Election Day Drama and Milwaukee Brewers Parade Highlights

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle Brown here WN O V a 68 m 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real the day before the election coming off a weekend field with nothing but love for the Milwaukee Brewers. It is nothing short of busy, busy and more busy. I cannot wait.

until November. I will say November 4th. That's the day after the election. But depending on what happens, it's a whole bunch to talk about either way. You know, if we get results that a lot of people in Milwaukee County will be excited about seeing David Quali get elected, this is going to be a whole bunch to talk about.

If David Crawley is unsuccessful in getting elected, it's going to be a whole bunch to talk about. Either way, I'm probably thinking it'll be Sunday before I get some rest. So we're going to get it in gear though, get ready and get ready because tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'm telling y'all right now, I'm functioning on three hours worth of sleep as I was doing some other work.

If something come out wrong, yeah, it just is wrong this morning. Y'all send me a text and be like, Michelle, you said that wrong. But let me say good morning to the bros in the building. Well, look at the long lost stranger. Look at who the cat drug in. Oh my goodness, he still looked the same. What's going on, Clark Kent? How you doing this?

Man, it's who you were selling week this morning. I've been parking too much who you went. You all right, bro? Yeah, I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. Oh, OK, OK. Feeling better, feeling good. Feeling better? Yeah. You know, I know you was doing some dental stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so look, welcome to the club. Welcome to the club. All right, I want to say happy birthday to you.

Shots out to Dibo wife, Miss Jackie, happy birthday to you. Is Jackie's birthday? It was it was Halloween day. Oh, really? It was a Halloween. I took them out to Maji, the seafood place. Maji, the seafood place on the... Me either. Maji, something like that. I don't know. Well, belated happy birthday, Miss Jackie. I love it. I love it. That's so nice.

Did you get taken after your birthday, Jermaine? Yeah, my birthday didn't want to take me out. I mean, I'm not saying nothing. No, it didn't want to take you out. Oh, no, no. Because it didn't want to take me out. No, no. Yeah, I'm just saying. No, but two pigs in the park. I don't rest. I don't rest. I don't rest. I'm over here asking how you doing in Kerry, though.

But you know, Jackie deserve it. I don't know why Dimo got to go. Jackie deserve it. No, I don't. I don't. Let me move around because, you know, I'm about to be salty about this dinner thing. What's going on with you right now? How you doing today, sir? I'm doing pretty good. I can't complain. You know, the sun is out, so I got to look energy out early. I've had some good days.

Round 430 is when it's going in. I've had some kills to climb. I asked a question. Why? Why do we got to set the clocks back and forth? Why? It confuses me.

It makes no sense. Do we really know what time it is? Do we really know what day it is? What about folks DI? She's going to send me something. I said, oh, I just love this. Because you just wake up feeling refreshed. Girl, I ain't been asleep. I am sleeping. My eyes is burning right now. I need two pics to hold them open. She's about waking up refreshed. That time changed. You kill me every time. Every time. Every time. Every time. Listen, and then we changed the time.

Don't know what time it is. You don't know what time it is. Cuz. At least your phone automatically changed. The only thing you got to do is get around your house. If you have a high phone, like some of your colleagues have a flip phone, so theirs don't change. They got a manually change. Hey, nobody manually change at no time. Oh, now she gonna text somebody. It benefits me. That's right selfish. It benefits me.

What'd you say you over slept? Oh really? Time went back. I like oh, you thought you over slept yesterday or today when time went back that was yesterday that was what did you oversleep for yesterday? Oh, okay. No, no You coming on Sunday morning. Yeah, so he don't even know what

I don't think that has anything to do with daylight. He might still be on that medication from that from that dentist trip. He may still be Sorry, let me get into this show this morning. First of all, let me say

It was a pleasure to meet so many people yesterday out at Midtown. There were folks coming in to vote. We signed up. We, meaning members of Delta Semitheta Sorority and Dr. LaKeisha Myers representing.

I don't know who she was out there because she in like five groups aka's the links the yo mama's mama I don't I mean she's just in a whole bunch of groups, but she was out. Oh, she had her aka jacket on yesterday So we were out there. We joined 100 women on the move to greet people that were coming in from Seoul to the polls and a big collaboration Paso Lanier was out there Micah different organizations had come together to

You know, just cheer on people that were coming out to vote on that last day of early in-person voting. And they came in by the bus loads, yellow school buses was pulling up. One of the bros jumped off the bus. He is a listener to the show. He and I got to take a photo together. Mr. Anderson pulled up on us.

Uh, sitting in the car, he was doing curbside voting. And, uh, we just got to meet a lot of people yesterday, uh, that listened to the show. So I just want to say thank you. It was so funny. Like my back was turned talking to people and I heard his brother say, I'm sure Brian. I was like, uh, yes, sir, that would be me. And he was like, uh, yes.

I know that voice anywhere. So it was really, really cool. The organizers great that they had the African drummers were there, you know, so you had that.

beating that pulsating sound, just amping people up as they were getting off the bus. So many people were in line. Sister Jeanette Herrera out there working, doing her thing, just making sure that everybody felt appreciated and valued. And so to my sorrows that were locked arms, making sure we were doing everything we could that last day, I just want to say it was cool. And I appreciate the organizers who put it all together.

We saw folks out there from the National Council of Negro Women, folks who are out there from the League of Women Voters, saw Sister Faith Colis out there. So it was just a ton, a ton of people that was out there doing a thing. So I just wanted to say I appreciated the opportunity to do that. Let me back up pre-Sunday early in-person voting and go to the Brewer celebration that took place on Friday.

I'm assuming you brothers was at work. I didn't get to go right. Oh, I got a chance to go. Did you get a chance to go? Yes, ma'am. After I left from here, I got stuck down there. It was cracking. Listen, the city was upside down. I mean, they said the numbers were so like record breaking numbers in terms of people who were there. I was saying people I never saw before. I feel like this. Every county was happy. Good. Yeah. I mean, people from up north.

I just want to be clear that they are still trying to get the numbers, but we've heard numbers like 400,000 people. And some cases, the numbers have been estimated to be higher, but city officials, they're consistently saying that it was about 400.

thousand people that were at the Brewers Parade and the Brewers players. I mean, it was out high fiving people, you know, taking selfies. When I say they straight kicked it, they straight kicked it. These people had a ball and.

you know, I'm just happy for the team. And they carried it over. They went, some of the Brewers went trick-or-treating in Wauwatosa. People was going to their door. You're here to go doorbell ding dong. And people was opening the doors and it was Brewers players at the door saying about trick-or-treat. I'm like, oh my God. Yeah, that was super cool. That was super cool. I know this morning they got a bunch of folks have already gotten in line so that they could

get autographs from the Brewers players outside of Raising Canes. I think it's on the west side of town, but it has just been like they have demonstrated like why people love them and why people showed up for them. And we're so happy to see them win the championship.

