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This is the Round Table Talk Podcast, brought to you
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in part by rayfer Guns, the Whope County edition of
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the North State Journal, the Libra Initiat Tip of North Carolina,
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and our flagship station WCLN Christian one oh five point seven.
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And now here are your hosts, Ruben Castleon and Chris Holland.
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All right, all right, all right, welcome to the Round
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Table Talk Podcast. This is episode one sixty four. Can
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you believe that?
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Sixty three? We just talked about it.
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Six three and we're talking about it. Welcome up to
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episode one sixty three. I'm Ruben cast Alone and Chris Holland.
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All right, So would you want to go for us
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or yeah, we'll talk about it. So, you know, this
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is kind of the uh, moving towards the end of summer,
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we know that campaign season, candidates are really going to
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start getting hot. People returning from vacation, uh, people are
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going back to school, so people have more time basically
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to start paying attention to politics, you know, not distracted
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by the beaches and the mountains and whatever. So right now,
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we have seven candidates filed so far for school board
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the school board position, there's three positions opened this coming election.
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Of those seven candidates, we have Gary BigMan being Rigman.
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He's the former athletic director we retired from Holk County
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High John Harry, Christopher Leach, Gary McNeil, Roosevelt McPherson, Gwyndolyn Robinson,
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and George Small. George Small was the former UH Hope
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football team. Yeah, the head coach of the football team.
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All right, And remember that filing is open until August third,
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so there's still chance for people to get in. And
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this list could it spanned prior to that. But some
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of the races that are coming up, or all of
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the races that are coming up in November. We have
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the Hope County Sheriff Sheriff Roderick Virgil. He's unopposed. There's
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nobody running against him. The Hope County clerkub Superior Court,
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Miss Evelyn McLoud uh nobody close to nobody's running against her.
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Then we have the North Carolina House of Representatives District
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forty eight. We have Garland Pierce, which is the incumbent,
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he's the Democrat, and the candidate opposing him as doctor
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Ralph Carter on the Republican side. North Carolina State Senate
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District twenty four. We have current incumbent Senator Danny Britt
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Junior Republican, with an opponent candidate Katina Hamm.
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She's out of Robinson County. From my understanding, that's not
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the same one that ran the last night. Now he
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was like Kathy, I think familiar.
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Yeah, yeah, they're they're very similar names, but they're not
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the same people. Then we have the US House that
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represents our congressman is district for District nine. We have
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Representative Richard Hudson, the Republican, and the candidate that's running
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against him is Richard Ojetta. He's out of Southern Pines,
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North Carolina. Superior Court Judge District twenty nine seat one.
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We have Judge Michael Stone. He's running unopposed. He's a
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current judge North Carolina District Court Judge District twenty nine
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seat one. I'll see this's different. You got Superior Court.
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Now we're down at District Court District twenty nine seat
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number one, currently occupied by Judge Tron falk Ross. She's
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a Democrat that was appointed by I think Stein actually
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appointed her when they were a vagacy. In that seat,
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we have candidate Kimberley Davis coming out of More County.
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She's a Republican. North Carolina District Court Judge District twenty
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nine Seat two, Judge Beth Tanner. She's running unopposed. North
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Carolina District Court Judge District or North Kolina District Court
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Judge Seat five is Johan namcong He's the Republican, he's
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the current judge. And then you have James Allen and
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I think he's local here to Hope County and he's
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the Democrat that's running. And I think the seat five
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is the one that several years back was a drug
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deal during the the It was during the budget debates
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and they needed Garland Pierce to vote for the budget,
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and so some of the stipulation was we're going to
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designate one seat in the district Court lineup as a
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Hope County specific seat. The judge had to come from
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Hope County. They got that, they got Garland's vote, and
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we got the budget passed. That's how that's how, that's
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how drug deals get done. That's how it works.
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Right.
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Remember that Holpe County is going to have two early
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voting locations going to be at the same place at
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downtown at the County Building as well as the rock
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Fish Community Building and early voting period starts October fifteenth
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and runs through October thirty first, so there will be
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no Sunday voting this time, and the last Saturday of
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the early voting period will be I think it's eight
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to three, whatever it is, So there'll be a Saturday
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and then no Sundays. But it's hard or it's i mean,
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politics run on twenty four to seven. It seems like,
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you know, it never stops, especially when we're dealing at
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this level. But in September is when so less than
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seventy days from now, absentee ball let's start going out,
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you know. So these candidates that are hoping to win
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their race, you know, definitely need to get on the ball,
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need to like put the pedal to the medal and
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start doing something to get their name out there, to
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get their platform out there and to all of the vote.
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You know, historically in mid terms turnout as low anyway. Yeah,
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you know, uh, the primaries this time around across the
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state were a little higher than a normal prime off
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off uh presidential year election. However, you can't depend on
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that in the general election, you know, and so it's
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incumbent upon the candidates to motivate the voters and as
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well as the voters themselves. As you know, if you
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want to see a change in whatever particular position office,
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then you need to get out and vote for that.
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Well, let me let me add I forget the I
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remember one name obviously because she's one of my colleagues.
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But the latest local newspaper, which I'll give credit to
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the uh Rayfuel Journal, I remember seeing Angela Sutherland, the
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one of the incumbents. That's whusso file and there was
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another another name, Neil. I think that's what it was,
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you know, I know, I don't think it was McNeil.
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I think it was Neil. I could I could be wrong.
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But I I uh, Darren McNeil.
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Okay, that might be it. But anyways, I know that
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Angela Sutherland. Two of the incomings, Catherine Blue and Angela Sutherland,
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they have filed. That's based on the last news You know.
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What I did miss those names at the top. Yeah,
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Catherine and and Angela.
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Yeah, so they they they also file. I suspect that
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there's gonna be a few more people they're gonna file
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because we have well we got a week we're going
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to have yeah, yeah, so we got about a week
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and a half. Uh, and so it's gonna be a
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very interest But I just gotta say this, Okay, I
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can't say that I'm excited on what I see right now.
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As far as the choice of candidate.
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That the choice of candidates and and the and the
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fact that those that have already filed, they have filed
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for a while for other uh positions, where are they
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at there? It's like, goes, how do you ever expect
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to be elected when you're not busting yourself to uh,
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you know. And I got to tell you this, it
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was very unfortunate because it was really hard for me
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when when we ran in and you didn't get in
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because I know how much work you put in, because
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we put just the same amount of I mean, we
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didn't have a life for I think, like we started
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nine months before we filed. We we didn't have a
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life and but we wanted it at that bad and
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you missed it by a little mark. And initially I
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thought that I didn't get in until somebody told me
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refresher your browser and that's what I was also at
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the top. But but you know, we set the standard
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to have a chance here in whole county to get in.
