Roundtable Talk | 164 | A Major Second Amendment Update

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This is the round Table Talk podcast, brought to you
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castle On and Chris Holland.
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All right, all right, welcome to the round Table Talk
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podcast and it style episode one sixty four.
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I'm Ruben cast Alone and I'm Chris Holland. And it's hot, humid,
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but not as bad as last week. It's tolerable. Last
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week was terrible, having some nice rainstorms in the afternoon.
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Need to water, so yeah, so I had to see that.
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It's been good.
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It's been good so far, but let's had whether there's
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so much stuff going on around the world, you know,
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talking about the Second Amendment. We were just talking about
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the Second Amendment. You know where the ATF used to
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have two hundred dollars stamp for the shore barrel rifles weapons,
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I should say, because they'd be shotgun too, or the
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UH suppressors ak aka the UH silence services, you know,
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so that'sh they got rid of that, and I forget
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what the Federal District judge shut it down to where
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it's so.
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So the stamp went away back in January, so you
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haven't had to pay the stamp right or the fee. However,
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the requirement to register there's in a form four. I
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talked to Rob this afternoon, and that's Rob from Ray
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for Guns, where you can find all your you know,
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quality firearms accessories and everything else. We had a pretty
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good conversation. So basically, a fifth Circuit judge or fifth
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Circuit court ruled that the requirement to register a suppressor
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was invalid. So specifically, and I'll read you know some
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of the ruling and kind of what the effects are.
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But back on August fifth James Judge James Wesley Hendrix
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ruled against the National Firearms Act registration requirements in Jensen
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Versy eight, Verse the ATF. So this opened the door
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for plants in the case, including those in a consolidated case,
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to transfer suppressors and short barrel rifles and shotguns without
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complying with NFA registration requirements. This allowed the government to
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have well, he had a caveat he said he's going
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to stay that ruling for days, which said yesterday was
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the last day right, which would allow the government to
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appeal that ruling. And so as of yesterday the thirteenth,
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or today the thirteenth midnight, the federal government has not
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appealed the ruling, so it's in effect for the Fifth Circuit.
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So this is you know, specifically talking about North Carolina
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because Robins told me he's had calls all day, Hey,
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when should I come get my suppressor, you know, and
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he's like, look, first off, there's fourteen states in the
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nation who are not covered by this in any way
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in the fact that they have state law that requires
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federal registration. North Carolina is one of those states.
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So but I say, you know what, I would challenge
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that too, because it will be challenged because the state
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can't make federal law.
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They're not, but they're adding two right. So just like
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the Army we talked about that. You know, back in
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the Army, you have a regulation or a standard. You
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can always add to the standard, but you have to
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meet the bottom baseline. Bottom baseline is the NFA requirement
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by the federal government. The state of North Carolina says, okay, yes,
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and we're going to follow up with that by making
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it illegal for you to possess one that isn't registered
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with the federal government. So there's fourteen states, North Carolina
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being one of those, Well, go ahead. So that's the first,
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you know, hurdle to North Carolinians running out and buying
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suppressors right now. The second hurdle is this is not
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a nationwide injunction. It is the Fifth Circuit. So there's
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those states that are covered under the Fifth Circuit, this applies.
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And then we started talking about you know, well state
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state lines and stuff like that, and he said, look,
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he said, at the end of the day, the ATF
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can bust you because it's federal law.
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You know.
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He said that there was cases back several years ago
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Texas and Kansas passed the law that if a suppressor
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was in specifically a suppressure was manufactured, purchased, and retained
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in the state of Texas or Kansas, then federal law
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didn't apply. You didn't have to register it. Well, I
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guess some guy from Kansas went across the state lines
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or something and got busted and they put him in
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jail for like eight years, you know, trying to make
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an example of that. So and just like the medical
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marijuana right you might live in Florida where it's perfectly legal.
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But yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, but you drive into
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you know, North Carolina and Colorado, right, there's some southern
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states that are that way too. Yeah, but you you
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drive to North Carolina and you're busting. You're busted, you know,
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and it's still federal law, you know, marijuana is illegal.
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And so that this this kind of like I said,
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that's the second hurdle in that federal law still exists.
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And so talking to Rob, he says he thinks that
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within probably six months or so, that this will become
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kind of nationwide, you know, more courts will rule on it,
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so that it becomes nationwide that you don't have to
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do this requirement. And he thinks that, you know, six
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months or so, you know, conservatively six months would be
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you know, no longer a requirement to do the registration.
