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Day 13,486 - Aldermen, Mayoral, & School Board Race Update 4.mp3
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Hey, gang, Kevin here. Live 22 and I don't know how beautiful it is out this morning, but it was beautiful yesterday afternoon.
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Had the first grill of the season.
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Man, that was good.
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Had some beautiful had some beautiful dinner right off the grill.
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Using our fossil fuels, grilling up some some sausages and some weed.
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Nothing better on a spring afternoon when spring just breaks and taking a Weiner to the Dome.
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All right.
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Well, not a whole ton for you this morning, St.
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'S day is coming up.
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I believe it's this coming Monday.
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I know that there's always events going on.
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The Hibernians are always always doing.
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So if you know a member like yours truly, you can get signed in as a guest and go enjoy the festivities there.
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There's always great things like, you know.
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Usually someone's playing music and.
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There's always good time to be.
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Some Irish bangers, some some shepherd's pie.
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Know all.
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All the good, all the good fixings, usually a good adult soda or two and then and then the Irish dancers.
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So and then I.
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I believe this this year on Sunday Taltis is they're probably doing something on Monday, but they always usually do like a like a.
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Like an Irish brunch.
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You know, whatever weekend day is convenient for.
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So and I believe this Sunday they're doing an Irish brunch and some of the musicians from beat City Music are gonna be down there.
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That's that's gonna be a good it's gonna be a good old time.
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There's the update there on on local news and events.
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The.
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The.
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Yeah. And then we don't really have a whole ton for.
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I know that the Common Council met last night to go over their first like big kind of budget budget meeting of the year.
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They went over a few department heads, things like that.
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Got a chance to catch it?
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I'm debating if we should go line by line on the budget on the show or not.
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So that'd be very insightful for the general public who don't understand how the budget works, how that stuff goes.
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Maybe we'll do a brief seminar on a budget, things like that.
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Yeah, I think.
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I think, but yeah, we got a brief update on the mayor's.
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So there's an e-mail scheduled to go out inviting all of the candidates, including the incumbent, for the mayor's race, the Alderman races and the.
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In the school board races.
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If they weren't scheduled to go out by e-mail at 8:00 AM this morning, they are going to be they're going to be scheduled.
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They're going to be scheduled for.
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They uh.
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They went out on Messenger. So that's, you know, that is part of the that is part of the downside to some of these because, you know, you get these, you know, like I was. I was surprised how many candidates actually had Facebook pages and stuff like that.
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There was one of them.
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I almost didn't know she was running because she had a.
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So groups don't show up typically in searches, but like because I had mutual friends with her, it managed to show up.
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Up so like the advertising gets limited.
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On it because they don't really. You know, Facebook's not really for advertising groups, but pages are more like businesses, events, things, you know, things you're trying to promote.
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But you know so.
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And then she didn't have an e-mail.
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The.
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There was no contact info or anything like that, so I had to send it.
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You know, I had to send some of those out via.
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Via messenger.
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Along with along with one of the mayoral candidates and one of the school board people.
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Couldn't even get a hold of one of the school board people.
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So one of the school board candidates running for the position of school board.
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Her she doesn't receive messages unless you're friends with her.
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Doesn't have a page for running for school board.
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You can't send her a message if you're a page, so it was one of those like. Well, how can I invite you to the show?
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Don't list your e-mail phone number. It just says to go.
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You in person for signatures, but you know so.
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I'm sure.
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I'm sure I'm sure someone will get her the message that that we're looking to reach out.
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So, but you know, other than that I mean.
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Because that is the issue. When you if you know if and that was the only thing that I could think of was like, you know, I'm pointing out, you know, if you're if you're running for school board, you have to be accessible to the public.
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If you're running for any elected position where we vote for you, you have to be accessible to the public and some people think, well, I have a private life like you do, but you are also now a public figure, which means that like when when the rules for.
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Libel, slander and all that stuff, you know like.
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Poking fun.
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Private Citizen is a little.
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Is A is a little harder, more restrictive than, like if you're an elected official, soon as you become an elected official.
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The gloves are off like so.
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And so the the rules are different. Is what I'm getting at. And so like you don't get to just hide your e-mail, you don't get to not take phone calls like that's part of the job.