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And if you're not following that standard they we set
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because people know what we did, you're not going to
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get in. Yeah.
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Unfortunately, you know, having a Republican you know tagline being
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affiliated the Republican Party has already I work against you
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here in Hope County, you know, because there's just that
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attitude that's still here. It's a deep blue county, you know,
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and there's the whole perception of the Republicans that you know,
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people carry to the polls with them. So you already
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start with that, so that you have to get out,
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let people know who you are, interact with the voters,
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let them know what you stand for, what you're about,
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and then motivate those people to turn out for you,
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because if you don't, you know, you just can't waltz
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into a race and expect oh, you know Republican.
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No, it's not going to happen. It's not going to
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hap happened because you know, when we ran for election
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back in twenty twenty two, uh, we had what we have,
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forty three hundred and forty five hundred Republicans did not vote.
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That means that the people that probably they carry me
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was some Republicans, a whole bunch of unaffiliated and probably
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a lot of Democrats. But I'm gonna tell you what
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we did different was that we went knocking on doors
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because I remember we were in downtown Rayford and we
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met several Democrat people that are affiliated to the Democrat
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Party and said, I have never had a Democrat come here,
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and they were not we we are voting for you.
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Whether they did it or not, that's not you there.
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But that's how critical it is for you to start
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campaigning early, not just filing and this thought process I buy, well,
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this is my fifth time, I ran, I'm getting closer.
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It's never going to happen. Right, It's never going to happen.
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No, no, not dumb luck. You know, you can't just
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stumble into it. You actually had to put forth the
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work in the effort. And talking about that, you know,
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the last two Supreme Court judge elections here in North
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Carolina have been decided by less than a thousand votes. Yeah, right,
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So those candidate Republican Republican candidates that get that one
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extra voter out to the poll helps those judges statewide,
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you know, And that's One of the messages the NCGOP
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is putting out is like, look, you're talking about two
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votes per county. They're one hundred counties, right, and so
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two votes, two to four votes will decide to the
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Preme Court election this time around. So you know that
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that's one of those things where everybody supports each other.
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You know, if you come out to vote for me,
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you're probably going to look at the other Republicans on
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the take you and go yeah, yeah, well you know,
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whether you know them or not. And that's the way
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it's going to work. So that that's incumbent upon if
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you want to support the party, if you support you know,
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what's been going on for the last twelve years in
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the legislature, then you know, and in the judicial system,
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I mean, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has overturned
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some really dumb laws that were part of you know,
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enacted by a Democrat legislature, and they fought against you know,
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the voter. I d yeah, I mean what was that
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twenty eighteen?
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I mean, they can't going back and down, back and down,
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and finally it's settled. That's the end of us. That
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the end of that, you know, But yeah, it's to me,
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it's very disappointing that that you have candidates. And I'm
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talking about both both sides. But I you know, unfortunately,
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and this is just a fact, with any income, if
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you already incumbent and you have a an okay record,
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you have a you have an up. Yeah, you already
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gotta have. You have a record, you're established.
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And apply that that here in North Carolina or here
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in Hope County. About four years ago, six years ago,
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we started out about two point one Democrats to Republicans.
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Now we're up over eight thousand registered Republicans now, so
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now we're down to like one point seven.
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So like I tell everybody, you know, if we have
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one hundred percent show up, oh, one hundred percent show up,
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and they have fifty one percent show up, they still
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beat this. Yeah, you know what I mean, is that
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high of a hill. Now that's not to discourage anybody,
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because each individual as a candidate can appeal to the
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voters and get those votes. You know, but you have
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to realize that's the field that we're playing on, and
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you have to adjust your campaign, You have to adjust
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your engagement with the with the voters with that in
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mind that. You know, for every Republican or every Democrat
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that comes out, I have to get two people to.
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Vote for me. And I think you hit the nail
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on the head. You have to engage right. Simply filing
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and when it's time to put the yard signs around
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that is never ever going to get you in. It's
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just not going to get you in. Yeah, you know,
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And unfortunately I see this, and to me, it's a
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waste of time. I suspect that some people file to
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run just to say I file. Look at me. It's
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like a look at me moment. But most people don't
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even have a message why they're running. Prime example, when
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I ran, I forget what it was, but it was
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the biggest list of people that have ever run. I
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think it was twelve fifteen people. It's pretty large, and
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to be a very I suspect that there's attacktic to this,
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you know. I think that some of these people are
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probably being encouraged and they don't really want to do it.
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Some people have probably hitting motives. I mean, I don't know.
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The good thing about it is that bad and good
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is that you know, the school board. Uh, the school
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doesn't have the power of the purse. It's the county commissioners,
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you know, so board members are very limited what they
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can do.
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You know, I'm talking about individuals, but as a board
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it's different. But it's just to me, it's very surprising that,
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you know, like I said, I mean, I don't want
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to beat this horse to death, but we're gonna keep
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doing this until it was over. Yeah, because this is
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probably gonna be just the topic. But I gotta tell
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you if you're gonna involve, which I hope you do,
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and I'm this is a general statement statement for Republicans, Democrats,
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and unaffiliated a KA independence. Don't vote just on the name.
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You need to vote on what the person stands on. Okay,
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if you have an individual that's running just a name,
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that is one person that will never have my vote
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because I want to know, because because you need If
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the individual does not have a message, then you cannot
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hold it. If that individual gets into the position, you
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cannot hold that individual accountable because the individual didn't have
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a message.
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I didn't why you're going to have me accountable for
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this because I never said I was going to do that.
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You know, so and and the Unfortunately both the Republicans
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and the Democrats, many people vote straight by the name,
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but they don't they don't really do their their work
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and vote specifically on under values.
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Right, and so you're aware that you know the way
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the ballot is. The name on the ballots are done
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by a random draw, and then it's the next closest
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he will draw a letter out of a hat, and then
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the next closest after that, say Adams. Adams would be first,
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and then it's alphabetical order from there. So there is
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some some benefit to being at the top of the
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back of course, top of the list, because it's like, oh,
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I don't know that person, but yeah, you know, yeah,
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I've seen it. People like I don't know who I
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voted for. I just checked you got I'm gonna.
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Tell you this one now. Like, so let's just say
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we end up with the total of for arguments. Say
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let's just say we end up with a total of
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ten people for the school board. And let's just say
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that this is an example. I'm not saying this person
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is uh in fact going to be at the top,
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but I'm just gonna make the name Joe Joe Smack
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Joe Smack is the one at the top, right, okay.