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But right now in North Carolina, you can't just go
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into the gun store and buy as pressor well you
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can if you go through the problem, if you go
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through it still has to be ragist.
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And let me tell you something, Okay, I think anybody
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knows me, knows that I'm a strong, strong supporter of
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the second Amendment. You know, there's some jokes going around
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on Instagram and Facebook when they said when the founders
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were talking about having the First Amendment, the freedom of speech,
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and somebody said, yeah, but.
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You got to have a gun to enforce.
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If you don't have a gun, you can protect your
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voice and that and those are just fact. It so
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happens that all federal rules and regulations are unconstitutional because
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the Second Amendment specifically says that the government will not infringe.
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It doesn't say mayses except in this and now it's
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time went along during the Capone era where the what
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was the Tommy gun machine gun? Which uh it so
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happened that I shot one.
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I was like, this is this is a nice piece
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of two and uh, I tell you, I do believe.
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I am a supporter that.
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Why I do support each state having his own militia,
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which is really if you think about it as the
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national guard, if you think about it, you know, but
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I think.
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That the national Guard, I don't think the National Guard.
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Can still be activated by the president, so it's really
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not solely to the state. So I think that a
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well regulated militia, which is me and you for the state,
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if we don't have a record. If we want to
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have those top of tools, we should be able to
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because the constitution says I can't. But then again, the
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other thing that I'm always struggling with is that if
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you are allowed to have a machine gun in your
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home and your home gets broken into, they're not going
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there for your food.
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They're going in there for your high value items.
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Such as weapons, TVs, computers, and stuff. And you happen
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to have a machine gun, which you're allowed.
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You have a machine gun and your home and it's stolen.
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You know, now you have a weapon out there which
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it can be considered a weapon of mass destruction out
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there with on hands of crazy person. And so there's
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that problem. But I think that we should not have
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this regulations as far as specific weapons. If you can
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own it, and if you commit the crime, you're gonna
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have to pay the time. But here's the whole thing.
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I'm gonna tell you this right now. Buy my own
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personal experience in the army for a few years and
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being in a few units where we had certain tools
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to do our mission. Suppressors are good, but there's a
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limit on them. You can't shoot a suppressor and a
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limited amount of bullets.
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They're replaceable.
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You can only put so many, so many rounds before
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it has to replace. And I'm gonna tell you something
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or that I personally think that they're overrated because they're overpriced.
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I would never have a suppressor, and you know I
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got your plugs. You know I got your plugs. And now,
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now if a suppressor was so good to where short
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that you breaking it, you can put as many rounds
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as you wanted to and it never had an expiration
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day because of the bullet you put in, I would
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have one. But because there's an expiration date, I'm like,
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this is this is an overkill.
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Well so, so I think that one of the reasons
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they are so expensive is because of the regulation, because
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of being controlled. So if these regulations go away, they
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become more prevalent. The price always comes down. You know,
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it's supplying the man and so the supply will increase,
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is my point.
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I just think that the average person there's a lot
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more than goals to just saying I'm going to buy
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a suppressor. First you have to have the proper barrel,
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and then it has to be threaded so you can
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have the suppressor attached to it. I mean, there's more
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than one mechanism to be able to put it. But
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your regular pistol that has what about an eighth or
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sixteen of an inch past the shelf on the top,
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you can't put a suppressed on that. Now, there are
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some guns that are sole legally they have a little cap, okay,
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but then you have to find the right suppressor, customized
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suppressor for the barrier. So there's more to it than
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just yeah, I'm gonna get a suppressor for my regular.
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Go You definitely have to have the type of gun
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that it fits and the attachment to do it. However,
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I'll make the case that guns, you know, gun accessories
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is a multi billion dollar market in the United States.
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You know, there are people who spend their last dollar
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if you buy that next new thing or whatever. And
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I think that, like I said, this is going to
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open up the market, you know, and the prices will
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come down because more and more people will be looking
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for it and the production will increase.
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And the other thing that people don't understand is that
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you just can't carry a pistol with a suppressor on
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your heir, right, it's uh suppressors. If you've never been
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exposed to one. You go ahead and go to one
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of these high speed gun shops like Jim's Gunshop, and
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go ahead and get yourself. Uh, you know, put your
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hands on a suppressor. We're not talking about announce. This
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is a bulky heavy piece of tool that it's got
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a few different type of materials metal being one, and
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some other some other materials in it.