Yeah, I've seen that number two and they've been trying to like, you know kind of rain it in because yep I know Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They said over 750,000 at the Brewers World Series Parade So that you know, we so that number that number is somewhere. Let's just say between 400,000 and 800,000 people, you know people and and I just want to say this I want to say this because

There was a post that got a ton of attention. Okay. And let me just pull it up real quick. Uh, you know, it's always one or two. So there was a post. Okay. So there was a post that said by a guy named Greg. Bustle B. U. T.

And in his post, he said, go brewers. Now you can see why we have a city and county run by black people. They're having a parade at 10 a.m. on a Friday. Packers play Thursday. It would make more sense to have the parade on Sunday. A black people don't know baseball.

Know how to shoot people why people I guess the only people Not working are black people on Fridays just saying go brewers out of town Don't bring any valuables to Milwaukee because your car will be broken into by the black people not working. So don't plan I'm bringing bunches of black people

in my neighborhood because I'm only handing candy out to white people whose parents have jobs and had to take Friday off. And so this was posted by this guy. And there was some concern that he was a Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputy.

Well folks ended up finding out that he was not in Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputy. He worked at CRC And he is retired So and you know, that's a community reintegration center, but he is retired I guess he retired like back in 2024 So that was one thing I wanted to make sure I cleared up is that a

He didn't he's not in walkie county share. He worked for CRC to The city of Milwaukee as in the chef as in the mayor Chevy Didn't set the time and day for the Brewers parade. That was the Brewers choice That was the Brewers choice

to the ignoramus who posted that. That was the brewer's choice to do it on Friday. And evidently, it must be a whole bunch of white folks that ain't got no jobs that came down on Friday because we're saying the numbers were between 400,000 and 750,000, 800,000 people. You see how you can take something as incredible as a hometown celebration.

and put your poison on it, your spit on it, your spit on it, and just dirty up the whole thing. People had a ball. People interacted, but nobody's scared of nobody. Everything, every, you know, pictures, and I wasn't there. I couldn't be there, but.

I mean, it's absolutely. It was exactly what you expected the celebration to be. So, A, I'm so glad that the ignorant Greg Bush or whatever, however you spell his name, B-U-T-S-C-H-L-E, I'm glad that everybody proved you wrong. And next time, talk about what you know, not what you think.

What you think that's that you thought black people the city leaders decided when the Brewers was gonna have a celebration I Just I was so frustrated when I heard it all Yeah, I mean because it Because it's crazy man It's crazy and then we got to figure out a way to bring your racism into a conversation about a baseball celebration Which we didn't and I want to be clear why you to my black folks black folks help pay for that stadium

Yeah. Thank you. Whether you see us in all of them stands or not, we got our hands all on that. Yeah. Right. If you think we don't have nothing to do and we don't know about baseball, we can go all the way back to the Negro leagues. Like when I tell you I got hot just reading about it, that this ignorant individual thought like y'all got the market on baseball. It's records right now in terms of the statue page and some of the baddest boys to come through the game.

that didn't get respected for a long time. I thought about, I saw Dennis Biddle from the Negro Leagues at the Freedom Fund dinner for the NAACP. And when he like spoke to me and he was walking by, I said to a young person that was standing next to me, I said, do you know who that is? And they were like, no. And I said, that's Mr. Dennis Biddle from the Negro Leagues. And they were like, what's that? Literally said, what's that? And so when I got done walking it back and explaining it,

and breaking it down and then talked about the fight to be able to get retirement or pension plans for some of the black players who didn't get anything. Man, come on. So just the idea that somebody is so ignorant that they thought somebody said, what's his name again? Look, let me copy the, I'll copy the text. Oh, and if you go, so you can, it's like, I got a screenshot of it on my phone.

But the post that since been taken down. Yeah, the post that since been taken down. But yeah, but I just wanted to definitely clear up that he is not a Milwaukee County Sheriff's officer and he is actually no longer employed. He is retired. But.

uh you know I just had to I because too many people hit me up about that and was like did you see this post did you see this post and I made a couple phone calls to try to get to the bottom of it I'm appreciative of the folks that got back to me with the information and they were like yeah no no no it's not a Milwaukee County share so

Kudos, kudos, kudos to the brewers, to everything that went on with the celebration. If you had an opportunity to go down and you want to let us know what it was like for you, please feel free to call in this morning. We got a caller. Let me catch them before I go to break. Hey, caller, what's happening?

Good morning, what's going on bootlegger? How you doing this morning?

Yeah, I was there and I went to the first humanitarian church around the corner. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've been there. I picked up the booklet that is about Bronzeville Center for Arts. Okay. And I was living over that way. Okay. So the booklet says September 24th, it was February 26th. I just got to find out just how much it cost to go in there.

but it's about the Black, Milwaukee Black Arts movement. And also yesterday, we, I proceeds went to kinship, you know. And so this Sunday's coming, I'll be able to donate more on my, you know, what's that call when you get money to the church, you know, because I'm surprised that they catch on fire when I went in. All right. I had a wonderful day. I didn't do much because I have to wait till the day to take my rent and smoke by my phone.

I got a Ux jersey for you. No, I'm out of that business. She said she out of the business. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, I got real phone Thursday while you was out partying too. Get him, Solis. Get him, Solis. I didn't even bring it up. Look, I can depend on the crew. All right, Solis.

Thank you, sis. All right. You know what? Too much, too much, too much. All right. Let me take my first break of the morning. When we come back, we'll talk about these early vote numbers. At this point, there is no voting today. You will have no early voting into yesterday. Really? Yes. You have to wait now to vote in person at the polls tomorrow. And the crazy thing about it, they will say it's supposed to rain. So they were saying that it might detour like all over the country.

Well, let's let's hope that, you know, folks have an umbrella and come on. You know, it rain is the big and I know. So at least Adeline, tell me, tell you happy birthday. I know that, you know, we frequently talk about how rain can, you know, impact voter turnout and engagement.

But it's just so much worse that people have gone through to be able to vote. We can deal with some water and in the time when we have cars and can jump out and jump in unless you are on the bus and even then you can call souls to the polls to get a ride to get dropped right off at the front door. So if you can't drive in the rain tomorrow for some reason, we'll make sure that you have the number of souls to the polls. You can give them a call and.

and get get a ride. All right, let me check. I wanna go outside.