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And because I have actually talk to people, they actually
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do that. Oh, select three, they just go at the
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top two two, three, done, okay, So that person also
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has an advantage. So if you're an incumbent and you
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at the top, you got two good things against against you,
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but you still got to do more work. But but
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you know, it's just to me again, it's a very discoursion.
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I just hope that the people, uh, you know, it's
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become the school board electric officiers. Lately because of COVID
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has become a very hot topic and more people are
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being running to be involved, and hopefully for the right reasons,
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you know. But here's another thing that you know, it
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makes me wonder, you know, why people didn't run, because
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I didn't know until I got in. Uh, when I
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first got in, my first check that I see for
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being a public official was like two hundred some dollars
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I think that's what it was. Three hundred. It was
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very low, right, okay, And I was really surprised when
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I got her. At least I'm getting gas money and
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then a standard two hundred dollars for transportation, the gas
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and so I said, oh, okay, I'm not doing this
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for free after all, you know. And and there now
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the county Commissioners, which you know, I really appreciated, because
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people make an assumption that the individual board members don't
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do work. You got committees, you got all this and
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all that extra extra events that you have to go to,
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and it's very time consuming. So the county commissioners gave
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us a pay raise of from h whatever it was.
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Let's say it was three hundred dollars to thirteen hundred dollars, okay,
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And I appreciate it because I tell you this right now,
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I kept knowledge of how you know, I put so
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many miles on my truck that I did not want to,
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right you know. And then when the gas gas prices
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went up, I was like, I'm so thankful that I'm
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getting these two hundred dollars a month for gas purposes,
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you know. And now there's an incentive now for other
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people they might just need a supplemental income because if
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you think about it, the two hundred dollars, but the
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two after taxes twelve hundred bucks, you're talking about close
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to fifteen hundred dollars a month if you live enough
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for social Security. That's that's a good supplement. It would be.
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You know, I'm not saying that people are doing it right,
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but I'm saying.
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Well, you know, in non partison raises particularly, there's also
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we were talking about people running and you know what
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they're running for. Sometimes this big list, you know, people
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that are that are the favored will ask other people
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to run too, because now because that dilutes the vote, right,
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dialotes it all and it's like, okay, well all I
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need is twelve votes, you know, so if there's ten people.
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So anyway, what I wanted to talk about is, I
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guess I'm sure a lot of the people watching have
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seen Richard O.
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Jetta.
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He's a candidate running against Richard Hudson. He's retired military
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and the dude, you know, I knew him in the
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service and personally know you speak. I've served with him
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for several times. But no, back then he was saying,
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you know, he actually he was saying, and I would
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have so what he's saying, I would have bet that
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he was a Republican. However, you know, he ran on
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the coattails of Trump in twenty sixteen in West Virginia
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for a State Senate seat. He was a Democrat. He
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was a Democrat. However, he embraced Trump's economic policies. Trump's
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you know, free trade, all all the policies. He's like,
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I'm a Trump supporter, jumped on the train, got elected
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to the Senate. Well, then after the Senate he's like, well, heck,
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I'm going to run for president. So in twenty eighteen
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or twenty whatever it was, he threw his name in
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the hat for president. Didn't go very far. So then
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he tried to go back and run for the Senate
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again in West Virginia.
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He lost it.
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He got his butt kicked, I mean literally physically run
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up Democrat. But now he's anti Trump Democrat. So now
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he's like, yeah, screw Trump. He's the fashionst blah blah blah,
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all that crazy stuff. And so I mean literally he
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was out at a campaign event and somebody met him
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in a parking a lot and beat him down, put
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him in the hospital. You know that type of This
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is West Virginia. So long story short, he migrated to
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North Carolina, set up shopping Southern Pines, and now he's
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running as Democrat challenger to Richard Hudson. I believe personally
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that the guys suffered brain damage. I think he has
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a TBI. You know, it has to be that type
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of a character flaw that I know.
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The audience was TBI because people know.
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Traumatic brain injury, you know. I think because like I said,
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I knew him. It was two thousand and ten eleven
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when we were deployed to Afghanistan and I ran into him.
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Then we weren't in the same unit at that time,
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but I talked with him a couple hours while we
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were waiting on a flight. And I mean, the same
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old guy I knew, you know, and then same, yeah, same,
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And here we are fifteen years later, twenty years later.
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A man, time flies, but yeah, you know, and now
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the guy has just flipped his lips. I mean he's
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talking about civil war. He's talking about Republicans that are
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all racist fascists, you know this, you know, reparations, I mean,
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just free, free, free everything, and he just he's lost
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his mind. However, all that to say, and I don't
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know if you heard about Act Blue, you know, Yeah,
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so the Republicans have win read, which is like an
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online donation. It's a bundler, right, they take all the
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donations and they parse out money to political candidates and
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committees or whatever. Well, Act Blue is the is the
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Democrat version of that. Act Blue is under investigation for
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foreign donations stuff like this. Right, Well, Richard o'heda Ojetta
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has received seven hundred and forty eight, four hundred and
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sixty five dollars from Act Blue for the primary election.
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Wow here in twenty twenty six, almost a million dollars.
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He doesn't have much left, but wow, he did. But
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so I went started looking around, you know, I'm me,
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I'm just like that a nerd. I started looking around
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and the majority of his donations I think, out of
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thirteen thousand plus donations, he has about two thousand that
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are actually from North Carolina and the rest are from California, Massachusetts,
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New York, Ohio, I mean just across the country. And
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so anyway, back to the Act Blue, they're under investigation
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of using fictition, fictitious donors, and the accusations are laundering money.
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Of course, you know, whether it's illegal contributions from big
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corporations doesn't exactly one O diseas or whatever. They use
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these people their name and identity to like make small donations. Well,
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So there's a report that I read talking about Act Blue.
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They tracked down this woman. Her name's Elizabeth Waffle. She's
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eighty eight years old and lives up in the Upper
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Peninsula of Michigan, out in the boondocks, in a trailer internet.
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Surprisingly enough, she doesn't, but her house burnt down a
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couple of years ago. She now lives in a travel trailer,
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no internet, spotty cell phone, YadA, YadA, YadA, that type stuff.
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Says that she moved into the trailer two years ago
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after her house burns down. She owns an old pickup
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truck and no computer. Nevertheless, Waffle, who lives on a
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modest pension, is a true believer in liberal causes and
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continues to make small political donations by way of back Blue.
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So she did that part is true, She says, Hey,
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I have made some donations in what she well, let
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me get to that, I have made some donations in
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the past.
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Right.