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Know when you become an Alderman, you become the mayor. You become a school board member.
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Get to receive all sorts of calls all the time.
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It.
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Like you don't get to just shut it off.
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O that's like I don't know.
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I.
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I would hope that this person would change their privacy settings or at least have an e-mail that's offerable to people as soon as you know, because that's the other thing too, is like your personal your home address is published.
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Like there would be people that would show up at my house and hand deliver letters because I was an Alderman and they didn't like me or they were trying to get in touch with me or whatever. It's like, well, my phone, my phone number is the same through.
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So you can get me.
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Anywhere. But if you don't feel like calling and talk to me on the phone, you don't feel like sending me an e-mail because you don't think it's as personable as as a letter.
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They would physically come to my home, which you know and drop and drop notes on the door, you know, drop a letter here or there or, you know, my wife has received a few, like, handwritten letters that were hand delivered. Like, that's it.
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Part of the game, like that's, you know, the people are entitled to get in touch with you like any like. Obviously they don't get to just storm in during a public, you know.
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An executive session where you're talking about like, you know, litigation or something behind the scenes, but like they're entitled to get in touch with you.
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Like that's.
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And I would get emails at like 2:00 in the morning.
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I wouldn't reply to him at 2:00 in the morning, you know.
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You got to give a little grace, but yeah, no, I mean, that's why I would just, you know, I hope that mentality of, like, no, my privacy settings are as restricted as it can be.
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I hope you understand that like they don't get to be when you become a public official.
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So yeah, and but anyways, that that said, we.
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Yeah. So those emails got sent out. We've got, I don't know if you caught it the other day, but the the beautiful Miss Delamore was on the show Tuesday evening that got published.
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Yes.
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That was two hours long, so if you were waiting for it to come out on YouTube, it didn't come out until probably midnight. By the time I finished processing.
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So, but I'm hoping that you did catch it.
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We should.
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I'll try to get that shared on her page.
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I know that we tagged her in it, but that was, you know, it was one of those.
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Who is one of those things that she's just she's just a great wealth of information. She's.
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She's she's just a wonderful person, so.
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If you didn't catch it, it's in the backlogs, it's in the files. You can go watch that.
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Can watch any other interview we've done with Dell.
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Believe we've had her on the.
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This will be her third time being on the show. We're testing out the zoom this weekend so we can start bringing in zoom guests.
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We'll be testing that out so we can bring in guests that maybe can't make it from far away or, you know, with all these different upcoming interviews with elected officials, some of them are not going.
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Be available.
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Is, you know, they just won't be.
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You know, they might not be available to come in person to the show and we want to be able to give them the option to be able to zoom in and so getting all that stuff together is going to be is gonna be fun working on that this.
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And then on Sunday.
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We've got.
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A local local rap legend coming on the show.
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That'll be fun.
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See what he has to say.
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We'll see what he's got coming up.
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And just get on one-on-one with.
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So we're just, you know, just plugging along here at the life 22 studios.
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Yeah.
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I'm just trying to think we got, you know, budget talks.
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Got the Alderman races.
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So.
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Yeah, looks like Ward 2's gonna be contested.
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Rachel rachelle.
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Anyways, I saw her Facebook not too long ago.
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How I had to send her a message.
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And now I'm drawing a blank.
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Her last name?
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I wasn't there long enough to, you know, I saw if I did my homework, whatever. But it wasn't published in the paper.
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Know what I?
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If it's, you know, and also that that's that's another.
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People think that like Facebook is the end all be all like Facebook is important.
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Social media is important. If I Google you and I can't find out anything about you, if I Google Ward, I race. Joe Carey's name shows up.
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Or then it shows like as you start scrolling down it gets to like past elections. If you type in Ward 4 like I come up and it's it's kind of funny.
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They don't talk about any of the the new newspaper articles as as much in their algorithms.
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I mean, you really got to get, but the newspapers do show up.
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So if you're, if you're not getting your name out to the paper, whether it is the the rag of The Times herald, or if it's the the new and upcoming Olean star.
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You know, or to us, you know, you really need to do exposes.
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You need to let people know because people don't know.
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I mean, you go door to door like that's.