You mess up every day. We'll be right back, y'all. There's a whole big chapter in black history that until recently wasn't even widely taught in the curriculum of the state that it took place in. It's amazingly disheartening just how many stories like this there are. This is the story of the Okoi Election Day massacre. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on February 3rd, 1870. It gave African-American men the right to vote. By Election Day 1920, it had been legal for almost 50 years.

But many black citizens still didn't exercise their right to vote out of the very valid fear of retribution. Those fears came true in Okowi, Florida on November 2, 1920, when the sun set that day, it became the most violent day in American election history. Okowi at the time was the home to some 255 African American residents and 560 white residents.

according to the 1920 census. On November 1st, Klu Klux Klan members marched in roads, carrying crosses, and threatening violence if any black men attempted to vote in Ocoe. All workers challenged whether African-American voters were really even registered. The voters had to prove they were registered by appearing before the Notre Republic R.C. Bigelow, who was regularly sent on fishing trips so that he was impossible to find.

But African-American Mos Norman, who was a prominent landowner, chose to exercise his democratic right anyway. When Norman approached the polls, a crowd was at the entrance to threaten and stop any blacks from casting votes. Determined to cast his vote, Norman left. Norman contacted Judge John Cheney, who informed Norman that interference with voting was illegal, and told him to write the names of the African-Americans who were denied their constitutional right.

as well as the names of the whites who were violating them. Norman then returned to the polls with a group of black citizens demanding to vote, but they again were turned away. A fight started. Norman had a shotgun with him when he returned, and it is not clear whether Norman's shotgun was stolen from his car while attempting to vote or was physically taken from him, but whites at the polls drove off Norman using his own shotgun. Norman retreated to the home of his friend, civil rights activist Julius July Perry.

leaving the white mob enraged. The armed white mob was on its way to Norman's home when someone informed them that their target had been seen at the home of July Perry. The mob, then numbering about 100 men, arrived at Perry's house, demanding that Perry and Norman surrender. They questioned Perry in a gunfight ensued. Perry, who had been warned about the mob, fired gunshots from inside the home in self-defense. Exactly how many people were defending the house is unclear. The whites estimated that there were several armed African Americans.

Sam Salisbury, the former police chief from Orlando, knocked on the back door and it was open and he was shot in the arm, becoming the first white casualty. Two other whites, Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, were killed when they also tried to enter through the back door. Their bodies were later found in the backyard. The white mob withdrew and put out calls for reinforcements to whites in Orlando, Apopka and Orange County.

either calling them by phone or sending for them by car. During the two to three hour lull while the whites were recruiting other men, Joe I Perry injured in the conflict but attempted to flee with the help of his wife into the team patch. He was found by the white mob at dawn and arrested. After Perry was treated at a hospital for his wounds, he was taken by a white mob from the vehicle that he was being transferred to the jail in. They lynched him and they left his body hanging from a telephone pole beside the highway. Norman was never found.

Much of the trouble was attributed to outsiders from Wintergarden and Orlando. Sam Salisbury, that former police chief of Orlando, later proudly bragged about his part in the events. With the reinforcement of some 200 men, the white mob took the massacre to the rest of the African-American community in northern Okawe. The white parliamentary forces surrounded the northern Okawe Black community and laid siege to it. They set fire to rows of African-American houses. Those inside were forced to flee and many were shot. At least 20 buildings were burned in total, including

every African-American church, schoolhouse, and lodger room in the vicinity. African-American residents fought back in an evening-long gunfight, which lasted until at latest 4 or 45 a.m. Their firearms were later found in the ruins after the massacre ended. Eventually, Black residents were driven into the nearby Orange groves at Swamps.

forced to retreat until they were driven out of town. The fleeing sought refuge in the surrounding woods or in the neighboring towns of Wintergarden and Apopka, which had substantial populations of African-Americans. The siege of Okawe claimed numerous African-American victims. Langmaid and African-American carpenter was beaten and castrated. Maggie Benlach and her pregnant daughter died while hiding in their home.

Their bodies were found partially burned underneath it. Roosevelt Barton, an African-American hiding in July Perry's barn, was shot after the mob set fire to the barn and forced him to flee. Patty Smith was visiting her pregnant sister-in-law in Okoe when her sister-in-law's home was set on fire. Smith fled, but her sister-in-law's family was killed when they hid and waited for help that never came. The African-American residents of Southern Okoe, while not direct victims of the massacre, were later threatened and believing. Annie Hammeter, an African-American woman residing in Southern Okoe.

believed that the massacre was planned so that the whites could seize the property of prosperous African-Americans for nothing. According to Hammeter, people in southern Okoe were coerced by the threat of being shot and burned out if they did not sell out and leave. About 500 African-Americans in total were rapidly driven out of Okoe, resulting in its population being nearly all white. That fall, white residents had to work to harvest the citrus crop because the black laborers had sled the region. No African-American residents settled there again until 61 years later in 1981.

And it wasn't until 2020 that Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that actually included the Ocoe Election Day massacre in the Florida curriculum. All right, family. So we wanted to make sure that as we talk about all the many reasons why we as African Americans need to cast a vote, there are people that would like to tell us that history does not matter.

that or that not that it doesn't matter, but that was then and this is now. We got to go to a break, but I just want to acknowledge that this happened in 1920. The man that I talk about that's been one of the most influential people in my life, my grandfather, he was born in 1913. So my grandfather was six years old when this was happening, seven years old when this was happening in in Florida.

So this is this is my grandfather's lifetime What did they say That they saw it as an opportunity for a land grab of some of the wealthiest more prosperous black folks in in that area and That we don't come back for 60 something years And and there will be people that don't understand why you need to get a fofio behind and go cast a ballot I mean

It just does not get any easier than it is today, even with all of the roadblocks that they have put up. But if the roadblock is, I got to get ID. And then you got some thoughtful legislators who figured out a way. Can we get the ID for free for voting? I got to have proof of residence. I got to have this versus somebody asking you to prove your citizenship. Oh, wait, that's what Donald Trump was trying to do for this election.

people threatening you, any black man that shows up to vote, you will be killed. And people still making a decision that we were gonna, we were gonna go vote. And what did they say? That these black people fought, they fought, physically fought. You know, we tell people fight the power, fight back. We talking about, you know, marching and going to vote and showing up and, you know, overwhelming the polls.

literally talking about a physical fight for your life. In which you, your family members, you have the ability to actually die. There's no excuse. There's no excuse. There's no excuse. There's no excuse. But see, if many of us told our history.

and passed it down on a regular basis. The kids that's sitting in these classrooms, that's about to turn 17, 18, they will understand why voting is not something that, you know, you just, I may do it, I may not do it. They would, but we don't, they don't know. They don't know. What did they say? It wasn't until 2020 that this is coming off of George Floyd. It's not until 2020 that the state of Florida

includes this history in the in the books. It's not to 2020. Let me take a break. I'll be right back. All right, family, welcome back to the show. So we are going to talk early voting numbers. We got a call coming in this morning from candidate for our lieutenant governor, none other than our current secretary of state, Sarah Gottluske. We've got a caller that's been on hold. So let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening?