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Somehow, though, those few dozen small donations she's made over
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the past five years have transformed into fourteen thousand, six
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hundred and ninety six donations, totally more than one hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars. So this woman who lives in
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Upper Peninsula with no computer, no internet, in a travel
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trailer because her house burnt now has over the last
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five years, donated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Some serious spot stuff going on. Yeah, so equal case
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right there.
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This is the equivalent of eight donations a day, every
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day for the past five years, averaging nine dollars and
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eighteen cents. So she've donated nineteen dollars or nine dollars
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eighteen says, every day every day for the last for
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the last or eight times a day for the last
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five years. So this is the woman. She said one
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hundred and fifty thousand. She says that with real surprise.
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Hell no, I don't have that kind of money. She says.
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She has contributed abdulahsi the Democrat socialist running for Michigan's
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US Senate seat, but not forty seven times spending the
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last two years, as the federal filing show, So it's
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showing act blue showing that she's donated forty seven times
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to this guy in this running.
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They're probably getting the money from abroad of bagging these
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people with it.
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Yeah, so that's what it is they're accused of rinsing rentsing,
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foreign money, and massive private donation.
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She's one person.
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That's one person. So the act Blue CEO had to
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go to Congress recently, she vote the Fifth Amendment twenty
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two times.
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Yeah, oh yeah.
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It also shows her donating from her apartment, her rent
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because you know, you have to put down address. Yeah,
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when we make a donation, she rented that from two
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years ago. She lived there two years ago after her
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house burnt down, is still showing as an address that
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she's donating from, and then sometimes she's donating from the
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trailer and the apartment on the same day. And then
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it says that it also shows her donating to out
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of state Canada she's never even heard of. So I
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went to that Blue site just kind of check out
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what it was, and yes, o Jetta does have an
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I'm gonna call somebody because I don't know what exactly
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what I was reading, but there's I think I kinted
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seventeen donations of eighty thousand dollars, six hundred and twenty
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four dollars eighty thousand, six hundred and twenty four dollars
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and like sixty four cents or something like that, and
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basically those eighteen were all on the same day, you know,
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and then you go and flip through the pages and
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then there'll be like four more amount they're all the
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exact same amount the same day, you know, and it's
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just like, I don't know, I don't know the legalities
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of that, you know, I know.
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Here in North Carolina that's under investigation. Yeah, well that
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we'll see what happens. We'll see what, you know, how
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it happens, how long it tasted. The federal government get
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done before the next election is not going to you know,
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all right. But yeah, so.
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The guy, like I said, the guy is out there. Uh,
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he's bought into the wacky part of the left wing
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party and he's also benefiting from this what's alleged illegal
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campaign contributions. So I got some announcements on August twentieth.
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This is kind of in the in the future, but
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you're gonna hear some more about August twentieth. We're going
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to have a candidate local candidate meet and greet at
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the ray Free Community Center from six thirty to eight thirty.
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State Auditor Dave Bullock is scheduled right now to be
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our keynote speaker. Hopefully some of the stuff that's being
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looked into here in Hope County will be out by
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then people can come and talk to him as well
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as meet the local candidates. And then August twenty seventh,
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same time, six thirty eight thirty at the Ray Free
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Community Center, we're going to have a judicial candidate meet
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and greet. It's all the judicial candidates, typically the Supreme
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Court slate, there's four of them. They'll send down some
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people Superior Court, so we'll have some out of town
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judges or candidates for judges that they'll be there as
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well as Johann and Ken that's gonna be on the
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twenty seventh, and then Richard Hudson will be at that
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one as well. So come meet the Congressman on the
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twenty seventh.
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All right, So you got anything else, That's all I have.
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All right. So one announcement I have is that you know,
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full full support the high school project is almost done.
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We have a ribbon cutting on six August at ten am.
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It's open to the public. It's a beautiful building. That's
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all I can say. Of cookies. Well, you know, we're
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working on some things to try to get something that
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is very appealing for ten eleven o'clock in the morning.
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And the last thing I want to put out is
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the Second Amendment. Those of you there are supporters of
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the Second Amendment, which is part of the Constitution. Is
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the fact that the third Circuit struck down the New
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Jersey ban on the AR fifteen and the twenty round magazine.
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And then there's another circuit somewhere. I forget what it is.
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It might have been said, it might have been the
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fifth I don't remember, but they had the opposite outcome.
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But the good news is that there's already two cases
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slid or to the to the the Supreme Court, and
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the way it is right now, I suspect everybody is
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very excited that it's finally gonna make it. I suspect
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because the AR fifteen is a common use rifle for
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those of you that are illiterate in the arms. That
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is not an assault weapon. That is a rifle, and
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so we're excited. I suspect that the Supreme Court is
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going to favor the weapon itself, because you know, in
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the true definition of the Second Amendment is the the
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uh the right to bear arms, and the government is
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not going to infringe that right on us. Is that
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this is this is how it is just a simple thing.
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It's not necessary to defend ourselves against the bat guy.
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Is to defend ourselves against a tiringt a government because
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they didn't want Britain to come back again, you know.
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So that's the true meaning of it. Of course you
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have the right to defend yourself, uh as a second
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at a second level. But the primary reason of the
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second amend minister to defend ourselves from a tyrant government
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as you've seen lately, you know, under Obama and look
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at under Biden. Biden was forcing our armed forces, soldiers, airmen,
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and Navy and Marines to take the shot, you know,
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and they have weapons. Probably sometime next year, we're gonna
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finally put to rest this. I'm very confident and I
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think that we're gonna prevail on this matter and move
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on to other things, you know, So we'll see.
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Uh.
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There was another another case where the Supreme Court, I
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think it was a Supreme Court, Uh why it might
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have been as a circuit. Also, they had finally categorized
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a suppress or aka a silencer, especially as suppressor. Uh
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that is actually also a weapon. It's not a accessory.
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So when it means that if it's a weapon, it
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is now a Second Amendment, right, it is no longer
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an accessory.
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I know they've been fighting that one for years. Not
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a good thing too, Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, you
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don't no longer have to pay the stamp tax because
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you still have to register that.
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Yeah.
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And talking about that, North Carolina is pretty free, you
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know with the Second Amendment.
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You know, it's a pretty pretty reasonable amendment. Yeah.
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And with that said, I think it's SB fifty, which
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is constitutional carry Yep, it's still it came out of committee,
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but it hasn't been brought to the floor yet, you know.
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And that was last year. Who was that, whether Tim
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Berger or Philbert Philberger? Yeah, he said that, you know,
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the get rid of the pistol purchase. That was enough
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for one year. We're going to do it again next year.
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And it still had to come to frow fruition.