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Door knocking is the number one way to get people out to vote and to get people to actually to sway a vote.
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I've had people that are like, I hate you for this and I'm like, you want to talk about it. And I will sit 30 minutes on someone's porch and talk with them about it.
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Be like, I think that you've misunderstood what happened.
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And then I will explain to him. And I've had people change.
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I've also had people say thank you for explaining it to.
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I'm still not gonna vote for you, but I appreciate you coming to my door and explaining my concerns and you know, hey.
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That's all you can do.
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So but going door to door is the number one way to get people out there to vote, reminding people to vote is another big.
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So having all those newspaper articles reminding people to go to the polls, so if you're out there doing like, oh, that person was great, and then all of a sudden.
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Election Day comes and goes for a lot of people and they don't remember to go and you're just like, oh, what do I do?
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You know I.
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I didn't win, like, well, yeah, it's because none of the people that said they're gonna vote for you actually went out and voted because they were like, oh, vote for you.
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But now you gotta get their *** to the.
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And that's that's a big thing. I used to drive people to the polls on Election Day like I would have, like people I would, you know, if there was somebody that was like in a Walker or whatever when they came to the door, I'd, you know, I'd go.
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Down.
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You know, at their kitchen table and drink coffee and and talk politics with them and you know, and there was a couple of them that, you know, they were having trouble getting around and you'd say, hey, do you need a ride to the polls like, oh, yeah, no.
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I were I mail in ballot, you know.
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Great mail and ballot.
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Do.
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Do it up. That's what it's there.
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It's because you physically can't go to the polls. You're you're, you're.
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You're bed bound, you know. And I had one lady that she had to take care of her husband. And, and I mean, he's since passed and she goes to the polls now on her own.
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She you know, she's like I I can't really leave him that often for long periods of time. So I don't want to like pepper it in with a, you know, a trip.
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She's like and he's can't go, so she mails in ballots for both of them, which?
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That makes sense.
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Like she's a caregiver to him and he can't go. So mail in both.
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Save yourself a trip. Boom.
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There's other people that are overseas, you know, defending our country.
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And you know so.
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But to each their.
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But then you here's what you here's the thing, you.
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You just you see, you see somebody having trouble and you say, hey, you need to ride the polls or would you?
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Need me to get you the information you need for an mail in ballot.
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You catch somebody and says, well, my wife isn't registered under this party or isn't, you know. And then you go do some research for these people and your wife's not registered to vote at all. Not in our county.
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Then you know 'cause. It's the only thing I really ever, you know, I could probably dig deep. Dig, dig, dig.
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But it's one of those, you know, I.
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You help people register to vote and people remember stuff like that, but then.
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Names, numbers, addresses, emails and then.
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End out a text message.
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It's election.
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Don't forget get out there. School board is very important for that because almost nobody goes to the school board elections. The budget goes up and up and up every year because the only people voting for them are the, you know, the teachers and the administrators, the people who.
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Are requesting the budget.
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As is, you know, and so it never.
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Never typically gets voted down so.
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And then the other people that vote for, like, oh, I always vote in the school board election because we need to help the kids and like, they think just voting yes to the budget means that they're helping the kids. And sometimes that stuff isn't like throwing more money.
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At problems doesn't solve the problem, but.
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So I encourage all of you to go watch last night's budget meeting talk. I saw that Vernon had Vernon Robinson junior had posted about it for Ward.
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His ward 6.
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He always votes very extensive notes into his Andrew's page.
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I think that's phenomenal for transparency.
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And yeah, he.
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So I I would encourage you to go find that and read that I hadn't read it yet.
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Just saw that it was up.
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I watched the meeting last night into this morning and then.
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Yeah. So.
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Why would encourage you to go watch that stay, stay abreast of local topics and we've got some exciting stuff coming up like I mentioned and we will catch you guys tomorrow.
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Let me take today's Friday, isn't.
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We will catch you guys next time on life 22 if you don't hear well, you'll hear from us over the weekend.
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Sure you.
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And you'll all be excited about it, right, because?
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You're going to be like, man, I didn't get to hear that beautiful blooming voice on Saturday morning, but at least I got to hear it Sunday.
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Afternoon. It's a good start to your week.
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All right.
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See you next time.