Hello, I'm good. How are you doing this morning? It was wonderful. I mean, I had a great time. People were nice. Um, we went out to, um, see the fray. But then we went back in because they said after 100,000 people, they were going to close the gate now. But every stage had a big screen that you can see and take pictures off your screen. It was wonderful. The thing they didn't have for me.

They didn't have about one coffee place over there, and you couldn't hardly get coffee. It was so long of a line early in the morning. It was loads of beer stands for those that want a beer at 8.33 in the morning. 8.33 in the morning, didn't the beer? It is Wisconsin, baby. It is Wisconsin. Yeah, and broccoli and all the food that you would get at a baseball game. It was wonderful. Family, and the playground was so big, the building inspector would have closed them down with so many kids out there, but they were calm and peaceful.

The only thing I didn't see, which I don't ever expect to see in this part of the universe at all, is black people.

No black kids, the schools were out, I'm sure, and the black teachers out there. I could count them on my hand, that's kind of sad. And then I was with several people, the black and white, you know, I wrote with a lot of people. And then another friend of mine, she's Asian, she said, let's start counting the Asian people. So we started looking up to see who we could see that was Asian. You know, I wanted to see more of us, but I shouldn't expect that, you know, I just didn't see more of us. But if I go to the FISA and they have the watch party, I see a lot of us, but I didn't see more lady black kids or any black adults of the ages.

Kathy, it was plenty black people down there. I was down there was cracking. Okay. Some of us was not. I was in there for eight hours. I was in the summerfest ground too. So I did the parade and went into the summerfest ground. It was a lot of black people down here. I'm not, I'm not going to buy this. I know you don't have to argue.

It was a whole bunch of black people down there, a whole bunch. And I mean, you also got taken to consideration that all the 400,000 people hang on with 400,000 people being on the grounds.

your view is only so wide, you know, because that's one of the things that I have definitely learned to appreciate about the summerfest grounds. We would leave the summerfest grounds and stuff would have occurred, and we had no idea that it had even gone on. I walked the whole grounds and stuff. I'm just saying that it wasn't enough that I felt personally, but I walked the whole grounds, I stood in line, and I'm not saying anything bad about it. We don't do a lot of stuff from January.

why we were having things for our children. Some kids never seen a baseball, a whole of the baseball before, a glove, black or white in the school. So that was a good moment. Then they're saying, I know what I see. I was over there with the kids playing around, too. I know what I see. It wasn't enough that I felt the amount of people that was here in places that were closing for their families to go down at the last minute.

especially when the schools are out. But I expect certain things not to happen anyway. That's just what it is, nothing personal. It's just what happens. It's like, when I go out on campus and campaign, we know who'd be out there who don't. The union suspects, I see it all these events getting free stuff, black. I was on a campaign thing yesterday, I didn't go to Reuben Hoppos's event. I went out and I did some chemistry. We don't donate to a lot of stuff. And that's just me. So make a comment if you want to.

But that's just, that's me. It always will be me. I know what I'm talking about. I can't count. Okay. I know what I'm talking about. And so you can say there's a ton of black people. I'm going to tell you something. There weren't even 300 black people out there. Okay. Let me, let me stop you. Let me stop you. Because I mean, no, Kathy, because seriously, because you can't, you can't, Kathy, Kathy, thank you for the call. Thank you. Thank you for the call. Because

You know, you can't just get on here and say stuff like it's an absolute. There wasn't 300. They just said it was upwards to 750,000 people out there and you go get on the radio with all the confidence of Jesus and say.

It wasn't 300 black people out there. You ain't see everybody man. And everybody that went to the parade didn't go to the summerfest grounds. Listen. Like, come on. Yo, listen. It was so many black people. I have a ton of black people. It was so many black people to where I was at. It was so many.

Black. Maybe he was in the black section. I don't know. But then after we ended up going to the summerfest ground and when the Brewers was on stage, it was black people everywhere. I was inside of the Marcus M Theater. I'm saying black people. I saw mother. Yeah, she was there. She was there. I saw black people everywhere. So.

Maybe Kat, the eyes was messed up or something. Well, I'm just gonna say this. I'm sure on scale is not the same kind of representation. But the first thing I would tell people like, you know, number one, we only are 6% of the state's population. That's number one. We are outnumbered by white people like 90%. Or no, it's like, I think that the entire white population for the state of Wisconsin is like 89% white, 87% white.

So that's number one. If you think about us in proportion to the number of white people in the state, we are seven percent of the entire state. We get full living in Milwaukee. We're seven percent. And so it was a reason for people to party. Schools was closed. Jobs was closed early. I'm telling you.

I saw so many black, I was saying familiar faces. That's what I'm like I said, people everywhere. What I wanted to just stop is that literally we go say definitively there were not more than 300 black people. Like you can't tell nobody, you saw all 400,000 people down there. Or you saw all 750,000 people at the parade. And then, you know, and then, but this is a thing too, and then to carry that over into.

Everything else we don't do. We don't donate the campaigns. We don't do this. We don't do this I am on a call with a group called win with black women and watched us raise hundreds of thousands of dollars just 2,500 black women 30,000 black women when Kamala Harris was running 1500 black women on a call of the night and And Kisha Lance bottoms is on there. You know when I said I was at midtown

The majority of the people out there that was cheering black people on the vote and doing the voter engagement, they was black people. So it's where you are that can also tell a difference. When we talked about the buses that was over by Greater New Birth Church, it was all black people that was out voting. I mean, knocking doors and canvassing two weeks ago. Those were all black people. I've delivered canvassing materials to all black people. We get them and we make sure everybody else has them.

So we got to be careful when we do generalizations and stereotypes because depending on where you are, you may see one thing, but I'm telling you as somebody that's been on the ground, doing a lot of stuff that the majority, overwhelming majority of people, I'm going to say 98% that I've dealt with have all been black people that have been engaged in GLTV efforts. You want to say something? Yeah. And just because you don't see it, that don't mean that it's not happening.