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So you know, the second the Constitution says nothing about
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the right to drive a motor vehicle. And when we
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have a driver's license, my rise to drive cross state
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does not change, right, And but the US Constitution, the
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Second Amendment specifically says I have the right to bear arms,
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but yet I can't cross lines state lines without really
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knowing what's the law over there, I can get in trouble.
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I mean, think about that. I think how crazy that is. Anyways,
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that's all I have for that. As far as the
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Second Amendment, I'm excited for next year.
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Yeah, those two, those two cases before the Supreme Court
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will be held this fall and then sometime that year,
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well springtime.
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Adjudication. Is there anything else?
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That's it?
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All right? Go ahead and appreciate you watching us. Go
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ahead and uh, you know, click the light button, comment
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if you want to, if you have anything, reach us
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out and uh, we'd like to talk about topics basically
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our community aside effects of community, but we talk about
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the state and nationally. Also follow us also on our
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YouTube channel. We need all the help we can get
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there so we can grow our base right there too.
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Until next time, I'm Ruben Castellon and stay dry.
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All right, So would you want to go for us
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or yeah, we'll talk about it. So, you know, this
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is kind of the uh, moving towards the end of summer,
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we know that campaign season, candidates are really going to
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start getting hot. People returning from vacation, uh, people are
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going back to school, so people have more time basically
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to start paying attention to politics, you know, not distracted
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by the beaches and the mountains and whatever. So right now,
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we have seven candidates filed so far for school board
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the school board position, there's three positions opened this coming election.
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Of those seven candidates, we have Gary BigMan being Rigman.
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He's the former athletic director we retired from Holk County
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High John Harry, Christopher Leach, Gary McNeil, Roosevelt McPherson, Gwyndolyn Robinson,
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and George Small. George Small was the former UH Hope
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football team. Yeah, the head coach of the football team.
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All right, And remember that filing is open until August third,
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so there's still chance for people to get in. And
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this list could it spanned prior to that. But some
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of the races that are coming up, or all of
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the races that are coming up in November. We have
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the Hope County Sheriff Sheriff Roderick Virgil. He's unopposed. There's
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nobody running against him. The Hope County clerkub Superior Court,
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Miss Evelyn McLoud uh nobody close to nobody's running against her.
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Then we have the North Carolina House of Representatives District
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forty eight. We have Garland Pierce, which is the incumbent,
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he's the Democrat, and the candidate opposing him as doctor
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Ralph Carter on the Republican side. North Carolina State Senate
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District twenty four. We have current incumbent Senator Danny Britt
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Junior Republican, with an opponent candidate Katina Hamm.
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She's out of Robinson County. From my understanding, that's not
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the same one that ran the last night. Now he
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was like Kathy, I think familiar.
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Yeah, yeah, they're they're very similar names, but they're not
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the same people. Then we have the US House that
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represents our congressman is district for District nine. We have
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Representative Richard Hudson, the Republican, and the candidate that's running
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against him is Richard Ojetta. He's out of Southern Pines,
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North Carolina. Superior Court Judge District twenty nine seat one.
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We have Judge Michael Stone. He's running unopposed. He's a
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current judge North Carolina District Court Judge District twenty nine
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seat one. I'll see this's different. You got Superior Court.
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Now we're down at District Court District twenty nine seat
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number one, currently occupied by Judge Tron falk Ross. She's
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a Democrat that was appointed by I think Stein actually
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appointed her when they were a vagacy. In that seat,
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we have candidate Kimberley Davis coming out of More County.
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She's a Republican. North Carolina District Court Judge District twenty
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nine Seat two, Judge Beth Tanner. She's running unopposed. North
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Carolina District Court Judge District or North Kolina District Court
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Judge Seat five is Johan namcong He's the Republican, he's
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the current judge. And then you have James Allen and
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I think he's local here to Hope County and he's
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the Democrat that's running. And I think the seat five
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is the one that several years back was a drug
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deal during the the It was during the budget debates
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and they needed Garland Pierce to vote for the budget,
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and so some of the stipulation was we're going to
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designate one seat in the district Court lineup as a
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Hope County specific seat. The judge had to come from
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Hope County. They got that, they got Garland's vote, and
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we got the budget passed. That's how that's how, that's
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how drug deals get done. That's how it works.
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Right.
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Remember that Holpe County is going to have two early
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voting locations going to be at the same place at
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downtown at the County Building as well as the rock
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Fish Community Building and early voting period starts October fifteenth
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and runs through October thirty first, so there will be
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no Sunday voting this time, and the last Saturday of
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the early voting period will be I think it's eight
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to three, whatever it is, So there'll be a Saturday
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and then no Sundays. But it's hard or it's i mean,
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politics run on twenty four to seven. It seems like,
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you know, it never stops, especially when we're dealing at
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this level. But in September is when so less than
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seventy days from now, absentee ball let's start going out,
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you know. So these candidates that are hoping to win
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their race, you know, definitely need to get on the ball,
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need to like put the pedal to the medal and
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start doing something to get their name out there, to
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get their platform out there and to all of the vote.
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You know, historically in mid terms turnout as low anyway. Yeah,
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you know, uh, the primaries this time around across the
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state were a little higher than a normal prime off
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off uh presidential year election. However, you can't depend on
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that in the general election, you know, and so it's
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incumbent upon the candidates to motivate the voters and as
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well as the voters themselves. As you know, if you
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want to see a change in whatever particular position office,
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then you need to get out and vote for that.
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remember one name obviously because she's one of my colleagues.
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But the latest local newspaper, which I'll give credit to
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the uh Rayfuel Journal, I remember seeing Angela Sutherland, the
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one of the incumbents. That's whusso file and there was
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another another name, Neil. I think that's what it was,
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you know, I know, I don't think it was McNeil.
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Angela Sutherland. Two of the incomings, Catherine Blue and Angela Sutherland,
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they have filed. That's based on the last news You know.
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What I did miss those names at the top. Yeah,
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Catherine and and Angela.
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Yeah, so they they they also file. I suspect that
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there's gonna be a few more people they're gonna file
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because we have well we got a week we're going
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to have yeah, yeah, so we got about a week
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and a half. Uh, and so it's gonna be a
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very interest But I just gotta say this, Okay, I
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can't say that I'm excited on what I see right now.
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That the choice of candidates and and the and the
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fact that those that have already filed, they have filed
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for a while for other uh positions, where are they
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at there? It's like, goes, how do you ever expect
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to be elected when you're not busting yourself to uh,
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you know. And I got to tell you this, it
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was very unfortunate because it was really hard for me
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when when we ran in and you didn't get in
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because I know how much work you put in, because
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we put just the same amount of I mean, we
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didn't have a life for I think, like we started
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nine months before we filed. We we didn't have a
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life and but we wanted it at that bad and
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you missed it by a little mark. And initially I
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thought that I didn't get in until somebody told me
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refresher your browser and that's what I was also at
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the top. But but you know, we set the standard
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to have a chance here in whole county to get in.
