you need to vote for the the school board members.
00:38:54 Kevin
A lot of different things that you need to vote for.
00:38:56 Kevin
Umm.
00:38:58 Kevin
And nobody like the lowest turn out of everything is the school board.
00:39:01 Kevin
Guess.
00:39:02 Kevin
Or the.
00:39:03 Kevin
The school district's election and and then everyone's like, oh, the city's.
00:39:08 Kevin
You want to mismanage the city like Jesus, I'm pretty sure we're 19,000,000. We went over this other day.
00:39:12 Kevin
We're a $19 million budget.
00:39:14 Kevin
Have 56.
00:39:15 Kevin
Dollars for a school district.
00:39:16 Kevin
You can run an entire city.
00:39:19 Kevin
For 1/3 of the school budget.
00:39:21 Kevin
Isn't that funny?
00:39:22 Kevin
1/3 of the school budget you can run a city with police and fire and streets and parks.
00:39:31 Kevin
And.
00:39:32 Kevin
You know.
00:39:34 Kevin
Facilities to house a court and facilities to do, you know, register your dog and keep the birth certificate records and and just like all these little things, we have a rec center, we have a stadium and it's like for 19,000,000 dollars, 20 million bucks a year 1.
00:39:52 Kevin
Of the school budget.
00:39:53 Kevin
Like what kind of?
00:39:54 Kevin
And then you got to think that it serves.
00:39:56 Kevin
I'm quoting from my my favorite, my favorite former Alderman, but its services.
00:40:04 Kevin
12A population of 12,000 people.
00:40:08 Kevin
14,000.
00:40:09 Kevin
Somewhere in that ballpark, you're serving like 11112 hundred students.
00:40:14 Kevin
Like 110th, 110th of.
00:40:17 Kevin
That $19 million budget population, 110th of them.
00:40:23 Kevin
For three times the cost, just just throw it out there for numbers like I get that.
00:40:28 Kevin
I get.
00:40:28 Kevin
The children of the future I get.
00:40:30 Kevin
But like sometimes throwing money at stuff doesn't change anything.
00:40:34 Kevin
Throwing money at stuff makes it.
00:40:36 Kevin
So the fact that they have three times more might be three times worse.
00:40:39 Kevin
Just.
00:40:41 Kevin
Anyways, we'll be reaching out to them, getting them on the show. And again, don't forget.
00:40:47 Kevin
Della Moore. Tomorrow afternoon we'll have. We'll be recording her. Having her on the.
00:40:51 Kevin
So you'll see that hopefully Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, you'll be having that out for.
00:40:55 Kevin
And with that said, guys, you have a beautiful you enjoyed this, this hopefully beautiful warm.
00:41:01 Kevin
It's warm comparatively to everything else that we've been dealing with, but welcome to Western New York and this is Kevin, Life 22.
00:41:08 Kevin
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00:41:10 Kevin
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