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So they're they're pretty heavy. Uh, but you know, suppressure
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wouldn't be ideal for everydaycare. It's not. I do believe,
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I do believe that. Uh. The ideal situation me now is.
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A civilian that if I if I steal hunt and
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I wanted to cap multiple deers, you know, a suppressor
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will be idea because with any lug, the other.
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Deers won't hear the Yeah, it'll be so quiet. They
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just kind of confused, like, well, hey, yeah, what was
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that we happened to Bambi? Why's she laying down? But hey,
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going back to talking about rules of regulations, and this
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is where it's kind of upsetting. So we have Representative
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Andrew Clyde out of Georgia. He's a Republican and a
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coalition of other Republican lawmakers are urging the d o
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j A t F to avail themselves of rulemaking to
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codify Hendrick's ruling via regulation, thereby making the registration exemptions
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and apply to all law abiding Americans. You're a congressman,
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Why are you worried about the Executive Committee or the
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Executive branch writing rules repeal the law? That's it, you
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know what I mean, don't And that's there again, It's
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a rule, right, and somebody comes in the next president
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says hey, I don't like that rule, I'm gonna change it,
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and their DOJ or HTF appointees, well, then therefore change it.
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So now we're back in the thing. Like you know,
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it was legal yesterday. We have a new administration today,
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so now it's illegal again. Yeah.
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I just think that if we win strictly by the
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Second Amendment, you know, and I am a strong supporter of,
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there needs to be some exceptions. Okay, you know, I
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just don't see the need for the regular a regular person.
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To have a machine gun. I disagree. I think if
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you can afford it, you well, that's what I'm saying. Now,
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that's what I'm saying. But but that's what I'm saying.
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The average person cannot afford a machine gun because machine guns.
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I'm gonna tell this. Can you get a machine.
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Gun, Yes, you can, just like a suppressor, but you
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got to go through the proper uh uh uh process
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of procedures to get a machine gun.
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Machine guns, they're not cheap. No, they're not well And
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so something Rob rob did say is, uh so, uh
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machine guns and destructive devices, handgar and age stuff like
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that still fall do not fall under this asxemption. So
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they will still require the form for the registration and
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everything like that. But so this applies to suppressors, short
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bare of rifles, sought off shotguns, those types of items.
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All right, So but yeah, just to reitererate, Congress, get
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off your butt, you know, don't depend on the executive
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branch and a you know, a department to write rules
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that contravene federal law.
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Change the law, you know what you're saying that again,
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because I'm to tell this right now, I do not
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agreed at all whatsoever for the executive branch to be
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making such regulations because that's.
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Not that is not in the constitution.
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It's just not in the constitution, you know, just like
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for just like for example, you know, This is why
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I'm strong supporter of the Second Amendment, because we need
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the Second Amendment to support.
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Our First Amendment rights. Okay, as simple as that.
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And the main reason why our founders made the Second
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Amendment drafted the Second Amendment is because we need that
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is the only way, that is the only avenue, the
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only mechanism we can keep the government in check. And
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that historically speaking, any nation, any government that takes the
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firearms away from their citizens, what happens. Socialism is introduced,
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and next thing, you know, communism. Look at Venezuela.
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I think we're gonna vote our way into socialism sooner
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than later. Anyway, well we're already there.
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Look we Americans, which is really shocking to me. Americans.
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Look in New York, they voted a Muslim for a mayor.
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It wasn't just not just what twenty some years ago
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that we had nine eleven?
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How quick we five years that? This is It's crazy.
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What was the Minnesota or Iowa? They just uh a Muslim?
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Also want the primary Uh well so religion and that's
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such the biggest thing. It's their social problem, their social
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their ideology, their ideology in the sense that you know,
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New York. Mondami is already talking about government owned grocery stores,
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you know, downty open one I think they might have. Yeah,
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I mean, I try not to break my heart to
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read in America we're doing stuff like that, but public
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owned grocery stores rent caps, you know, and take away
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property and taking away property or double taxing you know,
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extra property and all that kind of stuff. You know.