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because people know what we did, you're not going to
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get in. Yeah.
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Unfortunately, you know, having a Republican you know tagline being
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affiliated the Republican Party has already I work against you
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here in Hope County, you know, because there's just that
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attitude that's still here. It's a deep blue county, you know,
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and there's the whole perception of the Republicans that you know,
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people carry to the polls with them. So you already
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start with that, so that you have to get out,
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let people know who you are, interact with the voters,
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let them know what you stand for, what you're about,
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and then motivate those people to turn out for you,
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because if you don't, you know, you just can't waltz
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into a race and expect oh, you know Republican.
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No, it's not going to happen. It's not going to
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hap happened because you know, when we ran for election
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back in twenty twenty two, uh, we had what we have,
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forty three hundred and forty five hundred Republicans did not vote.
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That means that the people that probably they carry me
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was some Republicans, a whole bunch of unaffiliated and probably
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a lot of Democrats. But I'm gonna tell you what
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we did different was that we went knocking on doors
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because I remember we were in downtown Rayford and we
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met several Democrat people that are affiliated to the Democrat
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Party and said, I have never had a Democrat come here,
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and they were not we we are voting for you.
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Whether they did it or not, that's not you there.
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But that's how critical it is for you to start
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campaigning early, not just filing and this thought process I buy, well,
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this is my fifth time, I ran, I'm getting closer.
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It's never going to happen. Right, It's never going to happen.
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No, no, not dumb luck. You know, you can't just
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stumble into it. You actually had to put forth the
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work in the effort. And talking about that, you know,
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the last two Supreme Court judge elections here in North
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Carolina have been decided by less than a thousand votes. Yeah, right,
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So those candidate Republican Republican candidates that get that one
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extra voter out to the poll helps those judges statewide,
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you know, And that's One of the messages the NCGOP
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is putting out is like, look, you're talking about two
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votes per county. They're one hundred counties, right, and so
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two votes, two to four votes will decide to the
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Preme Court election this time around. So you know that
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that's one of those things where everybody supports each other.
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You know, if you come out to vote for me,
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you're probably going to look at the other Republicans on
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the take you and go yeah, yeah, well you know,
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whether you know them or not. And that's the way
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it's going to work. So that that's incumbent upon if
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you want to support the party, if you support you know,
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what's been going on for the last twelve years in
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the legislature, then you know, and in the judicial system,
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I mean, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has overturned
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some really dumb laws that were part of you know,
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enacted by a Democrat legislature, and they fought against you know,
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the voter. I d yeah, I mean what was that
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twenty eighteen?
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I mean, they can't going back and down, back and down,
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and finally it's settled. That's the end of us. That
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the end of that, you know, But yeah, it's to me,
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it's very disappointing that that you have candidates. And I'm
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talking about both both sides. But I you know, unfortunately,
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and this is just a fact, with any income, if
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you already incumbent and you have a an okay record,
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you have a you have an up. Yeah, you already
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gotta have. You have a record, you're established.
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in Hope County. About four years ago, six years ago,
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we started out about two point one Democrats to Republicans.
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now we're down to like one point seven.
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one hundred percent show up, oh, one hundred percent show up,
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and they have fifty one percent show up, they still
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beat this. Yeah, you know what I mean, is that
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high of a hill. Now that's not to discourage anybody,
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because each individual as a candidate can appeal to the
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voters and get those votes. You know, but you have
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to realize that's the field that we're playing on, and
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you have to adjust your campaign, You have to adjust
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your engagement with the with the voters with that in
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mind that. You know, for every Republican or every Democrat
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that comes out, I have to get two people to.
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Vote for me. And I think you hit the nail
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on the head. You have to engage right. Simply filing
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and when it's time to put the yard signs around
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that is never ever going to get you in. It's
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just not going to get you in. Yeah, you know,
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waste of time. I suspect that some people file to
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run just to say I file. Look at me. It's
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like a look at me moment. But most people don't
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even have a message why they're running. Prime example, when
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I ran, I forget what it was, but it was
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the biggest list of people that have ever run. I
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think it was twelve fifteen people. It's pretty large, and
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to be a very I suspect that there's attacktic to this,
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you know. I think that some of these people are
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probably being encouraged and they don't really want to do it.
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is that you know, the school board. Uh, the school
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doesn't have the power of the purse. It's the county commissioners,
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you know, so board members are very limited what they
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can do.
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it's different. But it's just to me, it's very surprising that,
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you know, like I said, I mean, I don't want
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to beat this horse to death, but we're gonna keep
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doing this until it was over. Yeah, because this is
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probably gonna be just the topic. But I gotta tell
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you if you're gonna involve, which I hope you do,
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and I'm this is a general statement statement for Republicans, Democrats,
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and unaffiliated a KA independence. Don't vote just on the name.
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if you have an individual that's running just a name,
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that is one person that will never have my vote
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because I want to know, because because you need If
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the individual does not have a message, then you cannot
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hold it. If that individual gets into the position, you
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cannot hold that individual accountable because the individual didn't have
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a message.
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I didn't why you're going to have me accountable for
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this because I never said I was going to do that.
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and the Democrats, many people vote straight by the name,
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but they don't they don't really do their their work
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and vote specifically on under values.
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Right, and so you're aware that you know the way
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the ballot is. The name on the ballots are done
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by a random draw, and then it's the next closest
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he will draw a letter out of a hat, and then
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the next closest after that, say Adams. Adams would be first,
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and then it's alphabetical order from there. So there is
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some some benefit to being at the top of the
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back of course, top of the list, because it's like, oh,
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I don't know that person, but yeah, you know, yeah,
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I've seen it. People like I don't know who I
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voted for. I just checked you got I'm gonna.
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Tell you this one now. Like, so let's just say
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we end up with the total of for arguments. Say
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let's just say we end up with a total of
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ten people for the school board. And let's just say
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that this is an example. I'm not saying this person
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is uh in fact going to be at the top,
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but I'm just gonna make the name Joe Joe Smack
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Joe Smack is the one at the top, right, okay.
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And because I have actually talk to people, they actually
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do that. Oh, select three, they just go at the
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top two two, three, done, okay, So that person also
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has an advantage. So if you're an incumbent and you
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at the top, you got two good things against against you,
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but you still got to do more work. But but
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you know, it's just to me again, it's a very discoursion.