You know, it's it's a lot of stuff that we don't see but there are people that are on the ground that are moving and shaking stuff up to get this election Across the finish line also with you know people down at the parade You're not gonna see everybody because the sex of you in It's it's a few people that surround but it's so many people

On the grounds, you're not going to be able to walk through. You ain't even going to be able to count everybody that's down there because there's so many people. I just, like I said, we just got to be careful about over generalizations and what it is that we say. Let me take a quick break. We'll be right back. Michelle Bride, WNLV, 86CAM. Hold on. Let me make sure. Because, hold on, things are kind of... OK. Well, while you do that. So let me get these numbers real quick.

about Jermaine is let me know if I'm going to a commercial break or not. So as a Friday morning, okay, the county totals from the Wisconsin election commissions show that statewide 693,334 absentee ballots had come in, which was about 50,000 votes more than at the same time in 2022.

What we also understand is that they reported receiving 300,000 mail-in ballots compared to 384,000. Those came in the mail.

It was a 20% drop of how many ballots were returned by mail from people who requested an absentee ballot. You know what that number did though? It flipped from the people who turned them in by mail to the people who walked those ballots into the polling location. It went from 259,000 in 2022 to 394,000 in 2026. More than a 50% increase.

People heard what folks were saying about how they may be playing games with some of these ballots. And I was listening to the news this morning and they were actually talking about the fact that there are some cities that are saying that their absentee ballots is going to be a problem. That some of them ballots may not get counted. They may not get there in time. There may be some issues or some challenges. Think about that. We doubled that number.

I mean, I doubled it, but we took that number by 50%. So I will check the in-person numbers. But when I say that.

People have been showing up and have been putting into work and have been doing what they needed to We we we looking fairly good y'all we looking fairly good. Let me take a break. I'll be right back Good morning. Good morning. Welcome back to the show for folks that are just now joining us We are in the second hour of say something real and I am Looking forward to talking to the young lady that is on the phone right now She is our current secretary of state and she is actually

to be the lieutenant governor of the state of Wisconsin. None other than Sarah Godlowski. Hey Sarah. Hey Michelle, it's so good to be here with you this morning. How are you? How's it going? Oh my gosh. Well, I will tell you, I think things could not be going better because when you look at, David and I have now traveled over 15,000 miles across Wisconsin and yeah, we enjoyed it.

Watching the Brewers bring home a world series. Is that like this is awesome? Yeah, it really does not get a lot better than that I would tell you if you got to be tired and on a bus tour But to have that kind of motivation and understanding, you know folks are fighting it out and bringing home that victory That's got to be huge. But you know, I'm telling you and I just need to say this I have not talked to you this entire campaign This is the first time this is the first time that I have talked to you

since you announced you were for Lieutenant Governor. So and I would be offended, but because I talked to you so much as Secretary of State, I'm like, it's OK. But for folks that don't understand why you made the decision to run for Lieutenant Governor versus the seat that you currently hold, take a second and talk about that. Yeah, I mean, I am honored to be the Secretary of State for Wisconsin, but I didn't run for that role.

That's right. Appointed by Evers at the first time, right? Yeah, so I was appointed by Governor Evers when the former Secretary of State, Douglas Follett, had unexpectedly resigned. And so, you know, when you get a call from the governor asking to serve, it's an honor, right? So I stepped up and did this role. But for me, I kind of

fashion has always been about how can we help folks with issues like economic security and affordability and how can I best do that? And the Secretary of State's role is not focused on that. It's more of the Chief Operating Officer for the state. And so when Governor Evers and then Sarah Rodriguez were no longer running, I was like, I want to step up and run for Lieutenant Governor because as you know,

daughter of two public school teachers I worked at Pizza Hut like you know my first job to kind of make my way um and so I'm really grateful for the things that Wisconsin has given me but I know that we can do better in a lot of ways and that's why I'm running for Lieutenant Governor. So

You know, here when we talk about the way our elected officials run for these executive level positions in the state of Wisconsin, it's a little bit different in other places. And you don't, you know, we don't have the ability to split a ticket so you don't end up with a Republican, you know, lieutenant governor and a Democratic governor kind of situation. But sometimes people see these as very independent campaigns. Where is it that you and David align?

in terms of vision for the state of Wisconsin? Well, I think I think it's a really good point, Michelle, that Wisconsin is unique because in some states you run completely separate as governor and lieutenant governor or in a lot of other states, the governor actually gets to pick their lieutenant governor. But in Wisconsin, Mary and then. For the general.

So there is no way that Tom, Tiffany, Sarah, Godly combination could exist, which Michelle, I think my lucky stars for that one every single day. All of us do. All of us do. And so then, you know, so you still got to figure out how to make this thing work. We've seen some great partnerships in terms of these roles and and where you in

The county executive aligned. What does that look like? Well, I think that's what's been so great is that David and I are true partners and in every sense, right? We are a product of Wisconsin public schools. We are raising two young kids and Michelle, we actually brought them on the bus, which you can imagine having two six year olds

and an eight-year-old on the bus, and they're like, are we there yet? What are we doing? Where are we going? So knowing about what it takes to make sure your kids have lunches for school and the cost of school supplies, all of that is real for us. And David and I are really kind of honed in, Michelle, on this affordability agenda.

Because look, I mean, you look at school shopping alone, prices were so high. Michelle, I mean, think about at the gas station. And what makes me so mad is when you look at Tom Tiffany, I mean, he's supported this one with Iran. That's raising our gas prices when he doesn't even need to. I mean, he's just in the pockets of these billionaires and wealthy corporations.

that's like not the Wisconsin. David and I believe in and we are fighting for a Wisconsin where regardless of who you are or where you come from, you should have opportunities not just to survive in this state, but to truly thrive here in Wisconsin. So I want to just take a second because you know you mentioned it in your opening when you talked about the role of Secretary of State, traditionally what it had been, the way you kind of re-envision what your work should be or could be and

I know that when Lena Taylor was Senator Taylor, huge fan of the work that was being done out of your office in relationship to investments and just what was able to be done even with schools and communities in a way that had not been envisioned before.

In thinking about the Lieutenant Governor's role, have you been thinking about what that could look like in terms of some of your work? Yeah, I mean, I think for starters, but let's see if I can go back to that. It was Senator Taylor and I, when COVID happened, folks didn't have access to their banks. And this was particularly true for communities of color.

And then when Black small businesses were struggling, the PPP program, they weren't getting the money they needed because they didn't have relationships with banks in the way that they were getting the fair treatment that they deserved. And so I was really glad to work with Senator Taylor, now Judge Taylor, to address those issues. And that's kind of where my background comes from, Michelle. So maybe just to kind of set listeners with that.