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And I was reading this article and they were saying that,
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you know, the bodega's, you know, the small shops in
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New York City are like, you're going to run us
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side of business? They are? Then they're the administration of
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Mandami's like, well that's kind of the point. Yeah, we
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don't need you. We've got you know, the government can
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control this and do this. So it's unfortunate. I mean,
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it's it's just antectical to the American way of life,
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you know, capitalism and just the way that our society
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is run. Our economic you know system depends on those
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small business owners more than the corporations. You know. I
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think they said that it's a high number seventy or
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eighty percent of all jobs available in America through small business,
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through private owners. It's a very high. It's a very
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high number.
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Uh.
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In under Obama and Biden, the federal government grew the most.
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Oh yeah, and this is how Biden was able to
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manipulate the employment rate.
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We're hiring all these people.
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Yeah, they were more mainly federal employees, right, you know
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remember when they passed, when the Senate passed the law,
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what would they do?
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They said, this is what I'm talking about.
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The Republicans are bad, not as bad as the Democrats.
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But what person with common sense would say, We're going
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to hire twenty one thousand IRS agents and we gonna
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certify them to carry weapons?
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Why do you want to do that? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
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I mean that was back in it was like the IRS,
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you know, these non Social Security Administration, all these federal
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agencies that were hoarding ammunition, you know, and it's like,
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why do we have armed Social Security administrators?
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Right?
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What are they going to do? You said?
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The guard that's providing security in the Social Security building?
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Right? I could see that, right, your regular agent or
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your employee. Yeah, So talking about hiring employees though, all
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you've heard the stories, I'm sure about all this fraud
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they're finding in Minnesota and New York and California. Well,
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coming to find out that when o'biden took over Bursera,
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which is running for governor of California, he was the
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HHS DHS some he was the secretary in Biden's cabinet. Anyway,
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there was eighty people assigned to the fraud prevention. You know,
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we're talking about two trillion dollars worth of you know,
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payments to these different organizations across the country and and
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over overseas, and there was eighty people. Well, that wasn't
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that was too much for him. He cut it down
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to seven people when the Trump administration took over. There
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were seven employees monitoring fraud and wasting abuse. But that
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was done intentionally, exactly, it was done. That was done intentionally.
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That's why fraud, all this fraud got out of control.
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I mean, how can you manage a budget to make
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sure that these funds go to all these organizations nationally
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in some cases abroad with seven people?
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You Can's impossible. You can't. And they knew it, knew
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it all right. So let's talk about money. Hot a story,
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you know, coming out with the budget county, well, here
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in Hope County, you know, we just passed our annual
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budget budgets for those that don't know, start in July,
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for for North Carolina July to June, and so our
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county commissioners and all their wisdom decided that the school
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system could do with three million dollars less this year
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than they had last year, you know. And I just
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you need to do your disclaimer if we talk about it.
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But I would just like to know what are the
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impacts to that budget cut?
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You know?
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Are we looking at reduced teacher salary or you know, uh,
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the supplements at the county page to the teachers. Are
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we looking at less bus drivers, consolidating bus routes. Are
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we looking at you know, deferred maintenance on facilities? What?
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What are we looking with?
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Something that people need to realize is this. Okay, when
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it comes to money and employees, a million dollars is
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not a lot. Let me give you an example, okay, now,
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whole County school. Of course, I'm one of the school
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board members in the school district. Okay, so I'm not
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speaking for no other board member but myself. I don't
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give my voice to anybody, but I can tell you
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I did not realize how quick funds get expended until
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you know, I've been retired from the army for a
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few days, so I forgot all that, and I did
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not realize that just on the on the top echelon
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the district itself, the board, the school board building itself,
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right there alone, you have several millions of salary for employees,
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all the.
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Employees that work work. So if you think about it,
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say you let me.
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I'm just I don't remember the amount because I've always
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said I don't get into the weets into this one.
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But let's just say that we have fifty.
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Maintenance crew. Let's say we have fifty total, okay, and
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the average salary per year, say it's thirty eight okay,
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Well you multiply that, and then because they're full employees,
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you insurance of course, the Danio you got to pay
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for that, and so that adds up very quick.
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So three million.
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Dollars in the bigger scheme of things, in my sound callous,
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but it's not.
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It's not significant. I do know this.
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One of the things that affected us is that we
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had not had our budget, the state budget approved for
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several years. We just kept getting an extension on the
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extension to the extension, and we did not have the
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North Carolina budget approve for for several years.
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It finally got approved. The governor approved it. Okay.
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So we were asking for specific pay raises for specific.
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Entities in the UH, in the school i e. Bus drivers. Okay.