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I just hope that the people, uh, you know, it's
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become the school board electric officiers. Lately because of COVID
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has become a very hot topic and more people are
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being running to be involved, and hopefully for the right reasons,
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you know. But here's another thing that you know, it
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makes me wonder, you know, why people didn't run, because
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first got in, my first check that I see for
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being a public official was like two hundred some dollars
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I think that's what it was. Three hundred. It was
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very low, right, okay, And I was really surprised when
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I got her. At least I'm getting gas money and
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then a standard two hundred dollars for transportation, the gas
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and so I said, oh, okay, I'm not doing this
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for free after all, you know. And and there now
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the county Commissioners, which you know, I really appreciated, because
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people make an assumption that the individual board members don't
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do work. You got committees, you got all this and
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all that extra extra events that you have to go to,
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and it's very time consuming. So the county commissioners gave
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us a pay raise of from h whatever it was.
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I kept knowledge of how you know, I put so
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many miles on my truck that I did not want to,
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right you know. And then when the gas gas prices
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went up, I was like, I'm so thankful that I'm
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getting these two hundred dollars a month for gas purposes,
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you know. And now there's an incentive now for other
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people they might just need a supplemental income because if
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you think about it, the two hundred dollars, but the
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two after taxes twelve hundred bucks, you're talking about close
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to fifteen hundred dollars a month if you live enough
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for social Security. That's that's a good supplement. It would be.
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but I'm saying.
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we were talking about people running and you know what
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they're running for. Sometimes this big list, you know, people
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that are that are the favored will ask other people
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to run too, because now because that dilutes the vote, right,
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dialotes it all and it's like, okay, well all I
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need is twelve votes, you know, so if there's ten people.
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So anyway, what I wanted to talk about is, I
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guess I'm sure a lot of the people watching have
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seen Richard O.
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Jetta.
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He's a candidate running against Richard Hudson. He's retired military
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and the dude, you know, I knew him in the
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service and personally know you speak. I've served with him
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for several times. But no, back then he was saying,
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you know, he actually he was saying, and I would
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have so what he's saying, I would have bet that
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he was a Republican. However, you know, he ran on
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the coattails of Trump in twenty sixteen in West Virginia
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for a State Senate seat. He was a Democrat. He
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was a Democrat. However, he embraced Trump's economic policies. Trump's
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you know, free trade, all all the policies. He's like,
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I'm a Trump supporter, jumped on the train, got elected
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to the Senate. Well, then after the Senate he's like, well, heck,
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I'm going to run for president. So in twenty eighteen
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or twenty whatever it was, he threw his name in
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the hat for president. Didn't go very far. So then
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he tried to go back and run for the Senate
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again in West Virginia.
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He lost it.
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He got his butt kicked, I mean literally physically run
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up Democrat. But now he's anti Trump Democrat. So now
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he's like, yeah, screw Trump. He's the fashionst blah blah blah,
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all that crazy stuff. And so I mean literally he
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was out at a campaign event and somebody met him
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in a parking a lot and beat him down, put
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him in the hospital. You know that type of This
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is West Virginia. So long story short, he migrated to
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North Carolina, set up shopping Southern Pines, and now he's
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running as Democrat challenger to Richard Hudson. I believe personally
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that the guys suffered brain damage. I think he has
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a TBI. You know, it has to be that type
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of a character flaw that I know.
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The audience was TBI because people know.
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Traumatic brain injury, you know. I think because like I said,
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I knew him. It was two thousand and ten eleven
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when we were deployed to Afghanistan and I ran into him.
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Then we weren't in the same unit at that time,
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but I talked with him a couple hours while we
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were waiting on a flight. And I mean, the same
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old guy I knew, you know, and then same, yeah, same,
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And here we are fifteen years later, twenty years later.
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A man, time flies, but yeah, you know, and now
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the guy has just flipped his lips. I mean he's
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talking about civil war. He's talking about Republicans that are
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all racist fascists, you know this, you know, reparations, I mean,
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just free, free, free everything, and he just he's lost
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his mind. However, all that to say, and I don't
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know if you heard about Act Blue, you know, Yeah,
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so the Republicans have win read, which is like an
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online donation. It's a bundler, right, they take all the
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donations and they parse out money to political candidates and
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committees or whatever. Well, Act Blue is the is the
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Democrat version of that. Act Blue is under investigation for
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foreign donations stuff like this. Right, Well, Richard o'heda Ojetta
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has received seven hundred and forty eight, four hundred and
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sixty five dollars from Act Blue for the primary election.
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Wow here in twenty twenty six, almost a million dollars.
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He doesn't have much left, but wow, he did. But
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so I went started looking around, you know, I'm me,
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I'm just like that a nerd. I started looking around
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and the majority of his donations I think, out of
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thirteen thousand plus donations, he has about two thousand that
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are actually from North Carolina and the rest are from California, Massachusetts,
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New York, Ohio, I mean just across the country. And
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so anyway, back to the Act Blue, they're under investigation
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of using fictition, fictitious donors, and the accusations are laundering money.
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Of course, you know, whether it's illegal contributions from big
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corporations doesn't exactly one O diseas or whatever. They use
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these people their name and identity to like make small donations. Well,
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So there's a report that I read talking about Act Blue.
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They tracked down this woman. Her name's Elizabeth Waffle. She's
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eighty eight years old and lives up in the Upper
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Peninsula of Michigan, out in the boondocks, in a trailer internet.
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Surprisingly enough, she doesn't, but her house burnt down a
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couple of years ago. She now lives in a travel trailer,
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no internet, spotty cell phone, YadA, YadA, YadA, that type stuff.
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Says that she moved into the trailer two years ago
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after her house burns down. She owns an old pickup
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truck and no computer. Nevertheless, Waffle, who lives on a
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modest pension, is a true believer in liberal causes and
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continues to make small political donations by way of back Blue.
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So she did that part is true, She says, Hey,
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I have made some donations in what she well, let
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me get to that, I have made some donations in
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the past.
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Right.
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Somehow, though, those few dozen small donations she's made over
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the past five years have transformed into fourteen thousand, six
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hundred and ninety six donations, totally more than one hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars. So this woman who lives in
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Upper Peninsula with no computer, no internet, in a travel
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trailer because her house burnt now has over the last
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five years, donated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Some serious spot stuff going on. Yeah, so equal case
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right there.
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This is the equivalent of eight donations a day, every
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day for the past five years, averaging nine dollars and
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eighteen cents. So she've donated nineteen dollars or nine dollars
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eighteen says, every day every day for the last for
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the last or eight times a day for the last
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five years. So this is the woman. She said one
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hundred and fifty thousand. She says that with real surprise.
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Hell no, I don't have that kind of money. She says.