I got started and financed by working to provide access to capital, particularly for women and communities of color. Because we were seeing how the amount of money Silicon Valley was getting in one day is what Wisconsin was getting in an entire year to support our small businesses. And furthermore, despite black women being one of the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs,

in the entire country, they were getting less than 0.001% of that access to capital, Michelle. And that's wrong. We need to be supporting our black women who are starting businesses and supporting their families. And so to me, that's kind of where I'm grounded in my financial background.

how we need to make sure that there is an equal playing field for folks to succeed. So as we are in this final stretch, and like you said, you guys have covered 15,000 miles. And I think that's just officially what's been logged. I know there was tons of groundwork being done before maybe we even started actually keeping track of all of this. You and you're from Eau Claire.

What have you heard when you've been out? I'm interested in enthusiasm levels. I'm interested in what folks are saying are the key issues for them. I know affordability. It is topping the scale. I don't care what part of the state you are in. And in this case, even the country, but directly from somebody who's been moving and I'm seeing the press schedules come out. You guys are, I thought I saw two locations you'll be in today. What are you hearing as you are moving around the state?

Well, let me show you one of my well first of all when you I guess apparently put 15,000 miles out on the map. That's like going to Shanghai and back again One of my Stop has been David and I did a joint northern swing in northern Wisconsin and I remember sharing with David like

Look, where the Wisconsin isn't known for being this big, democratic stronghold. I mean, it's Tom Tiffany's backyard, Michelle. And where are we talking? Give us a couple of cities or places. So we were in Superior, Ashland, and then Rhinelander. So Superior and Ashland are on Lake Superior. And then Rhinelander is just a little further south on the northeastern part of the state.

We roll up to Rhinelander and there's all these people in the parking lot, Michelle. And I look at David and I go, clearly a water main broke. Like I don't know why there's so many people outside. And the organizer for the event, Michelle, comes up to David and I and he goes, we have so many people who have showed up that we broke fire codes. So we're going to have to do this rally right outside.

basically in the parking lot of the building. No. OK, that's impressive. That's because I just wanted people to understand the region. I wanted them to know where you were. I've done campaigning statewide. It can be tough in some neck of the woods around, you know, the state in terms of that whole blue red thing and, you know, Republican strongholds. So to see that, that had to be pretty encouraging. Yeah, it was.

It was awesome. It was awesome. It was awesome. And I think what we are experiencing on the trail and I was saying Michelle, this is not something that I have experienced like this before. And I have been a two time statewide official.

you know, as state treasurer and secretary of state and what has been different is how Republicans are coming to me. They're seeking me out, Michelle, and they are saying we are done with this Republican agenda and that is forgetting about us and we are voting for you and David. Wow. You know, I am going to say I have had some conversations with some folks that have surprised me on some level because

you know, from the Fannie Lou Hamer school, eventually everybody gets sick and tired of nausea. Everybody, I mean,

Even though, you know, for some Republicans, it felt like everything was going their way. You know, we got a guy in here championing our causes. But then you began to realize this is costing me money. It's costing me labor. It's costing, you know, me, my home. Farmers have lost businesses around the country. Like you said, the price of gas. When you start to factor all these things in, you realize, yeah, this is not working. Whatever I thought this was going to be, this is not it.

This is not. And so that's the thing. And that's the thing that gives me hope because you kept sitting back going. How are people continuing to support this madness? And so to hear that, that gives that gives great hope. So OK, so this is it. Final stretch. You guys are aware today in the state. So we're spending our time in southeastern Wisconsin. So we're going to be and we're seeing.

Kenosha and then we end today with a big rally in David's hometown where your listeners are in Milwaukee, which is going to be awesome. All right. So look, we will make sure that we got folks on the ground here to support welcome you guys in for the final stretch. Good luck to you all tomorrow. Have you voted already?

Oh, Michelle, I am voting tomorrow morning. So I like to vote on election day. So I want to encourage people. I think that's a really good point, Michelle. Like one of the things we know is folks have gotten absentee ballot. If you have gotten them, please drop them off at the clerk's office or ask somebody to take you to the clerk's office or call our campaign because with the way mail is working these days, we just don't want to take any risks.

Nope, and we've been talking about that. More people have brought, returned their mailing ballots in person this year. That number went up by 50%. So we have been encouraged that people are getting the word. We've been saying that after the 20th, we were like, hey.

Don't don't don't mail it. Take it in. Take it in. Take it in. And so, you know, people across the state are heeding that and we appreciate that. So I will do this, Sarah. I will get out of the way. Hopefully tomorrow we will see a celebration that is.

you know, on on scale with the brewers. It's just knocking on one knocking on one in terms of excitement and hope and change. But thank you. Thank you for making time for the listeners this morning. Continue, you know, just campaign success and.

engaging people, but we are at that. We are here. The moment has arrived. So now it's time to see if all that hard work has paid off. So thank you. Thank you so much. And we look forward to talking to you again.

All right now. All right, family. That was none other than Miss Sarah Godlowski, current Secretary of State who was running for the Lieutenant Governor's seat. If elected, she and David will work hand in hand. You know, the governor typically crafts the the the agenda.

For the way the office will move as a policy unit, but make no mistake that lieutenant governor if you got the right person in office can Be the person that that you know makes life so much easier is a partner in the work and Sarah and when I was talking about she ran for office what I meant to say was you know, she had run for the US Senate

in that twenty twenty two election in which Mandela was running and her and Alex Lazarie. They were all running. I have said this repeatedly about Sarah Gottluske every single time that I have had her on the show or I have an opportunity to talk about her, which is that one of the smartest, one of the brightest people that has held these these offices. Genuinely decent person.

genuinely a hard worker. I mean, literally, can outwork folks in her sleep. And so, you know, I am glad to see her potentially, you know, about to be the next Lieutenant Governor because that just means that the people of Wisconsin would benefit so much because you would have an administration in which

Both the governor and the lieutenant governor show up for all the right reasons not about self gratification self glory Titles and and what you know what this means for me That lady showed up every day in her role as secretary of state trying to figure out how to make life better for Wisconsinites When and that that whole piece on the bank real quick before I go to break that that started with a phone call from a listener to me

to say, Hey, Michelle, we can't go to the bank and get access to our money because some banks, when you were, uh, when, when COVID happened, you could only go through the drive through and they would limit what you could take out of the bank. But it was like, wait a minute.

If I can't come in and take out 2000 in person with a teller, how are you restricting me to my steal my $500 that you can get normally? I mean, it was so many different things that were happening and some banks completely closed some of their locations. And so people had to go all the way to the south side to get to the bank. And this was a call to Lena and then from Lena to Sarah and then the balls get rolling and that got fixed ASAP.