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Some of that money we didn't get because the way
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it affected us. We got the pay raise, so we
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didn't get that. Now, what I do not know yet
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is that we getting that pay raise. Okay, is that
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part of that money?
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I don't that.
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I don't know, okay, But I do know that some
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of the money that we were counting on getting we
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did not get because of the state pay raise that
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state employees got, i e. The bus drivers. We were
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asking for another dollar. Uh. You know the last time,
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we asked for three dollars, and we wanted to stay
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more competitive because one of the reasons we were losing
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bus drivers is because everybody around us.
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Was paying bus drivers more.
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So we gave them a pay raise. Then we asked
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for another dollar this one last time.
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Uh. We didn't get it. That's one one thing that
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I can remember. There was some more. Let me clarify this,
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make sure that I'm trying what you're saying. So the
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school board of Hope County said Hey, we want to
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pay our bus drivers another dollar an hour. Well, then
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the state came in and said, we're going to pay
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another two dollars an hour, So therefore we're not giving
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you money for that dollar raise. So that's what we're saying.
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That's pretty much.
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That's that for that specific There were some other increases
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we asked UH that we did not get.
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It had to do with capital outlay, which means buildings build,
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and so.
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Three million dollars wasn't just like for paid racist accumulation
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of other items. And what I do recall that I
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was told was that we have to start using more
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of the lottery money that we have because every year
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we had so much money and we're not I'm not
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don't quote me on this, but we're not using it
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as efficiently as we should be using it. To get
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the full benefit of that money that's there, we don't
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have it. The counter commissioners have that money. We have
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to ask a request for it.
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We have to request it, and that's another that's another issue.
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I mean, it's designated by the state to the county
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to pass through to the scoreboard. Why would there have
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to be any request. It should be every year, here's
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your check, here's from the state.
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I have to say this, and I don't know if
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this is systemic across North Carolina, but I gotta tell
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you that county commissioners and whole county are very stinchy
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with money.
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And I don't I don't tell you something that they
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want to do.
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Yeah, I'm not necessarily I don't say that. I don't
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say that to you know, insult them or anything like that.
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But this is just a fact. But I think this
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is before my time. I think something happened in the past.
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I've heard in the past. This is way before probably
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I even got here. I don't know, because I know
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James Leach has been here for thirty plus years as
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a count commissioner. So what I heard was at one
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time the count commissions were very liberal.
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Were given the money.
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To the school board, and the money was originally appropriated
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for ABC, and then it wasn't used for that, it
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was used for other stuff. And so now we have
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a mechanism in place to where we have checks and
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balances to where we want ten dollars for this, and
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we have to come back and say, yes, we used
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it for.
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This, and you know, and that's reasonable. If there was
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malfeasance or you know, fraud or whatever in a program,
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then yes, implementing controls accountability. I mean, that's that's fine.
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But I know that the first couple of years you
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were on the school board, you guys didn't even know
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the process to request the money. And you know that.
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And you know that because when we were campaigning, we
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had a county commissioner that was campaigning with us to
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that specifically said in open forum when he was asked,
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I remember who asked them? But he said, well, we
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don't give them the money because they don't.
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Ask they don't ask for it. Yeah, and so what.
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We did when we came in we started asking if
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we did start getting money, and unfortunately, you know, what
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people don't realize is that the school district is just
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one entity that they financed. You have other areas, the
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sheriff's office. The sheriff's office his own problem trying to
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get money from the count of commissions.
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You know, they got increased one point five million this year.
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You know, And I was gonna be snarky and I
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still will. You know, you cut you cut education, you
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better increase the sheriff's department budget, and you better build
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more of those low income housing because that's what you're doing.
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You're condemning people to poverty. If you can't educate them,
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they can't get ahead of life. Lease the crime these
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to you know, low wages. So hey, I'm taking money
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and spend it somewhere on a positive node. On a
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positive node.
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Uh, you know you gotta we gotta give credit what
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credit is doing a positive node. We did have our
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our ribbon cutting up the high school. High school building, beautiful,
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beautiful building. If you attended last week, you know what
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I'm talking about. And this is all was done collaboration
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with the board, with the count commissioners and the state.
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And I'm gonna tell you this right now.
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This is the first building in whole county that when
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it's completely done, because we still got to demolish the
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back where a live areas that, you know. So the
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main building is pretty much complete. There's a little bit
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of knickknack things that have to be completed, but uh,
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if i'd I'm mistaken.