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She has contributed abdulahsi the Democrat socialist running for Michigan's
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US Senate seat, but not forty seven times spending the
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last two years, as the federal filing show, So it's
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showing act blue showing that she's donated forty seven times
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to this guy in this running.
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They're probably getting the money from abroad of bagging these
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people with it.
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Yeah, so that's what it is they're accused of rinsing rentsing,
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foreign money, and massive private donation.
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She's one person.
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That's one person. So the act Blue CEO had to
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go to Congress recently, she vote the Fifth Amendment twenty
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two times.
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Yeah, oh yeah.
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It also shows her donating from her apartment, her rent
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because you know, you have to put down address. Yeah,
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when we make a donation, she rented that from two
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years ago. She lived there two years ago after her
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house burnt down, is still showing as an address that
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she's donating from, and then sometimes she's donating from the
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trailer and the apartment on the same day. And then
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it says that it also shows her donating to out
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of state Canada she's never even heard of. So I
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went to that Blue site just kind of check out
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what it was, and yes, o Jetta does have an
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I'm gonna call somebody because I don't know what exactly
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what I was reading, but there's I think I kinted
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seventeen donations of eighty thousand dollars, six hundred and twenty
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four dollars eighty thousand, six hundred and twenty four dollars
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and like sixty four cents or something like that, and
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basically those eighteen were all on the same day, you know,
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and then you go and flip through the pages and
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then there'll be like four more amount they're all the
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exact same amount the same day, you know, and it's
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just like, I don't know, I don't know the legalities
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of that, you know, I know.
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Here in North Carolina that's under investigation. Yeah, well that
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we'll see what happens. We'll see what, you know, how
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it happens, how long it tasted. The federal government get
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done before the next election is not going to you know,
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all right. But yeah, so.
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The guy, like I said, the guy is out there. Uh,
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he's bought into the wacky part of the left wing
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party and he's also benefiting from this what's alleged illegal
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campaign contributions. So I got some announcements on August twentieth.
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This is kind of in the in the future, but
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you're gonna hear some more about August twentieth. We're going
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to have a candidate local candidate meet and greet at
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the ray Free Community Center from six thirty to eight thirty.
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State Auditor Dave Bullock is scheduled right now to be
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our keynote speaker. Hopefully some of the stuff that's being
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looked into here in Hope County will be out by
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then people can come and talk to him as well
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as meet the local candidates. And then August twenty seventh,
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same time, six thirty eight thirty at the Ray Free
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Community Center, we're going to have a judicial candidate meet
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and greet. It's all the judicial candidates, typically the Supreme
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Court slate, there's four of them. They'll send down some
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people Superior Court, so we'll have some out of town
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judges or candidates for judges that they'll be there as
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well as Johann and Ken that's gonna be on the
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twenty seventh, and then Richard Hudson will be at that
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one as well. So come meet the Congressman on the
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twenty seventh.
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All right, So you got anything else, That's all I have.
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All right. So one announcement I have is that you know,
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full full support the high school project is almost done.
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We have a ribbon cutting on six August at ten am.
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It's open to the public. It's a beautiful building. That's
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all I can say. Of cookies. Well, you know, we're
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working on some things to try to get something that
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is very appealing for ten eleven o'clock in the morning.
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And the last thing I want to put out is
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the Second Amendment. Those of you there are supporters of
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the Second Amendment, which is part of the Constitution. Is
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the fact that the third Circuit struck down the New
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Jersey ban on the AR fifteen and the twenty round magazine.
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And then there's another circuit somewhere. I forget what it is.
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It might have been said, it might have been the
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fifth I don't remember, but they had the opposite outcome.
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But the good news is that there's already two cases
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slid or to the to the the Supreme Court, and
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the way it is right now, I suspect everybody is
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very excited that it's finally gonna make it. I suspect
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because the AR fifteen is a common use rifle for
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those of you that are illiterate in the arms. That
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is not an assault weapon. That is a rifle, and
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so we're excited. I suspect that the Supreme Court is
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going to favor the weapon itself, because you know, in
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the true definition of the Second Amendment is the the
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uh the right to bear arms, and the government is
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not going to infringe that right on us. Is that
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this is this is how it is just a simple thing.
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It's not necessary to defend ourselves against the bat guy.
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Is to defend ourselves against a tiringt a government because
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they didn't want Britain to come back again, you know.
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So that's the true meaning of it. Of course you
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have the right to defend yourself, uh as a second
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at a second level. But the primary reason of the
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second amend minister to defend ourselves from a tyrant government
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as you've seen lately, you know, under Obama and look
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at under Biden. Biden was forcing our armed forces, soldiers, airmen,
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and Navy and Marines to take the shot, you know,
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and they have weapons. Probably sometime next year, we're gonna
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finally put to rest this. I'm very confident and I
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think that we're gonna prevail on this matter and move
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on to other things, you know, So we'll see.
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Uh.
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There was another another case where the Supreme Court, I
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think it was a Supreme Court, Uh why it might
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have been as a circuit. Also, they had finally categorized
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a suppress or aka a silencer, especially as suppressor. Uh
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that is actually also a weapon. It's not a accessory.
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So when it means that if it's a weapon, it
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is now a Second Amendment, right, it is no longer
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an accessory.
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I know they've been fighting that one for years. Not
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a good thing too, Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, you
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don't no longer have to pay the stamp tax because
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you still have to register that.
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Yeah.
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And talking about that, North Carolina is pretty free, you
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know with the Second Amendment.
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You know, it's a pretty pretty reasonable amendment. Yeah.
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And with that said, I think it's SB fifty, which
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is constitutional carry Yep, it's still it came out of committee,
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but it hasn't been brought to the floor yet, you know.
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And that was last year. Who was that, whether Tim
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Berger or Philbert Philberger? Yeah, he said that, you know,
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the get rid of the pistol purchase. That was enough
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for one year. We're going to do it again next year.
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And it still had to come to frow fruition.
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So you know, the second the Constitution says nothing about
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the right to drive a motor vehicle. And when we
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have a driver's license, my rise to drive cross state
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does not change, right, And but the US Constitution, the
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Second Amendment specifically says I have the right to bear arms,
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but yet I can't cross lines state lines without really
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knowing what's the law over there, I can get in trouble.
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I mean, think about that. I think how crazy that is. Anyways,
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that's all I have for that. As far as the
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Second Amendment, I'm excited for next year.
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Yeah, those two, those two cases before the Supreme Court
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will be held this fall and then sometime that year,
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well springtime.
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Adjudication. Is there anything else?
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That's it?
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All right? Go ahead and appreciate you watching us. Go
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our community aside effects of community, but we talk about
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Until next time, I'm Ruben Castellon and stay dry.
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