They were on the phone with the national officers of these banks. Like, no, sir, we're not going to do this. And it was mostly impacting communities of color. That's what kind of work when she was talking about those, but those calls initiated and were originated with people from this listener audience who was hitting us up and letting us know we run into these problems. Responsive leaders. I got to take a break. I'll be right back.

All right, family, welcome back to the show. So let's take a second. We got to talk about it. We got to talk about it. We got to talk about it while it did not happen in Wisconsin. There are some things we definitely need to pay attention to over in Michigan. We saw a sitting member of Congress, a Democrat who was running for. The seat that she was unsuccessful in the primary.

bid against El Said. Well, OK, let me let me let me pull it together so I can have this conversation. So. This woman, Hailey Stevens. A current sitting member, Democratic Democrat member of the US House of Representatives.

who was running for the U.S. Senate and she was running against Abdul El Said. She lost in the primary to him and has never really quite gotten over it. But a number of prominent Democrats have tried to broker, you know, a way forward like, look, we trying to get control of the U.S. Senate.

And we need this this guy is going to be the candidate and we need to move forward and try to get him elected because we got bigger fish to fry. OK. She had agreed to support him. And had said, though, that there were some conditions. OK. So Congresswoman Dingle.

and Congressman Jim Clyburn, who was actually just in Wisconsin a couple of days ago, brokered this deal for El Said to be at a church and she was going to join him at said church as a show of unity and whatever. But she had these conditions. She wanted him to denounce this group and to do this and to do this. And at some point, El Said said, man, I'm not doing all of that.

I'm just I'm not doing all of that because you're asking me to down stuff that I don't have anything to do with. And it's all kinds of ignorant stuff that gets done and said by people and nobody's making these demands on them. And he didn't do it. And, you know, he was like, and if she won't come, she'll want to come. It's whatever. So she decides after telling her fellow Democrats that have brokered this discussion.

Just that night before on Saturday night, on Sunday morning, she's going to get up and join the Republican who is the candidate in the race, Mike Rogers, who is over at Marvin Winans Church. What's the name of that little church? I don't know nothing perfect about that church. Because Marvin Winans is suspect all day every day.

and people quietly ignored and give him a pass, but he is a Republican supporting something if I ever seen something. It's a whole bunch of stuff that go on. And you just have to wonder, is it because of donations and money? Is it because of building and infrastructure? What is the hookup? And so he had Rogers scheduled to be at his service on Sunday morning.

Hayley, Congresswoman Stevens decides she's going to join the Republican at the service. So Marvin Winans announces from the pulpit that Rogers and Hayley are there. There is audible murmuring from his members. He lets them know that no, else I eat or else else I add is not going to be in attendance that Sunday.

So, of course, by now, everybody knows that Haley Stevens comes out and endorses Mike Rogers, Mike Rogers, who has done much to harm the black community, much to harm the black community in terms of votes around business, voting. I mean, he is a full-fledged 100 percent died in a world Trump supporter.

So attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion. I mean, just the whole like you a just got to be wondering like why Black pastor even got to still stand it up in a church. You got to wonder. And now I understand about, you know, we're going to make it equal opportunity for everybody. And if that's what was being done, then that's one thing. But I probably wouldn't have had nobody come if I had to let him come.

Because you can make that choice too. No, we ain't gonna let nobody come. Because you can't stand up in front of my congregation and sell this brand of BS to these people that have entrusted me with leadership of this church. I know you want some BS. But I don't know that Marvin Wine is fully appreciates that. He may be in the Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather camp.

uh, Stephen A Smith camp, he may be in that camp. I, but he's been suspect for a long time. So, you know, Democrats, um, lose a mind. And I'm going to just say, I believe rightfully so is fair. Um, because you did what? Like.

I talked about this last week. There were people that are running for office that did not want Kamala Harris to join them on the campaign trail who are Democrats. You don't want a former vice president, a former presidential candidate for the party to accompany you on campaign visits. And so the reporters asked Kamala, so what you think about that?

And kind of it was like, hey, people got to do what they got to do to win. I've been out here before. I understand. So if you don't want me there, do you? I'm not going to defect and go support the Republican in the race. So Democrats have responded by saying, dude, you out. You're out.

You're gonna have a little lonely little one is the loneliest number you have a lonely time when you show your face back up on the hill You're out But this is my thing Because I have been watching the whole thing play out with else I it and I gotta be honest There is a there is an element of this whole thing

And let me make sure I got his background correct. Because he's getting him up on, and she tried to bring up, you know, all the stuff he said about Jewish people, his, you know, people, his mom and them connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, you know, just all the stuff that like, like, please. But let me just say out loud the uncomfortable part. El Said, who is a doctor?

Muslim. He is an American. He is an American. He's an American. He's an American. He was born in Rockchester Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His parents are Egyptian immigrants. OK. And he.

It is not pure in culture wars and culture conversations. Let me just say that for transparency. But see, he is getting caught in the middle of the bad blood, bad relations between the Arab community and black folks. There were a group of Muslims during Kamala Harris's run for president.

who all voted with Trump. Because they felt like Kamala Harris was not, you know, going to do for Palestinians or for, you know, they just was on something else. And they proudly, after Trump won the election with Kamala Harris, there were Michigan, Detroit in particular Muslims who came out and said that.

They took credit for Trump winning in some of the major, you know, borough. I mean, cities in Michigan because they said, hey, the Muslims as a voting block came together and got due across the finish line. And then as Trump began to do things that did not line up with supporting the Muslim community, the Muslim.

A little leader and I could let me see if I can find his name real quick. He came out with this letter to Donald Trump saying, you owe us. You owe us. Because we helped you get across the finish line in Michigan. And Donald Trump did what Donald Trump do. Be like, boy, please, you got used, played and pimped all you nothing and have treated them accordingly.

So now You have this young brother this young young man this this this young doctor else I had Who folks are like it's some black folks sitting on the fence like remember 2020 2020 Remember how I remember what y'all said remember how y'all was acting You need what now? Well, we need to get on one accord. We need to do us for the best. Yeah

Ah, yeah. You know how black folks get. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it, dawg. Some black folks have just been blatantly saying, hell no. Under no circumstances. Because see, we have dealt with this forever from this demographic.

So this is the thing. Folks are saying we need to be pragmatic. We need to understand what's at stake. I'm telling y'all I'm nervous about the Michigan race, which ultimately can impact if we get control of the US Senate or not. Because. This is not a situation where folks are saying this man is sorry.