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Unless something else happens. Uh.
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School will open on the twenty fourth thing, and that's
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where the kids are gonna be at and so, uh,
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this is the first time, the first building that the
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count commissioners they're not gonna have, well the school district,
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we're not gonna have a monthly payment on it.
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It's it's completely completely paid for.
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And you got to give credit to the count commissions
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because they they put a significant, large amount of many millions.
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Of dollars you match. Yeah, yeah, so that was a.
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Very positive thing. So unfortunately it doesn't happen all the time.
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We are gonna be the school. The board is already
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planning and collaboration with the district for a new elementary
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school and that's going to take another another collaboration event.
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And can we do this again time? What's happened? Yeah,
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whether we're going to have another Uncle bill or so.
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This budget and some of the justification of cutting the
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education budget was that sales tax revenue is not projected
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to be as you know, as large this year coming up.
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I don't know why. I mean, we're build we're building
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strip malls you know, out in the wazoo out here,
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and so sales tax shouldn't be an issue, but you
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know whatever, But they did increase their discretionary funding as well,
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of course, so you know by those trips you just
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heard about the New Orleans trip, right, they go down
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and spend thirty eight thousand dollars. I think it was
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something on a trip five of them for four days
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in New Orleans. Anyway, So we got some up coming
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events this month. It is political season. August twenty first,
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from six thirty to eight with thirty Next next Friday
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out at the Rayfords Civic Center six thirty eight thirty pm,
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We're going to have a meet the Candidate event with
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doctor Ralph Carter running for North Carolina House forty eight,
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David Frump and Stephanie Carter running for County commissioner, and
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then David Danny Britt running for North Carolina State Senate.
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Well he's gonna show up, yes, yes, we'll see. And
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then following that the following Friday, on the twenty eighth,
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we are going to have a judicial candidate meeting greet
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h That is the following Friday, on the twenty eighth,
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same place, same time, six thirty eight thirty pm at
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the Rayfords Civic Center. Judge McSweeney, Superior Court judge, is
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coming to town. He's going to be a keynote speaker
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to kick off that event. We're gonna have Judge Tanner,
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Judge Namcom, and candidate Kim Davis that are all running
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for district court. Judge Beth Tanner is unopposed, so she's
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gonna you know, she's good to go. Judge Namcong has
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an opponent as well as Kim Davis. There's an opponent.
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Kim Davis is running for judge thone. I think how
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you pronounce her name? Anyway, she's hearing she's from Hope County,
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but she's in that judge seat right now. And she
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she was appointed by uh I think it was stying
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a pointed or just last year or something like that,
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but anyway, he did. Yeah, so Kim Kim is running
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against him, and they'll be there. Just come out, talk
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to them, tell them what's on your mind and ask
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questions and see kind of what their platforms are and
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what they want to do.
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And I tell you, I met all these judges there
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or one of them soon to be a judge. Hopefully
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these are great people. These are people there are really
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nonsense people. They're not you know, if you wear the shoe,
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wear it. They're now woke, right, They actually support the Constitution,
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and they don't, you know, they they know that a.
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Man is a man and a woman is a woman. Yeah. Yeah,
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and Kim and Kim although she's not a judge yet,
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she's the and a district assistant district attorney under Mike Harden.
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So the all three be there as long as judgment Sweeney.
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Everything's free. We'll have some snacks and drinks and whatever.
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Come out, spend some time talking to the candidates and
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so you can make an informed decision in November. That's
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all I have. And that's the whole thing about.
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If you are involved in voting, uh, you know, just
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don't vote across.
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Party line.
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Make an informed decision, and you know, vote on your values.
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And if you're a Marxist and you're Communists, socialist, stay home.
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Go ahead, go ahead and.
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Vote for for the left. I can't say it any
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any other way. And I know, I know that some
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Democrats that are conservative that they can't afford to change
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their affiliation because they'll lose your jobs, They'll if they
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have a business side, right, yeah, if they have a
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business they can change. I understand that.
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But in the ballot, you know, how one nobody.
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Knows Nobody knows so again, thank you very much.
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Make sure you follow us, click the like.
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If you have any topics that you want to talk
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and we'll get right on it. Until next time, Enjoy
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the rest of your week. I'm rubin cast alone.
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All right, Enjoy the rest of your summer. This is
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Chris Holland.
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