And they don't believe he's going to go and represent and do the work. This is a situation in which you are paying for the sins of our fathers, the sins of our group, the sins of our culture, our ethnicity, and you caught in the middle. Well, somebody got to ask black folks is should you be judged on the actions and behaviors of all black folks?

Should I be judged on the behavior of my mama and my daddy? Because nobody said this man is sorry. Nobody said this man won't work. Nobody said this man is not smart and capable of having this job. You getting caught up in culture wars. We have seen culture wars be more important than actual policy. I gotta take a break. I'll be right back.

You know, I just had a moment in which it looked like my computer had a virus. My screen went crazy. And somebody said, that's what happened when you watch porn. Because that's what happened to my computer.

I'm not going to say who said it. What's your audience? I wouldn't know what happened when you watched porn. But this individual said, because that's what happened to my computer.

It just never stops. Okay. Let me let me go to the fall. Hey, caller. What's happening? Hey, come on. I had right of doing better now that you all the live. What's going on, bro? Okay. Uh, I was just

We're just looking at how they ran this campaign. Okay. And they didn't put a lot of groups on the ground. I think that was a bad thing, which I'm voting for him and I'm hoping he won him. But whoever his campaign manager is, I think they should have been talked to because they done a lot of texting and email and it's like they were just

You know how you get mad at spam calls and things like that Okay, just the way I don't know if it was just me and people around me with they was saying the same thing like You like they doing the spam thing on you know, I think they should have put boots on the ground and I didn't see nobody Nobody knocks on my door and You know, it's good to see people, you know still this

I guess this is the way they're going to be going with this new technology. But I just don't go with that because the people that they text and call is people that's voting. Not the people that's not voting because they change their phone numbers every week. You know what I'm saying? Right, right. And I just don't get down with it. I like to see people coming back on those. You know, because of your fans and none of that don't get you elected.

People get you elected there. That's all I have to say. I just want to know. Let me speak to it. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Paula. I appreciate it. I actually did notice it. And I'm going to be honest with you because I get a lot of even right now. I just got a couple from the Republican side. And I'm not even going to lie. Last week, I text back and said, stop texting me. I don't hear from y'all all year. Right.

But now you want to text but it's actually coming from both sides to and I put on there I don't know if they're gonna see it. I said, but I'm voting blue. Okay, and they see it. Okay, but but it says, you know, these text messages coming in all time of the day and Then you look at it like who is this? So hey Jermaine, how you know me? So let me just say this first of all, you know a couple of things

First, we got to remember David got out the race with four percent, five percent max is what he was polling at in the field. He was like fourth. So he gets back in the race. So you got to build up your fundraising apparatus to be able to put boots on the ground to get the volunteers. And it took a minute for him to be solidified as the candidate.

Okay, moving forward. Then you got people who chose not to help. Think about how many actual elected officials that normally go out and campaign for people did not go out and campaign for David. I mean, I don't know. I've asked that question several times. But think about how many people that should have been out, we would have expected to be out as surrogates on the campaign trail for DC were not out.

Think about Mandela. I'm going to take my ball and go home because I'm not the nominee and I'm mad with the world. So I'm not going to help the brother try to get elected. And it was a bunch of people that did not help. But now back to the comment that Kathy made. I said this before. Where you think volunteers come from? Where you think boots on the ground come from? They don't fall out the sky.

Everybody can't be a paid canvasser to go out and do this work. So people gotta step up and volunteer to do it. So once you start to get these endorsements from the unions and different groups, then you'll see people show up to start volunteering for you. But for a minute, David was in a lonely place. People wasn't jumping off the ledge to help this brother.

A lot of these groups that was throwing this, so and so for David, la la la for David, then people came to the party late as hell. A whole bunch of people came to the party late. I've talked about this. He did not get a lot of help early on. So what he was able to do, he was able to do with money. He didn't have bodies. Francesca Hong had bodies.

When I say this chick had thousands of volunteers across the state, she had thousands. David didn't have that. David was able to raise money, though. And so you do what your money will allow. I've run a texting campaign before for the NAACP. By myself, I reached 48,000 voters, many of whom interacted with me. That's why when Jermaine said, do they see the text?

People would text me back. And when I was doing the texting campaign for the NAACP, I use my own name in the text. And people would be like, is this Michelle Bond from WNLV? Hey, Michelle. But by myself, I could hit 48,000 people.

So there is a method to the madness in some of this. Yes, it's ideal to be out knocking on doors. It is ideal to have them one-on-one conversations and be able to explain to people, you know, what the candidate's positions is. And there have been a lot of people out knocking doors, but one of the things that you also do when your resources are tight, you make targeted decisions about where you're going to go.

I'm not probably going to be at the voters door. Because the likelihood is that you are a going to vote. You're going to vote Democrat. And so while I don't want to take that vote for granted, because this is a race that's going to be so close, I also got to spend more time than I probably would have talking to people that are low turnout voters.

because we gotta get new people to the table. So, I may have to make a decision about how much time I spend with people I know vote, because you're gonna get the mailers, you're gonna see the ads, most of y'all are better informed, you can help make some decisions on your own, then some of these people who don't vote at all, or you gotta drag they behind to the polling location. That's how tight this race is projected to be. So,

None of this is willful ignorance or, you know, not doing and some some campaigns is willful. People intentionally ignored the radio station. They intentionally ignored the community. Like I said, anybody I ain't never talked to Joe Costa Zeparria about running for what's she running for? State treasure or whatever. That girl ain't never came this damn way. And that's why she didn't get no vote from me.

Because she did not come nobody from her team called this radio station and said hey Michelle Can we get on the show to talk about my campaign? Complete disrespect. I wish I would vote for her So I'm just saying y'all it's a double-edged sword Boots on the grounds usually is volunteers How many of us volunteer? And everybody ain't of that age, but

It's a team sport Politics is not a solo sport. It's a team sport. I Got to get out of here. We're gonna go all day tomorrow I will do this one thing and your man gonna be mad Somebody wanted to know in the chat if homeless people can vote Yes, if you are homeless and you need to be able to vote as long as you can provide a voting address

which can be a shelter. It can be a street corner, a park. We got people sit over here in this park every day. But you got to have a mailing address. So the shelter, a church may let you use their address, a PO box, and you got to have ID. So yes, you can vote, but you got to be able to connect it to some address somewhere. All right, what? Can I put a PO box on top of a corn?

a cardboard box where I know it wouldn't be my interest. No, no. I guess that's for when. All right, family, let's just say tomorrow we're going to go hard all day, local and national. I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Thank you, bros. Thank you, family. Peace.